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Raichur childdeaths: HCturns plaint

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Bangalore: The Karnataka High Court accept-ed a complaint filed by an NGO against thedeaths of children due to malnutrition inRaichur district and turned it into public interestlitigation.

Today it served notices to the Raichur deputycommissioner, state Legal Services Authorityand secretary to the women and child welfaredepartment.

The Athani Vimochana Sangha conducted aninquiry in Raichur district, following a media re-port that children in the drought-hit Raichur dis-trict have been dying due to malnutrition.

The sangha had criticised the district ad-ministration and women and child welfaredepartment for not doing enough to provide re-lief to the affected children and their families.

The sangha had written a letter to JusticeVikramajit Sen, who is the senior-most judge atthe Karnataka High Court, narrating the sorrystate of children in the interiors of the district.

The judge, who took up the complaint,served notices on the three authorities. He hasalso asked the Raichur district to submit a re-port by October 12.

State may declare 60

taluks drought‑hit

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The state may declare 60 taluksspread across 20 districts as drought-hit.

Chief minister D V Sadananda Gowda helda meeting of revenue officials to gather infor-mation on the condition of taluks in different dis-tricts.

The meeting was held at his official residenceKrishan today.

The chief minister gave instruction to officialsto immediately make arrangements to supplywater, foodgrains and fodder for cattle indrought-hit areas.

Kannada and culture minister Govind MKarajol, cooperatives minister Lakshman Sava-di, horticulture minister S A Ravindranath andrevenue secretary (drought management) P NSrinivasachary took part in the meeting.

Lokayukta copssubmit report

in BSY caseBangalore: The Lokayukta police have sub-mitted a report to the Lokayukta special courtin a case related to alleged illegal land denoti-fication cases against former chief minister B SYeddyurappa.

Lokayukta special judge A Sudheendra Raois hearing the PCR 1 case against Yeddyurappa.

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By Sri Sri Ravishankar

However, you can solve problems by, first-ly, not having the problem at all. Know thatlife is too short to keep solving problemsone after another. Page 2...

DARSHAN STILLNOT OUT OF JAILHC adjourns hearing on his bail plea to Oct 7

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The Karnataka high courttoday postponed the bail applicationhearing of actor Darshan to October7.

The high court adjourned the caseas the public prosecutor sought somemore time to file objections againstDarshan’s bail petition. The casewas heard by Justice B V Pinto.

The Vijayanagar police, led by in-vestigating officer circle inspectorChandrashekhar who arrested Dar-shan last month on charges of as-saulting his wife Vijayalakshmi, to-day submitted the chargesheet tothe court.

The actor was arrested on Sep-

tember 9 when he allegedly beat uphis wife and attempted to murder her.Vijayalakshmi, who was seriously in-jured in the attack, gave a five-pagecomplaint to the Vijayanagar po-lice. On the day of the attack, the po-lice admitted Vijayalakshmi to hos-pital and then arrested Darshan.

The sessions court did not grantbail to the cine star, which prompt-ed his lawyer to file the bail applica-tion in the high court. The high courtheard the case earlier and postponedthe hearing by two weeks, landingDarshan in Parappana Agrahara jail.Since the bail hearing has againbeen postponed Darshan will have tolanguish in jail for at least anotherthree days.

3 involved in youthʼs murder caught in city

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Three persons who allegedlystabbed a person to death on HesaraghattaMain Road last month were arrested yes-terday.

On September 19, the three accused, whowere driving a car with registration numberwritten in Kannada, accosted Santosh Kumarnear Sambhrama Engineering College. Theypicked up a fight with the 28-year-old andstabbed him in the thigh.

Santosh, who was lying on the road un-attended, was being shifted to hospital byVidyaranyapura police. But he died on theway.

Deputy commissioner of police north H SRevanna had formed three teams to nab thekillers. The police, who knew that a small carwith Kannada registration number wasused for the crime, rounded up the vehiclesand suspects who bore the resemblance.Among them, the police kept track of indi-viduals with criminal record.

The investigation led to the arrest of San-tosh (22), a resident of Kottigehalli and son

of rowdy-sheeter Kariyanna; Avinash, a res-ident of Lakshmi Devi Nagar near Laggere,and Lokesh, a resident of Subedarpalyanear Yashwantpur.

The police recovered the knife and carused for the crime.

Santosh had recently come out on bail ina case related to attempt to murder case reg-istered at Yashwantpur police station. San-tosh, whose father is a rowdy, had formed hisown gang and was going around townthreatening people, the police said.

Farmers stock pumpkin on the eve of Ayudha Puja in thecity today. This year, the price of pumpkin has gone up

with the festive season on.

Getting ready for festival

Santosh (centre) and his associates Avinash and Lokesh have been arrested forthe murder of a youngster in the city last month.

CM: Blame Centre forpower cuts

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: “The central gov-ernment is displaying step moth-erly attitude towards the state,”alleged chief minister D VSadananda Gowda today refer-ring to the severe power shortagein the state.

During a janatha darshan athis official residence Krishna,he said, “The ears of the centralgovernment are closed to thegrievances of Karnataka. We haveappealed to the Centre severaltimes to supply coal for our pow-er generation units, but they arenot responding. They are also notsupplying the allotted power tothe state from the central powergrid. The state is facing severepower shortage because of thenon-supply of coal.”

“The central government

should not differentiate amongstate in such critical issues. Weare demanding our share and nomore,” Gowda added.

Sadananda Gowda

Force CM to dropYogi: KPCC to guv

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: A KPCC delegation metgovernor H R Bharadwaj this morningand submitted a memorandum askinghim to bear down on chief minister DV Sadananda Gowda to drop forestminister C P Yogeshwar, who is in-volved in Megacity project scandal.

The delegation was led by KPCCpresident G Parameshwara, oppositionleader in the assembly Siddaramaiahand MLA D K Shivakumar.

After submitting the memorandum,Parameshwara said, “The SeriousFraud Investigation Office (SFIO) hasalready submitted a report againstYogeshwar to the Union corporate af-fairs ministry. He has cheated peoplein the Megacity scam. In spite of this,the chief minister has allowed him intothe cabinet.

“A tainted person should not be al-lowed in the ministry. The congress de-mands that the chief minister shoulddrop him from the cabinet immedi-ately. But the issue does not seem tobother Sadananda Gowda, who isshying away from taking action. We

consulted the governor, who is thehead of the state, and submitted amemorandum to him.”

He said, “The BJP government is in-

volved in corruption where manymembers are facing various chargesand some have even landed in jail.”

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Congress state president G Parameshwara, opposition leader in the assembly Siddaramaiah and MLA D K Shivakumar address the mediaoutside Raj Bhavan after meeting governor H R Bhardwaj today. The

Congress leaders demanded that the chief minister should droptainted forest minister C P Yogeshwar.

How ill is Katta:Judge

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The bail plea of ailingformer minister Katta Subra-manya Naidu faced difficultiesagain with the judge unable to as-certain his state of health.

