bangalore beat evening newspaper - 7.09.2011

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Vol. 1, Issue 355 n Wednesday n September 7, 2011 No. of pages: 8 n Price: ` 2BangaloreBeat

Khosla dazzles P8

MAKING THEM CHANTEQUALITY MANTRA

Today is Pourakarmika Day, the Children’sMovement for Civic Awareness organised aninteraction with these civic workers, who toilhard to keep the city clean. Most of theschoolchildren don’t know the world outsidetheir class. This engagement made them re-alise the importance of treating all equally,says L Raghunanda... Page 5

Beyond Beat

India lose ODISouthampton: India’s bowling attack came acropper as England rode on captain AlastairCook’s unbeaten 80 to register a comfortableseven wicket victory in the rain-curtailed sec-ond one day international here. Chasing acompetitive 188 in 23-over-a-side match Cookled from the front with a half century. Page 4

Reddy bailhearing

tomorrowBangalore Beat Bureau

Hyderabad: The bail hearing offormer minister and miningbaron Gali Janardhana Reddy,which came up before the CBIspecial court here today, hasbeen adjourned to tomorrow.

The bail application of Reddy,who has been arrested by the CBIfor alleged illegal mining alongthe Karnataka and AndhraPradesh border, would be heardat 10.30 am.

Appearing for Reddy, advocateLalith demanded more time toprepare for the bail application,which was granted by the specialcourt situated at Nampalli.

Reddy, who has been lodgedat the Chanchalaguda prisonhere since Monday, has been

shifted to a cell in the 4-D block.Srinivasa Reddy, managing di-rector of Janardhana Reddy-owned Obulapuram MiningCompany, too was shifted. Thereare five other inmates in the cell.Three of them are behind bars forcheating, while two others arecommon thieves.

The two high-profile inmateswere given 600 gm of rice, 200gm of dal and rasam each. Ja-nardhana Reddy, who has beengiven the serial no. 697 at the jail,was given puliyogare for break-fast this morning.

The demand for an Englishnewspaper by former ministerand mining baron Gali Janard-hana Reddy was met today andhe was supplied the locally pop-ular daily.

Bail grantedfor HDK, wifetill tomorrow

Bangalore: JDS state president and former chiefminister H D Kumaraswamy and his wife AnithaKumaraswamy were granted an interim bail tilltomorrow by the Karnataka High Court today. Thecouple, in anticipation, had skipped the Lokayuk-ta special court.

Lawyers representing Kumaraswamys plead-ed with the court that as their client is not well,they be exempted from personally appearing be-fore the court. Special court judge N K SudhindraRao expressed his anger and resentment over con-tinued absence of Kumaraswamy and his wifeAnitha despite repeated orders by the court to per-sonally appear before it.

The court has asked the lawyers to produce doc-uments and medical reports as evidence to provethat Kumaraswamy is unwell. The special courtis hearing cases pertaining to official favouritismshown to Jantakal Mines for renewal of its licenceand favour done to Vishwabharati Housing Societywhen Kumaraswamy was the chief minister.

BSY GETS HIMSELFCHECKED AT NIMHANS

TERROR HITS DELHI9 die, 45 injured l Bomb goes off at parking lot at HC l Blast occurs at 10.15 am

New Delhi: Terror struck Delhi when nine people werekilled and at least 45 injured in a blast this morningoutside the High Court premises jampacked with vis-itors waiting to get entry passes.

Union home secretary R K Singh said the blast wasof "medium to high intensity" and created a "deepcrater" at the site of explosion at the reception areabetween Gate No. 4 and 5 of Delhi High Court. Theblast occurred around 10.15 am.

Asked whether the blast was a terror strike, Singhsaid, "It had all the makings of an improvised ex-plosive device (IED) set up by a terror group."

Singh said 45 people were injured with some eye-witnesses saying some of the injured were in a crit-ical condition.

Special commissioner Dharmendra Kumar told re-porters the bomb was apparently kept in a briefcase.

It was the second blast in four months outside thehigh court premises. No one was injured in the pre-vious explosion on May 25.

The Gate No.5 was crowded with 100 to 200 peo-ple waiting in queue to get entry passes. There wereseveral lawyers at the spot.

"We are investigating how the brief case wasplaced there It is not a controlled area. There were lotsof people," said Kumar.

Delhi police suspected use of potassium nitrate inthe bomb.

Court proceedings were adjourned till 2 PM. Themain court premises where all the courtrooms arehoused have been evacuated. .

Singh said the bomb was kept in a suitcase sincesome of its remains were still in it.

He said all the injured have been rushed to RML,Safdarjung and AIIMS hospitals. Many of them suf-fered burn injuries.

Singh said there was no prior intelligence inputabout a possible attack at Delhi High Court. The blasthappened in a public area where anyone can justcome and drop a suitcase and walk away, he added.

Teams of National Investigating Agency (NIA), Na-tional Security Guards (MSG) and forensic departmenthave been rushed to the spot.

Court business is usually heavy on Wednesdaywhich is listed as a Public Interest Litation(PIL) daywhen the visitors come to the court in large numbers.

Ambulances and fire tenders were also rushed.An explosion on May 25 triggered panic prompting

the authorities to sound a high alert in the capital andtighten security at public places. No one was injured.

Low-intensity explosives, wrapped in a polythenebag and kept close to the car parked near Gate No. 7,went off around 1.30 pm. Ammonium nitrate, a bat-tery-like object, wires and some nails were found atthe site by forensic experts.

The previous worst terror attack in the capital wason September 13, 2008 when a series of five syn-chronised bomb blasts took place within a span of fewminutes at various locations in Delhi. 30 people killedand over 100 injured in this strike.

Police and security officers check a car’s boot near Karnataka High Court in Bangalore, following a terror attack in New Delhi this morning. A highalert was sounded across the country and all important installations, including courts, were under special watch.

Anita KumarswamyH D Kumaraswamy

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Former chief min-ister B S Yeddyurappa, who wasto appear before the Lokayuktaspecial court today for his allegedinvolvement in the land denoti-fication scandal, got himselfchecked at Nimhans this after-

noon.Yeddyurappa, who skipped

court, went to the neurosurgerydepartment of the premier men-tal health institute. Though ini-tial reports did not give any rea-son for his visit, some legal ex-perts said it could be another ployby the BJP strongman to avoid

court.Yeddyurappa appeared be-

fore the special court on August28. But today’s hearing wouldhave been crucial as the courtwas to hear his bail application.If he had been denied bail, hewould have been put straightunder custody.

Dasara website launchedMysore: Medical education anddistrict incharge minister S A Ra-madass launched the officialMysore Dasara website this morn-ing.

The website,www.mysoredasara.gov.in willcontain useful information fortourists like maps of the city alongwith animations. The site alsocontains information on the richculture and heritage of Mysorecity. Various documents and pic-tures of the Dasara celebrations ofthe last 600 years to present dayphotographs are displayed.

Continued on page 4...Medical education and Mysore in-charge minister

S A Ramadass launches the Dasara website at Mysore today.

Pieces of flesh,people with

blood soakedclothes

outside HCNew Delhi: As terror struck outside the Delhi HighCourt, a man who lost one of his legs was seentrying to get away from the site as limbs and piecesof flesh were strewn on the ground along withshards of glass.

Lawyers and litigants with blood soakedclothes ran helter-skelter as soon as the blast tookplace.

Stunned by the deadly blast, a middle agedwoman who had come to secure bail for her rel-ative could not speak while litigant Rahul Gup-ta who was barely 10 metres away from the sitehad problems hearing.

Gupta, who was at the reception counter nearthe blast site, said he cannot hear after thedeafening blast.

“I heard a loud noise and smokecoming out following by cries of

people,” said Narendra Kumar Singh, a guard at a construction site outside the court.

The Gate No.5, where the blast took place, wascrowded with 100 to 200 people waiting in aqueue to get entry passes.

There were several lawyers at the spot.A woman lawyer, who refused to identify

herself, said she heard a loud noise while she wascoming towards the court.

“By the time I could come police had cordoned off the roads and people were being taken to hospitals. I parked my car and walked to the gate. I am really terrified and hope none of my friends have been injured in the incident.”

Another lawyer said the gate where the blasthappened is one of the most crowded gates at theHigh Court premises and it was the “peak hour”at the court.

“This is the time when hundreds of people come here for making passes to enter the High Court. I was 200 metres away when the blast took place,” he said. PTI

We donʼt know who attacked us: PCNew Delhi: It was not possible at thisstage to identify the terrorists who ex-ploded a bomb outside Delhi HighCourt today killing nine people, HomeMinister P. Chidambaram said.

Chidambaram told the Lok Sabhathat Delhi was a target for terrorists asit was the national capital.

Accordingly, Delhi had been put onhigh security alert, he said in a briefstatement.

The minister said the blast left ninedead and some seriously injured.

“We are clear that there is no causethat will justify the terrorist act,” hesaid.

Parliament today unequivocally con-demned the blast outside Delhi HighCourt and adjourned the proceedingstill the government gathered facts andmade a statement in both the Houses.

The Lok Sabha was adjourned till12:30 PM when Home Minister P Chi-dambaram was expected to make a

statement, while the Rajya Sabha wasadjourned till 2 PM.

At the outset, Lok Sabha SpeakerMeira Kumar condemned the blast asa dastardly act and asked the govern-ment to make a statement.

Cutting across party lines, leaderscondemned the blasts.

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Train No. Train Name Station Arrival B’lore Departure B’lore Train No. Train Name Station Arrival B’lore Departure B’lore

TRAIN SCHEDULE

SWAYAMKRUSHI (U/A)Chiranjeevi, VijayashantiInox (Malleswaram) (1 pm) Krishna(KR Puram) (10.30 am, 2, 8 pm )Kamakya (10.45 am, 2.45, 5.45, 8.45pm) Nartaki (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30,7.30 pm) Nalanda (11am,2.30,6,9.15pm)Nandini(11am,2.30,6,9.30pm) Prasanna(10.30 am,1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm)Prakash (10 am, 2.30, 6,30,9.30pm) Siddheshwara (11.30 am, 2.30pm) Uma (10 am) Ullas (10.45am,2.45, 5.45, 8.45 pm)

JOGAYYA (U/A) Shivraj Kumar, Sumith KumarAthwarBanashankari (Hongasandra) (11.30am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Cinemax(1 pm) Cinepolis (6.50 pm) Eshwari(10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm) FunCinemas (11.30 am, 2.30, 5.30, 8.30pm) Ganesh (10.30 am) Govardhan(11.30 am, 2.30, 6, 9 pm) HMT Cin-emas (10.45 am, 1.30 pm) Inox(J.P.Nagar) (1.25 pm, 7 pm) Inox(Jayanagar) (10 am, 3.45, 6.30 pm)Inox (Magarath Road) (4.40 pm)

Inox (Malleswaram) (10 am, 12.45pm, 3.35, 5.35, 6.25 pm) Kapali(10.30 am, 1.30 pm) Lakshmi (Got-tigere) (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Lakshmi (Rammorthinagar)(11.15 am, 2.15, 6.15, 9.15 pm) Mo-han (11.30 am, 2.30, 6.15, 9.15 pm)Navrang (1.15 pm, 4.15, 7.15 pm)Pushpanjali (Sultanpalya) (11 am,2.15, 6, 9.15 pm) Santhosh (1.30pm, 4.30, 7.30 pm) Srinvasa (Gow-danapalya) (11.30 am, 2.30, 6.30,9.30 pm) Tirumala (10 am, 1.45,5.30, 8.45 pm) Vaishnavi (11.15 am,2.15, 6.15, 9.15 pm) Veerabhadresh-wara (10.45 am, 1.45, 4.45, 7.45 pm)Veeresh (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Venkatesh (Avalahalli) (11.30am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Venkatesh-wara (Konappana 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) Maruthi (11.30 am, 2.30 pm,6.30 pm, 9.30 pm) Menaka (10.30am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm).

