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HYDERABAD’S FIRST COMPACT AFTERNOON NEWSPAPER
CITY’S MUSIC LOVERS RAIL AGAINST
From ‘supermodel DJs’, to ‘number 1’ rankings thrown around with abandon, the City’s music lovers have had enough. So music promoters beware, Hyderabad has got smart to your wily ways.
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TELANGANA DECISION TODAY?
In a surprise move, the Centre has sped up the decision on T. The co-ordination committee meeting of UPA has been scheduled by this afternoon and the CWC will meet immediately after. By 7.30pm, announcement on Telangana is likely to be made.
IS KIRAN KUMAR ON THE WAY OUT? The announcement of State Cabinet minister TG Venkatesh that Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy had already made up his mind to quit from his coveted post in case of the bifurcation of the State rocked the corridors of ruling Congress. It has shocked many of his Cabinet colleagues as the CM’s ‘decision’ itself is an indication that the State is going to be divided.
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TALKING POINT
Prahlad Kakkar will give a talk on art and movies. Where: Radisson Blu, Banjara Hills When: July 31, 7 pm Contact: 90306-16161
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AROUND THE CITY: YOUR GUIDE TO THE TWIN CITIES When: Till Aug 3, 10am Contact: 2329 9779
SHOWS Movie matters Deadfall will be screened. Where: Sarathi Studio, Ameerpet When: July 29, 6.30 pm Contact: 93910-20243
Spoken English Spoken English classes for women will be held. Where: Colorama Printers, Begumpet When: Till July 31, 10.30 am to 12.30 pm Contact: 80088-85493 / 8008624949
DINING Food festival An opportunity to taste delicacies from Gujarat and Rajasthan. Where: Chill, Radisson Blu, Banjara Hills When: On till July 31 Contact: 040 6733 1133 Movie screening Sanjay Kak's movie Red Ant Dream will be screened. Where: Nalsar University of Law, Shameerpet When: July 29, 5.30 pm Contact: 2756-7310
KRISHNA’S CHRONICLES: Padma Shri Shobana and her team of 13 dancers enthralled the audience with dance drama Krishna at Shilpakala Vedika on Sunday.
Dance performance K Harshitha, 31st student of Shankarananda Kalakshetra is per-
forming her arangetram. Where: Ravindra Bharathi, Saifabad When: 6.30 pm, August 2
Where: Beyond Coffee, Jubilee Hills When: Till July 31, 11 am Contact: 2354-5359
Artworks galore Jal Anand — Impressions from the maha Kumbh Mela 2013 will be held. Where: Goethe-Zentrum, Banjara Hills When: Till August 4 Contact: 040 23113308
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Where: Deccan Pavilion, ITC Kakatiya When: Till Aug 7, 7.30pm
Fashion fad Fashion Yatra, exhibition of designer garments, jewellery and accessories. Where: Taj Krishna, Banjara Hills When: July 29, 10 am to 8 pm Contact: 6666-2323
Live performance Band Agam will be performing in the City. Where: Hard Rock Cafe Hyderabad, Banjara Hills When: August 1, 9 pm Contact: 6463-6375 Women power Eternal Feminine, exhibition of paintings of Priyanka Poogalia is on.
Where: Lamakaan, Banjara Hills When: July 30, 31, 7.30 pm to 8.30 pm Contact: 98480-23379 / 9963447673
Ramzan special Relish the season special iftar delicacies Where: Viva, Taj Vivanta When: Till Aug 7, 5.30-11.30 pm
WORKSHOPS Play pursuits Dario Fo's The Open Couple will be staged.
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Southern spice Special south Indian cuisine is on. Where: The Square, Novotel Hotel Convention Center, Kondapur When: July 29, 6.30 pm Contact: 6682-4422
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CRIME
A tale of two ‘husbands’ A sick man tries to marry his wife to another man who proves a villain and sexually exploits her for three years before throwing her out.
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Srinivas came to Mahesh and Jhansi’s home in an intoxicated state and assaulted her.
HYDERABAD: Truth, it is truly said, is sometimes stranger than fiction. Police have booked a married man who gave false assurance to a married woman that he had filed for divorce and would then marry her. He sexually abused her for three years and refused to marry her. The strange saga of Mahesh and Jhansi, aged 36 and 34, of Vijayawada begins a couAROUND THE
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ple of years ago when he suffered a heart attack. After a second attack, he was a physical wreck. They moved to Hyderabad so that she could find a job as Mahesh was nearly bed-ridden. She was working and Mahesh was confined to home. Whatever savings they had were spent on treatment and they were reduced to penury. After a while, Mahesh, who loves his wife, told her not to waste her life on him since he is a wreck and would not be able to
take care of her. He suggested re-marriage if a suitable man came along. Jhansi, it is said, was not averse to the idea. Meanwhile, she came in touch with one Srinivas who runs an organisation in Bowenpally. Both became more than friends and he used to visit her home. According to the complaint Mahesh and Jhansi filed with
the Bowenpally police, Srinivas cooked up a story of his wife divorcing him soon and being free to marry Jhansi. This way, Jhansi was persuaded to move in with him in a separate apartment, where they started living like husband and wife. Three years passed and there was no talk of marriage. Differences arose between the couple. Recently, she was thrown out of the apartment and was told he would never marry her. She came back to Mahesh. The other day, Srinivas came to their (Mahesh and Jhansi’s) home in an intoxicated condition and asked Jhansi to come out with him. She refused. Srinivas is said to have whipped out a knife and attacked Jhansi. Mahesh raised an alarm and neighbours gathered to help subdue Srinivas. But despite being a trespasser in Mahesh’s home and attempting to attack his wife, the Bowenpally police have not arrested Srinivas. They are still investigating.
A walkathon was organised by Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics at Nehru Zoological Park to celebrate International Tiger Day today.
EGYPT TURMOIL
Ashton visits Cairo as crisis deepens CAIRO: EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton flew into Egypt for talks Monday as international pressure increased on the new regime over the weekend's violence, which claimed more than 80 lives. But the country's new rulers warned they would take "decisive and firm" action against protesters if they went beyond their right to peaceful demonstration. Even after the deaths of 72 people at a pro-Morsi demon-
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West Asia talks resume today WASHINGTON: Israeli and Palestinian officials resume direct peace talks Monday after a three-year hiatus, amid hopes US Secretary of State John Kerry’s quiet diplomacy may this time carry some chance of success. In a landmark agreement, the chief negotiators from both sides will meet face-to-face to draw up a plan for how the talks will proceed, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
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Monday with Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erakat and senior official Mohammad Shtayyeh for an Iftar dinner hosted by Kerry to break the fast
observed during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The dream of a Middle East peace deal has for decades been a chimera chased by US presidents but has stalled since September 2010, shot down by deep divisions and distrust between the two sides. Kerry wrested from both sides an accord setting out "the basis for resuming direct final status negotiations," Psaki said in a statement Sunday. AFP
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stration in Cairo Saturday, supporters of the ousted president remained defiant, saying they were determined to maintain what they insisted were peaceful protests. Nine more people died in violence in Egypt's second city, Alexandria. Ashton would meet with interim president Adly Mansour and Mohamed ElBaradei, who is vice president for international affairs. “I deeply deplore the loss of life,” said Ashton, adding that she would be pressing the need for all sides to be included in the return to democracy. AFP
CITY BRIEFS Vijayamma confronted over T-issue
T-JAC says no to Hyderabad as UT
Elderly couple found burnt alive
College bandh called on August 3
Sharmila to end padayatra
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SRCP honorary president YS Vijayamma felt embarrassed at the Ujjaini Mahankali Ammavaru temple in Secunderabad, when some T-protagonists tried to obstruct her in protest against her party’s stance. Tension built up when T-protagonists demanded her to change her party’s stand on Telangana.
hairman of T-JAC Prof Kodandaram told that Rayala Telangana with Karnool and Anantapur and Hyderabad as UT will not acceptable to the people of this region. Prof Kodandaram met TRS chief KCR yesterday to discuss the issue. He totally rejected the proposal of making Hyderabad as Union Territory.
n elderly couple were found to have been burnt alive under suspicious circumstances at their house in Virasat Nagar on Saturday, police said. According to Golconda police, the burnt bodies of Swamy (70) and his wife Lingamma (65) were found early morning by their son Sudhama who noticed smoke coming out of their room.
amaikya Andhra Samithi has called for a college bandh on August 3. Warning the Centre of serious consequences if it divides the state of Andhra Pradesh, Samithi president Kumar Chowdhary Yadav said that agitations would be organised across the state if the Centre decides in favour of the formation of Telangana.
SR Congress leader Sharmila would be completing 3,000 km in her “Maro Praja Prasthanam” Padayatra on Monday. Party MP Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy said that a ‘Maha Mugimpu Sabha’ (grand conclusion meeting) would be organised on August 4 at Ichapuram, Srikakulam district, where she would be ending her yatra.
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ast year we had run a story about how nothing was done to cash in on the regular suppy for water from the heavens, despite this city gasping for water to drink and other day to day uses. Several citizens spoke raised their voice but authorities concerned had no plans nor any answers about saving up the excess water to for summer.
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The global number dropped from 5,004 in 2011 to 3,967 in 2012, while the number of countries that abolished capital punishment rose from 155 to 158 over the same period, the Italian NGO Hands off Cain said.
Looking down from the overpass, the scene of the tragedy: some 30 bodies covered by white sheets, lined up along the roadside. Cesare Abbate of Italy’s ANSA news agency See page 10
THINGS WE 5LEARNT TODAY The column that teaches everyone something new about the way the world functions.
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The humble people of the wettest place on earth Meghalayans have no clue about the unique Guinness record that their birthplace has — the wettest place on the planet.
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It’s always about the cool cat. Many endangered species like the Great Indian Bustard and the Snow Leopard get a mere `75 crore a year, while the 43 reserves for the big cat get a whopping `165 crore a year.
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Spain train driver charged with homicide 79 times The driver of a train that hurtled off the rails in Spain was charged Sunday with 79 counts of reckless homicide.
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The gods are clueless about AP politics Bonalo oracle has nothing to say about the political situation in the state.
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The pacifier from Europe on Mission Cairo EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton flew into Egypt for talks Monday as international pressure increased on the new regime.
FREE SPEECH
ANGRY BEES
Jailed China rocker triggers debate Wu Hongfei was detained on suspicion of ‘fabricating fake terrorism information’; she could get five years’ jail. BEIJING: A Chinese singer who was detained for threatening to bomb government offices after a man detonated a device at Beijing airport has triggered a debate about free speech. The airport attacker Ji Zhongxing — a wheelchairbound former driver who said he had failed for years to win redress after a police beating left him paralysed — garnered some sympathy after the explosion destroyed his hand and injured an officer earlier this month. Hours later rock singer Wu Hongfei said on Sina Weibo, a social network service akin to Twitter, that she wanted to blow up the housing authority and a neighbourhood committee in the capital. She was detained days later on suspicion of “fabricating fake terrorism information", a crime which carries a maximum sentence of five years, the China Daily said. In an informal Sina Weibo poll by the state broadcaster
Rock singer Wu Hongfei said she wanted to blow up the housing authority and a neighbourhood committee in the capital.
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CCTV, more than 81 percent of 31,000 people who had responded as of Monday felt Wu’s comments did not constitute a crime. Wu’s lawyer Li Jinxing argued that her words did not pose a credible threat and were spoken in anger. “Most people would see this as venting and not think she would really go and bomb these
places," the Beijing Times quoted him as saying. Detaining her for an “inappropriate Weibo comment has huge significance for defining freedom of speech versus illegal behaviour on the Internet", he added. Police detained two other men for also allegedly threatening to set off bombs in public places around the capital, it added. Wu’s lawyer could not be immediately reached for comment by AFP.
