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Act on Syria After Full Proof

In an implied rejection of US position on Syria, India says action on the West Asian country must not only be taken after conclusive proof from neutral inspectors on the use of chemicals weapons by the Bashar al-Assad regime, but should also be under the auspices of the United Nations.

GOD MAN OR CON MAN?

Parental shouting could harm children
Middle-class parents with a habit of shouting at their teenage children could be actually increasing their kids risk of depression and troubled behaviour, says a US study. Published in the journal Child Development, the study stated even if parents enjoyed a close relationship with their son and daughter, harsh verbal discipline was found to have PAGE 4 Spiritual guru Asaram Bapu, who is in judicial custody on charges of sexually assaulting a girl, was kept alone in his cell and was provided a bed and a mattress, officials said. Asaram, 72, was arrested from his ashram in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, and presented Monday in the court of District and Sessions Judge (Rural) of Jodhpur Manoj Vyas, who sent him to 14 days judicial custody. A prison official said Asaram was being treated as a normal prisoner. He is being given only those facilities which a usual undertrial prisoner avails, the official said. Asaram, lodged in Barrack No.1 of the prison, was Monday allowed food from outside. He had dinner at the jail superintendents office yesterday (Monday). However, from now on, he will be given food at the prison mess. He has been provided a bed, a mattress and other such things. Medical attention will be given as he is 72 years old, said the official. Asaram will be allowed to perform religious prayers with other prisoners.

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Education
1. How to multiply by 11? We all know the trick when multiplying by ten - add 0 to the end of the number, but did you know there is an equally easy trick for multiplying a two digit number by 11? It is as follows Take the original number and imagine a space between the two digits (in this example we will use 32: Now add the two numbers together and put them in the middle:

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Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh: Compensation is not only for land owners and farmers but also for those whose livelihood will be affected.

Land Acquisition Bill Quote Fire

Writer Sushmita Banerjee killed by Taliban

Voice SIlenced in Afghanistan

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Jwala Gutta Under Scrutiny

The Badminton Association of Indias disciplinary committee will investigate doubles shuttler Jwala Guttas conduct during the Indian Badminton League (IBL) when her side, the Krrish Delhi Smashers, threatened to abandon a tie in Bangalore Aug 25. The Delhi team, led by icon player Jwala, threatened to forfeit the tie against the Banga

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Bail plea rejected, Asaram Bapu kept alone in cell Asaram to remain in jail
Jodhpur Spiritual guru Asaram Bapu, who is in judicial custody on charges of sexually assaulting a girl, was kept alone in his cell and was provided a bed and a mattress, officials said. Asaram, 72, was arrested from his ashram in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, and presented Monday in the court of District and Sessions Judge (Rural) of Jodhpur Manoj Vyas, who sent him to 14 days judicial custody. A prison official said Asaram was being treated as a normal prisoner. He is being given only those facilities which a usual undertrial prisoner avails, the official said. Asaram, lodged in Barrack No.1 of the prison, was Monday allowed food from outside. He had dinner at the jail superintendents office yesterday (Monday). However, from now on, he will be given food at the prison mess. He has been provided a bed, a mattress and other such things. Medical attention will be given as he is 72 years old, said the official. Asaram will be allowed to perform religious prayers with other prison-

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Jaipur A Rajasthan court in Jodhpur city Wednesday rejected the bail plea of controversial spiritual guru Asaram Bapu who was arrested for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl, lawyers said. Asaram, 72, is currently lodged in Jodhpur Central Jail after a court Monday sent him to 14-day judicial custody. District and Sessions Judge (Rural) of Jodhpur Manoj Vyas rejected Asarams bail plea after the prosecution opposed his application. Public prosecutor Anand Purohit told reporters here: We raised issues regarding threat to police officials connected with investigations and also that two of his close aides...are still missing, so he (Asaram) should not be given bail, as he can influence them. It seems we have been successful in satisfying the court that the incident falls under the non-bailable (offence) category so he should not be given

Needless security to Asaram, observes SC

bail, he added. Asarams lawyer Jagmal Singh Chaudhary said the rejection of bail plea would be challenged in the Rajasthan High Court. We will approach the high court in a day or two after going through the order, he said. Asaram, who was arrested from his ashram in Indore in Madhya Pradesh last week, sought bail claiming that police erred in booking him under rape charge, which is non-bailable. The spiritual guru was sent to judicial custody after questioning at a guest house of the Rajasthan Armed Constabulary. The 16-year-old girl alleged that the sexual assault took place Aug 15 at Asarams ashram outside Jodhpur city and the complaint was filed by her Aug 20. The spiritual guru has denied the charge. Police, however, claimed they had a water-tight case against him.

New Delhi The Supreme Court Tuesday criticised the government for unnecessarily providing heavy security to spiritual guru Asaram Bapu, accused of sexually assaulting a minor girl. We are seeing on TV hordes of security around one accused, the bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice V. Gopala Gowda observed. Everybody says these are aberrations but they have become the rule, said Justice Singhvi. Dwelling on the path that modernday godmen take to reach the top, the court said, These people start as drug peddlers, initially acquire

wealth, join politics and religion, grab more property and become more powerful. If they are tantriks, they hypnotise people, the court said, adding that law journals are replete with instances of such people committing heinous crimes. The courts observation came in the course of the hearing of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking withdrawal of security cover to undeserving people who use it a status symbol. Asaram Bapu was Monday sent to 14 days judicial custody in Rajasthan.

New Delhi Asaram Bapu, arrested by Rajasthan Police on charges of sexual assault, is not new to controversies. The spiritual guru, who started preaching in Gujarat in the late 1960s and today owns 200 ashrams across the country, has earlier been involved in criminal cases. Asaram, 72, is in police custody in Jodhpur over allegations of sexual assault levelled against him by a minor girl. His brush with trouble first started in 2008 after the deaths of two 10-yearold cousins, Abhishek and Dipesh Vaghela, at his Motera ashram in Gujarat. A charge sheet has been filed against him in the case. Since 2008 he has remained in news for all the wrong reasons, be it criminal cases filed against him, encroachment by his ashrams or his remarks on the Delhi gang rape. According to a website titled Sant Shri Asharamji Ashram official website, the spiritual guru was born as Asumal on April 14, 1941 and he migrated with his family from Sindh in Pakistan to Mani Nagar near Ahmedabad in Gujarat during the partition of the country in 1947. The fourth child of Thaumal and Mehgiba Sirumalani, Asaram is known to have been inclined to fulfil his quest on the existence of life and the mystery behind it, after his fathers demise, the website said. Seeing his inclination away from worldly affairs, Asaram was forcibly married to Lakshmi Devi, though he had tried to run away eight days before his marriage, it said. He left his family in 1968 and went to Uttar Pradeshs Vrindavan, the land of Lord Krishna. After staying in the ashram for 70 days and meditating in the caves of Mount Abu in Rajasthan, he returned to Ahmedabad and started preaching. He also built an ashram on the banks of the Sabarmati, the website said. He has a son Narayan Prem Sai who is also a spiritual leader. The 2008 death of two boys at his Motera ashram in Gujarat raised a stink. The decomposed bodies of the boys were found on a dried-up river

Asaram: A guru of controversies

ers. He has been lodged in Barrack No.1 of the prison and is alone in the cell as we want to regularly see him, the official said. A medical examination was conducted on him in the jail. Asaram Bapu was Monday quizzed at a guest house of the Rajasthan

Armed Constabulary in connection with the sexual assault case. A 16-year-old girl has alleged that she was sexually assaulted by Asaram Bapu on Aug 15 at Asarams ashram outside Jodhpur city. The spiritual guru has denied the charge. Police, however, said they have a water-tight case against him.

bed near the ashram, police said. In September 2012, the Gujarat Criminal Investigation Department filed a chargesheet against seven office-bearers at Asarams ashram in connection with the mysterious death of the two boys. In December 2009, a former ashram trustee, Raju Chandak, registered a complaint with the police alleging that Asaram and two other people tried to kill him in Ahmedabad. The following year in March, the Gujarat government authorities reclaimed 67,099 square metres of land which was allegedly encroached upon by Asarams ashram in Ahmedabad. In August 2012, Bapu is known to have survived a helicopter crash at Godhra, when he was on his way to deliver a lecture in a college. However, the most controversial of his statements was the one related to the Delhi gang rape. Asaram Bapu said the victim of the Dec 16, 2012 gang rape in Delhi was also to be blamed for the incident and that she should have begged the cul-

prits to stop by calling them brother. He later claimed that his statement was misread. In February, a 24-year-old man, Rahul Pachouri, died under mysterious circumstances in Asaram Bapus Jabalpur ashram. Pachouris father alleged that his son was poisoned. Though surrounded by controversy, the spiritual leader enjoys the support of a large number of people who have been relentlessly protesting his arrest in the recent sexual assault case filed against him Aug 20. According to the allegations of the girl, who studied at Asarams ashram in Madhya Pradeshs Chhindwara and stayed in a girls hostel there, the guru sexually assaulted her on the pretext of exorcism. According to Jodhpur Police Commissioner Biju George Joseph, Asaram has claimed innocence in the case registered under various sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and the Indian Penal Code.

CHANDIGARH SUNDAY 08 September 2013

China hasnt occupied Indian Act on Syria only after full proof: India land afresh: Antony Planning Commission Deputy Chair-

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man Montek Singh Ahluwalia said India was totally opposed to the use of chemicals weapons and any stock pile must be destroyed. But he equally made it clear that it was not in favour of unilateral action -- something the US has been threatening, much against the opposite views of several countries, notably Russia and China. The prime minister said we need to be certain about the facts, keeping in mind past experience we need to be certain it has happened, even if the probability indicates it has happened. So we need to see what the UN inspectors come up with, Ahluwalia said. The prime minister said whatever action is taken must be within the UN auspices and not outside of it. He also said armed action must not be made for regime change.In fact UN secretary-general has already warned that any unilateral military strike against Syria without the world bodys sanction would be illegal.Ahead of the G20 Summit he had said that use of force is lawful only when in exercise of self-defence in accordance with Article 51 of the United Nations Charter or when the Security Council approves such action.A team under a Swedish scientist appointed by him have already collected bio-medical and environmental samples from sites in Syria where chemical weapons were allegedly used Aug 21 and these have been dispatched to four unnamed laboratories in Europe for examination.

New Delhi China has not occupied Indian territory afresh or stopped Indian troops from accessing any part of Indian land, Defence Minister A.K. Antony asserted Friday. I would like to state categorically that Shyam Saran has not stated in (his) report that China has occupied or has denied access to India to any part of Indian territory, Antony told the Lok Sabha. A former foreign secretary, Saran, who heads the National Security Advisory Board, visited Ladakh last month and submitted a report to the Prime Ministers Office and the defence ministry. A section of the media quoted the report as saying that China had taken over a large chunk of Indian territory in the Ladakh region and was preventing the Indian Army from accessing it. Reading out a prepared statement, Antony said, There is no question of India ceding to China any part of Indian territory. The government keeps a constant watch on all developments having a bearing on Indias security and takes all measures to safeguard it. I would further like to assure the house that the government would continue to strengthen our capabilities in

Countdown begins for Zubin Mehtas Srinagar concert Saturday

Srinagar/New Delhi As India-born world renowned conductor Zubin Mehta said Friday Kashmir chose me, the authorities in Srinagar were working at breakneck speed to make the Bavarian State Orchestras concert on Saturday a grand success. Mehta is scheduled to conduct a 90-minute concert in 17th century Shalimar Mughal Garden on the banks of the Dal Lake. The orchestra is one of the oldest in Germany and its origins can be traced to 1523. Hoping to spread the message of love and peace through music, Mehta told reporters in New Delhi after receiving the Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony: I didnt choose Kashmir, it chose me. I hope to have the blessings of the people as music is the only language I know and hope to spread the message of peace with this performance. Conferring the award on Mehta, President Pranab Mukherjee said he has brought a mission of optimism to mankind. We are recognising his untiring efforts, over the decades, to convert music into an instrument of peace and harmony. He has made it his mission to bring hope and reason wherever there is conflict and discord, the president said. His music has the power to transcend

border areas to protect our national interest, said Antony. Both houses of parliament Friday saw noisy protests by opposition members demanding a statement from Antony over media reports claiming that Chinese troops have intruded into Indian territory. According to the minister, Sarans report was primarily focused on border infrastructure and also dealt with several aspects relating to the region. In this context, issues such as availability of modern machinery for construction and maintenance of roads, upgradation of roads, tunneling, and alternate alignments, among others have also been discussed, said Antony. He said the report also deals with the requirement of air facilities in the region and issues related to land acquisition. Other matters such as employment opportunities to local youth, tourism, mobile and internet connectivity, law and order, and better equipment and facilities for the Indo-Tibetan Border Police have been covered, he said. India and China fought a border war in 1962, and both countries accuse one another of occupying territory. A series of border talks have not helped overcome border differences.

St. Petersburg In an implied rejection of US position on Syria, India says action on the West Asian country must not only be taken after conclusive proof from neutral inspectors on the use of chemicals weapons by the Bashar al-Assad regime, but should also be under the auspices of the United Nations. At a dinner late Wednesday hosted for G20 leaders by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his speech also said action against Syrian if approved at the UN should also not be aimed at a regime change, but to neutralise chemical weapons. The remarks came after a detailed presentation to the forum by United

After 45 years, armyman cremated in Haryana village

Rewari Over 45 years after he died in an air crash in Himachal Pradesh, armyman Jagmal Singh was cremated with full military honours in his village Meerpur of Rewari district Wednesday. Jagmal Singh, a havaldar with the Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (EME), perished in the snowy heights of Dakka Glacier in the Chandrabhaga ranges of Lahaul and Spiti region in Himachal Pradesh in 1968. His mortal remains, recovered Aug 22, were flown to Chandimandir Cantonment, near Chandigarh, aboard an Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter Tuesday. Hundreds of villagers turned out for the last journey as his body was brought to his house and taken in a procession to the cremation ground. Amid the beating of drums, slogans rent the air. People threw colour in the air to celebrate the recovery of the body. Singh was 28 years old when he died. His son, Ramchander, 52, lit the pyre. An army rescue expedition recovered the mortal remains last week. However, the body could not be transported back from the Dhakka Glacier earlier due to inclement weather. True to its commitment of recovering the mortal remains and giving the long lost soldier a befitting farewell, the Indian Army ensured the mortal remains reached Manali by road from where tghe body was transported by an Indian Air Force helicopter, a defence spokesman said in Chandigarh, 300 km from here. A total of 98 army personnel and four crew members were killed

Nations Secretary-General Ban Kimoon on the situation on the ground in the war-torn country. He said the report of inspectors appointed by him to scientifically look into the use of such weapons by Syria was expected soon and that it will be presented before the Security Council and the General Assembly for the action required. The UN chief also said more than 100,000 people have died in the West Asian country, some 4.25 million have been displaced within and at least another two million are now refugees. Briefing journalists on New Delhis position on Syria, as articulated by the prime minister at the G20 dinner,

boundaries. He has earned for himself a unique position in the musical narrative of the world, he added. The award comprises Rs.1 crore, a citation in a scroll, a plaque as well as an exquisite traditional handicraft or handloom item. The first Tagore Award was conferred on Indian sitar maestro in Ravi Shankar in 2012, nine months before his death. Speaking at the ceremony, Mehta said that one should never underestimate the power of inner peace. It was in 1994 that I had played in Sarajevo during the Bosnia war. During those two hours there was peace. This doesnt mean that we brought peace, but the soldiers engulfed in the war felt that inner peace, he said. Never underestimate the power of inner peace that comes with music, he added. Mehtas Ehsaas-e-Kashmir (The feel of Kashmir) concert has been facing opposition from separatist politicians. Jammu and Kashmir Police Thursday arrested two guerrillas from Chanapora locality in Srinagar following guerrilla threats to the concert. Police sources told that one of the guerrillas had come to Chanapora area from north Kashmirs Sopore town, while the other belonged to the area from where the duo were arrested.

when an Indian Air Force AN-12 aircraft crashed on the 17,400-feet high Dhakka Glacier in the Chandrabhaga ranges of Lahaul and Spiti district Feb 7, 1968. Despite three search missions till 2009, only four bodies could be recovered. An identity disk, an insurance policy and a letter from his family retrieved from Jagmal Singhs pocket helped identify him, an army statement said. The ill-fated aircraft had taken off from Chandigarh for Leh. Halfway, Flt.Lt. H.K. Singh decided to pilot the plane back due to the inclement weather over Jammu and Kashmir. The last radio contact was near the Rohtang Pass and thereafter the aircraft disappeared. The disappearance remained a mystery until 2003 when an expedition team accidentally discovered the debris at the Dhakka Glacier. The

Indian Army Aug 16 this year embarked on another expedition to try and locate the mortal remains of its fallen comrades as also to recover the flight data recorder (black box). The expedition of the Dogra Scouts of the Western Command comprised the finest mountaineers of the country, including an Everester. The glacier where the operations are underway lies at an altitude of approximately 17,000-18,000 feet, is avalanche-prone and dotted with innumerable crevices. The site itself is at an 80 degree gradient from the base camp, the statement said. The high-velocity winds and subzero temperatures restrict the search window to about 15-20 days a year and that too only for a few hours during the day. The team braving all odds and in the face of extremely hostile weather conditions continued its mission till Aug 30, it added.

