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Bachchan, whose FIRST THE COMMUNITY memorable film Don completed 37 years of its release this week, is glad that the “incredible” journey of the film “still continues” The movie is an action-thriller, which revolves around a powerful gangster named Don played by Amitabh, who was seen in a double role in the film.

“37 years of ‘DON’ today (April 2). A film made by that gentle

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37 years of ‘Don’ Big B nostalgic giant Nariman Irani, the DOP of extreme excellence,” Big B wrote on his blog.

The 72-year-old is ecstatic about the film’s journey and he even took to his micro-blogging website Twitter to express his happiness with his fans and well-wishers.

“37 years of DON .. today!!

Incredible! A journey that still continues,” he tweeted.

The actor also shared anecdotes from the set of the film — especially one when producer Nariman A. Irani saved a child at the Rajkamal Studios, while he was shooting

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(L-R) Iftekhar Shareef, Consul General of India Dr. Ausaf Sayeed, Smt. Kavitha Kalvakuntla, US Congressional candidate Raja Krishnamoorthi & former Mayor of Cicero city Mr. Ramiro Gonzalez energy.

BY A STAFF WRITER Iftekhar Shareef added that the business HICAGO, IL -- A trail-blazing climate in Telangana was ripe with outstanding youthful leader and a first woman opportunities and as such platforms for Telangana Member of Parliament investments could serve dual purpose of serving (MP) Kavitha Kalvakuntla of TRS the native state/country a also reaping healthy party was accorded a rousing reception witnessed returns in the investments. by prominent business and community leaders gathered under the leadership of Iftekhar Shareef Iftekhar Shareef urged all Telugu Associations at his residence in Lincolnwood, IL on April 20. to join hands in promoting “Bathukamma” festivals, and bring in Hyderabadi Urdu Present at the memorable program were talents like ghazal singers, Urdu comedies, Consul General of India Dr. Ausaf Sayeed, Urdu literature to join hands during the “ former Mayor of Cicero city Ramiro Gonzalez Bathukamma” festivals next year. who is close associate to President of Mexico Iftekhar Shareef made an impassioned Enrique Pena Nieto who was elected on appeal to the business leaders to focus on the December 1st. 2012, along with promising US new Telangana state as he assured that the Congressional candidate Raja Krishnamoorthi. state under the leadership of Chief Minister Host Iftekhar Shareef welcomed the K. Chandrasekhar Rao and Parliamentarian eminent guests and said it was the goal of the Kavitha Kalvakuntla would open a new glorious reception to inspire NRI investments in the chapter in the golden history of Telangana. newly-formed state of Telangana. As a native He concluded saying that he would play Telanganite, Iftekhar Shareef insisted that his humble part in vigorously promoting Brand Telangana has a buoyant market for lucrative Telangana. investments and added that he would strive Introducing the honored guest, Iftekhar hard to enthuse investments, especially in solar

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umbai Sessions Court the case on April 20. Salman has Welcome ceremony to Smt. Kavitha Kalvakuntla Additional Sessions Judge been facing trial for 13 years in the W. Deshpande willoutaccident case in Bandra, Shareef profusely heaped praises of approbation said heD.woud strive to work the modalities of in the early September 28, 2002, the India-Mexico verdict on May 6relationship, in hours ofespecially on Kavitha Kalvakuntla as a new-age MP who pronounce fostering the 13-year-old case of an accident which left one pavement dweller keenly understood the deeper nuances of the role involving in solar energy which, he said, was the crying Bollywood actor Salman dead and four others injured. of a parliamentarian and how to rapidly usher Khan, needin inwhich several in was India like Telangana. onestates person Nurullah Mehboob Sharif sucdevelopmental programs that would percolate killed and his injuries and four othwere injured.

Infour his brief remarks, formercumbed MayortoRamirez The announcement was made ers — Munna Malai Khan, Kalim to the common people in Telangana.

Gonzalez said he looked forward to the here on Tuesday, a day after the Mohammed Pathan, Abdullah Rauf Earlier, Consul General of India Dr. prosecution, opportunity payingpublic a visitShaikh to Telangana to Sheikh were led byto special and Muslim Ausaf Sayeed warmly welcomed MP Kavitha prosecutor advance business especially in charged under Pradeep Gharat,relationships and the injured.

Salman was defense team led by Shrikant ShivIPC Section 304 II which attracts Kalvakuntla and thanked the host Iftekhar solar energy.

Shareef for convening such an important forum ade completed their arguments in upto 10 years in prison.

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of meeting of business minds to foster greater role by NRI communities and inspiring more investment opportunities in India.

Consul General Dr. Ausaf Sayeed said he had the good fortune of meeting her father Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao during his visit to Hyderabad early this year and discussed specific proposals and initiatives. CG said he discussed potential collaborations and partnerships opportunities.

Iftekhar Shareef invited former Cicero City Mayor Ramiro Gonzalez to share as to how he could help develop a plan to bring about a closer business ties between India and Mexico. Shareef

Later, Raja Krishnamoor thi, US Congressional candidate joined in commending SRK ‘overwhelmed’ Parliamentarian Kavitha Kalvakuntla and laid out thefrom importance with love fans of the solar energy in the growing market, adding that there were Film: Mr X, Cast: Emraan Hashincreasing opportunities MUMBAI: Superstar Shah Rukh in this field. mi, Amyra Dastur, Arunodoy Khan, who received theprominent Dadasaheb attendees included Among the Singh, Director: Vikram Bhatt, Phalke Film Foundation Award 2015 American Telugu Association (ATA)* 1/2 Trustees Rating: for his performance in the 2014 film andNew members, Karunakar Madhavaram, Happy Year, has thanked his o... Dr. how Siraj bad is it? That’s the fans and audiencespast for showering immediate ATA president, question which, those lucky him with love throughout.

Ahmed,Dr. Kapadia, Ajai Agnihotri,Kanti enough not to sit through this The superstar, who has won epiPatel, Madhav Reddy,Hanumanth newest and Reddy, perhaps stupidest cockthets like ‘King Khan’, ‘Baadshah’ Bhailal Sanhita Minhajconcoction Akhtar, from the and-bull and ‘King ofPatel, Romance’ thanks Agnihotri, to house of Bhatts, like Dilwale Dulhania LeSyed Rafi once-illustrious films Satya Kandimalla, of Dream India would gleefully ask those who are Jayenge, Veer-Zaara and from Kabhi Hyderabad.

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He was arrested on S October 3 2009 at O’Hare Airport, international Jilted groom beats up, rapes Doctor shields Chicagostaff on hisfrom angry man who shot his wife Muslim woman in Phoenix

BY A STAFF WRITER way back to Pakistan plans bn investments accident. I attended their annual nd a landingChina site for the$45 plot’s

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Khushi Kabhie Gham, was honored at an event here on April 21.

The 49-year-old, who looked dapper in a black suit, even charmed the audience at the ceremony with his iconic romantic pose by opening up his arms wide.

fated to suffer the wages of sins that we unknowingly committed in our previous lives to be punished in this way.

Unlike the Bhatts’ last film Khamoshiyan which was unintentionally funny Mr X is not even the man to let the woman go, the man that.

It is“pulled punishingly bad. A crime

caper that is likely to qualify as cognizable offense if stretch into, god forbid, a sequel.

The best thing about this dreadful film is that Emraan Hashmi is invis-

out a gun” from his pocket, Patel said.

EMISON, AL -- Dr. Jayprakash “Jay” The doctor quickly realized — when Price Patel may have saved his staff and aimed a gun at himself and the other patient patients from serious harm from an — that his priority was to protect the staff and enraged husband who killed his wife in in Pakistan, signs 51 MoUs during patients, so he herded them into a back area the doctor’s waiting area.

Born Daood President in Xi Jinping’s Paksigns visit Patel and locked the door. He then heard another a woman,during later identified by $45 bn investments Pakistan, 51saidMoUs President Xi Jinping’s Pak visit Gilani in next the US to scream and then “a pop,” he said. police as 24-year-old Leaj Price, who lived an Medicine American “It was very traumatizing,” he told to Patel’s Jemison Internal officemother reporters, thankful that his staff and patients with her husband, Eric Heath Price, and25,a fled Pakistani “didn’t witness what happened in the lobby.” to the Indian American’s facility after a fight n April father, David with her husband.

Patel, a graduate of Kasturba Medical Mohamed S. Abdullahi even more ments ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China productive.

FRIDAY, 24 APRIL, 2015 Coleman Headley Patel said he was in an examination room 3 would together fight terrorism to root it Before Sharif, Xi addressed theCollege Manipal, has worked at his office in of Dr Jayprakash ‘Jay’ Patel

BY A STAFF WRITER Jemison for about 20 years. in the morning on April 13 is when he “heard serving 35 years out, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz joint sitting and described Pakistan as Us) for some screaming” in the main he inhusband HONIX, AZ- A Muslim woman the wife’s hand “trying forentrance, hisonrole the gripping Sharif said April 21 addressing a China’s “dependable” friend,tostressing Eric Price later shot himself in the head. . Chitold reporters. expected to enter an arranged After recovering from his injuries, he was pull her out” of the office. joint Mumbai sitting of parliament’s both housthat bilateral ties are based on mutual g also marriage in Phoenix was beaten and charged by the police with murder on April 14.

He found the couple struggling, with the attack When Patel and a patient tried to persuade es, which was convened to honor visit- trust and support. stment raped by her groom-to-be after she ing Chinese President XI Jinping.

Xi arrived in Islamabad on April 21 end its refused to marry the man.

“Our joint efforts against terrorism on his first official visit to Pakistan. The nsform Mohamed S. Abdullahi, 30, who was have succeeded so far but we need to two countries have agreed to elevate hub. arrested on April 21 faces sexual assault and intensify our efforts,” Sharif said. their ties to an all-weather strategic an on kidnapping charges. The police referred to Talking about the mega partnership.of“The t, and said.PakistanNow, the duocooperative faces the possibility lifeChinese Singh was then re-arrested in July 2014,

BY A STAFF WRITER the alleged victim as a young adult. in prison withoutpeople the possibility parole. and Killens was arrested a month later on the China Economic Corridor, will alwaysofstand together with Sharif said: Nawaz ALINAS, CA -- An Indian The families agreed on a “Nikah,” “It isand a catalytic project that will help us the Pakistani people,” Xi told Pak- anniversary of Navneal Singh’s and Safford’s of the On August 11, 2013, Monterey man, Richard Singh, a formal Islamic marriage. The woman, deaths.

County ’s deputies found of sheriff istan’s parliament.

China firmly backed another 21-year-old combine Seaside the geo-economic streams who apparently had no desire to be with 23-year-old Demetrius and its sov- Navneal Singh was no relation to Richard Abdullahi, ran away but returned about 15 man have been convicted of our countries.”

“The corridor symbolPakistan’s effortsSafford to safeguard nveiled Chinese Xi Pak Jinping (L) and Pak Prime Chinese President Jinping (L) and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Islamabad 22-year-old Navneal Singh and deadterritorial Singh, prosecutors said. days later toXiPresident finish school. killing two men in an August izes2013 our commitment to create win-win ereignty, independence to be GOPIO Executive Board members with Student Award Recipient, inand Aromas.

Both“So Sacramento men alwaysDuring the Minister Nawaz Sharif in Islamabad “ambush-style” attack.

The police are investigating details partnerships which threaten none integrity. long as our hearts trial, Eric Romero and Ronald h Chisustained several gunshot wounds to Aashna GargExecutive leading up to the alleged assault, investigating Saxton testified theyGOPIO witnessed theBoard late-night members with Student Award Recipient, Aashna Garg benefit follow the direction of what our two Singh and Jordan Killens facedall,” he added. Sharif said >> Page 24 the back. whether the woman’s Somali family forced to Saxton, Singhtheir is business networking and help Indian a week of prosecutorial evidence young entrepreneurs, academics, peoples expect and our strength ismurders. According ments He asked everyoneRichard to put aside Singh was first arrested in March, into the the police say a talkbefore had arranged theactgroup to commit home- He community excel in the business they are egosforand on achieving theira dreams.

Richard Singh put on two media persons, teachers, students exerted toward suchona direcaddressing here on the April defense 20 NEWher DELHI: Indiaapartment should bewhere “upfront” nomic 2014, but always was later released based mentioned his keynote speech during his doing. So we request each one of you to was raped and held against her evening. will. invasion robbery in Prunedale. witnesses who defended Killens. and professionals from both countries we can surely overcome aboutshevoicing its concern and make ucture, insufficient tion, evidence, Monterey County all diffirecent visit to Gujarat and where he talked become a member of this great organization is learnt that woman was brought Monterey Superior Court Innovation Judge deliberated forwillless thantheir a day sustain friendship and ’smake it culties and obstacles on the way.”

According to Saran,The whojury has been known itsItopposition overthe a proposed hnoloaboutCounty empowering society through by contacting one of the office bearers”, Sheriff Detective Matthew Davis testified to the apartment on April 20.

Julie Culver will sentence the two on June 3. rendering in education. said Gladson Varghese President of GOPIO involved in borderbefore negotiations with a guilty decision, prosecutors China-Pakistan proposed mega corrids. last week.

Dignitaries: Raja Krishnamoorthi, Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth, Consul General of India Village president Dr. Lalmalani offered Chicago Chapter.

China, the Chinese agreement with dor project that is expected to pass d the Dr. Ausaf Sayeed, Dr. Gopal Lalmalani, Congressman Danny Davis, Senator Dan Kotowski, Senator his full support to anyone in the Indian Savi Singh, secretary of GOPIO Chicago Pakistan says that the “final disposal through Pakistan-administered Kashned by Michael Noland, & Senator Cullerton. Gilani in the US to community who wishes to launch business and Chapter, said that GOPIO father, was one of the Born Daood an American mother a Pakistani of the agreement will be when the mir, says a former top diplomat and sound with the Village of Oak Brook. largest Indian organizations outside India with that his chapter would provide a platform for

BY A STAFF WRITER David Coleman Headley is servingThe35 years his role in the Mumbai attack.

Kashmir issue is resolved between negotiator. “What China is doing in ng. in some 20 countries, adding that the formal meetingfor was followed by chapters HICAGO, IL -- The crème de la business community in Chicago to network andthe learn aboutpresident’s tax incentives for doing cultural events that included dazzling dances initial thrust of GOPIO was fighting human India and Pakistan”. and Chinese accompaPoK (Pakistan-occupied Kashmir) is a ISLAMABAD: Chinese Xi ndship crème guest list President of the GOPIO’s rights violation of people of Indian origin. from various states of India. Those dances business in India. inaugural business conference and nying “I don’t think India should go about delegation. matter of great concern, and we Jinping was on April 21 conferred with one of portrayed a brief glimpse of Indian art forms “Although this has been improved in The Indian Consulis General highlighted annual gala held Pakistan’s on April 18 at the should make the concern known. the Nishan-e-Pakistan, giving up claims with China... That is Nishan-e-Pakistan the highest of Oakbrook Marriott Hotel, Grand Ball Room, the key steps that the new Indian government like Kuchipudi, Mohiniattyam, Bhangra and the last one decade, human rights violations There is no reason why we should not not the right way of dealing with the highest civilian

by President awards and decorations givenMinister by public Bollywood fusion styles. continue to be a major issue for PIOs living under the leadership of Prime 1401 W 22nd St, honor, Oak Brook, IL could leave civil The Aananda Dance Theatre presented outside India. GOPIO has now set its priorities Narendra had initiated promote anyone spellbound.

