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TAAPSEE IN TALKS FOR RAM’S FILM?

It’s raining offers for Taapsee. Last month, she was approached for Puri Jagannadh’s upcoming film Iddaru Ammayilatho starring Allu Arjun and now she’s reportedly in talks for an untitled film starring Ram.

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COBIE AND TARAN KILLAM GET MARRIED!

Cobie Smulders is married! The How I Met Your Mother actress tied the knot with Saturday Night Live actor Taran Killam on Saturday in a ceremony at the Alisal Guest Ranch and Resort in Solvang, California, a source confirmed to People. The couple — who announced their engagement in January 2009 — are parents to 3-year-old daughter, Shaelyn Cado.

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HYDERABAD’S FIRST COMPACT AFTERNOON NEWSPAPER

TOUGH RULES SEND AUTO DRIVERS TO PRIVATE FINANCIERS

If winning a Grand Slam after falling just short in four previous attempts was a personal euphoria for Andy Murray, it marked the end of an excruciating 76-year wait for Britain’s fans.

QUEEN’S KNIGHT SLAYS DJOKER REPORT ON P32

The plight of auto drivers suffering under private financiers has been long known. But it is no big mystery as to why they continue to choose private moneylenders over the banks. The meagre `25-crore annual budget allocation for the State Micro Finance Corporation speaks volumes.

EATS SHOOTS AND LEAVES The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is a byword for environmentalism. And what better symbol for its cause than the panda?

P16&17 SHYLOCKS ARRANGE KIDNAPPING OF BORROWER

Despite police action some months ago against private financiers, recent incidents tell us that the situation remains grim for people who borrow from them. The latest is the kidnapping of a lorry driver by musclemen of the City’s Shylocks.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

city events

DOCUMENTARY SCREENING

The French documentary Cheminots will be shown by Alliance Française, Goethe-Zentrum, Documentary Circle of Hyderabad, Lamakaan and GHAC on September 11 at 7.30pm. Entry for this event being held at Lamakaan, Banjara Hills is free-of-cost.

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AROUND THE CITY: YOUR GUIDE TO THE TWIN CITIES obvious identity) is being held at Alankritha Art Gallery. The painting exhibition will be on display till September 15. Where: Alankritha Art Gallery, Residency Inn Kavuri hills When: Ongoing, 11am onwards Contact: (040) 2354 0023

DINING Rajwar food festival Rajdhani celebrates the rich food of the kings from Rajasthan and Gujarat with the Rajwar food festival.The food festival is on till September 16. Where: Rajdhani, Banjara Hills, Rd No 3 When: Ongoing, 12pm onwards and 7.30pm onwards Contact: (040) 6459 3998 Mediterranean food fest Take a trip and experience a variety of Mediterranean delights such as bruschetta and seafood marinara pasta, bruschetta and antipasto at Truffles cafe. The fest is on till September 30. Where: Trufﬂes Cafe, Jubilee Hills, Rd No 10 When: Ongoing, 8am onwards Contact: (040)2355 0105 Daawat-e-biryani The first thing that comes to anyone’s mind when we say Hyderabad is the popular speciality of the City, the traditional Hyderabadi Biryani. ITC Kakatiya is hosting a biryani festival. The fest is on till September 16. Where: Deccan Pavilion, ITC Kakatiya, Begumpet When: Ongoing, 7.30pm onwards Contact: (040) 2340 0132

Art exhibition An art exhibition by Kandukuri Ramesh Babu titled Samanyashetram is being held. Where: Muse Art Gallery, Tank Bund Road When: Ongoing, 11am onwards Contact: (040)2752 2999

SET IN STONE: Exhibits on display at an exhibition being held at Kalakrithi Art Gallery. East coast food festival Sample food from the states of Bengal, Orrisa and Tamil Nadu at multi-cuisine restaurant Haldi’s East Coast Food Festival. The fest is on till September 15. Where: Haldi, Novotel, Shamshabad When: Ongoing, 6.30pm onwards Contact: (040) 6650 3000

SHOWS Play time Lamakaan will be hosting Manch Theatre’s A Plateful of Plays on October 6. This 120-minute offering is a collection of humorous short plays. Where: Lamkaan, Banjara Hills, Rd No 1

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When: October 6, 7.30pm onwards Contact: 96427 31329 Life of others A German film Leben der Anderen (The life of others ) directed by Floren Henckel Von Donnersmarck wil be shown on September 21. Where: Goethe Zentrum, Banjara Hills, Rd No 3 When: September 21, 4pm onwards Contact: (040) 2335 0443 Exhibition-cum-sale Shrujan ( Threads of Life) a non profit organisation will be organising an exhibition-cum-sale of finest quality of Kutchi hand embroidered apparels and life style products which will feature 16 different types of embroidery Where: Veevs Boutique,

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ART Deep in the wood The exhibition displays woodcut art prints by 22 artists.These art works are from the woodcut workshop conducted by Earth Art Gallery. The works will be on display till September 14. Where: Earth Art Gallery, Banjara Hills, Rd No 12 When: Ongoing Contact: 98480 22011

Painting exhibition Shrishti Art Gallery is hosting an exhibition of paintings by artiste Santosh Verma. The paintings aim to depict human nature. Where: Shrishti Art Gallery, Jubilee Hills, Rd No 3 When: Ongoing, 11am onwards Contact: (040) 2354 0023

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A relook at art Jannis—A Relook, a collection of recent water colours by Jehangir Jani will be held at Kalakrithi. Where: Kalakrithi Art Gallery, Banjara Hills, Rd No 10 When: Ongoing, 11am onwards Contact: (040) 66564 466

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CRIME

Shylocks arrange kidnapping of borrower

The victim’s family alleged that Iqbal had repaid the entire amount that he had borrowed from three financiers, but the lenders insisted that it was still outstanding. Mohd SUBHAN mohd.s@postnoon.com

espite the police making sparring motions a few months back against private financiers, the situation remains grim for the unwary who seek loans from them due to easy availability. In a recent case, a lorry driver who had taken a loan has allegedly been kidnapped by musclemen. Mohd Abdul Raheem alias Iqbal, 52, is said to be missing for the last 11 days and the family suspects that this could be the handiwork of some local financiers, who had lent him money to buy a lorry after he returned from KSA. Iqbal’s brother Abdul Hameed has lodged a kid-

CRIME

Niece, lover involved in robbery at corporator’s home POSTNOON NEWS feedback@postnoon.com

oghalpura police that investigated a sensational daylight robbery in Moghalpura Corporator Mukkarram’s home on Wednesday last came out with a startling discovery that it was an insider job. Eight gold bangles among several other ornaments worth a total `20 lakh were cleaned out in one go. Police team of South Zone arrested Mohd Abdul Malik, 24, Mohd Hyder, 21, an MBA student and Aijaz Moosa, 24, but the alleged brain behind the operation, corporator’s niece Sana Fatima, 22, is on the run. South Zone DCP Akun Sabharwal said Sana had arranged the robbery and her

boyfriend was involved. This was how the desperados could lay their hands on the valuables. Sana Fatima had stopped her studies after completing her graduation. She had fallen in love with Hyderali, an MBA student who lives near the water tank in Moghalpura. The family had not approved of their relationship. Police believe the girl and her boyfriend decided to steal the family gold and live

elsewhere. On Wednesday, when the corporator’s mother and grandmother were alone, Sana came with her boyfriend and another youth who pretended to be a nurse and administered an injection to the grandmother. It so happened that a nurse used to come everyday to give the grandmother an injection. But this time, what the youth gave was a sedative and she fell asleep. Immediately, the other youth thrust a handkerchief in the mother’s mouth to prevent her from screaming and the trio cleaned out the gold under the guidance of the niece. They escaped in a car. Police have so far recovered five gold bangles, one gold chain with a pendant, and one pair of ear rings.

napping case with the Rajendranagar police. He says that the financiers had in fact taken everything from his brother and yet were insisting that there existed an outstanding amount. The incident happened near Hyderguda village under Rajanderanagar police station limits on August 30. Iqbal was returning home by an RTC bus but never reached home. He had last called his family from Mehdipatnam, after which they have not heard from him. His mobile phone is switched off. Iqbal’s wife and four children checked with all their relatives but nobody knows his whereabouts. Hameed says his brother had of late received many threatening calls and obviously this was

the work of the financier’s hired hoodlums. He says the police had summoned the financiers but let them go. Hameed says his brother’s lorry was gutted in an accidental fire last year and the insurance sum Iqbal received was taken by the three financiers. Inspector Rajanderanagar S Jayram told Postnoon that the police were still investigating the case but he denied having received a kidnapping complaint. The family alleged that the police bid was to make it a ‘missing’ complaint rather than kidnapping because missing complaint gives police unlimited time and can file the case as not traced whereas kidnapping has to be inquired into immediately.

CELEBRATIONS

Celebrating Swami Vivekananda’s 150 birthday the Ram Krishna math organised a Ratha Yatra function. More than 5,000 college students participated in the event. D Purandeswari, State HRD minister was the chief guest. N SHIVA KUMAR

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FINANCE

LAST YEAR... HERE Accident on ORR

ast year we had reported how cricketer Mohammed Azharuddin’s younger son Mohd Ayazuddin and his cousin were greviously injured and later on passed away after their bike skid on the ORR during an early morning race. This incident brought to light the increasing number of accidents on the ORR where even now one hears of accidents every other day.

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students are expected to be writing the XAT exam this year. XAT is an exam conducted by Xavier’s institute for admission into various business schools.

We want to send across a message to other IT professionals that this is just a phase. We all go through rough patches and suicide is not the answer. Chandra M, NGO staff See page 6

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

GHMC busy with elections, CBD takes a backseat. While the mayor and commissioner are in a frenzy over the upcoming CBD, the GHMC union members are busy preparing for the upcoming union elections.

Raise awareness about preventing depression. A walk was held by an NGO to raise awareness among IT professionals that depression is just a passing phase and that suicide need not be the solution.

XAT exam to undergo a change in format. Students appearing for XAT exam in the year 2013 should be prepared as a new format is in place.

In spite of problems, private ﬁnance is the way. Auto drivers in the City continue to depend upon private ﬁnanciers despite the frequent cases of cheating and violence.

You can’t depend on family anymore. A corporator was robbed of `20 lakhs worth of cash and jewellery in a set-up by his niece and her lover.

Auto drivers suffer under private finance woes They continue to choose private money lenders despite banks such as the State Micro Finance Corporation that have been set up for their assistance.

RAHUL RAMAKRISHNA rahul.r@postnoon.com

he plight of auto drivers suffering under private financiers has been long known. But it is no big mystery as to why these auto drivers continue to choose private money lenders over the banks. Or the fact that the State Micro Finance Corporation that was established to ensure the well being of small functionaries like auto drivers has received only a meagre `25 crore allocation in its budget.

A TOUGH SITUATION Nawab Ali approached a financing agency over a year back to avail a loan for an auto. He secured a loan and began regularly clearing his payments. After 17 months, he was neither issued his papers nor was he allowed to resell the auto as he did not have the papers. Furthermore, the agency cheated him by entering the wrong amount on his receipts. A case was booked under Section 420 when he reported this to the then DCP Anish Kumar Sinha and now the case is still pending. Nawab Ali is now stuck with no papers or a permit and no way out. Nawab’s case is not isolated. Union members reveal that about 1 lakh autos ply in the City and more than 40,000 are being financed by private agencies. A whopping `200 crore is pushed into this grey market but problems arise because of amount recovery — vehicle seizure, forcing the borrower to sign on blank papers etc. So why do the auto drivers continue to seek help from pri-

vate agencys? Because the banks are very strict about security deposits, documents like property proof, land patta, pass book etc. Moreover, high interest rates and the employment of third party payment collectors often deter them from approaching banks.

‘WE FOLLOW POLICIES’ “We do not drive away our customers but it is our policy to issue loans based on security deposits. Moreover, the Financial Inclusion Program of the RBI has made it mandatory

that everybody regardless of their economic background get bank accounts with no strings attached. But with their history of repayment, we are generally edgy about issuing loans to auto drivers who are classified under the “unsecured loans” category,” said an AGM of SBH.

‘EASY TO APPROACH’ A private financier from Koti, Ravi Prasad said, “When a borrower defaults his payments we do not carry any surcharges. Moreover, we do not employ hooligans to retrieve vehicles from the defaulters unlike the

banks do. “These people find it easy to approach us as we are lenient in terms of deposits or paper work.” Currently the interest rates for personal loans is 8.5 per cent above base rate and 18.5 per cent p.a, whereas the private financers charge a paltry `1.20 to `1.50 interest on the amount taken for the first 30 months and then a 2.5 per cent interest rate after this period. That apart, the State government had set up an able functioning body to cater to the demands of the small business communities like the autowallah’s who are shunned away from other major financial institutions. But the SMFC fails to provide any loan subsidies. After the State government waived loans during the tenure of YSR, the lending rates have fallen down drastically. And the fact that the annual budget of the SMFC is a meagre `25 crore when the demands are much higher, speaks volumes about the state of affairs. Shankar, a national auto union member, says, “In this particular case, I do not understand why the auto driver had to take over `2 lakh rupees for an auto that was worth `1,44,000 in the market a little over a year ago. Most of the incidents involving financiers resorting to violence or intimidation is not true and even if it is they are probably card defaulters. “If the Motor Vehicle Act is scrutinised, it states that the financier has authority to reclaim his vehicle or seize it if the party fails to repay. The government should subsidise loans for the sake of our livelihoods.”

