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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2012 HYDERABAD

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BADMINTON PLAYERS CHARGED

OVER ‘THROWN’ MATCHES

Eight women badminton players at the Olympics were charged by the sport’s governing body with “not using one’s best efforts to win a match” after two fixtures ended in controversy.

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DEATH

The death toll on the Outer Ring Road continues to mount. Unfinished stretches and crime are ever-present. As the corporation finalises the tender for toll collection, we take stock of the problems plaguing the ORR.

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ASHLEY KEPT WAITRESSING Ashley Greene has revealed that she continued working as a waitress even after starring in Twilight. The actress, who plays vampire Alice Cullen, told Nylon that she initially held on to her job at an LA eatery.

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city events

MONGOLIAN FOOD FESTIVAL

Take a trip to Mongolia as you are introduced to their food and culture at Syn-Asian Bar and Grill, Taj Deccan. The food fest offers you the chance to sample a variety of Mongolian delicacies at its Mongolian food festival. It will be held from August 5 to 15, 7.30pm onwards.

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AROUND THE CITY YOUR GUIDE TO THE TWIN CITIES Kangan at Westin Mindspace, Madhapur is hosting a Kebab fest. Where: Kangan, Westin Mindspace, Madhapur When: Ongoing, 7pm-11pm (weekdays) 7pm-12pm (weekends) Contact: (040) 6767 6838

ART Embarking routes A group exhibition of various kinds of art by the final year students of MFA program 2012 from Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communications, University of Hyderabad and Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts University is being held. Where: Shrishti Art Gallery, Jubilee Hills, Rd No 15 When: Ongoing, 11am onwards Contact: (040) 2354 0023

Punjabi food festival Sample the essence of Punjab with a Punjabi Food Festival being held at Arena, Taj Deccan. This food festival is on from August 1 to 12. Where: Arena, Taj Deccan, Banjara Hills, Rd No 1 When: Ongoing, 7.30pm onwards Contact: (040) 6666 3939

The dancing coffee An exhibition titled Dancing Coffee by Koeli Mukherjee Ghose is being held at Truffles Cafe. The exhibition is on till August 4. Where: Trufﬂes Cafe, Jubilee Hills, Rd No 10 When: Ongoing, 11am onwards Contact: (040) 2355 0105

SHOWS

WAITING FOR A CATCH: A man and a young boy are seen fishing at a lake in Nanakramguda

Play competition SKITS- Keep it short, a 12 minute short play competition for college students, corporates, theatre groups will be held from August 3 to 5. Where: Nift Campus, Madhapur When: August 16 onwards 6.30pm onwards Contact: (040) 2323 1245

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Interactive workshops Oakridge International School launches Weekend Voyager. This is an exciting weekend activity. Where: Oakridge International School, Gachibowli and Bachupally When: Ongoing, 9am-12pm Contact: 1800-200-8171

Theatre festival The seventh edition of the multi-lingual theatre festival — Abhinaya National Theatre Festival will be held from August 16 to August 19. Where: Ravindra Bharathi, Saifabad When: August 16 onwards

Monsoon mania Ramoji Film City celebrates the onset of monsoon with eight weeks of funfilled activities and entertainment with magic of cinema starting from July 1 to August 31. The event offers fun activities for the entire family. .Where: Ramoji Film City,

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Jazz concert If you love Jazz then this is for you. Internationally renowned musicians Adrian D'Souza and Sharik Hasan will perform at Bhaskara Auditorium at the Birla Centre on Tuesday, August 7. Passes available at Goethe Zentrum and Alliance Francaise. Where: Bhaskara Auditorium, Birla Science Centre, Adarsh Nagar When: August 7, 7.30pm onwards

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Hayathnagar When: Ongoing, 9am onwards Contact: (040) 2341 2262 Soul cages A unique presentation of imagery and narrative told through Bharathanatyam is on August 4. Where: Bhaskara Auditorium, Birla Science Centre, Adarsh Nagar When: August 4, 7pm onwards Contact: (040)2324 1067

Parantha festival Haldi at Novotel Airport is hosting a parantha festival titled Parantha Overload. The parantha festival that will be on till August 15, promises to offer a variety of paranthas in both vegetarian and non-vegetarian combinations. Where: Novotel Airport, Shamshabad When: Ongoing, 6.30pm Contact: (040) 6625 0000

DINING Kebab fest This fest is something that will surely appeal to the kebab lovers in town.

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Smooth operators Tease Lounge at Vivanta by Taj presents Smooth Operators Night every Friday with DJ Mohit. Where: Vivanta by Taj, Begumpet When: Every Friday, 7.30pm onwards Contact: (040) 6725 2626

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City

DECISION ON T AFTER TALKING TO ALL PARTIES: PC

Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has said that a final decision on statehood for Telangana will be taken by the Centre only after obtaining views from all political parties in the State. He said that his ministry will implement the decision of the government.

CRIME

Cops, hubby snub HRC

Despite the Commission’s directive to file a report about the husband who made sex tapes of his wife without her knowledge, the police have failed to comply. DEEPAK DESHPANDE

Mohd SUBHAN mohd.s@postnoon.com

he ongoing shocking saga of a woman’s lonely fight against injustice got another jolt at the Human Rights Commission on Tuesday when the police did not submit the report as per the commission’s diktat. The outrageous incident in which her husband videotaped her in compromising positions and tried to blackmail her was reported by Postnoon on June 27. K Radha Ramani, 38, a divorcee was allegedly ensnared by one K Srinivas Yadav, who was married once but his wife had abandoned him

due to cruelty. He posed as a bachelor who wanted to marry Radha, who runs a cloth shop in Seringampally.

According to her complaint with HRC, she realised her husband’s reality when he tried to extract money from her by holding the tapes against her. He had no regular job and he kept his first marriage a secret. When she realised she was into a sticky marital trap, she tried to defend herself and began to refuse money whenever he demanded it. That is when he began to use the tapes to blackmail her. She tried to lodge a police complaint with the RC Puram police but they laughed it off saying it was a private matter. She then approached the HRC which took up the case and issued notice to police to file a report by July 31 which they did

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T not. The HRC will take it up today. Meanwhile, she moved out and returned to her parents. Recently, an attempt was made on her life and she was grievously hurt.

he South Zone police who visited the Burmese who have taken shelter in Balapur found that less than 100 of them have refugee cards while the rest remain illegal immigrants. A senior police officer who visited the camps after Postnoon reported the issue on July 30 said that an organisation, Cova, is working for getting them refugee status. There are more than 300 refugees in the City, unknown to the district administration.

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POWER

LAST YEAR... HERE GHMC’s demolition drive

Out of national grid, South, AP spared

fter 30 years, the GHMC demolished 61 illegal buildings at Ayyappa Society which were in various stages of construction. Hundreds who had bought ﬂats in the colony without being aware of its illegal status watched helplessly as their homes were demolished. The corporation was losing `15 crore a year in taxes on account of the society’s illegality.

AUGUST 1, 2011

Incomplete grid line works proved to be the saving grace for Andhra Pradesh when north India was plunged into darkness.

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The amount auto drivers in the City are demanding as minimum fare. They also asked that the per kilometer fare be increased to `11.

I have joined college just for the heck of getting a B.Com degree. My full concentration is on CA. I have to go to college for one month and to write final exams Nitesh Chandani, student See page 6

THINGS WE LEARNED TODAY

INKESHAF AHMED ahmed.m@postnoon.com

hen 22 states of the country, including Union territories, and over 60 crore people experienced dark hours due to northern, eastern and western Grid failure on Tuesday, Andhra Pradesh escaped the crisis. The State escaped the power system failure as it has not been integrated into the National Grid as yet. Whereas the other three grids — northern, eastern and western grids — have already been integrated with the national grid, the south remained out of it. Andhra Pradesh could not be integrated with the system due to the non-completion of

electricity supply lines. According to State electricity department officials, this process of installing electricity lines will be completed only by 2014.

Until then, the State can heave a sigh of relief as the State power utilities are immune to the National Grid collapse. Another reason cited for the

Parthasarathy’s jail term stayed T

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ir India’s Central Training Establishment began its second batch of Airbus A-320 type rating training course for external candidates in the City. Capt. RS Dhillon, general manager (Ops-Trg) and incharge of training, Air India CTE, inaugurated the course by lighting the lamp. The thirteen candidates being trained include a women. The duration of the course is between 22 and 36 weeks, depending on performance of the trainees.

Big plans may hinder small businesses. Sultan Bazaar residents and shopkeepers have vowed to ﬁght the passage of the metro rail, fearing that they might lose their businesses and their livelihood.

State being spared is that Andhra Pradesh is heavily dependent on thermal power, which is not overly dependent on the rainfall rate.

POLITICS

AI training starts

A grid is a system which consists of power production plants, substations and power transmission channels. The entire country is divided into ﬁve grids, viz. North, South, East, West and North-East Grids. These grids are monitored by State Load Dispatch Centers (SLDC). These SLDCs are present in every state. As per existing rules, every state must take steps to maintain the frequency of 50 Hertz at all times.

AVIATION

The column that teaches everyone something new about the way the City functions.

The City can’t see beyond engineering colleges. While engineering colleges are a dime a dozen in the City, Hyderabad lacks good commerce colleges. The only decent ones are only for girls, forcing boys to look outside the State for graduation.

How the grid system works

he chief metropolitan magistrate has stayed the jail sentence imposed on secondary education minister K Parthasarathy (right) by the Economic Offences Court. The Special Economic Offences Court had slapped two months’ simple imprisonment and Rs 5.15 lakh fine on the minister for violating FERA regulations during the import

of some equipment for KPR Tele Products company of which he was the managing director. The Economic Offences Court, which had earlier imposed a fine of Rs 3 lakh, passed a jail sentence and hiked the fine as the minister neither paid the fine nor attended court when summoned. The court had also issued a non-bailable warrant against the minister. The warrant was later withdrawn. NSS

NEWS BRIEFS

There is no peace for victims of crime anywhere. The police are yet to submit a report on a woman who was blackmailed by her husband to the human rights commission.

Govt accepts Gautam Kumar’s resignation

APYC meet to discuss Rahul’s role

Body of youth found in well of Tolliy Masjid

Charred body of student found in Bhongir

The Outer Ring Road remains as unsafe as ever. Two years on, there were 38 deaths and 53 accidents on the ORR in the last six months.

Awareness about disease is empowering. A youth organisation is out to spread awareness about HIV/AIDS.

he State government accepted the voluntary resignation letter of senior IPS ofﬁcer Gautam Kumar. It forwarded the same to the Centre for approval. Kumar has been ﬁghting the State government for the past three years about his juniors getting promoted ignoring his ‘rightful due’. He won his case but the State chose to challenge it. NSS

he ﬁrst executive committee meeting of the newly-elected Andhra Pradesh Youth Congress (APYC) is being held on Wednesday. The main agenda is to chalk out an action plan for the youth wing of the Congress party to reach out to the people of the state. The meeting will also discuss the call to make Rahul Gandhi the next PM. NSS

he body of a youth, aged around 29 years, was ﬁshed out from a well of Tolli Masjid on Tuesday. Later, the body was identiﬁed as Aijaz Ahmed, a resident of Tallagadda. Ahmed was a native of Gulbarga and had come to Hyderabad and was working here as a labourer. The police believe that he committed sucide. NSS

badly charred body of a young man was found on the rail tracks in Bhongir on Tuesday. With the help of a mobile phone found on him, the youth was later identiﬁed as one Phanindar, supposedly a student, and a native of Yadgirigutta. He is believed to have been murdered and later, his body was put on the tracks and burnt. NSS

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INITIATIVE

POLITICS

‘BC concern is political chicanery’

Super bazaars to be opened

In an effort to give relief to the common man from inflation, AP Civil Supplies will set up super bazaars shortly. Private supermarkets will have to spruce up.