Bees attack couple, kill horses in US WASHINGTON: Thousands of angry bees attacked a couple and stung their two horses to death in Texas, a report said Sunday. The couple, identified as 44year-old Kristen Beauregard and her boyfriend, were exercising their two miniature horses at their home in Pantego, when the bees appeared out of nowhere and attacked them, Xinhua reported citing the Fort Worth Star-Telegram newspaper. AROUND THE
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The woman was stung about 200 times and her boyfriend 50. The two horses were stung so much that they did not survive. The couple were, however, able to call the emergency number 911 and firefighters arrived with special gear and a foam substance to clear the bees. The couple were sent to a hospital. The bee hive was found to be in a shed in the backyard of the couple’s rented property and housed an estimated 30,000 bees. The report said the bees are being tested to find out whether they are “Africanised” bees, also known as “killer bees” for their aggressive behaviour. IANS
WILDLIFE
Surviving on `1 lakh a month Big cats get all the funds. While 43 tiger reserves get a total of `165 crore a year, 617 sanctuaries for other endangered species subsist on around `75 crore a year.
RICHA SHARMA feedback@postnoon.com NEW DELHI: How’s this for skewered priorities: Over 617 national parks and wildlife sanctuaries that are home to several critically endangered species like the Great Indian Bustard and the Snow Leopard get a mere `75 crore a year, or `1 lakh each per month, on an average, while the 43 reserves for the big cat get a whopping `165 crore a year. Going by the financial allocation for management of protected areas, each of the 102 national parks and 515 wildlife sanctuaries get only around `12 lakh annually — around `1 lakh a month. According to the environment ministry, this is despite a planning commission promise to double the allocation from the present `75 crore annual to `150 crore.
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Wildlife protection
n India has 664 protected areas, including 102 national parks and 515 wildlife sanctuaries. n 4.9 per cent of India’s geographical area is declared protected. n There are 47 conservation reserves — of them, 43 are tiger reserves — and four are community reserves. n There are 28 elephant reserves. n Money spent on 43 tiger reserves is `160 crore. n 617 protected areas get only `75 crore, or an average of `12 lakh each per year. n The Andaman & Nicobar Islands have the highest number of protected areas (105), followed by Maharashtra (41) and Himachal Pradesh (37). India’s network of 664 protected areas extend over 4.9 per cent of the country’s geographical area. The network comprises 102 national parks, 515 wildlife sanc-
tuaries, 47 conservation reserves — including 43 tiger reserves — and four community reserves. “At present, we only get around `75 crore annually for
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managing 617 protected areas across all states,” a senior environment ministry official told IANS on condition of anonymity. “Even if we leave the 100 protected areas in the Andaman and Nicobar region — for most of them are islands — there are still around 517 which need sufficient investment for maintenance, upkeep and smooth running," the official said. The much celebrated tiger conservation programme covering 43 tiger reserves gets over `160 crore per year. The matter to give importance to other species has been raised several times in the meeting of the Standing Committee on the National Wildlife Board. IANS
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POLITICS
CM’s plan to resign shocks party leaders MD INKESHAF AHMED ahmed.m@postnoon.com HYDERABAD: The announcement of State cabinet minister TG Venkatesh that Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy had already made up his mind to quit from his post in case of the bifurcation of the State rocked the corridors of ruling Congress in the State. It has come as a shock to many of his Cabinet colleagues as the CM’s purported decision
itself is an indication that the State is going to be divided by the Centre in coming days. Reddy also said that his CM post is not permanent and he would AROUND THE
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also become a former CM one day. According to party sources, the CM reportedly vented all his anger on party bosses during the
T-Congress leaders are bracing for a Rayala-Telangana state after the Centre said that option remained open. recent CWC meeting for moving ahead with steps to divide the State. However, the strong rhetoric of the CM surprised
many of these State ministers as he had not adopted the same approach in the past. “We are completely in shock over the sudden reports of CM’s resignation. He did his bit to prevent the bifurcation of the State. But his efforts did not have any impact on party high command. If he had used the same rhetoric a year ago, he could have succeeded in changing the mindset of party high command,” a close aide of the CM said. The CM did
BONALU PREDICTIONS
Many who gathered to hear what the soothsayer had to say about the impending division of the State were disappointed. ALEENA ALICE & INKESHAF AHMED feedback@postnoon.com HYDERABAD: For the first time, the popular oracle at Ujjaini Mahankali temple today skipped all political issues affecting the State. She has said nothing significant unlike the previous years, when she would touch on many things including AROUND THE
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soothsayer’s predictions and opinions of the temporal issues of the State. The predictions of the oracle were confined to local issues
T-CONG BRACES FOR R-T T-Congress leaders, who vowed to achieve a 10-district Telangana state, are now bracing for a 12district Rayala Telangana state. The idea of R-T was kept in motion by the Union government after the CWC meeting. Deputy CM Damodar Rajanarasimha confided in his followers that the Centre was inching towards carving out R-T state.
REMEMBERING GREATS
Even the gods stay silent on Telangana
politics. Predictions by the chosen unmarried woman devotee, Swarnalatha, at the famous temple did not touch upon the political uncertainty that is likely to engulf Andhra Pradesh in the wake of the Centre’s move to divide the State. This evidently disappointed the large crowd gathered since morning for the
not turn up to Secretariat.
and development of the City with the blessings of the presiding deity. The oracle said that she was satisfied with the developments of the temple.
However, reacting to a question on the recent deadly floods in the State, the oracle said that the floods were the result of the rising sins committed by people. However, the oracle thought the massive tragedy in Uttarakhand, where many Telugus too died, was because someone had removed the idol of a temple there. On Sunday, thousands of devotees, including Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, opposition leaders N Chandrababu Naidu and YS Vijayamma, and several ministers and legislators, performed special pujas to mark the Bonalu Jatara at Ujjaini Mahankali Temple in Secunderabad. This year, the Bonalu celebrations were attended by some eight lakh people. Bonalu is an annual festival celebrated throughout Telangana region, especially in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad.
Vivekananda’s web archive launched KOLKATA: Want to browse paintings and sculptures of Swami Vivekananda by eminent artists? Wish to know how his legacy is being kept intact? Now, a comprehensive guide to his life and works is accessible online, thanks to a web portal. Commemorating Swami Vivekananda’s 150th birth anniversary, the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Golpark, Kolkata, launched a website here. It has been done with monetary assistance from the Union ministry of culture. AROUND THE
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“It’s a first in the country... it has lectures and other authentic information on a single site. The Vivekananda archive of the institute has contributed to the contents,” an institute spokesperson told IANS. A virtual treasure trove for Vivekananda’s followers, the cyber forum contains his letters, fables and poems among other things. Most importantly, it highlights the monk’s association with music, art, architecture and the western world through articles penned by his contemporaries. IANS
NATION BRIEFS Counting begins for Bengal panchayat polls
Practise non-violence: Dalai to Indians
Infiltration bid foiled, militant killed
Batla House encounter verdict today
Metal stolen from Noida factory
KOLKATA: Counting for the WB panchayat polls began Monday with initial trends putting ruling Trinamool Congress in the lead in most of the districts. With security ring provided by both central and state security forces, 329 counting centres have been set up which by Monday evening will decide the fate of 1.69 lakh candidates.
PUNE: Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama has urged Indians to imbibe and practise its ancient values of non-violence and religious harmony. “Great leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela followed 'ahimsa' as it is the power of truth and a sign of strength,” Dalai Lama said last night.
SRINAGAR: The Army today foiled an infiltration bid in Keran sector along the Line of Control, killing a militant in the operation. On noticing some suspicious movement in the sector, troops opened fired at the ultras, an Army official said. During search operation, police recovered the body of the militant and an AK rifle.
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court will today pronounce the sentence in the 2008 Batla House encounter case in which suspected IM operative Shahzad Ahmad was convicted for killing a police inspector and assaulting other cops. The court had on July 25 found Shahzad guilty of assaulting officers and obstructing them from doing their duty.
GREATER NOIDA: Around 25 armed men barged into a Udyog Kendra factory and allegedly robbed 6 tonnes of metals, police said. Robbery took place at Aadi Fashion factory in Udyog Kendra area under Bisrakh police station. "Manhunt has been launched to trace the robbers," a senior police officer said.
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SECURITY PARANOIA
Terrorists = journos: NZ military told WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s military was ordered Monday to rewrite a manual that warns the media poses as much of a threat to national security as extremist groups and foreign intelligence services. Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman said the language in the manual, which is used to train the military in security procedures, was “heavy-handed” and needed to be changed. “My view is that the reference to investigative journalists should be removed from this order,” he said in a statement. “It is inappropriate and heavyhanded.” The review comes after the Sunday Star-Times revealed that the manual, which was written in 2003, defined three “subversive” groups as a security risk — hostile intelligence services, extreme organisations and investigative journalists. It warns about such groups seeking to bring the government into disrepute or “weaken the military, economic or political strength of a nation by undermining the morale, loyalty or
A newspaper report also said the country’s military asked US intelligence to monitor a journalist’s phone.
reliability of its citizens”. Opposition defence spokesman Phil Goff said it was “utterly wrong and intolerable” for the military’s top brass to display such paranoia about journalists, showing they did not
understand the media’s role in a democratic society. “The defence force leadership has confused national security with a desire not to be embarrassed by what investigative journalists might discover
POLITICS
SP backs Kiran stand on State division
Mulayam cites the state of affairs at Chattisgarh, Uttarakhand and Jharkhand to buttress his point. POSTNOON NEWS feedback@postnoon.com
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amajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav who opposes cutting up states has clearly expressed himself against division of AP. He said the country wound be in as much danger as it would be made into as many pieces. Mulayam touring Karnataka spoke to the media yesterday.
united. “Divide the state if you can and see what would happen to the country” he said. Mulayam also congratulated the AP Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy for stoutly opposing the Congress High Command.
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Mulayam’s stance is exactly opposed to BSP leader Mayawati’s insistence for small states. She has been demanding dividing Uttar Pradesh into four states. Mulayam points out the state of affairs of Chattisgarh, Uttarakhand and Jharkhand to buttress his stance. He said where was evidence that smaller states benefited people. Only some selfish leaders benefited, he said. He said AP Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy was right in opposing division of the state. He said good governance was possible because UP was
Divide the state if you can and see what would happen to the country Mulayam Singh Yadav SP chief
about any shortcomings on their part,” he said. “That is reminiscent of the Nixon White House and has no place in our political system.” The Sunday Star-Times also alleged that the military asked US intelligence to monitor the phone calls of a New Zealand journalist who was in Afghanistan last year reporting on the activities of the elite SAS unit. Coleman said the defence force had told him there was no evidence that any such monitoring had occurred. “(The military) has assured me that this is not something that they would regard as a legitimate practice,” he said. Goff said the situation raised further doubts about moves to expand the power of intelligence services so they can spy on New Zealanders, particularly after it was revealed that Internet mogul Kim Dotcom was illegally snooped upon before his arrest in January last year. The expanded powers, backed by Prime Minister John Key, are due to go to parliament
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The military manual, which was written in 2003, defined three “subversive” groups as a security risk — hostile intelligence services, extreme organisations and investigative journalists. this week and are expected to be passed by a narrow majority. “After the Kim Dotcom debacle and revelations about activities of spy agencies in the US and UK, a wide cross-section of New Zealanders have no confidence in our intelligence agencies,” Goff said. “The government should be focused on the transparent operations of these key agencies, rather than ramming through an extension to their powers.” AFP
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Duping music lovers
From ‘supermodel DJs’, to ‘number 1’ rankings thrown around with abandon, the City’s music lovers have had enough. So music promoters beware, Hyderabad has got smart to your wily ways. FOR REPRESENTATION ONLY
We were told by an event organiser that the DJ was from Spain and very popular. After the event, we got to know that the DJ was from Goa. We were duped. Raj Kumar City club owner AROUND THE
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arunyellamaty@postnoon.com HYDERABAD: Recently, a popular five-star hotel hosted a Friday night party with a East European DJ playing that evening. The passes sold for close to `2,000, and they advertised that the lady DJ mixing is the ‘World’s Number 8, Super Model DJ’. She turned out to be a nobody. Many who rushed to watch her play were furious, upset and
disappointed to know that the hotel and organisers bluffed them. The DJ was not even moderately popular but a random local DJ from East Europe. S Shreya, a student said, “It was disappointing, the hotel and organisers bluffed and brought some nobody DJ, saying she was a star. I am not going to come back here again.” Another party goer, Rahul Kumar, a student, expressed his disappointment as well, “I was told a super model was playing.
