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Even from behind bars, the power wielded by Jagan over his party and the electoratewas in full display, as the YSRC steamrolled the opposition in the bypolls.

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Chai PakodaIt’s monsoon. How we love to sit bythe window sill, with a plate of hotpakodas and some chai. Arena atTaj Deccan brings that feeling toyou every evening 3pm-7pmWhere: Taj Deccan,

Banjara Hills,Rd No 1

When: Ongoing,3pm to7pm

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Buy artIconart Art Gallery as a part of itsBuy Art initiative is hosting an exhi-bition featuring abstract art, sculp-tures and paintings.Where: Iconart Gallery,

Banjara Hills, Rd No 12 When: Ongoing,

11.30am onwardsContact: 98499 68797

La femmeThis one is especially for all thewomen, head to La Femme atTease, Vivanta by Taj for an eveningespecially for women everySaturday.Where: Vivanta at Taj,

BegumpetWhen: Every SaturdayContact: (040) 6725 2626

Music and dreamsThis is the story of Ashley, a hiphop performer at the RhapsodySchool of Dance who takes thebiggest decision of her life becauseof a prestigious dance competitiontitled - Of Music And Dreams. Where: Shilpa Kala Vedika,

MadhapurWhen: June 16,

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NCC enrolmentNo2 Air Sqn (Technical) NCC,Secunderabad is conductingrecruitments for the senior division.Selections will be made from June14 to 16 between 10 amand 4 pm.Where: Bison Polo training

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SerenitySerenity- an exhibition of painting isbeing held at Kalakrithi art Gallery.The paintings are by artist AnindaVarma. The exhibition is on till June23.Where: Kalakrithi Art Gallery,

Banjara Hills,Rd No 10

When: Ongoing,11am-7pm

Contact: (040) 66564 466

Nirmal paintingA certificate course on Nirmalpainting will be held by LiteracyHouseat Andhra Mahila Sabha(AMS) from June 18. Where: Literacy House,

AMS Academic campusWhen: June 18 onwardsContact: (040) 2709 6464

Sunday brunchSpend the perfect Sunday after-noon with Aqua’s special brunch.Where: Aqua,

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DJ timeHead for one of the most musicaland fun filled evening. We have DJShikar, DJ Sam and DJ Zeesh on theopening sets and DJ Zain Sabri &

DJ Veer spinning hip hop and com-mercial music.Where: Cuba Libre,

Banjara Hills,When: June 16,

11am onwardsContact: (040) 6776 7114

Madhubani workshopThe YMCA Secunderabad is hostinga madhubani painting workshop.The workshop is being felicitated byan artist from Madhubani. A partof the fees earned will be used totrain underprivileged women.Where: YMCA Secunderabad,

West MarredpallyWhen: June 18-June 29Contact: 98490 07736,

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Vision of blue goldVision of blue gold, an exhibition ofpaintings by Pranay will be on dis-play at Muse Art Gallery.The exhi-bition is on from June 9.Where: Muse Art Gallery,

Lower Tank BundWhen: Ongoing,

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Abstract landscapesA painting exhibition by artistBhaskar Rao B titled A leaflet and adrop will be on display at IconartGallery. The exhibition will be ondisplay till June 20. Where: Iconart Gallery,

Banjara Hills, Rd No 12When: Ongoing,

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Contact: 98499 68797

Musical eveningA musical event by Srinivas Srikanthwill be held on June 16.Where: TTD Bhavan,

Himayat NagarWhen: June 16,

6.30pm onwardsContact: (040) 23220852

French classesA two-day session will be held atAlliance Francaise, Banjara Hills.Where: Alliance FrancaiseWhen: June 15,

9am-12pmContact: (040) 2355 4485

Friends with BirdFriends with bird, a patining exhibition by artist Pallavi Wallunj is being held at ColoursArt Gallery. The exhibition is

on till June 23.Where: Colours Art Gallery,

Chikoti Gardens,Begumpet

When: Ongoing, 10am-7pmContact: 93470 01275

Theatre workshopSamahaara is hosting specialfour week summer acting workshops. The workshops will be held for a duration of fourweeks.Where: Vidyaranya School,

The Terrace,The Actor’s Studio

When: OngoingContact: 83411 20303

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Avarice and cruelty have no limit, itseems. In an apparent coldbloodedmurder for more dowry, a youngwoman was led to commit suicide

by her greedy husband in LB Nagar bastiunder the Jeedimetla police limits threedays ago.

Jeedimetla police sub inspectorVeeranna said R Swarna, 24, had been mar-ried for barely to R Venugopal. She wasfound dead in her husband’s home threedays ago. Although it appears to be a case ofsuicide, according to the police, initialinvestigation throws suspicion onVenugopal and his family, who had report-edly been harassing Swarna for dowry andhad even threatened to kill her if theirdemands were not met.

At the time of the wedding, Swarna’sfather G Madhav Rao, 60, an agriculturist inBudharam village in Ghanpur mandal, hadgiven `6 lakh in cash, three kilograms of sil-ver, 20 tolas of gold, two acres of land and a600 yard-flat. However, her husband wasnot satisfied with this and had begun to nagher soon after the marriage took place.However, her parents could not meet his

increasing demands. Soon, Venugopal began to physically

abuse Swarna for the ‘inadequate’ dowry.According to the police, a few days earlier,

Venugopal took his wife to an isolated placeand threatened to kill her if her parents did-n’t meet his demands and then left theplace, leaving her there alone. Helpless,Swarna had to seek help from passers-by toreturn home.

However, the abuse continued. Her hap-less father told her maternal uncle aboutSwarna’s plight, who called up Venugopaland tried to reason with him about the fam-ily’s plight. This calmed Venugopal for a fewdays, but he once again began harassing hiswife for dowry. Allegedly, Venugopal beat uphis wife once again three days ago andasked her why she did not commit suicidebefore leaving the house in a huff.

Fed up with the harassment, Swarna issaid to have locked herself in her bedroomand hanged herself with her dupatta.However, the police are also investigatingthe possibility of murder and a dowry casehas been registered against Venugopal.

Soon after Swarna’s death, Venugopalwent absconding. Assistant commissionerof Balanagar, S Damodhar, has startedinvestigations and a police team has beenformed to nab him.

The girl’s father has alleged murder andsaid that his daughter had suffered extreme-ly cruel treatment that no other girl her agemight have suffered. He wanted capitalpunishment for the man who despite hav-ing received so much wealth was greedyenough to kill his wife.

Greedy husband kills wife

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In a dark deed, two women who weregiven shelter to live and work inSecunderabad by their aged relative,

robbed her of 20 tola of gold ornamentsworth `6 lakh after tying her up with thehelp of their boyfriends.

N Mangamma, 72, and her son MVenkateshwara Chary, 47, lived in a penthouse at Boudha Nagar inSecunderabad. Venkat is a goldsmith.Both of them live a comfortable life.Some time ago, a relative of theirs rangup from Nalgonda if two sisters, Swathyand Sneha, could get a room on rent in

Mangamma’s house. Swathy, 29, wasmarried and has four kids and was strug-gling to make ends meet. Sneha too wasin need of a job to earn a living. Feelingcharitable Mangamma and her sonagreed. The sisters started living in a por-tion of the house for a nominal rent.

On Tuesday, Swathy called onMangamma on the pretext of payingrent. Venkat was not at home. When thelady opened the door, Swathy stepped inwith two men, who were later identifiedas Feroz and his cousin. They caughthold of the aged woman, tied her handsand legs and inserted rags in her mouthto prevent her from screaming. Theaccused then relieved Mangamma of allher gold ornaments that she was wearingand collected some more valuablesbefore fleeing the scene.

The incident came to light whenVenkat returned home to find the dooropen and no sign of his mother. Uponsearching the house, he found ehr lyingunconscious in one corner, bound andgagged. Her hands bore bruises, a clearsign of struggling. With the help of neigh-bours, Venkat shifted his mother to ahospital and lodged a police complaint.

Crime inspector of Chilkalgudapolice station Khaja Moinuddin toldPostnoon that Feroz and his cousin,who is yet to be identified, have had aclose link with Swathy and Sneha. ButMoinuddin said initial investigationrevealed that both the sisters are in thegame and the men are their lovers andaccomplices. The police have sent asquad to their native place and alertedother stations to get whereabouts of thecriminals.

Sisters loot their benefactor

NEWS BRIEFSGirl dies in acid attack,CM orders stern action

A15-year-old girl died in an acid attackby a maniac in Bhiknoor mandal of

this district on Thursday. The victim,Kalyani, studying in class X opened herdoor during the wee hours of the morningupon hearing a knock, when unidentifiedassailants threw acid on her and ran away.The girl was rushed to the Kamareddy gov-ernment hospital where she succumbed tothe injuries. In a differing version, Kalyaniwas watching TV till late night with hermother and sister when two womenknocked on the door requesting for water.When she gave them water they threwacid on her and fled. The police have regis-tered a case and are trying to trace theaccused. Reacting to the incident, ChiefMinister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has directedthe district collector and SP to nab the cul-prits and take stern action against them.

Inferno in Jeedimetlaindustrial area

There was a fire accident in the industri-al area of Jeedimetla on Thursday.

According to information, fire broke out ina factory manufacturing plastic bags.Though there were no casualties, propertyworth `50 lakh was gutted. Fire servicepersonnel and locals brought the fireunder control.

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The wind of Jagan senti-ment has swept awaythe Congress and theTDP with a solitary win

for TRS. The rebel YSRC, whichhad challenged the mightyCongress party on its way to avirtual win with it leading in 15of the 18 Assembly (two official-ly declared) seats at the time ofgoing to the press. The Congresshad established a convincinglead in Narsapuram andRamachandrapuram while TRSon its way to victory at Parakal.

The YSRC camp was soerupted since morning that itsoffice on Road No 45 looked likea ‘Kumbh Mela’ where hundredsof people gathered, sloga-neered, distributed sweets,splashed one another withcolour, and in the melee, the

party’s minority leader Rehmanwho was carried by party sup-porters on their shouldersopened fire in the air. He firedfour rounds. He was placedunder arrest later.

“It is a slap on the face forCongress. Kiran should resign,”said YSR Congress Sevadal pres-ident Kotimreddy Vinay Reddy.The TDP, which drew zero had

nothing much to say. K DayakarReddy said the result was notunexpected. “YSRC won due towave of sympathy.

The Congress camp wassilent. Former minister ShankarRao said, “This is the defeat ofthe government. This is a defeatof the corrupt ministers. CM issolely responsible for this. It isnot a defeat of the Congress.”

BJP party resident KishanReddy, said the YSRC playedmischief by spreading rumoursabout BJP tacitly supporting itin Parakal. “That’s why we lost.”

Meanwhile, Jagan’s wifeBharati, sister Sharmila andmother Vijayamma drove toChanchalguda jail to congratu-late him. They carried sweetsand prasadam.

(Inputs by Inkeshaf Ahmed,Sudeshna Koka, Anubha Singh,

Rahul Ramakrishna, and Mohd Subhan)

YSRC TRUMPS CONG, TDPPolitical opponents grossly underestimated the ability of anti-graft cases to sway public sentiment

against Jagan. The YSRC camp united to portray these as a political vendetta on the son of YSR.

Pall of gloom fallson party offices

The break up

15YSR Congress

2Congress

1TRS

0TDP

0BJP

0Others

(Numbers updated as of 1pm)

YSRC minority leaderAbdul Rehman with police

Bharti and Sharmilavisit Jagan at theChanchalgudaprison to congratulate him

FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 2012 4&5

FOR STRONG WIN IN APThe CM's last ditch effort to mend fences with his rivals in the party and present a united frontfailed to convince the voters and prevent the Congress from disintegration

Strong state leadership, not Nehrufamily charm, will help Congress

Chanchalgudacordoned off

by policeMohd Subhanmohd.s@postnoon.com

At pre-dawn, before theworld woke up, some200-strong police led bythe assistant commis-

sioner of police M Kistaiah tookpositions and laid a virtual siegeto the Chanchalguda central jailwhere YSRC chief Jagan MohanReddy is lodged.

The police closed theDabeerpura-Nalgonda crossroad, a half kilometre stretch, tothoroughfare. Nobody wasallowed to use the road and thepolice kept a hawkish eye on thegoings on around.

Media persons were allowedto take their station but no civil-ians were permitted to enter thisstretch.

As the day wore on and itbecame evident that the YSRCwas galloping unbridled towardsvictory in the 18 Assemblybypolls, many people came outon the streets to distributechocolates and sweets.

Around noon, Jagan’s wifeBharti, sister Sharmila andmother Vijayamma drove in tomeet Jagan. They were the onlyones allowed inside. Efforts weremade to take out a procession tothe jail gate but it was thwartedby a determined police force.

P K Surendransurendran.pk@postnoon.com

Not unexpected, therules of the game havesuddenly changed.The umpire has van-

ished without trace.The sweep by the renegade

YS Jaganmohan Reddy in the 18by-election results is going toupstage the Kiran governmentas the bypoll is nothing but asemi-final to the crucial 2014general elections. This is thesecond consecutive defeat thisyear for the Congress.

Sources in the Congresscamp have dropped hints thatNew Delhi had asked the CMKiran Kumar Reddy and BotsaSatyanarayana to ensure victo-ry of Congress candidates in atleast six of the 18 seats. This,the party satraps impressedupon the two that withChiranjeevi’s PRP now in theCongress camp, this should notbe an unattainable feat. The

message is clear: if not, lookout for alternative jobs.

The Assembly position istenuous for the Congress partynow. Supposing that of the 294seats, Congress has 153 mem-bers as against the magic num-ber of 148. Four CongressMLAs — D ChandrasekharReddy and S Jayamani haveexpressed sympathy with theYSRC and two other AllaSrinivas and VSK Ranga Raohave resigned but not accepted.This means in a trial of strengththe effective number with theHand is 149. With the 7 MIM,the ruling front strength comesto 156. The government cancling on with desperation for awhile but the situationbecomes touchy for the simplereason that the Congress MLAsknow where the wind is blowingand therefore more desertion ispossible as days go by.