INKESHAF AHMED ahmed.m@postnoon.com

nable to bridle the galloping inflation, the AP government has decided to go for the second-best: setting up super bazaars to give relief to the common man on essential commodities. The civil supplies department would set up a chain of such bazaars stocked with essential items that would be at subsidised rates, said supplies minister D Sridhar Babu. “Inflation is a global

Residents elated

phenomenon. It is not in our control. As a responsible government, we intend to set up these super bazaars to provide relief to our people,” Sridhar Babu said. He further informed that the department would take a call on the issue very soon . The government is planning to sell all kinds of essential commodities like rice, pulses, sugar, cooking oil in these bazaars. According to the minister, a similar system is in place in states like Kerala. In Kerala, the chain is strong. It has civil supplies outlets to ensure essen-

Residents are happy with the concept of government-run super bazaars. They believe that the move would help thousands of middle and lower income families of the City. A resident of Barkatpura and former president of All India Human Rights Association G Vasanth Kumar Goud said that his family’s monthly budget has of late gone haywire with ever increasing food inﬂation. “Rates of essential commodities are growing uncontrollably. My monthly expenses have almost doubled within the last one year. This is utter shocking,” he said. Goud felt that there is a strong need to set up such stores to provide relief to the consumers. Lion’s Club Member M Vijaya Lakshmi also welcomed the move.

tial goods are available below MRP. In the initial stage, the government will set up these super bazaars on a pilot basis. The process of identifying suitable place to set up the super bazaars is currently going on. The officials of civil supplies department have already identified some places in Hyderabad for this purpose. If these super bazaars come into being, the State government would give tough competition to private super bazaars and malls in the existing retail market.

he Congress party has castigated the Opposition TDP for blaming the ruling party of ignoring the the Backward Class federations and corporations by diluting the BC organisations. The Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) general secretary S Laxminaryana, secretaries Ch Balaraj, CJ Srinivas Rao and Allam Bhaskar said the allegation of TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu smacked of political chicanery. They said the people of AP were aware about the administrative capabilities of the TDP president and his affection for BCs in the State. The Congress government had allotted `118.89 crore to the backward class federations and corporations during the current fiscal, the leaders pointed out. The Congress had passed the resolution for inclusion of Valmiki, Boya, Waddera, Matsyakara in ST list and Rajakas in SC list and also taken a report from SC/ST commission in this regard. AGENCIES

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ne employee was killed and three were injured, when the 20-feet rear wall of a Chinese restaurant in Secunderabad caved in late last night. Nanking, housed in an old building, was preparing for closure when the wall collapsed. Leo, Shiva, Ramesh, and Raju, all employees of the hotel were busy with chores when the accident took place. They were trapped and the fire brigade and GHMC rescue team came in and brought them to safety.

Rescue team assists one of the injured workers.

1 killed in wall collapse

The police inspects the site of the wall collapse.

Police and fire department personnel outside the restaurant.

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EDUCATION

Commerce students left hanging SUDESHNA KOKA sudeshna.k@postnoon.com

yderabad is truly an IT driven society and this definitely reflects in the present education system. Almost every lane of the City has an engineering college that it boasts of, but in stark contrast there are barely any commerce colleges. It may be recalled, that not too long ago, Hyderabad was home to some good commerce colleges. But with the passage of time, these have rapidly declined — both in numbers and standards. “I wanted to study business in Hyderabad, but there are barely any options for me there. The ones that are fairly good are girls only institutions. I am now studying in Mumbai for want of options. The education department must take cognizance of this issue,” said Swapnil K, second year B.Com, St Andrews College, Mumbai.

PARENTS COMPLAIN The fact, that few new degree colleges have been established in the City is also not helping matters. Male students wishing to pursue a degree in commerce are left short-changed. “It is true. I have parents who

Not only do City colleges lack good infrastructure, but even teaching standards are pretty bad, allege students, who are forced to make do with what is available. complain that they don’t have good colleges to put their sons in for commerce. The City has no good commerce college and this is definitely a big issue,” said Geetha Anand, professor at St Francis College for Women.

LOSE OUT TO OTHER STATES The few colleges that do exist have poor standards of education. “Commerce colleges are very bad in the City. When compared to Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore, City colleges are way behind. First of all we don’t have good campuses and now faculty is not that great either. Besides, colleges in the City still follow the annual exam system, while everywhere else in the country colleges follow the semester system. This gives scope for other activities. As a result, students attend college for the first three months and then go back only towards the end to write final exams,” said Rajesh K, who passed out of Badruka Degree College seven years ago.

Fact file n Number of Engineering colleges in AP: 720 n Number of degree college in AP : 375

B.COM TAKES A BACKSEAT Often students pursuing a degree in commerce focus on doing other courses like CA or ICWA simultaneously. Hence, they don’t attend college on a regular basis. In fact, there are colleges which are specifically meant for such students, where

I knew that if I pursued a degree course in the City it would have no value. Which is why I moved to Bangalore after finishing my class XII. I am now doing my Masters in commerce here. Praneetha J commerce student they are okay with students not attending classes regularly. “I have joined college just for the sake of getting a B.Com degree. My full concentration is on CA. I have to go to college for the first one month and then towards the end to write my final exams,” said Nitesh Chandani from Sri

Chaitanya Degree College. This is one of the reasons why not many colleges are developing. The poor campus and infrastructure also are a deterrent explained Vijay Lakshmi from Badruka Degree College. “Our faculty is decent but the location and our campus is terrible. In fact, with such a bad location one just does not feel like going to college,” she said. Several students prefer studying in neighbouring states rather than taking a chance in the City. Praneetha J, who is studying in Bangalore, said, “I did not want to do CA or ICWA. I had my own plans but at the same time I also knew that if I pursued my graduation here it would not have any value. After my class XII I moved to Bangalore and I am now doing my Masters in commerce.” Little wonder then that most students from the City prefer going to other states. Seems like the focus here is still on just engineering and medicine.

NEWS BRIEFS Seeking Centre’s nod for export City auto drivers to keep off roads on August 6 of Red Sanders: CM Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy on Tuesday disclosed that some 9,000 tonnes of red sander logs were seized while being smuggled out of the country. He said that his government was trying to obtain permission from the Union government to export it. The CM was inaugurating the 63rd Vana Mahotsavam programme in Thummalur Reserved Forest in Ranga Reddy district on Tuesday. On the occasion, he planted the ﬁrst sapling as part of the programme to plant 20 lakh saplings in one day in the entire State. Ministers Sabita Indra Reddy, Shatrucharla Vijayarama Raju, G Prasad Kumar and some 2,000 students planted saplings in 5,000 hectare in the reserved forest. NSS

The Auto Driver Unions’ JAC has decided to go on a ‘One Day Auto Strike’ on August 6 in the twin cities, demanding that the State government increase the minimum charges. Speaking to the media on Tuesday, Telangana Auto Drivers’ JAC convener Mohammed Amanullah Khan demanded that the State government enhance the minimum auto fare from `14 to `22 and `8 to `11 per kilometer. Though the State government had assured the association that it would allow an increase in charges every year, it has miserably failed to keep its promise so far, he added. Khan demanded that the State government give exemption to auto drivers from e-Challan system. NSS

CM announces a `50 lakh gift for Gagan Narang

Lok Satta welcomes HC stay on fuel surcharge collection

The Kiran Kumar Reddy government has announced a `50 lakh cash gift to Hyderabadbased shooter Gagan Narang for winning the ﬁrst Bronze medal to the country in the ongoing Olympics at London. The excited parents of Gagan Narang called on Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy at the Secretariat on Tuesday. On the occasion, the chief minister praised Gagan for bringing laurels to the State capital at an international platform. Exuding conﬁdence that Gagan would bring home more such laurels to the State with his feats, Kiran Kumar Reddy announced the prize. It may be recalled that Gagan had earlier bagged a gold at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi. NSS

The Lok Satta Party welcomed the Andhra Pradesh High Court’s stay on power distribution companies imposing fuel surcharge on domestic and industrial consumers for electricity consumed in the past. In a statement, Lok Satta party working president DVVS Varma wanted the government to drop the ‘Tuglakian’ proposal of collecting fuel surcharge for power consumed long ago at least now in the light of the High Court stay. Lok Satta had represented to the AP Electricity Regulatory Commission that imposing surcharge for previous quarters is unjust, and results in odd situations like present tenants of homes being punished for power consumed by former tenants. NSS

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ven though more than 24 hours have elapsed after the fire accident in the Tamil Nadu Express, the fate of 17 passengers of the S-11 bogie, is not known. Railway authorities have so far retrieved 32 totally charred bodies from the burnt bogie. They said that 28 injured persons were being treated in different hospitals in Nellore. They, however, said they were unable to trace 17 passengers, including four women. Those who could not be traced included six who boarded the train at Delhi, four who boarded at Vijayawada, four who got in at Jhansi, two from Bhopal and one each from Nagpur and Agra. Nellore Railway Station and the government hospital wore a pall of gloom with relatives of deceased and missing passengers. NSS

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METRO

‘Divert the metro rail’

Metro rail's route through Old City continues to face the ire of people and businesses who see it as a conspiracy.

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he metro rail’s progress has been commended by one and all for being way ahead of schedule. However, it continues to face opposition from small businesses who are afraid of losing their livelihood. Sultan Bazaar residents and businessmen of the area say they have “vowed to fight till death the metro rail’s passage through the streets of Sultan Bazaar.” “We have been living and working here for decades,” said a resident of

the Sultan Bazaar-Badi Chowdi area. “Now with the metro rail passing through this area, the government wants us to give up all of this — our only source of bread and butter,” says Suman Gupta, member of the Sultan Bazaar Traders’ Association. In a hand-out released, Suman Gupta points out the many alleged flaws with the metro rail’s plan and budget, accusing the State government of “leaving the common man behind.” Other vendors and businessmen too expressed their displeasure against the metro’s presence.

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CIVIC

One ring to ruin them all

RAHUL RAMAKRISHNA rahul.r@postnoon.com

spin around the City’s Outer Ring Road may seem splendid, but the odds of ending up as a road accident statistic are very high. Two years after inauguration and being thrown open to the public, officially and unofficially, the Outer Ring Road still crawls towards completion. While the road has been in the news for claiming many lives, some making more news than others, Postnoon takes a look at the current status of the Outer Ring Road around the City. In the past six months, the Outer Ring Road area has recorded 53 accidents. While 38 people died in these accidents, 51 suffered serious injuries. With such glaring numbers on record, the ORR has acquired an infamous reputation of being a death trap for commuters and unwary travellers. Two important stretches — Pedda Amberpet to Patancheru and Gachibowli to Narsingi — have been open for public use for over a year. After many tall claims and a steady rise in the death toll, the municipal administration and urban development department have finalised the tenders for collecting manual toll taxes on these stretches. PK

Hospitality Services has been selected to operate the toll booths for 18 months, under the MA&UD’s government order. This means that the numerous, under-construction toll booth units will finally serve the purpose of being toll booths and not death traps. The current interchange units at Pedda Amberpet, Shamshabad, Pedda Golconda, Rajendranagar, APPA junction, Bongulur, Tukkuguda, Patancheru, Kokapet and Nanakramguda will have functional toll booths. While this may seem a welcome change, it is nonetheless a small adjustment

January to July 2012 accident rate: Total number of accidents - 53 Number of deaths - 38 Number of injuries - 51

to one of the many problems with the ORR. The most infamous spots on the ORR for accidents are the Puppalguda stretch, the APPA junction and the Shamshabad stretch. One reason why there has been a rise in death toll is the

vast unmanned stretch of open roads. As admitted by various officials among the police department, there is a shortage of police force to man the entire Outer Ring Road. An inspector from the office of DCP of Cyberabad, traffic police, privately admitted that the police force is facing a shortage of staff to man the ORR. “We have held meetings with the GHMC and the HMDA and have planned on many measures to curb the death rate — such as opening service roads, manual toll gates and acquiring speed guns to keep vehicular speeds in FILE PIC

check,” inspector Venkanna said. While the tender finalisation of manually-operated toll booths will fetch a sizeable chunk of money (`16 crore per month to be paid by the toll booth contractor) for the HMDA, other glaring issues continue to take a backseat. Malfunctioning street lighting, unfinished roads left open without barricades, irregular bitumen and concrete stretches, vehicles parked illegally on service roads are ever-present woes. Crime too has picked up here. In one month, there have been two cases of robbery and sexual assault upon passengers on the ORR.

Road of death

he ORR has seen 38 deaths in the past six months. The most highprofile were the deaths of cricketer Azharhuddin’s son and nephew while they were racing on this stretch in September 2011.

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URBAN DEVELOPMENT

NUIS to help transform the landscape of Urban India

Being touted as a revolutionary phase, for the first time in India, local bodies will avail the detailed map description provided by satellites for making ‘master plans’ in their cities. ning without which the development would not be up to the expectations. “All government departments in major cities will have master plans in the months to come,” he ensured. All this requires a training process, capacity building and infrastructure development in the months to come. If the personnel of the local bodies are ready with the know-how, it can afford to install the scheme at a reasonably low price of `5 lakh.