When I heard the music, she was just playing songs of different artists; she has no music of her own. She surely is not a big DJ.” The funny part is that when we asked this East European DJ to share her experience of being a top-ranked, super model DJ, she was surprised and said, “Me, I am not any super model or No. 8 DJ.” She just toured four to five cities before coming to Hyderabad. This is not the first such incident. In recent times, many DJs from various countries are being called in to star hotels, saying they are top shots and so are raking in a lot of money. Talking to one of the event organisers from the City, D Kumar, he said, “Many organisers want to sell tickets and make money from their events. If a local DJ plays, the ticket prices are very low and hardly people attend. Due to this, many organisers call foreign DJs and charge
a hefty amount from party lovers, saying a top DJ is in town and fool the public.” He adds, “There are also a lot of DJs who call themselves big celebrities, but it’s important for people to go online and recheck where and on whom they are spending their money.” The City has hosted quite a lot of parties where musicians from Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Australia and many more countries have come and played. They charged close to `2,000-`3,000 for every party. Raj Kumar (name changed on request), a club manager, said, “A month ago, we had organised a big event and charged people `2,000. We were told by an event organiser that the DJ was from Spain and very popular. After the event, we got to know that the DJ was from Goa, and was brought here to make some easy money. Since then, we have made our rules very tight. This happens a lot not only in Hyderabad, but everywhere.” So next time you shell out massive amounts for a party, do your research first.
It was disappointing. The hotel and organisers bluffed us and brought some nobody DJ, saying she was a star. I am not going to come back here again. S Shreya Student
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LUCKNOW: A dead body was fished out of a drain with the help of a JCB digging machine and carried to hospital piled up on garbage in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad. Two policemen have been suspended, an official said. The incident took place Sunday in the Nalbandan area of the town when people spotted the naked dead body of a youngster lying in a big drain. Policemen came and asked for a JCB machine of the municipal corporation, used to clean drains and lift garbage from various city dumps.
The JCB was then pressed into service to lift out the dead body, which was identified by Jitendra Joshi, resident of Chandravargate, as that of his 18-year-old son Shivam. The teenager had gone missing for the last four days, the inconsolable Joshi told policemen and requested them to call an ambulance to place the body with some dignity. The pleas of the father and other residents went unheard and till the district hospital, the body was taken on the machine’s plougher along with garbage. SP Rakesh Singh suspended two policemen — Man Singh and Vijaypal Singh of Rasoolpur station. “This type of behaviour is completely unacceptable and we have taken action against the policemen,” he said. IANS
WORLD BRIEFS Iraqi forces recapture 349 escaped prisoners
Rain leaves one dead, two missing in Japan
Japan diplomat visits China amid strained ties
Cambodian opposition rejects Hun Sen win
Chinese man detained after 'killing five': report
BAGHDAD: As many as 349 inmates, escaped last week from Baghdad’s major prison during assault by Islamic militants, were recaptured, said chief security officer of Baghdad. These prisoners had fled from Abu Ghraib prison last week. Lieutenant General AbdulAmeer al-Shimmary did not reveal how many prisoners escaped.
TOKYO: Heavy rains lashed Japan over the weekend, leaving one person dead and two missing, the government said Monday as it issued a severe storm warning. A 79-year-old woman was confirmed dead Sunday after being discovered inside a house that was destroyed by mudslides in Yamaguchi prefecture, on Japan's southwest coast.
TOKYO: Japan's vice foreign minister on Monday set off for a twoday visit to China, Tokyo said, the latest chapter in a bid by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to hold highlevel talks with Beijing. The trip comes as territorial tensions and maritime skirmishes have all but frozen relations between the Asian giants.
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia's opposition on Monday rejected the claim of victory by the ruling party of strongman Prime Minister Hun Sen in weekend elections, alleging widespread irregularities. The newly united opposition made significant gains in Sunday's polls, which independent poll monitors also criticised as flawed.
BEIJING: A Chinese man has been held by police for allegedly stabbing five people to death over land and business disputes, state media reported on Monday. Police apprehended Ding Jinhua, 38, in a noodle restaurant in Yuzhou in the central province of Henan on Saturday, the Henan Business Daily said.
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RAINS FOR EVER
Oddly enough, lifelong residents of Mawsynram, a small cluster of hamlets in Meghalaya state have little idea that their scenic home holds a Guinness record for the highest average annual rainfall of 11,873 millimeters.
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hat happens is that whenever any moisture gathers over the Bay of Bengal, it causes precipitation over Mawsynram, leading to a heavy, long monsoon season," Sunit Das of the Indian Meteorological Department told AFP.
LIFE ‘DRIPS’ IN MAWSYNRAM AMMU KANNAMPILLY Agence France-Presse MAWSYNRAM: Deep in India’s northeast, villagers use grass to sound-proof their huts from deafening rain, clouds are a familiar sight inside homes and a suitably rusted sign tells visitors they are in the “wettest place on earth". Oddly enough, lifelong residents of Mawsynram, a small cluster of hamlets in Meghalaya state have little idea that their scenic home holds a Guinness record for the highest average annual rainfall of 11,873 millimeters (467 inches). “Really, this is the wettest place in the world? I didn’t know that," Bini Kynter, a great-grandmother who estimates she must be “nearly 100 years old” tells AFP. Meteorologists say Mawsynram’s location, close to Bangladesh and the Bay of Bengal is the reason the tiny cluster receives so much rain. “What happens is that whenever any moisture gathers over the Bay of Bengal, it causes pre-
cipitation over Mawsynram, leading to a heavy, long monsoon season," Sunit Das of the Indian Meteorological Department told AFP. While annual monsoon rains lashed the national capital last week, causing traffic chaos and flooding at the international airport, such problems are mild for Mawsynram. Just thirty years ago, Mawsynram had no paved roads, no running water and no electricity, making its six-month long monsoon an insufferable experience for its mostly impoverished residents. Landslides still occur regularly, blocking the only paved road
While annual monsoon rains lashed the national capital last week, causing traffic chaos and flooding at the international airport, such problems are mild for Mawsynram.
Really, this is the wettest place in the world? I didn’t know. Bini Kynter, a great-grandmother who estimates she must be ‘nearly 100 years old’.
connecting the hillside hamlets. Rainwater still seeps into the mud huts occupied by some villagers. And, while most homes now have electricity, outages are commonplace. Every winter the people of Mawsynram spend months preparing for the wet season ahead, anticipating nonstop rain and no sunshine for several days at a time. They repair their battered roofs. They cut and hoard firewood —a source of light and fuel for cooking. They buy and store foodgrains, since few will venture out to shop during the wettest months between May and July. The women make rain covers AROUND THE
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known as “knups," using bamboo slivers, plastic sheets and broom grass to create a rain shield that resembles a turtle shell, meant to be worn on one’s head while being large enough to keep rain off one’s knees. The labour-intensive process of weaving a knup — each one takes at least an hour to complete — occupies the women of the village right through the rainy season, when they are cooped up indoors for months at a time. Bamboo and broom grass —a delicate, fragrant, olive-coloured grass used to make Indian brooms —are among the chief plants grown in this rocky, hilly region. Broom grass is dipped in water, flattened using wooden
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he women make rain covers known as “knups," using bamboo slivers, plastic sheets and broom grass to create a rain shield that resembles a turtle shell, meant to be worn on one’s head while being large enough to keep rain off one’s knees.
blocks and finally dried on rooftops across Mawsynram. According to Prelian Pdah, a grandmother of nine, this makes the grass stronger and more likely to survive a downpour. Pdah, 70, spends part of the winter and all of the monsoon season making bamboo baskets, brooms and knups which are bought by visiting businessmen who sell them around the state. “I don’t like the heavy rainfall, it’s boring to stay indoors all day. It’s annoying," she tells AFP. Although few Mawsynram residents seemed to know or care about their record-holder status, the right to the Guinness title has been hotly disputed by a nearby town, Cherrapunji, which used to lay claim to that honour. In sleepy Mawsynram, many find the record-setting monsoon downright depressing. “There’s no sun, so if you don’t have electricity it’s very dark indoors, even during the day," Moonstar Marbaniang, the pyjama-clad headman of Mawsynram says.
Those who have second homes elsewhere flee to escape the season. Others catch up on their sleep, according to Marbaniang, whose first name suggests one of the more striking legacies of colonial rule in India’s northeast. Historians say the past presence of British soldiers and missionaries in this region has seen many people name their children after random English words or famous historical figures, often with no knowledge of what they might mean. State capital Shillong’s former nickname as the “Scotland of the East” also goes some way to explain the popularity of tartan scarves and shawls, even in the most far-flung and underdeveloped villages of Meghalaya. Somewhat fittingly for a state whose name means “the abode of the clouds” in the ancient Indian language of Sanskrit, it is not unusual for clouds to drift through people’s homes in Mawsynram, leaving a wet film on their furniture.
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SPAIN TRAIN DERAILMENT Train driver charged with 79 counts of homicide delivered him in handcuffs to the courthouse for the closed hearing. He had spent the previous night in a police cell. Just hours before the court hearing began regional health officials said a woman critically injured in the crash had died in hospital, bringing the toll to 79. The latest victim was a US national, the Galician High Court said, bringing to nine the total number of foreigners who died. SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA: The driver of a train that hurtled off the rails in Spain was charged Sunday with 79 counts of reckless homicide and released on bail after being questioned by a judge. The judge ordered him to report to court every week and forbade him from leaving Spain for six months, the High Court of Galicia, which is leading the investigation, said in a statement. He also banned him from driving trains for six months. Media reports have suggested that the 52-year-old driver, Francisco Jose Garzon Amo, was travelling at more than double the speed limit for that stretch of the line when the crashed happened. On Sunday, a police car
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Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who was born in Santiago de Compostela, and Crown Prince Felipe are scheduled to attend the service. The president of the Spanish rail network administrator ADIF, Gonzalo Ferre, said Garzon had been warned to start slowing the train “four kilometres before the accident happened”. El Pais newspaper, citing investigation sources, reported that he had told railway officials that the train had taken the curve at 190 kilometres an hour — more than double the 80 kph speed limit for that section of track. AFP
CRIME
Jilted suitor sets girl’s sister ablaze One of the accused persons wanted to marry the elder sister of the victim. BHUBANESWAR: Two people are on the run after setting a 14year-old girl on fire in a village in Odisha, police said Monday. The incident took place at Kharinashi village in the district of Kendrapada, about 150 kim from state capital Bhubaneswar Sunday. Abhinab Dalua, inspector in charge of Mahakalpada police station, said one of the accused persons wanted to marry the elder sister of the victim. He was enraged when the family solemnised her marriage somewhere else. The man who belonged to the same village was allegedly threatening the family of the woman and her in-laws since then. The village committee was scheduled to hold a meeting Wednesday to take action against him. The man along with one of his friends invited the younger sister of the woman Sunday, dragged her inside a house, poured kerosene on her and set
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her ablaze. The teenager who studies in Class VII has been shifted to Sriram Chandra Bhanja Medical college hospital at Cuttack after her condition deteriorated. She
has sustained about 70 per cent burn injuries, Dalua told IANS. A manhunt has been launched to nab the culprits. Investigation is on to find out if the girl was raped before being put on fire by the offenders, he said. IANS
PORT DEVELOPMENT
State takes lead, but slips in PPP ‘Gujarat accounts for a lion’s share of over 50 per cent in value terms for the total number of completed projects in the ports sector worth over `24,700 crore under the PPP model.’ POSTNOON NEWS feedback@postnoon.com
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orts development assumes crucial importance to economic growth. India has to develop a lot more to take the optimum level of ports development, says Assocham survey. With three port projects worth over `20,000 crore under construction, Andhra Pradesh, has the maximum share of over 46 per cent in this category, highlights the Assocham study. But
With three port projects worth over `20,000 crore under construction, AP, has the maximum share of over 46 per cent in this category.
overall, AP slips in public-private partnership models as per reports on April 30, 2013. “The total capacity of India’s nine maritime states namely – AP, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Pondicherry and TN as on March 31, 2007 was about 228.3 million tonnes which was expected to add about 337.4 million tonnes during 2007-12 and the total capacity realised as on March 31, 2011 was 418.3 million tonnes thereby adding about 190 million tonnes during the first four years of the XI plan,” says the report. “Odisha is the only the second state after Gujarat which realised actual capacity addition of about 23 million tonnes from zero capacity during the first four years of XI plan thereby by exceeding the expected capacity addition between 2007-12 which was about 13.2 million tonnes.”