CONAN THE BARBARIAN (A)Jason Momoa, Leo Howard‘3D’ Cinemax (10.15 am, 3.30, 7.45,10 pm) Cinepolis (10 am) Fun Cine-mas (5.10 pm, 9.45 pm) GopalanCinemas (Rajarajeshwari Nagar)(1.15 pm, 7.30, 9.45 pm) InnovativeMultiplex (11.30 am, 1.30, 5.45, 10pm) Inox (Malleswaram) (10.30 am,2.45, 9.50 pm) Inox (J.P.Nagar) (10.10

am, 2.35, 9.45 pm) PVR Cinemas(11 am, 4.20, 9.40 pm) ‘2D’ GopalanCinemas (Mysore Road) (11.45 am,2.15, 8 pm) HMT Cinemas (9.45 pm)Inox (Jayanagar) (10.10 am, 3.55,9.40 pm)

THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE (A) Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier, Mimoun OaissaGopalan Cinemas (RajarajeshwariNagar) (10 am) Inox (Jayanagar)(10.10 am, 2.50, 9.50 pm) Inox (JPNagar) (12.25 pm, 4.50, 9.30 pm)Inox (Magrath Road) (1.05 pm) PVRCinemas (10.30 am, 3, 7.40 pm)

BAD TEACHER (A) Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel, JustinTimberlakeInnovative Multiplex (10 pm)

SPY KIDS (U/A) Jessica Alba, Joel McHale, RowanBlanchard, Mason Cook ‘4D’ FunCinemas (10.30 am, 12.45, 3, 7.35).

Movie ListingsKANNADA

ENGLISH

BOL (U)Humaima Malick, Atif Aslam,Iman AliCinepolis (10.20 am, 4.10, 9.30pm) Cinemax Fame (Lido) (7.05pm) Fame (Value Mall) (2.10 pm,7.05 pm) Gopalan Cinemas (Ban-nerghatta Road) (2.30 pm) Inox(Jaynagar) (2.15 pm) Inox (JP Nagar)(12.40 pm, 9.15 pm) Inox (MagrathRoad) (3.15 pm, 9.15 pm) Inox(Malleswaram) (11.55 am, 5.10pm)

THAT GIRL IN YELLOW BOOTS (A)Kalki Koechlin, Naseeruddin Shah

Fame (Value Mall) (10 am, 12.05,5, 10 pm) Inox (Jayanagar) (10 am,6.20 pm) Inox (J.P.Nagar) (10 am,4.05 pm) Inox (Magrath Road) (10am, 1.05, 9.55 pm) Inox(Malleswaram) (10.45 am, 9.50pm)

STAND BY (U) Siddharth Kher, Adinath KothareAbhinay (10.30 am, 1.30 pm) In-novative Multiplex (2.30 pm) Inox(J.P.Nagar) (10.10 am) GopalanCinemas (Mysore Road) (2.45 pm)Gopalan Cinemas (RajarajeshwariNagar) (7 pm) Vaibhav (Sanjay-nagar) (11.30 am, 2.30 pm)

HINDI

TAMIL

MANKATHA (U/A) Ajith, Arjun, Trisha, Lakshmi RaiAjantha (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Balaji (Vannarpet) (10.30 am,

1.45, 5.15, 8.15 pm) Cinepolis (10am, 11.30, 1, 1.10, 3., 3.50, 6, 9,9.55 pm) Fame (Lido) (2.30 pm,5.45, 9 pm) Fame (Value Mall) (11.45am, 2.50, 5.55, 9 pm) Gopalan Cin-emas (Bannerghatta Road) (10.45am, 11.45, 6.15, 9.45 pm)Inox(Jayanagar) (11 am, 5.15 pm) Inox(JP Nagar) (11.15 am, 2.30, 5.45, 9pm) Inox (Malleshwaram) (11.15 am,2.30, 5.45, 9 pm) Nataraj (10.30am, 1.30, 4.45, 7.45 pm) Poornima(10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm)Pushpanjali (BN Pura) (11.15 am,2.45, 6.15, 9.30 pm) PVR Cinemas(1.20 pm)

MAASI (U) Arjun, ArchanaSiddalingeshwara (11.30 am, 2.30,6.30, 9.30 pm) Vaibhavi (11.15 am,2.15, 6.15, 9.15 pm)

BODYGUARD (U/A)Salman , Kareena, Lovely Singh, Divya Mahesh Manjrekar

Apsara (11.30 am, 2.30, 5.45, 8.45pm) Cinemax (1.30, 4.15, 7, 9.50pm) Cinepolis (12.10 pm, 12.30,2.40, 4, 5.10, 6.30, 7, 7.40, 9, 9.30,10 pm) Cauvery (11.30 am, 2.30,6, 9.30 pm) Everest (11.30 am,2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Fame (Lido)(12.50 pm, 3.40, 5.40, 6.30, 8.30,9.20 pm) Fame (Shankarnag)(12.55 pm, 3.45, 6.35, 9.25 pm)Fame (Value Mall) (10 am, 10.30,12.30, 1.05, 2.30, 3.25, 3.50, 5.15,6,6.35, 8, 8.35, 9.20 pm) Fun Cin-emas (10 am, 11, 12.55 pm, 2.15,3.50, 4.35, 5.30, 6.50, 8.30, 9.50pm) Gopalan Cinemas (Ban-

nerghatta Road) (10 am, 1.15, 4.45,7.15, 9.30 pm) Inox (Jaynagar)(10.15 am, 1, 3.45, 6.30, 8.30, 9.20pm) Inox (JP Nagar) (10 am, 12.15pm, 1.05, 3, 3.50, 5.45, 6.35, 8.30pm) Inox (Magrath Road) (10.01am, 11.30 am, 12.50 pm, 1.35,2.20, 3.40, 4.20, 5.10 pm) Inox(Malleswaram) (10.01 am, 12,12.50, 2.35, 2.50, 3.40, 6.30, 8pm) PVR Cinemas (10.15 am, 10.40am, 1, 3.45, 6.30, 6.40, 9.15, 9.20pm) Rex (11.30 am, 2, 4.30, 7.10,9.45 pm) Srinivasa (SG Palya)(11.15 am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm)Urvashi (11 am, 2.30, 6, 9.30 pm).

BEAUTY IN NATUREBeauty has three levels – in-

dication, expression and ex-posure. Spirituality is thatwhich indicates beauty orgently reveals it; this is the

subtle aspect. Art expresses beauty.Science too has a role in beauty, forscience exposes beauty. And all theseaspects are to be found in nature.

Have you noticed the beauty inevery aspect of creation, in every facetof nature? In creation, there is beauty,in the operation of creation there isbeauty and in the destruction of cre-ation there is beauty. Even in trans-formation there is beauty. You can seeit in nature all the time. Spring has itsown beauty; in midsummer everythingis green, in autumn all the leaves falland still it looks spectacular! Duringthe rainy season the waterfalls looksso beautiful.

To maintain these falls, year afteryear, and since ages, a certain processis required. The clouds have to go up,and they have to rain on the GreatLakes, and the Great Lakes have to

flow; only then the Niagara Falls canremain forever. Otherwise, if the waterjust flows down once and there is nomore water to flow, or it doesn’t rain,the whole beauty is gone! You can seebeneath the beauty there is a deeperbeauty, a maintenance principle thatsustains this beauty time after time.Even a dead log of wood has a recordof its beauty embedded in it – in itsgenes, in its particles, of how it was,and how it is now.

You can even find beauty in emo-tions. All the emotions that get exhib-ited naturally are appreciated. Onelooks the most beautiful when he/sheis natural i.e. in ease with the natureand surroundings. Look at children;they are always natural and thus theylook so beautiful. When they cry; thereis some beauty in their crying. Whenthey laugh, when they smile, there isa beauty in it. Even if they are angry,there is a beauty in it.

But remember also that you mustsee the deep beauty in people beyondtheir expressions. What a person ex-

presses is not what he or she is allabout. There is a lot of unexpressedlove in each life. Just recognising thisfact allows you to expand. Then youwill never be stuck with what someonesays or does. What someone says isvery small, like the gift wrapping orthe ribbon on a package. If you don’tlike the ribbon, just take it off andlook at what is inside. No box is empty.There is a place for everybody in theheart of the Divine. That is what Jesusmeant when He said, ‘There are manyrooms in the house of my Father’.

The Divine is beauty and beauty isdivine. The ways of God and the waysof the wise have always been indirect.There is a saying in Sanskrit, ‘Parokshapriya hi vai devaha’ which means Godslove indirect methods.

Direct expression is necessary attimes, especially for one who is notawake. The awakened hints and indi-rect expression make it all the morecharming. Everything has its placeand its time. Total exposure is not thelanguage of the heart. Total exposure

provokes; concealed beauty invokes.That is why this nature conceals thewhole creation inside itself during thenight and reveals it the next day inthe morning.

Without life there is no beauty. Abody is beautiful because there is lifein it. The entire creation – the trees,the birds, animals, stones and riversare full of life. And life is the beauty ofthis planet, of this universe. Life isnot just the biological life which justlives on oxygen.

When I say life I mean the con-sciousness which permeates much be-yond, far and wide; there is not aplace where it doesn’t exist. So muchpower and energy, so much beautyand wealth have been given to us bythe divine without which not even ablade of grass can move.

Beauty is all pervasive. You onlyhave to open your eyes and see the re-ality that is there.

This is a weekly column that appearsevery Wednesday

DIVINEQUEST

By Sri Sri Ravishankar

Air marshalKukreja

now ADCto Prez

Bangalore: Air Marshal DhirajKukreja, airofficer com-manding-in-chief, Train-ing Com-mand, IAF,has been ap-pointed hon-orary air ADCto PresidentPratibha Patil.

Air MarshalD Kukreja wascommissioned into the fighterstream of IAF in June 1972. Hechanged over to the transportstream in 1987 and has flownextensively in the North-East andLadakh sectors on AN-32 and IL-76 aircraft.

Air Marshal Kukreja has heldmany command, staff and in-structional appointments in al-most every rank. He has beenan instructor in the National De-fence Academy, qualified flyinginstructor at the Air Force Acad-emy and chief instructor at AirForce Station, Yelahanka.

Jaya caseadjournedto Sept 14

Bangalore: The special courtyesterday adjourned to Septem-ber 14, the disproportionate assetcase filed against Tamil Naduchief minister Jayalalithaa.

Her counsel A Kandasami filedan application under section 309CrPC seeking two weeks adjourn-ment in the wake of the SpecialLeave Petition which came upbefore the Supreme Court yes-terday, being adjourned to Sep-tember 12.

“Since the apex court is likelyto pronounce the orders on Sep-tember 12, we seek two weeksadjournment so that we can pro-ceed on the basis of the out-come”, he submitted.

Assistant special public pros-ecutor Sandesh Chowta accededto it, but pointed out that theSLP was adjourned at the requestof the petitioner’s counsel.

He said the case could be post-ed to Sept 13 to know the outcomeand “then we will be in a positionto inform the court what hastranspired”.

Referring to Supreme Court’sobservations yesterday, Chowtasaid “even the court has observedthat an attempt is being madeto protract the proceedings”.

Meanwhile, counsel for all thefour accused – Jayalalithaa,Sasikala Natarajan, V Sud-hakaran and Ilavarasi – filed ap-plications seeking exemptionfrom personal appearance today.While Jayalalithaa’s counsel citedher busy schedule as Chief Min-ister as the reason, Sasikala’scounsel submitted she was suf-fering from eye problem. Sud-hakaran’s counsel said he hadfractured his hand whileIlavarasi’s counsel submittedthat his client was a “severe di-abetic”.

The court allowed the appli-cations and adjourned the caseto September 14. PTI

Air MarshalDhiraj Kukreja

Toyota to hire1,500 people by 1̓2New Delhi: Japanese car-maker Toyotahas said it will hire about 1,500 peoplefor its Indian operations by next year asit gradually expands its production ca-pacity in the country.

The company, which is present in Indiathrough a joint venture with the KirloskarGroup, is investing Rs 1,650 crore to rampup its production capacity by one lakhunits and for increasing localisation ofcomponents by 2014.

“We will be hiring about 1,500 perma-nent employees by 2012 to meet our ex-pansion demand. In addition to this, wewill hire some contract workers also,”Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) deputymanaging director (commercial) ShekarViswanathan said on the sidelines of anAutomotive Component ManufacturersAssociation summit here.

The company will hire people acrossvarious disciplines as the expansion pro-

gramme gradually unfolds, he added.TKM currently employs around 4,500

employees at its two facilities in Bangalore,of which 70 percent are permanent em-ployees.

At present, the company is expandingthe combined capacity of its two facilitiesin Bangalore to 2.1 lakh units from 1.5lakh units by 2012.

Subsequently, the capacity at the firstplant will be hiked further to 1,00,000units from 90,000 units, while the outputat the second plant will be increased to2,10,000 units from 1,20,000 units.

The firm invested Rs 3,200 crore to setup its second manufacturing facility, withan initial installed capacity of 70,000units per annum, which is now beingexpanded to 1.2 lakh units annually.

The company had also announcedplans to set up an engine plant and ex-pand its transmissions capacity at a com-

bined investment of Rs 500 crore to caterto demand for its Etios and Liva models.

The company will launch the dieselvariants of its small car Liva and sedanEtios in India on Friday.

The firm had introduced the petrolversion of the Etios last year, while theLiva model was rolled out in June thisyear.

