Dacoity caseagainst gangrape accused,

says AshokBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The 11 persons who had raped awoman on the Christmas night at Shantinagarhave been slapped with anti-dacoity cases, saidhome and transport minister R Ashok here thismorning.

A woman, who was walking home along withher boyfriend, was accosted and dragged intothe burial ground on Berlin Street at Shantinagarbefore being raped and assaulted by 11 men. Thevictim was treated at a hospital. Her boyfriendtoo had been attacked

Ashok said that the Shantinagar police havearrested all the accused in a swift action.

He said the name and identity of the com-plainant would not be revealed.

Indian studentkilled in UK

London: A 23-year-old Indian student enrolledat Lancaster University in the UK was killed af-ter he was shot in an “unprovoked attack” bytwo white men, police said.

Anuj Bidve was taken to hospital but was pro-nounced dead in Greater Manchester early to-day morning.

The Greater Manchester Police said the vic-tim was studying at Lancaster University. Hisparents in India have been informed of the in-cident.

“This appears to be an unprovoked attack andwe can’t establish a motive at this time. We areinvestigating every possible aspect and we arein the early stages of the investigation but we arenot ruling anything out,” Chief SuperintendentKevin Mulligan, divisional commander for Sal-ford, was quoted as saying in reports.

The victim was part of a group of nine maleand female students, all Indian, who werestaying in a nearby hotel for a break in Man-chester over the Christmas holidays.

They were heading towards the city centrewhen they were approached by two white menwho were on foot.

The killer approached, engaged the victim ina “very short” conversation, and about a minutelater pulled out a handgun and shot the studentin the side of the head.

The victim collapsed to the ground as hiskiller ran away, the police said.

The gunman was described as white, in hismid-20s, of slim build and wearing a grey top.The other man was of a heavier build and wear-ing a black jacket.

“We can confirm that the man killed in Sal-ford early this morning is a 23-year old Indianpost graduate student, who was studying mi-croelectronics,” a Lancaster Universityspokesman said.

“Our thoughts are with his family at this time,and counselling and support has been organ-ised for his fellow students who are deeply up-set,” he said.

He said the young man “was simply visitingManchester with his friends and has beenkilled, and his family deserve to see those re-sponsible brought to justice”.

Cyclone threatin AP, TN

Hyderabad: The south Andhra and north TamilNadu coast is facing the threat of a cyclone lat-er in the week with a cyclonic storm formationin the Bay of Bengal likely to intensify and hitthe coast between Tamil Nadu and Andhra onDec 30, the weather office said Tuesday.

The cyclonic formation named ‘Thane’ is like-ly to turn into a severe cyclonic storm and crossthe coast between Cuddalore and Nellore by themorning of Dec 30, according to the India Me-teorological Department (IMD).

An early morning bulletin of IMD said the cy-clonic storm remained practically stationary andlay centred about 800 km east-southeast ofChennai.

The system is likely to move northwest-wards and intensify into a severe cyclonicstorm during the next 24 hours.

Warning signal two has been hoisted at allports on the Andhra coast and fishermen havebeen advised against venturing into the sea, saidofficials at the Visakhapatnam Cyclone Warn-ing Centre. Under the impact of the cyclonicstorm, high tidal waves damaged over 200boats along the coast in the Visakhapatnam andWest Godavari districts on Monday night. Offi-cials said the waves washed away 50 boats.

The incursion of sea water on land was asmuch as 15 metres in some coastal villages. Seaconditions have turned rough along the Andhracoast and are likely to remain so over the nexttwo to three days.

Evening dailySensex falls after initial gains

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Kayani will stay, says Gilani

100th ton eludes Sachinagain; India reach 214/3

Melbourne: Sachin Tendulkargave glimpses of his vintageform but the record 100th in-ternational century continued toelude him as India respondedwith a strong batting display tokeep the first cricket Test againstAustralia on an even keel heretoday.

After dismissing Australia for333 in the first innings, Indiansrode on useful contributionsfrom most of the top-order bats-men to reach 214 for three atclose on the second day.

