Inflationeases to9.11 pcin Nov

New Delhi: Moderating prices of essential fooditems like onions, potatoes and milk pulleddown inflation marginally to 9.11 per cent in No-vember, a development that may prompt the Re-serve Bank to halt its monetary tighteningstrategy at its policy review on Friday.

Inflation, as measured by the WholesalePrice Index, stood at 9.73 per cent in October,2011. It was recorded at 8.2 per cent in Novem-ber, 2010.

A marginal decline in inflation is good newsamid the depressing scenario on the industri-al production and rupee front.

While industrial production declined by 5.1per cent in October, the rupee has fallen to anall-time low below Rs 53 per dollar.

With inflation dropping, all eyes are now onthe RBI's monetary policy review scheduled forDecember 16. The central bank has been hikinginterest rates since March, 2010, in its bid to tameinflation, but in the last review, the RBI had in-dicated it may not hike the rates in December.

As per the data released today, inflation infood articles dipped to 8.54 per cent in the monthunder review from 10.14 per cent in the samemonth last year. The rate of price rise in fooditems stood at 14.64 per cent in October, 2011.

On an annual basis, the rate of price rise inthe primary articles segment also dropped to 8.53per cent in November from 14.67 per cent in thesame month last year. Inflation in the segmentstood at 18.09 per cent in October, 2011.

The data also revealed that inflation in themanufactured products segment was 7.7 per centin the month under review. In comparison, itwas recorded at 5.02 per cent in November, 2010,and 7.6 per cent in October, 2011.

The data further revealed that rate of price risein vegetables during the month under reviewstood at 12 per cent, in comparison to a 1.36 percent contraction in November, 2010. Inflation invegetables was as high as 21.76 per cent in Oc-tober, 2011.

However, onion prices contracted by over 34per cent in November, in contrast to an increaseof 36.82 per cent in the same month last year.Similarly, there was drop in the rate of price risein potatoes and milk on a yearly basis.

Dev Anand'sashes to be immersed

todayMumbai: Bollywood's evergreen star DevAnand's ashes will be immersed in the Godavaririver in Nashik this afternoon.

Dev Anand's son Suneil has come to Indiafrom London to immerse his late father's ash-es in the holy river.

"He (Suneil) is coming to Mumbai. From here,we are going to Nashik to immerse Dev saab'sashes in the holy river - Godavari," Mohan Churi-wala, a close aide of Dev Anand told PTI.Churiwala will escort Suneil to Nashik fromMumbai.

The last rites of Dev Anand, who passed awayin London on December 3 following a heart at-tack, were performed on Saturday at the PutneyVale Crematorium in London. A memorial serv-ice was also held at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavanin London, the same day.

In Mumbai, a memorial service will be held on Friday. "A memorial service will be held at Mehboob Studios in suburban Bandra on Friday. It will be held there because a make-up room of Dev saab is still at the studio. Also, there is some emotional connect as he had shot a lot of films overthere," Churiwala said.

Blast in Imphal,two injured

Imphal: In news just coming in, at least twopeople have been injured in a blast at the Pub-lic Works Department office in Imphal in Ma-nipur.

The blast happened at around 1:30 pm. Abomb disposal squad was present at the spot todiffuse it when it went off.

The injured have been rushed to a nearby hos-pital.

More details are awaited.

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Apple'sfoundingcontract

sold New York: An April 1976 contractthat had established the iconicApple company has fetched overUSD 1.5 million at auction houseSotheby's here.

The three-page document hadthe signatures of the technologygiant's three founding partners -Steve Jobs, Stephen Wozniak andRonald Wayen.

Sotheby's said six telephoneand online bidders sought thedocument and it was eventuallybought by Cisneros Corp CEOEduardo Cisneros.

Sotheby's said the 'Apple Com-puter Company PartnershipAgreement' dated April 1, 1976was expected to fetch about USD150,000.

Along with the original Applepartnership agreement, anamendment dated April 12 dis-solving Wayne's share in Applewas also put up for auction.

Wayne's withdrawal as partnerwas documented by a County ofSanta Clara statement, whichwas also part of the Sotheby's lot.