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With three projects worth over `3,200 crore, Karnataka ranks third with a share of about 40 per cent in value terms for the projects under bidding in the ports sector in the public-private partnership (PPP) mode as of April 30, 2013, according to an Assocham study. But there are no port projects that have been completed under PPP in Karntaka.” Kerala has the maximum share of about 40 per cent with two port projects worth over `5,500 crore under bidding as of the aforesaid period. In Kerala, just one completed port project worth over `700 crore has been put to service delivery under the PPP model, while two projects worth over `6,200 crore are
under construction in the state “Out of the total 881 PPP projects worth over `5.4 lakh crore taken up under the PPP model across India, 62 projects in the port sector worth over `82,000 crore are in the different stages of implementation,” said Assocham secretary general DS Rawat. “While 21 PPP projects in
the port sector with a share of 52 per cent worth over `43,000 crore are under construction, eight projects worth about `14,000 crore with a share of about 17 per cent are under bidding,” said Rawat. “Of the remaining, one project is in the expression of interest stage (EOI) and one has been cancelled.”
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TRAGEDY
36 people killed in Italy as bus plunges into ravine The coach passengers had been returning to Naples following a pilgrimage to Pietrelcina, the birthplace of Saint Pio, an Italian priest canonised in 2002 who is highly venerated in southern Italy. AROUND THE
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AVELLINO: At least 36 people were killed after a coach carrying pilgrims, including some children, plunged off a motorway flyover in southern Italy, rescue services said Monday. Another 11 people were injured, they added, in what is already one of the worst coach accidents in Europe in recent years. Rescue workers said they had pulled 33 bodies from the wreckage after Sunday evening’s crash near the town of Avellino in the Campania region. They found the bodies of another three people underneath the coach. They had been thrown from the vehicle as it plunged 30 metres (100 feet) down a slope. Photographers at the scene described how fire crews raced to find any remaining survivors, as the victims were laid out under white sheets along the roadside. “Looking down from the overpass, the scene of the tragedy: some 30 bodies covered by white sheets, lined up along the roadside,” said Cesare Abbate of Italy’s ANSA news agency, before the toll was revised upwards. An AFP photographer at the
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Rescuers (above) prepare the coffins of victims of a bus crash on Sunday on the road between Monteforte Irpino and Baiano, southern Italy. Relatives (right) of victims of a bus crash walk among damaged cars on July 28, 2013 on the road between Monteforte Irpino and Baiano, southern Italy. AFP /STINGER / AGENZIA CONTROLUCE
scene described rescue workers searching the crash site early Monday under arc-lights set up around the coach, which lay on its side in an inaccessible area at the bottom of the slope. From time to time, rescue workers called for “a moment of silence” to listen for signs of life from the wreckage, he said. The accident happened on a flyover on the A16 highway between Naples and Bari, near Avellino in the Monteforte Irpino district about 50 kilometres, (30 miles) east of Naples. The coach passengers had been returning to Naples following a pilgrimage to Pietrelcina, the birthplace of Saint Pio, an Italian priest canonised in 2002 who is highly venerated in southern Italy. The coach had been travelling at high speed when it crashed on the busy dual carriageway. Witnesses said it looked as if the
The accident happened on a flyover on the A16 highway between Naples and Bari, near Avellino in the Monteforte Irpino district about 50 km, east of Naples. coach might have had brake problems. It hit several cars before plunging off the flyover and there were reports that some of those in the seven or eight cars caught up in the chaos had also been injured. Italian media reports said the place where the accident happened was at a particularly dangerous downward slope on the road that is already an accident black spot. It was not yet exactly clear
how many were on the coach, but local media reported that about 50 people were on board, many of them children. The emergency services had rushed three badly injured children, four women and two men to hospitals in Avellino and nearby Naples, media reports said. Police would not put a definitive number on those killed in the accident. “Our priority now is to free the wounded,” a spokesman told AFP. “The situation is critical,” head fireman Pellegrino Iandolo
told SKY TG24 television. “Our men are working to save as many lives as possible.” Officials at the site said the driver of the coach was among the victims. The Naples-Bari highway had been closed to traffic, the police said. The last major coach accident in Europe was in March 2012 in Switzerland, when a coach carrying Belgian schoolchildren home from a skiing holiday crashed killing 28 people, including 22 children. AFP
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TALES OF TORTURE
STATE OF AFFAIRS
In Equador, gays get the rape ‘cure’ Lesbians say the sex therapy they have been forced to undergo is nothing but being raped by men.
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Tourism picks up in Greece, but... A tourist watches Greek Presidential Guards (EVZONES) performing in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Athens. ARIS MESSINI
SOPHIE MAKRIS Agence France-Presse
Sent to a center offering to “cure” her attraction to women, Denisse Freire was raped and tortured — in a practice Ecuadoran authorities admit has been tolerated for too long.
HECTOR VELASCO Agence France-Presse QUITO, July 27, 2013 (AFP) - Sent to a center offering to “cure” her attraction to women, Denisse Freire was raped and tortured — in a practice Ecuadoran authorities admit has been tolerated for too long. The country of 15.8 million people has at least 80 unlicensed drug and alcohol rehab clinics, many that are also used for anti-gay conversion therapy, Health Minister Carina Vance, who is openly gay, said. Two people, admitted for addiction issues, died last year at the clandestine centers, she told foreign reporters at a press conference, adding that authorities have begun to crack down. At these centers, “we have reports of physical attacks, the use of ice water on inmates,” Vance said. “We have lesbians who have reported what the clinics called ‘sex therapy,’ but which consists of being raped by men,” the minister said. Freire, now 25, was just 15 when her mother discovered her in her room with a female schoolmate. Outraged, she sent her daughter to a “Christian camp” in a remote area in southeastern Ecuador. There, Freire said, “they tortured me with electric shocks, didn’t let me bathe for three days, gave me almost nothing to eat, hit me a lot, hung me by my feet. “They told me it was for my own good.” There were also sexual punish-
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ments, all aimed at ridding the young girl of her homosexuality. The center was nominally a evangelical Christian rehabilitation clinic for drug and alcohol addiction. But Freire said she was there with four other young people — all because they were gay. After two months, Freire escaped. Her case was not an isolated one. Authorities say the inhumane practice is a wide-ranging problem that has ensnared even government officials — such as the health ministry official who was recently subject of a criminal complaint after it emerged she owned a clandestine clinic offering therapy against homosexuality. “We are talking here about a mafia, a network that operates nationally in each of the provinces, which are violating human rights,” Health Minister Vance said. Since March 2012, authorities
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have closed 18 rehab clinics: 15 for human rights violations and three for violations of health standards, the ministry said. Still, more clinics remain. In June, Zulema Constante, a 22year-old psychology student, escaped a clinic in the eastern city of Tena, where she said her family had forcibly admitted her to cure her of homosexuality. She was handcuffed and locked in a straightjacket. “I had to pray, they gave me food poisoning, forced me to clean toilets with my hands, and told me I was wrong to be a lesbian,” she told reporters. The clinic is owned by a health official in the region. Constante’s girlfriend, Cynthia Rodriguez, launched a social media campaign to report the case, building public pressure that allowed her to be set free after three weeks. But activists say too many complaints are unsuccessful. “Why?” asks Leah Burbano of the Lesbian Women and Woman Movement. Because the people forcing the victims into the clinics “are family and that creates an emotional weight.” “But this is not a struggle between parents and children. It’s a struggle against these clinics.” Ecuadoran law authorizes forced treatment for addicts with approval from a judge. But health minister Vance emphasized in no case is the forced treatment allowed to seek to “cure” homosexuality.
ATHENS: Foreign tourists are finding their way back to Greece’s islands and ancient ruins, offering a rare boost to an economy contracting for the sixth year running. Arrivals are on the up again after dismal 2012 figures but domestic tourism is at a standstill and Greece’s second-tier destinations are more deserted than ever. The Association of Greek tourism enterprises (SETE) this month announced a 10 percent rise in foreign arrivals at airports for the first half of 2013. The Bank of Greece in turn announced that in the year running up to May 2013, tourism revenue had soared 38.5 percent and foreign arrivals 24 percent. It also said that tourism revenue grew 15 percent between January and May.
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Arrivals are on the up again after dismal 2012 figures but domestic tourism is at a standstill. “The winter of 2012 and all the protests held in the country (against austerity measures) had caused a great drop in summer bookings. All the uncertainty with the backto-back elections in May and June did not help either,” he told AFP.
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POPE IN BRAZIL
‘Field of faith’ turns desolate land The Campus Fidei (Field of Faith) was supposed to host the finale of weeklong World Youth Day — an all-out prayer vigil and a Sunday mass with the head of the church. But rains flooded the terrain and forced authorities to shift it to Copacabana beach, known for bikinis than religion.
JAVIER TOVAR Agence France-Presse RIO DE JANEIRO: For months, a humble Rio de Janeiro neighborhood toiled for the arrival of Pope Francis and more than a million pilgrims, clearing trees, draining marshes and building a giant stage. But, after days of punishing rain, the pontiff and his Catholic flock never came to Guaratiba, leaving it with an eerily empty field that has become a gargantuan mud pit. The Campus Fidei (“Field of Faith”) was supposed to host the finale of weeklong World Youth Day, a Catholic event capped by an all-out prayer vigil and a Sunday mass with the head of the church. But the non-stop rain flooded the terrain and forced Rio authorities to switch to Plan B: legendary Copacabana beach, a site better known for bikinis than religion. A sign welcoming the faithful still hangs in the neighborhood on the western outskirts of the tropical city. Residents are measuring the mountains of food and drinks they had purchased to sell back to the pilgrims — and the debt they’ve been left with. One man installed 10 individual toilets with doors like a public restroom in the basement of his home -- a $5,000 investment that has now been flushed down
the drain. “What do I do now? I would have bought myself a car or fixed my house with that money,” said the man, who refused to give his name. “Everybody’s in debt.” Leila Santo Oliveira, a 43year-old restaurant owner, has dozens of water bottles stacked up in a corner. “I had ordered a thousand
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BUT, AFTER DAYS OF PUNISHING RAIN, THE PONTIFF AND HIS CATHOLIC FLOCK NEVER CAME TO GUARATIBA, LEAVING IT WITH AN EERILY EMPTY FIELD THAT HAS BECOME A GARGANTUAN MUD PIT. hot plates of food that are now cold,” she said. Marcelo da Silva Gomes, 39, had hoped to sell 800 roast chickens in front of his home. “I never bought so many,” he said, staring at the countless packs in his fridge. Losing money is not the only disappointment for the residents of Guaratiba. Many had dreamed of seeing the 76-yearold Argentine, Latin America’s first pope, up close.
Two Polish nuns look at people bathing as hundreds of thousands of young Catholic pilgrims attending World Youth Day (WYD) start gathering at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro for a prayer vigil with Pope Francis, on July 27, 2013. AFP/YASUYOSHI CHIBA
“The poor won’t see anything. This is just for the rich,” said Ida da Silva, 79. “The best thing we had was the chance to see the pope here, amid the poor, but he went to Copacabana.” From her home’s back patio, which is flooded from the dredging, the massive white stage with a towering cross lies vacant in the distance like a sailing ship that has run aground in the 300hectare (740-acre) quagmire.
