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School of scares

Pixar Animation Studios is back to scare us with Monsters University, a prequel to the 2001 movie Monsters Inc. The movie shows us how the unlikely duo Mike Wazowski and James P Sullivan become inseparable friends. As Monsters University opens in theatres today, Postnoon introduces you to the adorable characters of this unique university.

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HYDERABAD’S FIRST COMPACT AFTERNOON NEWSPAPER

ELITE SCHOOLS

UNFAZED BY GOVT DIKTAT Today most City schools were forced to close following ABVP’s call to protest heavy fees charged in private and corporate schools. The school forum is, however, learnt to have obtained a stay from the HC against the government feat of capping fee, and the issue remains unresolved.

REPORT ON P5 BRAZIL’S

Govt delays caused loss of 52K crore: CAG In a scathing revelation, the CAG has held the State government responsible for causing a loss of `52,116 crore to the exchequer on account of delay in construction of irrigation projects in the State.

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Spain romp to record 10-0 win over Tahiti Spain broke the record for the biggest margin of victory at the final phase of a FIFA tournament by crushing minnows 10-0 Tahiti at the Confederations Cup in Rio de Janeiro.

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Security forces struggled to maintain order in several cities, firing tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse groups of rowdy protesters who hurled stones and lit fires.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2013

city events

FLAB TO FAB

Aerobic classes is on at Colorama Printers, Secunderabad. When: Till June 21, 4 pm to 6 pm Contact: 80086-24949/80088-85493

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AROUND THE CITY: YOUR GUIDE TO THE TWIN CITIES SHOWS

World music day World music day 2013 will be held. Where: Taj Deccan , Banjara Hills When: June 21, 6 pm Contact: 2335-0443

Masala workout Masala bhangra workout will be held. Where: Ozone 3- Fitness N Spa, Banjara Hills When: June 22 and June 23, 10 am to 6 pm Contact: 001-212-213-8208

Reel abilities Between the Lines, English play by Nandita Das will be staged. Where: The Westin Hyderabad Mindspace, Hitech City When: June 22, 7.30 pm Contact: 6767-6767

Celebrity DJ Celebrity DJ Nikhil Chinapa will set the dance floor on fire at Sky, Avasa. Where: Sky, Avasa, Madhapur When: June 29, 9 pm

ALL ON A LINE: Camels from across the country are brought to the City for their meat ahead of Ramzan. Holy SRINIVAS SETTY month of Ramzan is expected to begin in July.

Celebrity performance Celebrity DJ Nikhil Chinapa will set the dance floor on fire at Sky, Avasa. Where: Sky, Avasa, Madhapur When: June 29, 9 pm

DINING Food fest Pasta food festival is on.

Where: Prego, The Westin When: Till June 30, 7 pm to 11 pm For Reservation call: 040 6767 6828

by Indian Mime Academy will be held. Where: Sutradhar School of Acting, Himayathnagar When: June 22 and June 23, 11 am to 5 pm Contact: 82971-17515

Kakatiya food Kakatiya Food Festival is on. Where: Bidri, Marriott When: Till June 30, 6.30 pm to 11.30 pm For reservations: +91 40 2752 2577

WORKSHOPS Interview workshop Workshop on success in interview will be held. Where: Swamy Vivekananda Institute of Human Excellence, Lower Tankbund When: June 22, 10 am to 1 pm Contact: 2762-7961

Commissioner & Spl Officer

Helpline GAS BOOKING IVRS NO HP 9666023456 Indane 9848824365 BSNL Complaints HMWS & SB Complaints

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POLICE CONTROL ROOM Hyderabad 27852435 Traffic Control Room 27852482 DCP Traffic 23234065, 23243499F Pollution Control Board 23887500 ELECTRICITY General Complaints Breakdown Section

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Parental workshop Tips for pregnant women by Dr Rekha Sudarshan will be held. Where: Fortune Select Manohar, Begumpet When: June 22, 2 pm to 6 pm Mime workshop Auditions for Natvarya, a workshop

WATER SUPPLY Complaint Cell Sewerage Complaint Hyd. Water Supply HOSPITAL General Hospital, Sec-bad Niloufer Hospital, Red Hills NIMS, Director, Punjagutta Osmania General Hospital Railway Hospital, Lalaguda Apollo, Jubilee Hills Care Hospital, Banjara Hills Care Hospital, Nampally Care Hospital, Musheerabad Care Hospital, Sec-bad Kamineni Hospital, LB Nagar

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BLOOD BANKS Blood Bank,Narayanguda Chiranjeevi Blood Bank Blood Bank Mediton Goal Red Cross, Vidyanagar ADRM Blood Bank Mythri Charitable Trust NTR Memorial Trust Care Banjara Hills

Film appreciation Reflect and unwind about thrillers from world cinema. Where: Yavanika Films, Begumpet When: July 22 and 23, July 29 and July 30, 11 am to 7 pm

Art attack Aakar Art academy is conducting a painting workshop for kids above the age of 4. Where: Just Books, Jubilee Hills When: Every Friday and Saturday from June 28, Friday - 4 to 5.30 pm

Freezing a moment Workshop on professional photography. Where: Zing Academy, Banjara Hills When: June 22, 10 am Contact: 99598-88188

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AMBULANCES Apollo 23548888, 23607777 Kamineni 24022222 Medwin 23202902, 23204616 Smile Line Dental Hospital 23747979 Red Cross 27627973 Niloufer Hospital 23314095 Gandhi 23320332 AIRLINES

Word club A fun workshop for kids above the age of 8 will be organised. Where: Just books, Jubilee Hills. When: Every Sunday, 10 am to 12 pm Contact: 9849748117

Airport Director 27903785, 27906001 For Air India Flight Information Toll free (from any network) for IC Flights 18001801407 And for All Flights: 1800227722 Air India has revised its flight timings. For more information call (Toll free) 18001801407, 1800227722 from BSNL/MTNL 04023430334 from other lines and mobile Website; www.airindia.in TOURISM OFFICES AP Tourism, Hyd 23262152/53/54 Sec-bad 27893100 Dept of Tourism 23453110 India Tourism 23261360 AP Tourism information Centre (24x7) 23450444, 23455999 UK VISA OFFICE VFS India Pvt Ltd Building, 8-2-542/A, Sunil Chamber, Road No. 7

Beside Meridian School, Banjara Hills34. Working hours are from 8 AM to 1 PM And 2 PM to 3PM. MUSEUMS Salar Jung Museum AP State Museum Nizams Museum

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YESTERDAY’S QUESTION

WILL THE SPECIAL PACKAGE SOLVE ISSUES IN T REGION? 44% 56%

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TODAY’S QUESTION

HAS THE OPPOSITION HELPED THE STATE GOVT SNEAK IN BILLS BY JAMMING ASSEMBLY? A)

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THE ELECTION DRAMA

CITY BRIEFS

ACB officials nab deputy tahsildar taking bribe

Kiran gets dressed up for electoral war

HYDERABAD: B Malleshappa, deputy tahsildar, Nandavaram Mandal, Kurnool district was caught red-handed by the ACB officials on Wednesday at his office when he demanded and accepted an amount of `1,000 as bribe from the complainant for doing an official favour — to prepare and put up family members’ certificate from the tahsildar. He is being tried for the offence.

A confident CM now seems in full command of the governance. He is holding out a carrot of MLA tickets to those who ensure high success for the party in the local elections. MD. INKESHAF AHMED ahmed.m@postnoon.com HYDERABAD: Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has finally got into the driver seat. After consolidating his position with a series of welfare measure like SC and ST Sub Plan, Amma Hastham and Bangaru Talli Scheme, Kiran is getting ready with a ton of hopes for the crucial local body elections in the State. The local body elections would see over 20,000 villages going in for the election of vilAROUND THE

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lage Sarpanch. The CM has been holding discussions with the leaders from various districts of the State everyday. On Thursday, he held discussions with the leaders from Kadapa, Kurnool, Prakasham, Guntur, East and West Godavari districts including the cabinet ministers. APCC Chief Botsa Satyanarayana was also part of the discussions. The message delivered by the CM was clear. He asked the party leaders and cadres to take up the novel

schemes launched by the State government to the doorsteps of the voters and request them to vote for the Congress party. “Our sole mantra must be to leverage maximum benefit from the welfare programmes being implemented by our government. We should make sure that all our schemes reach each and every household in the State,” Kiran told the leaders.

MORALE BOOSTER The meetings conducted by the CM himself is turning out to be a morale booster of sorts for the party leaders and cadres. The cadres are feeling that the meeting held by the CM have not only rejuvenated the sagging confidence levels of the party workers but also helped them to strive for the victory of the party in the local body polls. “We never expected that the CM would hold these types of meetings in the present political uncertainty. But he did it and asked us to put in all-out efforts to ensure the victory of the party. He said that he would stand by the party cadres in solving their problems. This is enough for us to jump into the battlefield,” an elated congress leader from East Godavari district told Postnoon.

AP Char Dham pilgrims get help from railways Indian railways have arranged the return journey free of cost for the ‘Char Dham’ pilgrims from AP caught in the Uttarakhand’s flash floods. Those brought to safety were lodged at the Andhra Pradesh House in Delhi and were given all facilities including food, railway officials said. In all, 2,425 pilgrims were stranded, including 748 from Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam (661), Krishna (280) and West Godavari (203).

INCENTIVES FOR LEADERS The CM is also offering the party workers some lucrative incentives.“The leaders who work hard for the party’s victory would emerge as a strong contender for the MLA ticket. They would also be given other lucrative posts in recognition of their services. This would be great incentive for us,” another leader said.

Govt sneaks in CAG report amid bedlam HYDERABAD: There was no respite from the continuous adjournments following stalling of proceedings by the Opposition party members even on the last day today of the ongoing Budget Session of the AP Assembly. The rejection of adjournment motions moved by the Opposition immediately after the House began at 9am this morning forcing the respective members to rush towards podium and press for their acceptance. Amidst the sloganeering by the Opposition the State government tabled the Comptroller and Auditor (CAG) Report, which is a mandatory practice in the Assembly. Surprisingly, it turned out

to be a blessing in disguise for the ruling Congress party as the Assembly Speaker adjourned the House twice since morning after the continued jam. The adjournments did not give an opportunity to the Opposition to corner the government on the findings of CAG. The findings highlighted several defects and loopholes in the implementation of various development programmes of the state government. It said that the delay in construction of irrigation projects within the deadline cost the state government an excess amount of `52,116 crore. It also pointed loopholes in the implementation of the NREGS.

Free seminar on generic domains in the City A Free Seminar on Generic Domains, their potential and how they ensure trafﬁc to websites will be held in the FAPCCI Hall, Red Hills, on June 30. It is being organised by eMerchant Digital in association with Media Junction, Stars and other. The seminar will be addressed by MD of e Merchant Digital Shakir Ali, Sai Prakash Pola, a domain expert. It will be an interactive seminar. Over 200 participants are expected to be part of it and this seminar is free for all.

CBI probe on 3 cases on Jagan complete The Central Bureau of Investigation today told a local court that it had completed investigation in the three charge sheets ﬁled against YSR Congress chief YS Jaganmohan Reddy in the case related to ‘quid-pro-quo’ investments and that they can proceed with the trial. No further probe in these cases was needed, it said in memos ﬁled before Principal Special Court for CBI cases here.

News FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2013 LAST YEAR... HERE No identity checks

ast year we had reported how during raids on state bus operators it was discovered that the travel agencies nor the bus owners were taking any precautionary measures such as checking the identity of its passengers. None of the passengers we had talked to said that they had noticed any checks of this kind on the way. In this age of freewheeling terrorism, the state remains the same with no checks in place still.

JUNE 21, 2012

NUMEROLOGY

1 mn

is the estimated number of people who took to streets in Brazil to protest rising cost of living and transport fares.

To pressurise the government we were left with no choice but to call for a bandh. Schools have been fleecing parents by collecting huge fees and donations, there should be an end to this. Bhanu Prakash ABVP member

THINGS WE LEARNT TODAY

ABUSE OVERSEAS

Dream turns nightmare

All the help the sarkar renders to those working in the Gulf countries do not add up to much. This is true especially of Saudi where laws are loaded against overseas workers. Mohd SUBHAN mohd.s@postnoon.com HYDERABAD: Here’s the excruciatingly painful story of a family whose breadwinner was duped by travel agent and his employer Shaikh in Saudi Arabia. He lost his memory, lost his son, and his family is in tatters. Narrating the sad saga of G Rajanna, 40, who has been in coma for four months, RGI Inspector Durga Prasad said, for an unwary Indian worker, Gulf countries could prove a trap. Rajanna, a poor native of Nallavelli village of Nizamabad, was told by some that good salary await workers in KSA. He arranged a bank loan and got a visa to Saudi. He left his wife Laxmi, his teenage son Prasanth, and child Swaroopa in

Schools holding education to ransom? Despite increasing school fees, parents are afraid to react or protest, fearing for the education of their children.