Mamnoon Hussain at a brief ceremorelationship,” Saran said at a talk on the PakistanModi government for thetohighbe upfront about voicing opposition to counResidential & Commercial Indo-US He also triednation. to sort out the Thillana, the Bharatanjanli Dance School in pooling our resources, both financial and at the grand gathering were est nyPresent here at Aiwan-e-Sadr. degreebusiness. of service to the what is being done,” said former Indian “Overcoming History: Sino-India Relavide a professional, for the benefit of PIOs, confusion over various kinds of visas to India. presented Saraswati Slokam, the Soorya Dance Hotel Motels high-profile US political leaders, including The ceremony the presidential tions” at the India Habitat Centre.

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He assured Sharif that China Sino-Pakistan relationship “from Gas olitical Direct: 847.877.9362 Vikrant Singh and Shree Gurusamy. Savinder his term as president of Punjabi Americans electoral process.

convection in November. ers. >> Marking his decision to join ting about his first encounter Lashkar militants, Headley, Lashkar “full time” following the China says that by to fight terrorism serving 35 years for his role 9/11 attacks, HeadleyPak, Mumbai attack, describes 2002 the group asked him to take e was “very impressed with “the Daura Aamma, the basic miliedication to the cause of the tary training course offered by LeT.” It was one of several training proion of Kashmir from Indian grammes he writes about, the report ation.” dley’s memoir offers a unique says noting “by 2005, Lashkar’s Life in prison for two for 2 for killing two men w into his turn toward plans for Headley are coming into ism, his training with LeT focus.”

After the attack, Headley says he s preparations for an abortive on a Danish newspaper for was told to “lay low.” Instead, he hing cartoons of the Prophet travelled to Denmark to scout the mmad, ‘India according tovoice report Jyllands-Posten newspaper for a should itsby concern upfront’ possible strike. But western intelliblica and Frontline. ne passage, Headley, who fre- gence soon learn of the plot, and y visited Pakistan, writes: close in on Headley. He was arrestone of my trips, October ed on October 3 2009 at O’Hare way back to I made my first contact with Airport, Chicago on hisNishan-e-Pakistan conferred on Xi Jinping ar-e-Taiba (LeT), quite by Pakistan.

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Among those who attended were Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth, also a Democratic candidate for the US Senate, India’stoConsul General, Dr. Ausaf Sayeed, East China, while bypassing Congressman Danny Davis, Former Illinois India.

“These are very substantial Deputy Treasurer Raja Krishnamoorthi, and tangible projects which will Illinois State Senators - Don Kotowski, Tom Cullerton, and Michael Noland, Illinois State have a significant transformative Treasureron Michael Frerichs, Padmashree Dr. effect Pakistan’s economy,” Bala Balachandran, and Oak Brook Village Iqbal said.Dr. Gopal Lalmalani.

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Pakistani-American key plotter of the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks has revealed that he decided to join Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) “full time” following the 9/11 attacks in the US. Born Daood Gilani in the US to an American mother and a Pakistani father, David Coleman Headley makes the disclosure in a draft memoir made available to the makers of an “American Terrorist”, a TV documentary telecast this week.

Working with LeT, Headley, former drug smuggler turned informant for the US Drug Enforcement Administration, used his US passport to travel to India, scout locations for the plot, film them and

IN BRIEF IS leader al-Baghdadi critically wounded?

LONDON: Head of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was critically wounded in an airstrike in Iraq by the US-led coalition last month, The Guardian reported citing sources.

A source in Iraq with connections to the terror group, however, said that the IS leader, whose wounds were initially believed to be life threatening, has since made a slow recovery, but has not resumed day-to-day control of the organization.

Baghdadi’s injuries led to urgent meetings of the IS leadership, and plans were made to name a new leader to take over the reins of the organization from Baghdadi in the event of his death. A western diplomat and an Iraqi adviser confirmed that the strike took place on March 18 in the al-Baaj district of Iraq’s Nineveh province.

There had been two previous reports in November and December of Baghdadi being wounded, though neither was accurate. The diplomat confirmed that an airstrike on a convoy had taken place that day.

even find a landing site for the plot’s attackers.

Writing about his first encounter with Lashkar militants, Headley, who is serving 35 years for his role in the Mumbai attack, describes how he was “very impressed with their dedication to the cause of the liberation of Kashmir from Indian occupation.”

Headley’s memoir offers a unique window into his turn toward extremism, his training with LeT and his preparations for an abortive attack on a Danish newspaper for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, according to report by ProPublica and Frontline.

In one passage, Headley, who frequently visited Pakistan, writes: “On one of my trips, October 2000, I made my first contact with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), quite by

accident. I attended their annual convection in November.

Marking his decision to join Lashkar “full time” following the 9/11 attacks, Headley says that by 2002 the group asked him to take “the Daura Aamma, the basic military training course offered by LeT.” It was one of several training programmes he writes about, the report says noting “by 2005, Lashkar’s plans for Headley are coming into focus.”

After the attack, Headley says he was told to “lay low.” Instead, he travelled to Denmark to scout the Jyllands-Posten newspaper for a possible strike. But western intelligence soon learn of the plot, and close in on Headley. He was arrested on October 3 2009 at O’Hare Airport, Chicago on his way back to Pakistan.

Born Daood Gilani in the US to an American mother and a Pakistani father, David Coleman Headley is serving 35 years for his role in the Mumbai attack.

Obama submits n-deal with China to Congress IANS, WASHINGTON

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S President Barack Obama has submitted to Congress a proposed 30-year agreement on cooperating with China in peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

“In my judgement, it meets all applicable statutory requirements and will advance the nonproliferation and other foreign policy interests of the US,” Obama said in a message to Congress issued by the White House this week.

The agreement, which permits transfer of material, equipment (including reactors), components, information and technology for nuclear research and nuclear power production, “provides a comprehensive framework for peaceful nuclear cooperation with China based on a mutual commitment to nuclear

nonproliferation,” Obama said.

The agreement “will promote, and will not constitute an unreasonable risk to, the common defense and security,” he said, urging Congress to give it “favorable consideration”. Obama noted that China has since the 1980s become a party to several nonproliferation treaties and

conventions and “worked to bring its domestic export control authorities in line with international standards”.

China and the US have cooperated on peaceful uses of nuclear energy in the past decades, since the signing of an agreement for this cooperation in 1985, which is to

expire at the end of 2015.

The Senate bill gained the mistrust of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who warned that his country was not negotiating with the US Congress.

Obama emphasized that “this is not a formal treaty that is being envisioned,” but rather a “political agreement” between Iran and the leaders of the P5+1 countries.

The president said that during the nuclear negotiations between now and the June 30 deadline, the nations involved will have to be “creative” when it comes to deciding the complex question of when to free Tehran of international sanctions.

Obama said he believed that by “having in reserve the possibility of putting back and applying forceful sanctions in the event of a violation, that goal can be met”.

Obama’s ‘chadar’ presented in Ajmer Sharif Dargah IANS, WASHINGTON

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chadar (sacred cloth) sent on behalf of the people of United State of America and President Barack Hussein Obama, was ceremonially presented at the Dargah Ajmer Sharif this week.

The ‘chadar’ was presented by Haji Syed Salman Chishty, the ‘Gaddi Nashin’ to mark the 803rd annual Urs celebrations of Hazrat Khawaja Moinudeen Hasan Chishty, a revered Sufi saint.

US Ambassador to India, Richard Verma, had handed over the ‘chadar’ on behalf of President Obama to Haji Chishty in New Delhi last week.

“On behalf of the United States government, I

A ‘chadar’ from President Barack Obama being presented at the Ajmer Sharif Dargah. (Photo: IANS)

convey greetings of deepest friendship and respect to the community of Dargah Ajmer Sharif and the people of Ajmer,” said a message from Verma which was read out on the occasion.

“On this day, the 803rd Annual Urs of Hazrat Khawaja Moinudeen Hasan Chishty, our thoughts are with the community in Ajmer and we give thanks for the work of the Dargah Ajmer Sharif and its legacy of striving for understanding, peace, and respect between all faiths and peoples of the world,” the message said.

Quoting President Obama, it added: “Whatever our beliefs, whatever our traditions, we must seek to be instruments of peace, and bringing light where there is darkness, and sowing love where there is hatred.”

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Shamina gets key post President Obama names the top MasterCard exec to Board on Community Service IANS, WASHINGTON

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resident Barack Obama has named yet another IndianAmerican as member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service for a term expiring in October 2019.

The nomination of Shamina Singh, executive director of the MasterCard Centre for Inclusive Growth since December 2013, has been sent to the Senate, according to a White House announcement on April 13. She joined Master-

BRIEFS Indian murder suspect on the run in US WASHINGTON: A 24-year-old Indian, suspected to have murdered his wife in a restaurant, is on the run, a media report said.

Palak Bhadreskumar Patel, 21, was found murdered inside the kitchen of a Dunkin Donuts restaurant on Arundel Mills Boulevard in Hanover, Maryland state.

Police said her husband Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel is a suspect in the case.

“We are treating this as domestic-related, not random. Again, they were husband and wife and lived together in the area here,” a senior police officer was quoted as saying.

NRI gets key position in Singapore's Singtel SINGAPORE: NRI Samba Natarajan has been appointed the CEO of Group Digital Life in Singapore Telecommunications Limited (Singtel) after the company last week announced a series of changes in its senior leadership team. Natarajan, 49, currently the managing director of Digital Enterprise, will be responsible for the group’s digital portfolio. An alumni of the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad, Natarajan graduated from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania in 1999 as a Palmer Scholar and Ford Fellow.

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Card in 2013 as the global director for government services and solutions where she expanded MasterCard’s business capabilities to digitize social subsidy programmes in over 40 countries.

Prior to joining MasterCard, Shamina led government and public affairs for Nike and spent five years with Citigroup’s Global Community Development Group.

Over the course of 15 years in

the public sector, she held senior positions within the Clinton Administration and the US House of Representatives.

She is a Young Global Leader and Member of the Global Agenda Council on India with the World Economic Forum, a Henry Crown Fellow with the Aspen Institute and served on the Presidential Advisory Commission on Military Leadership Diversity.

Shamina has a graduate degree in public policy from the Lyndon B. Johnson School for Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin, and has completed executive programmes at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Yale’s Jackson Institute for Diplomacy and the India School of Business.

In 2003, she served as a senior advisor to US House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and in 2002 was the deputy campaign manager for the Ron Kirk for US Senate campaign.

Vaisakhi resolution in US Congress WASHINGTON: Sixteen U.S. lawmakers led by Democrat John Garamendi have introduced a resolution in the U.S. John Garamendi House of Representatives, honoring the Sikh community’s celebration of Vaisakhi.

The bipartisan resolution was cosponsored among others by the lone Indian-American Congressman Ami Bera, Democratic co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans, one of the largest in Congress with more than 180 members. “America’s founding ideals of freedom of worship, equality, and justice are reflected in the Sikh American community’s celebration of

Vaisakhi,” said Garamendi, co-chair of the American Sikh Congressional Caucus.

“I am proud to represent one of the largest Sikh communities in the country. I have partnered with the community on many issues, including civil liberties, education, and business development,” he said.

“Sikhs are an integral part of the American fabric, and we invite our fellow Americans to learn more about their Sikh neighbors by visiting their local gurdwaras and partnering with us on community service projects,” said Rajdeep Singh, senior director of law and policy at the Sikh Coalition.

The resolution notes that Sikhism was introduced to the U.S. in the 19th century.

Two Indian Americans among biggest givers ARUN KUMAR, WASHINGTON

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wo Indian Americans have been listed among the 50 biggest philanthropists of 2015 by the Town and Country Magazine with the likes of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Apple CEO Tim Cook.

“These are the men and women whose serious dollars, bold ideas, and old-fashioned hard work have made them the year’s most noteworthy and inspiring givers,” the American lifestyle magazine says of the top givers including Adarsh Alphons and Reshma Saujani.

Adarsh Alphons

Reshma Saujani

The ‘Grand Plan’ of New York based Alphons, 30, Founder & Executive Director of ProjectArt, which provides free art classes at

public libraries in all five boroughs of New York City, is to help troubled students in the metropolis.

Alphons, son of former Indian

bureaucrat K J Alphons, was once a troubled student himself. He founded ProjectArt in 2011 and by 2014 had 11 thriving neighborhood programs, funded heavily by art enthusiasts from David Maupin to Kyle DeWoody.

Saujani, 38, an Indian-American lawyer and politician, founded the tech organization Girls Who Code to close technology’s gender gap.

She did so noting that demand for programmers has skyrocketed, the percentage of computer science graduates who are female has gone down, from 37 percent to 12 percent over the past 30 years.

From Azamgarh to America: Success story of Frank Islam ARUN KUMAR, WASHINGTON

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e was born in Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, shifted to the U.S. when he was just 15 and now lives in a 40,000square-foot mansion that has a fivebedroom guest house and a backyard tea house along with reflecting pools on nine acres in Potomac, Maryland, a house that took six years to build.

After realizing the American dream, Frank Islam, an India-born entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist who is said to be worth $300 million, is now ‘investing’ in the education sector in both the land of his birth and his adopted home. “The investment is in the future of America and the American

Frank Islam with President Barack Obama.

dream and in India as well,” said Frank Islam, who came from India as a 15-year old kid, set up the QSS Group, an information technology firm, in 1994, and sold it in 2007

after raising its revenues to over $300 million.

Islam’s contributions in India include a $2 million donation to the Aligarh Muslim University

(AMU) to build the Frank and Debbie Islam School of Management with an endowed chair and building a technical college for girls in Azamgarh in memory of his mother Qumran Nisan.

“As a businessperson I do not make these contributions as charity but as investments for renewing and replenishing the American dream and to building strong futures for the citizens of America and India,” Islam told IANS in an interview.

Islam said he was investing in education in India and the U.S. because it’s “the key to opportunity and the bridge to future success for those from all strata of society”.

“The greatest gift all of us can give is the gift of education,” he said explaining his support.

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Farmer kills self at AAP rally A distressed farmer hangs himself from a tree at Jantar Mantar at a mass meeting called by AAP; incident triggers political drama and mud-slinging IANS, NEW DELHI

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farmer from Rajasthan, his crops ruined by rains, hanged himself from a tree at an AAP rally here on April 22 just before Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal addressed thousands against the controversial land ordinance.

The dramatic death of Gajendra Singh, a father of three, immediately turned into a political drama, with the Aam Aadmi Party blaming Delhi Police and BJP and Congress attacking Kejriwal and the AAP. Shortly after doctors at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital declared the man dead, Home Minister Rajnath Singh told Delhi Police, which

People unsuccessfully try to rescue Gajendra Singh as he attempts suicide at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on April 22.

reports to him, to hold an inquiry into the death.

