Techiedies trying

to climbSkandagiri

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: A techie, who was on a moun-taineering expedition, slipped and died atSkandagiri in Chikballapur taluk early thismorning.

The deceased Raja Singh was working as asoftware engineer with Oracle. He and hisfriend were climbing the last stretch of theSkandagiri peak when he slipped and fell intoa deep gorge.

His friend ran all the way from the hills toChikballapur police station to seek help as hecould not get access to or rescue Raja.

A rescue team comprising policemen and lo-cal villagers pulled out Raja and shifted him tohospital. But he died on the way.

Considering the difficult and dangerous ter-rain surrounding the Skandagiri peak, the po-lice have clamped a ban on climbing here. Butstill, techies violate the order and try to go ontrekking and mountaineering expeditions.

Police caneprotestingBhopal gas

victimsBhopal: Victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas leaktragedy were lathi charged by the police inBarkheri on Saturday when they carried out a'Rail Roko' agitation.

The gas victims retaliated to the police bru-tality by burning vehicles and pelting stones atthe officials.

So far, four trains have been stopped by thegas victims in Madhya Pradesh.

Bhopal Bina passenger train was stopped bythe Bhopal gas victims at Nishatpura nearBhopal. Another passenger train near Barkheriwas also stopped.

Several thousand of gas victims are out on therailway tracks at various places around Bhopal.

The protestors are demanding correction indeath figures and more compensation from DowChemicals and Union Carbide.

The Dow Chemicals has told the SupremeCourt that it will not pay more compensation forBhopal victims.

According to the Dow Chemicals, the settle-ment in 1989 of $ 470 million was more than ad-equate and fair.

The Bhopal Gas tragedy, the worst industri-al disaster of the world was caused by the leak-age of deadly methyl iso-cynide gas and it hadleft 5296 people dead and 573000 injured.

The government of India had last year fileda petition in the supreme court seeking an en-hanced compensation of Rs 5786 crore for thevictims.

The company, UCC, is now owned by DowChemicals, and this is jeopardising Dow’schances of sponsorship deal of the 2012 OlympicGames. In fact, a group from Bhopal has writ-ten to the Olympics committee to keep DowChemicals away from the sporting event.

Building collapses in Delhi; 3 die

New Delhi: A building collapsed near Uttam Na-gar metro station in West Delhi on Saturday.

Sources said that three people have died inthe building collapse and that some people arestill feared trapped.

However, no casualties have been reportedso far.

It is reported that police personnel and fivefire tenders were rushed to spot.

The incident was reported from near UttamNagar Metro Station at around 11:30 am.

The building collapsed when the foundationfor another upcoming tenement close by was be-ing laid, police said.

A family of six resides in the house, they said,adding officials are yet to ascertain how manywere in the building when the incident tookplace.

Search operation is on in full swing to rescuethose feared trapped under the rubble.

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Tom Cruise flies to Agra,thanks to Mission Anil

Mumbai: Hollywood superstar TomCruise, who is in India to promote thefourth installment of his ''Mission Im-possible'' franchise, has squeezed ina special visit on his choc-a-block itin-erary – the Taj Mahal in Agra.

And guess who accompanied himin this mission? Co-star Anil Kapoor.

Cruise landed in Delhi early Sat-urday and headed straight to theLeela Palace, Chanakyapuri. Hestayed at the hotel's exquisite Ma-haraja suite, which has a personalgym, jacuzzi and is one of the mostexpensive suites in the country, saidsources.

From there, the 49-year-old left forAgra with his "Mission Impossible:Ghost Protocol" co-star Anil Kapoor.The international star would be stay-ing in Oberoi Amar Villas in the Tajcity.

Kapoor is also set to co-host a party for Cruisealong with Viacom 18 in Mumbai Saturday night.

The bash would be a private 150-guest affair atthe Taj Rooftop, Colaba. However, some Bolly-wood's A-listers like Ajay Devgn, Akshay Kumar,Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan would not beseen at the bash as they are either out of town orhave expressed their inability to join in.

The only Khan superstar at the bash would be

Aamir. "We had originally planned to invite

200 guests. That's now been nar-rowed down to 150," says a source.

"Tom is a really cool guy. When Anilasked him whom he'd like to meetfrom Bollywood and from other walksof life he said, 'No one and everyone'.Tom says he's on a mission to promote'Mission Impossible'.

"So for him, the fan interaction isthe most important part of his itiner-ary. The only desire he expressed forhis India visit was to visit the Taj Ma-hal," he added.

The guest list also includes nameslike Mukesh and Neeta Ambani, theGodrejs, Birlas, the Bachchans (minusAishwarya), Aamir Khan, Katrina Kaifand Karan Johar.

"In Mumbai, Kapoor is expected towhisk Tom for a brief visit to see his home and meethis family -- again Tom's wish. Then, Tom checksinto his hotel, prepares for the party which is ex-pected to last for no more than two hours. He sayshe wants to be fresh for the fan interaction on Sun-day," the source added.

Cruise, who features as intelligence agent EthanHunt in the popular film franchise, is hosting a spe-cial screening for 1,500 fans two weeks before thefilm's worldwide release Dec 21.

Hyderabad: The CBI today formally filedcharges in illegal mining case against formerminister from Karnataka and mining baronGaliJanardhana Reddy.

The CBI filed the chargesheet in the CBIspecial court at Nampally here.

The chargesheet names Janardhana Red-dy, his brother-in-law and OMC managing di-rector BV Srinivasa Reddy and former directorof mines VDRajagopal as the accused.

They have all been lodged at the Chan-chalguda Central Jail on the outskirts of thecity.

The name of arrested Indian Administra-tive Service (IAS) official YSrilakshmi, whowas released on bail yesterday, did not fig-ure in the chargesheet.

The CBI is yet to get permission from thecentral government to prosecute her.

The names of Srilakshmi and other ac-cused might be included in the supplemen-tary chargesheet at a later date.

The accused have been charged withcriminal conspiracy, cheating, theft, crimi-nal trespass, breach of trust by public servantand forgery.

The OMC has been charged with illegallymining iron ore in areas other than those al-lotted to it in Obulapuram area of Anantapurdistrict.

The CBI officials brought the 100-pagechargesheet and supporting documentsrunning into thousands of pages to thecourt in 10 trunks.

The chargesheet has been filed undersections 120-B, 420, 468 and 471 of the IndianPenal Code (IPC) and sections 13 (2) read with

13 (1) (d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act,1988.

The CBI arrested Janardhana Reddy fromhis residence at Bellary on September 5. Heand other accused have been in judicial cus-tody till then.

It was on December 7, 2009, that the CBIoffice in Hyderabad registered a case againstOMC and others under various sections of theIPC, the Prevention of Corruption Act, the In-dian Forest Act, and the Mines and Minerals(Development & Regulation) Act.

Rajagopal, former managing director of theAndhra Pradesh Mineral Development Cor-poration (APMDC), was arrested on No-vember 13.

According to the CBI, Rajagopal and Sri-lakshmi showed undue favours to OMC bygranting leases for iron ore mining in Anan-tapur district.

Srilakshmi was secretary of the industriesdepartment in late YS Rajasekhara Reddy'sgovernment when OMC was granted mininglease.

The senior officer was arrested Nov 28 andafter three-day CBI custody, she was sent tojail Thursday. The officer, who was familywelfare commissioner at the time of the ar-rest, was suspended by the state government.

Will prove myinnocence in2G case: Kani

New Delhi: Accused in the 2G spectrumscam case and DMK MP Kanimozhi onSaturday said that she will prove her in-nocence. Kanimozhi is headed to Chennaiafter over 190 days of arrest.

This will be Kanimozhi's first visit to thestate since she was granted bail and re-leased from jail in the 2G case.

"I am happy that people are gettingbail, but more than the bail, I have toprove my innocence. I am sure i will do it",said the DMK MP before leaving New Del-hi.

Kanimozhi was granted bail and was re-leased from Tihar jail on bail on Tuesday.She was granted bail on the groundsthat she was a woman and mother to asmall child.

DMK workers are planning to host agrand welcome for her.

An elated Karunanidhi said on Mondaythat the party would organise a big wel-come for her, when she arrives in Chen-nai.

"I am happy that Kanimozhi has beengranted bail. She spoke to me soon afterthe court gave her bail and both of usshared the happiness," Karunanidhi,

who met his daughter thrice in TiharJail, where she was lodged after her arreston May 20, told reporters in Chennai.