Party-hopping in the hope of getting an MLA ticket. The defections are completely prompted by self interests rather than loyalty to a particular party or ideology.

Traffic department posts man to clear red tape To tame the redtape the traffic police have a special inspector to make sure that pending traffic-related projects move faster.

2005 thinking that he would return with a fortune to save his family. What awaited him was shock and ill-treatment. He did not get salary for many years. There was no help or he did not know where to turn to. Suffering tension, humiliation and helplessness, Rajanna had

and since has not recovered. He was in coma for all these months. The equally helpless family went around seeking help to bring back Rajanna. Few helped, it is alleged. At last, the family got a sympathetic hearer in Shaik Chand Pasha who is a member of "Gulf Returning Members Welfare Society." As transporting the man in coma would cost 25,000 riyals, Pasha approached Indian Embassy in KSA. The Embassy got it cleared and an unconscious Rajanna was brought to Hyderabad two days ago. While scurrying about seeking help, the Rajanna’s family were told that hundreds of Indians suffer in Saudi where laws are all loaded in favour of the natives and foreigners are helpless. And yet, the Indian government makes little effort to improve situation.

HEALTH HAZARD

The film, Gagarin: First Man in Space, is the first full biopic on the cosmonaut ever to be released in the Soviet Union.

MOSCOW: Strapped in an orange suit in his spaceship, Yuri Gagarin smiles as the rockets roar and chirpily tells mission control: "Let's go!" A new Russian film, Gagarin: First Man in Space, is the first full biopic on the pioneering cosmonaut ever to be released in Russia or the Soviet Union. Until now, Gagarin's 108-minute orbit of the Earth in 1961 appeared almost too hallowed a subject to be tackled in drama. But the statesubsidised film has been made amid a new drive for patriotic cinema as post-Soviet Russia looks for heroes. It recreates Gagarin's pioneering space voyage in detail and also tries to reveal something of the man who became a Soviet legend: his childhood, family life in the cosmonaut training centre at Star City and his rivals for the number one role. But critics have complained the film failed to portray a rounded flesh-andblood figure, instead portray-

First man in Space now gets a ﬁlm to himself. It recreates Gagarin's pioneering space voyage in detail and also tries to reveal something of the man who became a Soviet legend:

When he took a bank loan to get a visa for a job in Saudi Arabia, little did Rajanna know the eight-year ordeal that was in store for him.

First Gagarin film turns Soviet idol into hero ANNA MALPAS Agence France-Presse

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no way out to pull on clinging to a slender hope of situation improving in future. Meanwhile, his creditors began to harass the family. They showered ignominy on the family members and alleged that they are amassing money while defaulting on repayment. Unable to suffer any longer, Prasanth, who was just 14 years of age, committed suicide. And, yet the State government nor any agency tried to help the family though umpteen welfare measures are announced day in and day out by government. Fearing the consequence, the family held the boy’s suicide back from his father. However, three or four months ago, Rajanna insisted on talking with his son and the hapless mother had to disclose the tragedy. It is said Rajanna fell unconscious

NEW RUSSIAN STAR?

The column that teaches everyone something new about the way the City functions. Saudi dreams turn sour for many Indians. Hundreds of Indians suffer in Saudi where laws are all loaded in favour of the natives and foreigners are helpless.

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said one reviewer on the TV channel Rain. The film received state funding as part of a drive for patriotic cinema and has been supported by Gagarin's family — his widow and two daughters, Yelena and Galina.

UNTOUCHABLE GOD TO MODERN LIFE METAPHOR

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ing a person so perfect that Gagarin loses all traces of human character. The cosmonaut is shown as a virtually flawless figure: He thoughtfully buys his wife flowers, he carefully swaddles his baby daughter and he flashes a white-toothed smile after being tested with Gforces at Star City. The director Pavel Parkhomenko "made a deadly retro film as if he was turning a feature from (Soviet mouthpiece daily) Pravda into a film,"

The film's strength is its careful recreation of Gagarin's training and flight showing the bizarre endurance tests — such as reading out poetry in a steam room — and the cramped and basic spacecraft. Despite its critical drubbing, the film won praise from Russian Space Agency officials who watched it in Moscow. "It got through to me, I'll be honest, it was great. We still know how to make films -- not just rockets," said head of manned flight programmes at Roscosmos, Alexei Krasnov. The film is the first biopic of Gagarin ever made, although several post-Soviet films have shown him as a symbolic figure. AFP

Radioactive water leak detected at Fukushima AROUND THE

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SYDNEY: Japan's tsunami-battered Fukushima nuclear complex has suffered another radioactive water leak, its operator said Friday, the latest in a series of incidents at the crippled plant. About 360 litres of tainted water leaked from a desalination unit although it did not escape from the complex, Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) said. The desalination unit removes salt from tainted seawater used to cool reactors that went into meltdown after a giant tsunami crashed into the plant in March 2011. The water is believed to have leaked from the unit before it went through its salt-removal system, TEPCO said. Reports continue to emerge of leaks from storage pools, tanks and pipes at Fukushima. The latest comes two days after the embattled utility said cancer-causing radioactive substances were found in groundwater at the plant and it pledged to prevent them leaking into the sea. AFP

News FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2013 INTERNAL SECURITY

BREAK-UP AT MID-SEA

Jawan killed, in Naxal attack RAIPUR: A police jawan was killed and 3 others were injured when naxals attacked a police patrolling party in maoist-hit Konda Goan district of Chattisgarh today, police said. The patrolling party, was on night duty in the region. When they reached near the last habitation of the town about 30-40 naxals opened fire. Jawans retaliated and in the ensuing gunbattle that lasted for an hour, a constable died and three other policemen were injured, the police said.

In this photograph received from India’s ministry of defence on Thursday, the doomed MV Mol Comfort, carrying a crew of 26, is seen adrift at sea after its hull broke into two some 320 km from the Yemeni coast on June 17, 2013. The MV Mol Comfort, carrying a crew of 26, was heading to Singapore from Jeddah when it split into two some about 200 miles from the Yemeni coast. The crew, twelve Russians and 14 Filipinos, were rescued. AFP

PTI

WHAT’S IN A NAME

Elite schools unfazed by diktat

Government orders ban private schools adding fancy prefixes such as ‘techno’ ‘model’ with their names but nobody seems to care. Today the ABVP has called a bandh against exorbitant fee. ALEENA ALICE aleena.t@postnoon.com HYDERABAD: On the one hand the government pledges to take strict action against private schools for charging exorbitant fee. On the other hand, it has not done anything to make their words come true. Despite several protest by student activist and organizations, the private schools are still going ahead mulcting parents of huge amounts against the RTE Act and several government orders. Provisions of the GO number 42 stipulate that the maximum fee that a private high school may charge is `12,000 per annum for High school in urban areas. However, the popular ones charge amounts ranging from `28,000 to `35,000. Parents know that the schools are fleecing them but are afraid to move against the schools for the sake of their children.

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A GO states that schools with these names, would be derecognised, however so far most of the schools have not dropped those names.

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As per a recent GO, private schools must not have phrases and suffixes such as “Techno”, “Talent”, “Model”, "Olympiad" or "International", for it is these fancy names that lure many parents into enrolling their wards in schools named so. “School education in the state has become a lucrative business and this is the reason that thousands of institutions in the City use fancy names to set themselves apart. More than small schools it is the corporate schools that have been using fancy names calculated to give themselves a halo. These schools at the end of the day are only teaching the syllabus prescribed by the state board and nothing fancy, so there is no reason to attach lucrative suffixes to the school name,” says S Srinivas

Reddy, president, Recognised Schools Managements' Association. The government order states that schools with these names, would be derecognised, however so far most of the schools have not dropped those names. “Some of the school managements obtain recognition under one

Cop's murder: UP Police arrests two men

Khurshid returns home after two-day Iraq visit

Brothers flee from home to meet Facebook friend

Mukherjee cancels visit to Himachal

Two BSF jawans killed in suspected fratricide

ALLAHABAD: Police today claimed to have arrested two persons in connection with the killing of an SI. They confessed that they were inside the car which the SI was chasing on June 14, a police spokesman said. While chasing the car, he was ﬁred at by the occupants of the car, which resulted in his death.

NEW DELHI: External affairs minister Salman Khurshid returned home after a two-day Iraq visit during which he held talks with top Iraqi leadership on issues of bilateral and mutual interests including imports of oil. Khurshid met Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki besides having talks with his counterpart Hoshyar Zebari.

JAIPUR: Two brothers ﬂed from their home with `25,000 cash in order to meet a girl whom they had befriended on Facebook, police said today. The duo, aged 15 and 17, was held yesterday. The tees had befriended the girl from West Bengal on FB some months back, and later had planned to leave for the eastern state on her invitation.

SHIMLA: President Pranab Mukherjee has cancelled his visit to Himachal Pradesh next week owing to the natural disaster in the state, an ofﬁcial said here Friday. Mukherjee's four-day visit to Shimla from June 28 has been cancelled. A communication in this regard from Rashtrapati Bhawan reached the state secretariat, an ofﬁcial said.

SRIGANGANAGAR: Two BSF jawans were today killed in a suspected fratricide incident in Sriganganagar district of Rajasthan. The jawans were killed after a shootout broke out between them, ofﬁcial sources said. Senior ofﬁcials of the force have rushed to the spot and have begun an inquiry, they said.

name, but as part of their marketing strategy, they change the name to something fancier, which is an offence under the AP Education Act. They name their institutions without consulting any concerned authority, said a senior official in the education department. Meanwhile, the BJP and the

student wing of the party ABVP, have called for a bandh today to protest these unethical practices. Ironically it only robs children of one more academic day. It’s been only ten days since the schools re-opened, and three days of the week had been unofficial holidays due to the various protests. “To pressurise the government we were left with no choice but to call for a bandh. Schools have been fleecing parents by collecting huge fees and donations, there should be an end to this unethical practice,” says Bhanu Prakash member of the ABVP.

NATION BRIEFS

News FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2013 DISCRIMINATION

Suu Kyi slams proposed inter-faith marriage law YANGON: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has criticised a proposal by nationalist monks to restrict marriages between Buddhist women and men of other faiths, describing it as a violation of human rights. “This is one-sided. Why only AROUND THE

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women? You cannot treat the women unfairly. I also understand that this is not in accordance with the laws of the country and especially that it is not part of Buddhism," she said. “It is a violation of women’s rights and human rights." Under the proposal — spearheaded by the controversial cleric Wirathu — non-Buddhist men wishing to marry a Buddhist woman would have to convert and gain permission from her parents to wed or risk 10 years in jail. AFP

MAN-MADE MISHAP

SECURITY PARANOIA

Seven killed in Thane building collapse

Guard guns down Jew at Western Wall

The 35-year-old Shakuntala building came crashing down at 2am, catching the sleeping occupants unawares. THANE: At least seven people, including two minors, were killed after a three-storey building collapsed in Maharashtra’s Mumbra town in Thane district early Friday, police said. The incident occurred around 2 am when the 35-yearold Shakuntala building came crashing down, catching the sleeping occupants unawares, an official of police control room in Thane said. A three-month-old infant and a seven-year-old boy were among the seven people crushed to death, while 22 people were rescued till daybreak, the official added. At least five-seven people, including members of a family, are still believed to be trapped under the rubble. The rescue

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operations are underway in full swing. According to some reports, the residents of the building had been served an eviction notice some time ago by the civic authorities but they did

MEASLES EPIDEMIC

Children suffer as Pakistan battles disease KHURRAM SHAHZAD Agence France-Presse LAHORE: - In the intensive-care ward of Lahore’s Mayo hospital, pale, spotty children cry in the intense heat of the Pakistani summer -- victims of a devastating measles outbreak. Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province of which Lahore is the capital, has borne the brunt of the epidemic. It has 18,000 of the 25,000 cases reported around

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the country by provincial health authorities and more than 150 — all children — of the 495 deaths. The province is the country’s richest and most developed, but health experts say ineffective vaccination programmes and poor monitoring of the disease have led to the contagious disease running rampant. “Initially people were unaware about this epiAFP PHOTO/ ARIF ALI

demic, so they tried to treat the disease at home and using local street doctors," doctor Iftikhar Mirza, a spokesman for Mayo, Lahore’s main public hospital, told AFP. “They were even unaware about the vaccination. So, when they came to us, the children were in a critical condition and many had already died." Doctor Muhammad Younas, an official from the Directorate General of Health in Punjab, told AFP the province had seen 17,985 measles cases this year, with 158 deaths. Last year there were 310 measles deaths in Pakistan, according to the World Health Organisation, described in January by a health ministry official as “a record high". Since the start of the year the WHO has recorded 12,951 measles cases (and 290 deaths) across Pakistan, compared to 14,984 cases in the whole of last year. AFP

not pay any heed to it. Mumbra Mayor Harishchandra Patil said the civic body would soon make arrangements to shift people living in dilapidated and dangerous buildings to new rental houses which have been made available. “We are finalising the rent, which may be around `1,500, to be charged from the occupants so that they can be shifted there from dangerous structures," Patil told media persons from the scene of the tragedy. The injured have been rushed to hospitals in Kalwa town and Thane city for treatment. Mumbra town is about 40 km from the Maharashtra capital Mumbai. IANS