In the city civil court, JusticeSudheendra Rao said, “A nine-member team has been treatingNaidu at Victoria Hospital. Butthey have not mentioned whatstage his cancer has advanced to.For example, in the case of breastcancer there are various stageslike 1, 2, 3, 4, 4A etc.”

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MLA Ravi Subramanyam distributes sarees to BBMP pourakarmikas on the occasion of Viyaya Dashami, at Girinagar today. Corporator H S Lalitha and ward president

E Manjunath Rao were present.

Celebrating Dasara

SAARATHEE Darshan, DeepaAdarsha (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Eshwari (9.15 pm) HMT Cinemas(Jalahalli) (10.45 am) Gopalan (Ban-nerghatta Road) (1 pm) GopalanCinemas (Rajarajeshwari Nagar) (10am, 6.30 pm) Goverdhan (11.30 am,2.30, 6, 9 pm) Inox (Malleswaram)(12.30 pm, 3.15, 8.50 pm) Mohan(11.30 am, 2.30, 6.15, 9.15 pm) Nar-taki (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm)Navrang (10.15 am, 1.15, 4.15, 7.15,10 pm)

LOKAVE HELIDA MAATHIDU Ravi Teja, AnithaKailash (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Ranganath (10.30 am, 1.30,4.30, 7.30 pm) Vishal (10.30 am,1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm)

MARYADE RAMANNA (U/A)Komal Kumar, NishaAnupama (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30,7.30 pm) Banashankari (Hongasan-dra) (11.30 am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30

pm) Rajarajeshwari (Mallathahalli)(10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.15, 9.30pm) Siddalingeshwara (11.30 am,2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Ullas (11.30am, 2.45, 5.45, 8.45 pm) Uma (10.15am) Veerabhadreshwara (10.45 am,1.45, 4.45, 7.45 pm) Venkatesh(Avalahalli) (11.30 am, 2.30, 6.30,9.30 pm) Vijayalakshmi (Garu-dacharpalya) (11 am, 2.30 pm)Vaibav (11 am, 2.30 pm) Veeresh(10.30 am,1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm)

MANASALOGY (U/A)Rakesh, AmoolyaNalanda (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.40pm) Tribhuvan (10.30 am, 1.30,4.30, 7.30 pm)

KALLA MALLA SULLA (U)Bharathi (11 am, 2.30, 6, 9.15 pm)Gopal (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Inox (Malleswaram) (6.30 pm)Krishna (KR Puram) (10.30 am, 2, 8pm) Prasanna (10.30 am,1.30, 4.30,7.30 pm) Siddheshwwara (11.30 am,2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Triveni (10.30am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm) Uma (1pm, 4, 7 pm)

LIFU ISHTENE (U/A)Diganth, Samyuktha BelawadiCinepolis (5.10 pm) Eshwari (11.15am, 2.15, 6.15 pm) Inox (Jayanagar)(1.10 pm) Inox (JP Nagar) (10.45 am,6.10 pm) Inox (Malleswaram) (10am, 12.35, 6.20 pm) Krishna (Bom-manahalli) (11.15 am, 2.30, 6.30,9.30 pm) Sagar (10.30 am, 1.30,4.30, 7.30 pm) Sri Eshwari (11.15am, 2.15, 6.15, 9.15 pm)

90 (U/A)Rangayana Raghu, Sadhu KokilaSanthosh (10.30 am, 1.30).

DRIVE (U/A)Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan,Bryan Cranston, Albert BrooksInox (Magrath Road) (12.40 pm,7.25 pm) PVR Cinemas (10 am, 2,6, 7.25, 10 pm)

JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (U/A) Rowan Atkinson, Rosamund PikeCinepolis (10 am, 3.05, 7.40 pm)Fame (Lido) (2.50 pm) Fame (ValueMall) (2.45 pm, 7.40 pm) Fun Cine-mas (1.15 pm, 6.50 pm) Inox (Jayana-

gar) (1.35 pm) Inox (JP Nagar) (4pm) Inox (Magrath Road) (10 am,2.45, 5.05, 10 pm) Inox (Malles-waram) (10.10 am, 2.40 pm) Push-panjali (11 am, 2.15, 6, 9.15 pm)PVR Cinemas (12 pm, 4, 10 pm)Santosh (2 pm, 6, 9 pm)

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES “3D” PVR Cinemas (10 pm)

KUNG FU PANDA 2“3D” Cinepolis (5.05 pm)

Movie ListingsKANNADA

ENGLISH

SAHEB BIWI AUR GANGSTER (A)Jimmy Sheirgill, Mahie GillApsara (5.30 pm, 8.30 pm) Cinemax(12.15 pm, 5, 10 pm) Cinepolis (10am, 12.05, 3.15, 9.45 pm) Everest(11.30 am, 2.30 pm) Fame (Lido)(10.25 am, 1, 6.50, 9.30 pm) Fame(Shankarnag) (3.20 pm) Fame (ValueMall) (10 am, 2.55, 4.55, 9.40 pm)Fun Cinemas (11 am, 4.30, 9.45 pm)Gopalan (Bannerghatta Road) (10am, 10 pm) Gopalan Cinemas(Mysore Road) (10.10 am, 9.15 pm)

Gopalan Cinemas (RajarajeshwariNagar) (12.30 pm, 10 pm) InnovativeMultiplex (10.10 am, 12.20, 7.45 pm)Inox (Jayanagar) (1.20 pm, 3.45, 9.30pm) Inox (JP Nagar) (10 am, 3.50,9.15 pm)

HUM TUM SHABANA (U/A)Tusshar Kapoor, Shreyas Talpade,Minissha LambaAbhinay (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Anand (12 pm) Apsara (10.45am, 1.45 pm) Cauvery (2.30 pm,9.30 pm).

HINDI

TAMIL

MURAN (U)Cheran, Prasanna, NikithaAjantha (4.30 pm, 7.30 pm) Balaji(Tavarekere) (10 am, 1, 5, 8 pm)Cinemax (3.45 pm) Cinepolis (12.35pm, 3.45, 6.25 pm) Fame (Lido)(1.05 pm) Fun Cinemas (4.25 pm)Gopalan (Bannerghatta Road) (1.10pm, 4 pm) Gopalan Cinemas (Ra-jarajeshwari Nagar) (1.15 pm, 5.05pm) Inox (JP Nagar) (3.45 pm) Inox(Magrath Road) (6.40 pm)

Inox (Malleswaram) (6.35 pm) La-vanya (10.30 am, 1.30 pm) Sribalaji(Vannarpet) (10.45 am, 1.45 pm)Vaishnavi (11.15 am, 2.15, 6.15, 9.15pm) Vinayaka (Mysore Road) (10.30am,1.30 pm)

VEDI (U)Vishal, Sameera ReddyAmruth (10.30am, 2.15, 5.15, 8.15pm) Ajantha (10.30 am, 1.30 pm)Aruna (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Cinepolis (10.30 am, 12.30,9.05 pm) Fame (Lido) (12.15 pm,7.10 pm) HMT Cinemas (Jalahalli)(4.15 pm) Inox (Jayanagar) (7 pm)Inox (JP Nagar) (10.30 am, 6.30 pm)Inox (Malleswaram) (1.05 pm, 9.20pm) Keshava (11 am, 2.15, 5.30,8.30 pm) Lavanya (4.30 pm, 7.30pm) Mahadeshwara (11.15 am, 2.15,6.15, 9.15 pm) Maheshwari (Jayana-gar) (10.15 am,1.15, 5.15, 8.15 pm)Natraj (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.45, 7.45pm) Poornima (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30,7.30 pm) Pushpanjali (BN Pura)(2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm).