NEWS BRIEFS Passenger held with bullets at RGIA

Don’t sanction more autos, says student JAC

Man killed while crossing rail tracks

Gold chain snatched from woman

he customs department at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport detained a passenger after they found he was carrying bullets. Two bullets were found in the bag of Hanumanth Rao who was heading for Visakhapatnam. It is yet not clear if he has a licensed weapon and if the bullets belonged to the weapon.

30-member students JAC met transport minister Botsa Satyanarayana today protesting the sanctioning of more autorickshaws instead of strengthening the existing public transport system. They also sought transparency in the expenditure being done for the CBD. Student leaders said that CBD spending was proving to be a waste.

35-year-old man G Anjeynelu was killed on Monday evening at the railway tracks between Uppuguda and Falaknuma railway station. The victim was a resident of Uppuguda Hamalbasti and was a daily-wage worker. He was returning home after completing his day’s work. The incident took place when he was crossing the railway track.

wo unidentiﬁed persons snatched a gold chain from a woman on Monday evening at Krishna Nagar under Saidabad police station limits. Rajeshwari, 26, was returning home from a provision shop when the bike-borne men snatched the gold chain she was wearing. The gold chain was worth three tolas.

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POLITICS

Cong, Oppn set for face-off While the Opposition’s armoury is full, the State government says that it is prepared for any kind of warfare. would be to raise glaring public problems. “We will raise all public issues as we are facing anger from the our people. Our focus would be to seek redresses of problems faced by farmers’ community, student community in the case of fee reimbursement and removal of power crisis,” TDP senior MLA Ravula Chandrasekhar Reddy told Postnoon. Speaking on their preparation for the session, CPI floor leader Gunda Mallesh said that they would highlight all public problems especially the issues faced by Singareni collieries employees. “We will also be at the forefront in raising separate Telangana issue,” he said. The Left is likely to hold a meeting in the next few days.

INKESHAF AHMED ahmed.m@postnoon.com

pposition political parties in the State are gearing up to confront the ruling Congress with glaring public problems during the forthcoming Assembly session. The Assembly is scheduled to commence from September 17. The Opposition has a bagful of issues and will be glad to unload them on the ruling party. Issues pertaining to power, farmers and students are likely to figure prominently during the course of the session. While the main opposition TDP and the newly emerged YSRC are planning to launch an all-out attack by raising problems of farmers, students, power crisis, BJP and left parties are planning to corner the government by raising the separate Telangana issue.

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Interestingly, TRS, the third largest political party in Telangana region after Congress and TDP, and champion of separate Telangana is likely to skip its main issue, a separate Telangana, during this session. “We may not raise the issue

PREPARED FOR THE SESSION during this session. We are planning to highlight the power crisis prominently this time. We will also corner the government on the other problems,” said TRS MLA Koppula Eeswar. The reason for this seems to be the extended stay of TRS president K Chandrasekhara Rao in Delhi since the last few days. Before leaving for Delhi, KCR

Issues pertaining to power, farmers and students are likely to figure prominently in discussions during the course of this Assembly session.

had announced that a favourable statement for creation of separate Telangana would come from the Central government before the end of this month. Eeswar further said that the legislature party would finalise its agenda by convening an official meeting two days prior to the commencement of the house. TDP has said that its agenda

GHMC

CBD? We are in election mode, say GHMC unions Md NIZAMUDDIN nizamuddin.a@postnoon.com

ven as the mayor and commissioner could be found in a frenzy over pending projects, the employees are preoccupied and full of activity for the forthcoming union elections. Collections, canvassing and chorus have reached their crescendo. Union leaders are busy on their phones, while employees from various zones are making a beeline to the head office. According to the observers, this year, competition has pushed the big unions to make all efforts to secure maximum votes. While top leaders are touring far flung areas under GHMC to make sure that no vote goes against them, the working

presidents are giving directions to the union workers on the reach out strategy. The Congress affiliated Municipal Sahakar Mazdoor Union has adopted a novel strategy by placing colourful cut-outs of their symbol all over the building, while other unions completely put up

flags and stickers. The BMS (Bhagyanagar Municipal Employees Union), is leaving nothing to chance as its closest competitor Greater Hyderabad Municipal Employees Union affiliated to TRS is being perceived as the best bet amongst all the unions in this elections. The observers believe that it would be a neck-to-neck race between the two main rivals. The GHMC office has leaders with loud speakers, while some of them are reaching out to the employees in their cabins. Folk artists are much in demand with some of them camping in the premises. Officials who maintain the employees’ records are facing problems in tweaking electoral lists, as they have not been maintained.

The ruling government is preparing the ammunition to face the opposition parties on various issues. “We are ready for the session. We will not run away from opposition parties’ criticism. If there are any faults. We will accept them and try to convince the opposition parties by putting forth the facts,” legislative affairs minister D Sridhar Babu told Postnoon.

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COMMUNITY

City IT professionals sound a collective cry against suicide Techies held a rally in the streets of HiTec City on Monday to raise awareness about depression. M ANIL KUMAR

SUDESHNA KOKA sudeshna.k@postnoon.com

aking a break from their routine, IT employees last evening came out on to the streets in HiTec City for the second depression prevention 2K walk. The walk was to raise awareness about depression, which is preventable but if left untreated, may have serious repercussions. “We want to send a message to other IT professionals that it’s just a phase. We all go through rough patches, but suicide is not the answer. In my hostel itself, I see so many girls depressed due to work pressure. In fact, 35 people out of 1,000 who commit suicide are IT professionals,” said Chandra Mandela, a Makro Foundation employee. Makro Foundation (MaFo) is promoting World Suicide Prevention Day to mark the worldwide commitment and action to prevent suicide by organising a week-long awareness programme from September 1 to September 10. Along with the walk, they also

have an online event to state that “suicide is preventable”. That apart, they have a call center where any depressed person can call and discuss their problem. According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) 2011, 20.1 per cent suicides are

EDUCATION Change in XAT pattern

due to professional/career problems. According to a study published in British medical journal Lancet (June 22, 2012), India has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, and self-inflicted death is the second most common cause of death of young

people in the country between 15 and 24 years old i.e. 16 per cent, while three per cent deaths due to suicide occur between people in the 25-69 age group. Researchers say approximately 3 per cent of people aged 15 plus in India die as a result of

suicide. Of those, 40 per cent are men who committed suicide between 15 and 29 years old, while 56 per cent of women were aged 15-29 when they committed suicide. Furthermore, suicide rates were found to be 10 times higher in the south of the country than the in the north. “We sometimes get 40 to 50 calls and each session takes as long as 5 hours,” said Aparna, a Makro Foundation employee. Not just Makro employees, but also other professionals joined the walk to spread awareness. Linitha T, an IT professional, said, “This is not suicide but forced death. There is lots of pressure in the IT sector. Each employee does overtime and because of this, they lose quality time with family and friends. This leads to social isolation and thus depression. The existing HR mechanism is providing only to be an eyewash, nothing more, and this is why more and more people are forced to take the extreme step. We do not want to sympathise with the action but it’s an attempt to bring to light the problem.”

BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND

The duration of the exam has been extended and a section on general awareness added.

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AT (Xavier’s Aptitude Test) Exam, conducted by XLRI, will see some major changes in the pattern from 2013 onwards. The duration of the test has been extended to three hours instead of the earlier 2 hours 20 minutes and a section on general awareness has been added. The exam will have two parts; the first part will have multiple-choice questions on

three sections — data interpretation and quantitative ability; analytical reasoning and decision making; verbal ability and logical reasoning — and the time allotted is 2 hours 20 minutes. The second part will be an essay writing and a general awareness section and time allotted is 40 minutes. The rationale is to select students from diverse backgrounds. XAT is conducted every year by XLRI, and is a ticket to the XLRI, Jamshedpur; Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneshwar (XIMB); Goa Institute of Management (GIM) and other B-schools that take into account XAT scores. XAT 2013 will be conducted on January 6, 2013 and registration closes on November 30. Approximately 1 lakh students are expected to take the test, which will remain a pen and paper format.

A curtain of dust hangs over CBS Road in Afzalgunj, causing much distress to residents. M ANIL KUMAR

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HMRL asked to start underpass work Metro Rail officials to construct the underpass to ease traffic congestion at HiTec City junction.

he Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has written to Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited (HMRL) to take up construction of an underpass at Hitec City junction at the earliest, so as to ease the traffic congestion in the area. The HMDA had taken up the construction of a grade separator at HiTec City junction in 2008

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to ease the traffic congestion. The proposed construction of a grade separator included a flyover in the direction of Kukatpally and IT Park, and an underpass in the direction of Madhapur and Kondapur. During the construction of the flyover, the HMRL, at a meeting held in June 2009, agreed to integrate the construction of the underpass along with the construction of Metro Rail. It

was agreed that the underpass would be taken up by HMRL with their own funds. Accordingly, HMDA completed the construction of the flyover at HiTec City junction in 2010 and opened it to traffic. Now that the works of Metro Rail are in progress, the HMDA has written to HMRL to start the construction of the underpass at HiTec City junction at the earliest. NSS

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he Congress launched its counterattack against the BJP on Coalgate issue on Monday in Hyderabad. Union ministers and senior Congress leaders Salman Khurshid (right) and Ghulam Nabi Azad alleged that the BJP, which obstructed Parliament without allowing a discussion on the issue, was misguiding the people of the nation by making false statements. Speaking to the media at Gandhi Bhavan along with PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana, minister Danam Nagender and former minister Shabbir Ali, the ministers said they have decided to organise press meets in every state capital to present the facts to the people, so that they could decide for themselves. Azad said that Parliament was the best forum to discuss any issue, but the BJP deliberately obstructed the House without giving an opportunity to the Centre to clarify their doubts. Khurshid said that there were 57 blocks with regard to Coalgate issue, out of which 20 were given to the power sector. The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has alleged that due to government policy, the private sector will be benefited by `1.86 lakh crore, but it never said that the government was incurring losses. He said that coal blocks canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be auctioned and coal blocks will be given only for power generation. He added that if the coal blocks were given to private persons, the government will get 14 per cent royalty from them, along with 33 per cent corporate tax. He said that the BJPruled statesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; chief ministers themselves opposed the allocation of coal

blocks based on highest bid process. Following their contention, the Centre amended the process and brought a new rule in 2008, It was approved by the standing committee of Parliament and made legislation in 2010.

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Khurshid said that the BJP was alleging that the allocation of coal blocks was getting delayed due to the new policy, i.e. screening committee procedure. But there was no delay on the part of the Centre and the delay took place only because of environmental problems, Khurshid explained. It was not correct on the part of the BJP to blame the prime minister, who had only endorsed the committee decisions. He said that no BJP chief minister expressed objections on the screening committee procedure in allocating the coal blocks. He said it is not possible for the government to look after mining on its own, and hence it would allot coal blocks to the private sector. He said it was not correct to corner the prime minister. He said that the BJP leaders had gained expertise in spreading falsehood and such leaders have no right to rule the country. NSS

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Biodiversity Summit: who’ll bell the cat?

COP-11 of CBD now happening in Hyderabad is a golden opportunity to take up issues that are out of agenda and also that concern India. Our failure in doing so will prove expensive for the rich biodiversity of our country. DEEPAK DESHPANDE

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s the XIth meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP) to the two-decade-old Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is set to take place in Hyderabad, the state of CBD begs several key issues to be addressed — issues that are not on the agenda of the meeting. The treaty had marked a paradigm shift by incorporating the objectives of sustainable use and equitable benefit sharing along with conservation, and was fairly balanced along the North-South divide. However, the enforcement of the treaty at the global level has failed to live up to the expectations invested in it. The third edition of the Global Biodiversity Outlook published by the CBD secretariat in 2010 has acknowledged that the CBD has failed to deliver as shown by a number of indicators. Although the treaty negotiations had a strong and effective presence of the Group of 77, the years since its coming into force have seen a progressive weakening of G77, which is probably the

main reason why the treaty was rendered ineffective, much to the gratification of the US, the only major country that refuses to ratify the treaty for its worries about the treaty’s provisions for equitable benefit sharing for accessing biodiversity, the preferential terms for technology transfer and so on. In fact, the US could easily have ratified CBD and remained happy about the treaty’s digression from the core obligations of the contracting parties. For instance biopiracy remains unabated in spite of two decades of CBD that makes biopiracy an international offence.

