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A Delhi police team, investigating the IPL match-fixing case, knocked at the doors of Telangana Rashtra Samiti headquarters looking for Bodhan Shakeel, a party leader from Nizamabad. TRS functionaries, however, denied the Delhi police visit.

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PM’S AIR TRAVEL ABROAD COST `642 CRORE

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f you were outraged by the RTI revelation that former President Pratibha Patil’s foreign trips cost the exchequer `223 crore, take a deep breath — you are yet to hear the figures for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Around `642 crore has been incurred on his air travels abroad in the last nine years, according to information made public by the PMO. Singh undertook 67 travels since 2004, of which bills of five have not been received.

The bills received from the rest show that `642.45 crore was spent on air travel.

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elson Mandela spent Saturday night in hospital in a “serious but stable” condition with a renewed lung infection that has triggered worldwide concern for the South African hero. Mandela, who turns 95 next month, was whisked to a Pretoria hospital in the early hours of Saturday for his fourth hospital stay in seven months.

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Singaporean food festival Enjoy the finest of Asian flavours at Singaporean food festival.

Where: Oriental Kitchen, Park Hyatt When: 19:00 to 23:30 hours(weekdays), 12:00 to 15:30 hours and 19:00 to 23:30 hours (weekends)

Classic concert Veena concert by K Preetam.

Where: Sri Gnana Saraswathi Temple, Secunderabad.

When: June 9, 6.30 pm

Reel abilities Sex, Likes & Pokes, a play will be staged.

Where: Lamakaan, Banjara Hills When: June 9, 5.30 pm

Father's special A grand buffet, cocktail training session and head massage will be organised during the occasion of Father's day.

Where: The Square, Novotel Hotel When: June 16

A person dressed as lord Krishna take fish medicine distributed at Exhibition Grounds on Sunday. The miracle fish medicine, which cures asthma and respiratory illnesses, is administered free of cost at the grounds.

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Trash run

Food fest

Annual trash run by Hyderabad runner will be organised.

Where: Durgam Cheruvu, Jubilee Hills When: June 9, 6 am

Afghani Pathani food festival will be held.

Where: Hotel GreenPark, Begumpet When: Till 9th June.

Reflect and unwind about thrillers from world cinema.

Where: Yavanika Films, Begumpet When: July 22 and 23, July 29 and July 30, 11 am to 7 pm

Women safety

Pop-up bazaar

Film making workshop

Round Table Conference on Women's Safety - Role Of Civil Society.

Where: Swagath Function Hall, Kukatpally When: June 9, 5 pm

Pop-up bazaar -- Art, shop, food, music and fun will be held.

Where: N Convention, Madhapur When: June 9, 3 pm to 11 pm

A workshop where participants will learn to develop ideas into a script, and the concepts and grammar of film-making and editing.

Where: Yavanika Films, Begumpet Contact: +919490100404

Film appreciation

Classic concert

Photographers’ meetup

Veena concert by K Preetam.

Where: Sri Gnana Saraswathi Temple, Secunderabad.

When: June 9, 6.30 pm

Celebrating 6 Years Of Excellence And 100+ Awesome Photowalks by Team Hyderabad Weekend Shoots (HWS) will be held.

Where: Charminar, Hyderabad When: June 9, 7.30 am

Dancing time Kuchipudi dance recital by Sampreeti Malladi.

Where: Saptaparni, Banjara Hills When: June 9, 6.30 pm

Holistic workshop A holistic health workshop by Dr Hari Kumar.

Where: Nalanda- The World Wisdom Centre, Banjara Hills When: June 9, 10 am to 5 pm

CINEMAS

Reel abilities Sex, Likes & Pokes, a play will be staged.

Where: Lamakaan, Banjara Hills When: June 9, 5.30 pm

Big Cinemas, Ameerpet, 30581470; Cinemax, Banjara Hills, 44565555; Cine Planet , Kompally, 61606060; INOX, Banjara Hills, 447677770, Prasads, Tank Bund Rd, 23448888; PVR, Punjagutta, 08800900009; Talkie Town, Miyapur, 40214175; Tivoli, Secunderabad 27844973

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CITY SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2013

`5 lakh stolen in bus

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haskar Reddy, a resident of Rock Town colony of LB Nagar, found his cash totalling `5 lakh stolen while he was travelling by an RTC bus on Saturday. He had boarded the bus from Madhapur for LB Nagar. He said he had dozed off on the way, and someone, taking advantage of the situation, slashed the bag and stole the currency.

Burglary in Sikh Village

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house belonging to a man named Alok Kumar in the Sikh village of Secunderabad was burgled and valuable stolen, police said. Kumar, a native of Jharkhand, had gone with his family to his native place. The incident apparently happened a few days ago, but came to light when Kumar and family returned last night.

hief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy has directed police officials to complete the investigations and submit a report accordingly on the allegation that an APPSC member is indulging in corrupt practices.

Meanwhile, TDP legislators made a futile attempt to stage a dharna in front of CM’s camp demanding sacking of the member.

Spot fixing trail reaches TRS? Delhi police on Friday rushed to the City and searched many places where Bodhan Shakeel of TRS was likely to be found. But he had bolted the scene. They picked up Zakharia, who deals in forex and is said to be close to Shakeel. TRS denied police reaching their office.

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he police were late by several days. By the time they came with the trap the bird had flown.

As the sordid saga of the infamous IPL match fixing unveils more muck, the police from Delhi reached Hyderabad, and enquired about one of the TRS leaders.

“They (police) came for Shakeel but he was not found,” said additional police commissioner Sandeep Shandilya. The

police team comprised one ACP and five officers. They managed to pick up one of Shakeel’s alleged associates.

The police are on the trail of a man named Bodhan Shakeel, a leader of TRS in Nizamabad, where he had contested on TRS ticket from the Bodhan Assembly constituency in 2009 but was defeated. He is believed to be in contact with many VIPs in showbiz, politics, players and of course bookies. Shakeel’s name was revealed during the interrogation of other bookies arrested. His suspected link with D company is also to be established, police said.

Delhi police searched different places where Shakeel is like-

THE CITY POLICE SAY BOUDHAN, WHO WAS EARLIER WITH THE TDP, WAS ARRESTED IN A HUMAN TRAFFICKING CASE SIX YEARS AGO. ly to be hiding. But he was not found, police sources told Postnoon. Later they went to Telangana Bhavan and reportedly enquired about Bodhan’s activities. TRS functionaries, however, denied Delhi police reaching the office.

The City police have details about Bodhan’s past. He was earlier with the TDP but as he did

not get a ticket, he joined the TRS. He was arrested with former MLA of TRS Kashipeta Lingaiah and a dozen others in a human trafficking case six years ago. The racket pertains to illegal pushing of emigrants to foreign countries after charging hefty sums. The case is still being pursued, said officials at

Only YSRC eager to face by-poll Disqualification of 15 MLAs belonging to Congress and TDP came as a foregone conclusion, and no party, barring YSRC, is ready for a snap poll for seats vacated.

Central Crime Station.

It is said that Shakeel, along with Kashipeta, had established good contacts with several other political leaders and cine artists of Tollywood, and if he is caught, many hitherto unknown elements would be exposed in match fixing and associated crimes.

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he expulsion of 15 MLAs from the House has vertically divided political parties in the State. While the ruling Congress and opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) seemed reluctant to face another round of by-polls in the State, YSR Congress announced that it was ready to face the by- elections with aplomb at any time.

But on the face of it, both Congress and TDP maintained that they too are ready to face the elections.

Reacting to it, senior Congress leader and MLC R Padma Raju hailed the decision of the Speaker and added that the party was ready to face bypolls whenever they are held.

“The speaker took a great decision. It is the right decision

YS Jaganmohan Reddy at the right time. He took the opinion of the respective political parties before announcing his decision. We are happy about it. We are prepared to face the elections if the election commission decides to hold it,” he said, adding that the party would retain all its seats. “Our welfare programmes are our strength. The recent historic SC/ST sub plan would yield us lot of votes.”

Speaker Nadendla Manohar TDP MLA Jaipal Yadav also reacted similarly. He said that TDP is ready to face the elections whenever they are held.

“We are ready to face the elections. Our agitation against the State government will not only help us in retaining our seats but also help us defeat Congress in their sitting MLA seats,” he said.

Speaking to Postnoon, the disqualified MLA of TDP, M

Rajesh Kumar, who is now in YSRC, said he was taking it as a matter of pride, being expelled from the House for the sake of supporting former CM YSR. “It is a matter of pride for me. I have been disqualified for supporting former CM YSR and his family. It’s an honour for me.”

Kumar also said that YSRC would win all the 15 seats if the elections are held in the coming days. Similar was the reaction of YSRC leader Jupudi Prabhakar Rao. He requested the election commission to hold the elections immediately to fill up the vacant seats.

But the public posture of Congress and TDP notwithstanding, it is clear from talks with many that only the YSRC is eager to turn sympathy factor to votes if by-elections are announced.

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he stage seems to be set for a massive clash between the government and the opposition TRS over the party’s ambitious agitation programme, “Chalo Assembly” on June 14.

The police on Saturday stated the rally has no sanction from them. After a meeting with Speaker N Mamohar to review the security arrangements for the second phase of the AP Assembly tomorrow, City police chief Anurag Sharma said nobody approached them for permission and none was given.

Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC) has called for Chalo Assembly on June 14 to demand that the Centre immediately carve out a T-state.

T-JAC and TRS have insisted that if the rally is prevented, the agitators will stay put wherever they are stopped, bringing City life to a standstill.

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Art Memoirs The Historical Society of Hyderabad, in collaboration with Salar Jung museum, celebrated their 12th anniversary by encouraging art lovers and redefining art works worldwide.

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he Historical Society, Hyderabad, in association with Salar Jung Museum, on Saturday celebrated its 12th anniversary. The celebration was held in a grand manner with many well-known artistes gracing the occasion. The event also saw wide participation from local colleges.

Chandana Khan, Special Chief Secretary to the Govt of AP, delivered a lecture on the works of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore.

Chandana Khan, herself a painter, spoke on the different paintings and the art works of Tagore and explained their significance.

In her lecture, she also mentioned how Tagore’s work was much appreciated after

the society said, “The group meets here every second Saturday. We invite different artistes, who come down and share their experience and give a lecture and

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SATURDAY. WE INVITE DIFFERENT ARTISTES, WHO COME DOWN AND SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCE AND GIVE A LECTURE AND ENCOURAGE ALL THOSE PASSIONATE ABOUT ART. encourage all those passionate about art. We have close to 200 members on list. We encourage people to come and join us and make use of this incredible opportunity where one gets to interact S BALAKRISHNA

with various artistes. The registration is free for all age groups. People who want to join the society can email me at: treasurer.hsh@gmail.com.”

Chandana Khan also inaugurated “Tourism Promotion & Marketing exhibition” displayed on the first floor of Salar Jung Museum. The museum is also conducting an art exhibition on the works of Rabindranath Tagore until June 10.

Talking about the Historical Society, Hyderabad, Saraswati, a history teacher at Kasturba Gandhi College, said, “A lot of students from my college attend the lectures here. It’s amazing. People always get to learn something when they come here.” S Sharma, an Arts student, said, “I have attended thrice till now, it’s been a great learning experience for me. I want my peers to make use of it.”

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his death as the rebels didn’t understand his art that was way ahead of its time.

Anuradha Reddy, INTACH convener, Hyderabad Chapter, delivered a talk on the ‘Trade & Commerce during Qutub Shahis’. She also spoke about the heritage sites in Andhra Pradesh.

The launch of the book, Roopannurupam, written by Kuchipudi artiste Dr Ch Ajay Kumar and Varsha Bhargavi Kondapalli was done during the programme.

Dr Ajay Kumar concluded the programme and left the audience spell bound by his ‘Ashta Vidha Srungara Nayikalu’, a Kuchipudi dance recital performance.

Many students and artistes attended the anniversary celebrations.

The programme was a success. Talking about the Historical Society, Hyderabad, Veerender M, deputy keeper, Salar Jung Museum and treasurer for

The perfect metal treat

Hacride’s first tour enthralled all metal lovers with the release of their new album.

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he heavy rainfall on Saturday night couldn’t stop metal fans from turning up in huge numbers for Deccan Rock III. The local metallers from Hyderabad turned up in good numbers to show their support for the local bands, which initially just tore through the 5-6-song set with their usual fury. The audience couldn’t help

but enjoy all the songs and started moshpitting, head-banging and screaming while the gig had just started.

The evening started with the entry of the local band Perpetual Void, after which Maldives’ band Nothnegal took over and awed the crowd. People continued to enter in great numbers even as the downpour got heavier, and the crowd seemed more than ready after another local band Skrypt, after which

the most awaited French band Hacride came out to crush.

With Hacride performing their first Indian tour here, they knew how to do it just right and began their performance by singing songs from their new album, which was long awaited by the audience. With Introversion, they proved that their new album is fresh and unique, especially in the times of thrash metal’s revival. The crowd went crazy as the band

kept playing one rageous tune after the other, and setting the stage on fire. Strive Ever to More, Ghosts of the Modern World, To Walk Among Them, My Enemy, got the headbangers crazier as nothing could stop them from enjoying the evening.

In an attempt to enjoy the show beyond the songs, some got drunk and were sent out of the concert by the bouncers, but the crowd remained completely enthusiastic for the entire evening. It’s difficult to talk about any highlights as all the songs of their new album are special in their own way, making this album one of their best releases ever. The lead singer Luis and the other band members were extremely overwhelmed by the audiences’ energetic response, which encouraged them to pump up the show even further.

The tracks were a nice treat

to the ears, as the French metal band introduced a few songs from their previous album as well, such as Act of God, Strength, Overcome of Earth.