Back to couture, Niki Mahajan explores Sleep deep to boost brain Lucknowi craft function
ented people, who have so much to share, she said. The new line has a differentiating factor from Mahajans previous collections - her signature prints will be missing! I have been working a lot with block printing; thats something I reinvented. I am using a lot of old fabrics that Ive used in my previous shows. But this show comes with a lot of embroidery and no print at all, something that I have never done before, she added. She has delved deeper into bringing rich textiles to the ramp and she says she has used almost 200 different types of embroidery techniques for the show. Its not like one collection - it is five different collections together. Not only have we used old types of embroidery, we have also reinvented them to make them more modern, she explained. Mahajan launched her label in 1988.

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Gurgaon It has taken eight-and-a-half years for veteran designer Niki Mahajan to return to couture - and she is making sure she does it with the grandeur that it deserves. She is working with almost 100 craftspersons from Lucknow to create a bespoke line that will be an ode to selfless women. A walk into the designers factory in the Gurgaon business hub bordering Delhi reveals the painstaking efforts of the workers. Some were busy with embroidery on colourful fabrics, while others were concentrating on embellishing them. I always try to give employment to my craftspeople with my clothes and this is what I am doing this time as well, Mahajan told. Work was on in full swing to make the Sep 14 show a memorable affair. The new couture line finds inspiration in Begum Hazrat Mahal of Awadh (1820-79). Age-old embroideries and fabrics like badla work, block printing and mukaish form the essence of every design. Mahajan is known for keeping her ensembles authentic and she has worked with artisans from Rajasthan, Karnataka, Gujarat and Bengal over two decades of her association with the fashion industry. Its fantastic to work with such tal-

Since then, she has developed a niche for her label worldwide owing to her unique sense of style. For the last six years, shes been a director of

the Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI), the countrys apex fashion body. Fashion week after fashion week, Mahajan has showcased her western creations. Why did she keep away from couture for so long? When I started some 25 years back, I used to do bridal wear and, along the way, I was experimenting with craft too. Also, I started taking my craft to the international market; so thats how I turned away from couture and started working with a whole lot of international buyers. They do not buy Indian wear and so, thats how the transition happened. We got so busy with the international market and the label caught up so well that I didnt get the time to do bridal and couture wear, she said. With her new set of couture wear, Mahajan pays an ode to all the women with an inspiration like the stunningly beautiful Begum Hazrat Mahal. A stunningly beautiful woman, Begum Hazrat used her courage and leadership qualities to rebel against the East India Company during the 1857 upsurge. Despite that, nobody recognises her. This is my ode to women who selflessly do everything and still get no recognition. They are nameless and faceless, said Mahajan. As a female designer, she is herself a power to reckon with in the Indian fashion scene - she retails from over 100 stores globally, and her creations find rack space in popular foreign stores like Anthropologie, Isetan, Bloomingdales, Harvey Nichols, United Arrows and Fred Segal.

Washington Did you know that while you sleep, there are genes in the brain that are actually turned on? Scientists now say that these genes are vital for the repair and growth of brain cells. Scientists in the US have now established that adequate sleep boosts the production of specific brain cells, called oligodendrocytes, that produce the protective layer around the organ. Oligodendrocytes make myelin (the protective layer) in the healthy brain and in response to injury. Much like the insulation around an electrical wire, myelin allows electrical impulses to move rapidly from one cell to the next. According to an animal study published in the Sep 4 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, these findings could one day lead scientists to new insights about the role sleep plays in brain repair and growth, reports.

Scientists have known for years that many genes are turned on during sleep and off during periods of wakefulness. In the current study, Chiara Cirelli, MD, PhD, and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, measured gene activity in oligodendrocytes from mice that slept or were forced to stay awake. The group found that genes promoting myelin formation were turned on during sleep. In contrast, the genes implicated in cell death and cellular stress response were turned on when the animals stayed awake. These findings hint at how sleep or lack of sleep might repair or damage the brain, said Mehdi Tafti, PhD, who studies sleep at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Tafti, however, was not involved in the study reported in the Sep 4 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.

Timeless Jewels 2013 ready to sparkle

Parents shouting could be damaging for kids

London Middle-class parents with a habit of shouting at their teenage children could be actually increasing their kids risk of depression and troubled behaviour, says a US study. Published in the journal Child Development, the study stated even if parents enjoyed a close relationship with their son and daughter, harsh verbal discipline was found to have a dramatic impact on emotional development of the teenagers, Daily Mail reported Wednesday. It says this form of discipline can vary from yelling and shouting at a child, to swearing and using words to humiliate them. Scientists, examining 976 twoparent families in the US, the majority of which were middle-class, found that many shifted from physical to verbal discipline as their children entered adolescence. It was also discovered that more severe forms of harsh verbal discipline were commonplace, and directed at teens in nearly half of

the households. The researchers found if parents use such punishment when their child is 13, the teenager was more likely to have behavioural or emotional problems later. These youngsters tended to suffer more depressive symptoms between ages 13 and 14 than children who were not disciplined in this manner, while they were

also more likely to have conduct problems such as misbehaving at school, lying, stealing, or fighting. This is one of the first studies to indicate that parents harsh verbal discipline is damaging to the developing adolescent,: said lead researcher Ming-Te Wang, assistant professor of psychology in education at the University of Pittsburgh.

New Delhi Timeless Jewels 2013 is set to bring traditional kundan and polki jewellery crafts from Rajasthan, and diamonds from Mumbai and Surat under one roof here. The three-day exhibition, starting here Friday, will also showcase bridal jewellery. Jewellery is not only about owning a piece you can afford, it is all about emotions - your values, your perception and your feelings

that eventually get passed on from generations to generations, Tarun Sarda, CEO, Timeless Jewels, said in a statement. The 10th edition of the exhibition presents an array of precious and semi-precious pieces from jewellery houses like Shri Ram Hari Ram (UC) by Shrihari Diagems, Sanzany by Rachna Motani, The Cappuccino Collection, Bikaneri Jewels and Ishaan Gems.

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She gets brickbats for giving Chandigarhs most-guarded complex feels bouquets insecure
overboard to please the top bosses in the Congress. The people of rain-ravaged Kinnaur are still crying for financial and material aid, but their MP is busy in pleasing the central government ministers by presenting them with bouquets, state BJP chief Satpal Satti said in a statement. Despite presenting so many bouquets, the central assistance till date is almost zero, he added. Besides meeting the prime minister, the newly elected MP called on over 10 union ministers, including Anand Sharma for a central industrial package till 2020, K. Chiranjeevi to develop tourism infrastructure, Mallikarjun Kharge for expanding the railway network and Sushilkumar Shinde for deputing a central team to tour rain-ravaged areas.The chief minister is literally grooming his wife to get a feel of the states affairs. She is in fact the de facto chief minister, said a senior minister who didnt wish to be identified. He told that a battery of senior government officials has been attached to Pratibha Singh to brief her on a day-to-day basis on the states financial and infrastructural issues. She is pushing hard for speedy implementation of central projects that have been caught in unnecessary logjams due to the stubborn attitude of the previous BJP government, an official said. Congress leaders said two-time MP Pratibha Singh had been marginalised in the state politics since 2009 when her husband got elected from the Mandi Lok Sabha. She represented that seat from 2004 to 2009. The Congress had denied a ticket to her from Kasumpti in the December assembly elections. That was the second time she had been denied a ticket. In 2009, she failed to get a party ticket for the assembly by-election in Rohru, the seat vacated by her husband after he shifted to New Delhi by winning the Lok Sabha election.Since Virbhadra Singhs only son Vikramaditya is yet to enter politics and his critics have been saying that he has lost his edge, he wants to keep his wife in the forefront till his son is mature enough to enter the political arena, said a close confidant of the chief minister. Chandigarh On the ground, it is the most securely guarded place here. Several levels of heavily armed troopers ring it at all the time. But a sense of insecurity now prevails in the Punjab and Haryana Secretariat complex after a central security agency threatened to withdraw if its outstanding of a whopping Rs.45 crore is not cleared by the state governments. The Secretariat complex in Chandigarhs Sector 1 is guarded by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF). Chandigarh, a 114 squarekm union territory, has been the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana since 1966. The seat of power of the Punjab and Haryana governments, the Secretariat complex was designed by Chandigarhs founder-architect Le Corbusier in the 1950s. The then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, who was credited for wiping out terrorism from the state with supercop K.P.S. Gill in the early 1990s, was assassinated in the Secretariat complex by a human bomb Aug 31, 1995.The Rs.45 crore bill raised by the CISF includes service tax and advance security deposit for three months. The state governments should bear the cost of having such a high level of security, a CISF officer told here. The CISF communication said Haryana owed it Rs.23 crore while Punjabs outstanding was Rs.22 crore. The Punjab government has claimed that the central government owes it nearly Rs.15 crore for Punjab Police

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Shimla She is getting brickbats from the opposition, but gives bouquets to party bosses. Ever since her husband returned to power in Himachal Pradesh, she has been playing more than just a second fiddle and has been proactive in New Delhi in seeking more infrastructure projects for the state. Her being a member of parliament has only helped her in achieving her goals. And if the party insiders are to be believed, Pratbiha Singh, the wife of septuagenarian Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, is all set to step into her husbands shoes when the time comes. Political observers say that since winning the Mandi parliamentary bypoll June 30 with a record margin, Pratibha Singh has been lobbying hard with New Delhi to get liberal funding for central-aided projects, particularly dealing with infrastructure and connectivity, sanctioned for the state. She called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh twice and sought central assistance of Rs.1,000 crore for repairing the damage caused by heavy rain in Kinnaur district June 16-17. But the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is taking potshots at her for going

Ominous signs of revival of Sikh militancy: Indian security agencies on alert

security provided to central government establishments and buildings in Chandigarh. It said the CISFs outstanding bill can be adjusted against this amount. The Haryana government has however objected to the hefty bill. Haryanas Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Samir Mathur, in a communication to the CISF director general, asked the force to reconcile its accounts and the outstanding amount demanded from Haryana. The CISF is a central armed police force and clearly differentiated from private security agencies. In this case, it is providing safety and protection to the functioning of democratically elected governments under the Constitution, Mathur said in his communication.The Punjab

and Haryana Secretariat is the seat of governance of the states of Punjab and Haryana from where the constitutional functions are discharged. It is difficult to conceive that service tax has been sought to be levied for security... when the states are paying deployment charges, he said. We have cleared outstanding bills till May 2013. There is no more outstanding and we have communicated this to the CISF. There will be no compromise with the Secretariat security, Mathur said. The Haryana government has stated that under the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966, assets and liabilities were divided in the 60:40 ratio between Punjab and Haryana and the payment for CISF security should also be done accordingly.

Kashmir gears up for its biggest extravaganza

Srinagar It is being termed the mother of all cultural events ever held in Kashmir and, given the official and public focus the concert here Saturday by the Bavarian State Orchestra under maestro Zubin Mehta is getting here, it could well be one. Chartered aircraft, BMW cars brought in just to ferry VVIPs, Rs.3.6 crore spent on renovating the Shalimar Garden venue of the concert, the German ambassador almost camping in Srinagar, hundreds of security personnel detailed for security and the state administration attending to every detail of the 90-minute concert are some of the elements that even common Kashmiris have not failed to notice. Security check-points have been set up on the Boulevard Road and the Foreshore Road that lead to the concert venue.

Vehicles are being checked and occupants frisked as part of the security drill, which is likely to get more stringent. The concert would be telecast live in 104 countries; never before has any cultural or sports event in Kashmir has attracted so much attention. Corporate honchos, ambassadors of European countries in India, film stars, bureaucrats and police and military officers are included in the list of invitees --1,500 people, 700 of them from outside Jammu and Kashmir. Private houses behind the Shalimar Garden were included in the elaborate security drill connected with the concert and commandos would be stationed in them to secure the venue, a security officer here said. Scores of CCTV cameras have been installed in and around the concert venue.

New Delhi/Chandigarh Ten hardcore Sikh militants holed up in Pakistan for many years are under pressure from its intelligence agencies to revive Sikh militancy in India, Indian intelligence sources aver. Pakistan is so desperate to reactivate the militant leaders that it has told them to either create turmoil in India -- or quit Pakistani territory for good, said a senior security official who spoke only if he was not identified. Security officials say the list of 10 names have been shared with several police forces, including those in Delhi and Punjab, where a bloody decade-long separatist campaign was finally put down by 1993.These terrorists are on our radar, Punjabs Additional Director General of Police Hardeep Dhillon told on telephone from Chandigarh. Prominent among those living in Pakistan are Babbar Khalsa Internationals Wadhawa Singh and his aides Ratandeep

Singh and Mehal Singh. Others include Jagtar Singh Tara of Khalistan Tiger Force, Ranjit Singh Meeta of Khalistan Zindabad Force, Gajinder Singh of Dal Khalsa, Paramjeet Singh Panjawar of Khalistan Commando Force, Lakhweer Singh Rode of International Sikh Youth Federation, Harminder Singh Mintu of Khalistan Liberation Force and Harmeet Singh of Komagata Maru Dal. Pakistans Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has for decades controlled both Sikh and Kashmiri separatists, providing them weapons, training,cash as well as sanctuary, say Indian security agencies. Once the Khalistan movement was put down, some of the surviving militants escaped to Pakistan. This has been corroborated by Lashkar-e-Taiba member Abdul Karim Tunda, who is now in Delhi Police custody, intelligence sources told. Tunda has also told Indian in-

terrogators that the Pakistani intelligence has provided shelter to small and big terrorist groups to execute bombings in India. Delhis Special Commissioner of Police S.N. Srivastava told IANS: Wadhawa Singh, Ratandeep Singh and Mehal Singh are the most wanted Sikh extremists. Tunda confessed that he had been assigned by Ratandeep Singh to carry out bomb attacks in India. Tunda also said that the Babbar Khalsa International had demanded explosives before the Commonwealth Games in Delhi in 2010 -- and he sent the consignment. Intelligence sources say that the Sikh militants in Pakistan are in touch with extremist minded pro-Khalistan expatriates based in the West, particularly in Canada. The pro-Khalistan expatriates are known to fund the extremists -- also with the mission of reviving militancy in Punjab.

6 No Fuel After 8
Economic downturn is making government run circles chasing its own tail. In a move harking back to halcyon days of Soviet Union and socialism in India, the government is mulling to close down Petrol Pumps after 8 PM, daily, in a desperate bid to starve a fuel hungry nation. The effort is to somehow reduce the fuel consumption of the nation in order to cut down on Current Account Deficit and subsidy bill of the government due to oil imports.

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The move is fraught with danger of cooling off the economy when we desperately need a growth boost. A signal of policy failure is the residual purchasing power in the hands of the consumer despite many fold hikes in the fuel prices. In lay mans language the government is unable to feed the demand of the consumers and hence is choosing to ration the fuel instead of finding more to help our growth champions. The Economic woes of India are largely driven by supply side con-

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straints accentuated by a dithering government and paralysed parliament. Despite years of head start available and a vibrant discourse around the energy policy, an Economist Prime Minister failed to see the nation through in turbulent times. It takes a lot to build a dynamic workforce that is energy hungry and which delivers output based on the energy inputs. Hack and clear tactics wont deliver the necessary outcomes nor will they augur well for long terms goals.

