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Property worth`1.35 cr recovered

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Property worth over Rs 1.35 crore hasbeen recovered and 140 cases solved by the eastdivision police.

At a property parade today, the police dis-played 60 two-wheelers, gold ornaments and sil-ver articles. The police have also arrested 93 per-sons related to these cases.

KILLING THE DRONEOF MOSQUITOES

The National Institution of Malarial Research tryingto identify plants that act as breeding ground for mosquitoes and those that repel them. The studywould help contain many vector-borne diseases, like malaria, dengue and chickungunya, says L Raghunanda page5

Beyond Beat

Will Lokayukta DIG be BSYʼs favourite?

D L HarishBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Who is going to bethe deputy inspector general ofpolice at Lokayukta, now thatPronab Mohanty has beenmade the joint commissioner ofpolice (crime-west)?

Rumours have been swirlingover the timing of Mohanty’stransfer, under whose leader-ship a first information reportwas filed against former chiefminister B S Yeddyurappa in il-legalities concerning the UpperBhadra project.

The FIR was filed on Mondayand the very next day, Mohanty was made to relievehis post at the office of the corruption watchdog in Kar-nataka. People in the know of

developments say the trans-fer has been effected to lessenthe intensity of cases flyingout of the Lokayukta againstYeddyurappa. They also say itwas easy for the former chiefminister, who was instrumen-tal in getting Sadananda Gow-da to succeed him to the

throne, to get the transfersdone.

What surprised all also washow the post of joint commis-sioner of police (crime) thatwas held till then by one DIG,Alok Kumar, was split into two.The other JCP (crime-east) isDayananda B. The order tosplit the post was also takenthe same day the FIR was filed.Mohanty is due for promotionas inspector general of police inanother four months. He hadnot even completed three yearsat the Lokayukta as IGP.

It is also said Mohanty wastransferred without the consent of Lokyaukta JusticeShivaraj V Patil. Mohanty’ssuccessor to the hot seat, alsoprobably one of the most pow-erful in the state, is being de-

cided now. Sources say thechoice has been narroweddown to two: Arun Chakr-avarthy, who is DIG (security)BMTC, and Murugan, who isthe DIG, Crime InvestigationDepartment.

Here too, Yeddyurappaseems to have a say in the se-lection of officers. Incidental-ly, the two officers have servedas superintendents of police atShimoga – the stronghold ofYeddyurappa. Chakravarthywas the superintendent of po-lice at Shimoga when Yeddyu-rappa was deputy chief minis-ter in the JD(S)-BJP coalitiongovernment. Murugan wastransferred to the top districtpolice officer’s post when Yed-dyurappa became the chiefminister.

2 LOKAYUKTASPs TO BE

SUSPENDED?

D L HarishBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The Lokayukta mayplace under suspension Ra-managara Lokayukta superin-tendent of police A N Swamyand Bangalore Lokayukta SPEshwarachandra Vidyasagar forallegedly receiving bribes fromdifferent quarters.

It is suspected that the “Kop-pal SP” mentioned in the bookmaintained by Karapudi Ma-hesh, who was the mediatorbetween mining barons and for-mer ministers Reddy brothersand the alleged bribe takers,could be Vidyasagar. The entirelist of people who have receivedbribes from Reddy brothers hasbeen mentioned in the illegalmining report submitted to thegovernment by conservator of

forests and chief investigatingofficer in the case U V Singh.

In his book, Mahesh men-tions giving Rs 6.87 lakh to“Koppal SP” on March 12, 2010.Vidyasagar was handling the re-sponsibility in the district duringthat period. The documents hadbeen seized from Mahesh’shouse after a raid by income taxdepartment officials.

The documents contained thenames of 600 persons who re-ceived bribes from Reddy broth-ers for carrying out illegal min-ing activities. Media reportshighlighted how A N Swamyhad allegedly taken money froma circle inspector. The office ofthe corruption watchdog is alsothinking of transferringVidyasagar back to the parentdepartment and leave the deci-sion to them.

HC REJECTS BSYʼSPLEA TO QUASH FIRAsks Lokayukta police, court to go ahead with case related to Upper Bhadra project

Flaws in Jan Lokpal bill, says Advani

New Delhi: Some provisions of the Jan Lokpalbill had inherent flaws and parliament wouldfind it difficult to pass it in its present form, sen-ior BJP leader L K Advani said today in a can-did assessment of the document.

He, however, added that they would lendtheir support to any strong, anti-corruption leg-islation. “I know what are the flaws in the pro-visions of the Jan Lokpal bill due to which it willnot get passed. And this, I tried to explain tothem (Team Anna) yesterday,” Advani told agroup of students from the Indian Institute ofTechnology (IIT) who called on him.

“I also told (finance minister) Pranab(Mukherjee) and the government that look,these people are emotionally attached to the ti-tle ‘Jan Lokpal Bill’ so assure them whatever bethe final shape of the Lokpal bill after amend-ments, do continue to call it the Jan Lokpal bill,”he said at his residence.

“They (Mukherjee) said we will think aboutit,” said the top BJP leader, adding that his par-ty would support any legislation that wasaimed at ending corruption.

Continued on page 3

Gambhirʼs vision blurred;his fitness still a mystery

Hove : Gambhir’s state of fit-ness remains a mystery as latestindications emerging from thedressing room are that all is notwell with the opener, who is hav-ing trouble with his vision aftersuffering a concussion duringthe fourth and final Test againstEngland.Gambhir is reportedlystill suffering from blurred visionand is almost certain to miss theday-night fixture against Kenttoday. If things improve dramat-

ically over the next couple ofdays, Gambhir ought to be tar-getting the one-day game againstLeicestershire on August 29 afterwhich the Twenty20 and fiveone-day internationals againstEngland would be played. How-ever, things are looking far fromrosy as the Delhi opener is hav-ing trouble fixing his sight onanything – be it looking at themobile or watching the television.Continued on page 3

Bangalore police commissioner JyothiPrakash Mirji inspects recovered goods inthe city today. The eastern division policehave recovered goods worth Rs 1.35 crore.

Pronab Mohanty

S Radhakrishna

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The Karnataka HighCourt today refused to quash an FIRfiled by the Lokayukta police againstformer chief minister B S Yeddyu-rappa in an illegal gratification caserelated to the Upper Bhadra project.

Yeddyurappa had approachedthe court, seeking that the first in-formation report be rejected, but adivision bench of the high courtasked the Lokayukta police to con-tinue with the investigation intothe case.

The Lokayukta police had filedthe FIR as per the directions of theLokayukta special court which

heard the petition filed by JD(S)spokesman Y S V Datta, who allegedthat Davalagiri Developers Pvt Ltdand Sahyadri Healthcare Diagnos-tic Pvt Ltd run by Yeddyurappa’sfamily had received money from Up-per Bhadra project contractor R NShetty.

Justices K L Manjunath and H SKempanna constituted the benchthat heard the objection petition inthe high court.

The Upper Bhadra project is tosupply water to Chitradurga andTumkur districts. The project start-ed during the BJP-JD(S) coalitiongovernment and was estimated tocost Rs 550 crore during 2006-07.

The BJP came to power in 2008and called for fresh tenders. Four-teen companies came to the eligi-bility level, but the governmentchose only five companies. Of them,only two applied for the contract, RNJyoti Ventures Pvt Ltd and KirolskarBrothers Construction Pvt Ltd.

RN Jyoti had bid for Rs 1033 crore,while the other bid for Rs 1025crore. When it came to the final se-lection, Kirloskar even said it couldexecute the project for Rs 1006crore. Despite the lower bid, Yed-dyurappa handed over the projectto R N Jyoti as he was also thechairman Karnataka Niravari Niga-ma Ltd.

Of the spoils, the two compa-nies run by the relatives of Yed-dyurappa received a gratification ofRs 13 crore, alleges the case filed byDatta. Of that Rs 11 crore went toDavalagiri company, while Rs 2crore went to Sahyadri company.The cheques came from Mu-rudeshwara Company, which isowned by R N Shetty, who is also theowner of the construction company.

Datta filed the complaint beforethe Lokayukta about the illegalitieson July 27. The Lokayukta specialcourt asked its police to investi-gate the case and submit a report bySeptember 5. The Lokayukta policefiled the FIR on August 8.

Lokpal Act alone will noteradicate corruption: Rahul

New Delhi: Breaking his silence,Congress leader Rahul Gandhitoday asserted that Lokpal Actalone will not help eradicate cor-ruption and appeared to disap-prove Anna Hazare’s fast, saying“individual dictates” must notweaken democratic process asdangerous precedent could beset.

Agreeing that “corruption ispervasive” which operates at“every level”, Gandhi said in theLok Sabha that a set of effectivelaws along with creation of anstatutory institution of Lokpallike the Election Commissionwould be required to fight themalaise.

“We cannot wish away cor-ruption by the mere desire to seeit removed from our lives. This re-quires a comprehensive frame-work of action and a concerted po-litical programme supported by alllevels of the State from the high-est to the lowest. Most impor-

tantly, it requires firm politicalwill,” he said during Zero Hour,amid noisy protests from NDAmembers.

Referring to the anti-corrup-tion campaign of Anna Hazare,Gandhi said it has “helped thepeople to articulate” disillusion-ment and “I thank him for that”.

At the same time, the Congressleader said, “individual dictates,

no matter how well-intentioned,must not weaken the democraticprocess....A tactical incursion, di-vorced from the machinery of anelected government that seeks toundo the checks and balances cre-ated to protect the supremacy ofParliament sets a dangerousprecedent for a democracy.”

“Today, the proposed law isagainst corruption. Tomorrow,the target may be something lessuniversally heralded. It may at-tack the plurality of our societyand democracy,” Gandhi warnedin the House as his sister Priyan-ka Gandhi watched from the vis-itors’ gallery.

“Witnessing the events of thelast few days, it would appear thatthe enactment of a single bill willusher in a corruption-free socie-ty. I have serious doubts aboutthis belief,” he said, adding an ef-fective Lokpal “is only one ele-ment in the legal framework tocombat corruption.”

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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)

Movie ListingsKANNADA

ENGLISH

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)

HINDI

TELUGU

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)

Private security sector gifts girl child with assistance

The private security sector,one of the fastest growingin the country, has an-

nounced a special programmefor the girl child of the securitypersonnel.

The Central Association of Pri-vate Security Industry (CAPSI),the apex body of private securityagencies in the country, will pro-vide financial assistance of upto Rs 1.3 lakh from schooling tillmarriage.

CAPSI chairman KunwarVikram Singh announced thisat the first-ever nationwide ‘Pri-vate Security Day’ celebrationsin the city, organised by the Kar-nataka Security Services Asso-ciation (KSSA). CAPSI will mo-bilise funds internally for thisunique initiative.

CAPSI has proposed to theCentre to introduce training invarious aspects of security athigh school and college levelsfor students.

“The private security sector isgrowing at a phenomenal 30-40percent annually. But there is asevere shortage of resources, asnot many come forward to takeup this job. The demand for pri-vate security has multiplied sev-eral times since 24/11. We metunion human resources devel-opment minister Kapil Sibal andrequested him to introduce tai-lor-made security-related coursesin schools and colleges (9th stan-dard to 11th standard),” saidSingh.

The private security sector hasurged the Centre to extend ahousing loan facility of Rs 5 lakhto each of the security personnelto be repaid over 20-year tenure.“This will go a long way in en-suring the social security of thepersonnel. This will also makethe sector an attractive job des-tination,” he added.

