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STRANDED! A group of 64 Christian pilgrims from the State, who embarked on a tour of the Holy Land, are stranded in Cairo after allegedly being duped by their travel agent.

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BREAKTHROUGH IN SKIN CANCER FIGHT Two new experimental treatments against advanced melanoma have shown promise in keeping the deadly skin cancer at bay, according to a research presented in the US on Monday.

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A library summer camp for parents and faculty of UG and PG students will be held from May 10 onwards. The camp will provide guidance for faculty and final year PG students for National/State lectureship and scholarship test(NET/APSET) for `3,650. Where: Hyderabad library services, Sagar View Complex When: May 10 - June 10, Contact: (040) 2322 2247, 94412 37751

Madhubani workshop The YMCA Secunderabad is hosting a madhubani painting workshop. The workshop is being felicitated by an artist from Madhubani. Where: YMCA Secunderabad, West Marredpally When: June 18-June 29 Contact: 98490 07736, 99595 57183

Head hunters Catch the Norwegian film Head Hunters on June 5 at Heart cup coffee. Where: Heart cup coffee, Kondapur When: June 5, 7pm onwards Contact: (040) 6555 5254

Kid’s day out Oxford Bookstore is organising a unique fun-filled workshop ‘A Kid’s Day Out’ for the children. The fiveday workshop will host exciting activities and competitions like baby show, painting, clay moulding. Where: Oxford Bookstore, The Park, Somajiguda When: June 2-June 6, 11am onwards Contact: 91601 48444

Bharatnatyam recital Connoisseur of the classical forms? Head to Ravindra Bharati on June 5 for a classical performance by Eshita Jayswal who is a disciple of Hemamalani Arni. Where: Ravindra Bharati, Saifabad When: June 5, 6.45pm onwards Contact: (040) 2323 1245

Graffiti workshop Love graffiti? Then this workshop is for you. learn to draw different fonts and give them a 3D effect. Also learn to use spray cans for making graffiti on walls. Where: Treasure House, Jubilee Hills, Rd No 63 When: Ongoing, 10 am onwards

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Sunday brunch The Square at Novotel is host to an exciting summer brunch. Great food, beverages and games for your family. Where: The Square, Novotel, Hitech City When: Ongoing, Contact: (040) 6682 4422

Brunch sparkles Choose from grills, pastas, Oriental, Continental or Indian and follow it up with a delicious selection of desserts at The Arena’s special brunch. Where: The Arena, Taj Deccan, Rd No 1 When: Every Sunday Contact: (040) 6652 3939

Mexican brunch La Cantina, at Novotel presents Sunday brunch, an interesting mexican spread, every Sunday. Where: La Cantina, Novotel, Madhapur When: Every Sunday, 12pm onwards Contact: (040) 6682 4422

Summer camp Annapurna International School of Film and Media will be holding a Summer Camp program in filmmaking, acting and photography. The second batch is from May 28. Where: Annapurna School, Banjara Hills When: Ongoing Contact: (040) 4914 1234

Artistic exhibits On a look out for traditional prints and crafts? Head to an exhibitional of traditional handicrafts and artistic handlooms of Gujarat which has around 10 tribal craftsmen and 10 other artisans from Gujarat. Where: West Marredpally community grounds, Marredpally When: Ongoing, 10am onwards

Italian lunch The Square at Novotel is host to an exciting summer brunch. Great food, beverages and games for your family. Where: Via Milano, Jubilee Hills, Rd No 36 When: June 3, 12pm onwards Contact: (040) 6455 5544

Earth witness Akanksha Joshi’s Earth Witness will be screened at Goethe Zentrum, Hyderabad on June 5. Where: Goethe Zentrum, Banjara Hills, Rd No 3 When: June 5, 7pm onwards Contact: (040) 2335 0443

Budding entrepreneurs A unique management and entrepreneurial workshop for students of age group 11-17, at ISB Hyderabad from June 4 to June 9. Where: Indian School of Business, Gachibowli When: June 4-June 9, 9am onwards Contact: 98665 61690

Theatre workshop Samahaara is hosting special four week summer acting workshops. The workshops will be held for a duration of four weeks in three different parts of the City. Where: Vidyaranya School, The Terrace, The Actor’s Studio When: Ongoing , Monday-Friday Contact: 83411 20303

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Techie takes in-laws to task Despite getting a well-qualified bride and a hefty dowry, there was no end to their demands as Pradeep, a software employee, and his family allegedly continued to harass his wife for more money DEEPTHI’S FATHER PAID `5 LAKH CASH, `5 LAKH

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f you thought education and a cosmopolitan exposure guarantee a broad minded outlook, think again. In a recent case, V Pradeep Naag a software professional working with Cognizant, was arrested along with his mother Mary Victoria, a government school teacher, for allegedly harassing his wife for dowry. According to Malkajgiri police inspector A Venkateshwarlu, V Deepthi Sri, who works with a software company in Hitech City, filed the case against her husband and in-laws. The victim, Deepthi, 26, a resident of AS Rao Nagar, got married to Pradeep in 2009. The couple completed their MCA from Loyola Academy and were working with well known software companies in the City.

(from left) V Pradeep Naag, V Srinivas Murthy and Mary Victoria According to the police, at the time of the wedding, Deepthi’s father D Gopala Krishna Murthy, gave `5 lakh cash, `5 lakh worth of gold ornaments, 1kg silver and other valuable household articles to Pradeep’s family. However, a few months after marriage, Pradeep and his parents began to harass Deepthi for more dowry.

Things came to such a head that Pradeep would beat up Deepthi and Mary Victoria, threatened to get her son remarried if Deepthi’s family didn’t pay up. A few months later the couple, in a bid to work on their marriage, moved out of Pradeep’s parents’ home in Masabtank and rented a place in Manikonda. But

there was no end to Deepthi’s turmoil as Pradeep continued to beat her up and even moved in with another girl. When Deepthi eventually went to meet her mother-in-law, the latter abused her and warned her against coming to their home again. According to the victim’s statement to the police, both her father-in-law V Srinivas Murthy and mother-in-law used to harass her for dowry and on several occasions even dragged her out of the house. Finally, fed up with the situation, Deepthi returned to her parents and filed a case against

her husband and in-laws with the Malkajgiri police on June 1. “It was a challenge to survive this marriage. My husband would beat me up every other day and my mother-in-law too would spare no opportunity to harass me. My husband would forcibly even take away all my salary and never give me a single paisa. This went on for quite some time. Despite being so well qualified, my husband behaved like an illiterate. His family and he never spared an opportunity to ill treat me,” said a visibly shaken Deepthi. In fact, when Deepthi lodged a complaint against her in-laws, they went to her house and demanded that she take back her complaint and threatened her with dire consequences if she didn’t. After conducting an inquiry into the matter, the Malkajgiri police arrested Pradeep and his mother, but didn’t arrest his father as he was ill. The duo have ben jailed and investigations are on.

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Transmission and distribution losses for Transco on the rise POWER Rahul Ramakrishna rahul.r@postnoon.com

espite reaching an all-time generation capacity of 11,972 MW for 2011-12, AP Transco continues to fight transmission and distribution losses estimating around an annual 15.6 per cent. With the distances increasing between sub-stations, the natural cause of transmission loss has showed a considerable increase. Currently, the power supplies in AP total at a 85,149 MU set against a whopping demand of 91,730 MU. Compared to the all-India average shortage 8.5%, Andhra Pradesh stands at a deficit of 7.2% . However, authorities at the AP Transco continue to remain optimistic about finding the right solution to reduce transmission loss. Director of transmission, Chenna Reddy said, “We are focussing on line and system improvement. With transmission, the losses increase with the distance between the generation plant and the sub-stations, especially when Hydel power is concerned. For instance, the total transmission loss incurred for the month of April 2012 is 4.42% of the total 7225.38 MU of power input. We are

constantly revamping the lines in order to arrest as much loss as possible.” Statistically, the transmission loss may not seem much but in terms of cost, the numbers are dizzying. Under guidelines stipulated by AP Electricity Regulatory Commission set up in 2009, AP Transco plans to invest `1124.26 crore in modernisation and renovation, bulk-load works and system improvement to reduce loss in power transmission. But given the increase in tariff rates owing to the greater demand, the transmission loss incurred in terms of revenue for April 2012 for domestic, non-domestic and industrial slabs gross over a rough estimate of over `750 crore. Energy conservation and energy auditing remain the need of the hour. Constant maintenance work on the line system coupled by replacement of faulty feeders and a thorough revamp of the existing grid network is necessary to reduce the transmission losses in the State and bridge the demand-supply gap. Power pilferage too plays a minor but important role in transmission loss. Steps need to be taken to ensure setting up of small transformers that check power pilferage especially in rural areas.

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group of 64 Christian pilgrims from Andhra Pradesh who embarked on tour of religious places in Egypt, Jordan and Israel were duped by City-based Holy Land Tours and Travels located in Secunderabad. The incident

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came to light when the pilgrims reached the capital of Egypt — Cairo — and were denied entry in Delta Pyramid Hotel. The management reportedly forcefully took off the passports and valuables and asked them to leave the hotel. The pilgrims reportedly paid `75,000 to the travel agency. The group left on the tour on May 28 from Hyderabad. The agent Francis Xavier who was supposed to join the group in Egypt did not turn up leaving the pilgrims in

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HMC is holding a one-day orientation programme for the corporators to create awareness on how to cast their vote during the upcoming standing committee elections. The elections are scheduled to be held on Tuesday. The programme will train the corporators on the do’s and don’ts to be followed while casting their votes. During the election a total of 150 corporators will cast their votes. A total of 19 corporators are contesting as against the available strength of 15 seats. While the ruling combine of MIM and Congress fielded 15 candidates, the TDP fielded two of their corporators. Two Congress rebels are also in the fray.

group of unidentified persons made away with gold ornaments after killing a 55-year-old woman in Padmanabha Nagar colony under Langer House police station limits on Sunday. The incident created a flutter in the entire locality as it took place in a Homeopath Nageswar Rao’s house, where he also runs his clinic. According to Langer House police inspector NB Ratnam, the incident took place at around 11am when Rao, went out to Satya Sai Asram. When he returned, he was shocked to see his wife Rajakumari’s body on the bed. Rao informed the police who are now investigating the case.

quandary. When Postnoon contacted Francis, he said that the pilgrims were stranded due to some visa problems. He further added that they have sent their representatives. However, said the visas will take some time. The All India Christian Council President Gera Hanok expressed concern over the security of the pilgrims and requested the State government to intervene into the issue. Minister for intermediate and secondary education K

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Pardhasarathi confirmed the news and said that the State government would do everything to rescue the pilgrims. Managing director of Andhra Christian Minorities Finance Corporation, JR Sudheer said that principal secretary of social welfare department Raymond Peter spoke to the officials. He also said that action would initiated against the travel agent. “We have launched an inquiry and will take action against the agent if guilty,” he said.

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here is no respite from fire accidents in the City. The last two weeks witnessed scores of fire accidents. On Sunday, a fire accident took place in Sri Krishna plastic godown in Rajendranagar Municipal Circle. The fire led to a huge financial loss to the proprietors of the godown. Fortunately, no casualties were reported during the incident. A total of seven fire tenders were pressed into action to douse the flames by the fire prevention department. Interestingly, even after the accident, the management of the godown reportedly did not lodge any complaint with the local police.

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aylight murders, political revenge, playing with deadly bombs like toys, bomb making in the backyards of homes, never ending feuds between landlords and political bigwigs are synonymous with the Rayalaseema region. Among the four districts, that make up this region, Anantapur took factionalism to its peak with leaders like Paritala Ravindra virtually ruling this region during the 80s and 90s. This faction hit district is again in the news due to the upcoming bypolls in two assembly constituencies of the district. The first among this constituency is Anantapur Urban seat that attracted many eyeballs for political reasons recently. One being, the ruling Congress did not field any candidates from here, which sur-

prised AICC leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Vyalar Ravi too. The YSR Congress is responsible such a piquant situation. In fact, the sitting MP A Venkat Rami Reddy reprimanded his brother whose name reportedly figured in Congress’s final candidates’ list for the bypolls. He was forced to come out of the fray for fear of losing the seat to YSR Congress party candidate B Gurunatha Reddy.

Shocked at the developments, the ruling Congress fielded a minority woman candidate Mursheeda Begum from the constituency thinking that more than 45,000 minority votes would help them win the seat. However, YSR Congress leaders see the move in fielding a minority candidate as a futile attempt to woo the Muslims. “It was our leader YSR who gave 4 per cent reservations to Muslims and not the Congress. Muslims are still indebted to him. They will never vote for congress as they are aware of its politics,” a YSR Congress leader and close aide of party candidate Gurunatha Reddy told Postnoon. On the other hand, Congress candidate Mursheeda Begum is confident that she has a fair chance of winning the seat with the support of her community and SC and STs. The main opposition Telugu Desam Party fielded Mahalakshmi Srinivasulu, a Balija community leader, going by the numerical strength of the community in the assembly constituency. The Balija community consists of over 35,000

BJP sets eyes on Parakal to State on June 9 to campaign for candidate Vijaychandra Reddy in Parakal. BJP leaders feel that Sushma endeared herself to the T people with her aggressive speech in Loksabha during Sakala Janula Samme. Laxman said, “She championed the cause of a separate Telangana at the national level. Naturally her tour will increase our prospects of winning.”