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Let us look at the trajectory CBD has been led to take vis-a-vis its legal status. The treaty has the unenviable distinction of being challenged by certain contracting parties themselves without denouncing the treaty or without attempting to amend the treaty text. The treaty has categorical and legally binding provisions on access to biodiversity and equitable benefit sharing (ABS), yet when the proposal for a protocol on ABS was mooted years ago the western countries sought the instrument to be legally nonbinding. The ABS protocol negotiators had overcome this chal-

lenge and the Nagoya Protocol on ABS has been concluded, yet the text remains rather incomplete without addressing the compliance mechanism, and still when the issue of compliance mechanism came up for discussion at the recently held meeting of the Inter-governmental Committee on Nagoya Protocol, New Delhi, Western countries

have unfailingly raised opposition to the proposed legally binding nature of the compliance mechanism! Attempts to argue away the legal strength of CBD has been part of an effort to weaken the comprehensive and well balanced treaty that it is. CBD is not a declaration, a statement of principles, an international pro-

Are our efforts sustainable? The City is gearing up to host the prestigious Conference on Biodiversity and in this regard the GHMC is bending over double to beautify the City. From re-carpeting roads to planting trees and shrubs, the Corporation is leaving no stone unturned. Yet, how sustainable are these moves is the question. For every tree planted there are a dozen felled and nearly 100 cars being added to the already burgeoning trafﬁc in the City. The growing demand for power also means expanding coal mines, which is disastrous for our green cover. So what then is the use of trying to put on a show for a bunch of nations when the harsh reality is that urbanisation is winning hands down?

gram or a set of guidelines. CBD does not belong to the genre of ‘soft law’ that these instruments are, as some including the CBD secretariat claim, it is international law (there is no ‘hard law’ as opposed to ‘soft law,’ for the latter is no law at all). It is a multilateral treaty that the contracting parties are legally obliged to implement. However, articles committing parties to ‘endeavour to’ or bearing caveat-like ‘as far as possible’ are less binding. There are only two issues in the CBD that called for further development in order to take on implementation course: biosafety (Article 19.3) and liability and compensation beyond national jurisdiction (article 14.2). The CBD explicitly states that it does not provide for exemptions. S Faizi is an ecologist specialising in international environmental policy. He had been a negotiator in the Intergovernmental Negotiation Committee on CBD I that formulated the CBD text. Member of CBD Expert Group on Poverty and Biodiversity and Board member of CBD Alliance, global network of NGOs on CBD issues. biodiversity@rediffmail.com

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‘EXTREME’ SPORTS

THONGS FLY AT AUSSIE OUTBACK 'OLYMPICS'

Wrangling with inflatable reptiles, racing hobby horses... the Australian Games seem a lot more fun than the Olympics. ELISE POTAKA-OSBORNE feedback@postnoon.com

n the spirit of the London Olympics, Australia has hosted its own “Outback Games” with events including ‘camel’ equestrian, ‘waterhole’ swimming and a flip-flop marathon. While serious athletes train long and hard to make it to the Olympics, contenders in the Northern Territory joked that they did Bikram yoga to acclimatise to the extreme temperature and ate garlic to ward off the crocodiles. The event showcased unique home-grown sports, including sandbar soccer — football played on an uneven patch of beach — and ‘camel’ equestrian involving hobby horses. “The swimming one requires us swimming with the crocodiles in the waterhole,” joked competitor Alison Coulthurst, referring to the fake, inflatable reptiles racers wrangled with in the swimming pool. Australia's tropical Northern Territory, known as the “Top End”, is a tourist destination known for its spectacular national parks in its north as much as for the vast red rock Uluru in its south. It is the birthplace of the Australian stereotype — there’s sun and sand, saltwater crocodiles and jellyfish — and the idea that life is too short to be taken too seriously. But with its remote location in what's known as the “Outback” — thousands of kilometres from Australia’s major hubs of Sydney and Melbourne — visitor numbers have dropped sharply in the wake of the global financial crisis. International tourist numbers slipped 9.1 per cent in the year in March 2012 from the previous year, with those from Britain, Germany and Japan falling most steeply. The Outback Games at the start of the month was an exercise in putting the Northern Territory back on the tourist trail by celebrating the fun and quirky elements of the sparsely populated region. Organisers said the ‘camel’

The Outback Games aim to put the Northern Territory back on the tourist trail by celebrating its quirky elements. equestrian — in which athletes tried to ride a hobby horse ‘camel’ over an obstacle course — was a celebration of the Afghan cameleers who once travelled to the territory from central Australia. The ‘waterhole’ swimming played up the region’s natural pools, sandbar soccer made the most of the harbour beach, while the thong marathon was a homage to the Aussie flip-flop. “This is just a great way of indicating to the world that this place is different, it really is a different part of Australia,” explained John Fitzgerald, chief executive of Tourism NT. “We’re different here in the terri-

tory. We like to do things differently,” he added. At the event, the crowd was small but vocal, and not always keeping their eye on the game. But the athletes, who won the right to compete for their state in a contest, were alert during the competition, particularly during the thong marathon which required the most stamina. Competitors struggled to keep their thongs — open footwear, not an item of intimate apparel as in other countries — on their feet for the flip-flop race of several laps around a field. But even the losers didn’t take it to heart. “We’re adopting the Northern Territory approach that, if you lose or you’re feeling bad, you just sit back,” said competitor Ben Crank. “Relax and have a beer and it all kind of washes away. It’s a great mentality to have as an athlete. If you don’t win, don’t worry, relax, have a beer. It’s all good.” AFP

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HSBC TO SELL BANKING BUSINESS IN PAKISTAN

Banking giant HSBC on Monday said it had agreed to sell its operations in Pakistan comprising 10 branches to JS Bank Limited for an undisclosed sum. The British lender said the sale is expected to be completed in the final quarter of the year.

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Challenges aid success After a successful battle with cancer, a young woman entrepreneur decides to use her passion to weave herself a success story. PRUDHVI RAJU K prudhvi.k@postnoon.com

t is passion that drives any business more than revenues. Shibori Designs was born out of passion to bring in new designs and colours in the textile industry. Prakruti Gupta Rao ventured in to business to be out of her tough times. “I battled successfully against cancer in early 2010 and as soon as I was cured, I wasted no time to bring some colour into my dull days and started Shibori in August 2010, focusing on digital printing technology on fabrics. I realised how dull life can get sometimes in just plain whites and blacks and wanted to do something to bring colour in many people’s lives. I also wanted to do something with newer technologies and bring something new and interesting to the market Talking about value proposition, she said, “Our value addition is in creating unique designs to colour peoples spaces. Our creative team ensures to bring a vibrant and harmonious feel to our customers in home furnishing,

There are so many players and you always have to be one step ahead of competition, otherwise it is easy to get crushed. beachwear and nightwear products,” Any business simply can not take off by itself. “I started with a small budget using my savings. I faintly remember, it was around `5 lakh. Since I was new to India, I didn’t have much local business know-how. Along with my family, an organisation called COWE (Confederation of Women Entrepreneurs) guided me with all the business setup processes and made my work much easier. And once you have the zeal and enthusiasm, the roadblocks just go away and you get the confidence to move on. “There were many challenges at the beginning, where I had to learn about the industry from scratch, without much guidance from anyone. Then is

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always competition that keeps growing,” When many students choose security over innovation, Prakruti chose the riskier route. “I like being in control and facing challenges, which were two main inspirations. I want to start on my own, rather than joining the workforce for stability and security. I wanted to take the risk and create something beautiful in the world — to make a difference and be the difference,” says Prakruti.

Talking about the industry, she said, “The textile industry is extremely competitive, and very price–sensitive. There are so many players in the market and you always have to be one step ahead of your competition, otherwise it is easy to get crushed. Having said that, there is a lot of demand and if you have the right attitude with honest products, one will always have good business.” The company started exports and is looking forward to add many more companies to our buyers list. It got a operational breakeven in a year of its launch and expanded its employee base to 15. The business is growing approximately around 20 per cent in revenues every month. It also wants to increase its product portfolio and be among the top brands. As a message to budding entrepreneurs, she said, “Nothing is impossible and always believe that you can do it. If you don’t know how, don’t hesitate to ask; if you know how, then don’t hesitate to help. You are the future — have the right attitude and keep moving forward.”

EUROZONE CRISIS

TECHNOLOGY

Spain PM rejects bailout cuts

MS pop-up stores to sell Surface tab

MADRID: Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Monday he would not accept an economic rescue that dictates spending cuts or touches old-age pensions. "I could not accept that they tell us which are the concrete policies in which we have to cut or not cut," the prime minister said. "If there is one area I won't touch it is pensions because the pensioner is the most fragile person," he said. Even as Spain faced high long-term borrowing costs, about 30 billion euros in debt repayments due in October, a deepening recession and a jobless rate of nearly 25 percent,

SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft said Monday it is launching more than 30 pop-up holiday shops in the United States and Canada as it gears up to sell its new Surface tablet computer. The company released a list of 32 locations for the shops — known as pop-ups because they have short or seasonal commercial leases. The US tech giant on Monday had job listings seeking retail store managers and other personnel. The company offered no specifics on how long these shops would be operational or what they would sell. AFP

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he vowed not to be rushed. Rajoy told public television channel TVE that his conservative Popular Party government would carefully study the conditions of any sovereign bailout, just like any householder seeking a credit. He spoke four days after the ECB said it would buy as many government bonds as needed on the open market to bring down a distressed state's borrowing costs. But the ECB offer came with one string attached: first, the state must apply to the eurozone bailout funds for a rescue and submit to their strict conditions including IMF supervision. AFP

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A digital publisher said Monday it was likely the source of a data breach which resulted in the leak of personal data from as many as 12 million Apple iPhone and iPad users. Hackers initially claimed the data containing Apple identiﬁcation codes known as UDIDs was stolen from an FBI computer, but the US law enforcement agency claimed this was incorrect. BlueToad, a Florida-based ﬁrm which creates digital and mobile editions of publications, said that it was "the victim of a criminal cyber attack, which resulted in the theft of Apple UDIDs from our systems." Paul DeHart, the company's chief executive and president, said.

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HP TO CUT MORE JOBS US computer giant Hewlett-Packard said on Monday its job cuts under a major restructuring program will total some 29,000, or 2,000 more than previously estimated. In a regulatory ﬁling, the world's biggest maker of personal computers said the cuts will be made through its 2014 ﬁscal, with "a portion of those employees exiting" accepting a buyout, or "enhanced early retirement." The cuts are part of an effort by CEO Meg Whitman, who took the reins at HP a year ago, to turn around the giant hurt by a shift away from traditional PCs.

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NO GUIDELINES TO REGULATE MEDIA REPORTING: SC

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that there can be no blanket guidelines to regulate media reporting of sub-judice matters but restrictions could be sought in specific cases. “No guidelines can be framed across the board,” chief justice SH Kapadia, heading a constitution bench said.

KUDANKULAM PROTEST

Uneasy calm, stir continues The police said they plan to arrest the main leaders of the agitation. KUDANKULAM (TN): An uneasy calm prevailed here today with police tightening vigil as anti-nuclear protesters continued with their relay fast at Idinthakari, epicentre of protests against the Kudankulam Nuclear plant, condemning the action against anti-KNPP activists. Police here said the situation was calm but they are keeping a strict vigil. “Security has been stepped up,” sources said. Sources close to SP Udhayakumar, convener of People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy, spearheading the protest against KNPP, said key leaders including him and Pushparayan, will court arrest by turning up at the Kudankulam Police Station tonight. The agitation had turned violent yesterday when one person was killed in police firing when protesters tried to attack a police station at Manapad in Tuticorin district.

The year-long agitation, confined to Indinthakarai and nearby villages, spilled over to neighbouring Tuticorin district and was intensified after authorities announced loading of uranium fuel in the plant. Police had also resorted to lath-

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Flier caught with monkey in pants! NEW DELHI: Customs authorities have arrested a man who was attempting to board a flight at the IGI Airport with an endangered monkey in his underwear, officials said. The suspect, a UAE national, who was detained along with two other travellers, had arrived from Bangkok and was about to take a connecting flight to Dubai. “Security personnel found the monkey in his underwear while frisking the transit passengers,” a customs official told AFP. The 17-centimetre loris is a type of monkey native to India and southeast Asia, and is seen by some as possessing aphrodisiac qualities. Petite and round-eyed with a white stripe down its face, “the monkey is an endangered species,” said the official. Another was discovered in a dustbin at the Indira Gandhi International airport. It had been abandoned because the men could not carry him. Both monkeys have been handed over to animal welfare organisation People for Animals headed by former environment minister Maneka Gandhi, the official said. Authorities were trying to determine the exact origin of the monkeys. AFP

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28 die in HP accident SHIMLA: At least 28 people were killed and five injured when a state roadways bus skidded off the road and fell into a 500-foot-deep gorge Monday night in Himachal Pradesh’s Kangra district, an official said. Twenty-eight bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of the bus, while five injured have been hospitalised, deputy commissioner KR Bharti told IANS on Tuesday. The 42-seater bus, ferrying passengers from Palampur to Asha Puri, a village known for a hilltop shrine, had been overcrowded, one of the survivors told police. The survivors told the police that most of passengers alighted from the bus at Makol village, just a few kilometres before the accident. The authorities had to call the Indian Army from Palampur, which is 250 km

icharge and firing of teargas shells yesterday as the seashore in Indinthakarai village turned into a battlefield with clashes between protesters and police. Slamming the police action, PMANE had yesterday launched a 48-hour relay fast against it. PTI

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from here, to undertake the rescue operation as the accident spot was treacherous and thickly forested. The driver was adjusting his seat when the accident occurred. “Most probably, the driver was distracted while adjusting the seat,” Bharti said. The government has ordered a magisterial probe into the accident. Most of the victims were locals and belonged to closely-knit families. The rescue operations are still on. Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal has expressed grief over the accident. This is the second major accident in the state in less than a month. Fifty-three people were killed and 46 injured August 11 when an overcrowded private bus rolled into a 300-feet deep gorge in Chamba district in the state.