FORCE (U/A)Genelia D’Souza, John Abraham

Anand (3.30, 7, 10 pm) Bhumika(10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm)Cauvery (11.30 am, 6 pm)Cinemax (11 am, 1.45, 7, 9.45 pm)Cinepolis (10 am, 12.35, 4.20, 7.15,10 pm) Fame (Lido) (10.35 am,1.15, 4, 6.45, 9.30 pm) Fame (ValueMall) (10.30 am, 1.15, 4, 6.45, 9.30pm) Fame (Shankarnag) (10 am,9.20 pm) Fun Cinemas (10.35 am,1.25, 7.10, 10 pm) Gopalan (Ban-nerghatta Road) (10 am, 4.55, 7.25,10 pm) Gopalan Cinemas (MysoreRoad) (1.15 pm, 4, 6.45, 9.30 pm)Gopalan Cinemas (Rajarajeshwari

Nagar) (10 am, 4.10, 7.35, 9.45pm) HMT Cinemas (Jalahalli) (1.30pm, 7.15 pm) Innovative Multiplex(12 pm, 5, 10 pm)Inox (Jayanagar) (10.35 am, 4, 6.45,9.30 pm) Inox (JP Nagar) (10 am,3.55, 6.40, 9.25 pm)Inox (Magrath Road) (10.05 am,12.55, 3.45, 6.35, 9.25 pm) Inox(Malleswaram) (10.05 am, 12.40, 6.15, 9.30 pm) Narendra(KG Halli) PVR Cinemas (10.20 am, 1.05, 1.15, 3.30, 7.15, 9.20,9.25 pm) Rex (1.30 pm, 4 pm)Vaibhav (Sanjay Nagar).

PROBLEMS ARE NOTHINGIn life, something that stops or

bothers you is a problem. Every-one has similar problems likethose of relationship, job/finance,health, and big worries about

the country. The mind stuck in a prob-lem is a disturbed mind. Its five indi-cations are sadness, bitterness, rest-lessness in the body, lack of coordi-nation in the body and irregular breath-ing. When you are happy your incom-ing breath is longer, but when you aresad your outgoing breath is moreprominent. Our mind is troubled be-cause it is dwelling in duality and adivided mind is misery.

Problems will disturb your mindand make you unhappy if you lackthe following: Tapa (penance), Vairagya(dispassion), and Sharanagati (sur-render). Tapa means agreeing withthe moment, total acceptance of pleas-ant or unpleasant situations. Vairagyameans I want nothing and I am nothingand Sharanagati means “I am herefor You, for Your joy.” If you are grum-bling then these are lacking, because

when you accept the situation youcannot grumble. When you take it asTapa you will not grumble; when youcome from a state of dispassion (“Idon’t want anything”) you don’t grum-ble and if you are surrendered youwill have no complaints. So, all threepurify your mind and uplift you injoy. If it does not happen willingly itwill happen in desperation. First yousay, “Nothing can be done.” Then inanger and desperation you say, “I giveup, I want nothing, I have no choice”

However, you can solve problemsby, firstly, not having the problem atall. Know that life is too short to keepsolving problems one after another.Just wake up and walk ahead, problemswill get solved by themselves. The sec-ond thing is to willingly accept theproblem and see it as a challenge.When you think that a problem cannotbe solved then it is no longer a problem;it becomes a fact. For example: Supposethe problem is that the ocean in Norwayis too cold. To solve this, you cannotheat the ocean. Hence this problem

cannot be solved. Now, it no longerremains a problem, it becomes a fact.

Only when you are searching for a so-lution is there a problem and so thereis no problem that cannot be solved.Things like doing spiritual practices,listening to people who have moreproblems than you, serving them canhelp uplift your mood. If all these donot help, then try going to the mentalhospital. Look at the patients thereand Thank God that you are not there.If that also does not work for you thengo to a crematorium. Look at all thebodies that come every day. Know thatyou are also going to end in the sameway one day. So what is the point inworrying?

Third, know that the problem is aboogey man, it is not real. Fourth,know that nature has provided youthe solution even before giving youthe problem. When it snows, thereare no bacteria since no herbs to healyou grow in that season. In the spring,the herbs come first and then the bugs.In the summer, the shade comes beforethe summer sun gets strong. So, naturetakes good care of you. And solutions

will come to you when you are calmand collected, you use your intelli-gence, are active and have strong faithin the Divine law.

Problems help us move from im-perfection to perfection. A seed con-tains the tree but the seed has to ceaseto be a seed to become a tree. Neitherthe seed nor the sapling is perfect. Ithas to cease to be a sapling to becomea tree. So, in life you can either seeimperfection at every step, or you cansee a movement from one perfectionto another perfection.

Every problem, once solved, be-comes an experience and each expe-rience completes you. In the progres-sion of life, you will leave behind everyexperience saying, “This is nothing.”Anything that is completed loses itsimportance. That is to say it leads youto void or nothing. A sign of intelligenceis how soon you arrive at this under-standing. Examine everything in lifeand say “This is nothing”. What re-mains after all that is Love, and thatis everything.

DIVINEQUEST

By Sri Sri Ravishankar

Drop Yogi:Congress

Continued from page 1Forest minister Yogeshwar hasallegedly cheated many throughhis company, Megacity Devel-opers. Members of the Megacityproject allege that they have beencheated of Rs 37 crore. The mem-bers are now fighting to recoverthe money. Yogeshwar is one ofthe directors of the company.Their welfare association hascomplained to the Union corpo-rate affairs ministry, which hand-ed over the investigation to SFIO.

The SFIO has recommendedcriminal proceedings against theminister.

Judge: Howill is Katta

Continued from page 1The judge asked: “Why has

not the team of doctors men-tioned this? Even after the CATand PET scans they haven’t spec-ified the cancer stage. If theyhad mentioned it, we could haveunderstood his state of health.The doctors have to come andanswer. If not, we will refer thecase to oncologists at KidwaiHospital. The stage demarcationis of utmost importance.”

The hearing was then set at 3in the afternoon where Katta’sdoctors were expected to checkhis medical records.

National levelagri meet

Bangalore: The University ofAgricultural Sciences and otherrelated departments of the stategovernment will hold a nation-al-level Krishi Mela from Novem-ber 16 to 20 this year.