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ith the decision of Telangana Joint Action Committee to extend support to TRS in the ensuing bypoll for the Parakal Assembly constituency, BJP has changed its strategy to tame the effect of the TRS and win the lone seat in the Telangana region. The party which presently has a strength of three MLAs, was confident of securing T-JAC support as was evident in the recent Mahbubnagar elections. But, the TJAC’s decision has come as a blow for the party forcing it to explore innovative political strategies to secure a comfortable win in Parakal. As part of the strategy, the national party roped in its national leaders like opposition leader in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj and party spokesperson Prakash Javadekar to attract voters. Incidentally, both these leaders have aggressively raised

the issue of a separate Telangana in both the the Parliament. Prakash Javadekar introduced a private member’s resolution on Telangana in Rajya Sabha and made the headlines. He extensively toured Parkal to seek votes. “Javadekar’s tour has received good response. We are trying to convince people by asking them to decide who they want to vote for — a party that can create Telangana or a party that only says that it will bring Telangana. We can create a separate Telangana if we come to power,” BJP national secretary K Laxman said. On the other hand, Sushma Swaraj is coming

Promise to intellectuals As part of its strategy, the BJP held a meeting with intellectuals of Warangal earlier this month. During the meeting Javadekar assured the intellectual group that the BJP led NDA would keep away from political parties which are opposed to a separate Telangana. “It is our commitment that neither the BJP nor the NDA partners would form an alliance with parties opposed to Telangana,” he said. Analysts feel that the roping in of national level leaders will help BJP in consolidating itself as an alternative to the TRS.

votes and is seen as a deciding factor in the victory of any political party. “Our party has always supported the backward classes right from its inception and we had also implemented many welfare programmes during our rule. This will definitely help us in seeking the support of voters for the bypolls,” Srinivasulu told Postnoon. On the other hand, the left party CPI is also contesting for this seat as it managed to win the support of the masses by raising many public problems and corruption by YSR Congress party candidate. It may be recalled, that YSR had helped address the decadesold drinking water problem faced by the residents of this constituency. This is also likely to turn the tide in favour of the YSRC in the upcoming elections on June 12. According to the 2011 census, the constituency consists of a total of 1.81 lakh population, of them 60,000 voters are in the age group of 20-30 and these are the voters who will decide the fortunes of all the political parties.

Congress leaders slam Vijayamma

everal Congress leaders lashed out at YSRC honorary president and Pulivendula MLA YS Vijayamma for stating that her son YS Jagan Mohan Reddy was not involved in any irregularity and no investments flowed into Jagan’s companies illegally. Vijayawada MP Lagadapati Rajagopal has challenged Vijayamma asking whether she would take a pledge that her son did no wrong. He said that Mopidevi Venkataramana Rao had signed agreements under pressure from Jagan. “It is strange that the YSRC leaders accuse Congress for corruption and take credit for welfare schemes,” he added. RS member Chiranjeevi said Vijayamma, who was alleging that the Congress government had illegally arrested Jagan, was not listening to the cries of the farmers, who lost their lands due to her son’s misdeeds. Vijayamma was trying to gain sympathy votes in the ongoing bypolls. NSS

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RPF which is a one-of-akind animal welfare association and is administered by the youngsters of our City had organised a seminar for the pet owners which would help them nurture their pets in the right way. The president of ARPF, Nihar said, “This seminar deals with a virus that has been spreading rapidly among the dogs. Canine distemper has been torturing our furry friends.” The virus is mainly spread by the stray dogs, these stray dogs should be treated so that they do not infect our pets. The next issue of concern is vaccine. The guests of honour for the event were Dr Muralidhar, and Dr Abhishek from the Dr Dog clinic, Banjara Hills. Dr Muralidhar said, “We need committed people and not people who claim to be committed; and we found them in ARPF.” He explained about the problems that the animals face in the City and promised a free service to the animals in case of emergency. Dr Abhishek, threw light on the disease and how it affects the dogs. The story of a little brave heart dog, fondly called ‘Fighter’ was also screened. From symptoms to precautions, treatment to cure, Dr Abhishek left no stone unturned to make the concept clear to the people. The crowd also participated and came forward with many questions.

‘Colonial Cousins’ enthrall the City

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resh from their brief hiatus, the Colonial Cousins enthralled the City audience at the Shilpa Kala Vedika. The legendary duo Hari Haran and Leslie Lewis treated Hyderabad to a rare journey through time from the late 90's to numbers from their latest album. Hari Haran's strong Carnatic and Ghazal influences coupled with Leslie Lewis' blues/rock/country music held the hearts of the audience as they played a two-hour set. Beginning the set with the vibrant It's gonna be alright from

their first album, the show went on to witness some of the most emotional, heart rendering moments a music lover could expect. At the concert, organised by Sparsh Hospice, the duo followed a spiralling course of hit numbers from their albums. Indian Rain, Let me see the love, Kai Zhala, Krishna and Sa Ni Dha Pa were a few among the set list that were instantly lapped. One particular moment that stood out from the rest of the concert was when Hari Haran dedicated the very famous Tu Hi Re from the movie Bombay to a cancer patient Daisy on stage much to the delight of the audience who were in tears by the end of the song. Following this was an electric Sa Ni Dha Pa that soon followed into an encore. Leslie Lewis was in his

Chiru cheated 70 lakh voters: Shobha

SRC candidate in Allagadda, Shobha Nagi Reddy alleged that the Congress MP Chiranjeevi cheated 70 lakh voters by merging his PRP in the Congress. She said that Chiranjeevi mortgaged his PRP with the Congress in a “wholesale manner”. Targeting Eanadu’s Ramoji Rao, Shobha said that the former was dreaming that TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu would come to power. YSRC leader Jupudi Prabhakara Rao has said that Jagan was facing persecution from Congress though he didn’t commit any mistake. He claimed that the people still have confidence in Jagan. NSS

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element with his soaring vocals and breezy unplugged guitars. Accompanying the duo were Paras on flute, Shadab on percussion, Keith on bass guitars, Chris on electric guitars, Kassy on drums and Darell on the keys. Sharon, Divya and Nisha accompanied the band with backing vocals. Hari Haran's vocals, influenced by his years of dabbing through carnatic, ghazal, sufi, film and world music set the mood for the night. His energetic and unpredictable persona onstage and his many quips with the audience ensured that the people stuck to their seats and asked for more. Together with Leslie Lewis, the performance broke barriers in time and language addressing love, prophecies of rain, people and social unity.

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unway-9 is the premier family entertainment and adventure centre in Hyderabad which captivated people from different parts of the City. Go-karting is one of the youngest action sports that has already over 80 million fans worldwide. India’s first and a state-ofthe-art Go-Karting facility, Runway-9 is on a 5-acre plot in Kompally on the National Highway-7. Runway-9 has a full scale 711 metres concrete track conforming to international standards.

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Illuminated at night, the track abuts a huge grandstand that includes a clubhouse with multiple restaurants. Apart from the gokarting track, it also has other activities such as pool, archery, table tennis and even a play centre for children making it an ideal family centre. Runway-9 is open from 2.30pm-11pm on the weekdays and during weekends and public holidays, it is open from 11am-11 pm. The entry charges are reasonably priced at `30 per head.

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usic has always been an influencing factor in people’s lifes. Music is not just for entertainment but people also turn to music for enthusiasm and encouragement. One such band which has had people humming their tunes through the decade is Colonial Cousins. The duo comprising of Hariharan and Leslie Lewis was in town to perform and raise funds for Hospice. On asking the duo about an artists’ involvement in social welfare they say,“it is the soul factor which puts the magic in the music we make, if one has the soul to make music he will definitely come up for such causes also. We have seen the impact that our song Krishna had around the world. In Sri Lanka when chaos was reigning, a peace march took place where they were singing Krishna. In Dubai we met an old man who thanked us for such music as it was the only thing that allowed him to rest while his country was under political unrest.” Leslie Lewis went on to say that before he was in the music business he visited schools for the blind to interact with the children. He said, “It is amazing, the amount of energy that their smile brings.” Talking about staying away for 8 years and their future plans they said, “The last 8 years had seen a decline in Indian non-filmy music so hence we weren’t in the music scene but we are now working on a new album called Colonial Cousins Once More.”

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he Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) will be conducting a job mela on June 12 at the Owaisi School of Excellence in Riyasathnagar. Some 40 corporate companies,including those from IT sector, security, hospitality, real estate, automobiles, and hospitals will recruit candidates from 9 am to 6 pm. Candidates with minimum educational qualification of Class X are eligible to attend the mela. A benefit of this mela is that those who fail to get a job will be provided free training in different fields, including communication skills by the GHMC, said mayor Mohammad Majid Hussain on Saturday. NSS

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he APSRTC holds the unique distinction of having the largest fleet of buses in the world, with a whopping 22,410 vehicles, of these 3,800 buses ply in Hyderabad alone. It even holds the Guinness world record for the same. However, one look at the overcrowded buses that tilt dangerously towards one side, makes you wonder if the road transport corporation should probably invest in a few more buses. In fact, IT employees across the City have been complaining of the lack of buses during peak hours leading to overcrowding, especially along the Ameerpet-Hitec City belt. Every morning the bus stops along this stretch

are crowded with employees hoping to board a bus that is not jam packed, but in vain. “I have to be at college by 9am but the buses are absolutely packed between 8am and 10am, making it hard for us to board one. Even if I let three or four buses go in the hope that the next one will be less crowded it’s of no use,” says Smitha N, a student. Most of these buses ply from Secunderabad to Hitec City. So by the time they reach Mythrivanam, they are packed, making it hard for people between Ameerpet and Hitec City to board a less crowded bus. Incidentally, Mythrivanam happens to be the area where most IT employees reside. Adding to their woes is the fact that not all IT companies provide transport facilities to their employees. “We rely on public transport to get to work and it can be quite a challenge. No

matter how long we wait at the bus stop, almost every bus that comes here is crowded. To beat this rush I try leaving earlier in the day to get a less crowded bus, but in the evenings there’s not much we can do,” says T Raji, a commuter. What makes things worse for commuters in the City is that unlike in Delhi and Mumbai, people do not follow a line system and there’s no upper limit on the number of passengers a bus can carry. This is one of the primary reasons for the buses being overcrowded as people continue to push and shove to get into the vehicle. “One of the basic rules in the City for boarding a bus is that men use the rear entry while board from the front. But during the peak hours, all of this is forgotten,” complains Satish K, an IT employee. When Postnoon checked

with the APSRTC officials they admitted that they were aware of the problem and were working on a solution. “We realise that there is a problem and have already added two extra buses on that route between 9.15am and 9.45 am. If the problem still persists, we will have to look for an alternative solution,” said Satya Narayana, regional manager, APSRTC. For commuters, there is little other option. Although there are share autos, they charge double of what the buses do. While the bus fare from Ameerpet to Hitec City is `9, share autos charge anything between `15 to `25. “The auto drivers charge exorbitant amounts and the rate is not fixed. We have to reach office on time, if not we get a loss of pay, hence we have to give in to their demands,” says Neha S, a dance teacher at Jubilee Hills.

The broader, the better! Smoke from the exhausts of vehicles, horns, and patience being tested are the characteristic features of an evening drive in the City. Bottlenecks are the main cause of this problem

TRAFFIC Bhavneet Singh feedback@postnoon.com

he City of Nawabs has seen a major change in the traffic trends. Gone are the days when reaching Begumpet from Secunderabad was just a 15 minute journey. It takes a lot more time now and the major reason being the bottlenecks. The road just before the Saptagiri towers in Begumpet is one of the busiest roads in the evening. But sadly, the 4lane road suddenly becomes half at this point leading to a traffic jam. Though the cops manage the traffic as smoothly as possible, the chaos is inevitable. The scene is similar at Nagarjuna Circle, where

the road is steep and narrows down, causing inconvenience to the commuters. There is no way out and all the commuters can do is wait. “I guess even the passes in the mountains are broader than this,” complained an angry commuter who was stuck in the traffic for an hour at Begumpet.

There are three major reasons for the bottlenecks. The first one being encroachments. From temples and churches in between the road to a mall and the huts of the homeless are a part of this category. The next reason for the bottleneck is lack of proper planning. Flyovers which are constructed to ease the

traffic become a reason for jams because they are constructed at the wrong places. The third is that the plans are executed merely on paper. The road widening at Mettuguda and the station stretch are a good example. If you thought the trouble ends here, then another issue is the Metro Rail construction. Despite these problems, the only shining beacon is the Hyderabad traffic police which is doing a commendable job. PVS Ramakrishna, the deputy commissioner of Traffic Police said, “We take action according to the need. Whenever there is a severe problem, we deploy additional forces and divert the traffic.” Adding to this, the police does a great job in diverting traffic, and sometimes releasing them phase by phase.