JERUSALEM: An Israeli security guard shot dead a Jewish visitor at Jerusalem’s Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, on Friday, mistaking him for a Palestinian militant, police said. “There was a Jewish guy, an Israeli guy, who was in the bathroom area," police AROUND THE

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spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP. “He for some reason shouted ‘Allahu Akbar'. A security guard drew his weapon and fired several shots at the suspect... He died from his wounds." The shooting took place a few minutes before 8 am (0500 GMT) as the plaza in front of the Wall filled with worshippers for morning prayers ahead of the start of the Jewish Sabbath at sundown. AFP

News FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2013

BRAZIL PROTESTS

BRAZIL’S BURNING

Security forces struggled to maintain order in several cities, firing tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse groups of rowdy protesters who hurled stones and lit fires. RIO DE JANEIRO: At least one million people rallied across Brazil on Thursday in escalating mass demonstrations over the quality of public services and the high cost of staging the World Cup, police and experts said. The mounting pressure on the government of President Dilma Rousseff in the face of the biggest street protests the South American country has seen in 20 years prompted her to cancel a trip to Japan planned for next week. Security forces struggled to maintain order in several cities, firing tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse groups of rowdy protesters who hurled stones and lit fires. Police fired tear gas in Rio de Janeiro, scene of the biggest protest where 300,000 people demonstrated near City Hall, while in the capital Brasilia, security forces blocked protesters trying to break into the foreign ministry and throwing burning objects. Police and experts, quoted by Brazilian media, said at least one million marched in more than 100 cities across the country of 194 million people, an intensification of a movement sparked two weeks ago by public anger about a hike in public transport fares. The protests have spiraled

into a wider call for an end to government corruption in the world’s seventh largest economy, a call fueled by resentment over the $15 billion cost of hosting the Confederations Cup and the World Cup. In Rio, police fired tear gas to disperse a small group of stonethrowing protesters. At least one person was hurt in the clashes, which sparked panic in the crowd. Demonstrators also set ablaze a vehicle owned by the SBT television station. A protester died after a motorist hit him and two other demonstrators in the southeastern city of Ribeirao Preto, police said. In the northeastern city of Salvador, one of the host cities for the Confederations Cup, police fired tear gas against some

of the 20,000 protesters massed two kilometers from the stadium where Uruguay defeated Nigeria 2-1. Vehicles used by world football’s governing body FIFA were stoned in the Bahia state capital and riot police had to intervene. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, meanwhile, called for an investigation into the possible use of “excessive force” on demonstrators and journalists during protests last week. On Wednesday, protesters had scored a major victory when authorities in Rio and Sao Paulo, Brazil’s two biggest cities, canceled the controversial transit fare hikes, but that was not enough to placate the demonstrators. In Sao Paulo, an estimated 110,000 people flooded the main Paulista Avenue to celebrate the

Police fired tear gas in Rio, scene of the biggest protest where 300,000 demonstrated near City Hall.

fare rollback and keep the pressure on Rousseff’s leftist government to increase social spending. “Victory, this is just the beginning," one huge banner read. “Miracles happen when people unite," another read, while several protesters called for Rousseff, Sao Paulo State Governor Geraldo Alckmin and Sao Paulo Mayor Fernando Haddad to be impeached. The protest was largely peaceful except for clashes between a group of ultra-leftists marching behind their red banners and a majority of demonstrators who objected to the presence of political parties. “This is a social movement, not a political movement. This has nothing to do with ideology," 28-year-old protester Maria Vidal told AFP. “We don’t want parties in the demonstration." One of the leftists was hit in the head by a projectile and blamed a member of Rousseff’s ruling Workers Party. Police were forced to intervene to end the melee. Protesters say they want higher funding for education, health and housing. They are also railing against what they view as rampant corruption within the political class.

This is a social movement, not a political movement. This has nothing to do with ideology. We don’t want parties [taking part] in the [people’s] demonstration Maria Vidal 28-yr-old demonstrator As the protests heated up in the evening, Rousseff’s office announced that she would not travel to Japan on June 26-28 as planned for talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. “She has decided to stay in Brazil due to current events," a source in her office said. Social media networks have been key to the organization of the mass protests, with demonstrators using the slogan “It’s more than just 20 cents” — a reference to the bus fare hikes — to rally people to their cause. AFP

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SHIFTING LOYALTIES

‘Aya Ram, Gaya Ram a YSR legacy’ The recent defections of corporators in the GHMC to other parties is prompted by self interest as their wards have not benefited by their jumping feat. Md NIZAMUDDIN nizamuddin.a@postnoon.com HYDERABAD: “It was during YS Rajasekhara Reddy’s regime that the situation became conducive for corporators to switch loyalties without a hitch,” recalls a senior corporator of the Congress. Earlier, it was impossible to shift loyalties and survive. According to 23-A (1)(a) of Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955, the Mayor or Councillor of a Municipal Corporation belonging to any political party shall cease to be mayor or councillor, if he has voluntarily given up his membership of his parental party. The explanation goes that the mayor or elected councillor shall be deemed to belong to the political party, if any, by which he was set up as candidate for election. This got diluted in 2008 and a free-for-all exist today. The last civic elections were

conducted during November 2009, two months after the death of YS Rajasekhara Reddy. As the switching of loyalties began, the leading political parties felt the heat. For instance, the TDP-floor Singireddy Srinivas Reddy gave representations to the government seeking revision of the orders passed during 2008. “Even the Council had similar norms to that of Assembly. I have been demanding revision of the same for past several years,” said Singireddy. At least eight corporators have defected to other political party in the recent years. Four corporators from the Congress jumped to the YSR Congress party, so did two from the TDP. Recently one from Congress and one from TDP have shifted their loyalties to the BJP. “The defections are completely prompted by self interest rather than loyalty to a particular party or ideology. There will be

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no improvement of developmental activities in their individual constituencies, as their focus shifts,” explains, Md Ayub Khan, a former Standing Committee member. It is believed that most of

those who jumped to other political parties such as the YSRCP were lured by the hope of bagging an MLA ticket. There were rumours that the defection would be in double digits by 2012 end, but the migration stopped. The future of Corporators is however uncertain though they are keeping up a brave front for the media.

“People voted for welfare schemes brought to the public by YSR and his political heir Jagan Mohan Reddy. Even though the current Congress leadership is trying to erase the notion, they cannot. We shall be in second position after MIM, if elections are held,” says former Congress floor-leader Kaleru Venkatesh, who defected to YSRCP.

NEW JOBS DOWN UNDER

Australia names Chief Funster, Outback Adventurer

SYDNEY: Australia on Friday selected a Californian as “Chief Funster” and an Irish Internet entrepreneur as “Outback Adventurer” as the country announced the winners of the “Best Jobs in the World” competition, a campaign which attracted 330,000 applicants from 196 nations. “Blimey," gasped Englishman Rich Keam as he was named “Taste Master", a job which will see him spend six months in Western Australia touring the huge state’s best restaurants, wineries, breweries and pubs. “Queensland is just beautiful, I chose well," beamed Frenchwoman Elisa Detrez who will spend her time patrolling the tropical beaches of the Sunshine State as a park ranger, taking rainforest walks and promoting Australia’s unique native

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Irishman Allan Dixon gets to be the new Outback Adventurer.

Californian Andrew Smith became the Chief Funster.

plants and animals. “I think Australia is a bit like the new El Dorado," Detrez said. “Everybody wants to come here because the life is just so cool, and the weather is better, and the (financial) crisis is not here. So we all want to come here."

Rich Keam, the newly appointed Taste Master.

Other winners were Brazilian Roberto Seba who will be a lifestyle photographer in Melbourne and Canadian Greg Snell who will be a wildlife caretaker in South Australia, while American Cameron Ernst will travel the country on Virgin

Australia to champion the best customer service experiences. Australia first announced the jobs in March as a marketing push to build on the success of its 2009 “Best Job in the World” campaign, won by Briton Ben Southall, who was paid to become caretaker on the Great Barrier Reef for six months. In the latest incarnation, the competition was open to travellers aged between 18 and 30, designed to promote tourism opportunities offered by Australian working holiday visas. Tourism Australia MD Andrew McEvoy said it was already delivering results, with airlines and travel agencies

reporting increased bookings and officials seeing a significant spike in interest in the working holiday programme which last year contributed $2.5 billion to the economy. Hopefuls had to upload a 30second video explaining why they were best for the job, with Irishman Allan Dixon — who will journey through the Outback, be immersed in indigenous culture and get up close with Australian wildlife for his job — using social media to enlist the support of sprinter Usain Bolt, adventurer Bear Grylls, TV host Conan O’Brien and actor Hugh Jackman for his bid. Funster Andrew Smith, 25, admitted his Sydney job title was a little ambiguous but he was looking forward to travelling the Australia as a social media commentator. AFP

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REPORTERS’ DIARY

WILL HE SURVIVE THE SNAKE BASKET? N SHIVA KUMAR

as the GHMC left a ‘snake amongst the pigeons ’, was the question most discussed in the civic lobby of the GHMC recently. Putting on top of the all important planning wing a young and upright IAS officer, Ronald Rose, was a surprise shift that left many wondering. No one expected the commissioner to place this young officer to head a department drenched in slush and sleaze, while several other senior officers were ready to ‘sacrifice’ anything to get their hands on the rich pie. Was it a political decision or was it a commissioner’s discretion? It is not as yet clear. But bets have already placed on him—will he or won’t he survive the most ruthless and powerful builder lobby? Odds are one against nine. Many expect that very soon he would be shifted because he is not the type who ‘accommodates’ the movers and shakers.

aw in its pristine form may scowl, seniors may grumble, chota netas my gnash their teeth in anger, but the aam janata, the common man, was in ecstasy when two young and brave police officers of One Town police in Ananatapur on Monday last paraded along the streets a gang of kidnappers under protégé of local netas and money sharks. People who were seeing such pleasant show of law keepers’ might, felt overjoyed and they surged to lift the two police officers on their shoulders. This was no reel show but real and spontaneous. For the masses in town, Circle Inspector Corantla Madhav and Sub Inspector Zakir, were their heroes and they showed their happiness and gratitude hoisting them and carrying with along hailing their bravery. The officers who were helpless in the hands of the crowds allowed themselves to be carried. And, their families, reports said were proud of their men. The case is that one Ganesh of Sangareddy had pledged his car and taken a loan of `1.5 lakh from one Hanumanth Reddy in Ananthapur. Ganesh paid the money back recently and Hanumanth reportedly refused to release the vehicle. He told Ganesh to go away or his men would beat him to pulp. It is said that when Ganesh persisted, the money lender arranged a couple of rowdy-sheeters and kidnapped Ganesh and planned to kill him. On receipt of the complaint from Ganesh family, police swung into action and within a short while they picked up the rowdies and with them Ganesh. It is after a long time people were treated to the exhibition of bravery of honest cops. Wish we had such instances more frequently because only by shaming criminals in public some improvement could happen as muscle and money could often interrupt and sabotage law and justice. An octogenarian, watching the popular show exclaimed, “Shahash Bete.” (MS)

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WHY THIS FUTILE EXERCISE?

o we have anymore use of the symbolism the political leaders indulge in like the one Chandrababu Naidu and his TDP did the other day? They cooked food on the roadside to draw people’s ire against the government for failing to rein in prices of essential goods. Reporter noted that the biggest worry of housewife today is cooking gas and there was no mention of it. But the point is: does this kind of symbolic action work today? It’s highly doubtful. People know politicians for what they are: masked faces whose words and deeds rarely match (SS)

ONE TO UNTIE REDTAPE

ureaucratic redtapism is so notorious. However, the Hyderabad Traffic Integrated Management System, an essential service project has been pending with GHMC for so long that traffic police undeservedly earned illrepute. To tame the redtape the traffic police have appointed a special inspector only to make sure that the City roads and traffic-related projects which are pending with the civic body move faster. “We live in a country where government offices take eternity to move a file, hence we are left with no option,” said a senior police official. (AA)

SHABASH BETE!

GAME ROTTEN POLITICOS PLAY

ostnoon had been steadfastly maintaining that the NIA probe into Dilsukhnagar blasts came to naught because local politics are involved. Who cares? Now comes revelations in media that terror suspect Maqbool was released by the home department in 2009 for ‘good conduct’ in spite of the jail authorities warning against it. NIA had maintained that Maqbool had agreed during interrogation that he had conducted reconnaissance of Dilsukhnagar. It was also alleged that a city party, known for its virulent attitude to one community, had brought pressure on the government and his release was an afterthought, not originally considered. Do the politicians and the officials understand that terror should be denied religious protection and lives of the innocent people are more important than some votes? (PK)

SHAME, SHAME!

o much for our sense of history and heritage. The GHMC board (pictured) proclaiming the bamboo garden along the Road No. 36 is so disfigured with illegal advertisements that it looks like a scarecrow mocking at our utter lack of respect for a public property. It makes one wonder if the British were not right branding us ‘Dirty Indians.’ This board is abused with all sorts of notices and ads and even pan stain and the GHMC which proclaimed Hyderabad the Biodiversity capital of India (!) did not bother to give it a new paint and maintain it. “What’s the use? They will dirty it again,” seems the refrain of civic officials. (PK)

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HIGH-RISK JOB

Young porters ‘hit’ trekking in Nepal Wage hikes for porters, which have been celebrated by unions and advocacy groups, mean treks through the Himalayas have now become a lucrative venture for Nepalese boys.