At present, the company has capacitiesin place to manufacture 6,000 units ofthe Etios and Liva every month. It willramp up the production volume to 6,800-7,000 units per month by October, in-cluding the diesel variants.

Earlier, the company had said it plansto sell 60,000 units of both the Etios andLiva this year, of which over 20,000 unitsare likely to be the Liva model.

The company has so far sold about30,000 units of the two models sincetheir respective launches. PTI

On fast trackToyota is investing Rs 1,650 crore to rampup its production capacity by one lakhunits The company has 4,500 employees atits two facilities in Bangalore. 70 percentof them are permanent employees.At present, the company is expandingthe combined capacity of its two facilitiesin Bangalore to 2.1 lakh units from 1.5lakh units by 2012.

Scintillating rangapraveshaKalakshithi, School of Fine Arts, pre-

sented the Bharatanatya rangaprave-sha of Suchitra Diwakar at Ravindra

Kalakshetra recently. Suchitra, a disciple ofProf M R Krishna Murthy, started learningdance when she was eight.

The evening had a complete ‘margam’, arepertoire, which is rare to witness in thesedays of modernisation. A recital began withthe traditional alaripu in Trishra jathi , fol-lowed by the Kalyani Jatiswara. Shabdam,which is being slowly forgotten by today’sdance community, was presented by Suchitraelegantly. It depicted the mischief of LordKrishna with the Gopis on the banks of Ja-muna.

The varnam chosen for the day was anancient masterpiece dating back to 18thcentury in one of the rare ragas – Husaini –and composed by the legendary MylaporeGowriammal. Suchitra depicted this elaboratevarnam on Lord Varadaraja, the deity atMellatur temple, with ease. She depicted itwell through her abhinaya and was a feastto watch. The crux of any dance recital isthe varnam, which highlights all aspects ofdance, like nritta , abhinaya, angasudhaand other aspects of dance. The piece wasunusual, but the flow complemented per-fectly with the melodious vocals ofHariprasad.

The second half after the Guruvandanawas a grand feast for dance lovers andstarted with a Kshetragna Padam, whichagain dates back to few centuries. Padamdominated the abhinaya. Suchitra did fulljustice and once again to the vocals renderedby Hariprasad in Mukhari raga.

Javali in Kamach was also well portrayed.The Kannada Devarama, for which dancewas composed by A Janardhanan and sungin Ragamalika, depicts sakhi asking the

Nayaki, Goddess Lakshmi, who she wouldchoose as her Lord while she enumerateshis divine qualities at various places of wor-ship. The sanchari highlighted this numberand the complete rendition was performedwell by the young danseuse. The concertended with the brisk tillana in raga Natab-hairavi.

The ensemble was completed by SumanaNagesh (nattuvangam), Hariprasad and AnilKumar from Kalakshetra, Chennai, (vocals),Nataraj Murthy (violin) and Ganesh (flute).

Suchitra, who is a final-year engineeringstudent, credits maestro of Kalakshithi M RKrishna Murthy with the success of her per-formance.

Naresh Babuis HALʼs

new MD ofcity complex

Bangalore: K Naresh Babu hastaken over as Hindustan Aero-nautics managing director (Ban-galore Complex).

Prior to this assignment, hewas General Manager (Planning)at HAL corporate office, HALsaid in a statement.

In his new post, Babu wouldhead nine full-fledged divisions,including R&D centre, engagedin manufacture, overhaul andsupply of fighter/trainer aircraftamong others, HAL said.

With his planning and man-agement skills, Babu would pro-vide impetus to divisions of Ban-galore complex on timely com-pletion of ongoing projects likeHawk, LCA and IJT, it said.

Babu joined HAL in November1976 as a technical managementtrainee after graduating in Elec-trical and Electronics Engineeringfrom the Indian Institute of Sci-ence, Bangalore. PTI

CITYWednesday, September 7, 2011 3CITY EVENTSGeneralNovo Nordisk EducationFoundation: Launch of India’sNational Diabetes Campaignfor children by former presi-dent APJ Abdul Kalam, FreddySvane, Denmark Ambassadorto India, A K Das, AdditionalDirector General of HealthServices, participate, Chow-diah Memorial Hall, Vya-likaval, 7.30 pm.

Department of Public Li-braries: Workshop for librar-ians, Minister for Small Savingsand Lotteries, Revu Naik Be-lamagi participates, Sir C VRaman Auditorium, TripuraVasini entrance, PalaceGrounds, 3 pm.

Federation of KarnatakaChambers of Commerce andIndustry: Interactive sessionwith Rajkumar Khatri, Secre-tary to Government on railroad connectivity, Cabinet Hall,FKCCI, Kempegowda Road, 5pm.

CPI (M): Round table confer-ence on mining, SCM House,near BBMP Office, behindPriyadarshini Handlooms, Mis-sion Road, Subbaiah Circle,11.30 am.

Karnataka State VeerashaivaLingayat Employees’ WelfareAssociation: Prathibha Puras-kara awards for meritoriousstudents, Housing Minister VSomanna participates, JainTera Panth Bhavan, 2nd Main,Gandhinagar, 5.30 pm.

The Bangalore Science Fo-rum: Talk on ‘Preservation ofbiological specimens by re-cycling environmental pollu-tants’, by Dr V Ramakrishna,Department of Anatomy, Vet-erinary College, 6 pm.

Karnataka State Korama Ko-rchakara Mahasangha: Meet-ing to offer condolence for VS Krishna Iyer, former minis-ters PGR Sindhia and B KChandrashekar, participate,Kannada Sahitya Parishat,Chamarajpet, 5.30 pm.

CulturalRangashankara: Staging ofthe Kannada play ‘MissSadarame’ directed by Man-junath Badiger, RangaShankara, 36/2, 8th Cross, JPNagar 2nd Phase, 7.30 pm.

TheatreMiss Sadarame @ RangaShankara: Wednesday, Sep-tember 7th, 2011. 7:30 p.m. to9 p.m. Ranga Shankara, No36/1 2nd Phase, 8th Cross, JPNagar A satirical comedy abouta woman, Sadarame, who fallsin love with a prince and usesher intelligence to get herselfout of sticky situations.

DanceMeiDhwani: Wednesday, Sep-tember 7th, 2011. 7:30 p.m. to10 p.m. Ravindra Kalakshetra,Kannada Bhavana, JC Road,The Attakkalari Centre forMovement Arts unveils its lat-est full-length contemporarydance production - MeiD-hwani. The production trav-erses the urban Indian expe-rience, combining the fragilityof solitude, the chaos of tur-moil, with the fluidity of move-ment. The Israeli composerand sound artist duo - PatrickSebag and Yotam Agam, deriveinfluences from celebratedmasters of Indian musical tra-ditions and compose thesoundtrack.

Eating OutPower Lunch: Wednesday,September 7th, 2011. 1 p.m. to4 p.m. City Bar Karaoke + Grill,UB City., No 24, Vittal MallyaRoad, Now be connected evenduring the quick businesslunch. Free wi-fi access whileyou fill up in the middle ofthe day. Delectable starterswith a variety of veg/ non vegmain course options alongwith draught beer.

Weekday Lunch Buffet @ManU: Wednesday, September7th, 2011. noon to 3 p.m. Man-chester United Restaurant Bar,The Manchester United Restau-rant and Bar launches a week-day lunch buffet priced at Rs350 plus taxes right fromstarters to desserts.

Tapas at Caperberry: Wednes-day, September 7th, 2011. 12:30p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Caperberry,No 48/1 Ground Floor, The Es-tate, Dickenson Road, Caper-berry is hosting a special pro-motion that revolves aroundtapas, to offer regulars some-thing new and popularise thisintegral aspect of Spanish cul-ture in the city. On offer aretapas like Cherry tomatoes,blue cheese and mixed herbtartlets, Chicken croquetas,and Crabmeat, avocado andcoriander stuffed mini brioche.

Mexican Festival at HardRock Café: Wednesday, Sep-tember 7th, 2011. 12:30 p.m.

to 11:30 p.m. Hard Rock Cafe,No 40, St Marks Road, HardRock Café's special Mexicanmenu features dishes like theLegendary Beef & Smoky BeanBurger, Grilled Bahama MamaChicken Tender Burrito servedwith spicy fries, AlbequerqueCottage Cheese and VegetableBurrito, Spicy American cornand Danish MozzarellaSamoset and desserts such asthe Black & White. Also onoffer is a wide range of specialcocktails, flair bartending andLatin dancers.

Mexican Festival at HardRock Café: Wednesday, Sep-tember 7th, 2011. 12:30 p.m.to 11:30 p.m. Hard Rock Cafe,No 40, St Marks Road, HardRock Café's special Mexicanmenu features dishes like theLegendary Beef & Smoky BeanBurger, Grilled Bahama MamaChicken Tender Burrito servedwith spicy fries, AlbequerqueCottage Cheese and VegetableBurrito, Spicy American cornand Danish MozzarellaSamoset and desserts such asthe Black & White. Also onoffer is a wide range of specialcocktails, flair bartending andLatin dancers.

Shahi Dastarkhwan at Bar-beque Nation: Wednesday,September 7th, 2011. 12:30 p.m.to 11:30 p.m. Barbeque Nation,No 67 3rd Phase, 15th Cross,6th B Main, JP Nagar The fes-tival includes a range ofstarters made with age-oldrecipes, as well as dishes likethe traditional Gushtaba, Sul-tani Murg, Tabq Maas andDhingri E Khaas and Dahi keSholey.

Chocoholic Festival at CityBar: Wednesday, September7th, 2011. 12:30 p.m. to 11:30p.m. City Bar Karaoke + Grill,UB City., No 24, Vittal MallyaRoad, Featured on the menuare sweet treats like pastries,tarts, flavoured chocolates,and pudding.

The Ceviche Trail: Wednesday,September 7th, 2011. noon to3:30 p.m. Mynt, The Taj WestEnd, No 23, Race Course Road,High Grounds A food festivalstraight from the heartland ofthe Incan empire, especiallyPeru. The menu features dish-es like Chilean Sea Bass withLemon Oil, EcuadorianShrimp, Gingered Toro Tunawith Soy and Sesame, andBay Scallop Ceviche withBlackened Tomato.

NightlifeDubstep & Drum 'n' BassNites: Wednesday, September7th, 2011. 8:30 p.m. to 11:30p.m. Bacchus, F&B Excellency,No 8, Papanna Street, St MarksRoad DJ Vachan Chinnapatreats the crowd to dubstepand DnB this Wednesday.

Ladies Night with DJ Deepak:Wednesday, September 7th,2011. 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. TheBeach, No 1211, 100 Feet Road,Indiranagar DJ Deepak playinghouse at The Beach. Unlimiteddrinks for the girls till 10:30pm.

Retro Night at Retro Pricewith DJ Vicky: Wednesday,September 7th, 2011. 8 p.m.to 11:30 p.m. i-Bar, The Park,No 14/7, MG Road, DJ Vickyspins retro hits this Wednes-day. Drinks at 50% off.

ShoppingFall Winter 2011 Collection:Wednesday, September 7th,2011. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Esprit,No 10 Ananda Bhavan, VittalMallya Road, Stripes, florals,wool, tweed, retro and preppycome together in Esprit’s newFall Winter 2011 Collection.

OWW Sale: Wednesday, Sep-tember 7th, 2011. 11 a.m. to 8p.m. One Wit Wonders, No 32ACR Towers, Residency Road,Flat 50% off on selected prod-ucts at One Wit Wonders.

Lustrous Moon Collection:Wednesday, September 7th,2011. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Collage,No 21/1, Wood Street, Ashok-nagar The Lustrous Moon Col-lection by Bharathi Ravi-prakash pays homage to theglow of the moon. The collec-tion includes gold jewellerywith pearls in colours of gold-en, black and chocolate, anddiamonds as well.

Sale @ 100ft Boutique:Wednesday, September 7th,2011. 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. 100ft,No 777/I HAL 2nd Stage, 100Feet Road, Indiranagar Up to50% off on products rangingfrom home furnishings, cloth-ing and accessories to giftitems.

Modern Heritage Collection:Wednesday, September 7th,2011. 10:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.Pepe, No 2, Brigade Road, Pepeintroduces the Modern Her-itage Collection for women,that draws its inspiration fromthe designs of the 90s. Thecollection includes masculineelements and relies on shadesof red, black, navy blue.

Katta savours fest dish,suffers from diarrohea

Manjunath SharmaBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Katta SubramanyaNaidu, whose judicial custodyhas been extended by theLokayukta special court till Sep-tember 19, is now complainingof diarrohea.