100 YEARS OF INDIAN CINEMA

MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2012

GONE WITH THE WIND Behind the facade of glory which film industry is known for, hundreds of actors and actresses, who were once heartthrobs, have vanished without a trace. Their illustrious careers bit the dust sometimes for no reason. We take a look at some such actors who couldn’t capitalise on their initial success Hemanth Kumar hemanth.k@postnoon.com

hey were once touted to be the next big thing in Indian cinema, but the manner in which the careers of celebrities like Mamta Kulkarni, Keerthi Reddy, Arvind Swami, Uday Kiran spiralled out of control leaves a lot of unanswered questions about what really went wrong. The list is endless and each decade had its own set of actors and actresses who were within the reach of stardom before they vanished without a trace. When actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Rishi Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia, Hema Malini, Zeenat Aman and Sridevi were ruling the roost in the 80s, the era also had actors like Kumar Gaurav, Meenakshi Seshadri, Bhagyashree, Mandakini who shot to fame with a string of decent hits to their credit. Meenakshi Seshadri was almost competing with Sridevi in terms of popularity in the late 80s and went on to star in critically acclaimed films like Aapathbhandavudu, Damini, Ghayal and Ghatak, before she quit her career. In 1997, she got married an investment banker and migrated to the US. Another classic example is Mandakini who rose to fame with films like Ram Teri

Ganga Maili, Loha and Jeete Hai Shaan Se. So what went wrong with some of these heartthrobs? The nexus of drugs, mafia and a series of flops led to the downfall of many stars. Mandakini was often spotted with Dawood Ibrahim, Kumar Gaurav’s luck begin to fade towards the late 80s and Bhagyashree didn’t sign a single big film post Maine Pyaar Kiya. In 1989, Mani Ratnam’s Geethanjali made waves in Andhra Pradesh, but the lead actress of the film Girija never appeared in another big film. Perhaps no other actress’ downfall made more news than the sudden rise and fall of Mamta Kulkarni. She was the pin-up girl of the early 90s. By 1995, she went on to act with Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar, Aamir Khan and Saif Ali Khan and then she stunned everyone with her topless photoshoot for a leading magazine. Apart from few forgettable roles, she was hardly seen onscreen before people came to know that she had migrated to Dubai. Anu Agarwal and Rahul Roy, who became a sensation post Aashiqui, couldn’t repeat their magic ever again. Mani Ratnam’s critically acclaimed film Roja made its lead pair Arvind Swamy and Madhoo a household name. Both the actors went on

to star in couple of memorable films like Bombay and Gentleman respectively and by 2000, they took a long break from films. Arvind Swamy is going to make his comeback after more than a decade in Mani Ratnam’s next film Kadal. Among other actresses, Shalini, Manu, Abhirami, Vijayalakshmi and Suvalakshmi didn’t last long either. Telugu film industry has had its share of heartthrobs who ran out of steam at the box office. Maheshwari, Vadde Naveen, Venkat, Aakash and Laila tasted success quite early in their career but their names don’t really ring a bell as much as they should have had. Keerthi Reddy, who mesmerised everyone with her girl next door image in Pawan Kalyan’s Tholiprema, acted in few Hindi films before vanishing altogether. In the early part of last decade, Uday Kiran, Tharun, Richa Pollad and Aarti Agarwal were a rage among the youth. By mid 2000s, none of them could maintain their star status at the box office. The journey in film industry, amidst competition from peers, can be ruthless and only a few manage to stand the test of time. And others end up as vague memories of a distant past. For better or worse, perhaps fate had other plans for them.

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THUS SPAKE “I expect that the Greek public will be sufficiently frightened by the prospect of expulsion from the European Union that it will give a narrow majority of seats to a coalition that is ready to abide by the current agreement,” George Soros billionaire investor

A Greek exit from the eurozone will be on the agenda if Athens fails to impose austerity measures required in its EU-IMF bailout deal, French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said Sunday. “The question would be raised without a doubt.... if the Greeks themselves do not respect their commitments,” Moscovici said on French television.

BAD NEWS Ahead of the European Commission revealing plans to rescue and winddown failing lenders on the continent as the Spanish banking crisis mounts, Britain has ruled out participating in any European bank bailout or new fund. Spain’s banking sector is in crisis due to a housing bubble that burst three years ago.

TOUGH CALL Bolivia’s President Evo Morales, who has nationalised some utility companies, raised the possibility of making all natural resourcerelated industries property of the state. “Another policy ought to be how we recover, or nationalize, all natural resources, so they are in the people’s hands under state administration,” he said.

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Cable operators cry foul

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round 20 per cent of the houses in the metropolitan cities have shifted from analogue to digital in the process of digitisation. The deadline, June 30, 2012, is just 26 days away, causing a concern among the customers and cable TV operators. Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra governments have already sent the requests to the Central government to extend the deadline. There are also impending court cases on digitisation in Mumbai and New Delhi, said Roop Sharma, president, Cable Operators Federation of India.

Government is forcing digitisation on the industry to please foreign broadcasters. Neither the cable industry nor the customers want forced digitisation. Today, `25,000 crores is being spent by Indian customers to import the cheap quality boxes from Taiwan and China, she said. The government lacked proper planning in implementation in the process of digitisation. “Why it did not set up or at least plan for indigenous set top box manufacturing facility? Almost `25,000 crores of the customer money will go to foreign manufactures at the time when there is huge demand for the dollar. The dwindling rupee value further pushes the prices of these set top boxes.

A first: Sony falls below ¥1,000 TOKYO: Sony shares tumbled below 1,000 yen for the first time since 1980 as the Tokyo stock market plunged early Monday following a dismal performance from Wall Street and amid global economic concerns.The entertainment and electronics giant dropped 2.3 per cent to 990 yen shortly after the opening bell, before recovering to 1,001 yen as of 11.20am. Dealers said Sony last traded blow the psychologically important 1,000 yen level in August 1980 around a year after its landmark “Walkman” portable music player was released. Sony posted a record full-year loss of 456.66 billion yen for the year to March 2012. Japanese companies have blamed tough competition from rivals including Samsung, falling prices, slow demand, the impact of severe flooding in Thailand last year, and the high yen for their travails. ^cm

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60,000 According to the government, the MSO’s need to buy set top boxes and distribute it to the cable operators. However, it did not put any system in place for the independent cable operators,” she said. When asked whether she brought these issues to the gov-

ernment notice, she said “Even being in the task force, the government is not ready to listen any of our concerns. It is not just a burden on the customer but also on the cable operator to the change the whole systems from analogue to digital which involves high costs. The new technicians need to be hired to work with digital systems, who may charge anywhere between `12,000-15,000,” she said. The government is not putting any law for the broadcasters and asking them to regulate by themselves. However, there are many laws in place to hinder the growth of the cable operator. It is also dictating terms in the revenue share of the cable operator for each connection. According to the government, the cable operator can only take `45 for each connection. It is almost impossible for a small cable operator with 500 connections to survive in the industry with the heavy input costs like rents, cabling, and salaries. Around 20 per cent of the public such as some of the tax people, politicians, polices, goons are not paying for a cable connection. “How can we charge them for a set top box?” she questioned. The cable TV industry is not against digitisation but against the systems followed in the process. For example, the government of USA has spent its own money and invested around $40 on each customer in the process of digitisation. It took 10 years for them to move 80 per cent of the country to digitisation. The analogue and digital co-exist with each other. However in India, the public money spent with short deadlines and removes analogue completely, she said.

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India unveiled

Indian stamp on largest telescope NEW DELHI: The world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope, being built in South Africa and Australia, will have a distinct Indian imprint. Every movement of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) telescope will be guided by a system being developed by a global team of scientists led by Indians. Scientists from the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA), Raman Research Institute (RRI) and leading software research organisations will be involved in the design and implementation of the main control and monitoring system for this complex radio telescope. “India will have the leadership role in developing the control and monitoring system for the telescope,” Ishwara Chandra, a senior scientist at NCRA, told PTI. A week ago, the members of the SKA organisation decided to build the two-billion-dollar telescope in South Africa and Australia, an announcement welcomed by the leadership and the scientific communities of both the countries. Currently, India is an associate member of the SKA Organisation and is expected to become a full member later this year.

When completed by around 2024, the telescope will be 50 times more sensitive than current instruments and capable of spotting a television signal from a nearby star. “Scientists in South Africa are very happy with the site decision and are eager to start work with their Australian colleagues on

implementing the SKA,” South African Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor told. The SKA will be used to search the universe for answers about how stars and galaxies are formed and how galaxies and the universe have evolved over the past 14 billion years. The Indian team will also be

involved in development of some of the hardware for the SKA, including parts of the receiver system for the low frequency aperture array, Chandra said. The SKA consists of two quite distinct components – one working at low frequencies and one working at mid frequencies, the South African minister said.

She said the two components used very different antenna technologies and operate independently which makes it quite easy to separate them and build them on separate sites. “Even if the SKA had been allocated to one country the two components would have been separated by quite a large distance,” Pandor said. South Africa, together with eight African partner countries, has been allocated the mid-frequency dish array, and Australia has been allocated the low frequency aperture array, she said. “The higher elevation of the South African site makes it more suitable for observing mid frequencies,” Pandor said. On the cost factor, she said the capital and running costs for the SKA will come from contributions from all of the members of the SKA Organisation. “In the SKA Phase-I, there may be a saving on costs because the split site scenario allows the use of existing infrastructure on both sites,” Pandor said. In the first phase, South Africa will add 190 dishes to its existing MeerKAT array radio telescope in the Karoo region in the Northern Cape. PTI

Woman power: Tribals stall eco-tourism plan in Odisha

View last transit of Venus on Wednesday

Richa Sharma

NEW DELHI: The transit of venus on June 6 — a rare event that will not repeat itself until the next century — promises to be a unique celestial extravaganza that observers will cherish for lifetime. The phenomenon occurs when venus passes between the sun and earth and the planet gets aligned with the former. This is an extremely rare event which occurs in pairs, eight years apart, about once a century. The next pair of transit of Venus will occur after a century on December 11, 2117 and on December 8, 2125. “Venus Transit is a rare astronomical event where Venus passes directly between the earth and the sun. The planet appears as a black spot gliding across the sun’s fiery face,” Nehru Planetarium Director N Rathnasree said. The next transit of Venus will occur in 2117, making it once in a lifetime opportunity, Science Popularisation Association of Communicators and Educators (SPACE) Director CB Devgun said. However, only the beginning phase of the event that comprises Ingress exterior,

aripada (Odisha): A group of tribal women in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district have taken authorities head on and stopped an eco-tourism project that was coming up in a reserve forest adjoining their villages in violation of their forest rights. About 200 women under the banner of the Budhikhamari Community Forest Protection Committee (BCFPC) in March this year protested against the Odisha forest department’s ecotourism project ‘Sriram Vatika’ covering 118 hectares of Manchabandha Reserve Forest-I of Baripada forest division. It all started in January this year when the forest department started construction activities for the project in the sal tree forest while villagers were busy with the panchayat elections in the state. “The forest department started fencing and constructing a road inside the forest. As a result, an estimated 1,000-1,500 Sal trees were felled in the forest, which had been completely regenerated in last three decades by the indigenous community,” Vishnu Nath Purthy, convener of

Mayurbhanj Jungle Manch, which supported the protest, told IANS. Four villages in Baripada, the district headquarters of Mayurbhanj district — the biggest district in Odisha — have been protecting this forest since 1985. The majority of their population is tribal and they are depen-

dent on the forest for their livelihood. “When we protested against the fencing of our forest, the forest department told us that they have got the consent of our gram sabha to take over the land as the project will generate livelihood,” said Sarla Devi Singh, president of the core committee for forest management in Baripada. IANS

the point of the planet’s first contact with the sun’s disk will be visible from India. The Ingress interior, when Venus is fully inside the solar disc, will not be visible from any part of the country. People in eastern India can see the first part of the event after sunrise for a duration of about 5 hours 30 minutes, while those in western side will see it for about 4 hours 30 minutes. The entire transit event will be visible from north western North America, the western Pacific, northern Asia, Japan, Korea, eastern China, Philippines, eastern Australia and New Zealand. The last transit of Venus occurred on June 8, 2004 when the entire event was visible from all parts of India. PTI

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India unveiled

VK Singh backs Anna-Ramdev

NATION AT A GLANCE Gujarat tourism gets Centre’s `1,200cr boost

VRINDAVAN: Ex-army chief General V.K. Singh has thrown his lot behind the anti-graft agitations led by social activist Anna Hazare and yoga guru Baba Ramdev, terming them “timely and valid”. In town to offer prayers at the famous Banke Bihari temple, General Singh, who retired May 31, pointed out Sunday that corruption was a major issue in the country and it was up to the government to devise ways to tackle it. Talking to mediapersons after paying obeisance, Gen. Singh said that while there were many issues facing the nation, he did not have any “immediate plan” to join politics.

AHMEDABAD: Gujarat government’s plan to boost coastal tourism has received a shot in the arm as the Planning Commission has approved a `1,200 crore special grant for the project. The Planning Commission gave its nod for the special grant during a high-level meeting between its Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, held on June 1 in Delhi.

Gen. Singh refused to talk about his 42-year tenure with the Indian Army — beyond saying that he had come to thank God that it had passed off peacefully — citing confidentiality on many issues. He also hoped that the government would do all it can to maintain the honour of the force. “At the end all was good and I wanted to thank God for his blessings” he added. IANS

Mathura riots: 2 babus shifted LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government has transferred two senior officials in Mathura following communal riots that left four people dead, an official said. Mathura district magistrate (DM) Sanjay Kumar and senior superintendent of police (SSP) Dharamveer were transferred late on Sunday. A government official said Alok Tiwari has been appointed as the new DM and N.R. Padmaja the new SSP of Mathura. The two officials have been dispatched to the troubled district with clear instructions that violence must not happen again and that the culprits who sparked it should be brought to book, a home wing source said. No violence was reported on Monday. Last week, violence broke out in Kosi Kalan region of Mathura where rioters torched vehicles, business establishments and schools. The police has been blamed for not acting on time to curb the riot.

Small activist groups gripe over neglect NEW DELHI: Small activist groups who were also demonstrating at Jantar Mantar for an unemployment allowance, on Sunday blamed the media for not covering them and giving more attention to anticorruption crusaders Anna Hazare and yoga guru Baba Ramdev’s fast. “It is the country’s media which decides whose demonstration to cover and whose not to cover. We are not as famous as Ramdev and Anna. Does it mean we are not fighting for the public or against corruption?” asked Satish Chander Arora, who was among the few protestors sitting on a day-long fast demanding the award of unemployment allowance to each unemployed person in the country. Demonstrating under the banner of International Awakening Centre, Arora said: “We are also fighting for the benefit of people, so why such a big difference? Why does the media not cover our cause and show it to the public?” “At the Jantar Mantar, someone sits on a fast every day. But the media does not come here to cover. Ever when we call them to come, they never turn up. Because we are not Baba Ramdev or Anna Hazare,” another protester added.