The original partnership agree-ment is in three pages with "smallstaple holes and crease in upperleft corners".

The trio had met on April 1,1976 in Wayne's apartment todraft and sign the partnershipagreement for the Apple Com-puter Company, with Wozniak'sfriend Randy Wigginton standingby.

"The document, written byWayne, is replete with self- con-scious legal jargon, but is other-wise relatively simple, comprisedonly of two and a half pages oftext in which Wayne spells outthe shares — "JOBS is herewithassigned a total of fourty-fiveper cent (45 per cent) of all rights,title, and interest in and to theCOMPANY, and all assets therecontained" — as was Wozniak,"according to information bySotheby's.

7.3 quakehits NewGuinea

Port Moresby: An earthquakemeasuring 7.3 magnitude rockedeastern New Guinea region ofPapua New Guinea Wednesday.

There was no initial report ofcasualties or threat of tsunami.

The temblor, having its epi-centre 89 km southwest of Lae ofNew Guinea and 221 km north-west of the national capital PortMoresby, had a depth of some 115km, Xinhua reported.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singhtoday refuted views that China is planningto attack India and maintained that thepolicy of both the countries is to engage indialogue on the border issues though therehas not been much progress in recent times.

Singh assured the Lok Sabha duringQuestion Hour that India's borders withChina "by and large remain peaceful". "Ourgovernment does not share the view that Chi-na plans to attack India," Singh said.

The Prime Minister's response came afterSamajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadavclaimed in the House that he has informationthat China has made preparations to attackIndia and has marked out areas near the bor-ders for this purpose. He said the attacks wereimminent. Yadav maintained that the neigh-bouring country has also stopped flow ofBrahmaputra river water to India.

The Prime Minister, however, maintained

that he had assurance from the highestquarters that China has not stopped flow ofBrahmaputra waters to India. Singh ac-cepted that there were intrusions from Chi-na into areas which India considers to be apart of its territory. However, China differsfrom India's claim on this issue. "Thesematters are sorted out by the area com-manders of the two countries," Singh said.

The Prime Minister stated that India hasfollowed the policy of engaging in dialogueand good relations with China and under-lined that the erstwhile NDA government hadalso continued with this policy.

India and China have been engaged in di-alogue through its representatives on the bor-der issue. Singh said both countries hadmade some progress in talks in 2005 andthereafter, but in recent times not much hasbeen made.

No cut in $700maid to Pakistan: USWashington: Struggling to restore flagging tieswith Pakistan in the aftermath of the deadlyNATO strike, the Obama administration has saidit has not cut any civilian aid to the country, not-ing the move in this regard was part of a defencebill in the Congress.

"Well, first of all, just to clarify what has and has-n't happened here in our understanding. Wehave not cut USD 700 million in aid to Pakistan,"State Department spokesperson Victoria Nulandtold reporters at her daily news conference.

The clarification came after a Congressional pan-el agreed to freeze USD 700 million in aid to Is-lamabad, linking it to Islamabad's efforts to con-trol the spread of Improvised Explosive Devices(IED), as part of a defence authorisation bill.

"What we have is something on the defence au-thorisation bill, which is currently moving in theCongress, which would require the Department ofDefense to continue providing a strategy on howwe will use certain military assistance and meas-ure its progress, in particular on progress that weare making with Pakistan on the IED issue," Nu-land said yesterday in response to a question.

The negotiating panel of the House of Repre-sentatives and the Senate unanimously agreed tofreeze the USD 700 million aid to Pakistan pend-

ing Pentagon's delivery of a strategy for improv-ing the effectiveness of such assistance and as-surances that Pakistan is countering IED networksin their country that are targeting NATO coalitionforces.

"If this legislation becomes law, we'll work withthe government of Pakistan on how we can fulfillthe requirements. But this requires us to maintaina strategic perspective and to be clear with our Con-gress about the strategy," she said.

Citizen's chartershould be underLokpal: Hazare

New Delhi: Anti-corruption activist AnnaHazare Wednesday said the passage of theGrievances Redressal Bill, 2011, is a vio-lation of the sense of the house and is notacceptable to his activists.