CAPSI will soon introduce aNational Security Code, whichhas to be followed by all agencies.The standards include commonpolicies relating to security; pro-fessional training for the securitypersonnel; industry best prac-tices; common uniform and alliedactivities.

At present, the UN is evolving

the international code for theprivate security sector. After re-viewing the code and taking intoconsideration the requirementsof the Indian scenario, the na-tional standards for the securitysector in the country will be set.

“The United Nations has in-vited CAPSI to take part in aconference on evolving globalstandards for the private securitysector. The CAPSI will replicatethe same standards for the Indianprivate security industry,” Singhadded.

J R Bangera, president, Fed-eration of Karnataka Chambersof Commerce & Industry (FKCCI),exhorted the private securityagencies to undergo a transfor-mation from security serviceprovider to private security so-lutions provider. “These days,each institution has its own se-curity concerns and needs. There-fore, agencies should offer com-plete tailor-made solutions tosuch clients. This transforma-tional shift will also help the se-curity sector to tap the marketeffectively,” he added.

Bangera further said the pri-vate security sector should havea certification programme underwhich the agencies can be grad-

ed. “This will enable the clientsto select their choice of privatesecurity service depending onthe grading. This grading schemewill also streamline the privatesecurity sector,” he asserted.

“There is Armed Forces Dayin India in recognition of thecontributions made by the se-curity personnel to the nation.Similarly, there is the NationalFire Services Day.

But the private security sec-tor, which is one of the largestemployers in the nation andthe fastest growing, has no par-

ticular day dedicated in honourof the security personnel. There-fore, we decided to declare Au-gust 21 as the Private SecurityDay,” said Flt Lt K P Nagesh,KSSA president.Bangalore isthe first city in the country tohost ‘Private Security Day’.Around 1,200 security personnelrepresenting various agenciesfrom across the state, tookpart.Housing minister V Somanna flagged off the rallyfrom the Town Hall junction. Organisers said it would be anannual affair.

Anglo‑Indianstudents canapply for fee

Bangalore: The education de-partment has invited applicationsfrom Anglo-Indian students forfee reimbursement for this aca-demic year. Those studying in 1to 10 standard in government/recognised private aided/ un-aided, CBSE and ICSE schoolsare eligible. Applications shouldbe submitted to headmasters/principals. The heads of schoolshave to submit the applicationsto deputy directors of public in-struction (administration) forsanction and counter signature.Contact DDPI administration formore information.

BACK TO NATUREAncient scriptures have it that

human beings have five sheaths:the environment, the physical

body, the mind, the intuitive sheathand the fifth sheath is purushartha,i.e., the blissful state.

The environment is our first bodyand one of the most important sheaths.If our environment is clean and posi-tive, it has a positive impact on all theother sheaths and they are in balance.

Environment consciousness is in-built in the human system.

Historically, nature has always beenadored in India; mountains, rivers,trees, the sun, the moon, have alwaysbeen honoured.

It’s only when we started movingaway from nature that we started pol-luting nature. We need to revive theancient practice of honouring andconserving nature.

Today man has become greedy, hewants to make quick profits andachieve quick results. T

his obstructs preservation of ecology.It not only pollutes the physical envi-ronment but also stimulates negativeemotions in the subtle level.

These negative emotions do not staylimited to that one person but rubsoff onto all those who he comes in

contact with. These negative vibrations once com-

pounded are the root cause of all dis-asters and misery in the world, whethereconomical, political or social in na-ture.

Most of the wars are triggered offby such feelings; and war is alwaysaccompanied by waste and naturaldisasters which take ages to balanceout.

We need to attend to the humanpsyche which causes pollution,whether physical or emotional. If com-passion and care are kindled withinthe self, they reflect in the environmentand a sense of sacredness follows.

Just observe nature; the five elementsof nature are opposed to each other.Water destroys fire, fire destroys air.

Then there are so many species innature – the birds, reptiles, mammals;all these different species are hostiletowards each other and yet naturebalances them out. We need to learnfrom nature.

People should be encouraged totreat the planet as sacred, to treattrees, rivers and people as sacred andto see God in nature and in people.This will foster sensitivity.

It is basically insensitivity that makes

a person act callously towards envi-ronment. If a person is sensitive, hewill nurture environment, therebyeradicating pollution. In ancient times,if a person cut one tree, he plantedfive in return.

The ancient people did not washclothes in holy rivers; only ashes ofcremated bodies were to be submergedin the river so that everything gets di-gested back to nature.

It is unfortunate that we don’t un-derstand the depth of scriptures butfollow empty and meaningless prac-tices blindly.

Pooja does not mean just lighting alamp and going around the tree; wor-shipping cows does not mean gar-landing them and lighting camphor.Real pooja is honouring the tree, ho-nouring the animal, feeling a sense ofresponsibility and belongingness to-wards nature and creation.

Tradition, technology, trade andtruth need to be revived time andagain.

We need to balance our views witha free mind, devoid of any inhibitionsand prejudices. We need to work outways and means of protecting ourbeautiful planet earth.

For this to happen, human con-

sciousness must rise above greed andexploitation.

Exploitation has two phases: first,when you exploit others; second, whenyou exploit the earth.

This exploitation needs to bechecked and for that, man must de-velop a broad vision, a broad under-standing of life and of himself in con-text with the cosmos.

Processes and objects that are anti-nature and anti-environment are alsoanti-health.

We simply don’t know this; nobodywould want to do something knowingthat it will invite suffering. We needto explore means of healthy lifestyles.If you ignore it, you cannot becomeenvironment conscious, it’s almostimpossible.

Because somewhere deep withinyou, your cravings, your aversions andyour anger will all, directly or indirectly,start affecting your environment.

We need to revive the ancient prac-tice of honouring and conserving na-ture. Spirituality has been a time testedanswer.

It eliminates all the negative emo-tions; it elevates one’s consciousnessand promotes a sense of caring andcommitment for the whole planet.

DIVINEQUEST

By Sri Sri Ravishankar

Families of 59jawans felicitated

Bangalore: A felicitation cere-mony was held at the MadrasEngineering Group (MEG) andCentre in the city yesterday tohonour the next of kin and wid-ows of 59 soldiers who lost theirlives during operations or activeservice.

The family members camefrom Bangalore, Mandya,Mysore, Tumkur, Kolar, Cham-rajanagar, Tamil Nadu, AndhraPradesh and Kerala.

They were presented with cashincentives as well as utility itemslike pressure cookers, sewingmachine, wrist watches and elec-tric press.

Brigadier Gurdip Singh, com-mandant MEG and Centre, saidwelfare of the past and presentsoldiers is top of the agenda forthe forces, which have launchededucation, enrolment, vocationaltraining and health-relatedschemes.

Housing minister Somanna flags off a rally by the Karnataka Private Security Services Day.

Spl train between Ernakulam, city

Coimbatore: To clear the extrarush of passengers, SouthernRailway will operate special trainbetween Ernakulam and Ban-galore.

Train No 06346 ErnakulamJunction-Bangalore Super FastSpecial will leave ErnakulamJunction at 5 pm on September8 and arrive in Bangalore at 4.20am the next day.

In the return direction, Train

No. 06345 Bangalore-ErnakulamJunction Super Fast Special willleave Bangalore at 6.50 pm onSeptember 9 and arrive at Er-nakulam at 6.30 am, the nextday, an official release said today.

The trains will stop at Aluva,Thrissur, Ottapalam, Palakkad,Coimbatore, Tiruppur, Erode,Salem, Bangarapet, Krishnara-japuram and Bangalore Canton-ment. PTI

Bangalore: Smriti Mehra turnedin a stunning finish with fivebirdies in the last five holes tooverhaul young Sharmila Nicolleton the homestretch and win thesecond leg of the Hero Women’sProfessional Golf Tour at the Ea-gleton Golf Resort here today.

With five birdies in a row, Sm-riti turned three-shot deficit intoa two-shot lead and Sharmilawas left stranded.

Smriti, who tied with Sharmilain second spot last week, wentone better with a superb card offive-under 67 and opened hertitle count for the season with atotal of 206. She finished twobetter than Sharmila, who hada final day’s card of 71 and atotal of 208.

Smriti began the day two be-

hind Sharmila and the two alongwith Nalini Singh Siwach formedthe lead group on the final day.

At the end of the front nine,Sharmila was still two ahead asboth Smriti and Sharmila hadan even par 36 for the stretch.Smriti had one birdie on the par-5 sixth and a bogey on par-4eighth. Sharmila had birdies onpar-5 first and par-5 sixth butshe also dropped shots on secondand ninth.

Then it was Sharmila who in-creased the lead to three with abirdie on the 10th. The gap stayedas such till the end of the 13thhole. Then began the big turn-around. Sharmila did not playbadly, in fact she parred the lastfive holes, but Smriti had fivebirdies and the tables turned.

Smriti clinches title at womenʼs pro golf

CITYFriday, August 26, 2011 3

Collegiate education director K V Kodandaramaiah inaugurates certificate courses on citizen journalism and photo-journalism at Government Arts College today. The courses are being offered by the Karnataka Media Academy.

Government Arts College principal R Srinivas and academy director D P Parameshwara too were present.

New journalism courses

CITY EVENTSGeneralSaarc Association of Anaes-thesiologists: Inauguration of9th Congress of Saarc Associ-ation of Anaesthesiologists,Chief Minister D V SadanandaGowda, MP Prabhakar Koreto participate, Bangalore In-ternational Exhibition Centre,Tumkur Road, 6 pm

Bangalore International Cen-tre: Talk on ‘Sri Lanka and itsrelations with india and itsaspects,’ by Prasad Kariya-wasam, Sri Lankan High Com-missioner to India, Teri Com-plex, 4th Main, 2nd Cross,Domlur 2nd Stage, 6.30 pm.

Sa Mudra Foundation: Felic-itation to Mallepuram GVenkatesh, Minister C M Udasi,KPSC Chairman Gonal Bhim-appa to participate, KannadaSahitya Parishat, Chamarajpet,5 pm.

The South Asia Institute ofAdvanced Christian Studies:Launch of academic pro-gramme MA in Theology, SA-IACS CEO Centre, Kothanur, 5pm.

Raman Research Institute:Colloquium on Growth andForm: Geometry, Physics andBiology by L Mahadevan fromDepartment of Physics, Har-vard University, Cambridge,USA, Raman Research Insti-tute, auditorium, 4 pm.

Cultural Every Friday Cultural EveningProgramme: Kathak danceperformance by Kum AswathiNair, Yavanika, NrupatungaRoad, 6:30 pm.

Sri D Subbaramaiah Fine ArtsTrust: Nagaswaravali, DriMallikarujuna Veda Pathasha-la Hall, Jyothy Industries, No31, Pampa Mahakavi Road,Basavanagudi, 6:05 pm.

Eating Out

Power Lunch: Friday, August26th, 2011. 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.City Bar Karaoke + Grill, UBCity, No 24, Vittal Mallya Road,Now be connected even duringthe quick business lunch. Freewi-fi access while you fill upin the middle of the day. De-lectable starters with a varietyof veg/ non veg main courseoptions along with draughtbeer.

Weekday Lunch Buffet @ManU: Friday, August 26th,2011. noon to 3 p.m. Man-chester United Restaurant Bar,The Manchester UnitedRestaurant and Bar launchesa weekday lunch buffet pricedat Rs 350 plus taxes right fromstarters to desserts.