70-yr-old dies after struck by lightning SALEM: A 70-year-old man was killed after being struck by lightning at Omalur in the district, police said. Nallagounder was taking bath near a tree on Sunday when the incident occurred, police said on Monday. Four others were admitted to hospital with minor injuries.

Ramdev to meet Gadkari today NEW DELHI: Yoga guru Ramdev will today meet BJP president Nitin Gadkari to seek his party’s support for his campaign against black money. Earlier, Ramdev during his fast at Jantar Mantar said that he would approach all political parties for their support to the anti-corruption movement. PTI Demanding that the government of India pass the right to employment and allowance bill, Sarabjit Singh, another protestor, said: “India

is a rich and powerful country, its economic power is very strong. Despite all that, almost 40 percent citizens are facing poverty and economic problems.” “All unemployed people must be given allowances and jobs by the government. The government must retain the black money from foreign countries and conduct raids on corrupt bureaucrats and officials of the country. The black money should be divided among India’s unemployed persons, till they get a job,” said another person, Mukesh Kumar explaining their reason to protest. PTI

Yamuna Expressway already a huge hit

AGRA: The 165-km, six-lane Yamuna Expressway, which will drastically cut down the travel time between Delhi and Agra, has become the favourite of enthusiastic riders and speedsters even before its offi-

cial opening. Though complete, it awaits a nod from the new Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party government, probably because it was conceived by the previous Mayawati government that

built it at an estimated cost of `11,000 crore. Abutting the river Yamuna, it will reduce travel time between Greater Noida and Agra by about 90 minutes. “I covered the distance from Buddh circuit (Greater Noida) to Kuberpur crossing on Firozabad road in Agra in 70 minutes,” said Rohit, a speedcrazy youth who drove in his Tata Innova. A motorcycle rider, Pipindra Powar, clocked 90 minutes to cover the stretch. To access the expressway, some speed junkies also pay “tips” to securitymen at the entry points. The existing national highway Number 2 that connects Delhi with Agra is already being upgraded by the Reliance group. IANS

Cops whisk away a man when TMC and CPM workers clashed before a polling booth during WB Municipal Election on Sunday. PTI

Dimple to file papers for Kannauj tomorrow LUCKNOW:Dimple Yadav, wife of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, will file her nomination for the Kannauj Lok Sabha by-poll Tuesday, a Samajwadi Party leader said. The by-poll was necessitated by Akhilesh Yadav’s election to the state Legislative Council and Dimple was fielded following consultations and deliberations, the leader said.

Aarushi case: Hearing adjourned till June 8 GHAZIABAD: A special CBI court in Ghaziabad Monday adjourned the hearing in the Aarushi-Hemaraj double murder case till June 8. The hearing was adjourned after the Bar Association of Ghaziabad decided to strike work following the death of a lawyer. Aarushi’s parents, Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, are being tried for the 2008 murders.

A boy offers a chocolate to DMK chief M Karunanidhi on his 89th birthday fete at the Anna Arivalayam in Chennai. PTI

Around the World

MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2012

Beyond Borders

Are Confucius Institutes akin to a Trojan horse? HONG KONG, CHINA: An increasing number of American universities have at least one interest in common with China’s Communist government: Confucius Institutes. First established in 2004, these controversial cultural outposts have multiplied at colleges around the country, with over 80 in the US this year — more than any other country in the world. Funded by Beijing, and explicitly designed to improve China’s “soft power” around the globe, Confucius Institutes came under fire last month when the US State Department unexpectedly announced new rules targeting them. In a surprise announcement on May 17, the US said that many of the program’s language teachers were in America on improper visas, and would have to leave the country to re-apply. In addition, the note said that Confucius Institutes would have to obtain additional accreditation. The rules caused a stir in China, where netizens mocked both countries, and a nationalist tabloid asked, “Why is Washington so afraid of Confucius?” In America, affiliated universities scrambled to compose defenses for their Confucius Institute staff. Many speculated that the policy was America’s titfor-tat response to China’s crackdown on illegal foreigners. Less than a day later, after a furious diplomatic back-andforth, the State Department

The Confucius Institute at the University of Chicago (CIUC) was inaugurated on June 1, 2010.

The Confucius Institute of Indianapolis float. reversed itself completely. Now, it said, teachers could stay in the US, and would even get US government help to obtain the correct documents. The department spokesman went so far as to call the original decision “sloppy and not complete.” Why such a big blowup over a few dozen cultural facilities?

Suicidal boy gets kiss of life

Chinese teenager was about to end his life when a woman came to his rescue. The woman kissed the boy long enough for firefighters to pull him in from the ledge of the pedestrian overpass. Apparently, the boy felt lonely and helpless, and saw suicide as the only way to end his suffering. He lost his mother when he was still a child, and his stepmother had spent all his father’s money.

While many people see the institutes as benign, bringing skilled language instruction to far-flung universities like Kansas, New Hampshire and Texas — not to mention Stanford and Columbia — critics worry about the long-term impact of having Communist Party-sponsored facilities on American campuses. The [Confucius Institute] is a tool of the Chinese government and Communist Party to promote China’s interest abroad,” says Chris Reardon, a China expert at the University of New Hampshire, which has one of these institutes. “It is up to the foreign host institution to institute safeguards and oversight.” In particular, critics worry

that the Confucius Institutes could inhibit academic freedom by refusing to engage in debate over issues that Beijing views as sensitive: Tibet, Taiwan, China’s military, Falun Gong. Many users of China’s microblog service, Weibo, share this view. “It’s very necessary for the US to prevent China from promoting enslaving education and authoritarian thoughts,” wrote one. “The teachers probably only teach about enslavement and dictatorship. Teachers from Taiwan won’t be sent back,” wrote another. Moreover, some people believe that because of their ties to Beijing Confucius Institutes could serve as a cover for monitoring Chinese students abroad, industrial espionage and recruiting spies. In testimony before Congress this March, Steven Mosher of the Population Research Institute, a humanrights NGO, pointed out that the parent organization of Confucius Institutes, Hanban, is indirectly controlled by China’s United Front Work Department, which is responsible for “subversion, cooption and control.” He cited the work of James F. Paradise of UCLA, who called the institutes “Trojan horses” for China. Perhaps even more telling, the propaganda chief of China has said that the Confucius Institutes are “an important part of China’s overseas propaganda set-up.” GLOBALPOST

Arizona mother held for child abuse

19-year-old Arizona mother who police say left her 5-week-old baby strapped in a car seat atop her car roof and drove off is under arrest on child abuse and aggravated DUI charges, Phoenixarea media reported Saturday. The child, found in the middle of the road, was “perfectly OK," said Officer James Holmes, Phoenix police spokesman, told The Arizona Republic. The car seat was damaged, Holmes told TV station The baby is in the custody of Arizona Child Protective Services, officials said. At about 1am on Saturday, police got calls from the area near North 45th Avenue and West Cholla Street in northwest Phoenix that a baby was in a car seat in the middle of a road, The Arizona Republic reported. Phoenix Fire Department officials found the baby and took him to a local hospital, officials said. Holmes told reporters that the mother, Catalina Clouser, had apparently been smoking marijuana late on Friday night at a nearby park with her boyfriend.

Japan to use animals for tsunami duty TOKYO: A Japanese city is considering introducing a tsunami warning system which involves looking out for abnormal behaviour in animals and monitoring water levels in wells for signs of an imminent disaster. The southwestern coastal city of Susaki is contemplating studying whether a rapid lowering of water in wells or chickens squawking loudly for no apparent reason are indicators of an impending earthquake and tsunami. “They may not foretell a future disaster in a perfectly accurate manner, but the most important is to analyse such data thoroughly,” said deputy mayor Yoshihito Myojin, according to a regional broadcaster late last month. Over the years many tales

about natural phenomena have been passed down as signs of an impending natural disaster in Japan, including abnormal movement of fish and cats fleeing their homes. Experts warned in April that a 35-metre (115-foot) tsunami was in danger of hitting the Japanese coast in the

wake of a massive earthquake as it revised its worst case scenario projections following last year’s disaster. The news came as Jiji Press reported that the Tokyo metropolitan government is mulling whether smartphones and car navigation systems can guide drivers

during mass evacuations when the next big quake rocks the capital. When the 9.0-magnitude tremor struck off northeastern Japan in March 2011, heavy traffic jams paralysed central areas of the capital, blocking fire engines and other emergency vehicles.

Around the World

MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2012

Beyond Borders

Assad still shirks the blame

GLOBE AT A GLANCE US drone kills 15 militants in Pakistan

DAMASCUS: President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday dismissed allegations that his government had a hand in the Houla massacre and accused foreignbacked forces of plotting to destroy Syria. At least 39 people were reported killed across the country as troops clashed with rebels, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. On the political front, the European Union and the United States joined forces to pile pressure on Syrian ally Russia to change its stance on Damascus, but President Vladimir Putin refused to budge. In a speech to parliament that lasted more than an hour, Assad said that even “monsters” were incapable of carrying out massacres such as last month’s killings near the central Syrian town of Houla. His reaction came after Arab ministers urged the United Nations to act to stop the bloodshed, and France raised the prospect of military action against Damascus under a UN mandate. “What happened in Houla and elsewhere are brutal massacres which even monsters would not have carried out,” Assad said of the May 25 killing

MIRANSHAH: A US drone strike tar-

Nintendo doubles down on Wii U

of 108 people, including 49 children. “The masks have fallen and the international role in the Syrian events is now obvious,” he said in his first address to the assembly since a May 7 parliamentary election. The polls were the perfect response “to the criminal killers and those who finance them,” Assad said, stressing that his regime was determined to push through reforms but not at the expense of security. “We are not facing a political problem but a project to destroy

The time is coming, if it is not already here, for a serious review. The international community must decide what it does next. Kofi Annan, UN-Arab League envoy to Syria

the country,” he said, adding there would be “no dialogue” with opposition groups which “seek foreign intervention.” An official of the exiled opposition Syrian National Council condemned the address. “Assad’s speech was a declaration of the continuation of the bloody solution and the suppression of the revolution at any cost,” Samir Nashar, a member of the SNC executive office, told AFP. Putin, meanwhile, fended off a coordinated Western push to back further action on Syria. “The only way out of the Syria crisis... involves a cessation of violence and consistent support for the plan of (mediator Kofi) Annan,” Russia’s foreign ministry quoted Putin as saying. “Russia will continue supporting this position and calls on other states to do the same.” US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Sunday she “made it very clear” to her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov at the weekend that the focus was shifting to a political transition in Syria. “Assad’s departure does not have to be a precondition but it should be an outcome, so the people of Syria have a chance to express themselves,” she told reporters in Stockholm. AFP

US asks China to forgive

LOS ANGELES: Nintendo provided a glimpse on Sunday into its second-generation Wii console as the Japanese videogame giant set out to generate excitement ahead of the E3 industry extravaganza. In a webcast streamed online, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata revealed details about the Wii U GamePad and promised more to attend a press conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday prior to the opening of the E3 show floor. The console’s name was a reference to a 6.2-inch screen that displays maps or other information to complement game play, acts as a touchscreen game board and serves as a second monitor. The table has near-fieldcommunication (NFC) technology and can serve as a television remote control, according to the demonstration. And the built-in screen can serve as a “social window” to exchange messages between people using Wii U tablets to play with or against one another online in the belief that “together is better,” according to Iwata.

geting a militant compound in Pakistan's northwestern tribal area killed 15 insurgents in a pre-dawn attack on Monday, security officials said. Two missiles were fired on the compound in Mir Ali, 25 kilometres (15 miles) east of Miranshah, the capital of North Waziristan, near the Afghan border, in an area considered a hub of Taliban and Al-Qaeda activity.

Quake strikes in Pacific south of Panama PANAMA CITY: A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck Sunday in the Pacific Ocean south of Panama, and no casualties or damage were immediately reported, a civil defense official said. "There are no reports of damage anywhere at this time; it just scared people a bit," Civil Defense chief Arturo Alvarado told RPC Radio.

Space Shuttle Enterprise is on it's way to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, where it will put on permanent display. AFP

Hundreds march in Colombia against rape BOGOTA: Hundreds of protesters poured into the streets of Bogota to protest the brutal rape and assassination of a 35-year-old woman in one of the city parks. The march began at a local church, which held a memorial service for the victim, Rosa Elvira Cely, who was raped and brutally beaten at Bogota's National Park on May 24.

N Korea threatens to attack S Korean media SEOUL: N Korea's military threatened to blow up the Seoul offices of S Korean media outlets following critical coverage of a mass children's event in Pyongyang. The military general staff, in an unusually detailed statement on the official news agency, said missile units and other forces had fixed the longitude and latitude coordinates for several firms' offices in central Seoul. WASHINGTON: The United States urged China to free all those still jailed over the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, on the eve of Monday’s 23rd anniversary of the brutal crackdown on the protests. State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner said on Sunday the United States called on Beijing to do more to protect the human rights of its citizens. The United States “joins the international community in remembering the tragic loss of

innocent lives” in the “violent suppression” of the mass prodemocracy protests in the heart of Beijing, Toner said in a statement. “We encourage the Chinese government to release all those still serving sentences for their participation in the demonstrations; to provide a full public accounting of those killed, detained or missing; and to end the continued harassment of demonstration participants and their families.”

