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BOLT

MAKES HISTORY

Usain Bolt sealed his place in the pantheon of sporting greats after beating compatriots Yohan Blake and Warren Weir in a clean sweep of the sprint medals for Jamaica. No one who was in the stadium will have gone home anything other than profoundly grateful to have witnessed the author of such historic deeds.

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HYDERABAD’S FIRST COMPACT AFTERNOON NEWSPAPER

CHILDREN IN DANGER WHILE THEY LEARN

ROAD CAVES IN AT PUNJAGUTTA, TRAFFIC THROWN OUT OF GEAR

GHMC workers have started to pump out the sewage water and are filling the cave-in with concrete.

DEEPAK DESHPANDE

At least five government schools are listed as functioning in ‘dilapidated’ buildings, yet authorities have done little to solve this dangerous issue.

FLASH

QATAR AIRWAYS FLIGHT TYRE BURSTS

A Qatar Airlines flight, QR 250, that landed around 3am at RGI airport from Doha was delayed on its return journey by three-and-ahalf hours after one of its tyres burst. The plane was carrying 180 passengers.

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RETURN TO THE

RED PLANET

A MONSOON ROMANCE

No other planet in the solar system has intrigued us earthlings as much as the Red Planet — perhaps due to its similarities to the moon, partly due to the presence of valleys, volcanoes and other features of the Earth, which makes it an option for a home for future generations some day. Nasa’s Curiosity has taken a first look around its neighbourhood and found it looks just like home. Let’s trace our Mars missions.

Everyone’s talking about Hanu Raghavapudi’s debut film Andhala Rakshasi these days. Its lead actors — Naveen, Rahul and Lavanya — tell us more about the film, which Hanu says is a love story between the sun, earth and the moon.

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2012

city events

THE LOTUS POND

An exhibition of paintings by artist Uday Shankar titled Lotus Pond is being held. The exhibition will be on till August 15. The exhibition is being held at Iconart Art Gallery, Rd No 12, Banjara Hills from 11 am onwards.

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AROUND THE CITY: YOUR GUIDE TO THE TWIN CITIES will be shown at Alliance Francaise on August 17. Where: Alliance Francaise d’Hyderabad Banjara Hills, Rd No 3 When: August 17, 6.30pm onwards Contact: (040) 2355 4485

DINING Jash-E-Eid-Ul Fitr Break your fast with ITC Kakatiya’s special Iftar buffet which includes flavoured Sherbets, rich Haleem, malai paya, dum biryani and an assortment of Kebabs. Where: Deccan Pavillion, ITC Kakatiya, Begumpet When: August 10-20, 7.30pm onwards Contact: (040) 2340 0132

Photography workshop A photography workshop will be held at Iconart Gallery on weekends. Registrations start from August 10. Where: Iconart Gallery, Banjara Hills, Rd No 12 When: August 12 onwards Contact: 98499 68797

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

Checkmate The play Checkmate will be presented at Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan auditorium on August 11. Where: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Basheerbagh When: August 11, 7.30pm onwards Contact: (040) 2323 7825

Mongolian food festival Take a trip to Mongolia as you are introduced to their food and culture at Syn-Asian Bar and Grill, Taj Deccan. Where: Syn, Taj Deccan, Banjara Hills, Rd No 1 When: Ongoing, 7.30pm onwards Contact: (040) 6666 3939

Theatre festival The seventh edition of the multilingual theatre festival — Abhinaya National Theatre Festival will be held. Where: Ravindra Bharathi, Saifabad When: August 16 onwards 6.30pm onwards Contact: (040) 2323 1245

DJ Kanna at Dublin Bacardi Legendary Nights presents Dj Kanna. Head out for some great HERITAGE AND TRADITION: A bangle-seller sells a variety of colourful bangles in front of the Charminar, Old City M ANIL KUMAR hip hop music at Dublin. Where: Dublin, ITC Kakatiya, Begumpet When: August 10 Contact: (040) 2340 0132

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SHOWS Peau d’Anne Jacques Demy’s musical fairy tale Peau d’Anne (1970) (Donkey skin)

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Monsoon mania Ramoji Film City celebrates the onset of monsoon with eight weeks of activities and entertainment from July 1 to August 31. Where: Ramoji Film City, Hayathnagar When: Ongoing, 9am onwards Contact: (040) 2341 2262

ART Elegance Artist Snehlatha Prasad, is presenting her interpretation of the Radha and Krishna myth through her canvas at a painting exhibition. . Where: Muse Art Gallery, Tank Bund When: Ongoing, 11am onwards Contact: (040) 2752 2999 Eclectic reflections Alankritha Art Gallery presents Eclectic Reflections, an exhibition of paintings by eight talented artists. Where: Alankritha Art Gallery, Jubilee Hills, Kavuri hills When: August 11 onwards, 11am onwards Contact: (040) 2311 3709 Embarking routes A group exhibition of various kinds of art by the final year students of MFA program 2012 is being held. Where: Shrishti Art Gallery, Jubilee Hills, Rd No 15 When: Ongoing, 11am onwards Contact: (040) 2354 0023

Interactive workshops Oakridge International School launches Weekend Voyager. This is

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an exciting weekend activity for children. Where: Oakridge International School, Gachibowli and Bachupally When: Ongoing, 9am-12pm Contact: 1800 200 8171

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

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

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City

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CRIME

Crucial leads in Neelima death case

A report by the forensic department indicates that haemorrhage led to her death. Police investigations had found that she was suffering from depression after a fight with her husband. INKESHAF AHMED ahmed.m@postnoon.com

he Cyberabad police seems to have made crucial leads in the suspicious death of Infosys employee B Neelima who was found dead in the Infosys campus few days ago. The doubts shrouding the death of the techie have now been put to rest following a forensic investigation at the Gandhi Hospital. The forensic department submitted its report to the police department

on Thursday. The report has said that the death of Neelima occurred because of haemorrhage. The police primarily came to the conclusion that the techie committed suicide as she was disturbed by the developments in her personal life. “We came to know that she was having problems in her marital life. This might have forced her to commit suicide,” a police official investigating the case told Postnoon. According to the information gathered by the police, Neelima,

POLITICS APCC celebrates ‘Kranthi Diwas’ T

Neelima, went to the US and sent about `20 lakh back home. She wanted to set up a business with this amount but her husband did not allow her to do so This led to a fight between the couple and pushed her into depression.

went to the US on company’s work and sent about `20 lakh back home. She wanted to set up a business with this amount but her husband did not allow her to do so. This led to a fight between the couple and pushed Neelima into depression.

FOCUS SHIFTS TO INFOSYS CAMPUS The police have now focused their investigation on the Infosys campus where Neelima commit-

DIVINE LIGHT

he Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) organised Quit India Day celebrations as Kranthi Diwas at Gandhi Bhavan on Thursday. APCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana hoisted the party flag and honoured noted freedom fighters C V Chary (Bhoodhan Board convener), M Venkataiah (Karimnagar), M Satyanarayana (Khammam) and N Veeresham (Warangal) on this occasion. Addressing the gathering, Botsa hailed the services rendered by the freedom fighters. He said that the AICC meeting held in Mumbai had taken the decision on Quit India Movement resulting in the country achieveing Independence. He said that the present generation has a responsibility to take forward the aims of Mahatma Gandhi, who gave the “Quit India” call during those days. As part of these efforts, AICC chief Sonia Gandhi has been trying to introduce 33 per cent reservations to women and the food security scheme. He said that the nation and the State would develop only when all the people work together. NSS

GHMC

GHMC issues notices to eateries Md NIZAMUDDIN nizammudin.a@postnoon.com

POLITICS SC rejects Jagan’s petition against arrest T

he petition of YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy challenging his arrest was struck down by the Supreme Court on Thursday. The apex court, which has admitted his bail petition, said that it would hear arguments on the arrest while hearing the bail petition. The apex court issued a notice to the CBI to state its contention to Jagan’s bail plea. However, no time limit was set for the CBI to get back with its reply. The SC also heard arguments on the petition of the CBI, which challenged the bail granted to Vijaya Sai Reddy, accused No 2 in the Jagan’s ill-gotten assets case. NSS

ted suicide. The cops who seized the video footage of Neelima’s entry into the campus and details of her movements, are now planning to interrogate the officials and colleagues of Neelima of the IT major from different angles. The idea is to get more information about Neelima’s personal problems. However, following this incident, the police have decided to ask all IT companies to beef up their security set up to avoid such suicide incidents in future.

Devotees pray at the ISKCON temple in Abids on the occasion of Janamashtami. M ANIL KUMAR

n an unusual raid, the GHMC health officials have issued notices to a sweet shop and a restaurant. In this surprise raid by the additional commissioner (health and sanitation), L Vandan Kumar, who was accompanied by CMOH Shalini Devi and AMOH of Circle 10 Balaji Raju and other health officials, it was found that Mainland China was using raw food material and cooked food preserved in fridges, above the prescribed time limits. The food found as rotten was seized and sent for examination. Later, the team inspected the Pulla Reddy Sweet Shop, situated in Somajiguda, where the officials found that the sweets were being prepared in unhygienic conditions in kitchen and with no minimum precautions. The inspecting team was surprised to see the boxes used for packing, filled with dust. When the additional commissioner (H&S) enquired about the salaries of the employees, he found they were from Jharkhand and Anantapur and were being paid `4,000 only, which he felt was against minimum wages. . Thursday’s raid on hotels and eateries was conducted under supervision of the additional commissioner (H&S) himself, where the team inspected 12 establishments. The additional commissioner has informed that these raids will continue.

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CIVIC

LAST YEAR... HERE Roads still await repair

amaged roads, money sanctioned for repair, but no response is the situation that still prevails in many areas. Last year we had reported how the damaged roads in Shyamlal area, Begumpet were proving to be inconvenient for residents. In spite of a sanction of `48 laks, glitches in the GHMC management had delayed the work. A year on, the situation prevails.

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NUMEROLOGY

Road caves in at Punjagutta, traffic thrown out of gear GHMC workers have already started to pump out the sewage water and fill the caved-in portion with sand and concrete. DEEPAK DESHPANDE

5,000

The number of visitors who come to the GHMC head office every day. However, the squalid conditions in the office makes it difficult for citizens (and reporters) to wait patiently.

The school building was supposed to be ready for this academic year. Unfortunately, we are still continuing at the temporary location.

RAHUL RAMAKRISHNA rahul.r@postnoon.com

or once, it was not a traffic cop’s waywardness that led to a massive gridlock on the Punjagutta main road, early this morning. Out of the blue, a gaping hole appeared in the middle of the road opposite Model House in Punjagutta. This threw the normal traffic out of gear. Fortunately, the crater was so big that nobody could miss it, and absence of rain averted possible casualties. Office-goers were caught unawares. Soon, a two-kilometer stretch, all the way to Erramanzil, formed a bumperto-bumper vehicle line. While some commuters tried to escape via bylanes, it led to confusion and trouble. Tempers ran high as there was no official or policeman present

Head master, govt school See page 5

THINGS WE 5LEARNED TODAY The column that teaches everyone something new about the way the City functions.

Dangers await students at City government schools. It’s not only the quality of education that is a concern, but also the quality of their schools. These derelict structures lay ignored with no action being taken.

National leaders appear to be ducking AP affairs. Congress leaders in charge of the State’s affairs, like Ghulam Nabi Azad and Vayalar Ravi, seem to be avoiding their charge.

Futuristic ex-CM holds a unique victory record. If you think that winning an election without visiting the constituency is impossible, ask Naidu who has been winning the Kappam seat since two years.

Time stops in the City’s historical structures. The clock tower and various historical clocks reﬂect the City’s glorious past. Till work is done, time stops, awaiting the repairs.

Ofﬁcials take at least 40 minutes to address a problem. For 40 minutes after a portion of road caved in, there were no cops or ofﬁcials to handle the situation.

to guide and handle the situation for almost 40 minutes. As messages ran thick and fast, municipal commissioner Krishna Babu swung into action and was helped by the Punjagutta traffic police. Deputy municipal commissioner of Punjagutta, T Sakala Reddy said, “We are carrying out repair works by pumping all the sewage water out and filling it with concrete and sand. Until then, we will make sure that steps are taken to ease the traffic.” Motor pumps and pipes were being readied to pump the sewage water from under the road. R Radhakrishna, a commuter, said, “This is the second time the road has caved in recently. A month ago, similar trouble erupted and people made a fuss for two days and forgot about it. I hope the GHMC takes a solid initiative to repair this road.”