KYLE KNIGHT Agence France-Presse KATHMANDU: It is a traditional role using skills passed down through the generations, but young unskilled boys with no knowledge of the mountains are now flocking to become porters in Nepal’s Himalayas. The lure of comparatively high wages is encouraging the

teens to carry packs for tourists during the busy trekking season — but some experts say they are putting both themselves and climbers at risk. Wage hikes for porters, which have been celebrated by unions and advocacy groups, mean treks through the Himalayas have now become a lucrative venture for Nepalese boys, some as young as 14. “Friends who’ve done por-

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tering told me it’s a good way to earn money, so now I’m doing it too," says 19-year-old Tendisha, who uses one name, during a trek down from Everest Base Camp. “I didn’t know anything about the mountains before," the

porter adds. Porters traditionally carry food, safety equipment and camping gear, often trekking ahead of the group, setting up camp before the trekkers arrive, or staying behind to pack up. Some of them are Sherpas, experienced mountaineers who guide climbers through the Himalayas. In a profession that requires local knowledge about factors

such as altitude and temperature, as well as basic medical skills for emergencies, lack of experience can endanger an expedition. And without expertise, the porters themselves are at risk of injury. “They’ve never carried anything in their lives," says Jo Chaffer, a veteran guide and trekking company consultant based in Nepal.

MADE OF BRONZE, I AM

The 41-year-old was charged with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle. SYDNEY: Police on Friday charged a drunk man after pulling over a car on Australia’s Gold Coast to allegedly find a seven-year-old boy driving him home at 3:00 am. A patrol car stopped the vehicle after it went by without its headlights on early Friday morning, to find the boy at the wheel and the man in the passenger seat. “A man has been charged with serious traffic offences after police intercepted a car allegedly being driven by a seven-year-old boy at Surfers Paradise in the early hours of this morning,"

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The boy is now in the care of relatives with Queensland state Transport Minister Scott Emerson saying he was stunned. “I shake my head and am shocked by the madness of this," Emerson told ABC radio.

A bronze statue of Star Wars character Yoda is on display after being unveiled at the new Imagination Park in San Anselmo, California. Bronze statues of the Star Wars character Yoda and Indiana Jones were unveiled at the new 8,700 square foot Imagination Park that was donated by “Star Wars” creator and San Anselmo resident George Lucas. JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES/AFP

WORLD BRIEFS Singapore smog reaches new high

Serbia, Kosovo PMs meet in push to EU door

Lebanese Shiites fear Gulf expulsions

Plane ‘ready’ to bring Snowden to Iceland

Obama to tap Jim Comey as new FBI chief

SINGAPORE: Singapore’s smog index hit the critical 400 level on Friday, making it potentially lifethreatening to the ill and elderly people, according to a government monitoring site. The record level was reached at 0300 GMT after a rapid rise in the Pollutant Standards Index (PSI), which measures the haze crisis caused by Indonesian forest ﬁres.

BRUSSELS: EU foreign affairs head Catherine Ashton said that the premiers of Serbia and Kosovo made some headway towards normalising ties, during overnight talks in Brussels. In a statement issued after a six-hour meeting , Ashton said the Serbia and Kosovo prime ministers, Ivica Dacic and Hashim Thaci, “agreed a number of open issues”.

DUBAI: Lebanese Shiites working in the Gulf fear deportations by authorities in the Sunni-ruled monarchies infuriated by Hezbollah’s military support for the Syrian regime against rebels. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) recently warned that it will take measures against members of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah in the region.

REYKJAVIK: A chartered jet is ready to bring US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden to Iceland from Hong Kong, a businessman connected to WikiLeaks said. “Everything is ready on our side and the plane could take off tomorrow," Icelandic businessman Olafur Sigurvinsson, head of WikiLeaks partner ﬁrm DataCell, told Channel2 television.

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama will nominate a former Bush administration ofﬁcial to head the FBI, the White House said. Jim Comey, a deputy attorney general under George W Bush, would replace Robert Mueller, who is stepping down from the agency he has led since the week before the September 11, 2001 attacks.

News FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2013

GO GREEN An eight-member team from the Hyderabad Bicycles Club successfully completed a 520 km London to Paris Cycle Challenge.

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n eight-member team from the Hyderabad Bicycles Club successfully completed a 520 km ‘London to Paris Cycle Challenge', which took place on the May 28 to June 31, 2013. The team at the end of the race hoisted the Indian Flag on the Eiffel tower. A total of 42 cyclists participated from all across the globe to support the ‘U Foundation’, which supports education for people in Zambia and only eight from India took part in the race. The GHMC Commissioner felicitating the team for the achievement also announced the launch of the City’s second bike station in Cyberabad. The team comprised the first father-son duo to have participated in this ride twice, DV Manohar and D Dharmin. About the experience, Dharmin, who is a student in the US, said, “Reaching the finish line was the most encouraging and amazing

movement, people were clapping and encouraging us, it felt nice. I took part in this race to support my father: he keeps doing it and I felt I should join him too.” Dharmin said they would start everyday at 7am and stop when they complete roughly 140 km. “It was very tiring; sometimes I just wanted this race to finish.” The 20-year-old adds, “We would have breaks in between, but our bikes went flat many times; the track was hard work, but my father kept encouraging me.“ DV Manohar, chairman of the Hyderabad Bicycling Club, said, “It was a great bonding experience, we became closer. Though he would race ahead, he would stop at intervals for me to catch up.” But towards the end experience gained the upper hand and Manohar led in the dad-son race. “I showed off a bit,” he quipped. Aditya Mehta, winner of two medals for India in the Asia Para Cycling Championships, too, partici-

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pated in the race. “It was very tough, I had to adjust my foot and thought I couldn’t do it, but I am glad I could finish it. This race and HBC changed my life,” Aditya who signed up after he saw a hoarding about the HBC race. The other team members were Prashant Krishnadas, Sreenivas Hosamane and Asha Hosmane; D Sujata Manohar and Prateeksha Prashant officiated as volunteers for the Cycle Challenge. The ride on the steep mountains, through dense forests and picturesque country side of the UK and France was very tough this year due to adverse weather conditions — heavy rains and the biting cold.

healthy activity. I request Hyderabad Bicycling Club to popularize bicycling by organizing an event on the lines of Hyderabad 10K run." NVS Reddy, MD, Hyderabad Metro rail said, “Most major stations off the 66 Hyderabad Metro Rail stations will have latest and modern Bike stations. These bicycles will serve as the last minute means for the commuters to reach their offices from the station. This way the commuters can contribute

in reducing pollution and be healthy. Our motto through this project is ‘Pollution free and healthy Hyderabad’.” “This will be a PPP project involving GHMC, APIIC and Hyderabad Metro Rail and Hyderabad Bicycling Club and will build bicycle tracks for safe ride,” he said. “Soon, we are setting up the third and a state of the art bike station at Hi-Tech city railway station, for which Railway’s is sparing 100 yards space at the station.”

THE SECOND BIKE STATION

The new Gachibowli Bike Station would be adjoining the new cycling track laid by APIIC and would enable people in Cyberabad area to extensively utilize APIIC’s cycling tracks. The recently launched “Cycle to Work” initiative in Cyberabad by APIIC and HBC will get further impetus with the Cyberabad Bike Station, which has a capacity of 250 bikes. Krishna Babu said about `20 has been invested in the ultra modern bike station and another `20 lakh would be spent on it. The official said they are encouraging non-motorised transport. “The theme of this project is ‘Burn your calories and save on fuel’: this will improve your health and the health of our economy, too. We will run a campaign to promote cycling as a

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News FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2013 We may dismiss ants as mere pests, but in fact very few of them are. Entomologist Sunil Kumar takes you on a journey into the world of these amazing and essential insects and shows an entire civilization functioning like clockwork.

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assers-by stared at Sunil Kumar as they would at crazy entomologists crouched on a public park pathway scrutinising itty-bitty insects that no one else cares to notice. Kumar's unlikely public stance was in response to taking me on an insect trail in a city park. He'd promised to show me creatures he'd been fascinated with for years, ones that I see every day, but knew precious little about except that they bite — Ants. Close to the hedges on the pathway we spotted a mob of what I would have dismissed as 'small black ants'. My companion however, deemed that they

required closer inspection. “Look closely, their abdomens are heart shaped,' he explained. Sure enough, I noticed this detail. What we were looking at were acrobat ants. These tiny ants have the habit of raising their abdomen in what looks like a circus trick and hence the moniker. Acrobat ants were actually the fourth species we spotted in a span of five minutes since our trail began. We'd barely moved four steps. It was a cloudy evening and the weather was good to watch ants I was told. Making the first appearance was a solitary Short Legged Hunchback ant, purposefully moving ahead oblivious to any human observation, until it was gently picked up by Kumar. Holding

this very common ant between his fingers, he showed me a node that connects the rest of the ant's body to its abdomen. While anatomically all insects are six-legged creatures with their bodies divided in three fractions — head, thorax and abdomen; ants have what is called a 'petiole node' connecting to their abdomen. This part is absent in other insects such as bugs or termites. Another obvious difference is that ant antennae are bent as opposed to upright ones such as in butterflies. The Hunchback ant, which we were observing is known to have its abdomen at a right angle to its body when foraging and therefore looks hunched. These are the ones you must have seen busy building crater-like nests around the base of trees. Just after the rains, the soil is easier to dig up and ants can be seen working on building and expanding their nests, explained Kumar. Our path was then crossed by Common Godzilla ants. One of the largest ants in the country, this species is common around human habitation. They can also be seen in toilets as they feed on urea. The first Godzilla ant we spotted (stretching to 6mm in body length) was a minor worker, identified our expert. He then looked for a larger specimen and soon we were looking at one, which he said belonged to the same colony, but was a median worker. But how did he know, I asked. To understand what ants are up to — milling around, crawling, carrying insects, always looking relentlessly occupied, incorrigibly diligent — one must understand the society ants belong to. “All the busy ants you ever see are female. It's a female-dominated society,” said Kumar, “and every colony can be traced back to one queen ant. A single ant colony that can easily go into thousands is in a sense a single family of a mother and her daughters. The queen spends her entire existence laying eggs and making the colony larger, while the worker ants (all incapable of reproduction) industriously provide for

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While the purposeful meticulousthe egg-laying queen and maintain the ness of ants makes them popular role colony. When the queen knows the models in fables and proverbs, not all time is right to propagate her genes, species are worthy examples I was she lays eggs that become princess warned. Some are robbers that raid ants or male ants. These ants, unlike food supplies of other ants, some the workers, have wings. They fly mug other ants when they're carrying away from the colony to avoid food. Then there are those degenerate inbreeding and mate. The female ants ones that cultivate 'child slaves' — store the sperm and establish their pupa of other ants are stolen and colonies, while the males, with no furturned into servile subjects when ther use, perish. Sometimes multiple they hatch. Some species like their ant colonies can come together to form meat fresh and so build a storehouse a super-colony.” of paralysed prey, he explained. According to Kumar, an ant colony On our way out of the park we functions much like an IT company came across more species of ant going with unambiguous division of labour. Every colony about their business. This included an Among the worker ants are those that can be traced assembly of very tiny Odour ants (1.5 specialise in foraging for food, some to 2mm) surrounding a speck of food, are caretakers of the queen, cleaners back to one queen White Footed Ghost ants, that can be maintain the nest and so on. Minor ant. A single ant seen in gardens feeding on nectar. We workers perform tasks such as feeding also saw a solitary Golden Backed young ones and have much smaller colony that can easant, a common species with a pale mandibles and heads as compared to golden abdomen. The trail could not major workers that break seeds, carry ily go into thousands have ended without us sighting an heavy loads or safeguard nest is in a sense a family army of red Fire ants, well-known for entrances in case of enemy attacks. their unfriendly bites. We also saw ants that were hardly of a mother Asked how one can get rid of ants following a disciplined trail, these I and her in ones kitchen, he recommends learnt were the Black Crazy ants turmeric as a deterrent. But of the named for their erratic and mad road daughters. 14,000 species of ants around the sense. world, only a small number are pests Tree trunks and bases are a good Sunil Kumar he said. Unlike beetles, ants can't bore, place to look for ants and so we decidEntomologist and so don't cause much damage. ed to scan an ancient sacred fig tree Keeping kitchens clean and sealing with burrows all around its base. The cracks and gaps around floors and burrows with little ant activity perhaps windows is an adequate ant control measure at home, belonged to rats. It's here that we spotted our next he assures. In your garden, fire ants can aggravate species, the Shy Spineless Bark ants. aphids, while larger ants creating nests are harmless. These arboreal or tree-dwelling Most ants I came across on the trail were species insects nest in cracks of trees and I'd seen before in and around the house. Ants forage on the trunks of trees such are taken for granted, because we can see as Mango and Banyan. them so often, we don't pay Our trail then led us to a line of attention to them, said Kumar. ants marching diagonally across our path. Known Red ant, black ant, big ant, as Procession ants these ants are meat-eating and prey small ant are the classifications of on animals many times larger than themselves such as our fleeting attention spans. frogs, toads, worms, centipedes, etc.