Katta, who has been undermedical supervision of the neu-rosurgery department at VictoriaHospital, has been found to con-sume sweet and other dishesthat have aggravated his diabeticcondition.

The neurosurgery departmentinformed the medicine depart-ment, which sent a post-graduatestudent for a routine medicalcheckup of the former IT-BT min-ister.

The tests revealed that he wassuffering from diabetic diarrohea.His urine samples revealed highlevels of ketone.

When questioned, Katta saidhe had consumed kadubu, orrice pudding, payasam, holigewith ghee and hot badam withpista and kesar brought by hiswife and offered as prasadam atthe previous day’s Gowri-Gane-

sha festival.The doctors realized that his

diarrohea is because of jaggeryand sugar in these delicacies.They strictly ordered the CityArmed Reserve policeman, whostands guard outside his room,not to allow any special foodwithout alerting them.

On Monday, Katta absentedhimself from the Lokayukta spe-cial court which extended the

judicial custody of his, his sonKatta Jagadish Naidu and Itascacompany managing director SV Srinivas.

When Justice A Sudhindra Raoasked senior Katta’s counselabout the absence, he explainedabout the health complicationsof his client and how he has notbeen able to step out of the hos-pital. The advocate filed a petitionseeking exemption from personal

appearance for his client. How-ever, Katta Jagadish Naidu andSrinivas appeared before thecourt.

The court has been hearing cases related to a land scam by the Karnataka In-dustrial Area DevelopmentBoard, which was investigatedby the Lokayukta.

The three are being treated asprime accused in the case.

Parties shiftfocus to

by‑poll nowD L Harish


Bangalore: There has been ahectic political activity with theannouncement of by-electionsto the Koppal assembly con-stituency.

All the three major politicalparties – BJP, Congress and JD(S)– are desperate to grab the seat.This is the first election in thestate after former Lokayukta Jus-tice Santosh Hegde submitted areport on illegal mining that costthe BJP strongman B S Yeddyu-rappa the chief minister’s post.The report has turned out to bea millstone for all political parties.A victory here could lift the bur-den a bit.

The Congress has already an-nounced that it is fielding formerMLA Basavaraj Hitnal for theby-poll, which is scheduled tobe held on September 26.

The Congress, which seemsto largely unaffected by the min-ing report, is confident of win-ning the election by focusing onillegal mining report, illegal landdenotification and the selectionof a “weak chief minister”,Sadananda Gowda, to succeedYeddyurappa. The Congress willalso highlight how the BJP gov-ernment has been chanting onlythe development mantra withoutcarrying out any developmentworks.

The BJP wants to field formerMLA Karadi Sanganna, whosedefection to the saffron partyfrom the JD(S), necessitated theby-election.

But the party is yet to finalisehis name. Despite the huge hur-dles it has to cross, the partywants to get back the seat. AndYeddyurappa wants to have hissay here too.

That’s what led to a separatemeeting at his residence on Sat-urday with his loyalists, whileparty president K S Eshwarappaconducted another meeting atthe party headquarters.

Yeddyurappa, during histenure as chief minister eversince the BJP came to power in2008, has been winning all theelections for the party, whichhas made him the most powerfulleader in the saffron party.

He again proved his mettlewhen he elected his candidateSadananda Gowda for the chiefminister’s post.

The JD(S), which fell victimto the Operation Lotus orches-trated by the BJP, has kept a lowprofile.

Party state president H D Ku-maraswamy has not been en-thusiastic about selecting a can-didate for the by-poll.

But the former chief ministerhas really a lot to worry aboutother than the polls at this junc-ture.

The Lokayukta has found himguilty of favouring the JantakalMining Company and getting asite allotted to his wife Anitafrom the Vishwabharati HousingCooperative Society, whosefounder B Krishna Bhat has beenarrested for illegalities concern-ing the distribution of sites.

He is now facing cases filedbefore the Lokayukta specialcourt.

Sources close to the leadersay that Kumaraswamy firstwants to clear all his cases beforehe starts focusing on the electionand other political activities.

His father and JD(S) strong-man H D Deve Gowda has askedKumaraswamy to keep awayfrom the by-election and not tobother about campaigning toofor the party candidate in Koppal.

Gowda is now worried thatthe presence of his “tainted” soncould damage the poll prospectsof the party here.

Gowda, who is usually vocalabout issues concerning thestate, has been keeping quieton the latest developments.

He has been watching the de-velopments within the BJP andCongress, party sources said.

Political pundits say if Gowdais quiet, then certainly there issomething big brewing, whichwill be announced at the righttime.

The constituency has 1.83 lakhvoters, the majority of whom arefrom the Lingayat and backwardclasses communities.

Hitnal is a Vokkaliga and astaunch follower of oppositionleader in the assembly Siddara-maiah.

The BJP and JD(S) have notdecided on their candidates yet.The BJP has said it would an-nounce its contestant on Friday,the last day to file nominationsfor the by-poll.

HPlaunches virtual infra systemBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: As virtualisation isgaining popularity, multi-tiernetwork architectures, virtualsprawl, inflexible storage andsecurity concerns have increasedin complexity.

With a motive to help the mid-size to large organisations ad-dress these increasing challenges,HP and VMware announced thelaunch of HP Virtual System forVMware.

The system gives organisations

a virtual infrastructure thatspeeds implementation and pro-vides a foundation for cloudcomputing. It was launched inthe city yesterday.

HP Virtual System for VMwareincludes virtualised HP network-ing solutions, HP converged stor-age, HP blade system servers,HP Insight software with on-siteinstallation services.

“HP Virtual System forVMware helps customers simplifyand scale their virtualisation de-ployments to provide a clear

path to the cloud. Virtualisation has become

mainstream for clients, but thereare obstacles to broad deploy-ment” said Prakash Kris-hanamoorthy, country head, HPStorage Division India.

“Companies now need solu-tions that enable them to moveto and from stacks of infrastruc-ture to pools of technology re-sources that can be shared anddelivered as application servicesin real time.

With HP Virtual System for

VMware clients can streamlinetheir virtualisation projects todayand transition to cloud comput-ing in the future,” said T Srini-vasan, MD, VMware India.

VMware features architecturalinnovations and services thathelp eliminate virtualisation com-plexity, consolidate IT infrastruc-ture and improve performancewhich enables an acceleratedvirtual machine mobility of upto 40 percent and reduces thenetwork recovery time by morethan 500 times.

EXPERTS DEMAND LIFTING OF MORATORIUM ON BT BRINJAL

L RaghunandaBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Brinjal is not usedin any traditional medicine. Andto claim that the genetically mod-ified variety of this vegetablewould affect its use in traditionalmedicines is wrong, said Prof CKameshwara Rao of the Foun-dation of Biotechnology Aware-ness and Education (FBAE),which has been promoting ge-netically modified crops.

“Without knowing the greateconomic benefits farmers wouldaccrue, there have been protestsagainst Bt brinjal. There weresimilar voices of dissent whenBt cotton was introduced. Noweveryone knows how farmersare gaining from it. It is a wrongtrend being seen in the country,”he said.

“With opposition to Bt brinjalwinding down, the governmentshould now think of lifting themoratorium on the crop.”

He said six scientists from theIndian Institute of HorticulturalResearch (IIHR) in the city areinvolved with research on Btbrinjal.

Lambasting former Union en-vironment minister JairamRamesh, Prof Rao said, “He wasa short-sighted minster whobowed to pressure from someactivists. Present minister Jayan-thi Natarajan is yet to come toterms with her new portfolio andissues clouding the introductionof Bt brinjal.”

A study in a recent publicationby the National Centre for Agri-cultural Economics and PolicyResearch, an organisation underthe Indian Council for Agricul-tural Research, has stated thatBt brinjal adoption would addbetween 30,000 and 1,19,000tonnes to the total productionof brinjal, depending upon thecontext of cultivation in differentareas.

The publication also mentionabsolute annual gain from Btbrinjal cultivation would be aboutRs 577 crore at an adoption levelof 15 percent, about Rs 1,167 croreat 30 percent and Rs 2,387 croreat 60 percent adoption levels.

“We have appealed to PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh to liftthe moratorium on Bt brinjal.We have cited the success of Btcotton and how farmers havegained by it,” Prof Rao said.

He said that there has beensubstantial evidence to provethat Bt brinjal does not affectenvironment or health of thepersons who consume it.

Dr T M Manjunath, consultantat Agricultural Biotechnology,told Bangalore Beat: “Bio-safetyof Bt brinjal was evaluated forover seven years.

“Over 200 scientist and morethan a dozen public and privatesector research institutions haveconducted research on the veg-etable. It has been proved per-fectly safe. There should be nodelay in introducing Bt brinjalcommercially.”

Prof C Kameswara Rao of the Foundation of BiotechnologyAwareness and Education (FBAE), Bangalore, along withprominent scientists, asserted that Bt Brinjal is safe for

human consumption and requested the Prime Minister to intervene urgently to ensure that the moratorium on

commercial production of Bt brinjal is immediately lifted.

Mayor slams Metrofor bad city roads


Bangalore: The con-struction work ofMetro rail has beentaking a toll on thecondition of theroads in the city. Theroads that have al-ready been damagedby the massive con-struction work haveonly got worse with the rainyseason.

An alarmed mayorSharadamma called a meetingof officials from the BangaloreMetro Rail Corporation, Banga-lore Electricity Supply Company,Bangalore Water Supply andSewerage Board and Bruhat Ban-galore Mahanagara Palike to dis-cuss ways to improve the condi-tion of city roads.

The mayor gave strict direc-tions to BMRCL officials to repairall the roads which have fallenprey to the Metro constructional

activity. She set adeadline of Sep-tember 25 to com-plete the works.

“People havebeen slamming theBBMP because ofthe negligence ofBMRCL. It is sadthat BMRCL offi-cials have not paidany attention to the

condition of city’s roads whichhave been rendered unmotorabledue to the ongoing works. It isthe duty of the palike to lookafter the welfare of the citizens,”she said.

Deputy mayor S Harish hasvideographed the roads damagedby Metro Rail works. He saidthere are many roads in the citythat cannot be used by two-wheelers.

The officials, who got an ear-ful, left the meeting, saying theywould repair the roads by Sep-tember 25.

BBMP serves notice on Kamat Yatri Nivas


Bangalore: A BBMP health com-mittee team that carried out in-spection of various hotels acrossthe city served a notice on KamatYatri Nivas for not maintaininghygiene.

The team, led by BBMP healthstanding committee chairpersonK N Geetha Shashikumar, carriedout inspection in hotels at Se-shadripuram, Shivananda Circleand Kumarakrupa Road.

The committee membersserved a notice also to Laksmi-padmanaba Marriage Hall.

Geetha said, “As this is a rainyseason all hotels and the com-munity halls need to maintainthe hygiene standards with ut-most care.

Epidemics spread at a rapidrate during the season. It is theduty of these hotels to providehot water when their customersdemand it.

The palike will take strict ac-tion against establishments thatdo not follow the rules.”

BBMP health standing committee chairperson K N Geetha Shashikumar and other memberscarry out an inspection at Kamat Yatri Nivas. She ordered that a notice be served to the hotel.The team also carried out inspection at different hotels in Seshadripuram, Shivananda Circle

and Kumarakrupa Road.


Bangalore: A water summit todiscuss various issues related todrink of life will be held in thecity from February 1 to 3 of nextyear, announced A Ravindra,who is an advisor to the chiefminister on urban affairs andchairman for the Centre for Sus-tainable Development (CSD),here this morning.

The three-day summit willbring the focus on water re-sources and conservation, waterquality and health, demand man-agement and use of informationand communication technologyin water supply.

The summit would create aninteractive forum to exchangeideas and showcase trends andtechnologies to sustain and im-prove water resources and theirefficient and management. Thiscould throw up answers to solv-ing some of the pressing Indianand at larger global issues relatedto water, he said.

Organiser said -track confer-ences, international trade shows,knowledge exchange forums, pa-per presentations, case studypresentations, water awards, wa-

ter technologies and a walkathonwould be part of the summit.

Delegates from the USA, Ger-many, France, UK, Canada, Aus-tralia, China, Japan, Malaysiaand Singapore would take partin the conference.

The CSD has organised thesummit, which will be supportedby BWSSB, KUWS&DB in asso-ciation with the Water Works

Association.Details leading up to the sum-

mit would be available on:http://www.bangalorewatersum-mit.com. Ravindra said, “Wateris a basic necessity. The firstBangalore Water Summit is po-sitioned to be the most importantevent in the water sector of Indiancalendar and one of the signifi-cant events of the world.”

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Cape buffaloesarrive at

Mysore zooKarthik Gowda


Mysore: There is one more at-traction at the ChamarajendraZoological Gardens in Mysore.The zoo has just received a pairof African buffalos, or Capebuffalos.