“The only relieving factorfor the Congress is that themain opposition party, the TDP,

is in no position to step in, incase the Congress is dislodged,”said a senior Congress leader.This would give the Congressand its allies a chance to pull onfor a while but this theorywould fall flat if more desertiontakes place.

The Congress leadership inDelhi, it is clear, has to find astrong steward to lead it in the2014 elections because AndhraPradesh is too important to beleft floating. Forty-two MPs arepart of the life-saving oxygenequipment that keeps theCongress ticking in Delhi.Sources say the Congress willhave to come to terms withJagan Mohan Reddy before the2014 elections if it wants to stayafloat in the midst of so manyscams and flop governance.The Congress leadership’s mis-erable performance, especiallyof the ‘Yuvraj’ Rahul Gandhi is agrim reminder that the awe andglamour of the Nehru family isnot going to rescue the party.

M ANIL KUMAR AND N SHIVA KUMAR

Congress: Only one cleaner, oneattendant (security) and a wholelot of media corps.

TDP: Sprawling NTR Bhavan isempty but for security. Mediacorps, again, in attention.

BJP: Only a male receptionist.Our reporter Anubha seeks outparty leader Kishan Reddy onphone and he blames it on‘naughty whispers claiming theBJP favours YSRC.’

TRS: Virtually empty. But peoplesoon started trooping in. MadhavReddy, MLC, was the only leader.A TRS leader K Satyana rayanasaid, “We have 100 per cent victo-ry. We contested 1 seat and won!”

YSRC: Festivities and celebrations.Party’s minority leader Reh manwas lifted high as he took out hisrevolver and fired in the air.

Party offices at 10am

Gandhi Bhavan, the Congress office,bore a deserted look as the bypoll

results were announced

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After the scorching heat little showers followed byheavy rains were wel-comed with open arms.

Some parts of the City witnessedthe first showers on Thursday andnot just children but elders werealso seen enjoying the cloudyweather and the sudden down-pour.

“Since the last few days it’sbeen very cloudy, we were waitingfor the rains and today it finallydid. The feeling is amazing.Hyderabad rains are beautiful,”says Meghna Reddy, a student.

This year the temperatureswent to as high as 46 degrees.Hyderabadis were waiting for therains to bring respite from the ris-ing temperatures. According tothe met department, 2.2 millime-

tres of rain was recorded yester-day. However, experts say thatthese are pre-monsoon showersand the south-west monsoons areexpected in various parts of AP incoming three to four days.

Cold winds, the smell of wetmud, sounds of thunderstorm,wet and clean roads, puddles andsmall streams of water — thesesimple sights and smells makemonsoons loved by all. LikeGilbert K Chesterton said, “Andwhen it rains on your parade, lookup rather than down. Without therain, there would be no rainbow.”

DEEPAK DESHPANDE AND SRINIVAS SETTY

Prudhvi Raju Kprudhvi.k@postnoon.com

It is a matter of pride to own a house.Undoubtedly, it gives relief from nag-ging landlords and uncertainty of liv-ing as a tenant. However, the buyer

should also should check and assess thefuture difficulties that may arise whenowning a house.

Comfort, convenience and luxury arethe key factors for buying a house. The Cityreal estate market is driven by the peoplewho own it for living in them.

Almost 80 per cent of the people buyproperty to stay, compared to 20 per centwho buy property as an investment or togift to their children for future needs, saidJaiveer Reddy, president, CREDAI.

Real estate is a long term investment;the buyer should look for long term profitsrather than immediate returns.Investment in real estate has an average of10 per cent appreciation ever year — basedon the figures for the last 30 years.

The market has temporary ups anddowns but mostly have an appreciation ina long run, he said.

Buying a house is a safe and secureinvestment. Investing in a stock market ora business brings a high possibility of cap-ital erosion. When it comes to buying a

house, the chances of capital erosion arevery less.

As it is a priority sector, the govern-ment is also offering income-tax benefitsfor the house owner. The interest paid onhousing loan for up to `1.5 lakh can bededucted from taxable income.

The buyer also can have a tax exemp-tion up to `1 lakh (Section 80C) on the

principal amount, provided he is residingin the house or living in other city for a jobpurpose, said Chalapathy Rao, vice presi-dent, APREDA.

On the flip side, the annual returns abuyer gets from investment is limited to 2to 4 per cent after deducting taxes andmaintenance costs.

These have to be paid irrespective ofthe occupation of the property. It is veryimportant to buy a house, where there ishigh potential to rent. If it is vacant theowner loses money, he said.

It is always safe and good to buy ahouse for living, where the instalment isalmost near to the rent of the property.Even after paying instalment for 20 years,the buyer can slowly own a house. Therental value would only increase in alonger run, where in buyer has to pay afixed instalment.

The buyer also should look at securityof the job and the proximity of the travel.Many times, the buyer choose a property

in the far off locations from the City, endup paying heavy petrol bills and losingvaluable time.

It is very important to calculate thecosts of petrol, (which are ever rising),time, depreciation and maintenance of thevehicle before deciding between the prop-erties, Rao explained.

Buying a house is definitely best optionin the outskirts of the City as the real estateprices are at the lowest, provided the buyerdoesn’t need time and money on travel-ling. However, the market prices in andaround HITEC City gained momentumand touched the peak, due to less supply offlats, he added.

The interest rates on housing loan arehovering around 11 per cent (floating,monthly compounded). The buyers canavail a loan of almost 30 times of monthlyincome without crossing 70 per cent of theproperty value.

The net salary of an individual shouldnot fall beyond 40 per cent of his grosssalary after including the proposed instal-ment in various deductions from the grosssalary.

The banks will also check the repay-ment capability of the customer by variousways before providing him a loan, said asenior assistant manager of a nationalisedbank.

FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 2012 7Real Estate

Choosewiselywhilebuying

Real estate is a long terminvestment; the buyershould look for long termprofits rather than immediate returns. On the flip side, the annualreturns a buyer gets frominvestment is limited to 2to 4 per cent after deducting taxes andmaintenance costs.

Residential Rents Capital Value

KeyPrecincts

INR per monthfor a 1,000 sq ft2BHK apartment

INR per sq ft

Banjara Hills 13,000-20,000 5,500-10,000

Begumpet 10,000-15,000 3,500-4,000

Kondapur 10,000-15,000 2,800-4,500

Tellapur 8,000-12,000 2,200-2,800

Kukatpally 7,000-10,000 3,300-3,500

Miyapur 5,000-6,000 1,800-3,300

SOURCE: JLL

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GOLD`86.56

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The world’s richest womanGina Rinehart is believed tohave increased her holdingin Australian media groupFairfax to more than 15 per-cent, reports said Friday. In amove set to bolster her bidfor a board seat, the miningbillionaire has boosted herposition in the firm whichhas major newspaper andradio holdings by two per-cent, Fairfax newspaperssaid. The Sydney MorningHerald said Rinehart wasthought to have hired bro-kers to eventually take herstake to 19.99 per centwhich it said was the maxi-mum allowable before shehas to make a takeoveroffer.

Coca-Cola announced onThursday that it wouldreturn to Myanmar after agap of more than sixdecades, leaving Cuba andNorth Korea as the onlycountries without the iconicAmerican fizzy drink. TheCoca-Cola Co. becomes thelatest beneficiary of reformsin the long isolatedSoutheast Asian nation. TheAtlanta-based company saidit would initially ship Cokefrom neighbouring countriesto Myanmar but, in line withgeneral practice, would findlocal partners.

Nupur Pavan Bang andAmulya Chirala

Ihad a strange dream lastnight. I saw a young lad sit-ting in front of a computerand it’s raining thousand

rupee notes. He is soaked inthose notes, enjoying every bit ofit. I look closer to see what is onthe computer screen. I wake upwith a start as soon as I realisedthat the screen was nothing but aderivatives trading platform andthe young lad was Srikanth.

I had explained futures to hima few days back. What has beenbothering me is that I did notexplain the downside risks ofinvesting in futures as profoundlyas I should have.

Futures are extremely lever-aged contracts. And if not usedwisely, they can wipe out for-tunes. Often people mistakethem as magic wands due to thisvery property of leverage. Let meexplain.

Leverage in finance is verymuch like the leverage we learnabout in physics. It amplifieseffort, or in this case, the impactof our investment.

When one buys a futures con-tract, she does not need to pay thefull amount. For example, if youwere to buy 100 shares of RelianceIndustries Limited (RIL), you wouldneed to pay a total of `72,700 (`727per share times 100).

On the other hand, in the caseof Reliance Futures, one contract of100 shares costs only a small per-centage. This amount is known asthe initial margin and is calculatedbased on a system known asStandard Portf olio Analysis of Risk

(SPAN). This system takes into

account the volatility of theunderlying stock.

Let us say that according toSPAN, the initial margin shouldbe 10% of the contract value(`72,700). This would mean thatyou end up paying only `7,270 tocontrol 100 shares of RIL. Thatmeans you are highly leveraged.Now if the stock price goes up,you gain as the price of RILfutures also go up and you cansell them at a profit.

Let’s say you sell them at`750 — your profit will be a totalof `2,300 (750-727 times 100

shares). Hence your profit inpercentage is 2,300/7,270 times100, that is 31% on an invest-

ment of `7,270 Here is where weneed to remember that leveragedoesn’t always mean more prof-its, it merely amplifies things, soin case of a loss, the amount lostis also multiplied by the samefactor.

Let’s assume that the stockprice goes down by the same `23.That is you sell RIL futures at aloss. Once again, your losses aremuch higher than they would beif you had invested in the stockinstead of the futures.

Unfortunately, people forgetthat the prices can go down. Theyfeel that they can make huge prof-its with little investment in thecase of futures. And I must explainthis to Srikanth before he starts dr -eaming of big money and investsrecklessly in the futures market.

The exchanges do take mea-sures to ensure that the risks aretaken care of by adjusting the ini-tial margin on a daily basis.

The investors get margincalls to top up their initial mar-gin accounts in the case of afalling market. This keeps theinvestors informed of how muchthey are losing or gaining on adaily basis. The investors canclose their positions or take off-setting positions before theyend up losing a lot.

But this system of marking tomarket everyday also means thatin addition to profit or loss at theend of your contract, you have tokeep track of cash flows neededto stay invested.

Otherwise, a sharp move cancause your position to be closedout prematurely when the con-tract would have been profitableat expiration.

WASHINGTON: The globalbanking lobby IIF onThursday called on Group of20 leaders to act decisivelyand jointly at their summitnext week to avert the risk ofanother worldwide recession.The head of the Institute ofInternational Finance,Charles Dallara, said the G20summit in Mexico on Mondayand Tuesday is a “potentialdecisive point.”

“The risk of a global reces-sion again, for the secondtime in four years, is very real,”Dallara warned at a news con-ference in Washington.

The IIF managing director,who negotiated the private

sector’s writedown of Greekdebt, a crucial part of an inter-national bailout of the euro-zone country, presented theconcerns in an open letter tothe G20.

The IIF highlighted eco-nomic challenges facing“many” countries, “some lin-gering from the 2008-2009 cri-sis and exacerbated now bystrains in Europe.”

The uncertainty aboutEurope’s future is disruptingfinancial markets and puttingthe global economy at risk,said the IIF.

The IIF cautioned againstregulatory reforms at a time ofweak market confidence. AFP

Banks call on G20 toavert global recession SINGAPORE: Oil rose in Asian

trade on Friday after OPEC keptto its crude output quotas andvowed to eliminate overproduc-tion, analysts said.

The market was also support-ed by hopes that the US FederalReserve will step in with newstimulus measures to bolster theworld’s largest economy. NewYork’s main contract, light sweetcrude for delivery in July, was up51 cents to $84.42 a barrel andBrent North Sea crude for Augustdelivery gained 63 cents to $97.80in morning trade.

“Oil futures rose as theOrganisation of the PetroleumExporting Countries agreed tokeep its collective oil output ceil-ing unchanged... at 30 millionbarrels per day (mbpd),” saidPhillip Futures in a market com-

mentary.OPEC Secretary General

Abdullah El-Badri said membercountries had been asked to cutproduction by a total of 1.6 mbpdto meet the group’s 30 millionmbpd production ceiling agreedlast December.

Investor hopes are runninghigh that the latest weak US datacould prompt a new round offresh stimulus measures by theFederal Reserve to boost growth.

US government data releasedThursday showed new claims forunemployment benefits rose6,000 to 386,000 last week, build-ing on a worrying upward trendin the pace of layoffs.

Data released earlier in theweek showed US retail sales fellfor a second consecutive month.

AFP

OPEC target unchanged

Riding the leverage tiger

Risk management isakin to a dialysismachine. If it doesn’twork,you might havea noble obituary, butyou’re dead.

Benjamin Golub,economist

FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 201210India unveiled India‑View

PATNA: Asked to pay a `1,000bribe, a landless Bihar farmerbegged to differ. And he ventedhis ire by collecting alms andsending the amount to ChiefMinister Nitish Kumar with therequest it be paid to the corruptpolice officer who asked for it.

Instead of cursing the sys-tem and his fate, SaurabhKumar alias Chabila Paswan, apoor Dalit farmer in Vaishali dis-trict, about 40 km from here,gathered his family and beggedon the streets to collect the bribemoney. The intrepid Paswan, hiswife and children even slungplacards around their necks to

tell people why they were col-lecting money.

“I was angry and frustratedafter I ran from pillar to post tolodge a police complaint. Thenthis innovative idea to fightagainst corruption came to mymind. I decided to beg to collectmoney to pay bribe,” Paswantold IANS, recounting how hewas asked for a bribe from theKatahara police post in-chargewhen he went to lodge a com-plaint about threats to his life.

“I was shocked when apolice official demanded a bribeof `1,000 from me for lodging acomplaint that I was being

threatened bysome powerfulpeople to bekilled. When Itold the policeofficial that I’mnot in a positionto pay bribe, hemade it clear thatit was not possi-ble for him tolodge his case.”

Paswan addedthat he sent the moneyto the chief minister’soffice with the request thatit be paid to the police offi-cial if “the law permits” or be

deposited inthe welfarefund.