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The total weight of all the ants in the world is the same as, if not larger than that of all humans. Some ants can support up to 100 times their own weight upside down on glass. The largest ant colony ever found was over 6,000km wide. Ants are the longest living of all insects, living for up to 30 years. The ant is one of the worlds’ strongest creatures in relation to its size. Dozens of colonies of the worlds smallest ant could live in the brain case of the worlds largest ant. Ants move an estimated 50 tons of soil per year in one square mile. Fire ants cause an estimated $5 billion worth of damage in North America per year. All worker, soldier and queen ants are female. Some ant species are asexual, they clone themselves and do not require any males. Ants and humans are the only creatures that farm other creatures. Ants have two stomachs, one to hold food for themselves, and one for others. Some ant species make slaves out of another ant species. Ants can be found on every continent accept Antarctica. Some ants can swim. Most ants can survive around 24 hours underwater. Some ants have no eyes. Some wingless ants can perform a controlled glide when free-falling. Ants sleep frequently and are often quite lazy. In many parts of the world, ants are eaten by humans as a delicacy. Ants’ worst enemies are not us, but other ants.

How to go on an ant trail Most ants we see outside the nests are female workers. When you spot ants you may observe the following n Is the ant foraging alone or in a trail? n Is the ant foraging or heading home (obvious if carrying food in its mandibles)? What is the food it is carrying? n If the ant is returning to its nest, watch and try to locate the nest and observe the nest features. Nests can be on the ground, under leaf litter, on trees, etc. n Once at the nest, determine if ants are of different sizes or shapes or are they the same. You can also observe this when you watch a trail. n Never disturb ants in a trail by blocking them. Allow them to carry on with their work. n Never disturb the nests. Sunil Kumar, along with Ajay Narendra, is co-author of On a Trail with Ants.

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Comment Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

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NATALIA RAMOS Agence France-Presse

razilians marching against corruption and the cost of the 2014 World Cup are also angry at the media, including the influential Globo network, accused of belittling their movement. In Sao Paulo, the country’s business and media capital, Globo TV crews have been jeered while covering protest rallies and on Tuesday demonstrators set the satellite van of another station ablaze. Hundreds of thousands have marched in cities throughout the country over the past two weeks in Brazil’s biggest street protests in 20 years. The mainly young demonstrators have been angered over public transport fare hikes and the billions of dollars spent on preparations for next year’s football World Cup rather than on social programmes. The rare display of “people’s power", which has forced authorities to roll back the fare increases, has received blanket media coverage, particularly by Riobased Globo, the world’s secondlargest commercial TV network. “Globo always manipulates facts and tries to put the demonstrators in a bad light, focusing on the vandalism of a few hooligans," said Leitane Luranque, one of thousands demonstrators at Monday’s rally in Sao Paulo. On Tuesday, the area around Sao Paulo City Hall looked like a war zone as extremists stoned and tried to overturn a van of the Record television network, forcing the crew to flee before the vehicle was set ablaze. Widespread disillusionment with mainstream media has led many young protesters to turn to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Instagram for news.

AIR POLLUTION IS ASIA’S MIGRAINE

THE INSIDE STORY

John F Kennedy Former US president

Media slammed for coverage

HIGH-FLYING THOUGHTS

If the US can, so can we. Security being more important than privacy, India has launched a wide-ranging surveillance programme that will give its security agencies and even income tax officials the ability to tap directly into emails and phone calls without oversight by courts or Parliament.

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ir pollution has become a curse for millions of citydwellers in Asia, posing a mounting risk to the very young and very old, pregnant women and people with heart and respiratory problems, say experts. “The levels of pollution in parts of China, India and elsewhere in Asia are just astronomically high and the health impacts are dramatic," said Bob O’Keefe of the Health Effects Institute (HEI), a US not-forprofit research agency. “This is a threat that was really under-estimated in the past," said O’Keefe. This week, Singapore grappled with record levels of air pollution, unleashed by land fires in neighbouring Indonesia. In January, pollution in Beijing went off the scale of an airquality monitor at the US embassy, and the city’s hospital admissions surged by 20 percent. In August 2012, Hong Kong suffered its highest-recorded pollution, prompting the territory to urge vulnerable population groups to stay indoors. HEI estimates, derived from an exceptionally detailed analy-

sis called the Global Burden of Disease, say that some 3.2 million people around the world died prematurely from outdoor air pollution in 2010. China and India together accounted for some 2.5 million of these deaths, sharing the tally roughly equally. The death toll in China has risen by a third over 20 years, but worse pollution is only part of the reason. As China becomes more prosperous, its citizens are attaining greater ages, reaching 70 or 80 years or beyond — when people become more vulnerable to heart and respiratory stress from air pollution. A study published last August in the journal Nature Climate Change estimated that forest and land fires in Southeast Asia kill an additional 15,000 people annually from air pollution during the El Nino weather phenomenon, when drier soil often causes blazes to go out of control. An investigation by US researchers, published in February, found that among three million births recorded in nine countries in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia, there was a clear link between worse air pollution and lower birth weight. Low birth weight — when a newborn weighs less than 2.5 kilos — is associated with ill health, premature death and

cognitive problems in later life. Health experts point to two main dangers from air pollution. One concerns particulate matter (PM) — the sooty specks emitted from fossil fuels, forest fires and land clearances. Cathryn Tonne, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, points the finger at so-called PM2.5 — particles measuring 2.5 micrometres across or less, or 30 times smaller than a human hair. Mainly generated by the burning of coal and oil for power stations, and diesel and petrol for transport, these are many times more perilous than PM10 particles, which are 10 micrometres across, Tonne and colleagues found in research into heart deaths in England

and Wales. “We found that for every 10 microgrammes per cubic metre in PM2.5, there was a 20-percent increase in the death rate," Tonne said. By way of comparison, the WHO has a recommended maximum of 10 microgrammes of PM2.5 per cubic metre as an annual exposure — and a maximum over a 24-hour period of 25 microgrammes per cubic metre. The other big danger from air pollution is ozone, a triple molecule of oxygen that in the stratosphere is a vital shield against DNA-damaging sunlight, but at ground level — where it is typically created by a reaction between nitrogen oxides in traffic fumes and sunlight — it is an irritant for the airways.

EDITORIALS Optimism should not override realism

ndia’s claim to be the world’s largest democracy is not without substance. The media here is free; Indians buy more newspapers every day than any other nation. Life expectancy at birth has more than doubled, to 66 years from 32, since our independence. Per-capita income has grown ﬁvefold. In recent decades, reforms pushed up the country’s once sluggish growth rate to around 8 per cent per year, though it has fallen back a couple of percentage points over the last two years. For years, India’s economic growth rate ranked second among the world’s large economies. But the dream that India might overtake China one day in economic growth now seems a distant one. The gap between India and China in provision of essential public services is huge. Take one example: India may be the world’s largest producer of generic medicine, but its health care system is a mess. While China devotes 2.7 per cent of its GDP to government spending on health care, India allots 1.2 per cent. Get factual India, get realistic.

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he latest National Sample Survey has revealed that Indians are spending more on durable goods than on food. The average consumer expenditure on food slid from 54.7 per cent in 1993-94 to 38.5 per cent in 2011-12 in urban areas. Nonfood expenditure has gone up from 45.3 per cent to 61.5 per cent. The same trend is seen even in rural areas. That sure is a healthy sign. Overeating has been the bigger problem of late, leading to ill-health. Durables, though, add to sedentary living!

FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2013

Business

KERALA TO HELP MIGRANTS GET WORK IN STATE

The Kerala government has decided to help migrants returning from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, following the tightening of labour laws there, by arranging alternate jobs or self-employment schemes for them, said Chief Minister Oommen Chandy.

OIL PRICES FLAT IN ASIA

TRADE TALKS

China, EU to solve disputes As tension between the two risks escalating into a trade war, disagreement over solar panels and other products will be discussed in the talks.

BEIJING: China and the European Union began ministerial-level talks on Friday that are expected to try to resolve a dispute over solar panels and other products, as tensions between the two risk escalating into a trade war. Gao Hucheng, China's Minister of Commerce, and EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht are in attendance at the annual meeting of the joint economic and trade commission, William Fingleton, spokesman for the EU side, said in an e-mail. Chinese commerce ministry spokesman Shen Danyang told reporters this week that the talks would "seriously review what happened over the past year in bilateral trade relations and study how to resolve problems, including the dispute over photovoltaic (solar panel) trade". EU Trade spokesman John Clancy said the solar panel issue would not be on the official agenda of the meeting, but De Gucht and Gao were expected to discuss it on the sidelines.

"Confidential technical-level discussions" with China have started in Brussels this week "in a bid to find a negotiated settlement", he said in a statement this week. "It is important to underline that the EU's ambition remains to find an amicable solution as soon as possible," he said. The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, this month imposed an average tariff of 11.8 per cent on solar panel

imports from China -- rising to 47.6 per cent on August 6 if there are no negotiations based on a Chinese commitment to address the problem. In addition to solar cells, Brussels and Beijing are also involved in a series of disputes covering other products, ranging from steel pipes to wine, that have sparked fears of a trade war. China said this month it will deal "appropriately" with the EU's decision to challenge it at

the World Trade Organisation after Beijing slapped duties on some steel products. Beijing has launched a probe into imports of EU wine and chemicals amid accusations it is selling goods below cost -- a process known as "dumping" -while the EU has threatened an investigation into the country's telecom equipment firms. The tit-for-tat trade measures have triggered concerns over the repercussions they may cause to broader business relations between the two. Trade between the two sides fell 3.7 per cent year-on-year in 2012, with China's imports from the bloc rising 0.4 per cent to $212 billion, while shipments in the opposite direction tumbled 6.2 per cent to $334 billion, Chinese customs data showed. According to Chinese industry figures, it exported $35.8 billion of solar products in 2011, over 60 per cent of them to the EU, while it imported $7.5 billion-worth of European solar equipment and raw materials. AFP

FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS

HAL chooses City for manufacture unit BANGALORE: Indian state-run defence behemoth Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) on Thursday said it has tied up with French aerospace firm Sagem to manufacture automatic flight control systems and sensors at Hyderabad. "HAL has entered into a contract with Sagem of Safran group at the Paris air show for technology transfer to set up the production facility for flight control systems and sensors at our Hyderabad division," the company said in a statement here.

The new set-up will also have a maintenance facility for the avionics of the company's advanced light helicopter (ALH) and intermediate jet trainer (IJT) platforms. The company hopes to use the facility for fitting the avionic systems on the light combat helicopter (LCH) and light utility helicopter (LUH), whose prototypes are under design and development. The new facility is expected to be commissioned by 2015. IANS

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employees Siemens Ltd has laid off across its units in the country amid uncertain business environment.

$ STEADY AFTER FED RALLY The dollar was steady in Asia on Friday after a rally fuelled by the US Federal Reserve's signal that it could start reeling in its stimulus scheme this year, while worries about China's economy spooked investors. In Tokyo, the greenback fetched 97.20 yen, compared with 97.27 yen in New York. The euro gained to $1.3241 from $1.3223 in US trading, while it bought 128.68 yen compared with 128.62 yen. Despite softening from New York, largely due to a fall in Tokyo's Nikkei stock index, "dollar-buying is prevailing against most major currencies", said Masaru Ishibashi, head of forex trading at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking.

THUS SPAKE I do not not feel so negative on India these days and many Indian companies are worth buying into over the next few weeks. SAMIR ARORA, HELIOS CAPITAL

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FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2013

spotlight

DESI BEATS RULE

DJ Shafi will be belting out the latest Bollywood chartbusters at Firangi Paani tonight. Head to the pub to enjoy the night.

SWEET DREAMS

Sheela Group, the owners of Sleepwell mattresses brand opened their exclusive Sleepwell Gallery at Mahalakshmi Furniture Hub at Madhapur. The Gallery inaugurated by Tollywood actress Haasika.

WOMEN OF SUBSTANCE Hyderabad Fashion Week, Season 3 is back after their two successful previous seasons. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the best platform any girl can have.