These animals have comehere on an exchange pro-gramme with the Thiruvanan-thapuram zoo, which has re-ceived a pair of Indian gaursand a pair of red jungle fowl.

This is the latest in a seriesof animal exchange pro-grammes the zoo has taken up,increasing the variety of speciesat one of the better maintainedfacilities in the country.

African buffalos weigh be-tween 300 kg and 500 kg andstand 100 to 170 cm at theshoulder level. Their colourvaries from dark brown, blackto bright red.

The body is heavy set withstocky legs, large head andshort neck the ears are large.Both male and female havehorns. The lifespan is about 18to 20 years and it attains sexualmaturity in 3.5 to five years.

They breed during rainy sea-son.

A unique feature of theselarge animals is that they keepmoving and grazing throughthe morning and well into thenight, spending almost 18 hoursin these activities. In the wild,they move in groups of 50 to500. In the wild, these largeanimals are found

These large animals, foundin open Savannah, woodlandsand rainforests, are hunteddown by lions and crocodiles.

In the zoo, it is fed withwheat and rice bran, groundnutcake, carrot, cut branches, pad-dy straw and green grass. Thebuffalos are being temporarilyhoused in the zebra enclosure.A new enclosure is being builtand would take at least two tothree months for completion.

Zoo executive director andconservator of forests B P Ravisaid the new arrivals wouldnot face any problems gettingadjusted to the local climate.“We have appointed extra staffto take care of these animals.”

The zoo will also get a pairof anacondas, the world’slargest snake, soon.

The Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens in Mysore has received African, or Cape, buffaoles under an animal

exchange programme with the Thiruvananthapuram zoo,which has received a pair of Indian gaurs and a pair of red

jungle fowl.

Expert: Poor mustknow their rights


Mysore: The people who are inpower should always know theirduties and the poor should knowtheir rights, said dean of politicalscience department at HyderabadUniversity G Haragopala.

Addressing a gathering afterinaugurating the eighth refreshercourse in human rights organisedby the Academic Staff Collegeand the University of Mysore po-litical science department, hesaid human rights should havethe dignity and discipline andnot dominate.

Dominance should be limitedonly to the animal world. Domi-

nance is unhealthy not only inworkplace, but also in caste, re-ligion, gender and society. Hu-man rights play a major role incarving out the attitude of a hu-man being in society. Men shouldalways respect women, he said.

Earlier, women were seen asgoddesses, but now men havemade them subordinates. Thefundamental duty of men is totreat women equally and it isthe fundamental right of womento come up, he said.

Mysore University vice-chan-cellor V G Talwar, university po-litical science department deanG Venkatesh and others tookpart in the seminar.

Captain Cook guides Englandto easy win in 2nd ODI

Southampton: India’s bowlingattack came a cropper as Englandrode on captain Alastair Cook’sunbeaten 80 to register a com-fortable seven wicket victory inthe rain-curtailed second oneday international here.

Chasing a competitive 188 forvictory in the rain-shortened 23-over-a-side match last night,Cook led from the front with anunbeaten half century that cameoff 63 balls to help England over-haul the target with five balls tospare.

But it was Craig Kieswetterwho got England’s run chase offto a blistering start with a 25-ball 46 during which he hit fourboundaries and three sixes.

Ian Bell (25 off 16) and RaviBopara (24 off 20) also madeuseful contribution in the hometeam’s successful chase.

Off-spinner R Ashwin was themost successful bowler for Indiapicking up two wickets for 42runs while R Vinay Kumar (1/33)accounted for the other English

wicket.Earlier, young Ajinkya Ra-

hane’s maiden half-century andwhile Suresh Raina’s quickfire40 helped India pile up an im-posing 187 for eight.

Sent into bat after the matchwas reduced to 23-over-a-sideaffair due to persistent rain, Indiarode on Rahane (54 off 47), Raina,Rahul Dravid (32 off 31) andParthiv Patel’s (28 off 18) willowto post the mammoth score.

While Parthiv and Rahane yetagain gave India a good start, itwas Raina who provided a stir-ring finish to the visitor’s inningswith a fiery 40 that came off just19 balls.

For England, Graeme Swann(3/33) and Tim Bresnan (3/43)shared six wickets among them.

England are now 1-0 up in thefive-ODI series with the nextmatch scheduled at the Oval onFriday. The first game at Chester-Le-Street was abandoned due torain.

England’s rucn chase got off

to a flier with Cook and Kieswet-ter putting on 67 runs for theopening wicket in no time.

From the onset, Kieswetter

was in a murderous mood astwo of his three sixes came ofAshwin’s opening over.

The Indian bowlers were sent

for a leatherhunt by Cook andKieswetter as England raced offto 50 in just five overs.

Kieswetter fell just four runs

short of his half century, lbw toViany Kumar in the seventh over.

New man in Bell, playing his100th ODI, creamed off 25 withfour fours before holing out toVirat Kohli at short extra coveroff Ashwin’s bowling.

But England, already 100 upin the 10th over, were holdingall the aces.

The Indians were also ham-pered by the absence of a regularfifth bowler as Kohli and Rainagave away 35 off their four overs.

After Bell’s dismisal, Cook andBopara put on 60 off 48 ballsfor the third wicket before thelatter departed caught by Kohliwhile trying to lift Ashwin overthe cover. But it hardly madeany difference in the outcomeof the match as by this time Eng-land, at 162 for three in the 19thover, were already well on theirway to an easy win.

Earlier asked to bat, Parthivstole the limelight in the begin-ning by giving India a scintillat-ing start. PTI

Parthiv Patel plays a shot off England’s Tim Bresnan in India vs England one day international at the Rose Bowl cricket ground in Southampton, England, last night.

Forum alleges KPSC scamMysore: The Karnataka StateBackward Communities Aware-ness Forum held a protest infront of the Kote Anjaneya Swamitemple here this morning.

The forum was protestingagainst alleged recruitment scan-dal under the tenure of then Kar-nataka Public Service Commis-sion H N Krishna in 1998-99 andin 2004. The recruitments werecaste based and not merit based,

the protestors alleged. They saidstudents from backward com-munities were ignored.

The protesters were led by KS Shivaram, president of the fo-rum; Balakrishna Sangapura,Kannada Nadu Sene state presi-dent and Revanna, KarnatakaDalitara Vedike president.

They started their march fromthe temple till the Freedom Parkin Bangalore. They intend to

reach the Freedom Park by 11.30am tomorrow, sit on a dharnaand then present a memorandumto governor H R Bhardwaj. Protest: Members of the MysoreCity Corporation Workers Unionprotested against unfair treat-ment meted out to one of them.They said employee Lokesh didnot receive his salary from June2008 and the workers protestedin front of the DC’s office.

Chairman for the Centre for Sustainable Development A Ravindra and BWSSB chairman C Ramamurti announce

the Bangalore World Water Summit today.

CITY ON HIGH ALERT

Dasarawebsite

Continued from page 1Ramadass said the official dasarawebsite will be connected toFacebook also to enable easy ac-cess to tourists. The site alsocontains important informationlike phone numbers of essentialservices like police, hospitalsand ambulance services.

The organisers have also in-troduced a nine days - one ticketsystem in which a visitor needsto buy one ticket only to gainentry to the celebrations in allthe nine days. The informationis listed in Kannada as well asin English.

Ramadass said in order to easeout congestion during Dasaraand to control crowd, all privatevehicles within a radius of 3-4kms of the central celebrationarea will be banned. Visitors willbe transported free of cost bygovernment vehicles to the ven-ue.

The governor, chief ministerand some other ministers areexpected to visit Mysore tomor-row to oversee the preparationsfor holding Dasara.

The festival is expected to havesome august visitors tomorrowin the form of the Governor, theChief Minister and various otherministers.

For getting further informationon Dasara one could contact10771195 or 0821-2418888.

City to host watersummit next year

Gangadhar Pujar

Police officials check vehicles and bags of people arriving at the Karnataka High Court today. A high alert was sounded across the country, especially near court complexes, after a terror attack in New Delhi this morning.

Photos: S Radhakrishna

KSOU helpMysore: The Karnataka StateOpen University has launched anew initiative to increase thechances of Karnataka studentsin various national level com-petitive exams. The main aimof the program is to encouragemore students to take up theseexams like the UPSC and theKPSC.

The government has allotted15 acres land to set up a traininginstitute for this purpose.

Beyond BeatWednesday, September 7, 2011


There is no better way to createawareness than involving themwhen they are young. This is whatthe Children’s Movement for CivicAwareness (CMCA) has been doing

on coming for long. Today, they started aprogramme to stress upon the importanceof treating others equally, whoever they maybe.

Today being the Pourakarmikas’ Day, theCMCA has arranged school students tointeract with these civic workers.

CMCA holds the distinction of taking upsimilar activities engaging students in var-ious cities of the country to create aware-ness among students. It seeks to sensitisechildren and youth to civic and democrat-ic issues, improving quality of life anddrilling into them the importance of equal-ity of life.

Over the past year, CMCA has reachedout to over 19,000 children in six citiesthrough 327 schools and 399 civic clubs.

Priya Krishnamurthy, CMCA trustee andassociate national coordinator, told Ban-galore Beat: “When the whole countrywas engrossed in warding off corruption,students from various schools in the city gotthemselves busy by forming human chainto support the cause. They took part in awalkathon, shouted slogans against cor-ruption and exhorted political leaders togive up corrupt practices. Many schoolsacross the city took part in the programme.It was a success and was coordinated by theCMCA.

“Now, the same students from 79 privateand government schools in the city, whichare members of the CMCA, are going to par-ticipate in the Pourkarmikas’ Day today.Over 5,000 schoolchildren were part of theevent.”

CMCA has been involving students inunique initiatives to impress upon them theimportance of equality among citizens.The same point was highlighted at today’sevent. The CMCA asked students to go to re-spective ward offices near their schools andinvite pourakarmikas to their institutions.The palike workers were given flowersand sweets.”

On the importance of getting students en-gaged in such activities, she said, “What wehave seen with most students in our schoolsis that they are out of sync with activitiesoutside their schools. They have not hadany interaction with pourakarmikas, whoare instrumental in keeping the city clean.On the Pourkarmikas’ Day today, students

interacted with the workers and got toknow about their lives.”

The pourkarmika men and women worktirelessly to keep the city clean. They are

forced to deal with hazardous waste, likebroken glass pieces, leaking batteries, bro-ken bulbs and bottles and dangerous,used bandage materials.

The programme teaches students theyare the integral part of keeping the city cleanand maintaining hygiene. It is important toinstill these important aspects in them.

They grow up to become responsible citi-zens and learn to respect pourakarmikas.There is no better way than making stu-dents understand now and ask them to act.

Skinny? It is all in your

chromosomesLondon: Ever wondered why some people justdon’t put on weight even after eating fatty or junkfood daily? It’s due to their “skinny” genes, saysa new study.

Researchers at Imperial College London and theUniversity of Lausanne in Switzerland have foundthat skinny people have an “overdose” of chro-mosomes that lead to being underweight, the ‘Dai-ly Mail’ reported.

According to them, the genes in question are agroup of 28 that form part of chromosome 16.

Last year, the research team found that peoplewithout these genes are 43 times more likely to bemorbidly obese.

However, it has now been revealed that peoplein whom these particular genes are duplicated aremore likely to be skinny.

Now, researchers said that around one in 2,000people have the duplicated genes, making men 23times more likely to be underweight, and womenfive times more likely.

Normally, each person has a copy of eachchromosome from each parent, giving them twocopies of each gene. Sometimes sections of a chro-mosome can be duplicated, resulting in an ab-normal “dosage” of genes, the researchers said.

“This is the first genetic cause of extreme thin-ness that has been identified. It’s also the first ex-ample of a deletion and a duplication of one partof the genome having opposite effects,” said ProfPhilippe Froguel from Imperial’s school of publichealth, who led the study.

The discovery has important implications for di-agnosis in children’s health, say the researcherswhose findings have been published in the ‘Na-ture’ journal.

A non-specific condition in children known as“failure to thrive” – where their rate of weight gainis significantly lower than normal – has been di-agnosed in half of all those children with the ge-netic duplication, the study showed.

It means “failure to thrive” can be geneticallydriven.

“If a child is not eating, it’s not necessarily theparents’ fault. If we can work out why gene du-plication in this region causes thinness, it mightthrow up new potential treatments for obesity andappetite disorders.

“We now plan to sequence these genes and findout what they do, so we can get an idea of whichones are involved in regulating appetite,” said ProfFroguel.