Kanimozhi would be in Chennai uptoDecember 6 and then go to Delhi to attendthe hearing of the 2G case to return on De-cember 10.

Bharati wants Vishnumemorial in Mysore

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Senior actress BharatiVish-nuvardhan does not want to set up a me-morial for her husband and late actorVishnuvardhan at Abhiman Studios in thecity. Instead, she has sought land for thememorial in Mysore.

At a meeting today, she urged chief min-ister D V SadanandaGowda to allot threeacres of land in Mysore to set up the me-morial.

She said Abhiman Studio belongs to thelate actor Balakrishna. Instead of leadingto complications over allotment of land for

the memorial, the government shouldthink of giving land in Mysore whichwould hasten the construction of thememorial.

The memorial at Mysore would be aptas Vishnuvardhan hailed form that city,she added.

Though it has been more than a yearsince Vishnuvardhan’s death on Decem-ber 30, 2009, the government has not tak-en any steps to set up the memorial. Thegovernment has set aside Rs 10 crore forthe project.

Bharati met the chief minister at his of-ficial residence Krishna this morning.

Gali Janardhana Reddy

Kanimozhi

Vishnuvardhan Bharati

Kambar filesPIL againstclosure of

schoolsBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Jnapith award winnerChandrashekar Kambar and oth-er litterateurs today filed public interest litigation before the Karnataka High Court against the state government move to shut downhundreds of Kannada schoolsacross the state.

The government has arguedthat as per the national policy,government schools that havelesser number of students shouldbe shut down.

There have been protests overthe issue, but primary and sec-ondary education minister Vish-weshwara Hegde Kageri hasstuck to his stand.

Today’s PIL has been sup-ported by litterateurs U R Anan-thamurthy, Girish Karnad andothers.

They have stated in PIL thatthe closure of schools violated theRight To Education policy of thecentral government and wouldcause inconvenience to poor andunderprivileged students.

This would further cause prob-lems for the promotion of Kan-nada in the state, they have ar-gued.

The case is likely to come upfor hearing before the high courteither on Monday or Tuesday.

CET formsubmission to go onlineBangalore: The Karnataka Ex-amination Authority is makingpreparations to take the processof filling the application forms forthe Common Entrance Test tooonline.

With this, students appearingfor next year’s CET need nothave to buy brochures for appli-cations, and can do it through theKEA website, which contains allinformation regarding the test forprofessional colleges.

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Two BMTC Volvos with a wrap of art work of Rumale Channabasavaiah, famed painterfrom Bangalore, was inaugurated in the city today. It was part of a promotional camapign

for “Varna Mythri”, a retrospective of Chennabasaviah. The retrospective is being organised by the National Gallery of Modern Artand Union culture ministry from Decem-

ber 18 to January 31.

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JOGAYYA (U/A)Shivaraj Kumar, Pooja GandhiBanashankari (Hongasandra) (11.30am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Eshwari(10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm) FunCinemas (10.15 am, 1.15, 4, 6.45,9.25 pm) HMT Cinemas ( 10.45 am,1.30, 4.15 pm) Kapali (10.30 am,1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm) Keshava (11am, 2.15, 5.30, 8.30 pm) Lakshmi(Tavarekere) (10.15 am, 1.15 pm)Lakshmi (Gottigere) (10.30 am, 1.30,4.30, 7.30 pm) Lakshmi (Rammor-thinagar) (11.15 am, 2.15, 6.15, 9.15pm) Manasa (11.30 am, 2.30, 6.30,9.30 pm) PVR Cinemas (12.10 pm)Santhosh (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30,7.30 pm) Srinvasa (Gowdanapalya)(11.30 am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm)Tirumala (10 am, 1.45, 5.30, 8.45pm) Vaishnavi (11.15 am, 2.15, 6.15,9.15 pm) Veerabhadreshwara (10.30am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Venkatesh(Avalahalli) (11.30 am, 2.30, 6.30,9.30 pm) Venkateshwara (Konap-pana Agrahara) (11 am, 2.15, 6.15,9.15 pm)

BADHRA (U)

Prajwal Devaraj, Daisy ShahBharathi (11 am, 2.30, 6, 9.15 pm)Govardhan (11.30 am, 2.30, 6, 9pm) Krishna (KR Puram) (10.30 am,2, 8 pm) Maruthi (11.30 am, 2.30pm, 6.30 pm, 9.30 pm) Menaka(10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm)Nalanda (11,2.30,6,9.15pm) Rajer-ajeshwari (Mallathahalli) (10.30am, 1.30, 4.30,7 .15, 9.30 pm) Sid-dheshwara (11.30 am, 2.30, 6.30,9.30 pm) Veeresh (10.30 am, 1.30pm) Vajreshwari (10.30 am, 1.30,4.30, 7.30pm) Rajarajeshwari (10.30am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.15, 9.30 pm) PVRCinemas (1, 3.30, 6.10 pm)

PANCHAMRUTHA (U) Raghu Mukherjee, Srinagara Kit-ty, RavishankerPVR Cinemas (7.10 pm)

MR DUPLICATE (U) Prajwal Devaraj, Diganth, SheetalNartaki (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Prasanna (10.15 am, 1.15, 4.15,7.15 pm) Uma (10.15 am, 1, 4, 7pm) Vijayalakshmi (Garu-dacharpalya) (11 am, 2.30 pm)

CONAN THE BARBARIAN (A)Jason Momoa, Leo Howard‘3D’ Cinemax (10.15 am, 3.30, 7.45,10 pm) Cinepolis (10 am, 12.15,2.30, 4.45, 7, 9.15 pm) Fame (Lido)(11 am, 4.30, 7, 9.30 pm) Fame(Shankarnag) (10.25 am, 3.45, 9.30pm) Fun Cinemas (5.10 pm, 9.45pm) Gopalan Cinemas (Bannerghat-ta Road) (10.30 am, 3.30, 9.30 pm)

Gopalan Cinemas (RajarajeshwariNagar) (1.15 pm, 7.30, 9.45 pm) In-novative Multiplex (11.30 am, 1.30,5.45, 10 pm) Inox (Magrath Road)(10.05 am, 2.20, 7.30, 9.50 pm)Inox (Malleswaram) (10.30 am, 2.45,9.50 pm) Inox (J.P.Nagar) (10.10 am,2.35, 9.45 pm) Lakshmi (Tavarekere)(10.30 am, 1.30, 5.30, 8.30 pm)Mukunda (11 am, 2, 5, 8.30 pm)PVR Cinemas (11 am, 4.20, 9.40pm) Rex (12.15 pm, 6.05 pm) Uvashi(11.30 am, 6.30 pm) Vision Cinemas(10.30 am, 4.30, 9.30 pm) ‘2D’Fame (Value Mall) (10 am, 2.45, 5,9.45 pm) Gopalan Cinemas (MysoreRoad) (11.45 am, 2.15, 8 pm) HMTCinemas (9.45 pm) Inox (Jayanagar)(10.10 am, 3.55, 9.40 pm)

THE DEVIL DOUBLE (A)Fame (Lido) (10.20 am, 3.55 pm,7.25, 9 pm) Fame (Value Mall) (10am, 2 pm) Gopalan Cinemas (Ban-nerghatta Road) (10 am, 7.50 pm)

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YEH DOORIYAN (U/A)Achint Kaur, Ayub KhanApsara (11 am, 2.30 pm) Abhinay(4.30 pm, 7.30 pm) Everest (11.15am, 2.15, 6.15, 9.30 pm) GopalanCinemas (Bannerghatta Road) (5.15pm) Gopalan Cinemas (Rajarajesh-wari Nagar) (1.45 pm) Vaibhavi (4.30pm, 7.30 pm)

CHITKABREY-SHADES OF GREY (A)Akshay Singh, Akshharaa GowdaCinepolis (2.40 pm, 9.20 pm) Fame(Value Mall) (9.20 pm) Inox (JP Nagar)(9.55 pm) Inox (Magrath Road) (11.20am) Inox (Malleswaram) (2.05 pm,7.15 pm)

NOT A LOVE STORY (A) Ajay Gehi, Mahie Gill, DeepakDobriyal, Urmila MatondkarFame (Value Mall) (10.05 am) FunCinemas (10.45 am, 4.15 pm)Gopalan Cinemas (Bannerghatta