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HUMAN RIGHTS

Silicosis-affected workers die silent death in Delhi Twenty-one former mine workers face certain death but are being denied compensation.

or Gulli Devi, 55, even breathing is a pain. Every time she does so, she groans as it is accompanied by sporadic coughing. Suffering from silicosis, the reedthin woman fends for herself as her husband and son died due to the same incurable disease that has claimed many lives in a village that is actually obscured in the bustle of upscale south Delhi. There are no official figures on how many died of silicosis, a respiratory disease caused by inhaling silica dust. It is common in people working in mining and construction sectors, but NGOs estimate that at least 10,000 people have died in the national capital’s Lal Kuan village. Welcome to this village, once a flourishing quarry that now houses 21 former mine workers

BEGINNING OF THE END This village, which is surrounded by some of the affluent south Delhi neighbourhoods, was once home to mining and quarrying fields where thousands of workers were employed. The workers toiled day and night to meet the demand to create the modern Delhi that it is now. However in 1985, mining ceased to exist and in 1992 the Supreme Court banned the operations of stone crushing units in the area leading to a decline in the pollution level but rendering many workers jobless, who had been exposed to this insidious disease caused by the inhalation of dust containing free crystalline silica.

and stone crushers who are battling silicosis and awaiting compensation and rehabilitation for over five years. “Silcos (Silicosis) devoured my husband and my son. I know I will also die a silent death because of this (disease)," Gulli Devi told IANS. Her body and hand shake as she tries to talk in her faltering voice. This village, which is surrounded by some of the affluent south Delhi neighbourhoods, was once home to mining and quarrying fields where thousands of workers were employed. The workers toiled day and night to meet the demand to create the modern Delhi that it is now. However, in 1985, mining ceased to exist and in 1992 the Supreme Court banned the operations of stone crushing units in the area leading to a decline in the pollution level but rendering many workers jobless, who had been exposed to this insidious disease caused by the inhalation of dust containing free crystalline silica. Under the Workmen Compensation Act, silicosis is a notified disease, which makes its victim eligible for compensation or rehabilitation. However, these 21 workers have been ignored by Delhi government even after being diagnosed with the disease in 2005. “I have been diagnosed with Silicos four times but have got nothing (compensation)," a frail looking Kesri Devi told this correspondent, who visited this village, located on a rocky terrain surrounded by middle class homes. “I have to prove it every time that I suffer from this disease," she said.

Director of People’s Rights and Social Research Centre (PRASAR) SM Azad, who has been fighting for the rights of mine workers, says that the government has long refused to accept that there are cases of Silicosis in the capital. “In 2002, Ghasi Ram was diagnosed with Silicosis. This was the first time a person was officially diagnosed with Silicosis. He had the disease for a long time but it was diagnosed only in that year. He died," Azad told IANS. After a long battle, it was finally confirmed that people have been dying of silicosis. In 2005, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit constituted a committee, which found that of the 111 residents of Lal Kuan, 44 had

Silcosis. In 2007, the government agreed to compensate these people, but no progress was made. Another committee was set up in 2009. This committee finally confirmed that only 21 people were suffering from Silicosis. “The government now agrees that these 21 people have silicosis but says no compensation

Under the Workmen Compensation Act, silicosis is a notified disease, which makes its victim eligible for compensation or rehabilitation.

could be made out as it was not confirmed that it was because of their occupation that they suffered from the disease. “Ever since the mines closed many have died. But the reason was not known. In my estimate, at least 10,000 have died of this respiratory disease," Azad said. An official at the National Human Rights Commission said notice was issued to the Delhi government for not providing compensation to them. “The reason for not giving compensation is that these people come from the unorganised sector and have no proof that they worked in the mines here," the official said. The official said state enforcement agencies failed to protect workers from silicosis, which is a case of human rights violation. “These people must be given compensation or any other facilities. On July 9, we issued notice to the government asking why they should not be compensated," the official said. The government was given six weeks time but it is yet to respond. When IANS contacted Delhi Health Minister A.K. Walia, he said: “It has not come to my notice. But we will see it." For Kamla Devi, it was only recently she got to know about her disease. “All these years I was prescribed medicines for tuberculosis," said Kamla Devi. “Forget compensation, we don’t even get the ration. This disease has swallowed the entire village. We all know our days are numbered, but hope keeps us alive that the day will come when authorities will think of us," said another sufferer Narayani Devi. IANS

ENVIRONMENT

‘Dolphin man’ crusades tirelessly to stop extinction Decrease in depth of rivers due to increasing siltation and rise in effluents have led to reduction in habitat of the mammal.

opularly known as ‘Dolphin man', Patna University zoologist Prof RK Sinha has been waging a battle over the past three decades to save the dolphin — the country’s national marine mammal. “There are only about 2,500 dolphins in the Ganga river basin according to a 2006 survey

out of which 60 per cent are found exclusively in Bihar," Sinha told PTI. The dolphins, particularly of the Gangetic variety, were found at the confluence of the Ganga and Saryu rivers at Doriganj in Saran district, the confluence of the Ganga and Gandak confluence at Sonepur in the same dis-

trict and the confluence of Ganga and Koshi at Kursela in Katihar district. The decreasing number of dolphins because of water pollution led the Centre to declare it as national aquatic animal in May 2010 and take steps for its protection and conservation, Sinha said.

The zoologist, who has been working on a campaign to save the dolphin since his students days in 1970s, said that decrease in depth of rivers due to increasing siltation and rise in effluents have led to reduction in habitat of the mammal and decline in its population. PTI

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

World MILITARY DRILL

S Korea and US practise invading N Korea SEOUL: South Korean troops practised a war scenario involving the occupation and stabilisation of North Korea during a joint military drill with the United States last month, a report said Tuesday. The two allies, who staged a similar stabilisation exercise in 2010, upgraded it to strengthen the role of the South Korean army in the event of an “emergency situation in the North”, Dong-A Ilbo newspaper said. It cited an unnamed senior government official, who said the manoeuvre — called Wind of Freedom — involved humanitarian assistance for North Koreans after occupying the communist state and restoring administrative services. The exercise was part of the annual Ulchi Freedom Guardian drill held from August 20-31 and involving tens of thousands of South Korean and US troops. The North has habitually condemned the drill as a provocative prelude to war. “The practise... for the first time let the South Korean military lead overall operations to potentially stabilise the North, with the back-up by the US,” said a military source quoted by Dong-A. The two nations will stage a similar drill during an annual Key Resolve joint drill to be held early next year, the newspaper added. Seoul’s defence ministry spokesman declined to comment, saying details of military drills were confidential. In 2010, Walter Sharp, the then commander of the 28,500 US troops stationed in the South, said the two allies needed to hold “realistic exercises” for “anything that could happen in Korea”.

HOLLYWOOD WALK HONORS FOR STAR TREK ACTOR Star Trek actor Walter Koenig on Monday became the most recent cast member from the cult sci-fi television series to earn a place on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Koenig, who played Chekov in the TV show, was joined by fellow stars George Takei (Sulu) and in Spock actor Leonard Nimoy at the Tinsel Town sidewalk star-unveiling ceremony.

9/11 ANNIVERSARY

IRON LADY OF CUBA

Taliban: US forces face ‘utter defeat’

Americans are unsafe wherever they go in the world, the terror group said ahead of 9/11 anniversary.

Tribute In Light New York City’s “Tribute In Light” to the victims of the 9/11 attacks shines from One World Trade into the sky over Manhattan on Monday in New York City. Americans mark the tragedy on Tuesday with relatively low key ceremonies. The main ceremony will be the ritu-

al reading at New York’s Ground Zero of the names of the 2,983 people killed both on 9/11 and in the precursor to those attacks, the 1993 car bombing of the World Trade Centre. PIC: AFTON ALMARAZ/GETTY IMAGES/AFP

WASHINGTON: US forces face "utter defeat" in Afghanistan and Americans are unsafe wherever they go in the world, the Taliban said ahead of the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. Eleven years ago Tuesday, almost 3,000 people lost their lives in the worst terror strike on American soil that saw two passenger planes hijacked by Al-Qaeda slam into New York's World Trade Center and another into the Pentagon. A fourth plane crashed in a Pennsylvania field. What followed was a war in Afghanistan, launched over the Taliban's alliance with AlQaeda. "The anniversary of 9/11 is approaching America this year at a time when it is facing utter defeat in Afghanistan militarily, politically, economically and in all other facets and it has exhausted all other means through which to prolong its illegal war," said a statement from the Afghan Taliban, the US-based SITE Intelligence Group said Monday. The statement, which the Taliban wrote in English and posted on Sunday, goes on to say that the war in Afghanistan "under the pretext of retaliation for the September incident has no legal or ethical" basis, and that Afghans had "no hand" in what happened. Despite the United States taking several measures, "no American is safe in any society today," the statement said.

NEWS BRIEFS China sends ships to disputed islands

27 killed in Nepal bus accident

13 Asians adrift at sea for 40 days saved

US declassifies Katyn massacre documents

BEIJING: China has sent two patrol ships to a group of islands at the centre of a territorial row with Japan, Xinhua reported Tuesday, after Tokyo said it would nationalise them. Xinhua said the two marine surveillance ships had reached the waters around the Diaoyu islands to “assert the country’s sovereignty”.

KATHMANDU: At least 27 people were killed and 11 injured when a bus veered off a narrow mountain road in western Nepal, a police ofﬁcer said Tuesday. The vehicle tumbled down a hillside onto a riverbank after the driver lost control on a sharp bend on the Karnali highway, police inspector Barun Bahadur Singh said.

SAN SALVADOR: Thirteen Asians who spent 40 days adrift in the Paciﬁc after their ship’s engine broke down have been rescued by a Salvadoran trawler, immigration authorities said Monday. A statement from the General Directorate of Migration said they were 11 Vietnamese and two Indonesians.

WASHINGTON: The United States on Monday declassiﬁed more than 1,000 pages of documents related to the Katyn massacre of thousands of Poles by Soviet forces during World War II. The National Archives also announced the launch of a project to highlight Katyn-related material that had already been declassiﬁed.

Marta Beatriz Roque, the 67 yearold “Iron Lady” of Cuban dissidents, began a hunger strike Monday to protest conditions that opponents to the Communist regime face on the island. “I have declared a hunger strike” against the government’s “intolerable and untenable” treatment of the opposition, Roque said. Roque was the only woman among the 75 activists arrested and given long prison sentences in a highproﬁle 2003 crackdown.

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Kurdish journalists appeared in court in Istanbul on various terrorism charges, including accusations that they have supported the KCK, an illegal pan-Kurdish movement.

LAND OF HOPE Japanese filmmaker Sion Sono pulled audiences this week into a family’s suffering in the wake of a nuclear meltdown, showing haunting real scenes of Fukushima in his fictional drama The Land of Hope. The film — entitled Kibou No Kuni in Japanese — premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, North America’s largest film festival. Sono shot on location in a deserted Fukushima after last year’s quake — which triggered a tsunami and a meltdown in a nuclear plant — to stand in for his location, giving the film a documentary-like veracity.

I hope the problems of Somalia will come to an end and Somalia will now turn a new page and that page will be written with good history rather than bad history. Hassan Sheik Mohamud New Somalia President

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Comment Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. Isaac Asimov Author

RNC vs DNC: Who knows how to party?

ow that both major parties have staged their quadrennial extravaganzas, the serious analytical work begins. Which candidate scored the biggest bounce from all the fuss? What do conventions really mean in modern elections? And last, but by no means least: Which party is the coolest? To dispense with the first question: after months of stagnant polls and a deadlocked race, President Barack Obama has opened up a clear lead over challenger Mitt Romney. The latest Rasmussen Daily Tracking Poll, released Monday, shows Obama attracting 50 percent of voter support, versus Romney with 45 percent. The number of “undecideds” is achingly small — just 3 per cent. Romney’s campaign dismisses the results as a “sugar high” from last week’s Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. This would suggest that even the Republicans would admit that the DNC was a whole lot sweeter than their bash. To be fair, the Republican National Convention in Tampa was wellplanned, exhaustively organized, and perfectly executed. Even the weather cooperated; Hurricane Isaac skipped Tampa, I am convinced, out of an excess of tact. No such luck in Charlotte. Blistering heat alternated with torrential downpours, the latter necessitating a last-minute change of venue. The president had been scheduled to speak at the 70,000 capacity Bank of America Stadium; the event actually took place in the regular convention site, the Time Warner Cable Arena, which holds just 20,000. The results were messy. GLOBAL POST

HIGH-FLYING THOUGHTS

In an interview to the Kremlin-controlled, English-language RT television channel, Russian Prime Minister mused that group sex is better than oneon-one “because, as with any collective work, you can skive off”. Pithy Putin at his best, eh?