Tendulkar who looked flu-ent during his innings of 73 wasdone in by a beauty from PeterSiddle. The delivery cut backsharply at a scorching pace asthe senior pro tried to reach fora drive only to be bowledthrough the gate. He hit eightboundaries and a six off Siddlewith his trademark upper cutover third-man region.

The foundation of India's re-ply was a solid 117-run thirdwicket partnership betweenTendulkar and Rahul Dravid(68 batting) after opener Viren-der Sehwag smashed a quickfire67 after being dropped twice

on 54 and 58 respectively.Australians were also un-

lucky as a Siddle in-dipperbreached Dravid's defences butthe TV replays confirmed thatthe speedster had bowled a no-ball. Dravid was batting on 65then and the team's score was202 for two.

Only Gautam Gambhir (3)failed among the top four as hewas done in by the awkwardbounce and away movementgenerated by Ben Hilfenhaus.

Earlier Australia, resuming

at their overnight score of 277 for6, were all out for 333, half anhour before lunch break withZaheer Khan (4 for 77), UmeshYadav (3 for 106) and Ravichan-dran Ashwin (3 for 81) sharingthe spoils.

Dravid has now batted formore than four hours (245 min-utes) facing 185 deliveries inthe process. He has hit sixboundaries.

The performance of the troi-ka of Sehwag, Tendulkar andDravid has again proved that In-dia's ageing stalwarts haven't yetlost the hunger.

Admittedly, all the three fastbowlers, Siddle, James Pattin-son and Ben Hilfenhaus, bowledwell in patches but the weakestlink was off-spinner NathanLyon whom Indian batsmentreated with utter disdain.

Lyon was twice introducedand taken off the attack in a hur-ry when Virender Sehwaglaunched into him with twosuccessive fours down theground and later Tendulkar andDravid milked him at will. Lyonended the day giving away 53runs from 14 wicketless overs.

Hazare begins fast as LS

debates LokpalMumbai: Amidst cheering supporters,Anna Hazare today began his three-dayfast here in protest against a "weak" Lok-pal Bill even as Lok Sabha initiated a de-bate on the proposed law.

Hazare, who is suffering from a viral in-fection, arrived at the MMRDA grounds inBandra Kurla Complex of suburban Mum-bai along with his close aides Arvind Ke-jriwal, Kiran Bedi and Manish Sisodia toa thunderous applause and slogans of 'B-harat Mata ki Jai' and 'Vande Matram'.

Hazare began his fast shouting slogansof 'Vande Matram' and 'inqilab zind-abad'.

The 74-year-old activist reached the ven-ue after paying tributes to MahatmaGandhi at Juhu Beach while on his way ina rally, which took two-and-half hours toreach the ground, passing through San-tacruz, Tulip Star Hotel, Mithibai College,S V Road, Vile Parle, Khar and BandraHighway.

Hazare travelled in a decorated opentruck from the guest house to MMRDAgrounds waving tricolour and a numberof people were seen waiting to greet himon the streets.

However, there was high drama on wayas around 20 men blocked his convoy andshowed him black flags. The convoy ofHazare, on way to Mahatma Gandhi's stat-ue on Juhu beach, was briefly stopped bythe protesters carrying black flags and na-tional tricolour and shouting "Anna Haz-are murdabad".

In Delhi, Lok Sabha started a discussionon the bill.

However, Team Anna's protest eliciteda lukewarm response with supportersblaming the winter chill and absence ofAnna Hazare for the low turnout atRamlila Maidan.

The protest relay fast in Delhi wasscheduled to start at 10 AM but it startedonly 90 minutes later as the crowd was notas huge as witnessed during the earlier ag-itation when Hazare was at the centrestage.

The leader of the protest in Delhi Shan-ti Bhushan himself came to the podiumat 10:30 AM though another Team Annamember and his son Prashant Bhushanwas at the venue before explaining to me-dia persons about the protest and the de-layed start.

Hazare was supposed to sit on a fasthere but the venue was changed takinginto consideration the weather in thecapital. The activist is staging a three-dayfast in Mumbai.