'The Kari Culture' at BlueGinger: Friday, August 26th,2011. 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.Blue Ginger, The Taj West End,23 Race Cource Road , BlueGinger creates an interestingway to learn about Vietnameseingredients and how to createsome of the popular culinaryinnovations. 'The Kari Kulture'is for all the ladies who wantto learn the finer aspects ofVietnamese cuisine, super-vised by Chef Rishi. This isfollowed by a meal at therestaurant, where the gueststaste what they cook.

Breakfast at Midnight @ Cub-bon Pavilion: Friday, August26th, 2011. to 2:30 a.m. CubbonPavilion, ITC Gardenia, No 1,Residency Road Indian sig-natures, breakfast classics,and desserts come togetherto create a buffet that startswhen the clock strikes mid-night.

The Grand Indian Lunch Buf-fet @ Turquois: Friday, August26th, 2011. noon to 3 p.m.Turquoise, No 9, 2nd & 3rdFloors, 17th A Main, K o r a -mangala Experience the GrandIndian Lunch buffet consistingof over 35 dishes every week-day with around 5 starters, 4vegetarian gravies, 2 non veg-etarian gravies , 7 dessertsand lots more.

Vietnamese Food Festival: Fri-day, August 26th, 2011. 12:30p.m. to 11:30 p.m. OKO, TheLalit Ashok, Kumara KrupaRoad, High Grounds Vietna-mese Chef Tong whips up tra-ditional fare that balancesearthy herbs with meat andvegetables.

Duck Season: Friday, August26th, 2011. 8 p.m. to 11:30p.m. Szechwan Court, TheOberoi, No 37/39, MG Road,Szechwan Court at The Oberoiis hosting a festival that re-volves around duck meat. Themenu features dishes likeSliced roast duck with Szech-wan peppers and Stir-friedduck with broccoli and orangesauce.

Nightlife

Karaoke Night with KJ Val:Friday, August 26th, 2011. 8p.m. to 11:30 p.m. XtremeSports Bar, 4th Floor, 100 FeetRoad,Indiranagar Test thosevocal chords at karaoke nightwith KJ Val.

Eve Night: Friday, August 26th,2011. 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Ice,Vivanta by Taj - MG Road, No41/3, MG Road, House andcommercial tunes by DJ Van-shi. Ladies drink for free till10:00 pm.

Shopping

Rio by Titan Eye+: Friday, Au-gust 26th, 2011. 10 a.m. to 11:30a.m. Titan Eye+, Safina Plaza,Infantry Road, A trendy, fash-ionable collection for theyoung and young at heart.The frames are available in ahost of bright colours.

Puma Faas Collection: Friday,August 26th, 2011. 11 a.m. to8 p.m. Puma, A fun, techno-logically advanced range ofrunning shoes by Puma.

Fall Winter 2011 Collection:Friday, August 26th, 2011. 11a.m. to 8 p.m. Esprit, No 10Ananda Bhavan, Vittal MallyaRoad, Stripes, florals, wool,tweed, retro and preppy cometogether in Esprit’s new FallWinter 2011 Collection.

OWW Sale: Friday, August26th, 2011. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.One Wit Wonders, No 32 ACRTowers, Residency Road, Flat50% off on selected productsat One Wit Wonders.

ExhibitionsCreative Perspectives: Friday,August 26th, 2011. noon to11:30 p.m. Caperberry, No 48/1Ground Floor, The Estate, Dick-enson Road, Artwork by GopalDey, Shan Re, Kishore Chand,Ashok Kumar G, Hiremath,Parmesh D Jolad, Ranjan Paul,Ram Onkar, Mini Arora andmore.

Colours & Hues: Friday, Au-gust 26th, 2011. 10 a.m. to 6p.m. Gallerie Third Eye, No A-1 Epsilon Office Block, YemalurMain Road, Yemalur A groupshow by artists Kanthraj N,Rima Ray & Rakesh Mandalat Gallerie Third Eye.

Synesthesia: Friday, August26th, 2011. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.Galleryske, No 2, Berlie Street,Langford Town A group showfeaturing works by AndreaAnastasio, Luigi Anastasio andAvinash Veeraraghavan. Theworks are displayed in thehouse-like space of the gallery,so that they are approachedwithout demarcations and dis-tinctions thus making the view-er experience the works in onecontinuous alternation of me-dia from video and painting,to photography and sculpture.

Solo show @ Apparao: Friday,August 26th, 2011. 11 a.m. to 7p.m. Apparao Galleries, No 82The Presidency, St Marks Road,Apparao Galleries presents anexhibition of paintings by T.Vaikuntam.

The Eye of Graciela Iturbide:Friday, August 26th, 2011. 10a.m. to 7 p.m. Tasveer, No26/1, Kasturba Cross Road, Acollection of black and whitepictures shot by Mexican pho-tographer Graciela Iturbide,in locales across the world.

Now and Tomorrow: Friday,August 26th, 2011. 10 a.m. to7 p.m. Kynkyny Art, No 148Embassy Square, InfantryRoad, An exhibition by elevenemerging artists, which travelsinto contemporary territoryand throws up a commentaryon the rapidly changing, con-tinually shifting here and nowof modern India.

Group Show @ Renaissance:Friday, August 26th, 2011. 11a.m. to 7 p.m. RenaissanceGallerie, No 13 Westminster,Cunningham Road, An exhi-bition of paintings by John Pe-ter, Ravi Pujari, Suresh S Wagh-more and Chandrakanth S.K.

IAF CHOPPER UNITCELEBRATES 50 YEARS

Bangalore: 109 HU ‘THE KNIGHTS’, locatedat the Air Force Station Yelahanka, Bangaloreis celebrating its 50th anniversary. The unitwas raised on August 26, 1961 by Sqn Ldr WV Liddle at Chandigarh, equipped with Mi-4 helicopters.

The unit later moved to Jammu in 1967and was re-equipped with Mi-8 helicoptersin 1974. In 1979, the unit moved to Hindonand again in 1987 to Sulur. The unit playedan important role in numerous operationsover its glorious past. These include the1962 ops right after its inception, the 1965and 1971 Indo Pak war, Op Pawan in SriLanka, Op Cactus in Maldives.

In recognition of the unit’s meritoriousservice in its thirty years, it was awardedthe President’s Standard in 1991. The unitmoved to its present location at Air ForceStation Yelahanka on October 31, 2009. Theunit is now being commanded by Wg CdrVS Srihari. It is likely to get upgraded tostate-of-the-art helicopter, Mi 17 V5s.

109 HU is the only operational Helicopterunit in the southern peninsula. The unitshoulders the responsibility of undertakingthe entire spectrum of helicopter operationsin Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Naduand Kerala. In January 2005, the unit wasactively involved in tsunami relief operationsfor rehabilitation of people, airlifting essential

supplies and medical aid. The Knights as“Angles of mercy” have undertaken extensiverelief operations at cyclone-hit areas of Vi-jayawada and Nellore in October 2009. Theunit carried out lifesaving flood relief oper-ations in Raichur The carried out earthquake

relief operations at Nellore on December 9.109 HU carried out flood relief operationsat Thiruvanathapuram in Oct 2010. At thewake of Mumbai terror attacks, “The Knights”carry out NSG commando training at allfour states.

DRIVERROBBED OFHIS AUTO

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: An autorickshawdriver was robbed of his vehicleand mobile phone by four per-sons, who boarded his auto aspassengers, in the city last night.

Vijay Kumar was looking forpassengers when four personsboarded the autorickshaw nearNES bus-stand.

The quartet said they wantedto go to the Amba Bhavani tem-ple. When they reached nearVeerasagara road at Amba Bha-vani Nagar junction, the crimi-nals beat up Vijay Kumar andescaped with the valuablesaround 11 pm.

S Radhakrishna

Siddu: BSY, HDKhave to face music

for looting stateBangalore Beat Bureau

Hubli: “People have to reap whatthey sow… Former chief ministersB S Yeddyurappa and H D Ku-maraswamy have looted the stat-ed and now have to face the mu-sic from the Lokayukta police,who have been filing casesagainst them,” said oppositionleader in the assembly Siddara-maiah here today.

On the rejection of Yeddyu-rappa’s bail application by theKarnataka High Court, he said,“Whoever has committed thecrime or mistake has to be pun-ished under provisions of law.However big he maybe, a guiltyperson has to be punished. Allare equal in the eyes of law.Everyone should respect law ofthe land.”

“No one can save Yeddyurap-pa now. He has committed ahuge blunder and has misusedhis office of power,” he said.

On the Jan Lokpal bill move-ment led by Anna Hazare, hesaid, “The bill has to be discussedon the floor of Parliament. Thereis a system that needs to be fol-

lowed in a democratic systembefore any piece of legislation isbrought in. Like any other legis-lation, issues with Jana Lokpalbill too have to be thrashed outby the legislators. It cannot bepassed without debate.”

Farmers will be given good price for lands: DVS

Bangalore Beat Bureau

New Delhi: A suitable price will be fixed foragricultural lands being taken over fromfarmers for industrial projects, said chiefminister D V Sadananda Gowda, who ishere today to meet BJP national leaders.

“The price would be attractive enoughfor farmers to give up their lands. We wantto get more industries to the state,” headded.

In another initiative, he said that thosefarmers who come forward to give up theirland voluntarily would be given a betterprice.

Asked about his Delhi visit, the chief min-ister said he was here to discuss the expan-sion of cabinet, which has seven more va-

cancies, with the BJP high command. Gowda, who has already taken up two

rounds of expansion, said the third roundwould happen only afer discussions withthe central leaders. It will be done in duecourse of time, he added.

Asked who could be inducted, he said,“We are ready with the list of probables. Itwill be finalised after discussions with thecentral leaders.”

The chief minister said he was scheduledto meet the railway minister and would re-quest him to sanction approvals for theBangalore Metro Rail to run from September15. “All the required tests have been con-ducted and if the approvals come on time,the Metro Rail can start commercial opera-tions soon,” he added.

KBA turns classics into Braille, gives them out for free

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The Karnataka Books Authority(KBA) has turned Kannada classics intoBraille that would help blind enjoy themwithout anybody’s help.

Fifteen of the 50 books planned for con-version were today distributed free by theauthority in the city. The list includes booksby Jnanpith, Pampa and other award win-ners. Till now, the students had to dependon a reader for them to enjoy these classicsas they were not available in Braille.

The classics that will see the dots anddashes are: Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq, Ku-vempu’s Malenadina Chitragalu, DVG’sManku Thimmanna Kagga and Anakru’sSandhya Raga.

KBA chairman Dr Siddalingaiah told Ban-galore Beat: “It had not been done till nowand nowhere else in the country has it beendone. These classics in Braille would bedistributed throughout the state for the ben-efit of blind students.”

He said representatives of 20 schools inBangalore and 30 central libraries havecome to collect the books. This will help vi-sually impaired children read the books ontheir own. Otherwise, they would have hadto take the help of readers.

Chandrashekar B L, a teacher at Sidda-ganga Math School for the blind, said, “Wehave only textbooks in Braille for childrenup to tenth standard. There were no otherbooks available for children to enjoy reading.This initiative by the Karnataka Books Au-thority is a good one. Blind children wouldlove these books.”