A group of pilgrims from southern Brazil arrived in Guaratiba on Friday. They had found lodging there a while ago but now had to take a two-hour bus ride to downtown Rio, 60 kilometers (37 miles) to the east, for the vigil. “We were told that Guaratiba was very badly planned,” said Maria de las Gracas Piontkievicz, 47, carrying a sleeping bag.“Where there’s rain, thunder or lightning, we will see the
pope.” The bog in Guaratiba was among a series of logistical missteps for Rio authorities. Images of the pope’s car getting swarmed by joyous pilgrims upon his arrival on Monday and a subway metro breakdown have also made headlines. Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes took the blame for the problems, saying he gave the city’s organization of the event a grade that was “closer to zero than to 10.”
Pope’s visit exposes Cup prep chinks PIERRE AUSSEILL Agence France-Presse RIO DE JANEIRO: A series of fiascos during Pope Francis’s visit this week have raised fresh concerns about Brazil’s ability to stage next year’s World Cup and the 2016 Rio summer Olympics. The pontiff’s first overseas trip to join hundreds of thousands of young pilgrims at World Youth Day, a major Catholic festival, has turned into a daily ordeal for Rio authorities. “If you ask me to grade the organization of World Youth Day (WYD), I would say we are closer to zero than to 10,” embattled Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes told CBN radio.
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“I am aiming for perfection, but when I cannot achieve it, I don’t blame others and do not shirk my responsibility. Blame it on me, but don’t destroy the
image of our city,” he added. But, the mayor said, “I give a 10 to WYD, to the pope and the population.” The arrival of Pope Francis
on Monday was marred by security lapses, as his car was trapped several times by throngs of adoring well-wishers. The city`s transport system has also been overwhelmed by the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims who sought to reach events on the famed Copacabana beach, sparking traffic chaos. And organizers had to move Sunday’s final WYD mass to Copacabana because the original site outside Rio became a mud field after days of rain. Workers had toiled for months to build a huge stage in Guaratiba, but the site that was dubbed “the field of faith” will remain empty this weekend.
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Business
MYANMAR-CHINA GAS PIPELINE OPERATIONAL Gas has started flowing to energy-hungry China through a pipeline from Myanmar, Beijing’s official media reported, in a major project that highlights their economic links even as political ties weaken.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
LACKLUSTRE INVESTMENTS
The path to success
It takes more than enterprise to realise a dream. There are many a challenge an entrepreneur comes across before a start up gains market visibility and business viability, Postnoon finds out. DANIELMANSEL
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t is Many dream of entrepreneurship, few venture into one and fewer still succeed. What makes an entrepreneur or an enterprise successful? It is a combination of internal and external aspects. Internal forces like persistence, extreme passion and agility, and external forces like market reality and acceptance matter in the success of a start up. “An entrepreneur should have persistence and should possess extreme passion in what he does. The odds are always against the start up. Even with all this dedication and devotion, the market may not accept the product. In such a scenario, one should understand the market reality and pave way for something else or shut it down. However, that doesn’t mean the end of the journey for the entrepreneur. His life is not a flop but just that the particular attempt did not work,” opined Satya Krisha Ganni, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Martmobi. When asked about the most important component for a start up, he says, “Fundamentally, there has to be value in what entrepreneurs create. There is no point to venture without identifying the value that it would create to the market. “Start ups should be agile and that is their biggest strength as compared to established businesses. For instance, the big companies have hierarchy, approval processes and need to understand the market before bringing out their product, which takes a lot of time. For instance, big company may take months to test something. However, a start up can actually finish it in two days.
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Domestic as well as overseas investments have plunged in the recent quarters due to high interest rates and widespread corruption in the general administration, says chief of a leading industry chamber. “The lacklustre investments and slowing industrial growth are already showing the impact on employment situation. Job generation is one of the biggest concerns for the country, given the addition of 10-12 million new workers every year to the workforce,” Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) president Naina Lal Kidwai, told IANS.
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In this fast-paced technology environment, the biggest weapon the start ups have is agility.” “However, the opportunity of agility is not exploited by start ups to a great extent. Irrespective of the value the product creates, start ups are slow in execution. Very few people like Jack Dorsey, Ganesh Krishnan or Naveen Tewari are exceptionally great executors. These qualities are very much missing in young entrepreneurs. Whatever the case, they need to get things done and be agile. Either it is in terms of partnership, product development or in alliances. One has to prepare a checklist and finish the work at all costs without postponing it.” Market validation is another aspect that start ups should not ignore in the process; he goes on to explain, saying, “Agility will help them to quickly get the product or prototype out and to take constant feedback from the market. An entrepreneur has to check whether there is a demand
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for the product and whether the customer will pay for it. Without having answers for these questions there is no point in building it.” “If you were agile, you would consume fewer resources. Today, nobody is interested in an idea on paper. They need to see at least a mock-up to co-relate and give feedback on. However, if you are developing a product for consumers, you need to have a decent landing page and create enough noise and get sign ups.
For instance, Dropmyemail, a Singaporean company got around 5 lakh sign ups within a few weeks of its launch,” he said. Traction and revenues are the important aspects that a start up should count on. When asked which is more important, he said, “If I have to choose one in those two, I would consider traction over revenues. For instance, Facebook and Twitter did not make money in the initial days but nobody was bothered because of the traction that they were gaining. “If you have numerous sign ups every day, eventually the company can look at ways to monetise it. Getting people on something every day and frequently is very difficult. “Start ups have to be lean and cautious while spending. If the product has intrinsic value, people will come without having to do heavy marketing, even if online. Redbus and Flipkart are successful examples to prove this case.”
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KOREAN SHOWDOWN South Korea sent its “final” proposal Monday for talks with North Korea over the fate of a shuttered joint industrial zone, officials said. The offer came after six recent rounds of talks aimed at reviving the Seoul-invested Kaesong complex — suspended since April — produced little progress. The South’s unification ministry said its proposal was sent through the border truce village of Panmunjom, calling for an early reply from the North. “We once again urge North Korea to make a right choice for the normalisation of Kaesong and inter-Korean relations,” unification ministry spokesman Kim Hyung-Suk told reporters.
THUS SPAKE Kerala aims to have at least 3,000 IT companies by 2020 under the state’s new Seed Support System for earlystage investment. OOMMEN CHANDY, CHIEF MINISTER OF KERALA
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Comment Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
GLOBAL TRENDS
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POST OFFICES REINVENT TO STAY RELEVANT KATIA DOLMADJIAN
Benjamin Franklin US founding father
Asia A-listers take their seat on fashion front row
HIGH-FLYING THOUGHTS
In 1913, 1,00,000 tigers lived around the world. Now, only 3,274 remain. It means that we’ve lost 97% of wild tigers in 100 years. International Tiger Day today draws attention to the preservation of tigers by expansion of wild tiger habitats.
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here was a time when your local post office would mainly sell stamps and deliver letters. No longer. To counteract the turmoil brought on by emails and text messages, postal services worldwide have reinvented themselves, taking on the technological revolution that once looked to cripple them. Traditional snail mail service has dropped sharply in recent years, though emerging countries are a notable exception. According to the Universal Postal Union (UPU), global letter- and light parcel delivery dropped by 3.7 percent in 2011 from a year earlier, and by 5.1 percent when just counting Europe and the former Soviet Union. And the death of letter-writing has forced postal services to either catch on new trends or disappear. Earlier this month, Britain announced plans to privatise more than half of Royal Mail in a bid to transform it into a modern communication business. “This is logical, it is a commercial decision designed to put Royal Mail’s future onto a long
term sustainable basis,” Britain’s Business Secretary Vince Cable said. “It is consistent with developments elsewhere in Europe where privatised operators in Austria, Germany and Belgium produce profit margins far higher than the Royal Mail but have continued to provide high quality and expanding services.” Amid the dwindling delivery numbers for letters and large packages, there is hope: parcels weighing less than two kilogrammes (4.4 pounds). They “have seen an incredible growth thanks to Internet shopping,” said Wendy Eitan of UPU. The key, she said, is for postal services to take advantage of their reputed reliability and the trust they instill. “In the eyes of the public, the postal service remains the trusted third party to certify electronic correspondence or to arrange the return of goods” linked to e-commerce, she said. Online shopping, and the millions of parcels it generates, has become a boon for a new type of postal industry. One of those players is Germany’s Deutsche Post, which is investing 750 million euros ($990 million) in expanding its package delivery network by adding 20,000 new reception points. Similarly, PostNord —
Sweden and Denmark’s merged postal services — is seeing a turnaround in its business thanks to its focus on online parcel delivery. The same story can be told in Spain, where traditional mail delivery has plunged some 30 percent in the past five years, and the national Correos has its mind set on “developing parcel activities with specific solutions and the value added by electronic commerce”. By 2020, Correos is determined to work along a business model “in which revenues do not exclusively come from the traditional postal business,” a spokesman told AFP. France’s La Poste has taken it a step further. Aside from identifying parcels as “it’s primary sector of development”, it has also launched more than a dozen pilot projects exploring
the possibilities of delivering medication to the elderly and to offer meter-readings for gas and electricity usage. Bank operations and mobile telephony are other venues being explored. Italy’s Poste Italiane today runs some six million deposit accounts and has sold around three million SIM cards for mobile telephones. In Argentina, the Correo Oficial now offers the sale of mobile phone top-ups as well as tax payment services, describing itself as a modern organisation that offers “complex operations”. In 2015, Brazil’s postal service plans to start selling mobile phone usage, with “the idea to have our own telephone brand.” In some countries, the postal services have dared to stray off the beaten track even further. AFP
EDITORIALS CNG SHORTAGE AFFECTS AUTOS
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he State Information Commissioner has imposed a fine of `5.95 lakh, in 40 cases, on Public Information Officers of various departments, between December 2012 and March 2013. In the 3,330 hearings, 255 show-cause notices have been issued in 2013 in transport, marketing, housing, women development, revenue, energy and other departments. Some PIOs have sought a stay order from court to recover the fines. The amount of fine imposed is not the criterion for judgment.
We invite you to write to us comments, suggestions, viewpoint or just about anything to feedback@postnoon.com or #1246, Level 3, Jubilee Casa, Road No 62, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad – 500 033 or even by way of a call on 4067 2222. Editor: Dean Williams
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Students prove their mettle Institute of Management and Technology was declared the winner of digital marketing case study contest among B- Schools in the country. ARUN DANIEL YELLAMATY arunyellamaty@postnoon.com
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Not only is the event the first live digital marketing casestudy contest, it is also the first time ever that crowd-sourced ideas and solutions at the Bschool level will be implemented on real projects. Working on the challenges of these live casestudies, the contesting students have got an exposure to sophisticated digital marketing strategies at a global level. The final round of the contest comprised a 30-minute presentation by each team on the case analyses followed by a 10minute Questions and Answers session each. The participants were asked to recommend the most optimal digital marketing channel mix that can be used by Lenovo.com to maximise return on advertising spend for this year’s holiday season. The students had to wear the hat of Lenovo’s Digital Marketing Manager (North America) with a multi-million dollar budget at their disposal and allocate the company’s
media spend based on “real data” pertaining to the last 18 months. The holiday season in North America is the time between Thanksgiving Day and Christmas when dramatic spike in sales is experienced by retailers due to a surge in consumer demand. The team from Institute of Management and Technology (IMT) won Clix 2013. On their win, the students shared, “Solving a real life problem based on an extensive analysis was a unique experience for us. The case study given to us was interesting. It created interest in us about digital marketing. It
THE EVENT IS ALSO THE FIRST TIME EVER THAT CROWD-SOURCED IDEAS AND SOLUTIONS AT THE B-SCHOOL LEVEL WILL BE IMPLEMENTED ON REAL PROJECTS.
was a wonderful experience to work on a practical website. While working on the case we got to know the various opportunities available particularly in digital marketing. We used the tools available on the website and it gave us the idea about how the results given by the tool are useful in digital marketing arena. All in all it was a great learning experience.” The winning team received a cash award of `1,00,000 from NetElixir along with the Clix rolling trophy. The winning team also received a Lenovo IdeaPad tablets and the first runners-up team received Lenovo smart phones. Jayachandran R, IBS, from the runner up team, said, “The case study competition CliX was really a great experience. It enabled us to understand and appreciate the opportunities and challenges that are there in the digital marketing area. The competition has helped us stimulate our creative and analytical skills to a great extent. Learning from a live scenario was the best part.” Overall the students found the competition to be very helpful, one that will help in forming a better future, Ajit Sivadasan, Global Vice-President and General Manager, Lenovo.com, who was one of the judges added, “Digital marketing and more appropriately digital engagement marketing is in its infancy everywhere. Awareness around this would be important especially in the Indian context as Internet penetration and mobile based Internet usage increases. India has been transitioning into a global market and it has immense opportunities. NetElixir’s Digital Marketing Case Study Contest – Clix, generates awareness and interest around best practices concepts in business and to a certain extent connects experienced marketers with aspiring ones.”