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rban development in India will be entering a ‘revolutionary’ phase in the next few months, as the municipal, planning and development authorities in all major cities and towns will avail satellite imagery. Touted as a giant leap for the infrastructure development in India, the National Urban Information System (NUIS) scheme will be fully equipped with the technological support from the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC). For the first time in India, local bodies will avail the detailed map description provided by satellites for making ‘master plans’ in their respective cities. The national workshop on NUIS Scheme held at NRSC on Tuesday focused on the key aspects for streamlining the satellite technology in urban planning.

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Sudhir Krishna, secretary, ministry for urban development, VK Daharal, director, NRSA, major general RC Padhi, additional surveyor general, Survey of India, Sam Bob, principal secretary, MA&UD

During a media briefing, Sudhir Krishna, secretary, ministry for urban development, said that the technology will help formulate master plans for 7,935 cities and towns, in the next few years. Amongst these only 24 per

SOCIAL CHANGE Student organisation Aiesec is conducting workshops and field visits to raise awareness about HIV/Aids.

cent have master plans, while some 45 per cent are not statutory, even though qualified for the status of municipality. The secretary spoke about the importance of the workshop for formulation of the

master plan and utilising of the Bhuvan project for preparing a country-wide master plan with the help of satellite images. The Survey of India maps and aerial photographs for road verification are essential for urban plan-

The NUIS is a national mission initiated by the ministry of urban development in 2006 for the generation of the multi-scale hierarchical urban geospatial database on thematic content using satellite, aerial and GPR techniques. In Phase-I, 152 towns from Class I to IV representing all states and union territories have been selected. The project has been executed by Town and Country Planning Organisation, Survey of India and NSUI.

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hen the members of Aiesec took the initiative to change the world, they meant it in every way. HIV/Aids is considered a pandemic. Millions are dying every year. AIDS was first discovered in 1981 and since then over a 32 million people have died. No war on the face of the earth is as destructive as the Aids pandemic. Awareness is empowering. Aiesec in Hyderabad has taken up an initiative to empower the society with the knowledge of such issues that

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prevail in today’s world and are widely spreading. Aids destroys families, decimates communities and, particularly in the poorest areas of the world, threatens to destabilise the social, cultural, and economic fabric of entire nations. Genesis, the Aids awareness project of Aisec aims to make people aware about this growing pandemic. Students from countries like Egypt, UK, China and Vietnam have come to deliver these awareness workshops at various schools and colleges in Hyderabad. Over 50 workshops will be delivered through this project. Workshops have been delivered in

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schools like St Joseph’s Public School, The Secunderabad Public School and St John’s High school. A field trip for NGO’s like Neerakshana was also organised. Under this awareness campaign, there’s a simple message, “Believe”. Aiesec believes that this disease can be prevented to a large extent; the youth believe that they can bring a change. Do you have the power, the courage to accept this change? Does the society believe the same? There are 40 million people living with Aids and there is still no cure. It’s time to show that you care. The writer is a member of Aiesec

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VENEZUELA TO BUY 20 PLANES FROM BRAZIL

Venezuela on Tuesday signed a deal with Brazil to buy 20 Embraer commercial planes worth $900 million ahead of its admission to the Mercosur as full member. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Brazilian counterpart Dilma Rousseff attended the signing.

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Don’t skip realty check It is important to check whether all facilities are in place before buying property rather than believing in the promised infrastructure. FOR REPRESENTATIONAL PURPOSES

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uying a residential property is a long drawn process which has many steps from choosing the right place till checking whether all the promised amenities delivered by the builder. First time buyers do not know many things that they should consider while buying a property. It is one of the single largest investments that anybody makes in their lifetime. Understanding the process and taking the necessary steps will make it smoother. The buyer has to choose location by keeping the convenience of travel to workplace, amenities, price and prospective growth in the value of the property. Many assume the promised infrastructure from the government will be delivered by the completion time of the property. However, the infrastructure like roads, water, transportation facilities are getting delayed in and around the City. It is important to check whether all facilities are in place before buying property rather believing in the promised infrastructure, said R Chalapathy Rao, vice president, APREDA.

Checking the land records is other important aspect. According the government, the buyer has to see the title link documents or clearance of the property from 1950 in Telengana region. However, financial agencies request for link documents for last 13 years to verify the property. It is also important to see the land does not have any civil disputes. The financial agencies and banks approve and clear the property during the venture. The buyer can ask builder to provide the copy of clearance from the financial agency or the file number (assigned by the agency) which will clear the doubts about the land documents to a large

extent. If one can afford, he can also cross-check the documents with an experienced lawyer who is dealing with real-estate issues, he said. The quality of the project can be verified by the reputation of the developer and contractor in the market. If the development of the property is assigned to the contractor, the buyer has to check the credibility of contractor as well. The developers are also hiring project management consultants in checking the quality of construction, said Rao. The buyer has to make sure the super build-up area that he is buying is clearly mentioned in the agreement. The payment

schedule should be linked to the progress of the construction and delivery of the project. All the amenities promised by the builder have to be mentioned in the agreement. This will help the buyer to cross-verify and demand if the amenities are not delivered in the future. The buyer also can link some payment to the to the completion certificate that is provided by the government.There should be indemnity clause in the sale deed which will empower the buyer in case of future legal problems with the land. According to the clause, if the title of the seller is defective, he has to compensate the entire amount to the buyer, he added.

Apple, Samsung lawyers spar SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA: Lawyers for Apple and Samsung debated the differences between copying and honest competition as opening arguments were held Tuesday in a huge patent trial involving the two tech giants. Apple lawyer Harold McElhinny told the jury Samsung began copying the US firm as soon as the iPhone was publicly unveiled in January 2007. "At the same time Jobs introduced the iPhone, he warned his competitors that he had filed for patent protection on more than 200 new inven-

tions in the iPhone," McElhinny said in his opening argument. "Samsung could come up with its own designs, it could beat Apple fairly in the marketplace. Or it could copy Apple... it's easier to copy than to innovate." The lawyer said Samsung

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Global mining group Anglo American said on Tuesday it will raise its stake in the diamond company De Beers to 85 percent after Botswana decided not to exercise pre-emptive rights. "Anglo American will acquire an incremental 40 per cent interest in De Beers for a total cash consideration of $5.1 billion," a statement said. Anglo American, the world's leading diamond company, said in November that it wanted to buy the additional holding from Oppenheimer family. But the mining group needed Botswana, which owns a 15 per cent stake in De Beers, to forego its right to buy another 25 per cent. South Africa gave green light in April, and the deal is now expected to be ﬁnalised by September.

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is the expected net loss of Japanese utility Tokyo Electric Power for the April-June quarter due to costs from the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

POKER SITES TO PAY UP Two online poker sites have agreed to pay $731 million in a settlement of a US probe that will compensate consumers who claimed they were defrauded in online games, officials said. The deal announced by the Justice Department also allows PokerStars, a British-registered firm believed to operate the largest online card gaming site, to acquire the assets of Irish-based Full Tilt Poker. The agreement approved by a federal judge settles investigations by US officials into money laundering charges.

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The troika proposals are not one-sided; rather they are a combination of tax increases (and public expenditure reduction) on the sectors with the least negative impact on the economy." VASSOS SHIARLY, CYPRUS FINANCE MINISTER

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MARUTI SALES RISE 9.2% IN JULY The lockout at its Manesar plant notwithstanding, the country's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India today reported 9.2 per cent increase in sales for July at 82,234 units as against 75,300 units in the same month last year.

NEW ROLE

BLACKOUTS

Power restored, finally Officials of five state electricity boards summoned for hearing on Aug 14. NEW DELHI: A day after the biggest blackout in the country, affecting half of India's population, the main distribution company on Wednesday said nearly 100 percent of the demand had been restored in all five regions of the country. According to the Power System Operation Corp, a subsidiary of the state-run Power Grid Corp that carries electricity across the national grid, the entire Delhi's demand of 2,94 MW had been met, while for the northern region it was 95 percent of 29,546 MW. In the eastern, too, the demand catered to was 95 percent, while in north-eastern, the western and southern regions, the demand met was 100 per-

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Hazare's fast enters day 4, A-Team hold discussions NEW DELHI: With government showing no inclination for talks to end their stir, a worried Team Anna today held discussions among themselves on the way ahead even as the health of fasting Arvind Kejriwal and Gopal Rai worsened. The team held two rounds of talks at the protest site of Jantar Mantar, where Anna Hazare's fast entered the fourth day and that of Kejriwal, Rai and Manish Sisodia entered the eighth day. After being advised hospitalisation, Kejriwal had yesterday warned the government against using force to remove him and his associates from the protest site. Addressing protesters this morning, Team Anna member Kumar Vishwas said the health condition of Kejriwal and Rai was serious. Concerned over the deteriorating condition of the activists, the team went into a huddle this morning on the future course of action. Asked what they are planning to do, a Team Anna member said, "Wait and watch." PTI

cent, said the company in a grid status report Wednesday morning. This was also thanks to the revival of 16,372 MW of hydel power in the country. The newly-appointed power minister Veerappa Moily today refrained from blaming states

for overdrawing electricity that may have led to the grid collapse and said he will focus on combating the many troubles that are facing the sector. Moily said he would take stock of the situation and start working on clearing the hurdles. "I don't

want to start with the blame game... at the appropriate time, we will find short term and medium term solutions," he said. The company has already filed a complaint with the electricity sector watchdog against some states for successively overdrawing power, which was the main reason for the blackouts. The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission has summoned top officials of five errant states (UP, Haryana, Punjab, Uttarakhand and J&K) to appear before it August 14, holding them personally responsible for not adhering to an earlier order of not to overdraw electricity. IANS

The equation between the Central government and states should be simple and cordial, Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said on Wednesday. "I am part of the Cabinet and am aware of the situation in the country... There are a number of problems in the country. We must have a very cordial relationship with the states," Shinde said. "Our relationship with the states should be simple," Shinde, who was appointed home minister on Tuesday, added. Shinde was power minister and takes over from P Chidambaram, who was appointed ﬁnance minister. The power portfolio has been added to corporate affairs minister M Veerappa Moily.

NEWS BRIEFS Ambulance-truck collision kills six in Assam GUWAHATI: Six persons were killed when an ambulance collided head-on with a truck in Assam's Morigaon district early today. The ambulance belonging to the health department was carrying a woman patient and five other persons from Thelamara in Sonitpur district to Guwahati Medical College Hospital when it collided head-on with a loaded truck near Nelli Police Station at 2.30 AM, police said. All six occupants of the ambulance, including the patient and the driver, died on the spot.

Minor girl, woman raped in Lucknow LUCKNOW: A 12-year-old girl and a woman were allegedly raped in separate incidents in Thakurganj and Nigohan areas here, police said today. The girl was allegedly raped by her neighbour Raju in Thakurganj area yesterday. In other incident in Nigohan, a woman was raped by a man identified as Vipin after he tied her brother to a pole and thrashed her mother, they said. The police have registered FIRs in both the cases.

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nation WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2012 MENTAL ILLNESS

For them, recovery is not equal to acceptance I

n the dimly-lit lobby of a shelter for the mentally-ill homeless, she sits reading the tattered printout of an e-mail from her US-based brother. The 55-yearold scans every word — her brother has sternly refused to accept her following her recovery from mental illness. It’s a body blow, but she refuses to give up. After a long and hard battle against mental illness at Sudinalaya, a shelter for such homeless women in north Delhi, the doughty woman has drawn on her inner resilience to carry on living. Tragically, she’s not the only one. According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, there are over 70 million people with some form of mental illness in the country and about a quarter of them are homeless. “A shelter home cannot replace the emotional support provided by a family,” said Sudinalaya director Sreerupa Mitra. “Generally, the outlook towards people with mental illness has improved. But home-

There are over 70 million people with some form of mental illness in the country and about a quarter of them are homeless.

lessness of millions of mentallyill is a major concern because of the changing face of society,” Nimesh Desai, director of IHBAS, said. “There have been cases where the family members corner property worth crores and throw the individual into a mental asylum,” he added. Interestingly, families declining to accept a loved one with a history of mental illness have been more evident in “urban and economically well-off families”, said experts. While “legal persuasion” could be applied on families, more often than not, patients are left with no option but to struggle in custodial asylum or languish on streets — both of which are worse after recovery.