Hundreds, perhaps thousands, are believed to have died when the government sent in tanks and soldiers to clear Tiananmen Square on the night of June 3-4, 1989, violently crushing six weeks of prodemocracy protests. More than two decades later, Beijing still considers the incident a “counter revolutionary rebellion” and has refused to acknowledge any wrongdoing or consider compensation for those killed.

A Pakistani boy, left, runs by a burning truck, set on fire by protestors, condemning the severe power shortages, in Karachi. AFP

Comment

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Fair, free and forthright

Talk back Tobacco kills housewife What a pathetic act of cruelty that was! This is what things like smoking and drinking do to people. They make them like beasts capable of doing anything, and this is one such sad incident. This is just one case that has come to light, there are thousands more that people silently put up with. People who don’t have control over such things should simply stay away from these habits. The government has to do something about this and the accused brought to book. Zubaida Khanum Krishna Nagar

Rise and fall of petrol price The government is very clever. It’s amazing how these people can just fool around with the common man. They think that we don’t understand the game where they first increase the price of petrol heavily and then bring it down a little bit just to show that they have done something for the public! Well, if that is what they think, then they need to reconsider it because the people are as smart as them now and have got wise to the tricks played by the government. With the kind of situation we see now, petrol would be demanded in dowry in the future! Jacqueline Jude Yousufguda

Sexism among cops Your article is absolutely true. Currently, all you need to escape a police checking is to either be a girl or have a girl on the pillion seat of your bike and that becomes your license to pass through surprise checks by policemen. There is a gender bias among cops and women are just let off without any fines where as men are forced to pay up, sometimes in the form of bribes. A person who violates the law is liable for a fine be that person a man or a woman. Hope the cops get this right and the traffic in the city becomes improves. Aditya Shankar Ranigunj

Good interviews

I have noticed that Postnoon carries great interviews of well known personalities. The recent interview of Ashwini Ponappa was very nice to read. The writer was able to embody the true nature of Ashwini through the article. The interview was not the usual cliched one but had a bit of originality. Jeena, Malakpet

Taxman made wrong call? Human Angle Babu Gogineni

n 2007, a Cayman Island-registered subsidiary of Hong Kong’s HutchisonWhampoa sold a 67% stake in the Indian mobile phone company Hutchison-Essar to the Dutch subsidiary of British mobile phone operator Vodafone. At $11.2 billion, this complex acquisition was a big-ticket transaction for Vodafone, then the world’s largest telecom company. Even though the controlling stake in a 15year-old mobile company in a developing country was achieved at a steep price, it proved a good deal for Vodafone which today has a quarter of India’s mobile market, and nearly 150 million subscribers. This deal, however, was far from being a straightforward triumph for Vodafone. Its troubles began with questions that were raised about the deal’s zero tax liability, and this has led to tedious litigation. If an India-based asset is sold by a foreign company based in the Netherlands to another foreign company based in the Cayman Islands, would a liability to pay capital gains tax arise in India? The deal itself was signed outside India. So, where does India come in? One of the world’s best known tax havens, the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean, like Liechtenstein, Isle of Man, Cyprus, and Netherlands Antilles, provide a tax shelter to companies which establish shell companies and pay no tax of any kind by virtue of their being ‘based’ in those countries. Because of Double Taxation Avoidance Treaties and similar arrangements, exemption from tax liability in tax havens translates to immunity from tax liability. In line with this thinking, Vodafone asserted that the Indian tax system had no jurisdiction on a deal that was struck between two foreign entities outside India. In any case, if there were any tax liability, that would be for HutchisonEssar to discharge, and not Vodafone. Vodafone adopted this approach even earlier but was forced to capitulate. In 2010, the UK’s Private Eye magazine reported that by routing the acquisition of Mannesmann through a Luxemburg subsidiary Vodafone implemented an elaborate tax avoidance game. Vodafone was eventually made to pay $1.92 billion to Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs and Revenue. Just as in the UK, the Indian tax authori-

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ties did not accept Vodafone’s contentions and presented the company with a bill for over $4.4 billion including interest and penalties. After losing its case in Mumbai High Court, Vodafone approached the Supreme Court where its stand was upheld — this was welcome news for other similar deals like that of Cadbury’s-Kraft, Sanofi-Aventis and SAB Miller-Fosterc. SC seems to have not given due weight to the fact that the transferred assets while remaining abroad, relate to controlling interest in an Indian company. The Indian tax authorities estimate that the tax liabilities of all these deals are close to `50,000 crore and so the Finance Bill for the year 2012-2013 proposes to clarify the tax liabilities of these overseas transactions involving Indian entities, with a view to collect the taxes. This seems absolutely the right thing to do, but the finance minister has also said in Parliament that the Income Tax Act would be amended to cover all deals since 1962. Parliament certainly has power to legislate in this manner, but how fair would such ex post facto or retroactive laws be? The picture around the world is a mixed one, and retroactive laws are usually prohibited for criminal law whereas for civil matters, specially in common law regimes, retroactive laws are not unusual. Expressly forbidden by the US Constitution, in Australia and Canada retroactive laws meant to prosecute tax avoidance are acceptable. In France, criminal laws can be applied retroactively only when the new law benefits the accused person. In India Article 20 (1) of the Indian Constitution creates the fundamental right: “No person shall be convicted of any offence

except for violation of a law in force at the time of the commission of the act charged as an offence, nor be subjected to a penalty greater than that which have been inflicted under the law in force at the time of commission of the offence.” So can acts seen to be legal since 1962 be made liable or punishable now? The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the UN declares in its Article 11 that no person should be held guilty of any criminal law that did not exist at the time of offence nor suffer any penalty heavier than what existed at the time of offence. This is reiterated in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Right, the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights as also the European Convention on Human Rights. Vodafone’s Dutch subsidiary has served a Notice of Dispute against the government of India, indicating that it would like to have international arbitration on the matter. But that is a powerless notice for a law which has not yet been notified, invoking the IndiaNetherlands Bilateral Investment Treaty which is not applicable in the case of taxation. In any case, what is the locus, because the deal actually was done with the Cayman Island entity and not the Dutch company! Like in the UK, Vodafone will have to pay its tax and not hide behind a deal done in a Caribbean island. The real question, however, would be how the proposed Indian legislation will reconcile the principles laid down in the Indian Constitution and in the general worldwide consensus regarding retroactive legislation with its intention to apply the proposed legislation with retroactive effect going back to 1962!

KARUNANIDHI FACES A TOUGH CHOICE as sons set for succession war

MK patriarch M Karunanidhi’s family might have posed for shutterbugs as one big happy family but the reality is far from this. The Dravidian ideologue has seen bitter battles between his sons for supremacy and for the tag of heir apparent. In the latest twist to the drama, the massive flex posters congratulating Talaivar did not feature Alaghiri. This was clearly the attempt from some close circles to make it clear whom they wanted as successor. While the DMK chief was initially inclined to pass the baton to Stalin, Alaghiri made it clear that he won’t be standing back and applauding. It was not long ago when Alaghiri’s supporters torched the office of a Sun Group daily for publishing a survey on succession which favoured Stalin. Though Stalin may be popular among DMK’s Chennai leaders and middle class voters, there is no doubting the Madurai strongman’s support base in the hinterland and among rural voters. Though some back Kanimozhi for the job, the 2G scam has dented her chances. It’s now up to Karunanidhi to make the call that may prove to be the bane or boon for his party.

THE MONARCHY still enthralls

t’s hard to take a monarchy seriously in this day and age. Look at the farces that once were royal families of Europe. But the British monarchy seems to have bucked that trend, controversy and all. With nearly half a billion people watching Queen Elizabeth’s Jubilee celebrations, it seems the House of Windor will last a while.

Campus

MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2012

When we asked a bunch of final year students what they are looking forward to in the upcoming academic year, the surprising answer was — “to work”

Funding their way to a better future Faustina Johnson feedback@postnoon.com

hat's right, paying jobs to help them use their free time productively during the academic year is the latest trend among students in the city. The concept of earning while studying is quite common in the West, where children are left to their own devices after they complete eighteen years of age. In a healthy twist, this is soon catching on with the local students. Students have a variety of options open to them. Freelance photography, content writing and modelling are high on the list of preferred jobs. PR related jobs also allow flexibility, and are therefore favourable. All of them pay quite well and allow students to work comfortably in their own time. Event management jobs typically require about three or four days of the students time per event, for which the pay is handsome. The freelancers use innovative ways to advertise themselves. Other atypical, but interesting jobs include starting a patisserie out of the house, a job that lets the students earn while doing what they love. Working gives the students a taste of the professional atmo-

sphere. “I joined to gain hands on experience in the field of marketing communication to have a better understanding of the subjects I learn in class”, says Sanjay Deshpande, who works in a tech PR profile. It is a great way to break into the chosen line of career while also adding on to their resume. By working to earn their own money, they be learn essential skills. Who can resist the lure of financial independence? You now earn enough to pay for that phone you wanted so badly, you don't have to depend on your father for petrol money. Some students even save up the earnings to pay for their higher studies. This leaves them with better

choices for college with the added funds. Making their own money also offers a form of personal satisfaction that few other things can. The feeling of being able towards the family's financial requirements is a great booster of self esteem. It is undeniably a good way of filling up all that free time you might have wasted on Facebook. The hours are long, how do they manage to cope? “ I work in the evening, study during the day. I take weekends off and finish my assignments” says Sanjay, adding “Its a matter of prioritising according to the workload.” Degree students are invariably awarded a lot of free

time, what with the political agitation, college events, etc. It is also a way of keeping busy while waiting for placements, college acceptances, or if detained for any reasons. “You have to give some to get some. The freedom is relieving, and a few extra hours is worth it”, says Anirudh Reddy, who worked as a process associate at GE. Jobs like content writing allow the students to work at their own pace, thereby reducing pressure. The concept of financial freedom runs high in their blood. Why wait till graduation? “Everything I have right now, including the clothes on my back, came from my efforts and I don’t need to ask my parents

for money anymore”, says Rustom F, who began day trading in the summer before his last year at college. Working while studying gives a thin slice of the career option. The students can then make informed decisions about what to do next, which line to pursue. One of the few problems faced is the load. Can they manage a balance between both? Will they be able to pursue higher studies after realising their potential to earn without a post graduation? Whatever the catch, currently, the idea of working before graduating seems to be doing more good than bad. As the saying goes, earning is learning.

H‑Factor

Holistic view of mind, body and soul

MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2012

SO TIGHT, IT HURTS! While skinny jeans and tights might be back in fashion and all the rage, health experts warn that they aren’t all that good for your health Neha Alluri feedback@postnoon.com

Dealing with teenage temper tantrums

ong gone are the days when baggy jeans and bell-bottoms were considered stylish. Today, skinny jeans and tights are the latest fad. While these butt hugging, thigh-squishing bottoms make us look hip and sexy, they apparently can lead to quite a few health problems. Internet sources claim that skinny jeans can cause numbness, pain and discomfort. They can lead to a condition called meralgia paresthetica, caused by the compression of a nerve that runs down the front of the thigh. But does this hold anyone back from buying a pair of chic denims? Of course, not! “Tight clothing is not for India, especially denim jeans and churidars”, said Dr Radha Shah, a dermatologist at Apollo Hospital. Shah said that close-fitted clothes of any kind cause frictional dermatitis, especially in areas of skin folds like under the breasts or inner thighs, causing severe itching and burning. She also explained that intense sweating does not allow the skin to breathe. This, she said, can cause fungal skin infections like Tinea (ringworm) or white spots called pityriasis versicolor. “People can also be exposed to contact dermatitis if dye rubs off on to the body from the cloth”, she added. “Clothes like these in the summer are worse, they can cause boils that can spread to different parts of the body”, she said. It also increases eczema (a type of inflammation of the skin) in patients who suffer from it genetically, Dr Shah further said. Apparently, they don’t just affect the skin. Research has shown that tight shirts and ties can slow the blood flow through the carotid vessel that is connected to the brain. This can cause blood clots, digestive problems and abdominal inflammation. “In men, tight clothing can restrict the movement of the penis, reducing the production of semen. Besides, low waist jeans can lead to erectile dysfunction which consequently reduces sperm count”, said sexologist Dr Fahim Rai who has a private clinic in Secunderabad. Studies have also shown that stiff jeans can make pelvic muscles clamp, making urination difficult. Dr Sujatha Kandi, a gynecologist at the Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, said that they could also cause vulvo-vaginal infections in women. One of Hyderabad’s leading fertility specialists, Dr Roya Rozati said that men who are perfectly healthy show up at her clinic with problems related to infertility. “Men sit on bikes for hours. They work at computers and desks all day. Wearing fitted jeans increases the scrotal temperature that is originally around 36 degrees. This reduces sperm production because of the temperature difference,” Dr Rozati said. While there are all kinds of theories about jeans and health, not everyone takes them seriously. Well, at least now, some of you know what those pants that squeeze your legs and hug your buttocks can do. It doesn’t hurt to know now, does it?

