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India: Kangana may star in Hindi

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The strongest principleof growth lies in

human choice. —George Eliot.

SBI, ICICI up loan rates Top lenders SBI and ICICItoday hiked their lendingrates by 50 basis points,which will make existinghome, auto and commercialloans expensive.The decision by the countrytwo largest lenders comes ontop of an increase in the costof funds on account of theRBI’s strong inflation controlmeasures. (Details on Pg 12)

PTI

LONDON, AUG 16

British scientists have createdhuman red blood cells fromspare embryonic stem cells, amajor breakthrough they claimcould soon pave the way forproduction of synthetic ‘O-neg-ative’ blood for medical trans-fusions.

The red blood cells have beenproduced from stem cells fromspare IVF embryos as part of athree-billion-pound project todevelop an alternative sourceof O-negative blood, the uni-versal donor group which canbe transfused into people with-out fear of rejection, The Inde-

pendent reported.In their research, the scien-

tists used more than a 100 spareembryos left over from treat-ment at fertility clinics to estab-lish several embryonic stem cell“lines”. A line, RC-7, was trans-

formed into blood stem cellsbefore being converted into redcells containing oxygen-carryinghaemoglobin.

Prof Marc Turner, the Directorof the Scottish National BloodTransfusion Service in Edinburgh

and leader of the project, saidthat synthetic blood made onan industrial scale would over-come the problem of bloodshortages and risk of transmit-ting new infections betweendonors and recipients. “We’veproved the principle that fromthese embryonic stem cell lineswe can generate red bloodcells.”

“At the end of this three-yearperiod we would envisage gen-erating up to one unit (a pint)of red cells from embryonic stemcells at clinical grade which fulfilall the in vitro characteristics ofred cells,” Prof Turner wasquoted as saying.

Scientists create red blood cells The scientists used more than a 100spare embryos left over from treatmentat fertility clinics to establish severalembryonic stem cell “lines”. A line, RC-7, was transformed into blood stemcells before being converted into redcells containing oxygen-carryinghaemoglobin.

PTI

NEW DELHI, AUG 16

Members of Parliament (MPs)will have to wait for a hike intheir salaries and allowances asa decision on a proposed three-fold increase was deferred todayby the Union Cabinet becauseof differences among its mem-bers.

Against the backdrop ofstrong demands by the MPs, theissue was discussed at the cab-inet meeting chaired by PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh.

Due to this deferment, thebill in this regard is unlikely tobe tabled in parliament duringthe current session.

The issue is expected to res-onate in parliament tomorrowwith the proponents of pay hikeacross parties threatening toraise it strongly.

At the cabinet meeting,Home Minister P Chidambaram,Information and BroadcastingMinister Ambika Soni and Over-seas Minister Vayalar Ravi op-posed the move, on the groundthat it would be improper toraise the salaries and allowancesof the MPs at the moment asinflation is already high andpeople are facing difficulties,sources said.

Ravi was the most vocal op-ponent of the move and Chi-dambaram and Soni supportedhim.

The dissenting ministers alsoreferred to the farmers’ suicideand allegations of corruption inCommonwealth Games while

making the point that hikingthe salaries of MPs in these cir-cumstances would be seen in abad light, sources said.

However, Finance MinisterPranab Mukherjee, whose min-istry has cleared the proposal,supported the pay hike. Asleader of the Lok Sabha, hefavoured the increase in salariesto reflect the sentiments of itsmembers, the sources said.

Parliamentary Affairs MinisterPawan Kumar Bansal, who hasmooted the proposal, also spokein support of the hike.

Others who supported themove were Human ResourcesDevelopment Minister Kapil

Sibal and Commerce MinisterAnand Sharma.

Sibal said the situation war-ranted a hike in salaries of MPsconsidering increase in pricesof everything.

MPs currently get Rs 16,000per month as salary and therehave been demands for raisingit to over Rs 80,000, the wagesa secretary to the governmentgets.

This much hike was dis-favoured and the ParliamentaryAffairs Ministry suggested anincrease to Rs 50,000.

Besides the base salary, anMP gets a daily allowance of Rs1000 for each day when Parlia-ment is in session or a sittingof a house committee is sched-uled. A member is also allowedfor a constituency allowance ofRs 20,000 per month and officeexpense allowance of anotherRs 20,000 each month.

