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fter being flummoxed for a few days by the decision of several Sahitya Akademi award winners to return their medals, the Bharatiya Janata Party has finally been able to gather its wits together to respond. If it was initially taken aback, the reason was not only the unusual nature of the protest, which is vastly different from the political brouhaha which it usually faces, but also because the party has never had much to do with culture since its defining characteristic is Hindu nationalism with its religious and xenophobic components. As a result, the BJP didn’t seem to know how to counter this curious form of protest, which has an element of Gandhian renunciation about it. Some of the bewilderment of the saffronites could be seen in the union Minister of State for Culture Mahesh Sharma’s strange advice to writers to stop writing. “We will then see”, he had said while calling for a look at their background. It is perhaps this intention of checking the suspected motivations which made a couple of police investigators visit Ganesh Devy, a Vadodara-based writer who had returned his award, to ask whether his action was intended to spread “disaffection” — shades of the “midnight knock” of totalitarian countries. The BJP’s mentor, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has further muddied the waters by describing the refuseniks as “self-proclaimed contractors of intellect”, a phrase whose meaning is not immediately clear. Normally, the saffron camp tends to describe any dissenter as either “anti-Hindu”, as it labelled the protesting film institute students, or as left-liberals. This time, it wasn’t

rising in India’ “ At one stroke, an estimated 1.2 MUMBAI: Some 35 years ago, a sleepy, little village of Khalapur, five million dancers in the 2,800 legal, kms from Khopoli on the old Mumbai- and as many unauthorized dance Pune national highway, would magi- bars, mainly in Mumbai, Thane, Navi cally come alive at dusk, Cinderella- Mumbai, Raigad, Pune and the state like. The narrow streets would be highways, besides a few hundred jammed with fancy cars and motor- thousand of supporting staff were bikes honking for space. Revellers thrown onto the streets. IANS, At itsDELHI height, some of the topfrom Mumbai, Pune, Nashik and evenNEW Goa came there to spend some notch dancers prospered, and some happy hours at its famed dance bars. like the enchanting Tarannum, were

(Clockwise from top left) Ashok Vajpeyi, Ganesh Devy, Shashi Deshpande and Nayantara Sahgal are among the writers who have returned their awards.

until Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who is more savvy and erudite than most others in his side, described the dissenters as “Nehruvian” and “Leftists” that these favorite pejoratives of the saffronities were used. However, the fact that almost none of the writers has a pronounced Leftist or Nehruvian —

facturers. How long will the BJP be able to pretend that it is all a storm in a tea cup remains to be seen. But the seriousness of the basic contention of the writers that their acts of rejection are related to the atmosphere of intolerance in the country cannot be easily brushed aside. What is more, their status as

The first such dance bar, c the best and the biggest was ‘Baywatch’ — pop before the American tele-s same name in the 1990s. Strategically situated jus Mumbai-Pune highway, an even the Mumbai-Pune Ex which came up nearly two later, vehicles taking a byp mofussil darkness of Khala barely noticed or missed. The dancers, girls/wom between 15-35, were tran from pre-determined loca Mumbai, Thane and other airconditioned deluxe bus Khalapur by dusk; when a started. Unique to the maximum never slept, scores of youn women gyrated to deafenin wood numbers, with colorf hazy air-conditioned atmos reeking of cigarette smoke perfumes and food. The patrons were mostl wealthy businessmen, tour domestic and international enjoyed an “interactive” se the dancers by showering money or ‘garlands’ of curr notes of various denomina occasionally going upto Rs notes for special dancers. Then on Independence 2005, the Maharashtra gov struck like lightning bannin forcing the colorful dance b become silent and barren.

Writers say they are returning the state awards as attacks a thoughts and differing voices are being silenced for the first

How a sleepy little village launched Mumbai’s rotesting againstbars the recent famous dance

Their status as thinkers as well as avowed neutrality make their reading of the present state of affairs more damaging to the government than the routine declamations of opposition politicians”

which means pro-Congress — background is a disadvantage for the saffron brotherhood. Jaitley has tried to bypass this difficulty by describing the revolt as a “manufactured paper rebellion”. The meaning of this clumsy phrase is however as unclear as the comment of the RSS about the “contractors of intellect” unless the finance minister distinguishes a “paper rebellion” from a street protest. He is also silent about the manu-

thinkers as well as avowed neutrality make their reading of the present state of affairs more damaging to the government than the routine declamations of opposition politicians. The customary ploy, therefore, of dismissing the complaints as the ranting of opportunists will not do. An additional difficulty for the saffron camp is that there are no writers or academics of an equal stature in its ranks to counter the accusers.

attacks by “fringe elements” on the society, a group of ST writers from different parts of the country here on Tuesday said the Indian society has been “poisoned with intolerance”. Addressing a “Protest meet” at the Press Club of India here, writers like Manglesh Dabral, who returned his Sahitya village, Akademi Award last week, At Khalapur some 500700 ‘outside girls’ wereHindi seen coming daily for the evening. Although veteran writer Vishwanath Sudheendra Kulkarni and J&K legislator Engineer Rashid (right). the obvious prosperity totaxthe locals, raided by the income department The firstbusiness such dancebrought bar, and considered Tripathi, writer and editor Om from predominantly farming community up thousands of rupees as thesome best and the the biggest attraction, loosening Writers say they returning the state awards as attacks being made on Thanvi expressed the country onare Prime Minister concern over state awards was are being done currentraised objections, saying was against tax.business Often the top-end dancers was ‘Baywatch’ — popular long the local traditions andintolerance” in their deluxe chaufbefore the American tele-serial byculture. the arrived at workin beliefs and thoughts and differing voicesNarendra are being silenced the first time were being made on “Modi’s for Hindustan”, not “increasing the socily as attacks feured vehicles, private armed secusame name in the 1990s. Mahatma Gandhi’s India. beliefs and thoughts and any differety. Pointing to the attacks by some rity and even a secretary to collect Strategically situated just off the the raining notes showered Mumbai-Pune highway, and later Hindutva groups on currency writers and ing belief was being silenced for the Sheikh Abdul Rashid, better on them by delirious patron-fans. even the Mumbai-Pune Expressway first time. thinkers Kalburgi, Triknown Tune as UPEngineer Rashid, has been However, for a majority of the rest, which came up nearly twolike decadesM.M. their plight was similar to what was later, vehicles taking a bypass in the In view of an ink attack on Engi- attacked twice this month after he pathi said: “To kill a person for his shown in Chandni Bar, the 2001 mofussil darkness of Khalapur were neer Rashid, calibri an Independent legisla- hosted a beef party in Srinagar — views and beliefsnational is very dangerous award-winning movie with barely noticed or missed. LICENSED INSURED BONDED-FREE ESTIMATE ON NEW INSTALLATION must present this coupon. the central theme of dance bars. The dancers, girls/women aged and Kashmir, secu- •Notfirst sign in a secular society. This is neat not tor from Jammu by BJPofferslegislators in the J&K valid with any other • RESIDENTIAL--COMMERICAL, After making a somewhatSERVICE-REPAIR-INSTALLATION, between 15-35, were transported Expired: 11-15-2015 AIR DUCT & DRYER VENT CLEANING FREE ESTIMATES bundle forAkademi the evening — around a rity measures around the venue were assembly who beat him up and then just a fight ofin Sahitya winfrom pre-determined locations Mumbai, Thane and other places in few thousand rupees — most tightened up. Rashid, on his part, by Hindu activists in Delhi who ners, but of all writers.” dancers returned home by the same Jitu : 224-425-6330 (Des Plaines, IL) airconditioned deluxe buses to Contact busesreturning before sunrise theof next day. Khalapur byThe dusk; when all the fun said blames the growing intolerance in smeared ink on his face. writers the Email: saihvac82@gmail.com / Visit us: www.saihvac.com E

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started. Unique to the maximum city which never slept, scores of young girls or women gyrated to deafening Bollywood numbers, with colorful lights, a hazy air-conditioned atmosphere reeking of cigarette smoke, liquor, perfumes and food. The patrons were mostly youth or wealthy businessmen, tourists, both domestic and international, who enjoyed an “interactive” session with the dancers by showering them with money or ‘garlands’ of currency notes of various denominations, occasionally going upto Rs 1000 notes for special dancers. Then on Independence Day in 2005, the Maharashtra government

Some, of course, had their own side businesses going, departing independently, courtesy regular cabbies approved by the hoteliers. At Khalapur village, some 500700 ‘outside girls’ were seen coming daily for the evening. Although the business brought obvious prosperity to the locals, some from the predominantly farming community raised objections, saying the business was against local traditions and culture. There were also charges of prostitution thrown at dance bars. Eventually, such objections found echo among politicians. The government ordered that the bars be shut down. The once enticing village, luring patrons from the highway with its

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Nawaz visit: n-deal unlikely

A White House statement said Sharif’s visit will highlight the enduring nature of the US-Pakistan relationship and provide an opportunity to strengthen cooperation ARUN KUMAR, WASHINGTON

Sharif eyeing wide-ranging ties

he White House has confirmed that President Barack Obama will discuss “nuclear security” with Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during his visit here, but again discounted the possibility of a nuclear deal. “I would significantly reduce your expectations about that occurring on Thursday,” Obama’s spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters Monday when asked if would completely rule out a security deal with Pakistan. Last week too in response to questions about reports that the US was exploring a deal to limit Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal and “that there may be a breakthrough in this regard” during Sharif’s visit, he had given a similar answer. “The expectation that we have is that a deal like the one that’s been discussed publicly is not something that’s likely to come to fruition next week,” Earnest said last week when asked whether

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Obama and Sharif would discuss a nuclear deal. “But the United States and Pakistan are regularly engaged in a dialogue about the importance of nuclear security,” he said. “And I would anticipate that dialogue would include conversations between the leaders of our two countries.” “At this point, the United States has been engaged with Pakistan, as

ty challenges faced by Pakistan,” Samaa News quoted an official as saying. The US assistance to strengthen the overall common security challenges in the region will also come in for discussion, he said. The prime minister will address a potential audience of investors consisting of CEOs of major US companies and investors on October 21. He will apprise them about the investment friendly policies of the government, trade and investment opportunities in Pakistan. Sharif will also share with the community leaders positive economic indicators from international financial organizations.

week about our strategy in Afghanistan moving forward,” “We certainly have an important security relationship and the security cooperation between our two

countries in beneficial to the safety and security of the citizens in both our countries,” Earnest said. “And I’m confident that will be the focal point of discussions.”

New York — which includes the Bangladeshi, Indian, Pakistani and other communities — there are no dual language programs in any South Asian languages.

“The lack of South Asian languages in such diverse dual language programs is surprising. However, I believe Chancellor Fariña will take our request seriously,” said Meng.