NEWS BRIEFS ABVP bid to gatecrash CM office foiled

CM convenes meeting on fee reimbursement

Special drive against improper number plates

Ban on Maoist party extended in AP

BVP activists and the police clashed today before the CM’s Camp ofﬁce. The activists wanted to present to the chief minister a demand to maintain status quo on the fee reimbursement scheme. The right-wing students also tried to gatecrash Botsa Satyanarayana’s residence today, which was also foiled by the police.

hief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy will hold a review meeting on the Fee Reimbursement Scheme this evening. The members of the cabinet sub-committee will submit a report to the chief minister on their proposed recommendations and appraise him of the present political situation on the issue in the State.

n view of the terrorist threats to the country, the Hyderabad trafﬁc police are all set to launch a special drive on improper number plates in the twin cities from August 13. Heavy penalties will be imposed on motorists found driving with improper number plates and carrying no driving licence, registration certiﬁcates or other documents.

he Andhra Pradesh government on Thursday extended by one year the ban on the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and six of its afﬁliates. The government also declared the Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF), a front organisation of CPI(Maoist), as an “unlawful association”.

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DERELICT DANGERS

A lesson in danger: City’s students face a perilous future At least five government schools, one run by a charitable trust, are listed as functioning in ‘dilapidated’ buildings, yet authorities have done little to solve this dangerous issue. DEEPAK DESHPANDE

Md NIZAMUDDIN nizamuddin@postnoon.com

idea worked out but unfortunately, after completion of the basic structure, work is in limbo. “The building was supposed to be ready for this academic year but unfortunately we are continuing at the temporary location,” says the head master, who did not want to be named. According to the head master, there are eight schools in Secunderabad Mandal alone which were under reconstruction and whose work is pending since several months. Similar to the situation at Regimental Bazaar, the kids here are continuing their studies at a temporary location. One of the structures listed as dilapidated is one of the oldest schools in Allugadda Bavi, maintained by a trust. Started in 1955, the school continues to run in the age-old structure under asbestos sheets. For this school, notice was given in 2003, while for the other two mentioned above, notices were given in 2004. The Government Primary School in Subash Road received the notice from the GHMC on June 15, 2011. The deputy inspector of schools, Secunderabad, Venugopala Chary, said that one of the schools in Subhash Road was dislocated completely. The government has sanctioned the reconstruction of the Kummarguda school, but until then, he was making sure that no one avails the dilapidated structure. About the Regimental Bazaar school, he said the delay was being caused due to the contractors.

limb or his life. It has been more than a year since the staff has represented the issue to the collector of Hyderabad, but no action has been initiated. The building is over 60 years old. Another government school of Regimental Bazaar, known for its record of cent per cent results, is now sharing space with an already existing school called Hill Street School. Out of 120 students, some 25 to 30 per cent less are attending classes due to the change in location, which

is about half a kilometer away from the original school building. According to the head master, even though the building was listed as ‘dilapidated’ by the GHMC, the engineers of RMSA (Rastriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan) found the structure to be intact. Engineers who took up the issue have chosen a novel idea to link the beams of the old building with the newly raised structure from the open ground. This

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dren are sleeping in the adjacent block, which is intact. However, the dilapidated structure is used during the day by both children and staff. “How could 60 children and five staff members fit in two small rooms?” asks the incharge. According to the staff, recently a huge chunk fell on a chair and had anyone been sitting on the chair, he could have lost a

ome have broken furniture dumped in the attic, some have gaping holes through the asbestos ceiling, some others have cracking walls and many have damp, broken floors. The Dickensian portrayal is not in a novel but in the sarkari schools of our City. Reflecting the State government’s step-motherly attitude towards public schools, several school buildings are under a constant danger of caving in if the rains come in earnest. In Secunderabad Circle alone, five schools are listed as stationed in dilapidated buildings. These need urgent attention of the authorities lest some untoward incident take place. While four are government schools, one has been run by a charitable trust for decades. The Upper primary school in Kummarguda (Pot Market) needs immediate repairs or reconstruction. This school, which runs as the Residential School Training Centre (RSTC), has 60 children. While most of the children belong to residential category, five are day scholars. Recently, the State project officer (Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan) and deputy inspector of schools had visited it and they had directed the staff to make sure the chil-

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REPORTER’S DIARY

Cong leaders duck AP affairs D

uring the early sixties war between India and China, there was a compulsory recruitment of the youth into the army. As most of them did not return home alive, parents and teenagers used to hide from the police who would com out of the blue and pick up the young. Parallel can be drawn in the current AP Congress matters. The AICC in-charge of AP affairs Ghulam Nabi Azad seems to have forgotten the road to Hyderabad. The leader who had hogged the headlines some time back with his frequent trips to Hyderabad for party affairs was last seen in the City on July 1, that too not exactly for AP party works, but to garner support for the then UPA’ presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee. Azad did not take stock of the situation in the party post the bypolls. He is angry with all leaders who could just win a miserable two seats. One Congress leader said in jest that Azad is scared of facing active media corps of the State, hence giving it a miss. Congress grapevine has it that it is not Azad alone, the Centre’s emissary, Vayalar Ravi, who made many visits before the bypoll too is ducking the AP issue. No central leader would like to take up the AP party charge as it is in a deep mess. IA

MANTRIS FOLLOW CM?

Cadres learn from leaders. If the CM Kiran Kumar Reddy loves to come late for works and functions, could his cabinet colleagues be left far behind? Postponement of press conferences by mantris at the State secretariat has become common thing that put the P&R department in a quandary. This reporter saw how the government PR was tearing his hair in despair after sending mail after mail on the change of time and date of pre-planned press meetings. Agreed, it is the privilege of the minister to shift a meeting he plans but he should also realise the media’s time is valuable. Indeed, there is no slave who is more adherent to the clock than the media, and yet they are the ones often coming on the firing line of those who did not quite like the coverage. It is time that mantris learn others’ time is also valuable. IA

CURBING VISITOR FLOW The GHMC head office hosts more than 5,000 visitors a day. A walk from the main door to the PRO’s office leaves one with the stench of urine. While the PRO’s office has gone to great lengths in ignoring this problem, the troubled lot are the journalists waiting here for an interview with some official. Maybe it is the department’s way of keeping visitors at bay. It seems to follow

iting the City would otherwise interpret it as the symbol of the City’s unwillingness to move with times. Postnoon hopes it will not be a hack job but something that would restore the former glory of these great clocks. MI

IFTAAR PARTY BECOMES JANATA PARTY!

The famous clock tower in Secunderabad now awaits repairs

the Secretariat instance where whose toilets have been a constant source of embarrassment to its employees and visitors. A visitor in the GHMC very wisely says, “What good will this department do to this City, when it cannot keep itself clean?” RR

CLOCK, STOCK AND NO PARALLEL

Clocks have stopped ticking, while everything seems to continue doing its bit. The clocks that symbolised the City’s grand past, have fallen into disuse as people in the City now have

modern clocks at home. The City has a dozen or so old clocks which are either not working or their needles are missing. There are occasions when the government has shown some interests and made a hurried repair which does not last because those clocks were the products of giant brains and our pea-brained modern clockmechanics have little idea about them. With the impending COP-11, the GHMC has plans to repair these clocks, as the delegates vis-

It’s the month of Iftaar parties. The Medical students of Shadan Institute of Medical Sciences (SIMS) hosted a grand Iftaar Party on Thursday. The chairman and secretary of Shadan Group of Institutions Vizarat Rasool Khan, Shadan Tehniyat and members of the group graced the occasion. The party also saw the attendance of prominent persons from other communities too. Speaking on the occasion, the MD of SIMS Sharib Rasool Khan said that the iftaar party hosted by the students is symbol of unity and brotherhood and added that such parties would further strengthen relationships between various communities. He hoped that the students of the college would continue this tradition in coming years as well. But a trend (welcome though) of late is that anybody hosts a Iftaar party. It’s like Christmas tree or star which has gone out of Christian fold into the universal hand. IA With inputs from Inkeshaf Ahmed, Md Nizamuddin and Rahul Ramakrishna

KNOW YOUR LEADER

Babu, a man always ahead of his time INKESHAF AHMED ahmed.m@postnoon.com

handrababu Naidu, does not require any introduction in Andhra Pradesh or for that matter in the entire country. Naidu has been the renowned architect of the BJP-led NDA besides being the master sculptor of Hitec City. It was Babu who led the IT scramble in the State, no questions about that. This was proven when the US presidents decided to visit Hyderabad during his India visit. Hyderabad was the only other point of contact in India for George Bush besides the official New Delhi. The young man in a hurry was what Babu when he toppled his F-in-L and became CM (crit-

ics are unduly harsh on Babu. After all, every other person in TDP was toppling NTR!). He is also famously called by his critics and political opponents as “a man always ahead of times” for his revolutionary programmes like Janmabhoomi, which provided a platform for public and government officials to work together to develop the State and his vision to set up engineering colleges for the growth of professional education in the State. Naidu began his career as an MLA from his native Chandragiri Assembly constituency as a Congress Party MLA in 1978, as a contemporary of former CM YS Rajasekhar Reddy. His life changed when he got a proposal from NTR for his

Name: N. Chandra Babu Naidu 13th CM of Andhra Pradesh In office: September 1, 1995 – May 13, 2004 Preceded by: NT Rama Rao Constituency: Kuppam, Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh Born: April 20, 1950 (age 62) Naravari Palle, Chittoor Political party: Telugu Desam Party Spouse: Nara Bhuvaneshwari Children: Nara Lokesh Residence: Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, Religion: Hinduism

daughter’s hands. Both were very close friends as they became MLAs the same year. Their relationship soured after Naidu joined NTR’s Telugu Desam Party in 1982. After losing the election from Chandragiri constituency in 1985, Naidu contested from Kuppam Assembly seat and won it with a comfortable margin. Kuppam became his permanent base from where he won for five times in a row. Interestingly, he also has achieved the record of winning Assembly elections without visiting his constituency even to file his nomination. The reason is that he endeared himself with the people so much that they fail to imagine any other alternative .

STRENGTH

His close friends say that his strength is his never say die attitude. He also has shown no naked nepotism as many Congressmen did. He has a modern outlook and has always wanted AP to be a world-class City.

WEAKNESS

His weakness, many believe is that he still lives in the ‘prince charming’ cocoon, without realising that much water has flown since he was overthrown. The CEO tag has gone to his head. He ceased to listen to sane voices. He continues to refuse to see reality. But for his credit, people say he is more well-meaning than the Congress. He has tried to keep the family united after his coup against NTR.

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Focus

A TRIP TO MARS

Thomas Edison’s A Trip to Mars is considered to be the first American science fiction film. This movie was produced in 1910 in kinetoscope by Thomas Edison. The movie deals with how a professor makes a reverse gravity powder and takes a trip to Mars where he encounters numerous adventures. It is a four-minute silent film. Following this numerous other movies were also made with Mars adventures as the background.

MARS LANDING

Fourth rock from the sun

As the Curiosity rover, NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory, landed on Mars on August 6, scientists hope to find out more about the mysterious planet and answer questions about life there. Mars facts

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n Surface gravity on Mars is 38% of the gravity on Earth.

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n Mars is cold. The temperatures vary between -87°C and 0°C.

fter a 567 million kilometre journey that took some eight and a half months, Curiosity, NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory, landed safely near the planet’s equator on August 6, 2012. The last of our solar system’s four rocky planets, Mars is about half the Earth’s size. It is very Earth-like with a 24-hour and 37 minute-long day. Since its orbit is twice as long as the Earth’s, a Martian year takes 687 days to complete and an axial tilt of 25.2° means Mars has seasons like the Earth. Surface gravity on Mars is 38 per cent of the gravity on Earth which means that lighter gases have escaped into outer space. Today Mars’ ultra thin atmosphere is made of 95 per cent carbon dioxide and some sulphur, chlorine and phosphorous. As there is no atmospheric shield, the planet is bombarded by deadly ionising radiation. Mars has the largest dust storms of the solar system. The solar system’s highest mountain, the 21 km-high Olympus Mons, and one of the solar system’s largest canyons, the 7 km-deep Valles Marineris which is four times deeper and nine times longer than the Grand Canyon, are both on this planet. Mars is cold — temperatures vary between -87° C and 0° C, and the ice on the polar caps is mostly frozen carbon dioxide and water ice. Mars no longer has a dipolar magnetic field, so a compass would not work on the planet! Two small, irregularly shaped, natural moons orbit Mars — interestingly, Phobos rises in the West while Deimos rises in the East! Mars was known to the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians and Chinese. The Greeks and the Romans associated it with the gods of war because of its reddish appearance which is due to the rust or iron oxide in its soil. Astrologers and alchemists considered Mars a symbol of masculinity, and used the symbol for

n The 4th century Indian scientific text Surya-siddhunta tried to estimate its diameter. n The Indian week day Mangalavaram is named after the planet. n Mars has the largest dust storms of the solar system. n Mars does not have a magnetic field.

One of the first views from NASA’s Curiosity rover which landed on Mars.

it. The 4th century Indian scientific text Surya-siddhanta tried to estimate its diameter, while the Indian week day Mangalavaram is named after the planet. In recent times, interest in

Mars revived in 1877 when the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli used a 22-cm telescope to observe Mars. He noted a labyrinth of straight lines or grooves which he called canali.