COMMUNITY RADIO STATIONS

Tune in to frequencies that touch lives in India

They air informative programmes laced with dollops of folk songs and humour.

urgaon Ki Awaaz, Lalit Lokvani, Chanderi ki Awaaz ... India’s community radio stations are reaching out to touch lives and livelihoods in little hamlets and towns across the country with useful nuggets of information spiced up with local folk music and radio plays. India today has 135 community radio stations and another 300 are in the process of being set up. The government is giving a major push to this medium by holding workshops across the country, offering content sharing platforms, making it economically viable for those running such stations and also linking up with them via Facebook. “Community radio station (CRS) is a medium that has potential to bring a silent revolution as it is connected to the daily lives of people,” Supriya Sahu, joint secretary in the ministry of information and broadcasting, told IANS. “In this people participate, which is important in a democracy like ours,” she said. Gurgaon Ki Awaaz, on 107.8 MHz and run by a civil societyled community, caters to around 1.5 million listeners in villages in and around Gurgaon on the outskirts of Delhi. The station, which broadcasts in Hindi and Haryanvi, is very popular, says its director, Arti Jaiman. Among community radio stations, southern India has the largest spread, led by Tamil Nadu with 22 stations. In comparison there are fewer stations in the northeast and states like Odisha, where the government wants more stations to be set up, said Sahu. “Like a station in Awadhi or Haryanvi may have very good programmes which could inspire other stations which could adapt through a content sharing platform,” said Sahu. The platform, Ek Duniya Anek Awaaz has been set up by the ministry in partnership with NGO One World South Asia. According to Sahu, any nonprofit organisation can apply to set up a CRS. It costs `15 lakh-20 lakh to set up a station. Financial support will be given to eligible organisations that have been granted licenses to run CRS. The ministry has also sent a

`170 crore proposal to the Planning Commission for supporting the community radio movement in the country. In order to help the CRS’ become financially sustainable, the ministry has begun empanelling them with the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity (DAVP), which would fetch them advertisements. Thirteen CRS have been empanelled so far and the others are keen to be empanelled, Sahu added. Jaiman of Gurgaon ki Awaaz said her station was not empanelled though it had sent its papers last year and again this year. “We have taken help of a facilitation centre set up by the ministry,” Jaiman told IANS.

The CRS’ have to follow the programme and advertisement code under the Cable TV (Networks) Regulation Act. The community radio stations air informative programmes laced with dollops of folk songs and humour. “They are basically entertaining; most stations have entertainment as the base of operations, but not filmy songs. Gurgaon ki Awaaz has an excellent range of Haryanvi raginis. Not just locals and labourers,

Government boost It costs `15 lakh-20 lakh to set up a station. Under the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17), ﬁnancial support will be given to eligible organizations that have been granted licenses to run CRS. The I&B ministry has also sent a `170 crore proposal to the Planning Commission for supporting the community radio movement. Among community radio stations, southern India has the largest

spread, led by Tamil Nadu with 22 stations. India today has 135 community radio stations and another 300 are in the process of being set up. The government is giving a major push to this medium by holding workshops across the country, offering content sharing platforms, making it economically viable for those running such stations and also linking up with them via Facebook.

but also people working in offices call up with requests,” according to Sahu. Community radio stations are monitored for their content. The CRS’ have to follow the programme and advertisement code under the Cable TV (Networks) Regulation Act. They have to maintain a log of 90-days-programmes at any given point of time in the form of a CD, which the ministry can call for whenever it wants, said Sahu. Whenever the ministry gets a complaint, it can ask the Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Ltd. (BECIL) a PSU under the ministry, to monitor the station for misuse. Jaiman said the ministry has been supportive, especially with its move to rollback licensing fees, but “no order has been issued on the rollback so far”. She said the mobile revolution had bolstered the number of listeners. “Now villagers and migrants workers are listening to our programme on their mobiles, and all are connected to the voice of the community.” However, Jaiman maintains that “the telecom minstry needs to be more proactive, show commitment” in CRS and invest in the social initiative. IANS

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World

US AUTHOR GORE VIDAL DIES AGED 86 Celebrated writer and political commentator Gore Vidal has died aged 86, according to US media. A prolific writer, Gore Vidal produced 25 novels, including the best-selling Burr and Myra Breckenridge, more than 200 essays, and several plays.

SYRIAN CRISIS

LET’S GO SLOW AND STEADY

‘Death or capture only way to remove Assad’ A former senior Middle East analyst for the Pentagon’s Defence Intelligence Agency. ‘He will go down fighting.’ DAMASCUS: Even with rebel armies closing in, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is showing no hint of a willingness to cede power, raising the prospect of a long, bloody and potentially calamitous final chapter to the country’s civil war, U.S. officials and Middle East experts say. As his troops battle rebels in Aleppo and other key cities, Assad has rejected new entreaties to accept exile for himself and his family and has repeatedly expressed confidence that loyalist forces will prevail, the officials and analysts said. His public and private comments suggest that Assad is preparing to follow the example of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, staking his life on his regime’s survival, reported the Washington Post. A growing consensus in Washington and in Middle East capitals now holds that Assad — a man once viewed as a moderate capable of reform — will be forced from power only by death or capture. “There will not be any negotiations,” said Jeffrey White, a former senior Middle East analyst for the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency. “He will go down fighting, and he will probably do it in Damascus.” Senior U.S. analysts who have studied Assad’s recent public appearances described him as increasingly divorced

The transfer of power in Russia's political system must be gradual and continuity in the political succession is important, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday. Putin made his remarks in an address at the Lake Seliger camp, the site of an annual gathering of pro-Kremlin youth activists for almost a month of discussions and forums. "We should not destroy everything completely. Move gradually, calmly, but move forward," he said.

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brothel in Madaripur in Bangaldesh is facing protests demanding closure. Sex workers believe the sudden wave of protests are orchestrated by developers trying to take over the valuable land. Syrian rebel fighters are pictured next to a burnt army tank in the northern town of Atareb, 25 kms east of Syria's second largest city Aleppo, on Tuesday. AFP

US issues warning over al-Qaeda

from reality. While they said Assad is neither stupid nor cowardly, he appears to have bought into his own rhetoric, perceiving himself to be the savior of his ethnic clan, the Alawites, as well as the embodiment of the Syrian state. He also appears unfazed by his pariah status, they say. “Assad is a self-righteous, conspiracy-minded dictator who’s given no indication so far he’s prepared to go quietly into the night,” said a U.S. official with access to intelligence from inside Syria who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the assessment.

PARIS: Al-Qaeda afﬁliates pose a rising threat exploiting poverty and upheavals in the world's most vulnerable regions even as the core network is on the decline, the US State Department warned Tuesday. In its Country Reports on Terrorism 2011, the department also branded Iran "the world's leading sponsor of terrorist activity" providing funds and support "for terrorist and militant groups throughout the Middle East." Hailing the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a

US commando raid on his Pakistani compound in May 2011, the report noted he had "remained deeply involved in directing (the group's) operations and setting its strategy." "The loss of bin Laden and these other key operatives puts the network on a path of decline that will be difﬁcult to reverse," the annual report to Congress said. But, while the core group of Al-Qaeda may have been weakened over the past year, "we have seen the rise of afﬁliated groups around the world."

Kiwi school criticised for dead possum show

China hits back at new US sanctions over Iran

16 people killed in China Stressful pregnancy mudslides could harm child

WELLINGTON: A school that staged a morbid fashion show in which children were encouraged to dress possum corpses in colourful costumes has come under ﬁre from animal lovers. The contest was unacceptable and thoughtless, the New Zealand Royal Society for the Protection of Animals (RSPCA) said.

BEIJING: Beijing reacted furiously Wednesday to new US sanctions imposed on a Chinese bank over transactions with Iran, urging Washington to revoke them. China's foreign ministry urged the United States to lift the sanctions on the Bank of Kunlun and stop "damaging China's interests and Sino-US relations".

BEIJING: Mudslides that buried an iron ore mine in northwestern China have killed at least 16 people, with another 12 still missing a day after the disaster, state media reported on Wednesday. Most of the victims of the accident in the remote region of Xinjiang were mine workers but the bodies of six residents were also pulled out.

NEWS BRIEFS SYDNEY: A study in Britain has revealed that stress during pregnancy could have its affect on the unborn child's health in years to come and researchers suggest that expecting women should be supported during tension-ﬁlled times. According to the researchers, it is crucial that pregnant women are supported through stressful events.

CUBA ON US TERROR LIST The United States kept Cuba on a black list of alleged state sponsors of terrorism for the 30th year running, the State Department said Tuesday in an annual report. Cuba angrily denounced the action as another US attempt to justify its 50-year-old trade embargo on the communistruled island. "Cuba's foreign ministry energetically rejects that such a sensitive issue as terrorism be used for petty political purposes and demands that the government of the United States stop lying," it said in a statement.

This is a people's revolution. It's a lie to say we are alQaida. What's happening in Syria is no different from the French or the Russian revolutions. Mohamad Baree FSA commander

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Comment In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are. Gore Vidal Author

Cuba: When bureaucrats hit

n the new Cuba, the one President Raul Castro and his team of reformers say they’re building, the hard-working entrepreneur is a patriotic figure, a job-creator who’s helping to lift up the island’s feeble economy. That’s the Cuba where Ulises Aquino thought it would be a good idea to start a business. With funds earned abroad as an award-winning opera singer, Aquino opened a restaurant and cabaret last year where the company he founded, Opera de la Calle (Opera of the Street) could perform. He called it “El Cabildo” (roughly, the “meeting place”), transforming a trash-strewn lot into a lively entertainment venue, with an open-air stage, restaurant and bar. Aquino offered free children’s theater and other community activities on weekend mornings, and kept his prices low, charging $2 admission to Opera of the Street shows that feature as many as 80 singing-and-dancing performers. Aquino was a good socialist businessman too, sharing profits with his 130 employees and paying wages that were three or four times the $20 average monthly Cuban government salary.El Cabildo was so innovative that Aquino and his new model of socialist enterprise were featured in a July 12 Reuters article titled “In Cuba, an opera singer builds an empire.”And that’s when the bureaucrats attacked. By the following Monday El Cabildo was closed and Aquino had an order from local Havana officials stripping him of his business license for two years. There was no fine, no appeals process, no legal recourse. This was the old way in Cuba, where bureaucrats rule. GLOBAL POST

HIGH-FLYING THOUGHTS

In the latest teaser of the Bond movie Skyfall, there’s a scene where the spy barely manages to not fall off a moving train and when he ragains his balances, he adjusts the cuffs of his shirt as if he just stepped out his car, ready for a dinner date. The starter just whets one’s hunger for the main course.

BLACKOUT

INDIA’S DARK AGES

India has had a long struggle with power outages, and a new wave of them has hit the northern and eastern parts of the country.

second power failure hit 600 million people in North and East India on Tuesday, leaving commuters stranded, businesses without electricity and impacting water supply. 19 states were impacted by this second consecutive power outage, a day after a power outage impacted about 370 million people. Two hundred coalminers are reportedly trapped in underground mines in West Bengal where mines are operated by government-owned Eastern Coalfields. In a press conference, India’s power minister Sushil Kumar Shinde blamed the outage on states that have exceeded their power quota from the Northern grid, and warned that states will be penalized. He also said that Shinde that power has been restored to 45 percent of the northern region, 35 percent of the eastern region and 100 percent to of the north-east. But corruption also largely contributes to India’s power shortages. A report from the Herald Net points out that “transmission and distribution losses in some states are as much as 50 percent because of theft and corruption by employees in the power industry.” Moreover India has been rocked by mining scandals, most recently India’s coalition government has been accused of losing $210 billion in potential

on average they have 10 - 11 hour power cuts when they have to rely on generators and tankers to supply them with water. One resident said its was “hell to live” there, while another said “If you want a millennium city go to Hong Kong.”