US lawmakers seek dual language teaching for kids IANS, WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON: The US government will now require the registration of almost all unmanned aircraft systems or drones in a bid to track operators who violate safety rules. The US Department of Transportation has announced that a task force of 25 to 30 representatives from the drone and manned aviation industries, the federal government, and other stakeholders will be created to develop recommendations for the drone registration process before November 20. The group will advise the department on which aircraft should be exempted from registration due to a low safety risk, including toys and certain other small drones. The task force will also explore options for a streamlined system that would make registration less burdensome for commercial drone operators. “If unmanned aircraft operators break the rules, there should be consequences. But there can be no accountability if a person breaking the rules can’t be identified,” Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx told reporters.

well as the rest of the international community on issues related to nuclear safety and security,” Earnest said. Earnest said that Obama was looking forward to welcoming Sharif to the White House on October 22. “Obviously there are a range of issues that are important for us to discuss, including the announcement that the President made last

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, on a three-day visit to the United States, would be aiming at holding wide-ranging talks with the Obama administration. According to the authorities, Sharif in his meeting with the US President Barack Obama will highlight the issues of alleged Indian aggression and Afghan peace process besides seeking to strengthen economic and defense ties with Washington. “Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s agenda in the talks with President Obama will focus on strengthening bilateral economic and defense relations, economic cooperation, Afghanistan, India and overall securi-

wo Democratic lawmakers from New York have urged the head of the city school system to create dual language programs in South Asian languages including Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi and Urdu. US House members Grace Meng and Joseph Crowley made the call for the inclusion of South Asian languages in such programmes to cater

to New York’s large Indian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani communities in a letter to Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña. Under these programmes elementary school students are taught half in English and half in another language. Presently, New York City public schools boast 182 dual language programmes that include everything from Chinese and French to Haitian Creole and Russian. But despite the large South Asian population in

Trump blames George Bush for 9/11, brother Jeb defends IANS, WASHINGTON

epublican presidential frontrunner waded into controversy by suggesting that former president George W. Bush shared in the blame for the Sep 11, 2001 terrorist attacks because they happened during his presidency. Stung by the comments, rival Jeb Bush angrily responded, calling the media mogul’s comment “pathetic” and asserting that his brother kept the country safe. “How pathetic for @realdonaldtrump to criticize the president for 9/11. We were attacked & my brother kept us safe,” he tweeted. Trump ignited the controversy

when he told Bloomberg TV: “When you talk about George Bush, I mean, say what you want, the World Trade Center came down during his

time.” “Hold on, you can’t blame George Bush for that,” interjected the Bloomberg anchor, but Trump stood by his comments.

“He was president, OK? ... Blame him, or don’t blame him, but he was president. The World Trade Centre came down during his reign,” Trump said. In the evening, Trump took to Twitter, saying he had merely been polite when Bush defended his brother during the most recent Republican debate. “At the debate you said your brother kept us safe I wanted to be nice & did not mention the WTC came down during his watch, 9/11,” he tweeted. “No @JebBush, you’re pathetic for saying nothing happened during your brother’s term when the World Trade Centre was attacked and came down,” Trump tweeted.

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‘Intolerance rising in India’

Writers say they are returning the state awards as attacks are being made on beliefs and thoughts and differing voices are being silenced for the first time

No secularism, no India: Owaisi

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rotesting against the recent attacks by “fringe elements” on the society, a group of writers from different parts of the country here on Tuesday said the Indian society has been “poisoned with intolerance”. Addressing a “Protest meet” at the Press Club of India here, writers like Manglesh Dabral, who returned his Sahitya Akademi Award last week, Hindi veteran writer Vishwanath Tripathi, and writer and editor Om Thanvi expressed concern over “increasing intolerance” in the society. Pointing to the attacks by some Hindutva groups on writers and thinkers like M.M. Kalburgi, Tripathi said: “To kill a person for his views and beliefs is very dangerous sign in a secular society. This is not just a fight of Sahitya Akademi winners, but of all writers.” The writers said returning of the

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Shiv Sena hoardings taunting Modi removed MUMBAI: Police on October 21 removed large hoardings of the Shiv Sena which taunted Prime Minister Narendra Modi while glorifying its founder leader Bal Thackeray. The hoardings came up on the eve of the Sena’s annual Dussehra rally, and ahead of the first anniversary of the coalition government. All the hoardings with a collage of pictures show Modi, when he was the Gujarat chief minister, bowing before the late Bal Thackeray. A telling caption, critical of the BJP, mounted at various locations in the city and suburbs, read: “Have you forgotten those days?

Sudheendra Kulkarni and J&K legislator Engineer Rashid (right).

state awards was being done currently as attacks were being made on beliefs and thoughts and any differing belief was being silenced for the first time. In view of an ink attack on Engineer Rashid, an Independent legislator from Jammu and Kashmir, security measures around the venue were tightened up. Rashid, on his part, blames the growing intolerance in

the country on Prime Minister Narendra “Modi’s Hindustan”, not Mahatma Gandhi’s India. Sheikh Abdul Rashid, better known as Engineer Rashid, has been attacked twice this month after he hosted a beef party in Srinagar — first by BJP legislators in the J&K assembly who beat him up and then by Hindu activists in Delhi who smeared ink on his face.

HYDERABAD: India will be poorer without its core secular values, MIM’s articulate leader Asaduddin Owaisi says, rubbishing charges that he and his party are communal. “The only thing which unites and keeps India strong is the pluralism and diversity of this great nation,” the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) chief told IANS here. The London-educated Owaisi says it was wrong to call the MIM a Muslim party. “MIM is a political party which espouses the cause of not only Muslims but also Dalits and other weaker sections. It is not a Muslim party….India is a free country and I have the right to contest elections. These baseless allegations will not stop my political journey,” said Owaisi. The MP fumes at calls for a ban on the MIM. “You can disagree with

Foreign hand in Punjab unrest? IANS, CHANDIGARH

he Punjab Police said it has arrested two brothers for alleged involvement in the desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib and revealed they were getting instructions and funding from handlers in Australia and Dubai. Additional Director General of Police I.P.S. Sahota told media here on October 20 that two brothers, Jaswinder Singh and Rupinder Singh, were arrested for the main case of sacrilege of the Sikh holy book at Bargari village in Faridkot. He said that phone calls of the brothers had been traced to people in Australia and Dubai and a special investigation team will probe this aspect. “During the interrogation, the foreign link as well as

funding had been established, while the other incidents (of sacrilege) happened in Kohrian (Sangrur), Nijjarpura (Amritsar), Ghawaddi (Ludhiana) and Bathh (Tarn Taran) were of localized nature,” Sahota said. “During interrogation of Rupin-

der Singh, it has been found that he has been talking with their masters abroad and discussed about delivery of cash to them in lieu of their acts of committing sacrilege of Sri Guru Granth Sahib,” he said. “Out of the seven reported cases of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib,

my politics. You have all the right, but don’t say don’t participate in democracy. “If you do, what is the message you are sending to people who believe in democracy? What is the path left then?”

Uber rape case: Cab driver convicted NEW DELHI: Uber cab driver Shiv Kumar Yadav was convicted by a court here on Tuesday for raping a woman executive on the Shiv Kumar night of December 5, 2014, in his taxi she hired to head back home. The sentencing will take place on October 23. Additional Sessions Judge Kaveri Baweja held Yadav guilty of rape, causing grievous bodily harm and endangering the life of the woman and other charges dealing with kidnapping, voluntarily causing hurt and criminal intimidation. Uber India president Amit Jain, in a press statement, called the sexual assault a terrible crime.

‘Daal’ prices haunt BJP in Bihar IMRAN KHAN, PATNA

he Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies have a new headache in Bihar: rising prices of ‘dal’. With prices of pulses shooting up across the country, the anti-BJP alliance is having a field day blaming Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his central government. With hardly a week to go for the third round of the Bihar elections, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and RJD leader Lalu Prasad are going hammer and tongs against the BJP. Janata Dal-United (JD-U) and

RJD activists say they are playing the “dal card” against the BJP-led alliance in what is expected to be a tough contest for the 243-member Bihar assembly. Sensing trouble, the BJP and LJP leader Ram Vilas Paswan -- who is also the agriculture minister in the Modi government -- and others in their camp on October 20 began damage control by blaming the Bihar government for the state of affairs. Paswan has been downplaying the issue of rising prices. At the same time, he has promised to provide cheaper dal if the BJP-led alliance

wins in Bihar. Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar thunder at every election meeting that dal prices are shooting up because of the Modi government’s policies. Lalu Prasad says this is how the poor have been deprived of pulses. “Modi has taken away the ‘dal’ in the poor man’s dal-

roti.” Nitish Kumar has hit back at Paswan after he blamed him for the rising dal prices in Bihar. “If I am to blame, why is dal selling at Rs.200 a kg in BJP-ruled states including Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan?” the JD-U leader keeps asking.

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How a sleepy little village launched Mumbai’s famous dance bars

Writers as refuseniks — BJP’s blind spot

MUMBAI: Some 35 years ago, a sleepy, little village of Khalapur, five kms from Khopoli on the old MumbaiPune national highway, would magically come alive at dusk, Cinderellalike. The narrow streets would be jammed with fancy cars and motorbikes honking for space. Revellers from Mumbai, Pune, Nashik and even Goa came there to spend some happy hours at its famed dance bars.

At one stroke, an estimated 1.2 million dancers in the 2,800 legal, and as many unauthorized dance bars, mainly in Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Raigad, Pune and the state highways, besides a few hundred thousand of supporting staff were thrown onto the streets. At its height, some of the topnotch dancers prospered, and some like the enchanting Tarannum, were

The first such dance bar, considered the best and the biggest attraction, was ‘Baywatch’ — popular long before the American tele-serial by the same name in the 1990s. Strategically situated just off the Mumbai-Pune highway, and later even the Mumbai-Pune Expressway which came up nearly two decades later, vehicles taking a bypass in the mofussil darkness of Khalapur were barely noticed or missed. The dancers, girls/women aged between 15-35, were transported from pre-determined locations in Mumbai, Thane and other places in airconditioned deluxe buses to Khalapur by dusk; when all the fun started. Unique to the maximum city which never slept, scores of young girls or women gyrated to deafening Bollywood numbers, with colorful lights, a hazy air-conditioned atmosphere reeking of cigarette smoke, liquor, perfumes and food. The patrons were mostly youth or wealthy businessmen, tourists, both domestic and international, who enjoyed an “interactive” session with the dancers by showering them with money or ‘garlands’ of currency notes of various denominations, occasionally going upto Rs 1000 notes for special dancers. Then on Independence Day in 2005, the Maharashtra government struck like lightning banning them, forcing the colorful dance bars to become silent and barren.

raided by the income tax department loosening up thousands of rupees as tax. Often the top-end dancers arrived at work in their deluxe chauffeured vehicles, private armed security and even a secretary to collect the raining currency notes showered on them by delirious patron-fans. However, for a majority of the rest, their plight was similar to what was shown in Chandni Bar, the 2001 national award-winning movie with the central theme of dance bars. After making a somewhat neat bundle for the evening — around a few thousand rupees — most dancers returned home by the same buses before sunrise the next day. Some, of course, had their own side businesses going, departing independently, courtesy regular cabbies approved by the hoteliers. At Khalapur village, some 500700 ‘outside girls’ were seen coming daily for the evening. Although the business brought obvious prosperity to the locals, some from the predominantly farming community raised objections, saying the business was against local traditions and culture. There were also charges of prostitution thrown at dance bars. Eventually, such objections found echo among politicians. The government ordered that the bars be shut down. The once enticing village, luring patrons from the highway with its colorful fairylights, was reduced to a dark, decrepit locality, shunned by one and all.