The heat shield of Curiosity during descent. AFP/NASA/MALIN SPACE SCIENCE SYSTEMS

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Wrongly translated as ‘canals’ this led to frenzied speculation about an advanced civilization on Mars. Percival Lowell’s sincere but deluded book Life on Mars; HG Wells’ science fiction The War of the Worlds about the Martian invasion of the Earth, and Nikola Tesla’s claim that he received radio signals from Mars added fuel to popular speculation about life on Mars. Such was the mythology of life on Mars that when Orson Welles broadcast a radio adaptation of HG Well’s book in 1938, a great public panic ensued. Even in the 1960s articles were being published about Martian biology — clearly, the great biologist Alfred Russell Wallace’s criticism of

Lowell in his 1907 book Is Mars Habitable had limited impact! After the canali were shown to be an optical illusion because of a limitation in the early telescopes, and after American, Russian and European Mars missions did not find any life on Mars, the wild fantasising stopped. But in 1999, NASA’S Viking orbiter sent a picture of a ‘happy face’ in the Galle Crater, and many did not accept that it was just a play of shadows and not the sign of some intelligent Martians. However, some serious questions about life on Mars remain: is the small quantity of methane detected on Mars of biological origin? In 1984, a Martian meteorite was discovered in Antarctica with what seemed like fossil records of primitive life. Did primitive life exist on Mars 3.6 billion years ago? NASA’s Curiosity may set us on the path to the answers: weighing a thousand kilos, it carries over ten times the mass of scientific instruments carried by previous NASA rovers. The robotic rover has an alpha particle X-ray spectrometer to determine the elements in the soil, and a sample analysis instrument that will look for carbonbased compounds. Curiosity will analyse soil samples and beam the information to the Earth for the next two years. At $2.5 billion, Curiosity cost a mere 1/6th of the expenditure for the London Olympics but it has already demonstrated humanity’s resolve to go faster, higher and stronger to unravel the Universe’s mysteries.

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Business

CHINA EXPORTED 457mn MOBILE PHONES

China, the world’s biggest mobile phone manufacturer, has exported about 457 million mobile phones in the first half of the year, up by 17.7 per cent year-on-year, a media report said on Thursday. The sales reached $35.8 billion in the period.

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2G SPECTRUM

Time sought from SC The Union government appeals to the apex court for time till November.

NEW DELHI: The central government on Thursday moved the Supreme Court for “further and final extension of time” for the auction and allocation of 122 2G licenses and spectrum that were cancelled by the apex court by its order of Feb 2, 2012. The application by the government has said that it needed time till Nov 12, 2012, to commence the auction and another 40 days to complete auction and allocate licenses and spectrum. The government said it needed further extension of time for the auction of 2G licenses in “public interest” to ensure that the “auction yielded maximum revenue to the government of India. It would, therefore, be in the interest of justice to grant the extension needed.” The application listed eight steps that the government has already taken to ensure the “conduct and completion of the auction” in accordance with the orders of the apex court. The steps so far complied with included Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) recommendations on the

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Panel seeks probe into Bt Brinjal

auction of the cancelled licences and the study of the same by an internal committee of the department of telecommunications (DoT) which submitted its report April 30. The government also said that the Telecom Commission had made recommendations to the government April 30 after considering the report of the internal committee and the recommendations of the TRAI. The application, seeking extension of time for ensuring the efficient conduct of the auction of spectrum, said that the

government after the auction bids had issued letter of intent to Times Internet Limited Aug 6. The earlier extension of three months given by the apex court is due to expire Aug 31. The apex court by its Feb 2 order had cancelled all the 122 licenses that were granted by former telecom minister A. Raja on and after Jan 10, 2008. The court while cancelling the 2G licences had given the government four months’ time till June 2 to complete the process of auctioning the cancelled licences.

NEW DELHI: A parliamentary panel on Thursday recommended a probe into the issue of Bt Brinjal, saying that adequate tests had not been carried out and the approval committee was under “tremendous pressure” from the “industry and a minister” to approve it. Basudeb Acharia, who heads the parliamentary standing committee on agriculture, said: “The issue needs to be probed as the co-chairman of the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) Arjula Reddy was under tremendous pressure as he was getting calls from the industry, GEAC and a minister to approve Bt Brinjal.” He said the probe should cover the period right from the beginning to the imposing of a moratorium.

TECH WARS Yahoo! stock slips as new chief Marissa Mayer mulls strategy SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo! stock price slid on Thursday on word that freshly-appointed chief Marissa Mayer could overhaul the struggling Internet pioneer’s strategy to regain its faded glory. Mayer is re-evaluating Yahoo’s plans, including a promise that billions of dollars from the sale of part of its stake in Alibaba Group in China would be chan-

In May, Yahoo! raided its archrival hiring Mayer when she was a key Google executive. nelled to stockholders, probably by buying back shares, according to paperwork filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

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BEIJING: China’s alcohol imports have risen 58.1 per cent from a year earlier to $2.4 billion last year, according to the country’s commerce ministry. In 2011, the country imported 500,000 kilolitres (kl) of alcohol, an increase of about 30 per cent year on year, Xinhua quoted Vice Minister of Commerce Jiang Zengwei as saying at a press conference about an international alcoholic beverage expo that runs from Aug 9 to 13 in Guizhou province. The country’s alcohol exports increased 51.3 per cent to $500 million last year, while it sold 270,000kl of alcohol to overseas markets, Jiang said. The country currently has 2.17 million registered alcohol businesses, 1.96 million of which are retailers, Jiang added. IANS

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nation PUNJAB

JOSHI’S REMARKS HIGHLY IRRESPONSIBLE: SHARAD PAWAR

Asserting that his party has been with Congress through thick and thin, Sharad Pawar dismissed as “highly irresponsible” Shiv Sena leader Manohar Joshi’s remarks that the NCP chief has the potential, political acumen and capability to unify the fragmented NDA and lead it to power in the next Lok Sabha elections.

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Toll in hooch tragedy hits 18 as one more dies

‘It’s okay to steal’

GURDASPUR (PUNJAB): With the death of one more person, the toll in the hooch tragedy in the district has mounted to 18, police said today. 32-year-old Ved Parkash died in Kandial colony in Batala last night after he consumed illicit liquor. Yesterday, Gareeb Dass, a resident of Shahabad village, died after consuming hooch while two persons were referred to Guru Nanak Dev Hospital at Amritsar. While 11 people died in Johal Nangal and Balewal villages of the district after consuming illicit liquor, four persons were killed in Kutbi Nangal village after consuming illicit

ETAH(UP): “If you work hard, you can steal a little,” is what Uttar Pradesh Public Works Department Minister and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav’s uncle Shivpal Yadav has told PWD officials in the state. However shocking it may seem to others, for Shivpal Yadav it was okay if district officials in Etah swindled a little in return for their hard work, but not go on to loot people or the state. “I told PWD officials that if you work hard, you can steal a little but not behave like dacoits,” Yadav is reported to have said. Reacting to the remarks,

MUMBAI MURDER

Watchman killed lawyer for rude behaviour MUMBAI: The Mumbai police have arrested the security guard of the apartment building where Pallavi Purkayastha, the 25-yearold lawyer who killed on Thursday, lived. According to reports, the guard has reportedly confessed to killing Pallavi Purkayastha. The guard reportedly told the police that he killed her simply because she had behaved in a rude manner with him a few days back. A young advocate daughter of an IAS couple was on Thursday found murdered at her rented flat in Mumbai. Pallavi Purkayastha (25), whose IAS parents stay in Delhi, was found in a pool of blood at her rented flat in ‘Himalayan Heights’ building at Wadala in Central Mumbai by her live-in partner Avik Sengupta (26), also a lawyer. When Avik returned home he found that the door was slightly opened... he went inside and found the blood-soaked body of Pallavi with the throat slit, following which he informed the police, sources said.

Shivpal Yadav says it’s okay if district officials in Etah swindled a little in return for their hard work. CM Akhilesh Yadav’s uncle is reported to have said to PWD officials that “if you work hard, you can steal a little but not behave like dacoits”. UP Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi said, “If the minister himself says so, then there will be no end to corruption.” Joshi further said she condemns the remarks.

NEWS BRIEFS 32-year-old woman raped by 2 doctors in Meerut MEERUT: Two doctors of a private nursing home in Meerut allegedly raped a woman at the facility during treatment, police said. On the basis of the complaint of the 32-year-old victim, a case of rape has been registered against two doctors of the nursing home, SP City Om Prakash told reporters. The woman, who belongs to Muzaffarnagar, and was to be discharged on Thursday.

BSP’s Sudheendra Bhadoria hit out at the SP government, saying there was ‘jungle raaj’ in the state. “Mayawati ji had said earlier that people will regret electing SP,” Bhadoria added.

If the Olympics gave a medal for corruption, India could have won a gold, yoga guru Baba Ramdev said Friday as thousands poured into the Ramlila Grounds here for day two of his fast. Calling on all of India to support his agitation against black money and graft, Ramdev said: “India could have won gold if there was a competition for corruption in the Olympics. The crowds, which had started gathering since 8 am, cheered and clapped enthusiastically. To which Ramdev said: “This is not a matter to applaud.” He started the day with a yoga camp, before addressing the crowd in a speech that pitched for his movement against black money as well as for a stringent Lokpal bill.

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Samba jawan suicide: Parents suspect foul play SRINAGAR: The distraught parents of the Army jawan who committed suicide in Samba on Thursday now suspect foul play. They have alleged that their son was too strong to give up and kill himself. “He called up two days back and said he was not treated well and that there is a life threatening situation,” said the jawan’s father, Vishwa Mohan Pillai.

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NNC cadres with arms, ammunition arrested ITANAGAR: In a joint operation, the Assam Rifles and the Arunachal Pradesh Police apprehended three hard-core Naga National Council cadres in Tirap district. The operation was carried out at Deomali on August 7, AR sources said here today. On of the three arrested, Moingchan, who hails from Old Laptang Village during interrogation, confessed he was serving extortion notes to the villagers, the sources said.

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VACATION TIME

CINEMA

Time for a ‘small’ break

Pak seeks tech help from India NEW DELHI: Mazhar Zaidi and Farjad Nabi are journaliststurned-filmmakers from Pakistan. When they came together to make “Zinda Bhaag” on a burning issue in Pakistan, they had to seek help from across the border, as the Lahore-based film industry is in tatters and there was no technical help they could fall back on. “It was a challenge to go for a feature film in Pakistan. The whole film industry has collapsed. No technical facilities are available. Nor are actors available,” said Zaidi, the film’s producer. He was speaking at the Pakistan Studies Programme in Jamia Millia Islamia in the capital. Besides seeking technical assistance from India, Zaidi and director Nabi roped in Meenu Gaur, an alumnus of Jamia’s Mass Communication and Research Centre (MCRC) and a PhD in film studies from London, as co-director.

Many people are packing their bags and heading for short haul destinations abroad.

The Lahore-based film industry is in tatters and there was no technical help they could fall back on. As acting talent was not handy, they invited Naseeruddin Shah to conduct workshops with non-actors. The film, to be released in December, takes up the sensitive issue of illegal immigration, a burning topic in Pakistan. As the team researched on the reasons for youngsters taking the risk of illegal migration and visited neighbourhoods in Lahore to meet such youngsters, they realised that there were areas where each family had a story to tell. The topic was too close to these youngsters and their families and thus it made sense to cast these youngsters in the film, aided by some training in acting. They zeroed in on one such neighbourhood as the location for shooting. Zaidi says that as shooting began, “we were stopped on the streets... People congratulated us for shooting in Lahore. One gentleman claimed it was after 20 years that a film was being made in Lahore.” The trio said that themes like “Bol”, “Khuda Ke Liye” and “Ramchand Pakistani” were equally popular as any mainstream entertainment film and these bold subjects were, in fact, financially viable. IANS

NEW DELHI, Aug 9 (IANS) It’s raining holidays and extended weekends this month. What with Janmashtami falling on Friday and Independence Day midweek, topped off with Eid the following weekend, many people are packing their bags and heading for short haul destinations abroad. Thailand, Mauritius, Malaysia are Macau among the preferred destinations. The Janmashtami weekend falls Aug 10-12, Independence Day is Aug 15 Wednesday, and the Eid weekend is from Aug 18-20. Tour operators are delighted at this “unseasonal” tour season. While couples and groups are booking trips for a 10-day period beginning Aug 10, families and office goers are choosing between the two weekends. “Technically there are two long weekends but we are looking at it as a 10-day holiday period owing to the bookings that we have got,” Manmeet Ahluwalia, marketing head of online travel portal

The budget

he average holiday budget begins at `5,000-10,000 per person and goes up to `80,000 to `100,000 - depending on the destination. Foreign hangouts hailand, Mauritius, Malaysia are Macau among the preferred destinations.

Domestic destinations ashmir, Goa, Rajasthan, Kerala and also hill stations in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.

Expedia.co.in, told IANS. “Several tours have been booked for the 10-day period beginning this Friday,” he added. He said there was no fixed pattern of bookings and the travellers are a mixed bag of families, groups of friends and newly married couples.