The sensational incident took place at Jantar Mantar in the heart of the city where thousands from Delhi and other states had turned up to denounce the land bill at a mass meeting called by the AAP. Three AAP activists who saw the man hanging climbed the tree and tried to bring him down. But as they

untied the scarf the farmer had tied to a tree branch to hang himself, his body fell with a loud thud. As chaos gripped the venue, an IANS reporter at the site saw that the man was barely breathing. His tongue was protruding.

One of the AAP activists who had climbed the tree fainted on the branch. Others then clambered up and brought him down after sprin-

kling water on his face. A suicide note in Hindi found at the spot said the man was taking his life because untimely rains had destroyed his crops and ruined him. He ended the note with “Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan, Jai Rajasthan”.

As emotionally charged AAP activists raised anti-police slogans, the man was rushed to the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital where he

was declared dead. Kejriwal was told of the incident — it wasn’t clear then whether the man was alive or dead — by some volunteers on the dias. Thinking that the man was probably alive, the chief minister said he would call on him affer the rally. After a hard-hitting speech in which he accused the Narendra Modi government of trying to snatch farmers’ land to give it to the “super rich”, Kejriwal and Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia drove to the hospital.

By then, Delhi Congress leader Ajay Maken had visited the hospital and remarked that both the AAP and police should have taken steps to avoid the suicide. At his party office, BJP spokesman Sambit Patra asked: “Why didn’t the AAP leaders stop the farmer from committing suicide?”

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi also visited the hospital. He later told the media: “We are with the farmer’s family. We will help them.”

Earlier, Kejriwal vowed to organize farmers all over the country on the issue. Modi had betrayed the trust of the farmers after taking their vote and forming a government, Kejriwal told the protesters.

Pak boat with `6 bn narcotics seized Rahul resurfaces, shows combative side IANS, MUMBAI/AHMEDABAD

NEW DELHI: A combative Rahul Gandhi mounted his second successive attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi since returning from leave of absence, accusing his “suit boot” and “acche din” government of working for corporates and forgetting farmers.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu, however, rubbished the Congress vice-president’s allegations, reminding him that it was due to the difference in its “words and deeds” in the past that his party was today sitting in the opposition.

Attacking the Modi government on issues concerning farmers in his over 20-minute speech in the Lok Sabha during the discussion on agrarian situation in the country, Rahul Gandhi said “acche-din government has failed the country”.

He advised Modi to visit the farmers to empathize with them in their distress caused by loss of crops due to unseasonal rains.

Earlier in the day, the government tabled the re-promulgated land ordinance in the house amid protests.

The Congress and Trinamool Congress staged a walkout over the issue.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi later in the day met farmers at her residence to listen to their concerns about the new land bill.

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As she was not present in the Lok Sabha when Rahul Gandhi spoke, Sonia Gandhi later said she was told he gave a good speech.

Rahul Gandhi, who took part in the discussion for the first time in this budget session, spoke in the tone and tenor of a combative leader to attack the Modi government, as he did at the farmers’ rally at Ramlila Ground here on Sunday.

Though Rahul Gandhi’s party colleagues sought to shield him from repeated interruptions from Bharatiya Janata Party members, he stood up and countered the barbs thrown at him with his arguments.

Rahul Gandhi made repeated attacks on the government, saying it was “hurting” about 60 percent of the people who were dependent on agriculture.

ndian defense agencies have seized a boat with eight Pakistanis on board and carrying narcotics worth around `6 billion ($95 m), in the Arabian Sea off the Gujarat coast on April 20.

The vessel, fitted with sophisticated communication systems, was intercepted in international waters in a joint operation by the Indian Navy (IN) and the Indian Coast Guard (ICG).

The eight Pakistani nationals and the boat — the origin and destination of which were not disclosed — are being taken to Porbandar port in

Gujarat for further investigations by law enforcement officials, Intelligence Bureau personnel, Indian Navy and ICG. “The initial investi-

gations by ICG Sangram have led to recovery of 232 packets of narcotics, satellite communication phones and Global Positioning Systems.

Farmed land, food per person declined over 25 years SAUMYA TEWARI, NEW DELHI

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he land available for farming in India, already under decline, is feared to drop further with the BJP-led government trying to push through a controversial bill that is being criticized in the present format by a host of opposition parties, led by the Congress.

The most controversial change proposed is the exemption of five categories of projects — industrial corridors, public-private partnership projects, rural infrastructure, public housing and defense projects —

from getting the consent of 70 percent farmers of the area.

This is worrisome since cultivated land on India’s farms declined 15 percent over the past 25 years, according to government data

analysed by IndiaSpend, reducing foodgrain production and portending new pressures as more land is set to be acquired for industries.

While the net sown area includes orchards and crops, the cultivated area covers only crops. Land sown with crops declined from nearly 87 percent in 1987-88 to 72 percent in 2011-12.

Reasons for the decline in cultivated land include a drop in households owning land in rural India and a decline in the proportion of households dependent on manual labour and farming, says a study.

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China plans $45 bn investments in Pakistan, signs 51 MoUs during President Xi Jinping’s Pak visit IANS, ISLAMABAD

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akistan and China on April 20 signed 51 agreements and Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) for cooperation in diverse fields. Chinese President Xi Jinping also unveiled a $45-billion investment plan that can help Pakistan end its chronic energy crisis and transform it into a regional economic hub.

Xi, who arrived in Pakistan on April 21 on a two-day visit, and Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif witnessed the signing of the agreements in Islamabad.

The two leaders also unveiled plaques of eight projects to be undertaken in Pakistan with Chinese assistance.

The projects and agreements relate to China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, energy, infrastructure, agriculture, research and technology, education and other fields.

The prime minister said the agreements and MoUs signed by the two countries have sound financial and technical backing.

He reaffirmed that friendship with China was the cornerstone of Pakistan’s foreign policy.

He said there were strong public sentiments driving the two countries’ relations, which provide a sound basis for their strength.

Sharif said the most prominent hallmark of Pakistan-China relationship was consistency and resilience, irrespective of political developments, changes in the two countries and major regional and international developments.

Relations between the two are based on shared ideals and principles of mutual trust, mutual benefit and respect, he said.

In his remarks, President Xi said the main objective of his visit was to further cement and give new boost to the strategic partnership

Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) and Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Islamabad

‘India should voice its concern upfront’ NEW DELHI: India should be “upfront” about voicing its concern and make known its opposition over a proposed China-Pakistan proposed mega corridor project that is expected to pass through Pakistan-administered Kashmir, says a former top diplomat and negotiator. “What China is doing in PoK (Pakistan-occupied Kashmir) is a matter of great concern, and we should make the concern known.

There is no reason why we should not be upfront about voicing opposition to what is being done,” said former Indian foreign secretary Shyam Saran,

and friendly ties with Pakistan.

He assured Sharif that China would continue playing its part for sustainable socio-economic development of Pakistan with particular focus on development in Balochistan province.

The Chinese president said special attention would be paid to further strengthen economic strategic partnership with Pakistan in next 10 years.

The investments offer a real

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addressing a talk here on April 20 evening.

According to Saran, who has been involved in border negotiations with China, the Chinese agreement with Pakistan says that the “final disposal of the agreement will be when the Kashmir issue is resolved between India and Pakistan”.

“I don’t think India should go about giving up claims with China... That is not the right way of dealing with the relationship,” Saran said at a talk on “Overcoming History: Sino-India Relations” at the India Habitat Centre.

opportunity to change the scope Sino-Pakistan relationship “from geo-politics to geo-economics”, said Federal Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal.

The projects for which the whopping investments are expected to constitute the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, and foresee the creation of road, rail and pipeline links that would cut several thousand km off the route to transport oil from the Middle

even more productive.

Before Sharif, Xi addressed the joint sitting and described Pakistan as China’s “dependable” friend, stressing that bilateral ties are based on mutual trust and support.

Xi arrived in Islamabad on April 21 on his first official visit to Pakistan. The two countries have agreed to elevate their ties to an all-weather strategic cooperative partnership. “The Chinese people will always stand together with the Pakistani people,” Xi told Pakistan’s parliament. China firmly backed Pakistan’s efforts to safeguard its sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity. “So long as our hearts always follow the direction of what our two peoples expect and our strength is always exerted toward such a direction, we can surely overcome all difficulties and obstacles on the way.”

Nishan-e-Pakistan conferred on Xi Jinping ISLAMABAD: Chinese President Xi Jinping was on April 21 conferred with the Nishan-e-Pakistan, Pakistan’s highest civilian honor, by President Mamnoon Hussain at a brief ceremony here at Aiwan-e-Sadr.

The ceremony the presidential house was attended by Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, federal ministers, members of National Assembly and Senate, services chiefs

East to China, while bypassing India. “These are very substantial and tangible projects which will have a significant transformative effect on Pakistan’s economy,” Iqbal said.

Beijing hopes to increase investments in Pakistan as part of its ambitions to expand its trade and

and the Chinese president’s accompanying delegation.

Nishan-e-Pakistan is the highest of civil awards and decorations given by the Pakistan government for the highest degree of service to the nation.

The award was established on March 19, 1957.

Late Indian prime minister Morarji Desai was also conferred this award in 1990.

transport footprint across Central and South Asia, while countering US and Indian influence in the region. The two allies have enjoyed close diplomatic and military relations for decades. On economic front, bilateral trade crossed $12 billion last year compared to only $2 billion a decade earlier.

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t least 17 Indian pilgrims were killed and 28 others injured on April 22 when a bus carrying them plunged into a river while negotiating a sharp bend along a downhill section of the Prithvi Highway in Nepal, police said. According to Superintendent of Police Narayan Singh Khadka, the accident took place at 6.40 a.m. when the bus carrying 45 Indian pilgrims from Gujarat skidded off the Prithvi Highway, rolled down 200 meters and plunged into Jhyapre river in Dhading district, some 50 km west of Kathmandu.

Khadka said 14 people died on the spot while three others suc-

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China would together fight terrorism to root it out, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on April 21 addressing a joint sitting of parliament’s both houses, which was convened to honor visiting Chinese President XI Jinping.

“Our joint efforts against terrorism have succeeded so far but we need to intensify our efforts,” Sharif said.

Talking about the mega PakistanChina Economic Corridor, Sharif said: “It is a catalytic project that will help us combine the geo-economic streams of our countries.” “The corridor symbolizes our commitment to create win-win partnerships which threaten none and benefit all,” he added. Sharif said young entrepreneurs, academics, media persons, teachers, students and professionals from both countries will sustain their friendship and make it

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cumbed in hospital.

The 45 Indian pilgrims aboard the bus were returning to Gorakhpur in India after visiting the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu.

The injured were taken to various hospitals in Kathmandu, including the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH), Vayodha Hospital, Shahid Memorial Hospital and Norvic Hospital.

Japanese high-speed train broke its own world speed record on April 21, clocking 603 kilometers per hour (374.69 miles per hour), after having set the previous record less than a week ago.

The maglev — magnetically levitated — train broke the record during a 42-km test run in Yamanashi, a district about 35 km west of Tokyo, Efe news agency reported. The same train had set the world speed record on April 16, when it clocked 590 kmph.

The train uses a magnetic levitation system, using linear motors installed near the rails, by which the

The maglev train clocked 603 km per hour (374.69 miles per hour).

magnetic field elevates the train by up to 10 cm above the rails, leaving air resistance as the only source of friction.

Central Japan Railway plans to have the maglev operational in 2027

connecting Shinagawa, south of Tokyo, and Nagoya in central Japan.

The maglev will take 40 minutes to cover the 286-km distance between the two points, a trip that currently takes 88 minutes.

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A Decade of Manufacturing in the offing?

It is urgently required to rectify the mismatch between the jobs on offer and the education one receives to make ‘Make in India’ a success AMIT KAPOOR, NEW DELHI

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he government’s manufacturing focus is evident.

On the recent threecountry foreign visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Make in India campaign received a fillip. India was also the partner country at Hannover Messe.

However, skeptics immediately pointed out India’s decision to buy 36 Rafale fighters in from France raises concerns over Make in India.

It led to questioning the validity of the initiative. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who briefly was the defense minister, responded by saying that Make in India can fabricate Rafale jets after 20 years but that doesn’t mean one keeps the forces ill-equipped for the next 20 years.

Last week also saw Ford announcing its $2.5 billion investment in Mexico, part of which is explained by the cost competitiveness of the country in terms of the hourly labor wage differential as compared to countries like the U.S. itself and

Canada. The most recent (2012) figures for Mexico (according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics) were $6 compared to $36 and $37 for U.S. and Canada respectively. The figure for India was $ 1.46 in 2010, the latest year for which data is available. This is lower than China ($1.74 in 2009) and this is where there is a window of opportunity for Make in India.

The following six points are critical for enabling and ensuring the manufacturing ecosystem grows in India: First, instilling a sense of pride and ownership among people who work in the manufacturing sector. At times, people in production and manufacturing jobs find it extremely demoralizing considering the incentives they are offered within their specific industry.

Contrast a manufacturing worker in India with one outside of India or with a service worker.

Even people doing very basic production outside of India are motivated and their morale is high. It is true for Indian services industry as

well. In India, there is a high attrition rate in manufacturing and people want to move to greener pastures as job satisfaction is often

Improvement in basic infrastructure over medium and long- term will be instrumental in increasing the speed of doing business

missing. It is true for even formal factory sector and not just the informal clusters where there are a large number of contractual workers. If a proper sense of pride is instilled, it often leads to quality and standards being followed that can make industries export competitive.

Secondly, closely related to the issue of incentives and remuneration is the issue of skills. India has a lot of competition but a large fraction of the workforce is semiskilled/

unskilled. It is urgently required to rectify the mismatch between the jobs that are on offer and the education one receives.

Improvement in terms of basic infrastructure over the medium- and long-term will again be instrumental in increasing the speed of doing business. Bettering the connectivity with ports, improvements in our archaic railway network, expansion of highways, as well as better power supply, will all aid in turning Make in India into a grand success.

40 years after Aryabhata: Nothing too far for India VENKATACHARI JAGANNATHAN, CHENNAI

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he year 2015 and the month April are significant for the Indian space programme. It was in April forty years ago (April 19, 1975) that India’s first satellite Aryabhatta weighing 358 kg was launched successfully by a Russian rocket.

Interestingly, India has marched ahead in satellite building capability to roll out communication spacecraft weighing three tonnes and has also sent out satellites to orbit moon and mars.

It was again in the month of April but in 2001 (April 18, 2001), that the first development flight of India’s heavy rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) rocket was launched.

However the development of the GSLV rocket that can put into

(Above) India’s first satellite Aryabhata.

orbit heavier satellites lagged. Two successive failures of GSLV rockets had put the project behind by several years. “During those days infrastructure was not available and we used what was available. In Bangalore we even converted a toilet into

a data receiving center for our first satellite Aryabhata,” U.R. Rao, former chairman of ISRO recalled.