For their study, the researchers examined theDNA of more than 95,000 people for their study forwhich being underweight was defined as havinga body mass index below 18.5 kg per metresquared. PTI

Potatoes canreduce blood

pressureLondon: Potatoes are often discarded by many asfatty food. But, a new study now claims that eat-ing spuds daily can help lower your blood pres-sure; and moreover, there is no weight gain in-volved. In the study, researchers fed 18 volunteerssix to eight spuds twice a day. Most of those tak-ing part were overweight or obese and on pills tolower blood pressure. And, the spuds used werepurple ones cooked unpeeled in a microwave.

After a month, their average systolic blood pres-sure, the “upper” reading when blood is pumpedwith each beat of the heart, was down by 3.5 percent. Diastolic or “lower” readings decreased by4.3 per cent.

In addition, none of the volunteers put on anyweight, the ‘Daily Mail’ reported.

“Mention ‘potato’ and people think ‘fattening,high carbs, empty calories’. We hope our re-search helps to remake the potato’s popular nu-tritional image,” lead researcher Dr Joe Vinson ofthe University of Scranton in Pennsylvania wasquoted as saying.

He added that lowering blood pressure cuts therisk of heart attacks and strokes. PTI

MAKING THEM CHANTEQUALITY MANTRA

Today is Pourakarmika Day, the Childrenʼs Movement for Civic Awareness organisedan interaction with these civic workers, who toil hard to keep the city clean. Most ofthe schoolchildren donʼt know the world outside their class. This engagement made

them realise the importance of treating all equally, says L Raghunanda

Abortions may increase risk of mental health problems: Study

London: Women who undergo abortions are atgreater risk of suffering from mental health prob-lems compared with others, a new study hasclaimed.

The study, carried out by American academicPriscilla Coleman and published in the British Jour-nal of Psychiatry, also claimed that one in ten ofall mental health problems was a result of abor-tion.

There is also a greater possibility that abortionmay led to alcoholism, drug abuse and suicide,said the study, which is endorsed by the Royal Col-lege of Psychiatrists.

It adds to past research published by the jour-nal three years ago which questioned the as-sumption of abortion campaigners that termi-nating a pregnancy reduces rather than increas-es the health risks to women, the Daily Mail re-ported.

The new research was based on an analysis of22 separate projects which together analysed theexperiences of 877,000 women, of whom 163,831had had an abortion.

It found that abortion was linked with a 34 percent greater chance of anxiety disorders, and 37per cent higher possibility of depression, the Dai-ly Mail reported.

Abortions was also linked with more thandouble, or 110 per cent, greater risk of alcoholabuse, a three times greater (220 per cent) risk ofcannabis use, and 155 per cent greater risk of try-ing to commit suicide, the study claimed.

It said: “Results indicate quite consistently thatabortion is associated with moderate to highly in-creased risks of psychological problems subse-

quent to the procedure.“Overall, the results revealed that women who

had undergone an abortion experienced an 81 percent increased risk of mental health problems, andnearly 10 per cent of the incidence of mental healthproblems was shown to be directly attributable to

abortion.”Prof Coleman has been the frequent target of

pro-choice campaigners in the US for her insis-tence that abortion is linked to poor mentalhealth.

Though critics have doubted her methods,they has so far been failed to damage her academicreputation, and publication in the peer-reviewedBritish journal is a signal that the psychiatric es-tablishment is now taking seriously the possibilitythat abortion is a cause of anxiety, depression, al-coholism, drug abuse and suicide.

The new findings are certain to cause contro-versy at a time when the pro- and anti- abortionlobbies are in the midst of a vicious row.

But, Prof Coleman said there are in fact “somereal risks associated with abortion that should beshared with women as they are counselled priorto an abortion”.

The political heat over abortion means re-searchers should try to set aside their own beliefs,she added.

Her study was intended “to produce an unbi-ased analysis of the best available evidence ad-dressing abortion as one risk factor among manyothers that may increase the likelihood of men-tal health problems”.

Meanwhile, the new findings were seized byanti-abortion campaigners. Philippa Taylor, of theChristian Medical Foundation, said: “It is imper-ative that women are made aware of the real risksof developing mental health problems post-abor-tion.

“We welcome this rigorous, extensive andmost timely research,” she added. PTI

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Extroverts nothappier than

introvert peers

London: Partying more often tofind happiness? A new studyshows that less outgoing peopleare just as happy as their social-ly inclined peers.

Researchers at the ShynessResearch Institute at IndianaUniversity Southeast found thatextroverted people who are al-ways out drinking and partyingare not much happier than theirintroverted peers.

The researchers comparedtechniques used by extrovertedand introverted university stu-dents and found the less socialones relied more on family rela-tionships and friendships or cog-nitive strategies like positivethinking.

“You don’t have to go out andparty to be happy,” study authorBernardo Carducci was quoted assaying by the Daily Mail.

He added: “That’s the thingstudents feel they need to do, par-ticularly when they’re new tocampus.

“But it’s critical to maintain

contacts with family, with friendsand like-minded individuals withwhom you feel some sort ofmeaningful connection.”

Another study conducted byCarducci also found that stu-dents were happier when theywere goal-orientated, rather thanthose who were not focused.

He said: “When you look atwhat these people do differently,people who strive to reach per-sonal goals, they engage in pur-poseful leisure, rather than sittingaround watching television.

“They don’t go clubbing asmuch as the others. They spendmore time on what we call spir-itual reflection. These are thekinds of people who tend to bemore happy.”

Carducci also added that thegoal-orientated students are theones more likely to graduate.

His studies both involved 337undergraduates and were dis-cussed at the American Psycho-logical Association?s annualmeeting this month. PTI

Alcohol dulls brain into making mistakesWashington: Why do people with above av-erage intelligence act irrationally, espe-cially when they are drunk?

A new study says that alcohol dulls thebrain signal warning people about mis-takes, reducing their self control.

“When people make mistakes, activity ina part of the brain responsible for moni-toring behaviour increases... sending analarm signal to other parts of the brain in-dicating that something went wrong,” saidBruce Bartholow.

Bartholow, associate professor of psy-chology at the University of Missouri, Co-lumbia, and his team measured brain ac-tivity of 67 participants, aged 21-35 years, asthey completed a task designed to tripthem into making errors.

About a third of them were given alcohol,while the rest were given no alcohol or a

placebo beverage, the Journal of AbnormalPsychology reports.

Besides monitoring brain activity, re-searchers also measured changes in par-ticipants’ mood, their accuracy in the com-puter task, as well as their perceived accu-racy, according to a Missouri statement.

The findings showed that the brain’s“alarm signal” in response to errors wasmuch less pronounced in those who hadconsumed alcohol, and the response wasthe largest for those in the placebo group.

However, those in the alcohol groupwere no less likely to realize when they hadmade a mistake than participants in the oth-er groups.

It indicates that alcohol’s reduction of thebrain’s “alarm signal” did not occur simplybecause those in the alcohol group were un-aware of their errors. IANS

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Residents are evacuated in boats aftertheir street was flooded due to heavy

rains in Cuautitlan, on the outskirts ofMexico City.

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world briefs

Russia, Franceto discuss

global securityMoscow: Russia and France will hold adiscussion on key global issues during ameeting of their defence and foreign min-isters Wednesday, RIA Novosti reported.

The ministers will focus on bilateral co-operation with the emphasis on Europeansecurity and missile defence, Iranian nuclearprogramme, the situation in Libya andSyria, said Russian foreign ministryspokesman Alexander Lukashevich.

The Russian-French Security CooperationCouncil will be held in Moscow in a two-plus-two format for the 10th time since itscreation in 2002. The members of the Councilwill meet with Russian President DmitryMedvedev.

The spokesman said the current politicalinstability in the Middle East and NorthAfrica raises many questions, and the sideswill attempt to come up with an “optimalrecipe” to deal with the crisis of this na-ture.

“We are certain that the contacts betweenthe Russian and French ministers in Moscowand their talks with the Russian presidentwill bolster bilateral strategic partnership,”Lukashevich said. IANS

Ring fingerlength linkedto male libido

London: The length of a man’s fourth (ring)finger has been linked to his libido. Themore testosterone a foetus is exposed to,the longer the ring finger is supposed tobe.

Which explains why men’s fourth fingersare usually longer than their index (next tothe thumb) fingers, while the reverse istrue in women.

Now scientists have figured out that thefourth finger’s size depends on levels ofthe male and female sex hormones in thefoetus, the journal Proceedings of the Na-tional Academy of Sciences reports.

Ring finger length has been linked withsperm count, aggression and sports prowess,while high testosterone levels are tied witha higher sex drive, according to the DailyMail.

Martin Cohn and Zhengui Zheng, biolo-gists at the University of Florida, say thefourth finger is packed with receptors forsex hormones.

They took groups of pregnant mice – aspecies with a similar finger-length ratioto humans – and controlled the geneswhich affect their oestrogen and testosteronelevels.

Increased testosterone affected the sizeof the ring finger in the hind paws of thebaby mice, which are like the human lefthand in being receptive to sex hormones.

Cohn said: “Sex hormones affect fingerlength, and the ratio is fixed before thebone has even developed.” IANS

Missing geneturns you intocouch potato

London: Couch potatoes can’t help beingwhat they are a missing gene may explainwhy they are so lazy and inactive.

Researchers rendered healthy mice slowand slothful by separating two genes inmuscles crucial for exercise.

The genes control the activated proteinkinase (AMPK), an enzyme that is switchedon when you exercise, the journal Proceed-ings of the National Academy of Sciencesreports.

Gregory Steinberg, associate professorof medicine at McMaster University in Cana-da, said: “Mice love to run. While thenormal mice could run for miles, thosewithout the genes. . . could only run thesame distance as down the hall and back.”

Researchers found the mice without themuscle AMPK genes had lower levels ofmitochondria (which powers a cell) andan impaired muscle ability to take upglucose while they exercise.

The findings are important for individualswho find it difficult to exercise, such as theobese, asthmatics and people in wheel-chairs, added Steinberg.

Their inability to exercise may lead toother complications such as diabetes andheart disease. IANS

London: Scientists have developedwhat they claim is an “electronic nose”which can “smell” heart failure.

A team at the University HospitalJena in Germany says the “electronicnose” system consists of an array ofthree thick-film metal oxide based gassensors with heater elements.

Each of the sensors had a slightlydifferent sensitivity to various odorantmolecular types.

“The early detection of chronicheart failure (CHF) through periodicalscreening facilitates early treatmentapplication,” said Vasileios Kechagias,who led a team at the University Hos-pital Jena in Germany.

Heart failure is a common, costly,disabling and potentially deadly con-dition. It’s linked to significantly re-duced physical and mental health,resulting in a markedly decreased

quality of life. Although some peoplesurvive many years, progressive diseaseis associated with an overall increasedmortality and morbidity.

“We conducted a daily screeningof patients with different degrees ofheart failure. For the study, eligiblepatients were enrolled after informed

consent, and the collected data wasanonymous,” Kechagias said.

In particular, the relevant laboratoryparameters for heart failure (minerals,creatinine, blood gas analysis) werecollected and a clinical assessmentof heart failure based on the availableparameters (clinical history, laboratory,echocardiography, and exercise stresstest) was performed.

The researchers screened a total of250 patients and included 126 in thestudy in which testing was optimisedthrough a standardized skin prepara-tion.

The assignment of patients to thedifferent groups (no heart failure vsmoderate heart failure vs.

decompensated heart failure) wasperformed by physicians blinded forthe measured values through the elec-tronic nose.

Two groups were formed with CHFpatients: one with decompensated(n=27) heart failure and one with com-pensated (n=25) heart failure.

For the clinical manifestation ofthe decompensated heart failure, theresearchers evaluated the marked limitation of any activity where thepatient is comfortable only at rest(Class III) or the state in which anyphysical activity brings on discomfortand symptoms occur at rest (ClassIV).

Furthermore, they screened a controlgroup of patients without heart failuresymptoms (n=28). Then the measure-ment with the “electronic nose” ran-domly took place, from 10 cycles of 3minutes each and a subsequent offlinedata analysis.

In all patients, data acquisition waspossible. PTI

Corals give cluesto sunscreen pill

London: Scientists claim to haveuncovered the unique way coralsshield themselves from the Sun’sharmful ultraviolet rays, a findingthey say can soon be syntheti-cally replicated in a lab to makea sunscreen pill for humans.

A King’s College London team,which visited Australia’s GreatBarrier Reef to find out secretsbehind coral’s natural defence,discovered key genetic and bio-chemical processes that help thespecies protect themselves fromthe harsh UV rays.

After studying a few samplesof the endangered Acropora coralthey believe they can syntheti-cally replicate in the lab the keycompounds responsible, the BBCreported.