Prashant blamed the chilly and foggyweather for the low turnout in the morn-ing. "I am sure people will come here aswell. It is a cold day, foggy day today. It willtake sometime for people to turn up.They will come, don't worry," he said.

Activist Gopal Rai said winter andprobably the absence of Hazare may bethe reason for the low turnout but ex-pressed hope that more people will come.

Explaining the need for protest,Prashant said the Bill in its present formis unacceptable. Protest will continue aswell as jail bharo agitation, he added.

Team Anna has raised the pitch yes-terday by pointing out "four non-nego-tiable" demands for calling off their jailbharo agitation which included provisionfor an independent investigating agencyfor the anti-corruption ombudsman.

In Mumbai, police have fortified the fastvenue by deploying 2000 police consta-bles and 200 sub-inspectors of police, sixplatoons of state reserve force, threeQuick Response Team and two BombDetection and Disposal Squads.

The ground has six emergency exits, 16fire extinguishers, six metal detectorunits and round-the-clock ambulanceservices.

Lukewarm startin Delhi

New Delhi: Team Anna's protest hereagainst a "weak" Lokpal Bill today elicit-ed a lukewarm response with supportersblaming the winter chill and absence ofAnna Hazare for the low turnout atRamlila Maidan.

It was a delayed start for the protest toexpress solidarity with Hazare's fast inMumbai as mercury stayed below normaland a fog cover hung over the city.

The protest relay fast was scheduled tostart at 10 AM but it started only 90 min-utes later as the crowd was not as huge aswitnessed during the earlier agitationwhen Hazare was at the centre stage.

Lok Sabha mournsdeath of Bangarappa

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The LokSabha this morningmourned the death of former chief ministerand former MP SarekopappaBangarappa,who passed away early yesterday morning.

Reading out the condolence message,Speaker Meira Kumar said that an astutepolitician, Bangarappa was a chief ministerand a member in the LokSabha.

Today, Bangarappa’s remains werebrought to Soraba. The body had been keptin state for his admirers and followers to paylast respects to the departed leader. Hundreds

of people lined up since morning to pay re-spects.

The remains were shifted to Bangarappa’shome town Kubatur, where his last riteswould be performed with state honours.

Chief minister D V Sadananda Gowda andhis cabinet colleagues are expected to attendthe funeral at 5.30 pm today.

Bangarappa passed away at a privatehospital early yesterday morning after manyorgans failed.

One of the charismatic leaders, he wasknown for his pro-poor policies that endearedhim to the underprivileged.

SIDDAIAHRAIDEDLokayukta officials also search 1 IAS, 1KAS officer for disproportionate assets

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Former BBMP com-missioner and IAS officer Sid-daiah was raided by the Lokayuk-ta this morning. Apart from him,the police also raided anotherIAS officer and Bangalore formerdeputy commissioner Sadiq andKAS officer Veerabhadraiah, whois an officer with the Upper Kr-ishna River Area DevelopmentAuthority.

A team of over 20 officialsraided the premises of the threeofficers near simultaneously thismorning around 8.

The raids were being con-ducted to verify whether the

three officers have amassedwealth disproportionate to theirknown sources of income. Thepolice were searching for docu-ments at all the residences of theofficers.

The raids were being con-ducted at Siddaiah’s farmhouseat Harohalli on Kanakapura roadand his JP Nagar residence.

The officers also raided threeresidences of Sadiq and twohouses of Veerabhadraiah. Thesearches were still going on at thetime of this update.

Siddaiah was transferred outof Bruhat Bangalore Mahana-garaPalike about a fortnight ago.He was awaiting further orders

and had not been given anyposting.

At that time, Siddaiah hadsaid he had sought the transferdue to health reasons. Thentransport commissionerShankalingeGowda was broughtin his place.

Siddaiah was Bangalore De-velopment Authority commis-sioner before he was transferredto the BBMP. He is known to bea favourite officer of former chiefminister B S Yeddyurappa, whohas been facing cases of allegedillegal land denotification.

There was speculation thathe would be made the principalsecretary to the chief minister.