Food security: Sonias boom-or-bust gamble

The political fallout from the food security legislation may well prove to be nearly as dramatic as Indira Gandhis bank nationalisation ploy of 1970 and the garibi hatao (banish poverty) campaign of the following year. In all these cases, the ostensible reason for the measures - food for the poor, the use of banks for public welfare and the articulation of an objective - is suspected to be a moralistic cover for the purpose of winning votes. Even then, since politics is as much about gestures as about achievements, few will deny the political significance of the food and land acquisition laws. Arguably, the latest initiatives may not be as successful as the earlier ones since the voters have become more perceptive - and cynical. At the same time, the cards played by Sonia Gandhi cannot but invest the Congress with greater confidence to face the electorate if only because of the effectiveness of the slogan that no one will now go to bed hungry and that the old, colonial land acquisition law has been scrapped. In addition, if Finance Minister P. Chidambarams 10-point plan to resuscitate the economy achieves a measure of success, then the curious combination of left-of-centre populism and right-of-centre economic policies will be a formidable one. It is another matter that by the time the effect of the food legislation is felt across the country, the general election will be very near. Similarly, no one knows how fiscally disastrous will be the gargantuan task of feeding nearly 800 million people with subsidized supplies. If the economy sinks under the burden of new subsidies - or the country has to import foodgrain then it will not take time for the political expectations aroused by the initiative to evaporate. Evidently, the food security law is a high-risk gamble which can backfire badly on the Congress, and particularly on its sponsor, Sonia Gandhi. The prospects for the party will be worse if the industry gives a thumbs-down signal to the new policy on land because of the fear that it will inordinately delay the process of acquisition. At the moment, however, Sonia Gandhis socialism has enabled her to score several political points via these boom-or-bust ventures. For a start, she has re-established her total control over the party in contrast to the period in 2008 when Manmohan Singh had his way on the nuclear deal despite her reluctance. At that time, the high growth rates had also boosted the prime ministers position. Now, however, it is just the opposite. As the rupee depreciates and the economy totters, the prime ministers image has been at its darkest. In fact, as Sonia Gandhi delivered one of her rare speeches in the Lok Sabha on the food bill, Manmohan Singh seemed almost like a forlorn figure. But he partly resurrected his plummeting stock later in the week with a combative speech that held out hope for the economy and blasted the oppositon Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for blocking reforms by not allowing parliament to function repeatedly. A part of his loneliness all this while might have been because he was known to be unenthusiastic about the profligate move although he reportedly told a cabinet meeting that there was no option but to bite the bullet. However, it is worth noting that the eyes of the country are now on Chidambaram as he makes a last-ditch attempt to revive the economy, and not on Manmohan Singh. But it isnt only the prime minister who is down and out. The BJP, too, has had to look on with dismay as its main political adversary pushed through the legislation on food which can be a gamechanger, as the Congress believes. Yet, the BJP had no option but to keep silent as loud ayes from the Congress benches ensured the bills passage. Like the BJP, Narendra Modi, too, has taken a glancing blow since the party ignored its poster boys appeal to engage in delaying tactics by calling for a meeting of chief ministers to discuss the measure, especially its supposedly anti-federal aspects since the new law empowers the centre to direct the states on its implementation. Unlike Modi, the BJP understood that such filibustering will allow its critics to accuse it of being unsympathetic to the plight of the poor. On the land acquisition bill, too, it wasnt possible for the BJP to be too critical when the alternative would have been to persist with the 1894 law. Since socialism - fake or not - has a halo of its own, it is difficult to negate its appeal. No one knows this better than the Congress with its long experience in pragmatism laced with cynicism. As long as Manmohanics kept the 250 million middle class happy because of the high Sikh rate of growth, as Congress MP Mani Shankar Aiyar once said, the party went along with neo-liberal policies. But once the economy began to descend towards the old, Hindu rate of growth, it is back to socialism again. In giving precedence to politics over economics, the Congress has chosen to live in the present with little thought for the future. The party is apparently not bothered overmuch if the economy sinks under the weight of food subsidies and domestic industrialists invest abroad because of the difficulty of buying land in India. By the time bad economics takes its political toll, the party hopes to be in power.
Amulya Ganguli

Student Union Elections

Campuses across the country are abuzz with budding leaders going about their shenanigans. The din of the student electioneering is noticeably of higher decibel than was the case in earlier times. A scene that was once preserve of only a minority of young ones has become much more widely contested. There are two factors to which this widening is being ascribed to apart from upcoming Lok Sabha Elections. The first being the start of a recession in the economy. Research indicates that boom years in the Economy tend to suck the smarter and clever crowd

towards sunrise economy whereas in recessionary times frustrated youth take to streets and politics. The other reason is that success of mass movements of the year 2011 have instilled a new social awakening and pride amongst youth. Having tasted the bitter sweet palette of street politics the youth wants to graduate to a new high. Parties of all hues are treating this as an opportunity and want to attract as many youth leaders to their fold as possible. India demographic bulge comprises of 65% youth under the age of 30 and thus going into future an incremental number of voters

will be comprised of the young. This interest in politics should however be insulated from evils plaguing the world of electoral politics. Namely black money and muscle power. Campus elections are turning violent with alarming regularity and witness to large scale funding by leading political parties. Lyngdoh Committee recommendations should be strictly enforced and incidents of pressurization of administrative machinery to commit electoral fraud should be minimized. Let the nursery of Indian politics breed fragrant and benign flowers and not thorny weeds.

US attack to preserve Mideast coalition

If the US is so convinced that the Bashar al Assad regime used chemical weapons on the opposition in Syria, why is it not sharing the evidence with the UN, Vladimir Putin, anybody? Putin says he will support military action against the regime if he sees clinching evidence that Assad used chemical weapons. But Barack Obama will not oblige. It is possible Obama is bluffing. But there is a bluff and there is a bluff. Diwali is round the corner and there will be that audacious gambler who will keep tossing chips onto the table even if he, or she, has only one ace in his hand. But the gambler will make nonsense of the game if, on a weak hand, he keeps moving until the bank breaks and the Casino shuts down. At this stage, the gambling metaphor fails. Now another game begins, the game of Mind over Matter. It does not matter what evidence Washington has. Whatever the evidence, the entire American establishment is under great pressure to find an excuse, to act militarily in Syria. What could this urgency be? Completely out of character with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which glides through diplomatic corridors with so much stealth, the frenetic diplomatic style of the Intelligence Chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, has been something of a vigorous Tandav. He has been darting around from capital to capital like a globule of sodium on water. Sources suggest he has been imploring Washington to give him a month to alter the situation on the ground inside Syria, after which Moscow can be brought into play towards some settlement. He turned up in Moscow, held Putins hand and said he would sign lucrative arms deals, give him all he wanted in oil, gas, pipelines, new hydro carbon discoveries, pricing, the works. And, the piece de resistance, Saudis would keep Chechen extremists on a tight leash so that the Sochi Olympic Games can be held peacefully. We control the Chechen extremists. All this, and more would be delivered unto Moscow if only Moscow cooperated on Syria and supported Gen. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Egypt. And, Bandar added, all that he was laying out on the table had Americas blessing. The distillate from Bandars exertions in Moscow are: help us in Damascus and Cairo and we shall give you the keys to paradise. A revealing moment at the heated hearing in the Republican controlled House of Representatives Tuesday was when Secretary of State John Kerry turned to the bench behind him and pointed to Robert Stephen Ford, our ambassador in Syria. In form and feature, face and limb One Ford was like the other For folks went taking him for him And each for one another. I rubbed my eyes with disbelief. I could swear on oath that exactly a month ago I had seen John Kerry appoint the very same Robert Stephen Ford as the ambassador to Cairo to replace ambassador Anne Patterson who had been too closely identified with Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood. What is happening is this. For the Alif Laila world of West Asia, Americans have identified a handful of Foreign Service officers who are a cross between Arabists and the Special Services, a poor mans T.E. Lawrence.When Morsi was dramatically ousted from Cairo, Ford it was who surfaced as ambassador for the crisis. But as soon as Damascus needed urgent attention, he reverted to Damascus. There he was, right behind Kerry at the Congressional hearing.At the hearing, quite inadvertently, Kerry gave the game away. He blurted out another name: Gen. Salim Idris, who defected from the Syrian army last year and is now Chief of Staff of the Supreme Military Council of the Free Syrian Army. He told NBC News Aug 29 that the US Intelligence knows of his sources in Assads inner circle. He has links with units working on chemical weapons. Idris and other army defectors are therefore the rallying points for Western help which includes military attack so that they can expand their influence on the ground to be credible negotiators at Geneva II. Alternatively, they must excavate deep into the Baathist structure and split it. All of this is easier said than done. Again, that overwhelming question. Why did Obama not act when the chemical weapons Red Line was crossed earlier? Kerry explained to the Congressmen, because the President had not changed his policy then. That precisely is the point. Why has Obama changed his policy now? What is the urgency? The urgency arouse the day the Saudis rushed in with $ 12 billion as a gift for Gen. Sisi for having toppled the Muslim Brotherhood and a Saudi-Qatar split became imminent. The Brothers are a Sunni version of the Ayatullahs in Tehran, both ideologically opposed to monarchies, a nightmare for the Saudis, jointly or separately. Qatar, Hamas, Turkey were a strong coalition of the Brothers focused on Syria and are now in disarray. As it is Kerry was embarrassed at the hearing to list the 34 countries and groups supporting US military action. Where has it fled, the Atlantic Alliance? I shall give you a written list said Kerry, sheepishly. A very real, regional coalition for change in Syria is about to splinter because of differences over Egypt. A joint military action would be the glue to keep this coalition together. That is why Bandar is counting his worry beads. Obama, Hamlet like, is holding aloft a scroll of the Valliant 34, like Yoricks skull: To be or not to be
Saeed Naqvi

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SCIENCE AND TECH Samsung rolls out watchlike Frogs that hear with Moon landing wearable device their mouths
CHANDIGARH SUNDAY 08 September, 2013
Washington Scientists have solved the mystery of why one of the worlds smallest frogs -- Gardiners Seychelles frog -- can hear without an ear.The frogs from the Seychelles islands in the Indian Ocean, which are just one cm long, can hear sounds because they use their mouth cavity and tissue to transmit sound to their inner ears, cited researchers as saying in the US journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Most frogs do not possess an outer ear like humans, but a middle ear with an eardrum located directly on the surface of the head. Incoming sound waves make the eardrum vibrate, and the eardrum delivers these vibrations using ossicles to the inner ear where hair cells translate them into electric signals sent to the brain. Scientists previously thought that it was impossible to detect sound in the brain without a middle ear because 99.9 percent of a sound wave reaching an animal is reflected at the surface of its skin. However, we know of a frog species that croaks like other frogs but do not have tympanic middle ears to listen to each other. This seems to be a contradiction, said lead author Renaud Boistel from the University of Poitiers in France. To establish whether Gardiners frogs actually use sound to communicate with each other, the researchers set up loudspeakers in their natural habitat and broadcast pre-recorded frog songs. This caused male frogs present in the rainforest to answer, proving that they were able to hear the sound from the loudspeakers, the researchers said. The experts then identified the mechanism by which these seemingly deaf frogs were able to hear sound. Various mechanisms have been proposed -- an extra-tympanic pathway through the lungs, muscles which in frogs connect the pectoral girdle to the region of the inner ear, or bone conduction. As these animals are tiny, just one cm long, the researchers used X-ray images of the soft tissue and the bony parts with micrometric resolution to determine which body parts contribute to sound propagation. They found that neither the pulmonary system nor the muscles of these frogs contribute significantly to the transmission of sound to the inner ears. Numerical simulations helped investigate the third hypothesis, that the sound was received through the frogs heads. These simulations confirmed that the mouth acts as a resonator, or amplifier, for the frequencies emitted by this species.Synchrotron X-ray imaging on different species showed that the transmission of the sound from the oral cavity to the inner ear has been optimised by two evolutionary adaptations -- a reduced thickness of the tissue between the mouth and the inner ear and a smaller number of tissue layers between the mouth and the inner ear.The combination of a mouth cavity and bone conduction allows Gardiners frogs to perceive sound effectively without use of a tympanic middle ear, Boistel said. As Gardiners frogs have been living isolated in the rainforest of the Seychelles for 47 million to 65 million years, since these islands split away from the main continent, the findings indicated that their auditory system must be a survivor of life forms on the ancient supercontinent Gondwana, the expert said.

Seoul Samsung Electronics has rolled out a first-generation watch-like wearable device that allows users to call and send messages hands-free. A user leaving a grocery store with both hands full would still be able to make a call without touching the screen. The Galaxy Gear was launched at the Berlin trade show Thursday, reported. The Galaxy Gear smart watch, which will be on display at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin for six days till Sep 11, will be worn on the wrist to serve as a companion device to Samsungs newest version of phablet Galaxy Note 3, the company said in a statement. The voice-controlled smart watch will allow users to track hands-free call and messages. Samsung said a user leaving the grocery store whose hands are full with shopping bags, could still make

a call by speaking into the Galaxy Gear without touching the screen. The Galaxy Gear with a 1.63-inch Super AMOLED display has a 1.9 megapixel built-in camera that allows users to shoot videos and take pictures with the slightest gesture and transmit them via Bluetooth to other mobile devices such as the Galaxy Note 3. The latest version of phablet, or a hybrid of smartphone and tablet PC, has enhanced hardware features. The screen size of the Galaxy Note 3 rose from its predecessors 5.3 inches to 5.7 inches, but it became slimmer and lighter with 8.3mm in thickness and 168 grams in weight. The device is powered by both Quad-Core processor running at 2.3 GHz and Octa-Core processor at 1.9 GHz. It has dual cameras with a 13 megapixel rear camera and a 2 megapixel front one.

Indian military satellite put into earths orbit

Microsoft builds portal for Indian developers

Bangalore Global software major Microsoft has built a dedicated portal for its Indian developers with a community-based platform to network and engage, its Indian subsidiary said Thursday. The collaborative portal will also offer expert guidance to developers and remotely solve their queries, empowering themto be efficient as they go from idea to app (application), the company said in a statement here. With 1.6 million developers in India, which is its second largest community after the US, the company has designed the portal to offer a rich set of functionality to help them leverage collective computing power. As a powerful tool, the portal (developer.microsoft.com) allows our developers in India to connect with their peers the world over. Our experts are also a click away for them, Microsoft Corporation (India) Ltd strategic audience marketing director Pratima Amonkar said in the statement. The new portal will enable developers to post their app ideas in an area called Perspective. Community blogs and social feeds in the connect area allow developers to share stories, seek advice and connect with our experts at Redmond and other offices worldwide, Amonkar said. As a single point of entry for all

Beijing Multiple secret weapons will be used on Chinas Change-3 lunar probe, scheduled for launch at the end of this year for a moon landing mission, a key scientist has said. The mission will see a Chinese orbiter soft-land on a celestial body for the first time, Global Times reported. In addition to several cameras, Change-3 will carry a near-ultraviolet astronomical telescope to observe stars, the galaxy and the universe from the moon, said Ouyang Ziyuan, a senior advisor to Chinas lunar programme. The telescope will observe the universe farther and clearer and will possibly bring new discoveries since there will be no disturbance from the aerosphere, ionosphere and magnetosphere on the moon, said Ouyang. He told an event here that the lander would also carry an extreme ultraviolet camera, which will be used on the moon for the first time to monitor the transformation of the earths plasmasphere and the planets environmental change. The Change-3 moon rover will roam the moons surface to patrol and explore the satellite. Radar will be attached to the bottom of the rover to explore 100 to 200 meters beneath the moons surface. Change-3 has officially entered its launch stage, following research and manufacturing periods. It will be launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwest China. The Change-3 mission is the second phase of Chinas lunar programme, which includes orbiting, landing and returning to Earth. It follows the successes of the Change-2 missions, which include plotting a highresolution, full-coverage lunar map.

mission to use secret weapons

Bangalore Indias first military satellite was Wednesday put into the geosynchronous orbit, about 36,000 km above the earth, five days after it was launched Aug 30 onboard an European rocket from Kourou in French Guiana off the Pacific coast.The advanced multi-band communication satellite GSAT-7 has been placed in the geosynchronous orbit at an altitude of about 36,000km above earths surface after three orbitraising manoeuvres from our master control facility at Hassan in Karnataka, the state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a statement here. Hassan is about 180 km from Bangalore. The 2.5-tonne spacecrafts antennae, including the ultra high frequency Helix antenna were deployed before it was stabilised on its three-axis in the orbit. The satellite will reach its assigned

orbital slot of 74 degree east longitude in the geostationary orbit within the next 10 days and its transponders in UHF, S, C and Ku bands will be switched September 14, the statement said. The four transponders, which receive and transmit signals at high frequency, will improve the maritime communications among the Indian Navys warships. A 108 ampere-hour Lithium-ion battery enables the Rs.185-crore satellite to function even during the eclipse period. According to defence experts, the satellite will enable the navy to acquire blue water capabilities and need not depend on foreign satellites like Inmarsat, which provide communication services to its ships. The cost of the launch onboard the Ariane-5 heavy rocket of the European Space Agency (ESA) Arianespace was Rs.440 crore.

developers, the portal enables finding right information from different locations, which may be difficult to access otherwise. The developer network will provide opportunity for the community to engage with the company and each other, Amonkar noted. Microsoft is the only company that allows developers

to leverage their skills and reuse code to build apps, the statement said. The company flagship product Windows is also the only platform that offers consistency through a common core across device and service to shape the apps ecosystem and providing developers the prospect to maximise their revenues.