The Janmashtami weekend falls Aug 1012, Independence Day is Aug 15 Wednesday, and the Eid weekend is from Aug 18-20. Some people are also heading for the West. The budget, duration of the vacation and discount offers, among others, play a pivotal role in deciding the destination for almost all the travellers, according to Prashant Chahuan, chief operating officer of Myguesthouse.com. The average holiday budget begins at `5,000-10,000 per person and goes up to `80,000 to `100,000 depending on the destination. Youngsters and young couples are choosing international destinations like Bangkok, Bali, Singapore or Malaysia. “Youngsters want to shop, gamble, enjoy night outs and indulge in water sports, so they

are choosing foreign destinations,” said Ahluwalia. Pratik Mazumder, head of marketing and strategic alliance of Yatra.com, agreed: “There has been a substantial increase in the travel bookings this August. The extended weekends have fuelled the excitement amongst travellers.” Many people are also heading for domestic destinations like Kashmir, Goa, Rajasthan, Kerala and also hill stations in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. Ahluwalia said that Expedia was offering 50 percent discount on hotels in Goa, Kerala, Rajasthan and other destinations. Chahuan said: “Families are opting for hill stations, especially Kashmir, while there is a strong preference for Kerala as well.” “Rajasthan is a hot favourite too due to its proximity to Delhi and the monsoon season which means that the heat is not intense,” he added. IANS

FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2012

World

MEXICAN PLAYBOY DIRECTOR RECEIVES DEATH THREATS Playboy Mexico’s editor said he received death threats after his magazine published excerpts from a biography of President Felipe Calderon. Gabriel Bauducco said he had received two threats by email, one of which “clearly” had to do with the publication of passages from the book “Felipe El Oscuro” (Felipe The Obscure) by Argentine journalist Olga Wornat.

SYRIAN CRISIS

Retreating rebels set to counterattack in Aleppo Former Algerian foreign minister Lakhdar Brahimi was expected to be named the new UN-Arab League envoy to Syria. ALEPPO: Rebels retreated from the key Aleppo district of Salaheddin under a deadly rain of shellfire Thursday, as a veteran Algerian diplomat was set to be named the new international envoy to Syria. “We have staged a tactical withdrawal from Salaheddin. The district is completely empty of rebel fighters. Regime forces are now advancing into Salaheddin,” said Hossam Abu Mohammed, a Free Syrian Army (FSA) commander, with the battle for Syria’s commercial capital raging into a second day. “The fighters are withdrawing to (nearby) Sukari district, where they are preparing a counter-attack,” he told AFP by telephone. Abu Mohammed cited heavy shelling and the army’s use of thermobaric bombs, which throw out a wall of fire to incinerate targets in enclosed spaces. “A large number of civilians were killed, as were some 40 rebels,” he said. “Forty buildings have been flattened.” State television said: “Our special forces have cleansed Salaheddin district of terrorists.” But Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said that fighters remained in the district, ready to “fight to the death.” Wassel Ayub, who commands the Nur al-Haq Brigade, said the FSA had withdrawn “to open a new front in Saif al-

DRUG QUEEN EXTRADITED

US authorities extradited one of the most notorious women accused of links to Mexico’s drug trade on Thursday, Mexican officials said. Mexican police handed over Sandra Avila Beltran, a 52-yearold known as the “Queen of the Pacific,” at an airport in the central city of Toluca. Avila is expected to appear before a federal judge in Florida on charges of criminal conspiracy and drug trafficking.

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votes were cast in favour of Mohamed al-Megaryef at the Libyan national assembly, General National Congress, making him its President. He beat Ali Zidane who got 85 votes. A Syrian family flees the restive city of Aleppo with their belongings crammed in the back of a truck on August 9, 2012 as rebels staged what they called a “tactical withdrawal” while regime forces advanced into a key district of the northern city with the raging battle for Syria’s commercial capital entering its second day. AFP/PHIL MOORE

Dawla and Mashhad.” FSA spokesman Kassem Saadeddine, speaking by Skype, said the withdrawal “does not mean we are leaving Aleppo. We have military plans to fight in the city, but we cannot reveal them.” In Damascus, a security source said regime forces were “advancing quickly” in Salaheddin towards Saif alDawla. “But the next big battle, which will be very fierce, will be in the (southeastern) Sukari district,” he added. At least 17 people were killed in Aleppo, scene of fierce

battles since July 20, the Observatory said, adding that two children and a citizen journalist were among them. Nationwide, the toll reached 96 — 37 civilians, 31 soldiers and 28 rebels — according to the Observatory. That compared with 167 on Wednesday, including 33 in Aleppo. Elsewhere, fierce fighting also broke out in Damascus province, where at least 15 people were killed, most of them civilians, while regime forces shelled Zabadani, the monitoring group said. On Wednesday, loyalist troops launched their offensive

against the rebels, who had claimed to control half the city, after President Bashar al-Assad vowed a day earlier to crush the rebellion that erupted in March 2011. Diplomats at the United Nations said former Algerian foreign minister Lakhdar Brahimi was expected to be named as the new UN-Arab League envoy to Syria. Negotiations were still going on over the envoy’s role and how the United Nations will operate in Syria amid the intensifying civil war. The mandate of the UN mission in the country ends on August 20.

NEWS BRIEFS S Korean monks fined for gambling

Second anti-government Oz rescues more than protests in Tunisia 200 from asylum boat

Anonymous strikes Oz spy agency

SEOUL: A South Korean court said Friday it has ﬁned two Buddhist monks for illegal gambling, after video footage of their high-stakes poker game sparked a scandal in religious circles. The Seoul Central District Court Thursday ﬁned the monks from the Jogye Order, the country’s largest Buddhist order, two million won ($1,775) each.

SIDI BOUZID: Police ﬁred tear gas and rubber bullets late Thursday to disperse a second antigovernment protest in the central Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid, birthplace of last year’s revolution. Some 800 demonstrators furious at police intervention against a protest earlier in the day threw stones at security forces.

SYDNEY: Hacking group Anonymous on Friday claimed to have shut down a computer server belonging to Australia’s domestic spy agency ASIO, reportedly brieﬂy closing down access to its public webpage. The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) acknowledged some disruption to its website.

SYDNEY: Australia rescued more than 200 asylum-seekers from a boat off Indonesia, ofﬁcials said Friday, amid reports navy ships are literally cracking under the strain of responding to a ﬂood of boatpeople. Authorities raced to help a vessel in Indonesian waters north of the remote Australian territory of Christmas Island late Wednesday.

TWO-PEOPLE US TOWN A historic American town with a population of two people will be auctioned off on August 15, the auctioneers Williams & Williams said Thursday. Garryowen, Montana, little over 7.7 acres, includes houses, a grocery store, a fast food restaurant, a shop and a post ofﬁce. The parcel of land is also situated on the site of the legendary 1876 battle of Little Big Horn, in which US troops led by General George Armstrong Custer were routed by Native American tribes, including the Cheyenne and the Sioux.

There will be no winner in Syria. Now, we face the grim possibility of long-term civil war destroying Syria’s rich tapestry of interwoven communities. Ban Ki-moon UN Secretary General

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Comment Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. Thomas Jefferson Third President of the US

Education comes at a price in China

hether you call them jiu ling hou — the “post-’90s generation” — or millennials, things are not so different for recent college graduates in China and the US. Derided in both countries as spoiled, selfish and entitled, yet struggling to find decent work, they belong to generations whose high expectations for comfort and prosperity have been thwarted by economic trends. In America, the class of 2012 faces crippling student debt, declining wages, and 9.9 percent unemployment rate for college graduates under 25 years old — all against the backdrop of a lingering national downturn. But in China, the situation may be even worse. A full quarter of recent college graduates in China are unemployed, according to official statistics published by the state-run Xinhua News Agency. And many of those who are employed end up working in jobs very far from their undergraduate studies. The Chinese media is rife with tales of overeducated young people taking jobs as cashiers, assembly-line workers, even “night soil collectors.”In fact, some argue that the prospects for educated workers is worse than for low-skilled labourers. Factory workers are in high demand in the industrial heartland of southern China. In the last year alone, wages for migrant workers rose 14.9 percent. But while an education has long been considered a ticket to a brighter future in China, the number of well-paying jobs has not grown nearly as fast as enrolment. Over the last decade, China’s college-educated population has multiplied eightfold, from 830,000 graduating in 1998 to 6.8 million in 2012. GLOBAL POST

HIGH-FLYING THOUGHTS The blade-runner gets a shot at an Olympic medal! Though fortune favoured him ill a long time ago when his legs were amputated from the knees, the tides have turned since. The world waits with bated breath to see if the four-time Paralympic champion will outrun every odd or not.

INDIA’S EDUCATION SYSTEM

A QUICK FIX

THE ANONYMOUS ALIEN

had promised another story this week on the talent that lies hidden in all of us…that often only emerges with a little nurturing. But that has to wait until next week, because events of the last few days in India are so extraordinary that they demand attention now. Here’s the story. As readers of this column know, I have serious concerns about India’s future because of its substandard education system. I’ve written repeatedly about the difficulties employers have finding suitable talent. I, myself, regularly turn away Indian job seekers who were educated at reputable universities in India who do not know basic things: How old were they seven years ago? Who is Albert Einstein? Does the Earth go around the sun, or vice versa? The weakness of the Indian education system was formally documented two years ago, by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). This is a global evaluation organization that assesses where 15year old school children rank compared to peers from other countries in reading, math and science. In 2010, India proudly put forth its two finest education systems, in Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh. And the results? India came in behind

Trinidad and Tobago. Behind Uruguay and Croatia, Serbia and Panama. Behind EVERY country, in fact, except Kyrgyzstan. That’s right, India – the great, emerging global power — came in second to last. SECOND TO LAST. While the results of this test may have been merely eyeopening, India’s response was simply extraordinary and unprecedented. Parents across the country rose up in mass protests, demanding major educational reforms to protect their children’s future. In Delhi, over 75,000 parents marched on the Prime Minister’s home, while in Mumbai, nearly 200,000 parents and their children staged a mass protest in a park in Bandra against an educational system that had utterly failed them. At two schools in Tamil Nadu, parents linked together in a massive hunger strike and sit-in, refusing to eat or move until the government of the state agreed to triple the education budget. And the government responded to the test results and the parents’ demands with a speed and determination never before seen in India to protect the future of the country’s most valuable asset – its children. Major political parties, for the first time in decades, set aside differences and banded together to revamp the education system. Setting a goal of scoring in the top 20 of all countries on the PISA tests within 10 years, the national government agreed to a quadrupling of funds for India’s educational system, as well as a complete overhaul of the out-

dated laws that are choking the system. Perhaps most extraordinary of all, the powerful teachers’ union — conceding that the union itself was at least partially responsible for these horrible test results — endorsed a meritbased system of pay for its teacher-members and an absentee policy that kicked out members who missed more than ten working days per year... Wait a second. None of the above happened. Well, India’s terrible performance on the PISA tests really did happen, but the response wasn’t outraged parents, and motivated politicians and reformed unions. The response from India was rather different. The response was… WE QUIT. That’s right. India’s response to scoring second to last in the most widely accepted international assessment of educational quality was to pull out of the PISA rankings. I guess the reasoning goes like this: if India isn’t ranked, it can’t score badly. Simple, logical… disgusting. I can only assume that the geniuses who decided to pull

India from the PISA assessments, rather than dealing with them, are very much like the university graduates I frequently interview for jobs: they probably haven’t even heard of Tunisia (one of the countries that beat India in the tests), they probably don’t know how old they will be in eleven years, or why the sky is blue. Perhaps their math skills are so bad that they can’t even count to 72, India’s ranking out of the 73 countries that took the PISA test. You can’t solve a problem unless you identify and define it. The PISA tests gave India an objective assessment of where India is at in its education standards. The country could have set a reasonable and attainable goal – to be in the top 50 countries within 10 years, and the top 20 within 20 years, and then found the political will to achieve it. Instead, it quit. As things are going now? I’m not sure anyone in India will be able to spell “education system” in 20 years, let alone fix it. You can reach The Anonymous Alien at AnonymousAlieninIndia@gmail.com

EDITORIALS Usain Bolt: Man and Superman

ne doubts if Usain Bolt is complacent. What other man would slow down to look back just paces near the finish line to check where his nearest competitor was? If Bolt had not done it, he could have finished faster at the 200m final. In Beijing, at the 100m final, had he saved his celebrations for later and not during the race, he could have finished faster then too. But Bolt may indulge himself. He can afford to. There was no way any of those who ran with him could have pipped him. In reply to those who had doubted him in the buildup to the Olympics, after clocking 19.32 seconds and retaining the 200m title, he gestured to them with a finger on his lip. He did not stop it there: as if to tell them that he has got more in him, he did some impromptu pushups. As he said he has nothing to prove to anyone. By becoming the first man to win the sprint double twice, he has become immortal. Is he complacent? No, it’s part of his charm.