The Investiture Ceremony of the COFEE club of St. Francis College for Women will be held on the 2nd of August from 1.00 to 2.30 pm. COFEE is the biggest club in the college with over 950 members. The event will begin with a formal ceremony where the core committee will be chosen, a cultural fiesta follows, and schedule of the events for the year will be announced.
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The University of Malaya is a public research university located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is the oldest university in Malaysia. In post-nominals the university’s name is currently abbreviated as UM and Malaya during the pre-independence period. The University was founded in 1949 as a public-funded tertiary institution. Today, it has more than 2,500 faculty members of various expertise.
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Students of Hamstech Institute of Fashion put together various outfits using waste materials during Recycle Regalia, a two-day workshop at the college campus. The materials used by the students included wrappers of several edible products, silver foils, bubble wraps, polythene covers, negative reels, shells and wires.
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SEAMLESS GRACE Classical dance enthusiasts were in attendance at Shilpakala Vedika where Padma Shri Shobana put up a dazzling performance. 1
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64,000 DIARRHOEA CASES REPORTED IN SINDH At least 64,320 cases of diarrhoea have been reported across Pakistan's Sindh province this month, an official said. Masood Solangi, additional health secretary for Sindh, said that about 11,000 people were still undergoing treatment in various hospitals, the Daily Times reported Sunday.
UNDERSTANDING THE THROAT: PART 1
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DEEP THROAT Throat trivia
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ANEWS PP-LYBRIEFS YOURSELF
HOUSECALL
Notch + FitBit
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Notch creates awesomelooking infographics once you hook your FitBit up to it. It visualises all your personal health details. For instance, depending on how many steps you took, it will draw up an infographic showing that you walked the entire length of the Panama canal. It also charts out your off days.
Anosmia is the loss of the sense of odour. The term is also used for people who never had this sense. The loss can be temporary, or permanent. The sense of odour also affects the sense of smell. People lacking the sense of odour are limited to the six basic smells: sweet, sour, bitter, salty, umami and fat. Temporary anosmia is reversible. In general, anosmia which has its cause in the brain cannot be treated.
DID YOU KNOW?
PIONEERS
Brain is more active at night
Priscilla White
You would think that all the moving around, complicated calculations and tasks and general interaction we do on a daily basis during our working hours would take a lot more brain power than lying in bed. When you turn off your brain turns on. Scientists don’t yet know why this is.
Priscilla White was a pioneer in the treatment of diabetes during pregnancy and type 1 diabetes, and was also a founding member of the Joslin Diabetes Center. She began her research on pregnancy in the late 1930s and soon showed the importance of strict blood glucose control and early delivery in ensuring the healthy delivery of newborns. She was the first woman to be invited to give the Banting Memorial Lecture.
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THE PAGE DEDICATED TO WOMEN AND THE ISSUES THEY FACE ACROSS THE GLOBE
VANGUARD OF CHANGE
SRK on women safety
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witter has caught flak after a female campaigner in the UK, pushing for Jane Austen to be put on banknotes, had her account inundated with rape threats. Over 9,000 people have already signed a petition, asking that Twitter add an abuse button so people can report threats of sexual violence. Many also called for the site to be made responsible for any criminal threats posted on it. While Twitter said that there was provision to report abusive posts, the victim, Caroline Criado-Perez said that reporting a barrage of offensive tweets was difficult.
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If I was the first indigenous prime minister, and Abbott had gone out and stood next to a sign that said, ‘Ditch the black bastard', I reckon that would be the end of (his) career.
Almost half of girls think that getting sweaty isn’t feminine. We’re facing a health crisis in this country, with young girls aspiring to be thin instead of fit., that’s only going to get worse.
Oz Ex-PM Julia Gillard On sexism
Leora Hanser Director of UK sports body
UNDER ATTACK
TWO STEPS BACK
Oz employers prefer men over women: Survey
‘Sexual assault remains in US military’
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An elderly woman rests on the ruins after she lost her home during the earthquake in Minxian county.
Chile in turmoil over abortion
The debate has been stirred up again when a 11-year-old girl, who got pregnant after being raped, was denied the right to an abortion.
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story of Belén, an 11-year-old pregnant girl that caused an international media firestorm. Police later made two arrests in connection with the vandalism. The assault on the cathedral was roundly condemned by Chilean government officials and members of the Catholic church on Friday. “I wish to express our absolute rejection of such acts,” Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera said, vowing that government forces would “use the full force of the law against these delinquents”. The head of the Catholic Church in Chile, Archbishop Ricardo Ezzati condemned the
acts as “very serious”. Both the archdiocese and city of Santiago have filed legal complaints against those responsible for the damage. Abortion was banned in Catholic-dominated Chile by former dictator Augusto Pinochet. However several feminist organisations and politicians, including the socialist candidate for November 17 elections, Michelle Bachelet, have protested in favour of abortion being legal in cases of rape or when the mother’s life is deemed to be at risk. Chile’s legislature has been unable to form a consensus on abortion in a deeply conservative country. AFP
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Entertainment CINE BYTES
Nagarjuna to produce son’s next?
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elugu actor Akkineni Naga Chaitanya’s next untitled outing, which will be helmed by Vijay Kumar Konda, is likely to be produced by the actor’s father Akkineni Nagarjuna under his home banner Annapurna Studios. “Chaitanya’s next film will be with director Vijay Kumar Konda. The film is likely to produced by Nagarjuna sir under his home banner,” a source from the industry told IANS. IANS
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ashu Kaushik is sponsoring the education of a six-year-old girl through her association with an organisation working towards the betterment of underprivileged children. “I recently attended one of the events organised by Helping Hands Humanity in Miyapur. I felt I should also do something on my part to help at least one kid if not all of them,” Tashu said. IANS
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DHANUSH joins Facebook on his BIRTHDAY
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HEAPS OF PRAISES
delivers subtle performance in Madras Cafe
CINE BYTES
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Varun Dhawan roots for Sana Saeed
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Blue Jasmine off to a great start
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xpectations for Fox and Marvel’s The Wolverine continue to scale back as the spinoff drew in $21 million, adjusting expectations to a three-day haul in the mid-$50 million range. This is considerably dialed back from pre-weekend predictions that had the actioner earning upwards of $75 million, but it looks to still be a decent performer given the pic’s budget of $100 million.
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eil Patrick Harris admits that it took a while for him to adjust to being a dad to twins Harper and Gideon. “The first year with them was complicated," he says in an interview with USA Weekend. “They were crying a lot." But as the toddlers approach their third birthday in October, it’s a whole different ball game. “The older they get, the more I love being a dad. Now that they’re talking, I’m really loving the camp counselor end of parenting," he says. “I’m all about reasoning. If they fall and are okay but crying, David [Burtka, his partner] will be the hugger, and I’ll be the ‘Show me where it hurts; let’s talk about it’ one. I come from a family of lawyers, so explanation is crucial." But the 40-year-old also loves playing with them! “We do circus tricks together," says the Smurfs 2 and How I Met Your Mother star, who’s president of a private magicians club in LA and has a “Magic Room” in his home. And when he and his kids aren’t hanging out in their backyard pool — “They’re remarkable swimmers," he reveals — he’s cherishing the more peaceful times. “I love reading books to them… I use different voices," says Neil, who his kids call “Poppa." “I like moments of quiet connection — like giving them back scratches."
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Chai Time
THOUGHT OF THE DAY
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies. Bette Davis
KAKURO
QUICK CROSSWORD
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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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PREVIOUS PUZZLE ANSWER
SCRIBBLING PAD
1 Hobby, slangily 4 Prepare vegetables, say 9 English Channel harbour town 14 Wedding words 15 More than punctual 16 ‘Concerto for the Left Hand’ composer 17 Palindromic exclamation 18 Good thing for a witness to go into? 20 Old computer dial-up device 22 Baddie’s blade 23 Yes men, in a sense 26 Cold symptom 31 Ninesome 33 Ocean-resort selling point 34 Pseudonym preceder 36 Bird of prey’s claw 38 Clasp tightly in distress, as one’s hands 39 Pawn to King’s Bishop 3, eg 41 Brisk 43 Common cookie 44 Word between ‘looks’ and ‘everything’ 46 Scare off 48 Flat-screen ancestor 49 Madrid madame 51 Jennifer Lopez title role of 1997 53 More mouthy 55 Italian side dish 58 Most Masters participants 60 Like some trigger fingers 61 Very attractive to the eye 67 Weeder’s tool 68 Advice to a sinner 69 Couch with no back 70 Commit a mistake 71 Coveted quality 72 Dance components 73 Abba hit
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1 Ecological community 2 Committee type 3 ‘Oh my!’ 4 Piece 5 Feather bed? 6 Before, in sonnets 7 A word to poor Yorick 8 Legendary tales 9 Early screening 10 Colt morsel 11 They grow when fertilised 12 Organic neckwear 13 Unfeathered wing? 19 Cacophonies 21 One billion years 24 Relatively safe military position 25 Dressing may make it better 27 Egyptian ruler’s favorite gambling game? 28 Some punt return strategies 29 Large ocean vessel 30 Grain fungus 32 Dimwits 34 Accumulate, as a fortune 35 This country has Seoul 37 Gunpowder ingredient 40 Grandkid of Adam 42 Where people pick lox 45 One of three siblings 47 Bows out 50 Prefix for ‘nautical’ or ‘drome’ 52 Word that’s often contracted 54 Crucifixes 56 Lead-in to ‘fare’ 57 Court hearings 59 Short comical act 61 Air traffic agcy 62 ‘Every dog has ___ day’ 63 Votes against 64 67.5 deg on the compass 65 ‘___ got an idea’ 66 Rugrat’s break
Chai Time MONDAY, JULY 29, 2013 Thiruvaikumar
STAR POWER for 30-7-2013
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As per Hindu panchang thiruvaikumar@yahoo. co. in, 040-27177230 / 9177596118
ARIES
TAURUS
GEMINI
CANCER
LEO
VIRGO
LIBRA
SCORPIO
SAGITTARIUS
CAPRICORN
AQUARIUS
PISCES
Do not give up when faced with hurdles in critical assignments. Delayed work will resume and end successfully. Misunderstanding between couples will be over and a happy situation will prevail. Some have a bright chance to buy property or vehicle.
STRIP TEASE AGNES
A peaceful situation will prevail at home. You emerge a sureshot winner with your efforts and unrelenting hard work. Your decisions will yield desired results and you continue to keep taking bold and wise decisions, which will cheer you.
You need to adopt the slowand-steady policy and be patient. Politicians are advised to stay away from internal issues and also avoid expressing opinions over controversial issues in the open. You will show maturity in talk and action at work.
Vehicle maintenance expense will increase and upset you. You will be more conscious about self-respect and hence hesitate to interfere in others’ issues. A minor accident is likely, hence be careful. Be careful while handling valuable articles.