The event will have an exhi-bition on farm equipment, or-ganic farming, food and nutri-tion. State government depart-ments, NGOs and organisationsworking in the agriculture sector,farm equipment manufacturers,distributors, who wish to par-ticipate have to contact director,University of Agricultural Sci-ences, Hebbal, Bangalore, orcall: 080-23516353, 080-23418883and (mobile) 9986663132.

Bangalore to have Euro‑IVbuses: Ashok

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The buses that wetake to travel across the city areamongst the best in the countryand match all international stan-dards. The Karnataka State Trans-port Minstry headed by R Ashokis scaling new heights as timepasses.

“The man who is turning hisstate into a model one, Gujaratchief minister Narendra Modiintends to see a presentation ofthe transport infrastructure hereand implement it in Gujarat,”said MP and BJP general secre-tary Ananth Kumar at an eventyesterday.

The state transport departmentwill also be the first in the countryto induct Euro IV pollution normcompliant buses in the city. Ban-galore will be the first city to getthese buses. A Euro IV vehicleis eco-friendly will not pollutethe environment less. The busesthat ply on city roads now areall Euro III, said transport min-ister R Ashok.

"The central government hasalready given directions to in-troduce buses of Euro IV type in

all major cities in the country.But no other city has planned toimplement the rule as it costsmore. But we have drawn up aplan and the transport depart-ment is all set to introduce thebuses in the city very shortly.Also I have directed officials tocarry out this project and not tothink of it in terms of loss orgain in the initial stages as wehave to improve the city andcurb pollution," said R Ashok,while speaking at the launch ofthe new regional transport officeat Jayanagar 4th block TTMCbuilding yesterday.

Ananth Kumar expressed sim-ilar views, saying, "Multi-modaltransport system is needed. Wehave buses. The Metro Rail willbe inaugurated very shortly. Thelocal trains have to be intro-duced."

"Once the Metro is inaugurat-ed, 60 buses will be introducedto the 6 Metro stations from 24places across the city. Also 825new buses will be introduced asthe city is growing at a fast paceand has witnesses a threefoldincrease in a short span of time"said Ashok.

MP and BJP general secretary H N Ananth Kumar and transport minister at the inauguration of new RTO at

Jayanagar IV block bus terminus.

Mattress factory launched in KolarBangalore: A mattress factorywas inaugurated at Betta Hosa-pura, near Kolar, yesterday.

Minister of state for railwaysK H Muniyappa, who representsKolar parliamentary constituen-cy, and senior Congress leaderV S Ugrappa inaugurated thefactory.

It is the second unit in thecountry and the first in SouthIndia for Spring Air, the fourthlargest manufacturer of beddingproducts in the world. The com-pany entered India two yearsago with their first factory nearDelhi. The new manufacturingunit spread over 40,000 sqft hasall the latest technology andmanpower.

Ashok Sharma, director,Spring Air India, said, “It is aprivilege for us to open our firstfactory in South India at Kolar.”

Spring Air distributes beddinginternationally with plants inthe US, Canada, England, Ire-land, Australia, Argentina, In-donesia, Malaysia, China, Korea,UAE and India.

Minister of state for railways K H Muniyappa and senior Congress leader V S Ugrappa inaugurated a mattress production unit at Betta Hosapura, near Kolar, yesterday.

S Radhakrishna

CITYTuesday, October 4, 2011 3

Home and transport minister R Ashok distributes rides an autorickshaw, which wasgiven away at a function to distribute cheques to beneficiaries of various schemes at

BBMP today.

Going for a ride

Members of Karnataka Rakshana Vedike protest in the city today against an agitation bymembers of the Belgaum City Corporation recently. They burnt the effigy of Belgaum

mayor Manda Balekundri, who led the protest by Maharashtra Ekikarana Samiti.

Protest against protest

CITY EVENTSGeneral Union and State Departmentsof Labour: Inauguration ofthe National Health InsuranceScheme by Union minister forLabour Mallikarjun Kharge,chief minister D V SadanandaGowda, ministers B NBachegowda, R Ashoka andothers to take part, JnanaJyothi Auditorium, Central Col-lege campus, Palace Road, 3pm

Indian Academy of Echocar-diography - Karnataka Chap-ter: Symposium on ‘Myocar-dial Contrast Echo —cardiog-raphy in Coronary Artery Dis-ease-Clinical Utility’ by DrRoxy Senior, Prof of ClinicalCardiology at Imperial College,London, Hotel Le Meridien,near Golf Grounds, 7.30 pm

CulturalConsulate General of the Fed-eral Republic of Germany:Concert by Deutsche Philhar-monie Merck on the occasionof the Day of German Unity,Chowdiah Memorial Hall, GD Park Extension, Vyalikaval,7 pm.

Shivarama Dasara Vedike:Dasara celebrations, Govern-ment Primary School ground,Next to Adi Kabir Ashram, J CNagar, 6 pm.

Shankaraa Foundation:Soma, the festival of arts, Car-natic vocal recital and fluteJugalbandi, Doddakalasandra,Kanakapura Road, 7 pm.

Gandhi Sahitya Sangha:‘Makkala Gandhi’, a pro-gramme on Mahatma Gandhiby BES schoolchildren, 8thCross, Malleshwaram, 6.30 pm.

Sree Sringeri Shankara Math:‘Veenavaadana’ at ShreeSharada Sharannavarathri cul-tural programme, ShankaraMath Road, Shankarapuram,7 pm.

TheatreHamlet The Clown Prince:7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Addi-tional Timings: Also at 3:30on Oct 6 & 8 Ranga Shankara,No 36/1 2nd Phase, 8th Cross,JP Nagar. A comic adaptationof Hamlet by actor and direc-tor, Rajat Kapoor. The playshows Shakespeare's classicthrough the eyes of a clown.K H Kala Soudha, Raman-janeya Temple Compound,Hanumanthnagar. A take onprevalent political scenarios,and a love story at the sametime.

Eating outMexican Fiesta: Noon to 11:30p.m. Sports Bar and Lounge,Le Meridien, No 28, SankeyRoad, High Grounds A specialmenu, which pairs Mexicancuisine with beverages. Com-bos include Tequila with Tacosand Beer with Burittos.

Navrathri Special: 7:30 p.m.to 11:30 p.m. Southindies, No840/A, 100 Feet Road, Indi-ranagar. Southindies' specialmenu is designed to recreatethe authenticity of traditionalNavrathri fare. All dishes pre-pared without onions or garlic.

Special Vrat Thali: Noon to11 p.m. Mast Kalandar, An-janeya Complex, Old AirportRoad, Kodihalli Mast Kalandaroffers the traditional NavratraThali, prepared as per tradi-tional norms for the vrat (fast-ing) season. The thali is avail-able across all the outlets.

Chinese Food Festival: 7:30p.m. to 11:30 p.m. The RajPavilion, ITC Windsor, No 25Windsor Square, Golf CourseRoad, High Grounds TheRaj Pavilion, at ITC Windsor,is hosting a Chinese food fes-tival. On the menu are disheslike the classic Peking Duck,Lamb Shank Tian Fu Style,Sichuan Traditional MapoTofu, and Cantonese RoastedChicken. The buffet is pricedat Rs 1350 plus taxes.