The fact that none of the writers has a pronounced Leftist or Nehruvian (or pro-Congress) background is a disadvantage for the saffron brotherhood AMULYA GANGULI, NEW DELHI

(Clockwise from top left) Ashok Vajpeyi, Ganesh Devy, Shashi Deshpande and Nayantara Sahgal are among the writers who have returned their awards.

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Their status as thinkers as well as avowed neutrality make their reading of the present state of affairs more damaging to the government than the routine declamations of opposition politicians”

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Apple loses patent case

A federal jury told the tech giant to pay $234 mn to Wisconsin University for using a technology developed by its team, including two Indian-Americans ARUN KUMAR, WASHINGTON

ech giant Apple has been told to pay $234 million to the intellectual property arm of Wisconsin University, Madison, for using without permission patented technology developed by its team, including two Indian-American engineers. The award amount a federal jury in Madison asked to Apple to pay on October 16 was about $165 million less than what Wisconsin University Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) had sought, according to Wisconsin State Journal. The case centers on technology that became a component of processors that run widely popular Apple devices such as the iPhone and iPad. Gurindar Sohi and Terani Vijaykumar, both electrical and electronics engineering graduates of

The technology runs widely popular Apple devices including iPhone

Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, were part of the four-member WARF team which developed the technology. US District Judge William Conley, who presided over the trial,

Indian-American kid gets a shout-out from Obama

complimented the lawyers on their professionalism and spoke to Wisconsin University-Madison computer sciences’ Professor Sohi, who led the WARF technology team, seated in the courtroom.

19 Indian-Canadians elected to Canadian parliament

ARUN KUMAR, WASHINGTON

IANS, TORONTO

resident Barack Obama gave a shout-out to Pranav Sivakumar who recently made history by becoming the first person to earn a second Global Finalist award in the 2015 Google Science Fair. "We've got some young Americans here tonight with that same kind of adventurous spirit," he said addressing several hundred people including students, teachers, and NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden at the second White House Astronomy Night on October 19. "Pranav was a global finalist in the Google Science Fair -- not once, but twice. So you know he's

Seven Indian-origin women in US pageants NEW YORK: Seven Indian-origin women will participate in New Jersey’s two annual beauty pageant finals. New Jersey is set to host the finals of “Miss New Jersey USA” and “Miss New Jersey Teen USA” pageants. Vanita Budhan, 22, Nicole Patel, 23, Nihara Chakrala, 24, Somya Sharma, 23, Suchitra Singh, 24, and Chhavi Verg, 18, are the competitors in “Miss New Jersey USA”. Neha Pasupuleti, 14, will be representing Edison in “Miss New Jersey Teen USA”.

“For Dr. Sohi, I hope you felt that your invention was vindicated,” Conley was quoted as saying. “This is a case where the hard work of our university researchers and the integrity of patenting and licensing discoveries has prevailed,” said Carl Gulbrandsen, managing director of WARF. Apple attorneys declined to comment, referring questions to the California company’s public relations office, the Journal said. Spokesperson Rachel Tulley said that Apple plans to appeal. The jury also ruled that a subset of processing chips produced in Texas by Samsung under contract for Apple, then exported to Korea, still infringed on WARF’s patent. The jury also ruled that although those chips were produced by Samsung, Apple controlled their production.

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going to do some important things. Give him a big round of applause," said the president. "We need to inspire more young people to ask about the stars,” he said.

he Indian-Canadians more than doubled their representation in the Canadian parliament from eight to 19 as Canadians voted out the Conservative Party by handing out a landslide to the Liberal Party on October 19. While longest-serving MP Deepak Obhrai won for the seventh time from Calgary Forest Lawn, outgoing minister of state Bal Gosal and fourtime MP Nina Grewal lost the polls. But the biggest surprise was created by Darshan Kang of the Liberal Party who won the Calgary Skyview seat for his party for the first time in 50 years by beating fellow IndianCanadians Devinder Shory of the Conservative Party and Sahajvir

Singh Randhawa of the New Democratic Party (NDP). The outgoing minister of state Tim Uppal retained his seat by beating Amarjeet Singh Sahi of the Liberal Party and Jasvir Deol of the NDP in Edmonton Mill Woods. Most Indian-Canadian victories came in Ontario as many seats in Brampton and Mississauga cities went to Indian-Canadian candidates.

Short takes Indian-origin man killed in hit-and-run accident NEW YORK: A 72-year-old Indianorigin San Jose resident was killed in a hit-and-run accident and was later identified by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office in California. Inderjeet Sharma was walking near a road in San Jose on October 13 morning when he was hit by a pickup truck. The driver fled the spot. Sharma was pronounced dead at the scene and his identity was revealed on October 16, San Jose Mercury News reported. The driver of the vehicle Pedro Cortez Bernal, 29, later surrendered to the police .

Doctor probed over needless procedures WASHINGTON: As many as 293 patients of an Indian-American cardiologist around a small town in Indiana have filed lawsuits against him and two other doctors in his practice claiming that they performed needless procedures. The Indiana state Medicaid programme has started an investigation against Munster, Indiana based Dr. Arvind Gandhi and his partners, Dr. Wail Asfour and Dr. Satyaprakash Makam, according to the New York Times. The three doctors received nearly $5 million in combined Medicare payments in 2012, making them the three most reimbursed cardiologists in Indiana, it said. The Times quoted one doctor as saying he had received a subpoena from the US attorney’s office and provided the medical charts of several former patients of Dr. Gandhi and his colleagues that he has since treated. Lawyers for Dr. Gandhi and his practice said they had not received any subpoenas, and the doctors denied any wrongdoing.

Now anti-bullying campaign in Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu ARUN KUMAR, WASHINGTON

he White House has teamed up with a Sikh and an Asia Pacific community group to launch a public awareness campaign to address bullying in six languages including Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu. The resources for the “Act To Change” campaign are also available in Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese as one out of three in the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community does not speak English fluently. The initiative launched, in part-

nership with the Sikh Coalition and the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment, will also feature

video testimonials of AAPI celebrity athletes, artists, and entertainers. “Growing up, sometimes peo-

ple made me feel like an outsider; I was the perfect storm of nerdy, gay, and Indian American,” wrote Maulik Pancholy, a member of the President’s Advisory Commission on AAPI discussing the campaign. “But now, I’ve come to find that those very things that were sometimes used as fodder against me are the things I love the most about myself,” he wrote in a White House blog post. “It’s okay to be weird, but it’s NOT okay to be bullied,” said Pancholy, noting: “Every day, kids of all ages suffer from being bullied in schools across the country.”

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Half million refugees in Greece Spike in arrivals in Greece is sharply increasing pressure on reception centers on the islands; total number of arrivals in Europe via Mediterranean over 643,000, according to UNHCR

‘If Germany closes borders, Croatia, others will too’

IANS, GENEVA

he number of refugee and migrant arrivals to Greece has hit half a million, warning of continued chaos unless migrant reception in Greece is strengthened and relocation is expedited, UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has said. “In Greece, the number of sea arrivals this year has passed the halfmillion mark with the arrival yesterday (October 19) on the Aegean islands of nearly 8,000 people, bringing the total to some 502,500,” Melissa Fleming, UNHCR spokesperson said. “The total number of arrivals so far in Europe via the Mediterranean is now over 643,000,” Fleming said. She said the spike in arrivals in Greece is sharply increasing pressure on reception centers on the islands. Many of the refugees and migrants are desperate to quickly move

SHORT TAKES Iran, P5+1 announce implementation of n-deal TEHRAN: Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif and European Union (EU) foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini issued a Javad Zarif joint statement, announcing the start of the implementation of the nuclear deal reached between Iran and the six world powers in July, according to Iran’s foreign ministry website.

Iraqi forces free oil refinery town from IS

onwards, fearing subsequent borders will close. “It is of utmost importance here, as in other parts of Europe, that reception conditions be adequate to the task. Without this essential element, the relocation programme agreed by Europe in September is in serious peril and may fail,” she added. According to UNHCR, after chaotic and miserable scenes over

the past few days, borders along the Balkan routes have reopened. At least 123 people have died or gone missing in Greek territorial waters so far this year (in all, at least 3,135 have perished in the Mediterranean to date in 2015). UNHCR expressed concern over the potential for this number to rise further as people try to beat winters and fears of new border closures.

ZAGREB: If Germany closes its border, Croatia would do the same, Croatia’s Foreign and European Affairs Minister Vesna Pusic has said. “Should Germany close the border, there will be a butterfly effect. Namely Austria and Slovenia will close their borders too. In that case, Croatia will close the border,” Xinhua quoted her as saying. Croatia could provide for

We have n-weapons to ward French leader goes on trial off India’s war threat: Pakistan over Muslim remarks IANS, WASHINGTON

IANS, PARIS

akistan has made low-yield nuclear weapons to bridge the gap for war that India had created through its cold-start doctrine, Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry said on October 20. This is the first concrete explanation from a senior Pakistani official on how Islamabad plans to deal with New Delhi’s so-called cold-start doctrine, now renamed the proactive strategy, Dawn reported. It also is a rare confession of Pakistan’s decision to make tactical nuclear weapons to deal with the possible threat of an Indian aggres-

F sion. Briefing the Pakistani media on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s visit to Washington, Chaudhry said Pakistan would not sign any nuclear deal with the US during Sharif’s visit. Sharif arrived in Washington on October 21 for a meeting with US President Barack Obama, scheduled for October 22.

rench National Front leader Marine Le Pen arrived at a court in Lyon on Tuesday to begin a trial where she is charged with inciting racial hatred, for comparing Muslims praying in the street to the Nazi occupation. She made the comments at a rally in the city in 2010 when she was fighting for the leadership of the party, BBC reported. Le Pen is accused of incitement to discrimination, violence or hatred towards a group of people because of their religious affiliation and if found guilty, she could face up to a year in jail and a fine of 45,000

US, Russia sign memo on safe flight over Syria BAGHDAD: Iraqi security forces on October 20 recaptured the oil refinery town of Baiji from IS militants in the province of Salahudin, a provincial security source said. Government troops drove out IS militants from Baiji, a town located some 200 kms north of Baghdad, after days of fierce battles, Xinhua reported. This came after the earlier capture of Iraq’s largest oil refinery near Baiji and the town of Seiniyah. Clashes continued as government forces try to regain control of three villages north of Baiji, the source said.

5,000 people, she said, adding: “We cannot provide for more than that.” Croatia would let all refugees pass through the country, but it would have to be a joint effort by all relevant counties such as Austria, Slovenia, Germany, Serbia, Macedonia, Greece and Turkey, she added. Pusic said Hungary would help a lot if it re-opened its borders.