Latha Srinivasan of Sri Ramana MaharshiSchool for Blind said, “This is a good initiativeand it should help blind children as they

are being distributed free of cost too. Now these special students don’t have todepend on anyone and enjoy their readingin peace.”

Kannada and culture minister Govind MKarajol and department secretary RameshB Zalaki distributed the books to represen-tatives from schools and libraries.

Kannada and culture minister Govind M Karajol launches a programme by theKarnataka Books Authority to distribute free books to blind children, at Nayanaauditorium in Bangalore today. The authority has converted some of Kannada

classics into Braille script. Authority chairman Siddalingaiah and Kannada andculture department secretary Ramesh B Zalaki took part in the event.

Rallies to lead upto Vishwakarmameet on Sept 17

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The third Akhila Kar-nataka Vishwakarma Mahasabhaconference will take place inMysore on September 17, saidsangha president K P Nanjundihere this morning. As a preludeto the conference, he unveiled atableau today.

A procession of tableaux andbike rally will lead up to themega conference at Mysore. Thecommunity has a population of35 lakh in the state, he added.

The first such conference washeld in Malleswaram of Banga-lore in 2009 and the second inHubli last year, he said.

“People from this communityare carpenters and sculptors.

The procession and bike rallieswould create awareness amongthe public and encourage thecommunity people to take partin the conference in good num-bers,” he said.

The rallies are also to highlightthe contribution of the commu-nity to the country. “They willalso highlight the long-pendingdemands of our community. Weneed separate reservation withinthe other backward classescarved out for us. We need atleast 15 per cent reservation ingovernment jobs.” He said thegovernment should take stepsto stop import of sculptures fromother states as it has been af-fecting the livelihood of the com-munity people in the state.

Gambhirʼs vision blurred;his fitness still

a mysteryContinued from page 1

Gambhir took to indoor nets atHove county cricket ground for45 minutes yesterday. Bowlingcoach Eric Simmons was at handto look at his progress.

To onlookers though it wasapparent he had trouble in pick-ing up the line and length ofthrowdowns which Simmonshurled at him.

During the innings break inthe match between Sussex andthe Indians, Gambhir came outand tested himself with a run inthe ground with the Indian sup-port staff trying to assess his fit-ness.

Flaws in Jan Lokpalbill, says Advani

Continued from page 1“I am 100 percent in support

of any law or legislation thataims at ending corruption,” hesaid.

Taking the example of Gujarat,Advani also said that there wouldbe no corruption if the seniorleadership was clean and effec-tive.

“Practically speaking, Gujaratdoes not have any Lokpal bill.

But there is no corruption there.Because if the senior leadershipis upright and clean, there willbe no corruption,” he said.

Team Anna met senior BJPleaders, including Advani and Arun Jaitley in the capitallate Thursday. Arvind Kejriwal of Team Anna said thatthe BJP “broadly agreed” to their version of the anti-graftbill. IANS

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CHILDʼS WITNESS ACCOUNT NAILS FATHERAknisree Karthik

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Madikeri: It was a case that was buried assuicide, but it re-surfaced as murder, allthanks to the witness statement of the de-ceased’s child, who saw her father pouringpoison into her mother’s mouth.

The case pertains to the alleged murderof Velangani aka Rita, who was married toCharlie Joseph of Posco Nagar in Jagery ofKollegal taluk since April 30, 2001. She al-legedly committed suicide on September9, 2009 by consuming poison. Her father,C R Manikkam, and relatives brought thebody to her native place in Chettalli andburied her. But injuries on her body raisedsuspicion of Manikkam, who approachedthe Chamrajanagar police, human rightscommission, NGOs, ministers, court andlocal MLAs to get her body exhumed for are-postmortem The body was taken out onMarch 26, 2010 and the postmortem wasconducted at the Kasturba Medical Collegein Mangalore.

Manikkam is a mason who worked in acoffee plantation near Chettalli. CharlieJoseph arrived at the village in 2001 towork as a construction worker. Since hewas good at his job, he won the confidenceof Manikkam and his family, who treatedCharlie as their own.

That was the time when Rita fell in lovewith Charlie. The next step of getting mar-ried was not difficult at all as the Manikkamfamily loved Charlie. The two were familyfor the next nine years and had three chil-dren from their marriage, Rinsy (9), AnitaJhonsy (7) and Anthony (5). Of the three,

Rinsy and Anthony stayed with their grand-parents in Chettalli, while Anita was withher parents in Kollegal.

After Rita’s death, Anita too was broughtto Chettalli. She narrated the story of hermother’s death to her parents. Her grand-mother Pushpa cajoled Anita to reveal thereal incident and this is what she told her:“On that day, father was beating mother.Grandpa and grandma too joined him andbeat her up. When mother fell down, papapoured something into her mouth.”

Pushpa says as narrated, Rita’s face wasbadly bruised and her teeth had almostbeen knocked off when the body had beenbrought for burial.

Manikkam has stated in his complaintthat the Chamarajanagar police did noteven allow him to see the face of his daugh-ter after her death. At the time of wedding,Charlie’s father Raja Muthu, mother Sum-mons Mary and sister Mary had demanded10 sovereign gold and other household ar-ticles, which were given. But within sixmonths of marriage, Charlie had a new setof demands which was met. Charlie’s familyhad a habit of drinking, he said.

Around 6.30 pm on September 13, 2009,Charlie called up Manikkam and told himthat Rita was not well. He called up againaround 8 pm and said she was serious.Manikkam and family hired a jeep andrushed to Chamarajanagar. They reached

around 3 am. On arrival, Charlie’s familymembers said Rita died after consumingpoison, Manikkam said. Manikkam wasnot allowed to see the body till 6 am. Whenhe went to the police station, ASI Madappatold him that Charlie was planning to getmarried again and was willing to pay main-tenance for the children, Manikkam statedin his complaint.

He was made to sign for a settlement ofRs 2 lakh. “I was also asked to put my sig-nature on five blank sheets of paper. Icannot read or write Kannada. They toldme that if I did not sign the papers, I wouldnot be allowed to see my daughter’s face,”Manikkam said. The body was broughtback to Chettalli and was buried around10.30 pm. Manikkam and family noticedbruises on Rita’s face when they removedthe cloth tied around her body. That iswhen they realised that it could be a murder.When they tried to complain against atChamarajanagar, station officer Rajendrarefused to accept the complaint, Manikkamhas stated. Bangalore-based social workerN Ramachandran helped them.

Ramachandran said Manikkam contactedme on November 9. “As I thought therecould be truth in the case, we approachedthe DGP, who asked the Mysore IGP to takeaction. A special investigating officer wasappointed and the re-postmortem was con-ducted,” he added.

Ramachandran, along with the familyof Velangani, is eagerly waiting for the ad-judication of the case in the courts of law.Citing an earlier judgment in a differentcase, he said that a man was sentencedbased on a statement given by his child. Officials examining the exhumed body of Rita at Chettalli in Madikeri taluk.

Anita Jhonsy (extreme left), who nar-rated the incident, with her brother

Anthony (5) and sister Rinsy (9).

NOW, A MAKESHIFTTEMPLE IN MP

VILLAGE FOR ANNABhopal: As Anna Hazare’s campaign foras trong Lokpal Bill gathers pace in ruralIndia, people in a non-descript village inSehore district of Madhya Pradesh havegone a step further in extending theirsupport to him by establishing a make-shift temple, idolising the Gandhian.

Chanderi village in Sehore has suddenlyshot into limelight following the establish-ment of a Hazare temple there, where amix of hero worship and cult propogationis at full display with people offering prayersand singing bhajans.

“To begin with we have installed a phot-graph of Hazare (downloaded) on a Chabu-tra (platform) under a tree in the villageon the occasion of Janmashtmi festival,”M S Mewada, who along with 4-5 otherswere instrumental in establishing the tem-ple, said.

“Like any other temple, we are performinghis ‘puja’ (prayers) twice daily besides

singing bhajans specially penned inhonour of Hazare,” he

said.

We also distribute ‘Prasad’ of coconutpowder mixed with sugar daily among hisgrowing followers, Mewada said.

When asked what inspired them to setup a temple, he said, “after Mahatma Gand-hi, who had given us freedom, it was AnnaHazare who is fighting relentlessly to liberateus in a real sense.”

“His simplicity, his home at village Rale-gan Siddhi, his lifestyle, vigour and dedi-cation for the cause by remaining single inhis life has inspired us to treat him as aGod in a temple,” Mewada said.

Mewada claimed that they were not doingit for publicity and were following a callfrom their conscience to do something fora person like Hazare when they saw himfighting with the high and mighty by fol-lowing the principles of non-violence.

“Besides, Hazare, who else has a capacityto fast for ten-days. He is a God. Let anyother person or Prime Minister of the countryobserve a fast for such a long period and ifhe succeeds in doing so then they will nothesitate in making his temple also,” Mewadaclaimed.

The villagers have decided not to acceptany donation for the purpose and are notallowing visitors from neighbouring villagesto offer even a single paisa in temple.

“We are only taking help from the peoplein the form of prasada which they can pur-chase from outside and provide to us forthe distribution to his devotees,” he said.

The village group is also planning toconstruct a temple by installing the statuesof Hazare along with that of Gandhiji inthe village after having a word with TeamAnna.

“For the purpose, number of people areready to donate their land willingly,” Mewa-da said.

They also urged the state government toearmark a piece of revenue land in thevillage so that a grand temple can be con-structed in the honour of Hazare. PTI

2G: Court notice toCBI on bail pleas

New Delhi: The Supreme Courttoday issued notice to the CentralBureau of Investigation (CBI) onpleas for bail by three officials of Reliance Group, takeninto judicial custody in the sec-ond generation (2G) telecomspectrum allocation case.

An apex court bench of JusticeGanga Sakshi Singhvi and JusticeH.L. Dattu issued notice on theplea by Reliance Group manag-

ing director Gautam Doshi, grouppresident Surendra Pipara andsenior vice president Hari Nayar.The three senior executives werearrested by the CBI on chargesof committing conspiracy to fa-cilitate Reliance Infocom to get2G licenses in 13 circles.

The court gave the federal in-vestigative agency two week’stime to respond to the notice.IANS

Group clashes with cops at Ramlila ground

New Delhi: High drama ensued well pastmidnight at the VIP gate of Ramlila maidanhere where Anna Hazare is sitting on aprotest fast, as a group of people clashedwith policemen and dismantled barricades.

According to eyewitnesses, a group ofpeople got into a tiff with some policemendeployed at the rear gate of the maidanaround 3 AM.

The youth heckled the policemen andhit them with sticks when they tried tostop their group from opening the irongate, being used as VIP gate.

"A group of people got involved withpolicemen and then tried to flung openthe gate of the maidan," a police officerdeployed at the agitation site said requestinganonymity.

The officer's shoulder lapels were tornin the melee.

The group brought down the barricadesand shouted slogans as policemen tried topersuade them to go away.

A senior Delhi police official soon arrivedat the spot and a platoon of the CRPF per-sonnel was called in to control the groupof 7-8 men.

Four police control room vans reachedthe spot after 20 minutes. The group threwthe chairs used by policemen at the gate.

The officer, however, refused to commenton the incident as he ordered his staff toplace the fallen barricades in place.

Following the incident, the police cor-doned off the road towards the VIP gate.PTI

Court allows Subramanian Swamyto conduct own case in 2G scam

New Delhi: Janata Party chief SubramanianSwamy was today allowed by a Delhi courtto conduct his private complaint in the 2Gscam.