I would have done better than Rajya Sabha passes land acquisition bill Modi post-Godhra: Parrikar
thing need not be blamed on Modi alone. What happened then was unfortunate, but that does not require his apology. It requires his correction and he has done that. There were many reasons why people lost control in 2002 after the bodies (of Hindu pilgrims from an earlier attack) were shown on TV. It should not have happened, the administration should have clamped down on any violence, Parrikar said. The prelude to the interview refers to Parrikar an affable face of the Hindu right and says that the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) alumnus impressed middle class Indians by taking economy class flights, by hailing a taxi himself at the airport, and with clean governance in his state, when political excess and corruption are commonplace. To a question whether he considers himself a potential candidate for the post of prime minister, Parrikar is quoted as saying: No, not at all, I am not a candidate. Parrikar also said that at a time when Manmohan Singh was seen as a lame duck prime minister and the central government was in a perpetual state of suspension, Modi had emerged as a hope amongst the youth. In these circumstances, particularly young people see an alternative model in Modi, and if they want him as prime minister they will have to elect his local representative. Also, a substantial number of businessmen are likely to back the BJP this time, and they will also go for Modi. I believe a national mood is forming to put the BJP in power and Modi as prime minister, he said. New Delhi In a second major political victory for the UPA government, the Rajya Sabha Wednesday passed the seminal land bill that aims to provide fair compensation to those whose land is taken away, brings transparency to the process of acquisition of land to set up factories or buildings and assures generous compensation and rehabilitation of those affected by land takeover. The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2012, was passed by 131 votes in favour with 10 against it after an over seven hour debate. However, since four new government amendments were approved by the house, the bill will again go back to the lower house for its consideration. The bill was earlier passed by the Lok Sabha Aug 29. The governments four amendments related to irrigated land on the suggestions of the BJP. The passage of this bill comes close on the heels of the food bill that enshrines food rights and promises access to subsidised food to almost 800 millions Indians. Both these legislations have been dubbed populist by economists but the Congress, especially its leader, Sonia Gandhi, have made the twin bills their showpiece instruments to improve the lives of Indias poor and hope to leverage on them to return to power in the general elections slated for next year. Industry is unhappy with the bill as it makes acquisition of land to set up industries infinitely more difficult as large tracts of land have fragmented ownership but the ruling Congress - as well as other parties - want to show that their heart is with farmers and tribals as no party want to be seen as anti-poor ahead of a general election. Compensation is not only for land owners and farmers but also for those whose livelihood will be affected, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said. He said urgency clause will operate

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Panaji Goas Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said Wednesday that he would have ensured a better job than Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the post-Godhra riot phase in 2002. Parikar said this in an interview to New York Times India blog India Ink which was uploaded Wednesday. Speaking about the riots of 2002, Parrikar said: It should not have happened. The administration should have clamped down on any violence. (If I were in his place) I would have ensured (that) but Modi was new to the job as chief minister. Parrikar, considered close to Modi, also conceded that the Gujarat violence was a blot on Modis career but said the Gujarat chief minister was not personally a part of it. If he is guilty by connivance he should be punished, but investigations have given him a clean chit. People who oppose him do so because they fear him, Parrikar said. He said the riots were a product of administrative failure and that every-

Rajya Sabha adjourned Why is PM not being questioned in over Vanzara letter coal block allocation?: BJP
New Delhi The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday accused the government of trying to sabotage coal block allocation investigation and asked why was Prime Minister Manmohan Singh not being questioned. The party also asked the government to register an FIR (First Information Report) with police on stolen/missing files. In a joint statement, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley, leaders of opposition in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, respectively, said the coal allocation scam was becoming murkier and murkier. They said the prime minister, in charge of coal portfolio between 2006 and 2009, in his statement in parliament Tuesday was not even willing to acknowledge the reality of missing files. The BJP leaders said, The failure of honourable prime minister to acknowledge the factum of missing files... the defiance of the authority of the Supreme Court by the government, the presentation of half-baked facts by the coal minister, all point to the fact the government does not want the truth to come out. The statement said a news report appearing in a newspaper Wednesday said Senior Superintendent of Police K.R. Chaurasia, on perusal of the material collected during investigation, desired that Manmohan Singh, in charge of the coal ministry between 2006 and 2009, required to be questioned. The BJP leaders said the suggestion of the official has so far not found favour with the higher-ups in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). They said the officials suggestion was critical to the investigation and a substantially large number of documents connected with the coal block allocation scam have disappeared. Jaitley and Swaraj said: We are constrained to demand the government confirm or deny the fact that the investigating officer has required the examination of the prime minister on basis of the material before him so that no further tampering and doctoring of the investigation takes place. The material on basis of which he requires the examination of the prime minister should also be publicly disclosed. The reasons on basis of which the prime ministers examination is not being permitted should also be made public. They said the government must register an FIR on the missing documents and explain reasons why it has not been done so far. The lead-

only in case of national calamity and security and private companies cannot invoke it. The bill aims to replace a law enacted by the British in 1894. The Congress termed the Rajya Sabhas approval a historic step. There was national consensus on it. It reflects the vision of the UPA government and the Congress, Congress general secretary Janardan Dwivedi said. Most parties supported the bill but said fertile land should not be acquired for industrial development. Instead, barren land should be used for the purpose, they said. Bharatiya Janata Party member Vinay Katiyar, who initiated the debate, said acquired land, if not used for more than five years, should go back to farmers and not to land banks and suggested fast track courts for speedy disposal of disputes related to land acquisition. Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati and Samajwadi Party member Ram Gopal Yadav accused the UPA of rushing through the bill with an eye on upcoming elections. The Trinamool Congress and the Communist Party of India-Marxists also opposed the bill. This bill is not good for farmers, not good for industry and not good for the country, Trinamool leader Derek OBrien said. CPI-M leader P. Rajeev called the bill a political gimmick and an eyewash ahead of the 2014 general

elections. This is not an election bill but a necessary bill, said Ramesh. Parties like the CPI-M, Communist Party of India, Trinamool, Janata Dal-United (JD-U), Biju Janata Dal, Rashtriya Janata Dal, SP and Bahujan Samaj Party also said that the consent of the farmer was key in any land acquisition and suggested that fair compensation should be paid to him. A key feature of the bill is that the consent of 80 percent of land owners concerned is needed for acquiring land for private projects and of 70 percent landowners for publicprivate projects. The compensation has also been significantly increased under the new law. It suggests compensation for the owners of the acquired land to be four times the market value in case of rural areas and twice in case of urban areas. The bill also defines public purpose to include: mining, infrastructure, defence, manufacturing zones, roads, railways, highways, and ports built by government and public sector enterprises, land for project-affected people, planned development and improvement of village or urban sites and residential purposes for the poor and landless and governmentadministered schemes or institutions, among others. Introduced in 2011, the bill was scrutinised by parliamentary panel that submitted its report in May 2012.

New Delhi The Rajya Sabha was Thursday adjourned for 15 minutes after JD-U and SP members vociferously raised the issue of jailed Gujarat police official D.G. Vanzaras letter against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. As soon as the house met at 11 a.m., Janata Dal-United (JD-U) and Samajwadi Party (SP) members raised the issue. Unable to take up the scheduled business in the face of opposition protests, Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman

P.J. Kurien announced that the house be adjourned for 15 minutes. Indian Police Services (IPS) officer D.G. Vanzara, charged and incarcerated in three staged gun battle cases, tendered his resignation Tuesday accusing the Gujarat chief minister of betraying him. Vanzara wrote a stinging letter accusing Modi and former Gujarat home minister Amit Shah of approving the killings of alleged terrorists in staged gun battles.

ers alleged the files were made to disappear. The oral examination is not being permitted. It seems that the effort of the UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government is to sabotage the investigation and render it ineffective, the two BJP leaders said in the statement. The screening committee acted as per the dictates of the powers that be. The prime minister acting as the coal minister and the Prime Ministers Office approved the list of favourites arbitrarily chosen, the statement said. It said parliament was initially misled so as to create an impression that only pre-2004 files are missing. It now transpires that a large number of files which pertain to allocation between 2006 and 2009 are also missing. The disappearance of the files, the doctoring of the status report at the behest of a minister and officials of the PMO (Prime Ministers Office) have been the hurdles which the government has tried to create in the honest conduct of investigation, the statement said. The BJP leaders said Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal had made two statements before parliament which fall short of making a complete and honest disclosure.

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Land Acquisition Bill

Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh: Compensation is not only for land owners and farmers but also for those whose livelihood will be affected.

Congress General Secretary Janardan Dwivedi: There was national consensus on it. It reflects the vision of the UPA government and the Congress.

CPI-M leader P. Rajeev: Called the bill a political gimmick and an eyewash ahead of the 2014 general elections.

Trinamool leader Derek OBrien: This bill is not good for farmers, not good for industry and not good for the country.

Bharatiya Janata Party Member Vinay Katiyar: Acquired land, if not used for more than five years, should go back to farmers and not to land banks

Mayawati, Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister: The most affected by land takeover were small farmers and tribals and the government should do something to rehabilitate and resettle them.

Samajwadi Partys Ram Gopal Yadav: The percentage of farm land in India was shrinking due to land acquisition

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New Delhi The Delhi High Court Wednesday stayed till Sep 19 a trial court order seeking registration of an FIR against Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit for allegedly misusing funds in an advertisement campaign before the 2008 assembly polls. Justice Sunil Gaur, in an interim order, granted relief to Delhi CM Dikshit by staying the trial court order of Aug 31. Deferring the matter to Sep 19, the court said: Till then, status

HC stays registration of FIR against Sheila Dikshit

quo as of today in respect of FIR (First Information Report) in question be maintained. The court had, Tuesday, reserved order in the matter and issued notice to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vijender Gupta and the Delhi Police chief. The Delhi government moved the court against the trial courts Aug 31 order directing police to register an FIR against Dikshit on the complaint of Gupta and Right to Information activist Vivek Garg, alleging that Dikshit misused Rs.22.56 crore of government funds for an advertisement campaign ahead of the 2008 assembly polls. Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Sidharth Luthra, appearing for the state government, had said that Gupta, while filing the complaint against Dikshit and seeking registration of the FIR, relied upon a Lokayukta report. The ASG said there was

no material other than that report with the complainant in this matter. Luthra said the complaint was motivated and frivolous. Guptas senior advocate Sanjay Jain argued that the complaint was initially filed before the Delhi Lokayukta, who indicted Dikshit for allegedly misusing government funds for an advertisement campaign with a political purpose.

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New Delhi The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday accused the government of trying to sabotage coal block allocation investigation and asked why was Prime Minister Manmohan Singh not being questioned. The party also asked the government to register an FIR (First Information Report) with police on stolen/missing files. In a joint statement, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley, leaders of opposition in the Lok Sabha New Delhi The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Samajwadi Party Wednesday accused the UPA of rushing through the land acquisition bill with an eye on upcoming elections. But BSP leader Mayawati said in the Rajya Sabha that her party nevertheless supported the bill which seeks to provide more compensation to farmers whose land is taken over for infrastructure development. She said suggestions made by her party earlier

Why is PM not being questioned in coal block allocation?:BJP

and the Rajya Sabha, respectively, said the coal allocation scam was becoming murkier and murkier. They said the prime minister, in charge of coal portfolio between 2006 and 2009, in his statement in parliament Tuesday was not even willing to acknowledge the reality of missing files. The BJP leaders said, The failure of honourable prime minister to acknowledge the factum of missing files... the defiance of the authority of the Supreme Court by the government, the presentation of half-baked facts by the coal minister, all point to the fact the government does not want the truth to come out. The statement said a news report appearing in a newspaper Wednesday said Senior Superintendent of Police K.R. Chaurasia, on perusal of the material collected during investigation, desired that Manmohan Singh, in charge of the coal ministry between 2006 and 2009, required to be questioned. The BJP leaders said the suggestion of the official has so far not found favour with the higher-ups in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). They said the officials suggestion was critical to the investigation and a substantially large number of documents connected with the coal block allocation scam have disappeared.

Land bill linked to elections: BSP, SP

for amending the Land Acquisition Act of 1894 were ignored. Now with elections nearing, the bill is being rushed through without much thought. Samajwadi Partys Ram Gopal Yadav too accused the Congressled United Progressive Alliance of bringing the bill in a hurry with an eye on coming elections. He admitted that the bill had good points but insisted it had negatives too. According to Yadav, the percentage of farm land in India was shrinking due to land acquisition. He said the government, instead of acquiring agricultural land, should earmark infertile fallow land for infrastructure projects or increase land for agriculture by treating infertile land. Mayawati, a former Uttar Pradesh chief minister, said the most affected by land takeover were small farmers and tribals and the government should

do something to rehabilitate and resettle them.She said farmers get upset to see their acquired land lying unused for years and then finally being given to some builder or for some commercial purpose. The most affected are small farmers and adivasis when their source of livelihood (land) has been snatched and they are forced to live in cities, or become Maoists, commit suicide or take to wrong ways...

Opposition questions government on coal-block probe

New Delhi Political parties Wednesday slammed Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs statement on the missing coal block allocation files and asked how investigations would proceed in the absence of documentary evidence. Raising the issue in the Rajya Sabha after repeated adjournments, leader of opposition Arun Jaitley of the Bharatiya Janata Party said the prime minister in his statement had made it appear that the issue of missing files was hypothetical. Jaitley said a newspaper had reported an official investigating the coal block allocations had sought oral examination of the prime minister as he was in charge of the coal ministry from 2006 to 2009 but the Central Bureau of Investigation decided against it. He said files contain documentary evidence about the decisions. Somebody has to respond how the investigation is going to proceed ... documents are missing and oral evidence will not be allowed, he said. Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Sitaram Yechury criticised the prime minister for his remarks that it would be premature to say some papers were missing. Either the files are there or not. It is a matter of reality, not views, Yechury said. He wondered why the government had not lodged a first information report in relation to the missing files. Yechury said the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) had examined the coal block allocation files and the government could procure these from the agency if they had kept a record. Naresh Agrawal of the Samajwadi Party said Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal should have taken moral responsibility for the missing files and resigned.V. Maitreyan of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam said the prime minister should accept that files were missing. IANS

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Kerala readies for a pricey Onam

Thiruvananthapuram If there is one event that unites every Kerala household in a festivity it is the Onam harvest festival and if theres any dampener, its the skyrocketing prices of essential items. This time, the Onam festival week begins Saturday with the traditional Atham festival followed by First Onam on September 15, Thiru Onam the next day and ends two days later on September 18. Irrespective of caste or creed, each and every Keralite, irrespective of where one is, celebrates Onam with real vigour. This time around, it could be particularly difficult even as the Kerala government has been making market interventions to ensure state organisations ensure adequate supply of vegetables and other food items. We have already sanctioned funds to the state agencies which do the procurement and we have given them whatever they have asked for. Thirteen items, including pulses, basic food items and vegetables will be under the controlled price mechanism and hence, we are certain that people need not to worry about prices, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said. The Onam sadhya (lunch) has to be served on a banana leaf and in some places its eaten squatting on the floor, like in the olden days. Every item is very expensive compared to last years Onam. The government appears to be saying every now and then for the past one week that prices will be controlled, but every day when I go to shop, its only shooting up, lamented Remani Nair, a retired schoolteacher here. A comparison with the previous years prices is revealing. The Price of red rice last

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CAG slams procurement of branded drugs

New Delhi The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has criticized the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) for buying high-priced branded drugs instead of the generic variety. An amount of Rs 11.81 crore could have been saved if generic drugs had been procured, said a report which was tabled in parliament Friday. The CAG in its report also points to the delay in procurement of drugs ranging from two to six months after asking a consulting firm for procuring drugs required by CGHS centres. The CAG audit has also revealed losses to the tune of Rs 5.06 crore in tuberculosis division of the health ministry.Branded drugs continue to be preferred over generic drugs despite adverse remarks of the parliamentary committee. This caused significant financial burden on the exchequer, said the report.

NDA ahead of UPA, Modi top choice as PM: Survey

New Delhi The BJP-led NDA has a clear edge over the UPA in terms of support base if Lok Sabha polls were held now and Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs performance is rated below that of his government, says a opinion survey released Friday. According to the latest survey conducted by ABP News-Nieslen, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is leading the race for the post of prime minister. If the Lok Sabha elections were to be held now, 40 percent respondents intend to vote for NDA (National Democratic Alliance) and only 27 percent would vote for UPA (United Progressive Alliance), said a release. These release said that survey data could be a major setback for Manmohan Singh as his performance has been rated below average. It said people in north zone have rated his performance even poorer. Prime ministers performance is rated below UPA-II governments performance, it said. It said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerges as a clear winner across all zones (more so in north and west zones) and gender. Major support is seen gained from younger lot (18-30 years). Congress, however, is neck and neck with BJP in the southern zone. The survey said more than 60 percent have rated Modis performance as good/very good. Modi is chief of BJPs campaign committee for the Lok Sabha elections and seen to be its prime ministerial candidate. Narendra Modi is leading the race (47 percent) for prime minister followed by Rahul Gandhi and Manmohan Singh. Modi is popular among voters from north, younger generation and affluent sections, it said. Across all zones except South, Narendra Modi emerges as the clear choice of the people for the position of Prime Minister of India. In south zone, it is neck and neck between Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi, it said. It said majority of the respondents all across feel that Modi should be BJPs prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections In a scenario, where it a competition between Priyanka Gandhi and Modi, BJP seems to be gaining more than Congress, even greater that it would have gained had it been some other candidate from Congress, the survey said. The survey said 40 percent of those surveyed feel Manmohan Singh was responsible for poor economic situation of the country, but in the south, 45 percent feel that it is Finance Minister - P. Chidambram who is responsible. The release said that a major fraction (42 percent) of people in north zone were unhappy with the performance

year was Rs.28 a kg and is Rs.38 now, onions have shot up from Rs.16 to Rs.52, coconut oil has risen from Rs.67 to Rs.86, bananas from Rs.32 to Rs.54, tapioca from Rs.13 to Rs.24, shallots from Rs.35 to Rs.64 and ash gourd from Rs. 17 to Rs.25. In the past, a 26-dish lunch was common in many households and it included chips, pappads, various vegetables, a fair number of pickles both sweet and sour, the traditional aviyal, sambar and dal, served along with a small quantity of ghee, rasam, two different kinds of butter milk and a chutney prepared from grated coconut - not to mention a series of mouth-watering payasams eaten either straight or mixed with a small ripe plantain. Oh, this time with prices shooting up like a rocket, the 26-dish lunch would be a luxury for many. We are a family from which there is not a single person who is working abroad. Anyway, we are expecting that the government will ensure uninterrupted supplies through their outlets, said Jasmine Thomas a housewife in Kottayam working hard to see everything is in order on a shoestring budget. But in Thiruvalla, about 120 km from the state capital, things appear a bit different as this is from where there are a good number of Keralites who are working abroad. Honestly, in money terms, even though there is certainly an all-round price rise, we are yet to feel the pinch because the money that my husband remits from the UAE as compared to the last Onam, is higher in rupee terms and am yet to feel pinch in the price rise, said homemaker Mary Stephen.