Your politeness in approach will bring expected success. Avoid giving false commitments to anyone. Health problem is likely, hence take good care of yourself. Avoid harsh talks as it might hurt others from whom you are likely to get support in the future.
A healthy financial situation is predicted, hence you need not worry. Responsibilities are likely to increase for employees. Your creativity is well accepted by all. You will complete most important assignments successfully with shrewdness.
Plans to purchase a house or land will end smoothly and gain is likely. Try and forgive those who commit mistakes and take right decisions that bring you the desired results. Blood relatives will extend needy financial support.
Children will make you happy with their good performance. You will sideline enemies with your smart action. Your firm and bold decisions yield good results. Newlyweds can get ready to welcome their offspring. Avoid bad friends.
Sudden trips are likely and some have a bright chance to go on a pilgrimage. Do not compromise while getting your work done with govt officials. Avoid worrying over the future, which is not at all necessary as your plans will materialise without difficulty.
TAROT READ
Sumaa Tekur
tarotreadhyd@gmail. com
ARIES:
GEMINI:
Page of Wands – You get in touch with your spiritual side thanks to a new meditation trick someone has taught you. It refreshes you from within and you feel great.
LEO:
Judgement – You discover the joy in the pleasures of life. It could be in a scoop of ice cream or in getting wet in the rain. It won’t hurt to be a little impulsive today.
LIBRA:
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE
Seven of Wands - A youngster within the family is seeking your attention. If you don’t give it, they will make sure to do something dramatic to get your attention.
SAGITTARIUS:
Nine of Pentacles – You prefer to be alone. This is not a bad thing but ensure you are not hurting someone just because you fail to explain your need to them.
TAURUS:
Two of Pentacles – Balance is the name of the game. Working mothers, especially, have a tough time with this. Go easy. You’re not a machine. Do as much as you can.
CANCER:
The Tower – Memories can play havoc if you let them take control of your mind. It’s a never-ending tunnel. Only with selfcontrol will you be able to get out.
VIRGO:
Queen of Swords – If you’re feeling bored and lonely in the evenings, make sure to do something. Join some classes or group activity to make yourself confident.
SCORPIO:
Three of Pentacles - Think sharp and clear about your next moves, especially in career. There is going to be office politics where there are ambitious people.
CAPRICORN:
Death – Take steps to stabilise relationships and career. Changes are on the way and it may throw everything off gear. Stay cool and things will be fine.
PREVIOUS SOLUTIONS
PISCES:
The Hanged Man – Spiritual awareness is important. You need to keep calm and meditate on your choices and actions. Stay away from important tasks today.
NUMBER GAME
tacles – Concerted efforts to avoid a situation may not work. There are things that are not always going to be in control. Let go; it as an experience.
SCRABBLE
AQUARIUS: Eight of Pen-
POOCH CAFE
Avoid taking emotional decisions. Never give up while implementing plans as you are likely to face minor setbacks. Be firm and proceed with a push so that you succeed. Persons who benefitted through you may not support you.
for 30-7-2013
The Fool – You’re in the first steps of an exciting journey. You’re learning something new and are excited about being associated with this project with bright minds.
NON SEQUITUR
Delayed marriage talks will resume and progress well. You will look cheerful and involve in new and innovative efforts that will bring success to you. Real estate deals will be gainful and go smoothly. Those trying for a new job can expect good news.
SUDUKO
Misunderstanding with father is likely; avoid this. You will be able to complete all undertaken tasks without any difficulty. Financial position looks strong and sudden trips are likely to be undertaken. Misunderstanding between couples will end.
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Entertainment MONDAY, JULY 29, 2013 CINE BYTES
FUTURE FIRST-TIME FATHER
JOSH DUHAMEL Singer Miley Cyrus goes nude for charity
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iley Cyrus has stripped down for fashion brand Marc Jacobs’ ‘Protect the Skin You’re In’ campaign. Her nude picture, where she is covering her modesty with her arms and palms, features on a t-shirt, which costs $35 each. All proceeds for the sales will go to New York University Cancer Institute and New York University Langone Medical Centre, reports thesun.co.uk. IANS
Brad Pitt buys private jet for Angelina
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ctor Brad Pitt has reportedly bought a private jet for fiancee, actress Angelina Jolie to make sure they get to see each other frequently. “Brad wanted to gift Angelina a jet for trips between the set of Fury in London and her set of Unbroken,” femalefirst.co.uk quoted a source as saying. IANS
Halle Berry wants to get back to work
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ctress Halle Berry, who is expecting a baby, says she wants to get back to work as quickly as she can after giving birth to her first child with husband Olivier Martinez. “After giving birth, I will go back to work as soon as possible. When I got Nahla, I took time off for almost four years. But now that job-wise everything is going so well, I definitely want to keep on working,” femalefirst.co.uk quoted Berry as saying. IANS
prepares for fatherhood by working on his fitness
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osh Duhamel is building up his stamina as he approaches fatherhood! The Safe Haven actor, who is expecting his first child with wife Fergie, worked up a sweat on Saturday. The 40-year-old took on a giant hill in Brentwood, proving he’ll be able to handle those restless nights likely coming with his baby boy. Donning a sweat-soaked gray T-shirt, blue shorts and bright yellow sneakers, Josh looked determine to make it up the hill. Josh’s run comes a day before his and wife Fegie’s reported co-ed baby shower. Guests set to attend included: Kate Hudson, Sharon Osbourne, Cher, Elton John, Neil Patrick Harris & David Burtka, Nicole Richie, Molly Sims, Kim Kardashian, Ryan Murphy, Brian Atwood, Adam Lambert, Zachary Quinto, Mark Jacobs and more. The couple announced they were expecting back in February when the singer took to Twitter, tweeting: “Josh & Me & BABY makes three!!! #mylovelybabybump.” Talk about a hot dad!
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SWIMMING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
AMERICA’S CUP
Yang, Missy claim golds China’s Sun Yang and US’s Missy Franklin got off to great starts at the world championships. RYLAND JAMES BARCELONA: China’s Sun Yang proved he has few peers in the distance freestyle events on Sunday, while US star Missy Franklin claimed the first of what could be eight golds at swimming’s world championships. The 21-year-old Sun won the world men’s 400m freestyle gold to complete the set of major titles in the event, 12 months after winning the Olympic crown. Just as he did in the London 2012 final, the 21-yearold Chinese dominated early on in Barcelona to add the 400m world title to the 800m and 1500m freestyle golds he won two years ago in Shanghai “The 400m is a very important event and I completed my goal," said Sun, who has moved to Hong Kong in the wake of a fallout he had concerning his girlfriend, an air stewardess, with his previous coach. “I overcame many problems and proved myself, I hope to have an even better performance in my other events," he said as he prepares to start the defence of his 800m freestyle title in Tuesday’s heats. The 17-year-old Ye, who won 200 and 400m IM gold Olympic medals last year,
sparked controversy when she swam the final leg of her 400m triumph in a faster time than men’s winner Ryan Lochte at London 2012. The USA claimed two world titles on Sunday as 16year-old Katie Ledecky just missed the women’s 400m freestyle world record on her way to winning gold, finishing more than two and a half seconds ahead of her rivals.
The teenager, who enjoyed a shock win in the women’s 800m freestyle at the Olympics, just missed out on breaking the four-year-old world record. “I really wasn’t expecting to go that fast, that wasn’t my focus. I just wanted to get the gold medal," said Ledecky, who will also race in the 800 and 1500m. The Americans kept on a
role as Franklin swam the first leg to lead the USA to the women’s 4x100m freestyle gold. Franklin, who won four golds at London 2012, is bidding to become the first swimmer — male or female — to win eight gold medals at a world championships, a feat not even 18-time Olympic gold medallist Michael Phelps achieved. AFP
Kiwis sweep ahead in Cup The Kiwi crew had already clinched a points victory in the round-robin series against Luna Rossa and the idled Swedish entry Artemis. SAN FRANCISCO: Team New Zealand completed a sweep of five America’s Cup round-robin challenger races against Luna Rossa on Sunday, defeating the Italian boat by three minutes and 21 seconds. The Kiwi crew had already clinched a points victory in the round-robin series against Luna Rossa and the idled Swedish entry Artemis and will now face one of them in the Louis Vuitton Cup challenger final next month. It was only the fourth race involving two boats, all of them won by Team New Zealand over Luna Rossa. The Italians forfeited one race to the Kiwis and Artemis, stunned in May by a training crash that killed crewman Andrew Simpson and destroyed their first AC72 catamaran, are working to have their boat ready to debut next month against Luna Rossa in hope of reaching the Louis Vuitton Cup challenger final. The winners of the challenger final will face defenders Oracle Team USA in the America’s Cup finals in September. On a seven-leg course over 15.27 nautical miles, Team New Zealand led by seven seconds.
HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX REVIEW
Lewis dedicates win to Nicole It was his emotional post-race dedication to former Pussycat Doll singer Scherzinger, from whom he split earlier in the summer, which dominated the event’s aftermath.
BUDAPEST: Heartbroken Lewis Hamilton on Sunday dedicated his victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix, his first win as a Mercedes driver, to his former girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger. Hamilton, having started from pole position, kept his title hopes alive with a comfortable win over Kimi Raikkonen, in a Lotus, and triple world champion, Sebastian Vettel, in a Red Bull. But it was his emotional postrace dedication to former Pussycat Doll singer Scherzinger, from whom he split earlier in the summer, which dominated the event’s aftermath. “Winning is just the greatest,
of course,"Z said Hamilton, whose victory was his first since leaving McLaren to race for Mercedes this year and the 22nd of his career.
Hamilton, having started from pole position, kept his title hopes alive with a comfortable win over Kimi Raikkonen. “But I feel like...the thought on my mind through the whole race was of someone who is special to me and I wanted to dedicate it to her...”
Asked if that person was Scherzinger, he nodded. Then, asked if he had struggled with his emotions in preparing for the race, he said: “Yes, it’s been the toughest couple of months of my life. “Coming into the race, my parents were concerned for me and just wanted to try to lift my spirits and help me keep my focus on, and clearly it’s not affected my driving. “I’ve been driving great and I’ve been very happy with how I’ve been qualifying for the last couple of races, but it just doesn’t feel the same nowadays. A couple of years ago we were here together and I think I won, so I have great memories.” AFP
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CANADIAN OPEN
BRANDT VALUE TOO MUCH FOR DUSTIN
OAKVILLE: Brandt Snedeker fired a two-under par 70 on Sunday and held off a late charge by fellow American Dustin Johnson to win the $5.6 million PGA Canadian Open by three strokes. Snedeker captured his sixth career PGA title and second of the year after a February triumph at Pebble Beach, finishing on 16-under par 272 with countrymen Johnson, Jason Bohn, Matt Kuchar and William McGirt sharing second on 275. It was Snedeker’s third triumph in his past four attempts to win a US PGA event with a 54-hole lead, having also done so at Pebble Beach and last year’s Tour Championship. He also led the Masters after 54 holes but settled for a share of sixth. Snedeker claimed the $1 million top prize at Glen Abbey Golf Club after shooting a third-round 63 on Saturday to take the lead following the departure of 36-hole leader Hunter Mahan, who withdrew to attend the birth of his first child -- daughter Zoe was born early Sunday morning. “Zoe will be getting a very nice baby gift from me,” Snedeker said. “I can’t thank Kandi enough for going into labor early. I don’t know if I’d be sitting here if she hadn’t. But that is a way more important thing than a golf tournament. I missed a golf tourna-
Snedeker captured his sixth career PGA title and second of the year after a February triumph at Pebble Beach. It was Snedeker’s third triumph in his past four attempts to win a US PGA event. ment when my first was born, and it was the best decision I ever made. I’m sure Hunter would say the same thing.” Snedeker birdied the par-5 second hole and answered a bogey at the sixth with a birdie at the par-3 seventh to stretch his lead to two strokes. After starting the back nine with a birdie, Snedeker was on 16-under and three strokes ahead. But when Snedeker took a bogey at the par-3 12th, he opened the door for
WTA STANFORD
Johnson, who birdied the par-5 13th and 16th to grab a share of the lead. Johnson’s title bid collapsed on the 17th, when he fired the ball out of bounds and then he left his fourth shot in a fairway bunker on the way to a triple-bogey seven that dumped him out of contention, even after a closing birdie at the par-5 18th. “I was playing really well,” Johnson said. “Really confident, swinging the driver really good. So you know, it’s a driver hole for me, and I just blocked it a little bit. Made a poor swing. ... Not too happy, but I felt really good with my golf game. ... It’s nothing, nothing to worry about. I’ll go get them next weekend.” From there, Snedeker added a birdie at 16 and parred the final two holes to secure the victory. “Just ecstatic right now,” Snedeker said. “I wanted to win just because my caddie is actually from Canada and it’s his national open. It meant a lot to him, meant a lot to me. Third-oldest tournament on tour and it’s got some great history to it, and now to put my name on that trophy it means a lot.” Americans Mark Wilson, John Merrick and Roberto Castro shared sixth on 276. AFP
ATLANTA OPEN
Cibulkova grinds Isner comes from behind to win out victory In a match billed as the tallest final in the history of the ATP Tour, Isner fired 24 aces to the 21 of Anderson.