INDIA’S LONG STRUGGLE WITH POWER SHORTAGES

India has missed every annual target to increase electricity production capacity since 1951, according to Bloomberg report. revenues by selling coal fields to top industrialists D.S. Rawat, the secretary general of the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM), said in a statement that the power outages have “severely impacted economic activities” and pointed to the lack of reforms in the power sector:

“On the one hand it is pity that over 26000 m.w. of power stations are idle due to the non availability of coal, on the other one grid failure has brought the system collapsed. Mr. Rawat said that the entire power situation at present is headed for disaster as the analysis of all components of it herein would underline. What is worse is that despite faster build up of new generation capacities and policy reforms, the power situation is rotating in the same groove all along.” Citizens of Gurgaon, often dubbed the millennium city, told NDTV that the power shortage and lack of water have been a major hit to the city. What’s more, the residents said that this isn’t at all unusual for them. One male resident said

While massive-scale power outages like the ones that have crippled the North of the country the past two days aren’t frequent, India has long had power problems and rolling powercuts are commonplace in parts of the country. India has missed every annual target to increase electricity production capacity since 1951, according to a Bloomberg report. International companies have long been aware of India’s power shortages. In fact, back in 2008, General Electric said India’s electricity shortages (and the need to replace its old trains) would help the company meet its 2010 local sales target of $8 billion. The country has seen the gap between demand and supply of power jump to 10.2 percent in March this year, from 7.7 percent in March 2011, according to The New York Times. GLOBAL POST

Arun Koshy Philip’s column Fusillade will return next week.

EDITORIALS It’s just not Olympian at all The Olympic Superman

t’s unbelievable that incidents can happen at the Olympics that warrant charges of “not using one’s best efforts to win a match” and “conducting oneself in a manner that is clearly abusive or detrimental to the sport”. Eight women badminton players have been charged with the aforementioned offences by the World Badminton Federation. Four pairs of players — two from South Korea, one from China and one from Indonesia — is expected to be disciplined. Spectators booed some of them, deservedly so, as the longest rally in one if the matches involving these players lasted just four shots. That the referee should intervene and warn them for their wanton sloppiness is unheard of. Apparently the pairs that were warned had already qualiﬁed for the quarters, and they decided to lose so that they get an easier draw. At an event as serious as the Olympics, this is astounding. Athletes spend a good part of their lives just to be a part of it, doing their best, and here’s a bunch of losers who would throw matches for the ‘greater good’. It’s just not so Olympian.

READERS’ VIEWS

tep aside you Carl Lewises and Birgit Fischers for Michael Phelps is here. Having secured the maximum medals (with more coming!) at what is arguably the highest level of sporting championships, the Olympics, this man can only be called the Olympic Superman. The number of records he has conquered and the period for which he has performed are an essay in performance and consistency. From competitors to scientiﬁc studies, he has inspired them all.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2012

Cinema

THE HISTORY BEHIND TOTAL RECALL Colin Farrell previously appeared in Minority Report, which was also adapted from a Philip K Dick short story, and had originally been developed as a sequel to the original film version of Total Recall.

ORIGINAL VS REMAKES

MOVIE OF THE WEEK

The paradox of remakes With Colin Farrell-starrer Total Recall set to release this weekend, we take a look at the concept of remakes and the debate it sparks. HEMANTH KUMAR hemanth.k@postnoon.com

he history of remakes in film industries across the world is as old as cinema itself. Ideas have transcended boundaries and with the advent of technology, filmmakers especially in Hollywood have had the edge of reimagining films which were a rage in other parts of the world. Take the case of Akira Kurosawa’s cult film Seven Samurai. The international success of the film led to John Sturges’ The Magnificent Seven, which was an official remake. However, it was also the inspiration behind Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay. Although it wasn’t an official remake, Ramesh Sippy had adapted the film to the Indian context so well that it was probably the best ode one could pay to Akira Kurosawa’s classic film. However, not all remakes have impressed the viewers. Last year, Marcus Nispel’s Conan the Barbarian was panned by critics and the film couldn’t recover half its budget at the box office. The important question is whether remakes should stay faithful to its original film or should they be reimagined to suit the present context. Sudhish Kamath, a filmmaker, says, “I think a good remake takes the original in a new direction that enhances or shows the original vision in a fresh perspective. Sholay and Nayagan are two such films which have been reinterpreted quite well. Nagesh Kukunoor’s Dor is a brilliant imaginative remake of Perumazhakaalam. It turned a sob fest into a celebration of women” Of late, a lot of remakes have been nothing

Step Up 3 revolution The Mob sets the dancing against the vibrant backdrop of Miami. Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations of becoming a professional dancer and soon falls in love with Sean, a young man who leads a dance crew in elaborate, cuttingedge ﬂash mobs, called "The Mob". When a wealthy business man threatens to develop The Mob's historic neighborhood and displace thousands-of people, Emily must work together with Sean and The Mob to turn their performance art into protest art, and risk losing their dreams to ﬁght for a greater cause.run from the police.

DID YOU KNOW...

255 mins Is the running time of films like Mera Naam Joker(1970) and Loc Kargil (2003) directed by showman Raj Kapoor and JP Dutta respectively. This is regarded as the longest running time of any film in Bollywood history. more than rip-offs of the original version with new faces. “What is the point of doing it scene by scene? That would be plagiarism or maybe just lack of imagination and market demands,” Sudhish argues. There are a slew of South Indian films which have or are now being remade in Hindi. Earlier this year, Agneepath set the box office on fire and now all eyes are on the remake of Zanjeer and Son of Sardar, which is a remake of Maryada Ramanna. Will audiences accept these films if they digress too much

MOST REMADE FILM OF ALL TIME

According to Guinness Book of World Records, Cindrella, Dracula and Zorro are the most remade films of all time. However, there’s no concrete proof of the number of times these films have been remade across the world. Another such film is Romeo and Juliet which has been remade in almost every film industry across the world. In India, Devdas is one of the most remade films of all time.

A good remake takes the original in a new direction that enhances or shows the original vision in a fresh perspective. from the original films? After all every movie that is made has references to or is a pastiche of various other films. There is no substitute to originality, but there's nothing inherently wrong with making remakes.

The trick is to make them interesting or edgy enough for contemporary audiences. As a viewer I'd either moan about the fact that the remake is a frame-by-frame unnecessary rehash, or moan that the remake diverges too much from the original. There are very few movies that hit the sweet spot like The Departed, but the best ones in my opinion are Cronenberg's The Fly, A Fistful of Dollars, The Ring and True Lies, Mihir Fadnavis, a film critic, says. This truly is a doubleedged sword.

QUENTIN TARANTINO ONCE SAID

"I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it — if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together. If people don't like that, then tough luck, don't go and see it, alright? I steal from everything. Great artists steal; they don't do homages.” He recently surprised moviegoers in India when he revealed that the animation action sequence in Kill Bill was in fact inspired from a similar sequence in Kamal Haasan’s Aalavandhan.

ICONIC QUOTES

I bet you spent your whole life believing that you, you were born to do something great, make a difference, do something special. Important. But Michael, it's the most ordinary thought anybody ever had.

Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?

Nathaniel Price Puncture

Morpheus, The Matrix

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2012

spotlight

HIP HOP NIGHTS

Groove and get high on Hip Hop beats with DJ Zain. It’s super Wednesdays at Tease. Enjoy the lip-smacking appetisers along with a wide range of liquor. So head to Vivanta by Taj for a fun night.

A NIGHT TO REMEMBER 2

DEEPAK DESHPANDE

ONE FOR THE

STARRY PRESENCE

Stars of Uu Kodathara Ullikki Padathara Manoj Manchu and Deeksha Seth were spotted at the Radio Mirchi ofﬁce promoting their movie on Tuesday.

DEEPAK DESHPANDE

ALBUMS

The sangeet ceremony of Swati and Anand was a gala event with family and friends making a beeline to The Park to bless the couple and share their happiness. 8

1 Kaushik & Shalini 2 Mahesh & Swati 3 Yashid & Sharon 4 Lavina & Vijay 5 Anand & Swati 6 Ashwin Dutt 7 Ali 8 Actor Navdeep 9 Divya, Anita &

Lakshmi 10 Allu Arvind(R)

Getting their dance on ROCKSTAR IN THE CITY

Bollywood diva Nargis Fakhri visited Venky’s Express at Hitec City and interacted with her fans.

Youngsters put on their dancing shoes and headed to Liquids to have a good time. Many were loath to ge away from the dance floor as the DJ spinned his magic. 1 Roshni & Ruchika

2 Neha & Jeetu 3 Vibha

DEEPAK DESHPANDE

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2012

health

TV BOOSTS DIABETES RISK AMONG ELDERLY Being glued to TV for four hours daily could boost the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, especially if you are aged 60 or above. The study, was one of the first to examine the effects of sedentary behaviour and TV watching on older men and women.

PARKINSON’S DISEASE

Understanding S Parkinson’s Parkinson’s is one of the various ailments associated with old age. In the long run it may result in the patient being wheelchair bound. ANISHAA KUMAR

anishaa.k@postnoon.com

irisha had always told her friends about how active her mother was. But this visit home, her opinion changed. She noticed a change in her mother’s gait. She noticed her mother’s hand shook even if she was not doing anything. The doctors diagnosed this as a sign of Parkinson’s disease. According to Dr Sudhir Kumar, senior consultant neurologist, Apollo hospitals, “Parkinson’s disease is a movement disorder which is represented by tremors in both hands even at rest, slowing down of movements, and imbalance leading to fall. It is also known as shaking palsy because of the shaking movement of the hands.”

CAUSES

TREATMENT Unfortunately, Parkinson’s has no treatment. But Dr Sudhir mentions that various medicines are available to provide relief from the symptoms by helping increase the dopamine levels. As Parkinson’s only affects move-

HOUSECALL

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Ebola

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Ebola is a haemorrhagic fever virus. It is a very deadly disease. Out of every 10 people who get Ebola, on an average five to nine die. Transmission happens when one comes in contact with fluids from someone who has been infected with the virus. Patients with this fever bleed from their nose, mouths and even find blood in their vomit. Initial symptoms include fever, exhaustion, nausea and pain in the joints and stomach.

DID YOU KNOW Brain consumes most oxygen Your brain uses 20 per cent of the oxygen that enters the bloodstream. The brain only makes up about 2 per cent of our body mass, yet consumes more oxygen than any other organ in the body, making it extremely susceptible to damage related to oxygen deprivation.

ment and not memory so though the patient may be mentally very active they may be wheelchair bound. Most patients see an improvement though it is not permanent and it may be for 10-15 years at a maximum. “Surgery called deep brain stimulation may be advised for people who suffer from tremors that cannot be treated with the help of medication. It is like a

Symptoms n Difﬁculty in swallowing n Problems with balance and walking n Absence of expression n Muscle pains n Movement problems n Tremors(shaking)

Like many ailments, there are no particular reasons. Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative disease that occurs when a part of the brain becomes deficient of a chemical known as dopamine that assists in movement. Talking about the cause Dr Sudhir says, “Parkinson’s may be hereditary but only 10 per cent of the cases are due to the ailment running in the family.”

ANEWS PP-LYBRIEFS YOURSELF

n Hallucinations

pacemaker for the brain, but is very costly and is available in only a few centres.”

PARKINSONISM Not all symptoms similar to those of parkinson’s imply that the person suffers from the ailment. Dr Sudhir explains, “Symptoms such as shaking can also be seen due to drugs such as those for psychotic treatment, vomiting as well as ailments such as Japanese B Encephalitis. This is known as Parkinsonism. The symptoms get treated once the infection is treated.“

INCIDENCE Parkinson’s occurs in people above the age of 40. Apart from regular symptoms, Parkinson’s in the later stage may cause lack of bladder control, mental impairments and ailments associated with falling.