DVS swornin as MLC

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Chief minister D VSadanandaGowda, who won theelection last week, today took oathas member of legislative council to-day.

The election was necessary forGowda to continue as chief minis-ter as the Constitution requires thehead of the government to representeither of Houses before the com-pletion of six months in office.

Gowda defeated Congress can-didate AnandGaddadevaramathconvincingly, with the help of theJD(S) members in the assembly,who abstained from voting.

After the swearing-in ceremony,Gowda, who holds the MP seat, said, “I will resign from my MP seat tomorrow. I am leaving for New Delhi tomorrow and submitthe resignation to the Lok SabhaSpeaker.” Gowda said that during his visit, he would also meet BJP national leaders and discuss the possibility of reshufflingthe cabinet.

There are seven vacancies in hisministry, for which there have beena number of requests. He had ear-lier said that regional representationwould be kept in mind while ex-panding the cabinet.

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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)

KinfisherAir cancels175 flights

New Delhi: Troubled KingfisherAirlines has sought permissionto cancel 175 flights. Earlier, theairlines had taken permission tofly 418 routes.

Union civil aviation ministerAjit Singh said that since the air-line has violated the Rule 140-A, the Director General of CivilAviation has served notice onthe airlines.

The 175 flights have been can-celled as few planes will not beavailable for operations over thenext few weeks, the companysaid in a statement.

Science camp

Bangalore: Bangalore Universityhas organised a science campat the combined life sciences de-partment from January 18 to 22.

Those who have passed SSLCwith 72 percent and studyingscience at first and second yearPUC can apply before January 7,a press note stated.

The application can be ob-tained fromwww.inspiredst.gov.in/intern-ship.html. The filled applicationform should be attested by col-lege principals.

For information, contact: ProfH P Puttaraju, head of combinedlife sciences department, Jnan-abharati campus, or call:22961923.

Bangalore:Rs 220 crore central fundfor the BBMP has been misused, andthe palike commissioner is directly re-sponsible for the scandal, said RTI Ed-ucation Centre founder trustee SAmaresh has alleged.

He said that the scandal has come tolight from the documents collectedthrough Right To Information (RTI). Afund is kept aside to take care of emer-gency works at wards and areas. Thecommissioner allot the funds from thisallocation whenever he goes on visitsto wards and feels particular worksneeded to be carried out.

Over the last five years, Rs 174 crorehad been set aside for the purpose. ButRs 220 crore over this has been releasedfor emergency works. But an expenseof Rs 394 crore has been shown. Butthere are no records to show the workscarried out, raising doubts that themoney has been released for worksthat were not executed, he alleged.

The urban development ministry is

with chief minister D V SadanandaGow-da. He should intervene on this, orderan inquiry and punish the guilty. Oth-erwise, we will have to approach thecourts, he warned.

Elected representatives, contractorsand BBMP officials are involved in thescandal. Between 2006 and 2011, aBBMP assistant commissioner, who washandling the finances and from thestate finance department, and otherofficers have released the excess amount,he alleged.

The names of elected representativeswho sought emergency works, the con-tractors involved and the place of worksshould be made available on the BBMPwebsite, he said.

Former BBMP commissioners,Jyothiramalingam, K Jairaj, S Subra-manya and BharatlalMeena should beincluded in the investigation.

A committee has to be formed tolook into scandals in the BBMP, headded.

Earlier, there was a vigilance com-mittee to look into irregularities withinthe BBMP. But it has been suspended.

But the committee has to be formedagain, he said.

Over 500 complaints on irregularities

within the BBMP have been filed beforethe Lokayukta. But the investigationhas not been taken up in even one ofthese cases.

The RTI Education Centre will takea decision on approaching the court,centre trustee B H Veeresh said.

Even if a complaint is filed beforethe information commission againstofficers and departments for not replyingto an RTI application, the commissionhas failed to act against the officials.Even if a complaint is filed before thecommission, it comes up for hearingonly after a year.

After the initial hearing, the casesare being adjourned by three to fourmonths, trustee N VikramSinha alleged.