Road) (10.15 am, 3.30, 10 pm)Gopalan Cinemas (Mysore Road)(5 pm) Gopalan Cinemas (Rajara-jeshwari Nagar) (4.45 pm, 7.35 pm)Innovative Multiplex (10 pm) Inox(Magrath Road) (9.40 pm) PVR Cin-emas (10 am, 1.05, 4.10, 9.50 pm)Urvashi (9.30 pm) Vaibhav (6 pm,9.30 pm)

SAHI DHANDHE GALAT BANDE (U)Anupam Kher , Ashish NayyarGopalan Cinemas (RajarajeshwariNagar) (3.30 pm)

CHATUR SINGH TWO STAR (U/A)Sanjay , Ameesha Patel, KherAbhinay (4.30 pm, 7.30 pm) GopalanCinemas (Bannerghatta Road) (12.30pm) Gopalan Cinemas (Mysore Road)(2.45 pm) Gopalan Cinemas (Ra-jarajeshwari Nagar) (7 pm) PVR Cin-emas (12.05 pm, 5.35 pm) Vaibhav(6.15 pm, 9 pm)

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KERATAM (U/A)Siddharth Raj Kumar, AishwaryaCauvery (6.00 pm, 9.30 pm) Cinepo-lis (3.45 pm, 9.10 pm) Inox (Jayana-gar) (7.20 pm) Inox (JP Nagar) (10.45am, 4.20 pm) Inox (Malleswaram)(2.10 pm) Murali (Gokula) (6.15 pm,

9.30 pm) Pallavi (10.30 am, 1.30,4.30, 7.30 pm) Renukaprasanna(10.30am,1.30pm)

DAGGARAGA DURANGASumanth, Vedika, Sindhu TolaniAnjan (10.30 am, 1.30pm) Bhumika(10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Rad-hakrishna (11.30 am, 2.45 pm) Renu-ka Prasanna ( 5.30, 8.30 pm) Srini-vasa (SG Palya) (11.15 am, 2.30 pm)Vinayaka (Maathahalli) (11.30 am,2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Venkateshwara(KRPuram) (6.15 pm, 9.30 pm

MONEY MONEY MORE MONEY J D Chakravarthy, Bramanandam,Anjan (4.30, 7.30 pm) Chandrodaya(11.30 am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm)Cinepolis (10 am, 12.20, 4.50, 7.10,9.30 pm) HMT Cinemas (4.15 pm,7.30 pm).

STAND BY (U)Adinath Kothare, Siddharth Kher

Abhinay (10.30 am, 1.30 pm) Ap-sara (5.30 pm, 8.30 pm) Fame(Lido) (1.40 pm)Fame (Value Mall)(12.15 pm, 7.15 pm) Gopalan Cin-emas (Bannerghatta Road) (2.30pm) Gopalan Cinemas (Rajara-jeshwari Nagar) (12.30 pm) Inno-vative Multiplex (2.30 pm) Inox(Magrath Road) (12.10 pm, 7.15

pm) Inox (Malleswaram) (11.30am, 9.35 pm) Inox (J.P.Nagar) (10.10am) Gopalan Cinemas (Ban-nerghatta Road) (12.30 pm)Gopalan Cinemas (Mysore Road)(2.45 pm)Gopalan Cinemas (RajarajeshwariNagar) (7 pm) Vaibhav (11.30 am,2.30 pm)

Bangalore Nano fromDecember 8 this year

Bangalore: The fourth edition of Ban-galore Nano will be held on December8 and 9, said Chairman of the KarnatakaVision Group on Nanotechnology C NR Rao said.

The focal theme of this year’s Ban-galore Nano is "Nanoscience and Tech-nology at the Cutting Edge" and willsee participation by about 500 delegates,he said.

“Science will not serve its purpose ifit does not help society. The conferenceis to take the society towards science.Students, teachers, scientists, techiesand international delegates will takepart in the conference,” Rao said.

“The conference that has been heldfor three years has gained popularityacross the country. The conference willdwell upon the application of nan-otechnology in medicine, biotechnology,energy and environment, electronicsand micro-systems. Of the five institutescarrying out cutting edge research inthe field in the country, two are in Ban-galore.

IT and BT principal secretary M NVidyashankar said, “As a curtain-raiserto the conference on December 7, paperson nano-medicine, biotechnology, nanomaterials, use of nano in energy andnano sensors. The pre-event conferencehas been organised especially for stu-dents, and 100 chosen students fromdifferent colleges will take part.”

He said, “Nanotechnology has turned

to be one of the mostimportant tech-nologies in the last decade and is makinggreat inroads in the healthcare,envi-ronment, energy, agriculture, ict, engi-neering and consumer goodssectors.Bangalore Nano has enabledexperts, scientists, researchers, industryand start-ups tomeet and exchangenotes on tomorrow's nanotechnology.It is a meeting point foracademia, re-search and industry featuring inspiringtalks, high quality research papersandto showcase innovative and ground-breaking nano-applications. India, andmorespecifically Karnataka, will be amajor global player in the field of nan-otechnology in theyears to come.”

A specialised institute for nanotech-nology research will be set by the centralgovernment in the city, Rao said.

"We have already got the land forthe new institute, for which the UnionScience and Technology Departmenthas given its approval," Rao, who isalso Chairman of the Scientific AdvisoryCouncil to the Prime Minister, said.

A similar research institute will beoperational in Chandigarh from nextmonth, he said.

Though there are a number of collegesthat offer degree courses in nanotech-nology and biotechnology, they are "notequipped" to teach, Rao said.

Largeinternational delegations areexpected from Russia, Germany, USA,Canada and Polandduring the event.

Over 60 expert speakers will addressthe gathering and someof the leadingInternational speakers include EWMei-jer, Eindhoven University ofTechnology,Biomedical Engineering Materials Tech-nology, The NetherlandsDrTimothy Fish-er, Purdue University, Birck Nanotech-nology Center, USA, Anthony KCheetham of the University of Cambridge

in the UK, IBM Almaden Research CentreDirector Stuart S P Parkin, Robert Stokesof NanoinkInc USA and others.

This year’s event will also featurethe programme “Research Industry Col-laboration Hub”

(RICH), offering partnering oppor-tunities for showcasing innovations innanotechnology. RICH will facilitate

podium presentations and one-to-onemeetings foremerging entrepreneurs innanotechnology.

A special programme, "Nano for theYoung”, is also being organised in theevent. Studentsfrom various engineer-ing, medical and biotech colleges acrossthe city can attend this special sessionwhich will be addressed by Prof Rao.

Bangalore Nano 2011 will feature a‘poster session’ providing a unique op-portunity for scientists and researchersto share their innovations and researchin nanoscience and nanotechnologywith industry, research institutes andventure capitalists.

The conference will be inauguratedby chief minister D V SadanandaGowda.Science and technology minister Anan-dAsnotikar and international delegateswill take part in the conference.

Bangalore Nano National Awardwould be presented during the eventto adistinguished personality forachievements in the field of Nanotech-nology. A special jury headed by ProfRaowould select the awardee.

The previousrecipients of the awardare Prof. C.N.R. Rao in 2007, Prof. Di-pankarChakravorty in2008 and ProfAjayKSood in 2010. Additionally, a newaward has been institutedfrom this yearonwards –“India Nanotech InnovationAwards” – for innovative andpioneeringinitiatives and achievements in the nan-otech arena.

Pass out paradeheld at AFTC

Bangalore: An impressive pass-ing out parade of aeronauticalengineers & short service com-mission course was held at theAir Force Technical College inthe city yesterday.

The parade marked the cul-mination of 74 weeks of training(22 weeks training at Air ForceAcademy and 52 weeks at AirForce Technical College) in aero-nautical engineering, militaryleadership, managerial skills andethos of an air warrior. The coursehad 143 officers, including 22women officers and five inter-national officers (from Africa,Burma, Sri Lanka, Bangladeshand Nepal) who passed out afterone year of training at AFTC.

Air Marshal DC Kumaria, airofficer commanding-in-chief,

Headquarters Western Air Com-mand, was the chief guest andreviewed the passing out parade.

He emphasized the need forengineers to play a critical rolein proper maintenance of aircraftand ground-based equipment.He presented trophies andmedallions to officers who ex-celled in the course.

The prestigious ‘President’sPlaque’ for the best all roundofficer and chief of air staff medalfor best in mechanical streamwas awarded to flying officerVardanAgarwal.