PIONEERS Pedanius Dioscorides He was a Greek physician, pharmacologist and botanist, the author of De Materia Medica, a 5-volume encyclopaedia about herbal medicine that was widely read for more than 1,500 years.. He was a surgeon with the army of the emperor, so he had the opportunity to travel extensively, seeking medicinal substances (plants and minerals) from all over the Roman and Greek world.

health WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2012

FOOD FOR HEALTH

BREAKTHROUGH

Curcumin helps cut diabetes risk, says study Researchers at the University of Nakomnayok in Thailand found that regular supplements containing curcumin prevented people from getting adult-onset diabetes, often called type 2. ALEXANDER BESANT urcumin, a component of curry, was found to cut the risk of type 2 diabetes in a new study. Researchers at the University of Nakomnayok in Thailand found that regular supplements containing curcumin prevented people from getting adult-onset diabetes, often called type 2. Reuters said that the study used 240 Thai adults who were pre-diabetic. They separated the groups into those receiving curcumin supplements and those receiving a placebo. EMax Health reported that after nine months, 19 of the

116 placebo patients had developed type 2 diabetes.Astonishingly none of the 119 people taking curcumin developed the disease. Previous studies have found the spice to be useful in fighting inflammation and repairing oxidative damage in the body, said Reuters. Researchers warn that this does not mean curcumin is a cure-all in terms of diabetes. The quality of curcumin used and the small size of the study shows the need for further study into the promising spice. The study was published in the journal Diabetes Care. GLOBAL POST

Curcumin benefits n Cleansing: Curcumin contains a detoxifying property, which supplies miraculous effect to our bodies by restoring liver operations by assisting the body to eradicate toxins in a more efficient manner. n Strong Defence Mechanisms: Curcumin has the strongest antioxidant and enhances the body’s immune system. n Lower Cholesterol: Taking curcumin daily can lower cholesterol levels which will help hinder stroke or cardiac arrest from happening. n Defence against Ailments: Curcumin remains proven to assist in the protection of cancer in most of its stages by causing the inflamed cells to obliterate themselves but leaving the healthy ones untouched. Due to its effectual antiinflammatory qualities, it helps maintain the neural paths clear, aiding with dementia like diseases such as Alzheimer’s. With half of us expected to be suffering from some form of dementia within our life span, one of the advantages of taking curcumin daily is it helps prevent this from occurring.

Source: www.kunyit.my

New treatment could halt arthritis SYDNEY: Researchers have developed a potential new approach to treat chronic diseases such as arthritis, which involves the inflammation of one or more bone joints. David Fairlie and his colleagues from The University of Queensland’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience have developed an experimental treatment that effectively eases symptoms and stops the progression of the disease. “Human enzymes called proteases stimulate the secretion of immune cells that, when the correct amount is released, play important roles in digestion, fighting infections and healing wounds,” Fairlie was quoted as saying in the journal The Federation of American Societies For Experimental Biology. “But in chronic inflammatory diseases such as arthritis, these enzymes continuously stimulate the release of immune cells, which cause inflammation when present at high levels. This leads to ongoing tissue damage,” added Fairlie. Inflammation is the body’s response to an injury, infection or illness, according to a Queensland statement. Fairlie and his team have developed experimental compounds that block this stimulation and successfully reduce chronic inflammatory arthritis in experimental models. If the treatment could be transferred to humans, it has the potential to reduce both the health and economic impacts of chronic inflammatory diseases. IANS

smiling relieves stress WASHINGTON: Feeling good usually makes us smile, but does it work the other way around? Yes, smiling during episodes of stress can help to reduce its intensity regardless of whether a person actually feels happy or not, according to a research. Psychological scientists Tara Kraft and Sarah Pressman of the University of Kansas investigate the potential benefits of smiling by looking at how different types of smil-

‘Smiling speeds recovery from stress’ ing, and the awareness of smiling, affects individuals’ ability to recover from stress. “Age old adages such as ‘grin and bear it’ have suggested smiling to be not only an important non-verbal indicator of happiness but also wishfully promotes smiling as a panacea for life’s stressful events,” says Kraft.

“We wanted to examine whether these adages had scientific merit, whether smiling could have real health-relevant benefits,” Kraft said. Smiles are generally divided into two categories: standard smiles, which use the muscles surrounding the mouth, and genuine or Duchenne smiles, which engages the muscles sur-

rounding both the mouth and eyes, the journal Psychological Science reports. “The next time you are stuck in traffic,” says Pressman, “you might try to hold your face in a smile for a moment. Not only will it help you ‘grin and bear it’ psychologically, but it might actually help your heart health as well!” IANS

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2012

Entertainment

GOURAVAM TO BE SHOT IN RAJAHMUNDRY Allu Sirish, Yami Gautham starrer Gouravam will soon be shot in Rajahmundry. Radha Mohan is directing this bilingual film and Prakash Raj is producing it.

INVOKING GOD’S BLESSINGS

Nagarjuna turns emotional at Shirdi Sai’s audio launch

t’s not every day that one gets to see the emotional side of Nagarjuna and his speech at the a launch of K Raghavendra Rao’s Shirdi Sai came as a big surprise. To prepare for the role, he went through a total transformation in terms of his look and continued to make appearances at several events in the same avatar. At the audio launch, he turned quite emotional and said, “Several miracles happened while I was shooting for the film. Everyone used to call me uncle while I was shooting the film and now that I am sporting a new look, people have begun calling me Nag. That’s the kind of respect which people have for Shirdi Sai Babu. I began to find happiness in the happiness of others. Last year when my mother passed away, my father was quite depressed and I wanted to cheer him up at any cost. That’s when Raghavendra Rao and I insisted that he must spend some time on the sets of our film in Badami. He found peace and I could see the happiness in his face after a long time. It was truly a miracle.” A day after the audio launch, Nagarjuna posted on Twitter saying, “Last night shiridi Sai audio launch was very emotional for me/so much positive energy/I woke up this morning with a heart full of Joy/OMSAI. (sic)” M M Keeravani has composed the music for this film and it’s going to hit the screens on September 6.

CINE BYTES

Baba Sehgal sings a song for Power Star

aba Sehgal, who recently sang the title track of Gabbar Singh, is going to sing another song for Pawan Kalyan. We hear that the lyrics of the song have been written to highlight the popularity and ideologies of Pawan Kalyan

Shruti gets a tattoo

hruti Haasan has got a tattoo done. “Got an old tattoo covered up since I don't plan on getting anymore just did one ﬁnal modiﬁcation :) Thanks to swapnil who's done such a lovely piece ! Yay new tattoo happiness :) It's on my wrist and now it's a beautiful rose:) I love roses the more the roses in my life the better I feel :) (sic),” she posted on Twitter.

Allu Arjun,Puri’s film titled Iddarammaayilatho?

llu Arjun’s upcoming film in Puri Jagannadh’s direction is all set to go on floors in September. Buzz is that Iddarammaayilatho is the title under consideration. Ganesh Babu is producing the film. Two leading heroines are being approached for this film.

Entertainment WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2012

GOVINDA SONGS STAY IN THE FAMILY Popular Govinda numbers like Shor Mach Gaya Shor Dekho Aaya and Maakhan Chor were filmed on me, so I enjoyed Sonakshi’s Go Go Govinda.

CINE BYTES

Everybody fights and reunites: Farah Khan

ights and reunions happen everywhere, then why people create a hype when a celebrity is involved, asks Farah Khan who has reunited with her favourite star Shah Rukh Khan. Farah's husband Shirish Kunder and Shah Rukh had a brawl during party and it became the talk of the town. However, things have normalised between both the families now. IANS

Shatrughan Sinha Actor and father to Sonakshi Sinha

Try standup comedy, Shekhar Suman exhorts women

Sona kshi shows dad rushes of item song S

hotgun Junior aka Sonakshi Sinha is one loving daughter who has a doting father in Shatrughan Sinha. While Shotgun senior has been recuperating in hospital, Sonakshi thought of something to cheer her dad up. She showed the rushes of her item song Go Go Govinda to her father in the hospital itself. Needless to say, dad is proud of his little girl’s achievement. The songs has been picturised on Janmashtami and she is seen shaking a leg with the dance maestro Prabhu Deva himself. This is first item song and she is super kicked about it. Akshay Kumar is also part of the film and the film is titled Oh My God.

think women have some great comic talent but they would not consider doing that. I feel somewhere they consider themselves unfeminine to be on stage. They feel that it is essentially a male dominated ﬁeld. More females and more ladies should come," Shekhar said. IANS

Kangana steps into direction with a short film

t is just too soon to write Kangy off. Though she was not in the news for a long time, it does not mean that she is moping over her movie debacles. Well, news is that she is stepping into direction with a short ﬁlm, written in collaboration with an Australian writer. The as-yet-untitled ﬁlm has been shot in LA with an all-American cast and crew and deals with a complex subject involving a dog and a four-year-old boy.

Entertainment WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2012

Entertainment WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2012 CINE BYTES

THE BACK-UP PLAN

Ashley kept waitressing job after Twilight

Cooper goes shirtless for Elephant Man

nce voted People's Sexiest Man Alive, actor Bradley Cooper is no stranger to showing off some skin—and we deﬁnitely enjoy seeing it. But this time, the actor has stripped down to a pair of skivvies for a different reason, which will also explain the peculiar look on his face. Cooper is currently playing Joseph Merrick alongside actress Patricia Clarkson in a revised version of The Elephant Man at the Williamstown Theatre.

shley Greene has revealed that she continued working as a waitress even after starring in the first Twilight film. The actress, who plays vampire Alice Cullen in Stephanie Meyer's supernatural franchise, told Nylon that she initially held on to her job at a Los Angeles restaurant as she was unsure what the future held for her showbiz career. “I was working at the Belmont Cafe in LA, got the call and two weeks later was rehearsing,” Greene recalled. "Right when I was cast, my IMDb STARmeter went through the roof — all of ours did, and we hadn't even done anything yet! I asked my boss if I could have my job back after the shoot. He was like, "I don't think you'll need it, but okay." Greene recently credited her Twilight role with allowing her to determine how she wants to work as an actress. The 25-year-old has insisted that she has 'no regrets' over her Hollywood career despite having experienced several highs and lows during her time being famous.

Right when I was cast, my IMDb STARmeter went through the roof — all of ours did, and we hadn't even done anything yet! I asked my boss if I could have my job back after the shoot.

Jessica Biel writes poetry

ctress Jessica Biel, who is engaged to Justin Timberlake, says writing poems helps her stay in touch with her spiritual side. "I like being able to write when I ﬁnd the time to get into it. I love reading poetry and I have written poetry myself since I was in school," thesun. co.uk quoted Biel as saying. IANS

Cameroon Crowe to direct Emma Stone in next film

ameron Crowe has settled on his next movie — a yet-to-be titled romantic drama starring Emma Stone. Crowe's reps conﬁrmed to The Hollywood Reporter that Sony has picked up the project, based on Crowe's original script. The hunt is now on for a leading man. Crowe's last ﬁlm was We Bought a Zoo.

Ashley Greene Actor

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2012

Chai Time

THOUGHT OF THE DAY

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. David Rockefeller

KAKURO

QUICK CROSSWORD

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

ACROSS

PREVIOUS PUZZLE ANSWER

SCRIBBLING PAD

1 Clothes (someone) 6 3M product 10 Monopoly square 14 ‘I, Robot’ author Asimov 15 Adjective for Death Valley 16 ‘... or ___!’ (threat) 17 Tot minder 18 A neighbor of Niger 19 African capital 20 Bussing game 23 Moo ___ pork 24 Conservative in the House of Lords 25 Dream-time acronym 28 Aussie hatchlings 31 Urban antonym 34 Penlight batteries 36 Space inside a shape 38 High muck-a-muck 40 Where to start from 43 Don Draper, for one 44 100 cents, abroad 45 Old currency in Milan 46 Acquires through work 48 ‘Damn Yankees’ femme fatale 50 Homer's neighbour on ‘The Simpsons’ 51 Topper for Charles de Gaulle 53 ‘No ___, ands or buts!’ 55 What clocks do once a year 61 Dixie sailboat? 63 ‘The Wizard of Oz’ family name 64 Cliff dwelling 65 Genesis redhead 66 Bothersome burden 67 Muslim's destination 68 Competed in ‘American Idol’ 69 Two out of twenty? 70 Merman of the stage

DOWN

1 Cotton deseeders 2 ‘Give this priority’

3 Eastern princess 4 Church engagement announcement 5 Father Time's prop 6 Break, as a wild horse 7 Speedy steed breed 8 Television series tryout 9 Newspaper employee 10 Piano man Morton 11 Ingredient in some lotions 12 Suffix with ‘organ’ or ‘patriot’ 13 Oater actor Van Cleef 21 Person 22 ‘The Apprentice’ host 25 Title in many an Indian restaurant name 26 ___ cologne 27 ‘___ Mia!’ 29 Attempt to persuade 30 Capital of South Korea 32 For the umpteenth time 33 Filthy ___ (illicit gain) 35 Auto tune-up item 37 A coif on ‘The Mod Squad’ 39 Barrier for X-ray vision 41 Manuscript 47 Keg feature 49 House shape with a steep roof 52 Beyond foolish 54 Not dry, as a wine 55 Avian trumpeter 56 Arts and crafts purchase 57 ‘Daniel Boone’ star Parker 58 A good shoe supports it 59 It may fill a paddy wagon? 60 ‘Let's Make a ___’ 61 Proposal reaction, sometimes 62 ___ rule (ordinarily)

Chai Time WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2012 Thiruvaikumar

STAR POWER for 2-8-2012

As per Hindu panchang thiruvaikumar@yahoo.co.in, 040-27177230 / 9177596118

ARIES

TAURUS

GEMINI

CANCER

LEO

VIRGO

LIBRA

SCORPIO

SAGITTARIUS

CAPRICORN

AQUARIUS

PISCES

Debt issues will be under control. Businessmen can see a good momentum in their transactions. Delayed marriage talks will resume, progress well and get finalised favourably. Indirect opposition within the family will come down.