STORM IN SOUTH CHINA SEA

TAMING THE DRAGON TALKING CHINA

Charles I-hsin Chen

he tension over territory disputes between China and neighboring countries has escalated in recent months. After the naval standoff with the Philippines around the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, China’s move to establish Sansha City on Woody Island in the Paracels chain sparked protests in Vietnam and drew concerns among members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Meanwhile, triggered by Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara’s proposal to purchase disputed islands in the East China Sea, radical nationalists from China, Taiwan and Japan have repeatedly tried to land on islands to claim sovereignty, stirring regional stability. The United States has taken different strategies dealing with the same opponent: China. In the South China Sea, Washington has played a proactive role, encouraging countries claiming territories in the Paracel and Spratly island chains to return to the negotiating table in search of a peaceful resolution, while denouncing Beijing’s “divide and conquer” strategy that favors bilateral dialogues rather than a multilateral framework. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Indonesia earlier this week to urge Southeast Asian countries to present a unified front in

dealing with Beijing. However, Beijing is reluctant to bring this territorial issue to international arbitration under the UN Convention on the Law of the Seas. A likely outcome of such arbitration would undermine China’s legitimacy of dominance over the disputed waters. Clinton apparently did not succeed in narrowing the gap between the two superpowers in what may have been her last trip to China as secretary of state. In contrast, in the East China Sea — which is bounded by Kyūshū and the Ryukyu Islands of Japan, Taiwan, and mainland China and the Asian continent, and is connected with the South China Sea by the Taiwan Strait — Washington has so far taken a passive position, looking on with folded arms. Clinton did not mention this topic to her Chinese counterparts this time. Japan’s immediate deportation of 14 Hong Kong activists who landed on uninhabited islands controlled by Japan but also claimed by Taiwan and China last month has contributed to the rising tension. In Beijing, dozens of people, driven by nationalist anger, rallied outside the Japanese embassy, demanding the protesters’ release and chanting antiJapanese slogans. The activists have also won overwhelming support online, and Chinese consumers have started boycotting Japanese products, according to The Washington Post. In Hong Kong, supporters marched to a Japanese consulate

building, demanding the activists’ immediate release. Some of the participants burned Japanese flags. Taiwanese government has summoned the Japanese envoy to issue a formal protest. Later this week, President Ma Ying-jeou will visit a nearby island under Taiwan’s control to assert sovereignty. If this pattern continues, no one can predict what troubles may follow; a smallscale military conflict was one mentioned recently in The Post. With respect to issues of sovereignty, Beijing’s leaders cannot find any persuasive reasons to collaborate with their Washington counterparts, who — in their eyes — have tried to warn of “China threats” as a way to stop China’s naval expansion in adjacent waters. Secretary Clinton’s failure in mediating among the ASEAN countries has not resulted in a confrontation between the US and China, but if she continues to turn her back to the East

Asian countries, such a confrontation might occur. Meanwhile, the Japanese central government is planning to pay a private owner of disputed islands ¥2 billion ($26 million) to purchase them in late September. It seems increasingly apparent that Washington must abandon its passive policy in the East China Sea before it is too late. The best strategy could be taking a similar approach to encourage Japan, China and Taiwan back to the negotiation table to shelve controversies, agree on a common code of conduct and establish a multilateral mechanism for the joint exploration and development of natural resources. This is why Taiwan’s recent proposal of a peace initiative with the same targets matters to the US. Charles I-hsin Chen is former spokesman and current vice director for the overseas department of the ruling Kuomintang party in Taiwan.

EDITORIALS Murray, the Robert Bruce of today Why we love... Aseem Trivedi

e was the perennial underdog in modern tennis… till some time back. But Andy Murray can forget all that now. A stunning revenge for the humiliation he suffered at the hands of Roger Federer at the Wimbledon through a gold medal at the London Games and now his first Grand Slam by winning the US Open beating none other than Novak Djokovic, who had been the focus of all when the season began this year. It was not easy at all: moments were plenty when Murray and the world thought he would not make it again. His victory comes as balm for his country too, for it’s been 76 years since a British man won a Grand Slam singles title. Ever since Murray came under the tutelage of Ivan Lendl, he has been a different man. How can it be otherwise when both share the unfortunate tag of being the two men in their professional era to have lost their first four Grand Slam finals. Murray got his retribution now, and through Murray’s victory, Lendl too. Murray reminds us of another Scot who taught us to keep trying until you succeed.

READERS’ VIEWS

s was expected, politicians have justiﬁed the action against Aseem Trivedi, saying that his cartoons “are against the country” and have denied he was arrested for showing the netas in bad light. NCP spokesperson Nawab Malik says the government can consider withdrawing the cases against him if the cartoonist apologises. What for? For speaking the truth? For revealing the true state of our nation? Netas can carry on with their witch hunt. But you can’t hide the truth.

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workplace

stress at work

Workers who perceive their jobs aren't secure are more likely to rate themselves in poor health and have increased symptoms of anxiety and depression, reports the September Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

PUTTING YOURSELF OUT THERE

KNOW YOUR COMPANY

The business of branding Freelancing is easier said than done. It's no longer just enough to do great work and wait for the call. The name of the game today is self-branding. PADMINI C padmini.c@postnoon.com

“F

or the longest time, I didn't understand what I was doing wrong. People much less talented than me were getting better projects, paid much more and becoming more well-known. Then I realised I wasn't putting myself 'out there.' So no one knew I had much more to offer than the others. I started doing that and now, I'm a name in my own right. Moral of the story? You have to make noise if you want to get noticed,” says Radhika Iyer, a freelance fashion writer from Mumbai. Freelancing is the mood of the moment. Youngsters now would rather create their own legacy than follow in the footsteps of others. The trend is popular in creative fields like writing, photography, designing, music and others. But creating a niche for yourself is easier said than done. Especially since there are more people in the market today doing the same thing than ever before. So how do you stand out? Nishant Ratnakar, a freelance photographer from Bengaluru says, “It's true that the barriers to photography have been broken, with almost everyone owning a camera today. But to stand out in the crowd, you have to play on your USP, position yourself right and create your own brand. For instance, I don't project myself just as a photographer, I'm a visual storyteller. With my years of experience in the media industry, I bring my domain

Ernst & Young India Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. Their business units are grouped into four places Americas, EMIEA (Europe, Middle East, India and Africa) Asia-Pacific and Japan. Their tagline says Quality in Everything we do. The company also encourages young entrepreneurs by hosting the Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

DID YOU KNOW...

is the number of times ABC Supply Company was honoured with the Gallup Great Workplace Award. ABC Supply Co., Inc. is the largest wholesale distributor of roofing in the United States and one of the nation's largest distributors of siding, windows and other select exterior building products, tools and related supplies.

WORK CULTURE

knowledge, depth and focus to any subject, which sets me apart and which is what draws clients to me.” He further adds, “It's not easy. You have to constantly reach out, connect, engage with people and showcase your work. In fact that's a big part of what'll bring you business.” A PR executive by profession and a wedding photographer by passion, Elvin Jacob thinks it’s best to let your work

STARTERS GUIDE TO FREELANCING

Timing

s tempting as it may seem to strike out on your own, join a workplace in a related industry. Wait until you are sure you have learnt enough of your skill and the market. Getting a few years of experience is the easiest way to making key contacts, learning the tricks of trade and being able to gauge yourself among your peers.

Socialise

etwork, network, network. We’ll say it more times if you want. Ask any successful freelancer and they will tell you, work doesn’t come to you sitting at home. Socialising with potential clients is the single most important activity that will bring you business. Use social media, use your friends circle, use everything you can.

do the talking. “When you work for a well-known company, you can associate yourself with it and borrow from the brand. But as a freelancer, you have nothing to fall back on, it's all about you. So undeniably, as a freelancer you have to market yourself well. But there's no use overselling yourself without the talent to back it up. Ultimately, your brand is built with not what you say about yourself as

Don’t settle

s scary as the job market might seem, never undersell. Or worse, give away your content for free. It shows a lack of conﬁdence in yourself and your work. Decide on a reasonable price for your content and then stick to your guns, even if it means you have to wait a little. In the long run, you will appreciate the practice.

much as what your work says about you. So I'd rather let my work do the talking for me.” So, there you have it. It seems that the trick is to find a fine balance. All talk and no show will get you nowhere in the long run. At the same time, it doesn't matter if you having buckets of talent, if you don't market yourself well. Either which way, today, the onus is all on you.

Hold out

here is a common misconception that you should not turn down any work you get. While its true that you shouldn’t be picky, if you come across an assignment that lies outside your interest, aptitude, or comfort, say no. Believe us when we say, you’d rather do one great assignment than two mediocre ones.

There is never a dull moment where I work. Everyone has a hands on approach to both work and fun. If I have got free time I can listen to music, watch television, read a book, play a game of Jenga or even play galli cricket with my colleagues. ’If ‘ being the keyword there. Rohan Copywriter at Quicksilver Advertising

The best part about my workplace is that the company believes in employee management. So its more of fun at work. This has kept me going since ﬁve years with my company. We also have a forum where we can give suggestions to make the workplace better. This is a really good drive. Nitin Kumar an international bank employee

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spotlight

FOR THE LADIES OUT THERE

Firangi Paani brings you a night of the best dance music. Get ready to travel with the new generation sound wave. Catch DJ Vijay and DJ Shafi with dub step electro and progressive tunes. Make your way to Firangi paani on this ladies night.

M ANILKUMAR

A MUSICAL TREAT

OFF WITH A

BANG

If the fantastic success of Nagarjuna-Anushka starrer Damarukam’s audio release was anything to go by, there’s little doubt it’s going to be one of the biggest movies of the year.

SUBURBAN STYLE

Model-turned actress Sanjjanna Galrani looked dazzling as she inaugurated the latest outlet of Naturals at Champapet on Monday. It seems that the suburbs too have jumped onto the style wagon.

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health

PROTEIN ABSENCE CAUSES DIABETES, RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS The absence of related protein molecules, Puma and Bin, prompts immune cells to turn against human organs they are meant to protect and cause diabets and rehumatoid arthiritis. It has been discovered that these protein molecules work together to kill so-called 'self-reactive' immune cells.

ANEURYSM

Waiting to explode? An aneurysm can often take one by surprise, sometimes fatally so. Read on to know what it is and how you can deal with it. RANJANI RAJENDRA

ranjani.r@postnoon.com

hen 37-year-old Ramanna kept complaining of a constant headache, his friends and family attributed it to the stress of his job and the long hours he’d been putting in for the last few months. Everybody had just one advice for him, “Adopt a few relaxation techniques, if you can’t shrug off the stress.” What nobody realised was that there was something more seriously wrong with him and medical intervention could have helped. Until one day, Ramanna complained of a sudden explosive headache and fell unconscious soon after. His family rushed him to a nearby hospital, only to be told that he was dead. The cause — a ruptured aneurysm that had caused him to have a fatal haemorrhage. “An aneurysm is an abnormal dilation or ballooning of a blood vessel, usually an artery. This condition usually exists at birth but in several cases can develop later in life also,” say Dr Sudhir Kumar, a senior consultant neurologist at Apollo Hospital. An aneurysm looks like an over filled balloon that is about to rupture and it often does if it is not detected on time. The result is usually fatal. The incidence rate of aneurysms is approximately between 1 per cent to 3 per cent in adults and most patients often have one aneurysm. In rare cases

however, it is possible for a patient to be detected with multiple aneurysms. “The problem with aneurysms is that there are hardly any symptoms to ring the warning bell for patients. If it is a brain aneurysm then a patient might experience just a mild headache. The real problem occurs when an aneurysm ruptures. It can cause a haemorrhage and eventually death. Usually there is a 2 per cent risk of rupture in patients each year,”

ANEWS PP-LYBRIEFS YOURSELF

says Dr Sudhir. There are no known factors that can be attributed as causes for an aneurysm. “We typically see one new case every week at our hospital. Since there are no population based studies done in India, it is hard to put a definite figure on its incidence rate. However, 5 per cent of all brain haemorrhage deaths occur due to aneurysms,” reveals Dr Sudhir. “We often have patients who

HOUSECALL

Hands Only CPR

Frostbite

The app by the American Heart association aims to teach one how to perform hands-only CPR with the help of video instruction. Apart from video instructions, the app also provides additional resources to help one during an emergency. The app is free-of-cost for iPad and iPhone users.

Frostbite refers to a condition that may occur when people are exposed to excess of cold or windy conditions thus damaging the tissues. Frostbite causes ﬂuid present in the skin cells and the tissues to freeze. This in turn damages blood vessels. This results in the formation of blood clots which block the ﬂow of blood and prevent oxygen from getting to the tissues. When the blood does not reach the cells they may die.

come to us with a haemorrhage. If they come to us with a small bleeding then an angiogram of the brain artery reveals the aneurysm and we can proceed for treatment. There are two ways to treat an angiogram — surgical and non surgical. In a surgical procedure what we do is clip the aeurysm which causes the blood filled bulge to obliterate. In the non surgical procedure called coiling we insert a coil around the aneurysm

through the angiogram route and this takes care of the aneurysm,” he says. However, treatment is possible if an aneurysm is detected before it ruptures. “It’s best not ignore those niggling headaches or chest pains. Also if a person has frequent headaches and has no sign of hypertension then they should check for an aneurysm. With a little alertness it is possible to avert complications,” explains Dr Sudhir.

DID YOU KNOW?

PIONEERS

Tea can prevent tooth decay

Wilhem Ronteng

The benefits of green tea have oft been repeated. It is now being said that both green and black tea have enough fluoride to fight tooth decay. Some studies show that tea, if you drink it daily over a lifetime, may also prevent heart disease and cancer.

Wilhem Conrad Ronteng is a German physicist who produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range. This is now known as X-rays or Rontgen rays. This discovery resulted in him being awarded the ﬁrst ever Nobel prize for physics in the year 1901. Wilhem Ronteng has also been honoured by the IUPAC by having an element (11) named after him — Roetgenium (Rg).

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BREAKTHROUGH

RESEARCH

The device was tested by Harry Banyard. Muscle damage was induced in their biceps by forcibly lowering their extended arm using a machine while they tried to maximally resist it.