“Starting from the scratch was the challenge before us while we began the Aryabhata project.

Majority of the team members were

new to this field. The time given was just two and half years so that it could be flown in a Russian rocket.

Building a clean room, thermo vacuum room and other facilities were all new,” recalled Rao. According to him, the choice of building the satellite center was between Bangalore and Hyderabad.

“However Bangalore had some facilities like industrial sheds. We took six such sheds each measuring around 5,000 sq.ft,” Rao said.

The Aryabhata satellite project

was initially pegged at `30 million but cost a little more.

“Many of the techniques we used in those days in building the satellites are still followed by ISRO now,” Rao said.

Success started smiling at ISRO from INSAT-1B onwards which according to Rao ushered in the communication revolution in India. There was no looking back for the space agency on the satellite side.

India’s high point in its space odyssey was its moon and mars mission.

While it is normal to compare ISRO’s achievement in satellite and rocket technologies, space scientists said both cannot be compared.

“Rockets and satellites cannot be compared. While both may belong to the family of space technology, comparing both is like comparing apples and oranges.”

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Hindu temple vandalized Vandals paint symbols of devil worship on the door of North Texas Hindu Mandir in Lake Highlands in Dallas, Texas IANS, NEW YORK

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n the latest attack on Hindu houses of worship in the U.S., a temple has been vandalized in Texas “horrifying” both Hindus and non-Hindus, who have offered to help the temple clean the damage, media reported.

In the attack at the North Texas Hindu Mandir in Lake Highlands suburb of Dallas, vandals painted symbols of devil worship on the temple’s door, media reports said.

The attackers left behind on a shed at the temple the mark of Mara Salvatrucha, an international

IN BRIEF Alabama cop pleads not guilty to assaulting Indian grandfather WASHINGTON: A former Alabama police officer has pleaded not guilty to charges of using “unreasonable force” against an Indian grandfather who was left partially paralysed after being slammed face-first to the ground.

An unarmed Sureshbhai Patel, 57, who does not speak English, was allegedly assaulted by Eric Parker Feb 6 while he was taking a morning walk in front of his son’s house in a Madison, Alabama suburb.

Parker, 26, appeared before US Magistrate Harwell Davis in federal court in Huntsville Tuesday along with his attorney Robert Tuten, who told the court Parker was pleading not guilty, according to AL.com.

Davis ordered a $5,000 bond for Parker. He faces a felony charge carrying a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. The federal case has been set for June 1 trial.

Parker is facing a federal charge of “deprivation of rights under color of law,” which US Attorney Joyce White Vance said includes the right to be free from “unreasonable force.”

He has also pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge in Limestone County. That will be handled in a separate court appearance next month.

The attackers left on a shed at the temple the mark of Mara Salvatrucha.

gang originating among immigrants from the predominantly Catholic nation of El Salvador and active in the US. The 11CBS network in DallasFort Worth area reported that a temple board member, Krishna Singh, said mandir members discovered the graffiti. “That was a big shock, really,” the network quoted her as saying.

“It makes me sad inside,” a nine-

year-old child, Gracie Reed, told 11CBS. “To me, it’s really horrifying because I don’t know who would do this to a church,” the child said referring to the house of worship.

Dallas police have sent detectives from their gang unit to investigate the incident, according to WFAA, an ABC network affiliated local station. While the administration of President Barack Obama, who has

criticized India over religious tolerance, and Christian leaders did not react to the Texas vandalism, nonHindu neighbors offered to help the temple.

Ted Hoffman, who lives across from the temple, told 11CBS, “We all find it appalling” and the neighbors have offered to help paint over the symbols.

The gesture of help from neighbors was welcomed by Hindus.

WFAA quoted the temple treasurers Karen Snorton as saying she found the offer reassuring.

“They’ve been here so that’s a positive thing that’s come out of all of this,” Snorton said.

In a statement, Universal Society of Hinduism president Rajan Zed thanked the neighbors for offering the temple help.

To counter such attacks, Zed urged fellow Hindus to educate Americans about Hinduism.

“Basics of major world religions should be taught in high schools of the country and first responders should be imparted cultural competency training,” he added.

Palani shares Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting NEW YORK: A software engineer of Indian descent shared The Wall Street Journal’s Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in growing recognition of the importance of using information technology tools for reporting as well as for presentation.

Palani Kumanan, who is a software architect and technical lead with Dow Jones that publishes the Journal, was a part of the winning project’s graphics team, according to Michael Siconolfi, the newspaper’s investigations editor.

The Journal won the top journalism award for its mammoth investigative project, “Medicare Unmasked.” The series mined data obtained from the US government after a prolonged legal fight.

The Journal articles exposed fraud and waste in Medicare, the government health insurance program covering about 43 million senior citizens.

Two Indians named among 2015 Yale World Fellows ARUN KUMAR, WASHINGTON

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wo Indians — SughaVazhvu Healthcare founder and CEO Zeena Johar and journalist-author Rahul Pandita — have been named 2015 Yale World Fellows by the prestigious Ivy League university.

With the addition of Pandita and Johar, the global Yale World Fellows network now includes 17 Indian Fellows, more than any other country since the programme was established in 2002.

The two are among 16 World Fellows selected in 2015 from a

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pool of about 4,000 applicants for the New Haven, Connecticutbased university’s signature global leadership development initiative.

Johar’s SVHC and IKP Centre for Technologies in Public Health (ICTPH) are working to create a primary-care delivery network

through rural clinics.

Pandita was previously the opinion and special stories editor of The Hindu, one of India’s leading English-language newspapers, and has reported extensively from various war-hit places, including Iraq and Sri Lanka.

Pandita is the author of three bestselling books: “Our Moon Has Blood Clots: A Memoir of a Lost Home in Kashmir”, “Hello, Bastar: The Untold Story of India’s Maoist Movement” and “The Absent State: Insurgency as an Excuse for Misgovernance” (coauthor).

Sri Sri’s yoga session inspires European Parliament IANS, BRUSSELS

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ndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call at the UN for an International Day of Yoga reverberated in the European Parliament, the world’s largest legislative body, this week, with internationally known guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar leading a major yoga event.

The event, titled “The Yoga Way,” was organized by the Indian embassy in Brussels in cooperation with the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with India.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s discourse, the interactive question and answer session and the relaxing meditation exercises created a unique buzz among the large audience comprising members of the European Par-

liament, European Union (EU) officials and ambassadors from various countries.

As a curtain raiser event to celebrate the International Day of Yoga on June 21, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar was invited to speak on yoga and conduct a meditation session.

At the instance of Manjeev Singh Puri, Indian Ambassador to the EU, Belgium and Luxembourg, the event was supported by members of all political groups in the European Parliament. This was perhaps for the first time that any event had found resonance among members of all the political groups in the European Parliament.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar was received at the European Parliament by Puri and Members of European Parlia-

ment (MEPs) Geoffrey Van Orden, Nirj Deva, Neena Gill, Jo Leinen and Alojz Peterle.

A video of Prime Minister Modi’s exhortation at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) for declaration of the International Day of Yoga by the UN started the event.

Van Orden, Chairperson of the Delegation for Relations with India, welcomed the guests and said that the delegation was happy to organize yoga in the European Parliament.

Puri said that yoga was important for a holistic approach to health and well-being and was one of the many Indian contributions to the world.

Deva, a British MEP of Sri Lankan origin, and a close associate of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, delivered the

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Bengaluru civic body to split Karnataka legislative assembly passes a bill to split the Bengaluru civic body into two or more corporations, opposition parties protest

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bill to split the Bengaluru civic body into two or more corporations was passed on April 20 in the Karnataka legislative assembly, ignoring protests by opposition parties. “The Karnataka Municipal Corporations (Amendment) Bill, 2015, to split the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) into two or more corporations has been passed in the assembly for governing the city better,” Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister T.B. Jayachandra told reporters.

The ruling Congress convened a special one-day session of the state legislature to amend the law for bifurcating or trifurcating the civic behemoth after Governor Vajubhai Vala returned the ordinance to that effect last week.

“As the population of Bengaluru

Kerala min denies snooping charges

Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike headquarter in Bengaluru.

has increased to over eight million, it has become difficult for the BBMP to administer the city, provide amenities and implement civic schemes to improve the infrastructure,” Jayachandra told the lawmakers in defense of the bill.

Moving the bill earlier, Jayachandra said an experts committee, set up by the state government, had also recommended in its interim report trifurcation of the civic body, which was expanded in 2007 by including seven city municipal councils, one

Goa demolition of slum sparks row with Karnataka IANS, PANAJI

T THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala Police was not engaged in snooping on any legislator, said Kerala Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala in a statement. He said the news about police snooping on legislators was baseless.

“There have been reports attributed to the ruling UDF convenor P.P. Thankachen stating that he said this while speaking to a TV channel. Thankachen himself has denied this. Moreover, no wing of the police department has done this at all,” said Chennithala.

Earlier, Thankachen in an interview to a TV channel had casually mentioned that there is the intelligence wing of the police and it is their job to be on the lookout for any sort of political developments as all governments do this.

Thankachen’s remark had created a furore.

Soon, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) latched on to his remark and attacked the Oommen Chandy government for engaging in snooping activities.

Ever since the Chandy government assumed office after the 2011 assembly polls, it has been precariously placed in the 140-member Kerala assembly and even now it is skating on a wafer thin majority.

he BJP in Goa has demanded the arrest of Karnataka’s higher education minister for making inflammatory speeches over demolition of illegal shanties in Goa, some of them housing Kannadigas, and threatening several thousand Goan IT professionals living in Bengaluru.

“He should be arrested immediately and externed for making such statements,” BJP Goa state spokesperson Damodar Naik told reporters at a press conference here.

Minister R.V. Deshpande accused the BJP-led Goa government of trampling on the rights of some Kannadiga occupants of the over

Authorities demolished several shanties in Goa, terming them unauthorized.

285 illegal shanties, some of which have already been demolished, and warned that Goa should not forget that 20,000-odd of its young workforce are employed in Bengaluru.

“Your 15,000 to 20,000 young Goans are working in I-T sector in Bengaluru... don’t ask any irresponsible questions,” Deshpande said.

town municipal council and 111 surrounding villages to increase its civic wards to 198 from 100.

Opposing the bill vehemently, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) members rushed into the well of the house and urged the government to withdraw it, as splitting the BBMP would not serve the purpose it was intended.

“It is not necessary to divide the BBMP to provide better civic amenities. The session should have been called to discuss damage to crops owing to unseasonal rains,” Leader of Opposition and former chief minister Jagadish Shettar said.

JD-S leader in the house and former chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy questioned the government’s intention to split the civic body, whose five-year term is lapsing on April 22 and the Karnataka High Court on March 30 directed the

state Election Commission to hold the civic polls by May 30.

“If the state government wants to split the BBMP, why did it suddenly supersede it on April 18 and delayed holding its election? The government should have respected the governor’s decision to reject the ordinance,” Kumaraswamy said.

Defending the bill, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah recalled that the BJP had advocated dividing the civic body when it was in power from 2008-2013.

“Though the BJP manifesto 2013 promised splitting the BBMP, just as the Congress had, it is opposing the bill only for political gain. Our party is not making this move for the fear of elections,” Siddaramaiah said.

In the 225-member assembly, including one nominated member, the ruling Congress has 122, the BJP 46, the JD-S 40 and remaining are Independents.

CBI finds nothing to prove graft in 35th National Games THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The preliminary probe by the CBI into the allegations levelled over a massive corruption in the conduct of the 35th National Games in Kerala has nothing substantial to prove, a source said.

The source, who did not wish to be identified, told IANS that the probe was based on a complaint filed by CPI-M legislator V. Sivankutty. “We have not been able to find anything to substantiate the allegations for which a CBI probe was sought. Since the Centre has also funded the event, we also looked into that aspect. The final report will be submitted to a court next month,” said the CBI source.

The budget of the event was `6.11 billion and the games were held in seven districts of the state

from January 31 to February 14, 2015. Things turned hot for the organizers ever since a section of the media here went hammer and tongs against them after it was found that the event management company selected was a sister concern of the leading regional daily in Kerala.

Many reports of alleged corruption surfaced in the media. Following such reports, Sivankutty approached a court, seeking a preliminary Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe.

Solar power lights up Bengaluru cricket stadium IANS, BENGALURU

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he Chinnaswamy cricket stadium in the heart of this tech hub has introduced modern technology, with photovoltaic cells fixed on its circular rooftop to generate solar power for its use.

“Our stadium is the first in the country to install solar panels on the rooftop above the eastern stands to generate about 1,700 units of power daily to meet a part of our energy requirements,” a Karnataka State Cricket Association official said.

Set up under the Indo-German environmental partnership and

(Left) Solar panels line the rooftop of Chinnaswamy stadium.

installed by RonXSol Ecotech Ltd. ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) T20 tournament, the solar

panels will generate 440 kilovolts or six lakh units per annum. “Going forward, similar panels will be

installed on the western side rooftop to generate additional 850kv after this summer,” KSCA spokesman Vinay Mrutyunjaya said.

The combined solar panels will have the potential to generate 1.8 million units per year to meet about 40-50 percent of its peak requirement annually.

“We have invested `30 million to install the solar cells,” Mrutyunjaya said. The stadium consumes maximum energy for lighting the ground, stands, dressing rooms, pavilion and other facilities when hosting the Indian Premier League (IPL) matches in summer.

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Union Sports Ministry suspends India’s Paralympic Committee orders. The IPC on April 15 suspended the PCI for the same charges, following which the sports ministry issued it a showcause notice, asking why should it not be derecognized.

“In a communication sent to the PCI, the ministry has said that the decision has been taken in the wake of numerous serious complaints about poor management/conduct of the 15th National Para Athletics Championships held from March 20-22 in Ghaziabad in all aspects viz., logistics, technical, administra-

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ollowing in the footsteps of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), the Sports Ministry also suspended the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) on April 22 for gross negligence of athletes and poor management of the 15th National Para Athletics Championships in Ghaziabad March 20-22.

The sports ministry suspended the recognition of the National Sports Federation (NSF) with immediate effect till further

Sindhu shines on return

Beat Uzbekistan’s Anait Khurshudyan to progress to women’s singles third round at the $200,000 Badminton Asia Championships IANS, WUHAN (CHINA)

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wo-time World Championship bronze medalist P.V. Sindhu made a winning return to the circuit when she easily beat Uzbekistan’s Anait Khurshudyan to move to the women’s singles third round at the $200,000 Badminton Asia Championships here on April 22.

The eighth seeded Sindhu has been out of action since January due to a foot injury.

Playing her first match in three months, the ace shuttler romped past Anait 21-6, 21-5 in only 16 minutes in the second round at the Wuhan Sports Center Gymnasium. The World No.12, who got a first round bye, will next take on Macau’s Teng Iok U, whom she

will be playing for the first time.