The court also gave him time for filing anapplication which seeks to make then Fi-nance Minister P Chidambaram an accusedin the case as the matter is pending in theSupreme Court.

“Since my application seeking CBI inquiryinto the role of Chidambaram in 2G scam ispending before the Supreme Court, it would

be in the interest of justice to wait for the apex court’s order and then comehere (to this court) with the plea to make him (Chidambaram) an accused inthe case,” Swamy told Special CBI Judge OP Saini.

The Janata Party chief informed the judgethat the apex court order on his petition is likely to be delivered on September 1 and than then he would file bySeptember 15 the application seeking to make Chidambaram an accused in the

case.The court fixed the matter for further

hearing on September 15.Swamy, during the last hearing, had com-

plained before the court that the chargesheets field by the CBI did not cover therole of the Chidambaram, who “jointly tookimportant decisions” on allocation of radiowaves.

He had also urged the court that he beappointed Special Public Prosecutor to con-duct his case himself. IANS

108‑yr‑old formerprisoner dies

Lucknow: Over two months afterbeing released on grounds of ill-health at the age of 108, Brij Bi-hari Pandey, a murder convict,breathed his last in his ancestralvillage in Uttar Pradesh’s Ma-harajganj district, officials saidFriday.

Pandey died Thursday inBarhada village, some 250 kmfrom Lucknow, at his ancestralhome where he lived with histhree sons, police inspector RamBadai said.

Pandey was freed fromGorakhpur district jail June 17following special bail grantedto him by the Allahabad HighCourt.

Describing Pandey as the “old-est prisoner in the history of In-

dian prisons”, Gorakhpur DistrictMagistrate Hari Om had said:“The man was released followinga bail order issued by the Alla-habad High Court on groundsof ill-health due to old age.”

“We are waiting for some ofour relatives. The last rites wouldbe performed along the bank ofNarayani river near the village,”Pandey’s grandson Munna Ku-mar told reporters

SC agrees to examine

violation of rights

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today agreed toexamine whether the government violated fun-damental right of a citizen by taking AnnaHazare into preventive custody on August16.

A bench of Justices P Sathasivam andB S Chauhan, however, declined to issuenotice to Union home minister P Chi-dambaram and HRD minister KapilSibal for the incident.

The apex court passed the directionwhile posting to September 2 the writpetition filed by J&K Panthers Partychief Professor Bhim Singh.

The apex court sought to clarifythat it would go into the larger issueas to whether a citizen’s fundamentalright is violated and was not confining itto Hazare.

The bench asked Singh as to whether he ob-tained the consent of Hazare before filing the pe-tition. “Tomorrow he (Hazare) may ask as to whyyou are interfering with my protest,” the benchremarked. The apex court further clarified that ithad laid down the law relating to preventive de-tention under section 107/151 of CrPC. PTI

US confident ofIndia handling

Hazare situationdemocratically

Washington: The United Stateshas reiterated its “confidenceand expectation” that Indiawould be able to address the sit-uation in the wake of Anna Haz-are’s campaign against corrup-tion through its own democraticsystem.

“Obviously, our Embassy hasbeen monitoring the situation,”state department spokespersonVictoria Nuland told reportersThursday when asked if Wash-ington was in touch with the In-dian Government over Hazare’sfast,“And I think they have beensaying the same thing in Delhithat we’ve been saying here withregard to our confidence and ex-pectation that India is going tobe able to address its internalmatters, political disputes,through its own democratic sys-tem,” she said.

Asked about protests by IndianAmericans in support of Hazarein many US cities including oneevery day in front of the IndianEmbassy in Washington for lastone week, Nuland said: “Well,you know we support the rightof peaceful protest, includingand especially in the UnitedStates.”

A couple of days ago also thespokesperson had used the sameformulation. “We are confidentthat India is going to be able toaddress its current political dis-putes, its internal issues, throughits own democratic system. Wesupport peaceful protest. Indiahas a strong, vibrant democracy,and that’s where we stand.” IANS

LOKPAL ISSUE:RAHUL MEETS PMNew Delhi: Rahul Gandhi today metPrime Minister Manmohan Singh,apparently to discuss the Lokpal is-sue.

Gandhi held a 30-minute meetingwith Singh at the Prime Minister’s7, Race Course Road residence here.

The meeting comes as the gov-ernment is set to hold a compre-hensive debate on all versions of

the Lokpal Bill draft in Parliament.The AICC general secretary had

said yesterday that he was concernedover the logjam in the wake of Haz-are’s agitation against corruption.

“Of course I am concerned,” hehad said when asked whether he isconcerned about the stand off onthe Lokpal issue and Hazare’s refusalto end the fast. PTI

Housing minister V Somanna and MP H Vishwanath inaugurate a 106 building complex for the bacward sec-tions, built under the Jn-NURM scheme at Mysore today.

Houses for poor G S Ravishankar

I DID NOT INFLUENCE

JUDGE: SEERKancheepuram: KanchiSankaracharya JayendraSaraswathi, prime accused inthe Sankararaman murder case,today refuted allegations that hehad attempted to influence thejudge hearing the case.

“...I have never met or inter-acted with the Judge in questionexcept once, and that on August18, when there was a hearing ofmy case in his court. That wasthe only occasion when I havemet or spoken to the judge andhave never interacted with himon any matter beyond that, mon-ey or any other,” he told reportershere.

The seer’s comments come aday after the Madras High Courtstayed for eight weeks the trialin the case at the PuducherrySessions court on a petition al-leging an attempt to influencethe verdict.

The petitioner had submittedthat some video footage on pur-ported conversation between theSankaracharya and some othershas emerged regarding allegedpayments made and to be madeby the seer to influence the judge-ment in the case.

Jayendra said the Kanchisankara mutt has a standing tra-

dition of over 69 ‘Guruparamparas’, and the traditionhas always respected ‘Dharma’and ‘Nyaya.’

“Obviously there is someonewho is not interested in conclud-ing the case, and wants to pro-long it, or, there is someonewanting to make money creatingsuch a situation - and they havebrought about such a develop-ment.I only wish to tell the well-wishers to put faith in Dharma,nyayam and God fearing valuesand keep peace.” .

The seer said he was “pained”and “surprised” to see media re-ports in the past few days, ac-cusing him of entering into dealswith the Judge hearing the case.

He said the only person heever paid money to was the Ad-vocate representing him in thecase.

On his purported telephoneconversations seeking to influ-ence the judgement, Jayendrasaid he neither owns a phonenor does he communicatethrough phone. The phone, thediaries that were in the past,had all been taken away by po-lice, he said, adding, he alwaystalks to the media and peopledirectly.

Members of the Mysore Tours and Travels Operators takeout a rally in support of Anna Hazare at Mysore today.

G S Ravishankar

Beyond BeatFriday, August 26, 2011

Bangalore Beat Bureau

The best way to control the mos-quito menace is by targeting theirbreeding grounds. For this, one hasto first identify and study suchbreeding grounds. Mosquitoes are

vectors which carry life-threatening dis-eases like malaria, dengue, chikungunyaetc.

“The government has made rapid stridesin finding mosquito breeding grounds in thehilly regions of North-East, like Megahlaya,Assam and Manipur, and in northernstates, like Uttar Pradesh and Maharshtra.The way the national vector-borne dis-ease control programme is implementedwould determine how aedes mosquito,the principal carrier of these diseases, istackled. The programme started two yearsago,” said Dr S K Ghosh, scientist f gradeat the National Institution of Malarial Re-search (NIMR), located Indian Council ofMedical Research (ICMR) complex in Ban-galore.

Tropical countries are the main breedinggrounds for most vectoral diseases, becauseof the climatic conditions which are idealfor mosquito to breed. Experts and scien-tists suggest to those at the helm of affairsat NIMR that the anti-malaria programmeshould be addressed with an integrated vec-tor management approach, through pro-moting use of insecticides and geograph-ic information system (GIS). The latter is toidentify the places where mosquitoesbreed.

The NIMR should also list the places andthe diseases, malaria, diarrhoea, kalazar,leptospirosis, dengue, filiariasis etc, eachone is prone to.

Dr K Ghosh was instrumental in identi-fying the fastest and notorious mosquitobreeding grounds in Karnataka. A largenumber of cases were reported at Arsikeretaluk of Hassan district, Kadur taluk of Chik-magalore district and Chikkanayakana-halli of Tumkur district.

Here, larvivorous fish, like aphaniusdispar, aplochelius and nothobranchius,were introduced. It drastically broughtdown the number of malaria cases in theseareas, while the fish survived consumingmosquito larvae. It eliminated the use of fog-ging and other malaria control pro-grammes.

Dr Ghosh said, “Our study in some of themost backward areas of Chattisgarh, re-vealed some interesting facts about mos-quitoes. We found that these mosquitoeswere clever and knew exactly when the trib-als went to bed. The mosquitoes would bitethe people the moment they slept. It wasuncontrollable even after spraying of chem-ical insecticides.”

He said, “What we have found out is thatmosquitoes change their characteristic be-haviour according to the routine of the peo-ple. We can’t say that just because wehave fogged the area, it would bring downthe number of mosquitoes. It is a wrong per-ception. Once you fog, the effect remains fora maximum of 20 minutes. What afterthat? The only effective method is to keepthe surroundings clean. That is the factorthat needs to be looked into.”

The NIMR is now studying plant speciesthat help mosquitoes to breed. There arealso other plants that repel mosquitoes. “Wewant to know which are those. Once we areready with the report, we can advise thepeople which plants to grow and which toavoid,” he added.

He said, “Only research will help studythe behaviour of mosquitoes and howthey change their lifecycle to trigger vector-borne diseases.”

Stressed‑outpartner can kill you early

London: How cool is your partner? Having astressed-out partner may affect your life ex-pectancy, a new study has claimed.

Research on birds by a team at the Universityof Glasgow found that those paired off with anx-ious partners were at a high risk of dying young.

Academics suggested this could be because itis “not very comforting” to live with someone whohas grown up “jittery”.

“The take-home message is that the wrong kindof partner can be very bad for your health,”study author Dr Pat Monaghan was quoted as say-ing by the Daily Telegraph.

Dr Monaghan said: “Other research led us to ex-pect that increased stress exposure in early lifewould reduce adult lifespan, but we were not ex-pecting such a big effect on breeding partners.

“Unstressed birds had mortality rates thatwere four times higher than normal if they weresimply given partners that had experienced stressearlier in their lives.”

In the study, published in the journal Pro-ceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sci-ences, the researchers studied zebra finches sincethey form strong bonds with mates and respondto stress in the same way as humans.

They gave half the birds in the study stress hor-mones for two weeks when they were chicks, thenraised all of the birds in stress-free environments.

Those exposed to stress in early life were laterfound to be much more sensitive to it as adultscompared with the “laid-back” finches, which islikely to be bad for the health.

The birds were then given mates and their lifes-pans were monitored. Those that had beenstressed-out as chicks had far shorter lives, as didtheir partners even if they themselves had enjoyeda relaxed start in life.

“What we found is that the effect is contagious,but only when the exposure to stress comes ear-ly in life,” Dr Monaghan said.

“If you extrapolate this to humans, you couldhypothesise that during the recession, for instance,someone who suffered stress as an infant may feelthe problems more. And this would be bad newsfor their partner.