"When I was sitting on a fast at Ramlilaground, the prime minister appealed tome to take it back on some conditions, in-cluding that the citizen's charter will beunder the Lokpal. But now the govern-ment has passed a new law which is a vi-olation of the sense of the house," Hazaretold reporters here.

He congratulated West Bengal ChiefMinister Mamata Banerjee for her toughstand on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)in retail that forced the government to putit on hold.

"I request her to take up the issue of astrong Lokpal bill," he said.

The cabinet, at a meeting chaired byPrime Minister Manmohan Singh, Tues-day approved the Judicial Standards andAccountability Bill, the Grievances Re-dressal Bill and the Whistleblowers' Bill.

The Grievances Redress Bill, 2011,seeks to check graft in lower levels of ad-ministration and set standards for time-bound public service and grievance re-dressal from panchayats to governmentdepartments.

The three bills were cleared even as

Hazare has demanded that grievance re-dressal should be part of the Lokpal billand the judiciary should also be broughtin the ambit of the anti-graft ombudsman.

Hazare has said he would launch an-other agitation at the Ramlila groundfrom Dec 27 if his version of the Lokpal billwas not passed by parliament in the on-going winter session.

CHINA WILL NOTATTACK US: PM

Manmohan Singh

Victoria Nuland

Re down to 53.80 per $

Mumbai: The Indian rupee lost 57 paiseto a fresh all-time low of Rs 53.80 per USdollar in early trade today amid persist-ent dollar demand from banks and im-porters in view of sustained foreign cap-ital outflows.

The rupee resumed lower at Rs 53.54/55per dollar on the Interbank Foreign Ex-change, as against its previous close of Rs53.23/24 per dollar, and declined furtherto a record low of Rs 53.80 against theAmerican currency before quoting at Rs53.60/61 per dollar at 1030 hours.

The domestic currency moved in arange between Rs 53.30 and 53.80 per dol-lar during morning deals.

Persistent dollar demand from banksand importers amid a continued pulloutof capital by foreign funds mainly affect-ed the rupee value against the dollar, aforex dealer said.

Meanwhile, crude oil was down in

Asian trade today, dampened by demandworries as the euro zone debt crisisshowed no signs of improving, analystssaid. New York's main contract, lightsweet crude for January delivery, fell by 31cents to USD 99.83 a barrel.

782 tax evaders' nameskept secret, says Advani

New Delhi :Bharatiya JanataParty (BJP) leader L.K. AdvaniWednesday asked the govern-ment to make public the namesof over 780 Indians who have il-legally stashed in foreign bankstheir wealth amounting to anestimated Rs.25 lakh crore.

The veteran BJP leader wasspeaking on his adjournmentmotion in the Lok Sabha "re-garding the situation arising outof money deposited illegally inforeign banks and action takenagainst guilty persons".

"The names of 782 tax evadersare being kept a secret by the(United Progressive Alliance)UPA government," Advani said.

"I want your assurance and anoath after the debate that you willcome out with the names of taxevaders. Convince the house,convince the nation that youwill play all your cards to bringback the black money in for-eign banks," Advani said in thehouse, addressing Finance Min-ister Pranab Mukherjee.

"Indians have an amount ofRs.25 lakh crore black money inSwiss banks," the BJP leaderclaimed, citing a Global FinancialIntegrity report.

He said high tax in India hasled to black money being kept inforeign banks and tax evasion is

the reason behind it.Advani said India has become

a soft state because the govern-ment has failed to take any actionagainst the culprits.

"We should recognise that be-cause we haven't taken any ac-tion against the guilty, we are be-ing seen as a soft state," he said.

The BJP leader, fresh from his40-day nationwide journey forcreating awareness on corruptionand black money, said the ad-journment motion highlightedthe "failure of the government"even if the wording of the noticehas been changed and mademilder.

"It has to be the failure of thegovernment. You have to acceptit. It is the failure of the govern-ment."

"Even the Supreme Court hasfelt the government has not beenas proactive on the matter as itshould have been. We want thegovernment to publish a whitepaper on black money at theearliest."

Questioning the government'sdelayed action on black money,Advani urged it to act fast and ef-fectively.