Before creating a tablet ver-sion, the researchers led by DrPaul Long, plan to test a lotioncontaining the same compoundsas those found in coral.

To do this, they will copy thegenetic code the coral uses tomake the compounds and put itinto bacteria in the lab that canrapidly replicate to produce largequantities of it.

Dr Long said: “We couldn’tand wouldn’t want to use thecoral itself as it is an endangeredspecies.”

He said scientists had knownfor some time that coral andsome algae could protect them-selves from the harsh UV raysin tropical climates by producingtheir own sunscreens but, untilnow, they didn’t know how.

“What we have found is thatthe algae living within the coralmakes a compound that we thinkis transported to the coral, whichthen modifies it into a sunscreenfor the benefit of both the coraland the algae,” he said. “Notonly does this protect them bothfrom UV damage, but we haveseen that fish that feed on thecoral also benefit from this sun-screen protection, so it is clearlypassed up the food chain.”

This could ultimately meanthat people might be able to getinbuilt sun protection for theirskin and eyes by taking a tabletcontaining the compounds, theresearchers said.

But for now, they are focusingtheir efforts on a lotion.

Dr Long said: “Once we recre-ate the compounds we can putthem into a lotion and test themon skin discarded after cosmeticsurgery tummy tucks.

“We will not know how muchprotection against the sun itmight give until we being testing.But there is a need for bettersunscreens.”

Another long-term goal of theirstudy is to look at if the processescould also be used for developingsustainable agriculture in theThird World.

The natural sunscreen com-pounds found in coral could beused to produce UV-tolerant cropplants capable of tolerating harshtropical UV light, the researcherssaid.

This could ultimately meanthat people might be able to getinbuilt sun protection for theirskin and eyes by taking a tabletcontaining the compounds, theresearchers said.

But for now, they are focusingtheir efforts on a lotion.

Dr Long said: “Once we recre-ate the compounds we can putthem into a lotion and test themon skin discarded after cosmeticsurgery tummy tucks.

“We will not know how muchprotection against the sun itmight give until we being testing.But there is a need for bettersunscreens.”

Another long-term goal of theirstudy is to look at if the processescould also be used for developingsustainable agriculture in theThird World.

The natural sunscreen com-pounds found in coral could beused to produce UV-tolerant cropplants capable of tolerating harshtropical UV light, the researcherssaid. PTI

Axes hint at earlierexodus from Africa

Paris: Scientists have reportedthe discovery of stone tools that challenge conventional timelines for the out-of-Africaexodus of early humans to Asiaand Europe.

Double-sided stone axes,along with other implements,found in Kenya are at least300,000 years older than previ-ously known samples of the samedistinctive technology, knownas Acheulian.

Breakthroughs in the designand manufacture of tools markwatershed moments in humanevolution. The emergence ofAcheulian techniques in partic-ular are thought to closely coin-cide with key changes in humanbrain development, suggestingthey were both an expressionand a catalyst of enhanced cog-nitive prowess.

An earlier, more primitive classof tools, called Oldowan, wieldedby more distant forebear startingabout 2.5 million years ago wereessentially flakes of stonechipped from a large rock.

“For the Acheulian tools, were

are looking at a very differentmanufacturing process,” ex-plained Helene Roche, an ar-chaeologist at Universite ParisOuest and a co-author of thestudy, published in Nature.

“The aim was less to createflakes, than to give shape to thelarger object they came from,”she said by phone.

In a further innovation, pear-

shaped and two-edged hand-axes were further “retouched”using bone, antler or even wood.

Up to now, Acheulian industry,including the emblematic dou-ble-faced axe, was thought tohave truly emerged about 1.4million years ago, well after the first migration of hominins,or early humans, out of eastAfrica. AFP

US denies Gaddafibeing in Niger

Washington: The US Tuesday deniedmedia reports suggesting Libyan leaderMuammar Gaddafi could have enteredNiger in a convoy, Xinhua reported.

Media reports said that a large convoyof civilian and military vehicles fromLibya crossed into Niger late on Monday.

The State Department in a statementsaid the US does not believe that Libyanleader Muammar Gaddafi was amongthose entering the west African countryin a convoy. Department spokeswomanVictoria Nuland said that US ambassadorin Niger had discussed the matter withNiger officials.

"Apparently, a convoy has entered,and it does include some senior mem-bers of the Gaddafi regime, but we do

not believe that Gaddafi himself wasamong them," she told reporters duringa news briefing.

"We don't have any evidence thatGaddafi is anywhere but in Libya atthe moment," she said, adding that theUS has not heard about Gaddafi's familymembers in the convoy.

Nuland noted that the US has stronglyurged Niger officials to detain the mem-bers of the Gaddafi government whomay be subject to prosecution, and con-fiscate any weapons and state propertythat were found.

Rebel troops in Libya have launchedtheir manhunt for Gaddafi, having al-ready captured his stronghold in TripoliAug 23. IANS

Mars may have coastlinelike Greenlandʼs

London: Early in its his-tory, Mars may have a coldglacier-rimmed ocean cov-ering its northern lowlandsand its coastline may haveresembled that of Green-land or Norway, accordingto a new study.

Scientists who conduct-ed computer simulationsof the Red Planet foundthat there was a big tem-perature difference be-tween its warmer equato-rial regions and the muchcolder poles four billionyears ago. As a result, theybelieve, any ocean in thenorthern lowlands wouldhave been near-freezing,the Daily Mail reported.

Lead researcher Dr AlbertoFairen of NASA’s Ames ResearchCentre at Moffett Field, California,said if at all a ocean existed inthe Red Planet, it must havebeen very cold.

The researchers believe thata wall of glaciers skirting theocean would have prevented thedeposition of phyllosilicates orig-inating in the equatorial high-lands. The minerals are associ-ated with liquid water. Previously

their absence in the Martiannorthern lowlands castdoubt on previous specu-lation that an ocean existedthere.

Dr Fairen said: “We con-clude that inefficient heattransport from the equatorto the poles on early Mars,due to the absence of Earth-like equator-to-pole oceans,resulted in a steep latitu-dinal gradient of tempera-tures in both hemispheres,with warmer mid and equa-torial areas, and glacial po-lar regions. “As a conse-quence, if a northern oceanexisted on early Mars, itwas very cold. Glaciers rim-

ming a cold northern oceanwould have prevented a signifi-cant fluvial transport of phyl-losilicate-rich materials from thehighlands into the lowlands.”

The study is published in thejournal Nature Geoscience. PTI

Electronic nose to smell out ill heart

An electric jab to fight skin cancer

London: Scientists have developed a hand-held devicewhich delivers a “turbo-charged” vaccine into musclesto treat malignant melanoma, an aggressive type ofskin cancer that kills thousands every year.

Developed by researchers in the UK, the devicecontains a syringe needle and four electrodes.

It’s held against the patient’s upper arm or leg --while the needle contains the vaccine itself, a briefelectrical pulse from the electrodes creates an openingwhich allows the DNA to enter cells.

The researchers said the use of electricity can boostthe treatment’s potency by 100-fold, the Daily Mailreported.

The device is currently being tested on 22 patientswith malignant melanoma at four British hospitals.But researchers hope it could also help with a numberof other cancers such as lung, throat, liver, stomach,prostate, ovarian and bladder.

The vaccine used in the device to treat cancercontains the same DNA sequence as some of the anti-gens – the proteins that sit on the outside of the cellsand act as a flag or marker, giving away the cell’sidentity.

Once injected into the body, it sparks a reaction inthe immune system, priming it to see the antigens asan invader.

According to the researchers, if the electricity wasnot used, the DNA would float around the outside ofcells and would take longer to trigger the immunesystem.

But when injected into cells it immediately triggersalarm signals around the body, and immune cells arerecruited to the site of the injection.

This reduces the amount of time it takes to primethe system and dispatch immune cells to kill thecancer cells, the researchers said.

Dr Julie Sharp of Cancer Research UK said: “Thisapproach is in the early stages of testing to find out ifit is safe and if patients will respond to treatment. Itwill be several years before we know if it has potentialto be used more widely.

“Many scientists, including our researchers, are in-vestigating the use of treatment vaccines designed tohelp the body’s own immune system help fight offcancer.” PTI

Famine may kill7.50 lakh in

East Africa: UN

London: About 7,50,000 peoplecould die in East Africa over thenext four months due to famine,if enough aid didn’t reach thefamine-stricken region, the UNhas warned.

According to the UN, about12 million people across the re-gion, and four million in Somaliaalone, are in need of food aid,Daily Mail reported.

Getting aid to the starving isa ‘race against time’, said a tophumanitarian official for Soma-lia, while also warning that thefamine is likely to spread beforethe end of the year.

Mark Bowden, who heads theUN office coordinating human-itarian aid to Somalia, said: “Thisisn’t a short-term crisis.”

There are fears as many as750,000 people could starve todeath. This is a rise of 66 percentfrom July. Hundreds of Somalisare dying every day, at least halfof which are children.

Bowden said the four millionSomalis in need of aid repre-sented more than half of thecountry’s entire population.

The southern Bay region isthe latest to be declared a faminezone.

Nearly 60 per cent of peoplethere are acutely malnourished- four times the rate at which anemergency is declared.

“I’ve not seen anything likeit,” said Grainne Moloney, thehead of the food security unit.

Famine has now affected sixareas, including four southernSomali regions and two settle-ments of refugees.

The UN says tens of thousandsof people already have died inSomalia due to the severe vio-lence, drought and famine.

Over 150,000 refugees havesought aid in the last few months.Families in Kenya, Ethiopia andDjibouti have also been affected.IANS

Tunisiabans

policeunions

Tunis: Tunisia has banned allpolice unions in the country, asit views them being a threat tothe national security, Xinhua re-ported.

The police unions in Tunisiaare demanding fair trial for the23 officers arrested in connectionwith the killing of protesters be-fore the Jan 14 unrest, whichended the 23-year rule of formerpresident Zine El Abidine BenAli. Tunisia’s interim Prime Min-ister Beji Caid Essebsi announcedTuesday a ban on all policeunions, which he said representa threat to the country’s security,the official press agency TAP re-ported. Essebsi blamed the policeunions for “inciting insurrection”,saying that any union activitywill be punished as per law.

He also announced a set ofmeasures aimed at restoring lawand order in the face of increasingacts of violence in the country.They included giving more powerto the interior minister and gov-ernors to prevent sit-ins, attackson police stations and govern-ment buildings, as well as vio-lence against army and policeforces.

Meanwhile, hundreds of po-licemen demonstrated outsidehis office at the Kasbah Tuesday,seeking resignations of InteriorMinister Habib Essid and thearmy’s Chief of Staff GeneralRachid Ammar. IANS

Syrians wait for Arab peace deal Damascus: Syrian forces killedtwo people as they pressed theircrackdown on dissent yesterday,on the eve of a visit by the ArabLeague chief to push for an endto the violence and urge reformsand elections.

The Syrian Observatory forHuman Rights said a 15-year-old boy and another civilianwere killed by gunfire in theflashpoint central province ofHoms, where another five bodieswere found today.

The latest bloodshed came asthe embattled regime of PresidentBashar al-Assad prepared to hostWednesday Arab League secre-tary general Nabil al-Arabi whois carrying a 13-point initiativeto held end the crisis.

It also comes a day after the International Committee of the Red Cross said Syria had agreed, for the first time since anti-regime protests

erupted more than five monthsago, to allow its delegates to visita detention centre.

Meanwhile Norway, which isnot a member of the EuropeanUnion, said today it would adoptthe bloc’s sanctions imposed onSyria to protest against Damas-cus’s violent repression ofdemonstrators.

More than 2,200 people havebeen killed in Syria since the al-most daily mass protests began,according to UN figures. Humanrights groups say that more than10,000 are behind bars.

Assad’s regime says it is fight-ing foreign-backed “armed ter-rorist gangs.”

The Arab League chief hasbeen commissioned by the 22-member bloc to travel to Dam-ascus with a 13-point documentoutlining proposals to end thebloodshed and push Syria tolaunch reforms. AFP

Muammar Gaddaf

Demonstrators gather in front of the gothic cathedral in Milan, Italy, yesterday. A strike by Italy’s largest laborunion against austerity measures has shut down air, land and sea transport and curtailed other public

services throughout the country. Workers for the state railway, city transit systems and ferry services all were on strike. Hospital workers, postal employees and bank tellers also joined in.

All shut in ItalyAP-PTI

LIFESTYLE 7Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Actor Jude Law is set toreturn to Broadway withhis new play “Anna

Christie”. The actor received ap-preciation for his performancein the Pulitzer Prize-winningplay that opened in West Endlast month. The cast is set to

perform at the Broadway whenthe show transfers to New Yorkearly next year, reportsnypost.com.