The ‘Vice-President’s Sword’for the best air warrior in thecourse and chief of air staff medalfor best in electronics streamwas awarded to flying officerSunil Kumar.

BBMP to install steel

bridgesBangalore: The BBMP is thinkingof installing steel bridges onprominent roads to bear trafficcongestion. Palike commissionerShankarlingeGowda, joint andadditional commissioners, chiefengineers and executive engi-neers held a meeting at the BBMPoffice yesterday. Already, thereis a proposal before the govern-ment to install such bridges atthree junction of the city. Thecommissioner said that once theapproval is given, the worksshould be taken up immediately.

Excellenceaward for

traffic policeBangalore: The Union urban de-velopment ministry has an-nounced the award of excellencefor Bangalore police for adoptingbest practices to improve urbanmobility through B-TRAC project.

The award is for use of inno-vative technology in traffic en-forcement and regulation. Be-sides information technology,people-friendly initiatives likecreation of citizens’ forum, in-novative traffic circulation planand web-based interaction withcitizens were considered for theaward. The award carries a cashprize of Rs 5 lakh. It will be con-ferred on Bangalore police onDecember 6 in New Delhi.

AoL to host global yoga summitBangalore: The Art of Living andSVYASA Yoga University, Ban-galore, with Yoga PortugueseConfederation of Lisbon, Portu-gal, are organising an interna-tional yoga summit, Yoga: A Sci-ence for World Peace,tomorrowand Monday at The Art of livingInternational Centre.

Art of Living founder Sri SriRavi Shankar; medical educationminister S A Ramadass,;AdiChunchanagiri Mutt seer Bal-aGangadharanath; Hindu Dhar-ma AcharyaSabha general sec-retary Swami Paramátmánanda;BKS Iyengar of RamamaniIyengarMemorial Yoga Institute, Pune;Nagendra of Vivekánanda YogaUniversity, Bangalore; Yoga Por-tuguese Confederation presidentAmrtaSúryánandaMahárájwilladdress the inaugural ceremonytomorrow at 9.30 am.

At the Summit, leading yogamasters would deliberate onevolving master plans to stan-

dardise yoga education with afine balance between classicalteachings and contributions fromrenowned gurus and leadingyoga schools.

They would launch globalinitiatives to establish yoga as atherapy, a tool for value-basededucation and a catalyst for socialtransformation.

Yoga is well established as awellness strategy and embracedby the people regardless of race,nationality and ethnicity.

In recent years, medical re-

searchers are exploring thera-peutic benefits of yoga. There iscompelling evidence to provethat yoga as a lifestyle interven-tion treats stress and lifestyle-related psychosomatic diseases.Basic research on yoga has alsoestablished that yoga facilitatesscholastic and occupational per-formance in children and adultsrespectively.

With these academic advancesand emergence of non-commu-nicable, lifestyle diseases in epi-demic proportions, there is a

need to standardise yoga edu-cation and the practice of yogaas a therapy.

Standardisation of yoga edu-cation would also facilitate theuse of yoga as a performanceenhancer and stress buster.

With strong dimensions in ed-ucation, medicine and spiritu-ality, yoga is emerging as alifestyle which offers compre-hensive personality developmentwith spiritual values.

It has the potential to trans-formindividuals, societies andnations as a community of peace-loving, empowered global citi-zens – the personification ofeternal Indian value – Vasud-haivaKutumbakam. The valedic-tory will be attended by SwamiRamdev of PatañjaliYogpeeth,Hardwar; Swami Radanath ofISKCON; Swa mi Vishveshvará-nanda of SanyasAshrama, Mum-bai,and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

GOC visits army unitsBangalore: MajGenSMitra, gen-eral officer commanding ofAndhra, Tamil Nadu, Karnatakaand Kerala (ATNK & K) area, vis-ited various army establishmentsin the city to review operational,training and administrative pre-paredness.

The general also held wide-ranging discussion with seniorarmy officers. PushpitaMitra,chairperson, Family Welfare Or-ganisation, visited variousschools being run by the army.

She interacted with the teach-ers and staff of Army PublicSchool, the Sub-Area NurserySchool and “Asha School”, whichis for special children.

She distributed gifts and sou-venirs to the children.

MajGenSMitra, general officer commanding ATN K & K area,interacts with an ex-servicemen during his visit to Golden

Palm CSD Canteen in Bangalore.

143 officers, including 22 women officers and five international officers passed out of the Air Force Technical

College after one year of training.

CITYSaturday, December 3, 2011 3

Dollu Kunitha dancers entertain crowds at the inauguration of the third Kannada Sahitya Sammelana organised by theKannada Sahitya Parisha of Gandhinagar assembly constituency today. The sammelana will end tomorrow.

Celebration of KannadaS Radhakrishna

CITY EVENTSGeneral

Geological Society of India:Monthly lecture on ‘Gas Hy-drates in India: Potential andDevelopment’ by Dr KalachandSain, Gas Hydrate Group, Na-tional Geophysical ResearchInstitute, Hyderabad, at No,63, Kavita Apartments, Bas-appa Layout, 12th Cross,Gavipuram, 4 pm.

CulturalSwastik: Staging of play‘Badaku Jataka Bandi’ by Ra-jguru Hosakote, Ran-gashankara, JP Nagar, 7:30 pm

Carmel Pre-University Col-lege: Rendezvous 2011, inter-collegiate festival of talents,No. 14, 4th Cross, II Block, IIStage, West of Chord Road,Basaveshwarnagar, 5 pm

MusicAnnie and Michael DevineLive: Tuesday, August 30th,2011. 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Take5, No 54 MSK Plaza, DefenceColony, 2nd Stage, 100 FeetRoad, Indiranagar A night ofjazz, blues and easy listeningwith Annie and MichaelDevine performing classictunes from years gone by.

Eating OutPower Lunch: Tuesday, August30th, 2011. 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.City Bar Karaoke + Grill, UBCity, No 24, Vittal Mallya Road,Now be connected even duringthe quick business lunch. Freewi-fi access while you fill upin the middle of the day. De-lectable starters with a varietyof veg/ non veg main courseoptions along with draughtbeer.

Weekday Lunch Buffet @ManU: Tuesday, August 30th,2011. noon to 3 p.m. Man-chester United Restaurant Bar,The Manchester United Restau-rant and Bar launches a week-day lunch buffet priced at Rs350 plus taxes right fromstarters to desserts.

‘The Kari Culture’ at Blue Gin-ger: Tuesday, August 30th,2011. 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.Blue Ginger, The Taj West End,23 Race Cource Road , BlueGinger creates an interestingway to learn about Vietnameseingredients and how to createsome of the popular culinaryinnovations. ‘The Kari Kulture’is for all the ladies who wantto learn the finer aspects ofVietnamese cuisine, super-vised by Chef Rishi. This isfollowed by a meal at therestaurant, where the gueststaste what they cook.

The Grand Indian Lunch Buf-fet @ Turquoise: uesday, Au-gust 30th, 2011. noon to 3p.m. Turquoise, No 9, 2nd &3rd Floors, 17th A Main, Kora-mangala Experience the GrandIndian Lunch buffet consistingof over 35 dishes every week-day with around 5 starters, 4vegetarian gravies, 2 non veg-etarian gravies , 7 desserts and

lots more.

NightlifeHip Hop night: Tuesday, Au-gust 30th, 2011. 8 p.m. Hypnos,Gem Plaza, Infantry Road, DJSid plays the latest hip hoptracks from around the world.

Open Mic Night @ Kyra: Tues-day, August 30th, 2011. 7 p.m.to 11 p.m. Kyra Theatre, No2001 Kattima Center, 100 FeetRoad, Indiranagar The OpenMic Night aims to bring outnew talent - whether it’s music,stand up comedy, poetry ordance.

Funky Tuesdays with DJsPrashant and Darsh: Tuesday,August 30th, 2011. 8 p.m. to11:30 p.m. Coco Bongo, 4thFloor, Commercial Complex,National Games Village, 80Feet Road, Koramangala DJsPrashant and Darsh spinninghip hop & RnB this Tuesdayat Coco Bongo. There’s a 1+1offer on drinks all night.

Karaoke Night with KJ Val:Tuesday, August 30th, 2011. 8p.m. to 11:30 p.m. XtremeSports Bar, 4th Floor, 100 FeetRoad, Indiranagar Test thosevocal chords at karaoke nightwith KJ Val.