New Delhi With the Lok Sabhas nod, parliament Friday passed the Representation of People (Amendment) Bill, 2013, which will negate a Supreme Court order banning politicians in jail and under police custody from contesting polls. The Rajya Sabha passed the bill Aug 28. At the start of the session, all parties were united in demanding that the government bring a bill to negate the apex court order. The parties had apprehensions that false cases could be lodged by their rivals on the eve of any polls to get a candidate disqualified from contesting in keeping with the apex court order. The bill negates the July 10 apex court order which held that since those in jail cannot vote as per the electoral act, they cannot qualify for contesting elections to parliament or state assemblies. Law Minister Kapil Sibal moved the bill. Sometimes we make mistakes and sometimes the courts can make a mistake. In this case, they made a mistake and today we are correcting it, he told the house. Sibal earlier said there was a general negative perception in the country that all politicians are criminals. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member Kirti Azad and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) member Dara Singh Chauhan said at times politicians are jailed for taking part in agitations on social issues and this should not be equated with arrest in criminal cases.

Dont sell warships to Sri Lanka, says Karunanidhi

Chennai Indias decision to build and supply two warships to Sri Lanka has proved that the central government helps only the neighbouring government and not Indian fishermen or Tamils in the island nation, DMK president M. Karunanidhi said Friday. Referring to a news report that India will supply two warships to Sri Lanka, Karunanidhi said here Friday: The news report proves the charge levied by some that the Indian government helps only Sri Lanka and is not concerned about Indian fishermen or the Lankan Tamils. He said Sri Lanka will attack Indian fishermen using the very same ships and urged the central government to scrap the idea of helping that country. Karunanidhi said the DMK party did not believe the charge that Indian government helped Sri Lanka during the internal war in 2009. In 2009, the DMK was part of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. Karunanidhi also urged the central government to take steps to release 107 Indian fishermen lodged in Sri Lankan jails.

Cant force media to name source: I&B ministry

Lucknow The union information and broadcasting ministry Wednesday said that it cannot force print and electronic media to take specific names of other news sources like newspapers and news channels if they refer to their reports. The I&B ministry made these observations while deciding on a representation made by social activist Nutan Thakur, in pursuance of an order of the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court. The ministry said that the chairman of the Press Council of India is of the view that as per Section 7 of the Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867, the editor is the sole authority to decide the contents. Hence, the ministry said, it does not deem it fit to lay down rules, making it mandatory to state the names of other newspapers while referring to

of UPA-II. The release said that at an overall level, people were in support of food security bill with 48 percent feeling that it is a step in the right direction. The survey said that people feel that both Congress and BJP were equally responsible for communalization of politics.

Karnataka to consult state CJ on prosecutor change

New Delhi Karnataka Friday told the Supreme Court that it would withdraw its Aug 26 notification removing Special Public Prosecutor Bhavani Singh, appearing in the trial of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in the disproportionate assets case, and consult the state chief justice on the change. The government would be withdrawing its notification so that it could once again embark on the exercise of removing Bhavani Singh in consultation with the chief justice of the Karnataka High Court. Before issuing Aug 26 notification, the state government had not consulted the chief justice as was directed by the apex court. Attorney General G.E. Vahanvati told a bench of Justice B.S.Chauhan and Justice S.A. Bobde that Karnataka government would withdraw its notification and then place the entire record leading to the removal of Bhavani Singh before the chief justice for his opinion. In case, the chief justice gives his nod to the government decision to remove Bhavani Singh, then the state government would place before him a list of senior lawyers so that one of whom could be picked up to be the special public prosecutor. In the course of the hearing, Justice Chauhan said that they would keep the matter pending and in the meanwhile, the state government should withdraw the order removing Bhavani Singh. Meanwhile, senior counsel Mukul Rohtagi appearing for Jayalalithaa told the court that all this was political and his client was suffering. They (government) are playing these games to buy the time, he said. Jayalalithaa, Sasikala, Ilavarasi and V.N. Sudhakaran had moved the apex court challenging the removal of Bhavani Singh. They had contended he was taken off the case when he was in the third day of his final arguments which had seen the examination of 99 defence witnesses in a span of five months from February to July 2013. The court was told that the petitioner had already responded to about 2000 queries by the prosecution. Jayalalithaa in her petition has alleged that the abrupt change was been done by the ruling Congress party in the State at the behest of her political rival, DMK, in Tamil Nadu. She is facing trial in a case that relates to the period when she was chief minister in 1991 to 1996. The trial in the case was shifted outside Chennai by the apex court in 2003 to ensure free and fair trial.

reports, and the decision in the matter would be left to the editor. As for the need to keep a record of newspapers for a definite period, the ministry said that under Section 25(1) of the proposed Press and Registration of Books and Publications Bill, there is a provision to deliver a copy of the newspaper as and when demanded by the Press Registrar General. Thakur had filed a petition before the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court April 23, 2013, following which the court directed the union government to decide on the representations. Nothing, however, happened within the stipulated time of four months, after which I filed a contempt of court petition, the petitioner told IANS and added that the I&B ministry responded thereafter.

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Kolkata Slain Indian author Sushmita Banerjee went back to Afghanistan to pen her next novel targeted at a Durga Puja release, her publisher said Friday. "She had come to my office in Jan shortly before  she left uary (2013)       said for Afghanistan. That time she      that she will hand over the manuscript of her next book before the   (in October)," Swapan Durga Puja   of publishing     Biswas house Bhasa O  told   here.     Sahitya  told me she   would  write about   "She       the current scenario of Afghan      women...she was extremely opti       mistic about it and had planned    everything out. That was the last I saw of didi (older sister in Bengali)," said Biswas. Banerjee, 49, was dragged out of  other   her homeafter members of her family were tied up, and shot dead by suspected Taliban gunmen in       

  

   

        New Delhi/Kolkata India is in touch with the Afghan   the gunning  down government over     of Indian author Sushmita Banerjee, whose killing has shocked West Bengal. Her family Friday demanded her mortal remains be brought back to  Kolkata. While New Delhi pursued the matter with Kabul, the fatal shooting of    best selling  book Banerjee, whose       detailed the horrors she endured during Taliban rule in Afghanistan, has  literati   in West Bengal   left the    shocked and disturbed. Banerjee, 49,  dragged  out of her  home   and was        gunshot dead by suspected Taliban          men in Sharan city of Afghanistan's Paktika province Wednesday night. "We are already in touch and con    Minister  tact,"  External Affairs      per- Salman Khurshid told the media sons outside parliament Friday. He called the murder "very, very distressing". Khurshid said India and Afghanistan have "one single point of view" on women's issues and were committed "to fight this kind of inhuman treatment, particularly of women". Banerjee defied her family to marry Afghan businessman Jaanbaz Khan, and stayed for years with

Writer's killing: India in touch with Afghanistan

                                        Bangali Bou" (A Kabuliwala's Ben  a vivid   descrip- gali Wife), offering      under tion of the suffering of women the Taliban.  described   daring   escape She also her     from the clutches of militants. The    book made her a household name in Bengal. Gopal Banerjee, the author's younger brother, said in Kolkata they  move a request to the external  will affairs ministry to recover her body  it  sent back  to  us".   and "have Banerjee's kin say she was "desper to Afghanistan,    did ate" to return and not heed their advice to stay on in   she wanted  to write India. They said    on the    another book lives  of Afghan       women. "We had warned her not to   But she was  sort go (to Afghanistan). of desperate in nature from the outset. We had told her that the Taliban would not let her live in peace as she had written so much about them... but she did not listen to us. She wanted to go back immediately," Gopal Banerjee said. The writer's family suspect a conspiracy in her killing. "Why she (Sushmita) alone was him in Afghanistan. She later came back to India, and in 1998 wrote the    memoir   "Kabuliwalar    bestselling                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Sharan city of Afghanistan's Paktika province Wednesday night. Banerjee defied her family to marry Afghan businessman Jaanbaz Khan,  for years     in and stayed with him       Afghanistan. She later came back to India, and in 1998 wrote the bestselling memoir "Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou" (A Kab       uliwala's Bengali Wife), offering a       vivid description of the suffering of women under the Taliban.  also described    daring es- She her  cape from the clutches of militants.  The book published    by Bhasa  O         Sahitya made her a household name in Bengal and was a best-seller right away after its release in January  did  notneed any publicity.   1998. "It  120 copies   were   off Morethan sold  hour of release.   con- in its first It still     tinues to be a popular book as it is   said    very  well written," Biswas,        adding that her next book would      

have been well-researched. Biswas said Banerjee had initially named the book "Aami Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou" (I, A Kabuliwala's  Wife).       Bengali "I told her to drop the I and christen  Bengali   Wife'," it 'A Kabuliwala's        added Biswas.        Banerjee loved to visit the Kolkata  Fair  every year. However,   due Book to a knee problem, she had to miss it this year.  was extremely    of visiting "She fond        the book fair but her knee issues kept her away this year. She regretted that," said Biswas.   Banerjee's   Biswas was familiar with husband Jaanbaz Khan. "Her husband drove up to our shop   30  and  asked  for  the  books   March that Sushmita didi had pre-ordered.     Khan addressed Banerjee as Sayeda Kamala..that's the name she had    said Biswas.   taken there,"

Kolkata        Sushmita Banerjee's kin here Friday hinted at a probable conspiracy be      hind the author's killing in    Afghanistan, asking whether the       killers tied her in-laws to "actually       protect them". Exiled Bangladeshi        author Taslima Nasrin also cast         doubts about the family's role. "Why she (Sushmita) alone was killed while the rest of the family was    left untouched? Did the killers tie the       rest of the family members to actually protect them? Why did her husband      not try to contact us after the tragedy?" Banerjee's sister-in-law        Debolina Banerjee said to IANS here. City residents Debolina and her hus    band Gopal - Sushmita's younger brother - got the news of the author's        killing from local TV news channels.      Debolina said repeated attempts to contact Sushmita's husband, Afghan     businessman Jaanbaz Khan, or his      family in Kabul have yielded no re       sults.       "We got the news from TV channels.      Why didn't they try to contact us?     Even after repeated attempts, we have        failed to contact them. There are       many unanswered questions," said       Gopal.                        

Gopal, who last talked to Khan by phone July 25, said his sister always claimed she had amicable relation her husband   ship both with and in- laws. "She always said she had good and amicable relations with her inlaws, but then we fail to understand   situation,   the way  they the present      have reacted," added Debolina. Even Taslima talked about a conspir the Taliban need to tie up acy. "Do others when they kill one? Maybe   need.  Or maybe    they they don't.       Maybe someone from her in-laws informed the Taliban that Sushmita, the 'immoral woman', who fled husband's   about   them  house and wrote bad was there, maybe those men knew about her deeds and whereabouts from  sources,"   Taslima  said.     other "I do not know about the conspiracy behind killing Sushmita, but I know  she was killed.     why     She was killed because of patriarchy        and religion," Taslima said on her of blog.      ficial    While Taliban militants are sus-        pected to have killed Banerjee, Taslima was forced to leave her country Bangladesh following widespread   against   her writings  on agitation     women's rights and freedom, which a   people   saw  as an assault   on section of     Islam.     Banerjee, who defied her family to  Khan  and  stayed   with marry for years him in Afghanistan, in 1998 wrote the   memoir   "Kabuliwalar   bestselling Bangali Bou" (A Kabuliwala's Ben   a vivid description     gali Wife) offering of the suffering of women under the  Taliban. She  also described her dar-   ing escape from the clutches of mili-  author,   recently   tants. The who       moved back to Afghanistan to live      with her husband, was dragged out of her home and shot dead by suspected  gunmen   in Sharan  city  of Taliban Afghanistan's Paktika province Wednesday night.                                        

   

 

       

 

  

  

    

  

     

      

      

  

  the rest  killed while of the family was    tie the left untouched? Did the killers   rest of the family members to actually protect them? Why did her husband not try to contact us after the tragedy?" Banerjee's sister-in-law Debolina Banerjee told in Kolkata. News of her death cast a gloom in West Bengal, with Magsaysay Award winner Mahasweta Devi saying: "It is tragic...." Noted author Shirshendu Mukherjee expressed shock, and marvelled at

the courage of Banerjee. "I had read her book, but I didn't know her per      sonally. She was a courageous     woman and she faced many hard   ships," he said. Sahitya Akademi awardee Shankha Ghosh told: "This is shocking. If the Taliban is doing all this, then it goes against civilisation." Banerjee was also the subject of the 2003 Bollywood film, "Escape From Taliban", featuring Manisha Koirala. The film described itself as the "story of a woman who dares the Taliban".

     Celebrated Indian columnist and nov     elist Shobhaa De equated Banerjee's        death to the attack on Pakistani      teenager Malala Yousafzai in October   2012 by the Taliban. "Another Malala. R.I.P. Sushmita Banerjee. Intellectual martyr," tweeted De. Malala was shot by the Taliban for promoting education for girls in Pakistan's Khyber PukhtoonKhwa province where extremists had issued a diktat banning education for females.

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El Escorial, Alcal and Aranjuez: a walk through Madrids heritage

Indian food getting modern, less oily, better presentation

San Lorenzo del Escorial, Alcal de Henares and Aranjuez have a lot in common: They are Unesco Heritage enclaves and are also denominated Legacy Cities of Spanish capital Madrid. The Royal Palace of San Lorenzo del Escorial became a Unesco Heritage site in 1984. The Basilica, Felipe IIs rooms, its library with more than 6.000 manuscripts and the Friars Garden are testimony to this. But these are only a few architectural attractions of this beautiful town, framed by Abantos Hill and Herreria Mount, where every year a huge peregrination takes place. At the centre of the town, San Lorenzo del Escorial delights the visitor with several edifications designed by Juan Villanueva (18th century exponent of neoclassical architecture), and its cobbled streets, really impressive due to their verticality. Several restaurants offer dishes such as roasted lamb or a famous stew - Madrid cocido - that is served in the El Charoles outlet. Alcalde Henares Alcalde Henares, declared a World Heritage site in 1998, is the first university city in the world planned specifically for this purpose. It is here that one can visit the birthplace of noted Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, now converted into a museum. The city also hosts the Magistral Cathedral, one of two such in the world, along with the St. Peters in Louvaine. This means that all of its canons had to be the magister of the university. Late Gothic in style, finished with a Herrera which dominates the belfry, is the main architectural characteristic of this imposing building which stands out in the city. A must-visit is also the Archiepiscopal Palace, residence of the archbishops of Toledo. Moorish, Renacentist, and Baroque styles coexist in this building. The well-known Hospederia del Estudiante (Students Inn) mixes tourism and gastronomy, offering pure Castillian cooking with dishes like migas ilustradas (fried breadcrumbs), sopa boba (a kind of soup), salads, roasts and stews. Aranjuez: Royalty and strawberries Aranjuez had to wait until 2001 to be declared a World Heritage City. Its environment and architectural wealth are testimony to the perfect coexistence between art and nature. The Royal Palace and its gardens constitute the most popular monument of this town. Located between the Tajo and Jarama rivers, this Her-

rera style buildings main facade has the statues of the three kings who helped in its construction: Felipe II, Fernando VI and Carlos III. Its white and red facade and the rococo balustrade staircase are its other important characteristics. The palace gardens are a huge open space with canals and several fountains. At lunch time, garden products and, especially, the famous Aranjuez strawberries, are the stars of the local gastronomy. But this is not all the area around Madrid has to offer to visitors. Many other towns and cities host beautiful buildings, which make this province a unique mix of culture and art. A good example is Chinchons Plaza Mayor. Dating to the Middle Ages, this follows the round structure of many Castilian squares, guarded by an awesome lintel gallery and its wooden balconies. No less impressive are the castles in Manzanares el Real and Buitrago de Lozoya. The first one, from the 15th century, has its base on an ancient Moorish chapel, with a Gothic gallery on the first floor, one of the most beautiful of its kind. Buitrago de Lozoya, on the other hand, was built a century before, and so has a more impregnated Moorish pattern, whose main characteristic is its fine masonry. The town is also known for its Picasso Museum, which houses 50 works the famous Spanish painter gave to Eugenio Arias, his barber. How to get there: There are no direct flights from India to Spain. Take a flight to a European hub like Frankfurt or London and thence a flight to Madrid. From Madrid to:

San Lorenzo de El Escorial By car: The A6 highway will take you there in less than an hour; another option is following the M550. By train: Line C8a of Madrid Short distance train. By bus: Lines 661 and 664 that start in Moncloa bus station Eateries: La Buganvilla, La Fonda Genara, Alaska. Look out for: Violet caramels, Bizcochelas (Cake made with chocolate and candied egg yolk). Alcal de Henares By car: Through highways A2 (Exit 28) and R2 (Exit 28), 30 minutes from Madrid. By train: Lines C2 and C7. By bus: Line 223, starting at Avenida de America bus station and stopping also at Madrids Barajas airport. Eateries: Restaurante El Gato de Tres Patas, Restaurante Sexto Sentido and Restaurante Patrimonio. Look out for: Costrada (cake with cream, toasted almonds and meringue), Alcal (sweet bagels filled with cream), Garrapinada (almonds covered in caramel from Clarisas convent) Aranjuez By car: On A4 or R4 (Exit 47), a 45-minute drive By train: Line C3 of the short distance service. By bus: Lines 419 and 423 leaving from Madrid Estacion Sur (Mendez lvaro) Eateries: Restaurante Vivaldi, Restaurante Carme, Restaurante Casa Pablo Look out for: Aranjuez asparagus (really tender and easily recognizable by its bright green colour) and Aranjuez strawberries (sweet and big, they are the best in the region).