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Squaring the Circle: Severn Steps to Indian Renaissance written by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam and Professor Arun Tiwari was launched with much fanfare at Taj Krishna on Thursday. 2

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FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2013

health

CHILD'S IQ LINKED TO EARLY WEIGHT GAIN

After studying 13,800 children born at full-term, researchers at the University of Adelaide, said children who gain more weight, and whose heads grow quickly, during the first month of life tend to have a higher IQ when they start school, Daily Mail reported. IANS

UNDERSTANDING YOUR LUNGS: PART V

Are you short of breath?

Is your breathing capacity decreasing day by day without your knowledge? Do you think it’s too late for you to quit smoking? Or do you think your lungs are in perfect health just because you do not smoke? We take a look at some of the common myths surrounding lung diseases, their causes and symptoms.

3 MYTH: I don’t smoke, so I can’t get COPD. FACT: Though smoking is one of the major causes of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, it is not the only cause. There are many environmental factors , like working or leaving in highly polluted areas or constant exposure to chemical pollutants. A genetic link to COPD has also been identified, wherein the body cannot make a particular type of protein responsible for protecting the lungs. According to WebMD, lung damage caused by preterm birth is could also be a factor..

4 MYTH: Shortness of breath with little activity is normal. FACT: It is a sign that you are neglecting your health. Either you have been leading a sedentary lifestyle (less than 20-40 minutes of physical exercise every day) or it is a sign of an underlying problem. This should not be ignored and must consult a healthcare provider immediately. If left undetected or untreated, it could lead to a reduction in lung capacity over time.

MYTH: Flu is same as cold. FACT: Influenza is also known as flu and is caused by RNA viruses. Though some of the symptoms may be similar to the common cold, both are caused by different viruses and flu is much more severe. Symptoms of flu include headache, fever, fatigue, body pain and runny nose. At times, influenza can even lead to death (if left untreated). This respiratory illness is contagious and spreads through sputum of infected person or through droplets in the air when the person sneezes or coughs.

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5 2 MYTH: Asthma can be cured over time. FACT: Asthma cannot be cured, but there are ways to maintain good health and manage it. You need to recognise what triggers an asthma attack in you and avoid it. According Asthma Foundation NSW, those who quit smoking experience less frequent attacks and symptoms of asthma. You can consult your healthcare provider for this, take medications as prescribed, and even chalk out exercises that you can do to stay fit and healthy.

MYTH: It’s too late to quit smoking. FACT: The ill effects of smoking develop over a period of time. WebMd quotes Norman H Edelman, chief medical officer of the American Lung Association, as saying that a person’s health will improve even if he quits smoking at the age of 70. Smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable deaths in the United States, according to a paper published in the American Journal of Public Health. It also estimates that nearly 5 million people die annually worldwide due to smoking.

FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2013

Technology VIDEO CLASS

Lessons from space The lessons were delivered by a Chinese astronaut orbiting over Earth.

Chinese astronaut orbiting more than 300 kilometres above the Earth’s surface delivered a video class to children across the country on Thursday, state television showed in a live broadcast. Wearing a blue space suit, Wang Yaping, the second Chinese woman in space, demonstrated how a variety of objects — from a bubble of water to a spinning toy — behave in zero gravity. Wang’s class — delivered from China’s orbiting space module Tiangong-1 — was shown in classrooms across China, state broadcaster CCTV said. The astronaut smiled as she pushed a fellow astronaut into the wall of the module with the merest touch of her finger, and went on to gulp down a drop of water as it floated in mid air. Using a live video link, Wang fired questions at students who gathered at a school in Beijing to watch the lesson on a giant screen. More than 60 million students and teachers were expected to watch the class, the staterun China Daily said. “In space... how can we tell if we have become thinner or fatter?" she asked students, with a red Chinese flag visible behind her. “We can use electric scales," one eager young boy replied, dressed in a white shirt and the red scarf of the young pioneers, a youth organisation run by China’s ruling Communist Party. “I really envy you for being able to teach us a lesson while floating in space," a female student said. “Have you seen any space junk?" another student asked Wang, before she replied: “We haven’t seen any, but it does exist." The lesson covered topics in physics including Isaac Newton’s second law of motion, and the surface tension of water. China launched three astronauts into space on board the Shenzhou-10 craft last week. The craft later docked with the Tiangong-1 in a test intended to prepare China to build its own permanent space station.

SHIELD GETS A PRICE CUT What’s happening at nVidia? First they goes ahead and announces that their GPUs will be licensed and now a $50 price cut on Shield even before release! That means it’ll sell for $299 when it hits the market on June 27. For people who haven’t been following the company, Shield is a handheld gaming device made by the company that looks like an Xbox 360 controller with an attached screen. It runs on Android and is powered by Tegra 4 processor. The company hasn’t stated any particular reason for the price drop, but it is a good move nevertheless considering next generation consoles cost only $399-$499.

FOXCONN’S COMMITMENT

The astronauts on board went to space with specially prepared bags of lemon tea, and work out on exercise bikes, a video shown before the lesson revealed. China first sent a human into space only in 2003 and its capabilities still lag behind the US and Russia. But its programme is highly ambitious and includes plans to build a station orbiting Earth by 2020, and land a man on the moon.

Beijing sees its multi-billiondollar space programme as a symbol of its rising global stature, growing technical expertise, and the Communist Party’s success in turning around the fortunes of the once poverty-stricken nation. The project is heavily promoted to the domestic audience, and state broadcaster CCTV ran the lesson in full on its premier channel. AFP

Did you know? n For the past 10 years China

has been developing the technology for advanced space flight. Priority number one is making sure it’s astronauts get to and from the space station safely.

n Since 1998 Professor Cui

Guoqi, director of the Rapid Prototyping Research Center in Tianjin University, has creating 3D printed seats for Chinese space missions. Since China’s first manned spaceflight in 2003, each Shenzhou mission has been equipped with a custom made 3D printed seat.

n The seat itself is made of a

70mm thick composite material and looks more like a cradle than a traditional chair. Over the course of the last 10 years Cui Guoqi has been improving the design of the Chinese space seats, “During launch and landing these special seats… protect the astronauts, especially their backbones, from being hurt by the jolt during acceleration," Said Prof Guoqi.

Manufacturing giant Foxconn clearly thinks Firefox OS is a horse worth backing. Foxconn is still known almost exclusively as a company that builds things for everyone else. It’s going on a hiring spree and hopes to bring a whopping 3,000 software engineers into the fold. Certainly Foxconn would stand to beneﬁt from having a few programmers on hand to help out with chores like Firefox OS drivers and optimizations for the devices it’s producing. But there’s another big reason the company is making this move.

INSTAGRAM GETS VIDEO Instagram, the immensely popular photo-sharing app that was acquired by Facebook in a $1 billion deal last year, is not just for photos anymore. At a press event at Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters, Instagram’s co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom debuted a new feature called, simply, “Video On Instagram.” This lets people create 15-second videos to share on the service. The feature includes simple editing capabilities as well as 13 new ﬁlters, which were specially created for video. “What we did to photos, we just did to video,” Systrom said.

FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2013

Entertainment CINE BYTES

Sampath keen on making Gabar Singh a franchise

awan Kalyan starrer Gabbar Singh became a smash hit when it released in Andhra Pradesh last year. Because of the popularity of the power star's role in the movie, a sequel of the film is in the pipeline. Sampath Nandi will be directing the sequel titled Gabbar Singh 2. Nandi asserted that the movie had the potential to be made into a franchise.

RVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shooting in Pollachi cancelled

amayya Vastavayya starring Tiger NTR was scheduled for a shoot in Pollachi. But, the shooting had to be cancelled due to bad weather conditions. The film unit has returned to the City and a fresh schedule will be resumed here. NTR is cast opposite Shruti Haasan and Samantha in the film, produced by Dil Raju.

KISS audio due for June 23 release

ISS, starring Adivi Sesh and Priya Banerjee, will be releasing its audio album on June 23. The movie has been produced by Sesh's brother Sai Kiran Adivi while Sesh himself has directed it. The music of this romcom has been composed by Sricharan and Pete Wonder.

FINGERS CROSSED

NAYANATARA-KAMMULA STARRER ANAMIKA D SET IN HYDERABAD irector Sekhar Kammula and Nayanatara have teamed up for Anamika. The movie, which is the official remake of Bollywood blockbuster Kahaani, is under production. The shooting for the film is on in Hyderabad and Kammula is known to have erected a massive set for this movie in Padmarao Nagar. Nayanatara will be playing Vidya Balan's character from Kahaani. The movie is being produced under the Endemol India banner. Anamika will be released in both Tamil and Telugu. Sekhar Kammula, who was left only with disappointment after his previous venture Life is Beautiful, has all his hopes pinned on Anamika.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2013

Chai Time

THOUGHT OF THE DAY

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. Oscar Wilde

KAKURO

QUICK CROSSWORD

SUDOKU How to play kakuro Kakuro is a popular game similar to sudoku in some ways. But is also suitably different. The key question: ‘How do you play kakuro?’, well here are the rules of kakuro. The answer: The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku, can be of any size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells like in a crossword. And, just like in a crossword, some of the dark cells will contain numbers. Some cells will contain two numbers. However, in a crossword the numbers reference clues. In a kakuro, the numbers are all you get! They denote the total of the digits in the row or column referenced by the number. Within each collection of cells — called a run — any of the numbers 1 to 9 may be used but, like sudoku, each number may only be used once. Let’s have an example to explain this concept more clearly: In the image above, which shows a section of a kakuro puzzle, you will see the numbers ‘26’ and ‘14’ in the top row. Look at the 14. This means that the total of the three cells underneath must sum to 14. Therefore 9, 4, 1 could be the answer, or perhaps 7, 4, 3 and so on... So, how do you work out the actual combination? Well, this is done through elimination and cross-referencing. For instance, as you work out the answers for other kakuro clues, this will naturally limit the valid combinations, and hence the answer for this particular run. Note the second cell in row two — it contains two numbers, 30 and 11. The 30 refers to the vertical run underneath the number 30 and the 11 refers to the two cells to the right, horizontally, of the number 11.

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Chai Time FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2013 Thiruvaikumar

STAR POWER for 21-6-2013

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ARIES

TAURUS

GEMINI

CANCER

LEO

VIRGO

LIBRA

SCORPIO

SAGITTARIUS

CAPRICORN

AQUARIUS

PISCES

Avoid anger and emotional outbursts. Money come from expected sources but at the same time there might be a deficit. Keep your cool and making focused efforts. This alone will bring you out of this troubled situation. Be cordial with all.

STRIP TEASE AGNES

Employees have a favourable time at workplace. Debt issues get cleared letting you relax. Avoid unwanted arguments as they could upset you. Some are likely to fall in love and feel happy. Financially, a strong position is likely.

Difficulties due to deficit financial situation will come to an end. Misunderstanding between couples will disappear. You win over enemies and march ahead. On hearing of transfer of a trouble-creating superior, employees heave sigh of relief.

Businessmen get promising opportunities. Avoid executing important work as you are facing resistance. Employees feel comfortable but face a financial deficit. Avoid new debts. Financial planning is a must or the consequences will be bad.

Some have a bright chance to travel abroad. Separated couples likely to get together because of the mediation of elders of the family. Some have a bright chance to receive part of ancestral property that will make them financially comfortable.

Pay hike and elevation likely to materialise for employees. Health looks fine. Businessmen plan expansion. You get upset as expenses overtake income but this situation will not continue and soon you will be in a comfortable financial position.

Employees get additional responsibilities but prove themselves. You succeed in all efforts and march ahead with determination and self-confidence. Prestige and respect are more important for you rather than improving financial position.

Entire family will be cheerful. Written-off dues get collected to your surprise. Irrespective of trouble, you take clear-cut and bold decisions, which yield desired results. Those who are worried about postponement of marriage get favourable news.

Avoid a third person’s interference in family issues. Businessmen need to put in their hard work to improve profits. Confusion in the family depresses you; keep your cool and solve the problem wisely as you are capable enough to do it.

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ARIES:

GEMINI:

Page of Pentacles – Before you draw conclusions about someone in your social circle understand their mannerisms and why they are behaving that way.

LEO:

Queen of Pentacles – You’re in the mood to host a party for friends. Make it different and provide new entertainment. It could be a card game or a costume party.

LIBRA:

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King of Swords – While working in a team, ensure everyone is fine and is happy. Even one person not happy with the job will vitiate the environment.

SAGITTARIUS:

Four of Cups – If you have a passion, this is the time to make adjustments in your schedule to follow it. Painting, pottery, or music will get your attention.

TAURUS:

Five of Wands – Confirm a meeting well in advance and reach on time. Keep in touch with the person you’re meeting. You don’t want to waste time waiting.

CANCER:

Knight of Swords – Expect an invitation to a social event. Although you feel you’re not cut out for such gatherings, it would be good to expand your network.

VIRGO:

Eight of Cups – The time may be right to negotiate for a better pay. You need to look at various other options as well, to ensure you get what you want.