Vietnamese Food Festival atSheraton: Noon to 11:30 p.m.Feast, Sheraton Bangalore AtBrigade Gateway, 26/1, Dr Ra-jkumar Road, Malleswaram-Rajajinagar Feast hosts a Viet-namese food festival with spe-cial menu that features thetraditional delicacies of thecountry. The meal is priced atRs 850 per person for lunchand Rs 950 per person for din-ner.

Hyderabadi Food Festival:Noon to 11:30 p.m. Khayal,

The Chancery, 10/6 LavelleRoad, Khayal, at TheChancery, celebrates the 400-year-old culinary history ofHyderabad with a special foodfestival. On the menu are sev-eral types of kebabs, biryaniand dessert. Meals are pricedat Rs 599 with two lagers perhead during lunch, and Rs699 with four drinks of choicefor dinner.

New Italian Menu @ Mocha:11:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Mocha,Lavelle Road, M o c h ahas introduced a new Italianmenu, which pays homage tothe vibrant flavours and heartydishes of the country. On offerare dishes like Bruschette DiPomodoro e Basilico, Peper-oncino Della Cucina Messi-cana, Risotto alla Milaneseand Fettucine con Pollo..

Nightlife Thai & Mongolian Night: 8p.m. Fusion Lounge, 185,Deena Building, Brigade Road,DJs Paresh and Karthik play aset of Thai and Mongoliantunes to kickstart the week.

Lounge Night: 8 p.m. Ice, Vi-vanta by Taj - MG Road, No41/3, MG Road, DJ Van-shi sets the mood for the nightwith lounge music.

Monday Blues with DJ Nayan:8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Indi,Garuda Mall, Magrath Road,Ashoknagar DJ Nayan spin-ning commercial and Bolly-wood this Mon @ Indi.

House Night with DJ Sid: 8p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Hypnos,Gem Plaza, Infantry Road, DJSid spinning House and HipHop at Hypnos.

Minimal Monday with DJ Im-dad: 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Peb-ble, No 3 Palace Ground, Ra-mana Mahashi Road,Sadashivanagar DJ Imdadspinning house and more, atPebble.

Chillout Session with DJCheek-O Dread: 7 p.m. to11:30 p.m. Xtreme Sports Bar,4th Floor, 100 Feet Road, In-diranagar DJ Cheek-O Dreadspins house this Monday.

Retro Monday with DJ Rajesh:8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. BananaBeach Bar, No 54 6th Block,Canara Bank Road, Kora-mangala Retro and rock tuneswith DJ Rajesh this Monday.

Shopping Calvin Klein Fall 2011: 11 a.m.to 8 p.m. Calvin Klein Jeans,The Forum Value Mall, No 62,Whitefield Main Road, White-field CK One Jeanswear pres-ents a new range suited forthe urban explorer, while themen's range has bold printsand neon colours, across allits outlets.

ExhibitionsPhotos for Rato @ Tasveer:11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tasveer, No26/1, Kasturba Cross Road,Photos for Rato is a collectionof twenty rare photographsby Nicholas Vreeland, takenduring the 26 years he hasbeen a Rato monk. They pro-vide a glimpse into daily lifein a monastery, which onlyan insider could have experi-enced.

Painting Exhibition: 10 a.m.to 7 p.m. Kynkyny Art, No148 Embassy Square, InfantryRoad, Kynkyny Art pres-ents an exhibition of paintingsby Yuvan Bothi Sathuvar andDhrubajyothi Baral.

Next In Line: 11 a.m. to 7p.m. Gallery Blue Spade, TheChancery, 10/6 Lavelle Road,This exhibition features workby 13 women artists such asSonia Jose, Dimple B Shah,Pooja Iranna, Proyanka Govil,Ritu Kamath, Shivani Aggar-wal and others.

Solo Show by Paresh Maity:10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. GallerySumukha, No 24/10, BTS DepotRoad, Wilson GardenGallery Sumukha hosts an ex-hibition of paintings, sculptureand installation by artistsParesh Maity.

629 candidates waitfor teacher postingsTo protest at Freedom Park on October 10

L RaghunandaBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Minister for higherprimary, secondary educationand collegiate education Vish-weswara Hegde Kageri keepspromising all that vacant teacherand lecture posts in the statewould be filled whenever theimportant question arises.

But there are already 629 se-lected candidates, who passedthe Karnataka Public ServiceCommission exam last year, wait-ing in the wing to be recruitedat government schools and com-posite pre-university colleges.They cleared the exams last year.

It was in 2008 that the KPSCcalled for teachers’ examinationsfrom candidates who had clearedBEd and MEd. The 629 clearedtwo stages of examinations, pre-liminary and mains, and thenviva to be eligible for recruit-ment.

A year after clearing the ex-ams, these candidates have beenrunning between the KPSC office,education department andcourts, fighting for their appoint-ment.

They have asked Kageri to fillup at least 25 percent of the va-cant posts in government schoolsand colleges so that they couldbe recruited.

Two of the candidates, whohave been deprived of jobs, toldBangalore Beat, “The KPSC ad-vertised for the examination in2008. The written test was in2009 and we cleared the inter-

view in 2010.”P K Anil of Govindrajpura vil-

lage in Tumkur taluk said, “Idon’t know why the KPSC is tak-ing such a long time to fill upthe vacant posts. I am from a

poor family. I did not pay a singlerupee at the examination stageor for the interview. But this waithas been excruciating.”

J Venkatesh of Periyapatnataluk of Mysore district criticisedthe attitude of the Kageri. “Lastmonth, we wanted to meetKageri. We waited, but he didnot even hear us out. Educationdepartment officials too havebeen negligent.”

He said, “But there is no unityamong the selected candidates.We have not managed to ap-proach the minister or the edu-cation department together.Many candidates have lost allhope. We will wait till October10 for the minister to fulfil ourdemand. If not, then we will callfor a strike and all the 629 of ushold dharna and fast at FreedomPark.”

The government seem onlyinterested in promoting theteachers, but not appointing newones. Some of these teachers,who have been serving for long,are also aspiring to be membersof legislative council, for whichthe election would be held soon.“Even these teachers, who wantto be in the race, have not shownany support to our cause. Theyprobably do not want to rub theminister and other politicians inthe wrong.”

Drop trick claimsanother victimBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Thieves, who pickedup a man on the pretext of drop-ping him in a cab, robbed himof his valuables in the city lastnight.

The victim, Rajesh, was wait-ing for a bus on the ring roadaround 11.30 pm after gettingout of his workplace. A cab driver,who pulled up next to him, of-

fered to drop him at Jayanagar,where Rajesh wanted to go.

He got into the cab bearingregistration number KA-09 D5756.

There were already three per-sons inside the cab.

When the vehicle reached RagiGudda, the thieves flashed outa knife and robbed Rajesh’s mo-bile phone, 8 gm gold ring andRs 5,000 cash.