Hacride concluded their show with another striking song of theirs, On the threshold of Death, thus giving a good end to a truly commendable performance.

Hacride’s performance can only be described as a top-notch one, with guitarist Adrien Grousset, Benoist Danneville on bass, a charismatic and energetic frontman and singer Luis Roux, and Mike Roponus on drums, who knew how to entertain the audience and get within them the spirit of how to actually enjoy a genre like metal.

The bands didn’t disappoint the City’s metal lovers as they were a delight to the ears, and put up a great show for enthusiasts to enjoy a musical evening.

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READERS’ LETTERS SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2013

More’s not merrier

There are bigger issues There seems to be varied responses to the controversy around fish therapy. But mostly it is in support of the practice. his appears to be a trick to divert attention from major issues. Or else the Lokayukta is not doing what it is supposed to. In this fish therapy, the Bathani family is doing a service. If there is a big response and thousands gather, there has to be police

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protection for proper management. Also, how can the family arrange a place to organise such a large gath-ering?

The government should continue its assistance for the benefit of the society. It has nothing to do with religion. The Lokayukta should work on exposing irregularities of larger scales and not waste time on cases like these.

This reader finds the issue of the media being denied entry to a function which Bill Gates attended a trifle.

The larger issue is what is being done with the money that he donates and how farmers should be the prime focus.

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in response to Crisis in fish therapy (June 4)

Sd has some solid observations about the pitiable condition of government colleges. He is not the first to make them and he won’t be the last. The question is, what will the government do about it?

f some humane act is being performed, then let it be. It’s senseless to interfere in such issues by an institution like Lokayukta.

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in response to Crisis in fish therapy (June 4)

Farmers should be the focus he question is not why Gates’ made a quiet entry, sans media fanfare, to ICRISAT. Yes, with tight security at the gates, not everyone can walk in there. The issue is more about what Gates’ money will turn ICRISAT into. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is its largest donor since 2007 and private seed companies are a regular source of income.

But it must be remembered that ICRISAT is meant to be an international PUBLIC agricultural research centre and its first and foremost focus for its R&D has to be small farmers and not its rich donors, who wish to control agriculture in the impoverished South!

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in response to Gates’ dodge to Hyderabad media (June 1)

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Riposte of the week h yeah… The moment you try to narrate a story, people get bored, because WOW your story has been told kazillion times before. Try telling us a different and a better one in at least one Telugu film per year, all ye great directors of Tollywood, and then see how the audience react…

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in response to There’s no success mantra to cinema: Puri Jagannadh (June 4)

n one hand, government sanctions 7,000 private colleges and on the other, it neglects government colleges.

Lack of students in government colleges has pushed them to the brink of closure. Without able lecturers’ appointment and improvement of infrastructure, there won’t be many who would study in these colleges. The government should set up new colleges in remote areas. Different fee structures in private colleges must be done away with.

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Via e-mail in response to 'More the merrier, says State government (June 2)'.

Narrow roads Everything is grand about Kompally as this reader finds.

Affordable rents, several upcoming projects, but narrow roads?

That is a dampener. ompally is good with NH-7 and many more upcoming commercial ventures. Since there are no software companies in and around the place, the rent rates of apartments are still cheap at about `1,900 to `2,200.

And there are cantonment areas east of this NH-7 road. There are also good schools in the area. The only problem is entering the city via narrow roads.

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in response to Unexplored Kompally holds promise for all (June 7)

Good job It is gratifying when good work is appreciated. This is something that goes overlooked: food wastage and it is a positive thing that people have started to take notice of it. eep it up. Very good article.

People should know the value of the food. Congrats to Postnoon team.

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NATION SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2013

4 die in road mishap PUDUKOTTAI: Tragedy struck a family when four of its members were killed when their car overturned and caught fire near here. The deceased are C Ravi, 40, his wife Kuchelakumari, 40, and daughters Rajendra, 18, and Rajsumitra15. The family was returning after visiting the Palani temple when the car hit a tree, overturned and fell into a pit, before catching fire, police said.

PM’s air travel abroad cost `642 crore

refusing to register FIR will face up to one year in jail with the Centre issuing strict instructions to states to prosecute such cops.

The home ministry told the states and Union Territories to clearly instruct all police stations that failure to register FIR on receipt of information about any cognisable offence will invite prosecution of the duty police officer under IPC Section 166A (public servant disobeying law) which will invite imprisonment up to one year.

In its latest directive, the MHA said policemen should be sensitised to respond to complaints with alacrity, whether it is from man or woman, and

FAILURE TO REGISTER FIR ON RECEIPT OF INFORMATION ABOUT ANY COGNISABLE OFFENCE WILL INVITE PROSECUTION OF THE DUTY POLICE OFFICER WHICH WILL INVITE IMPRISONMENT UP TO ONE YEAR. must apprehend the accused immediately after the complaint, as there is tendency of persons committing crimes to slip away when there is delay on extraneous grounds like jurisdiction.

Citing legal position, the advisory said the police must register an FIR upon receipt of information of the commission of a cognisable offence.

Further, if after registration of FIR, upon investigation, it is found that the subject matter relates to jurisdiction of some other police station, the FIR may be appropriately transferred to the police station under which the case falls.

“Moreover, if at the time of registration of FIR, it becomes apparent that the crime was committed outside the jurisdiction of the police station, the police should be appropriately instructed to register a ‘Zero’ FIR, ensure that the FIR is transferred to the concerned PTI police station,” it said.

India developing ‘robotroops’

New Delhi: With futuristic warfare in mind, India is working to develop robotic soldiers as part of efforts to boost unmanned fighting capabilities, joining a select group of countries in this endeavour. Under the project being undertaken by DRDO, robots would be developed with very high level of intelligence to enable them to differentiate between a threat and a friend.

These can then be deployed in difficult warfare zones, like the Line of Control, a step that would help avert the loss of human lives.

“We are going to work for robotic soldiers. We are going to look for very high level of intelligence in it than what we are talking today... It is a new pro-

BURDWAN: Former CPI (M) MLA Dilip

on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's air travels abroad in the last nine years, according to information made public by the PMO under the mandatory proactive disclosure clause of the RTI Act. Singh undertook 67 travels since 2004, of which bills of five have not been received. The bills received from the rest show that `642.45 crore was spent on air travel.

The maximum expenditure of `26.94 crore was incurred on his seven-day visit to Mexico and Brazil in 2012 to attend G20 Summit and Rio+20 Summit respectively.

FIR-shy cops face jail NEW DELHI: Policemen

CPI(M) ex-MLA shot dead

NEW DELHI: A sum of over `642 crore has been incurred

gramme and a number of labs are already working in a big way on robotics,” DRDO chief Avinash Chander told PTI. The newly-appointed DRDO chief listed the project for development of robotic soldiers as one of his “priority thrust areas” saying that “unmanned warfare in land and air is the future of warfare. Initially the robotic soldier may be assisting the man.”

He said in the initial phase of the project, the robotic soldier would be required to be told by the human soldier to identify an enemy or a combatant but “slowly in due course of time, the robotic soldier would be at the front end and the human soldier PTI would be assisting him.”

Sarkar has been shot dead by four motor cycle borne miscreants today.

According to the police, the four miscreants pumped bullets into Sarkar, 65, when he was out on his morning walk, and escaped. Sarkar had represented the Barabani constituency. Police have launched an investigation to apprehend the culprits.

HC: Having sex with false promise of marriage is rape NEW DELHI: Having sexual relations with a woman on false promise of marriage amounts to rape, the Delhi High court has said.

“Having sexual relations with a woman against her will or without her consent also amounts to rape under the IPC. If the consent was obtained on a false assurance or promise of marriage, the consent cannot be considered to be full and free and it would be a case of rape,” Justice RV Easwar said.

The court made the observation while rejecting anticipatory bail plea of Abhishek Jain in a case lodged by his wife alleging that he had sex with her prior to their marriage on the promise that he would marry her.

Youth accused of raping live-in partner acquitted NEW DELHI: A youth accused of raping his live-in partner after promising to marry her has been acquitted by a Delhi court on the ground that the girl did not turn up to depose against him.

Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna let off Delhi resident Rahul Choudhary, saying the case was lodged by the alleged victim to bring back her former lover in "her life".

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WORLD SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2013

Liu kin gets 11 years jail

2 US men gunned down LONDON: Two US soldiers and an

Terror bid foiled in Pak

BEIJING: A Chinese court on Sunday

American civilian were killed Saturday in a possible “insider attack” in Afghanistan. The NATO-led force said a man wearing an Afghan army uniform opened fire on the Americans in Paktika province, close to the border with Pakistan. In a separate attack, an Italian soldier died in Farah province in the west.

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sentenced the brother-in-law of jailed Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo to 11 years in prison on charges of fraud, his lawyer said. Police had detained Liu Hui in January on suspicion of committing fraud in connection with a real-estate deal.

Attorney Mo Shaoping told AFP that Liu Hui was sentenced at a court in Beijing.

attack was averted on Saturday in Pakistan’s northwest city of Peshawar, when police recovered 15,000 kg of explosive material from a warehouse, a media report said. Police found the explosive material and two pick-ups vans during an operation on Peshawar’s Ring Road, Dawn News reported.

Gunman former California college student

DOWN BUT NOT OUT

LOS ANGELES: A gunman who killed four people in a shooting and carjacking rampage was a former student at the California college where he was ultimately killed by police, officials said at a press conference Saturday.

Santa Monica Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks said the gunman, whose name she did not release, was armed with some 1,300 rounds of ammunition and an arsenal of weapons during Friday’s bloody killing spree.

Protesters take cover from water cannon during clashes with police at a demonstration in Ankara on Saturday. Turkish police used tear gas and water cannon late on June 8 to disperse 5,000 people demonstrating in the center of Ankara on the ninth day of nationwide protests against the conservative Islamic regime. Tens of thousands of demonstrators packed the streets of Turkish cities on Saturday, challenging Prime Minister AFP/ADEM ALTAN Recep Tayyip Erdogan's call to end their civil uprising with a chorus of angry chants and a shower of red flares.

28 killed in Benghazi clashes BENGHAZI: At least 28 people were killed and 60 were wounded on Saturday when demonstrators attacked the headquarters in Benghazi of former rebels who had fought to oust Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi, a hospital official said.

“We have so far identified 28 people dead and some 60 injured,” a doctor at the Al-Jala hospital in the eastern city told AFP, more than doubling an earlier toll.

A Libyan protester during clashes between demonstrators and troops of the Libyan Shield Forces following a demonstration outside the LSF office in Benghazi.

Fighting erupted after dozens of demonstrators, some of them armed, tried to dislodge the powerful “Shield of Libya” brigade from its barracks in Benghazi, said an AFP correspondent at the scene.

They encircled the headquarters and called on regular security forces to step in.

Libya’s post-Kadhafi authorities, who have still not managed to form a professional new army and police corps, often

call on the “Shield of Libya” to intervene in the various tribal conflicts that trouble the country. Adel Tarhuni, spokesman for the Shield of Libya group, said one member of the brigade had died and another seven were wounded.

Tarhuni also defended the “legitimacy” of the brigade, saying it officially came under the umbrella of the defence ministry.

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SANTA MONICA POLICE SAID THE GUNMAN WAS ARMED WITH SOME 1,300 ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION AND AN ARSENAL OF WEAPONS. The suspect carried “a bag full of loaded magazines,” Seabrooks said, as well as a handgun and a semiautomatic rifle” as he stormed through the streets of Santa Monica.

In addition to those killed, the suspect left several people injured in a string of random shootings in the normally placid southern California town.

He ended up on the campus of Santa Monica College, which police said he formerly attended as a student. “The suspect walked along campus shooting as he went along,” Seabrooks said. “The suspect entered the library, attempted to kill several patrons hiding in a safe room. It is miraculous those individuals weren’t physically injured.”

Koreas start patch-up talks

Hungarians win ‘Britain’s got talent’

US, China join climate change war

SEOUL: North and South Korean officials sat down for their first talks in years on Sunday, confronting decades of mutual distrust in a search for some positive end to months of soaring military tensions. The working-level discussions, which began in the border truce village of Panmunjom, were intended to pave the way for ministerial-level talks in Seoul on Wednesday. The agenda focused on restoring suspended commercial links, including the Kaesong joint industrial complex that the North effectively shut down in April as tensions between the historic rivals peaked. The talks came about after an unexpected reversal on Thursday from N Korea, which suddenly dropped its default tone of highdecibel belligerence and proposed opening a dialogue.

LONDON: A troupe of Hungarian shadow dancers won

RANCHO MIRAGE: China agreed Saturday with

the television show “Britain’s Got Talent” on Saturday — outshining a slew of homegrown performers and leaving viewers wondering if the programme’s name could do with a change. The eight-member dance group, named Attraction, beat ten British acts to win the public vote on the primetime ITV show and walked away from the final with a £250,000 prize. They had wowed viewers with a series of dance routines performed behind a screen, twisting their bodies to form silhouettes in the shape of everything from Queen Elizabeth II to an elephant. The Budapest-based group were hot favourites to win — an irony that was not lost on the British press: The Sun’s front-page headline read: “Er, Hungary’s got talent”.

the United States to scale back production of “super greenhouse gases” used in refrigerators and air conditioners in a joint bid to fight climate change. The two nations made the pledge after a closely watched first summit between Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping, who lead the world’s top two emitters of greenhouse gases blamed for the planet’s increasingly volatile climate. In a statement, China and the United States “agreed to work together” through an international body to “phase down the production and consumption” of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), dubbed super greenhouse gases for their pollution.