Happy Tuesdays with DJsPallemoni and Akso: Tuesday,August 30th, 2011. 8 p.m. to11:30 p.m. The Beach, No 1211,100 Feet Road, IndiranagarDJs Pallemoni and Akso spin-

ning deep house, disco andelectronica this Tue @ TheBeach.

ShoppingRio by Titan Eye+: Tuesday,August 30th, 2011. 10 a.m. to11:30 a.m. Titan Eye+, SafinaPlaza, Infantry Road, A trendy,fashionable collection for theyoung and young at heart.The frames are available in ahost of bright colours.

Puma Faas Collection: Tues-day, August 30th, 2011. 11 a.m.to 8 p.m. Puma, A fun, tech-nologically advanced range ofrunning shoes by Puma.

Fall Winter 2011 Collection:Tuesday, August 30th, 2011. 11a.m. to 8 p.m. Esprit, No 10Ananda Bhavan, Vittal MallyaRoad, Stripes, florals, wool,tweed, retro and preppy cometogether in Esprit’s new FallWinter 2011 Collection.

OWW Sale: Tuesday, August30th, 2011. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.One Wit Wonders, No 32 ACRTowers, Residency Road, Flat50% off on selected productsat One Wit Wonders.

Lustrous Moon Collection:Tuesday, August 30th, 2011.10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Collage, No21/1, Wood Street, AshoknagarThe Lustrous Moon Collectionby Bharathi Raviprakash payshomage to the glow of themoon. The collection includesgold jewellery with pearls incolours of golden, black andchocolate, and diamonds aswell.

Special EventsTuesdays with the Bard: Tues-day, August 30th, 2011. 7 p.m.Urban Solace - Cafe for theSoul, No 32, Annaswamy Mu-daliar Road, Ulsoor Lake Tues-days with the Bard is an ini-tiative to create opportunitiesfor poets and poetry lovers toget together. It features poetsreading their creations in anew experience every Tuesday.Members of the audience areencouraged to come forwardand share poems as well.

ExhibitionsCreative Perspectives: Tues-day, August 30th, 2011. noonto 11:30 p.m. Caperberry, No48/1 Ground Floor, The Estate,Dickenson Road, Artwork byGopal Dey, Shan Re, KishoreChand, Ashok Kumar G, Hire-math, Parmesh D Jolad, Ran-jan Paul, Ram Onkar, MiniArora and more.

Colours & Hues: Tuesday, Au-gust 30th, 2011. 10 a.m. to 6p.m. Gallerie Third Eye, No A-1 Epsilon Office Block, YemalurMain Road, Yemalur A groupshow by artists Kanthraj N,Rima Ray & Rakesh Mandalat Gallerie Third Eye.

Synesthesia: Tuesday, August30th, 2011. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.Galleryske, No 2, Berlie Street,Langford Town A group showfeaturing works by AndreaAnastasio, Luigi Anastasio andAvinash Veeraraghavan. Theworks are displayed in thehouse-like space of the gallery,so that they are approachedwithout demarcations and dis-tinctions thus making the view-er experience the works in onecontinuous alternation of me-dia from video and painting,to photography and sculpture.

Solo show @ Apparao: Tues-day, August 30th, 2011. 11 a.m.to 7 p.m. Apparao Galleries,No 82 The Presidency, St MarksRoad, Apparao Galleries pres-ents an exhibition of paintingsby T. Vaikuntam.

The Eye of Graciela Iturbide:Tuesday, August 30th, 2011.10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tasveer, No26/1, Kasturba Cross Road, Acollection of black and whitepictures shot by Mexican pho-tographer Graciela Iturbide,in locales across the world.

Now and Tomorrow : Tuesday,August 30th, 2011. 10 a.m. to7 p.m. Kynkyny Art, No 148Embassy Square, InfantryRoad, An exhibition by elevenemerging artists, which travelsinto contemporary territoryand throws up a commentaryon the rapidly changing, con-tinually shifting here and nowof modern India.

Group Show @ Renaissance:Tuesday, August 30th, 2011. 11a.m. to 7 p.m. RenaissanceGallerie, No 13 Westminster,Cunningham Road, An exhi-bition of paintings by Shrad-dha DD, Deepa Vedpathak,Shama Rane and Shivaji Cha-van.

River development authorityto help TG Halli reservoir

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The government isthinking of setting up a river de-velopment authority for the re-vival of Thippgondanahalli reser-voir and its feeder rivers Arkavatiand Kumudvati, said urban de-velopment minister Suresh Ku-mar.

Visiting the TG Halli reservoir,which supplies drinking waterto some part of Bangalore, hesaid that desilting works shouldbegin by this month-end.

Houses and industries thathave come up in the catchmentareas of the TG Halli reservoir

should be cleared immediately.Departments should make allpreparations for clearing the en-croachments in these areas, headded.

Boundary stones should beinstalled in all areas coming un-der the catchment area.

Already, the Bangalore De-velopment Authority has initiatedworks to identify the boundary,and it would get over soon. Awaste water treatment plantwould be set up at Tavarekereand its administration would behanded over to the local grampanchayat. Treated water wouldbe supplied to industries, farm

fields and other non-domesticneeds. This would reduce theflow of grey water into the reser-voir, cutting down its pollution,he said.

The revenue department hasbeen told not to issue any newkhatas in protected areas aroundthe reservoir.

The department has also beenordered to stop all mining activityaround the dam. Already, 21 il-legal residential layouts havebeen cleared by the NelamangalaDevelopment Authority.

Similarly, all those industriesthat have cropped up illegallyshould also be vacated, he said.

Chargesheet filedagainst10 in

Dey murder caseNew Delhi: The Mumbai CrimeBranch filed chargesheet against10 of the 11 accused and men-tioned underworld don ChhotaRajan and Nayan Singh as ab-sconding accused today in thejournalist J Dey’s murder case.

A supplementary chargesheetwill be filed against journalistJigna Vora in the case later.

Yesterday, a man had ap-proached MCOCA court to handover four cell phones and SIMcards allegedly used by Vora.Vora’s police custody has beenextended to December 5 in theMid Day journalist murder case.

The prosecution sought a nar-co analysis on JignaVora if theaccused was willing but the de-fense opposed, sources said.

On November 25, police ar-rested Vora, the deputy bureauchief of an English daily in Mum-bai and was sent to a weeks’ po-lice custody under the Maha-rashtra Control of OrganisedCrime Act (MCOCA).

The Mumbai Crime Branchhave named gangster ChhotaRa-jan as the mastermind of themurder including the four allegedshooters seen trailing Dey in aCCTV video just before they shot

him.In court, the prosecution stated

they had gathered evidence inthe form of telephonic recordsthat show Vora in conversationwith her underworld sources.

Vora parted with vital infor-mation that directly relates tothe murder, including J Dey’smotorcycle number, his homeand office address and his dailyschedule and misguided policeduring interrogation and wasnon-cooperative.

Dey was shot dead outsidehis house at Powai in Mumbaion June 11, 2011.

Kudankulampanel to meet

in 3 weeksChennai:The central governmentcommittee, appointed to allaythe fears of locals about thesafety of Kudankulam NuclearPower Project (KNPP) in TamilNadu, will meet in three weeksto discuss the panel’s responsesto the issues raised by protestorsand people, an official said to-day.

“The committee is studyingthe issues raised by the membersof People’s Movement AgainstNuclear Energy (PMANE). The issues were raised by them during our second meetingwith the state government appointed panel,” A.E. Muthu-nayagam, convenor of the 15-member expert panel on theKNPP, told IANS.

“We are open to meet the statepanel members once again butnot any other forum unless man-dated by the government,” headded.

India’s nuclear power plant operator Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd(NPCIL) is building two 1,000MW atomic power reactors atKudankulam in Tamil Nadu’sTirunelveli district, around 650km from here.

Villagers fear for their livesand safety in case of any nuclearaccident.

Their agitation has put a stop to the project work, delayingthe commissioning of the firstunit and increasing the projectcost from the budgeted

Rs.13,171crore. The central and state govern-

ments have formed two panelson the issue.

The state panel has the repre-sentatives of the PMANE that isspearheading the movementagainst the Kudankulamnuclerpower plant.

As per plans, the central panelwould meet the state panel andexplain the safety features andother aspects of the KNPP. Thestate panel will, in turn, allaythe fears of the people.