CBI continuesraids in Bellary

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bellary: The Central Bureau ofInvestigation storm does notshow any signs of calming down.After conducting multiple raidsyesterday at Bellary, the CBI of-ficials this morning targeted andraided the mining firms of V Na-gappa, who is said to be closelyassociated with Gali JanardhanaReddy.

The CBI officials raided ShantaLakshmi Jayaram Companywhich is near S G College at Bel-lary. The mining firm owned byV Nagappa was said to be fullycontrolled by the Reddys andNagappa was just a paper stamp.

It is known that the CBI offi-cials raided AMC Mining Firmand Jindal Mining Company yes-terday and it is said that the of-ficials are keenly searching forimportant document to nail themining baron Janardhan Red-

dy.The officials were seen veri-

fying important documents atall their raids. Our sources saidthat there are bright chances ofCBI officials carrying out raidsat other mining firms across Bel-lary.

Man held forwifeʼs death

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: A man was arrestedon charges of murdering his wifetoday. The deceased, FathimaAnjum (19), was married to theaccused Masood for the last sixmonths. The body of Fathima

was found hanging at her maritalhome in Siddapura.

The deceased’s parents saidthat they suspected that Masoodkilled their daughter and thenhanged her body. Based on theircomplaint, the police have ar-rested Masood.

TerminatedBosch staff

continue stirBangalor Beat Bureau

Bangalopre: Terminated employ-ees of the company seek recom-pense as their strike enters sixthday

More than 150 employees ofBosch, who have been relievedof their jobs because of outsourc-ing, are striking in front of theBosch office at Adugodi.

Speaking at the strike, Muni-raju, General Secretary BoschMICO employee association, said“The employees who have beenrelieved of their jobs have beenwith the company for 15 to 20years.

These employees are ITI tech-nicians who are mainly employ-able in the tool industry. It isnot right that they should be ter-minated at this stage. We arevery angry at the decision takenby the management last Sunday.

“We met the Additional Com-misioner of Labour, GurudasBhatt and cited our plea, andthe decision Bosch India Ban-galore has taken. But when ameeting was called by AdditionalLabour Commisioner, BoschMangament never turned up. We

don’t understand the attitude ofthe management.

“Our protest and even the fast-ing will continue, if the demandof the workers is not met. Eventoday in the evening, AdditionalCommissioner will call one moremeeting, where we expect, man-agement will cite what will betheir course of action.”

When Bangalore Beat tried toget touch with Bosch manage-ment, specifically T Subbu Hegde Bosch (commercial) andM Suresh, vice-president (tech-nical), they were unavailable forcomment.

Outsourcing is mainly hap-pening as a cost cutting measure.Bosch has taken the decision tooutsource the work within thecountry, while now the ancillar-ization and outsourcing is givento Karnataka Casting Lt and Shak-ti Casting Limited.

Bosch management has de-cided that 19 departments willbe outsourced. All this while onedepartment, Pump Housing sub-assembly was already being out-sourced. It remains to be seen ifBosch will bow down to pressurefrom its erstwhile employees.

Avoid Majestictoday:

Top cop

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The police depart-ment has made elaboratearrangements to handle the rushof travellers around Majestic busstand and City Central Railwaystation.

In a press release, city policecommissioner Jyothiprakash Mirjihas stated that parking of vehi-cles is banned on Dhanavantriroad, Platform road and Khoday’sjunction today.

All buses going towardsMysore, Kodagu and Kerala willstart only from the KSRTC ter-minus on Mysore road, and thosegoing towards Tamil Nadu fromthe Shantinagara bus terminus.To other parts of the state, thebuses would leave from BalekaiMandi, Jakkarayanakere, NGEFand New Peenya bus terminuses.

Those travelling out of the cityhave been asked to take BMTCbuses or autorickshaws to reachthe bus-stand or railway station.

The general public has beenadvised to avoid KG road, Good-shed road, Sheshadri road, Sube-dar Chatram road, Platform road,Krishna Floor Mill road between4 pm and 11 pm today.

Gali Janardhana Reddy

Mega‑event IT Biz ʼ11to be held from Oct 18‑20

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The showcase eventof the information and commu-nication technology (ICT) indus-try, IT Biz, will be held this yearfrom October 18 t0 20, said IT-BT secretary Vidyashankar to-day.

The mega event will be inau-gurated by former President A PJ Abdul Kalam. Prime Ministerof Rwanda Bernard Makuza andBihar IT minister Shahid AliKhan will be present.

The event that has enters the14th year this year will have thetheme – “India Innovates”.Asked why the decision,Vidyashankar said, “Bangalorehas been the hub of 49 percentof all innovations.”

The event will have represen-tatives and top officials from theIT departments of Bihar, Gujarat,Himachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh,Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa,West Bengal and Rajasthan.

Infosys, Wipro, TCS, Intel,Map My India, Texas Instru-ments, Microsoft, IBM, HCL, Dell,Cognizant, SAP, Nokia, MahindraSatyam and many more topnames from the industry wouldtake part in the three-day event,

he said.IT Biz 2011 will have platforms

where many startup companiesin IT and IT-enabled serviceswould showcase their productsand services.

In all, 800 companies and re-lated industry bodies are expect-ed to take part in the event.Prominent industry associations,like Nasscom, Mait, CLIK, ABAI,FISME, ITSMA, TiE, ISBA and

many more have supported themega event.

More than 50 micro, small andmedium enterprises are takingpart at several platforms andstalls.

“Bangalore will continue tohave the charm of being the ITcity. The event is important aswe are taking IT to the nooksand corners of the state and mostimportantly, rural areas,”Vidyshankar said. The drive willlead to generation of employ-ment for the rural masses.

“The state government has al-located Rs 40 crore to developbusiness process outsourcing(BPOs) centres which will provideemployment to the rural masses.Keonics, which is working in therural BPO sector, will be part ofthe event,” he said.

Many companies from the an-imation industry will take part.They will take a lot from thisshow which will help them up-scale in this rapidly growing in-dustry, he said. “But the countrystill needs to catch up in the an-imation industry,” he added.

Infosys president and chair-man of IT Vision Group KrisGopalakrishna too was presentat the press conference.

S Radhakrishna

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India moves Portugal SCon Salemʼs extradition

New Delhi: India has ap-proached Portugal’s SupremeCourt challenging its High Courtorder which had terminated theextradition of underworld donAbu Salem for breach of agree-ment by India by slappingcharges which attract deathpenalty.

India, in its appeal before thePortuguese Supreme Court, hassaid the interpretation of theHigh Court of the trial in variouscourts of the country was notcorrect.

In its affidavit, India has as-sured that the fresh charges lev-elled against Salem, a key ac-cused in the 1993 Mumbai blasts

case, attracted less jail term thanthe offences for which he hadbeen extradited, official sourcessaid in New Delhi on Tuesday.

In its plea, which will sooncome up for hearing, India hasasked for a stay on the Por-tuguese High Court order, thesources said.