“I had pur-chased 10

postal orders of`100 denomina-

tion each and sent to theCM by post in a closed

envelope. The envelope alsohas a petition detailing myplight,” Paswan told IANS over

phone from his villageHalaiya.

He also told the CMthat nothing moved

without palms beinggreased.

Paswan is happy he got sup-port from local people and alsoexposed rampant corruptionwith government officialsdemanding a bribe to get eventhe smallest job done.

“It was a rare experience asmost people supported mycause.”

Senior police and adminis-tration officials refused to com-ment.

However, Vaishali superin-tendent of Police UpendraKumar Sinha said he had heardabout the case. “Police willinquire into the allegations ofbribe,” he said. IANS

KOLKATA: Union FinanceMinister Pranab Mukherjee andWest Bengal Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee have neverquite gelled, despite their appar-ent show of bonhomie from timeto time.

The former has the image of ashrewd and seasoned adminis-trator — comfortable both indiplomatic debates and calcula-tive political dialogues to defusecrises.

The other is instinctive andunpredictable, often seeming tolack in sophistication, and moreadept in aggressive politicalfights and pressure games.

The two are as different aschalk and cheese.

So when Banerjee, theTrinamool Congress chief, wentall out to nix Mukherjee’s chancesof making it to Raisina Hill, it didnot come as a surprise to politicalleaders who have been witness tothe ebb and tide of relationsbetween the two.

A front-ranking stateCongress leader described as“rank jealousy” Banerjee’s ani-mosity to Mukherjee becomingpresident. “She wants to carveout a niche for herself as aBengali. She thinks she is the onlysun in West Bengal, and does notwant anyone to occupy anyimportant slot from the state. Shethinks she will be eclipsed. It isher mindset which is at play,”said Congress MP AdhirChowdhury.

Another state Congress leaderOm Prakash Mishra pointed outthat it was Pranab Mukherjeewho ensured Banerjee got theCongress ticket to contest hermaiden Lok Sacha election fromthe Jadavpur constituency in1984. “At that time, she was aSubrata Mukherjee loyalist. And

Pranabda was Subrata’s mentor.”“In later years also, he has

been very accommodative ofBanerjee. Both in 2001 and 2009,when Banerjee’s Trinamool

aligned with the Congress, it wasMukherjee who accommodatedher hugely by giving a largechunk of seats,” he said.

However, a Trinamool

Congress leader claimed that itwas Mukherjee who has alwaysbeen “extremely jealous” ofBanerjee’s mass appeal.“Mukherjee maybe a statesman,

but he has never been a massleader. In fact he won his firstdirect election from Jangipur LokSabha seat in Murshidabad dis-trict only eight years back, afterhaving spent nearly four decadesin politics.

“He has never had any base ofhis own in the state, unlikeBanerjee who has always had ahuge mass following. Mukherjeehas never taken this in the rightspirit,” he said.

The Trinamool leaderclaimed Mukherjee had indulgedin “unsuccessful backbiting” andbackroom manoeuvres in the1990s to prevent Banerjee’sanointment as a central govern-ment minister during P.V.Narasimha Rao’s prime ministeri-al stint.

“Again he never helped outBanerjee when she was constant-ly pushed to the wall in theCongress. At last, Banerjee had toform her own party,” he said.

The Trinamool leader saidBanerjee “strongly felt” that dur-ing her one year as state chiefminister she never got any back-ing from Mukherjee, who was incharge of the union finance min-istry.

“She has inherited a debt-rid-den state. Before the assemblyelection last year, even PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh hadpromised that the central govern-ment will go the extra mile if aTrinamool-Congress governmentwas formed.

“But after the election, nocentral help has been forthcom-ing. Mukherjee has constantlydelayed any concrete action byhaving recourse to an endlesssequence of meetings. And thereis now very little money in theState coffers to carry out develop-ment,' he said. IANS

PRANAB vs MAMATA

Bihar farmer bribes CM to save his life

India’s electoral college that willvote for a new president on July19 is made up of 4,896

members — 776 members of theParliament and 4,120 members ofthe State Assemblies. Betweenthem they have 10,97,012 votesand the winning candidate needs atleast 50 percent of these.

How do numbers stack up?

n The ruling United ProgressiveAlliance, in its present form, has4,50,555 votes or 41.07 per centof the total. Of this, the Congressalone has 3,31,855 votes, or 30.3per cent of the total.

n The allies — among them the

Trinamool Congress and the DMKhave 11.04 per cent of the vote.

n The Samajwadi Party, which sup-ports the government from out-side, has 6.34 per cent of thevote.

n The Trinamool Congress has 4.40per cent of the vote.

n If the Trinamool and theSamajwadi Party vote with thegovernment, this will give it47.41 per cent of the ballots —ashortfall of a mere 2.59 per cent.

n Should these two parties notvote with the government, it willbe short by 13.33 per cent.

n The National Democratic Alliance

has 27.7 per cent of the votes, ofwhich the Bharatiya Janata Partyhas 21.2 per cent.

n The Left has 4.7 per cent of thevote.

n Among the other parties, the BSPhas 3.98 per cent of the votesand the AIADMK 3.3 per cent.

n In the “others” category are 10.1per cent of the votes.

To calculate the number of vot-ers each legislator represents, thetotal population of the state isdivided by the number of legisla-tures and then divided by 1,000.

The value of vote of each MP isuniform at 708.

The mathematics of India’s presidential poll

A tale of differences behind show of bonhomie

NATION AT A GLANCESHRC asks doctor topay compensationPATNA: Bihar’s State HumanRights Commission (SHRC) ordereda doctor to pay compensation of`one lakh within a month to a manfor removing his testis without hisconsent. “The doctor deprived theman’s right to procreate and whichamounts to violation of his humanrights and caused mental trauma tothe applicant,” SHRC said.

‘Mayawati plottedland scam in Noida’LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh irri-gation minister Shivpal Singh Yadavon Thursday accused the Mayawatigovernment of a multi-crore rupeescam in Noida. The minister said theNoida authority, issued orders totransfer irrigation land worth `15-20,000 crore to builders at throw-away prices.

Conman held forduping legislatorsNEW DELHI: An impersonatorwho duped several people, includ-ing legislators from the northeast,by claiming to be a Central govern-ment official was arrested onThursday. He was earlier booked insimilar cases. Sanjay Tiwari, 35, whohails from Faizabad,UP, was arrest-ed along with his associates.

Body of young girlfound in Arunachal

World renowned illusionistCyril performs in Mumbai topromote his new showCyril’s Family Vacation. PTI

A passenger bus catches fireafter an accident inAhmedabad on Thursday.

PTI

ITANAGAR: Body of a younggirl in her teens was found atAbotani Colony this morning by thepolice. The body of the 14-year-oldgirl was found propped against thewall of a building, officer-in-chargeof Itanagar Police Station M Buisaid.

By-electionsv

FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 201211India unveiled India‑View

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Dealing a further blow toCPI-M, ruling UDF in Kerala today wrested the Neyyattinkara

Assembly seat from it in the hotly contested by-election.Congress candidate R Selvaraj defeated CPI-M’s F Lawrenceby a comfortable margin of 6,334 votes in the June 4 bypollwhose outcome has come as a morale-booster to the one-year-old Oommen Chandy Ministry.

Selvaraj had resigned as CPI-M member of the assemblyin March this year citing serious differences with the partyleadership, causing the byelection, before joining Congress.

With today’s result, UDF strength in the 140-memberassembly goes up to 73 and reduced LDF’s to 67.

BJP candidate leads in MaharashtraMUMBAI: BJP candidate Sangeeta Thombre was leadingover her nearest NCP rival Prithviraj Sathe by over 5,237 votesafter five rounds of counting in Kej Assembly byelection inBeed district of Maharashtra. The bypoll was necessitatedafter the death of former NCP minister Vimal Mundada andwas held on June 12. PTI

Congress wrestsKerala Assemblyseat from CPI-M

NEW DELHI: Making it clearthat it is firmly behind UPA can-didate in the presidential race,the NCP has told former LokSabha speaker PA Sangma notto press for his candidature inthe polls. The advice was givento Sangma by party general sec-retary DP Triparthi underinstructions from party chiefSharad Pawar.

After meeting Sangma,Tripathi said, “I went to him(Sangma) and told him that theparty will support UPA candi-date in the presidential race”.

The development came aday after Pawar met SoniaGandhi and amid indicationsthat the presidential electioncould become a keen affair withMamata Banerjee pitching forAPJ Abdul Kalam.

Meanwhile, Sangma saidthat he will contest the presi-dential elections and had gotsupport from many politicalparties.

“I will be contesting. As ofnow I am a candidate sponsoredby two chief ministers and I amstill in the race,” he told a newschannel. Asked whether hewould withdraw his candidatureif NCP chief Sharad Pawar askedhim to, Sangma said: “No… Ihave committed to people sup-porting me.”

“Political parties supportingme will declare their supportafter UPA finalises its candi-date,” he added.

AGENCIES

CHENNAI: Ruling AIADMKestablished a comfortablelead over its closest rivalDMDK in the byelection toPudukkottai Assembly con-stituency today.

At the end of the fourthround of counting of votespolled in the June 12 bypoll,AIADMK’s KarthikThondaiman has secured17,871 votes against JahirHussain’s 6,249, a lead of11,622 votes, officials said.

The bypoll witnessed a vir-tual straight contest betweenAIADMK and Vijaykant-ledDMDK. DMK and Vaiko’sMDMK did not contest thebyelection.

The bypoll was necessitat-ed by the death of CPI MLA SPMuthukumaran in a roadaccident on April 1.

PTI

AIADMKtakes leadin bypoll

Former president APJ Abdul Kalam is greeted by Bihar CM NitishKumar during his arrival at Patna Airport on Thursday. PTI

NEW DELHI: Stating that it wasnot in favour of mid-term polls, theSamajwadi Party on Friday said it wasnot joining the government but wouldcontinue to support the UPA fromoutside. “We will not join the govern-ment and are not in favour of mid-term polls as that would put an extraburden on the state exchequer,” SPleader Ram Gopal Yadav said.

“When the country is facing aserious financial crisis, making anyattempt to destabilise the govern-ment and creating political instabilitywill be hurtful to the nation,” SP vicepresident Mohan Singh said. Headded that the party will never sup-port NDA’s president candidate.

Will continue toprop UPA fromoutside: SP

Kalam: Will decideat right timeAPJ Abdul Kalam, who has beennamed as a Presidential candi-date by SP and TMC, today saidhe will take a proper decision atthe right time on entering therace for the high post. “Manypolitical leaders have contactedand want me to become presi-dent of India. I appreciate thisidea, I respect their views.I willtake proper decision at the righttime,” he told reporters.

NEW DELHI: Stating thatSamajwadi Party chiefMulayam Singh Yadav waswith her, Trinamool Congresschief Mamata Banerjee onFriday sent her “advance con-gratulations” to former presi-dent APJ Abdul Kalam for asecond tenure in office.

Addressing reporters, aconfident Banerjee said

Kalam was a candidate forboth the SP and theTrinamool. “Mulayam and weare together,” she said.

Mamata had earlierwarned the Congress that sheis opposed to its candidatePranab Mukherjee. She heldparleys with the SP chief yes-terday and announced thatKalam was their choice.

Didi’s ‘advance congratulations’ to Kalam

WASHINGTON: Indian PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh and USPresident Barack Obama haveagreed to work together to strength-en the global economy to deal with shocks from the Eurozone andboost global growth, the WhiteHouse said.

The two “leaders agreed on theimportance of steps to strengthenthe resilience of the global economyin response to persistent risks in theEurozone and elsewhere and onfocusing on measures to boost glob-al growth,” it said in a readout ofObama’s telephone call.

They also agreed to work closelytogether towards a successful sum-mit of the G20 major economies inLos Cabos, Mexico on June 18-19likely focused on the debt crisis.

Obama also spoke with EC presi-dent Van Rompuy and MexicanPresident Felipe Calderon to discussthe economic situation in Europe aswell as preparations for Los Cabossummit. IANS

Obama, Singhto work forglobal economy

Prez race: Sangma defiant

FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 201212Around the World Beyond Borders

Getting down and dirtyWASHINGTON: PresidentBarack Obama’s campaign sav-agely mocked Mitt Romney as“out of touch” with ordinaryAmericans with a web videofeaturing a highlight reel of theRepublican’s gaffes.

The move came asRomney, a multi-millionaireformer venture capitalist,argues that it is Obama thathas lost touch with the eco-nomic pain stalking the USheartland, and as each candi-date tries to outdo the other inprofessing deep empathy withthe middle-class.

“Mitt Romney is trying tocall the president out of touch— but the reality is Romneycan’t hide his out-of-touchpolicies behind hypocriticalrhetoric,” the Obama cam-paign said in a news release.

The video features a list ofRomney’s missteps, includingsuch comments as “corpora-tions are people,” “I like beingable to fire people,” and “I’malso unemployed.”

The video was released as arow rumbles over Obama’scomment last week that theprivate sector was doing “fine,”which Romney used to portrayObama as oblivious to the truestate of the slowing US eco-nomic recovery.

Romney and Obama arefighting for the votes of mid-dle-class Americans in a clutchof swing states that coulddecide November’s election.Being seen as “in touch” withthe plight of struggling votersis crucial for both campaigns.

The latest Obama cam-paign web offensive came onthe eve of a key speech by thepresident in the swing state ofOhio, laying out the economicchoice for voters he sees repre-sented in his struggle withRomney.

The former Massachusettsgovernor on Wednesday issueda prebuttal of Obama’sremarks, saying that the presi-dent would acknowledge thatthe economy was not going

well, but would ask for fourmore White Houseyears anyway.

“My own view isthat he will speak elo-quently but that wordsare cheap and that therecord of an individual is thebasis upon which youdetermine whetherthey should contin-ue to hold ontotheir job,”Romneysaid.

“The rea-son it has takenso long for thisrecovery to gain traction andto put people back to work isin large measure because ofthe policy choices the presi-dent made,” Romney said.