Later, reigning Commonwealth Games champion Parupalli Kashyap also entered the third

Kolkata cricketer stable KOLKATA: The Mamata Banerjeeled West Bengal government on April 22 assured all assistance to injured cricketer Rahul Ghosh, who continues to be in a stable condition but not out of danger yet.

A day after the tragic demise of former Bengal Under-19 captain Ankit Keshri due to an on-field injury, Ghosh was on April 21 rushed to the Nightingale Hospital in central Kolkata after he got injured while fielding during a Cricket Association of Bengal’s (CAB) second division league match between his team Kolkata Police and Vijay Sports.

State Youth Affairs Minister Aroop Biswas paid a visit to Ghosh, assuring government assistance.

“The chief minister (Mamata Banerjee) is very anxious and concerned about Ghosh’s health. She

round of men’s singles.

The 28-year-old had to endure a marathon one-hour 53-minute battle against Chinese Taipei’s Jen

Hao Hsu before he came out on top 15-21, 21-18, 21-19.

Kashyap will next play Chinese seventh seed Zhengming Wang against whom the Hyderabadi has a 1-3 record.

Meanwhile in men’s doubles, the pair of Manu Attri and B. Sumeeth Reddy got a walkover from Afghan combine Ahmad Shekib Iqbal and Ahmad Faheem Yari to enter the third round. In the third round, they will face a tough test against Chinese third seeds Xiaolong Liu and Zihan Qiu. In the same category, it was bad news for Indian shuttlers as Japanese fourth seeds Hiroyuki Endo and Kenichi Hayakawa took care of Akshay Dewalkar and Pranaav Chopra in the second round, winning 21-15, 21-17 in 36 minutes.

tive, etc,” said a sports ministry statement.

The Sports Authority of India conducted an inquiry into the conduct of the competition and submitted its report to the sports ministry, who then asked the PCI why should it not be suspended.

The inquiry found that the complaints against it were largely wellfounded. “The government of India is of the view that PCI has violated the terms and conditions of recognition as well as provisions of its own constitution,” said the statement.

‘Ashwin is an exceptional bowler’ BENGALURU: Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) head coach Daniel Vettori says Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin is an “exceptional” bowler. “He has Ravichandran been around for Ashwin a long time and been successful. He is one guy who is always developing himself and updating his game to go with the new challenges. That is a sign that he is an exceptional spin bowler,” Vettori was quoted as saying by iplt20.com on April 21.

Speaking about the role of spinners in T20s, the former New Zealand left-arm spinner also said the success of Ashwin and South African leg-spinner Imran Tahir shows traditional spinner can be immensely successful in limited overs format.

Lou Williams wins NBA Sixth Man Award IANS, TORONTO

T has said that the state government will provide all kind of assistance to the family to ensure his fully recovery,” said Biswas.

The cricketer’s father earlier said Ghosh’s condition was stable but he was not yet out of danger.

“The doctors said his condition is stable, though he is not yet out of danger. They said they will conduct some medical examinations on him, to ascertain if he requires a surgery,” Amitabha Ghosh said on April 22.

oronto Raptors guard Lou Williams was announced as the winner of the 2014-15 season NBA Sixth Man Award for being the league’s best player in a reserve role.

The 28-year-old, who won the award on April 20, averaged a career-high 15.5 points to help Toronto win a franchise-record 49 games. He became the first player in franchise history to capture the award, reported Xinhua.

In his tenth NBA season and first with the Raptors, Williams garnered 78 first place votes and 502 total points from a panel of 130 media members from the United States and Canada.

Williams beat Celtics guard Isaiah Thomas and two-time winner Jamal Crawford of Los Angeles Clippers, who finished with 324

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points (33 first-place votes) and 131 points (eight first-place votes) respectively. “I just want to thank my teammates and my family for being here. This is a tremendous accomplishment,” said Williams during his award acceptance speech in Toronto. “The fan base has embraced me. I’ve had some

very supportive teammates. I’m forever grateful.”

For Williams, his path to winning the award was a difficult journey. After committing to play at the University of Georgia after high school, Williams opted to enter the 2005 NBA Draft where he was chosen 45th overall.

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‘Commercial success important for survival’ The days when critical success mattered are long gone.

Now what matters is box office success, feels actor Nakul HARICHARAN PUDIPEDDI, CHENNAI

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ctor Nakul, who was recently seen in sleeper hit Tamiluku En Ondrai Azhuthavum and has been part of the Tamil industry for over a decade, says critical success doesn’t matter anymore as everybody has become money minded.

“Today, I don’t think critical success matters anymore. It has to be commercial success. Producers have become very moolahconscious, especially with the entry of big studios and corporates. When you take all these factors into consideration, you ought to have a good film to survive,” Nakul told

Nikita lands special song in ‘Paayam Puli’ CHENNAI: Kannada actress Nikita Thukral has been roped in for a special folk number in Vishal Krishna Reddy-starrer Tamil actioner Paayam Puli. “We recently shot a special folk number with Nikita. It has come out very well. To shoot the song, a market set was erected,” the film’s director Suseenthiran told IANS. Nikita is most popular for her item number in “Saroja” in Tamil cinema.Also starring Kajal Aggarwal and Aishwarya Dutta, the film features Vishal in the role of a policeman.

IANS. “If a new hero is coming into the market, he has to create an impact with the box office business; otherwise it’s tough to survive. Becoming a hero is easy, but staying one in the top league is extremely tough,” he said.

Basking in the success of his latest film, Nakul says he has been waiting since 2009 for a hit. “I

accepted Tamiluku Ena merely as an obligation when the producer of my last film, Naan Rajavaga Pogiren, which didn’t do well, came back to me with an offer. I was touched by his gesture. And when I heard the script, I was blown away and decided I had to do this film,” he said.

“I knew there was something about the film that’ll work in our favor but I never anticipated this kind of success, which even got me appreciation from some industry bigwigs such as A.R. Murugadoss and Shankar,” he said, and added that a hit is welcome anytime in one’s career.

Nakul also believes that Tamiluku Ena was more like a test for him, and that its success gave him the reassurance that he is on the right track in his career. It also made him realise that it’s perfectly alright to wait for the right script to come along.

Nakul has only starred in eight films so far.

Cheating case against Shruti Haasan withdrawn IANS, HYDERABAD

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icture House Media, a leading production company, on Monday withdrew a cheating case it had filed against Shruti Haasan last month for walking out of one of their upcoming yet-untitled TeluguTamil bilingual projects.

“The case was withdrawn after Tamil Film Producers Council (TPFC) and South Indian Film Artists Association (SIAA) intervened and settled the issue amicably,” read a statement.

“Shruti is very thankful for the intervention of SIAA on the matter as the lawyer

sided with her cause due to harassment meted out to her. Thanks to the support of the industry bodies, she has also decided to withdraw the defamation claim against the producers for misrepresentation and revealing misleading facts to the media,” Shruti’s spokesperson told IANS. Keeping this issue in mind, TPFC and SIAA said that artistes should work in tandem with the producers and not cause heavy losses to them because of their irresponsible acts.

Actress Tamannaah Bhatia has replaced Shruti in the project, which also features Nagarjuna and Karthi.

Kajal, Amala follow Gaurang Shah’s creations CHENNAI: After charming Sonam Kapoor, Vidya Balan, Kirron Kher and a host of other actresses in Bollywood, Gaurang Shah’s creations are now sought by popular southern stars like Kajal Aggarwal and Amala Paul.

When Amala Paul wore a green floor length khadi Anarkali, with zardosi embroidery from Shah’s “Chandbali” creation with a Kanjeevaram dupatta at a recent launch, she couldn’t stop her admiration for the handwoven creation and said in a statement: “Love this creation of pure elegance!! You are a true genius Gaurang. Thank you.”

What charmed Kajal was Shah’s grey tie-n-dye ikkat Kanjeevaram saree with a traditional yellow border inspired from the 16th century temple art. The sari she wore recently for a

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launch was a pure amalgamation of traditional korvai weaving of Kanchipuram and contemporary ikkat of Andhra Pradesh. “I am really pleased the Kajal and Amala wore these exquisitely crafted dresses and expressed their appreciation,” Shah said.

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‘Kanchana 2’: A weak film in the franchise

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ith the Kanchana franchise, which is now about eight years old, Lawrencce had opened the floodgates to several successful horrorcomedies in Tamil cinema. The first two parts worked because it was the beginning of a trend and the audience dug the films, but slowly as filmmakers started milking dry this genre, something innovative was expected and that was missing in Raghava Lawrencce-directed Kanchana 2, the latest installment from the franchise.

The movie, which follows a very cliched and dated format of horror

Film: Kanchana 2; Cast: Raghava Lawrencce, Taapse Pannu, Nitya Menen, Jayaprakash and Kovai Sarla; Director: Raghava Lawrencce; Rating: **1/2 template, suffers heavily due to the lack of a good story. Forget great acting, which you really can’t expect from these films as their sole intention is to scare with sound and the ghost element. But we’ve had so many horror films of late; you wish these films offered better thrills!

Some of these films have had great

comedy, but slowly the jokes too are failing to keep us entertained.

Lately, all horror stories have been mostly about revenge, and sadly they’ve all been loud, over-the-top and extremely passe.

There are about five ghosts in Kanchana 2, and Lawrencce gets to play all of them. This only proves that he can play any number of characters sans adding any value to the story.

The visual effects are pitiful, and the climatic fight between two ghosts is a bad rip-off of the Hulk versus Superman fights on Youtube.

— Haricharan Pudipeddi

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37 years of ‘Don’

Big B nostalgic

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan becomes nostalgic as his blockbuster film ‘Don’ completes 37 years this week IANS, MUMBAI

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egastar Amitabh Bachchan, whose memorable film Don completed 37 years of its release this week, is glad that the “incredible” journey of the film “still continues” The movie is an action-thriller, which revolves around a powerful gangster named Don played by Amitabh, who was seen in a double role in the film.

“37 years of ‘DON’ today (April 2). A film made by that gentle

giant Nariman Irani, the DOP of extreme excellence,” Big B wrote on his blog.

The 72-year-old is ecstatic about the film’s journey and he even took to his micro-blogging website Twitter to express his happiness with his fans and well-wishers.

“37 years of DON .. today!!

Incredible! A journey that still continues,” he tweeted.

The actor also shared anecdotes from the set of the film — especially one when producer Nariman A. Irani saved a child at the Rajkamal Studios, while he was shooting

Salman Khan case verdict on May 6

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SRK ‘overwhelmed’ with love from fans MUMBAI: Superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who received the Dadasaheb Phalke Film Foundation Award 2015 for his performance in the 2014 film Happy New Year, has thanked his fans and audiences for showering him with love throughout.

The superstar, who has won epithets like ‘King Khan’, ‘Baadshah’ and ‘King of Romance’ thanks to films like Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Veer-Zaara and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, was honored at an event here on April 21.

The 49-year-old, who looked dapper in a black suit, even charmed the audience at the ceremony with his iconic romantic pose by opening up his arms wide.

NEW DELHI: After sweeping the National Film Awards, Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider has topped the technical winners' list with six honors by the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA).

The IIFA Rocks and Technical Awards will take place on June 5 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, as part of the IIFA Weekend and Awards.

Haider has won in the technical categories including Costume Designing (Dolly Ahluwalia), Background Score (Vishal Bhardwaj), Sound Mixing (Debajit Changmai), Sound Design (Shajith Koyeri), Production Design (Subrata Chakraborty and Amit Ray) and Makeup (Preetisheel Singh and Clover Wootton). Other winners in the technical category are Queen and Kick with two nods each.

Time for musical lessons for Sarah MUMBAI: Taking her passion for music a step forward, actress-singer Sarah Jane Dias is learning the acoustic guitar to hone her musical skills.

“I always had a nag to learn an instrument since my childhood. However, I never got to do so…I believe that learning of any kind of music...be it instrumental or vocal... enhances your ability as an artist,” Sarah Jane said in a statement.

She is taking vocal lessons from Samantha Edward and instrument from a Parsi musician.

The former Miss India, who released her first single “Forgot to be me” on Valentine’s Day this year, shared that she is an ‘obedient student’.

“I’m very happy to have found someone who has learnt the art of acoustic guitar from the golden era of guitar. I’m an obedient student,” she added.

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umbai Sessions Court Additional Sessions Judge D. W. Deshpande will pronounce the verdict on May 6 in the 13-year-old case of an accident involving Bollywood actor Salman Khan, in which one person was killed and four were injured.

The announcement was made here on Tuesday, a day after the prosecution, led by special public prosecutor Pradeep Gharat, and the defense team led by Shrikant Shivade completed their arguments in

for a film there. “Ran (Irani) to save the child. He did. But injured himself in the effort. Broke his femur, was hospitalized, went into surgery and came out well. Few days later complications set in and he passed away,” Big B wrote.

Also reminiscing the iconic song Khaike paan Benares waala, he said it was shot in second shifts at Mehboob Studios from 2 to 10 p.m. “During the action scene, I had hurt my feet and had huge burn boils on the palm of my feet.

Could not wear shoes, or walk.

The song was bare foot...so...took pain killer injections on my feet before each shot and completed the song and the scene,” Big B wrote on his blog.

The actor was congratulated for the song by then writer duo Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar. The duo saw the rushes of the film and sent a telegram to Srinagar where the megastar was shooting.

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the case on April 20. Salman has been facing trial for 13 years in the accident case in Bandra, in the early hours of September 28, 2002, which left one pavement dweller dead and four others injured.

Nurullah Mehboob Sharif succumbed to his injuries and four others — Munna Malai Khan, Kalim Mohammed Pathan, Abdullah Rauf Shaikh and Muslim Sheikh were injured. Salman was charged under IPC Section 304 II which attracts upto 10 years in prison.

‘Mr X’ will make you run to trauma centre Film: Mr X, Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Amyra Dastur, Arunodoy Singh, Director: Vikram Bhatt, Rating: * 1/2

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o... how bad is it? That’s the question which, those lucky enough not to sit through this newest and perhaps stupidest cockand-bull concoction from the once-illustrious house of Bhatts, would gleefully ask those who are fated to suffer the wages of sins that we unknowingly committed in our previous lives to be punished in this way.

Unlike the Bhatts’ last film Khamoshiyan which was unintentionally funny Mr X is not even that. It is punishingly bad. A crime

caper that is likely to qualify as cognizable offense if stretch into, god forbid, a sequel.

The best thing about this dreadful film is that Emraan Hashmi is invis-

ible for a part of the playing time.

What I did miss was the presence of a script writer who knows the craft of spreading an outlandish idea (man gets swathed in a chemical and

goes invisible) into an engaging comic book yarn. Too stiff limbed to be animated, this is a film that begs to be told to chill.

Not one character comes across as anything but cartoonish in the most laughable way possible. The villain played by the once-interesting Arunodoy Singh snarls and grits his teeth scaring no one except himself.

Stand-up comedian Tanmay Bhatt is cast as Popo, a good Samaritan with a sister who works in a hospital. The sister rummages the medicine cabinets for antidotes to Hashmi’s chemical radiation.

“This will either kill or cure you,” she says flashing a bluish liquid into our face. We’d like to call for help from the nearest trauma centre.