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COMMENT SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2013

CORRUPTION NEEDS A NEW SPELLING

EDITORIALS CANCER PICTURE gets gloomier The number of people in the UK who will get cancer during their lifetime will increase to nearly half the population by 2020, a report by Macmillan Cancer Support, one of Britain’s largest charities, has forecast.

The reason for this, like everything else about the mystery killer, is thought to be increased longevity. The longer people live, the more likely are the chances that they will be afflicted by this disease, it is assumed.

Also, survival from cancer has increased considerably of late with early diagnosis, advanced cancer treatments and better cancer care. There are more cancer survivors presently than there were about 20 years back.

Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, a premier government-run cancer research centre, states that the estimated number of new cancers in India per year is about 7 lakh and over 3.5 lakh people die of cancer each year.

According to World Health Organisation, the estimated cancer deaths in India are projected to increase to 7 lakh by 2015, and double of that by 2020.

The cancer causes in India are almost same as in other parts of the world. The chemical, biological and other environmental identities are responsible for uncontrolled and unorganised proliferation of cells.

Improper diet is one of the main causes of cancer prevalence in India. About 70 per cent colorectal cancer cases are believed to be due to imbalanced diet. The role of diet towards cancer varies greatly according to the type of cancers.

WHY WE LOVE...

Serena Williams This tennis sensation became World No 1 for the first time in 2002 at the age of 20. She still is No 1 at 31. But it has not been a walk in the park. She has had to fight her way back to the top time and again. She did that, on six different occasions. Two French crowns 11 years apart is testimony to the glamorous player’s fighting qualities. En route, she has picked up over $40 million in prize money, the most by a female tennis player. You certainly are ma’am, like you said, the "hardest working woman in tennis". Here’s to thee!

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t’s interesting how the young government employees in Adilabad, yet to settle down in the service, are in a great hurry to earn dirty money quick. The trend is quite visible in the arrests made in the district by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB).

In the last six months, four sub-inspectors of police, three tahsildars and a few lower-level revenue employees have been arrested for taking bribes. Two of the SIs and one tahsildar were arrested in their first posting itself. There are about 40 SIs who have been posted to various police stations in the district during the last one year.

The police officers insist on money for release of accused from custody or to drop a case against the accused. Tahsildars are paid bribes to manufacture false title papers for land by realtors to earn favour in land disputes. Officials of the younger generation insist on

bribes even if it means harassment of the complainant.

Corruption is all pervasive.

Sportsmen are beating politicians hollow during this cricket season. It is the names of young blood like Sreesanth and Kundra in corrupt sporting practices that is worrying.

Youth and ambition go together.

Yet, when the local revenue or police official insists on grease, we are more used to it. When the likes of the Indian captain Dhoni or the legendary Dara Singh’s son Vindoo get quoted for different streaks of corruption, it hurts.

Corruption is not just in Indian or Pakistani cricket. The Bangladesh batsman Mohammad Ashraful has admitted to making “a couple of mistakes” in the Bangladesh Premier League. The BPL’s two seasons to date seem to outside observers to have been one big mistake.

Foreigners will brush aside that corruption in India is a way of life. Public arguments on corruption often die with an Anna Hazare protest or an Arvind Kejriwal speech. The corrupt in different agencies will continue quietly despite making it shamelessly to loud headlines in various television

FOREIGNERS WILL

BRUSH ASIDE THAT CORRUPTION IN INDIA IS A WAY OF LIFE. PUBLIC ARGUMENTS ON CORRUPTION OFTEN DIE WITH AN ANNA HAZARE PROTEST OR AN ARVIND KEJRIWAL SPEECH. channels. The attention of the public is short lived on a corrupt practice and the threshold to put up with corruption increases with each reported case of repeat telecast.

In 1967, Atal Bihari Vajpayee pointed out in his trademark irony that every parliamentarian begins his career with a lie, when he reports the size of his election fund. The lies multiply after that.

A lot of serious debate on corruption is diluted by wishwash talk on how corruption is an old issue we cannot do away with. The truth is that very few of us actually have the sustained courage to fend a conversation in the path of justice as we are corrupt ourselves,

morally or materially.

The ACB in Maharashtra registered 654 cases during 2011. The instances of corruption each day must be in the thousands, and if only 654 cases are registered in a year by the ACB, it is only tokenism.

Imagine, how those lakhs of people who pay in cash and kind to most public and private departments must be laughing their way into this daily practice, without records.

Corruption is a contagious practice like the cold-causingvirus that grows in the whole environment it spreads in. It’s also an age-old practice in which we so willingly either give or take illegal benefits even at the cost of reputation.

If you’re corrupt yourself any which way, this menace will never appear as an evil to you. If you are at the happy end of corruption also it does not matter. If you are neither the giver nor the taker, you play neutral. If you cannot get corrupted and your blood boils for every uneven deed, particularly when it affects the marginalised in society, only then you will spell corruption with a capital C and probably three Rs — Corrruption!

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BUSINESS SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2013

`1lakh cr flows into MFs

Ranbaxy row a wake-up call

Coming, paper on banking structure

nvestors pumped in more than `1 lakh crore in various mutual fund schemes during April, the highest in two years. The funds mobilisation in April comes after a net outflow of `1.08 lakh crore in the preceding month. As per data available with market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), there was a net inflow of `1.06 lakh crore during April.

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BI will come out with a paper on the banking structure in the country discussing issues like consolidation even as it prepares to issue new bank licences after a decade. RBI will also involve enforcement agencies and tax authorities before it issues new bank licences. "My take on that will be told very clearly when the RBI comes out with the paper. It's a paper about the banking structure for India.

We are going to bring it out in the next one month where we will address these issues or at least define the issues for discussion," RBI governor D Subbarao told PTI.

he $500 million fine on Ranbaxy

by US authorities after it pleaded guilty to "felony charges" for violating drug manufacturing norms is "a wake-up call" for Indian pharma industry, according to Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw. The issue should also propel regulators to be more proactive and vigilant to build Indian pharmaceutical market, she added.

Swiss alarmed at bank deal with US

A secretive deal aimed at settling a dispute with Washington over Swiss banks’ ‘complicity’ in tax evasion by Americans has caused uproar.

Nathalie OLOF-ORS Agence France-Presse

ZURICH: A secretive deal aimed at settling a dispute with Washington over Swiss banks’ alleged complicity in tax evasion

by Americans has caused uproar in the wealthy Alpine nation.

Swiss Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf announced a deal last week that she said would put an end to the row that has been poisoning relations between Switzerland and the United States for years.

However, she acknowledged, the settlement was not a negotiated agreement but a “unilateral offer” from Washington, and due to a confidentiality clause, no details of the deal could be divulged until parliament had given it its blessing.

She urged parliament, which has no power to amend the agreement, to urgently debate the issue, stressing the importance of the deal taking effect by July 1.

Swiss parliamentarians however balked at the idea of discussing the issue without knowing what conditions were attached, and on Wednesday, the National Council, or the lower house of parliament, voted to freeze its handling of the deal until it had more information.

“We understand that the National Council is demanding more information about the offer from the US authorities,” the Swiss Bankers Association told AFP in an email.

But, stressed the group which represents nearly 350 banks and financial institutions, “it is important for the banks to have a legal basis before they act.”

Washington has repeatedly accused Swiss banks of complicity in tax evasion, since they hold billions of dollars belonging to American citizens that are not declared to US tax authorities.

The controversial deal would enable Swiss banks to circumvent some elements of the coun-

Investment climate will improve: FICCI survey NEW DELHI: Industry is hopeful that the investment climate will improve after the next two quarters, said a survey conducted by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry released here on Sunday. It is expected to improve as industry is buoyant that the recent steps taken by the Cabinet Committee on Investments to expedite project clearances is expected to unlock huge

NEARLY 74 PER CENT OF THE RESPONDENTS EMPHASISED THE IMPORTANCE OF BANK SUPPORT THROUGH LOWER LENDING RATES TO SUPPORT INVESTMENTS AND OVERALL GROWTH. try’s cherished bank secrecy laws and turn over key information to US authorities.

How much the banks will have to pay to win legal closure is not yet known, but Swiss media have reported that the overall figure could hit 10 billion Swiss francs ($10.5 billion, 8.0 billion euros).

Despite the expected sting, the head of the Swiss Bankers Association’s executive committee, Claude-Alain Margelisch, cautioned at a seminar this week that Swiss banks likely had no choice but to bow to the US demands.

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QUICK SOLUTION IS NECESSARY’

US tax authorities now have access to some 30,000 new declarations from US citizens on their holdings in Switzerland, and he warned some might be tempted to push the blame for lacking past filings onto their Swiss bank, he warned.

“We need to find a solution for the (bankers) who acted correctly,” he said, stressing the need to clearly distinguish between establishments that had acted inappropriately and those that had not.

THE HEAD OF THE SWISS BANKERS ASSOCIATION’S EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CAUTIONED AT A SEMINAR THIS WEEK THAT SWISS BANKS LIKELY HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO BOW TO THE US DEMANDS. The head of Geneva private bank Pictet, one of 14 Swiss banks under Washington’s magnifying glass, also insisted Friday that “a quick solution is necessary”.

The bank did not want “to put off resolving this problem indefinitely,” Nicolas Pictet told the bankers association’s annual general assembly.

Without the deal, banks with nothing to hide would not have a legal basis allowing them to prove their innocence to US authorities, Margelisch said.

He warned that without the deal “the Americans will be able to continue to threaten our banks in a completely arbitrary manner.”

Other participants at the seminar also pleaded for Switzerland to plunge in and

accept the deal despite the blindfold, stressing that the banks had to swallow their bitter medicine if they wanted to avoid risking even more pain.

With no official details leaking out, the deal is the subject of frenzied speculation in the Swiss press.

According to Neue Zurcher Zeitung, unpleasant surprises could be in store, especially for the cantonal banks -- there is one in each of Switzerland’s 24 cantons -- which enjoy a government guarantee scheme.

“Ten to 15 of them apparently handled US undeclared funds in considerable proportions,” the daily wrote in on Sunday.

With a deal, Swiss financial institutions could find themselves in the bull’s eye of US criminal prosecution, experts warn.

As a sign of the growing concern about the deal, Swiss daily Tages-Anzeiger published an article speculating on what repercussions there might be for banks facing criminal charges in the United States.

Experts quoted by the paper said such institutions would be cut off from clearing in dollars, the cornerstone of the global financial market.

investments in the core sectors of the economy.

“RBI support by way of reducing the repo rate by 75 basis points so far this year, and the recent easing of WPI numbers will also give some more space to the central bank to consider further cuts in policy rates. And the slight improvement in IIP and export numbers signal springing of green shoots and it will be crucial to keep nurturing them,” it said.

The survey drew responses from about 200 companies with a turnover ranging from `10 lakh to `1 lakh crore. The companies belonged to an array of sectors such as textiles, cement, financial services, chemicals, metal and metal products, automobiles, fast moving consumer goods, electrical equipment and machinery and paper and paper products. The survey was conducted in MarchApril and brought out expectations of the corporates for the April-September period.

However, the survey also revealed that the respondents were not too optimistic about expectations over the next IANS two quarters.

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FOCUS SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2013

In Turkey Chapulling is in In a language full of words notoriously slippery to translate into English, the term has been altered by sympathisers of the protests into a synonym for “fighting for your rights”.

Demonstrators sit in Gazi park next to Taksim square in Istanbul early on June 8, 2013.

Fulya Ozerkam Agence France-Presse

ANKARA: Turkey’s prime minister meant it as an insult when he dismissed protesters as “capulcu” — “vandals” or “looters”.

But they’ve become fond of it, adopting it as their nickname and spreading it via Facebook and Twitter.

It is just one in a flood of edgy jokes and slogans that have kept the young Turks chuckling in between bouts of being chased by police with tear gas and water cannon at protests against the premier, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

“The looters are coming!” the protesters yell.

Pronounced “cha-pul-ju” in Turkish, the word morphed into “chapulling”, spreading the con-

cept among English-speaking users on online social media, among an avalanche of humorous videos and slogans inspired by the crisis.

In a language full of words notoriously slippery to translate into English, the term has been altered by sympathisers of the protests into a synonym for “fighting for your rights”.

In a gesture of solidarity with the demonstrators, one online Turkish-English dictionary, Zargan, listed “chapulling” as an “English” word meaning “claiming rights,” “demanding to be treated as a human being” and “resisting pressure”.

The user-generated online encyclopedia Wikipedia also added “chapulling” to its database, defining it as “a neologism originating in the 2013

“TEAR GAS IS OUR NATIONAL DRINK,” READ A GRAFFITI, MOCKING ERDOGAN FOR TELLING TURKS TO ADOPT A NON-ALCOHOLIC YOGHURT DRINK AS THE COUNTRY’S TOKEN BEVERAGE. protests in Turkey, derived from Prime Minister Erdogan’s use of the term capulcu to describe demonstrators.”

One of Turkey’s leading businessmen Cem Boyner, head of Boyner Holding, joined the protests at Istanbul’s Taksim square with a banner reading:

ARIS MESSINIS

“I’m neither rightist, nor leftist.

I’m chapulling.”

Other wags in Istanbul, Ankara and other Turkish cities, are using a more traditional medium to share their jokes: covering the walls with signs and graffiti — many of which also end up on the Internet.

One of the signs posted on Facebook punned on the words of a popular dance tune “Satisfaction” with a “chapulling” theme, reading: “Cop me, and then just gas me, till I can get my chapulation.”

A graffiti from the Taksim square read: “Everyday I’m chapulling,” a parody of dance duo LMFAO’s “Everyday I’m Shuffling.”

“Tear gas is making us drunk,” read one, in a compilation on blogging platform

Tumblr, combining criticism of the police crackdown with popular anger at Erdogan’s plan to restrict the sale of alcohol.