READERS’ VIEWS

Stop the blame game, please

he blame game has started. Our archers have pinned it all on Limba Ram, their coach, for their deplorable performance. They say Ram is not a good enough coach for them. And they have a solution, too. Appoint a foreign coach. A senior archer says Ram was given charge when most of them had become ﬁnished products. Will appointing a foreign coach, “preferably a Korean”, work wonders? If a partially blind man created an Olympic record, it’s not because he was Korean or his coach was: it’s because he gave it his all.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2012

music

THE CLASSIC CRIME

Phoenix, an alternative rock band from Versailles, founded by Thomas Mars, Deck d'Arcy, Christian Mazzalai and Laurent Brancowitz, will be releasing its next album The Classic Crime next week.

HATE MUSIC

LOLLAPALOOZA 2012

Last weekend's shooting rampage at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin has thrown the spotlight onto the white power rock scene in the United States and bands like Definitive Hate, Attack and End Apathy.

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HATE MUSIC RESURFACES

ade Michael Page, a 40-year-old former psy-ops soldier who killed six worshippers in Oak Creek before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, had been involved with a number of underground skinhead bands. Such groups and have been "instrumental in the formation of a white supremacist sub-culture," said Marilyn Mayo, who monitors hate groups for the Anti-Defamation League. "Hate music helps bring haters together into a shared community," she said, even if the lyrics have "little to offer followers except extreme rhetoric." Events such as the Hammerfest gathering, underpinned by the Hammerskin Nation movement, attract "racist skinheads ... from all over the country," providing an opportunity for networking, she said.

Mayo said Page was a member of Hammerskin Nation, which describes itself on its website as "a leaderless group of men and women who have adopted the White Power Skinhead lifestyle." Page founded a band called End Apathy in 2005, but he had been involved with white-power rock for some time, playing with bands with warriors names like Celtic Warrior, Radikahl, Intimidation One and Blue-Eyed Devils. There are about 130 such groups in the United States, Mayo said, typically playing concerts for audiences of up to 300 people as well as festivals often attended by like-minded European skinheads. In 2004, the Anti-Defamation League published an introduction to what it called neo-Nazi hate music, explaining its importance in binding the subculture that listens to it.Whereas rightwing extremist leaders in the

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1960s had little to offer besides rhetoric, it said, music has made it possible for their followers to feel they are at the heart of a community. "A lot of the songs are attacks on black, Jews, minorities, building up the white race, preserving the white civilization," Mayo said. "Racist music is what keeps the movement young" and sets it apart from the image of white-hooded Ku Klux Klan members "sitting on the front porch with a shotgun," said one-time skinhead Frank Meeink. "Driving in the car with a bunch of skinheads, lis-

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tening to music about kicking people's heads in, you know, finding people of other races to destroy is to feel it is time for action," Meeink explained. Expressing sorrow for the Wisconsin tragedy, Marylandbased Label 56 said it was pulling all End Apathy images and products from its website, and denied using "shock value" symbols to seek attention. "We do not wish to profit from this tragedy financially or with publicity," the record label said in a press statement on its website. It added: "In closing, please do not take what Wade did as honorable or respectable and please do not think we are all like that." Speaking to the Washington Post, Byron Calvert of pro-white label Tightrope Records asked: "If my art form is responsible for this shooting, how come no other art form is responsible in all of the other shootings?" AFP

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The Lollapalooza 2012 line-up was packed with more than 150 rockers, rappers and EDM ravers, who kept crowds rocking in Chicago's Grant Park all weekend long. But their performance shone above the rest. Not everyone can make an audience both weep with rapture and want to make love, but Florence at Lollapalooza accomplished it and it felt just a little bit like real-life magic.

DID YOU KNOW

years back on August 3, 1987, Def Leppard put out an album Hysteria that took three years, three producers and an estimated $5 million to complete. Their drummer also lost his arm. The first singles, Women and Animal, got things off to a slow start then came more successful singles like Hysteria's title track, Armageddon It, the ballad Love Bites and Rocket, all Top 10 Rock hits.

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Lady Gaga and Lindsay Lohan might commit their friendship to celluloid. Lady Gaga has asked the starlet to appear in her next music video. While a representative for Lohan told MTV News her camp is “not conﬁrming” the chatter, sources say the two stars have become fast friends and want to work together soon.

The singer/actress has ﬁled a $20 million lawsuit against her ex-chauffeur for extortion after claiming that he threatened to release damaging information about her. Lopez claims that driver Hakob Manoukian threatened to release "disruptive and damaging" information about her unless she paid him $2.8 million.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2012

spotlight GLITTERATI

A NIGHT FOR THE MEN

Ladies, this night at Tease, Begumpet is dedicated for the men in the house. They will be offered one complimentary drink on every drink that the accompanying lady orders. Also, dance the night away with DJ Mohit behind the console.

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With stars coming down to grace the occasion, the wedding of actor Sai Kumarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter Jyothirmayi and Krishna Phalguna that took place at N Convention was a lavish affair. 7

1 Krishna and Vijaya Nirmala 2 Ramanaidu 3 ANR 4 Boyapati Srinu 5 Kodi

Ramakrishna 6 Venkaiah Naidu 7 Allari Naresh 8 Suman & Sharath Babu

9 Jeevitha & Rajasekhar 10 Srikanth & Ooha 11 Jayasudha 12 Nagarjuna 13 T. Subbarami

Reddy 14 Allu Arvind 15 Ram Charan 16 Brahmanandam 17 Venkatesh 18 Balakrishna

DEEPAK DESHPANDE

A DELIGHTFUL EVENING

Friends gathered around at Park Hyatt to be part of the wine and cheese event. They were seen catching up over delicacies and wine. Spotted were Nitya, San, Amiranshu and others.

HOOKED ON MUSIC

The launch of online radio dubaitelugu.com was done in style. Music directors Raghu Kunche, R. Parthasarathy, MM Srirekha and lyricist Chandrabose turned up at the event.

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2012

health

NINE GENES FOUND TO AFFECT BONE DENSITY Scientists have identified nine genes that weaken or strength bone, which could pave the way to more effective treatment for osteoporosis. Out of 100 mice, which have a gene disabled, scientists identified these genes that appear to weaken or strengthen bone.

SPORTS MEDICINE

Athletes falling apart?

Been wondering why athletes from across the world are sporting colourful tapes at the ongoing London Olympics? It’s athletes nursing injuries with the latest Kinesio taping. RANJANI RAJENDRA

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een wondering why athletes from across the world are sporting colourful tapes at the ongoing London Olympics? You have beach volleyball player Ilka Semmler wearing bright pink tapes while British sprinter Dwain Chambers has been sporting them as well. Nope, they aren’t all falling apart, but nursing injuries that they do not want interfering with their performance. The kinesio tapes, that come in all colours and hues, are the latest tapes that athletes find some comfort in when they sustain injuries. They can be safely called the latest must-haves for treating sports injuries. Developed by the Japanese over 30 years ago, this tape has only recently taken the world of sports by storm. It uses an adhesive and can be applied to the injured region for support and relief, at the same time allowing flexibility. “When a person fractures a bone, he/she has to wear a plaster of paris (POP) cast. However, this is hard and restricts movement. For soft tissue injuries, which sports persons sustain often, we can’t always suggest using the POP cast. Sports persons don’t have that kind of time or luxury to take a break from their sport. These tapes are perfect for them. They offer support to the injured area as well as allow flexibility allowing full movement of the

Kinesio taping was developed by the Japanese over 30 years ago and has taken the world of sports by storm only recently. joints and muscles,” says Dr S Rajesh Kumar, chief physiotherapist at Sai Institute of Sports Injury and Arthroscopy. He goes on to add that earlier rigid taping was used as the alternative to POP casts. “Although these did allow flexibility, they were still rigid. What sports people really need is something that will be able to support the injured structure, yet allow movement. Kinesio taping does just that. It provides immediate relief. The only drawback is that it is a lot more expensive and are not as widely used in India as it is in the West,” he says. These tapes can be used on smaller joints like shoulders, rib injuries, ankle and neck injuries and also for soft tissue injuries like hamstring pulls. “It is however, important to apply them accurately for maximum efficacy,” warns Dr Rajesh. “Kinesio taping due to its high tension can cause some damage to the skin. Which is why it should only be worn for a few days. The tension of the tape can vary depending on the nature of injury,” he says.

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DID YOU KNOW? Sports players suffer cardiovascular ailments According to statistics from the Centre for the Disease Control in USA, 1,00,000 youngsters, as well as 3,00,000 adults die each year from cardiovascular disorders as a result from sports which is twice the number of people that die on highways.

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health FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2012

TREATMENT

IMMUNITY

Avoid antipsychotics for children with ADHD: Study Antipsychotic prescriptions for children with ADHD have become more common, even though the drugs are not approved to treat the condition.

ids, remember to “just say no” to dangerous drugs... even if they’re being offered by your doctor, say researchers. A new study shows that antipsychotic drugs are prescribed during almost one in three of all visits kids make to psychiatrists in the United States, Reuters reported. This marks a dramatic increase from the 1990s, when that rate was just 1 in 11. The researchers said that much of that increase comes from doctors prescribing antipsychotics for ADHD. This is problematic because the US Food and Drug Administration has not approved of antipsychotics for ADHD treatment. Antipsychotic drugs are only approved to treat certain disorders, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and autistic disorder. “None of them are approved for use with ADHD,” said Dr Mark Olfson, the study’s lead author, told Reuters. The study, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, explains that antipsychotics are linked to damaging side effects, such as diabetes and weight gain. In addition, the drugs’ longterm effects on children’s brains has not been studied, HealthDay reported. Dr Peter Breggin, a psychiatrist not involved with the study, says that the drugs are more damaging than people realize. “We have a national catastrophe,” Breggin told HealthDay. “This is a situation where we have ruined the brains of millions of children.”

What is ADHD?

DHD is a problem with inattentiveness, overactivity, impulsivity, or a combination. ADHD is the most commonly diagnosed behavioural disorder of childhood. It affects about 3 per cent to 5 per cent of school-aged children. ADHD is diagnosed much more often in boys than in

girls. ADHD may run in families, but it is not clear exactly what causes it. Whatever the cause may be, it seems to be set in motion early in life as the brain is developing. Imaging studies suggest that the brains of children with ADHD are different from those of other children. Source: PubMed Health

Cell signals inhibit ability to fight infection LONDON: Infants are prone to sickness due to under-developed immune systems, but it may be possible to activate crucial cells to help them fight off diseases from an earlier age, say scientists. Researchers at the University of Michigan Health System suggest the natural ability to fight infection is there early on - but key cell signals inhibit the growth of essential immune cells early in life, the Daily Mail reported on Wednesday. Blocking this signalling could lead to improving an infant’s response to infection, according to the study published in Nature Immunity. Study author Yasmina Laouar said, “What happens at early age is that natural killer cells, like many other immune cells, do not complete their functional maturation until adulthood.” “During this time we are left with an immature immune system that cannot protect us against infections, the reason why newborns and infants are more prone to infection.” There is a large gap in understanding infant immunity, specifically why the natural killer cell responses are deficient, according to the researchers. IANS

Breggin added that antipsychotics act on the frontal lobes of the brain, which is the same area that is targeted by a lobotomy. “These are lobotomising drugs,” he told HealthDay. “Of course, they will reduce all behaviour, including irritability.” Previous research has also shown that antipsychotics are unnecessarily prescribed to elderly patients and incarc erated children. GLOBAL POST

FOOD FOR HEALTH

Adolescents consuming less iron, vitamins MADRID: Adolescence is the time when one needs to be particular about food consumption, especially intake of vitamins and minerals for a healthy life. But several studies have shown that adolescents’ intake of important nutrients, as well as their performance in standard physical fitness tests, have fallen in recent years.