Reiterating their stand thatthe centre’s panel will not meetany other group, Muthunayagamsaid: “Our mandate is to meetthe state panel. We have metthem twice and would meet themagain. As of now, there is nomandate for us to meet any otherpanel.”

The PMANE wants the centralpanel to meet the people andexplain the safety features ormeet a panel of experts consti-tuted by the former.

The central expert panel wasnot allowed to make a powerpoint presentation to the statepanel on reactor design, safetyfeatures, among other issues.

“The PMANE members Nov18 said they are not interestedin the presentation and wantedus to give it in report form. Inthree weeks’ time, our memberswill meet at Kanyakumari,” an-other member of the central pan-el said.

Yoga guru sues ʻcopycatʼ studentNew York: Bikram Choudhury,the Kolkata-born yoga teacherin the US, has sued a former stu-dent for over a million dollarsfor copying his style of exercisethat involves workouts in a 105degree Fahrenheit room.

Choudhury, the founder of c,has copyrighted this technique.

In the lawsuit filed in a Cali-fornia court for copyright in-fringement, the 65-year-old hassought damages of over a milliondollars and urged a federal judgeto block Yoga to the People, achain of studios founded by GregGumucio, his old student.

Choudhury has alleged thatGumucio’s yoga studios offer the“traditional hot yoga” class thatis identical to his Bikram Yoga,which is a 26-posture sequencedone in a room heated up to 105degree Fahrenheit or 41 degreeCelsius.

“The hot yoga class is taughtin the same ambient environmentas Bikram Yoga in order to givestudents the impression that theclass offers the same experienceand benefits a student wouldhave at a Bikram Yoga studio,”the 25-page plea said.

Gumucio had entered into an

agreement with him that pro-hibited the use of the BikramYoga brand name and trademarkin any form, Choudhury said.While a Bikram Yoga class costs$25, Gumucio’s chain of studioscharges $8 for the session.

Choudhury’s lawyer RobertGilchrest said he had an investi-gator take Gumucio’s classes thatwere “virtually mirror imagesand the dialogue was consistentlythe same” as Choudhury’s yogaclasses.

Gumucio opened Yoga to thePeople in New York in 2006. Thechain currently has five studios

in the city as well as in Californiaand Seattle. Choudhury said hehad to close one of his studiosin Manhattan because “the pres-ence of our competitors,” namelyYoga to the People, “made it im-possible for us to continue”.

In his defence, Gumucio saidhe never agreed to abide byChoudhury’s rules and that waswhy he parted ways with him.“I have never agreed with Bikramand his idea that he owned theyoga or that he should sue any-one.” He said his sequence ofposes is not exactly the same asChoudhury’s.

Order on Swamyʼs plea against PC on Dec 8New Delhi: A trial court in Delhi todayreserved its order on a petition filed byJanata Party president SubramanianSwamy in the 2G scam case. Swamy isdemanding that Union Home MinisterP Chidambaram be made a co-accusedin the scam. The order will now be an-nounced on December 8.

Swamy had recently claimed that hehas proof that Chidambaram and formerTelecom Minister A Raja acted togetherin fixing 2G spectrum prices.

A finance ministry document, thatSwamy has released, reportedly cites ameeting between Chidambaram andRaja on the pricing issue.

The document released by Swamyhas the Finance Secretary’s notingsmentioning two meetings between P

Chidambaram and A Raja on May 29,2008 and June 12, 2008 to resolve out-standing issues relating to allocationand pricing of 2G and 3G spectrumbands.

It says, “Spectrum usage charge ispegged to the bandwidth and is cali-brated as a percentage of the AdjustedGross Revenue [AGR].

“In view of historical legacy reasonsand the administrative issues involvedin changing an established practice, itwas decided to continue with the currentpractice of levying spectrum usagecharges on the basis of varying per-centage of AGR for different bandwidthsof spectrum”

On pricing of spectrum for 2G allo-cations, the document states, “It has

been agreed that the “base price” shallbe determined by taking the entry feeof rs 1650 crore [determined in 2003-04] for pan-India operation of UASL li-censees as the price of spectrum for 6.2mhz of bandwidth for GSM operators[a similar exercise is possible for CDMAoperators also]. This translates to anembedded price of Rs. 266 crore/mhz[for pan India operation]”

In 2008, when Raja was the TelecomMinister and allegedly used his officeto orchestrate India’s biggest swindle– better known as the 2G scam, Chi-dambaram was the Finance Minister.Swamy contends that the decisions tak-en by Raja were endorsed by Chi-dambaram, and he should thereforeshare responsibility for the scam, and

be formally investigated by the CentralBureau of Investigation (CBI).

This is likely to mount further pressureon the Home Minister in particular andthe government in general. The mainOpposition, the Bharatiya Janata Par-ty-led National Democratic Alliance(NDA) has decided to boycott Chi-dambaram during the ongoing WinterSession of Parliament until such timeas he tenders his resignation over the2G issue.

Raja was arrested in February thisyear; the CBI is handling the case againsthim and 13 others accused of criminalconspiracy. The Supreme Court is mon-itoring the CBI’s investigation; a specialcourt headed by Judge OP Saini is han-dling the trial.

Valuablesworth over `7 lakh stolen

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Robbers made awaywith cash and valuables worthover Rs 7 lakh from a house,whose doors were not closedproperly, at Govindapura yes-terday.

ShahidaBanu along with herdaughter-in-law RabiyaBashiriwent to the neighbourhoodmosque for Isthama without clos-ing the doors of her house prop-erly as she had thought shewould be back soon.

The two, who left around 3.30pm, returned home around 4.30pm.

They found that someone hadentered the house and takenaway 310 gm gold jewellery andRs 55,000 cash, worth over Rs 7lakh, from the bureau.

KEA to make applicationsubmission online

Bangalore: The Karnataka ExaminationAuthority is making preparations to takethe process of filling the application formsfor the Common Entrance Test too online.

With this, students appearing for nextyear’s CET need not have to buy brochuresfor applications, and can do it through theKEA website, which contains all informationregarding the test for professional colleges.

Now, students have to buy the CETbrochure which also contains the applicationform. They have to send the filled applicationform through post. This not only is a time-consuming process, but could also lead toproblems if the package is misplaced bythe postal department.

Since rural area students may not be fa-miliar with online operations, the authorityis also thinking of providing them with pa-per-based application forms. The thinking

is also that if the process is taken up earlyenough, the rural students too could becovered under the new method. The officialsof the authority are likely to take a decision

by December 15.The KEA is preparing to take seat distri-

bution online. With the two projects in mind,officials of the authority are visiting NITKat Suratkal. The application form fillingmethodology and seat distribution onlineat NITK would be studied and adopted forCET if found suitable.

KEA teams will also travel to Ahmedabad,Hyderabad and Mumbai too to study. “Thesecities have online operations that could besuitable for CET. NITK is small and does nothave the view of rural parts. The visit toother cities would cover those areas too. InAndhra Pradesh and Gujarat, even villageschoolchildren have knowledge of IT. Afterstudying the methods there, we will try toadopt them here,” said KEA officials.

The contours of the KEA online policywould be formulated after the visit.

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P Chidambaram

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Nagas warn of action as PM visits Manipur

New Delhi: The United NagaCouncil, which recently liftedover 100-day economic blockadeof Manipur, Saturday warned offresh action if the government''bifurcates'' their land. The threatcomes when Prime Minister Man-mohan Singh is on a day's visitto Imphal.

“The Nagas in Manipur willnot accept any excuse and willdo something about it if govern-ment tries to bifurcate the landwhich belongs to Nagas,“ a UNCleader said on condition ofanonymity.

A powerful bomb explodedin the Manipur's capital of ImphalWednesday just 50 metres awayfrom the newly constructed CityConvention Centre which Man-mohan Singh is scheduled to in-augurate.

“What we are demanding isthat our traditional land be re-spected and let us live where webelong. Nagas can live with anycommunity but you cannot give

our land to someone else,” saidthe leader.

He alleged that authorities areinterested in conceding to the

demands of Kukis, who are de-manding a separate district.

“The policymakers are tryingto create a homeland for Kukis

but the land belongs to Nagas,not to Kukis,” the leader said inan assertive tone.

The state went through a gru-elling economic blockade whichwas launched by the Sadar HillsDistrict Demand Committee(SHDDC) Aug 1 for conversionof the Kuki tribal majority SadarHills area into a full-fledged dis-trict.