“Birds, like humans, are monogamous creaturesand also respond to stress in a very similar way,”Dr Monaghan added. PTI

Millions of diamonds incandlelight

London: A flickering candlelight is studded withmillions of tiny diamond particles that are creat-ed every second and disappear in the blink of aneye, scientists have found.

Researchers at the University of St Andrews dis-covered that about 1.5 million tiny diamondnanoparticles are created every second as a can-dle burns.

Prof Wuzong Zhou, who led the research, saidthat if a way of extracting the particles is discov-ered, it could lead to new methods of manufac-turing diamonds.

“Unfortunately the diamond particles areburned away in the process, and converted into car-bon dioxide, but this will change the way we viewa candle flame forever,” Prof Zhou was quoted assaying by the Daily Telegraph.

“My research shows that it is possible to see di-amonds in flame, but this also gives us a chanceto think about whether diamonds can be formedin a different way,” he said.

The twinkling of candlelight has been comparedwith diamonds by philosophers and scientists in-cluding Michael Faraday.

Previous research had shown that hydrocarbonmolecules at the bottom of candle flames are con-verted into carbon dioxide by the time they reachthe top, but it was not known exactly what hap-pens in between.

The researchers now plan to examine barbecueflames to determine if they also contain fledglingdiamonds, and if they gild the burgers andsausages that are eaten afterwards. PTI

KILLING THE DRONE OF MOSQUITOES

The National Institution of Malarial Research trying to identify plants that act as breeding ground for mosquitoes and those that repel them. The study would

help contain many vector‑borne diseases, like malaria, dengue and chickungunya, says L Raghunanda

Scientists say dogs can betrained to sniff out cancer

London: They are called the man’s best friend, butdogs are more than just a faithful companion asthey can be trained to detect lung cancer much be-fore symptoms develop, scientists say.

Researchers from Schillerhoehe Hospital in Ger-many found that dogs, known for their ability todetect smells that escape the human nose, canidentify a tumour in 71 per cent of patients iftrained properly.

They believe dogs could become even better atpicking up cancer cases with more practice, theDaily Mail reported.

But the ultimate goal is to identify the cancer-specific chemical compounds the dogs can smelland develop a device that could be used to helpdiagnose lung cancer victims at an earlier stage,they said.

For their study, published in the European Res-piratory Journal, the researchers trained fourdogs – two German shepherds, an Australianshepherd and a Labrador – to detect in thebreath of patients a volatile organic compound(VOC) which is linked to the presence of cancer.

The team worked with 220 volunteers, includ-ing patients with lung cancer at early and ad-vanced stages, patients with chronic obstructivepulmonary disease and healthy volunteers.

The dogs took part in a number of tests to seeif they could reliably distinguish compounds inthe breath of lung cancer patients – even if theysmoked.

It’s found that the dogs correctly identified 71

samples with lung cancer out of a possible 100.They also detected 372 samples that did not havelung cancer out of a possible 400.

Dr Thorsten Walles, who led the research,said: “In the breath of patients with lung cancer,

there are likely to be different chemicals to nor-mal breath samples and the dogs’ keen sense ofsmell can detect this difference at an early stageof the disease.

“Our results confirm the presence of a stablemarker for lung cancer. This is a big step forward.”

The dogs could also detect lung cancer inde-pendently from COPD, prescription drugs and to-bacco smoke, the researchers said.

The findings confirm the presence of a stablemarker for lung cancer – but the snag is they donot know what it is, they said.

Co-researcher Enole Boedeker said that the dogswere very excited by the “game” and were re-warded by treats when they got it right.

She said: “The trainer would shout ‘Cancer –go’ and off they went, sometimes identifying a VOCstraight away and at other times they hesitated andthen went back.

“They had around 11 weeks of training butseemed to get better the more they did, I think thesuccess rate could go higher.

“However, they have been trained in a certainway using samples so even if they did go into aroom with someone who had lung cancer itmight be difficult for them to register it, which iswhy we need to investigate a screening tool,” sheadded.

Previous research has suggested dogs – usuallyLabrador retrievers and Portuguese water dogs –can sniff out bladder, skin, lung, breast andovarian cancers. PTI

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The different varieties of fish that consume mosquito larvae. Aphanius dispar (top) Aplochelius Nothobranchius

Drink orangejuice to stave

off AlzheimerʼsLondon: Want to stave offAlzheimer’s disease? Drink aglass of orange juice daily, for anew study has claimed that it’sthe key to managing the mostcommon form of dementia.

Researchers in Sweden havecarried out the study and foundthat vitamin C can help reversethe build-up of toxic proteinswhich form into harmful plaquesin the brains of sufferers.

The researchers at Lund Uni-versity hope their discovery canalso be used to slow the progressof the disease in those who al-ready have it, the ‘Daily Express’reported.

In fact, they have based theirfindings on an analysis of anexperiment of laboratory rodents.

Katrin Mani, who led thestudy, said: “When we treatedbrain tissue from mice that hadAlzheimer’s disease with vita-min C, the toxic protein aggre-gates were dissolved.

“The notion that vitamin Ccan have a positive effect onAlzheimer’s disease is contro-

versial but our results open upnew opportunities for researchand the possibilities offered by vi-tamin C.”

She added that while vitaminC is in fresh fruit it can be ab-sorbed in larger quantities fromfruit juice. “Vitamin C is not adrug and having an extra dailyglass of orange juice would do noharm,” she said. PTI

NEWS & FEATURESFriday, August 26, 2011 6

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putinis examined by traumatologist Viktor

Petrachenkov while visiting a hospitalin Smolensk, some 400 km west on

Moscow, yesterday. While inspectingthe hospital, Putin consulted the

doctor as he had hurt a shoulder inmorning exercises on mats.

AP-PTI

world briefs

NASA to launchmoon mission

next monthWashington: NASA’s discovery missionprogramme – GRAIL – is making finallaunch preparations for its Sept 8 launchfrom Cape Canaveral Air Force Station inFlorida, the space agency announced yes-terday.

The Gravity Recovery and Interior Labo-ratory twin spacecraft are tasked for a nine-month mission to explore Earth’s nearestneighbour in unprecedented detail.

They will determine the structure of thelunar interior from crust to core and advanceour understanding of the thermal evolutionof the moon, Xinhua reported.

The spacecraft twins, GRAIL A and B,will fly a circuitous route to lunar orbittaking 3.5 months and covering approxi-mately 2.6 million miles (4.2 million km)for GRAIL-A, and 2.7 million miles (4.3million km) for GRAIL-B.

“GRAIL will unlock lunar mysteries andhelp us understand how the moon, Earthand other rocky planets evolved as well,”said Maria Zuber, GRAIL principal investi-gator from the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology.

GRAIL’s launch period opens Sept 8 andextends through Oct 19. IANS

Patient lefton operating

table diesBeijing: A man died of suffocation whenhe was abandoned by doctors on an oper-ating table in a hospital in China, after firebroke out in a nearby room, officials said.

The 49-year-old patient was under generalanaesthesia when the incident happenedin Shanghai’s Baoshan district, the ShanghaiDaily reported.

The man was to undergo amputationsurgery after a traffic accident.

Hospital officials said a fire broke out ina room next to the operation theatre.

The cause of the fire and the reason whythe man was abandoned while undergoingserious surgery were being investigated.

All the other patients were evacuatedfrom the building. IANS

US spy planecrashes in Pak

Islamabad: A US spy plane yesterdaycrashed in the Pakistani border city ofChaman in southwestern Balochistan, of-ficials said.

The aircraft, which entered Pakistaniairspace from neighbouring Afghanistan,came down near Frontier Corps (FC) Fort,a senior official said.

“The US URV Eagle spy drone crossedPak-Afghan border from Afghanistan sideand it was flying over FC Fort inside Pakistaniterritory when it crashed near the fort be-cause of some technical fault,” the seniorofficial of the FC was quoted as saying byPakistan’s state-run APP news agency.

The spy drone was not fired upon and itcrashed due to some technical fault in itssystem, he said.

The FC personnel have taken the wreckageof the drone into their custody and are in-vestigating the matter.

The official said that the small planewas equipped with two cameras and otherlatest spying technology.

He said that the drone had the capabilityto take pictures and make movie and savethem on its hard disk. The official said theplane was being controlled by a computer-ized control room, he added.

The use of the unmanned aircraft by theUS in its war against the Taliban inAfghanistan and to monitor militants inPakistan is unpopular in the country.

There has been growing demand to endthe use of the predator armed drones tolaunch missile attacks in the anti-terrorcampaign. PTI

London: It’s a research which is likelyto stir up an ugly debate in many fam-ilies – beautiful people are selfish bynature.

A team of researchers fromBarcelona University and the Univer-sidad Autonoma de Madrid in Spainhave found that people with symmet-rical faces are more self-sufficient andthey are also less likely to co-operate.

According to the study, peopleblessed with more symmetrical facialfeatures, which are considered morepretty, are less likely to co-operateand more likely to selfishly focus ontheir own interests.

The team, led by Santiago Sanchez-Pages of Barcelona University andEnrique Turiegano of the UniversidadAut?noma de Madrid, has based itsclaims on the “prisoner’s dilemma”model of behaviour, played out underlaboratory conditions.

Two players were each given theoption of being a “dove” and co-op-erating for the greater good; or a

“hawk”, taking the selfish option,with a chance of gaining more if theother player chose “dove” and co-op-erated.

The subjects’ faces were thenanalysed. The study found that peoplewith more symmetrical faces wereless likely to co-operate and less likelyto expect others to co-operate, ‘TheObserver’ reported.

The explanation may be found inevolution. The two academics specu-late that, on a subconscious level,

people tend to view symmetrical phys-ical attributes as a sign of good healthand find people with them more at-tractive as a result.

Earlier studies have suggested thatindividuals with symmetrical facestend to suffer fewer congenital diseasesand therefore make better potentialmating partners. As a result, the studiessuggest, they are more self-sufficientand have less need for seeking thehelp of others.

The pair said: “As people with sym-

metrical faces tend to be healthierand more attractive, they are alsomore self-sufficient and have less ofan incentive to co-operate and seekhelp from others. Through natural se-lection over thousands of years, thesecharacteristics continue to the presentday.”

The researchers also examined therelationship between co-operationlevels and exposure to hormone testos-terone during development. Testos-terone is usually associated with ag-gressive behaviour.

But the authors suggest this is onlya partial truth and that testosteronecan promote co-operative behaviour.

They said: “Subjects exposed tohigher levels of testosterone duringfoetal development did not co-operateless than the rest and even co-operatedmore than subjects with average levels.It seems that leading co-operationand not necessarily obtaining a higherindividual profit are seen by some asa source of status.” PTI

Huge rivers ofAntarctic ice

flowing into seaLondon: Scientists claim to havefor the first time mapped hugerivers of ice flowing into the seafrom deep within Antarctica, abreakthrough which may trackfuture sea levels as part of thebattle against climate change.

An international team, led byProfessor Eric Rignot of Universityof California, has produced a“jigsaw” of glacial formationsusing data from European, Japan-ese and Canadian satellites.

When the full picture was re-vealed it showed a new ridgesplitting the 5.4 million squaremile landmass from east to west.They also uncovered previouslyunidentified ice formations seenmoving up to 800 feet per yearacross immense plains towardsthe Southern Ocean.

They were also moving in away not predicted by past modelsof ice migration, say the scien-tists.