"I would like to ask the fi-nance minister to bring backthis money that could be used forthe development of over six lakh

villages in India."He also mentioned that he

was being asked why the BJP didnot take any action when it wasin power. "The situation haschanged. The situation was notlike this then. There has been achange in the situation after theUN convention against corrup-tion."

He said the world has realisedthe dangers of the black money,which they call "dirty money".

"The world realises that a ma-jor part of this dirty money is go-ing as terror funds.

This has led to the UN passingan international conventionagainst corruption," Advani said.

He said stashing away moneyin foreign banks was part of cor-ruption and asked the govern-ment why it was delaying actionagainst the known culprits.

Congress' Manish Tewari,however, trashed the allegationsand said the black money issuewas not the creation of the UPAgovernment.

He said the government hasput in place a strategy to bringback the money from foreignbanks and has signed agree-ments with major tax haven na-tions of the world for the pur-pose.

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TRAIN SCHEDULE

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)

Infy Foundation expandsgrant to NY programme

Bangalore: The Infosys USA Foundationexpanded its challenge grant to the NewYork Academy of SciencesAfterschool STEM(science, technology, engineering and math)mentoring programmeto include citizenschools in New Jersey. The Infosys USA Foundation has provided$380,000 in cumulative grants to give morestudents the opportunity to improve theirscience and math skills.

The partnership between the Infosys USAFoundation and the Academy supports theAcademy’s K-12 science education Initiativethat provides academic mentoring by youngscientists to underserved students.

The programme’s goal is to ensure thatstudents have an opportunity to explorescience, math and technology in ways thatwill encourage higher achievement in theclassroom and in testing outcomes.

“Infosys is committed to providing op-portunities for students to improve theirmath and science skills,” said Ashok Vemuri,head of Americas, global head, financialservices & insurance and board member ofInfosys. “The academy offers a valuableSTEM education programme that encourageslearning in a fun environment.

We are pleased to extend the program’sreach to students in New Jersey.

I am proud of our Infosys colleagues whovolunteer their time and skills.”

“When we started the programme in NewYork, we had a handful of students fromNew Jersey-based universities who werespending a lot of time traveling to New York

City to teach.Expanding to New Jersey was the logical

next step as we had young scientists whowanted to teach, kids who were excited tolearn more math and science, and a greatpartner in citizen schools,” said MeghanGroome, director of K-12 education at theacademy.

“Infosys has been a leading supporter ofour work and their challenge grant will helpus scale up and catalyse other funders totake action.”In the first year of the program,the Academy has surpassed its programgoals by placing more than 120 mentors in84 after-school and summer programmesacross all five boroughs of New York City,serving more than 2,100 elementary andmiddle school children.

Together, these mentors provided morethan 3,120 hours of high-qualityeducationalactivities, inspiring the city’s most under-served children and encouraging confidenceto pursue their talents in science and math.

“Citizen schools and our students inNewark are deeply grateful for the leadershipof the academy and Infosys.

Their volunteers have helped many stu-dents build skills in the critical areas of ge-netics, space science, earth science andmath. Our partnerships with the academyand Infosys give Newark’s students, parentsand educators the confidence that we canmake a real and inspirational differencethrough science and math education,” saidMohan Sivaloganathan, director of Devel-opment and Civic Engagement of CitizenSchools, New Jersey.

Through additional funding support, theacademy aims to recruit, train and support30 new mentors in the 2011-2012 school yearfor the New Jersey-based science educationprogramme. It will provide 180 hours ofhands-on activities for 450 students in thefourth through eighth grades.

Aiming 9%growth inPlan: PM

New Delhi: India needs to rapidlyincrease energy consumption toachieve the ambitious target of9 per cent economic growth inthe 12th Five-Year Plan (2012-17),Prime Minister Manmohan Singhtoday said. "We have set forourselves an ambitious target of9 per cent annual growth in GDPin the 12th Five-Year Plan. Thisrate of economic growth wouldrequire our energy consumptionalso to increase rapidly," he saidat the National Energy Conser-vation Day celebrations.