The Kukis lifted the blockadeon two highways – Imphal-Dima-pur-Guwahati (NH39) and Im-phal-Jiribam-Silchar (NH53) – onthe 92nd day after the state gov-ernment agreed to their demandfor creating a district, a moveopposed by the Nagas, who re-sorted to a counter blockade.

The UNC lifted its blockadetemporarily Nov 28 ahead of theprime minister's visit.

The three months long block-ades led to severe shortage ofessentials, including fuel, cook-ing gas cylinders and medicines.

New act in offing to empower disabled

New Delhi: Aiming to empowerpeople with various forms of dis-abilities, government will soonintroduce a new act which willbe in sync with internationalregulations, social justice min-ister Mukul Wasnik said today.

He said the committee formedin this regard has submitted thedraft of the new act and it isbeing studied by the governmentfor a final decision.

"We have started the processand the committee formed inthis regard has submitted thedraft. It is being examined andwe are consulting people. Thedecision would be taken soon,"he told reporters on sidelines ofa function on occasion of Inter-national Day of Persons withDisabilities.

Government is reviewing theexisting act – Persons With Dis-abilities (Equal Opportunities,Protection of Rights and Full Par-ticipation) Act, formed in 1995– to incorporate new sectionsfor empowering people with var-ious disabilities and for providing

them more opportunities in ed-ucation and career.

For better accessibility of gov-ernment websites and depart-ments by the disabled people,Wasnik unveiled a set of 40 tem-plates used as public informationcirculars, forms, gazettes andnotifications developed by IT gi-ant Microsoft.

"Access to information is animportant aspect for providingequal rights to all sections of so-ciety, including disabled people.Our Ministry has taken the leadstep in making its website ac-cessible to all people by variousmeans. The templates developedby Microsoft will further easethe process," he said.

On ways to increase accessi-bility for disabled people in gov-ernment departments and in-dustries, Wasnik said his ministryhas written to the state govern-ments, central government de-partments and various chambersof commerce and industries totake necessary steps.

"We have requested the Union

Ministries, Chief Ministers andvarious chambers of commerceand industries to impress upontheir member companies to maketheir websites accessible," hesaid, adding that guidelines fromDepartment of AdministrativeReforms were issued only re-cently for this.

Earlier in his address, Wasnikstressed on the need for attitu-dinal changes in all section ofsociety to break their mental bar-riers against disabled people.

"Biggest need is to break atti-tudinal barrier in mindset of so-ciety and people. It requires aherculean effort both on part ofgovernment and society. Activi-ties to bring attitudinal changeshave to be undertaken and thereare several role models in dis-ability sector for this purpose."

Observing that equal oppor-tunity is not a welfare aspectbut the right of disable people,he said government has taken adecision to organize a nationalfestival for them in April everyyear.

Sukna scam: LtGen found guilty

Guwahati: Former Military SecretaryLt Gen AvadeshPrakash was today foundguilty on three counts by an Army courthere in the Sukna land scam case fol-lowing which he was dismissed fromservice.

The dismissal means he will not getany benefits like pension.

However, the court gave Lt GenPrakash, the senior-most Army officerto face court martial, benefit of doubton the fourth count of committing acivil offence.

Prakash was held guilty of misusinghis position under the Army Act section

45 (conduct unbecoming of his positionas an officer) and section 52 (intent todefraud) by the General Court Martialat the 51 sub area of the army station atNarengi.

The court martial was conductedafter Prakash was indicted by an Armycourt of inquiry early last year for hisrole in the illegal transfer of 71 acres ofland adjacent to the Sukna military sta-tion near Siliguri in West Bengal to aprivate realtor for constructing an edu-cational institution in 2008.

He is the third Lt Gen rank officer tohave been punished in a case related

to corruption. Lt Gen S K Sahni was cashiered from

service for his role in the ration scamand Lt Gen P K Rath was given a pun-ishment in the Sukna case earlier.

While Prakash and Sahni were pun-ished after their retirement from service,Rath is still serving in the army.

The scam dates back to 2008 whenthe alleged move to transfer the landin Siliguri district of West Bengal to aprivate educational trust came out inthe open, leading to the Army initiatingdisciplinary proceedings against seniorArmy officials, including Prakash.

We must notape West onFDI: Advani

New Delhi:Senior BJP leader LKAdvani on Saturday stressed thatthere was no need to imitateWest on having multi-brand retailgiants here like the Walmart andTesco.

Speaking at a function hereorganised by a media house, Ad-vani said he failed to understandas to why the decision on allow-ing FDI in retail sector was takenso suddenly.

“We should avoid imitationof the West. Walmart may begood for them, but it doesn’tserve us,” Advani said, adding“we should not be envious ofWalmart”. According to him,once big retailers enter India itwould lead to unemploymenthere. “There are so many whowould be displaced...,” he said.

Advani noted that people are

opposed to FDI in retail. Bharat bandh have never been

as successful as was on Thursday,he added.

Touching on the issue ofscams, Advani said graft washitting India’s image and addedthat good governance and cor-ruption cannot go together.

“Good governance is more im-portant than right sounding poli-cies,” he told the summit. “If2011 was year of scams, let 2012become year of accountability,”he added.

Advani underlined that thosefound responsible for scams mustget punished.

Speaking in context of his re-cent Jan ChetnaYatra, Advanisaid his yatras have always in-tended to highlight genuine sec-ularism.

India Shining slogan ledto NDA's loss: Advani

New Delhi: Senior BJP leaderLK Advanitoday said his yatrashave been an invaluable educa-tion to him. Speaking at the Hin-dustan Times Leadership Summitin New Delhi, Advani also ap-preciated the support he has gotduring his Jan ChetnaYatra.

"Public support I received dur-ing this yatra is far greater", saidAdvani.

The senior leader also statedthat his yatras are part of India'syatra's into future and intend tohighlight genuine secularism.

Lamenting at the state of thenation after independence, Ad-vani commented, "Our freedomfighters had conceived that Indiawould be a fully developed coun-try in 15 years from independ-ence. But that has not happenedeven after 50 years."

Commenting on the issue of

FDI in retail, Advani said it willaffect a large section of the soci-ety. "I don't understand why itwas decided so suddenly", askedAdvani.

He also clarified that the BJPhas always been opposed to FDIin retail.

Advani also asserted, "Wemust not imitate the west."

He called 2011 an year ofscams. "2011 was year of scams,let 2012 be the year of accounta-bility", said Advani.

Advani also pointed out thatthe image of India as corruptcountry is very dishearteningand that good governance andcorruption cannot go together.

He also spoke on the issue ofthe much talked about nucleardeal with the US. "Can the PMcome up with a white paper onwhat will the nuke deal achieve

in 10 years?", asked Advani.Speaking on the issue of cash-

for-votes scam he said, "Therehas been no discussion in theHouse yet on cash-for-votesscam."

"Cash-for-votes scam enableda minority government to getmajority. Cash-for votes was themost malignant scandal I havecome across in past sixty years;it was a trigger for my last yatra",added Advani.

Advani said the BJP MPs wereserving democracy, if they arewrong then he is a bigger wrong-doer.

Asserting that democracy anddynastic succession cannot co-exist, Advani said, "We are re-spected because of our democ-racy; we have an independentmedia, judiciary."

Advani also accepted that the

criticism of the 'Shining India'campaign was justified. "I shouldhave called the campaign risingIndia, it was my mistake," saidAdvani.

On being the BJP's candidatefor the post of the Prime Minister,he said,"It's for the party to de-cide."

When asked about fellow BJPleader and Gujarat Chief MinisterNarendraModi, Advani said,"Modi is a remarkable adminis-trator, excellent leader; he hasbeen maligned consistently."

"PM is not able to exercise hisauthority," said Advani whenasked his opinion on Prime Min-ister Manmohan Singh.

On UPA Chief Sonia Gandhi,Advani said, "We cannot have anumber one in our democracy-whom many people don't know."

New Egyptiancabinet to be

finalised todayCairo: Egypt's new prime min-ister designate will finalise a newcabinet on Saturday, with severalstanding ministers expected toretain their posts in a governmentaimed at placating protesters de-manding a national salvationgovernment.

The government will have 32ministers, according to state-runnews agency MENA.

Kamal el-Ganzouri is expectedto meet nine new figures thatwill be members of the govern-ment, including MohamedIbrahim Ali, likely to take overthe antiquities ministry portfo-lio.