SCORPIO:

Ace of Swords – Be more organised today. Create job lists and break up your day by prioritising jobs correctly. You need to plan well and complete all tasks.

CAPRICORN:

Strength – Your skills and talent may come under attack from those who don’t like you. Learn to keep your temper in check. Value those who actually help.

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PISCES:

Knight of Pentacles – You cannot be popular at all times and everywhere. Your falling popularity may have a lot to do with the changing planet positions.

NUMBER GAME

Cups – There is a great deal of enthusiasm and excitement about a new project. Don’t go so much on overdrive that you forget it’s just a job.

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AQUARIUS: Queen of

POOCH CAFE

Those in search of a job get a good opportunity soon. Courage and self-confidence levels will be at their high. Determination to win in all undertaken tasks makes you succeed. You feel happy as you find a way to solve your debt problems.

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The Fool – Keep track of all your text messages and emails so you don’t miss out on anything important. Make sure you’re responding to messages on time.

NON SEQUITUR

Delay is inevitable in getting financial help, upsetting you. You face criticism due to inept handling of family issues. Talks regarding marriage might not yield favourable result but will get delayed. Better postpone efforts in this regard.

SUDUKO

Good events likely to take place in your life. Success is certain in all undertaken work. Marriage talks progress well and get finalised. Happy atmosphere to prevail at home. Jobless will get a promising career opportunity soon.

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HALL OF SHAME

Miley Cyrus, Chris Brown named worst celebrity role models in new survey

ongratulations to Miley Cyrus and Chris Brown for topping another list. This one they might be less excited about, though. The two are the top male and female worst celebrity role models according to a new survey commissioned by CouponCodes4U. The website surveyed 2,407 parents, all of which with at least one child over eight years old. Fiftyeight per cent of those surveyed believe that celebrities should not be used as role models for children. They were also able to come up with ‘Top 10’ male and female celebrities that would make for the absolute worst role models. The lists can be found below. Reasons given for the female choices ranged from their over-sexualised images, to their being unable to make positive life choices. For the guys, arrogance was a key factor in most of the decisions, along with questionable talent.

CINE BYTES Anna Kendrick to star in Last 5 Years musical

nna Kendrick has signed on to star in The Last 5 Years, an adaptation of the Jason Robert Brown stage musical that will costar former Smash star Jeremy Jordan. The plot follows the fiveyear love affair, marriage and eventual breakup of Cathy (Kendrick) and Jamie (Jordan) — a struggling actress and novelist, respectively.

Katy Perry waiting for Mr Right

inger Katy Perry has gone through divorce, but still believes in love. She hopes that she finds a man who will love her "in the right way". Perry divorced Russell Brand in 2011. The 28-year-old, who recently split from lover John Mayer, says she is content being single for now.

Johnny Depp opens up about vision problem

ctor Johnny Depp, who often sports tinted glasses, has revealed he has been "basically blind as a bat" in his left eye. He said he suffers the problem since birth. He is also near-sighted in his right eye and says he relies heavily on his prescription spectacles for his vision.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2013

PGA TRAVELERS CHAMPIONSHIP

BMW INTERNATIONAL

Els off to stormer in Munich

Hoffman fires 61 to seize lead CROMWELL: Charley Hoffman (right) fired a nineunder-par 61 on Thursday to seize a one-stroke lead over fellow American Hunter Mahan after round one of the $6.1 million PGA Travelers Championship. Hoffman, who shared 45th at last week’s US Open, eagled the par-4 10th and par-5 13th holes and after a birdie at the 15th needed to birdie the last three holes to

match the US PGA’s all-time record low round of 59. “It sort of crossed my mind, but not for long,” Hoffman said. “I learned that 16, 17, 18 aren’t an easy test.” He only managed a birdie at the 18th, but it was enough to put him atop the leaderboard by a stroke over Mahan, who shared fourth at the US Open, and two shots over 2012 Masters champion Bubba Watson.

Past major winners Zach Johnson and Webb Simpson were in a group sharing fourth on 65 that included fellow American John Merrick, Venezuela’s Camilo Villegas, Canada’s Graham DeLaet and Australia’s Rod Pampling. US Open winner Justin Rose of England fired a 67 to share 18th, with a high point of the day being the first time he heard his name announced as a major champion. AFP

CRICKET

Ponting to retire from all cricket LONDON: Ricky Ponting will retire from all professional cricket in October, the Daily Mail website quoted the former Australia captain as saying on Thursday. The 38-year-old, one of the outstanding batsmen of his generation, called time on his international career in December but has continued to play in several domestic competitions, including the English County Championship where he is currently appearing for Surrey. Following his county stint, Ponting will compete in the Champions League with Indian Premier League franchise the Mumbai Indians before retiring from all senior cricket. Ponting, who had previously ruled out reversing his interna-

A file photo shows former Australian batsman Ricky Ponting waving to the crowd as he does a lap of honour with his daughters Emmy (L) and Matisse (2/L) during the first Test match against Sri Lanka, in Hobart in December 2012. AFP

PARIS: Ernie Els produced his lowest score in seven months on Thursday to storm to the front in the 25th anniversary BMW International Open in Munich. The reigning British Open champion broke free from what he described as last week’s US Open ‘torture chamber’ at Merion to record an eagle and seven birdies in sauna-like conditions on the Munchen Eichenried course. Four players, Martin Kaymer, Alex Noren, Matthew Baldwin and Robert Jan Derksen share second place on eight under par. It is Els’ lowest round on either the European or PGA Tour since a similar score in the second round of last November’s WGC HSBC Champions event in China. AFP

tional retirement to help Australia regain the Ashes in England in a Test series starting next month, told the Daily Mail website: “While I’m enjoying my cricket as much as ever, it just feels like the right time to finish playing. “My body and mind are in great shape and I know I’m going to really enjoy these last few months before the next stage of life begins.” Ponting played in, and later captained, strong Australia teams and his career total of 13,378 Test runs, in 168 matches with 41 hundreds, is second only to that of India great Sachin Tendulkar. As captain, Ponting won 48 off his 77 Tests in charge but also led Australia in three Ashes series defeats by England.

LEAGUE CRICKET

A-1 three-day

Day 2 Group A R Dayanad 224 and 61/1 in 28 overs vs Ensconse 219 in 83.1 overs (Tanmay Agarwal 89, Himalaya Agarwal 34, Indershekhar 3/12, Aniketh Redkar 6/51). Group B India Cements 244 vs BDL 337/3 in 86 overs (Y Chaitanya Krishna 102 n.o., K Sumanth 81 n.o., N Naveen Kumar 82, Yatin Reddy 32, Mohd Shaker Ahmed 3/64). SBH 292 in 103.3 overs (T Paven Kumar 30, Alfered Absolem 30, Azharuddin Bloch 4/69) vs A O C 193/2 in 58 overs Y Chaitanya (Ravikanth Krishna Pandey 40,

SPORTS BRIEFS Saina in quarters

Gay, Gatlin safe in 100m

Pietersen glad to be back

SINGAPORE:Saina Nehwal came from a game down to beat Eriko Hirose and enter the women’s singles quarterfinals at Singapore Open Superseries badminton event here Thursday. Saina, who slipped to number four in world rankings released Thursday, had to dig deep against the Japanese before earning a 16-21, 21-16, 21-9 win. The contest lasted a little over one hour. With Thursday’s success, Saina levelled her head-to-head record with the World No.11 to 33. She plays Lindaweni Fanetri in the last eight stage Friday on. B. Sai Praneeth, however, lost to Chong Wei Feng 11-21, 21-17, 1621 in the pre-quarterfinals. The World No.45 had upset second seed Yun Hu on Wednesday. IANS

DES MOINES: Tyson Gay and Justin Gatlin made it safely into the semi-finals of the men’s 100m Thursday at the US athletics championships, the first step to a potential world title showdown with Usain Bolt. On a windy evening on the Drake University track, Gay and Gatlin focused on getting through to the next round. Gay clocked 10.28 seconds running into a headwind of 1.6m/sec for the fourth-fastest time in the first round and Gatlin settling for the ninth-fastest time of 10.37 in a heat run into a headwind of 2.9m/sec. Dentarius Locke notched the fastest time, winning his heat in 10.19sec, with Jeff Demps clocked in the same time in finishing second in that heat. AFP

CARDIFF: Kevin Pietersen has spoken of his relief at returning to international action after being included in the England squad for next week’s Twenty20 internationals against New Zealand. Pietersen had been unavailable to England since March due to a knee injury. The South Africa-born shotmaker is regarded as the most talented batsman in the England set-up and has scored 7,499 runs, including 22 hundreds, in 94 Tests at an impressive average of 49.01. In T20 internationals, he has scored 1,176 runs at an average of 37.93. Pietersen was included on Thursday in England’s squad for the T20 internationals against New Zealand at his Surrey home ground of The Oval in south London. AFP

Sumeeth Singh 78, Nakul Verma 53 n.o.). MP Colts 466 in 101.3 overs (Mohanthy 38, Minash Gabrial 48, TV Krishna Basha Charith 4/91, Ravi Teja 3/58 )vs EMCC 219/4 in 54 Overs (Sharat Mudiraj 57, Benjiman 98, Akshat 31 n.o., Minash Gabriel 3/49. Day 1 Group A Deccan Chronicle 386/6 in 83 Overs (Akash Bhandari 161, Akshath Reddy 101, Sundeep Rajan 25 n.o.) vs Evergreen. Falaknuma 181 in 60 Overs (Rohith Rayudu 35, Saaketh 41, Ahmed Askari 32 n.o., (Basha 6/67, B Sudhakar 4/43 vs SCRSA 78/2 in 19.4 overs (M Soloman Raj 38, Mohammed Gayaz 36).

LOCAL TENNIS Himekesh reaches final HYDERABAD: Durga Himekesh defeted K Rohan Reddy in the under-14 semis event of the GMR AITA Talent Series Tennis Tournament held here on Thursday. Results: Semifinals: Boys U-14: Durga Himekesh (AP) bt Rohan Reddy K (AP) 6-4, 6-2, Jude Leander (AP) bt Menga Rohit (AP) 6-4, 6-0. Boys U-16: PC Anirudh (AP) bt Rawal K (AP) 6-0, 6-1, Srivatsa Rathakonda (AP) bt Sudarshan 6-3, 6-1. Boys U-16: Doubles: Rohan Reddy (AP)/Srivatsa Ratakonda (AP) bt Tarun Karra (AP)/Vinay Datta (AP) (9-7), PC Anirudh (AP)/Durga Himakesh (AP) bt Akshith Reddy (AP)/Arvind Reddy (AP) (9-3). Girls U-14: Amineni Shivani (AP) bt K Sri Sai Sivani (AP) 6-1, 2-6, 6-3, Manaswani Reddy (AP) bt Srivalli Reshmika (AP) 2-6, 7-5, 7-6 (2). Girls U-16: Dharna Mudaliar (AP) bt Manaswani Reddy (AP) 6-7 (4), 6-0, 7-5, Amineni Shivani (AP) bt Rithika Bazar (AP) 7-6(4),5-7, 6-2

FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2013

India tame the Lanka Lions

SCORE BOARD

Sri Lanka K Perera c Raina b Kumar 4 T Dilshan not out 18 Sangakkara c Raina b I Sharma 17 L Thirimanne c Raina b I Sharma 7 M Jayawardene b Jadeja 38 A Mathews c Kumar b Ashwin 51 J Mendis st Dhoni b Ashwin 25 T Perera c Dhawan b I Sharma 0 N Kulasekara b Ashwin 1 L Malinga not out 7 Extras (lb 2, w 11) 13 Total (8 wkts, 50 overs) 181 Bowling: Kumar 9-2-18-1; Yadav 82-30-0; I Sharma 9-1-33-3 (2w); Jadeja 10-1-33-1; Dhoni 4-0-17-0 (1w); Ashwin 10-1-48-3 (4w); Note: Dilshan retired hurt on 12 with the score on 17 for one and resumed his innings at the fall of the seventh wicket.

India’s Shikhar Dhawan (C) plays a shot as Sri Lanka’s wicketkeeper Kumar Sangakkara (R) looks on during the ICC Champions Trophy semifinal match between India and Sri Lanka at the Cardiff Wales Stadium in Cardiff, South Wales, on Thursday. India defeted Sri Lanka by eight wickets and will now meet England in the final on Sunday. AFP/ADRIAN DENNIS

JULIAN GUYER Agence France-Presse CARDIFF: India thrashed Sri Lanka by eight wickets at Cardiff on Thursday to set up a Champions Trophy final against tournament hosts England at Edgbaston on Sunday. India, chasing a modest target of 182, finished on 182 for two with 15 overs to spare to set up a final against England, who beat South Africa by seven wickets at The Oval on Wednesday. Opener Shikhar Dhawan, dropped three times, made 68 as he extended his record as the tournament’s leading scorer to 332 runs, at an average of more than 110, following previous innings of 114 against South Africa, 102 not out against the West Indies and 48 against Pakistan. Virat Kohli was 58 not out, with India now having won seven of their last eight one-day internationals (ODIs) against their Asian rivals. The course of Thursday’s match, a repeat of the 2011 World Cup final India won by six wickets in Mumbai, was set in the first innings. After India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss, his seamers exploited the helpful overcast conditions as Sri Lanka were restricted to 181 for eight. Ishant Sharma took three

wickets for 33 runs following impressive work by new-ball duo Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Umesh Yadav. “The conditions were really favourable,” said man-of-thematch Ishant Sharma. “The wicket was helpful for the fast bowlers so that paid off for us.