IANS, WASHINGTON

he Pentagon said the US and Russia signed anMoU on safe flight operations over Syria as they carry out separate airstrikes against militant groups in Syria. “Senior officials from the department of defense and the Russian ministry of defense signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) regarding measures to minimize the risk of in-flight incidents between coalition and Russian aircraft operating in Syrian airspace,” said Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook here. According to Cook, specific safety protocols were established for air crews of both sides to follow, includ-

ing the use of specific communication frequencies and the establishment of a communication line on the ground, Xinhua reported. The US and Russian militaries would also form a working group to

discuss any implementation issues that would follow, added Cook. The countries reached agreement on air safety in Syria 10 days after US and Russian aircrafts came within visual range of each other.

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pounds ($51,000). “I’m sorry, but some people are very fond of talking about the World War II and about the occupation, so let’s talk about occupation, because that is what is happening here,” Le Pen had said.

No power supply to Pak from India ISLAMABAD: Energy deficient Pakistan's plan to import up to 4,000 MW of electricity from India has been stalled by sub-continental tensions. "How can we push for electricity import (from India) when those at the helm of affairs in India are taking an extremely anti-Pakistan posture,” Dawn quoted a senior official from the Ministry of Water and Power as saying. Minister Khawaja Asif told the Senate last week that officials had discussed plans to import 500 MW from India in April 2012.

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Setting aside all bitterness, Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu invites K. Chandrasekhar Rao for foundation stone ceremony of the new state capital IANS, HYDERABAD

etting aside the bitterness in their relations, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Sunday met his Telangana counterpart K. Chandrasekhar Rao to invite him and his family members for the foundation stone laying ceremony of the new state capital. Naidu, who flew in from Tirupati, drove to KCR’s official residence and handed over the invitation for the ceremony on October 22 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to lay foundation stone for Amaravati This was Naidu’s first visit to Telangana CM’s residence after bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh. As his convoy entered the high-security residence, KCR came out to wel-

Owaisi seeks action against publications HYDERABAD: MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday sought ban on organizations and publications who don’t believe in the Indian constitution and rule of law, demanding outfits justifying killings and promoting a “lynch mentality” should be immediately banned. “Cases should be booked against such organizations and owners of such publications,” Owaisi told reporters when asked for his reaction to a story in RSS mouthpiece Panchjanya which said that the killing of Mohammad Akhlaq over beef consumption rumors could not have been “without reason”.

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao greets his Andhra counterpart Chandrababu Naidu as the latter calls on him in Hyderabad.

come him with a bouquet. Naidu also presented a shawl and bouquet to KCR. While Naidu was accompanied by his TDP’s Telangana unit president L. Ramna and another

K’taka BJP lawmaker sparks row with rape remark IANS, BENGALURU

arnataka’s BJP lawmaker K.S. Eshwarappa has sparked a controversy with his remarks on rape incidents in the state. He later said his remarks had been taken out of context but expressed regret if he had hurt or offended anyone. Replying to a query on why his Bharatiya Janata Party was silent on the heinous crime being perpetrated even on minor girls in the state, he asked a local news channel journalist what he could do if someone abducted and raped her. “You are a woman and here now. If someone drags you and rapes you, what can we do as we (opposition people) would be somewhere

Adoption of Yaduveer by Wodiyar family challenged in court MYSURU (KARNATAKA): The adoption of Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja by queen Pramoda Devi of the erstwhile Wodiyar royal family was challenged in a court here by Chaduranga Kantharaj Urs. Admitting the plea, the second additional civil court issued notices to Yaduveer and Devi for filing their responses. Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja is the 27th and present titular Maharaja of Mysore and head of the Wodiyar dynasty. Kantharaj Urs is a nephew of late King Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wodiyar. “The adoption has been challenged on the basis of the Hindu Adoptions

party leader E. Dayakar Rao, KCR had with him his son and minister K. Tarakarama Rao, Deputy Chief Minister Mahmood Ali and another minister Jagdish Reddy.

During nearly an hour-long meeting Naidu, explained to his Telangana counterpart details of the foundation laying ceremony and his plans for development of Amaravati. They also discussed various issues including interlinking of rivers. This was the first between the two chief ministers after eight months. They had met earlier at the initiative of both states’ Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan. The two leaders were engaged in a bitter war of words after a legislator of Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP) was caught red-handed in May while trying to bribe a nominated legislator of Telangana to make him vote for the party candidate in Telangana legislative council elections. The TRS had accused Naidu of being the mastermind in the cash-for-vote scandal.

K.S. Eshwarappa

else,” Eshwarappa retorted on the margins of an event at Ramanagara, about 50 km from here. The former deputy chief minister in the BJP government is currently the leader of opposition in the legislative council. Taking objection to Eshwarappa’s offen-

sive remarks, television and print media journalists complained to the party’s leaders, including former chief minister Jagadish Shettar, who decried and said the remark was not in good taste. When a section of the outraged media complained to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, he played down the issue, saying: “When he (Eshwarappa) spoke seriously, he always speaks lightly.” Asked why the BJP was not holding the Congress government responsible for such crimes, Eshwarappa had retorted: “You tell me what we need to do. We will do it. We have criticized the government in the house when a six-year-old girl was sexually abused in the city last year.”

BRIEFS Jaya for legal aid to Tamils in Andhra jails CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa has urged her Andhra Pradesh counterpart N. Chandrababu Naidu to arrange legal aid for Tamil Nadu laborers lodged in Andhra jails. In a letter to Naidu, the text of which was released to the media here, Jayalalithaa said 516 people from Tamil Nadu, arrested for alleged forest-related offenses, are lodged in prisons in Andhra Pradesh. “Many of the 516 people, although accused of offenses under non-bailable sections of the Andhra Pradesh Forest Act and Indian Penal Code, are legally eligible for bail as the charge sheets have not been laid in time,” Jayalalithaa said.

More women in Kerala elections THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There are more women candidates than men in the fray for the two-phase local bodies polls in Kerala, according to the figures released by the state Election Commission. The data shows that 38,268 women and 37,281 men candidates are contesting. Saturday was the last day for withdrawal of nominations. The key contest is expected to be between the traditional rival fronts - the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) and the CPI-M-led Left Democratic Front (LDF). The Bharatiya Janata Party is hoping to make inroads into areas which have been strongholds of the rival fronts. The elections will be held over two days - November 2 and 5. On November 2, polling will take place in Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Idukki, Kozhikode, Kannur, Wayanad and Kasargode districts, while November 5 will see voting in Kottayam, Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha, Ernakulam and Thrissur.

Why Kerala is the best place to die in India SANU GEORGE, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM

I and Maintenance Act, 1956, which allows a boy or girl to be adopted only if he or she is under 15 years, while Yaduveer was adopted at the age of 22,” Urs’ counsel Ajay Govindraju told reporters here.

t’s been sold as God’s Own Country. Now, Kerala is offering itself as the best place to die. The state boasts of being far ahead in palliative care in India. Its approach has been fine-tuned over the years by policymakers, health experts and civil society activists. “Today palliative care has become a social movement in the state and the latest to join the bandwagon is the CPI-M, which has asked its cadres to form palliative cares in as many places as possible,” eminent oncologist, V.P. Gangadharan said. Kerala’s efforts received a feather in its cap when Singapore-based Lien Foundation praised the state’s

provision of palliative care for patients with serious illnesses, in its 40-country Quality of Death study recently. “While India ranks at the bottom of the Index in overall score and performs badly on many indicators, Kerala, if measured on the same

points, would buck the trend,” said the ‘Quality of Death: Ranking endof-life care across the world’ report. “With only three percent of India’s population, the state provides two-thirds of India’s palliative care services,” the report released earlier this week stated.

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IANS, LONDON

o you know why you always remember and cherish great sexual experiences? Thanks a pair of neurons that has been found to remember and seek sex even at the expense of food in male worms. These male-specific neurons are required for sex-based differences in learning, suggesting that sex differences in cognitive abilities can be

genetically hardwired. “Areas of the brain involved in learning display sex differences in many animals, including humans, but how these differences directly affect behavior is not clear,” said senior author Arantza Barrios from University College London. The team has shown how genetic and developmental differences between the two sexes lead to structural changes in the brain of male worms during sexual maturation.

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“These changes make male brains work differently, allowing males to remember previous sexual encounters and prioritize sex in future situations,” he explained. The team were surprised to find previously unidentified cells that are responsible for the behavioral change as worms are an extremely well studied model organism. They were able to show that the cells from which these male brain neurons are born share common

Ladies, don’t mix drinks and sex IANS, NEW YORK

f a girl’s first sexual experience involves alcohol, she is more likely to be at risk for problems such as sexual assault, and this risk may persist in her future also, new research has found. “Drinking to intoxication places adolescent females at increased risk through exposure to high-risk sexual partners found in drinking contexts such as parties,” said study author Jennifer Livingston. “These partners may be significantly older, more aggressive, not well known or substance users themselves,” Livingston explained. The study surveyed 228 women, ages 18 to 20, about their sexual experiences and drinking habits. The average age the women

characteristics to the cells that give rise to human brain neurons. They are glial cells — companion and support cells of neurons. The newly identified pair of neurons — called ‘mystery cells of the male’ or “MCMs” — create behavioral differences between the sexes by changing a brain circuit common to both. The “MCM” neurons are only made from glial cells that have male chromosomes. “Though the work

is carried out in a small worm, it nevertheless gives us a perspective that helps us understand the variety of human sexuality, sexual orientation and gender identification,” explained co-author professor Scott Emmons. The scientists can now exploit this system to understand how fully differentiated glia can re-enter the cell cycle and generate neurons. This could have important therapeutic implications in the future.

Go for regular facials for healthy skin IANS, NEW DELHI

U began drinking was 14 and the average age for first sexual intercourse was 16. Livingston found that first sexual experiences involving alcohol were most likely to occur outside the context of a relationship, with a

partner who was also using substances and after a social gathering involving alcohol. Alcohol-involved first experiences were less planned, less desired and rated more negatively overall.

sually it is said that regular facials can hamper your skin hence making it loose and dull, but not anymore. A daily skincare regime including regular facials is one of the best ways to ensure that your skin stays healthy and fresh, says an expert. According to Sangeeta Velaskar, head of medical services at Kaya Skin Clinic, a good facial is the solution of many skin related problems. “Poor lifestyle choices, pollution, stress and poor diet are taking a toll on us and our skin

each day. One must seek out ways to reverse this damage in the most effective manner. A daily skincare regime, regular facials is one of the best ways to ensure that your skin stays healthy and fresh. “Whether you’re tired and rundown, experiencing breakouts or merely in need of a skin treat, a good facial is the perfect way to make yourself look and feel much better,” Velaskar told IANS.