Bangalore: The Neurological So-ciety of India (NSI) is organis-ingthe diamond jubileeannualconference of NSI – Neuro-con2011–on December 15, 16, 17and 18at NimhansConventionCentre.

The Annual Conference ofNSI,touted as the crown jewelof NSI academic activity, will at-tract more than a thousand neu-rosurgeons and neurologists fromall over the country and abroadthis year.

The meeting is jointly con-vened with the SocietaItalianaDi Neurochirurgia (Italian Societyof Neurosurgery) and will be at-tended by world famous neuro-surgeons and neurologists fromItaly and other European coun-tries, USA, Brazil, Canada andTaiwan.

The conference will be inau-gurated by former President AP-JAbdul Kalamon December 15 at

6pm. PNTandon, emeritus pro-fessor of neurosurgery, All-IndiaInstitute of Medical Sciences,will be the guest of honour. Prof-PSatish Chandra, director ofNIMHANS and ProfVKJain, pres-ident of NSI, are among the otherdignitaries who will attend theinauguration.

The four-day internationalmeeting will discuss the advances in technology and management of patients with neurological diseases, like brain tumors, head and spine injury, stroke, aneurysms,epilepsy and movement disorders, diseases of spinal cord and peripheral nervesand paediatric neurological dis-orders.

Talks on varied topics likegamma knife radiosurgery, neu-ronal plasticity (adaptation ofbrain), and role of genetics inbrain tumors are delivered.

Neurological Society of India

to hold meet

Reality in contradictionTruth is contradictory, if it is not

contradictory, then it is not truth!Bhagvad Gita is full of contradictions.You can understand it only if you seeit in totality.

At one point, Krishna tells Arjunathat action is the most important thingand without action one will benowhere. But after that He tells himthat action is all right but knowledgeis better! Then Krishna says, “Youmust become a yogi and drop every-thing around you.’’

Then Krishna tells him: ‘‘He is in-telligent who sees ‘action’ in ‘inaction’and ‘inaction’ in ‘action’.’’ What doesthis mean? It means even if you don'tdo something you have acted — simplyby ‘not doing’. If you do somethingthen too you have not acted, for inyour not acting here, something elsecould have happened — you couldhave done something else. Even thoughyou have acted, there is ‘inaction’; be-cause you did this, you couldn't dosomething else. So every ‘action’ hasan ‘inaction’ and every ‘inaction’ hasgot an ‘action’ connected to it.

And then Krishna takes Arjuna to-wards Dhyana Yoga — meditation. Inthe sixth chapter of the Bhagvad Gita,He tells Arjuna that since he is con-fused, there is no use talking. He askshim to meditate. Finally, Krishna says,‘‘Arjuna, he is the greatest amongstthe yogis who keeps Me in his heartwhether he meditates or not. He is

the real yogi, because I am with himin whatever he is doing.’’

The contradictions don’t end there.At one juncture, Krishna says, ‘‘Arjuna,there is nobody dear to me, nobodywhom I love.’’ And then gives a wholelist of qualifications for those He reallyloves!

In another instance, Krishna tellsArjuna to act without looking for thefruit of action. Later He asks Arjunato act properly, according to naturallaw. Then He tells him the way heought to fight if he wants to win thewar. So, at this point He is bringingArjuna's attention to the fruit of action,but then He also tells him not to worryabout the fruit of action.

Krishna was like a dear friend toArjuna. In Bhagavatam, you will seethat except for Vidura and Udhava,nobody even thought he was enlight-ened; they all thought that he wasjust very smart. Of course, there werethe Pandavas and the gopis who knewwho Krishna was and how total Hewas from all angles. But many of them,including Arjuna, did not see him thatway. But then Krishna shows him, inone minute, that He is infinite.