Lisbon High Court had on Sep-tember 19 allowed the plea ofthe extradited gangster, beingtried in eight criminal cases in-cluding the 1993 Mumbai serialblasts, that he be sent back toPortugal.

Salem, a gangster extraditedfrom Portugal in November 2005,was charged with MCOCA for

allegedly making extortion callsto Delhi-based businessmanAshok Gupta in 2002, demandingRs five crore as protection mon-ey.

The Portuguese court had saidthat in view of the new chargesagainst Salem which entail deathpenalty, the authorisation grant-ed for his extradition has beenterminated as it violated the prin-ciple of speciality.

India had given an ‘executiveassurance’ to Portugal that Salemwould not be given death penaltyor charged with any section oflaw which entails jail for morethan 25 years, once he is extra-dited.

Anna: Will vote Congressout if Lokpal bill delayedRalegan Siddhi: Anna Hazare on

Tuesday put Congress on notice on theLokpal issue, saying he will campaignagainst it in election-bound states ifthe Centre fails to get his version of theanti-corruption bill passed in Parlia-ment’s Winter Session.

To begin with, Hazare said, he willappeal to voters in Hisar Lok Sabhaconstituency in Haryana where bypollsare scheduled on October 13 not to votefor the Congress candidate as the partywas “deliberately” not bringing the JanLokpal bill.

“If the Jan Lokpal Bill is not passedin the Winter Session, then I will namethe Congress and ask people not tovote for it in the Assembly polls sched-

uled in five states next year,” he saidaddressing a press conference in hisnative village, 50 km from Pune.

He announced that he would beginhis tour of five election-bound states ofUttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab,Goa and Manipur between October 13and 15. Hazare, who had withdrawnhis 12-day hunger strike in RamlilaMaidan following assurances from theCentre that three of his main demandswould be considered, made it clear thathis agitation would be intensified acrossthe country in the coming months.

He said he will undertake a fast inLucknow three days before electioncommences in Uttar Pradesh if the Cen-tre does not pass the Jan Lokpal Bill in

Winter Session of Parliament. Hazare came out in support of ar-

rested Gujarat police officer Sanjiv Bhattwho has accused Gujarat chief ministerNarendra Modi of complicity in the2002 communal riots.

“What Narendra Modi has done iswrong. It is not good for democracy inthe country,” Hazare said, castigatingthe move to arrest Bhatt.

What was the need for the state gov-ernment to interfere and arrest Bhattwhen the Supreme Court was fullyaware of the matter, Hazare asked at apress conference here. He was referringto Bhatt’s affidavit in the Supreme Courtalleging that the 2002 riots took placewith Modi’s tacit approval.

COUNTDOWN BEGINS

Mysore district in-charge and medical education minister S A Ramadass releases special coin on the occasion of Dasarafestivities at Mysore today.

Photos: G S Ravishankar

Bikers race during the Dasara dirt track race on the foothills of Chamundi at Mysore today.

Coaching classesa problem,

feel IIT facultyNew Delhi: The faculty at theIIT agree with Infosys founderN R Narayan Murthy on his ob-servation that the standard ofthe students at the premier in-stitution has deteriorated becauseof coaching classes.

Backing Murthy on the issue,Sanjeev Sanghi, president of thefaculty forum at IIT Delhi, said,“I don’t think Murthy is harsh.We do have a problem with thecoaching system.”

Murthy had said that almost80 per cent of the IITians lackquality.

Murthy blamed the coachingclasses for the lack of quality inthe premier engineering instituteof the country.

“Thanks to coaching classes,the quality of students enteringIITs has gone lower and lower.Save the top 20 per cent whocrack the tough IIT entranceexam and can stand among thebest anywhere in the world, thequality of the remaining 80 percent of students leaves much tobe desired,” said Murthy.

Murthy further stressed on theneed of a new system for the se-lection of students to the IITs.

“They somehow get throughthe JEE. But their performancein IITs, at jobs or when theycome for higher education in in-stitutes in the US is not as goodas it used to be. This has to becorrected. A new method of se-

lection of students to IITs has tobe arrived at,” he said.

This comes even as there’sanger within the IIT over whatUnion Minister Jairam Rameshhad said in July. He had claimedthat IIT’s teaching faculty wasbelow par.

IITs are good because of thestudents and not because of thefaculty or the research. There ishardly any worthwhile research.The faculty in the IITs is notworldclass, it is the students whoare worldclass. So the IITs andthe IIMs are excellent becauseof the quality of the studentsnot because of the quality of re-search or faculty.

Infosys founder N RNarayana Murthy said

yesterday that the quality of engineers coming out of

IITs is poor nowadays.

Order on SanjivBhattʼs remand

petition reservedAhmedabad: The Ahmedabadsessions court on Tuesday re-served its order on suspendedIPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt’s remandpetition for October 7.

Bhatt was given the option ofbail if he allowed the police in-spect his lockers. Bhatt refusedcourt orders to let his lockers besearched and said that he wouldnot compromise on his princi-ples.

The Gujarat government onMonday challenged in the ses-sions court a magisterial court’sorder denying remand of Bhatt,arrested for allegedly threateningand forcing a constable to signa false affidavit.

Bhatt was arrested on Sep-tember 30 in connection withan FIR filed against him by policeconstable K D Pant in June forallegedly threatening him andmaking him sign false affidavitsregarding a meeting called bychief minister Narendra Modion February 27, 2002, hours afterthe Godhra train carnage.

On October 1, additional chiefjudicial magistrate B G Doshihad rejected the state govern-ment’s demand for seven dayspolice custody of Bhatt and re-manded him in judicial custody.

Sessions Judge G N Patel,while admitting the govern-ment’s petition seeking revisionof the magistrate’s order, issueda notice to Bhatt, which wasserved to him inside Sabarmati

Central Jail, here and scheduledthe hearing for Tuesday.

The government challengedthe magistrate’s order and soughtBhatt’s custody on the groundsthat it wanted to know how theIPS officer had used the affidavitssigned by Pant.

It further contended thatBhatt’s custody was required tofind out about others involvedin the conspiracy, and also toascertain whether the IPS officerhad sent the affidavits to some-body using emails.

The government further saidthat it also wanted to know howmany bank lockers Bhatt hasand what was inside them.

Bhatt has claimed innocenceand accused the Gujarat gov-ernment of victimizing him forimplicating chief minister Naren-dra Modi in the 2002 riots andthe Haren Pandya murder case.

Afghan Prez inIndia, global

terror on agendaNew Delhi: Afghanistan Presi-dent Hamid Karzai arrived onTuesday on a two day visit toIndia. Both countries are expect-ed to boost their strategic part-nership and take stock of thesituation in Afghanistan.

Apart from meeting PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh,Karzai is also expected to meetExternal Affairs Minister SM Kr-ishna and National Security Ad-visor Shiv Shankar Menon.

This will be the third meetingbetween the Prime Minister andKarzai this year and it comes inthe backdrop of Afghan opposi-tion leader Burhanuddin Rab-bani’s assassination, giving asetback to the peace talks withthe Taliban.