“He is not responsible forwhatever improvement wemight be seeing, instead he isresponsible for the fact that it’staken so long to see this recov-ery and the recovery is sotepid.” AFP

Philippines’ ‘Angel of dump’

MANILA: In the midst of thePhilippines’ most notoriousslum, British expat Jane Walkertransforms lives by turning rub-bish into top-end fashion items.

A unique four-story buildinghouses the Philippine ChristianFoundation, an organisationWalker founded 16 years ago tohelp scavengers at the SmokeyMountain garbage dump inManila’s chaotic bayside Tondodistrict.

Walker teaches mothers tomake colourful bags, purses andjewellery using items commonlydiscarded by the public - fromtoothpaste tubes, plastic bottlesand lollypop wrappers to maga-zine pages and soft drink cans.

“It’s inspiring when yourealise such a simple projecthelps so many families,” Walker,48, told AFP during a recent visitto the school.

“We design things from lap-top bags and iPod cases, comput-er cases, all ranges of differenthandbags, shopping bags, clutchbags, fashion accessories andeven place mats made fromwaste paper.”

The products are sold in thecountry’s biggest departmentstore chain, as well as to high-endand specialty shops in Australia,Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, theMiddle East and Singapore, withprice tags ranging from 10 to 100dollars.

A portion of the proceedsgoes to the mothers and the staff,while the rest is used to financethe foundation’s operations.

Apart from teaching liveli-hood skills, Walker’s foundationalso runs a primary school whereup to 500 slum children areenrolled at any given time free ofcharge.

The building in itself isremarkable and true to the foun-dation’s recycling mantra.

It is made from shipping con-tainers welded and cementedtogether in what Walker says isthe first such structure housing aschool anywhere in the world.

Walker first came to thePhilippines in the mid-1990s on asoul searching holiday expectingto soak up some sun in a tropicalparadise.

Instead she found herself lostin a cab that drove her acrossManila’s bayside Tondo districtand its teeming slums.

She was both amazed andrepulsed by Smokey Mountain, asprawling open dump known forits constantly billowing blacksmoke that once symbolisedeverything wrong in theSoutheast Asian country knownfor corruption and crushingpoverty.

She returned to her nativeSouthampton haunted by whatshe saw and was determined todo something about it.

She subsequently quit her

high-paying job as a publishingexecutive and relocated toManila. Using her own moneyand donations from friends, shetook over an abandoned ware-house near the dumps and con-verted it into a school.

Money, however soon driedup, forcing her to look for alter-native sources of funding.

“I thought, why not makegarbage into something we can

profit from,” she said. “And that’show it began.”

Walker tirelessly scoured thedumps with the mothers, andencouraged their children toenrol in her school. As word ofher work spread, corporate spon-sors also lined up to donate cashthat enabled her to expand herwork, including construction ofthe new school in 2009 at a costof one million dollars. AFP

A worker shows hand bags composed of push-tabs fromaluminum beverage cans, that sells 50 USD each.s

Want a beefybaconsundae?WASHINGTON: Burger Kingannounced a special summermenu that includes a 510-caloriebacon sundae perfected in oneof the most obesity-strickenstates in America.

“This limited-time soft servedessert took Nashville,Tennessee by storm earlier thisyear and is now available nation-wide to satisfy every sweettooth,” the fast-food chain saidin a press release.

“The sweet and savorydessert features the rich andcreamy vanilla BK soft serve (icecream), drizzled with chocolatefudge, caramel and topped withbacon crumbles, complete witha thick-cut, hardwood smokedbacon garnish.”

Its calorie count is withinsight of Burger King’s signatureWhopper hamburger, whichweighs in at 670 calories.

Tennessee has the fourth-highest obesity rate in theUnited States at 31.9 per cent,according to a report last year bythe Trust for America’s Healththink tank.

The bacon sundae — whichhas eight grams of fat and 61grams of sugar — is part of aone-off, barbecue-themed selec-tion from Burger King that alsoincludes such Southern favoritesas pulled pork sandwiches,frozen lemonade and sweetpotato fries. AFP

WE DESIGN THINGSFROM LAPTOP BAGS ANDIPOD CASES, COMPUTERCASES, ALL RANGES OFDIFFERENT HANDBAGS,SHOPPING BAGS, CLUTCHBAGS, FASHION ACCES-SORIES AND PLACE MATSMADE FROM WASTEPAPER

AFP/ NOEL CELIS

FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 201213Around the World Beyond Borders

GLOBE AT A GLANCETeacher fired for showing murder videoMONTREAL: A Montreal teacher hasbeen sacked for showing students a grislyvideo of the murder of a Chinese mankilled and dismembered last month in theCanadian city, school officials said onThursday. Officials said the teacher atCavelier-De La Salle High School in south-ern Montreal had been let go for “showinghis students a video whose content wasboth inappropriate and offensive.”

Iran arrests suspectsover scientists’ murdersTEHRAN: Iran’s intelligence ministryhas announced the capture of a number ofprime suspects in the killings of two of thecountry’s nuclear scientists. The ministrysaid the suspects were linked to Israel, RIANovosti. “The main elements were arrestedand moved to detention following aninvestigation involving surveillance in Iranand abroad,” said a ministry statement.

Widow moves into husband’s tombBUENOS AIRES: An Argentine widowwas spending days in the tomb of her hus-band who died two years ago, having setup a bed, Internet access and even a smallcooker. Villareal, 43, told police she visitedher husband three times a year and stayedthree or four nights there and cooked her-self something.“When you love someone,you do all sorts of things,” she explained.

Japanese physicistscrack box office code

Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyiarrives with ILO director, ChileanJuan Somavia, during the 101stILO, Conference in Geneva. PTI

PARIS: Japanese physicists may soon bein demand with moviemakers after devis-ing a formula to predict the succes of afilm. The team from Tottori Universitydevised a mathematical model to measurehow much money was spent on advertis-ing, over what time period and how muchtalk it generated in social media.

HOUSTON: Financier andcricket mogul Allen Stanfordwas sentenced to 110 yearsin jail for a $7 billion Ponzischeme, closing the book onthe flamboyant ex-tycoon’sstunning fall from grace.

“This is one of the mostegregious frauds ever pre-sented to a trial jury in feder-al court,” Judge DavidHittner said in handingdown the lengthy sentenceon Thursday.

Stanford, 62, has spentthe past three years in jailafter being deemed a flightrisk. He will likely never tastefreedom again.

The sentence will bringsome satisfaction — but like-ly little financial relief — tosome 30,000 investors frommore than 100 countries whowere bilked by bogus invest-ments with StanfordInternational Bank.

AFP

Stanford gets 110-year term

Pak AG turns abusive in SCISLAMABAD: Pakistan’sattorney general Irfan Qadircreated a ruckus in thecourtroom on Thursday byusing "abusive remarks"against the Supreme Courtjudges and"vulgar gestures".

The incident occurredwhen the apex court washearing petitions challeng-ing National AssemblySpeaker Fehmida Mirza'sruling not to pass on the dis-

qualification referenceagainst PM Yousuf RazaGilani to the election com-mission. On June 6, the courthad issued notices whilehearing petitions.

According to Geo News,Qadir ridiculed the judgesand used abusive remarks inthe court and kept interrupt-ing the proceedings, whilethe bench kept remindinghim of his position. IANS

UNITED NATIONS:Argentina President CristinaKirchner demanded onThursday that Britain starttalks with Argentina over theFalkland Islands in a UNspeech on the 30th anniver-sary of the end of their warover the disputed territory.

The two countries heldrival commemorations tomark the end of Britain’s mili-tary operation to end a 74-dayArgentine occupation of theremote South Atlantic islands.

In London, Britain’s PrimeMinister David Cameronvowed to defend the Falklandsagainst new “aggression” andsaid there could be nosovereignty negotiations.

Kirchner went to the UNDecolonization Committeewhere she blasted Britain’scontrol of the Falklands as “anaffront to the world which weall dream of” and accusedBritain of abusing its positionas a permanent member ofthe UN Security Council.

But she said, “We do notwant more deaths, we do notwant more wars.”

“We are not asking anyoneto say yes, the Malvinasbelong to Argentina. We areasking no more, no less thanto sit down and talk,” she toldthe committee, a relativelylow-level body overwhelmed

by the presence of the presi-dent and more than 90 of herministers and officials.

Kirchner sat stone-facedthrough speeches by twoFalklands legislators whocomplained about Argentina’s“bullying” tactics.

One of them, MikeSummers, said Argentinawanted to “air-brush us out ofexistence, to satisfy its unjusti-fied lust for our land.”

Summers tried to handover a letter offering talks withthe Falklands’ own govern-ment. But he could not getclose to Kirchner at the end ofthe meeting and Argentina’sForeign Minister HectorTimerman refused to acceptthe letter. Members of the

Falklands delegations fol-lowed Argentine officialsthrough the UN trying to handover the letter.

Kirchner also held talkswith UN leader Ban Ki-moon,who “reiterated that his goodoffices to resolve this disputeremain available if the partiesare willing to engage,” said UNspokesman Martin Nesirky.

Britain has insisted how-ever that it will not discusssovereignty as long as the3,000 people on the wind-swept islands want to remainunder the British flag.

Cameron vowed thatBritain would fight off any“aggression from over thewater” in his London tributeto the war dead. AFP

Argentina grippedby ‘Island Fever’

TOKYO: Police in Japan onFriday arrested the final fugitivefrom the religious cult thatlaunched nerve gas attacks onTokyo’s subway in 1995.

The capture of KatsuyaTakahashi brings an end to apolice hunt for those behind thecoordinated release of Nazi-developed sarin, an incident thatkilled 13 people, injured thou-sands and sowed panic through-out the capital.

“Tokyo Metropolitan Policeconfirmed the identity of theman as Katsuya Takahashi byusing finger prints and otherinformation,” NHK reported.

Takahashi, 54, was detainednear a comic book cafe in south-ern Tokyo, it said. Jiji Press laterconfirmed Takahashi had beenformally arrested on suspicion ofmurder and other charges.

A huge manhunt had beenunder way in and around thecapital since the arrest less thantwo weeks ago of Naoko Kikuchi,40, a former member of the AumSupreme Truth cult. AFP

Japan arrestsfinal fugitive

PARIS: Scientists have foundevidence they say supports thetheory that a knuckle bone andother human remains foundunder a church floor in Bulgariamay be of John the Baptist.

The relics found in a smallmarble sarcophagus two yearsago on a Bulgarian island calledSveti Ivan, also included ahuman tooth, part of a skull and

three animal bones.A research team from

Oxford University dated theright-handed knuckle bone tothe first century AD, when Johnis believed to have lived untilhis beheading by king Herod,the university said.

Scientists from theUniversity of Copenhagen anal-ysed the DNA of the bones,finding they came from a singleindividual, probably a man,from a family in the modern-day Middle East.

While these findings do notdefinitively prove anything,they also don’t refute the theoryfirst proffered by the Bulgarianarchaeologists who found theremains while excavating underan ancient church on theisland. Many sites around theworld claim to hold relics of thesaint.The findings are to be pre-sented in a documentary to beaired on The NationalGeographic channel. AFP

Bones in Bulgaria may beof John the Baptist: Study

Saudi women petitionking for right to driveRIYADH: Six hundred women in SaudiArabia have signed a petition asking theking to grant women the right to drive.Saudi Arabia is the only country in theworld that prohibits women from gettingbehind the wheel of a car. The petition willbe presented to King Abdullah Bin AbdulAziz on Sunday, the first anniversary ofthe launching of the Women2Drive campaign.

FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 201214Fair, free and forthrightComment

Help stop meningitisWhat a great article (Before you say aurevoir, Jun 6). Meningitis does not stop at thedorm room door. Some colleges in the USrequire the meningitis shot. I am the motherof an only child, Ryan, who died from ofmeningococcal meningitis and thefounder/national executive director ofMeningitis Angels (www.meningitis-angels.org).

Each year in the US infants, children,teens and young adults are left seriouslydebilitated from meningococcal disease...some with the loss of limbs and some are left

with severe organdamage, seizuredisorder, braindamage, digestivedisorders, anemia,blindness, deaf-ness, and more.Worse, some die.Some early signsof the disease areunrelenting fever,leg pain, cold

hands & feet & abnormal skin color. Thesecan develop within (12 hours) after infectionlong before the more classic signs of the ill-ness such as a rash, headache, stiff neck, sen-sitivity to light and impaired consciousnessand death.

The CDC recommends the meningococ-cal vaccine which protects against some ofthe bacteria that cause meningococcal dis-ease such as meningitis or sepsis (blood-stream infections). This vaccine is recom-mended for all preteens. A booster shot isrecommended for age 15/16 when diseaserisk is highest. Those students entering col-lege who were vaccinated more than 3 yearsago or have never received the meningitisshot are recommended to take it. Talk to yourhealth care provider.

Educate and Vaccinate! Join the causeon facebook at http://apps.facebook.com/causes/103719/35941843?m=6d54c0aa

Frankie Milleyvia e-mail

Yahoo rocksApropos Browser Wars (June 2). Yahoo’snew Axis browser is one of the mostinnovative evolutions in the browsermarket. It isn’t a contender for the desk-top market but shines in iOS, where theAxis app is faster/better than Safari foriPhones and iPads. Its bookmarking func-tionality doesn’t compare to iCrumz.combut a valiant effort!

Matthew GraczykVia email

Cold receptionSometimes one wonders it there is arock crowd in Hyderabad. One of thebest bands in Goa comes to play hereand they get such a cold reception. TidalWave has performed here at least twen-ty times. It was in recent times they per-formed at 10 Downing Street and it wasa success then.

Jay SinhaBanjara Hills

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JAGAN’S TRIUMPH SPELLS DOOM FOR KIRAN,Congress prospects in AP

The one question on everyone’s mind was if the Congress government would survive in theState following the bypolls. But with the YSRC leading in most constituencies, Congress’

return to power in the 2014 general elections now seems like a distant dream. Whether itwas the YSR scion’s relentless campaigning or his arrest and the subsequent sympathy wave ashis sister Sharmila set the ball rolling with her appeal to bring back the ‘Rajanna rajyam’, we’ll

never know. But whatever it was it worked in favour of the YSRC and Jagan Mohan Reddy. Eventhe BJP’s promise to form a separate Telangana state, didn’t work this time around. So while

Jagan seems all set to take on the State, it remains to be seen if dynastic politics will triumph,yet again. Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy is a sad man. The last-minute show of unity andtacit understanding with anti-Jagan parties failed to yield results. For the embattled CM, the

bypolls was his chance to prove to the party bosses in Delhi that he is in control and can do thejob. The YSR scion has proved he is a force to reckon with and is here to stay.