Some information commissionershave been coming into the office around11 am and leaving by 3 pm. They arelooking into only around 20 files perday, while high court justices have beengoing through 50-60 files, they alleged.

Relief for NGEFworkers demanded

Bangalore: It has been morethan 10 years since NGEF factoryclosed. But the government hasstill not paid compensation to122 former employees. To press for immediate compen-sation, a protest will be held infront of Mahatma Gandhi statueon MG road on December 31,said NGEF Workers’ Associationpresident G R Shivashankar said.

The factory closed in June 2002against rules. In the past, thecompany has paid compensationto 1,800 workers.

But it is yet to pay the com-pensation to the remaining em-ployees.

Because of this, the workers

are going through harrowingtimes, he added.

In October 2008, then indus-tries minister MurugeshNiranihad assured the employees thattheir demands would be met.Since then, three state govern-ments have come to power.

The employees have presentedmemoranda to all the chief min-isters, but no action has beentaken yet, he said.

Of these employees, 10 havealready died. Their families havecome to the streets. The familiesof all the affected employees aresuffering and the governmenthas to take action immediately,he said.

Bangalore: Works involving Rs20 lakh were inaugurate at Na-gappa Extension by area corpo-ratorSukumar yesterday. Theworks include the constructionof an 843-metre road and drains.

After the inauguration, Suku-mar said that he would send aproposal to the BBMP to renameNagappa Extension as VajpayeeNagar. The area resident welfareassociations should get the ap-proval of the people, he added.

The cooperation of citizens isa must for taking up developmentworks. Organisations should co-ordinate among themselves andwork for the welfare of the peo-ple, he said.

TrainingprogrammeBangalore: AWAKE has organ-ised a training programme for

those who run play homes fromtomorrow. Those who are alreadyrunning play homes too can takepart in the training programme,a press release stated. For moreinformation contact: B-76,KSSIDC Industrial Zone, Rajaji-nagar or call: 9740996066.

Applications Bangalore: The employment andtraining division of the Associa-tion for People with Disabilitieshas invited applications for atechnical training programmefor the differently abled. Selectedcandidates would be trained incomputers. They will also be giv-en accommodation and food fa-cilities, a press note stated. Forinformation, contact: APD,Huchins road, 6th cross, StThomas Town, Hennur mainroad, Lingarajapuram, or call:823068796.

NHA will float bondsto mop up Rs 10K crBangalore: The National Highways Authority has decided tofloat tax-free bonds to mop up Rs 10,000 crore.

The NHA will start issuing the bonds from December 28 till January 11. Though the NHA had thought of generating Rs 5,000 crore through the bond route, the demand in the market has driven it to increase the mop-up to Rs 10,000 crore. Road transport minister C P Joshi has inauguratedthe scheme.

The bonds with Rs 1,000 face value have two maturityperiods. The 10-year bonds will earn an interest of 8.2 percentper annum, while the 15-year bonds will attract 8.3 percentper annum.

The bonds are tax free, but not the principal amount. Onlythe interest will be tax free, NHA has clarified.

The NHA has set aside 30 percent for common investors(with the maximum of Rs 5 lakh investment), 40 percent forhigh networth individuals (more than Rs 5 lakh investment)and the remaining for institutional investors.

“The bonds will attract good response. The National Highways Authority is expected to get construction contract for 21,900 km over the next three financial years,”the minister said.

Developmentworks inaugurated

Session onAlzheimerʼsto be held

Bangalore: The Nightingale Cen-tre for Aging and Alzheimer’shas organised ainteractive ses-sion with like-minded organisa-tions at 3 pm tomorrow at theorganisation’s centre at Ashok-nagar.

All organisations working in the fields of Alzheimer’s and dementia will take part in the meeting, said a press note.

The working methods of or-ganisations and the steps to betaken to treat those sufferingfrom these diseases would bediscussed at the interaction ses-sion.

A lecture on “The Role of Family in Treating DementiaPatients”, a book written by psychologist Dr Graham, too has been organised on the oc-casion.

Those interested can contact:9844037381.

RTI centre alleges`220‑cr scam in BBMP