STANFORD: Dominika Cibulkova pulled off a gritty 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 victory over topseeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland Sunday to win the WTA premier hardcourt tournament at Stanford. Slovakian third seed Cibulkova shook off the memory of four prior defeats against Radwanska, including a 6-0, 6-0 thrashing in the final at Sydney in January, to claim a third career WTA title. She broke world number four Radwanska for a 5-4 lead in the third set, then clawed through a final game lasting more than 10 minutes to seal the triumph on her fifth match point. “It seemed like forever,” Cibulkova said of the final game, but she was beaming after firing a backhand winner
to take the match, her father, Milan, racing onto the court to congratulate her moments after. “He got a little emotional,” said Cibulkova, who had done a good job of controlling her own nerves as the match points piled up in the final game. AFP
ATLANTA: Top-seeded John Isner saved two match points then dominated the closing tiebreaker to beat Kevin Anderson 6-7 (3/7), 7-6 (7/2), 7-6 (7/2) Sunday to win the ATP Atlanta Open. In a match billed as the tallest final in the history of the ATP Tour, the 2.06-meter Isner fired 24 aces to the 21 of the 2.03m Anderson and saved all 11 break points he faced. That included two match points for South Africa’s secondseeded Anderson in the 12th game of the third set, when Isner fended off one with a 143-mph service winner and survived another when Anderson nudged a backhand long. Having held serve to knot the set at 6-6, Isner didn’t give Anderson any more chances. He raced to a 3-0 lead in the tiebreaker and took a 6-1 lead
with a pair of booming serves. Anderson saved one match point with a service winner of his own before netting a backhand on the final point. With his seventh ATP title -- a first in Atlanta after runner-up finishes here in 2010 and 2011 -Isner will return to the top 20 of the world rankings on Monday.
He nabbed his second trophy of the season to go with the one he captured in Houston in April, and capped a return from the left knee injury that saw him retire from his first-round match at Wimbledon. “This is a tournament where I could’ve been out in my first match,” Isner said. AFP
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INDIA IN ZIMBABWE
India wrap up ODI series in style After bowling Zimbabwe out for 183, with legspinner Amit Mishra claiming figures of 4 for 47, India needed just 35.3 overs to pass their target. HARARE: India wrapped up their one-day series against Zimbabwe at the first opportunity on Sunday, as they beat the hosts by seven wickets in the third ODI at Harare Sports Club. After bowling Zimbabwe out for 183, with legspinner Amit Mishra claiming figures of 4 for 47, India needed just 35.3 overs to pass their target as cap-
Kohli finished unbeaten on 68, having adapted to the slower pace of the wicket in a measured 88-ball innings.
Vitori for 33, Kohli added the remaining 53 runs required with Suresh Raina, who finished on 28 not out. Sean Williams’s 45 was the highest score in a tame batting display by Zimbabwe, who lost both of their openers in the first seven deliveries of the innings and were bowled out in 46 overs. Although Hamilton Masakadza and Brendan Taylor put on 65 for the third wicket, there were no other partnerships to speak of as the Zimbabweans put in another tame showing. Taylor was out for 23 when he chipped Jaydev Unadkat to mid-off, while Amit Mishra picked up Masakadza. AFP
tain Virat Kohli’s half-century saw them home. Kohli finished unbeaten on 68, having adapted perfectly to the slower pace of the wicket in a measured 88-ball innings. Although Zimbabwe dismissed opener Rohit Sharma cheaply for the third time in the series, Shikhar Dhawan struck 35 from 32 balls to provide India with a solid base. After Dhawan fell to Tendai Chatara, Kohli constructed a patient 64-run stand with Ambati Rayudu that made the outcome of both the game and the series clear. While Rayudu was unable to see the job through, falling caught and bowled to Brian
SOUTH AFRICA IN SRI LANKA
PAKISTAN IN WEST INDIES
Dilshan batters Proteas
Dilshan returned unbeaten on 115 and Sangakkara made 91 during a record partnership of 184 runs to steer the hosts past South Africa’s 238 all. PALLEKELE: Tillakaratne Dilshan and Kumar Sangakkara pulverised South Africa’s bowling as Sri Lanka took a decisive 3-1 lead in the oneday series with an eight-wicket victory in Pallekele on Sunday. Dilshan returned unbeaten on 115 and Sangakkara made 91 during a record partnership of 184 runs to steer the hosts past South Africa’s 238 all out in the 44th over of the day-night match. Dilshan’s 17th one-day century and the second against South Africa was studded with 16 boundaries. Sangakkara kept pace with his partner with eight fours and two sixes. The pair put on Sri Lanka’s highest one-day stand for any wicket against the Proteas after opener Mahela Jayawardene had been removed for 12 in the 10th over. Left-handed Sangakkara missed his second hundred in the series when he holed out in the deep off Morne Morkel when just 10 more were needed for victory. Ragged South Africa paid dearly for conceding 20 extras that included 17 wides and a no-ball. The emphatic victory by the 2011 World Cup finalists reduced Wednesday’s fifth and final match in Colombo to a formality. But Sri Lankan captain Angelo Mathews said he was unlikely to make many changes for the last
I think we did well to restrict them after the good start they got. And then Tillakaratne Dilshan and Kumara Sangakkara showed how good they are. Angelo Mathews Sri Lankan captain game. “We want to make it 4-1,” Mathews said. “I think we did well to restrict them after the good start they got. And then Dilshan and Sangakkara showed how good they are.” Earlier, JP Duminy hit 97 and a fit-again Hashim Amla made 77 to lift South Africa to 238 after the tourists won the toss and elected to bat. But the Proteas undid a good start by losing eight wickets for 87 runs after cruising at 118-1 in the 22nd over. “We were about 30 runs short,” South African captain AB de Villiers admitted. “It was a great knock there by JP.” AFP
Pak hold off Windies to win In restricting the hosts to 124 for nine in reply to their total of 135 for seven, the tourists took the series 2-0 and moved up to second in the international rankings. KINGSTOWN: Pakistan held off a desperate late surge by the West Indies to take the second and final Twenty20 international by 11 runs at the Arnos Vale Stadium in St Vincent on Sunday. In restricting the hosts to 124 for nine in reply to their total of 135 for seven, the tourists took the series 2-0 and moved up to second in the international rankings behind Sri Lanka. West Indies, the world T20 champions, dropped to fourth in what was yet another setback following hard on the heels of the 3-1 loss to the Pakistanis in the preceding one-day international series. “It was a tough tour and credit must be given to everyone associated with the squad for the success that we have enjoyed here,” said a delighted Pakistan captain Mohammad Hafeez, who also played a key role with the ball in dismissing the dangerous but out-of-form Chris Gayle cheaply for the second time in two days. “When we saw the pitch, we knew, with our four spinners, that any total of 135-140 would have given us a chance, and so it worked out.” An unbeaten 46 by man of the match Umar Akmal and 44 from opening batsman Ahmed Shehzad paced Pakistan to a total that was always going to be challenging on a slow, turning surface. AFP
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ROONEY WILL STAY AT MAN UTD: CHARLTON
Manchester United legend Bobby Charlton expects striker Wayne Rooney to stay at the club and hopes he will go on to beat his goal-scoring record. Rooney’s future has been in doubt since the end of last season when Alex Ferguson said the England forward had asked for a transfer.
EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
GOLD CUP
US lift the Gold Cup The Americans stretched their team-record win streak to 11 matches and claimed their fifth Gold Cup crown.
Germany make it 6 in a row German goalie Nadine Angerer saved two penalties as her side beat Norway 1-0.
SOLNA: Goalkeeper Nadine Angerer saved two penalties to help Germany win a record sixth consecutive women’s European Championship with a 1-0 success against Norway in Solna on Sunday. Substitute Anja Mittag scored the only goal just a few minutes after being introduced from the bench at the beginning of the second period but the true star of the show was Angerer. She deflected Trine Ronning’s first half spot-kick away with her knee before thwarting Solveig Gulbrandsen from 12 yards in the second period. Those two crucial stops meant Mittag’s close range tapin from a pinpoint cross from CHICAGO: Brek Shea scored in the 69th minute to give the United States a 1-0 victory over Panama in Sunday’s title match of the Gold Cup, North America’s biennial continental football championship tournament. The Americans stretched their team-record win streak to 11 matches and claimed their fifth Gold Cup crown after previously taking the title in 1991, 2002, 2005 and 2007. Every edition of the event has been played on US soil.
The US claimed their fifth Gold Cup crown after previously taking the title in 1991, 2002, 2005 and 2007. “It’s an unbelievable feeling,” US captain DaMarcus Beasley said. “I’m at a loss for words. I’m so excited.” With the victory, the US
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Germany have now won eight of the 11 women’s Euro events. Celia Okoyino da Mbabi was enough to help the Germans avenge a shock group stage defeat by the same opponents. “Of course it’s a great feeling, especially as many didn’t expect us to win this title,” Germany coach Silvia Neid told uefa.com, reserving special praise for her heroine ‘keeper. Germany have now won eight of the 11 women’s Euro events and have not failed to lift the trophy since Norway triumphed in 1993. AFP
squad booked a date to face the 2015 Gold Cup champion to decide a berth at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia. The decisive moment came when a US pass was deflected toward the Panama goal. Landon Donovan raced for the ball and attracted all attention from Panama’s defenders. But the ball rolled past Donovan’s outstretched foot and toward the far side of the yawning goal, where Shea raced forward and tapped it across the line. AFP
LIVERPOOL IN THAILAND
Coutinho outshines Suarez in Thailand The attacking midfielder opened the scoring with a brilliant solo goal in the first half.
BANGKOK: Brazilian star Philippe Coutinho outshone wantaway striker Luis Suarez with a fabulous individual performance in Liverpool’s 3-0 win over Thailand on Sunday. The attacking midfielder opened the scoring with a brilliant solo goal in the first half and he picked out Spanish forward Iago Aspas for Liverpool’s well-taken second shortly after the break. Captain Steven Gerrard scored the third goal and also hit the woodwork as Brendan Rodgers’ team completed their Asian tour with their third clean sheet in
three games. Suarez, a high-profile transfer target of Arsenal, played the final half-hour at Bangkok’s Rajamangala Stadium but could not add to the score despite rattling the crossbar with a header. Both Coutinho, who joined the club from Inter Milan in January, and Aspas, a new signing from Celta Vigo, scored their second goals of the tour in a welcome preseason boost for Rodgers. “It was an excellent game and there were three great goals,” Rodgers said. “Our level of intensity was just right. All
Both Coutinho, who joined the club from Inter, and Aspas, from Celta Vigo, scored their second goals of the tour. credit to the Thai team, they played very well.” Rodgers said Suarez still “had some way to go” in fitness levels but would step up training as the season nears. “Suarez is very much a Liverpool player,” he said. AFP