Mouse-sized device that heals muscle pain SYDNEY: A new device as big as a computer mouse and known as e-cell could help ease musculoskeletal pain. Edith Cowan University School of Exercise and Health research student Harry Banyard has been investigating the effectiveness of electromagnetic therapy in treating muscle damage. Pulsed electromagnetic field therapy (PEMFT) has already been proven to speed

up the healing of bone fracture and osteoarthritis, but no scientific evidence exists on whether it can help in the recovery of muscles, explains Banyard. “In testing the PEMFT, using a machine called an ecell, I wanted to determine whether the device could really have an impact on debilitating conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and muscle tears and sprains,” Banyard said. “Current treatments for

these conditions include costly trips to physiotherapists and remedial massage therapists. This device could provide an alternative,” added Banyard, according to an ECU statement. The e-cell device was tested over a period of six months on both male and female volunteers. Muscle damage was induced in their biceps by forcibly lowering their extended arm using a machine while

they tried to resist it. “The results suggested that the e-cell treatment significantly enhanced the recovery of muscle function including a return of strength and range of motion, reducing swelling and tenderness,” Banyard said. “The range of conditions that the e-cell could assist in treating is endless. It has the potential to be used in postoperative care for joint replacements,” he said. IANS

Father has role in low testosterone L

ike mothers, fathers too can be biologically responsive to their children, especially when they experience a drop in testosterone levels sleeping next to their offsprings. Notre Dame University anthropologist Lee Gettler shows that close sleep proximity between fathers and children, on the same sleeping surface, results in lower testosterone compared to fathers who sleep alone. “Human fathers’ physiology has the capacity to respond to children,” Gettler says, the journal Public Library of Science ONE reports. “Our prior research has shown that when men become fathers, their testosterone decreases, sometimes dramatically, and that those who spend the most time in hands-on care —playing with their children, feeding them or reading to them — had lower testosterone,” he adds, according to a Notre Dame statement. “These new results complement the original research, by taking it one step further, showing that night time closeness or proximity between fathers and their kids has effects on men’s biology,” adds Gettler. Gettler sampled 362 fathers, all of whom were aged between 25-26 years and divided them according to their reported night time sleeping location: solitary sleepers, those who slept in the same room as their children, and those fathers who slept on the same surface as their children. Fathers’ testosterone levels were measured from saliva samples prior to sleep. Though the waking levels of the three groups showed no significant differences, fathers who slept on the same surface as their children had the lowest testosterone. This is the first study to examine how father-child sleep proximity may affect men’s physiology. IANS

STUDY

Scientists figure out how placebo works LONDON: What makes placebos, sugar pills with no therapeutic or curative value, work? Scientists may now have found an explanation. People who suffer from a mild infection recover, whether they take a medicinal drug or a placebo, which shows that

humans can heal themselves. But this has begged the question why people need to wait for the placebo before the recovery process from an infection begins. Researchers have now found that something similar to the placebo occurs in animals, after studying hamsters. The placebo

effect is measurable, observable, or felt improvement in health or behaviour not attributable to medication or treatment that has been administered. The researchers found that animals which live in challenging environments where food was harder to find, lived longer if

they put up with infections than launch a response from their immune system. However, for those animals living in much more favourable conditions, it was better for them to launch a response from their immune systems so they return to health quicker. IANS

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Entertainment

BAD BOY TO RELEASE IN NOVEMBER Karthi, Anushka starrer Bad Boy is slated for release in November. Suraj is directing this action entertainer and Bellamkonda Suresh is producing it. The film is titled Alex Pandian in Tamil

A BUSY SCHEDULE

CINE BYTES

Taapsee in talks for Ram’s film?

t’s raining offers for Taapsee. Last month, she was approached for Puri Jagannadh’s upcoming film Iddaru Ammayilatho starring Allu Arjun and now she’s reportedly in talks for an untitled film starring Ram. “Yes, I have been approached for the film; however, nothing has been finalised yet. I haven’t signed the film," Taapsee told Postnoon. Ram is currently acting in Bhaskar’s film and after this he’ll move on to Santosh Srinivas’ upcoming mass entertainer. If all goes well, Ram and Taapsee might soon team up for another film which will be produced by Sravanthi Ravi Kishore. Currently, Taapsee is shooting for Vishnuvardhan’s film starring Ajith, Nayanthara and Arya. She’s playing the role of a journalist in this eagerly awaited film and it’s by far her biggest project in Tamil. She has already begun learning Tamil to prepare for her role and the entire film unit will soon fly to Mumbai to shoot a major chunk of the film.

Ram Charan, Amy head to Vizag

am Charan, Samantha and Amy Jackson starrer Yevadu will soon be shot in Vizag. Vamshi Paidipally, the ﬁlm’s director, has revealed that Ram Charan and Amy are going to take part in this schedule which will go on till September 25. Allu Arjun and Kajal are playing important roles in this action thriller.

Shriya turns 30!

s unbelievable as it may sound, Shriya Saran is celebrating her 30th birthday today. The actress is currently in Toronto to attend the premiere of Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children. She’ll soon be seen in Sekhar Kammula’s Life is Beautiful and Roopa Iyer’s Chandra.

DSP crosses a milestone

amarukam is turning out to be a special film in Devi Sri Prasad’s career. It’s the fourth time he’s composing music for a Nagarjuna’s film and more importantly it’s the 50th film in her discography which began back in 2000 with a film titled Devi.

Entertainment TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

EYEYING B-TOWN

CINE BYTES

ILEANA

HOUSE HUNTING IN MUMBAI

fter a successful innings in the southern film industry, Ileana D’Cruz wants to make it big in Bollywood. With plans to settle here, she is looking for a perfect pad for herself in the city of dreams. Her first Bollywood release is Barfi!, which is coming out September 14. In the Anurag Basu directed movie Ileana will be seen sharing screen space with Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra. “My parents are presently living in Goa. I am looking for a place in Mumbai so that they can shift here with me. I want to settle down in Mumbai. So right now I am hunting for a house in the city,” the 24-year-old told. In 2006, she bowed in movies with Telugu film Devadasu and has since worked in many southern movies including Pokiri, Jalsa and Kick. “My father recently called me and said he is extremely proud of my work and for me that’s a huge achievement. He has never been biased. He will never compliment unless he means it. It is very flattering,” she said. Being in showbiz means looking fit and attractive and she admits that she is conscious about it. “I am very conscious about my body. When you are in the limelight, people criticise your looks. It takes a lot of time for me to get comfortable. When people say that you have a good physique, there is a constant state of disbelief. But I am not shy. Looking pretty and doing make up is part of my job,” she said. IANS

“My enthusiasm was misrepresented”

ctor Ranveer Singh exuded enthusiasm after a successful Bollywood debut. But his eagerness and frankness didn’t go well with the industry. “I am very enthusiastic. It’s really sad that in the initial stage, my enthusiasm was viewed negatively and misrepresented. My experience has made me cautious, but I am going to retain who I am,” he says.

“Commercial, serious films are important”

mraan Hashmi, who has done ﬁlms like Murder, Jannat, The Dirty Picture and Shanghai, says success in both commercial and off-beat cinema is important for an actor. “Both commercial and serious ﬁlms are important to me and as an actor I need both. I knew Shanghai will not be able to do so much business like ‘Murder 2’ or ‘The Dirty Picture’,” he says.

“Fortunate to have dream cast for Satyagrah”

rakash Jha, who has managed to put together an ensemble cast for Satyagrah, says that he is lucky to have Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgn, Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal and Manoj Bajpayee playing important roles in a ﬁlm. “I’m extremely fortunate to have a dream cast of Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay, Kareena, Arjun and Manoj playing the key roles,” he says.

Entertainment TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

THE DAY AFTER THE PARTY

CINE BYTES

RIHANNA SKIPS REHEARSALS

inger Rihanna partied so hard on the night of MTV Video Music Awards that she had to skip London Paralympic closing ceremony rehearsals with the band Coldplay next day. She was celebrating her win for We Found Love as the best video of the year award on the night of the awards on September 6. “Rihanna had a private jet waiting for her on the runway in LA to get her to London but she kept it waiting,” thesun.co.uk quoted a source as saying. “She eventually landed late and went straight to the hotel, missing rehearsals for her guest spot singing Princess Of China with Coldplay,” the source added. However, Chris Martin , the frontman of the band got some volunteers and continued the rehearsals. “Over in Dagenham, Chris Martin got volunteers to sing along to Rihanna’s part,” the source said.

Simon Cowell suffered breakdown

usic mogul Simon Cowell suffered a breakdown as the strains of managing his working life became too much for him. According to contactmusic.com., Cowell reportedly had to take a step back from auditions for this year’s X Factor in the US after he feared his lifestyle was making him into a weird vampire. “I don’t want any more tablets and pills. I’m cutting out the lot.”

Cyrus launches design contest

op sensation Miley Cyrus has invited aspiring artists and fashion designers to send their ideas to her official website and get them made into official merchandise. The top five entries will have their submissions displayed on mileycyrus.com while the best contestant will have the artwork printed on a hooded sweatshirt, reports said.

Survival expert Jessica Biel

ctress Jessica Biel, who is engaged to Justin Timberlake, was taught by her father how to deal with extreme conditions, and knows how to stop hypothermia developing. “My father taught me to be a survival expert. I know how to prevent hypothermia contactmusic.com quoted the actress as saying.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Chai Time

THOUGHT OF THE DAY

You ask me why I do not write something... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results. Florence Nightingale

KAKURO

QUICK CROSSWORD

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

ACROSS

PREVIOUS PUZZLE ANSWER

SCRIBBLING PAD

1 They’re taken on the stand 6 A lot of hay 11 ‘___ show time!’ 14 Hair braid 15 Kicking companion? 16 Word after ‘sorority’ or ‘fraternity’ 17 Hindered 19 Run up bills 20 Kiki, Sandra or Ruby 21 ‘Gimme ___!’ (Alabama cheerleader’s cry) 22 ‘Deliverance’ actor Beatty 23 Gave a guarantee 27 Manicurist’s target 29 ‘Treasure Island’ prop 30 ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ deputy sheriff 32 Where the Inca ruled 33 You might put some money in it, in brief 34 Topsoils and silts, eg 36 Begets 39 Animal pouches 41 Display feeling 43 Paul Simon advised him to ‘make a new plan’ 44 Cupboard feature 46 Historic Tuscan city 48 ‘A long time ___, in a galaxy far ...’ 49 Aids for counting to twenty 51 Country club rental 52 U.N. agency for workers’ issues 53 Some palate cleansers 56 Approached bedtime 58 Accounting dept. employee, perhaps 59 ‘Zip-a-Dee Doo-___’ 60 Any birthstone 61 Gun, as an engine 62 Award for showing? 68 ‘All bets ___ off’ 69 Nest for 37-Down 70 A deadly sin 71 Someone to hang with

72 A diving bird 73 ‘Iron Mike’

DOWN

1 Word with ‘photo’ or ‘black’ 2 Key by the space bar 3 ‘The way’ in Chinese philosophy 4 Believer in karma 5 Acted as coxswain, eg 6 A word from ewe? 7 Total amount 8 Delicate purple 9 Align the edges of 10 Administers a tranquiliser 11 Cold War symbol 12 Beach bring-along 13 One Scandinavian native 18 Frankfurter 23 ‘Swing and ___!’ (strike) 24 ‘The Terminator’ character Connor 25 NASA concern 26 Brown buildings? 28 ‘Stanley & ___’ (Fonda/ De Niro film) 31 Devoid of emotion 35 Bargain for a burglar? 37 ‘Bald’ flier in Alaska 38 Hair holder, of old 40 Cleanliness eschewer 42 Anger 45 Item strapped on a horse’s head 47 Make a stab at 50 Impolite observer 53 Donnybrook 54 La Scala feature 55 Clam-digging locale 57 ___ board (nail file) 63 Beak 64 Bit of pizzazz? 65 Prefix with ‘solve’ or ‘respect’ 66 ‘And now, without further ___’ 67 ‘Mexico Set’ author Deighton

Chai Time TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 Thiruvaikumar

STAR POWER for 12-9-2012

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

ARIES

TAURUS

GEMINI

CANCER

LEO

VIRGO

LIBRA

SCORPIO

SAGITTARIUS

CAPRICORN

AQUARIUS

PISCES

All difficulties faced so far will disappear. Businessmen need to act with caution while planning expansion of business. Employees should complete work in stipulated time and with perfection on their own to get appreciation from superiors.

Self-confidence and willpower will increase and help complete work successfully. Employees need to remain focussed to complete all work in time. Be flexible in your approach, which yields better results than stubbornness.

All new efforts will be successful. Employees will earn recognition by their sincere and hard work. If they are given any unexpected transfer, it’s preferable to accept the same as it will be beneficial in future. A happy atmosphere prevails.

QUICK CROSSWORD FRED BASSET

Employees need to work with proper plan and complete work in available time. Drive away laziness so that all work gets completed as per plan. Avoid interference of third person in family issues. Spouse and children will keep you happy.

Slow-and-steady approach will yield results. Employees need to work with focus and involvement to avoid getting blamed. Direct handling of work and completing them in time will earn recognition. Avoid friendship with persons of bad repute.

Promotion and hike on the cards for employees. Troubles will disappear. Some have a bright chance to go abroad either for higher studies or for a job. Many happy events lined up. Parents' health needs to be taken good care of.

Avoid providing suggestions to colleagues at workplace. Avoid hurting anyone's feelings and handing over your responsibilities to a other third person. Children's growth will keep you satisfied. Respect spouse's suggestion and implement it.

All work undertaken by you will get completed successfully. Expected transfer and promotion will materialise for employees. Avoid unwanted arguments with colleagues. Ego clash between couples will disappear. Businessmen do brisk business.