Because nutrition and fitness are intertwined — for example, iron forms part of haemoglobin, which carries oxygen to muscles, and antioxidants such as vitamin C aid in rebuilding damage after intense training — these two findings could be related, the Journal of Applied Physiology reports. Luis Gracia-Marco of the

University of Zaragoza, Spain, and colleagues, have found that adolescents’ blood levels of various micronutrients are correlated with how well they performed in certain physical fitness tests. Gracia-Marco and colleagues relied on data from a larger, longterm research project known as the Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescents

Cross-Sectional Study. Part of this study, involved thousands of volunteers aged between 12.5 and 17.5 years in cities across Europe. Researchers found that blood levels of certain micronutrients were closely connected with the performance in fitness tests. For cardiorespiratory fitness, concentrations of haemoglobin,

retinol, and vitamin C in males and beta-carotene and vitamin D in females was linked with VO2max (peak oxygen uptake). For muscular fitness, concentrations of haemoglobin, betacarotene, retinol, and alpha-tocopherol in males and betacarotene and vitamin D in females was associated with performing better. IANS

FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2012

Entertainment THE AGE OF INNOCENCE

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very year, there’s at least one Telugu film featuring new comers which catches our attention and makes us wait for the film with bated breath. Going by the buzz which Hanu Raghavapudi’s debut film Andhala Rakshasi has created, it wouldn’t be entirely wrong to say that it might very well be the biggest surprise of the year so far. There have always been films which have entertained the audience, but quite rarely does a Telugu film remind you of that intoxicating smell just before the rains. The film is set in 1991, which Hanu Raghavapudi says is the age of innocence. We met the film’s lead cast — Naveen Chandra, Rahul Ravindran and Lavanya Tripathi to know what makes the film so irresistible. “There's a lot of yearning, longing and love because the film is set in a pre-liberalisation era. It was the age of innocence. Post globalisation, people’s outlook has changed a lot. Now, it's important how much money you earn, which brand of car you own and so on. The whole script would have changed had the story been set in present era,” Rahul says. For Lavanya, her role in Andhala Rakshasi was a once in a lifetime opportunity. “I was on cloud nine after I listened to the script. I could relate a lot to my character, (Midhuna) and it didn’t take me long to get into her shoes. Besides, it really helped that Hanu incorporated a lot of my body language into my character in the film. All three characters have so much power in them but still they don’t domi-

MONSOON I was on cloud nine after I listened to the script. I could relate a lot to my character, (Midhuna) and it didn’t take me long to get into her shoes. Lavanya Actress

Romance

nate each other,” she says. Naveen Chandra, who plays Surya in the film, adds, “You have no clue how patient Lavanya was during the costume trials and she runs a lot in the film. I don’t think any other heroine has run so much, sometimes even bare foot, in a film.” All three of them burst into laughter and for a while, they try to remind each other of several incidents on the sets of the film which they’ll cherish for a long time. “I didn’t speak much to Lavanya initially because I was shy. It was tough initially because my character Surya is supposed to be extremely vibrant in the film,” Naveen says. So, how did he come over it? “Hanu asked me to travel in local buses and go to places where a lot of women buy clothes to observe their mannerisms. After two weeks, he made me stay in a flat which was completely covered with posters of Midhuna. I wrote three quotes ‘Surya Loves Midhuna’, ‘Surya Lives for Midhuna’, ‘Surya Dies for Midhuna’ and after few days I got so much into my character that the rest of the shooting was a breeze,” Naveen recalls. “Oye…don’t forget that incident when you freaked me out completely,” Lavanya interrupts.

“Oh…wait. What’s this incident? I didn’t know this,” Rahul shares her excitement. So what happened? “It was Hanu’s idea to make me overcome my shyness when I am acting with Lavanya. One night, he asked me to go knock on her door and enact a scene with all my emotions. She had no clue that this was all part of a plan and before she could say something, I told all my dialogues. Thank God Hanu was right around the corner to save me, otherwise Lavanya would have complained that I had gone bonkers,” Naveen adds. The film has been described as a love story between the sun, the moon and the earth. However, Rahul assures us that there’s no confusion. “The story is not driven by that concept, but the characters are. Surya, like the Sun, needs no permission to go where he wants and there’s a blast of energy when he’s around. My character, Gautham is like the moon. He’s very pleasant, calm and never tells you what he feels. He just reflects what the others feel. Midhuna is like the girl-next-door. She’s still a child at heart. Like gravity, she attracts people towards her. There’s lot of life in her and anyone can fall in love with her,” Rahul signs off.

Everyone’s talking about Hanu Raghavapudi’s debut film Andhala Rakshasi these days. Its lead actors – Naveen, Rahul and Lavanya tell us more about the film, which Hanu says is a love story between the sun, the earth and the moon.

There's a lot of yearning, longing and love because the film is set in a pre-liberalisation era. It was the age of innocence. Post globalisation, people's outlook has changed a lot. Rahul Ravindran Actor

FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2012

fashion

LOCHTE IN FASHION?

OLYMPIC SWIMMER Ryan Lochte is in talks to create his own fashion line. The American athlete's agent, Erica Wright, confirmed that Lochte has received multiple "offers" from brands interested in collaborating with him. The labels in question have yet to be revealed.

Fendi Baguette turns 15 The making of the Lisio red- velvet baguette (above and below). Hollywood actor Mandy Moore sports a baguette.(R)

The or ig i na l â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;? bag, the bag uet te tur n s 15 th is yea r. We rev isit th is icon ic bra nd a nd the v ision of Si lv ia Fend i.

BARTON’S BOUTIQUE

VOGUE COVER girl Mischa Barton has launched her own boutique in London. Following on from her successful bag range — now in its ninth season — the actress has designed her own clothing and cosmetic collections, now available to buy in the new Spitalfields store.

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various styles, it signifies a deep meaning to what the wearer’s taste is like. If she has picked a bold animal print or neon beaded Baguette, then the woman is saying she lives life large and is not shy in her fashion choices. If the woman is carrying an elegant satin one with gold-jewelled buckle, it might reflect on her penchant to opt for vintage looking classic styles. It is not just the variety of textures, colours and embellishments that appeal to the Baguette fans. The size and the easy nature for it to tuck under the arm is a classic appeal to women world over. Wear it with casual denims or with a sari or gown. Wear it to work, evening or on a holiday. While there are other bags from luxury houses that make a similar size, there are very few that have as many as 1,000 variations as the Baguette does. Since its launch in 1997, the Baguette was an instant hit with the Fendi customers and

Named after the French bread, it is carried under the arm. Quirino Conti, Italian architect, costume and stage designer, and fashion writer, says of the Baguette- “I held it close for a long time, underneath my arm—what could I have left you that was closer to my heart and breast?” Imagine the Baguette to be the accessories equivalent of the Indian sari. There are innumerable possibilities in variations and with its basic shape form there is a slim scope for comparison of one design with another. You don’t stop after purchasing one, as it is much more than just a utility bag. It is even passed down from generations of women, reflecting their tastes and styles. Cotton, leather, sequins, denim, cashmere, satin, velvet, raffia, exotic skins, beads,

he first time I saw the Fendi Baguette it was on the television series Sex and the City where the lead character – Carrie Bradshaw owned many styles of the bag, pairing them nonchalantly with her thrift store and designer clothing. Carrie’s character was not just prominent for its role in story line, but also for her exciting fashion choices. It was said at the time of the show’s huge suc-

Silvia Fendi (top) and a sketch of the Fendi Baguette (L)

cess that fashion played the fifth lead in the series after the four main actors. The Baguette even found an episode dedicated to itself when Carrie gets mugged on the streets of New York City. Held on gunpoint, the thief asks Carrie to hand over her bag, to which she responds by saying “It’s a Baguette! Not a bag”. The baguette is like no other bag. The small yet roomy shape with a detachable short strap and a double ‘F’ clasp is a unique mix of design and utility. With its

fetched the brand the Fashion Group International award for accessories in the year 2000. It was founded by Fendi’s accessories designer and third generation of the family founderSilvia Venturini Fendi. “I was asked, among other things, to come up with a particularly easy and functional handbag. In a certain sense, it had to be technological and minimal, just like the times. My response (fortunately I am indomitably disobedient) was the Baguette.”says Silvia Fendi.

patent leather, embroideries, signature Fendi double ‘F’ print - the Baguette can be found in all these fabrics and textures. New designs are often introduced as part of the seasonal collections. In Spring Summer 2008, the Baguette was seen on the Fendi runway collection in three sizes – mini, regular and macro hand-held like a clutch bag with Fendi’s signature Selleria stitched enclosures. To commemorate the 10 year anniversary and to celebrate the importance of color in the

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Baguette’s success story, Silvia Fendi created a collection of ten bags in 10 pure colours. Plus a Baguette in white canvas that came with a set of Pantone colouring pens to allow the owner to personalise the bag herself and to inspire the hidden artist. Another unique variation came with the ‘Lisio Baguette’ collection which was made using luxurious materials like velvet, brocades and silk produced through the Lisio Foundation traditional techniques that date back to Renaissance. Some of the patterns created exclusively for Fendi were so complex to weave that the Lisio Foundation could not produce more than four centimeters a day. For example the silk thread of the “Schönbrunn Soul” style was woven with ostrich and peacock feathers, sixty of them for each metre of fabric, with a final look similar to velvet. The Lisio collection included Baguettes inspired by Botticelli’s still life paintings from the XVI century, gothic novels, and animals showcasing the same technical virtuosity as its inspirations. There was also an Artists’ collaboration with the Baguette. World renowned artists as Tom Sachs, Jeff Koons, Francesco Vezzoli, Loris Cecchini, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Subodh Gupta Mark Bradford, Delia Brown, Will Cotton, Rachel Feinstein, Francesca Gabbiani, Karen Kimmel, Terence Koh, Jorge Pardo, agreed to work with specially designed “blank slate” canvas baguettes created by Silvia Fendi to raise funds for Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s “Arts for NexGen”, the nation’s only free youth membership program. The result was a unique depiction by the artists’ painted/sketched onto the Baguette. Encapsulating this rich history of one bag form, the fashion house celebrates 15 years this year. The Fendi Baguette is transformed into a wonderfully illustrated book that’s takes the reader through a story of craftsmanship, artisanship, connoisseurship, and design. Published by Rizzoli, the Fendi Baguette book is a hefty collation of 250 full colour photos of selected designs. The book is distinguished into three sections — the seasonal best picks of the Baguette designs, the Lisio Baguette and the special Artists designed Baguettes. Available to purchase from Fendi boutiques worldwide the FENDI BAGUETTE book retails for `6,000. For more information, log onto baguette.fendi.com.

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THANDIE NEWTON WITH THE BAGUETTE

ELIZABETH HURLEY IN BEDAZZLED

Entertainment FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2012

FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2012

Chai Time

THOUGHT OF THE DAY

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art) is never really finished; it is abandoned. Brooke McEldowney

KAKURO

QUICK CROSSWORD

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

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1 Medicinal measures 6 One commemorative feast 11 Ad-___ committee 14 One of Montezuma’s people 15 Forgo, as one’s rights 16 Indefinite number 17 Engages in disorderly play 19 Big name in electronics 20 Home key neighbour 21 Damage or deface 22 Become flushed, as cheeks 24 Approaches the runway 27 It can be in front of your house 28 Acorn, later 29 Filibuster busters 33 Baseball cap part 36 ‘___ go bragh’ 37 Hobbling gait 38 ‘And now, without further ___ …’ 39 Piano-lesson piece 40 Itinerary preposition 41 Wedding-band hand 43 Goes for the bronze? 44 Motionless 46 Attractive (Var) 48 Flexible card in blackjack 49 Evans or Carnegie 50 Cigar holders 55 Combat mission 57 Bert Bobbsey’s sister 58 ‘There’s ___ in ‘team’’ 59 Little Jack Horner’s last words 60 Used a carpenter’s plane 64 Barbie’s male friend 65 Painter Toulouse-Lautrec 66 ‘Ho ho ho’ crier 67 Big expense for newspapers 68 Baked-mud brick 69 ‘That’ll teach you!’ look

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2 ___ layer (upper atmosphere part) 3 Small earrings 4 Brain-wave test (Abbr) 5 Cream-cheese serving 6 Cavalry weapon 7 ___ Claire, Wis 8 Affront, in slang 9 You, me and the whole gang 10 Do an usher’s job 11 Computer part 12 ‘Fool me ___, shame on you ...’ 13 Primary color in photography 18 A coil, as of yarn 23 The D in FDA 25 Pigeon sound 26 Squeeze into a ball 30 Tupperware pieces 31 Foreign dignitary 32 Small argument 33 A river might run through it 34 ‘Beware the ___ of March!’ 35 Pop 36 Case for needles and small scissors 39 Held in high regard 42 ‘Follow ___ car!’ 44 Chilly attitude 45 ‘Stupid Flanders,’ according to Homer 47 ‘Happy Endings’ actress Cuthbert 48 Asian housemaid 51 Loosen, as a shoelace 52 ‘I’ll do it ___ condition …’ 53 ‘I get my kicks on ___ 66’ 54 ‘Norwegian Wood’ instrument 55 Pseudonymous shortstory master 56 Broken mirror, to some 61 Lennon’s wife 62 Christmas bulb, eg 63 Vice president after George

Chai Time FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2012 Thiruvaikumar

STAR POWER for 11-8-2012

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

ARIES

TAURUS

GEMINI

CANCER

LEO

VIRGO

LIBRA

SCORPIO

SAGITTARIUS

CAPRICORN

AQUARIUS

PISCES

Father will support you strongly in all your efforts. Expected good news will come. Unwanted tension and hasty action need to be avoided. Indirect opposition and mental depression likely to upset you. Health needs good attention.

Govt-related work will end favourably. Held-up construction work will resume and progress well. Mother's health will improve well. Chances of misunderstanding with spouse likely; exercise patience. Businessmen will introduce special schemes.

Son's marriage will be settled as per his choice. Written off old dues will be collected, which will make you cheerful. Vehicles will trouble and expenses will increase. Spouse will co-operate well with you and keep you in good mood.