WITH RUSSIA, USmust tread lightly

Hillary Clinton’s incor-rect statement thatRussia was covertly

supplying attack helicoptersto Syria could not have comeat a worse time for theSyrian people. Given thatRussia will be a key compo-nent to peace in the belea-guered country, irking themisn’t wise. The US must treadcarefully.

Several months ago, I wrote a story onmy company’s frustrating attempts tohire people, because prospectiveemployees couldn’t answer basic ques-

tions, such as:n Does the earth go around the sun, or the

sun around the earth?n Which ocean borders India?n Seven years ago, how old were you?n Who is Albert Einstein, and, (if they know

the answer to that), what is he famous for?n Who is Sigmund Freud?n Name a country that is east of India.n Why is the sky blue?n Where is the North Pole?n Does the moon go around the earth, or the

earth around the moon?n If I say, “The two siblings room was on the

second floor,” where should the apostro-phe go on the word ‘siblings’?”A few Indian friends of mine saw the arti-

cle, and said essentially: “Indian parents don’tcare. They know their kids will get jobs,whether or not they know if the sun goesaround the earth or vice versa.”

And my response to this is: Parents darnwell should care, and here’s why.

First, are parents right to assume their off-spring are essentially guaranteed jobsbecause of India’s booming economy? Notquite. The reality is, the economy isn’t boom-ing anymore. It was – growing between 8 and10 per cent annually for years. But now it’sdown to barely 5 per cent growth... a lot fasterthan, say, the United States, but not nearlyfast enough to create jobs for every Indian hit-ting their adult and employable years. (As aside note, I believe a key reason for the slow-down in the India economy is the lack of qual-ified, trained employees... just talk to anyemployer, and they all say the same thing:“We can’t find good people to grow our com-pany!”). Which means, quite simply, that thejob market is going to get a lot more competi-tive, and fast. Who do you think employerswill hire? The one who knows what oceanIndia borders? Or the one who doesn’t?

Second, even if the current generation ofchildren in India can get jobs, what kind ofjobs will they get? I find myself reluctantlyhiring people who can’t answer any of theabove questions quite frequently, because weneed so badly people and can’t find anyonewho can answer them. But they get low leveljobs…jobs that pay 10,000 to 35,000 rupees amonth, and they have little chance of increas-ing these amounts above the rate of inflationthroughout their careers.

And if you’re thinking... “Why not justtrain them once you hire them, MrAnonymous Alien, so they do know theanswers to the above questions?” Well, thatbrings me to my third point.

The problem with employees who don’tknow the answers to the above questions isn’tthat I need people to know who AlbertEinstein for them to be able to do their jobs.The reality is, knowing who Albert Einstein isprobably wouldn’t matter at almost any job inthe world. What does matter is that employ-ees who make a difference in companies – theones who create wealth for a company andthus earn lakhs and lakhs and who canincrease their incomes dramatically through-out their careers – are the ones with the abilityto think... to behave proactively, to be cre-

ative, to solve problems. And in my manyyears in India, I have come to believe thatthose who don’t know if the earth goes aroundthe sun, or vice versa, don’t know it becausethey were only taught to memorise that fact –in this case, that the earth goes around thesun. That’s a fact that some 20-30 years aftercommitting it to memory is easily forgotten.

Those who don’t forget it are the ones whounderstand WHY the earth goes around thesun. They were taught not to memorize thisfact, but to understand this phenomenon:why it happens, what its social and culturalrelevance was and is, and why it matters inscientific and astronomical terms. They were,in short, taught to think, not to memorise,and that makes them infinitely more valuableto employers.

So parents, think about this: if your kid iseight or older, and can’t answer, say, 5 or moreof the above questions, it’s time to take actionnow because there is still time to rescue yourchild, to train their brains to think. And thinkabout this too: once they get to me, anemployer, I can tell you from experience – it’sfar too late to take action.

A foreigner’s observations on living, working, surviving and thriving in India.

Educating parentsbefore it’s too lateThe AnonymousAlien

BruceSpringsteen Clad in a flannel

shirt and bluejeans, Bruce ‘The Boss’Springsteen epito-mised the everymanwhenever he strodeout on to the stage,

electric guitar in tow. Backed up by the excel-lent E-Street band and Clarence Clemmons,Bruce’s rasp captivated arenas. Equally at easebelting out Born to Run, and quietly layeringthe texture on The River, Springsteen is a front-man who has spanned generations. The classicclip of him asking a young and anonymousCourteney Cox to shake a leg on stage toDancing in the Dark is priceless and personifiesthe Springsteen spirit.

FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 201215Rhythm Nation

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Teri Meri Kahaani3.Dhadang Dhang

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Rowdy Rathore6.Jiya Tu Bihar Ke Lala

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Vicky Donor8.Tera Deedar Hua

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Tom Cruise’s character inRock of Ages, Stacee Jaxx

may burn up the stagebut real-life rock front-

men have been doing justthat for decades. We

bring you the greateststage presences…ever

Leaders of the pack

Mick Jagger

To call Mick Jagger the aged gentlemanof rock lead singers would be to do him

a great injustice. Even at 69, Jagger haslost none of the potency that makes himone of the most popular singers of alltime, pipped to the top spot only by ElvisPresley. As part of the legendary RollingStones Jagger has been part of arguablythe best band ever, across any genre andhas used his tremendously talented bandmates to provide a cushion of harmonyupon which the frolicking genius of jaggercan cavort. And boy does he cavort. Onelook at the footage of Jumpin’ Jack Flashor the high camp of Angie and it’s evident,there can only be one Mick Jagger.

Robert PlantThe lead singer in arguably the greatest rock

band ever, Robert Plant was at the vanguardof the Led Zeppelin phenomenon. Althoughsupported byuber-talentedJimmy Page, JohnPaul Jones andJohn Bonham, itwas Plant’s vocalcrescendos thatput the band onthe map. Fromthe silkenStairway toHeaven and theraging ImmigrantSong to the sheer brilliance of Kashmir andD’Yer Mak’er Plant was brilliance in tightleather pants.

BonoWhether you

like it or not,one has to admitthat U2 is anextension of itslead singer Bono.It is Bono’s com-mand of the stageand rigorous beltthat he whipsaround each tune that has taken the band intothe stratosphere. From the early rawness of Boy,to the far more refined No Line on the Horizon,Bono’s vocals have charted the band’s meta-morphosis from underground statement-makersto arena-filling trend-setters.

Jim MorrisonLaid back and loving

it, audiences had tooften excuse Jim as hekissed the sky betweenlyrics that seemed tobe a product of a Poe-Keats love child. Butthey didn’t carebecause Jim Morrisonhad that charisma that

could only come from supreme confidence.Leading the Doors through an era fraught withself-destruction, Jim became not only an icon,but an incredibly influential singer. His lyricswere matched only by his ability to croon theaudience into a state of ultimate bliss. Manyhave attempted to copy his stage style, almostall have failed.

Ozzy OsbourneWhether he’s biting the head off a

bat or chasing his inner demons,Ozzy Osbourne had more stage pres-ence than Satan. First with BlackSabbath and then with his own band,Ozzy always played conjurer to themusical geniuses who backed up hisoutstanding talent. Even the young andsublime Randy Ehodes had to bowbefore the altar of Ozzy awesomeness.

Axl RoseFew youngsters will remember all the

members of Guns ‘n’ Roses, the semi-nal hard rock outfit that changed thewhole trajectory of the genre. But AxlRose, like his bandmate, lead guitaristSlash is etched into the annals of rockhistory. Axl’s presence on stage was alive wire verging on dangerous. G ‘n Rmay have mellowed later into its careerbut on albums like Appetite forDestruction and Lies, Axl Rose soars.

Freddy MercuryArguably the most charismatic singer

of a rock band ever to walk onstage, Freddie Mercury was a beacon towhich flocked the masses. Whenever theopening beats of We Will Rock Youemanated from Roger Taylor drum setall eyes would focus on the preeningfront man as he get set to deliver on hispromise of a vocal masterclass. Thepassing of Freddy Mercury left a gapinghole in the music world.

FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 201218Holistic view of mind, body and soulH‑Factor

Motherhood they sayis the best experi-ence a woman couldhave. Following

close on its heels is the joy ofbreast feeding her baby. Expertshave suggested that this is oneof the best ways for a mother toforge a strong bond with herchild. Mothers too claim thatthe practice of breast feeding isextremely satisfying. In fact,there are cases across the globewhere women are reluctant towean their children and contin-ue to breast feed them evenwhen the child is three or fouryears old. But how much is toomuch, when it comes to breastfeeding?

“I breast fed my first son tillthe age of one, after which Igradually weaned him. With mysecond one however, I find thatafter six months itself he hasbegun to wean himself. So itreally depends on the child.However, breast feeding a childtill the age of four is stretching ita bit too much,” says Anju N, aresearch scientist.

For Akanksha Reddy,

though, her baby himself wasn’ttoo keen on being breast fed.“He didn’t really like beingbreast fed. And since I didn’t gettoo much time off from workafter my delivery, it wasn’t con-venient for me to breast feedhim either. So we both settledfor expressed breast milkinstead and then eventually forformula milk. Fortunately, he is

very healthy and has no prob-lems whatsoever,” she says.

Doctors advocate breastfeeding and say that a womanshould ideally breast feed herchild till the age of one or 18months. “For the first sixmonths, a baby should be exclu-sively breast fed. There is nosubstitute for mother’s milk. It isextremely nutritious and pro-

vides the infant with all his/hernutritional requirements. Aftersix months, the baby can be puton home-cooked semi-solidslike raagi or khichdi, but thebreast feeding should continuetill the age of one. While for thefirst six months the mother’smilk meets all the nutritionalrequirements, after that it pro-vides the child with the anti-bodies to fight infections,” saysDr Kiran Krishnamurti, a paedi-atrician.

However, for RubinaSingh, mother of one,stretching the breast feedtill her child turn almosttwo wasn’t a problem.“Why not? Experts saythat it is perfectly alrightfor a mother to continueto breast feed her childtill both the mother andchild want to stop doingso. In my case, both mydaughter and I didn’twant to really stop.Although I did put heron semi-solid foodsand eventually solids,she still wanted breastmilk a couple of timesof day. I didn’t mindeither as mother’s milkis supposed to be verynutritious,” she says.

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With the global debate raging on when a mum should stop breast feedingher child, we check with young mothers in the City on what they think

Extended breastfeeding anyone?

FOR THE FIRST SIX MONTHSA CHILD SHOULD BEEXCLUSIVELY BREAST FED.AFTER THAT THEY CAN BEPUT ON HOME-COOKEDSEMI SOLIDS, BUT THEBREAST FEEDING SHOULDCONTINUE TILL AGE ONE.

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While most women would preferbreast feeding their newborn,there may be some who don’t

want to or some others who cannot forvarious reasons. For those few, thereare options available, however expertsopine that breast feeding is the bestone.

“There’s no reason why a mothershouldn’t breast feed her child. But iffor some reason that isn’t happeningthen, expressing breast milk and thengiving it to the child with a spoon is anoption,” says Dr Kiran Krishnamurti, apaediatrician practicing at theAndromeda Centre.

In the rare case, that a woman can’texpress breast milk either, then doc-tors suggest other alternatives. “Anyanimal milk that has been pasteurisedis a distant second option. There are

also formulae milk available in themarket that a mother could opt for.While there are several babies who sur-vive on animal milk and formula milk,the mother’s milk is the best option forbabies,” explain Dr Kiran.

Experts suggest that a baby be putto the mother’s breast soon after birth.The first 30 to 40 minutes after birthare when the baby is at its most alert.This enhances the mother-child bondthat develops. Also the first milk pro-duced by the mother, called colostrum,is very high in proteins and antibodies,which are vital in helping the babycope with the stress of birthing.

Also according to studies, breastfeeding helps the mother shed all thekilos she piled on during pregnancy.Research also shows that suggestedthat non breast feeding mothers face agreater risk of osteoporosis later in lifeand also the chances of hip fracturesgoes up for them.

Medical imaging on the riseincreasing radiation exposure

Alexander Besant

Anew study by theAmerican MedicalAssociation shows theuse of computed

tomography (CT) scans hastripled between 1996 and 2010.

WebMd reported that CTscan rates rose from 52 per 1000patients to 149 per 1000patients in that time period.

According to Bloomberg, thenumber of people receivinghigh doses of radiation from thescans has doubled during thelast 15 years.

This means that more and

more patients receive greaterthan 20 millisieverts to 50 mil-lisieverts of radiation - andsometimes higher - per year,while the general population isonly exposed to about 6.2 mil-lisieverts per year.

It is well-known that highexposure to radiation causescancer.

The study was conducted bylooking at millions of medicalrecords of patients enrolled insix large HMOs around thecountry.

Researchers found that theincrease in scans seemed tohave little to do with incentives

for doctors who might be paidfor every test.

Looking at patients enrolledin HMOs, rather than programssuch as Medicaid, meant thatthe financial incentive would bean unlikely reason for theincrease as doctors were notpaid per test, said WebMd.

“One of the thoughts for thechange in the rise of imaging isa change in the incentives,”Rebecca Smith-Bindman, a pro-fessor of radiology and biomed-ical imaging at UCSF and studyco-author, told Fox News.

“So we wanted to studypatients see if there was an

increase when there weren’t anincentives, and the rate ofgrowth is very similar in all theother settings. It suggests thatfinancial factors may play a role,but there are other factors aswell.”

The study said that increas-ing scans were likely due to newtechnology making them moreapplicable in a wider range ofillnesses, reported the New YorkTimes.It also said that patientswere requesting them moreoften.The study was publishedin the Journal of the AmericanMedical Association.