You and all family members will be cheerful due to influx of visitors. Organising a happy event at home will be successful without any difficulty. Son or daughter who left you worried will come back. Clashes between couple will be over.

Frustrated in getting a job after completion of studies? Do not worry; a new job awaits you. Those who faced trouble due to friendship with a woman, debts and disappointment due to friends will see changed and better times ahead.

QUICK CROSSWORD FRED BASSET

Misunderstanding with spouse will be over. You will finalise the marriage of your son/ daughter. Court issues dragging for a long time will come to a favourable end. Financial assistance as expected will come. Good news is on the cards.

Though there will be delay in getting expected money, finally you will receive the same at the right time. Marriage talks might get postponed or delayed indefinitely. Employees might feel disturbed, though there won't be major problems.

You might face a humiliating incident due to a blood relative, which might upset you to a great extent. Some will feel frustrated with the turn of events. Ego clashes likely between couples and this will put them in an unhappy mood.

You will feel happy as marriage of son or daughter is performed in grandly. Those in search of a new job will get favourable news. Major portion of debts will get cleared through dues. Some have bright chance to buy a property.

Financial needs will be fulfilled to the extent of your expectations. Employees will get good co-operation from their colleagues. Mismatching of wavelength between couples will create minor clashes. Friends and wellwishers extend help.

You will receive good news from children staying abroad. Financial position will improve for the better and debt problem starts reducing gradually. Businessmen struggling to expand business need to put in strong efforts to bear results.

TAROT READ

Sumaa Tekur

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ARIES:

GEMINI:

The High Priest – Check and double check forms and applications before you sign on anything. Once you have passed it, it will be difficult to make a change.

LEO:

Ten of Swords – It’s a tough choice to make – to elect a person for an important job. It can be in the local civic body elections or for a social service committee.

LIBRA:

STONE SOUP

The Fool – Guard against becoming too emotional about a person. This person will likely not care as much as you do. Keep a distance and don’t fall with a thud.

SAGITTARIUS:

Justice – Learn to make the distinction between what people think of you and what you think of yourself. Often, the two can get mixed up. Be careful.

TAURUS:

Four of Wands – You may have to act like you’re interested just to keep someone happy. It will be difficult for you, considering how rooted you are to your values.

CANCER:

The Emperor – Don’t lock your possibilities by deciding what you can and cannot do without really thinking about it carefully. You can achieve more than you know.

VIRGO:

The Empress – There are things to remember and do in order to update yourself with what’s happening in your field of work. You have to keep working at it.

SCORPIO:

Ace of Pentacles – You get a good bird’s eye view of a situation, thanks to your ability to remain distant from it and not involve yourself emotionally.

CAPRICORN:

Ace of Cups – You will play a crucial part in someone’s progress in the near future. Your role is well appreciated and you may discover some new skills in you.

SOLUTIONS

PISCES:

Six of Swords – Stop fooling around and get serious about learning some new skills to further your career opportunities. You have become too complacent.

NUMBER GAME

Man – You get annoyed with bad customer service and will be in a good mood to pick a fight with the main authorities. Choose fights carefully.

SCRABBLE

AQUARIUS: The Hanged

INK PEN

Dragged court issues will go in your favour at last, which will bring you mental peace. Businessmen will apply for a loan to implement expansion plans; they will adopt new strategies and efforts to increase business.

for 2-8-2012

Knight of Wands – You are nearing completion of a very satisfying period, professionally. You are feeling more settled than before and feel your ideas are appreciated.

FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE

Son will get a good career opportunity or a business offer and the same can be pursued as time is favourable. Foreign trip likely for some or at least a trip to another state. Enemies will become friends. Businessmen will see a good growth.

SUDUKO

A tight financial situation likely. Events to face trouble due to delay in getting money. Son or daughter might put you in an embarrassing situation. Debt issues might haunt you. You might be misunderstood while expressing your opinion.

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Boxing duo carry hopes for India PIRATE IRWIN Agence France-Presse

MEDAL TALLY

CHINA USA FRANCE S KOREA N KOREA KAZ’STAN ITALY GERMANY RUSSIA S AFRICA JAPAN AUSTRALIA ROMANIA BRAZIL HUNGARY NET’LANDS UKRAINE GEORGIA LITHUANIA SLOVENIA G BRITAIN COLOMBIA MEXICO INDONESIA CUBA DENMARK EGYPT POLAND SWEDEN THAILAND TAIPEI CANADA SLOVAKIA AZERB’IJAN BELGIUM INDIA MOLDOVA MONGOLIA NORWAY N ZEALAND QATAR SERBIA UZB’STAN

G 13 9 4 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

S 6 8 3 2 0 0 4 3 2 0 4 3 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

B 4 6 4 3 1 0 2 1 4 0 8 2 2 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

T 23 23 11 8 4 3 8 6 8 2 13 6 5 3 3 2 3 1 1 1 4 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Serdar Hudayberdiyev (L) of Turkmenistan defends against Manoj Kumar (R) of India during their first round Light-Welterwight (64kg) boxing match of the London 2012 Olympics at the ExCel Arena on Tuesday in London. Kumar was awarded a 13-7 points decision. AFP/ JACK GUEZ

Manoj in rd of 16

LONDON: India’s Manoj Kumar cruised into the pre-quarter finals of the men’s boxing event of the Olympic Games with a convincing victory over Serdar Hudayberdiyev of Turkemnistan at the ExCel arena here today. Manoj started cautiously but gradually opened up to prevail over his opponent with a 13-7 verdict in the

men’s light welter (64 kg) category. The Indian pugilist did not exert too much in the opening round as he gauged the strategy of his opponent who also was quite content in defending. The score was tied 2-2 at the end of the opening round but Manoj gradually turned on the heat with deft punches and showed good reflexes to win the second round 7-3. From then on, the Indian

Kim gains Olympic revenge LONDON: South Korea’a Kim Jae-Bum gained revenge for his Olympic final defeat four years ago by claiming gold in the men’s judo under-81kg category on Tuesday. In so doing he reversed his loss to Germany’s Ole Bischof in the gold medal match in Beijing to complete his set of major titles following two world championships and six Asian crowns. Sixth seed Ivan Nifontov of Russia claimed a bronze medal with a dominant victory over Japan’s fifth seed Takahiro Nakai. And 22-year-old Canadian Antoine Valois-Fortier took the other bronze, beating American Travis Stevens by a yuko. Meanwhile, Urska Zolnir won Slovenia’s first ever women’s Olympic title on Tuesday when she beat China’s Xu Lili in the women’s under-63kg judo final and then announced she was finished as an Olympian. AFP

pugilist completely dominated the bout with a flurry of punches which gave no chance to his opponent from Turkeministan. Manoj thus becomes the fifth boxer to qualify for the pre-quarter finals. Vijender Singh, Jai Bhagwan and Devendo singh have already progressed to the round of 16 and Vikas Krishan has got a bye into the pre-quarter finals. PTI

LONDON: India’s two boxers at the Olympics both won through to the second round on Tuesday to keep alive hopes of a record Games medal haul Commonwealth Games light welterweight champion Manoj Kumar beat Turkmenistan’s Serdar Hudayberdiyev (13-7) while light flyweight Devendro Laishram became only the second boxer at the Games to win inside the distance. Laishram pummelled Honduran Bayron Molina into submission 36 seconds before the end of the first round. Kumar will have the chance of revenge in his next bout against British third seed Tom Stalker, who beat him in last year’s world championship quarter-finals. “I am a better fighter than I was last year,” said Kumar. “Stalker is a good fighter but I believe I can turn the tables,” he added.

IT’S RAINING BRONZE

Qatar’s Nasser al-Attiyah shelters from the rain under an umbrella during the skeet men’s final at the Royal Artillery Barracks in London on Tuesday. Vincent Hankock of the United States won the gold medal and set a new Olympic record scoring 148 points while Denmark’s Anders Golding won the silver and Nasser al-Attiyah won the bronze. AFP/ MARWAN NAAMANI

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US team claims gold LONDON: The United States won the Olympic women’s team gymnastics final on Tuesday to claim their first gold medal in the event since the ‘Magnificent Seven’ triumphed at the 1996 Atlanta Games. Russia, runners-up to the US at last year’s World Championships, finished second, with European champions Romania pipping 2008 Olympic champions China to the bronze medal. The United States had dominated in qualifying on Sunday but unlike their male counterparts, who finished a disappointing fifth in Monday’s men’s final, they reproduced the same high performance level when it mattered. “We didn’t really pay too much attention to the score,” said US team member Jordyn Wieber, the reigning world champion. “We just knew we had a really important job to do and that we just had to do what we’d been practising. After the floor, we were just really happy that we’d performed so well.” Victory was particularly sweet for Wieber, who lost

NEWS BRIEFS Support for Hooper shirt Indigenous leaders have defended Australian boxer Damien Hooper’s decision to wear a T-shirt with the Aboriginal ﬂag at the Olympics, saying he should not have to apologise for the move. Hooper was warned by Australia’s chef de mission Nick Green not to wear the shirt again after sporting it at his opening ﬁght on Monday.

Wiggins aims high

In this multiple exposure photo, US gymnast Alexandra Raisman performs on the balance beam during the Artistic Gymnastics women’s team final at the Olympics on Tuesday in London. AP/PTI

China cite crowd, injuries after final failure

hina’s female gymnasts admitted they had allowed themselves to be put off by the partisan British crowd after failing to retain their Olympic team title in London on Tuesday. The Chinese had hoped to hang on to the crown they won on home soil in Beijing four years ago but, after a disappointing

out on a place in the individual all-around final to teammate Alexandra Raisman but played a key role in Tuesday’s triumph.

day, they trailed in fourth, behind Romania, Russia and new champions the United States. Sui Lu, who won gold on the balance beam at last year’s World Championships, said China “did our best”, but conceded they were unsettled by the raucous atmosphere inside the North Greenwich Arena. AFP

The Americans’ winning score of 183.596 points was even more handsome than their qualifying tally . “At the beginning they

were tears of disappointment, but the second tears were tears of joy (at winning the silver medal),” explained Russia’s Aliya Mustafina. AFP

Lin, Maneza take top spots LUKE PHILLIPS

Agence France-Presse LONDON: Lin Qingfeng delivered a masterful performance to win a first weightlifting gold in the London Olympics for the vaunted Chinese men’s team on Tuesday, while Maiya Maneza secured a second for the Kazakh women. Lin, whose gold followed two for the Chinese women’s team, finished a full 11kg clear of the field as he dominated the -69kg class, firing out a salvo to archrivals North Korea, who struck gold in the two lower men’s divisions. The Asian champion recorded a combined total of 344kg after snatching 157kg and registering 187kg in the clean and jerk, narrowly missing out on a world record attempt of 198kg in the latter. Indonesia’s Triyatno claimed silver with a total of 333kg (145, 188), while Romanian Razvan Martin took bronze with 332kg (152, 180). “It was about revenge for the two golds we missed out on in the lower

Chinese’s Lin Qingfeng competes to win the gold medal during the men’s 69kg group A weightlifting event on Tuesday. AFP

Kazakhstan’s Maiya Maneza competes during the weightlifting women’s 63kg group A event in London on Tuesday. AFP

divisions,” a defiant Lin said. “I wanted to show that China still has primacy in weightlifting. I felt the challenge from North Korea,” he said of a squad which has claimed golds through Kim Un-Guk and Om Yun-Chol in the -62 and -56kg classes respectively. Maneza bided her time before producing a massive clean and jerk to win the women’s -63kg class, the reigning Asiad champion recording a total of 245kg, a new Olympic record, in front of a raucous sell-out crowd at the ExCel Arena. It did not quite match the performance of teammate Zulfiya Chinshanlo, who set a world record in the clean and jerk as she powered to gold in the -53kg class on Sunday, but was ample reward for the central Asian country’s rise to prominence in women’s weightlifting, so often dominated by China. Maneza snatched 110kg to go into the clean and jerk in second spot which was 2kg behind world champion Svetlana Tsarukaeva of Russia, who eventually ended up on the podium with the silver medal.

Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins bids to become Britain’s most successful Olympian when he goes in the time trial race Wednesday, while Australia’s James Magnussen looks for a ﬁrst swimming gold. Wiggins starts as favourite for the 44km time trial around London’s Hampton Court Palace after winning both long time trials on the Tour.

Thanking the ‘rulers’ North Korea’s past and present rulers are inspiring the country’s Olympic athletes, according to Pyongyang’s ofﬁcial news agency, which reported a “tumult of joy” at its strong showing in London. Weightlifter Kim Un-Guk set a world record to bring the North its third gold in two days. “It has put the whole country into tumult of joy,” the Korean Central News Agency.

Davis proves his worth Anthony Davis has not even played in an NBA game but the ﬁrst pick in June’s NBA Draft showed he has earned the respect of his US Olympic NBA peers in a 110-63 American rout of Tunisia on Tuesday. Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Love each scored 16 points while Kevin Durant added 13 points and 10 rebounds as the US NBA stars seized the Group A lead.

Croats rule pool polo Olympic Games water polo results from Tuesday’s matches: Group A Croatia 8 Spain 7 Australia 7 Kazakhstan 4 Greece 7 Italy 7 Group B Hungary 10 Montenegro 11 Serbia 21 Great Britain 7 United States 10 Romania 8

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Doping row spurs Ye to second gold

GAMES BRIEFS Oz, Brazil shine Collated Olympic Games men's volleyball results from Tuesday's matches: Group A Great Britain 0 Australia 3 Italy 3 Argentina 1 Poland 1 Bulgaria 3 Group B Brazil 3 Russia 0 United States 3 Germany 0 Serbia 3 Tunisia 1

Niger’s ‘fishing’ hero Niger's first-ever Olympic rower trained in a fishing boat and fell into the water the first time he stepped into the real thing. Hamadou Djibo Issaka, who only took up rowing in May, has become a rocksolid fans' favourite at the Olympics, despite finishing way off the pace in all three races so far. His times are getting slower.

Sir Hoy looks to shine Four-time Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy and sprint queen Victoria Pendleton will aim to boost Britain's ﬂagging gold medal haul when the Olympic track cycling events begin on Thursday. On the opening day of the six-day competition the men's and women's team sprint ﬁnals will be contested — and Britain are among the favourites.

US shock Argentina Shannon Taylor's goal saw the US to a shock 1-0 victory over Argentina in the women's hockey tournament. Both Argentina and the USA now have three points. New Zealand scored a 4-1 victory over South Africa. Australia defeated Germany 3-1. The Dutch beat Japan 3-2 and Britain won 5-3 over South Korea. China were held to a goalless draw by Belgium.

Phelps rises to new heights

LONDON: Chinese teenage swimming sensation Ye Shiwen said the doping row surrounding her in London had inspired her to a second Olympic gold medal with victory in the 200m medley on Tuesday. Sixteen-year-old Ye, whose explosive win in the 400m medley in world record time last Saturday drew allegations of

Michael Phelps added another line to his Olympic legend on Tuesday — with a little help from his friends. LONDON: Phelps anchored the United States to victory in the the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay to claim the 19th Olympic medal of his career, eclipsing Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina’s record of 18. Phelps had matched Latynina with a silver medal in the 200m butterfly earlier in the night, teammates Ryan Lochte, Conor Dwyer and Ricky Berens made sure Phelps’ record-

breaking medal was a gold one. “I thanked those guys for helping me get to this moment,” said Phelps, who was staked to a big lead by the first three swimmers and made it stand up against Yannick Agnel — whose last-lap surge past Lochte had lifted France to victory in the 4x100m free relay. “I told those guys I wanted a big lead in the last leg and they gave it to me,” Phelps said. “I just

wanted to hold on. I just wanted to thank them for allowing me to have this moment.” Lochte, the 200m free world champion who failed to medal in the individual 200m final won by Agnel in devastating style, put the US in charge with a confident lead-off leg of 1:45.15. “People kept telling me I was better than that, to just put it behind me and move on,” Lochte said. AFP

Chen, Wang win diving gold The Chinese pair won the women’s 10m synchro platform gold. LONDON: Chen, the individual 10m platform champion from the Beijing Games and the synchronised 10m platform champion, teamed with Wang to tally 368.40 points from their five dives off the tower. Mexico’s Paola Espinosa Sanchez and Alejandra Orozco Loza took

the silver with 343.32 with Canada’s Meaghan Benfeito and Roseline Filion getting the bronze medal with 337.62. China continued their march winning an unprecedented eight golds medals following Wu Minxia and He Zi’s win in the women’s synchronised 3m.

Ye drug claims ‘sour grapes’ say greats LONDON: Olympic swimming greats lined up in support of besieged Chinese star Ye Shiwen on Tuesday after a top American coach branded her world-record breaking performance in London as “suspicious”. However, a slew of former Olympic champions spoke out in support of Ye on Wednesday, insisting large improvements in times were feasible. “We have to remember that young swimmers can take chunks of time off that other people can’t,” Australian swimming legend Ian Thorpe told the BBC. AFP drug use, sealed the medley double with victory in 2min 07.57sec, a new Olympic record. Afterwards, Ye insisted, “I don’t feel upset or sad about what the media have been saying about me. “I feel calm, but it just encouraged me to prove myself. “Of course, I think (the comments) are a bit unfair towards me, but I am not affected,” added Ye. AFP

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Players charged over ‘thrown’ matches Badminton players have allegedly been rigging matches so as to play favourable opponents in their upcoming matches, while coming with excuses of conserving energy. LONDON: Eight women badminton players at the Olympics were charged by the sport’s governing body on Wednesday with “not using one’s best efforts to win a match” after two fixtures ended in controversy. Four pairs in the women’s doubles competition — one from China, one from Indonesia and two from South Korea — could be disciplined after the Badminton World Federation (BWF) took action. A disciplinary hearing will be held later on Wednesday with a decision announced in due course. At present all four pairs are included in the order of play with their quarter-finals scheduled for Wednesday evening. The players in the two matches concerned were booed off court by angry spectators at Wembley Arena in London on Tuesday after

NBC says sorry Under-ﬁre US television network NBC apologised for advertising an interview with American swimming sensation Missy Franklin before showing her actual gold medalwinning race. The network — which has been panned for its extensive use of tape-delayed events in a bid to draw in viewers and advertising dollars — said it would not happen again.

Danes scrape through Olympic Games men's handball results on Tuesday: Serbia 23 Croatia 31 Tunisia 22 Iceland 32 Great Britain 19 Sweden 41 South Korea 19 Hungary 22 Denmark 24 Spain 23 Argentina 20 France 32

Carlos slams ‘tag’ Wang Xiaoli (R) and Yu Yang of China in action during a women’s doubles badminton match at the Olympic Games in London. AFP/ ADEK BERRY

they appeared to deliberately serve into the net, or hit the shuttlecock long or wide. They were allegedly attempting to manipulate the final standings in the first-

round group stage, with two pairs who had already qualified apparently wanting to lose to secure an easier draw in the next round. The match between the

Chinese pairing of Yu Yang and Wang Xiaoli and unseeded South Korean pair Jung Kyung and Kim Ha Na came under scrutiny by the BWF after the Chinese lost. AFP

Tsonga wins as stars race on French fifth seed Tsonga outlasted Canada’s Raonic 6-3, 3-6, 25-23 in a gruelling tie whose 66 games were the most ever seen in a three-set Olympic tennis match. LONDON: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga won the Olympics’ longest ever three-set match against Milos Raonic on Tuesday — while Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray took much quicker routes into the third round. World number two Djokovic crushed three-time Wimbledon finalist Andy Roddick 6-2, 6-1. British hope Murray defeated Finland’s Jarkko Nieminen 6-2, 6-4.

NEWS BRIEFS

Paes, Mirza confirmed in mixed doubles LONDON: Leander Paes and Sania Mirza were confirmed as India’s mixed doubles team at the Olympics on Tuesday, the final act of a blazing selection row which split the squad. Paes had demanded an assurance that only he would be paired with Mirza.

Trinidad's Carlos Suarez, who built up to the Olympics by training with US legend Tommy ‘The Hitman’ Hearns for six years, blasted amateur boxing as a game of ‘tag’ on Tuesday. The 19-year-old American-born ﬁghter lost 16-6 to Turkish battler Ferhat Perlivan, but had little good to say after his brief moment in the Olympic spotlight.

Gezzar contests charge French 3,000m steeplechase athlete Nour-Eddine Gezzar has gone to court in a lastditch bid to compete in the Olympics after testing positive for blood-booster EPO, his lawyer said Tuesday. Gezzar has ﬁled a case with an administrative court in Paris to contest the provisional suspension he was handed after failing a doping test at the national championships on June 17.

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sports

VAV RAJESH WINS CHESS TOURNAMENT Top seed VAV Rajesh of Tamil Nadu lived up to his expectations and won the Second Mother Chess Academy All India Fide Rating Tournament held in Visakhapatnam. Third seed Linda Ranga Rajan of Tamil Nadu secured second place, while S Ravi Teja of Vijayawada, AP took the third place.

WASHINGTON OPEN

Alexandr eases into round two

Dolgopolov, out of the Olympics over a conflict with his federation, beat Flavio Cipolla 6-1, 6-3. W A S H I N G T O N : Alexandr Dolgopolov and Tommy Haas sprang quickly into action at the Washington Open on Tuesday after a thunderstorm delayed the start of play, with both advancing into the second round. Second seeded Dolgopolov put out Italian Flavio Cipolla 6-1, 6-3, a match which began with an hour's delay due to the weather. The Ukrainian was making his Washington debut and had lost two of three previous matches with Cipolla. Dolgopolov won in 59 minutes without facing a break point. Veteran Haas, a former number two who has lifted his ranking back to 36th after recovery from hip surgery, made his return to

1st round results (x denotes seeding) Women n Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS x1) bt Bojana Jovanovski (SRB) 6-4, 6-3 n Vania King (USA x4) bt Jennifer Evlie (USA) 6-3, 6-4

the hardcourts for the first time since last March and came up a 6-4, 6-2 winner over fellow 34-year-old Michael Russell. Haas has played at least semi-finals in three of his last six ATP events, including his first title in three years at Halle, Germany, on grass in June.

Men n Aleksandr Dolgopolov (UKR x2) bt Flavio Cipolla (ITA) 6-1, 6-3 n Tommy Haas (GER x4) bt Michael Russell (USA) 64, 6-2 n Marco Chiudinelli (SUI) bt Horacio Zeballos (ARG) 7-5, 7-5 n Mardy Fish (USA x1) bt Bjorn Phau (GER) 4-6, 6-1, 6-2.

AFP

SOUTH AFRICA IN ENGLAND

England seek resurgence England will lose their number one ranking if the tourists win the ongoing three-match Test series. LEEDS: England will seek to bounce back after what spin bowler Graeme Swann (right) described as a "public humiliation" when they face South Africa in the second Test starting at Headingley on Thursday. England's ranking as the number one Test team is under threat after they were beaten by an innings and 12 runs in the first Test

at the Oval last week, with the hosts taking only two wickets while South Africa piled up 637 runs in their only innings. Swann revealed that the England players spent two hours analysing the defeat immediately after the first Test and England coach Andy Flower insisted that confidence remains high and that the team could come back strongly. AFP

WEST INDIES IN NEW ZEALAND Vettori out of 2nd Windies Test

WELLINGTON: New Zealand spinner Daniel Vettori will miss the second Test against the West Indies in Kingston with a groin strain, New Zealand Cricket (NZC) said on Wednesday. The 33-year-old managed to play on after suffering an adductor strain in the first Test, when the Black Caps slumped to a nine-wicket loss, but would not be fit for the Kingston match, NZC physio-

therapist Paul Close said. "Dan will return to New Zealand where here will be monitored closely and undergo a period of rehabilitation," Close said. New Zealand will be hoping to rehabilitate Vettori, the country's most capped Test player, in time for the Black Caps' tour of India, which begins on August 23. AFP