Dr Diana Monteiro

I have a 15-year-old son and he was a good-natured boy until some time back. He seems to have a problem controlling his temper. While there were mild tantrums earlier, he outgrew them. He flies into fits of rage over trivial matters and has now taken to flinging things. I am worried this is a behavioural problem. As children reach their teenage years, there are a variety of hormonal, physical, cognitive and emotional changes that happen to them all at once. Dealing with multiples changes, can be a very stressful for them. A teenager does not understand the multiple stressors in their life and often will react to situations without much thought. Getting angry and flying into a rage is a common way that teens deal with frustrations and change they are experiencing. A child who was well behaved in the past, will often start getting angry at simple issues. As a parent, remember this behaviour change is quite normal. Give your child the space to have angry tantrums as long as they are not causing harm. If you feel like they are in danger of serious harm, then intervene and stop them, otherwise, let them have their outburst. Take things seriously if their outbursts are getting worse, but don’t take every attack on you personally. Teens will say hurtful things that they do not really mean, so give them an opportunity to repair their relationship with you. Using humour to calm things down can also help. Trying to not react to their behaviour negatively, and once they are calm, talking to them about their feelings and behaviours is important. Communication suffers between parents and teens during these years, so keep communication channels open. Irrespective of what they might say or do, reacting in a supportive manner is important. If things do not improve after some time, then professional help is recommended. (The writer is a counselling psychologist at the Hyderabad Academy of Psychology. You can write to her at askdrdiana@gmail.com)

H‑Factor

MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2012

Holistic view of mind, body and soul

Exercise shown to be bad for health – at least for some The study looked at over 1,500 people and their reactions to vigorous exercise, finding that at least 10 per cent of the participants suffered worse health afterwards

Alexander Besant

xercise can make someone less healthy says a new study. The US study comprising researchers from a number of institutions looked at over 1,500 people and their reactions to vigorous exercise, finding that at least 10 percent of the participants suffered worse health afterwards. According to the New York Times, the study found that in those 10 percent some experience high blood and The researchers studied how 1,687 people reacted to rigorous exercise. They found that 10 percent of the participants got worse, based on one or more measures of heart disease, includ-

ing blood pressure and levels of insulin and HDL cholesterol. In fact, 7 per cent got worse on at least two measures. “There are a lot of people out there looking for any excuse not to exercise,” William Haskell, emeritus professor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research Center told the New York Times . “This might be an excuse for them to say, ‘Oh, I must be one of those 10 percent.’ “It is still unclear as to why some of the participants got worse. Researchers said, according to Gizmodo, that the study should be no excuse not to exercise.The costs still outweigh the benefits.The study was published in the journal PloS One. GLOBAL POST

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inswanger’s disease is also known as sub cortical vascular dementia. Atherosclerosis, which is a disease process that narrows the blood vessels and cuts off the blood supply to the neurons or nerve cells of the brain, causing death of those cells, is a common cause of dementia. Binswanger’s disease too is a form of this Atherosclerosis-related dementia. The symptoms for Binswanger’s disease include short-memory, inability to organise, mood swings, changes in speech, changes in gait and lack of attention. The diagnosis is done with the help of CT scan, MRI, and a proton MR spectrography. There is no specific treatment for a person suffering from Binswanger’s disease. The patient is treated according to the symptoms he/she is experiencing. For example, if a person exhibiting symptoms of anxiety and depression may be treated for the same.

arbs and cals is a unique health app that helps you measure carbohydrates, calories, protein and fat in your food and drinks whether you are at home or on the move. The app which contains detailed information and photos that will help you measure your intake has a unique feature. It also has a provision to measure these levels when it comes to specific brands too. For example this app will be able to tell you the calorie and carbohydrate count including the exact figures from your favourite brand of butter. The app which costs £3.99 to download is available on both apple and android devices.

Lazy lifestyles can up cancer rate in Asia

LONDON: With people in developing nations like India and Pakistan adopting lazy lifestyles of the west, cancer rates are expected to soar by 75 per cent worldwide by 2030, experts have warned. Cancer rates could even increase by 90 per cent in the Third World in that time, experts add. Many cancers such as breast, prostate and bowel tumours are linked to unhealthy living in high-income nations. Countries like India, Pakistan and certain African nations are said to be under threat as their standard of living improves, The Sun reported. Global cancer cases are predicted to rise from around 13 million in 2008 to around 22 million in 2030. Obesity caused by eating processed or junk foods, low exercise levels and high smoking rates have been blamed. Scientists from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyons, France, based their findings on a snapshot of statistics for the disease from 184 countries in 2008. The incidence and death rate estimates were used to project how cancer diagnoses were likely to change by 2030. The study took into account forecasts of population size, ageing and national development. IANS

DID YOU KNOW? Beer is good for your hair

es, you read that right — beer is a very good conditioner for the hair. Rinsing your hair with beer makes it stronger and smoother. Beer has phosphorus, magnesium, potassium and maltose which are good hair conditioning ingredients, thus making beer a natural hair care product. The Biotin present in beer prevents hair loss and dandruff while Maltose strengthens the hair and vitamin C it brings natural shine in the hair. So next time you have any some beer left behind after a party, Say cheers to lustrous, healthy hair.

Spotlight

MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2012

SRINIVAS SETTY 1

KINGS OF

MELODY

1. Dr Raghuram 2. Harpreet & Harshith 3. Lakshmi Batla 4. VVS Lakshman 5. Amala Akkineni

The city, on Sunday, had a great musical experience thanks to the Colonial Cousins. Singers Leslie Lewis and Hariharan kept the audience spellbound. The concert was held to aid ‘Sparsh’, a cancer hospice. 4

Little stars take the stage An eager group of parents were seen egging their wards to perform and have fun at the TIMES kids show. The enthusiastic group of children warmed everybody’s hearts.

Magic Screen

The glamour behind the glitz

Arjun Kapoor in Ishq’s Hindi remake?

MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2012

T-TOWN TWEETIES

@pnavdeep26 Wishin darlin @shraddhadas43 all d very best for her new house and a lot more new things to come her way... she deserves a lot... :-)

@PriyaWajAnand Listening to Sikkil Gurucharan & Anil Srinivasan’s ‘Madirakshi’ and ‘Mayaa’ as I get ready. Asaimugam has always been my favorite song!

@ramsayz

fter films like Ready, Bodyguard, Singham and recently Rowdy Rathore took Bollywood by storm, Bollywood producers seem to be all the more keen on buying the remake rights of Telugu films. The latest buzz is that Boney Kapoor has bought the remake rights of Nithin, Nithya Menen starrer Ishq. The film resurrected Nithin’s career and recently completed its 100 days run at the box office. We hear that Boney Kapoor’s son, Arjun Kapoor, who recently made his debut in Ishaqzaade alongside Parineeti Chopra might reprise Nithin’s role in this romantic entertainer. The rest of the cast and crew is yet to be finalized. In the past, Boney Kapoor had produced the Hindi remakes of superhit Telugu and Tamil films like Pokiri, Anthapuram, Khushi, Pellichesukundham, Subha Lagnam and Bommarillu.

Andhala Rakshasi makes a big splash

ndhala Rakshasi, starring newcomers Naveen, Rahul and Lavanya, has caught the attention of tinsel town following its audio launch couple of days ago. Directed by Hanu Raghavapudi, a protege of Chandrasekhar Yeleti, the film is a triangular love story set in 1992. Sai Korrapati has produced this film under Varahi Chalana Chitram banner. Speaking at the audio launch, S S Rajamouli said, “I can confidently say that Hanu is going to become a big director in the Telugu film industry. He’s extremely passionate about films and I was quite impressed with the way he made a short film few years ago.” Soon after the trailer went online, some members from the film fraternity like Harish Shankar, Anand Ranga and Vijay K Chakravarthy praised Hanu for coming up with great visuals and said that he’s the next-gen director. Radhan has composed the music and Murali is the cinematographer. The film is expected to hit the screens later this month.

PRIYAMANI

Just watched d first copy of #ENDUKANTEPREMANATA... 1 film ill always b proud of... tnx 2 Pedananagaru(Mr Ravi kishore) and Karunakaran garu.

@tashu_02 Okay so officially I am making my debut in #Sandalwood now... Shooting for my first Kannada film from today, named — Cool Ganesh :-)

@actressanjjanaa Taken an oath... To succeed n to succeed more n more n more... ! Jus done wid the 16th day of shoot for mahanadi,n a supa gym session!

@sundeepkishan Just saw the cutest sight of a little girl making sure her dad kisses all over the face before he leaves at the airport #kidsrock :)

signs a horror film

riyamani might not have signed a Telugu film in a long time, but she’s going great guns in the Kannada and Malayalam film industries. In the past few months she appeared in Kannada films like Only Vishnuvardhana, Ko Ko, Anna Bond and her recent Malayalam film Grandmaster received rave reviews. She’s currently shooting for another big budget Kannada film titled Lakshmi where she’s paired up with Shivarajkumar. She’ll soon be seen in a dual role in a horror film titled Charulatha, which is a remake of a Thai film named Alone. The film is being directed by Pon Kumaran, a former associate of K Bhagyaraj and KS Ravikumar. Malayalam actor Skandha, Saranya and Seetha are also playing important roles in this bilingual film which is being simultaneously shot in Tamil and Kannada. Global One Studios, the producer of Charulatha, has decided to dub the film in Telugu and Malayalam as well. Sundar C Babu is composing the music.

@RanaDaggubati Shooting for films throws you in a world of its own. We realise it only when we meet our friends from other walks of life #sundaybrunchplan.

@shrutihaasan Reading hate — a romance by Tristan Garcia... Loving it to bits :) I love it when when you read words you really wish you’d written yourself.

Magic Screen

MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2012

The glamour behind the glitz

Why should Aamir apologise, asks

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@SrBachchan T 763 - Chef’s Studio at Taj... a remarkable evening... personalised ambience, secluded and private, great service, scrumptious food !!

Javed Akhtar @RahulBose1 Rained for 6 hrs in cherrapunji today. heard of chasing the monsoon, dancing with it’s a trifle tricky. tom's another day! #shesherkobita

he Indian Medical Association (IMA) has demanded an apology from actor Aamir Khan for sending a “wrong message” about the medical community in his programme Satyamev Jayate. But lyricist Javed Akhtar doesn’t approve of it and calls it a “sick” decision. “The Indian Medical association wants Aamir to apologise for exposing corruption in their profession. That is really sick,” Akhtar posted on micro-blogging site Twitter. After highlighting social issues like female foeticide and dowry, Aamir, in the fourth episode of his show, put the spotlight on healthcare and malpractices in the medical profession. Reacting to the episode, an umbrella body of 21 medical institutions Wednesday asked the actor to apologise. “It is not Aamir Khan but some immoral dishonest greedy and corrupt doctors who are insulting the medical profession and many honest doctors,” wrote Akhtar.

We won’t make Awaara again

rothers Randhir Kapoor and Rajiv Kapoor are strictly against remaking any of Bollywood legend Raj Kapoor’s films. “We don’t want to touch any of Raj Kapoor’s films,” they said. “We have given up the idea of making a remake of Awaara. It is very difficult to reproduce the same magic now,” the brothers said at the special screening of the movie, which has been added to the AllTime 100 Best list of the greatest films made since 1923. The film also had Nargis, one of the prime actresses of the golden era.

@DuttaLara Just watched the Rambo Circus at Prithvi theatre!:-). Part of Childrens week at the theatre! What a fantastic initiative! Throughly enjoyable

@RGVzoomin “@Deepuzoomout: If you really want to know the true character of a poor man just wait untill he gets money.”

@bipsluvurself Ate the most yummiest fish n prawn curry here in Colombo! Wanna go bck n attempt making it myself:)

Amitabh-Jaya celebrate 39th wedding anniversary M egastar Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan celebrated their 39th marriage anniversary Sunday. Big B says it has brought the memories of the their wedding day flooding back. The couple got married June 3, 1973. “ Zanjeer had just released. And Jaya and I and a few dear friends had decided that if the film did well we would all go to London for a holiday. After a few anxious days on the results of the box office, it was time to put our decision ‘in line’. “So I told my parents, who I had now

invited to come and live with me. And my Father came down heavily on me ‘If you are planning a holiday with this girl, you will have to marry her and go,

else your decision is denied.’ “I was an obedient child! I got married the very next day in a quickly organised wedding with family and some dear friends, without any fanfare, and left for the holiday that very night,” he further posted. Big B says that his marriage was not a lengthy affair. “Marriages and weddings entail great amount of ritual and protocol and decorum and priests and pundits and maulvis. They last for days with great fanfare. Ours was a simple Bengali pundit wedding,” he added.

@AnupamPkher With @SalmanRushdie at Hay Festival. Deepa Mehta to show glimpses of their Magnum Opus Midnight’s Children tonite.:)

@FarOutAkhtar Noticed I scored 0 on Doodle Jump and realised my younger one is tweeting scores while playing on my iPad... !

@NeilNMukesh Got myself the most beautiful rosary. I want to get it blessed now :)

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Drew A Barrymore Weds Will Kopelman

beaming Drew Barrymore, 37, tied the knot Saturday with her fiancé of five months, art dealer Will Kopelman, at her Montecito, Calif., home. Designed by celebrity wedding planners Yifat Oren and and Stefanie Cove – who handledReese Witherspoon’s country chic nuptials last March – the intimate ceremony was “a classic, simple, very pretty, gardeninspired wedding,” a source tells PEOPLE. A rabbi officiated. Guests included Jimmy Fallon and wife Nancy Juvonen, Busy Philipps and her husband, and Cameron Diaz, who were also present Friday night for rehearsal dinner at the San Ysidro Ranch.

Olivia Wilde’s

sleepless nights after split A

ctress Olivia Wilde has revealed that she secretly battled weight and sleep issues after her marriage broke up last year. “The Tron: Legacy” star admits she went through “a manic phase” and turned to food to “self-medicate” after initially losing weight during a battle with insomnia, reports contactmusic.com. “I lost a bunch of weight and I was really never sleeping... I moved in with a girlfriend and she said, ‘You don’t sleep; you sleep three hours a night!’ Then you go through a period where you’re self-medicating with something to fill a void because you have created a void by removing someone from you. There’s a chunk missing and people fill it with all sorts of things,” she told TV talk show presenter Amanda De Cadenet. “I’m a healthy person, but I definitely packed it on because I wanted to feel a buffer between me and the pain, because the world started getting really scary and new relationships (and) dating was a lot more painful than I ever imagined,” she added.