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Viru hangs up his boots Retiring from international, T20 cricket, Virender Sehwag will, however, play in the Masters Champions League (MCL) in Dubai IANS, NEW DELHI

utting an end to all speculations about him, Indian batting great Virender Sehwag on Tuesday announced his retirement from all forms of international cricket with immediate effect. "Thanks everyone for all your wishes and love. I hereby retire from all forms of international cricket and from the Indian Premier League (IPL)," Sehwag announced on Twitter. "God has been kind and I have done what I wanted to do, on the field and in my life, and I had decided sometime back that I will retire on my 37th birthday. So today, as I spend my day with my family, I hereby announce my retirement from all forms of international cricket and from IPL," one of India's greatest opening batsmen and dashing willower, who turned 37 on October 20, said. The Delhi-born will, however, play in the Masters Champions

years in international cricket, Sehwag featured in 104 Tests and scored 8,586 runs at an average of 49.34. In 251 One-Day Internationals (ODI), he amassed 8,273 runs at an average of 35.05. He also scored 38 international hundreds. Sehwag also smashed his highest ODI score in 2011 against the West Indies at Indore, slamming 219 runs off only 149 balls. This is the third highest score MCL is a tournament in ODIs, after Rohit Sharma for retired cricketers (264) and Martin Guptil and will start in 2016 (237 not out). Sehwag established reasonably successful in doing so," establish himself as one said Sehwag, who at times also of the very best in the Test game. He is still chipped in with off-spin bowling. "I would like to thank Board of the only Indian to Control for Cricket in India have a triple century, (BCCI) for their support over the having done so twice years. I would like to thank Indian against Pakistan Premier League (IPL) side Delhi (309 in Multan) South Daredevils and Kings XI Punjab, I and represented," he said. Africa (319 in In a career spanning over 15 Chennai).

League (MCL), which he launched in Dubai with other stars like Brian Lara, Graeme Smith, Michael Vaughan â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a tournament to be held early next year for retired cricketers. "Cricket has been my life and continues to be so. Playing for India was a memorable journey and I tried to make it more memorable for the Indian teammates and the Indian cricket fans. I believe I was

Name: Virender Sehwag Born: October 20, 1978, in New Delhi Teams: India, Asia XI, Delhi, Delhi Daredevils, ICC World XI, India Blue, Kings XI Punjab, Leicestershire, Marylebone Cricket Club, Rajasthan Cricket Association President's XI Playing role: Opening batsman Batting style: Right-hand bat Bowling style: Right-arm off-break Batting record in Tests: Matches: 104 Innings: 180 Not outs: 6 Runs: 8,586 Highest score: 319; and second highest: 309 Average: 49.34 Strike rate: 82.23 100s: 23 50s: 32 Batting record in ODIs: Matches: 251 Innings: 245 Not outs: 9 Runs: 8273 Highest score: 219 Average: 35.05 Strike rate: 104.33 100s: 15 50s: 38 Bowling record in Tests: Matches: 104 Innings: 91 Wickets: 40 Bowling record in ODIs: Matches: 251 Innings: 146 Wickets: 96

Boxer Vijender to next face Gillen Ebrahim denied podium finish

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F Brazilian football legend Pele during the Subroto Cup U-17 title match at the Ambedkar Stadium in New Delhi on October 16. (Photo Courtesy: IANS)

Pele visits Delhi for Subroto Cup final IANS, NEW DELHI

fter his successful three-day second date in Kolkata, Brazilian legend Pele, set foot in country's capital New Delhi on October 16, when he saw Subroto Cup U-17 Championship finals in Ambedkar Stadium. All India Football Federation (AIFF) technical director Scott O'Donell believes AIFF Academy boys clinching the Subroto Cup Under-17 title in front of the iconic Pele was a spectacular and remarkable moment for the young bunch.

The AIFF Academy boys outplayed Little Angels Paradise Secondary School of Manipur 4-1 at the Ambedkar Stadium to win the coveted trophy. "It is always nice to win but it should not be the priority in youth development. I said to the boys before the game, that if they play the way we know they can play, then the result will take care of itself," O'Donell said. "Winning the Subroto Cup was very pleasing for the boys but for me the experience of playing a competition final in front of Pele was extremely beneficial for the boys."

ollowing a successful start to his professional career, star Indian boxer Vijender Singh will next face Nottingham's unbeaten Dean Gillen in his London debut on October 30 at the Harrow Leisure Centre here. The middleweight Indian made an immediate impact earlier this month when he easily defeated Sonny Whiting in three rounds at the Manchester Arena. Vijender, who will turn 30 a day before his fight, will take on Gillen over four rounds. Gillen, who is a fire fighter, made his pro debut in May this year with a points win over Shaun White and followed it up in September with another points win over Lewis van Poetsch. "I've watched him in the Olympics and in his pro-debut. He's a world class kid and I can't wait to get in there and put him to the test. He's an Olympian and that speaks for itself. He's a hero in his country and he's idolized by millions of people. I'm certainly no

journeyman and I'm not going in to make up numbers, I'm here to fight and win," said the 33-yearold Gillen. "I know the odds are stacked against me but when you're facing life risking tasks through your job then fighting someone like Singh is a walk in the park. I will be coming for him. I've got a strong jab and the reach to take advantage of him, backed up with a solid chin and a real desire and with nothing to lose. I'm going to be a really dangerous opponent for Singh."

SHANGHAI: Indian racing ace Armaan Ebrahim was denied another podium finish due to a drive-through penalty as he finished fourth in the second race of the double-header of the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Asia series here. Armaan started Race 2 in seventh position, but worked his way to third and while attempting to move up to second place, made contact with another competitor who spun off. The incident led to a penalty for the Chennai-based Armaan. However, Ebrahim delivered a podium finish by finishing second in the fifth and final round of the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Asia series here on October 17. Armaan along with his Sri Lankan partner Dilantha Malagamuwa qualified third overall and second in the Pro-Am class for the first race of the weekend. Armaan did well to hold first position till he handed over the car to Dilantha.

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No star bigger than film’s success: Prabhas The success of ‘Baahubali’, according to the actor, belongs to every last member of the team who worked to ensure a smooth release HARICHARAN PUDIPEDDI, CHENNAI

he phenomenal success of S.S, Rajamouli’s Baahubali, which has emerged as India’s biggest blockbuster, has made its lead actor Prabhas realize something very important -- that the success of any film should be attributed to its team and not to the star. “This success has taught me that a star alone can’t be credited for a film’s success, which is usually achieved by a team. No star is bigger than the success of a film,”

Prabhas told IANS in an exclusive interview. The success of Baahubali, according to the 35-year-old actor, belongs to every last member of the

‘This taught me that a star alone can’t be credited for a film’s success’ team who worked tirelessly to ensure a smooth release. “Firstly, it’s not easy to make a film on such a grand scale. The bigger challenge nowadays is to take a film to the theatres. In our case, we

didn’t face any difficulty in releasing, which was only possible because of meticulous planning and team work,” he said. Despite appreciations pouring in from all quarters for his performance, Prabhas doesn’t consider himself a national star yet. “It felt nice when stars like Ranbir Kapoor and Shah Rukh Khan appreciated my performance. Rajinikanth sir called and congratulated me. Such things have never happened before. I’m glad I’m popular, people recognize wherever I go, but it’s too early to be called a national star,” he said.

It’s good roles over films for Seerat Kapoor

BRIEFS: ‘Naanum...’ highly emotional, yet funny

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CHENNAI: Director Vignesh Shivan says the forthcoming Tamil film Naanum Rowdydhaan is highly emotional, but its humorous treatment makes it a cut above the rest of the films in the same league. “As a story, it’s very emotional. What makes it different from other films is its treatment, the way extreme emotions have been handled. In the film, you’ll find moments where you laugh and cry, but we’ve achieved a perfect balance,” Vignesh said. The film, which releases in cinemas on October 21, features Vijay Sethupathi and Nayanthara.

‘10 Endrathukulla’ stunts done safely CHENNAI: Southern star Vikram plays a car driver in his upcoming Tamil actioner “10 Endrathukulla”, and he says all the action sequences Vikram in the film have been performed with logic, safety and sanity. “All the dangerous stunts were done within the realm of logic and sanity. Cinema, in my opinion, is made on the concept of make-believe, so it’s important to keep everything as safe as possible,” Vikram told IANS.

ctress Seerat Kapoor, who awaits the release of forthcoming Telugu romantic drama Columbus, is not in a hurry to accept every offer that comes her way because she prefers picking good roles over films. “I don’t like to rush. Columbus is my third film in two years. I’m happy with the kind of different roles I’ve done. I’m being choosy and picking roles on the basis of my experience in the industry and I want to continue doing so,” Seerat told IANS. The Run Raja Run actress says it’s

important for her that each character she chooses supersedes the one she has done before. “My benchmark for a new role is that it excites me and should give me the feeling that it’s better than my last role,” she said. Her latest film Columbus, co-starring Sumanth Ashwin and Mishti Chakraborty, releases in cinemas on October 22. “It’s a journey of three characters that undergo a process of self-realization, allowing them to discover emotions they’ve never experienced before. The story is so unique, it stunned me when I heard it for the first time,” she said.

Kanche’ took me to a different era: Pragya Jaiswal CHENNAI: Actress Pragya Jaiswal, who plays a girl from the royal family in forthcoming Telugu war drama Kanche, says the experience of working in the film transported her to a different era. “I play a girl from 1930s. This character transported me to a differ-

Mahesh to holiday in Paris with family IANS, CHENNAI

uperstar Mahesh Babu, who wrapped up the second schedule of Telugu film Brahmotsavam earlier this week, has planned a holiday with his family in Paris, where he will be ringing in this year’s Dussehra festival. “Mahesh’s children haven’t seen the Eiffel tower yet and since they’re on their Dussehra break from school, the family felt this is the right time to fly to Paris,” a source close to the actor told IANS. “It will be a short trip and as soon as Mahesh is back, he will join the sets of “Brahmotsavam” for a month-long schedule,” added the source. Mahesh will be joined by his wife Namrata Shirodkar and their

children Gautham and Sitara. According to the industry grapevine, Mahesh is likely to team up with filmmaker A.R. Muruga-

doss for a bilingual. “Talks have been going on for a while. But nothing concrete has happened on this development so far,” he said.

ent time zone. You know, even after the shoot got over, it took me a while to get back to my normal self,” Pragya told IANS. “I got so involved in the project that even when I was at home, I’d wear a bindi, and my mom would ask me if everything was all right with me,” she added. The film features Varun Tej in the lead role of a soldier. It would be considered unconventional for an aspiring actress to do a period film so early on in her career but Pragya didn’t have any qualms whatsoever. “It really didn’t matter to me. Varun and I just surrendered to director Krish Jagarlamudi, and it was so much fun,” she said.