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ollywood actress Katrina Kaif will grace the red carpet at the 68th Cannes International Film Festival as the ambassador of cosmetic brand L’Oréal Paris. She says she can’t wait to join the other global ambassadors, which also include Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Sonam Kapoor.

L’Oréal Paris will celebrate 18 years of its partnership as the official makeup partner for Festival De Cannes, and it promises an exciting line-up of its spokespeople ready to walk the red carpet from May 13-24.

In the past, Aishwarya and Sonam have made India proud with their stunning beauty and fashion statements, and now Katrina -- who has worked with top-notch stars and filmmakers in her over decadelong acting career in Bollywood — is ready to sport a specially created look for her debut at Cannes.

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My son doesn’t get affected: Malaika

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ctor-producer Malaika Arora, who has changed the dynamics of item songs in Bollywood, says she enjoys dancing and her son doesn’t get affected by her work.

Asked how her son Arhaan reacts to her dance numbers, she told IANS: “He doesn’t get affected by my songs. He is too tiny and young. If he likes the song, he comes up and says that he liked it.

“For me, personally I think songs are part of the film and it’s fun to be a part of a song but it also depends on how it’s going to be publicised and picturised. I love it and every time I get the opportunity to be a part of something, I always say yes.”

People fainting during ‘Mohenjo Daro’ shoot

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ctor Hrithik Roshan is finding it tough to shoot for Mohenjo Daro in dust storms.

However, he is happy that the “film is progressing fantastically”.

“We are working very hard in the middle of dust storms. It’s a tough shoot. What to say... people are fainting on the set. But we are at it,” Hrithik said.

Directed by Ashutosh Gowariker, Mohenjo Daro is an epic love story set in the Indus Valley civilization. It is being extensively shot in Bhuj.

Meanwhile, reports are in that Hrithik will go nude for a scene in the film. When asked about it, he quipped: “I don’t go nude in films.”

Freida Pinto avoids mirrors

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ctor Freida Pinto says she isn’t interested in the way she looks and often avoids looking at her reflection in the mirror.

The Slumdog Millionaire star isn’t interested in constantly checking her appearance and is aware her beauty often works against her when it comes to landing gritty roles, although she is keen to change people’s opinions of her in the industry, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

“It’s not necessarily the way I see myself. In fact, I don’t even like to look at myself in the mirror. But I’m aware of the perception and I always say that if it’s because of that one line in ‘Slumdog...’ where Latika is described as ‘the most beautiful girl in the world’, then I have to do everything that I can to change that perception,” Pinto said.

Sonam begins filming her next

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onam Kapoor has begun shooting for the biopic of Neerja Bhanot, a Pan Am chief purser who was gunned down by terrorists when Flight 73 was hijacked in Karachi in 1986.

Sonam feels humbled to be a part of the biopic, which is ace photographer Atul Kasbekar’s debut production.

“Day 1 of #NeerajBhanot thank you @foxstarhindi and @BlingLive for making this possible... Let the journey begin! #nerves #excitement #humbled (sic),” the 29-year-old actress tweeted.

Kasbekar wished for good luck for the film and tweeted: “#NeerjaBhanot Her story begins today... Wish us luck.”

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NRIs URGED TO INVEST IN TELENGANA

(L-R) Iftekhar Shareef, Consul General of India Dr. Ausaf Sayeed, Smt. Kavitha Kalvakuntla, US Congressional candidate Raja Krishnamoorthi & former Mayor of Cicero city Mr. Ramiro Gonzalez energy.

BY A STAFF WRITER Iftekhar Shareef added that the business HICAGO, IL -- A trail-blazing youthful leader and a first woman climate in Telangana was ripe with outstanding Telangana Member of Parliament opportunities and as such platforms for (MP) Kavitha Kalvakuntla of TRS investments could serve dual purpose of serving party was accorded a rousing reception witnessed the native state/country a also reaping healthy by prominent business and community leaders returns in the investments. gathered under the leadership of Iftekhar Shareef Iftekhar Shareef urged all Telugu Associations at his residence in Lincolnwood, IL on April 20. to join hands in promoting “Bathukamma” Present at the memorable program were festivals, and bring in Hyderabadi Urdu Consul General of India Dr. Ausaf Sayeed, talents like ghazal singers, Urdu comedies, former Mayor of Cicero city Ramiro Gonzalez Urdu literature to join hands during the “ who is close associate to President of Mexico Bathukamma” festivals next year.

Iftekhar Shareef made an impassioned Enrique Pena Nieto who was elected on December 1st. 2012, along with promising US appeal to the business leaders to focus on the Congressional candidate Raja Krishnamoorthi. new Telangana state as he assured that the Host Iftekhar Shareef welcomed the state under the leadership of Chief Minister eminent guests and said it was the goal of the K. Chandrasekhar Rao and Parliamentarian reception to inspire NRI investments in the Kavitha Kalvakuntla would open a new glorious newly-formed state of Telangana. As a native chapter in the golden history of Telangana.

He concluded saying that he would play Telanganite, Iftekhar Shareef insisted that Telangana has a buoyant market for lucrative his humble part in vigorously promoting Brand investments and added that he would strive Telangana.

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Jilted groom beats up, rapes Muslim woman in Phoenix

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HONIX, AZ- A Muslim woman expected to enter an arranged marriage in Phoenix was beaten and raped by her groom-to-be after she refused to marry the man.

Mohamed S. Abdullahi, 30, who was arrested on April 21 faces sexual assault and kidnapping charges. The police referred to the alleged victim as a young adult.

The families agreed on a “Nikah,” a formal Islamic marriage. The woman, who apparently had no desire to be with Abdullahi, ran away but returned about 15 days later to finish school.

The police are investigating details leading up to the alleged assault, investigating whether the woman’s Somali family forced her into the apartment where the police say she was raped and held against her will.

It is learnt that the woman was brought to the apartment on April 20.

Welcome ceremony to Smt. Kavitha Kalvakuntla Shareef profusely heaped praises of approbation on Kavitha Kalvakuntla as a new-age MP who keenly understood the deeper nuances of the role of a parliamentarian and how to rapidly usher developmental programs that would percolate to the common people in Telangana.

Earlier, Consul General of India Dr. Ausaf Sayeed warmly welcomed MP Kavitha Kalvakuntla and thanked the host Iftekhar Shareef for convening such an important forum of meeting of business minds to foster greater role by NRI communities and inspiring more investment opportunities in India.

Consul General Dr. Ausaf Sayeed said he had the good fortune of meeting her father Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao during his visit to Hyderabad early this year and discussed specific proposals and initiatives. CG said he discussed potential collaborations and partnerships opportunities.

Iftekhar Shareef invited former Cicero City Mayor Ramiro Gonzalez to share as to how he could help develop a plan to bring about a closer business ties between India and Mexico. Shareef

said he woud strive to work out the modalities of fostering India-Mexico relationship, especially in solar energy which, he said, was the crying need in several states in India like Telangana.

In his brief remarks, former Mayor Ramirez Gonzalez said he looked forward to the opportunity to paying a visit to Telangana to advance business relationships especially in solar energy.

Later, Raja Krishnamoorthi, US Congressional candidate joined in commending Parliamentarian Kavitha Kalvakuntla and laid out the importance of the solar energy in the growing market, adding that there were increasing opportunities in this field.

Among the prominent attendees included American Telugu Association (ATA) Trustees and members, Karunakar Madhavaram, immediate past ATA president, Dr. Siraj Ahmed,Dr. Kapadia, Ajai Agnihotri,Kanti Patel, Madhav Reddy,Hanumanth Reddy, Bhailal Patel, Sanhita Agnihotri, Minhaj Akhtar, Satya Kandimalla, Syed Rafi of Dream India Developer group from Hyderabad.

Doctor shields staff from angry man who shot his wife

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EMISON, AL -- Dr. Jayprakash “Jay” Patel may have saved his staff and patients from serious harm from an enraged husband who killed his wife in the doctor’s waiting area.

Patel said a woman, later identified by police as 24-year-old Leaj Price, who lived next to Patel’s Jemison Internal Medicine office with her husband, Eric Heath Price, 25, fled to the Indian American’s facility after a fight with her husband.

Patel said he was in an examination room in the morning on April 13 when he “heard some screaming” in the main entrance, he told reporters.

He found the couple struggling, with the

Dr Jayprakash ‘Jay’ Patel husband gripping the wife’s hand “trying to pull her out” of the office.

When Patel and a patient tried to persuade

the man to let the woman go, the man “pulled out a gun” from his pocket, Patel said.

The doctor quickly realized — when Price aimed a gun at himself and the other patient — that his priority was to protect the staff and patients, so he herded them into a back area and locked the door. He then heard another scream and then “a pop,” he said.

“It was very traumatizing,” he told reporters, thankful that his staff and patients “didn’t witness what happened in the lobby.”

Patel, a graduate of Kasturba Medical College Manipal, has worked at his office in Jemison for about 20 years.

Eric Price later shot himself in the head.

After recovering from his injuries, he was charged by the police with murder on April 14.

Life in prison for two for 2 for killing two men said. Now, the duo faces the possibility of life

BY A STAFF WRITER in prison without the possibility of parole.

ALINAS, CA -- An Indian On August 11, 2013, Monterey man, Richard Singh, and County sheriff ’s deputies found another 21-year-old Seaside 23-year-old Demetrius Safford and man have been convicted of 22-year-old Navneal Singh dead killing two men in an August 2013 in Aromas. Both Sacramento men “ambush-style” attack. sustained several gunshot wounds to Singh and Jordan Killens faced the back. a week of prosecutorial evidence Singh was first arrested in March, before the defense put on two Richard Singh 2014, but was later released based on witnesses who defended Killens. insufficient evidence, Monterey County The jury deliberated for less than a day Sheriff ’s Detective Matthew Davis testified before rendering a guilty decision, prosecutors last week.

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Singh was then re-arrested in July 2014, and Killens was arrested a month later on the anniversary of Navneal Singh’s and Safford’s deaths.

Navneal Singh was no relation to Richard Singh, prosecutors said.

During the trial, Eric Romero and Ronald Saxton testified they witnessed the late-night murders. According to Saxton, Richard Singh had arranged for the group to commit a homeinvasion robbery in Prunedale.

Monterey County Superior Court Judge Julie Culver will sentence the two on June 3.

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OHIO MAN ACCUSED OF PLOT TO ATTACK MILITARY BASE, PRISON

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OLUMBUS, OH-- An Ohio man traveled to Syria and trained alongside terrorists, then returned to the US with plans to attack a military base or a prison, according to a federal indictment announced on April 16.

Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud, a US citizen originally from Somalia, wanted to “kill three or four American soldiers execution style,” according to the indictment. Attacking the prison was part of a backup plan if that didn’t work, the charges said.

The indictment also says Mohamud’s brother, Abdifatah Aden, fought with Jabhat al-Nusrah, a state department-designated terrorist group, until he was killed in battle in Syria in June, 2014.

Mohamud, 23, of Columbus was charged with supporting terrorism, supporting the same terrorist group and making a false statement involving international terrorism when he allegedly lied to an Ohio FBI agent by saying he was in Istanbul when authorities said he was in Syria.

The government charged Mohamud under the laws most commonly used since the September 11, 2001 attacks to prosecute terror suspects. He faces up to 38 years in

Indian cop arrested for cocaine trafficking

Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud, left, speaks with his defense attorney, Sam Shamansky (File photo) prison if convicted.

Mohamud was arrested in Columbus in February on state terrorism and money laundering counts. Mohamud became a US citizen in February 2014, according to the government.

The government didn’t say how it learned of the plot, but the indictment mentions two “unnamed” associates of Mohamud in the US to whom he gave information about his activities, including a video of Mohamud carrying an AK-47.

One of them said he believed Mohamud

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UBA CITY, CA -- Harminder Phagura, an Indian American police officer in Yuba City, has been arrested on federal charges for his alleged involvement in a cocaine trafficking scheme.

Phagura (35), an officer with the Yuba City Police Department, was arrested following a criminal complaint accusing him of conspiring to possess a controlled substance with intent to distribute and use of a communications facility in narcotics trafficking activity.

Gursharan Phagura, 39, was also arrested. The two men are believed to be related. The two men made their first appearance in federal court on April 15.

Following the hearing, Phagura was released on $100,000 bond.

Gursharan Phagura remains in custody.

T h e a r re s t s a re t h e l a t e s t development in a long-term probe targeting suspected cocaine trafficking

by Gursharan Phagura.

Harminder has been placed on paid administrative leave.

was trying to recruit him to participate in the plot, according to the indictment.

The government also said Mohamud made terrorism-related Facebook posts in 2013.

U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, a Texas Republican and chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, said the charges highlighted the threat posed by Americans joining extremists overseas then returning home.

Events leading to Mohamud’s arrest began around September 2013 when he communicated online with his brother over

plans to also travel to Syria to fight, the indictment said. They later talked about ways Mohamud could support him financially, according to the government.

Mohamud told his brother of his desire to “join you in the high ranks as a Mujahid,” or violent jihadist, according to the indictment.

Mohamud also told one of his US associates he was happy about his brother’s death and said he “was next and would join Aden soon,” the indictment said.

A year ago, Mohamud bought a one-way plane ticket to Athens with a connection in Istanbul, where he got off and didn’t board his next flight, the indictment said. Instead, he ended up in Syria where he received training “including shooting weapons, breaking into houses, explosives, and hand-to-hand combat,” the government said.

A cleric then instructed him to return to the US to carry out an act of terrorism, according to the government. In 2012, a Somali immigrant to Columbus who federal prosecutors say plotted to attack a shopping mall was deported to Somalia. Mohamud’s indictment is one of several recent cases involving people in the US, including citizens, accused of traveling overseas to fight in Syria.

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CHAUMBURG (IL) – The In d o - A m e ri c a n C h ri s t i a n Children of Chicago and North America (ICCCNA) successfully presented its First Christian Gospel Concert in St. Peter Lutheran Church, Schaumburg, Illinois on April 18.

Pastor Pakerla Jeeva, a gifted Christian Gospel singer, writer, recording artist, released his new musical album “Srastha” in the historical church.

The album is essentially modified Indian musical Ragas with the theme of love and salvation of Christ.

About a hundred Indian classical singers, musicians participated in the making of “Srastha” Musical Album, a landmark in the Telugu Global Christian community in general and in the Telugu literature in particular.

Dr. Regi Paul, organizer of Christian musical concert, said the purpose was to bring all together to form Chicago singers’ and musicians’ network under the umbrella of ICCCNA.

Pastors from Chicago Churches congratulating Pastor Jeeva.

ACCUSED IN FATAL ROBBERY CASE KILLS SELF IN ILLINOIS

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AY VIEW GARDENS (IL) -Robert McGrane, the suspect in a fatal Bay View Gardens gas station robbery that left Rajesh Madala, an Indian American gas station attendant, dead, killed himself on April 7 during a confrontation with the police.