Law was last seen on Broad-way in “Hamlet”, for which hereceived a Tony Award nomi-nation, in 2009.

Socialite Kim Kardashi-an has branded herbrother a loser for not

having a job.The 30-year-old reality TV

star, who recently tied theknot with basketball playerKris Humphries, hit out ather 24-year-old brother,pointing out that even theiryounger sister Kendall, 15,earned more than him as amodel.

In the new episode of thefamily’s reality show “Keep-ing Up with the Kardashi-ans”, she said: “You’re a los-er, Rob. Even Kendall earnsmore than you.”

Kim’s criticism didn’t godown well with Rob, whoblasted his sister on theshow. But later he calmeddown and admitted that hehas to think about his fu-ture.

Sarah Harding calls off engagement

After going behind the camera, PankajKapoor is now ready to sing live to celebratethe success of the music of his forthcoming

directorial debut “Mausam”.“I am glad that the film’s music has really

been appreciated and we wanted to celebratethat. We are trying to get all the singers to comeand sing. I too would be singing,” Pankaj saidin a press statement.

The actor-turned-director has been testinghis vocal chords since a few days to be able tosing live, according to a source close to him.Pankaj will sing ‘Saj dhaj ke...’, which he hassung with Mika Singh, in the film.

“Mausam” is a love story featuring ShahidKapoor and Sonam Kapoor and it is releasingSep 16.

Singers like Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Tochi Rainaand Hard Kaur too will perform live at the successparty, which is expected to be organised soon.

“Pankaj-ji loves music and has a lot of knowl-edge of Punjabi folk songs. He gave a lot ofvaluable inputs to the music of the film. Hekeeps singing in front of his friends, but hasnever sung live in front of a huge gathering. Heis very excited to perform live in front of theentire star cast of the film, especially son Shahid,and wife Supriya,” said the source.

Google and others remember Freddy Mercury

Kim Kardashian calls her brother ʻloserʼ

Success is the bestrevenge: Katie Price

Superstar Shah RukhKhan, who respects allreligions and celebrates

every festival, attended theGanpati puja at his friend, ac-tress Rani Mukerji’s house, andsays he enjoyed the love forthe god there.

“Went to Rani’s Ganpati.First time I attended a Ganpatiin a friend’s house. It was sonice to see faith being cele-brated with so much love,”Shah Rukh posted on his Twit-ter page.

The actor, who is marriedto a Hindu, had recently hostedan Eid party at his residence.It was attended by his friendslike Karan Johar, Farhan Akhtarand Sanjay Dutt.

Shah Rukh, who has beenbusy preparing for the releaseof his mega-budget production“RA.One”, says he is quite ex-hausted with the work.

“Overworked.overeaten.overunderslept.overquestioned....,”he added.

Parsi-British singer Freddie Mercury is remembered as a musical geniusand as an irreplaceable frontman who didn’t live long enough to enjoy hissuccess. Search engine Google paid a special tribute to the late musicianwith an animated doodle to mark the 65th birth anniversary of the leadsinger of the band Queen, who spent his formative years in Mumbai.

The Google homepage shows an animated Mercury singing on stage infront of screaming fans. Designed by Ryan Germick, the 100-second doodleis said to be Google’s second longest after Charlie Chaplin’s.

Flamboyance and high octane vocals made the legendary singer, bornFredun Balsara in Zanzibar, one of the greatest performers and songwritersof his time. He was just 45 when he died in 1991 after a long battle with HIV.

‘Fred (Freddie Mercury) was probably from a different planet, I don’tthink that the world will ever see such a charismatic and brilliant frontmanever again. Queen quit as a band after his death because Fred was and is ir-replaceable,’ Subir Malik, keyboardist of Indian rock band Parikrama, toldIANS.

‘Everyone was inspired by him. Fred had an integral part to play to manya bands and musicians’ careers,’ added the self-confessed fan of the lateartist.

Mercury showed interest in music from his school days only. He was veryyoung when he moved to Mumbai with his family. His family moved to Mid-

dlesex in England when he turned 17. His love for music stayed with him and in 1971, he created Queen

along with Brian May (guitar, vocals), John Deacon (bass guitar,vocals), and Roger Taylor (drums, vocals).

Thanks to their love for innovativeness, Queem went to becomeone of the greatest bands of the 1980s. While soaring high on his

success, Mercury released hit songs like “Bohemian Rhapsody”,“Somebody to Love”, “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” and “We

Are the Champions” among others. His fans, who love his inimitable style of singing, still miss

him.‘Freddie Mercury to me is the man who gave the sportingarena it’s most emphatic (and now most used/abused)

anthem ̀ We are the champions’. When I was growingup, his high octane compositions and powerful

vocals uset to give me goosebumps. On his65th birthday, the best I could do to

celebrate it is to listen to Freddie’sclassics in the backgroundwhile I work.

Pankaj Kapoor set to sing live

Jude Law returns to Broadway

Former model Katie Pricefeels “success is the bestway to take revenge”.

“I’m very ambitious. Andsuccess is the best revenge.Everyone who said, ‘You can’tdo this, you won’t do this. Haha you’ll be finished,” contact-music.com quoted her as say-ing.

The 33-year-old has her ownreality TV show, a range ofequestrian wear, several booksand MP3 player accessories.

“It’s not about money at all.I just love it. I’ll carry on untilpeople get bored. It can onlyend when people don’t wantit,” she added.

The model who has threechildren, however, admits shecannot name all of the booksthat she has released.

“Do you know how manybooks I’ve got out’ I’ve got 40.I’ve got pony stories, I’ve gotmermaids. From young agesto, well, women. I can’t sit hereand name them all, because Idon’t know all their names,”she said.

S inger Sarah Harding, whowas to wed fiance TomCrane next year, has ended

her relationship with the DJ dueto fights over work-related trav-el.

The Girls Aloud star flew toIbiza last week, where Crane isworking, to try and save their re-lationship, but in vain, reportsthesun.co.uk.

When Harding refused to an-swer her phone for three days,they decided to split.

“Sarah and Tom had a hugebust-up and told each other thewedding is off. Although they’vealways managed to patch thingsup in the past, it’s worse thananything they’ve gone throughbefore,” said a source.

“They’ve been fighting like catand dog. Their relationship hasbeen strained because he’s beenin Ibiza for the summer and Sarahwas working here. They’ve alwayshad a volatile relationship butthis time it’s far worse.”

“If they do get married, theyboth need to start living theirlives differently - and that’s notgoing to happen any time soon.It’s a shame as they do reallylove each other but pals can’t seehow there can be a way backfrom this,” the source added.

Crane proposed to the singeron New Year’s Eve in the Maldivesand she gave a nod without asecond thought.

Shah Ruk bows to Ganpati at Raniʼs house

Katrina Kaif seems to havebecome quite confidentof her bike riding skills.

After riding a Royal Enfield for“Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara”,she took one of her fans on abike ride in Mumbai. For an up-coming episode of UTV Stars’

“Live My Life”, Katrina took herfan, 20-year-old Pooja Agarwal,out on a bike ride around Ban-dra.

The show gives one hand-picked movie star fan an op-portunity to enjoy the glamorouslife of his or her favourite actor,

for a day. Katrina wanted tomake the day extremely specialand exciting for her fan.

Imran Khan and SonakshiSinha have already given onelucky fan the golden opportu-nity. The episode featuring Ka-trina will go on air Sunday.

Katrina treatsfan to bike ride!

Poor Emraan Hashmi! Thereseems to be no getting awayfrom the “serial kisser” tag

despite his many protestations andhe’s back to locking lips in hisforthcoming film “The Dirty Pic-ture”. If people wish to rememberhim for his on-screen kisses, sobe it, says the somewhat exasper-ated actor who has for long beenlooking for an image change.

The 32-year-old actor came tobe known as Hindi cinema’s serialkisser after numerous lip locks infilms like “Murder”, “Zeher”,“Aashiq Banaya Apne”, “Gangster”and “Jannat”.

“The tag would never go. I triedto get rid of it, but it follows meeverywhere. I have done so manyfilms with it (kissing) and so many

people went and watched thosefilms. So probably they want toremember me for that. And if kiss-ing is a great way to rememberme, I have no complaints! My au-dience base is there and I can’tchange overnight,” Emraan toldIANS in an interview.

“I am trying out different thingsin my forthcoming films. Hopefullyit would be another dimension,which would change people’s per-ception about me,” he added.

“The Dirty Picture” is said tohave Emraan in yet another kissingscene, this time with actress VidyaBalan. He however stresses thatthe film, based on the life of thelate southern sex icon Vijayalak-shmi aka Silk Smitha, takes sexu-ality to a different level.

IF KISSING IS WAY TO REMEMBER ME, SO BE IT: EMRAAN

Wednesday, September 7, 2011 8LIFESTYLE

SONU FEELSBipasha best forʻMunniʼ song!

Actor Sonu Sood has denied reports that hewants actress Katrina Kaif over BipashaBasu to dance to “Munni badnaam...” in

“Osthi”, the Tamil remake of Hindi blockbustermovie ‘Dabangg’.

‘Heard of some news that I don’t want Bipashafor Munni. In fact I was the one who suggestedthat she is the best for Munni song,” Sonu postedon micro-blogging site Twitter.

The actor, who plays a villain in the film, gave aclarification following media reports that he ispushing “Sheila ki jawaani” groover Katrina forthe song in “Osthi”. Sonu says he is quite keen onBipasha for the number, which originally featuredMalaika Arora Khan.

“Still trying to work around her dates. Havepushed my dates too. If she’s on board that willprove all these news to be baseless. She is our firstchoice,” he added. Directed by S. Dharani, ‘Osthi’will also feature Silambarasan Rajendar, GithanRamesh and Richa Gangopadhyay.

Bollywood star SalmanKhan, who recently un-derwent a surgery in Pitts-

burgh, US, to treat a nerve prob-lem, is expected to resume shoot-ing for “Ek Tha Tiger” from Sep-tember 10 in Dublin.

“Salman has to get a check-up done in three months to de-cide if he needs to get a secondprocedure done. He should com-mence shooting for Yash Rajsoon in Dublin,” said Atul Ag-nihotri, his brother-in-law andthe producer of his blockbuster“Bodyguard”.

“Salman has a trigeminal neu-ralgia with an AV malformation.He also has another rare com-plication. He has been treated

in the US. The procedure tookseven hours and it is successful,”he added. “Ek Tha Tiger” is aYash Raj Films (YRF) productionventure and Kabir Khan will di-rect it. Sources at YRF confirmthat the shooting resumes onSep 10, which incidentally isthe date when Salman’s last Eidrelease “Dabangg” had come

The crew, including KatrinaKaif (who, as reported, has setaside all other projects), hasbeen keeping itself on hold mon-itoring Salman’s post-surgeryrecuperation. Now they canheave a sigh of relief as Salmanis well on the way to recovery.

“After the seven-hour surgery,the doctors had prescribed a

strict regime for Salman to fol-low. But he has defied the rules,as usual. He’s filled with mauj-masti in the US. Salman hasbeen calling up his brother-in-law Atul Agnihotri for the boxoffice figures of ‘Bodyguard’.Though the doctors have pre-dicted the possibility of a secondsurgery three months from now,Salman has healed with amaz-ing dexterity, leaving even hissurgeons flummoxed,” said asource.

About Salman not paying at-tention to doctors’ orders, Ag-nihotri said: “He is en route torecovery, defying post-operationinstructions. That’s Salman foryou.”

SALMAN TO RESUMESHOOTING ON SEP10

Pop star Madonna has confirmedshe will release her 12th studioalbum next spring. It will be a

follow-up to 2008’s “Hard Candy”.The singer said she has started

working with producer William Or-bit.

“I’ve started a little bit of work inthe studio and then when I go backto New York I’ll be recording untilthe end of the year,”contactmusic.com quoted her as say-ing.

When asked what fans can expectfrom her latest offering, she replied:“More good music.”

The first single from the record isexpected to be released in Februarywith the LP out a couple of monthslater.

Madonna torelease new album in 1̓2

Khosla dazzleswith bright coloursBangalore-based designer Manoviraj Khosla is known for his play with

bright colours. Not shying away from splashing hues on the runway,Khosla’s displayed his creations at the Van Heusen India Men’s Week in

New Delhi.This is the third time the Bangalore-based designer is participating in the

men’s week. In the past two seasons, he has always been making bold choices– be it bright colours or letting the boys wear hot-pants. His forte lies in beingdifferent. This time too Khosla used colours like pink, yellow, orange andpurple for some of the outfits, and balanced his line by using shades likebeige, black, white and grey.

bangalore beat evening newspaper - 7.09.2011

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