“This is like seeing a map ofall the oceans currents for thefirst time. It’s a game changerfor glaciology. We’re seeing amaz-ing flows from the heart of thecontinent that had never beendescribed before,” Prof Rignotwas quoted by the ‘Daily Mail’as saying.

Prof Rignot and his team fo-cused on ice movement inAntarctica between 2007 and2009. Most of the ice on Earth islocated in the continent, and itsmelting ice sheets could have abig impact on sea levels. .Theresearch highlights the strongconnection between coastal areasand the interior regions of Antarc-tica.

Dr Thomas Wagner fromNASA’s MEaSUREs environmen-tal data programme, which fund-ed the study, added: “These re-searchers created something de-ceptively simple -- a map of thespeed and direction of ice inAntarctica.

“But they used it to figure outsomething fundamentally new:that ice moves by slipping at itsbed, not just at the coast but allthe way to the deep interior ofAntarctica.

“That’s critical knowledge forpredicting future sea- level rise.It means that if we lose ice atthe coasts from the warmingocean we open the tap to the icein the interior.”

The findings have been pub-lished in the ‘Science’ journal.PTI

Growth of cities worldwideʻendangers global environmentʼ

Washington: The explosivegrowth of cities worldwide overthe next two decades poses sig-nificant risks to people and theglobal environment, a new studyhas claimed.

Researchers from Yale, ArizonaState, Texas A&M and Stanforduniversities have predicted thatby 2030 urban areas will expandby 590,000 square miles to ac-commodate the needs of 1.47billion more people living in ur-ban areas. “It is likely that thesecities are going to be developedin places that’re the most bio-logically diverse. They’re goingto be growing and expandinginto forests, biological hotspots,savannas, coastlines – sensitiveand vulnerable places,” lead re-searcher Prof Karen Seto of YaleUniversity said. Urban areas,they found, have been expandingmore rapidly along coasts. “Ofall the places for cities to grow,coasts are the most vulnerable.People and infrastructure are atrisk to flooding, tsunamis, hur-

ricanes and other environmentaldisasters,” said Seto. The studyprovides the first estimate ofhow fast urban areas are growingand how fast they may grow inthe future. “We know a lot aboutglobal patterns of urban popu-lation growth, but we know sig-nificantly less about how urbanareas are changing. Changes inland cover associated with ur-banisation drive many environ-mental changes, from habitatloss and agricultural land con-version to changes in local andregional climate,” she said.

The researchers examinedpeer-reviewed studies that used

satellite data to map urbangrowth and found that from 1970to 2000 the world’s urban foot-print had grown by at least 22,400square miles – half the size ofOhio.

“We found that 48 of the mostpopulated urban areas have beenstudied using satellite data, withfindings in peer-reviewed jour-nals. This means that we’re nottracking the physical expansionof more than half of the world’slargest cities,” Seto said.

The study has been publishedin the latest edition of the‘PlosOne’ journal. PTI

Help pours in forpost‑strife Libya

United Nations: The US will unfreeze$1.5 billion in Libyan assets to providehumanitarian aid to cash-strapped op-position forces fighting to overthrowMuammar Gaddafi’s regime, a sourceat UN headquarters said.

The Libyan funds in US banks havebeen frozen under UN Resolution 1970to discourage Gaddafi from using forceagainst protesters demanding demo-cratic reforms in the oil-rich NorthAfrican country. The released funds areexpected to be split in three equal partsand distributed as – $500 million to in-ternational humanitarian organisationworking in Libya, $500 million willcover expenses for deliveries of fueland humanitarian cargoes and the re-maining $500 million will be spent oneducation and health care.

A draft resolution prepared by Wash-ington says none of the funds could beused for purchases of weaponry, non-lethal military equipment or any othermilitary-related assets.

The uprising against MuammarGaddafi’s 42-year rule began in February.An international military operation “toprotect civilians” in Libya began March19 following a UN resolution.

Rebel forces are controlling largeswaths of the country and most of thecapital, Tripoli. Libya’s rebel NationalTransitional Council announced yes-terday it would soon start governingthe country from Tripoli.

UN to help Libya United Nations: The UN will assistLibya at the directives of its new gov-

ernment after the current conflict inthe North African nation comes to aclose. United Nations under secretary-general for political affairs B LynnPascoe informed reporters here yester-day, Xinhua reported.

“One thing that the National Transi-tional Council (NTC) has made veryclear is they expect the UN to play astrong role in the post-conflict period,”said Pascoe. The month-long conflictbetween Muammar Gaddafi’s Libyangovernment and the NTC rebels seemsto be coming to an end as rebel forcesoverrun Tripoli while the whereaboutsof Gaddafi remain unknown.

Pascoe said the UN’s future activitiesin a post-conflict Libya depend on re-quests from the Libyan people and newLibyan authorities.

“Let me state first that any processwill be a Libyan-led one,” he said.“What we are doing is trying to helpthem. We are not imposing or comingwith our own ideas.”

Ian Martin, the UN special advisordealing with post-conflict planning inLibya as well as Abdel-Elah Al Khatib,UN special envoy to the country havebeen engaged in discussions about theAfrican nation’s future.

Pascoe said Martin has been “incharge of the process for the secretary-general trying to look at the issues thatare out there, ways that we may behelpful, and things that we could do tohelp a new government get establishedand carry through with the kind of freeand open democracy that they wantand that we want.”

Psoriasis may increaseyour stroke risk

Washington: Psoriasis, a com-mon skin disease, may increasethe risk of stroke and atrial fib-rillation, a condition in whichthe heart beats irregularly, a newstudy has suggested.

In some cases, patients withpsoriasis that causes skin rednessand irritation had nearly threetimes the risk of experiencingthese conditions compared withpeople without it, the Danishstudy found.

The findings, published in theEuropean Heart Journal, add toa growing body of research link-ing psoriasis with heart andblood vessel problems, includingan increased risk of heart attackand death from cardiovasculardisease.

“In recent years, psoriasis hascertainly taken the step from adisease affecting appearance toa systemic disease and cardio-vascular risk factor,” study re-

searcher Dr Ole Ahlehoff wasquoted as saying by LiveScience.

Dr Ahleoff, a cardiologist atthe Copenhagen University Hos-pital Gentofte, said patients withpsoriasis need to be monitoredfor indicators of cardiovasculardisease, including heart arrhyth-mias.

And these patients may becandidates for interventions thatwill reduce cardiovascular dis-ease risk, including lifestyle mod-

ifications, such as quitting smok-ing and getting more exercise,and in some cases, medications,he said. Future studies shouldinvestigate whether treating thecondition cuts patients’ cardio-vascular disease risk, he said.

According to researchers, pso-riasis occurs when the immunesystem sends out faulty signalsthat speed up the growth cycleof skin cells. In people with thecondition, skin cells rise to theskin’s surface too quickly, whichdoesn’t leave enough time forthe old skin cells to fall off, lead-ing to build up of dead skin cells.

For their study, Dr Ahlehoffand his colleagues used a na-tional database and counted thecases of atrial fibrillation andischemic stroke in about 4.5 mil-lion people in Denmark between1997 and 2006. An ischemicstroke occurs when a blood vesselto the brain becomes blocked.

7 Palestinianskilled in Israelistrikes on Gaza

Jerusalem: The fragile ceasefirebetween Israel and Hamas wasshattered by fresh rocket attacksby Gaza-based militants onsouthern Israel, prompting strongretaliatory aeriel strikes todayin which seven Palestinians werekilled, including two Islamic Ji-had operatives.

Salim al-Arabid and AlaaHamdan died in the airstrike innorthern Gaza last evening, Is-lamic Jihad’s military wing said.Palestinians sources in the GazaStrip said Israel Air Force aircraftstruck targets in the southwesternGaza neighbourhood of Su-daniya. Israeli sources said thestrike targeted a terror cell gearingto fire projectiles at Israel.

The Gaza operation followeda cabinet meeting called by Is-raeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu,the second such meeting in two

days, to discuss the escalationin the south. The air strikes fol-lowed yet another rocket salvoat Israel’s southern region, whichgnawed further in the fragile in-formal ceasefire achieved withGaza’s militant factions underEgyptian mediation.

Earlier, 10 rockets, includingone mortar, launched from Gazaexploded in southern Israel yes-terday afternoon. Tensions flaredup in the region following aseries of shooting attacks insouthern Israel last Thursday inwhich eight Israelis were killed.

At least thirty one people havebeen killed in the latest flare-upfor which the Israelis blamedPopular Resistance Committee(PRC), an umbrella organisationof Gaza militants, which deniedresponsibility for the deadly at-tacks last week. PTI

Beautiful people selfish by nature

DSK gets passportback: Legal team

New York: Dominique Strauss-Kahn was given back his pass-port today, his legal team said,clearing the way for the formerIMF head to travel abroad forthe first time since his arrestthree months ago on sex crimecharges.

“I can confirm that the NewYork Police Department and theOffice of the District Attorneyreturned Mr Strauss-Kahn’s pass-port,” Shawn Naunton, from theFrench politician’s legal team,said after a brief visit to his Man-hattan home.

Strauss-Kahn has been a freeman since Tuesday when a NewYork judge agreed to a requestby prosecutors to drop all chargesagainst him.

The DA’s office said it couldno longer pursue the case be-cause while Strauss-Kahn didengage in sex ith a Manhattanhotel maid, her repeated lying

to investigators made it impos-sible to prove beyond a reason-able doubt her allegations ofsexual assault.

“As you all know, Mr Strauss-Kahn’s freedom was restored onTuesday and the criminalcharges were dismissed. It’s grat-ifying to return his passport tohim today,” Naunton said.

Strauss-Kahn is believed tobe preparing to return to France,where until his arrest he wasseen as a leading prospect tobecome president in electionsnext year.

Despite the dismissal ofcharges, the affair remains adark cloud over his reputation.

A spokesman at the International Monetary Fund,where Strauss-Kahn had to giveup the leadership in the wakeof his arrest, said that a visitwas expected “as early as nextweek.” AFP

Early humans were efficient mariners than

thought: ScientistsLondon: Early humans, thought to be grunting cave-dwellers with little intelligence, were actually advancedmariners who were crossing the Mediterranean Seafrom northern Africa at least 130,000 years ago,scientists say.

The re-think comes after a number of ancient toolsfound on the island of Crete were accurately dated –and found to have been made by our early ancestors,called Homo Erectus.

Until now, the oldest known human settlementson Crete dated to around 9,000 years ago, the DailyMail reported.

Traditional theories hold that early farming groupsin southern Europe and the Middle East only begannavigating vessels to Mediterranean islands at aroundthat time.

But many of the Crete finds resemble hand axesfashioned in Africa about 800,000 years ago – and ateam has now been able to show that they are mucholder than first thought.

But it wasn’t the latest carbon dating techniques,which have a limit of 50,000 years, that enabled sci-entists to date the tools.

Instead, geologists were able to use the island’sunique rock formations to calculate when they weremade. The island has been gradually pushed upwardsout of the sea for millions of years – creating a seriesof differentiated terraces along the coastline made upof ancient beach sands.

“We know that the tools are tens of meters abovethe terrace we dated at 50,000 years old, so we knowright off the bat that they have to be at least that old,”geologist Karl Wegmann, of North Carolina State Uni-versity, said.

The team was then able to work out the age ofhigher, older terraces, and calculated that the soil inwhich the tools were found was 130,000 years old.