Within 24 hours, officers had identified McGrane, 48, as the suspect they believed robbed a Bay View Gardens gas station and shot and killed the 35-year-old Madala.

About 6 pm on April 7, officers obtained an arrest warrant and by 6:43 p.m. had arrived near Banta and Lazy Acres roads in a remote area of Woodford County.

Rajesh Madala According to an April 8 news release from the Woodford County Sheriff ’s

Office, a brief exchange of gunfire ensued and McGrane fell to the ground.

The shooting occurred about 7:15 pm, said Woodford County Sheriff ’s Chief Deputy Dennis Tipsword.

On the night of April 7, authorities reported an officer shot and killed McGrane. But on April 8, coroner Tim Ruestman said McGrane died from a single, self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

WoodfordCounty authorities still are investigating the robbery and fatal shooting at the Auto Gas Station, 1510 Spring Bay Road. Investigators had not determined April 8 how much cash had been taken in the robbery, or what may have motivated McGrane to rob the station.

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GOPIO’S BUSINESS MEET, ANNUAL GALA

GOPIO Executive Board members with Student Award Recipient, Aashna Garg

Dignitaries: Raja Krishnamoorthi, Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth, Consul General of India Dr. Ausaf Sayeed, Dr. Gopal Lalmalani, Congressman Danny Davis, Senator Dan Kotowski, Senator Michael Noland, & Senator Cullerton. that his chapter would provide a platform for

BY A STAFF WRITER HICAGO, IL -- The crème de la business community in Chicago to network crème guest list of the GOPIO’s and learn about tax incentives for doing inaugural business conference and business in India.

The Indian Consul General highlighted annual gala held on April 18 at the Oakbrook Marriott Hotel, Grand Ball Room, the key steps that the new Indian government 1401 W 22nd St, Oak Brook, IL could leave under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi had initiated to promote anyone spellbound.

Present at the grand gathering were Indo-US business. He also tried to sort out the high-profile US political leaders, including confusion over various kinds of visas to India.

After the lighting of the ceremonial two Congressmen, three state senators, state treasurer, a village president, a Padmashree, lamp, Congresswoman Duckworth, urged Indian Consul General, a few dozen artists, the Indian community to build upon their and 200 CEOs, CFOs, and other distinguished success as professionals and entrepreneurs and to become more active participants in the guests.

Among those who attended were electoral process.

Congresswoman Duckworth introduced Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth, also a Democratic candidate for the US Senate, Raja Krishnamoorthi who intends to succeed India’s Consul General, Dr. Ausaf Sayeed, her as the US Representative from the Illinois Congressman Danny Davis, Former Illinois 8th district. Raja urged Indian community Deputy Treasurer Raja Krishnamoorthi, members to vote and have their opinions Illinois State Senators - Don Kotowski, Tom counted in the 2016 elections.

Cullerton, and Michael Noland, Illinois State Padmasree Dr. Bala Balachandran, former Treasurer Michael Frerichs, Padmashree Dr. Dean of Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Bala Balachandran, and Oak Brook Village Management, gave the keynote address. Dr. President, Dr. Gopal Lalmalani.

Balachandran, inspired the crowd with his In his address, Gladson Varghese, depth of knowledge about business processes president of GOPIO Chicago, announced and words of wisdom about life in general.

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He asked everyone to put aside their egos and act on achieving their dreams. He mentioned his keynote speech during his recent visit to Gujarat and where he talked about empowering society through Innovation in education.

Village president Dr. Lalmalani offered his full support to anyone in the Indian community who wishes to launch business with the Village of Oak Brook.

The formal meeting was followed by cultural events that included dazzling dances from various states of India. Those dances portrayed a brief glimpse of Indian art forms like Kuchipudi, Mohiniattyam, Bhangra and Bollywood fusion styles.

The Aananda Dance Theatre presented Thillana, the Bharatanjanli Dance School presented Saraswati Slokam, the Soorya Dance Academy performed a fusion dance and the Men of Dance performed the vibrant Bhangra dance. Performers included Chetan Saini and Nipa Shah.

The cultural programs were emceed by Vikrant Singh and Shree Gurusamy. Savinder Singh, secretary of GOPIO Chicago, emceed the main event.

Various awards were presented on the occasion: Dr. Ausaf Sayyed-- Community Service Award; Vijay Patel--Businessman Award; Aashna Garg--Best Student Award; Syed Hussaini from Wintrust Bank--Grand Sponsor Award; Ketu Amin--Guest of Honor Award; Gulzar Multani--Guest of Honor Award; Grand Canyon University--Sponsor award.

“One main focus of GOPIO Chicago

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hasyakavisammelanHASVA Kavi Sammelan: Annual Symposium of Comic poets featuring Arun Gemini, Ved Prakash Ved, Ritu Goel from India and hosted by Uttar PrasdeshAssociation of Greater Chicago, May 3, 4:00 pm to 8:00

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is business networking and help Indian community excel in the business they are doing. So we request each one of you to become a member of this great organization by contacting one of the office bearers”, said Gladson Varghese President of GOPIO Chicago Chapter.

Savi Singh, secretary of GOPIO Chicago Chapter, said that GOPIO was one of the largest Indian organizations outside India with chapters in some 20 countries, adding that the initial thrust of GOPIO was fighting human rights violation of people of Indian origin.

“Although this has been improved in the last one decade, human rights violations continue to be a major issue for PIOs living outside India. GOPIO has now set its priorities in pooling our resources, both financial and professional, for the benefit of PIOs, the countries they come from and India. We welcome Indian community in Chicago to join in this international effort” said Savi Singh.

Savi Singh is president of KBR Investments Inc., president of BK Oil LLC and completed his term as president of Punjabi Americans Organization. He is prominent community leader and pioneer in entertainment business.

GOPIA executive committee and board members are Gladson Varghese (pPresident), Hemant Trivedi (vice president), Savi Singh (secretary), Syed Hussaini (treasurer), Joe Nedumgottil (jt. treasurer), Hina Trivedi (executive board of directors), Vikrant Singh (advisory board), Vandana Jhingan (advisory board), Dinkar Karumuri, Shree Gurusamy, Nirav Patel and Sharan Walia—all board members.

American Association of Retired Asians: May 8, 6:30 p.m “seventh Annual Fundraising Gala” featuring singers Nialini Parikh & Rajesh Chalam and hosted

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INDIAN SENIORS OF CHICAGO MAKES BIRTHDAYS SPECIAL

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HICAGO, IL -- Members of the Indian Seniors of Chicago met at Manav Seva Mandir, Benselville , IL on April 11 for the celebration of birthday and Hanuman Jayanti program.

Around 215 members attended the meeting conducted by Hira Patel.

In the beginning, Naran Mody, Hema Shastri, Gita Suthar and Nayana Dwivedi conducted the Bhajan session.

Raju Patel and Sarojben Shah sang some bhajans and prayers which were followed by Hanuman Chalisa recital and all the members cooperated to sing with them.

C V Desai presented the detailed accounts for March and also gave the names of donors. To celebrate Hanuman Jayanti, Bipin Shah gave a speech about the incarnation of Hanumanji.

He said that Hanumanji was the 11th Avatar of Lord Shiva and sang a prayer

Narrow escape for passengers as plane door opens

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plane carrying 75 passengers left O’Hare International Airport on April 22 morning at 9:30 a.m. for Bradley Airport in Connecticut but was forced into an emergency landing--descending 28,000 feet in just five minutes--after the cabin lost pressure mid-flight.

SkyWest Flight 5622 landed safely in Buffalo, NY, shortly after 11:30 a.m.

Central time.

As many as four passengers lost consciousness when the cabin depressurized after a mechanical failure caused the main passenger door to open.

The SkyWest plane, an Embraer narrow-body jet, operating as United Express Flight 5622, passed over Michigan and made its rapid descent over Lake Erie to land at Buffalo Niagara International Airport.

According to SkyWest officials, the passenger door did not open and the plane was diverted due to one passenger passing out. Government sources said the plane was forced into an emergency landing due to a loss of cabin pressure and several people lost consciousness.

SkyWest, headquartered in Utah, flies about 1,700 flights each day and is partnered with several major airlines, including United, Delta and American airlines.

In a recent survey of airline q u a l i t y c o n d u c t e d by Em b r y Riddle Aeronautical University, Sky West ranked third-worst among carriers for service. Last month, Forbes magazine ranked SkyWest as one of the best employers in the airline industry.

song about Hanumanji’s role in Ramayan.

Arvind Kotak and Bhupendra Suthar called out the seniors whose birthdays fell in April. They were given birthday greeting cards and booklets by guest Jashavant Sheth.

Kotak and all the members collectively sang the popular birthday songs like ‘Bar Bar Ye Din Aaye’, ‘Tum Jio Hajaroe Saal,’ ‘Happy Birthday To You’ and gave blessings through this song to all Birthday members. A group photograph wa taken on the occasion.

C V Desai and Bipin Shah gave some details and instructions about the Smoky Mount, Atlanta and Ruby Falls tour from June 25 to June 28.

President Dr. Narsinh Patel gave details about the proposed tour of South Africa, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Chandrakant Patel informed the members about the tour of Australia, New Zealand and Fiji .

Ramesh Desai spoke about the birth history of Vallabhacharyaji. He said that

Members of the Indian Seniors of Chicago Mahaprabhuji Shri Vallabhacharyaji was a pioneer of Vaishnav sampradaya and pustimarg. Sharmi Trivedi explained how to celebrate ‘Earth Day’ which falls on April 22.

Rasik Shah gave details about the one-day trip to Holland (Michigan State) Tulips Show on May 2. Chiman Patel gave details about the summer picnic fixed for

July 11.

Naresh Dekhtawala informed the members about the entertainment program which is scheduled in June, 2015. Hira Patel spoke about the annual entertainment program which is going to place on 31 October, 2015 at Manav Seva Mandir.

At the end after shloka, all the members took delicious food and departed

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OLLING MEADOWS, ILGujarat Association celebrated its 25th anniversary with a spectacular cultural show on April 18 at Holiday Inn, Rolling Meadows, Illinois.

Toral Chaudhari’s Nrutya Kalashree Dance Academy students and Gujarat Association’s youth members mesmerized the audience of 400 people with their splendid performances.

The association honored chief guest Mafat Patel and guest of honor Devendra Patel for their outstanding community services, as also guest of honor Dr. Hina Patel for winning election to South Barrington village board with highest votes.

Founding president Mohan Chaudhari welcomed the audience. Chairman Kashiram Patel gave a vote of thanks. Rupal Patel and Swejal Amin served as masters of ceremony.

(L-R) ohan Chaudhari, Bhanuben Patel, Dr. Hina Patel, Kashiram Patel, Mafat Patel & Devendra Patel.

Notorious gang vandalizes Texas Hindu temple

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ASHINGTON, DC -- A Hindu temple in Lake Highlands, Texas, was vandalized last week, and images that are sprayed on the temple walls suggest the involvement of the MS-13 or Mara Salvatrucha, a violent outfit with Latino roots in Los Angeles.

The temple is looking at increasing security after vandals covered it in graffiti on April 20. The number 666 and an upside-down cross now appear on the door of the North Texas Hindu Mandir.

Sheds were tagged and walls splashed with spiteful messages. Words ‘M-S 13’, said to be one of the most notorious street gangs in the western hemisphere, were sprayed on one of the sheds.

The Dallas police sent out detectives with the gang unit who are still searching for suspects.

Krishna Singh, a member of the temple’s board, said the temple wanted to add surveillance cameras, better

lighting, and a fence to prevent this from happening again.

“The sentiment of the neighborhood is that we all find it appalling,” said Ted Hoffman, who lives across the street from the temple. He said neighbors had offered to help paint over the symbols.

Snorton, another neighbor, said: “The disrespect level is very high to me.”

The temple of 150 devotees started worshiping in the quiet Old Lake Highlands neighborhood in 2002, and this is the first case of vandalism.

This is the third such incident of a Hindu temple being vandalized in the US, this year. Earlier, two temples were vandalized in Washington state in February with words like “Get Out” and “Fear” scrawled on the temple walls.

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NOW INDIAN-AMERICAN ECONOMIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE IN NASSAU

BY A STAFF WRITER INELOA, NY -- A histor y-making event for the Indian-American community was hosted by Nassau County at the Theodore Roosevelt Executive & Legislative Building when the County Executive Edward P. Mangano installed the first-ever Indian-American Economic Advisory Committee.

This is the first time Nassau County has established a special committee of Indian-American leaders to address issues faced by the community.

Mangano administered the oath of office of chairman to Shudh Parkash Singh and to 12 members of the IndianAmerican Economic Advisory Committee (IAEAC) in the presence of other elected officials, community leaders and hundreds of professionals and business owners.

The following committee members were installed: Chairman--Shudh Parkash Singh, CEO of the J Group, Vice-Chair--Aron Govil, Chairman & CEO of Ducon Technologies, members--Kanwal Sra, CEO of Sra & Associates LLP and Jackson Hewitt Franchisee, general secretary-Jaspreet Mayall, partner at Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP, Secretar y--Sunil Kumar Shah, president & CEO of Hi-Tech Industrial (USA), Inc. Members --Sunil Modi, a licensed engineer and real estate consultant, Ravi Chopra, CEO of STI Group, Mohan Wanchoo, president & CEO of EC Infosystems, Shaker Nelanuthala, CEO of Herbal Destination, Dr. Vaijinath Chakote, a Board Certified Physician

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BY A STAFF WRITER AYWARD, CA- An Indian American college student has been accused of trying to kidnap three high school girls in Hayward.

According to the police, Sagar Patel, 22, a resident of Hayward and a senior at California State University East Bay, is being held in connection with the “harrowing” attacks.

He was arrested as he left his home on April 16 and booked at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin. Alameda County prosecutors charged Patel on April 20 with three counts of attempted kidnapping to commit robbery.

Patel is being looked at in connection with a fourth attack on March 23 at San Felipe Park just outside Hayward, an incident being investigated by the Alameda County sheriff ’s office.

Patel has a prior theft arrest in Pleasanton.

He was identified as a suspect on April 10 when Hayward Police Inspector John Lage saw a white Chevrolet Cruze and noticed that the vehicle and the driver resembled sketches made of the attacker.

According to investigators, Patel accosted three girls as they walked home after school.

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Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano (centre) with Shudh Parkash Singh (on Mangano’s left) and other members of the newly-formed Indian-American Economic Advisory Committee.

in Internal Medicine, Manoj Narang, CEO of VM Petro Inc., Ashok Sapra, Entrepreneur, and Kiran Mandrekar, managing principal, Growth Capital International, LLC. Director of the Nassau County Office of Business & Economic Development Kamlesh Mehta opened the inaugural ceremony by welcoming Mangano, all elected members and other officials present.

Honorable Norma Gonsalves, Nassau County Presiding Officer did the honors of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.

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Mangano in his speech praised the contribution of the Indian-Americans, and said that he would like to see new investments coming to Nassau County from Indian-Americans.

He expressed his admiration for the County Executive for giving an unprecedented representation to IndianAmericans in his administration.