Chennai Indian food served in five star and fine dining restaurants is getting modern in line with the times without compromising on its taste or composition compared to the practices eight to ten years ago, a senior chef here says. The gravies are now smooth and food is light on the stomach. People want flavour but not oil-rich, heavily spiced food. There is also more attention being paid on the dish presentation, which was not so earlier, Hushmoin K Patel, executive chef at The Raintree Hotels, Anna Salai told. He added Indian dishes are no longer coarse, as he offered the tasty lemongrass rasam, a new addition in the revamped menu card of the hotels South Indian cuisine restaurant Madras. Seemingly a simple dish - made with a mixture of tamarind water, steamed lentils, tomatoes, chilli and pepper powders, coriander and curry leaves, getting the rasam right in South India is the one test that everybody -from the newly -wed girls to wedding caterers and hotel chefs - in Tamil Nadu have to pass to be accepted as one having culinary skills. While it is termed as soup, normally at South Indian homes rasam rice (steamed rice mixed with rasam) figuring in the middle, occupies an important part in the three course meal of sambar rice, rasam rice and curd rice. Normally at homes the coriander roots are cut and thrown out. The roots can be used after cleaning in the making of making rasam or other items. The flavour from the coriander root is far greater than its leaves, Patel said. Speaking of the new menu card he said that nearly 50 percent of the

dishes listed in it are different under various cuisines. While including the new dishes we do look at competition menu card so that ours should stand out differently. However some dishes are common and cannot be omitted. An item is taken out based on customer feedback and its sales performance, Patel said. According to him the new dishes are first tested for their taste amongst the staff, then included in the buffet and then they find their place in the restaurant. Once a dish goes out of the menu card it is not brought back without an innovation, Patel remarked. By this time the vegetarian starters from `Mamis Special Plate comprising of masala kuzhi paniyaram and banana dosa started arriving on the table. It was interesting to note that Patel and junior sous chef J.Prabhakaran, both young bachelors, entered the profession by choice and not through default. I liked cooking at home and wanted to become a chef. My father agreed with me but asked me to work for three months in a hotel kitchen so that I know what it actually means being a chef, recalled Patel. On the other hand Prabhakaran hailing from the small temple town Kachipuram, wanted to go abroad and saw the kitchen route as the easiest one after his education. I did not have the money to join a private catering technology institute immediately after my plus two course. In order to enter the government catering institute here I had to improve upon my plus two marks by giving the exams all over again. Finally I entered my dream college, Prabhakaran told.

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New York Supermodel Kate Upton will receive the Model of the Year 2013 award at the 10th Annual Style Awards here Wednesday. The event, which kicks off the New York Fashion Week, will celebrate the two-time Sports Illustrated model, reports. Since her first big break on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover in 2011, the 21-year-old has never looked back. She even made a transition from being a bikini model to a high-fashion star by gracing the covers of both the US and the Brazilian Vogue this year.

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Big B to introduce Akshay Kate Upton named Model of the Year Kumar in Boss

More nervous about album than wedding: John Legend

Mumbai Bollywood khiladi Akshay Kumars character in his forthcoming film Boss will be introduced by megastar Amitabh Bachchan. For Akshay, it is an honour. Its an honour and a privilege to have a legend like Amitabh Bachchan introduce my character in Boss. Ive been his biggest fan since childhood and have even had the pleasure of working with him. He is an institution by himself, Akshay said in a statement. Akshay and Amitabh have earlier worked together in movies like Khakee and Waqt: The Race Against Time. In Boss, Akshays character has a huge build-up before he makes an entry on screen and the makers always believed that no one other than the 70-year-old could do justice to the introduction of such a strong and larger-than-life character. Also, when the script was sent to Big B, he loved the idea and immediately agreed to be a part of the movie. Ive known Big B for years now because of my journalism background. But more importantly, Ive grown up on his films. Probably the reason why I am in movies today is because of him. When I called him and requested him to be a part of Boss, he agreed, producer Ashwin Varde said in a statement. Its like a dream come true - to have a legend like him giving an introduction to the film, he added. The megastar was given a script of the scenes well in advance. Despite his busy schedule, he made it a point to complete the dubbing at the earliest. He also improvised on the lines much to the delight of the

films makers. Directed by Anthony DSouza, Boss also stars Mithun Chakraborty, Shiv Pandit, Aditi Rao Hydari, Danny Denzongpa, Ronit Roy and Johnny Lever. Co-produced by Viacom 18 Motion Pictures, Cape Of Good Films and Ashwin Varde Productions, Boss will release in October.

Los Angeles Singer-actor John Legend, who is ready to marry his long-time girlfriend, model Chrissy Teigen, isnt nervous about his wedding. In fact, he is feeling good about, and says he is more tense about his music album. The Ordinary people singer will exchange vows with the Sports Illustrated model later this month. He insists he is cool about the big day, but admits that the reactions to his new album Love in the Future, which releases this week, is giving him butterflies in the stomach.

People keep asking me if I am nervous about getting married, but I am a little more nervous about my album coming out. But yeah, I guess youre supposed to get nervous before you get married, but I feel good, Legend as saying.Legend and Teigen, 27, will marry near Lake Como in Italy. The model, who got engaged to Legend in 2011 after four years of dating, will wear a custom-made Vera Wang wedding dress. The couple has hired a wedding planner to get every detail right for their D-day.

Mumbai Actress Veena Malik says she had to let go of some of her favourite food items to cut down almost 9 kgs to fit into her role in the upcoming film Supermodel.I had to work hard to fit into the character. When my producer and director Navin Batra came to sign me, they said that Veena-ji, you need to cut down your weight to 47 kgs. I was 56 kgs at that time. So to be a supermodel, I had to let go of food, Veena said here at the music launch of the film.Then of course, to get into the characters emotional ups and downs while acting... that was there. I wanted to make it look very real on screen, she added.Supermodel also stars Ashmit Patel and hits theatres Sep 27

Veena had to lose 9 kgs for Supermodel

New Delhi TV actor Hiten Tejwani, who is generally seen as the good son or husband in family drama shows, says he would love to essay a negative character on screen.I guess I was lucky to get family dramas. I have always been shown as the good boy on TV, but given a chance I would love to play a grey character, Hiten told. He made his TV debut with Ghar Ek Mandir (2000) and later appeared in daily soaps like Kabhii Sautan Kabhii Sahelii, Kaahin Kissii Roz and Kutumb. He is best remembered for playing Karan Virani on the popular TV show Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi. Currently Hiten is part of shows like Pavitra Rishta, where he plays Manav Deshmukh, and Savdhaan India. He decided to take up the latter as host, since he gets to connect with the audience. I dont play a character in the show. Here, Hiten is talking to the audience. In one way, Ill be able to create awareness among the masses. The show helps me connect with the audience directly, he said. When asked if he is choosy about his projects, he said: I never did that earlier, but now I have started to pick and choose things. I have to do good work and I am very selective about it. The actor loves to watch comedy shows like Friends and Mr. Bean, but said that he hasnt thought of playing comic roles.

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Recycling centers process the materials you place resin identification code is hard to find, Milli follows a simple rule called check the neck. If the lid screws on the top, and the neck is smaller than or the same size as the base, then the plastic container should go in the recycling bin. Recycling plants separate plastics b y resin identification codes before cleaning and processing them into

Milli Recycles & You Can, Too! ACTIVITY

KIDS

CHANDIGARH SUNDAY 08 September, 2013

Paper Caterpillar
Here we are giving your child an opportunity to enjoy our funny tongue twisters for kids and have fun trying to say some of the most difficult sentences . To get the full effect of a tongue twister you should try to repeat it several times, as quickly as possible, without stumbling.

i n your recy cling bin and turn them back into products we can use again. Each kind of material requires a different process. For example, a recycling center may start by melting plastic jugs after cleaning them, byshredding alu- minum cans, crushing glass bottles, or adding water to old newspaper until it turns into a pulpy soup. So to make recycling more efficient, Millis hometown provides containers so she can separate her recyclables right at home. Does yours? If not, your towns website may list stores or collection centers that accept recyclables. Look at the bottom of a plastic bottle. Do you see a little number inside a triangle of arrows? That is the plastic resin identification code. There are seven different codes and each stands for a different type of plastic. A growing number of communities are collecting all plastics to recycle, but most still limit the typesusually those with a #1 or #2 code. Milk jugs, drink bottles, containers for shampoo or laundry detergent, and various food jars are examples of commonly recyclable plastics. When the

Create a creeping critter with this simple paper folding craft. Metals are separated by type, such as iron/steel, aluminum, copper, lead, and zinc. They are separated because each kind of metal is used to make different products, and they melt at very different temperatures. Iron/steel and aluminum are the most recycled metals because they are widely used to make food cans like those for vegetables and some drinks. Digging the ore out of the ground and making brand new cans and products costs much more than it does to recycle what we have now. Paper that will be recycled is split into five main groups: office white paper newspaper cardboard mixed or colored paper computer print out paper These five types of paper are broken down separately by mixing them with water and chemicals to turn them into a mushy mixture called pulp. The pulp is used to make newspapers, new boxes, and new writing paper. Sometimes the paper and boxes you recycle may even be made into egg cartons and flowerpots! What youll need: Construction paper Scissors Tape Markers How to make it: 1. Cut two very long strips of paper approximately 3/4 inch wide and 3 feet long. Tape the two strips into the shape of an L. 2. Fold one strip over the other until you have a springy caterpillar body. 3. Decorate the face and tail with markers, and dont forget a set of paper antennae.

Once a fellow met a fellow In a field of beans. Said a fellow to a fellow, If a fellow asks a fellow, Can a fellow tell a fellow What a fellow means?

Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely. A flea and a fly in a flue Said the fly Oh what should we do Said the flea Let us fly

Said the flyLet us flee So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

new, recycled plastic materials.

Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket
Mark Caine

Put your puzzle solving skills to the test with our sport word scramble. Look carefully at the jumbled words and try unscrambling as many of the words related to the Weather OCLDU OHT RTSOM USNNY EFNI YLDUCO

CLOUD , HOT , STORM , SUNNY , FINE , CLOUDY

Answers to Word Scramble :

Air is all around us. The air on earth is made of different gaseswe breathe them every day. The gases in the air move as wind. Strong winds can take a kite high into the sky or move a sailboat through the water. When air or any gas pushes against something else, a force or pressure is created. To feel gas pressure, try blowing into an empty plastic bottle. What happens? The harder you blow into the bottle, the more gas pressure you create. You feel this pressure in how the air pushes back and keeps you from adding more. Stretch a balloon over the mouth of the plastic bottle to seal it. Squeeze the bottle and see what happens to the balloon. The harder you push on the sides of the bottle, the larger the balloon becomes. The balloon inflates because you increased the gas pressure in the bottle as you pressed on its sides. As you press the sides of the bottle, you are pushing the gases in the bottle into the balloon where the gas pressure is less. When you let go of the bottle, there is less pressure on the bottle, and the air moves back into

Gases to Go
the bottle. In the Avogadros Air Rockets activity, air in the bottle is forced into a straw when you squeeze the bottles sides. Air pressure is created, which pushes the rocket out of the bottle. This is similar to a rocket that is launched into space. Fuel is burned to make gases. The gases build up in a small area near the base of the rocket increasing the gas pressure inside. As the gases escape to the outside of the rocket where the gas pressure is lower, they push the rocket along. Some toys need gas pressure to make them work. To make a Super Soaker work, you pump one of its chambers full of air. The more you pump it, the greater the air pressure becomes. When you pull the Super Soakers trigger with your finger, the gas pressure pushes the water out of the nozzle, drenching the people around you. Gas pressure is what makes some toy rockets and Super Soakers do what theyre supposed to do. Can you think of other toys or objects that need gas pressure to make them go?

Color Me....

OXYMORON

MEANING:the combination of two contradictory words EXAMPLE: The phrase mournful optimist is a good example of an oxymoron. PLATONIC

MEANING: related to or being spiritually or idealistically involved in a relationship instead of romantically or physically EXAMPLE: They share a platonic friendship not a romantic one. SARCASTIC

MEANING : expressive of derision or ridicule, generally harsh, ironic and taunting EXAMPLE: I am better off without your sarcastic comments.

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LEISURE
K L Y H O R O S C O P E
You will succeed in every endeavour and achieve excellent results in your work and career. An in fiGEMINI improvement nancial position spurs May 21 - Jun 20 you on to take risks in new ventures that prove immensely profitable. Businesspersons will sign new deals that will assure them of long-term benefits. It is a favourable week for the employed in that they will be given an important task to handle. All facilities will be SAGITTARIUS made available to you Nov 22 - Dec 21 for this project. Those in the field of mass communication and media may become the recipients of award. Business people will get news of a large contract from the government or state agency. The current period is extremely beneficial one and monetary returns from your investments will be substanIf you do not need CANCER tial. cash this week you Jun 21 - Jul 22 should wait for a while longer to make further profit in your investments. Security at work will give the confidence that you need to explore new areas and move from one success to another. This is the time to renew your contacts or devote attention to public relations. It is quite likely that some CAPRICORN domestic issues and Dec 22 - Jan 19 responsibilities act as a constraint in your working. Do not waste any time on such affairs because by doing this you could be ruining your chances of success in your work. A sudden travel plan may take you towards south or southeast. Some of you may travel overseas of a special assignment. Some of you Jul 23 - Aug. 22 may travel abroad to scan opportunities for job or business. It will be a fruitful journey. Some of you will start a new work or open a branch office in another city.

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Married women looking for buying a new house will receive an enticing offer that suits their requirement perfectly. You will have the resources VIRGO to purchase this property Aug. 23 - Sep 22 and will soon move your residence. Those of you who are keen to bring about a major change in their career will be determined to go ahead with their plans at any cost.

You will start doing initial paper work for some creative and ambitious project that is very dear to your heart. ARIES You will receive wholeMar 21-Apr 19 hearted support from close friend and relatives. You will find yourself at your best in public relations and will be able to muster enough support for your work even from financial institutions. You need to concentrate on routine work activities. The present environment at your work place may not LIBRA be conducive and you Sep 23 - Oct 22 could feel frustrated at times. Do not harbour thoughts of changing your job or work for this could result in a setback. Business people will do better and will be able to successfully conclude their current assignment.

You will get involved in some social or cultural work or community development schemes. It seems your close friends or TAURUS associate will urge Apr 20 - May 20 you to participate more in such social activities that will benefit you in the long run. Someone may now try to create a rift between you and your beloved by speaking lies and spreading unpleasant rumours. This is a fortunate period for taking up some of the pending and unfinished work, which has been put off SCORPIO for some reason. This Oct 23 - Nov 21 will help you to take up work on your new venture on which you have set your heart and have already sounded a few friends. If you are fancy-free a romantic interlude is indicated.