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‘Bajirao…’ toughest film of my career’

‘Hope every good film is commercial’

Deepika Padukone finds the film ‘extremely draining’ – physically as well as emotionally was launched at Day One of Blenders Pride Fashion Tour 2015. The song sets the grand eepika Padukone has stepped stage of the film showcasing opulence and into period drama genre with magnificence. Bajirao Mastani, but Deepika notes that the song is Sanjay Leela inspired by Mughal-E-Azam in Bhansali’s historical love saga some sense. “We have tried to Deepika notes is turning out to be an ardurecreate Aina Mahal. It is that the song is ous task for the actress. She Sanjay sir’s contemporary inspired by K. says the film is “physically, version of the song where Asif’s magnum mentally and emotionally Mastani is besotted, and is opus Mughal-Emadly in love. She is intoxidraining”. cated by her love for Baji“The film is definitely Azam in some rao,” she said. the toughest of my career. sense Bajirao Mastani narrates the The film has been extremely love story of Maratha Peshwa Bajidraining, be it physically, mentally rao I (played by Ranveer Singh) and his or emotionally. The nature of the movie and the director is very demanding,” Deepi- second wife Mastani (Deepika). Actress ka said at the film’s song launch here. Priyanka Chopra plays Bajirao’s first wife The film’s track titled ‘Deewani Mastani’ Kashibai. The film will release on Dec 18. IANS, NEW DELHI

MUMBAI: Amid the constant debate between commercial and non-commercial cinema, director Anurag Kashyap says that he hopes that every good film should be considered a commercial film. “I’m hoping that every good film is a commercial film. Every good film should be a commercial film. And my definition of commercial is that if the film goes out and people engage in it and it earns money, then it is a commercial film,” he said at a press meet for promoting upcoming film Titli. “The first mistake that we make is that without even watching the film we tag it as ‘parallel’,” he said.

7,000 earthen lamps used Censor cuts to delay ‘Darling...’ release for 'Prem Ratan...' song IANS, MUMBAI

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ven as superstar Salman Khan’s Prem Ratan Dhan Payo continues to create immense hype ahead of its release, a new song titled ‘Jalte diye’ from the film will mesmerize viewers with over 7,000 diyas (earthen lamps) picturized in the sequence. It took the production team over 150 people to light the diyas and keep them burning throughout the shoot of ‘Jalte diye’. “Sooraj (Barjatya) undertook extensive measures to bring in a royal look to the song. Nearly 150

Young talent at Mumbai film fest MUMBAI: This year’s Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival (MFF) will bring together contemporary Bollywood stars such as Alia Bhatt, Parineeti Chopra, Kriti Sanon, Aditya Roy Kapur, Ayushmann Khurrana and Arjun Kapoor to discuss about the changing paradigm of the industry. The festival will take place here between October 29 and November 5. As part of the Move Mela on October 31, a one-day celebration of Indian cinema, festival director Anupama Chopra and film critic Rajeev Masand will moderate a session where these young actors will talk about Bollywood.

crew members were present to make sure that the diyas stayed lit,” a spokesperson of the film said in a statement. Prem Ratan Dhan Payo brings together Salman and Barjatya after 16 years.

he makers of thriller Darling Don’t Cheat, which was all set to release on October 30, are worried if they can release it on schedule after the censor board sought numerous cuts and mutes in its scenes and dialogues. “We were looking forward to the release as we have received a mindboggling response for our promotional activities. But the censor board’s instructions to have numerous cuts and mutes in the controversial scenes, dialogues and cuss words have come as a shock to us. We are now in a dilemma and the entire decision-making team will soon deliberate on the next course

of action,” producer-director Rajkumar Hindusthani told IANS. “There is no doubt that our film is bold and has a lot of explicit scenes but each scene is according to the demand of the script. I feel the cuts and mutes suggested are

completely unfair as we are not looking for U/A certificate but for an A certificate. The recent announcement of a nude trip contest had already generated significant buzz about the film.

‘Wedding Pullav’: This one is stale and over-cooked! Film: Wedding Pullav; Cast: Diganth Manchale, Anushka Ranjan, Sonnalli Seygall, Karan Grover, Rishi Kapoor, Satish Kaushik, Himani Shivpuri, Upasana Singh, Parmeet Sethi, Kitu Gidwani, Neha Tomar; Director: Binod Pradhan; Rating: **

love quadrangle based on My Best Friend’s Wedding template, Wedding Pullav is a stale, over-cooked and spiceless tale, with predictable romance tropes from the very first frame to the last. Motorbike designer Aditya Sodhi aka Aadi (Diganth Manchale) is all

set to get engaged to Riya (Sonnalli Seygall), an industrialist’s daughter, when he guiltily realizes that his childhood friend, Anushka aka Lambu, is missing.

Lo and behold, Lambu announces her entry with the bang of the band! As the friends reunite, we learn that Lambu has a boyfriend Jay (Karan Grover), an artist who

specializes in nudes, stowed away in London. The friends propose that Anushka and Jay should get married at the same time as Aadi and Riya. So together with their respective partners, they decide to marry at Aadi and Riya’s pre-planned destination in Thailand. So far un-convoluted but cliched, the entire coterie, family and friends land up at the wedding destination to cook the Wedding Pullav! With verbose expositions, the undoing of this elaborate Wedding Pullav, is the fraught with “tell and show” scenes that are incorporated in the lazily drafted script. Humor is forced and the dialogues are shallow, frivolous and lacks class. — Troy Ribeiro

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My personal style is very boring: Deepika

Shahid, Alia perform Garba in Ahmedabad

he might be tagged as one of the most stylish actors of Bollywood, but Deepika Padukone feels her “personal style statement is boring”. The actress says she depends on her stylists to add the dose of glamour and fashion quotient to her look. “I believe my personal style is very boring. I don’t think that I have any sort of personal sense of style. And this is why I’m so dependent on professionals like Anju (Modi), who do a fantastic job,” Deepika said at the song launch of her forthcoming film Bajirao Mastani here. “We are constantly dressing up for the red carpet, film premiere, for the

ctors Shahid Kapoor and Alia Bhatt gave a Shaandaar Garba performance in this city of Gujarat where Navratri festival is being celebrated with great fervour. Alia, who is in the city with Shahid to promote their forthcoming romantic comedy film Shaandaar, got a chance to perform Garba too. She took to Instagram on Tuesday to share a video of the duo doing the famous dance form. In the video, Shahid and Alia can be seen performing Garba along with other dancers. “aliaabhattGarba nights in Ahemdabad!!!! #Shaandaar #ShaandaarPromotions,” Alia captioned the video.

shoot of film or advertisement. We are being styled for one thing or the other and this is why I think that when I end up checking my wardrobe, I just have jeans and Tshirts. ,” she said.

Anushka supports cracker-free Diwali

ctress Anushka Sharma has urged everyone to celebrate the forthcoming festival of Diwali without fire crackers for the sake of animals. Ahead of Diwali next month, the Dil Dhadakne Do star will launch a campaign “Pawsitive” through Facebook and Twitter to encourage people to reduce the use of crackers. “Animals are our best friends. They make me laugh and I share a personal bond with them. Their welfare is one cause that’s close to my heart and I will keep taking up initiatives that makes us care for them too,” Anushka said.

John injured while shooting ‘Dishoom’

he makers of the upcoming actionadventure film Dishoom have decided to swap actor John Abraham’s action sequences with other scenes that require more dialogues and close-up shots due to his injury. John, who injured his knee earlier this week while shooting for another film Force 2 in Budapest, has been advised to take rest for the next three weeks and has been told not to indulge in any action shoot till the time he recovers completely. The Welcome Back actor has almost wrapped up the first schedule of Dishoom, which also stars Varun Dhawan, Jacqueline Fernandez and Akshaye Khanna. The second schedule to be shot in Abu Dhabi has been postponed.

Karan Johar proud of Varun, Sidharth

ilmmaker Karan Johar, whose film Student Of The Year completed three years on October 19, says he is “proud” of actors Varun Dhawan, Sidharth Malhotra and Alia Bhatt, who made their debut with the film. The movie revolves around two friends and how their friendship gets affected when Abhi falls in love with Shanaya, played by Alia. “#3YearsOfSOTY...so proud of @S1dharthM @Varun_dvn @aliaa08,” Karan tweeted on October 19.

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Indians in forefront as ‘Young Scientists’

BY A STAFF WRITER AN JOSE, CA -- Indian Americans were well represented at the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge, and despite none taking the grand prize, three of the five finished right behind the winner, in results released on October 13. Raghav Ganesh, 13, of San Jose, Calif., took second place. The eighth grader took the award for his innovation that helps monitor physiological and environmental factors that can trigger stress in autistic people with Autistic Spectrum Disorder. He teamed up with 3M scientist Kris Thunhorst. Amulya Garimella, 11, of Pittsburgh, finished third. The seventh grader won for her distraction-monitoring prototype that alerts the user experiencing a distraction by measuring EEG brainwaves. She teamed up with 3M scientist Cordell Hardy.

Body found in lake is of Salesforce employee

Raghavendra Indugula

BY A STAFF WRITER IVERMORE, CA -- A body found on October 14 morning in a lake near Livermore is believed to be a missing boater who crews have been searching for since October 9. A fisherman found the body at about 7:10 am floating about half a mile north of the Lake Del Valle marina, just south of where Salesforce IT contractor Raghavendra Indugula, 31, of San Francisco, disappeared during a company outing on October 9. Salesforce has issued a statement, saying it was aware of the finding. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Raghu’s family and friends,” company officials said. Indugula was visiting Lake Del Valle as part of a team-building activity with his Salesforce co-workers. Multiple groups were being shuttled back to the marina from the Hetch Hetchy group picnic area at about 7 pm on October 9. The 14-foot aluminum boat carrying Indugula and seven others was at capacity when it started filling with water. An East Bay Regional Park District police spokeswoman said that the passengers jumped from the boat and started swimming to shore, but when they arrived, Indugula had disappeared. The water reaches depths of 50 feet where the boaters abandoned the ship, complicating search efforts. Search and rescue crews from Alameda County, Livermore and the park district officials searched over the weekend and even later.

Raghav Ganesh

Iris Gupta, 12, of North Potomac, Md., took fourth place. Teaming up with 3M scientist Raha Been, the seventh grader won for her project that seeks to stop allergies at the source through inhaling or injecting nanoparticles that block allergy-triggering particles. To help those with Autism and their caregivers, Raghav Ganesh’s invention

predicts and prevents Autistic meltdowns. Ganesh’s wireless and wearable machine alerts the wearer and caregiver when any stressors rise above a certain threshold. His invention allows care to be tailored to individuals’ needs by recording all sensory data and therapeutic responses. With a love for both filmmaking and science, Garimella’s goal of preventing distractions while trying to concentrate resulted in her developing a distraction monitoring system that alerts the distracted individual and reminds them to concentrate and get back to work. Ganesh, Garimella and Gupta each received a $1,000 prize and a student adventure trip for finishing in their respective places. Two other Indian Americans also placed in the top 10 at the Young Scientist Challenge: Krishna Reddy and Sanjana Shah. Reddy and Shah each received a

$1,000 prize and a $500 gift card from Discovery Experiences for their placing. The 10 finalists spent the better part of three months working with their 3M scientist mentor to make their project a reality and presented them to a panel of judges during the Young Scientist Challenge event on October. 13 at the 3M Innovation Center in St. Paul, Minn. Also during the final competition, the finalists competed in two separate challenges, including combining multiple 3M technologies to yield new solutions and build a simple machine using science and engineering principles. The winner of the competition was 15-year-old Hannah Herbst, of Boca Raton, Fla. Herbst won by creating an energy probe prototype that seeks to offer a stable power source to developing countries by using untapped energy from ocean currents. Her prize was $25,000 and the title of America’s Top Young Scientist.