Andre to collaborate with Brown?

inger Peter Andre is likely to collaborate with Chris Brown for his new album. Andre is currently working on a new album in Los Angeles and hinted that they had ‘’some good chats’’ together, but refused to confirm whether they had led to plans for a duet. “I’m writing my column from Los Angeles this week and my time in the studio is going really well. One of my highlights has been meeting Chris Brown, who’s working in the same studio,” contactmusic.com quoted Andre as saying. “Lots of people have been asking me if we’re working on music together, but you’ll have to wait and see. It’s been really fun hanging out with him though and we’ve had some good chats,” he added.

Chai Time

KAKURO

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

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Take a shot at the brain game while sipping your cuppa

QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Black in a cowboy hat 6 Abundant 11 Conversation, for some 14 Certain track athlete 15 More sensitive to the touch 16 Modern prefix? 17 168 straight hours 19 Acoustic device 20 Agenda component 21 Russian news agency ITAR-___ 22 Wander (with ‘about’) 23 Stark raving mad 25 Everyday writing 27 Con ___ (vigorously) 28 Turntable shaft 30 Unleashed, as a trap 32 ‘Spring forward’ letters 33 Ages and ages 35 Skirts' outskirts 36 Sometime very soon 39 Brown-skinned fruit 41 Unmixed, at a mixer 42 Didn't just place 45 Put into a catacomb 47 Guacamole base 49 Angling equipment 50 Conservative leader? 53 Aggressive Greek god 54 Damage 55 Piece for one voice 56 ‘Surely you ___!’ 58 ‘Sweet as apple cider’ girl of song 59 About 24 times a year 63 What's left to spend 64 Broad-bladed African knife 65 Aborigine's call 66 Versifier's preposition 67 Black-eyed ___ 68 It has many stops DOWN 1 Org for 1-Across 2 ‘___ Abner’

3 Unauthorised 4 Isaac or Wayne 5 Orchard unit 6 ‘Don't ___ me, I just work here’ 7 Very, in Verona 8 Malayan boats 9 Elements in telescopes 10 Fractions of a joule 11 Course for Crusoe? 12 Sticks around 13 Alpha male 18 Put on the payroll 23 '60s hallucinogenic 24 Co-___ (some apartments) 26 Rip roughly 27 Make beer or coffee 29 Blue-jeans material 31 Front-page feature

34 ___ Fernando Valley 36 Army scofflaw, initially 37 Revolutionary period 38 Native Arizonan 39 Baker or masseur, at times 40 Repeat oneself 42 Disney's Pumbaa 43 Poem to a nightingale, eg 44 Negative votes (var) 45 Fur-bearing animal 46 Agency 48 Type of oil 51 Represents in drawing 52 Northern

SUDOKU

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THOUGHT OF THE DAY Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. – William Congreve

Chai Time STAR POWER

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TAURUS

GEMINI

Employees have to work hard and earn a good name to get favours from superiors. Businessmen will have ups and downs. Your ﬁnancial position will be just about satisfactory.

Avoid unwanted arguments. Employ‑ ees can feel happy as the expected transfer or promotion is on the cards. Businessmen are advised not to in‑ crease their investments in business.

Happy events to take place at home. Business will be smooth, but you need to be cautious with partners. Women will experience more good effects. Family atmosphere will be peaceful.

CANCER

LEO

VIRGO

Marriage talks for son and daughter will be in progress and soon the ﬁnali‑ sation will take place. You will take part in functions celebrated in close relative's place and be happy.

Employees will fulﬁll their wishes with the help of their boss. Artists will get good and promising opportunities. Fin‑ ancially also they will gain a strong po‑ sition. Women will earn a good name.

Employees will feel comfortable at wo‑ rkplace, even though sops like transfer or pay hike expected did not materi‑ alise. Businessmen will see a dull trend but that won't affect business.

LIBRA

SCORPIO

SAGITTARIUS

Businessmen will see a steady growth. Modern household articles will be pur‑ chased to increase comforts. Women will be more respected and their sug‑ gestions will be well received.

As good events take place at home, wo‑ men will be very happy. Purchase of val‑ uable, movable assets likely. Person of a different region will extend help. Those working on machines, be careful.

Employees can put in their best efforts to get transfer or pay revision, but realisation of such events will delay. Do not get disappointed. Keep doing your duty and things will change soon.

CAPRICORN

AQUARIUS

PISCES

Good news will be come soon. Employ‑ ees have to work with involvement and complete their work to the satisfaction of their superiors to earn a name and favours. Good events take place at home.

Employees will be very happy as they will get the expected transfer and pro‑ motion with the support of their supe‑ riors. Businessmen will see a consista‑ nt growth and ﬁnancial improvement.

Employees will be recognised and suit‑ ably rewarded. Students will be cheerful. Couples will be cordial and happy. You face an embarrassing situation because of children, which will soon resolve.

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ARIES

TAURUS

GEMINI

The Tower – You m‑ ay be feeling a little odd and not exactly in the frame of mind to deliver your best quality of work. Donʼt push yourself. Be kind to yourself.

The Moon – You m‑ ay be feeling a little low and depressed. Do things that make you feel good. Pam‑ per yourself today and think of all your nice qualities.

Death – Your experi‑ ences make you who you are – strong, sta‑ ble, intelligent. Donʼt allow bitter experien‑ ces to ruin the good‑ ness in you. Think positive at all times.

CANCER

LEO

VIRGO

Judgment – You need to be reminded of yo‑ ur capacity to achieve wonderful things. It could be running a company or running a house or simply man‑ aging your home.

Ten of Wands – Those who are into cigarette smoking must quit sooner rather than later. Health must be given priority over everything else.

Seven of Swords – Thereʼs nothing wro‑ ng in aiming for per‑ fection. Except, it may make you feel a bit fatigued because you place too many expectations.

LIBRA

SCORPIO

SAGITTARIUS

Eight of Swords – Get into yoga or any other form of calm‑ ing and relaxing exercise that works on both body and mind. You must har‑ monise all relations.

The Sun – You must stay positive. Go into every problem belie‑ ving that only the be‑ st can come out of it. Learn to enjoy. Go to movies, read books, do anything to relax.

The Empress – Stay focused about an issue and you will resolve it faster. It could be a ﬁtness reg‑ imen or a more com‑ plicated work‑related problem.

CAPRICORN

AQUARIUS

PISCES

Ten of Swords – Stay away from junk food no matter how tempt‑ ing it may be. Though itʼs an easier option to take care of a meal, take trouble to eat healthier foods.

Two of Wands – A new relationship is making you swoon and takes your mind off every‑ thing else. Remember that this feeling is short‑lived.

Three of Pentacles – Youʼre a strong and independent person with a calm exterior. Only, you should kn‑ ow where to use so‑ me force and where to step back.

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Playing Field

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The games people play

Celtics withstand Heat BOSTON: Paul Pierce scored 23 points and Rajon Rondo added 15 points and 15 assists to spark the Boston Celtics over the Miami Heat 93-91 in over-time on Sunday to level their NBA playoff series. The best-of-seven Eastern Conference final showdown will continue with game five on Tuesday at Miami and game six back in Boston on Thursday. The winner will face the Western Conference champions, the San Antonio Spurs or Oklahoma City Thunder, in the NBA Finals starting on June 12. Kevin Garnett added 17

When Boards’ actions bode ill Twelfth Man Babu Kalyanpur

evin Pietersen’s retirement from the shorter version of the game will be a major dent on England’s chances of retaining the Twenty20 World Cup in September. Worse still, there is a clause in England’s contracts which rules our players who retire from either Twenty20 or the one-dayers from being eligible for both formats. Pietersen is willing to play Twenty20s. But his contract will keep him out. Silly really when you consider that Pietersen is a fantastic Twenty20 player and was in prime form in the Indian Premier League. That is the way cricket is run by the some administrators who would be better off tending to their gardens instead of warming chairs and coming up with stupid clauses. England have put this clause to ensure a pool of players who can fit into both formats. But there doesn’t seem any logic, as every team must field the best available player. It once again underlines how rigid and back-

IT IS A MATTER OF STUPID OFFICIALS, WITH NO CREDENTIALS IN THE GAME, MAKING DECISIONS WHICH AFFECT THE FORTUNES OF THE TEAM. ward looking are the various boards running cricket. Take the example of the Indian board regarding the oneoff payment for former cricketers. Kapil Dev’s name was passed by because he was involved in the rebel Indian Cricket League and did not apologise for it. This is indeed a laughing matter. In one stroke, the Board of Control for Cricket in India has struck out one of the most outstanding cricketers not only in India but also the world.

Kapil has taken this on the chin. The money wouldn’t matter to him as much as the recognition it brings with it. Then there is West Indian Chris Gayle who spending his peak years as a Twenty20 player for franchises when he should in the West Indian colours. The standoff between him and the WI board has gone on for too long. There are faults on both sides but a little bit of flexibility would have resolved the matter quickly, Once again it is a matter of stupid officials, with no credentials whatsoever in the game, making decisions which affect the fortunes of the team. This has led to former legends like Michael Holding to question the logic of the board. Ramnaresh Sarwan also revealed the trauma he faced after the board ques-

tioned his commitment. A young fast bowler like Jerome Taylor may also not wear the West Indian cap as he too is under the cosh from the board. Such is the position of West Indies cricket that coach Otis Gibson is fast becoming the most hated man among many good cricketers. Admittedly, the West Indies are faring a little better than before but the bottom line is results. “Well played sir” doesn’t count in modern day cricket. Sadly, the attitude of boards all around the world is driving cricketers away from the tradition international games. Players like Dwayne Bravo, Kieron Pollard and scores of others prefer tournaments like the IPL instead of wearing their country’s colours and cap. This may prove alarming unless proper action is taken. The latest headache will be for the New Zealand board when the IPL will clash with their tour to England next year. The possibility of sending a second string team there is fast becoming a reality. Cricket schedules have become so demanding that something has to be done quickly to ensure credibility at the highest level. But the greed for money and unimaginative managements will always put cricket in a quandary.

Paul Pierce #34 and Mickael Pietrus #28 of the Boston Celtics celebrate after they won 93-91 in overtime points and 14 rebounds for the Celtics while Ray Allen added 16 points. LeBron James led Miami with a game-high 29 points while Dwyane Wade added 20 points and Udonis Haslem had 12 points and 17 rebounds. Stars became spectators at the finish as Pierce fouled out 38 seconds into overtime, and for the third time in five playoff games, while James fouled out with 1:51 remaining, the first time he had fouled out since joining the Heat. After finishing regulation time level at 89-89, Haslem’s dunk gave Miami a 91-89 lead in over-time. But Boston’s Marquis Daniels hit 1-of-2 free throws and Rondo sank a jumper to put the Celtics on top 92-91. Rondo also made 1-of-2 from the free throw line with 21.4 seconds to play to give Boston a 93-91 edge with Miami taking the ball. AFP

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Shawn Johnson calls it a day I N D I A N A P O L I S , INDIANA: Shawn Johnson, the former world champion and 2008 Olympic all-round runner-up attempting a London Olympics comeback, announced her retirement from competitive gymnastics on Sunday. A nagging left knee injured Johnson’s dream of returning from a hiatus last year and reaching next month’s London Olympics, leaving her with three world titles and one gold and three Olympic silver medals for her career. “I still have the heart, drive and desire to compete and help the USA at the London Olympics,” Johnson said. “Unfortunately, it has become obvious that my left knee is not able to sustain the demands of gymnastics any longer. All I can do now is gracefully retire and thank everyone who has believed in me and my journey.” After having first injured her left knee in a 2010 skiing

accident, Johnson had concerns that she would risk longterm damage by continuing her career. Johnson announced her decision four days before the start of the US championships, a key event in the American Olympic qualifying process. “I’m announcing this now so the focus for the next three weeks will be on the incredibly talented gymnasts who are trying to make our 2012 Olympic team,” Johnson said. Johnson took Beijing Olympic silver in the allaround behind compatriot Nastia Liukin, helped the Americans to silver in the team event and took silver in floor exercise before claiming gold in the balance beam. She took a hiatus from the sport, during which she won the 2009 Dancing With the Stars television dance crown, and returned last year to help the United States defend the Pan American Games title she was part of capturing in 2007.

Phelps game for Games trials M

ichael Phelps won his final race before the US Olympic trials later this month, capturing the 200-meter butterfly on Sunday for his third victory of the weekend at the Longhorn Elite Invitational. AUSTIn, Texas: Phelps, a 14time Olympic champion who took a record eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games, led from start to finish to win in 1min, 54.79secs with China’s Wu Peng second in 1:56.71 and American Neil Caskey third in 1:59.82.

With the triumph, Phelps erased a pool record that had been his first world record -- a mark of 1:54.92 in 2001 at age 15. Phelps went on to lower that world record and win his first world title in the event last in 2001. “I wanted the pool record to stand just because that was my first world record,” Phelps said. “This is kind of where everything started going. This is a great pool for me.” Phelps won the 100 butterfly on Friday and the 400 individual medley on Saturday at the

meet, but had not been happy with his showing at the meet. “Over the weekend I hadn’t had that great of swims,” Phelps said. “Hopefully going into trials we can fix that and be ready like this every day.” Megan Romano swam the fastest time in the world this year to win the women’s 100 backstroke in 1:00.19 and Brendan Hansen, who helped Phelps win gold in the 2008 Olympic 400 medley relay, won the men’s 100 backstroke in 1:01.16.