“Tear gas is our national drink,” read another, mocking Erdogan for telling Turks to adopt a non-alcoholic yoghurt drink as the country’s token beverage.

Turkish mainstream television stations themselves handed the protesters ammunition for ridicule by their timid reporting at the start of the unrest, with one broadcasting a documentary about penguins instead of covering the crisis as it broke.

That drove “penguin” along with “chapulling” up the list of Turkish users’ favourite buzz words. Some youngsters have been wearing T-shirts inscribed: “We are all penguins”.

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WELLNESS SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2013

BREAKING NEW GROUNDS of creation and ignores the science of theory, technique and craft would not be able to make a breakthrough.

Bedabrata, a NASA scientist who turned filmmaker at 50 and won four National Awards for his very first film, speaks about his directorial debut, career transition and about how one should have the courage to take a plunge towards their passion without fearing failure and age barriers.

EA Abhishek feedback@postnoon.com

Let me begin by congratulating you on the National Award win. How does it feel to be winning it for your very first feature film?

Thank you so much. I am truly grateful to all those in the cast and crew who gave their best to make Chittagong come this far, and all those who gave me support and courage when everything seemed to go wrong. Honestly it feels really great winning four awards for my first film — the best film by a first-time director, the best debut director, best lyrics (Prasoon Joshi) and best playback singer (Shankar Mahadevan), and one of the actors (Nawaz) additionally won the Special Jury Award. After everything that I have gone through while making this movie, I feel vindicated. The best thing about the ceremony was Shankar singing Bolo Na. He was just mesmerising. And I was mouthing along, much to the surprise of those around me, who had no idea that I was the producer-director of the movie.

You are an alumni of prestigious institutions like IIT Kharagpur and Columbia University. Was cinema a part of the intensely academic student life of yours?

There is a saying that an Indian may forget to brush their teeth in the morning, but he can’t escape the movie trap. It is very true. It is said that a picture is thou-

How did the idea of making a film on the Chittagong Uprising originate? And why did you take up the challenge of choosing a historical subject for your very first film?

As they say, there is always a fine line between stupidity and bravery. The thing is you don’t even realise that you are doing a bit of both at the same time. Chittagong is a story of victory by ordinary people — of those who nobody thought could win. A school-teacher, a few revolutionaries (including a few women — almost unheard of in those times), and some 60 school children shook the foundation of the British Empire — an empire on which the sun never set, as the saying was. For the first time in the 20th century, the British were kicked out of a town and the it was liberated. Today also we need such audacity of thinking, of figuring out new ways of bringing in change and winning.

You decided to take up films at a very later stage of your life. Are you happy with the decision or would you have wanted it to happen at an earlier stage?

sand words. A two hour-long movie has some 1,73,000 pictures. And then you add sound and music to it. Can you imagine its power? I used to do the assignments for my girlfriend in her cinema theory class — write all her movie criticism essays.

The first time we met, I asked you how does it feel being a scientist/filmmaker and you responded 'Now, I am a filmmaker.'

How did this transition happen at the age of 50 and why?

Well, better late than never, right?

Perhaps, NASA was a diversion.

Perhaps I was always destined to be in performing arts. Jokes aside, I do not see a contradiction between being a scientist and a film-maker (or in some other arts). I think human beings are always multi-faceted, but it is modernday life that wants us as ‘worker-bees’ and forces us to become one-dimensional at some point of one’s life. One has to consciously rebel against it. In fact, I strongly feel that just a scientist without imagination and creativity will never invent something great and an artiste who only believes in spontaneity

Absolutely, I am happy with the decision. The only regret is not to have done it earlier.

But yes, when I left NASA as a senior research scientist, I was taking a huge risk at the age of 45 in jumping from the top of my field to a point where I was scraping the bottom of an unknown barrel. But if I

didn’t do it at that point, I probably wouldn’t have done it ever. I was told that after 40 you should be settling down.

Honestly, I found that prospect perfectly boring.

After all, what’s the point of living, if you don’t challenge yourself continuously?

Finally, what advice would you give to those who have a passion hidden within them or a passion that they could not give time to at an earlier stage in their lives?

I had never even been on a film-set before I embarked on Chittagong. But I took a plunge — a jump from the sky — only to realise there’s nobody to catch me. I have to do it all by myself. That’s what

I was taking a huge risk at the age of 45 in jumping from the top of my field to a point where I was scraping the bottom of an unknown barrel.

Bedabrata, Filmmaker made me a director.

Believe in yourself — only you have the vision. All those who are more experienced and skilled than you will give you many advice, sometimes even well-meaning ones. But remember that the road to hell is paved with the best of intentions. Give your 300% effort, and don’t be afraid of failure and let the chips fall where they may!

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ART AND CULTURE SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2013

British museum of the year

Chagall’s works on display

Nonagenarians make mark

An art gallery devoted to the Victorian designer and socialist William Morris was crowned Britain's museum of the year by the Art Fund on Tuesday.

The William Morris Gallery, located in the artist's family home in Walthamstow in northeast London, opened in 1950 but faced closure in 2007 before securing funding for a major redevelopment.

It reopened last year.

The pink and green world of the Russian artist Marc Chagall, whose sheer popularity with the public almost destroyed his reputation in the 20th century, goes on display on Saturday in the first major exhibition of his work in the UK outside London.The exhibition at Tate Liverpool gathers together more than 70 works from public and private collections.

Tapestries by Grayson Perry and a 3D model of a Fiat 500 from Ron Arad have gone on display alongside hundreds of works by artists we have never heard of and, in some cases regretfully, never will, including a healthy contribution from men and women in their 90s.More than 1,200 works are on display, almost all available to buy to help students in the RA schools.

S BALAKRISHNA

Art on high fire Hyderabad might not consider ceramics high art, but a group of sculptors at Kalakriti Gallery are fired up to show the City the delicacy and beauty of the form.

KANCHAN AGARWAL

kanchan.a@postnoon.com

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he hidden beauty of the lotus leaf, the veins on the underside of a lotus leaf has been turned upside down. Nature has not shifted its course but S Gopinath’s ceramic art has taken the liberty to present what one had to look for.

“The underside of a lotus leaf with those veins and colours is the most beautiful part of the lotus but we never get to see it. I wanted to show that,” says Gopinath, who is from Bangalore. Gopinath has been sculpting for years now and this group show of ceramics — Fired Up — is his first in Hyderabad.

Fired up would have been a

solo show by Vinod Daroz but for him who instead thought it better to collaborate with other ceramic sculptors. Vinod is presenting works from the series ‘Silent Shloka’, which is an extension of his temple series which emerged from his deep spiritual experience, which largely distinguishes itself from religion.

“This is my third show here.

Hyderabad is yet to grow to recognise ceramic sculpting as an art form,” says he who has sculpted much for temples.

“When you say ceramic, people do not think beyond crockery.

They are yet to understand that ceramic is very fragile,” explains Vinod on why it is so valuable. “There is so much that can be expressed through this form,” adds Gopinath. Gopinath also works with copper, steel and terracotta.

The other artists exhibiting

When you say ceramic, people do not think beyond crockery. They are yet to understand that ceramic is very fragile.

Vinod Daroz Ceramic artist at Fired Up include Ajay Kanwal, Jayanti Rabadia, Jyotsna Bhatt, Rakhee Kane, Sally Walk, Shampa Shah and Vineet Kacker.

The show is eccentric, perceptive, and reflective, compelling one to embark on an inward journey. There you can spot glimpses of our culture, daily life, of human nature and there is a bit of mythology, too.

Take for example the Australian

Vividly spiritual Gothic style began during the time Europe was putting the memory of the Dark ages behind it.

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his was the age of chivalry.

The Gothic movement lasted more than 200 years, beginning in Italy and spreading throughout Europe. It began with the architectural triumphs of the 12th century (the height of the Middle Ages) when Europe was seeking to move beyond the Dark Ages and into an era of radiance, confidence, and prosperity. It was accompanied by a strengthening

of Christianity, when magnificent new cathedrals were being constructed throughout Northern France (Amiens, Chartres, and Reims).

Unlike the Romaneque and Byzantine art that preceded it, the Gothic period was characterized by an increase in a naturalistic style. This quality (naturalism), which first appeared in works by Italian artists during

the 13th century, came to be the dominant painting style throughout the Continent and lasted until the end of the 15th century.

At the end of the Gothic period, there were some artists in the North who maintained this Gothic style, holding to its tradition, even while Italy gave birth to a new artistic and cultural age-the Renaissance. Thus, the end of the Gothic period has significant

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artist Sally Walk, whose works titled Absurd explore the idea of disguised eccentricities.

“I am interested in how we, as a society, require a certain outward appearance to ensure belonging-ness,” she says. The colour and vibrancy of this country has echoed in her artworks, which has softened and developed a sense of humour.

Her works have exaggerated colours and patterns which adorn fluid spherical forms.

Then there is Shampa Shah whose focus is on the relationship among the five elements of nature, namely earth, water, fire and ether, with humans. Her works under the title Transformation are inspired by nature and Indian cultural votive to deities like cluster of terracotta horses, elephants, or bulls. The show is being curated at Kalakriti art gallery and is on till June 22.

overlap in time with both the Italian and Northern Renaissance eras of art.

The calendar illustrations in the Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry (c. 1409–16) by the Limbourg brothers, who worked at the court of Jean de France, duc de Berry, are perhaps the most eloquent statements of the International Gothic style as well as the best known of all manuscript illuminations.

Manuscript illumination was superseded by printed illustrations in the second half of the 15th century. Panel and wall painting evolved gradually into the Renaissance style in Italy during the 14th and early 15th centuries.

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ENVIRONMENT SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2013

Nuclear plant shut down

Cod stocks recover

America's nuclear reactor fleet moved deeper into middle-aged crisis on Friday when operators decide to shut down two reactors at the troubled San Onofre power plant in California. They were the third and fourth reactors to be permanently retired this year, underlining the harsh economics facing America's ageing fleet of nuclear reactors.

Cod could be in for a revival at the fish counter as stocks recover after being overfished for decades. Eating cod has been regarded as close to a crime by environmentalists have been urged to opt for alternatives such as gurnard.

But a survey by the Marine Stewardship Council and other fisheries organisations suggests that effective management means cod is increasing.

Scotland in the line of fire Climate campaigners have urged Alex Salmond's government to "up its game" after Scotland again missed its ambitious annual greenhouse gas reductions targets. The Scottish government admitted that it had missed its target for 2011 by 0.8m tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e), for the second year running. It missed the 2010 target by 1.1m tonnes CO2e

CLEAN, GREEN AND POSITIVELY RADIANT

By setting up a Radiant Cooling building in Pocharam, Infosys plans to set an example for companies across the globe.

ARUN D YELLAMATY

arunyellamaty@postnoon.com

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n World Environment day observed recently, Infosys exhibited its new radiant cooling building, which saves close to 40 per cent energy. This is apart from the company’s other green initiatives. The building, located at Pocharam, is said to be Asia’s first sustainable energy campus. The idea has not only appealed to the employees working with Infosys but also those working with companies like Google who had come down to the campus to be part of the event.

Rohan M Parik, associate vice-president, head - infrastructure of Infosys, said, “We are always looking for ways to save energy. The idea to

build such a building came about after a visit to a historic monument in the City. The interior of these structures are cool even without the use of electricity. We wanted to attain the same concept. We gave ourselves a challenge that we would reduce the use of energy by 50 per cent and to making that possible was a big task.”

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employees felt better. Most employees felt that the building with the radiant cooling was much better.

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Moving water is more efficient than moving air because of its physical and thermal properties. Water can carry 3,400 times the energy that air can for the same volume. This property of water is used to achieve maximum advantage in a radiant cooling system.

Also, the natural manner in which the human body dissipates heat is mainly through radiation. This is the primary principle used in radiant cooling. Cold water flows through pipes embedded in a slab and cools the entire slab resulting in the slab surface being maintained at about 20 deg C. Cooling inside the office is achieved when the cold slab absorbs the heat (radiation) generated by people, computers, lighting and other equipment which are

exposed to the slab.

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Another point the company makes is that going green has been highly profitable for them and small sacrifices from the part of employees are helping in the company’s growth.

“Since we implemented the green initiation scheme, the company has been saved from using an additional 300 million units of electricity. There are goals that we follow to become a green company and the most important of all is to inspire the employees to take up the initiative,” said Parik.

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This building is 40 per cent more efficient than

the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Airconditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) standards and the lighting design is 50 per cent more efficient. This ensures that the entire office is day-lit without glare from 8 am to 5 pm. The building is designed according to solar passive principles and has a high performance building envelope, consisting of insulated walls and roof.

One half of the building runs on air conditioning and the other on radiation cooling.

The company conducted a survey which was prepared by the University of Berkeley (USA) and Braunschweig University of Technology (Germany) to check which side the

FUTURE IS GREEN

This is not the only Green Project the company is involved with; they plan to plant close to 70,000 trees in the near future with the ‘Eco Club’ (where many employees are actively involved and working towards an environmentally- friendly campus). There is also a lake that can store 3,00,000 cubic metres of water and rain water harvesting equipment is in place. When we checked with few employees, most of them felt they were part of their company’s green initiatives and were happy about the radiant cooler and other projects.

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The Radiant Cooling project has now influenced many companies across the globe.

Recently representatives from Google came down to Hyderabad to check on it and might soon start on the same system at their headquarters in America.

The Infosys team plans to use the same concepts in upcoming building projects and are hoping to set an example and also help build a safe and clean environment.

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FOOD SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2013

Cheese prevents cavities

Flavour of the month

Consuming dairy products is vital to maintaining good overall health, and it's especially important to bone health. According to a new study published in General Dentistry, the peerreviewed clinical journal of the Academy of General Dentistry (AGD), consuming cheese and other dairy products may help protect teeth against cavities.