Several members of the EssamSharaf cabinet have retainedtheir posts in the national sal-vation government of el Gan-zouri.

The remaining ministers areAbdallah Ghorab for oil, Mo-hamed Salem for telecommuni-cations, Mohamed Abdel Fadil

el Qusi for Wakfs, Mahmoud Eis-sa for industry and foreign trade,Hesham Kandil for irrigation andMounir Fakhri Abdel Nour fortourism.

They are to meet Ganzourilater in the day.

Also retaining their posts inthe national salvation govern-ment are Ossama Heikal for in-formation, Hassan Younis forelectricity and Fayza Abul Nagafor planning and internationalcooperation.

Gouda Abdel Khaleq will re-main minister for social solidarityand will also be in charge of thesupply portfolio.

The cabinet of Essam Sharafresigned after intense protestsrocked the country over the de-mand for a quicker transition todemocracy and an end to thecontrol of the military. Over 40people were killed in the vio-lence, that came just before Egyptwent to its first phase of polls.

No rollbackof FDI:

Commerceminister

New Delhi: Commerce MinisterAnand Sharma has said that thegovernment is committed to im-plementing foreign direct invest-ment in multi-brand retail mar-ket.

Speaking exclusively to KaranThapar on the Devil's Advocate,Sharma said that there was noquestion of a rollback on the an-nouncement in FDI in retail.

"Why should it be rolled back.We have acted out of conviction,we have carefully thought itthrough," he said.

Sharma said that the govern-ment will talk to its allies andparty MPs and address theirreservations on the FDI issue.

"We will talk to our allies, wewill talk it through. Our partyMPs, if some of them, very few,if out of 207, two have expressedreservation we are respondingto that," Sharma said.

On being asked when will the notification of the rules, with regard to FDI, be made public, Sharma said that it is a process. He, however, added that it will not linger fora long time, it will be imple-mented soon.

"It is a process. Ministers don't deal with the process, civilservants deal with it," Sharmasaid.

Moderatinggrowth

will ease inflation: RBIMumbai: India's moderatinggrowth will help to ease infla-tionary pressure in the country,a deputy governor of the ReserveBank of India Subir Gokarn saidon Saturday.

Domestic liquidity conditionsare likely to remain stretched forsome time, Gokarn added, butsaid that the central bank wouldensure that liquidity stays atcomfortable levels.

India's GDP growth fell to 6.9 percent in the second quarterof the current financial year, its weakest pace in more than two years, as persistentlyhigh inflation and 13 interest rate hikes since March 2010 bite.

The RBI in its last policy meeting on Oct. 25 had indicatedthat it was likely to hold rates inits Dec. 16 review, if inflation"trajectory conformed to projec-tions".

ʻLeT using web propagandato radicalise individualsʼ

Washington: Identifying Pak-istan-based LeT as a lethal terrorgroup with primary focus on In-dia, a key US attorney has saidthe outfit is expanding its wingsto the West, in particular Amer-ica, and using internet propa-ganda to radicalise and recruitindividuals.

"Foreign terrorist organisationslike LeT use internet propagandato radicalise and recruit individ-uals to wage violent jihad andspread terror," Neil H MacBride,US Attorney for the Eastern Dis-trict of Virginia, told reportershere.

LeT is responsible for a num-ber of terror attacks such as the2008 Mumbai strikes which killed166 individuals, including sixAmericans – two of them fromVirginia.

Referring to the conviction ofPakistani national Jubair Ahmad,a resident of Virginia, for sup-porting LeT, MacBride said theUS would pursue all those whoprovide material support to ter-rorists.

This is the fifth case of home-grown terrorism in eastern district

of Virginia that FBI has broughtin the last year.

"It's a significant threat thatwe take very seriously," MacBridesaid.

Describing LeT as a "danger-ous and deadly" foreign terroristorganisation, he said: "Over theyears they have tried to changetheir name. And each time theUS government has respondedby classifying their pseudo ornick names as the foreign terroristorganisations."

Ahmad, 24, pleaded guilty be-fore a US court of charges thathe provided material support to

LeT."This demonstrates our tireless

commitment to disrupt and dis-mantle (what) we consider to bematerial support (to the terroroutfits). We take radicalisationon the internet, on any firms ofrecruitment extremely seriously,"said Brenda L Heck, SpecialAgent in Charge for FBI's Wash-ington Field Office Counter-ter-rorism Division.

Ahmad told the court that heprepared and uploaded a 'jihadi'video on You Tube at the direc-tion of Talha Saeed, son of theLeT commander Hafiz Saeed.

Court documents allege thatduring his teenage years in Pak-istan, Ahmad received indoctri-nation training from LeT andlater immigrated to the UnitedStates with his family in 2007.

In September 2010, Ahmadallegedly conspired with Talhato produce a propaganda videofor LeT, which contained imagesshowing violent 'mujahideen'operations while a prayer by theLeT leader is heard in the back-ground, calling for the supportof 'jihad' and the 'mujahideen'.

"LeT is a ... deadly organisa-tion. The head of the organisationis an individual whose voice ap-pears on the video tape. It's alecture or prayer that calls forviolent jihad. The son of that in-dividual (Talha) contacted him(Ahmed) to prepare that video.

"So he (Talha) is a significantperson within LeT and has theability to reach out to someonehere in Northern Virginia,"MacBride told reporters in re-sponse to a question.

Although the name Mumbaipops up during the investigationof this case, MacBride said thereis no information on the Mumbaiterrorist attacks from this probe.

According to the plea docu-ment, at one point, Ahmad askedTalha if he wanted to includean image of the Mumbai attacksto show the power of LeT. Talhareplied that he should not useanything referring to Mumbai.

"The significance is that thisman, Mr Ahmad probably vol-unteered to make a video tapeto recruit and radicalise new ji-hadists to join LeT," the US at-torney said.

Drop in US unemploymentbrings cheer to Obama

Washington: The US unemploy-ment rate surprisingly droppedto 8.6 percent in November, thelowest in two-and-a-half years,bringing good cheer to embattledPresident Barack Obama, butanalysts wondered if it wouldprove to be a game changer.

The big dip in unemploymentfrom 9 percent in October oc-curred even though the LabourDepartment reported yesterdaythat just 120,000 jobs were addedin November, a figure roughlyin line with expectations.

Unemployment now standsat its lowest level since March2009, a clear political plus forObama but something of a mixedbag considering 13.3 millionAmericans are still jobless andthe sovereign debt crisis unfold-ing in Europe could tip the worldinto a recession, Politico news

site focusing on presidential pol-itics said.

"Today's employment report provides further evidencethat the economy is continuingto heal from the worst economicdownturn since the Great Depression, but the pace of improvement is still not fast enough," said Alan Krueger, chairman of the president's Council of EconomicAdvisers.

"While the US economy ishealing, the world economy con-tinues to be in a fragile state,and all economies are linkedthrough trade and finance."

Noting that the unemploymentrate in November dropped fasterthan it has in more than 11 years,Time magazine called it "AmazingNews" but wondered "Is It aGame Changer?"

The "question remains: Is theeconomy stuck in a slow growthmode, or is it about to take off?"the US news magazine said not-ing "Economists generally believethe economy has to add about200,000 jobs a month for theunemployment rate to consis-tently drop."

One of the problems of the

recovery was that fewer peoplehave been starting up new busi-nesses, it said. But banks haverecently begun lending more,making it easier for more peopleto start new businesses.

"That's not just good news forthe unemployed, but for the long-term health of the economy ingeneral," Time said.

Pak, US bothhave right toself‑defence:

PentagonWashington: As a sovereign na-tion Pakistan has the right toself-defence, so does the US, thePentagon said, amid reports fromIslamabad that Pakistan ArmyChief Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayanihad issued direction that hiscommanders on the Af-Pak bor-der can return fire.

Pentagon spokesman NavyCapt John Kirby said that thelast week's NATO bombing thatkilled 24 Pakistani soldiers alongthe Afghanistan border has hada chilling effect on the relation-ship between the two countries.

"I think it's safe to say thatthe incident has had a chillingeffect on our relationship withthe Pakistani military, no ques-tion about that. Both sides deemit to be as serious as it was,"Kirby said at a Pentagon briefing.

"I've seen the comments at-tributed to General Kayani. I'mcertainly not going to speak forhim or for the government ofPakistan. But every sovereignnation has the right of self-de-fence and the right to order theirtroops to defend themselves.”

Manmohan Singh