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In business you will be Your business plans able to carry out your hit a snag stalling most activities without any proceedings. Do not hitch. Do not waste your worry for the delays, as time in recoveries but these may eventually rather follow up with AQUARIUS vigour your new project PISCES prove to your advanJan 20 - Feb. 18 Feb 19 - Mar 20 tage. In fact, if you can that needs all your attenwithdraw some of your tion and efforts. At your work place money from incomplete or loss making carry out your assignment with all the ventures you should get the amount and speed sincerity and attention as there call it quits. are some elements that are waiting for a lapse on your part.

ACROSS 1. Too 5. Enjoy the slopes 8. Liquefy 12. Tragic king 13. Peas home 14. Mr. Gershwin et al. 15. Juans hat 17. Drooping 18. Lambs mama 19. Leaks slowly 20. Rice and Frank 24. Yes votes 26. Depart 27. Most tidy 31. Items of value 33. Greek god 34. Appetizer 36. Start 37. Delight 38. Marsh grasses 39. Gape 42. Tabby, e.g. 44. Not wild 45. Least quiet 50. Zenith 51. Make an offer 52. Three musicians 53. Benefit 54. Beer skin 55. Reasonable

DOWN 1. Roker and Pacino 2. Zodiac lion 3. Yosemite______ 4. Sphere 5. Gush 6. Seoul native 7. Wedding vow (2 wds.) 8. Significant event 9. Toledos lake 10. Desk light 11. Recipe abbr. 16. Colonize again 19. Ship harbors 20. Sad cry 21. Robins residence 22. Space agency (abbr.) 23. Having leaves year round 25. Positive vote 28. Besides 29. Toboggan 30. Toddlers 32. Notice 35. Gun motion 39. Pierce 40. Mexican treat 41. Military supplies 43. Assistant 45. Hoops league (abbr.) 46. The I in TGIF 47. Distinctive time 48. Moral wrong 49. Sock tip

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Fashion show with a Modern twist

New Delhi They chose themes as varied as ethnic fusion, yin and yang, psychedelic, and feel neon, created chic clothes, presented them on the ramp and wowed everyone, including ace designer Rohit Bal. They are not the professionals, but teenage schoolchildren who dressed in neon coloured clothes and lace dresses, created by their fellow schoolmates, hit the ramp Saturday at the Modern School, Barakhamba Road, as part of second edition of the fashion event - Bon Vivant. In addition to their academics, students explore and participate in the fashion technology as part of their extra-curricular activity to bolster their curriculum vitae. The show witnessed students of Classes 11 and 12 following fashion trends,

The girls (models) we selected were from ninth class onwards. Proper audition was done, she said. The whole show was sponsored by parents of participants. Models were chosen on the basis of how they walk and whether they will be able to carry off a suit or a dress, added Bajaj. It was a well organised event and a special credit goes to Shatakshi Sinha, a Class 10 student, who helped in promoting the show. Handling media for the fashion show event was first time and welcoming experience. Such hands-on

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putting together different fabrics like georgette, chiffon, and creating garments. Hema Bajaj, head of fashion technology department - J Adore, certainly felt proud of her students,who managed to put up the show in just one month.

assignments convert our academic knowledge to practical use, said Sinha.The themes chosen by designers included shine through the light and black beauty, among others. Seventeen-year-old designer Mallika Arora, who chose the theme

ethnic fusion, walked the ramp as a model and designer.For boys, Ive designed kurtas and balloon pants. They are basically Indo-western clothes. For girls, there are lehengas, saris and Indo-western gowns, said Mallika, who flaunted self-designed lehenga. She shopped for materials at places like Chandni Chowk, Janakpuri, Saket and Noida. I made sketches first. I found a tailor and explained the designs. He stitched them and I got the fittings done, added the teenager who is hoping to make it big as a fashion designer. If the clothes in neon colours or black-and-white or metallic left many spellbound, the makeup was worth appreciating. I wore Tanya Maheshwaris and Vaibhav Mehras creation. The theme is yin and yang, so the makeup has been done accordingly, said Kanupria Seth, dressed in figure hugging black and white short dress. The focus was on eyes. Its smokey with black and white eye makeup. The lips are nude. The idea of nude makeup has been taken from fashion designer Rohit Bal, she added. With sky-high heels, the models got the catwalk perfect, thanks to their choreographers Jaspreet Singh Walia and Reba Browne.
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INTERNATIONAL

CHANDIGARH SUNDAY 08 September,2013

Plane returns to Japan Pakistan will improve anti-terror laws, airport after engine trouble says Sharif

Tokyo A Japan Airlines flight made an emergency landing Thursday morning at the Fukuoka airport after the pilots reported engine trouble, a media report said. The emergency landing took place around 9.20 a.m. after the flight crew reported that one of the engines on

the Boeing 777 aircraft to TokyoHaneda airport had a problem after taking off, reported citing Kyodo news agency. The plane, carrying 252 passengers and crew members, had departed around 8.30 a.m.. No one was injured.

The world set a red line for Syria strike: Obama

Islamabad Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Wednesday said anti-terrorism laws will be amended to effectively deal with the scourge of terrorism. Legal experts say the current antiterror laws have some lacunae and suspects are acquitted in view of weak cases. They are suggesting amendments to make the laws more effective to deal with terrorism.

Sharif hinted at amendments to laws during his second day of visit to the violence-hit port city of Karachi where he is seeking support from political parties and business community for a targeted operation against the miscreants, Xinhua reported. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said nearly 1,800 people were killed in targeted attacks in

Karachi in the first six months of this year. Sharif said the political parties have supported the suggestion to launch a targeted campaign against miscreants to be led by paramilitary forces. However, he ruled out military operations in the city. My government is alive to the situation in the city and all possible steps will be taken for maintenance of law and order, he asserted. The prime minister presided over a high-level meeting of senior security officials and discussed administrative flaws in the city and a possible mechanism for starting targeted operations. He directed the intelligence agencies to maintain strong coordination with the police. He said all the proposals would be carefully examined to check the situation in the economic hub of the country. I cannot remain oblivious to Karachis situation and no-go areas will be eliminated at all costs, the prime minister said. operation against criminal elements will be ensured and directions of the supreme court regarding Karachi will be implemented in letter and spirit, he added.

Toyota recalls 2,500 Lexus cars in Australia

Washington After winning crucial bipartisan support from key congressional leaders, President Barack Obama took his case for a punitive military strike on Syria abroad, saying the world set a red line against using chemical weapons. I didnt set a red line. The world set a red line, he said in Stockholm Wednesday, asserting that the red line he outlined last year regarding Syrias use of chemical weapons came from international treaties and past congressional action, according to CNN. Obama, who is on his way to St. Petersburg, Russia, to attend a G-20 Summit, said the global red line came when governments representing 98 percent of the worlds population passed a treaty forbidding (chemical weapons) use, even when countries are engaged in war. My credibility is not on the line -the international communitys credibility is on the line, he said at a joint news conference with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, who opposes military intervention without UN approval. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon too has warned that any military strike against Syria without the world bodys sanction would be illegal. The use of force is lawful only when in exercise of selfdefence in accordance with Article 51 of the United Nations Charter and/or when the Security Council approves such action, he told reporters Tuesday before leaving for St. Petersburg. Calling on Security Council members to unite and develop an appropriate response should allegations regarding the use of chemical weapons prove true, Ban also asked them to consider the impact of any punitive measure on efforts to prevent further bloodshed and facilitate a political resolution of the conflict. Asking the global community to act Wednesday, Obama said: I respect the UN process but are we going to try to find a reason not to act? And if thats the case, then I think the (world) community should admit it? We agree that the international community cannot be silent, Obama said, adding that a team of UN investigators has done heroic work. However, the UN teams mandate was only to determine if chemical weapons had been used, Obama said, repeating that US intelligence has confirmed that beyond any reasonable doubt, and has further confirmed that President Bashar alAssads regime was the source. Obama spoke as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee prepared to consider a resolution that would give the president authority to carry out a strike against Syria, for a period of 60 days, with one 30-day extension. It also makes clear there would be no US boots on the ground. Democratic and Republican lawmakers Tuesday agreed on the wording of a revised resolution after posing tough questions to Secretary of State John Kerry, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel and General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. But the new resolution ran into opposition from the 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain, an outspoken advocate of action against Syria who wants more than cruise missile strikes and other limited action. Asked if he supported the resolution crafted by Democratic panel chairman Bob Menendez and Republican Bob Corker, McCain said, In its current form, I do not. He earlier this week threatened to vote against the original White House draft resolution unless Obama promised greater support to Syrias rebels. McCain then expressed support after meeting Obama at the White House.

25 killed in Iraq violence

Sydney About 2,500 Toyota Lexus vehicles are being recalled across Australia due to glitches that could cause the cars to stop mid-journey, media reports said Thursday. The Japanese automaker is recalling about 370,000 vehicles worldwide, reported. In Australia, about 1,750 RX400Hs built between 2006 and 2008 are being recalled amid concerns that its hybrid system may overheat while driving, resulting in dam-

Eight killed in Vietnam floods

ages that may cause the vehicle to stop. Also, 750 Lexus IS350s built between April 2010 and July 2011 are involved in the recall due to concerns that bolts pinning a valve-control system inside the engine could come loose. No accidents or injuries have been reported as a result of the problems. Affected owners are being contacted and repairs will be done free of charge.

Hanoi Floods and landslides have killed at least eight people in Vietnam, officials said Thursday. The Central Committee for Flood and Storm Control said one person died in Ha Giang province, three in

Lai Chau and four in Lao Cai, reported. At least 14 people were injured and 10 others are still missing. Heavy rains also caused severe damage to houses and crops.

Baghdad Twenty-five people were killed and 17 wounded in separate bombing and shooting incidents in central and northern Iraq, police said Wednesday. A clash erupted when gunmen attacked a checkpoint manned by fighters of a government-backed Sahwa paramilitary group in Dijla town, 140 km north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, killing a Sahwa fighter and wounding two others, Xinhua reported citing a police source. One of the attackers was also killed and another wounded in the clash, the source said. In another incident, gunmen detonated bomb in a house of a policeman in Mkeshiefa area, some 130 km north of Baghdad, killing a child and wounding his mother, the source added. The policeman was not at home when the attack occurred, said a police source who did not wish to be named. Earlier in the day, police said that at least 22 people were killed and 13 wounded in bombings and shootings across Iraq, including 10 from two families at a house south of Baghdad. Iraq is witnessing its worst eruption of violence in recent years, which raises fears that the country is sliding back to full-blown civil conflict that peaked in 2006 and 2007, when monthly death toll sometimes exceeded 3,000.

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Meghalaya parties want Inner Line Permit to curb influx

Shillong Non-Congress parties in Meghalaya Thursday demanded the Inner Line Permit (ILP) system be implemented in Meghalaya to check the influx of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants. Indians should have ILP if they wish to enter Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Mizoram. State governments issue ILP under the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873. The United Democratic Party (UDP), the Hill State Peoples Democratic Party (HSPDP), the National Peoples Party, the Khun Hynniewtrep National Awakening Movement and the Garo National Council made the demand during the all-party meet convened by Chief Minister Mukul Sangma. However, Sangma rejected the political parties plea, saying the government does not suffer from bankruptcy of new ideas and would not like to piggy-ride on an outdated and colonial act to fight influx. Instead, the chief minister promised the political parties that his government would implement strong tenancy law and other mechanisms to curb the unabated, burgeoning influx problem. Since Meghalaya is protected under the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution, Sangma made a mention about the need to strengthen the Meghalaya Land Transfer (Regulation) Act, 1971, and to crack the whip on benami transactions. However, HSPDP legislator Ardent Basaiawmoit countered the chief minister by saying the existing laws and mechanisms only cater to those who are already residing within the

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Mumbai A benchmark index of the Indian equities market Friday gained 290 points to end at 19,270 - its highest level in nearly a month. The gains come a day after the market rallied by 412 points after the new Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan unveiled a slew of measures, which raised overseas borrowing limits for banks. Healthy buying took place in banking, capital goods, oil and gas, public sector undertakings (PSUs), healthcare and metal stocks. However, selling pressure was observed in consumer durables, auto, realty and information technology (IT) sectors. The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the S&P Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened at 19,072.02 points, closed at 19,270.06 points, up 290.30 points or 1.53 percent from the previous days close at 18,979.76 points. The Sensex touched a high of 19,293.96 points and a low of 18,929.38 points during the day. The wider 50-scrip S&P CNX Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) made gains in Fridays trade session. It gained 87.45 points or 1.56 percent at 5,680.40 points. Intentions and initiatives of the new RBI Governor helped in changing the sentiments on the currency and equity markets. Banking stocks and other rate sensitive stocks were the major gainers, said Dipen Shah of Kotak Securities. The recent appreciation in the rupee has improved market sentiments. There are expectations of additional dollar flows into the country, which has created optimism on the rupee. Equity markets have reacted on cues from the currency markets. Good buying was observed in banking index (bankex), capital goods,

oil and gas, public sector undertakings (PSUs), healthcare and metal sectors, while selling pressure was observed in consumer durables, auto, realty and information technology (IT) sectors. The S&P BSE bankex gained 318.45 points, capital goods index ended Fridays trade up 200.42 points, oil and gas index increased by 184.33 points, PSU index index was higher by 111.81 points and healthcare index rose 98.21 points. However, consumer durables index was down 38.22 points, followed by automobile index which was 2.23 points lower, realty index was 2.11 points down and IT index fell by 0.94 points. Most of the 30 sensitive index were gainers in the days trade. These include ICICI Bank, up 7.37 percent at Rs.959; ONGC, up 7.17 percent at Rs.289.15; Bharti Airtel, up 5.47 percent at Rs.313.55; Cipla, up 4.49 percent at Rs.437.60; and Larsen and Toubro (L&T), up 3.58 percent at Rs.753.65. The main losers were: Tata Power, down 2.61 percent at Rs.70.90; Coal India, down 2.12 percent at Rs.277.45; Sesa Goa, down 1.90 percent at Rs.175.45; Hindustan Unilever, down 1.62 percent at Rs.617.20; and Hero MotoCorp, down 0.76 percent at Rs.1,928.95. Among the Asian markets, Japans Nikkei closed 1.45 percent down, while Hong Kongs Hang Seng closed the days trade 0.10 percent higher. Chinas Shanghai Composite Index was higher by 0.83 percent. In Europe, Londons FTSE 100 was trading 0.06 percent down, while Germanys DAX Index was lower 0.07 percent. The French CAC 40 Index was 0.09 percent down.

state. These laws have failed and will continue to fail. What is required is detecting illegal migrants from the entrance and this can be done through ILP, Basaiawmoit added. UDP legislator Paul Lyngdoh said the party was disappointed with the outcome of the meeting and would sit and discuss its future course of action. The UDP is disappointed with the outcome of the meeting as the government is not in favour of implementing ILP. We would now sit and decided on the future course of action, Lyngdoh said. On the other hand, the road blockade

from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. is entering its second night and there have been stray incidents of violence and arrests from different parts of the state. The road blockade was called by 10 pressure groups that include the powerful Khasi Students Union, the Federation of Khasi, Jaintia and Garo People and the Hynniewtrep National Youth Front to mount pressure on the government to implement the ILP. The implementation of ILP would help protect the tribal population from being annihilated in their own land, Joe Marwein, spokesperson of the agitating organisations, said.

Government received Rs.30,000 crore investment proposals in IT

New Delhi The government has received investment proposals worth Rs.30,000 crore for the electronics and IT industry in the last six months besides 15 proposals to set up electronics clusters. The government has already received 15 proposals to set up electronics clusters, out of which six have been approved and some of these have already started setting up these clusters, Ajay Kumar, joint secretary, Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) said at the electronica India 2013 and productronica India 2013. In last six months, the government has received investment proposals for around Rs.30,000 crore for the industry, he further stressed. In the new Electronics Policy 2013, the government said that as an incentive to set up electronics manufacturing clusters, development of infrastructure and common facilities for electronics industry, it would bear 50 percent of project cost subject to a ceiling of Rs.50 crore for every 100 acres.

New Delhi India fears that the escalation of violence in Syria may spill over to West Asia, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said Friday, and that the government may announce steps later this month to curb fuel consumption. He said relations among world leaders have become heated over possible US military sttrike against President Bashar al Assads regime. The US and Russia have been unable to agree on a way forward. President Barack Obama said he had hit a wall with his Russian counterpart Valdimir Putin, who has warned the use of force without UN approval would be aggression and a violation of international law. Reports from St Petersburg said the Obama-Putin divide over Syria dominated the G20 summits first day, despite the groups primary focus of the world economy. The divisions are too great, British Prime Minister David Cameron said Friday. Khurshid said India is against a regime change in Syria, but stressed that the use of chemical weapons must be prevented. International markets have been on a tizzy over the prospects of a Western attack on Syria and Brent has been climbing steadily as investors are worried that supply disruptions could persist in the Middle East, after US lawmakers supported a military strike on Syria.