QUICK CROSSWORD FRED BASSET

All planned work will get completed according to expectations. You will renovate ancestral property according to your taste. Tension likely due to children. Pregnant women need to avoid travel. Avoid being stubborn and harsh talks.

Comforts are likely to increase. Travel and unwanted tension likely for employees. Financial situation will be more than satisfactory. You will get an opportunity to understand real and loyal friends in your circle. Politicians not to over spend.

Drastic changes likely to take place in your lifestyle. Influence is set to increase. You will renovate ancestral property that is pending since long. Your relatives will be jealous about your growth; be alert. Friends’ circle will expand.

Couple are advised to be in good harmony as chances of misunderstanding likely. Couple deprived of children for long will get a favourable news. Avoid using a mobile while driving. New responsibilities will knock your door.

Your talk will do the magic as you are practical and acceptable to all. Real-estate deals will be gainful. Your stock is set to pile up. A powerful post will come in search of you. Avoid giving guarantee and commitments to anyone.

Expectations will get fulfilled without any difficulty. Give freedom to children so that they perform better; putting them under strict vigilance might upset them. Misunderstanding with blood relatives will be resolved.

TAROT READ

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ARIES:

GEMINI:

Death – Drink a lot of water and look out for your health. Do not take too many risks. Those who smoke or consume alcohol must cut down immediately.

LEO:

Managers must create a team that is both helpful and creative. Ensure your team members get along, or you’ll be left only solving ego hassles.

LIBRA:

STONE SOUP

Eight of Pentacles – Mix your day with fun and seriousness. Being too serious the whole time can take a toll on your mental health in the long run. Laugh a lot.

SAGITTARIUS:

Ace of Cups – You may come under the influence of someone with not your best interests at heart. Be careful who you trust. Also, be grateful to people.

TAURUS:

Four of Swords – You get access to important people and technology that makes you do your job better. This is a time for learning and growth.

CANCER:

Five of Cups – You tend to rave about a person and how helpful he/she is. Do not go overboard as you are likely to see the truth for yourself in a few days.

VIRGO:

Be alert to the needs of close family members. They may not openly tell you what they need. It’s up to you to figure it out.

SCORPIO:

Three of Swords – You may be asked to travel on work. You will enjoy the travel time and will get some time for reading, music, etc.

CAPRICORN:

Ace of Pentacles – The universe will come to your aid to get you just exactly what you need at this point in time. You have the blessings of nature’s forces.

SOLUTIONS

PISCES:

Page of Cups – There is no shortcut route to get to where you want to be. Pick up new skills, learn, grow and kill that ego, if you want to continue to grow.

NUMBER GAME

Man – Your world is currently ruled by what is happening in the office, and this is not the best thing for you now. Take your mind off work.

SCRABBLE

AQUARIUS: The Hanged

INK PEN

Problems because of children will be over. Politicians will get help of their seniors. Misunderstanding with brothers likely; avoid such a situation. Property-related issues will surface again. Politician's demands will be accepted by high command.

for 11-8-2012

Five of Swords – If you like someone in a romantic way, make sure you send out the right signals, or there may be confusion later on.

FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE

Govt officials are likely to be entrusted with new and powerful posts; honorary post also on the cards. You will start saving for the future. Misplaced documents will be found, which will make you happy. Reduce anger and emotional decisions.

SUDUKO

Children will change their attitude and adamancy. Problems in ancestral property will be resolved. Politicians are capable to meet indirect opposition they face and succeed. Avoid friendship with persons involved in illegal activities.

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MEDAL TALLY

USA China Great Britain Russia South Korea Germany France Hungary Italy Australia Kazakhstan Japan Netherlands Iran North Korea Belarus Jamaica Cuba New Z’land Ukraine South Africa Spain Romania Denmark Czech Brazil Kenya Poland Croatia Switzerland Ethiopia Canada Sweden Slovenia Georgia Norway Dominica Ireland Lithuania Algeria Grenada Venezuela Colombia Mexico Azerbaijan Egypt India Slovakia Armenia Belgium Mongolia Estonia Indonesia Serbia Thailand Taipei Tunisia Botswana Bulgaria Cyprus Finland Guatemala Portugal Greece Moldova Qatar Singapore Afghanistan Argentina Hong Kong S’udi Arabia Kuwait Latvia Morocco Puerto Rico Tajikistan T and T Uzbekistan

G 39 37 25 12 12 10 8 8 7 6 6 5 5 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

S 25 24 13 21 7 16 9 4 6 13 0 14 5 4 0 3 3 3 2 1 1 7 5 4 3 2 2 1 1 1 0 5 3 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

B 26 19 14 23 6 11 12 3 6 10 3 14 6 1 1 4 3 2 5 6 1 2 2 3 3 7 3 6 1 0 2 10 3 2 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 3 2 3 0 3 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

T 90 80 52 56 25 37 29 15 19 29 9 33 16 9 5 10 9 8 10 10 5 11 9 9 8 11 7 9 4 3 4 16 7 4 3 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 6 5 5 2 4 4 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Saori wrestles way to gold Japan's Saori Yoshida won a third Olympic 55kg women's freestyle wrestling title when she defeated Canada’s Tonya Lynn Verbeek. JULIAN GUYER Agence France-Presse LONDON: Japan's Saori Yoshida won a third Olympic 55kg women's freestyle wrestling title on Thursday and celebrated by performing a cartwheel and grappling with her coach. She defeated Canada's Tonya Verbeek, bronze medallist in Beijing four years ago and her beaten opponent in the inaugural 2004 final in Athens, in the gold medal match. A day after Japan's Kaori Icho completed a hat-trick of Olympic 63kg golds, and compatriot Hitori Obama became the 48kg champion, Yoshida's success saw Japan take three of the four women's wrestling titles on offer. Yoshida dumped Verbeek on her back for a three-point score in the open-

Jade, Servet take top honours LONDON: Great Britain's Jade Jones took revenge for her W o r l d Championship final defeat last year by beating Hou Yuzhuo of China for Olympic under-57kg gold on Thursday. Meanwhile, Servet Tazegul of Turkey added an Olympic gold to his world title as he clinched the men's under-68kg category In a tactical final, Jade, the teenager from Wales triumphed 6-4 to win Britain's first Olympic taekwondo title. France's sixth seed Marlene Harnois took a bronze medal with a 12-8 victory over Mayu Hamada of Japan. Top seed Tseng Li-Cheng of Taiwan took the other bronze medal with a dominant victory over Suvi Mikkonen of Finland by superiority, 14-2. "It feels crazy. It's amazing and the crowd's amazing," said 19-year-old Jones. AFP

Canada's Tonya Lynn Verbeek (R) wrestles Japan's Saori Yoshida in their Women's 55kg Freestyle gold medal wrestling match on Thursday in London. AFP PHOTO / MARWAN NAAMANI

ing period and sealed victory with a takedown in the second, upheld despite a Canadian challenge. An elated Yoshida — roared on by chants of "Saori, Saori" from the massed ranks of Japanese fans — celebrated

with a cartwheel, lifted up the Japan team wresting coach, before flipping him onto the mat and then carrying him on her shoulders. Yoshida's conclusive win rounded off a Games where she didn't concede a point.

It also meant Yoshida, who has also won nine world championships, had equalled the record of 12 world-level titles held by Russia's threetime Olympic Greco-Roman gold medal winner Alexander Karelin. But as for going on to the next Olympic Games, in Rio in 2016, Yoshida said: "It will take some time before I decide whether I will defend my title. I feel so happy and this special stage is so special and so I am so happy to have won the gold medal." Verbeek, 35 next week, said: "One call could have changed things a bit, but ultimately I'm happy for what I have done for Canada." The tone for extravagant celebration had already by Colombia's Jackeline Renteria Castillo as she beat Tetyana Lazareva for a second consecutive bronze to follow her one in Beijing.

Katie claims boxing gold Four-time world champion Katie Taylor won the lightweight final with a 10-8 win over Russia's Sofya Ochigava. RYLAND JAMES Agence France-Presse LONDON: Ireland's fourtime world champion Katie Taylor won the first women's Olympic lightweight final with a 10-8 win over Russia's Sofya Ochigava on Thursday to claim her country's first London gold. Meanwhile, teenager Claressa Shields restored some pride to American boxing when she beat Russia's Nadezda Torlopova 19-12 in the women's middleweight final. Having defeated Ochigava in May for her most recent world crown, the 26-year-old Taylor added the Olympic title to a resume that also includes the European title. "It is unbelievable," said Taylor, who has said she will consider going professional now that she's been part of women's boxing's Olympic

Katie Taylor is declared winner over Sofya Ochigava in the women's boxing Lightweight final on Thursday. AFP

debut in London. "This is like a dream come true. I always dreamed of becoming an Olympic champion. It's amazing to sit here as the European, world and now Olympic champion." With the majority of the crowd wearing the green of Ireland or waving an Irish

tricolour, there were huge expectations on the softlyspoken brunette from Bray, County Wicklow, at London's ExCel Arena. Before the final, ex-world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis described Taylor as the best boxer he has ever seen, adding he would expect her to beat most men in the ring and the Olympic champion took the compliment with grace. "I'm not sure I would want to get in the ring with (world lightweight champion Vasyl) Lomachenko," she laughed. "But seriously, it's a huge compliment for women's boxing and a great advert for the sport. I wanted everyone to see how great women's boxing is, this is just the start for the sport and I can't wait to see what it will be like in four more years. This has been such a great week for myself and women's boxing." AFP

28-29 Eva wins swim marathon thriller

Chen defends diving crown Chen Ruolin defended her 10m platform diving title to claim her 2nd gold. ROBERT SMITH Agence France-Presse

TOM WILLIAMS Agence France-Presse LONDON: Hungary's Eva Risztov won a gripping Olympic women's swimming marathon by just 0.4 seconds at London's Hyde Park on Thursday. The 26-year-old led for much of the 10km race in the Serpentine lake but she finished only marginally ahead of America's Haley Anderson with a winning time of 1hr 57min 38.2sec. Italy's Martina Grimaldi took bronze and home favourite Keri-Anne Payne was fourth, with the top four separated by just four seconds.

Hungary's Eva Risztov won a gripping women's swimming marathon ahead of America's Haley Anderson by just 0.4 sec. Risztov, 26, competed in the pool at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics before retiring in 2005, only to return to the sport as a marathon specialist in 2009. "I saw that Haley was coming, but I had enough energy in reserve to reach the finish," said Risztov. "It is really hard to take in but in a few hours I will be much more happy because I'm really, really, really tired now." Risztov succeeded Russia's Larisa Ilchenko, who won the inaugural women's event in Beijing four years ago but was not competing in London. Great Britain's Payne, a silver medallist in Beijing, was bidding to win a first swimming gold medal of the Games for the host nation but finished off the podium. "I tried absolutely everything I could," said a tearful Payne. "It didn't quite go the way I was hoping for it to go, but I can't be upset with it. Whatever's meant to be is meant to be, and I guess I was meant to be fourth today." The race began beneath bright sunshine, as a huge crowd descended upon Hyde Park to cheer on Payne. AFP

LONDON: China's Chen Ruolin was in a class of her own on Thursday, defending her women's Olympic 10m platform diving crown in dominating style to claim her second gold medal at the London Games. The Chinese star peeled off five fantastic dives to score 422.30 points and beat her nearest rival by 55.8 points in the most convincing victory in the seven diving events so far at the Aquatics Centre. Australia's Brittany Broben took silver with 366.50 and Pandelela Rinong claimed the bronze with 359.20 to give Malaysia a first ever Olympic diving medal. It was China's sixth gold diving medal in London out of seven events. The only dent in China's dominance so far was Russian Ilya Zakharov's triumph in Tuesday's men's 3m springboard ahead of both Qin Kai and defending champion He Chong, which ended China's hopes of sweeping all eight golds. "I'm very relaxed. It's like it's not the Olympic Games. I feel no high pressure, I'm relaxed," Chen said, with the Chinese flag draped around her shoulders. I feel very pleased to have another gold medal for China." It was 19-year-old Chen's fourth

NEWS BRIEFS Sailing events postponed Olympic sailing officials postponed the men's 470 medal race and cancelled classification races in the women's Elliott on Thursday because of light winds at Weymouth. The race to determine gold, silver and bronze in the men's 470 double-handed dinghy was put on hold before officials finally opted to postpone it for the day. The events will now be held on Friday.

Charlotte wins gold

China's Chen Ruolin competes in the women's 10m platform final during the diving in London on Thursday. AFP

overall gold medal at the Olympics and she was in blistering form off the high tower. Chen also became the fourth diver to win women's 10m platform at successive Olympic Games, joining Americans Dorothy Poynton-Hill and Patricia McCormick and China's Fu Mingxia. She led all scorers with 86.40 on two dives — an armstand back double somersault with one and a half twists and a back two and a half somersault with one and a half twists. Her other dives were scored 85.50, 84.80 and 79.20. Chen, who won the individual and synchronised events as a 15-year-old at Beijing four years ago, was unchallenged in the prelims, semi-final and the final of the London platform event.