The technique proved that Homo Erectus had in-habited the island by that time, and must have sailedacross the Mediterranean to get there, the researcherssaid.

“The thing to me that really makes this unique andexciting is these other sister species maybe weren’tentirely stupid like we portray them,” Dr Wegmannsaid. “They were capable of really complex things.”PTI

10 killed inhotel bombblast in Pak

Islamabad: At least 10 peoplewere killed when a bomb at-tached to a bicycle explodednear a hotel in Pakistan’s north-western Nowshehra city yester-day, officials said.

The bomb exploded whenpeople were gathered at a hotel

in Nowshehra, an hour afterbreaking their Ramzan fast,

Muhammad Hussain Khan, thedistrict police officer, told medi-

apersons. He said the device was a time

bomb and the bicycle was parkedin a small marketplace to causemore casualties.

He said 10 people died onspot, while eight others injuredwere shifted to a local hospital,some 50 kilometres northeast ofPeshawar, the capital of the trou-bled northwestern KhyberPakhtunkhwa province.

The blast also damaged theshops and two restaurants ofthe small markets. Soon afterblast the officials of the law en-forcing agencies and policereached the scene. No group hasclaimed responsibility. The gov-ernment routinely blames sus-pected Taliban militants for suchattacks. President Asif Ali Zardariand Prime Minister Yusuf RazaGilani strongly condemned blast.

Zardari said the governmentand people are determined todefeat terrorism and such grue-some acts cannot deter the re-solve of the nation which remainsunited to defeat terrorists.

The President asked the lawenforcement agencies to takemeasures to protect people fromterrorist acts.

Libyan rebels patrol to find any of Muammar Gaddafi’s relatives as theyheard rumors that one of his sons was hiding inside a building, in Tripoli,

Libya.

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Palestinians inspect the damage to a Islamic Jihad sportsclub following an Israeli air strike in Beit Lahiya, northern

Gaza Strip, early yesterday. Israeli aircraft targeted an Islamic Jihad sports club killing seven Palestinians.

LIFESTYLE 7Friday, August 26, 2011

Music mogul Simon Cow-ell says that raising afamily is not compatible

with his busy lifestyle and thathe doesn’t have the “patience”to care for a baby.

“At my age, definitely. The re-ality is, with the way I live mylife, I wouldn’t have the patience(to raise children).

I’d sort of want people born

at the age of 10, I think,” female-first.co.uk quoted the 51-year-old, who is engaged to make upartist Mezhgan Hussainy, as say-ing.

“(I thought about it for) a littlewhile, but not seriously. I wassort of probably just in the mo-ment. Truthfully, with the sched-ule, the crazy hours, I don’t thinkit would work,” he added.

F ilmmaker Karan Joharchose to unveil the firstlook of his next produc-

tion -- Imran Khan and KareenaKapoor-starrer "Ek Main AurEkk Tu" -- through social net-working media like Facebookand Twitter.

The promotional image hasthe two actors walking on abusy street wearing quirky,oversized shades, and eatingcotton candy.

The colourful and youthfullook of the movie was uploadedTuesday, and the Facebookpage of the movie also statedthat the release would be "com-ing Valentine".

The film, being directed byShakun Batra, was earlier titled"Short Term Shaadi". It wasrumoured that the plot is anadaptation of Hollywood film"What Happens in Vegas",which starred Cameron Diazand Ashton Kutcher.

However, Johar had deniedit.

Now, ʻThe Simpsonsʼ for Lady Gaga

Actress Denise Richards,who recently said thatshe would never rekin-

dle her romance with ex-hus-band Charlie Sheen, is consid-ering re-marrying the troubledactor.

“He gave me the two greatestgifts (in) our daughters! I reallybelieve that people come in toour life, and we learn differentthings. I honestly believe thathe has been one of my greatestteachers as far as life lessons.As painful as it all was I woulddo it all again because I haveamazing children,” contact-music.com quoted the 40-year-old as saying.

Richards and Sheen, whohave two daughters - Lola, 6,and Sammy, 7 — ended theirmarriage in 2006 and for a briefperiod they even became bitterenemies. However, the twowere often seen spending timetogether.

No illegal drugs inAmyʼs body: Report

Get a peek‑a‑boo intoImran‑Kareena starrer

Kim, Kris off toItaly for honeymoon

Actress Zoe Saldana in her latestfilm "Colombiana" plays ayoung woman out to revenge

the murder of her parents that shewatched in horror as a child.

The daughter of a Dominican fatherand Puerto Rican mother, Saldanatold EFE that she felt attracted fromthe start by the character of CataleyaRestrepo, because "you don't seemany action movies where the leadingcharacter is a woman".

The film premieres in the US Fri-day.

Saldana is currently in Miami pro-moting the film written by Luc Besson("The Fifth Element") and directedby Olivier Megaton.

The title of the movie has beencriticised by a number of Colombianorganisations because a woman ofthat nationality is identified as a mur-derer.

For that reason a group of Colom-bians has announced it will distributepositive information about their coun-try in front of movie theaters in NewYork, New Jersey and Connecticut,where the film is being screened.

"I'm a little worried about all this,but it really wasn't our intention,"Saldana said. "People have to go seethe movie because it's an action storywith a lot of heart, and above all be-cause the leading character is a Lati-na."

The actress has acted in more than20 films, though it was her work asNeytiri in the 2009 blockbuster"Avatar" that won her internationalfame.

There were no illegal sub-stances in late singer AmyWinehouse’s body when she

died, says the latest toxicology re-port.

“Toxicology results returned tothe Winehouse family by authoritieshave confirmed that there were noillegal substances in Amy’s systemat the time of her death. Resultsindicate that alcohol was presentbut it cannot be determined as yetif it played a role in her death,”said a statement released by Amy’sfamily.

The “Rehab” singer was founddead in her home in North LondonJuly 23. She was 27. At that timethe tests revealed that she had al-cohol in her body but it was notknown if it lead to her death, reportsfemalefirst.co.uk.

“The family would like to thankthe police and coroner for theircontinuing thorough investigationsand for keeping them informedthroughout the process. They awaitthe outcome of the inquest in Oc-tober,” said the statement.

Iʼd marry Sheenagain: Richards

I have no time for kids: Simon Cowell

Socialite Kim Kardashi-an, who married bas-ketball player Kris

Humphries in California, isoff for a short honeymoonto Capri in Italy.

The couple left Los Ange-les' LAX airport for the Eu-ropean destination Mondayafter their nuptials Saturday,reports contactmusic.com.The newly-wed will be backin the US by the weekend,as Kim is presenting the 2011MTV Video Music Awards inLos Angeles Sunday.

Lady Gaga will make a guestappearance in an episodeof “The Simpsons” and she

describes it as one of the “coolest”things she has ever done.

“I make music, but I don’t dovoice-overs every day of the week,and their characters are so awe-somely convincing and sincereand wild and funny, I had to re-mind myself constantly of thesincerity of the humour,” female-first.co.uk quoted the 25-year-oldas saying.

“That’s what I was trying tofocus on, not putting on a char-acter too much and really beingas sincere as I could with thelines. I would say this is one ofthe coolest things I’ve ever done.My dad’s probably going to do80 back-flips when the episodecomes out,” she added.

The singer voices an animatedversion of herself in the popularcartoon comedy series, and herepisode will feature her arrivingin Springfield and trying to cheerup Lisa Simpson.

“This is extraordinary! I’mstunned that she has time in herschedule that she’s coming toour studio to record,” said Yeard-ley Smith who voices Lisa.

Gaga will make appearance inthe episode titled “Lisa GoesGaga” and it will be aired nextspring.

Zoe Saldana stars in action film

Malaika Arora Khan siz-zled as Munni in thehit item number

“Munni badnaam hui” in “Da-bangg”. Now the search is onfor a Munni for “Osthi”, theTamil version of the blockbustermovie. “Morning tweeples:-)The hunt for the ‘Munni’ for‘Munni badnaam’ song of Tamil‘Dabangg’ is on.. Any sugges-tions..,” tweeted actor SonuSood, who played a villain inthe Hindi movie, and also fea-tures in “Osthi”.

The Tamil remake is beingdirected by S. Dharani, and willfeature Silambarasan, alsoknown as Simbhu, in the leadrole.

Whoʼll dance as Munniin Tamil ʻDabanggʼ?

After explicit love-makingsequences in “RangRasiya” and “Sahib Bibi

Aur Gangster”, Randeep Hoodahas acquired quite a reputationfor the steamy stuff on screen.But all efforts to carry his lover’simage forward have been thwart-ed thanks to his mother, whohas asked him to temper his roles.

Randeep’s mother is based inRohtak in Haryana.

“My mother is my biggest fanand critic. She loves the fact thatI give all of myself to my roles.But she also feels it’s time I held

some things back from the cam-era. Maybe she’s right. I can makelove to the camera. I don’t haveto make love on camera,” saidRandeep.

Apparently he has convincedhis mother he’d no more be seendoing the naughty stuff with hisleading ladies.

In the process of keeping apromise to his concerned mother,Randeep had to request the pro-ducer of his new film “KusharPrasad Ka Bhoot” to tone downthe love-making sequences.

No more steamyscenes, mom tells Randeep

Friday, August 26, 2011 8LIFESTYLE

So what if the much-await-ed song “Chammak chal-lo”, featuring Kareena

Kapoor and rendered by inter-national pop star Akon, fromhis mega-production “RA.One”was leaked online? Shah RukhKhan is still excited about theofficial music launch of themovie in September.

“‘RA.one’ music to releasein September...can’t wait to put‘Chammak challo’ on TV in thenext few days. Finally, it’s thattime when u start letting theownership of your film to passonto the audience,” Shah Rukhposted on his Twitter page.

The peppy song, which isrumoured to have Kareenadancing in a red sari, wasleaked in May, and Shah Rukhwas quite upset. However, hehad said that the track thatpeople have already heard andare hooked onto, is not the finalversion. So, one hopes there ismore in store for eager listen-ers.

In the meantime, Shah Rukhis nursing his knee.

“Been away getting my kneetreatment done. two days ofintense pain. feel much bettertoday and feel like getting bakto work,” he tweeted further.

The gadget freak is also up-beat about his new acquisition.

“...and this is all being writtenon my new mac book pro. superexcited to have the new ma-chine...felt like a kid when igot it. so wanted it to keep upwith my speed of life. yay!!” headded.

“RA.One”, a superhero film,is slated to release Oct 26.

Canʼt wait to putʻChammak challoʼ on TV: SRK

Deepa & Preetha

Nehal, Deepali & Anushri

Poojita & ShilpaPriyanka with friend

Anand, Ankita & Nikita

Singer Papon & Mathangi perform live at Hard Rock CafePhotos: Gangadhar Pujar

ChandrikaCOKE STUDIO COMES TO CITYMusic lovers were treated to a

musical evening as ‘Coke Stu-dio@MTV Minicerts presented

by Spice Mobiles’ with its diverse en-semble of artists rolled out an exhila-rating bouquet of renditions across

genres at Hard Rock Cafe.Bringing alive the magic of pure

music at The Hard Rock Cafe, Bangalore,an exceptional group of artists, includingeastern folk elegance Papon and Math-angi, regaled the audience with soulful

tracks. Various genres of folk, qawwaliand classical were churned out. Pro-duced by MTV India in partnershipwith Red Chillies Entertainment’s IdiotBox, Coke Studio@MTV fuses sym-phonies of the diverse genres.