Karzai’s visit comes in thebackdrop of controversy over thealleged nexus between Pakistanand the Haqqani group.

Karzai has been jolted by theassassination of Afghan presi-dent Burhanuddin Rabbani -

suspected to have been killedby the very Taliban he was meantto make peace with.

The Afghan government hasopenly blamed a Pakistani forthe assassination - while quietlyaccusing the ISI for involvement.

The fallout has been swift be-tween Karzai and the Talibanwith the former giving up talkingto the Taliban directly. He hasalso suspended all US-Afghanistan-Pakistan talks.

Lokpal Billin wintersession:

KhurshidNew Delhi: As Anna Hazarethreatened to campaign againstCongress on the Lokpal issue,Union law minister Salman Khur-shid today said the governmentwill bring the anti-corruptionbill in Parliament’s winter ses-sion.

Reacting to Hazare’s plan tocampaign against the Congressfor the coming Assembly elec-tions, Khurshid said he was notgoing to comment on anybody’sviews about what should happenin the next election.

“It is their decision. Every cit-izen is free to vote for anybody.The Congress will only do itswork, perform its duties and theCongress will then go back topeople when the duty is per-formed.

“Let the people judge. We havesaid that in the next session weare bringing not just this onebill (Lokpal) but many other billsas well,” he said.

PDP wantsdiscussion

on workerʼsdeath

Srinagar: The Jammu and Kash-mir Assembly was adjourned onTuesday shortly after it recon-vened for the final day of thesession.

The Opposition leaders wereup on their feet, demanding dis-cussion on the death of NationalConference party worker SaeedYousuf in police custody.

On Monday, there was chaosin the Assembly after the Oppo-sition, PDP, asked for an ad-journment motion over the is-sue.

The Speaker of the House, Ak-bar Lone, allegedly abused senioropposition MLAs while a PDPlawmaker tried to throw a fan athim.

According to the government,a post mortem report suggeststhat Yousuf died of cardiac arrest.The Opposition has been de-manding the resignation of ChiefMinister Omar Abdullah, whohas said he’ll face an inquiry ifneed be.

Police, govtstaff clash

New Delhi: Clashes broke outon Tuesday between the policeand government employees whowere protesting in Srinagar.

The protestors were demand-ing the implementation of thesixth Pay Commission in thestate.

The Jammu and Kashmir As-sembly was adjourned earlieron Tuesday after a ruckus brokeout during the session.

Fardeen charged withbuying 1gm of cocaine

Mumbai: The police on Tuesdayframed charges against Bolly-wood actor Fardeen Khan in con-nection with a 2001 cocaine case.

The actor has been framed forbuying one gram of cocaine. Hisactions will attract only sixmonths in jail.

It came as a reprieve forFardeen, who was earlier chargedwith possessing of 9 gm of co-caine.

Fardeen was arrested in 2001 and 10 gm of cocaine was allegedly seized from him outside a suburban

Mumbai restraint. The actor has pleaded that he

was negotiating the purchase of one gram of cocaine from adrug peddler when the narcoticscontrol bureau arrested him inMay 2001.

Unable to bear pain, UPgirl seeks right to die

New Delhi: The issue of euthana-sia or the right to die is back infocus in Kanpur with a localcourt issuing notices to the UttarPradesh government and theCentre asking for monetary helpfor a cancer patient.

A civil suit was filed by AlkaTiwari, a 21-year-old cancer pa-tient, asking the government toeither fund her treatment or elseallow euthanasia.

Alka’s brother says he spoke

to Union health minister GhulamNabi Azad on the phone, but sofar there’s been no help.

Noted activist and lawyerFlavia Agnes said that the localcourt has framed the issue veryrightly. She also added that ifthe government does not to any-thing to help Alka, then the bur-den of guilt will be on them.

“To say that nobody shoulddie and people should continueto suffer is inhuman so I feel the

court has framed the issue veryrightly. Here’s a girl who needsexpensive treatment to live. Sowho’s burden is it to fund hertreatment? So, that’s the mainissue and according to me eu-thanasia not upto the govern-ment to decide. What choicesdoes the girl have? To die or askstate for funds? If governmentdoes not come to her rescue, shewill die anyway. Then I feel theburden of guilt is on the state.”

AOL hoststhousandsfor Dasara

Bangalore: The Art of LivingAshram in Bangalore has beenhosting thousands of peoplefrom across 65 countries as med-itation, silence, pujas and satsangmark the nine auspicious nightsof Navratri.

From Serbia to Kazakhstan,from Iran to China, from Ethiopiato Kosovo, the diverse gatheringis soaking in the rich traditionsof India, and are being a part ofthe grand celebration which cap-tures the cultural grandeur ofIndia.

Led by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar,thousands of people from allover the world and India, are apart of special yagnas for peace,health, happiness and harmonyof humanity.

“The festival of Navratri cele-brates the movement fromspeech to speechlessness, actionto knowledge, from narrow mind-edness to broad mindedness.Navratri is all about awakeningthe dormant divine conscious-ness in each one of us.” saysRavi Shankar.

The evenings are being markedby the Rudra Puja, led by RaviShankar. From the college goersto the householders to the cor-porate, this varied congregationmeditates as the atmosphere re-verberates with the sacred chantsduring the puja.

Speaking on the importanceof Yagnas, he says, “The yagnasare very significant as they createthe unseen power which elevatesand strengthens the conscious-ness.

“The energy created by theherbs used in the homas purifiesthe atmosphere, minds andhearts.”

Significance of Rudra Puja:Rudra means Shiva — the benev-olent, the destroyer of evil. Pujameans that which is born out offullness.

This puja, where Lord Shivais worshiped in His Rudra form,is hailed by all Vedic scripturesas one of the greatest puja to re-move all evils, fulfill desires andfor prosperity. It brings peacearound us and in our mind, bodyand soul.

The Sri Rudram chants identify346 desires of human beings tobe fulfilled to have a peacefuldaily life and invokes Lord Rudrato fulfill all of them.

The highlight of the festivitieswill be a unique cultural eveningon October 3, 2011 with RaviShankar playing the veena andthe harp.

The air will be filled withechoes of many other traditionalinstruments and sacred chants.

US unilaterally heldraid to kill Osama

Islamabad: The judicial com-mission probing the killing ofOsama bin Laden has recordedthe statements of Inter-ServicesIntelligence officials, who reit-erated claims that the US uni-laterally conducted the raidagainst the Al Qaeda leader with-out the consent of Pakistani au-thorities.

A statement issued by the cab-inet division said the commissionheaded by former Supreme Courtjudge Javed Iqbal had interviewedthe interrogation team of a “pre-

mier security agency” on Mon-day.

Official sources said the panelhad interviewed officials of theISI. “The operation was conduct-ed by US authorities unilaterallywithout keeping Pakistan onboard,” the statement quotedthe ISI officials as having toldthe commission.

The ISI team gave a “detailedbriefing and explained their per-spective of the US operation”against bin Laden in Abbottabadon May 2.

Sanjiv Bhatt

Hamid Karzai