Vegetarians more healthy

Baskin-Robbins kicks off summer with Triple Vanilla as its June Flavour of the Month. The treat features a combination of their Classic Vanilla, French Vanilla and Vanilla Bean ice cream flavours swirled into one cone or cup, however you prefer it.

The idea of eating three different vanilla types will certainly give you a fun twist.

Vegetarian diets are associated with reduced death rates in a study of more than 70,000 Seventh-day Adventists with more favourable results for men than women, according to a report published Online First by JAMA Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication. Vegetarian diets have been associated with reductions in risk for several chronic diseases.

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New lounge on the block NIDHI BHUSHAN

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adisson Blu’s latest contribution to Hyderabad’s night life is its very chic and contemporary lounge and bar Movida. The bar, outlined with red LED lights, is tucked away in one corner of the first floor of the five-star hotel. To be honest, the lounge is an easy miss despite the big name board outside as it takes a few seconds for first-timers to figure out if the entrance door slides or pushes open. For your sake, it pushes open.

Like all other hotel lounges, Radisson Blu’s Movida is also soundproofed — hence, the thick wooden entrance door. It also has a character of its own.

Whether it’s the ambience, the food or the service, there is no resemblance that Movida shares with the hotel. With room for around 50-70 people, including those enjoying their poison at the bar, the lounge is cozy and opens up to a balcony which also serves TO as a smoking zone.

A GOOD TI Movida, which in Cuban street slang means party, is a lounge that promises music of the world. Whether it’s retro, EDM, hip-hop or house, Movida’s in-house DJs Errol and Shekhar are armed with the latest tunes. To keep the excitement levels up, the hotel has planned a daily theme from Wednesdays to Sundays.

While Wednesday is the day to pamper women between 6-9pm with unlimited martinis at `600 plus taxes along with a manicure session, Thursdays are reserved for retro lovers.

“I’ll be playing songs from late ’60s to early ’90s on retro nights. From The Beatles to Michael Jackson, Thursdays are open to all kinds of retro tracks,” says DJ Shekhar, who would be playing at the lounge from Wednesday to Saturday night.

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If you’re looking for something refreshing in the world of bars, Radisson Blu’s Movida lounge might just be the place to quench your thirst.

With muted lighting and comfy chairs, the lounge guarantees a special evening.

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One of the most unique and interesting nights is the open deck night on Sundays.

Party hoppers can bring their own favourite tracks in pen drives and play it for all to enjoy at Movida. It would be awesome for those in big groups. The lounge also keeps its Mondays and Tuesdays regular for those looking for hearty conversation over drinks and good food.

When it comes to the selection of whiskeys and wine, Movida keeps it simple, with Lagavulin (16 years) being their most prized single malt at `1,050 for 30 ml. The lounge also boasts a collection of blended whiskies like Chivas Regal (18 years) and Johnnie Walker (Gold, Double Black and Black Labels). However, it’s the cocktails at Movida that win it all the brownie points it should from tipplers.

Must-haves include Kiwi and Ginger Caprioska (vodka, fresh kiwi, ginger, triple sec, castor sugar and a dash of lime juice) and Watermelon and Rosewater Martini (fresh watermelon, vodka, rosewater, sugar syrup and rose petals). The cocktails, made of freshly-squeezed fruit pulps, are an absolute delight in the summer months.

Even when it comes to finger foods, Movida plays successfully with a range of flavours — Mediterranean, Spanish and Italian. Must-haves include the Coriander Ginger Shrimp with Sweet Thai Chilli Sauce, Green Tea Noodle Shrimp Tempura, Spicy Crab Cakes and the traditional Mezze platter. While the spicy crab cakes were simple and blended well with the sweet chilli sauce served with it, the green tea noodle shrimp tempura stood out with its presentation and flavour.

So, if you’re in the mood for something new and stylish, don’t think, just head to Movida.

Where: Movida Lounge, Radisson Blu Must-have: Kiwi and Ginger Caprioska

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FOOD SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2013

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Lagan ka gosht Flattened mutton roasted in thick-bottomed vessel.

Noor Kitchen NOOR JAFRI

The Duanwu or the Dragon Boat Festival, a statutory holiday observed in China, will fall on June 12 this year. To celebrate this age-old tradition, Golden Dragon, Taj Krishna, offers a variety of authentic culinary delights.

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he dragon boat has arrived in the City, not with dragons but with good ol’ traditional Chinese food.

The Dragon Boat Festival originated in the Zhou Dynasty, in honour of a man named Qu Yuan, who was a poet and statesman, and a minister to the Zhou Emperor. Qu Yuan was a wise man, who did much to eliminate the corruption rampant in the Zhou court.

When the Zhou were defeated, Qu Yuan, in despair, threw himself into Milou River, one of the fifth day of the fifth month in 278 BC. Upon hearing of Qu Yuan’s suicide, the local fisherman paddled out in their long boats, beating drums and throwing glutinous rice balls (zong zi) into the water,

so that the fish wouldn’t eat Qu Yuan’s body.

Since that time, people have commemorated Qu Yuan by celebrating the anniversary of his death with activities that include dragon boat races and the eating of zong zi.

In an attempt to honour this tradition, Taj Krishna recently launched its Dragon Boat Festival comprising delicacies authentic to China.

The menu opens with entrees such as the traditional zong zi (rice dumplings filled with chicken wrapped in a bamboo leaf). The menu, rich with the Chinese culture and tradition, boasts a variety of dishes that would suit your

palate. A few must-haves include the Prawn Hargao (translucent prawn dumplings), Chicken/Veg Pearl Dumplings and Sweet Glutinous Rice Balls.

While the Prawn Hargao was like any other seafood dimsum, the chicken and veg pearl dumplings were unique in terms of their rice-coated textures. Other must-haves include the Steam Pancake Rolls, Steamed butterfly prawns with vermicelli and chilli and Steamed eggs with garlic. The traditional dish, the zong zi, blended

well with the egg dish, however, it seemed a little over the top on its own.

While the Dragon Boat Festival is an out-an-out authentic Chinese experience, it is suitable only for those who have an adventurous palate. Regular Chinese lovers will enjoy the starters but might feel a little overwhelmed by the main course and the dessert included in the festival menu. The festival is on till June 16, for lunch and dinner.

What: Dragon Boat Festival Where: Golden Dragon, Taj Krishna Must-haves: Prawn hargau, Chicken pearl dumplings SRINIVAS SETTY

MEZZE ON YOUR MIND?

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ebanon isn’t well represented in Hyderabad’s food scene. Luckily, Westin Hyderabad Mindspace has stepped in to fill that void, albeit temporarily, with their Lebanese food festival, on till June 16.

The austere decor of Seasonal Tastes might not be reminiscent of a bustling Beirut souk, but get started on the food and you’ll be transported straight to Lebanon.

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range of Lebanese favourites.

Skip your usual salads for a delicious mezze platter, complete with lightly sauteed vegetables, pita pockets and falafel. The rich and perfectly delectable dips — we highly recommend hummus, baba ghanoush and labneh — are a perfect start. Snag a couple of kibbeh (minced lamb on a skewer) and you’re good to go.

No matter how much you want to fill up on the starters, don’t skip the main course.

Play safe with the brilliant batata harra (spiced potato cubes). But for a true taste of

Lebanon, you can’t ignore the chicken tagine. The delicately spiced couscous, the succulent chicken and the freshness of the zucchini and tomatoes make it a simple, yet fulfilling, dish. Another must-haves are spiced lamb balls in a rich tomato curry, and Chef Subhan Ali’s Samak Bil Taratur (baked fish in a yoghurt-based sauce.

Round off the meal with a couple of Arabic desserts. If you happen to be heading there in the evening, you’re in luck — they have live shawarma and shish taouk counters.

Ingredients Quantity n Lamb boneless flattened pieces of medium size 1/2 kg n Ghee 4 tbsp n Chironji 1 tbsp n Almonds 1 tbsp n Poppy seeds 1 tbsp n Green cardamom 1 tsp n Saffron a pinch n Ginger garlic paste 1 tbsp n Fried crispy onions 1 cup n Thick curd 1 cup n Turmeric powder a pinch n Salt, red chilli powder to taste n Green chillies and coriander leaves as required n Raw papaya paste tsp n Lemon wedges & garam masala powder to taste Procedure n Wash and clean the lamb. n Hammer it with the meat hammer to break the fibers. n Marinate it with salt and papaya paste, for half to one hour. n Dry roast poppy seeds, chironji, almonds and grind them into a fine paste. n Mix all these masalas along with the fried onion paste and curd. n Add this to the lamb pieces. n Take the lagan, spread the ghee and arrange these marinated pieces, into the ghee. n Sprinkle cardamom powder and saffron on to it. n Cover it with a thick lid and roast it on charcoal fire both on top and at the bottom of the lagan for 15 minutes. n Once it's ready, it can be served hot, with the spread of garam masala powder, coriander leaves and lemon wedges.

Contact us @ Noor kitchen Mobile + 91 9441282318 Residence + 91 40 23356947 Like us @ https://www.facebook.com/Noorkitchen follow us @ https://twitter.com/NoorKitchen

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HISTORY SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2013

June 10

1692: Bridget Bishop, the first colonist to be tried in the Salem witch trials, is hanged after being found guilty of the practice of witchcraft.

June 12

1964: Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.

June 13

June 10

1928: Author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, who revolutionised children's literature with such best-selling books as Where the Wild Things Are, is born in Brooklyn, New York.

June 12

1997: Uphaar cinema fire occurs in New Delhi during the screening of the movie Border.

Trapped inside, 59 people died, mostly due to suffocation, and 103 were seriously injured in the resulting stampede.

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1963: Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.

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1955: Some 77 people are killed and 77 others injured when two cars collided on the race track and crashed into the spectators' stand at Le Mans in north-west France.

1975: Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is found guilty of electoral corruption in her successful 1971 campaign. Despite calls for her resignation, she refuses to give up office.

June 14

1940: German troops marched into Paris in the early hours of this morning as French and allied forces retreated. The enemy met no resistance as it entered the capital.

June 15

1215: Following a revolt by the English nobility against his rule, King John puts his royal seal on the Magna Carta, guaranteeing that the king would respect feudal rights and privileges.

June 16

1963: Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman to travel into space.

After 48 orbits and 71 hours, she returned to earth.

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Members of Beauty With Brains club turned up in their glamorous best to celebrate their fellow member Amita Piyush’s win at Mrs India 2013. She was crowned Mrs India International.

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A touch of royalty Sasya unveiled designer party collection at the store in Punjagutta on Saturday. Mrs India International-2013 Amita Piyush Motwani graced the event.

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Shamdat joins Kamal Haasan’s Vishwaroopam sequel

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ahesh Babu’s career is going great guns and he’s completely at ease with himself as he gets talking about his current projects. Recently, he signed yet another brand endorsement deal and the actor has been chosen as the new brand ambassador for TVS. Talking to the media, he said, “It’s my honour to associate with a brand like TVS and I look forward to a long term association with them. The most important thing for me, when I sign a brand endorsement deal, is the philosophy behind the brand and I should believe in all that.

TVS has a legacy of 100 years and it’s a brand that I trust.” His new avatar for Sukumar’s 1 is making a lot of buzz these days and the actor is confident that the film is going to be quite an interesting project to look forward to. When he was asked if he’s vying for the numero uno position in Telugu cinema, Mahesh Babu denied all such gossip and said, “I have never looked at that way and I don’t believe in number game. The competition is quite high these days and all I wish is that every film should do well at box-office. Even the film’s title was zeroed upon because all of us felt that it suits the story. You have to wait and watch.” Few days ago, there were rumours that his son Gautham might make a cameo in the film; however, Mahesh Babu revealed that nothing has been confirmed so far. “I don’t know if Gautham is ready for it. We are still thinking about it and I will leave it to him to decide if he wants to do it or not.” His past few films have either been family dramas or action entertainers. Ask him if he’s willing to dabble with more genres, he says, “I can’t afford to experiment now. Most of my films are made with high budgets and I don’t think it’s appropriate to experiment much considering the time, money and effort that goes into each of my films. All I care about is entertaining the audience and I’m happy with what I’m doing these days.”

ALIAS JANAKI gears up for release

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lias Janaki, a new action drama starring Venkat Rahul and Anisha Ambrose, is gearing up for release later this year. Newcomer Dayaa, a former associate of Pawan Kalyan, has directed the film and Neelima Tirumalasetti has produced the film under Sangamitra Arts banner.

The film’s first look was recently unveiled and the response has been good so far. The film’s audio is

going to be launched later today in Annapurna Studios Seven Acres in Hyderabad. Shravan has scored the music and Sujith Sarang is the cinematographer. The film follows the lives of two people who are on the run after they fall on the wrong side of the law.

amal Haasan’s upcoming film Vishwaroopam 2 has a new cinematographer onboard and the news has caught a lot of people by surprise. Till recently, Sanu Varghese, the cinematographer of Vishwaroopam, was supposed to shoot the sequel as well; however, Kamal Haasan seems to have changed his mind after he came across Shamdat’s work. In the past, Shamdat has been the cinematographer of films like Prasthanam, Sahasam and few other Malayalam films.

Apparently, Kamal Haasan was quite impressed with Shamdat’s work and he got him onboard to shoot Vishwaroopam 2. The movie is currently being filmed in Bangkok. Apart from Kamal Haasan, the film also has Pooja Kumar, Andrea Jeremiah and Rahul Bose in lead roles.

Shankar Ehsaan Loy are scoring the music for the sequel as well and it’s expected to hit the screens later this year.