LOOKING FOR THE NET

Great Britain's Charlotte Dujardin won individual dressage gold with a record score Thursday to cap a golden Olympics for the hosts' equestrians at Greenwich Park. Dujardin beat Adelinde Cornelissen of the Netherlands with Laura Bechtolsheimer, also of Britain, taking the bronze. They were Britain's ﬁrst ever medals in the event.

Oz claim kayak title Australia edged out twotime former champions Hungary to claim the Olympic Games four-man kayak gold medal on Thursday in their ﬁrst ever team title in the sport. Tate Smith, Dave Smith, Murray Stewart and Jacob Clear, who all work as beach lifeguards, steered their country to gold at the Eton Dorney course to the west of London.

US edge out Japan US clinched a 2-1 victory over Japan in the women's football final on Thursday as Carli Lloyd's double gave her country a third successive gold medal and avenged last year's World Cup final defeat against the Asian giants. Lloyd missed a penalty when the US lost that World Cup final in an agonising shoot-out, but she enjoyed sweet redemption with a goal in each half.

Hero’s welcome Hundreds of adoring fans ﬂocked Larnaca airport on Thursday to give a hero's welcome to silver medallist Pavlos Kontides, the ﬁrst medal winner for Cyprus. "I feel very proud and emotional, words cannot describe this feeling," said Kontides, dedicating his triumph in the men's Laser one-person dinghy event to his parents, girlfriend and coaching team.

USA's Jessica Steffens prepares to block a shot by Spain's Maica Garcia (R) during their water polo gold medal match in London on Thursday. USA won the match. AFP/CARL COURT

FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2012

Rudisha wins 800m gold in record time His victory maintained a family tradition — his father won Olympic silver in the 4x400 metres relay in 1968. PIRATE IRWIN Agence France-Presse LONDON: David Rudisha of Kenya won the men’s 800 metres Olympic title on Thursday in a stunning world record of 1min 40.91sec. The 23-year-old world champion pulled five metres clear of Nijel Amos of Botswana after taking control of the race from an early stage on a warm night in the Olympic Stadium in east London. He charged down the home straight as the capacity crowd rose to their feet and crossed the line in a time which shaved a tenth of a second off the world record he set two years ago. Amos timed 1:41.73 — a world junior record for the 18year-old — to win Botswana’s first ever Olympic medal in athletics while another Kenyan Timothy Kitum took the bronze in a personal best of 1:42.53. It was the first world record

Kenya’s David Lekuta Rudisha celebrates after winning the men’s 800m at the Olympic Games in London. He won in a world record AFP time of 1min 40.91sec.

in an 800m Olympic final since Cuba’s Alberto Juantorena set the mark in the 1976 final. Rudisha revealed he had visited the Olympic Stadium earlier this year and was shown around by the London Games chief organiser Sebastian Coe, whose world record in the event set in 1981 lasted for 16 years. “Lord Coe is a very good friend of mine and I was here early in February and he took me round the stadium and I said I would come here and run to make him proud,” said Rudisha. “To come here and break the world record is something unbelievable. “I was well-prepared this year and I had no doubt about winning. But I was waiting for perfect conditions to break the world record because I knew this year I was in the shape to run 1.40. “But today the weather was beautiful so I decided just to go for it.”

US’ Taylor wins men’s triple jump LONDON: American world champion Christian Taylor won the men’s triple jump Olympic gold medal on Thursday. Taylor jumped a season’s best of 17.81 metres, with another American, Will Claye, taking silver in 17.62m. Italian Fabrizio Donato claimed bronze with a best of 17.48m.

Christian Taylor celebrates after winning gold in the men’s triple jump at the Olympic Games on Thursday in London. AFP/ ADRIAN DENNIS

BOLT

MAKES HISTORY

ROBIN MILLARD Agence France-Presse

Bolt reignites Lewis feud after double

LONDON: This was it. The race that would decide whether Usain Bolt, the fastest man the world has ever seen, would become a legend — according to the Jamaican sprint star himself. And the 25-year-old delivered in his own inimitable style, lighting up the London 2012 Games once again to fulfil his own prophecy. Taking the race in 19.32sec, Bolt had the Olympic Stadium crowd on their feet to hail the track king. The 80,000 spectators were already in party mood before the showdown, with Mexican waves sweeping round the arena as

Sprint king Usain Bolt said he had lost all respect for Carl Lewis after the US sprint legend restated his concerns over the toughness of Jamaica’s drug-testing policy. Speaking after winning the 200m at the London Olympics to seal a second consecutive sprint double, Bolt said he held sprint icon Jesse Owens in high regard but said Lewis was merely attention-seeking. “For me Jesse Owens I have a lot of respect for. He’s a great athlete. He has done great things for his country.” he added.

they waited for the night’s star attraction. While the giant screens showed the triple jump final, the huge cheer that erupted a few

30-31 Take your marks: Blake looked up and around. Bolt appealed for quiet, putting his fingers to his lips and gave one last point skywards. Set: The pregnant hush hung heavy. Go: In seconds, Bolt made history!

Czech Spotakova retains women’s javelin gold LONDON: Barbora Spotakova of the Czech Republic retained her Olympic women’s javelin title on Thursday with a throw of 69.55 metres. Christina Obergfoll of Germany took silver with 65.16m, while compatriot Linda Stahl won bronze with a throw of 64.91m.

Czech Republic’s Barbora Spotakova competes in the women’s javelin throw at the Olympic Games on Thursday in London. AFP/ FRANCK FIFE

Eaton smashes rivals to win decathlon LUKE PHILLIPS Agence France-Presse

metres beyond the sandpit and the myriad twinkling camera flashes told the tale that Bolt had entered the building. The sun having set 20 minutes before, the stadium’s crown of triangular floodlights were now on full beam. Pounding strings told the stadium it was 8:55 pm — showtime. Introduced to the crowd, Christophe Lemaitre wiped his lips, blinked and stared at the floor. Alex Quinonez shook his head at the camera. Yohan Blake lived up to his nickname of ‘The Beast’, performing his scary fingers routine, like an extra from Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Churandy Martina wagged his finger at the camera and gave

himself a quick round of applause. Wallace Spearmon pointed to the USA written across his chest. Then came Bolt. He waved his hand like a royal on autopilot and gave a double finger point down the barrel of the camera as the decibel level went through the roof. Compatriot Warren Weir rubbed his hands together and Anaso Jobodwana, in the outside lane, just looked nervous. The thudding sound of a heartbeat played over the speakers. Turning to look at the clock and putting his finger to his lips as he crossed the line, Bolt ran beyond the thick white stripe and into realm of legends, slapping his chest as he went.

LONDON: Ashton Eaton of the United States produced a totally dominant performance over two gruelling days to claim the Olympic decathlon gold medal on Thursday. The world record holder amassed 8,869 points in the 10discipline event, to finish 198pts ahead of team-mate and world champion Trey Hardee (8,671), with Cuba’s Leonel Suarez claiming bronze (8,523). Eaton’s total was the second best in Olympic history behind the 8,893pts notched up by Roman Sebrle in 2004. The Czech veteran was an early casualty here, dropping out after the very first event through injury. “I worked really hard for this, I just can’t believe it,” said Eaton. “When I think about all

Eaton’s the greatest athlete, admits Bolt Usain Bolt admitted on Thursday that despite streaking to a unique second successive Olympic sprint double, decathlon champion Ashton Eaton was the best athlete in the world. Bolt declared himself the “greatest athlete to live” after successfully defending his 200m title in 19.32sec. He had earlier retained his 100m title. “There’s no ﬁght,” Eaton reacted. “Usain is clearly awesome in his own right and is an icon of the sport. “I think titles are for, I don’t know, books and stuff.” Ashton Eaton gets a hug from a friend after running the 1500m leg of the decathlon event at the Olympic Games on Thursday in London. AFP/ JEWEL SAMAD

the work I’ve put in, all the guys have put in a lot of work. “I wonder why I deserved vthe gold because all these

other guys worked so hard as well. It’s like a family out there, all wanting to succeed.” But Eaton then revealed a hard-nosed streak needed to succeed at the top table of professional sports. “I knew I was going to get the gold. I just thought ‘what’s going on?” said Eaton.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2012

sports

BRILLIANT OPEN CHESS TOURNAMENT THIS WEEKEND

Hyderabad: Brilliant chess Academy will conduct the 75th Brilliant trophy open chess tournament on Saturday and Sunday under the auspices of AP Chess Association at Brilliant Grammar High School, Dilsukhnagar. Participants must register before 1.00pm on Saturday. Contact: 92473 99717.

PGA CHAMPIONSHIP

Results of the A Division league championship held in the city.

Tiger roars at PGA GREG HEAKES Agence France-Presse SOUTH CAROLINA: Carl Pettersson, who had never broken 70 before in the PGA Championship, birdied three of his first four holes on Thursday to take a one-shot lead after the first round of the season’s final major. Tiger Woods got off to a sound first round with a three-under 69. His round featured three bogeys and six birdies, including three-straight birdies at the turn. “I played well today and anything in the 60s is going to be a good start in a major championship and

I am right there,” Woods said. Former US Open winner Rory McIlroy heads a group of four players that are one shot back. American Gary Woodland, Spain’s FernandezCastano Gonzalo and Swede Alex Noren all shot five-under 67. Australians Adam Scott, Aaron Baddeley and Geoff Ogilvy, Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell, defending champion Keegan Bradley and his fellow American player Scott Piercy, Joost Luiten of the Netherlands and 1991 PGA Championship winner John Daly are all tied for sixth two shots back of the leader.

TORONTO MASTERS

Injuries, not opponents bring players to their knees TORONTO: Olympic champion Andy Murray (right) was forced to withdraw from the Toronto Masters on Thursday with a knee injury, sending Canadian Milos Raonic into the quarter-finals of his home event. Murray, who won a struggling second-round match on Wednesday after arriving in Canada on Tuesday from his

Injury forces Nadal out of Cincinnati Masters CINCINNATI: Rafael Nadal on Thursday withdrew from next week’s Cincinnati Masters due to his continuing knee injury, the Spaniard said on his Twitter feed. “I can not participate in the tournament in Cincinnati. I’m still not able. I have unforgettable memories of 2008. I continue recovering,” the ATP number three tweeted. The event, last major tune-up before the August 27 start of the US Open, was the third straight summer pullout for Nadal, who also missed the Olympics and this week’s Masters 1000 in Toronto. Nadal last played on Jun 28 at Wimbledon, where he lost in the second round to Czech Lukas Rosol.

gold-medal performance at the London Games, was treated for the knee during his victory over Italian Flavio Cipolla. The pullout came on a day of rain which prevented the start of third-round play with all seven remaining matches finally cancelled in the evening and more bad weather forecast for Friday. Murray, twice a champion in Canada, will hope to be fit for a title defence starting next week in Cincinnati, the last major tune-up before the August 27 start of the US Open. “I decided this morning,” said Murray. “It was a bit sore yesterday. I came in today, saw the physios, they did some work on it, and it’s still a bit sore. “I did a little warmup on the bike to try it out and it was still

sore. I had to make a decision as to what I was going to do. “I spoke with the guys and decided the best thing was to rest and try and make sure I can actually let my body kind of adjust to the surface.” Murray said that with his travelling physio on hand, he feels he has a chance to be fit before the Cincinnati start.

Ill Sharapova pulls out of Montreal MONTREAL: World number two Maria Sharapova withdrew from the WTA event in Montreal on Wednesday, citing a viral infection. The Russian Olympic silver medallist joins US gold medal winner Serena Williams in missing the event, which falls directly after the tennis competition at the London Games. “I’m sorry not to be able to play,” Sharapova said. “I have a bad viral infection which I must have picked up after London.” Sharapova will be replaced in the draw by Galina Voskoboeva of Kazakhstan. In second round matches on Wednesday, fifth-seeded Czech Petra Kvitova rallied to beat Kazakhstan’s Ksenia Pervak 4-6, 76 (7/0), 6-0.

SCRSA 223 drew with MP Colts 127 (Danny Derek Prince 37, Akash 32, Noushad 4 for 9, M Suresh 4 for 56) BDL 381 drew with R Dayanand 222 (P Shashank Nag 46, G Rahul Singh 31, Juju Janardhan 38, Sabarish 5 for 81 , Paramveer Singh 4 for 39) Ensconse 214 & 239 for 4 (Tanmay Agarwal 68, R Arundeva 50, Azmanth Khan 39, Wasim Ali 35 no, Maneesh 3 for 63) drew with India Cement 309 Evergreen 174 & 237 (J Anshul Lal 58, Sandeep Goud 41, Akash Bhandari 6 for 43) drew with Deccan Chronicle 399 for 7 decl Continental 122 lost to AOC 123 for 5 (Brijesh Nair 46) Pasha Beedi 285 for 7 drew with Zinda Jai Bhagwathi 219 for 6