Aron Govil, Vice- Chair and CEO of multi national company, thanked all the officials and community leaders present in big numbers.

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INTERNATIONAL HINDI CENTER TO COME UP IN NEW JERSEY

BY A STAFF WRITER EW BRUNSWICK, NJ -More than 250 academicians, business professionals, public officials and prominent members of the community have unanimously adopted a resolution to establish an International Hindi Center as a vibrant hub of academic and cultural activities focused on promoting Hindi as a world language.

The delegates at the Second International Hindi Conference held at Rutgers University campus between April 3 and 5 approved the resolution as Dnyaneshwar Mulay, consul general of India in New York, who chaired the event, formally declared it adopted at the concluding session on April 5.

Mulay assured the audience that the Government of India would support the establishment of the Hindi center in the US. “Hindi center will become a reality soon where all educational activities regarding Hindi learning, including exchange programs and joint projects with India-based institutions and universities, will take place under one roof,” he said.

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Or g a n i ze d by Hi n d i Sa n g a m Foundation, a community organization dedicated to promotion of Hindi in the US, the conference was sponsored by Rutgers University, a number of US and

India- based universities, corporations and institutions.

The three-day conference comprised discussions on educational topics, such as, ‘Hindi for professional purposes’, status of

Indian temple leader gets 27 years for bank, tax fraud

BY A STAFF WRITER TLANTA, GA -- An Indian-American former leader of a now-defunct Hindu Temple in Georgia has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for committing bank and tax fraud, money laundering and using the temple’s income to fund his personal lifestyle.

Annamalai Annamalai, 49, also known as Swamiji Sri Selvam Siddhar, was convicted last August for bank and tax fraud following a two-week jury trial.

He was also convicted of bankruptcy fraud offenses in connection with the Hindu Temple’s petition for bankruptcy protection in August 2009.

“Annamalai perverted the sacred institution of religion by using it as a vehicle for greed and personal profit,” said acting US Attorney John A Horn.

“He convinced his victims that they had a problem in need of spiritual guidance, and then took advantage of their vulnerabilities for personal financial gain. The sentence rendered against him is lengthy but just and fair considering the irreparable harm he caused to his victims.”

Annamalai generated income through the Hindu Temple of Georgia by charging fees to his followers in exchange for providing spiritual or related services.

In a typical transaction, a follower

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BY A STAFF WRITER L EV E L A N D , O H - - A n unknown problem caused the Cuyahoga County 24-hour child-abuse hotline, 216-696KIDS, to temporarily lose service for about four hours on the night of April 19, a Children and Family Services official said.

Workers with CEI and AT&T helped restore service to the line later and it was again taking calls, Children and Family Services spokeswoman Mary Louise Madigan said.

The line went down at about 8 pm, she said.

The 696-KIDS hotline offers help to children under 18-years-old who might be victims of abuse, neglect or other problems.

Madigan says the line receives more than 17,000 calls a year and more than 1,300 a month.

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Hindi literature in the Indian Diaspora, status of Hindi on the web, and Hindi story writing, as well as a poets’ conclave (Kavi Sammelan) and a play.

Internationally renowned academicians and research scholars, including Dr. Christi Merrill, University of Michigan, Dr. Mary Curran, Rutgers, Dr. Satya Santosh, Indian Institute of Delhi, Dr. Surendra Gambhir, UPenn, Dr. Gabriela Nik Ilieva, NYU, and Dr. Hemanti Bannerji, Wharton School of Business, presented their papers and took part in discussions.

Mulay also inaugurated the conference on April 3 where senior Rutgers University officials elaborated upon growing relationship between Rutgers and various institutions in India.

Dr. Joanna Regulska, executive vice president for International and Global Affairs at Rutgers , expressed her happiness over the strong support extended by Government of India to Rutgers.

According to a blueprint presented

by Dr. Ved Chaudhary, a Hindi Sangam Foundation official, it would cost over $4 million to construct an independent facility in Central New Jersey, where Rutgers is located, a press release issued by the consulate said.

agreed to purchase a particular service for a communicated price, and provided a credit card number by telephone to guarantee payment.

He charged his followers’ credit card numbers on multiple occasions, in excess of the agreed amount and without authorization.

When the followers disputed the charges with their credit card companies, Annamalai submitted false documentation to the credit card companies in support of the unauthorized charges.

He later filed spurious lawsuits against followers who disputed his charges and

manipulated audio recordings to make it sound as if the followers had agreed to the disputed charges.

The income generated by the temple through these credit card charges was used to fund the personal lifestyle of Annamalai and his family, who owned or controlled numerous homes and real properties, luxury vehicles, and foreign bank accounts in India.

Annamalai concealed assets from creditors and others by diverting credit card receipts and donations intended for the temple to a bank account in the name of a different entity.

He was also convicted of money laundering for using proceeds from the bankruptcy fraud to pay mortgages on properties that he owned, and payments to himself.

Annamalai was also found guilty of obstruction and false statements for sending a fraudulent e-mail to an IRS agent. The e-mail was made to look like it came from a witness to the criminal investigation into the temple.

In addition to Annamalai’s prison sentence, US District Court Judge Timothy Batten also ordered Annamalai to not engage in any spiritual service for compensation, directly or indirectly through intermediaries.

He would be housed in a ‘Communications Management Housing Unit’, which is a special facility that will be able to monitor Annamalai’s telephone calls and electronic communications from prison.

World’s first fully self-powered video camera

BY A STAFF WRITER ASHINGTON, DC -- Indian American scientist Shree K. Nayar from Columbia University has invented the world’s first fully self-powered video camera that can produce an image each second, indefinitely, of a well-lit indoor scene. According to Tech2.com, the camera, which is encased in a 3D-printed body, is completely self-sustaining meaning it can power itself indefinitely.

“We are in the middle of a digital imaging revolution. A camera that can function as an untethered device forever--without any external

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power supply--would be incredibly useful,” said Nayar, who heads the computer vision laboratory at Columbia Engineering. The key is the image sensor with diodes that can go back and forth between using light to generate electricity and current for measuring light and producing the image, as well as retaining solar light as pure power to run the device.

The team that worked on the camera is composed of Nayar, research engineer Daniel Sims, and consultant Mikhail Fridber. Once the team realized that solar panels and digital cameras are basically made from the same materials, they were able to put together the

design for the self-powered camera.

Nayar says that the image sensor could use a rechargeable battery and charge it via its harvesting capability.

“But we took an extreme approach to demonstrate that the sensor is indeed truly self-powered and used just a capacitor to store the harvested energy,” he told Tech2.

Nayar and company are slated to present their work at the upcoming international conference on computational photography at the Rice University in Houston.

Shree K. Nayar

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Botox — best known for its ability to smooth wrinkles — has been extremely useful for the treatment of over-active muscles and spasticity which promotes local and long-term paralysis.

“The discovery that some of the injected toxin can travel through our nerves is worrying, considering the extreme potency of the toxin,” warned professor Frederic Meunier.

While no side-effects of “We found that some of the using Botox medically have active toxins manage to escape been found yet, finding out this route and intoxicate how this highly active toxin neighboring cells so we need travels to the central nervous to investigate this further and system is vital because find out how,” cothis pathway is researcher Tong also hijacked by Wang said. o t h e r Also known ‘We found that pathogens as Botulinum some active such as neurotoxin West Nile serotype A, toxins manage or rabies Botox is to escape and viruses, he derived from intoxicate explained. naturallyT h e occurring neighbouring researchers sources in the cells’ discovered environment. that most of the A detailed undertoxin is transported standing of this pathto a cellular dump where it is way will be helpful in finding meant to be degraded upon new treatments for some reaching the central nervous of these diseases, the scientists system. noted.

Playing flute lowers sleep apnea risk Smokers still think a few

cigarettes are safe LONDON: Although most people know that smoking is a risk factor for developing several cancers, many still wrongly believe that smoking less is safe, says a new study.

The researchers found that more than a third of the people they studied believe that smoking up to 10 cigarettes is not associated with any risk of lung cancer.

The results demonstrate powerfully that the war against smoking is far from over, said one of the researchers, Laurent Greillier from Hopital Nord in Marseille, France.

The researchers analysed data from a representative survey of 1,602 French people aged between 40 and 75 years.

Among the whole sample population, 34 percent wrongly considered that a daily consumption of up to 10 cigarettes was not associated with any risk of lung cancer.

“This finding is particularly impressive and threatening. It shows that relatively low cigarette consumption is considered as 'safe' for a lot of people. In our study, only half of subjects answered that there is no 'safe' cigarette,” Greillier noted.

“It seems that people are aware about the dangers of tobacco for health, but might consider that the risks are not for themselves, but only for other people,” Greillier said.

The findings were presented at the European Lung Cancer Conference (ELCC) in Geneva, Switzerland.

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f snoring is ruining your sound sleep, learning to play the flute can do wonders.

Indian researchers have found that playing wind instruments lowers your risk of developing the sleep disorder, the obstructive sleep apnea.

The researchers believe this is due to the increased muscle tone in the upper airways, which wind instrument players are likely to have.

“The findings of our study present an interesting theory on preventative measures or treatment in sleep apnea,” said one of the authors of the study, Silas Daniel Raj. Wind instrument playing could become a cheap and non-invasive method of preventing sleep apnea in those at risk of developing the condition, Raj pointed out.

Raj and his colleagues conducted lung function testing in 64 people who played a wind instrument and compared results to a control group of 65 people who did not play any wind instruments.

The participants also completed the Berlin questionnaire, an established method used to assess the risk of sleep apnea.

When analyzing the results of the questionnaires, the researchers found that the group who played the wind instruments had a lower

Wind instrument playing could become a cheap and noninvasive method of preventing sleep apnea

risk of developing sleep apnea.

However, no difference was seen between the two groups in the lung function tests.

The relative risk of developing sleep apnea based on the questionnaire was 0.18 in the wind instrument players, with a relative risk of less than one indicating a lower risk compared to controls.

So a flute is what you need if you suffer from this disease. The research was presented at the Sleep and Breathing Conference 2015.

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Flower bedecked, Kashmir looks to a tourist boom Putting last year’s ravaging floods behind, Kashmir is ready to welcome tourists IANS, SRINAGAR

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fter losing its peak autumn tourist season last year due to unprecedented floods, Kashmir is bedecked with flowers to receive tourists this year. The good news is that tourists are already arriving here in encouraging numbers.

In the first week of April, which traditionally marks the beginning of Spring tourism in Kashmir, 10,000 tourists arrived here, an official said.

“This also includes about 4,000 foreign tourists,” another official at the Foreigners’ Registration Office told IANS. The early spring arrivals are encouraging given the fact that rains in late March and early April had almost brought back the horror of last September’s floods. “It

was just water-logging that had been given unnecessary hype by the media outside the state. This damaged our tourism prospects,” Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed told reporters while throwing open to visitors Asia’s largest Tulip Garden here on April 6.

Despite the media hype of spring floods in Kashmir, tourism players are optimistic about increased inflows.

“Nearly 60 percent of our bookings for this month were cancelled due to the fear of floods. The media should have acted responsibly. They created unnecessary hype as if the entire Kashmir was flooded,” Muhammad Azim Toman of the Houseboat Owners Association here told IANS. Houseboat owners are now ready to receive guests after spruc-

ing up their vessels with paint and polish. “We have completed repair work of houseboats. Now, the government should vigorously work for attracting tourists in Kashmir,” Toman added.

“April and May are important months for tourist flow in Kashmir as most of our bookings for the year happen in these months,” said Tariq Habib, sales and marketing manager of Hotel Vintage in Gulmarg. Omar Nabi, a tour and travel operator, said most of the bookings for April were cancelled.

“Last year, this season, we had 80-90 percent bookings. But this month we had just five-eight percent bookings”, Nabi told IANS. Farooq Ahmad Shah, Kashmir’s tourism director, told IANS: “A negative message went out due to the false media reports about

floods in the Valley when it was just water-logging. Our premier tourist destinations were not affected even in last year’s floods.”

Industry stakeholders said adverse travel advisories, lack of quality infrastructure and sudden increase in airfares during the peak season are affecting domestic and foreign tourist inflows.

Bad roads are, however, worrying tour and travel operators.

“The state government should improve road connectivity in Kashmir on a priority basis. You see, it takes a lot of time to travel from one destination to another because of bumpy and dusty roads, Nazir Bakshi of Shiraz Travels told IANS. Despite problems, Kashmir’s tourist industry is ready to bounce back this year to break past records.

A view of Tulip Flowers at Tulip Graden Cheshmshahi banks of Dal Lake in Srinagar.

Look summer bright with beauty essentials IANS, TORONTO

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rom opting for fresh sunscreen, hydrating your body with summer-scented lotion to not using hard makeup, ensure you take the right steps for skincare without having to spend much money, says an expert.

Manoj Khanna, aesthetic and cosmetic surgeon of Enhance Clinics shares some tips: Exfoliate your body: Your body

sheds skin cells at an amazing rate every minute. No matter how much lotion you use, you’re never going to have glowing skin if you don’t exfoliate. Gently rub your exfoliator in circular movements on your entire body from the shoulders down and rinse clean.

Go for fresh sunscreen: Throw away last year’s unused sunscreen for a new bottle. Sunscreens aren’t meant to last forever. Buy a new

Self-affirmations boost confidence and performance TORONTO: If you get terrified every time you are called in for a performance review, focus on your strengths, write down your best job skills or at least think about them in order to negotiate better with your boss, says a new study.

When the stakes are high, people in positions of low power may perform better by using self-affirmations to boost their confidence, the findings showed.

“You should reflect on things that

you know are good about yourself,” said lead researcher Sonia Kang, assistant professor of organisational behavior and human resource management at University of Toronto.

The findings suggest that writing or thinking about one’s family or other positive traits that are not associated with the high-stakes situation also may boost confidence.

The researchers conducted three experiments to measure performance in pressure-filled situations. When participants were in a position of high power, they tended to perform better under pressure, while those with less power performed worse.

In one of the experiments, 88 MBA students were paired together as the buyer or seller of a biotechnology plant.

Buyers who completed the positive self-affirmation performed better in negotiating a lower sale price for the plant, reducing the power differences.

more light summery lotions.

Nothing spells summer more than a light refreshing fruity lotion.

Avoid makeup: During summer, less makeup is best. Under the intolerant sun natural looks are best. If you intend to use foundation then also apply face powder with SPF to avoid patchy skin. To protect your lips always use a gloss or a lip balm with an SPF of 15 to make your lips look fresher.

sunscreen that has UVA and UVB products and comes in SPF 30 and SPF 70. You should be using a full shot glass for your body and a full teaspoon just on your face. Reapply every one or two hours that

you are in the sun.

Hydrate your body with a summer-scented lotion: Find a summery lotion that you won’t forget to put on. It’s time to pack away your thick winter body butters for

Don’t forget your feet: It’s sandal season ladies. Either go or get a pedicure, or give yourself an athome pedicure. You scrub off the dead dry skin to reveal your sandal ready feet. Remember, nothing is worse than seeing dull dry feet inside cute sandals.

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