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Parineeti, Aditya Roy Kapur team up for YRF movie A

ctor Aditya Roy Kapur and the versatile Parineeti Chopra will share screen space in Yash Raj Films’ (YRF) new production, to be helmed by Ishaqzaade director Habib Faisal.

Ishaqzaade, also produced by YRF, won a special mention for Parineeti at the 60th National Film Awards.

The untitled film is also written by Faisal. It will go on floors in September this year, and it is slated for a mid-2014 release.

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Akshay Kumar hikes endorsement fee

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“When some thing is selling well, then I don’t think there is any problem in increasing the rates. I don’t think anyone should have a problem in that.

It’s a give-and-take relationship,” Akshay said.

In 2011, Akshay was appointed the ambassador of a brand, while megastar Amitabh Bachchan endorsed it for two years.

The 45-year-old actor, who delivered three hits last year — Housefull 2, Rowdy Rathore and Khiladi 786 — will next be seen in Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Again when it hits screens on IANS August 8.

I’m far from perfect:

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According to the actress, being perfect is boring.

Sonakshi, who is known for the hit films like Rowdy Rathore and Dabangg, opened up during the music launch of her film upcoming movie

‘USUALLY I CAN PICTURE OTHER ACTRESSES WHEN I AM BEING NARRATED THE SCRIPT. HERE I COULD ONLY PICTURE MYSELF. I FELT THAT THE ROLE WAS WRITTEN FOR ME.’ Lootera.

“I am far from perfect. I regard perfect as boring.”

Lootera directed by Vikramaditya Motwane, stars Sonakshi and Ranveer Kapoor.

“Vikramaditya Motwane has done a fantastic job of directing the film and has brought out the best in me,” she

said.

The actress also added that when she was narrated the script, she could not picture anyone else but herself in the role.

“Usually I can picture other actresses when I am being narrated the script. Here I could only picture myself. I felt that the role was written for me. I knew from the start that this would be the most challenging film for me,” she said.

When asked how she prepared for the role in the movie, the actress said that she never really prepares for her characters.

“I don’t really prepare for my roles. I can’t act unless I am in front of the camera. My character goes through a lot of ups and downs in the movie and my best preparation was to talk to my director and understand the character better,” she said.

Sonakshi also added that director Vikramaditya Motwane was the best director she has worked with till IANS date.

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Ghanchakkar will be game changer

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ctor Emraan Hashmi believes his forthcoming quirky comedy Ghanchakkar is a “unique” project in his filmography, and says it will emerge as a “game changer” for the industry.

He is confident that the audience will be entertained with the movie to the “hilt”. Slated for release on June 28, the film also stars Vidya Balan.

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ctress Paoli Dam will be seen as a lawyer for the first time in the forthcoming medical thriller Ankur Arora Murder Case and says the role was challenging.

“It was very challenging (to play lawyer) and it’s the first time I was playing a lawyer,” Paoli said.

She had to learn medical terms and jargon for the role.

“There were many words, typical medical terms that I had to mug up.

Moreover, I also had to learn the body language of a lawyer.

The entire experience was both nice and challenging,” she said.

Written and produced by Vikram Bhatt, Ankur Arora Murder Case exposes and

I had to work

“This film I believe is very unique as far as my films go. I think it will be a huge game changer,” Emraan said.

“This movie is going to be very different from other comedies and it will change the way we see comedies... Ghanchakkar is going to entertain you to the hilt,” added the actor, once stereotyped as “Bollywood’s serial kisser” He promises the audience will be “rolling on the floor laughing” while watching it.

Emraan plays a Maharashtrian in the movie, while Vidya plays his loud Punjabi housewife. IANS

on my character in Lootera:

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ollywood actor Ranveer Singh said that slipping into his character in Lootera wasn’t easy for him.

“I took quite a bit of time to get into the character. It was frustrating in the beginning and on the fourth day I told Vikram that I was not the right choice. But Vikram worked with me through it and made me discover a new side to myself,” Ranveer said.

The actor, who has been seen in films like Band Baaja Baaraat and Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl, will next be seen in Lootera, directed

by Vikramaditya Motwane.

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stars Ranveer Singh opposite Sonakshi Sinha.

Motwane said: “It was a tough task but they were fantastic and easy to work with. Once I narrate the story I don’t interfere with actors’ performances and let them be.”

Music director Amit Trivedi who has done a fabulous job with the music of the film said it was it was the director and the script which drove him.

“It is the director and the script which drives me.

Vikram always manages to churn out the best out of me,” Amit said.

The period romance hits the screens on July 5.

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addresses the fatal flaws in the medical profession. The movie boasts of an interesting cast including Kay Kay Menon, Tisca Chopra and Arjun Mathur.

Directed by Suhail Tatari, Ankur Arora Murder Case is slated to release on June 14.

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‘I ALMOST GAVE UP acting after Harry Potter fame’

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The Harry Potter actress admitted to Total Film magazine that she took a much-needed break after the films’ massive success to gain a little perspective and balance. “I basically took two years out and stepped as far away from it as I could — I mean the Harry Potter films were still coming out but I took time to really try and figure out who I was and what I wanted to do,” she explained, as excerpted by Huffington Post U.K. “I even considered not being an actress.” Watson, who stars in the upcoming flick The Bling Ring, admitted to the mag that it was somewhat of a challenge to step into her new role, despite having a few key similarities with the character. “I think anyone can relate to those teenage years when you’re feeling pressured by what your friends are doing, feeling very image conscious, wanting to fit in,” she said.

“What I couldn’t really identify with was that I’m quite a private person and Nicki’s an exhibitionist — she absolutely loves attention and wants to be seen.

So she’s really the opposite from me from that perspective.”

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ctress Scarlett Johansson has filed a lawsuit against French publisher JC Lattes. The suit is based on a novel, The First Things We Look At, in which a character is described as looking almost exactly like the real Johansson.

In the lawsuit, the actress seeks compensation and damages due to a “breach and fraudulent use of personal rights” (as reported by The Hollywood Reporter). If the suit is successful, JC Lattes would not be able to make any adaptations of the book as well.

The First Things We Look At, written by Gregoire Delacourt, tells the story of a

woman who appears at a mechanic’s door looking for help. Although the mechanic’s first thought is that the woman resembles Scarlett Johansson, she is later revealed to be named Jeanine Foucaprez. The novel has been a best-seller in France since its March release.

Delacourt made a statement to the French newspaper, Le Figaro, in which he expressed shock at the lawsuit. “This [use of famous names] corresponds with the fantasies of our times. All these famous people live with us,” he said. “But I wrote a book of fiction. My character is not Scarlett Johansson. It is Jeanine Foucaprez!”

James McAvoy does many disgusting things in Filthy trailer

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ames McAvoy’s latest film is aptly named. In the international trailer for Filth, based on the novel by Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh, the usually adorable Scottish actor is a notthat-hot mess as Bruce Robertson, a detective who’s more punk than peace officer.

For the course of two minutes and 20 seconds, McAvoy smokes, drinks, does and deals drugs, throws up, gets slapped, masturbates, makes a photocopy of his junk, has rough sex with multiple people, unzips his fly in front of a very young woman, and otherwise offers up his best Bad Lieutenant impression.

No wonder he cries, too.

“There’s something seriously wrong with me,” Bruce laments.

There are also sing-alongs,

hallucinatory down-the-rabbithole-type sequences and Jim Broadbent as a creepy pill-pusher.

And, we’re guessing, a fair amount of nudity. Jamie Bell, Eddie Marsan (who quite literally gets egg on his face at one point) and Imogen Poots are also along for the wild ride.

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SUNDAY CROSSWORD

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1 Cabinet dept 5 Reef 10 Place of business 16 Exploded 21 Candle lover 22 Boy Scout rank 23 — collision (hyph) 24 Violin maker 25 ‘Gotcha!’ (2 wds) 26 Ringlet 27 Skillful 28 A singing Jackson 29 Witty comeback 31 Hull sealant 33 Pack animal 35 Noncom 36 Limericks and haiku 37 Withered 40 Family mem 41 Heavy gold chain 42 Michael Jackson album 45 Half a couple 46 Utmost degree 48 NBA coach — Unseld 50 Worked hard 52 Maxims 54 Pier 55 Varnish resins 57 Merry’s opposite 58 Type of surgeon 59 Fawn’s father 60 Sugar serving 62 Beneficiaries 66 Goya’s duchess 67 Padded envelope 69 Suffused 71 Type of mitt 72 Lack of energy 74 4-wheel drive ftr 76 Finished off (2 wds) 78 — Ray Hutton 79 Ducks’ haunt 80 Irreverent 83 Pupil, maybe 85 Weighed down 88 Green around the — 89 Home to Swiss banks 90 Rounding up 93 Kitchen herb 95 Noshery 97 Improve, as wine 98 ‘A means to — —’ 100 On Soc Sec 101 Gauzy-winged insect 106 Express relief 108 Skips a syllable 110 Gazing at 112 Latin hymn word 113 Test, as ore 115 Black & Decker rival 116 Ribs, to Cato 117 Knowing looks 118 Runway hazard 120 Write on glass 122 Big Board letters 123 Dog 124 Carriage 128 Edible root 129 ‘Burnt — — crisp’ 130 — fly (baseball play) 131 Stag attendees 132 WWW addresses 133 Pub pint 135 Pulls a heist 137 Mr Goldfinger

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STAR POWER Date 10-6-2013

As per Hindu panchang

THIRUVAIKUMAR

thiruvaikumar@yahoo. co. in 040-27177230 / 9949870449

TAURUS

GEMINI

Businessmen will introduce new products successfully. Transfer and promotion on the cards for employees. Selfemployed businessmen get the financial assistance they have applied for.

Great opportunities await artists. Software professionals face trouble for a short time. Businessmen likely to face a dull trend and their partners will try to take advantage of the situation.

When opportunities knock your door, make good use of them. Good turning point likely, bringing cheer. Employees can be sure of getting recognition and reward for their hard work.

CANCER

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VIRGO

Cold war and ego clashes between couples ends. Misunderstanding with relatives ends. A major portion of old debts gets cleared letting you relax.

Housing loan gets sanctioned.

Health problem likely. Debts might resurface; handle them calmly. Transfer and promotion on cards for employees.

Family members will be very cheerful charging the atmosphere positively.

Bad effects disappear. Employees feel comfortable at workplace. Women take care of family problems wisely. Those planning to start their own business advised to proceed without any partner.

LIBRA

SCORPIO

SAGITTARIUS

Blood relatives extend support. Plans hit a roadblock but you manage wisely.

Employees focus well, complete all work with perfection and in time to earn appreciation from superiors.

Employees get appreciation. A strong financial position likely. Mother’s health will be a cause for concern. Govt officials, contractors and VIPs benefit.

Couples will be more affectionate.

Children achieve in a big way to cheer you. You are likely to purchase immovable assets. Problems in ancestral property end. Debts get cleared.

Good events to take place at home.

CAPRICORN

AQUARIUS

PISCES

You take bold decisions that yield good results. Some might be forced to sell ancestral property. Issues with partners upset businessmen. Sudden trips solve problems. Avoid speculative deals.

Avoid being alone so as not to get depressed. Hurried decisions cause losses; exercise caution. Spouse’s encouragement works wonders. Influx of visitors cheers your family members.

A fun trip with family is likely. Understand characters of people before befriending them. Court verdict will go in your favour. Income is expected from multiple channels.

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ARIES

TAURUS

GEMINI

The Hermit – You are likely to meet a gorgeous person, who will change the way you think and make you look at life in a very different way.

Three of Wands – Be willing to throw an extravagant party to celebrate success. It is important to celebrate happiness and success as it is to feel bad when you’re low.

The Tower – Someone is getting on your nerves. Her/his behaviour and actions are repulsive and you want to tell them that. Say it in the nicest way.

CANCER

LEO

VIRGO

Five of Cups – You and your significant other make promises to live with each other for eternity. It is cute, but also make plans for when things don’t work.

The Magician – Beneath a tough exterior you do have a very soft and lovable heart. Allow this to come to the fore every now and then.

Do things for others.

Six of Cups – Pay attention to the essentials and do what’s needed on a daily basis so that you don’t waste time with the planning and transition.

LIBRA

SCORPIO

SAGITTARIUS

Knight of Swords – Someone will tell you a secret and trust you to keep it. Don’t be tempted to whisper this out. This may be a test of your loyalty.

King of Cups – Live in the moment. You tend to end up thinking of the past, regretting past actions, or of the future, worrying about what’s going to happen.

Eight of Cups – You are becoming busy at work and this will take a toll on your health. Meditate regularly or spend time every day exercising to maintain balance.

CAPRICORN

AQUARIUS

PISCES

Page of Pentacles – Your intuition is heightened and you feel great about your current status on the emotional plane. You may even counsel others.

Eight of Swords – You are looking out frantically for a job.

You are reaching the end of your patience and it is now worrying you a great deal.

Queen of Pentacles – You will have to deal with some rather delicate situations. Be diplomatic at all times and do only that which will make you feel content.

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The fun corner Thoughts to ponder over

Laws of the Natural Universe

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Law of Dirty Rugs/Carpets: The chances of an open-faced jelly sandwich landing face down on a floor covering are directly correlated to the cleanliness (newness) and cost of the carpet/rug.

Wilson's Law: As soon as you find a product that you really like, they will stop making it.

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CINEMA SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2013

James Franco in love with Emilia Clarke?

Halle Berry doesn’t follow

fashion trends O

scar winner Halle Berry says she doesn’t follow fashion trends and wears only those clothes which she feels complement her skin tone and body shape.

“I don’t follow fashion or beauty trends, I just stick to products and colours that work for me and suit my skin tone,” femalefirst.co.uk quoted Berry as saying.