Mexico get the better of Brazil ARLINGTON,

TEXAS:

Manchester United striker Javier Hernandez and Tottenham Hotspur playmaker Gio Dos Santos scored to give Mexico a 2-0 victory over Brazil in an international football friendly on Sunday. Dos Santos opened the scoring in the 21st minute and Hernandez converted from the penalty spot in the 32nd minute to give the Mexicans

victory before 84,519 spectators at the home stadium of American football’s Dallas Cowboys. Five-time World Cup champions Brazil are testing younger talent ahead of next month’s start of the London Olympics while Mexico will begin qualifying matches on Friday for the 2014 World Cup that the Brazilians will host. Brazil, with playmakers

Neymar and Hulk in a starting role, were coming off a 4-1 rout of the United States last Wednesday. The Mexicans were coming off a 2-1 victory over BozniaHerzegovina on a Hernandez goal in the third minute of stoppage time. In another friendly, Canada drew the United States 0-0 at BMO Field in Toronto. AFP

Defenseman Oscar #10 of Brazil falls as Francisco Rodriguez #2 of Mexico defends during the first half of a soccer game at Cowboys Stadium on June 3, 2012 in Arlington, Texas. BRANDON WADE/GETTY IMAGES/AFP

MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2012

BEAUTY

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT FRANCE Best EURO performance: Winners: 1984, 2000 Coach: Laurent Blanc Leading scorer: all-time – Thierry Henry (51); current – David Trézéguet (34)

Most appearances: all-time – Lilian Thuram (142); current – Patrice Evra (40) Association formed: 1919 Nickname: Les Bleus

THE BEST FRANCE’S FIXTURES

EURO STATS

Monday 11 June: France v England, 18.00CET, Donetsk Friday 15 June: Ukraine v France, 18.00CET, Donetsk Tuesday 19 June: Sweden v France, 20.45CET, Kyiv

MATCHES PLAYED Overall: P130 W73 D33 L24 F252 A119 Final tournament: P28 W14 D7 L7 F46 A34 Qualifying: P102 W59 D26 L17 F206 A85

France for a fresh start The one thing on the minds of men in blue when they take on the rest of the lot in Group D is to wipe out memories of a disastrous 2010 World Cup campaign. PARIS: France’s turn-of-the-century

POSTNOON PREDICTION

success, winning the 1998 FIFA World Cup before holding their collective nerve to secure their second UEFA European Championship two years later, has felt far removed of late. Les Bleus exited the 2002 and 2010 World Cups at the first hurdle and, either side of finishing runners-up at the 2006 World Cup, left only brief impressions at UEFA EURO 2004 and UEFA EURO 2008. Under Laurent Blanc past glories have not seemed quite so distant in qualifying – though they had the odd scare, not least in their final group game against Bosnia and Herzegovina. The two-time champions needed a late Samir Nasri penalty to earn the 1-1 draw against Bosnia and Herzegovina in their concluding game that booked their finals place. Laurent Blanc’s charges had nevertheless spent most of the qualifying campaign on top of Group D despite the shock of a 1-0 opening home defeat against Belarus; Les Bleus responded with three successive 2-0 victories. Appointed in the wake of the disappointing 2010 FIFA World Cup campaign, Blanc’s reign began with a friendly defeat in Norway and that Belarus reverse, but France then commenced a long unbeaten run, also chalking up friendly victories against England and Though Group D is not the hardest in the event, progress to the knockout stage is anything but a foregone conclusion and much will hinge on France’s first game, against England in Donetsk.

Brazil. They are unbeaten in 17 matches, still some way short of the national record of 30 set in the 1990s. The goalless draw in Romania in September 2011 was France’s 100th UEFA European Championship qualifier – although it was slightly different to their first, a 7-1 defeat of Greece on 1 October 1958 – while the home game against Bosnia and Herzegovina represented their 750th fixture overall. “It’s a great satisfaction to be through to EURO," said Blanc. “From now on, we’ll focus on our way of playing and give more time to players who’ve had few opportunities because we were playing in high-stakes games. But it would be interesting to see players who shine with their clubs in the national team.”

PLAYER TO WATCH

Strikers, beware of this ‘pit-bully’ from France

t the age of just 21, Yann M’Vila is already one of the first names on France coach Laurent Blanc’s team-sheet. The Rennes defensive midfielder has taken to international football like a duck to water and his startlingly assured displays for club and country have seen him linked with sides including Arsenal and Inter Milan in recent weeks. M’Vila was a surprise inclusion in Raymond Domenech’s preliminary squad for

REPUBLIC OF FRANCE GROUP D At a glance Though France are in the finals for the sixth time in succession, they can’t justifiably be seen as one of the favourites for Euro 2012, but they have more than enough at their disposal to be an enticing outside bet. And in Laurent Blanc they have a great thinker with a vast knowledge of European football, having played for clubs in France, Italy, Spain and England.

the 2010 World Cup and after only his first full season as a professional he made his international debut in Blanc’s first game in charge in August 2010. He has been a virtual ever-present ever since. As the deepest-lying player in the French midfield, M’Vila’s principle responsibility is defensive and he prides himself on his tenacious approach. “I want to play in every match,” he said in October last year. “It’s like a pit-bull. When you give him something, he holds onto it and doesn’t let go. When I’ve got something, I don’t let go.”

Playing Field

MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2012

The games people play

Tiger catches up with Golden Bear Woods caught Jack Nicklaus for second on the all-time US PGA win list

SPORT SNIPPETS India A grab narrow lead Cricket Jonathan Carter's superb bowl-

ing overshadowed a brilliant 94 by Rohit Sharma as India A grabbed a narrow first-innings lead over West Indies A at Kensington Oval. Carter, who bowled at a brisk pace, took a career-best five for 63 from 17 overs to help West Indies A dismiss India A for 277 late on the second day of the fourday 'Test' on Sunday. Carter was assisted by Delorn Johnson, who bowled with sustained pace to take three for 29 from 14.1 overs.

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Football Exactly one week before Euro

Jack Nicklaus

wins and to do it at such a young age, it feels really special,” Woods said. “And to do it with Jack there at 18, he means a lot to all us players. He’s the greatest champion that ever lived. “And to pull off that shot at

Tiger talk “To be able to tie Jack at 73 wins and to do it at such a young age, it feels really special. And to do it with Jack there at 18, he means a lot to all us players. He’s the greatest champion that ever lived. And to pull off that shot at 16, that was kind of sweet, too.”

I hope he [Sachin Tendulkar] enjoys his role (in the Rajya Sabha) and he is able to do it very well. It's a big step and I think he will enjoy it Viswanathan Anand Chess champion

Poland puts final touches

“What a shot. I don’t think under the circumstances I have ever seen a better shot.

DUBLIN, OHIO: With golf icon Jack Nicklaus watching in amazement, Tiger Woods added another epic shot and tension-packed victory to his own legendary career Sunday by winning the Memorial for his 73rd pro title. Woods won for only the second time since his infamous sex scandal erupted in November 2009 after chipping in for birdie from dense rough 48 feet from the cup at the par3 16th hole at the Nicklausdesigned Muirfield Village course. That pulled Woods level for the lead and the 36-yearold American won his fifth Memorial crown when South African Rory Sabbatini made bogey at 16 and Woods closed with a birdie. Woods, a 14-time major champion chasing the all-time record of 18 major titles won by Nicklaus, caught Nicklaus for second on the all-time US PGA win list, each of them now nine back of Sam Snead’s record 82 career triumphs. “To be able to tie Jack at 73

16, that was kind of sweet, too.” Matching the shots that were commonplace for Woods a decade ago but have been rare in the past two injurynagged seasons, Woods blasted the ball from the rough,

plopped it just onto the green and watched it roll into the cup. “It was one of the hardest ones I’ve pulled off,” Woods said. “More magic than memory, I think.” Woods, who had felt ill and feverish entering the weekend, knew that he risked sending the ball into a water hazard on the far side of the green if he botched the shot. “The shot was really difficult, but it wouldn’t have been so bad if I had a good lie,” Woods said. “I went for it. I pulled it off and for it to land as soft as it did was kind of a surprise. It just fell in. I didn’t think it was going to get there. And then it fell in.” The last-roll aspect of the shot brought back memories of an epic putt at the 16th hole at Augusta National when Woods used a slope to send a putt into the cup, the ball hanging on the edge of the hole just before dropping in. “What a shot,” Nicklaus said. “I don’t think under the circumstances I have ever seen a better shot.”

2012 kicks off, tournament cohost Poland is gearing up to welcome almost one million foreign fans within its borders. With its brand-new stadiums built and huge fanzones ready to welcome ticketless supporters, Poland is dotting its i's and crossing its t's before the launch of the football showcase. Normally busy with cars, the area around the Palace of Culture in the capital Warsaw has taken on a new role.

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the number of balls taken by Shahid Afridi to score his 52 runs in the T20 match against Sri Lanka in Hambantota on Sunday. The Pakistani player went on to scalp two wickets for 17 runs from his 4 overs, a performance which saw him clinch the man of the match award.

Lahm wants roaring start Euro ‘12 Germany captain Philipp

Lahm has challenged his team to start Euro 2012 with a roar when they open their campaign against Portugal on Saturday. As one of the pre-tournament favourites, Germany arguably arrive at Euro 2012 on the back foot after suffering a shock 5-3 defeat to Switzerland and with Champions League disappointment hanging over some of their stars. Eight of the Bayern Munich team which lost the CL final to Chelsea in a penalty shoot-out a fortnight ago are in the Germany squad.

Playing Field

MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2012

The games people play

Goffin’s got it: Fedex PARIS: Roger Federer believes baby-faced David Goffin, who gave him an almighty French Open scare on Sunday, has the weapons to become a future Grand Slam contender. Belgian world number 109 Goffin, just 21, and who had sneaked into the main draw at Roland Garros having lost in qualifying, had been just two points from taking a two sets to love lead over the 16-time Grand Slam title winner. But once Federer broke him for the first time in the match, the Swiss went on to a 5-7, 7-5, 6-2, 64 win and a place in a record 32nd consecutive Grand Slam quarterfinal. “Yes, of course, he can be a champion. It takes weeks of hard labour but I was impressed by the way he plays,” said Federer. “It’s nice to see someone do it at a Grand Slam again for a change, because back in the day we were used to seeing Becker winning Wimbledon, Chang winning the French Open at very young ages. It just doesn’t happen so often anymore. I still haven’t seen him enough. I wish he comes through. He’s talented and I hope he can make it to the top 20. That would be great.” Federer said he had seen plenty to admire during an awkYamaha Factory Racing’s Spanish Jorge Lorenzo (C) celebrates on the podium after winning the Catalunya Moto GP at the Catalunya racetrack in Montmelo, on Sunday. AFP/LLUIS GENE

Jorge clinches close race Jorge Lorenzo extended his lead in the overall standings on Sunday as he won his second successive race, the Catalunya MotoGP.

he Yamaha-riding 2010 world champion came home clear of compatriot Dani Pedrosa on a Honda while Andrea Dovizioso, on a Yamaha, edged world champion Casey Stoner for third. Lorenzo, 25, was winning his third race of the season and 20th MotoGP, having taken the open-

er in Qatar and then added the French race last time and holds a 20 point lead over Stoner heading into the British MotoGp in a fortnight. “It was a very tough race, very complicated,” said Lorenzo, who stopped off halfway through his victory lap and let off a bizarre puffball-type explosion out of a pot of paint. “Dani

It was a very tough race, very complicated. Dani and Ben (Spies) were so close and it would have been very easy to hit them and crash. Jorge Lorenzo

and Ben (Spies) were so close and it would have been very easy to hit them and crash.However, later I just waited for Dani to make a mistake and he duly coughed one up.” Pedrosa was disappointed at missing out on victory, which would have been his first of the campaign. “I had some issues at the end of the race,” said the 26-yearold. I wanted to give Lorenzo a real tussle but in the end he was just too fast. I am disappointed because I really wanted to win this race.” Dovizioso for his part was ecstatic for taking his first podium spot for Yamaha and having largely been out-performed by team-mare Cal Crutchlow this season. “The end was really difficult, I had absolutely no grip,” said the 26-year-old Italian. I am really happy with the result. The bike was as fast as the leading riders ones and all we need is a bit of fine-tuning to compete with them regularly,” he went on to add.

Men 4th rd Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) bt Andreas Seppi (ITA x22) 4-6, 6-7 (5/7), 6-3, 7-5, 6-3 Roger Federer (SUI x3) bt David Goffin (BEL) 5-7, 7-5, 6-2, 6-4 Suspended because of darkness (to be completed Monday) Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG x9) leads Tomas Berdych (CZE x7) 7-6 (8/6), 1-6, 6-3 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA x5) leads Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI x18) 6-4, 7-6 (8/6), 3-6, 3-6, 4-2 Women 4th rd Dominika Cibulkova (SVK x15) bt Victoria Azarenka (BLR x1) 6-2, 7-6 (7/4) Samantha Stosur (AUS x6) bt Sloane Stephens (USA) 7-5, 6-4 Sara Errani (ITA x21) bt Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS x26) 6-0, 7-5 Angelique Kerber (GER x10) bt Petra Martic (CRO) 6-3, 7-5

ward examination on Suzanne Lenglen court. “He’s got great potential in terms of his touch and the way he reads the game. He moves well, takes a backhand early and absorbs pace really well from the baseline.” Goffin had played three matches in the qualifying tournament but after losing to Portugal’s Joao Sousa in the final round, it appeared his Roland Garros was over. AFP