Air Force sacks woman accused of witchcraft BY A STAFF WRITER A S H I N G TO N , D . C . - Leaders of the Hindu American Foundation have spoken out against the US Air Force’s dismissal of Deborah Schoenfeld, a Hindu woman accused of witchcraft by her co-workers. Schoenfeld, with support from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), has filed a complaint alleging religious discrimination after being dismissed from her position at the Epes Dental Clinic. “This is old school bullying, old school prejudice, old school bigotry,” MRFF founder and president Michael Weinstein stated in a press release. “When you marginalize and tell another human being that he or she lacks intelligent culture, bravery, character and trustworthiness because of the chosen religious faith, it is no different than telling them that they are stupid

Deborah Schoenfeld

because of the color of their skin or being born female.” Schoenfeld, who has practised Hinduism for the past 15 years, describes a pattern of harassment from her primarily-Christian colleagues. She notes that her faith and practice of yoga was described as “satanic,” and one colleague told her that meditating would summon demons. Another colleague allegedly celebrated Schoenfeld’s dismissal and replacement with a Christian employee as replacing a “devil” with an “angel.” “What Deborah faced is something no employee, no matter their faith or lack of faith, should suffer,” said Harsh Voruganti, HAF associate director of Public Policy. “We demand a full inquiry into her dismissal from the US Air Force, as well as renewed commitments to protect the religious freedom of all military personnel and contractors.”

Indian doctor in dock for needless implants BY A STAFF WRITER UNSTER, IN-- As many as 293 patients of an IndianAmerican cardiologist around a small town in Indiana have filed lawsuits against him and two other doctors in his practice claiming that they performed needless procedures. The Indiana state Medicaid programme has started an investigation against Munster-based Dr. Arvind Gandhi and his partners, Dr. Wail Asfour and Dr. Satyaprakash Makam. The three doctors received nearly $5 million in combined Medicare payments in 2012, making them the three most reimbursed cardiologists in Indiana, it said. One doctor not named in the litigation as saying he had received a subpoena from the US attorney’s office and provided the medical charts of several former patients of Dr. Gandhi and his colleagues that he has since treated. Lawyers for Dr. Gandhi and his practice, Cardiology Associates of Northwest Indiana, said they had not received any subpoenas, and the doctors denied any wrongdoing.

Dr. Arvind Gandhi

The partners invested in real estate, including luxury apartments in Chicago, and a local restaurant. Besides the doctors, the malpractice lawsuits also name Community Hospital, where “Dr. Gandhi was a star”, through the foundation that oversees its operations, as a defendant. Dr. Gandhi was a high-ranking member of the medical staff at the hospital, and the lawsuits charge that the superfluous

procedures were done “with the authority and consent” of Community Hospital, it said. Lawyers for the hospital deny any wrongdoing. Lawyers for Dr. Gandhi, his practice and the hospital, say the lawsuits are without merit. The legal actions, they say, are being driven by envious physicians eager to take patients from Dr. Gandhi and by greedy lawyers seeking a big settlement. A whistle-blower lawsuit brought by a physician and a hospital employee against the hospital, Dr. Gandhi and his practice in 2008 raised similar accusations that the hospital had billed for unnecessary defibrillator and pacemaker implantations that were performed by doctors without the proper credentials to implant the devices. But the suit, eventually joined by the US attorney’s office in Hammond, Indiana, just north of Munster, was settled without anyone admitting wrongdoing. The hospital paid a $48,942 settlement. The hospital and the doctors say that the settlement shows that the issues have been investigated and that they have been absolved of many of the same allegations contained in the current malpractice suits.

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Balaji temple of Aurora celebrates annual gala BY A STAFF WRITER HICAGO, IL -- Sri Venkateswara Swami (Balaji) temple of Aurora, Illinois celebrated the 29th annual Banquet and Fundraising event at Waterford Banquets in Elmhurst, Illinois on Saturday, October 12. The primary objective of this year’s fund-raising activities at the banquet was to collect funds and receive pledges for the renovation of temple’s Rajagopuram and Roofing. Rajagopuram is the ornate royal grandtower superstructure entrance to the temple. This superstructure, according to Hindu beliefs, is an object of high veneration and spiritual values. The gala event was attended by 350 devotees who enjoyed an evening with a variety of lip-smacking Indian food and cultural events. The temple management presented service awards for three priests and another temple employee for their dedicated service and loyalty to the temple. The event commenced with Suresh Mehta, Trustee of the temple welcoming guests. He was followed by Dr. Prabhkar Garla Gupta, chairman of the temple, who outlined the progress report of the temple and also made an appeal to the devotees to donate generously for the Rajagopuram renovation project. The keynote address was delivered by the guest speaker Raja Krishnamurthy. Raja

Judge denies birth papers to kids of illegal immigrants BY A STAFF WRITER EXAS -- A federal judge in Texas denied birth certificates for the US-born children of illegal immigrants, resulting in a subsequent lawsuit against the state. US District Judge Robert Pitman has ruled that Texas officials can continue to deny US birth certificates to the children of immigrants who cannot supply required identification because they entered the country illegally. “While the Court is very troubled at the prospect of Texas-born children, and their parents, being denied issuance of a birth certificate,” Pitman wrote in his decision, “Texas has a clear interest in protecting access to that document.” Although children born in the United States are entitled by law to US citizenship regardless of the immigration status of their parents, Texan authorities have actively attempting to thwart immigrants who have entered the country illegally and are seeking birth certificates for their US-born children. “Without their birth certificates, they are having difficulty gaining access to basic services, including school and medical care,” said Jennifer Harbury of Texas RioGrande Legal Aid Inc., who represents more than two dozen immigrant parents in South Texas who sued the state earlier this year on behalf of 32 children they claimed were denied birth certificates. “Without their birth certificates, they are having difficulty gaining access to basic services, including school and medical care,” Harbury said Friday. “Texas must allow a clear path for all children born in this country to gain access to birth certificates and their full rights as citizens. It may not establish an obstacle course for these children alone.”

captured the audience with a stunning and thought-provoking speech. He provided his perspectives as to how Balaji Temple has been an excellent place of worship and spiritual enhancement for him and his family. He also energized the audience to get more active in public service and requested the Indian community to get to the polls and “vote”. The Deputy Consulate General O.P. Meena addressed the audience and thanked the temple management and all its volunteers for making Balaji temple a divine place of worship for the Indian

community. Dr. Sanjay Rao, member of the temple auxiliary committee, was the program emcee and did a superb job in keeping the program exciting. The music entertainment arranged by cultural committee member Ram Raghuraman started off with some melodious songs by Chicago’s professional talents. The singers Rama Raghuraman, Minu Karthik, Babu Rajan and Ravishankar sang popular film songs in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu which was greatly applauded by the audience.

Health inspector faces 10-yr jail for bribes BY A STAFF WRITER T. LOUIS, MO -- A federal grand jury indicted a St. Louis health inspector for allegedly taking bribes

from a local grocery store owner. US Attorney Richard Callahan in press release did not reveal the exact specifics surrounding the case, except

to say that 50-year-old Kevin Huntspon was charged with one count of accepting a bribe by an agent of an organization receiving federal funds.

City of Aurora hosts 2015 Diwali Festival of ligths on Sat Oct 24th at 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm at Waubonsie Valley High School, 2590 Ogden Ave, Aurora, IL. Free Admission. Call: 630-300-0345

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Manpasand Presents Dandiya King Devang Patel on Fri Oct 30th at 7:30 pm at Renaissance Convention Theater, 1551 Thoreau Dr. N, Schaumburg IL. Tkts $ 20 Advance, $25 on Gate. Call Bhavna Modi 620-913-6660 or Diptesh Patel 847-773-7074

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BY A STAFF WRITER ANTA ANA, CA – The four future scientists have diverse interests ranging from filmmaking, acting, 3D printing, math and robotics. Nadia (11), Rayyan (10), Kamran (10) and Aleena (8) bonded over their love for space and their desire to explore the moon. For their inspirational tale, this fantastic foursome have envisioned a state of the art, ‘Lunar Resort’ (ie. temperature guided movable space camp) that will change the face of space travel forever. Through their agency, (GalacTech Ge t a w a y s ) , t h e s e yo u n g e x p l o re r entrepreneurs will provide safe, cost-effective access to the moon. XPRIZE, the global leader in incentivized prize competitions, and Google have announced the winners of the 2015 MOONBOTS Challenge, also considered the “Google Lunar XPRIZE for Kids an ‘international competition that inspires the next generation of space explorers and innovators. The invitation goes to kids aged 8-17 who design, create and program their own lunar rover, based on a legend or theory that inspires them about the moon. Team GalacTECHs from Orange County, CA was among the 4 teams worldwide to win this prestigious honor. The student competition, which began

Businessman pleads guilty in bribery case BY A STAFF WRITER LEVELAND, OH -- An East Cleveland businessman pleaded guilty on October 20 to trying to bribe a city councilman in an effort to obtain a beer and wine license. Per an agreement he reached with prosecutors, Mukundkumar Patel, 51, could face a recommended sentence of between two and two-and-a-half years in federal prison. US District Judge Christopher Boyko will have final say over Patel’s sentence. Patel is scheduled for sentencing on January. 20. Patel, the owner of McCall’s Motel on Euclid Avenue, wanted to add a Convenience Food Mart to his business and needed the license in order to sell beer and wine, according to court filings. He offered a bribe to Council Vice President Thomas Wheeler, a former Cleveland police officer, who reported the offer to the FBI and assisted agents with an investigation. Patel paid Wheeler $4,000 when the councilman showed up at his motel, charging documents state. What Patel did not know, though, was that Wheeler was recording their conversation for the FBI. Patel never got the license. Wheeler said in an interview in August that he had not met Patel prior to being offered the bribe and was offended that Patel would think he would accept the deal. On Tuesday, Patel said little more than “yes, sir” and “no, sir” when entering his plea in front of Magistrate Judge Greg White. He is free on bond until his sentencing. Patel’s recommended sentence was increased by six months because he knew about the Cuyahoga County corruption scandal, in which more than 60 politicians, government employees and contractors were convicted for giving and taking kickbacks, Assistant U.S. Attorney Antoinette Bacon said at the hearing.

in April 2015, attracted 235 teams from 29 countries who entered phase one by submitting a written or video entry about what inspires them about the moon. Teams are comprised of 2-4 members (ages 8-17) and one team captain at least 18 years old. A panel of judges selected 30 teams to qualify for phase two, each of which was

provided one of three platform systems (LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3, VEX IQ, MECCANO Meccanoid G15 KS) to build and program a unique simulated robotic mission based on the moon tale they submitted in phase one. In addition, they were asked provide a demonstration to the judges via live webcast and contribute to STEM education by

sharing their innovation with children and adults in their community. Just a few days ago, the dynamic foursome from Orange County, CA, Team GalacTECHs, got some much awaited news about their big win! With a passion for science and technology, their winning project used the VEX IQ Robotics platform and built a lunar landscape that features a resort that showcases state of the art features for its visitors. The ‘Four MOON Seasons’ is the brainchild of GalacTECH Getaways, a lunar tourism company powered by Team GalacTECHs. The winning teams will travel to Japan in October to meet up with the Google Lunar XPRIZE teams who are gathering for an annual Team Summit in Tokyo and share their idea and project with them. Team GalacTECHs will learn how these Google Lunar XPRIZE teams are planning to reach the Moon with their innovative robotic technology. “We are so excited about winning this competition. All our hard work over the summer paid off. “We can’t wait to go to Japan” said Aleena Ali (one the youngest members of the team) expressing her delight over the news. The team members are getting ready to embark on a once in a lifetime trip and meet the other winning teams from all over the world.