The Cloud Atlas star, who is also a diabetic, makes sure she eats a healthy diet.

“Because I’m diabetic, I don’t just start eating healthily and working out before I start filming a movie or attend a red carpet event, I live like that. It’s a way of life and it’s really important that I stay fit and eat healthily all of the time.”

IANS

Taylor Swift in search of inspiration

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inger Taylor Swift, who is known for getting inspired by her breakups for writing her own songs, believes a “new inspiration” is needed for her new work.

Swift is beginning the creative process of her new

album, according to USA Today newspaper.

“It’s starting,” said Swift, reports entertainmentwise.com.

“All the anxiety is starting. When the anxiety starts, the writing happens right after, usually,” she added.

Swift has started penning songs for next album, but it may take some time before they are ready for release. She wants her work to be different everytime.

“Whatever I write in the first year is going to get thrown away. I’m going to like it, but it’s going to sound like the last record.

The second year usually sounds like the next project,” said the 23-year-old.

“I think you need to change up your influences.

I think you need to be inspired by different things than you were inspired by before,” she added. IANS

A

ctor-director James Franco is reportedly in love with actress Emilia Clarke. “James is in love. He says Emilia is the most amazing woman he’s ever met,” femalefirst.co.uk quoted a source as saying.

The duo was spotted at an art fair in New York last month, where Franco couldn’t keep his hands off the 26-year-old actress.

“James and Emilia were holding hands. He kept kissing and hugging her. It was as if they’d known each other for years,” the source added.

The 35-year-old split from his long-term girlfriend Ahna O’Reilly in 2011 after dating her for five years.

Franco said: “That relationship lasted about four or five years. We’d been living together in Los Angeles then I came to New York to go to school for two years. Then I signed up for more school at Yale. I think that was it for her.”

The actor also confessed how he didn’t have much luck with girls when he was growing up because he was so shy.

“I think girls liked me, but I was awkward, shy and emotionally immature, so I didn’t have a ton of girlfriends. I had shortterm relationships and always got dumped, I think because I was too slow for them,” he added.

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SPORTS SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2013

Stevenson stuns Dawson

Helio seizes points lead

Blake returns with 200m win

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donis Stevenson stopped Chad Dawson with a single, swinging left-handed punch at 1:16 of the first round on Saturday to capture Dawson's World Boxing Council light heavyweight world title. Stevenson underscored his reputation as a knockout artist as he improved to 21-1 with 19 wins inside the distance."You understand why people don't want to fight me now?" a beaming Stevenson said as he clutched his championship belt.

razil's Helio Castroneves won the IndyCar Firestone 550 on Saturday night, taking his fourth career victory at Texas Motor Speedway to seize sole possession of the season points lead. Castroneves dominated most of the race over 228 laps around the 1.455-mile in his first victory on an oval course since 2010 at Japan's Twin Ring Motegi. Castroneves leaped from his car and climbed the safety fence along the edge of the track after the victory.

Pressel seizes two-shot lead

Morgan Pressel hits her tee shot on the fourth hole during the weather-delayed second round of the Wegmans LPGA Championship at Locust Hill Country Club, New York on Saturday.

AFP/SCOTT HALLERAN

PITTSFORD: Morgan Pressel fired four birdies in a two-under 70 on Saturday to take a twostroke lead over world number one Park In-Bee and Chella Choi after two rounds of the LPGA Championship.

Pressel had a 36-hole total of six-under 138 at soggy Locust Hill Country Club.

Park climbed up the leaderboard with a fourunder 68 for 140, while

overnight leader Choi carded a one-over 73.

The leaders face a demanding day on Sunday, with both the third and fourth rounds scheduled after rain washed out play on Thursday in the second women's major of the year.

Rain has continued over the last two days, leaving the course soft and in many places muddy.

Wet weather didn't faze Pressel, who birdied three of her first six holes.

"I got off to a good start, had a birdie opportunity on 10, but didn't go in and then made one on 11," she said.

"I started to hit my driver a little bit to the right, but made great par saves on 12 and 13, and then two great birdies on 14 and 15 to get me off to a really good and comfortable start."

After bogeys at 16 and 18, Pressel played a steady second nine that included a birdie at the par-five eighth.

She said she was gearing up for a tough test on Sunday.

"The question will be just how committed I can be to every shot because when you get tired your mind starts to wander," she said.

Park, whose Kraft Nabisco victory in April was her second major title after the 2008 US Women's Open, had five birdies and just one bogey.

"I hit the ball great today," she said. "I only missed, like, two fairways and three greens and it wasn't really in the long stuff today. So that was a AFP big help.

Vettel confident of first Canadian win MONTREAL: Sebastian Vettel (in pic) said that he is not worried about the conditions or the weather forecasts for Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix after claiming his third consecutive pole position for the race at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on Saturday.

The defending triple world champion and current series leader said he felt confident about his Red Bull car and performance in both dry and wet conditions.

The German, who has grabbed three straight poles in Canada, will be aiming to win on the tricky track on the Ile Notre Dame in the Saint Lawrence Seaway for the first time. Neither he nor Red Bull have won AFP in Canada.

eigning 100m world champion Yohan Blake made a cautious but successful return to competition on Saturday, winning a 200m race at a low-key all-comers meet, held at the national stadium. Blake, was in control of the race, leading off the bend to clock a relatively slow 20.72 seconds. He beat hard-charging Delano Williams (20.74) by a hair, in Blake's first race since he pulled up in the 100m at the UTech Classic on the same track on April 13th.

Ranjit advances to round three HYDERBAD: MN Ranjit of APBSA defeated Shrikanth Reddy from Hyderabad 3-2 in the round two of the snooker competition during the state ranking billiards and snooker tournament held here on Saturday.

Results: MN Ranjit (APBSA) bt Shrikanth Reddy(Hyd) (3-2); Kiran Kumar (Hyd) bt DSC Rahul(LVR, Guntur) (3-1); 2. Hemanth Singh Thakur (Hyd) Vs Susheel (Hyd) (3-2); Sridhar (Hyd) bt Ashuthosh (APBSA) (3-0); D Arvind Kumar (Hyd) bt Bala Krishna (Hyd) (3-0); Shiva Sharma (Hyd) bt Tarun Gupta (Hyd) (3-1); James Sunder Raj (Hyd) bt Sudarshan Reddy (Hyd) (3-0); Rishi Das (Hyd) lost to Vittal Rathore (APBSA) (2-3); Swami (Kakinada) lost to Sai (Hyd) (1-3); Rahul (Hyd) lost to Girish (LAK, Guntur) (2-3); Kaleel Pasha (Hyd) bt Ramkanth (LVR, Guntur) (3-1); Pavan

MN Ranjit (APBSA) seen in action during his second round snooker match against Shrikanth Reddy held in the City on Saturday.

Kumar (Warangal) bt Sujeet (LVR, Guntur) (3-0); K Srinivas (APBSA) bt Krishna Kanth (Hyd) (3-0).

U-16 cricket coaching camp A

cricket coaching camp for U16 women players will be held by the Hyderabad Cricket Association from June 10 at the HCA Gymkhana Grounds,

Secunderabad at 4pm. The interested players should report to coaches Savita Nirala and Nooshin Al Khadeer at the mentioned venue on June 10 at 4pm.

AP lose to Maharashtra NEW DELHI: Andhra Pradesh lost to Maharashtra 1-2 in the boys category of the U-14 AITA Inter State Nationals for Boys and Girls held at R.K.Khanna Tennis Stadium here on Saturday.

Results: Boys AP lost to Maharashtra 1-2 Srivatsa Ratakonda lost to Siddanth Banthia 5-4(9), 1-4, 8-10; Sivadeep Kosaraju bt Dhruv Sunish 42, 1-4, 10-6; Sivadeep Kosaraju/A.K.Rohit lost to Siddanth Banthia/Dhruv Sunish 4-2, 4-0.

AK Rohit, DRC Kiron (non-playing captain/ coach), Sivadeep Kosaraju and Ratakonda Srivatsa with their silver medals and runners-up trophy in New Delhi on Saturday.

Six players forge ahead HYDERABAD: Six players K Sai Srikar, S Meghana, M Shourya, V Chandramouli, P Nilesh and Vipul Saigal were in lead with three points each from three rounds in the juniors category of the 85th Brilliant Trophy Chess Tournament held at the Brilliant Grammar High School on Saturday.

In the open category D Pradeep, Deepthamsh Reddy, MY Raju, Subbaraju, Kandi Ravi, Rohithkumar, Nagashashank were leading with two points from two.

Selected Results: Juniors

(Round-3) R. Jayanth (2.5) drew with Koushal Kumar Reddy (2.5), R Priya (2) lost to K Sai Srikar (3), S Meghana (3) bt M Koushik (2), V Chandramouli (3) bt P Aasrith Ram (2), V Vivek (2) lost to P Nilesh (3), Vipul Saigal (3) bt P Venkata Kalian (2), Open category (Round-2) D Pradeep (2) bt J Subrahmanyam (1), Deepthamsh Reddy (2) bt J. Anili (1), G Dheeraj (1) lost to MY Raju (2), Subbaraju (2) bt J Saikiran (1) Gopalakrishna (1) lost to Kandi Ravi (2).

SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2013

England draw first blood Julian GUYER

Australia fined for slow over-rate

BIRMINGHAM: Ian Bell starred as England drew first blood in a marathon sequence of matches against Australia with a 48-run victory over the title-holders in their Champions Trophy opener at Edgbaston on Saturday.

Bell made 91 on his Warwickshire home ground, to the delight of a capacity 25,000 crowd, as England posted 269 for six after captain Alastair Cook won the toss.

Bell also shared a secondwicket stand of 111 with county colleague Jonathan Trott (43) in the first of at least 26 matches, including the upcoming Ashes series in England, across all formats against arch-rivals Australia between now and February 2.

Australia pegged England back before an unbroken seventh-wicket stand of 56 between Ravi Bopara (46 not out) and Tim Bresnan (19 not out) bolstered England’s total.

However, a target of 270 proved beyond an Australia side still without captain Michael Clarke, following the recurrence of the star batsman’s longstanding back injury.

During Australia’s 221 for

Score Board ENGLAND V AUSTRALIA England innings AN Cook c †Wade b Watson 30 IR Bell b Faulkner 91 IJL Trott c †Wade b Starc 43 JE Root c Bailey b McKay 12 EJG Morgan b McKay 8 RS Bopara not out 46 JC Buttler b Faulkner 1 TT Bresnan not out 19 Extras (lb 12, w 6, nb 1) 19 Total (6 wickets; 50 overs) 269 Bowling: O M R W Econ MA Starc 10 0 75 1 7.50 MG Johnson 8 0 44 0 5.50 CJ McKay 10 0 38 2 3.80 SR Watson 7 0 26 1 3.71 JP Faulkner 10 0 48 2 4.80 AC Voges 3 0 13 0 4.33 MR Marsh 2 0 13 0 6.50 Australia innings DA Warner c †Buttler b Broad 9 SR Watson c Cook b Bresnan 24 PJ Hughes lbw b Root 30 GJ Bailey c Root b Tredwell 55 AC Voges b Bresnan 15 MR Marsh c Morgan b Anderson 5 MS Wade c Buttler b Anderson 1 JP Faulkner not out 54 MG Johnson c Morgan b Bopara 8 MA Starc b Anderson 5 CJ McKay not out 7 Extras (lb 6, w 1, nb 1) 8 Total (9 wickets; 50 overs) 221 Bowling: O M R W Econ JM Anderson 10 0 30 3 3.00 SCJ Broad 10 2 35 1 3.50 TT Bresnan 10 1 45 2 4.50 JC Tredwell 10 1 51 1 5.10 JE Root 5 0 20 1 4.00 RS Bopara 5 0 34 1 6.80

England won by 48 runs

England’s Joe Root (C) celebrates after claiming the wicket of Australia’s Phil Hughes during their 2013 ICC Champions Trophy match at Edgbaston in Birmingham, central England on Saturday. England beat Australia by 48 runs in their Champions Trophy Group A opener.

AFP/ANDREW YATES nine, spearhead seamer James Anderson (three for 30) became England’s outright most successful one-day international (ODI) bowler, taking the one wicket he needed to surpass the record of 234 wickets he’d shared with Darren Gough.

Australia stand-in skipper George Bailey made 55 as they at least put the embarrassment of their 65 all out in Tuesday’s warm-up defeat by India behind them.

However, this loss left Australia — bidding for a third straight Champions Trophy title — with a mountain to climb if they were to qualify for the semifinals out of a Group A also featuring New Zealand and Sri Lanka, who meet in Cardiff on Sunday.

“We were 180-2, we should have got 300...But I thought 270 was always going to be enough,” said Cook, whose side came into this match on he back of a 2-1 ODI series defeat by New Zealand, although they beat the Black Caps in Nottingham on Wednesday.

“Jimmy (Anderson) is a great bowler, he just keeps getting better and better and we are lucky to have him,” Cook said.

Man-of-the-match Bell, an opener in this format, added: “I was pleased to give us a good platform. It’s nice to play some shots at the top of the order.”

Meanwhile Bailey said Australia’s batting had been the key to this loss.

“We couldn’t get any momentum and well done to England —

they restricted us well,” Bailey said.

“The scoreline flattered us a little. It doesn’t look great for us, but it’s just one partnership scoring runs which will make the difference.”

Australia’s reply suffered an early setback when David Warner (nine) was well caught by diving wicket-keeper Jos Buttler off Stuart Broad.

Shane Watson (24) fell next, caught by Cook at gully off Tim Bresnan.

Phillip Hughes was missed twice by England but couldn’t make them pay, exiting for 30 when lbw to part-time spinner Joe Root after heaving across the line.