Acting in haste negligence at work place should be avoided. Employees might get transfer or promotion and are advised to accept the same without hesitation. Avoid criticising family and hurting their feelings. Children's health needs attention.

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ARIES:

GEMINI:

Six of Pentacles – Resist the temptation to tell someone off. You might want to show this person that you do not care. This is not the right time to do that.

LEO:

The Tower – There are many situations that are not in your control. Learn to let go and simply enjoy the ride. The results of your hard work will not go waste.

LIBRA:

STONE SOUP

The High Priest – Stay healthy by eating right and keeping away from junk food and anything that might get you under the weather. You can avoid getting sick.

SAGITTARIUS:

Six of Cups – Go for long walks alone. Think of your current status in life and what needs to be done to make life better. Only you can bring that change.

TAURUS:

King of Wands – Those in managerial roles must pay attention to assigning jobs in the right way to the right person. Don’t try to do everything by yourself.

CANCER:

Three of Cups – You are searching for something – companionship or togetherness. You must look elsewhere. You are probably looking in all the wrong places.

VIRGO:

The Hanged Man – You may be at the receiving end of the blame for something you perhaps did not do. Try to rectify it by explaining yourself in a calm manner.

SCORPIO:

Three of Wands – Your philosophies are put to test. You are leaning towards one school of thought, and this is challenged by people who you admire and respect.

CAPRICORN:

Page of Wands – There is no point building castles in the air and making empty promises – to others and yourself. Get real, and live in the moment.

SOLUTIONS

PISCES:

Nine of Swords – Being naughty inappropriately, in a work situation, can get you in a lot of trouble. Do not, under any circumstances, get personal during work.

NUMBER GAME

You have some very unrealistic dreams. No one can help you get over this except yourself. Be careful about hurting a friend’s feelings.

SCRABBLE

AQUARIUS: The Hermit –

INK PEN

Avoid blaming anyone for your inefficient handling of work. Friends and relatives will extend support if you co-operate with them. Extravagant expenses need to be curtailed as there are chances of financial crisis in future.

for 12-9-2012

Nine of Cups – There are some external forces, which will help you get through a particularly difficult period. Do not underestimate anyone or anything.

FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE

Your approach will do the magic and all work will get completed successfully. Avoid interfering in others’ personal issues. Delayed promotion might materialise soon for employees. Businessmen will grow steadily.

SUDUKO

Both ups and downs likely. Avoid unwanted arguments at workplace to avoid misunderstanding with colleagues and superiors. Peaceful atmosphere will prevail at home and your mild approach to family members will increase this.

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Entertainment TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 Isabel Lucas to play femme fatale in new thriller

he actress is slated to star in a new Basic Instinct-style thriller titled Careful What You Wish For, about a high-school boy who engages in an affair with Lena (Lucas), the "lonely wife" of a business executive who proves to be more dangerous than she appears.

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively marry

orget about all those other secret celeb weddings, this one takes the cake! Ryan Reynolds, 35, and Blake Lively, 25, got married at Boone Hall Plantation in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., just outside of Charleston tonight, E! News has confirmed.

Stewart & Jennifer Lawrence act ‘like old pals’ in Toronto

risten meets Katniss! The actresses met at the TFF where they were promoting On the Road and Silver Linings Playbook, respectively. “After being introduced, Kristen and Jennifer were soon chatting like old pals,” a source tells PEOPLE. “They were very excited to meet each other,” the source says.

TYING THE KNOT

Cobie Smulders & Taran Killam get married! C

obie Smulders is married! The How I Met Your Mother actress tied the knot with Saturday Night Live actor Taran Killam on Saturday during a ceremony at the Alisal Guest Ranch and Resort in Solvang, Calif., a source confirms to PEOPLE. The couple – who announced their engagement in January 2009 – are parents to 3-year-old daughter, Shaelyn Cado. Of the proposal, Smulders, 30, preferred to keep the details to herself. When asked how Killam, 30, popped the question, she told PEOPLE at the time, “That’s personal, but it was very romantic, I'll tell you that much.”

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

NEW ZEALAND IN INDIA

LEAGUE CRICKET

Kiwis eye momentum

New Zealand paceman Kyle Mills says his team will try to get into the groove for the upcoming World Twenty20 by getting the better of India in the second Twenty20 match, today in Chennai. CHENNAI: New Zealand paceman Kyle Mills says his team will try to get into the groove for the upcoming World Twenty20 by getting the better of India in the second Twenty20 match, here today. Mills said going into a major tournament such as Twenty20 World Cup, getting the momentum is crucial. "I'm a firm believer in the fact that cricket is a big momentum game. If you have momentum on your side then it instills confidence in your team and you can sort of work with that throughout the tournament. Tomorrow night is a starting point to get into a good place to work towards the World Cup," Mills said on the match eve. The World Twenty20 will begin in Sri Lanka from September 18 and today's game is the last international assignment for the two teams

Lay-off hasn’t taken a toll: Balaji Comebackman Lakshmipathy Balaji feels that his absence from international cricket for past three years hasn't made him rusty and he is putting in yards under bowling coach Joe Dawes as India prepare to take on New Zealand in the 2nd Twenty20 International here tomorrow. "The long lay-off did not rust my skills in any way. It's been a competitive three years in IPL and Ranji Trophy as well as some other ﬁrst-class matches," the soft-spoken Tamil Nadu skipper told mediapersons during a pre-match conference. PTI

ahead of the tournament. "It's unfortunate that the match got washed out a couple of nights ago. It's disappointing ahead of a major tournament. It would've been good to play against a quality team in India. Hopefully, the weather gods hold up and keep the rain away for tomorrow night so we can get some much needed game-time ahead of the big tournament," Mills said. Mills said losing the Test series was disappointing but they still took a lot of postives from it. "I think, it as an exciting time for New Zealand cricket. Especially with a young bowling group who have put in some fine performances in the recent past. The first Test was a big switch from the usual New Zealand kind of play and even some of the Indian cricketers will acknowledge that from the bowling group.

Day 1

Oxford Blues 156/8 (B. Hriday Vikas 70, V.J. Bharath Reddy 30, P. Akshay Kumar 3/27) vs Jai Bhagwathi. Vijay Hanuman 285 (Shareef Pathan 31, Rahil Baig 122, Zakir Hussain 55, Rohit Kumar 5/77) vs Crown 4/1 Hyderabad Titans 197 (Parshuram 78, Sudheer Reddy 36, Thirumalesh 30, Yash Puri 6/33) vs MCC 98/1 (Anuraag Haridas 59 n.o.)

A 4 AND 11 DIVISION ONE DAY LEAGUE MATCHES

SUCC 261/8 (Majid 31, Khajawali 116, Naveed 48 n.o., Kishen 3/35) bt Youth CC 91 (Arun 51, Khajawali 5/25, Naveed 4/18). PKMCC 114 (Vijay 32, Nagaraj 31, Md Azhar 3/28, Md Zohaib Ahmed 5/16) lost to HUCC 116/7 (Md Mateen 35, Syed Aslam Akbar Hussaini 39 n.o.). WMCC 223/8 (Kashyap 73, Srinivas Rao 48, Amrith Yadav 4/43) lost to St Andrews 224/4 (Mohul Bhowmick 55, Bhagath Varma 43, Amrith Yadav 31 n.o.).

AUSTRALIA VS PAKISTAN

Rain halts play in 2nd T20 MANCHESTER, ENGLAND: South Africa's Hashim Amla starred in a third international format this season before rain ensured the second Twenty20 against England at Old Trafford on Monday ended in a no result washout. Amla's 47 not out was the cornerstone of South Africa's 77

A 2 AND 3 DIVISION TWO DAYS LEAGUE

PTI

SOUTH AFRICA IN ENGLAND JULIAN GUYER Agence France-Presse

Hyderabad Titans were resticted to 197 after MCC’s Yash Puri claimed six wickets for 33 runs which included a hat trick. Ina nother match Vijay Hanuman’s Rhil Baig scored 122 and SUCC’s Khajawali made 116 as well as claimed five for 25 while Crown’s Rohit Kumar scalped 5 for 77 and HUCC’s Ahmed five for 16

for five in a floodlit match reduced to nine overs per side when play in this floodlit clash started more than two hours later than scheduled because of rain. England, who defend their World Twenty20 title in Sri Lanka later this month, were 29 for two off 4.1 overs when a fresh downpour forced the players from the field for the final time.

Sputh Africa’s Hashim Amla (L) plays a shot during the second T20 match against England in Manchester on Monday. AFP/ PAUL ELLIS

A minimum of five overs had to be completed in England's innings for either side to win this match, with the hosts needing to have scored 13 more runs off the five balls remaining in the fifth over to have won under the Duckworth/Lewis method. South Africa, the world's top-ranked Twenty20 side, remain 1-0 up in this three-match series ahead of Wednesday's finale at Edgbaston. Earlier, after England captain Stuart Broad won the toss, South Africa's Richard Levi fell first ball when a glance off Steven Finn was caught down the legside by wicket-keeper Craig Kieswetter. But Amla, rested from the team that won by seven wickets at Chester-le-Street on Saturday, showed the form that had seen him score a combined 817 runs at over 116 in the preceding Test and one-day series. Jacques Kallis, kept down the order until number seven as South Africa promoted a succession of big-hitters who failed to fire, was the only other Proteas batsman to make it into double figures with 13 not out.

Oz drub Pak SHAHID HASHMI Agence France-Presse DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Australia brought Pakistan down to earth with a thumping 94-run defeat in the third and final Twenty20 international at Dubai Stadium here on Monday. Chasing a daunting 169-run target, Pakistan were all out for 74 — the joint lowest by a Test playing country in all Twenty20s — for their biggest defeat in the history of the shortest form of the game. Only Nasir Jamshed (17), Yasir Arafat (15) and Abdul Razzaq (13) could reach double figures as Australian paceman Mitchell Starc (3-11) and Pat Cummins (3-15) ran through the Pakistan batting line-up. Pakistan, who won the first

match by seven wickets and the second in Super over, never looked the same side as they lost wickets at regular intervals. The first five wickets fell by the sixth over with the score on 19. Razzaq and Arafat shared the highest partnership of the innings with 20, taking Pakistan past the lowest total in all Twenty20 — 67 by Kenya against Canada in Belfast in 2008. Pakistan's previous biggest defeat in Twenty20 internationals was by 48 runs, against England at The Oval in 2009. India were also dismissed for 74 by Australia at Melbourne in 2008.

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POLO

SNIPPETS

SSC-HPRC claims 2nd consecutive title

SSC-HPRC claimed their second title when they defeated RC-HPRC in the final of the Chief Minister’s cup of the Hyderabad Polo season. N. SHIVA KUMAR

RAJESH RAVINDRAN rajesh.r@postnoon.com

he SSC-HPRC won the Chief Minister’s Cup beating RC-HPRC 9-7 at the Bison Polo Grounds on Monday. With this victory, this is the second trophy in the victors’ kitty this polo season, as they had won the Prince of Berar Cup pipping the same team about a week ago. SSC-HPRC, unlike last time, had the upper hand and two minutes from the start of the first chukker opened account through four-goaler Vishal Singh. Hardly a minute later skipper Dhruvpal Godara, also a four-goaler, joined the list of scorers. A long drive from RC HPRC skipper five-goaler Sameer Suhag found teammate Mitesh Mehta and he scored lessening the lead 2-1. Vishal Singh scored again and wrested

KINGSMILL CHAMPIONSHIP

Shin defeats Creamer

WILLIAMSBURG: Jiyai Shin beat Paula Creamer with a par at the ninth hole of sudden-death on Monday, winning the Kingsmill Championship in the longest playoff involving two players in LPGA history. The two had battled it out through eight playoff holes — all the 18th at Kingsmill's River Course — when darkness halted play on Sunday. They took the duel to the parfour 16th on Monday morning and needed just the one more hole to decide it. Creamer hit her first putt some five feet past and her putt comming back brushed the edge but didn't drop. Shin's first putt was three feet short and she made that for par and the win. AFP

the lead back for his team. The result would have been different had RC-HPRC not squandered their chances, for they missed to score through penalties in the early stages of the match. Captain Sameer Suhag, a five-goal veteran, somehow could not convert them, as his shots missed the

mark by whiskers. Despite that the RC-HPRC tried to get back into the game, driven on by some excellent coordination from Salim Azmi and Mitesh Mehta, who were fed the ball by Sameer from the rear. Hyderabai Salim scored three goals and Mitesh scored two.

Finally, at the start of the final chukker, Sameer converted a penalty. But by then SSC HPRC was way ahead through some excellent scoring through Vishal Singh and Chaitanya. The final nail was from Dhruvpal. The score was then 96. The last goal of the match was a beauty from Salim Azmi who rode solo from the midfield and scored just second from the final whistle. Dhruvpal seem relaxed after the match. He did not have to slog as he did in the final of the Prince of Berar cup (he scored all the goals for his team — seven) and was quite content to defend and feeding the ball to his runners. “This time it was not that tough,” said Dhruvpal. “Vishal and I have played alongside each other and so we know our games well. It was all about following the game plan, which we did and won.”

Coe makes bid to become British Olympic chief LONDON: London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe revealed on Monday that he will stand to be the next chairman of the British Olympic Association. Lord Coe was approached by the BOA committee as they search for a successor to Colin Moynihan and he conﬁrmed he is ready to go for the post after masterminding London's bid for the Olympics and helping to deliver a hugely successful Games.