He tells Arjuna, ‘‘You can't see with-out the eye of knowledge; so now Iwill give you a special eye of knowl-edge, which I have haven't given any-body in ages. I am giving it to younow because it is time.’’ With that,He gives him a vision, a flash. For

that one moment the universe appearsas a manifestation of Krishna to Arjuna.Arjuna’s mind is shattered that mo-ment. He sees all of creation, everything— the mountains and the rivers, thepast, the present and the future —dissolving in Krishna. He sees thatKrishna is that space, that infinity,into which everything is coming inand dissolving. For an instant, the

whole life, the whole universe, all thememory and all that was associatedwith it just plays out like a movie andit frightens Arjuna. Then Arjuna pleads,‘‘Oh! Please show me your simple,natural and friendly face. I like yoursimple smile and I want to see myfriend. I don't want to see anythingbeyond. It is too much for me.’’ Thisis called Vishva Roopa Darshana —the vision of the universal.

Thereafter, Krishna tells Arjunaabout the yagyas and all the principlesand the laws under which the societyand universe works. Then He talksabout sanyasa and how to be reallycentered. For instance, an event or aninstance should be seen as just that— an event, an instance or a happen-ing. But it sticks to the mind and youtry to get rid of it. The event assumesimportance and the mind is caughtup in it — ‘‘Oh! He said that, they saidthis, they didn't say this, etc.’’ Oncethe event goes away, then you feel asense of great relief. You suddenlydiscover peace inside you. Your verynature is peace. In the centre of you,you are peace. The moment this dis-turbance gets thrown out, you can ac-tually feel it — all the brain cells, andthe entire brain becomes so calm andsettled the moment this garbage goesout. And deep inside you can reallysmile as a flame of peace.

Arjuna asks Krishna, ‘‘What yousay is very magical and joyful. But it's

not easy. This mind is difficult to con-trol. It's like controlling air — can any-body control air?’’ Then Krishna says,‘‘I agree with you. It is difficult butnot impossible. Abhyasena tu Kaunteya— with practice, dispassion and bygetting to the centre again, you willsucceed.’’

You will see that Krishna tried every-thing. Finally it was the display of theuniversal vision that worked on Arjuna.People cannot change just by visionsalso. Krishna does not really bringabout the realisation totally from out-side — it needs something more. Thatis why after Krishna led Arjuna to theinfinite vision, he speaks on what isdear to him, on devotion, and then hecomes on all the other things youknow — about creation and even aboutfood. But when Arjuna says, ‘‘I giveup,’’ Krishna says, ‘‘I can't do anything;you think and do whatever is best foryou. First ponder on whatever I havesaid and then act.’’ Arjuna says, ‘‘No,now I am clear in my mind. I'll dowhatever you will say.’’ So, Krishnahad to speak through 18 chapters toget him to that point.

Krishna could have done it at thevery first chapter.

But it is beautiful the way this knowl-edge has flown.

Everything may appear to be allcontradictory, seen from all angles.But that is in fact reality.

DIVINEQUEST

By Sri Sri Ravishankar

Bhanwari case: CBI raids Cong MLAJaipur: The Central Bureau ofInvestigation (CBI) raided Con-gress MLA Malkhan Singh Bish-noi's Jodhpur residence onWednesday in connection withthe Bhanwari Devi case. The CBI had on Tuesday pasteda notice outside the residenceof Bishnoi, who represents theLuni constituency in RajasthanAssembly, warning him to appearbefore the agency at 11 am onDecember 14 for answering ques-

tions related to the missing caseof Bhanwari Devi or face legalaction.

The raid were carried out afterBishnoi failed to appear beforethe CBI. Tuesday's notice wasthe third one as Bishnoi hasfailed to respond to two noticesissued by the CBI earlier.

The notice was, however,ripped off by his family members.

Bishnoi had not appeared be-fore the CBI despite two sum-

mons on Saturday and Monday. When CBI was asked about

his location, its spokespersonDharini Mishra said he is prob-ably in Delhi undergoing sometreatment.

Sources close to his familyclaimed Bishnoi is currently inBangalore consulting legal ex-perts to be able to deal with the"impending crisis" which seemsto await him in the wake of arrestof his brother Paras Ram Bishnoi

and Bhanwari's husband AmarChand in connection with thecase. Moreover, summons by CBIhave further consolidated hisfear of arrest and he is strugglingto evade these by giving differentreasons.

Former Rajasthan water re-sources minister Mahipal Mader-na, who has been sacked fromthe Rajasthan Cabinet, and threeothers have also been arrestedin the case.