Mitchell Marsh became Anderson’s record-breaking victim, caught at backward point by Eoin Morgan.

Anderson then made it two wickets for two runs in six balls when Matthew Wade was caught behind.

Bailey pressed on to a 62ball fifty but when he holed out off spinner James Tredwell, Australia were all but beaten at 151 for seven.

James Faulkner finished on 54 not out but his runs came too late to change the course of the match.

Earlier, there was a flare-up England’s Ian Bell bats during the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy cricket match against Australia at Edgbaston in Birmingham on Saturday.

AFP/ANDREW YATES

BIRMINGHAM: Australia had salt rubbed into the wound of their 48-run Champions Trophy defeat by arch-rivals England at Edgbaston on Saturday when they were fined for a slow over-rate.

Match referee Javagal Srinath, the former India bowler, imposed the fines after title-holders Australia were found to be one over short of their target when time allowances were taken into consideration.

In accordance with the International Cricket Council’s code of conduct, Australia’s players were fined 10 percent of their match fee with George Bailey, captain in the absence of the injured Michael Clarke, fined 20 percent in his role as skipper.

The penalty went unchallenged by Australia, so there was no need for a disciplinary hearing.

Saturday’s match was the first in a Group A completed by New Zealand and Sri Lanka, who meet in Cardiff on Sunday.

The top two sides from both pools advance into the semi-finals of this tournament for the world’s leading eight one-day international teams.

India and West Indies have set the pace in Group B after wins over South Africa and Pakistan respectively.

The final is due to take place at Edgbaston on June 23.

AFP when Australia wicket-keeper Wade thought Trott had impeded him as he tried to gather a wayward return.

Sri Lankan umpire Kumar Dharmasena intervened to calm the situation.

Bell had made just three hundreds in his previous 130 ODIs. And the 31-year-old was denied a fourth when bowled by left-arm paceman Faulkner.

In Group B, India have already beaten South Africa and West Indies have defeated Pakistan.

The top two teams from each group will go through to the semi-finals, with the final at AFP Edgbaston on June 23.

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‘Can’t afford another bad game’ LONDON: After being beaten hands down by India in the opening game of the Champions Trophy, South Africa coach Gary Kirsten is hoping for reversal of trend as they take on Pakistan in a must-win game in Birmingham on Monday.

Both Pakistan and South Africa have lost their first group B ICC Champions Trophy fixtures.

With one eye on Dale Steyn’s fitness, South Africa coach Gary Kirsten feels that the loss against India could turn out to actually be a good omen for the Proteas.

“Generally, what we do is play very well and then lose, so maybe it’s not a bad thing that we haven’t fired yet. I like to think of that as a bit of an omen,” Kirsten had told reporters in Birmingham on Saturday.

“But the problem with this competition is that we can’t have another bad game because then we’re out of the competition,” he added.

South Africa lost their first game to India by 26 runs in Cardiff and the 1998 Champions Trophy winners cannot afford to drop more points.

Kirsten is still upbeat despite the fact that Dale Steyn is still not sure to play.

“I’ve been with this team for two years. Morne has been injured once and Dale has never been injured. Now it’s come together. That’s a curveball,” South Africa’s coach had said at the team’s training session at

Edgbaston.

The update on Steyn is only marginally better.

Last Monday, the world’s numero uno fast bowler was injured during a warm-up match against Pakistan at the Oval

after bowling just five overs.

Pakistan won the game by five wickets.

“Dale is a work in progress as far as recovery is concerned.

We can only get him to start bowling once he is symptom-

free,” Mohammed Moosajee, South Africa’s team manager and doctor, explained.

“It’s a challenge, because if we allow him to bowl and the injury is aggravated, we will be back to square one. The physiotherapist is working hard on him and taking it day by day. It’s a wait and see thing,” Moosajee said.

Newcomer Chris Morris is almost certain to make his one day international debut against Pakistan.

Morris replaced fast bowler Morne Morkel, who was forced to return home after he suffered a groin injury during the match against India in Cardiff on Thursday.

With Morris certain to make his debut, Kirsten is banking on his pacers to fight against Pakistan, who lost to the West Indies in their first match of the tournament at The Oval on Friday.

“We want to have five fast bowlers that we can pick at any point. I don’t see our fast bowlers as one being better than the other,” he said.

“We don’t have much time.

We’ve got to play well from here on in. So we have to play well and not half-well,” the coach went on to add.

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Bailey tells team to trust their game BIRMINGHAM: Stand-in captain George Bailey urged Australia to remain true to themselves despite a defeat by England that dented their hopes of retaining the Champions Trophy.

In what could be the first of 26 Anglo-Australian clashes across all formats between now and February 2, England beat their arch-rivals by 48 runs to win Saturday’s Group A opener at Edgbaston.

Australia, still without injured captain Michael Clarke due to a recurrence of the star batsman’s longstanding back problem, were set 270 to win after England’s Ian Bell made 91 on his Warwickshire home ground.

But their batsmen struggled against disciplined bowling led by James Anderson (three for 30), who in the course of the innings became England’s outright most successful one-day international bowler, surpassing the record of 234 wickets he’d shared with Darren Gough.

Openers David Warner (nine) and Shane Watson (24) both fell cheaply, to seamers Stuart Broad and Tim Bresnan

Australia’s Adam Voges leaves the field (R) as George Bailey (L) reacts after Voges was bowled out by England’s Tim Bresnan on Saturday. AFP respectively.

And for all that Bailey and James Faulkner made fifties, Australia were rarely in the hunt before finishing on 221 for nine.

Bailey though urged his openers not to curb their attacking instincts.

“The one thing I don’t want

to see and the one thing we’re certainly pushing for is for guys not to change the way they play,” Bailey said.

“I want to see David Warner going after balls. I want to see him crashing the ball everywhere. I want to see Watto doing the same thing.

And that is the way we’ve got

to keep playing.

“That’s why we’ve picked guys, and that is the challenge, while all that other stuff is going on around you, to make sure that you stick to your own game plan and to find a way to make it work,” Bailey, added.

Bailey, Australia’s Twenty20 captain, said they knew what was coming from England’s seam attack — they just weren’t able to do much about it on Saturday.

“There was nothing that they bowled today that we weren’t expecting. They just executed very, very well.”

While Australia’s seamers rarely got the ball off straight, it didn’t take long for England’s pacemen to utilise reverse-swing.

“It was good skill that,” admitted Bailey. “Once they started reversing, they could hit a good length throughout the entire innings.”

Meanwhile there were few crumbs of comfort for Australia fans hoping for Clarke’s return in time for Australia’s next match against New Zealand, who first play Sri Lanka in Cardiff on Sunday.

Champions Trophy points table Group A P W L T NRPt England Kiwis Sri Lanka Australia

1 0 0 1

1 0 0 0

1 1 1 1

1 1 0 0

0 0 0 1

0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0

NRR

2 +0.96 0 0 0 0 0 -0.96

Group B W Indies India S Africa Pakistan

0 0 1 1

0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0

2 2 0 0

+0.830 +0.520 -0.520 -0.830

“I know he’s desperate to get back,” said Bailey. “But chatting to him yesterday (Friday) he felt like progress has been pretty slow.

“I know all the talk is ‘save yourself for the Ashes’, but every time I talk to him he’s desperate to get out here, get some training under his belt and then play.”

As to whether Ashes-holders England had laid down a ‘marker’ ahead of next month’s first Test in Nottingham, Bailey said it was too soon to tell.

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Serena reigns supreme Serena won her second Paris title defeating Sharapova 6-4, 6-4 in the final.

PARIS: Serena Williams won her second French Open title on Saturday, 11 years after her first triumph, defeating title-holder Maria Sharapova 6-4, 6-4 in a brief, but high-quality final.

It was her 16th Grand Slam title win, taking her to within two of Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova who are tied for fourth on the all-time list.

And it underscored her near total domination of the women’s game, having won three of the last four Grand Slam titles — at Wimbledon, the US and French Opens — and reaching the quarter-finals at the Australian Open.

For Sharapova it was a 10th straight loss to her American nemesis dating back to 2004 when she defeated her in the Wimbledon final and the WTA Championships.

“It was very difficult today.

After 11 years (since last win) and now I have 16 (Grand Slam titles),” said Williams, addressing the crowd in French. “But I want to come back next year because I adore Paris and I adore the public here. I want to win here again. I spend a lot of time here (In Paris) ... and I think I am becoming a Parisienne.”

Sharapova said: “I played a great tournament, but ran into a really tough opponent today. She has been playing so well this year and the whole of last year as well.

“But this court has brought me so many nice memories. Last year was so incredible to win and to be back as one of the last two players was great.”

In what was the first French Open women’s final involving the two top seeds since 1995, the two biggest names and biggest earners in women’s sport were pitted against each other for the 16th time, the third in a Grand Slam final.

Williams was the strong favourite, having won 13 times

US tennis player Serena Williams poses with the Suzanne Lenglen trophy near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Saturday. Serena Williams won her second French Open title 11 years after her first triumph. AFP/KENZO TRIBOUILLARD

Misery of 2012 drove Williams to Paris triumph PARIS: Serena Williams admitted that her first round humiliation at the 2012 French Open helped inspire her to victory in Saturday’s final, her second Paris title coming 11 years after her first. The 31-year-old became the oldest women’s winner at Roland Garros in the Open era with her 6-4, 6-4 victory over Maria Sharapova. It gave her

a 16th Grand Slam singles title and took her record to 74 wins in 77 matches since she suffered her worst loss at a major 12 months ago when Virginie Razzano dumped her out of the first round in Paris.

Since then she has captured the Wimbledon, Olympics and US Open titles while adding Saturday’s French Open to her trophies.

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for two defeats against the Russian and stormed into the final for the loss of just one set, taking her career-best winning streak to 31.

Sharapova though was on a 13-match win run at Roland Garros, having finally come to terms with the demands of claycourt tennis last year when she defeated Sara Errani in the final.

Williams opened up with a sequence of brutal service returns that had Sharapova scampering from side to side and within minutes 0-40 down.

But the tall Russian served her way out of trouble and then showed her aggressive intentions by breaking Williams in the next game. Sharapova had two points for a 3-0 lead, but Williams started to find her range again to break back and was soon on level terms at 2-2.

She broke again to lead 3-2 and suddenly she looked in command of a match that had started so brightly for Sharapova.

The crowd tried to lift the title-holder, who was seeking her fifth Grand Slam title and second at Roland Garros, and she did manage to get back on level terms briefly at 4-4 with Williams bothered by the gusting wind. But the American produced her best tennis of the match in the next game with some big hits down both flanks and then held serve to take the first set in 51 minutes.

The task on hand for Sharapova was huge, illustrated by the fact that in Grand Slam tennis, after taking a one set to love lead 208 times, the American had failed to complete the job just five times.

Sharapova saved five break points to start the second set, but two games later she struggled again on serve and this time Williams converted her first break point to put herself AFP in the clear at 4-2.

No regrets for Maria Sharapova PARIS: Her French Open title ripped away from her, a fourth defeat in a Grand Slam final and a 13th straight loss to Serena Williams, but Maria Sharapova says she will leave Paris with no regrets.

That was the Russian’s mindset in the wake of her 6-4, 6-4 loss to the American in the final at Roland Garros on a day where she could have led 3-0 in the first set and battled her way back to 4-4 in the second, but in the end failed to grab her chances. Dwelling on what had happened was not something she would entertain, Sharapova said.

“I don’t have many regrets in life actually. I try not to have any at all,” she said. “You have to move forward. And it doesn’t matter how many times I have lost to a player or what situation I was in, whether I was up or down, how it ended or how it finished.

“You move on. Of course I thought I earned my position to be in the final. I did put up a fight obviously today against her. It was not enough. But she’s been playing really great tennis.

Certainly not an excuse, but she is playing extremely well.”

Sharapova started the match a clear underdog against a player who had run up a career-best 30 match win streak and who had been playing some of the finest tennis seen in the women’s game in years.

But after an early barrage from the American she was the first to nose ahead and had two break points on her own serve to lead 3-0 only to see the American win the next four games. AFP

Nadal plays down favourite tag PARIS: Rafael Nadal has played down his role as favourite for an historic eighth French Open title and expects David Ferrer to make the most of his maiden Grand Slam final appearance on Sunday.

Defending champion Nadal will become the first man to win the same major eight times if he beats compatriot Ferrer who has made his first Grand Slam final at the 42nd time of asking.

“I don’t feel favourite. I feel that I am finalist. I arrived to the final playing well. I improved a little bit

in every match during the tournament,” said Nadal.

Despite his modesty, the 27-year-old Nadal has everything stacked in his favour.

He has won 58 out of 59 matches at Roland Garros and boasts a 19-4 winning record over Ferrer. Sixteen of those wins have been on clay.

The 31-year-old Ferrer has won just one of their claycourt encounters and that was their first career meeting in 2004 when Nadal was just 16.

“David didn’t lose a set during the whole tourna-

A combination photo shows Spain’s Rafael Nadal (L) and compatriot David Ferrer in action during a 2013 French Open match at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris. Nadal, who won the Roland Garros crown in 2012 for the seventh time to pull clear of Bjorn Borg’s six titles, goes into his 17th AFP Grand Slam final seeking a 12th major overall.

ment, so he’s a player that brings you to the limit. He’s a player that if you are not playing perfect you will be in big, big trouble.”

Nadal has been the sensation of 2013, winning 42 of 44 matches and six titles since his return in February from a seven-month injury lay-off to rest his troublesome knees.

But he has spent six hours more on court than Ferrer in Paris and needed the best part of five hours to defeat world number one Novak Djokovic in an epic AFP semi-final.