Phelps’ coach takes Olympic consulting post LOS ANGELES: Bob Bowman, the coach who guided Michael Phelps through an Olympic career that yielded 18 swimming gold medals, has taken a job as an Olympics consultant. Bowman has joined TSE Consulting in its sports performance division, the company said in a release posted on its website on Monday. Phelps retired after winning his last six medals at the ‘12 Games, taking his tally to 22 total medals. His 18 golds include the eight he won in eight events at the ‘08 Games.

GOLF

Rory leads world rankings LONDON: Rory McIlroy has consolidated his lead atop the world rankings with his second straight win on the USPGA Tour on Sunday, while Tiger Woods has gone back to second as his main challenger. The 23-year old Northern Irishman spent most of the first half of the year in a tit-for-tat battle with Englishman Luke Donald for the top spot, but all that has changed over the last few weeks. First McIlroy won his second major title at the USPGA at Kiawah Island in August and then in the US Tour playoffs he has played more sublime golf to win at both the Deutsche Bank Championships last week and on Sunday at the BMW Championships.

In so doing he became the first player since Tiger Woods in 2009 to win in successive weeks on the US tour and he joined Woods and Jack Nicklaus as the only players to win at least six PGA Tour events before his 24th birthday. He also stormed ahead in the world rankings with 12.80 points, with Woods overtaking Donald on 9.63 points. Donald drops to third with 9.17 points while Lee Westwood of England, in fourth on 7.57 points. Woods, third and fourth in the last fortnight, lost his world No.1 spot to Westwood in November 2010 and with injury dogging him last year, he subsequently slumped out of the top 50 before beginning his recovery in the summer. AFP

World Top 20 1. Rory McIlroy (NIR) 12.80pts 2. Tiger Woods (USA) 9.63 3. Luke Donald (ENG) 9.17 4. Lee Westwood (ENG) 7.57 5. Adam Scott (AUS) 6.37 6. Webb Simpson (ENG) 6.11 7. Jason Dufner (USA) 6.08 8. Bubba Watson (USA) 6.07 9. Justin Rose (ENG) 5.95 10. Louis Oosthuizen (RSA) 5.75 11. Steve Stricker (USA) 5.72 12. Dustin Johnson (USA) 5.48 13. Keegan Bradley (USA) 5.48 14. Matt Kuchar (USA) 5.41 15. Phil Mickelson (USA) 5.16 16. Zach Johnson (USA) 5.10 17. Graeme McDowell (NIR) 5.03 18. Sergio Garcia (ESP) 4.93 19. Brandt Snedeker (USA) 4.92 20. Hunter Mahan (USA) 4.78.

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ROAD TO WORLD CUP 2014

Argentina off to Lima

The South American country famously lost 1-0 to their hosts in 1985 after Luis Reyna man-marked Diego Maradona out of the game. ANDY SCOTT Agencie France-Presse PARIS: Argentina climbed above Chile to the top of the group with a 3-1 home win against Paraguay on Friday thanks to goals from Angel Di Maria, Gonzalo Higuain and Lionel Messi (right). It was their sixth win in a row, including friendlies, and they now face Peru in confident mood. Alejandro Sabella takes his side to Lima, where a tough job will be required to keep Messi quiet, although Peruvian fans did their bit by greeting the Barcelona star outside his hotel by chanting the name of his arch-rival, Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo. Messi’s current form is ominous, with 10 goals in his last six appearances for his country, and Sabella also welcomes back Javier Mascherano after suspension. However, full-back Pablo Zabaleta is doubtful, while Fabricio Coloccini and Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero are both ruled out of the game, the latter due to a knee

South America’s qualifying points table South America qualifying table before the scheduled games of today (Tuesday) (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points) n Argentina 6 4 1 1 14

injury. Peru are potentially dangerous opponents, and are looking to build on a 2-1 home win against Venezuela at the weekend, achieved thanks to a brace from Jefferson Farfan. Meanwhile, Chile’s home clash with Colombia is arguably the outstanding game of the midweek fixture card. Chile, who trail group leaders Argentina by just a point, are looking for a fourth win on the

Tuesday’s fixtures (kick-off times GMT) n Chile v Colombia (1930), n Uruguay v Ecuador (2130), n Paraguay v Venezuela (2325), n Peru v Argentina (0125 Wednesday)

bounce, while the Cafeteros head to Santiago fresh from their win over Uruguay. After a crushing defeat in

5 13

n Chile

6 4 0 2 11 10 12

n Ecuador

6 4 0 2 7

n Uruguay

6 3 2 1 14 10 11

6 12

n Colombia 6 3 1 2 9

5 10

n Venezuela 7 2 2 3 5

n Peru

6 2 0 4 8 12

n Bolivia

7 1 1 5 7 12

n Paraguay

6 1 1 4 5 12

Colombia on Friday, reigning South American champions Uruguay need a positive reaction when they face Ecuador as South American qualifying for the 2014 World Cup continues on Tuesday. Le Celeste had gone 18 matches without defeat before suffering a 4-0 reverse in the sweltering heat of Barranquilla, never recovering after Radamel Falcao gave Colombia a secondminute lead.

Construction on pace at WC stadium SAO PAULO: Work on Sao Paulo’s Arena Corinthians, one of Brazil’s 12 host stadiums for the 2014 World Cup, is progressing quickly and will be finished by the end of 2013, the event’s local organisers said Monday. “There is no worry about delivery within the deadline (December 2013),” Ricardo Trade, executive director of operations at the 2014 World Cup’s Local Organizing Committee (COL), said in a statement by the Corinthians football club. The statement, released following a joint visit of the site by officials from COL and world football governing body FIFA, said the arena will be 50 percent completed at the end of this month.

The FIFA team earlier completed a new round of visits at some host stadiums, including in Rio, Belo Horizonte. “The construction is advancing at great speed,” Gilmar Tadeu, another COL member, said. Sao Paulo will host the opening game of the World Cup on June 12, 2014. AFP

‘Eng must tap Olympic mood’ Coach Roy Hodgson wants his side to win back fans in the afterglow of the London Games. STEVE GRIFFITHS Agencie France-Presse LONDON: Roy Hodgson (left) has told his England stars they must seize a golden opportunity to win back their place in the nation’s hearts in the afterglow of the London Olympics. Hodgson’s side will be back in action on home soil for the first time since the Olympics when they host Ukraine in a World Cup qualifier at Wembley on Tuesday and the England manager is keen to surf the wave of enthusiasm for

Roy remains optimistic that the British sporting public can be won over if his team produce a successful run of their own. British sport currently sweeping the country. Some critics used the success of Britain’s clean-cut athletes at the Olympics and Paralympics as a chance to take a swipe at the perceived arrogance and insulari-

ty of the modern generation of over-paid footballers. But Hodgson remains optimistic that the British sporting public can be won over if his team produce a successful run of their own. In a bid to capitalise on the Olympic spirit, 15 of Britain’s medallists will be presented to the crowd at half-time on Tuesday and Hodgson said: “They have been such a success for the nation. It is terrific they can come and be paraded at the game. “It is nice for us to see the British people are still prepared to

get behind their athletes. “We as a sporting nation have profited enormously from the Olympic Games. It is important now that, in our individual sports, we try to keep some of that spirit going and try to tap in to what is a great interest in the English public in top level sport.” After Friday’s 5-0 demolition of Moldova there are signs Hodgson is starting to fashion a more attacking England team following their largely negative displays at Euro 2012. Now he wants them to put on a memorable show against Ukraine.

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MURRAY'S MOMENT CRACKS STONE-FACED LENDL A grim-faced Ivan Lendl (left) watched Andy Murray throughout the US Open, but even his stoic countenance wavered just a bit as he watched his pupil celebrate victory on Monday. Were those nigh-invisible curls at the edge of his lips a smile? "That's almost a smile for him," Murray said.

US OPEN

Murray ends British agony Murray became Britain’s first major champion since Fred Perry claimed his third American title in 1936, the year Franklin D Roosevelt was re-elected US president. DAVE JAMES Agencie France-Presse NEW YORK: History-making Andy Murray ended Britain’s 76-year wait for a men’s Grand Slam champion when he beat 2011 winner Novak Djokovic 7-6 (12/10), 7-5, 2-6, 3-6, 6-2 in an epic US Open final on Monday. In a rollercoaster final, which witnessed a 54-shot rally, numerous 30-stroke exchanges, as well as a record-setting tiebreaker, the 25-year-old Murray held his nerve in a knife-edge final set. The Olympic champion led 3-0 in the decider, dropped serve but broke again for 5-2 when Djokovic called a medical time-out. But Murray wasn’t to be denied, taking the historic crown when Djokovic went long with a forehand on a second match point in what was, at four hours and 54 minutes, the second-longest US Open final of all time. “It was incredibly tricky conditions and in the third and fourth sets, it was really tough because Novak is really strong and fights all the way,” said Murray. “It was close to five hours. I have always had tough matches with him.” Murray paid tribute to coach Ivan Lendl, who lost three finals in New York from 1982-1984 until clinching three titles in a row from 1985-1987. “He was one of the greatest,” Murray said. “He has helped me through the tough times as have all of my team. It’s

Celeb Twitterati

Andy Murray and his girlfriend, Kim Sears, hold the US Open trophy he won on Monday in the Flushing neighbourhood of the Queens borough of New York City. AFP/ GETTY IMAGES/ CLIVE BRUNSKILL

the best feeling for me, I’ve had an unbelievable summer.” Djokovic admitted Murray was a worthy winner. “It wasn’t to be and I want to congratulate Andy on a first Grand Slam. He deserves it,” said Djokovic. “I tried my best and I gave it

my all. It was another tremendous match and I am proud to have been part of it. It went to the last moment.” Murray had lost all of his four previous Grand Slam finals — to Roger Federer at the US Open in 2008, the 2010 Australian Open and this year’s

his is how Andy Murray's historic US Open triumph on Monday played out on Twitter.. @boris-becker — Boris Becker: What does Andy have in common with me? We won the US Open on same date...just few years apart,23 in fact! @McenroeTweets — John McEnroe: At Andy underscore Murray congratulations retweet!!! @AndreAgassi — Andre Agassi: Well deserved... Congratulations to the #USOPEN Champion Andy Murray!!! @ABdeVilliers17 — South African cricket player AB de Villiers: Now that was a serious tennis match. Congrats Murray. @DjokerNole the way u accepted defeat tells a story about the legend that u r! Respect @paul_annacone — Paul Annacone, the coach of world number one Roger Federer: Congratulations Andy Murray a great effort and a war of a matchenjoy the win

Wimbledon, as well as to Djokovic in Australia in 2011. But cheered on by fellow Scots Sir Sean Connery and Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson, he survived a thrilling fightback by Djokovic, who had defeated Murray in the Australian Open semi-finals in January.

BRIEFS British press lauds landmark win

Murray desperate Britain builds on legacy

From tragedy to Grand Slam sensation

Hollywood darling Perry can now rest in peace

LONDON: British newspapers hailed Andy Murray’s historic achievement in the US Open ﬁnal on Monday as he ended a 76-year wait for a British men’s Grand Slam champion by beating Novak Djokovic. “This fairytale of New York written by Andy Murray was more than just an achievement to savour for itself,” The Guardian declared.

NEW YORK: Andy Murray is determined that Britain won’t have to wait another lifetime to uncover a Grand Slam champion after his historic US Open triumph ended 76 years of failure and near-misses. “I’m very, very happy, and I just hope I can see another British player in my lifetime win a Grand Slam,” said Murray.

NEW YORK: A scrawny, pastyfaced Andy Murray ﬁrst made a Grand Slam impact when he was just 18 and making his Wimbledon debut in 2005. He reached the third round where he gave Argentina's David Nalbandian, the 2002 runnerup, a huge scare by taking a twosets-to-love lead before running out of steam to lose in ﬁve.

NEW YORK: Perry, who died aged 85 in Melbourne in 1995, was married four times, counted 1930s Hollywood sirens Marlene Dietrich and Jean Harlow amongst his lovers, renounced his British citizenship and served in the US Air Force in World War II. It was only at the time of his death that he become accepted into the British tennis culture.

Djoko: Andy truly in the 'Big Four' JIM SLATER Agencie France-Presse NEW YORK: Andy Murray's Grand Slam breakthrough title at the US Open on Monday has secured the Scotsman's spot among the "Big Four" in this men's tennis era, according to the man he dethroned as champion. Murray's 7-6 (12/10), 7-5, 2-6, 36, 6-2 victory over World No. 2 Novak Djokovic was the first Grand Slam title by any British man since Fred Perry won the 1936 US championship and Murray's first in five Grand Slam finals trips. "He deserved to win this Grand Slam more than anybody because over the years he has

Novak Djokovic of Serbia holds up the runner’s award. AFP/ C BRUNSKILL

been a top player, he has been so close, lost four finals," Djokovic said. "Now he has won it so I would like to congratulate him. Definitely happy that he won it." Djokovic, World No. 1 Roger Federer and Spain's Rafael Nadal had won 29 of the prior 30 Grand Slam titles with Murray the only rival who had consistently challenged the top trio and repeatedly reached Slam finals. "Us four, we are taking this game to another level," Djokovic said. "It's really nice to be part of such a strong men's tennis era. "There's no doubt he deserves to win a Grand Slam, playing so consistently well and winning against the top players for many times on many surfaces.