“Bounce and pace is my strength but Bhuvee (Kumar) and Umesh bowled really well,” he added. Meanwhile Dhoni, whose side have now won all four of their matches at this tournament, warned England that India could get better.

A groundsman removes a demonstrator who ran onto the pitch during the Champions Trophy semifinal match between India and Sri Lanka at the Cardiff Wales Stadium in Cardiff, south Wales, on Thursday. AFP/ADRIAN DENNIS

“The bowlers have done really well but still there are a few areas where we’d like to improve,” he said. Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews top scored with 51 in an innings where no other batsman made more than the 38 of Mahela Jayawardene, who two years ago became the only man to score a hundred in a losing cause in a World Cup final. “The toss was absolutely crucial; if we won the toss we would have bowled,” said Mathews. “It was seaming, swinging — the batters were finding it really hard. “We didn’t play well but credit should go the Indian bowlers - they bowled really well.” Sri Lanka were six for one when Kusal Perera edged a drive off Kumar and was caught at second slip by Suresh Raina. They suffered a further setback when Tillakaratne Dilshan, after playing an on-drive, pulled up with a right leg injury. He received on-field treatment but retired hurt shortly afterwards on 12 in the fifth over. Ishant Sharma, with the aid of two excellent second slip catches by Raina, reduced Sri Lanka to 41 for three by removing Lahiru Thirimanne and dangerman Kumar Sangakkara. It was a deserved reward for Dhoni’s decision to attack the batsmen with two slips and only

India R Sharma b Mathews 33 Dhawan st Sangakkara b Mendis 68 V Kohli not out 58 S Raina not out 7 Extras (b 1, lb 5, w 10) 16 Total (2 wkts, 35 overs) 182 Bowling: Kulasekara 10-0-45-0 (3w); Malinga 8-0-54-0 (1w); T Perera 6-025-0; Mathews 4-0-10-1; Herath 4-014-0 (1w); Mendis 3-0-28-1; India won by eight wickets

two men outside the circle. The 23rd over saw Dhoni pass on wicketkeeping duties to Dinesh Karthik, a specialist gloveman but mainly deployed as a batsman this tournament. That allowed Dhoni to bowl himself in conditions suited to his medium-pacers and with his second ball he nearly had Jayawardene, on five, lbw only for the batsman to overturn the decision on review thanks to an inside edge. Jayawardene was bowled by left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja after an ugly swipe across the line For all Sri Lanka slingshot seamer Lasith Malinga’s skill, his bowling average of 40.88 against India is his highest against any country. And the tone for India’s reply was set when left-hander Dhawan uppercut Malinga for a stunning six off the last ball of the bowler’s third over. Worse followed for Sri Lanka when Dhawan was dropped by first slip Mathews off Nuwan Kulasekara and put down by wicketkeeper Sangakkara, standing up, off the same bowler. Dhawan cashed in with a 73ball fifty before he he was dropped by Sachitra Sennayake, substitute for Dilshan, at point again off Kulasekara. He was eventually stumped off Jeevan Mendis but by then India were in sight of victory.

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It was a well written script: Dhoni

CARDIFF: Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni Thursday termed India’s eight-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the Champions Trophy semifinal as a well-written script. Dhoni hardly put a foot wrong right from winning the toss and opting to bowl first. “I think it is a well-written script, good toss to win, started well by the bowler, unfortunately for Sri Lanka they lost Dilshan. We capitalised on that, then the bowlers bowled well, especially the spinners. I think it is important to have good bowlers in the side. The ball was still doing a bit,” said Dhoni. Asked why he decided to bowl four overs of medium pace, Dhoni said: “Bhuvnesh had already bowled 8 or 9, we wanted to keep some of the fast bowlers’ overs for the death, so with Karthik around I think might as well give it a go. I

I think it is a wellwritten script, good toss to win, started well by the bowler, unfortunately for Sri Lanka they lost Dilshan. We capitalised on that. Mahendra Singh Dhoni India skipper thought even if it goes badly, I’ll bowl one over. It went okay so I bowled another.” Dhoni rated India’s opponent in the final, England, as a good

DIFFERENT STROKES

India’s Mahendra Sing Dhoni bowls during the ICC Champions Trophy semis against Sri Lanka at the Cardiff Wales Stadium in AFP/ADRIAN DENNIS Cardiff, south Wales, on Thursday.

side. “England are a very good side, and we have played a lot against them in the last couple of years,” he said. Man of the Match Ishant Sharma (3/33) lauded his fellow pacers Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Umesh Yadav. “My strength is the bounce, I stick to my strength. I think up front Umesh and Bhuvi bowled really well. I think the conditions were really favourable here, in the previous games the wickets were quite flat,” he said. Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews said losing the toss proved crucial. “The toss was crucial, we would have also bowled if we won the toss. The ball was seaming around, swinging around, the pitch was twopaced, our batsmen found it difficult. But credit should go the Indians,” he said. IANS

India’s Mahendra Dhoni gestures during a Champions Trophy match at The Oval in London. AFP/GLYN KIRK

We choked once again: Kirsten LONDON: South Africa’s coach Gary Kirsten (in pic) admitted his team deserved the tag of chokers after it crashed to a seven-wicket defeat by England in the Champions Trophy semi-final on Wednesday. “We need to be honest with ourselves. I think we did choke again today,” Kirsten said after the disappointing one-sided game at the Oval that lifted England into their second Champions Trophy final. “It’s a horrible word but we have to front up. We let ourselves down today.” It was the first time a South African coach had publicly accepted what was widely believed in the rest of the cricket world — that the Proteas faltered in crunch games. South Africa, the topranked Test team and a formidable opponent in world cricket, have struggled to get past the semi-final stage in major one-day tournaments since winning the inaugural version of the Champions Trophy in Bangladesh in 1998. Alastair’s Cook men outplayed the Proteas after electing to bowl on an overcast

day at the Oval where England had lost to the West Indies in the final of the same event in 2004. South Africa were reduced to 80-8 by the 23rd over before a record ninthwicket partnership of 95 between David Miller and Rory Kleinveldt gave the total some respectability. But Jonathan Trott hit 82 not out and Joe Root made 48 during a 105-run stand to help England surpass the modest target in the 38th over of a disappointing semi-final. Kirsten, the former South African opener who ends his two-year term as coach with Wednesday’s match, said he had expected his team to perform better in the semi-final. “I think we had better expectations of our performances,” he said. “To be

blown away with the bat with the quality of batsmen we have got in our batting lineup is very disappointing.” “There has definitely been an inconsistency to our cricket. When we play in big tournaments like this, we do get exposed.” Kirsten, who coached India to victory in the 2011 World Cup before moving back to South Africa, said he shared the blame for the team’s debacle. “Do I leave the team in a better state?. I don’t know,” he said. “We certainly have not improved, and that is where a question mark needs to come over me. So maybe it’s a good decision that I’m leaving.” England’s Cook, meanwhile, was confident his team can win Sunday’s final at Edgbaston, Birmingham, against the winners of Thursday’s all-Asian semifinal between India and Sri Lanka in Cardiff. “We can win it, without a doubt,” the England captain said. “You need people to stand up and deliver to win ODIs and it has happened for us in the last two games we have played.”

FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2013

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MESSI SUMMONED TO TESTIFY ON TAX FRAUD

Lionel Messi and his father were ordered by a Spanish court to appear for questioning as part of an investigation into tax fraud allegations. The court accepted a state prosecutor’s complaint alleging that Messi and father Jorge defrauded the Spanish tax office of 4 million euros.

CONFEDERATIONS CUP

Spain score a perfect 10

Spain broke the record for the biggest margin of victory at the final phase of a FIFA tournament by crushing minnows 10-0 Tahiti at the Confederations Cup. RIO DE JANEIRO: Spain broke the record for the biggest margin of victory at the final phase of a FIFA tournament by crushing minnows 10-0 Tahiti at the Confederations Cup in Rio de Janeiro. Fernando Torres scored four times and David Villa claimed a hat-trick for the world and European champions at Rio’s hallowed Maracana, with David Silva adding a brace and Juan Mata also finding the net yesterday. No team had previously won by 10 goals at an international FIFA event, with Hungary (9-0 against South Korea at the 1954 World Cup, 10-1 against El Salvador at the 1982 World Cup) and Yugoslavia (9-0 against Zaire at the 1974 World Cup) the co-holders of the previous record. Tahiti, who sit 138th in the FIFA ranking, equalled their heaviest defeat — a 10-0 demolition by New Zealand in 2004 — but Spain fell short of matching their 13-0 annihilation of Bulgaria in a 1933 friendly. “It’s a very nice result. The difference between the two teams

Group B points table P W D L GF GA Pts Spain Nigeria Uruguay Tahiti

Tahiti’s Henri Caroine (L) and Spain’s Cesc Fabregas vie for the ball during their Confederations Cup Group B match, at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday. AFP/LLUIS GENE

was too great,” said Spain coach Vicente del Bosque. “But we played our game and they have a way of playing that is correct. They’re a very noble team.” Spain will be assured of a place in the semi-finals if Nigeria avoid defeat against Uruguay in Salvador later in Group B. The same outcome

would also end Tahiti’s mathematical chance of reaching the last four. Tahiti coach Eddy Etaeta said the reception his part-time players had received from the Brazilian crowd represented a “great victory”. “We’ve won the hearts of the fans,” he said. “’Obrigado’ (thank you, in Portuguese) to

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everyone.” Del Bosque made no less than 10 changes to his starting line-up, with only centreback Sergio Ramos keeping his place in the team from the 2-1 win over Uruguay. Tahiti’s players presented their opponents with necklaces and pendants prior to kick-off, but the pleasantries did not last long, as Torres beat goalkeeper Mickael Roche at his near post to give Spain a fifth-minute lead. Roche was drafted into the Tahiti team in place of Xavier Samin, who shipped six goals against Nigeria, and the newcomer momentarily looked set to play the hero, saving at Torres’ feet and repelling Santi Cazorla’s half-volley. AFP

PREMIER LEAGUE

Pellegrini to debut as Man City boss in Pretoria JOHANNESBURG: Manuel Pellegrini (in pic) will make his debut as Manchester City manager in Pretoria on July 14 against South African Premiership club SuperSport United, officials said in Johannesburg Thursday. The 2012-2013 English Premier League runners-up behind Manchester United face another top-flight team, AmaZulu, in Durban four days later, and will remain in the Indian Ocean city for a pre-season training camp. Manchester City announced last month that they would tour South Africa ahead of the 2013-

Nothing to play for but pride CHRIS WRIGHT Agence France-Presse BELO HORIZONTE: Despite a gruelling if successful World Cup qualifying campaign Japan came to the Confederations Cup full of hope while expectations were high for fellow Group A aspi-

rants and Olympic champions Mexico. Yet less than a week into the tournament there is nothing left to play for but pride as the pair prepare to lock horns in Belo Horizonte on Saturday after neither managed to get any change out of hosts Brazil or Italy.

With less than a week into the tourney, there is nothing left to play for but pride for Japan and Mexico as the pair prepare to lock horns on Saturday. If a passive Japan had shown the kind of fluid and adventurous play they showed in patches against the Italians in Wednesday’s thrilling 4-3 defeat in Recife rather than the meek form of their opener which brought a 3-0 defeat by Brazil they might just have had a chance of a semi-final berth. Likewise, had Mexico not fallen victim to a late Mario Balotelli sucker punch in their first pool game they might have gone into their meeting with the Brazilians believing they could extend a strong

recent run against the auriverde which notably brought an Olympic gold medal last year at the Samba stars’ expense. Instead, both sides have zero points and will bow out on the final whistle and whereas Japan at least know they will be back in 12 months for the World Cup the Mexicans still have work to do in their CONCACAF North and Central American zonal qualifying programme following a raft of frustrating draws. Japan’s Italian coach Alberto Zaccheroni said after the loss to the Italians after Surrendering a 2-0 lead that he could take some positives. “I think we did show we have a lot of personality, though we need to accumulate more experience,” he said. “Japanese football is still very young but they have taken giant steps in recent years.”

2014 Premier League season, but no details of opponents or venues were disclosed. Chilean Pellegrini quit Spanish La Liga outfit Malaga to succeed Italian Roberto Mancini, who paid the price for a trophyless domestic season and a UEFA Champions League group-stage exit. The two games will raise funds for a charity of Nelson Mandela, the first democratically elected president of South Africa, who is being treated in a Pretoria hospital for a recurring lung infection. AFP