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A new study by the American Medical Association shows the use of computedtomography (CT) scans has tripled between 1996 and 2010

FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 201219Holistic view of mind, body and soulH‑Factor

A not-sowelcomebreak

Procrastination is indeedthe destruction ofmankind. After three

weeks of procrastination Ifinally decided to get back tothe gym. After two weeks ofputting off going to the gymwith some excuse or the other,my decision to head back wasmet with surprise. Everyone,from the janitor to my trainerwere surprised to see me back.While my trainer greeted mewith a bemused smile, I’m sureat the back of his mind he waslaughing at me. But as proud asI was of myself for going backto the gym, the after-effectswere terrible. For starters, I hadno stamina to exercise. After 18days of lethargy my bodyrefused to do any sort of physi-cal activity.

Usually, I can spin on thecycle continuously for a mini-mum of eight minutes but thistime even five minutes was aHerculean task. After huffingand puffing my way throughthe 10 minutes of spinning, Irealised that such a long breakfrom the gym was a bad idea.

Seems like instructor hadno plans of letting me have iteasy either for bunking gym forso long. The workout was rigor-ous and how! He made me dopainful squats and the excruci-ating abs, apart from somespot sprints and jumps. Justtwo days earlier I was devour-ing that Qubani ka meethawith great relish, but now Icould feel all of that fat and itwasn’t fun.

Usually, my work out ses-sions are a combination of car-dio and weight training for onepart of the body. But this time,I had to exercise every part ofthe body, except hands andshoulders and trust me, thepain I felt during the work outwas bad. But what I felt thenext morning was worse.

Initially I thought abs wasthe worst exercise. But whenmy legs turned to jelly after anevening of squatting, jumpingand running, I realised exactlyhow hard it was.

Now as I battle the scream-ing muscles, I realise that comewhat may, such a long breakfrom the gym is definitely not agood idea. The pain and extraflab are too much to handle.

(The writer is determinedto fight the flab. Readers

can inspire her atsudeshna.k@postnoon.com)

Gym DiariesSudeshna Koka

Common cold virus kills cancer cells, study findsResearchers at the

University of Leeds foundthat they were able to

deliver the “reovirus” into thebloodstream and, using bloodcells, it can make its way totumors without being killed firstby antibodies.

Before the technique, mostscientists thought that the com-mon cold would immediatelybe neutralized by natural anti-bodies.

“It seems that reovirus iseven cleverer than we hadthought,” study author AlanMelcher, professor at LeedsUniversity in the UK said in astatement, according to ABCNews.

“By piggybacking on bloodcells, the virus is managing tohide from the body’s naturalimmune response and reach itstarget intact. This could behugely significant for the uptake

of viral therapies like this inclinical practice.”The study wasconducted on 10 patients withadvanced bowel cancer.

Reuters reported that thecold virus both killed cancercells and created an immuneresponse that eliminated theremaining cancerous cells.

The study authors alsofound that the virus did notattack healthy cells, only can-cerous ones.Researchers said

that the new discovery couldchange how a range of cancersare treated.

By injecting the virus direct-ly into the bloodstream, thepossibilities for outpatient treat-ment could eventually seevirus-therapy.”This study givesus the news that it should bepossible to deliver these treat-ments with a simple injection,”said study co-author Kevin.

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Because you are what you wearF‑Folio

Surabhi Chauhanfeedback@postnoon.com

Everyone has a list of wardrobe

basics that live through sea-sons and fashion trends. A lit-

tle black dress or LBD is apopular choice for women, as

are a pair of blue jeans. This year, Frenchluxury house Chanel reminds us to add

another must have garment to our list ofclassics – the Chanel black jacket. The

Chanel Black Jacket is the cause of celebra-tion this year with the brand launching aneponymous book and a travelling exhibi-

tion.The history of the jacket began in 1916

when it was designed, produced and evenworn by its founder Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel.

Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel was born in thenineteenth century and was an important

figure of the twentieth century. Defying thetrends of her time, Chanel was the first oneto design luxury womenswear without the

tight cinched waists (made popular byDior’s New Look). She defied prevailing

trends and created garments with shorterhemlines where women could wear hautecouture and still go about their work withease. She wore menswear inspired shirts

and trousers herself and created itemswhich were simple and timeless. “I always

make the first design for me” said the petiteCoco who believed that women could beelegant while wearing clothes that didn’ttrap the body into an unnatural form. A

savvy business woman and creator, CocoChanel is still remembered for the iconic

products like the Chanel No.5perfume, tweed suit, pearl costume jew-

ellery, quilted handbag, to name a few. The black jacket, also part of the tweed

suit, was at the time of its creation a revela-tion in womenswear. Coco Chanel’s original

black tweed jacket had some very defineddetails: overcast and topstitched seams

for an even surface, a gilt chain weighingdown the inside hem of the jacket so as

LITTLE Chanel celebrates its

iconic black jacket thisyear in the form of abook The Little Black

Jacket with photographsby designer Karl Lagerfeldand stylist Carine Roitfeld

celebrating the versatilenature of this classic

piece of garment

Founder and designer of Chanel — Gabrielle Coco Chanel

Karl Lagerfeld — Chanel's current designer and photographer for theproject and (right) the cover of the book, The Little Black Jacket

The

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BLACKto take the shape of the body of the wearer

instead of the other way around. The stitch-ing and quality of the fabric made this a

unique buy. When designer Karl Lagerfeldjoined Chanel as the Artistic Director in 1983, hestepped into the shoes of Coco Chanel with ease

by following a similar working style of creatingfor tomorrow while deriving from the past. His

style paid tribute to the founder but nevercopied or imitated Coco Chanel’s designs. Karl’s

first collection for Chanel was for the same museGabrielle Chanel designed for, and even includ-

ed the black tweed jacket with chain details. This year, Lagerfeld collaborated with formerFrench Vogue editor and stylist extraordinaire

Carine Roitfeld for the book The Little BlackJacket: Chanel’s classic revisited. The book has

been launched for Fall 2012 with images of 109celebrities wearing

the jacket in a unique and different styleeach time. Models, actors, singers, rappers,fashion editors, designers all can be seen in

this book wearing the Chanel black jacket.Photographed in black and white portrait

format by Karl Lagerfeld himself (who alsophotographs the ad campaigns for Chanel)

and styled by Carine Roitfeld (who is also thecover star of the book wearing the Chanel blackjacket with matching skirt), this book celebrates

the versatility of a classic garment which wasoriginally designed for women, is now worn by

men as well. “The Chanel jacket is a man’s jacketwhich has become a typically feminine piece. It

has crossed that boundary. I love that. It hasbecome the symbol of a certain feminine ele-

gance, nonchalant and timeless, which meansfor all time, ” says Karl Lagerfeld in the behind

the scenes film shot during the photo shoot.Correctly so, the jacket looks incredibly stylish on

the master-of-cool New York- baseddesigner Alexander Wang and manages to

look sporty yet dressed up on Brooklyn- basedmale rapper Theophilus London when he wearsthe jacket with white Tshirt and sneakers. Model

Frankie Rayder wears the jacket over a greyhoodie and floral print skirt. Actress Sarah JessicaParker was styled with the jacket worn as a head-

piece and worn overskirt in a crop- fitted version. French singer

and actress Vanessa Paradis wore theblack jacket over a white bohemian inspired

long dress. While Coco Chanel must havedesigned the jacket keeping in mind the simple

nature it could be worn, Karl Lagerfeldtook that simple concept and adapted to dif-

ferent ways— how today’s customer would wantto wear their Chanel jacket time and again. The‘Little Black Jacket’ project is a clear indication

how a heritage brand like Chanel remains freshand relevant while remaining true to its

founder’s vision. The book was launched in formof a travelling exhibition in Tokyo during March

end 2012 and in New York earlier this month.The exhibition will also travel to Taipei thismonth and more cities, which are yet to be

announced.To see behind the scenes videos

of the project, log on tohttp://thelittleblackjacket.chanel.com

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JACKET

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It’s hard to havemissed any of hissongs whilegrowing up. With

his debut remixalbum ‘440 volts’topping the charts

across India, fame

was not far behind. His songsincluding Bin Tere Sanam,became an instant favouritewith the audience and domi-nated dance floors across notjust India but internationallyas well.

With so many new andupcoming DJs or musiciansfighting to gain a spot in theindustry, does he feel the heat

from all the competition? “Ihave never really looked at mypassion for music in that light.For me it was only about mak-ing good music and keepingaudiences entertained,” hesays going on to add that heloves playing in Hyderabad.

“In my opinion, the wholeof South India is the birth-place for House music. There

was a time when Mumbaiclubs played only retro musicand I had to mix accordingly.So if I played two Englishsongs in the beginning, Iwould have to play threeHindi songs just so that thecrowd isn’t too unfamiliar.But, now the audience ismuch smarter, and well edu-cated about what songs aretrending,” he explains.

He is now coming up witha solo remix album by mid-August and he is also workingon the music of Raaz 2.

FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 201222Spotlight

DJ Suketu comes to town and thistime he goes behind the console to

teach the art of DJing Guru of Spin

THE WEDDING OF THE YEARActor Ram Charan by his own admission can romance freely, now that he is married. His wedding with Upasana Kamineni was the most anticipatedevent this year. On Thursday night they hosted a reception, which was attended by both the Tollywood and Bollywood fraternity, apart from the citywho’s who. Spotted at the event were Tabu, Mahesh Babu, Rana Daggubati, Prabhu Deva, AK Khan, Allu Arjun, Nagarjuna and family among others.

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Naga Chaitanya and Sunilwill soon be seen togetherin the official remake ofLingusamy’s Vettai, which

was a big hit in Tamil. BellamkondaSuresh had bought the remakerights few weeks ago and the unti-tled film was launched yesterdaymorning at Ramanaidu Studios.

ANR, D Ramanaidu, VV Vinayak,Kona Venkat and Abburi Ravi weresome of the guests who graced theevent. ANR clapped the sound-board and Ramanaidu switched onthe camera. P Kishore Kumar, whohad earlier helmed KonchamIshtam Koncham Kashtam, is goingto direct the film. Hansika is play-

ing one of the two lead roles in thefilm and a new actress is going to becast opposite Sunil, who’ll be seenas a police officer. The principalshooting of the film is going tobegin from the first week of July.Arthur Wilson is the cinematogra-pher and Thaman is going to scorethe music.

Naga Chaitanya, Sunilplay brothers in new film

Piaa Bajpai is finally making her come-back in Telugu in Jeevan Reddy’supcoming action film Dhalam. She

had made her debut in Siva NageswaraRao’s Ninnu Kalisaka in 2009; however, sheshot to fame with KV Anand’s Rangam,which was one of the biggest hits of 2011.“My character Saro in Rangam clicked sowell that I whoever approached me afterthat wanted to cast me in similar roles. Iwasn’t too keen in doing characters onceagain,” Piaa says. So how did she end upbagging the lead role in Dhalam? “I wasquite excited with the way he etched mycharacter. I play a Tamil-Brahmin girl inthe film and this is the first time I am play-ing a non-urban role,” she reveals. Naveen,Kishore, Krishnan and Krishnudu are play-ing the lead roles in this film whichrevolves around the lives of gangsters. “Iam the only heroine in the film and I mustsay, I am enjoying all the attention on theset,” Piaa quips.

Piaa Bajpai makes acomeback in Telugu Brahmanandam’s upcoming

film Jaffa is making waveson the Internet. Less than twodays after the film’s trailer wasposted online, it has alreadybeen viewed more than threelakh times on various websitesand YouTube. Of late, it hasbecome a trend in Tollywoodto evaluate the buzz generatedby a film based on the numberof hits the trailers get onYouTube and Jaffa seems tohave clicked quite well with theaudience. Vennela Kishore,who’s directing the film, isquite elated with the initialresponse. Shamdat is the cine-matographer, SunilKashyap has com-posed the back-ground score andPraveen is theeditor. The filmwill hit thescreens laterthis year.

Jaffa’s trailergoes viral

T-TOWN TWEETIES

@RanaDaggubatiDone with the last night of theelaborate action sequence.Shooting 20 odd nights in arow and breakfast at 6am andsleep. #wayoflife

@shraddhadas43Been 4 yrs and I still can’t getover repeatedly listening tothis beautiful Telugu romanticsong ‘Ninnena na’ from Salutefilm! Awesome!

@_Hansika.tifThere is also a good reasonwhen something bad happens:) why be sad then. Positivity!#randomthoughts.

@sundeepkishanSuper long day... left at 6.30am& just got back...12hrs of shoot& an hour and a half of gruel-ing workout... glad that I man-aged to push myself :)

@snehaullalheartToday Frankie night... mumbaistyle, the best there is... ofcourse vegetarian... go green.

@tashu_02Packed up finally.... It’s beennearly 18 hrs since my batter-ies were charged... day startedat 6am... Another 1 hour drivebk to the hotel!

@Actor_SiddharthI think Pratibha Patil shouldget another term so she canthink of one reason as to whyshe deserved to get her firstterm. It’s only fair!

@PriyaWajAnandHad a lovely time in Erode &Coimbatore... Will miss theSouthern Hospitality! :)Headed home for my friendsdaughters 1st B’day Party!

FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 201226Chai Time

How to play KakuroKakuro is a popular game similar to sudoku in some ways. But is alsosuitably different. The key question: ‘How do you play kakuro?’, well hereare the rules of kakuro. The answer: The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku,can be of any size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells like in acrossword. And, just like in a crossword, some of the dark cells will con-tain numbers. Some cells will contain two numbers.

However, in a crossword the numbers reference clues. In a kakuro,the numbers are all you get! They denote the total of the digits in therow or column referenced by the number.

Within each collection of cells — called a run — any of the numbers1 to 9 may be used but, like sudoku, each number may only be used once.

Let’s have an example to explain this concept more clearly:In the image above, which shows a section of a kakuro puzzle, you

will see the numbers ‘26’ and ‘14’ in the top row. Look at the 14. Thismeans that the total of the three cells underneath must sum to 14.Therefore 9, 4, 1 could be the answer, or perhaps 7, 4, 3 and so on...