Telugu Assn celebrates Dussera, Deepavali BY A STAFF WRITER hicago, IL -- The Telugu speakers, residing in the States of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, celebrated Dussera and Deepavali, under the aegis of Tri-States Telugu Association (TTA), a not-for-profit organization, at Samarathi Auditorium, Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago. The religious fervor, scintillating cultural show, and fierce competition for sports trophies were the hallmarks of the celebrations. A highlight of the celebrations was the high-voltage cultural extravaganza, in which about 130 singers, dancers, and mimicry artists participated. About 30 exhilarating performances of various genres of dances showcased the full spectrum of colorful life of Telugu people. The cultural program also involved the presentation of classical, semi-classical,

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and light music, both from Bollywood and Tollywood movies. The singers not only entertained matured audience, but also connected equally with young generation with hit numbers. Tri-State Telugu Association, affiliated

with Telugu Association of North America, has been effectively addressing the issues associated with the educational, economic, and social development of its members, including their culture and heritage, since its inception in 1984.

Swimmer drowns while saving 5-yr-old relative BY A STAFF WRITER CRAMENTO, CA-- Jagjit Basra, 19, dove into the American River near Tiscornia Beach in Sacramento, Calif., to save his 5-year-old relative on Oct0ber 11. While the relative survived, Basra got submerged in the water and was later pronounced dead. Authorities say a 19-year-old Indian American man drowned after being submerged in the Sacramento, Calif., River waters near Tiscornia Beach. Basra disappeared around 1:45 pm on October 11 in the confluence of the American and Sacramento rivers for almost an hour before his unconscious body was recovered. Jonathan Williams, a battalion chief for the Sacramento Fire Department, said that within minutes, multiple 911 calls went out. Divers

Jagjit Basra then conducted a comprehensive grid search in the deep and muddy waters.

Helicopters were brought in, while leisure boats were turned away. Williams said several people on jet skis and boats had been looking for Basra prior to the arrival of firefighters. After about 40 minutes of searching, the victim was eventually spotted and taken to UC Davis Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead hours later. Witnesses said Basra drowned after trying to save a 5-year-old relative in the American River. The young child survived. Fire spokesman Roberto Padilla said witnesses reported seeing the victim swimming with a large group of family and friends right before he went under. This latest death adds to the 12 previous drownings reported for the two major rivers in Sacramento County this year, twice the normal amount.

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Annakoot Sharad Poonam Mahotsav

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Nextt acquires patent for Alpha cotton fabric

BY A STAFF WRITER ALLAS , TX -- Nextt, a Dallasbased leader in the US home textile industry, has developed a new fabric category and been awarded a patent for a distinctive weaving process that combines polyester yarns with cotton in a unique way to create a highthread-count. Called ‘Alpha cotton,’ this luxurious fabric is primarily used to make sheets and is 30 to 40 per cent cheaper than 100 per cent cotton. Mumbai’s (India) Alok will be the leading manufacturer of the product, with Nextt poised as its official American marketing arm. Other suppliers will be able to buy the fabric directly from Alok or license the technology for their own use. Nextt CEO Arun Agarwal says this patent will allow for ‘explosive growth’ within the company in this category, which currently accounts for $1 billion in annual sales. “With this revolutionary fabric, we expect to double sales within two years.” Nextt, which is showcasing the Alpha cotton product at the New York Home Fashions Market this week, is a $500-million revenue, privately-held company that provides textiles to all of the major US retailers, including Dillard’s, Belk, Wal-Mart and Kohl’s. The company also has a robust portfolio of leading celebrity brands, such as Beautyrest, Ellen Tracy, Jessica McClintock and Royal Sateen.

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BY A STAFF WRITER YOMING, NJ -- A New Jersey man stole more than $52,000 from a motel owner in Wyoming by cashing checks for supplies but never delivering the merchandise. Nilay Shah, 39, of the Port Reading section of Woodbridge is charged with two counts of felony theft Shah, the owner and operator of d’Hotel Supplies in the Iselin section of Woodbridge, cashed checks for $29,645 and $22,825 from a man who owns Super 8 motels in Rock Springs and Green River, authorities said. Both checks represented half the amount of each order and were placed in January 2014. The owner never received the supplies. At one point, someone from d’Hotel Supplies emailed the owner to say the supplies were being held in customs. The owner never heard from Shah or his company again. Shah was arrested in New Jersey and extradited to Sweetwater County, Wyoming earlier this week.

Monroe cops probe fireworks explosion

BY A STAFF WRITER ONROE, WI – The Monroe police are asking for help as they investigate a small fireworks explosion near a home at night. Just before 10 pm, police and fire units were called to the 2800 block of 6th Avenue, on Monroe’s southwest side for reports of a loud explosion, according to a police release. The police said a small explosive device detonated, damaging the ground and causing minor damage to the side of a home. They believe it was a type of fireworks device, and not some other improvised explosive. Authorities say a vehicle was seen leaving the area, and they are following up on leads. Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact Monroe Police at (608) 329-2400 or Green County Crimestoppers at 1-800-IC CRIME.

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Nextt, the front-end marketing arm for Alok Industries, has its headquarters and distribution facilities in Dallas, while also operating a state-of-the-art design studio and showroom in New York. Alok Industries is publicly traded and is India’s largest integrated textile company with revenues exceeding $3.5 billion and facilities spanning more than 600 acres.

Indian couple’s gesture for research center BY A STAFF WRITER EW YORK, NY -- A prestigious international affairs school at Columbia University will establish a first-of-its-kind center on Indian economic policies in the name of an influential Indian American couple following an undisclosed generous gift from them. The School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University will inaugurate the Deepak and Neera Raj Center on Indian Economic Policies. Deepak Raj is the managing director of the private investment firms Rush Brook Partners and Raj Associates, and said he and his wife are delighted to be part of the “important initiative” at the university. “The Indian economy is at a critical juncture, and we hope that the center’s highly capable leadership will provide research and

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scheduled to make keynote remarks when the center celebrates its launch October 5 at an event that will convene elected officials, policymakers, academics and private-sector leaders on the Columbia campus, the school said in a statement. Prior to the establishment of the center, research on the Indian economy at the New York-based university was undertaken by the Program on Indian Economic Policies, funded by the John Templeton Foundation. Under the leadership of Bhagwati, the center will provide research and expertise necessary to informed policy decisions; deliver increased prosperity; and define India’s future role in the global economy. It will also make a comparative study of the experience of India and the US in policy-relevant areas such as climate change and federalism, providing scholarly support for bilateral and multilateral initiatives.

Woman is arrested for taking Indians for ride BY A STAFF WRITER INDEN, NJ -- A Piscataway woman faces charges of scamming a 76-year-old city man out of $9,000 in a scheme that authorities say may be targeting IndianAmericans. Mahwish Chaudry, 31, was arrested September 25 for the scheme in which she told the victim he was in danger of losing his home, the police said. Last May, Chaudry called the man claiming she was employed by a financial company and that his home was in foreclosure. Police Capt. James Sarnicki said Chaudry then told him that she could drive him to the bank to make a cash withdrawal

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People who attended a resiliency-boosting program used considerably less health care services in the following year IANS, NEW YORK

trengthening your resilience with mindful meditation or yoga can help keep the doctors away, thereby reducing your health care cost, says a new study. Resilience can be enhanced with practice, starting with the relaxation response — a physiologic state of deep rest induced by practices such as rhythmic breathing, mindfulness meditation, yoga, tai chi or prayer, the study said. The researchers found that people who graduated from a resilien-

Yoga can help drug addicts NEW DELHI: Yoga can help addicts reduce dependency on drugs and improve the overall quality of their life, according to a new government study. The study was done at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). It has shown that the quality of life of drug users can be significantly improved and also the frequency of drug use can be reduced with the help of yoga interventions. The findings of the study, which involved 84 drug addicts, also suggested that the yoga intervention can be used as an adjunct to standard intervention to improve the quality of the life of drug users.

cy-boosting program used considerably less healthcare services in the year following the course compared with the year before. For the study, the researchers tested the efficacy of eight-week course developed by the BensonHenry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). The study compared health care used by more than 4,400 3RP graduates to that of 13,150 patients who did not take the 3RP course. In the year after training, use of healthcare services by the resiliency program graduates dropped by 43 percent.

Daytime nap boosts kids’ memory IANS, LONDON

iving children rewards and allowing them a short nap after a period of learning can significantly boost their ability to remember new facts and skills for a long period, new research suggests. Memories associated with a reward are reinforced by sleep, the findings showed. “Rewards may act as a kind of tag, sealing information in the brain during learning,” said lead researcher In a surprise Kinga Igloi from Unitest three versity of Geneva in months later, Switzerland. trained to “During sleep, that remember the sleep group information is favorpairs of picperformed ably consolidated over tures. better overall information associated Eight series with a low reward and is of pictures were transferred to areas of the brain shown and volunassociated with long-term memory,” teers were told that rememIgloi said. bering pairs in four of them would For the research, thirty-one elicit a higher reward. healthy volunteers were randomly Following a 90-minute break of assigned to either a sleep group or a either sleep or rest, they were tested ‘wake’ group and the sensitivity of on their memory for the pairs and both groups to reward was assessed asked to rate how confident they as being equal. Participants’ brains were about giving a correct answer. were scanned while they were Participants were also asked to

Fast food linked to poor bone development in kids take part in a surprise test of exactly the same nature three months later. Both groups’ performance was better for highly rewarded picture pairs, but the sleep group performed better overall. During the surprise test, participants who had slept after learning were selectively better for the highly rewarded pairs. The MRI scans revealed that the sleep group showed increased connectivity between the hippocampus, the medial prefrontal cortex and the striatum, areas of the brain implicated in memory consolidation and reward processing.

LONDON: Living in a neighborhood dotted with fast food outlets can be linked to poorer bone development in early childhood, a new report says. The researchers also found that greater neighborhood access to healthy specialty stores is linked to higher bone mass in young children. “These findings suggest that the exposure of mothers and children to more healthy food environments might optimize childhood bone development through its influence on the quality of the maternal diet and dietary choices during childhood,”

said study co-author Cyrus Cooper from the University of Southampton. The study looked at the bone mineral density (BMD) and bone mineral content (BMC) of 1,107 children at birth and at four and/or six years of age and compared the data to the number of supermarkets, healthy specialty stores and fast food outlets within a child’s neighborhood. After adjustments for other variables, they found that greater access to fast food outlets was associated with lower BMD and BMC in newborns.

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