India may curb oil consumption, fears Syria violence could escalate

Microsoft builds portal for Indian developers

Bangalore Global software major Microsoft has built a dedicated portal for its Indian developers with a community-based platform to network and engage, its Indian subsidiary said Thursday. The collaborative portal will also offer expert guidance to developers and remotely solve their queries, empowering themto be efficient as they go from idea to app (application), the company said in a statement here. With 1.6 million developers in India, which is its second largest community after the US, the company has designed the portal to offer a rich set of functionality to help them leverage collective com-

puting power. As a powerful tool, the portal (developer.microsoft.com) allows our developers in India to connect with their peers the world over. Our experts are also a click away for them, Microsoft Corporation (India) Ltd strategic audience marketing director Pratima Amonkar said in the statement. The new portal will enable developers to post their app ideas in an area called Perspective. Community blogs and social feeds in the connect area allow developers to share stories, seek advice and connect with our experts at Redmond and other offices worldwide, Amonkar said.

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New Delhi Vijay Kumar Malhotra, the president of the recognised Indian Olympic Association (IOA), Thursday regretted International Olympic Committees decision aggainst revoking its suspension of India but promised his best efforts ensure the countrys return to the Olympic movement. The continuance of the ban is definitely detrimental to Indian sports and prestige. I am quite unhappy that India is out of the Olympic movement at the moment, said Malhotra in a statement. The veteran sports administrator requested all the stake holders in the suspended IOA to stand united and find out a way to lift the ban. We have to follow the IOC charter. The only thing is they can have more clarifications here and there. Definitely, I am also of the opinion that people facing criminal and corruption charges shouldnt contest the election. But we need see to what stage it can be made applicable. The government has also taken its view on it and gone to the Supreme Court. So we will like to study all

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these things and then convey our acceptance to the IOC clause, Malhotra added. Malhotra said had no clue of what transpired in the IOAs Special General Meeting held here Aug 25 since he had boycotted it. I didnt attend the meeting because I as a president didnt call it. So, what transpired there I didnt have first-hand knowledge. But now I will have to discuss it with all those people. I have talked to IOA members (after the meeting) and they said that IOC members were con-

Cuba volleyball aims to regain regional dominance

Havana Cubas national volleyball team is looking to regain its dominance in an upcoming regional tournament, and advance to the world championships later this year as the regional leader. Before taking part in Novembers World Grand Champions Cup, organised by the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB), the team will have to beat regional rivals in the North American, Central American and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation (Norceca) Championship to be held Sep 22-28 in Langley, Canada, reports. That shouldnt be difficult for Cuba, which won the last two Norceca tournaments, and a total of 15 championships in the confederations 22year history. In the Norceca tournament, Cuba will compete in Group B, along with Puerto Rico and the Bahamas. Group A includes the United States, Dominican Republic and Saint Lucia, and Group C contains Mexico, Guatemala and host

vinced and the ban will be lifted. It appeared that they were convinced that India has done whatever they were needed to do. But IOC should have clearly told at the time when the clause was being discussed that if you dont agree to this clause, we will not lift the ban, he said. Malhotra also said that the IOC clause, that keeps out chargsheeted officials, should be applicable to all member countries. If it is for all countries, naturally, we will have to follow it, he said.

Lagos The Nigeria Football Association (NFA) has partnered with popular search engine, Google for online activities for the senior national team, the Super Eagles. The project was already making impact, the football body said in a statement Thursday, reports Xinhua. The Super Eagles are now active on the social media and have official presence on Google and YouTube. The project would serve as publicity platform for the teams international players, the NFA said.

IOA must adhere to IOC guidelines: Sports minister

Launching of a landing page on Google+, which is also connected to YouTube Channel, will in the medium and long term serve as a principal publicity platform for our international players, an NFA statement said. The platform is really meant for our players in the Super Eagles and other national teams to follow their supporters on their feelings and comments, It will also help with the media campaign at major championships, the statement added.

US Open: Wawrinka knocks out defending champion Murray

New York Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka has knocked out Britains defending champion Andy Murray in straight sets to enter the mens singles semifinals at the US Open here at Flushing Meadows. The ninth seed Wawrinka demolished the No. 3 seed 6-4, 6-3, 6-2, in two and quarter hours to enter his first Grand Slam semifinal. Wawrinka now awaits the winner of the other quarterfinal between top seed Serb Novak Djokovic and Russian Mikhail Youzhny. Second seed Rafael Nadal will clash with Frenchman Richard Gasquet in the dother semifinal. In windy Arthur Ashe Stadium, Wawrinka had a stranglehold over

Canada. The best two teams of each group will advance to the semifinal round, and the third-place teams of each group will play each other. In the Norceca championship, held in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, Cuba defeated then Olympic champion the United States by three sets to two. The winner of Norceca heads to the FIVB World Grand Champi-

ons Cup, to be played Nov 19-24 in Japan by the five regional champions from Africa, Europe, Asia, South America and North America (Norceca). But Cuba is heading into this years contest after its worst performance in the history of the World League, winning only one match out of 10, in the preliminary round.

the match right from the start and Murray was swept off, hardly looking like staging a comeback. He lost

the second set hitting a double fault and he was just going through the motions in the third set.

New Delhi Sports Minister Jitendra Singh Thursday asserted that Indian Olympic Association (IOA) should toe the line of International Olympic Committee (IOC) which bars chargesheeted officials to continue in and run for office. Jitendra Singhs comments came after the IOC rejected the request of the suspended IOA to allow tainted officials to run the national body. There are certains clauses with which IOC has a problem. The main issue is of ethics and good governance. So, I hope better sense prevails and the IOA incorporates the changes which the IOC has suggested, Jitendrra Singh told a TV channel. I dont think there should be a problem in incorporating these changes as it is a part of the Olympic Charter. It is nothing new that the IOC is saying. He lamented at the sad state of affairs in IOA. It is sad that the IOA did not modify their constitution as per the Olympic Charter. I would like to request the IOA to consider the modifications in

their constitution, keeping in mind the interest of the sports persons and not some individuals interests. It is unfortunate that some vested interests took precedence over nation and the athletes, he added. The IOC executive board met Wednesday in Buenos Aires and decided that the ban on IOA will continue if the apex body for sports in India doesnt change its constitution to keep out charge-sheeted individuals. Since the suspension of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) in December 2012, the IOC has been working towards finding a solution to improve good governance within the IOA. The IOC also provided the IOA with a roadmap and sent observers to the IOAs General Assembly (GA) that took place here Aug 25. The IOA, during its Special General Meeting here, refused to incorporate the contentious IOC-proposed clause that would have barred charge-sheeted individuals from holding any post and suggested an alternative that would affect only convicted officials

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SPORTS BCCI will resolve South Africa tour  issue

tour could be sorted out in Dubai when BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel meets CSA chief executive Haroon Lorgat on the sidelines of the Interna    chief  tional Cricket Council (ICC) executives' meeting slated for Sep 1617. The meeting has been agreed upon after several conversations between the two over the past few days as they work towards resolving scheduling issues around the end-ofyear tour to South Africa by India. difficult for a player at the highest level to stop playing but we respect his decision and lament it due to everything that he has done for Fluminense." The announcement followed a string  of injuries that reduced Deco to just five appearances in the Campeonato  Brasileiro this season.He has also been the subject of controversy after The BCCI has now decided to host testing    to  a banned diuretic  positive    small tour    West Indies for a compris earlier  this year.   ing two Tests and three One-Day In- Deco  faces   a retrial   before a Rio  ternationals (ODI), besides three sports tribunal next month after proswarm-up games, between Oct 31 and ecutors appealed a 30-day ban al     ready served by the 36-year-old. Nov 27. Again, India will tour New Zealand  In the original   sentence,  a panel acin mid-January for five ODIs and two cepted that Deco had unwittingly Tests, with the first one-dayer to be taken the substance in a vitamin supplayed Jan 19 and the second Test  plement.   Deco  expressed  his  gratiending Feb 18. tude to Fluminense, where he won But Dalmiya refused to agree that the two Brazilian league titles after join BCCI  wanted   a truncated  tour, and ing the club from Chelsea in August said the itineraries are decided on the  2010.         basis of mutual agreement.  a very happy  "It was period for me at "It was never finalised that we will Fluminense and I would like to have play a specific number of matches in helped the club more this season, but  South  Africa.  They  sent  us an itiner-  my body   would   fornot let me," the ary, and we have a revised one. In any  mer  playmaker   said   in a written statecase, the number of matches on a tour ment. Deco, who was capped 75 is decided on mutual agreement," times for Portugal, is one of only nine said Dalmiya. players to have won the UEFA ChamMeanwhile, there were reports from pions League with two different clubs Dubai that the uncertainty over the -- Porto (2004) and Barcelona (2006).       

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Kolkata  The Indian cricket board will take a decision on the final itinerary for the South Africa tour after its annual general meeting, scheduled to be held in Chennai Sep 29, a top official said Friday.  will decide   we will  decide   "What we only after the AGM. We are very busy with our AGM at the moment," Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) interim chief Jagmohan Dalmiya told mediapersons here. The series seems to be hanging fire,   due  to strained   arguably relations between the two boards. However, Dalmiya reiterated the tour was on. Cricket South Africa had earlier an nounced   a tour  from  Nov 17  involv ing three Tests, seven ODIs and two Twenty20 Internationals. But the BCCI is yet to give its nod, amid  speculation  that it favoured  a shortened trip.      

        

 

  

   

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Moscow In a historic first, an unlit Olympic        torch for the Sochi Winter Games will be taken to space on a spacewalk in November, a Russian cosmonaut said Friday. The torch will go to the International Space Station Nov 7 and taken out on a spacewalk two days later before re   turning to the Earth, reports.   "The   flame     won't be burning in space, we'll just carry the torch into       space," said Oleg Kotov, one of the  two cosmonauts  who will be involved in the torch's run in the outer space. He said the cosmonauts "have al ready   broadcast   ordered of certain

Chandigarh/New Delhi  A personal attack by suspended In      dian Olympic Association (IOA)   president Abhay Singh Chautala Friday on Olympic champion rifle shooter Abhinav Bindra, who is            spearheading a campaign to cleanse triggered an outcry  Indian sports,            among Indian sportsperson. Chautala's comments came after the International Olympic Committee               (IOC) remained firm on its demands              to keep out charge-sheeted officials and set the IOA a deadline of Oct 31 to ammend its constitution and con      duct fresh elections by Dec 15 paving way for its return to the Olympic fold.           sports and we'll be watching them on But a frustrated Chautala in a no-         the station". holds barred press conference in After the Olympic flame arrives in  Chandigarh         launched      a scathing   atRussia from Greece in October, it  tack on Bindra, India's only individ           Monza will spiral out from the capital before ual Olympic gold medallist.  (Italy)     heading east and looping around the "Abhinav's father has been in jail for Lotus and commercial property in- car. Team principal Eric Boullier said: company Properties Kamchatka peninsula, down to more than a month in a cheque  vestment  to  begin this new    Emaar   We are delighted      Vladivostok and back across southern bouncing case. If Bindra has a prob- have signed a two-year deal com- relationship with Emaar Properties; Siberia via Lake Baikal, the world's lem with tainted people, then he mencing from the Formula 1 Italian particularly as the UAE has been a     largest freshwater lake. fruitful location for us on track with should first disown his father or leave Grand Prix here this weekend. Emaars includes such On its way through more than 2,900 his father's house immediately,"  portfolio    no-  Kimi Rikknen winning the 2012 table properties as The Dubai Mall Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. towns in Russia's 83 regions, the Chautala said.      the torch will make its way back into "That victory truly confirmed that  Khalifa,   worlds  tallest   Bindra's father was arrested in 2009 and Burj building. Russia, eventually settling down at Lotus as one of the foremost outfits for alleged financial irregularities.           As part of the agreement, Emaar will in Formula 1 and we have continued the Black Sea resort of Sochi for the Chautala's comments drew sharp enjoy a presence on the Lotus' E21 our strong performances this season." opening ceremony Feb 7, 2014. criticism from all quarters.

Bindra triggers outcry

New Delhi The Badminton Association of India's    incident. She will  during the have to disciplinary committee will investi- respond to the notice within 14 days," gate doubles shuttler Jwala Gutta's said a BAI statement Thursday. conduct during the Indian Badminton BAI's executive council has also deLeague (IBL) when her side, the Krcided to appoint a retired High Court  rish Delhi  Smashers,   threatened   to judge to investigate the incident when abandon a tie in Bangalore Aug 25.    delayed by half an the match was The Delhi team, led by icon player hour due to the same issue. "The Jwala, threatened to forfeit the tie IBL's governing council has been against the Banga Beats when the lat- asked to appoint a retired High Court  ter tried  to replace   an injured singles judge to investigate the incident dur    player Hu Yun with Jan O Jorgensen ing the league match between Krrish in the eleventh hour. Delhi Smashers and Banga Beats The Smashers protested despite the Aug 25. The start of the match was IBL governing council's go-ahead to delayed for half an hour after Delhi the Beats. Only after the hosts de- Smashers refused to take the court cided to leave out O Jorgensen and over a replacement player. The gov play Arvind Bhat instead, did Delhi erning council will meet in the next agree to continue. few days to finalise the appointment," "BAI's disciplinary committee added the statement. The statement headed by S. Muralitharan has been also said that the BAI executive  asked to investigate Jwala Gutta's council has granted the suspended conduct during the IBL. She has been Delhi Badminton Association (DBA), served a show-cause notice and has the status of a club without voting been asked to explain her conduct rights.

 

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Los Angeles The natural look never goes out of style, but to flaunt that fresh-faced look, make sure to use the right products like tinted moisturiser, powder blush and more. Makeup artist Kat Connelly gives tips on how to nail the look, reports eonline.com. - Apply a tinted moisturiser. Use a sponge to blend the lightweight base on the face, which gives a more natural look than a traditional foundation. - Add powder blush to cheeks, and

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then swipe on a pink blush to the apples of the cheeks to enhance the skin radiance. - Use gold gel eyeliner pencil along the eyelid. The hue gives you a soft pop of colour without being too dramatic. - Apply mascara by brushing it close to the lash line. - Finish with a light layer of lip balm. Use a brush to apply lip balm and blend soft rose tint from the centre outward.

New Delhi In the autumn-winter season, it is vital to work on skincare before applying makeup, and an expert advises to be careful while using foundation. Bollywood makeup expert Puja Taluja says cleansing, toning and moisturising is imperative to ensure a well moisturised skin. While doing makeup in cold and dry months, its essential to make sure that the face is well moisturised. Before applying makeup, start with cleansing, toning and moisturising to ensure that the skin is soft and smooth and there is no dryness on the face, Taluja said in a statement. She advises that women must use face primer post their skincare ritual, and then work their way on the makeup base. In autumn-winter, use a base with higher coverage to give a flawless look. A base with a higher coverage is thicker in texture, but can be used in winters because of the climate. But in the process of getting good coverage, dont make it cakey, said the expert. Use a dewy foundation to give a lovely sheen on the face, she added. Taluja says bright colours are in vogue. Purple and violet hues, pink and red can be used. Dark smokey eyes look great for winters. A well defined winged eye liner is also very hot this season, she said.

New Delhi Grab attention during festive celebrations by trying easy-to-do yet chic hairdos like messy chignon, plaits and the vintage look. Follow the steps suggested by Najeeb Ur Rehman of Schwarzkopf Professional India, to get the styles right: - Plaits: Start by using a smoothening shampoo, and then prepare hair with a flattening spray and blow dry smooth to ensure hair is tangle-free. Leave a few strands of hair at the front then part the hair on one side and make two plaits from either side of the parting. Take each plait towards the back of the head until they meet near the nape area. Then tie the

ends into a messy bun. Use a hairspray to complete the look. - Messy chignon: Tie a ponytail and backcomb it loosely. Then use pins to fix the lengths of the ponytail back into the base to create the hairdo. - Vintage updo: Wash the hair, and then apply volume cream and scrunch dry. While scrunching, keep your head upside down to make it look voluminous. Once hair dries up, backcomb the roots and twist hair at the back and pin into a messy French plait. Next, wrap a rolled up scarf behind the ears, over the crown and tie off to one side - leaving your fringe out. To finish, use hair spray

New Delhi Move over fruit facials and chocolate packs as theres a new therapy on the block - European Light Therapy (ELT) facials, which promise to rejuvenate the skin by using light. ELT facials involve a new technology, where light energy is applied to the skin to provide therapeutic benefits, accelerating the repair of damaged skin cells, as well as stimulating the production of collagen. ELT facials is the latest in facials and we are proud to be the first to offer it in India. Light Therapy is proven to address various concerns such as ageing, pigmentation, and acne and is sure to give a guaranteed glow, Rahul Bhalchandra, CEO and director, YLG Salon, the brand that has introduced the concept in India, said in a statement. The treatment begins with the application of a deep cleanser followed by the skin scrubber light probe. The blue light of the probe helps in fighting acne-causing bacteria, and it also helps in removal of black heads while maintaining the PH balance of the skin.

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