So, how do you work out the actual combination? Well, this is donethrough elimination and cross-referencing. For instance, as you work outthe answers for other kakuro clues, this will naturally limit the valid com-binations, and hence the answer for this particular run.

Note the second cell in row two — it contains two numbers, 30 and11. The 30 refers to the vertical run underneath the number 30 and the11 refers to the two cells to the right, horizontally, of the number 11.

KAKUROACROSS1 Amazed exclamations5 ___-Jo (1988 Olympics

star)8 Thing for the plus column13 Lifebuoy rival14 Hodgepodge15 Lavender relative16 1814-15 exile for

Napoleon17 Some Thanksgiving fare19 Not in favor of21 Trident-shaped Greek

letter22 Pitched enclosure23 Lines that touch but

don't intersect26 Discolor by burning28 Angry feeling29 ‘Chosen one’ played by

Keanu30 Old Glory's land31 Nectar inspector32 Diamond measure34 Electromagnetic wave

amplifiers37 Fruity dessert41 More sharp, as pain42 ‘Love ___ Around’ (‘The

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informally62 Calif wine valley65 Fauvist painter Matisse66 Discharge, as radiation67 Suffix meaning ‘land’ in

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winds35 Gibbon, eg36 ‘Boom-bah’ lead-in38 Delicate difference39 Handle the maps40 Narrow,

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ARIESA strong financial position is seen andinflow of money is certain. You will berespected in functions you attend. Ben ‑efits through relatives likely. Your sta‑tus will rise. Enemies will befriend you.

CANCER

LIBRAPetty issues with spouse likely. Youwill take lead social events. Father'shealth might get affected. Chances ofmisunderstanding with father likely.Avoid major problems by staying cool.

CAPRICORNMarriage talks progress well and afavourable decision will be taken. Goodinflow of money likely but huge ex ‑penses might not allow you to be hap ‑py. Enemies too will become friends.

TAURUSAvoid forcing any decision on yourchildren. House construction held uphalf way will resume and get complet‑ed without obstacles hereafter. Chan ‑ces of eyesight problem; take care.

LEOYou need to work hard without relax‑ation, which will make you tired anddepressed. Don't panic; very soon thesituation will change. Expectations willget fulfilled but with some delay.

SCORPIOSome have bright chances to buy valu‑able jewels. You will demand and getdue share of ancestral property. Yourunexpected and massive growth willmake some of your relatives jealous.

AQUARIUSAll expectations will get fulfilled withthe help of friends and well‑wishers.Throat infection and fever likely; takegood care. Avoid arguments with mot h ‑er. Her health needs to be taken care of.

GEMINIAvoid getting irritated at minor issues.Travel, delay in execution of work, thr ‑oat infection and sinus problems likely;take proper and enough care. Don't benegligent in govt‑related work.

VIRGOThose trying for a new job will befavoured with a good one from andMNC company. Politicians will beawarded new posts and responsibility.Some might get a chance to go abroad.

SAGITTARIUSEgo clashes and doubting each otherlikely between couples. Avoid this byadjusting within youʼll. Avoid high‑spe ‑ed driving as minor accidents likely.Purchase of asset will be completed.

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Page of Swords – Youmay be asked toattend a summit orconference to net‑work with businessassociates and buildcontacts. This will bea great opportunity.

The Fool – You maybe seesawing bet we ‑en one extreme andanother. This is notdoing good for youremotions be cause itis unsettling you. Me ‑d i tation is important.

Two of Cups – Life ispretty much like apack of Tarot cards.What you pick atany given time willhave an impact onyour frame of mind.Play it right.

CANCER LEO VIRGO

Four of Wands –You may be blamingsomeone for some‑thing. But it mayactually be an acci‑dent and you maybe mistaken. Clearyour doubts.

King of Cups – Anumber of brain‑storming sessions atthe office will begood for your work.You can get manymore ideas on howto grow the business.

The Hanged Man –Donʼt get muddled upin your head. Dealwith one creativeidea at a time. Youare full of ideas andneed to juice themproperly.

LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS

Knight of Swords –Th ose who have a wa ‑y with words must fin ‑d an outlet to releasepent‑up emotionsthrough writing. Itneed not be a literarypiece, random stuff.

The Chariot – Inyour profession, youwill meet a cross‑sec‑tion of people fromsociety. Seeing soci‑ety from very closehas its advantagesand disadvantages.

Page of Pentacles –Being too idealisticwill only harm yourchances of progress.You need to keep apractical foot firmlyin the world that youlive in.

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Some have a bright chance to buy ahouse of their own taste. Sudden tourand sleeplessness likely. Hurdles possible in govt‑related work, if notdealt with involvement; be alert.

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Four of Pentacles –Rights come with re ‑s ponsibility. Just bec ‑a use you have thepo wer to do certainthings does not meanyou can use it as alicence to do more.

Ace of Pentacles – Anew member arrivesinto the family. Thisbundle of joy willgive you a lot ofhappiness. It couldeven be a relative inthe extended family.

Justice – Take up ahobby so you candivide your life intodifferent compart‑ments. This is neces‑sary in order to adda larger perspectiveto your life.

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ÉPÉE is the only fencing discipline inwhich the entire body is the valid targetarea. Épée is the heaviest of the threemodern fencing weapons. Fencing matcheswith the épée requires a large amount ofconcentration, accuracy and speed. Sincethe entire body is a target, a successfulépée fencer must be able anticipate theiropponent’s move and strike their opponentat the correct time.

FOIL is used as a thrusting weapon only.Any contact with the side of the blade (aslap or slash) does not result in a score. Toscore a touch, one must touch an opponentwith the tip of the foil with a force of over4.90 newtons.As such, points are not nec-essarily awarded to the first fencer to hit,but to the fencer who hits with priority.Priority is established when one fencerstarts a correctly executed attack.

SABRE or SABER is usually has a curved,single-edged blade and a rather large handguard, covering the knuckles as well as thethumb and forefinger. Sabre is a right-of-way weapon, which means that the fencermust take certain actions to get the rightto score a point. Because sabre is a fastweapon, the window of time each fencer isallowed to get their light on during electricfencing is very, very small.

FENCING:Although swordfighting datesback thousandsof years,Fencing as we

now understand it reallycame of age as a sport in the19th century. A tense, com-pelling battle of wits andtechnique, the sport is one ofthe few to have featured atevery modern OlympicGames.

Field of playFencing takes place on apiste, 14 metres long andbetween 1.5m and 2m wide.

Fencing at GamesAt the first modernOlympic Games of 1896,the Fencing programmeconsisted of men’s Foil andSabre events, while thethird discipline Epée madeits debut at Paris 1900.Women’s Foil first featuredat the Paris 1924 Games,with Epée and Sabre addedin 1996 and 2004 respec-tively.

The basicsThree types of weapon areused in Olympic Fencing. Inbouts using the Foil and theslightly heavier Epée, hits arescored by hitting an opponentwith the tip of the weapon. InSabre, hits are more common-ly scored with the edge of theweapon.

Competition formatAll 10 medal events on theFencing programme are runin a knockout format. InIndividual competition,men’s and women’s Foil,men’s sabre and women’sEpée start with a round of 64,although the fact that thereare only 39–39 athletes ineach event means that someathletes will receive byes intothe round of 32. Men’s Epéeand women’s Sabre beginwith a round of 32, with amaximum of two athletesreceiving byes into the roundof 16. The draw is based onthe existing FIE rankings.

OfficialsA referee oversees eachFencing bout. The referee isassisted by a video refereeand, in the later stages ofthe competition, two assis-tant referees, who look forrule infringements.

Keys to successFencing is a fast and atense sport. Fencers mustuse all their wits and quickthinking to outmanoeuvretheir opponent, judging thetime and effective way toattack.

The Venue: ExCel

Lunge: a fast, forwardmovementwhen attack-ing, with theback foot static butthe front foot andbody moving dynamicallytowards the opponent. Parry: a defensive move,used to block your oppo-nent’s bladeRiposte: scoring a hit afteryou’ve successfully executeda parry.Piste: the field of play.

THE LINGO

FOILED, YET AGAIN

Ilona Elek (born May 17, 1907) competedin her first Olympic Games in 1936 and

took home a gold medal in the Foil event.In 1948, Elek became one of only two cha-

mpions from Berlin 1936 to successfully de-fend her title. Ilona competed in her final

Games at Helsinki 1952. Despite being 45years old she won her first 20 bouts, before

finally being defeated by Irene Camber.

Edoardo Mangiarotti (born April 7, 1919)The most decorated fencer in the history ofthe sport, Edoardo Mangiarotti won a record13 medals in a 24-year Games career. Mangi-arotti was a master in both the Epée and Foil,competing at the highest level between theages of 17 and 41. At Berlin 1936 he becamethe youngest gold medal winner in any sportas part of the Italian Epée team.

LEGENDS OF THE SPORTDID YOU KNOW...?n At London 2012, 35 Fencing pistes will

be used during competition.n At the Antwerp 1920 Games, Italy’s

Nedo Nadi became the only fencer everto win a gold medal with every weaponat a single Olympic Games

n French has been the language of fenc-ing since 1573 when Henri de Saint-Didier, a pioneer of the sport, publisheda manuscript that included most of theterms for the moves still used today.

n After the Paris 1924 Games, the Italianand Hungarian teams settled a scoringcontroversy with a real-life duel.

Wheelchair fencingWheelchair fencing happens to be an orig-inal Paralympic sport. It was developedduring the post-World War II era inEngland. Minor modifications to theFédération Internationale d’Escrime (FIE)rules allow disabled fencers to fence allthree weapons.

The most apparent change in thisform of fencing is that each fencer sits ina wheelchair fastened to a frame.

Footwork is replaced by torso or armmovement, depending on the fencer’s dis-ability. The proximity of the two fencerstends to increase the pace of bouts. Thefencers use standard Olympic weaponsand not any special weapons.

MEDAL EVENTS

TALLY 2008

July 28 Women’s Individual FoilJuly 29 Men’s Individual SabreJuly 30 Women’s Individual EpeeJuly 31 Men’s Individual Foil

August 1 Men’s Individual EpeeWomen’s Individual Sabre

August 2 Women’s Team FoilAugust 3 Men’s Team SabreAugust 4 Women’s Team EpeeAugust 5 Men’s Team Foil

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Gay, Gatlin andLemaitre set forDiamond League

PARIS: Among thoseaiming to exploit theabsence of Usain Bolt atthe Diamond Leaguemeeting which will be

held here on July 6 are Americansprint stars Tyson Gay and JustinGatlin along with home favouriteChristophe Lemaitre.

Bolt skips this 100m staged threeweeks before the Olympic Games ashe is retained in Kingston by theJamaican selection trials for theupcoming Olympics which will beheld in London during the monthsof July and August.

Gay has posted the secondfastest time in history, 9.69s run inShanghai in 2009, Gatlin is the fourthfastest 100m sprinter this seasonwhile Lemaitre is the reigningEuropean champion.

Gay missed the 2011 worldchampionships with injury and thisis only his second competitive racethis season after a run out in NewYork on Saturday at the DiamondLeague Meeting on America’s EastCoast.

The 2007 world champion domi-nated his series in a time of 10.00despite a headwind of 1.5m/sec.

Canada wantsminute forMunich dead

MONTREAL: Can-adian lawmakers onThursday unanimo-usly passed a motioncalling for a minute of

silence at the London OlympicGames to honor the Israeli ath-letes killed at the MunichGames in 1972.

The International OlympicCommittee last month scotchedany possibility of a tribute to theathletes killed by Palestinianmilitants, but Canadian MPssaid the 40th anniversary of thetragedy should be recognized.

LONDON: AsDavid Millarwas confirmedon the longlistfor the Olym-

pic road race, Sir Chris Hoyemphasised his oppositionto the reversion of the BritishOlympic Association’s banon athletes who have testedpositive for drugs reportedThe Guardi-an. Millar wasbanned between 2004 and2006 for using the bloodbooster erythropoietin butbecame eligible for theLondon Games after thecourt of arbitration for sportoverturned the BOA’s bylaw.

Millar is one of seven rid-ers who were named as pos-sibles to support MarkCavendish in the Olympicroad race on 28 July, with theactual selection of five to benamed on 29 June. Hoy saidthat while he will welcomehis fellow Scot as a fellowteam member if he is in thequintet, he wishes that theBOA’s ruling was still inplace. “It’s not about individ-uals or one-off athletes. I’mcomfortable with whoever isselected because they areeligible for the team.”

“It’s about having ameaningful deterrentagainst people thinking oftaking drugs, not about anindividual who may be partof this team. My standpointis that someone could haveRio [2014] as a target andcould think that it’s worththe risk of taking drugsbecause they could test posi-tive, come back and com-pete again. There should bemeaningful deterrents that

put people off taking drugs.It’s a shame that the bylawhas gone, but it’s gone. I’llwelcome whoever is stand-ing next to me in GreatBritain kit.”

The Great Britain perfor-mance director DaveBrailsford said that Millar’splace on the longlist camedown solely to who was eligi-ble for the team. “Ultimatelyit’s the BOA’s team. Theydecide who is eligible, I linethem up against that wallover there and select who isthe fastest. It’s my job toselect the fastest team.”Millar’s selection was no sur-prise given that he has repre-sented Great Britain at sever-al world road race champi-onships and was a key choicein the team that backedCavendish en route to win-

ning the world title in 2011.Brailsford said after

announcing the team thatMillar’s place in the final fiveis by no means assured. Headded that he and his fellowselectors had taken into

account any possible nega-tive impact on the team dueto the attention and presscoverage that his selectionmight attract. “It’s a story, anissue, a change from whathas happened in the past,but the British OlympicAssociation has changed itspolicy and professionally Ihave to choose the fastestguys. It’s not for me to say I’llover-ride their thinking froma personal perspective.

“What I do do in terms ofselecting the team... will any-thing surrounding an indi-vidual have a negative impa-ct on the group dynamic oreven on themselves. It couldbe such an emotional envi-ronment, such a challengingthing for David to go throu-gh, that he might not copewith the whole thing.”

Mutombo backs Olympic age limitTOKYO:Retired NBAstar DikembeMutombo hasbacked the

idea of limiting the Olymp-ic basketball competition toplayers under 23 after theLondon Games to give achance to young talent.

The NBA proposed lastmonth to withdraw its topplayers from the Olympicsafter 2012 and insteadimplement the age limitover fears from players andteams about potentialburn-out from too manygames. Leading an NBAyouth training camp in

Tokyo, the 45-year-oldMutombo said Europeannational teams “have thetendency to keep theirsquads for almost 16 yearsor sometimes muchlonger”.

“Young players inEurope have been heldback” as the teams countedon the “names of those whohad success”, he toldreporters Wednesday.

“It’s no good for oursport,” the eight-time NBAAll-Star said. “You watchthe NBA All-Stars gameevery year. We don’t havethe same players everyyear.” AFP

It’s not about indi-viduals or one-offathletes. I’m com-fortable with who-ever is selectedbecause they areeligible for theteam

Sir Chris Hoy,Scottish track cyclist

UNEASY WITH BAN REVISION

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KIEV: Roy Hodgson urgedEngland here on Thursday toshow a ruthless attacking streakas they prepared for their GroupD meeting with perennial bogeyteam Sweden.

England have never beatenSweden in a competitive fixturebut head into Friday’s Euro 2012game at the Olympic Stadium asfavourites to take all three pointsfollowing a 1-1 draw with France.

But while England’s defensivedisplay against the French onMonday earned plaudits,Hodgson admitted his side willhave to present more of anattacking dimension if they wantto defeat the Swedes.

England’s solitary goal againstFrance came from a set-piece,and clear-cut goal-scoringchances from open play were few— something Hodgson feelsEngland must improve on Friday.

“I was happy with the start.We played quite well, certainaspects of our game were good,”

Hodgson told a press conference.“We must maintain that and,

if we are going to win matches,we’ve got to continue to work

hard on the attacking side of thegame. We have to try to make cer-tain when we do get these goodcounter-attacking opportunitiesthat we maximise them and takeadvantage to the full. When wewin the ball back and break out,we’ve got to make certain the lastpass, cross or actual finish is veryclinical. It is hard to get good goalchances at this level of football.

You are not going to get manyduring the course of a game andyou have to be very effectivewhen the chances come your way.

“I am not talking about theclear-cut one versus ones withthe goalkeeper but the situationwhere you’ve got behind thedefence and it’s a question ofmaking certain the last pass givessomeone the chance to score agoal.

“That is something we’vebeen working on consistently.”

Despite his acknowledge-ment of England’s problems inthe final third against France,Hodgson bristled when asked ifhe felt England were technicallyinferior to other sides. “No, I don’t(think that),” he replied bluntly.“You work with teams to try andget yourself into a position todeliver the right ball and it alldepends on how good that deliv-ery or final pass is. But I woulddefinitely question any sugges-tion that we are lacking in anyway and our players are not tech-nically good enough.”

Tom Williams

DONETSK, UKRAINE:Laurent Blanc has urgedFrance to avoid the mistakesthey made against Englandby starting strongly againstco-hosts Ukraine in theirsecond Euro 2012 outing inDonetsk on Friday.

France were second-bestfor the first quarter of their

opening match and fell beh-ind to a Joleon Lescott head-er before earning a drawthrough Samir Nasri’sequaliser nine minutes later.

Les Bleus finished thegame at Donbass Arena inthe ascendancy but wereunable to breach the Englishdefence a second time andBlanc does not want them tohandicap themselves with

another slow start on Friday. “We’ve re-watched the

England game a few times,”he said. “We could havebeen 2-0 down after 25 min-utes and it would’ve been

very difficult to come back.But the goal woke us up andtomorrow (Friday) I hopewe’ll be awake from the firstsecond of the match.”

Contrary to the Englandgame, Blanc has a fully fitsquad to select from andmust make a decision whet-her or not to include YannM’Vila from the start after heovercame an ankle injury.

BEAUTY & THE BEST

FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 2012

30UEFA fines Germany for fans, Portugal for delay UEFA on Thursday said that it had fined Germany 10,000euros after its fans threw missiles onto the pitch during thecountry’s opening match with Portugal while Portugal werefined 5,000 euros for a delayed kick-off to the second-half ofthe Group B match in Lviv, Ukraine, last Saturday, Europeanfootball’s governing body said in an emailed statement.

French players remain in custody over alleged rape Lyon’s French striker Bafetimbi Gomis and Cesena player Yoh-an Benalouane remained in custody on Thursday while prose-

cutors debated whether or not to proceed with the rape allega-tions. “The custody has been extended ahead of a presenta-

tion before the prosecutor on Friday who will decide if there aregrounds to open a judicial investigation,” said a spokesman.

Hodgson calls for ruthless England

Sweden vs England9.30 pm (Friday)

Neo Prime

England wary ofIbrahimovic threat KIEV: England captain StevenGerrard urged his team to bewarethe threat posed by Sweden coun-terpart Zlatan Ibrahimovic onThursday as the two sides pre-pared for a crucial Group D clash.

Gerrard said AC Milan strikerIbrahimovic was a “world classtalent” who demanded specialattention before adding thatSweden possessed attackingthreats throughout their side.

“On his day he’s very danger-ous. We need the same level ofcommitment defensively to tryand stop Ibrahimovic,” Gerrardsaid.

“If you give him time andspace he can hurt any team sowe’re well aware of him. We’vewatched videos of him and we’regoing to watch some more.

“But there’s a lot morethreats from Sweden thanIbrahimovic.” AFP

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POZNAN, POLAND: Italycoach Cesare Prandelli deniedhis side lack character after theyfailed to hold onto a lead for thesecond game in a row at Euro2012.

The Azzurri have now drawnboth their opening two games 1-1 against, first Spain last Sundayand then Croatia on Thursday.

Having held the lead for justthree minutes against the worldchampions, they conceded anequaliser 18 minutes from timeagainst Croatia, leaving themthird in Group C.

Italy trail both Spain andCroatia by two points and mustbeat Ireland in their final groupgame to have any chance of

reaching the quarter-finals.In both games Italy have

been holding on at the end andPrandelli says the problem isthey do not have the physicalcondition to maintain theirintensity for an entire match.

“I don’t think we lack charac-ter. After 70 minutes our physicalcondition drops,” he said. AFP

Croatia scoff atmatch-fixing

A young Ukrainian priest hascome up with a novel idea ofincreasing the size of his flockand keeping football fans onside:Show Euro 2012 games in church.

Father Taras Valakh of theUkrainian Greek catholic Church,attracted several dozen faithful tohis church outside Kiev for theco-hosts’ win over Sweden,Ukrainian television reported.

But there is a catch — support-ers must not drink alcohol orswear during the game as theycongregate in the basement of theCathedral of the Virgin ofVychgorod.

Croatian defender VedranCorluka dismissed the possiblitythat his side and Spain will playfor a 2-2 draw on Monday toguarantee their passage to theEuro 2012 quarter-finals.

Following their 1-1 draw withItaly and Spain’s 4-0 trouncing ofIreland, the pair are joint top ofEuro 2012 Group C with fourpoints.

Italy are two points behindbut if they win their final matchagainst Ireland and the othergame ends in a draw, three teamswill finish on five points.

P W D L F A PtCroatia 2 1 1 0 4 2 4Spain 2 1 1 0 5 1 4Italy 2 0 2 0 2 2 2Ireland 2 0 0 2 1 7 0

(played, won, drawn,lost, for, against, points)

Euro 2012 StandingsGroup C

Let us pray – for avictory

TOP GOAL SCORERS3 goals:

Dzagoev (RUS, inpic), Gomez (GER),

Mandzukic (CRO)2 goals:

Bendtner (DEN),Fabregas (ESP),

Pilar (CZE),Shevchenko

(UKR), Torres (ESP)

‘We lack condition not character’

GDANSK, POLAND: Fernan -do Torres (in pic) put to bed anydebate about his form onThursday as ‘El Nino’ scored adouble to inspire defendingchampions Spain to a 4-0 drub-bing of a gutsy but outclassedIreland.

His double and goals byDavid Silva and Cesc Fabregassent the Spanish top of Group Con goal difference from Croatia

while defeat ended Irish hopesof progressing to the last eight.

Croatia — 3-1 victors overIreland in their opening game —came from 1-0 down to draw 1-1with Italy thanks to MarioMandzukic’s third goal of thetournament.

They will meet Spain in thelast group game while Italy takeon former boss Giovanni

Trapattoni’s Ireland — Italycould still win and not gothrough if all three sides end upon five points.

Ironically, Italy exited the2004 edition at the group stagedespite not losing a game —their coach then was none other

than Trapattoni.Torres, whose place in the

squad had been a matter forsome debate because of his woe-ful form with Chelsea, set thetone for their game with asuperbly taken opener in thefourth minute and from then onthere was only one team in it.

Torres, who came off withthe game won, said that this per-formance showed Spain in itstrue light, not the one thatlooked rather listless in the 1-1draw with Italy.

“We really were champing atthe bit ahead of this game toshake off the draw against Italyand we saw the old Spain of 2008(when his goal won them thetitle), and 2010 (the World Cup win),” said Torres.

Spain coach Vicente delBosque, who came in for somecriticism for not starting with arecognised striker in the Italygame, said that his systemworked. “Torres knows how tofind the spaces, it was the per-fect match, a lot of people thinkhe could have played in the firstmatch, but that wasn’t thepoint,” said Del Bosque.

“We have a system and weshowed it works.

“People think it is importantto have a striker and it is impor-tant for us as well, but it is moreimportant to win.”

Trapattoni was left bemusedby the manner in which his play-ers appeared to have frozen onthe grand stage. AFP

Ireland coach GiovanniTrapattoni has admitted his

team have suffered “a psycho-logical blow” in the wake oftheir 4-0 defeat to Spain, butinsisted they will finish Euro2012 with heads held high.

“The mistakes we madehere means we have suffered abit of a psychological blow,”said the 73-year-old Italian asIreland suffered their worstcompetitive defeat in 41 years.

Irish mentally disintegrated

Rampant SpanishArmada sinks Ireland

FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 201232The games people playPlaying Field

Rebecca Bryan

SAN FRANCISCO: TigerWoods showed the poise that hasmade him a 14-time major cham-pion on Thursday, adapting to atreacherous Olympic Club course

to get his US Open challenge offto a solid start.

“I was really, really surprisedat how much it had changed fromlast night or from yesterday,”Woods said after shooting a one-under par 69.

“We knew the greens weregoing to be a little quicker, but Ididn’t think they would be thisfirm this early in the week. So wehad to make a couple of adjust-ments with that.

“But I’m really excited how Iwas able to execute my gameplan all day today and pleasedwith a one-under par round.”

Woods was three shots off thepace set by first-round leaderMichael Thompson (66).

He was joined on 69 by 2001USPGA Champion David Toms,2010 US Open championGraeme McDowell, England’sJustin Rose and American NickWatney.

Woods, whose pursuit of JackNicklaus’s record of 18 majortitles has been slowed by scandal,injury and swing changes, raisedexpectations that he would lift hisfirst major trophy since 2008 withhis victory at The Memorial afortnight ago.

Playing partner BubbaWatson, the reigning Masterschampion who staggered to a 78on Thursday, said Woods showedevery sign of being back in majortitle form.

“Tiger, that was the old Tiger,”Watson said. “That was beautifulto watch. He hit every shot shapehe was trying to hit. I didn’t seeany bad swings. I didn’t see anybad shot really.”

Woods, who acknowledged atThe Masters that he wasn’t dialedin with his re-tooled swing, wasalso “very pleased” with his ballstriking.

Steve Griffiths

LONDON: Jo-WilfriedTsonga suffered a miserablethird round exit fromQueen’s Club on Thursdayas the world number fivewas beaten 7-6 (7/3), 3-6, 7-6 (7/5) by Croatia’s IvanDodig and suffered a seri-ous finger injury in the pro-cess.

With top seed AndyMurray, fourth seed GillesSimon and four-timeQueen’s champions AndyRoddick and Lleyton Hewittalready eliminated from thegrass-court event, it seemsTsonga had a golden oppor-tunity to go all the way.

But the Frenchman,seeded second, produced alethargic display and world

number 69 Dodig took fulladvantage to claim one ofthe best wins of his career.

Tsonga reached the finalhere last year, losing toMurray, and became thefirst player ever to beatRoger Federer from two setsdown at a grand slam in theWimbledon quarter-finals afew weeks later.

With that kind of pedi-gree on grass, Tsonga wasthe clear favourite. But hewas out-played by Dodigand to make matters worse,he slipped and fell on hisright hand in the final set,causing damage that couldrule him out of Wimbledon.

“I think it’s serious. Ididn’t do an exam for themoment, but it sounds verybad,” Tsonga said.

Tsonga out of Queen’s, may miss big one

Greg Heakes

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA -HOMA: LeBron James (inpic) scored 32 points andChris Bosh had 16 points onhis return to the starting line-up as the Miami Heat beatOklahoma City 100-96 to levelthe NBA finals at one gameapiece.

Forward Bosh, who start-ed his first game since themiddle of May, also grabbed15 boards while guardDwyane Wade reboundedfrom a poor performance ingame one to finish with 24points and five assists inThursday’s wire-to-wire win.

Kevin Durant scored 32points for the Thunder whohad their nine-game winstreak at home snapped infront of a crowd of 18,203 atthe Chesapeake Arena.

The best-of-seven seriesnow switches to Miami forgame three on Sunday.

It marked the fifth consec-utive playoff game in whichJames had scored 30 points ormore, setting an all-timeMiami postseason record.

The Heat jumped on theThunder from the openingbell, seizing control in the firstquarter by compiling a 17-point lead at one point. Theyled 55-43 at the half.

But the Thunder madethem work for it in the fourthquarter, cutting the Heat leadto just two points late in thegame before James sealed thevictory with a pair of freethrows. It was the first start forBosh since the opening gameof the Eastern Conferencesemi-finals. Bosh had to comeoff the bench for the previousfour games.

Woods puts bestfoot forward

Heat beat Thunderto level NBA finals