These apart, he is also enti-tled to a certain number of airjourneys, AC first class traintravel, rent free flat or hostelaccommodation through out theterm of his house.

The recommendation to in-crease MPs’ salary was madetaking into account consumerprice index and the wage indexfor skilled urban labour.

A Parliamentary StandingCommittee headed by CongressMP from Chhattishgarh Charan-das Mahant had made a recom-mendation to fix MPs salary atRs 80,001, Re one more thanthat of a secretary.

Cabinet split puts off MPs pay hike

P Chidambaram,Ambika Soni andVayalar Ravi opposedthe move, on theground that it would beimproper to raise thesalaries andallowances of the MPsat the moment asinflation is alreadyhigh and people arefacing difficulties.

HERALD REPORTER

PANJIM, AUG 16

Barely a day after the Chief Min-ister Digambar Kamat an-nounced setting up of GoldenJubilee Development Council, amember of the council hasthreatened to withdraw from itfor attacks on an artist by aHindu group.

Actor Girish Karnad, who wasnamed as one of the membersof the council – which is to beheaded by renowned scientistDr Raghunath Mashelkar— hasexpressed shock over the attackon Jose Pereira’s exhibition re-cently.

“Let me say how deeplyshocked I am to hear of the at-tacks by self-styled standard-

bearers of Hindu culture on theworks of Jose Pereira, a scholarand artist of eminence,” Karnadsaid in a letter to Chief MinisterDigambar Kamat.

The Hindu Janjagruti Samitiprotested against an exhibitionat the Xavier Centre of HistoricalResearch (XCHR) which has on

display some epiphanies ofHindu gods by Jose Pereira.

The groups have continued asustained campaign brandingthe paintings “obscene and nudepictures” of Hindu gods. Follow-ing the protests the paintingswere withdrawn.

“I am horrified that privatevigilante groups should be per-mitted to take the law into theirhands while the State standsmute and the police express in-ability to protect the exhibitionof his work,” he continued.

“I would like to withdraw myname from the high level com-mittee which you were kindenough to invite me to serveon since this is not the culture

Karnad threatens to quit jubilee council

BY SURAJ NANDREKAR

PANJIM, AUG 16

Intending to put things in placeand actually doing it are twodifferent things all together.

As per the recent announce-ment made by Chief MinisterDigambar Kamat in the legisla-tive assembly, the State RevenueDepartment has issued circularto the all sub–divisional magis-trates, collectors and principalchief engineer (PCE) PublicWorks Department (PWD) tostrictly monitor the encroach-ments along national highways– NH17 and NH4A, and otherroads.

However, one wonderwhether the government is ac-tually serious in tackling theissue of growing number ofstructures along national high-ways and other roads as it hasfailed to mention in the circularthe setback area to be main-tained on either side of theroads.

The department circularstates, “It has been desired bythe government that all theSDMs are required to see thatno new structures should comeup within the road wideningarea of national highways(NHs)and ma jor d i s t r i c t roads(MDRs).”

“The SDMs are directed toensure that they should keepvigil to see that no new struc-tures crop within the area of theroad widening of NHs andMDRs,” the circular states with-out mentioning the area of roadwidening.

Further, the circular directsall the SDMs to submit monthlyreports in this regard to the sec-retaries of chief minister and

the chief secretary by the 10thof every month.

Similarly, the circular has di-rected the PCE to give suitableinstructions to all SDMs underhis control to see that no newstructures crop up.

However, the top officials inthe PWD have raised apprehen-sions on the circular.

“This circular will create moreproblems than solve them,” saidone official adding “It will createmore legal problems. How canwe stop construction unlessthere is anything concrete inwriting or a decision on setbackarea.”

The officials stated that thegovernment has made no men-tion of the right of way (ROW)or the setback to be followedin the circular.

No setback area puts a spoke on road widening

l Government issuescircular asking all theSDMs to monitorconstructions along NHs,MDRs, SHs, VRs.

l Fails to mention the fixedsetback area to befollowed.

l Officials say theimplementation could putgovt into legal tangle.

l PWD has moved file forfixing setback area 2 yearsago but government is dillydallying on approving it.

Jet with 131breaks into3 pieces

AP

BOGOTA (Colombia), AUG 16

A Boeing 737 jetliner with 131passengers aboard crashed onlanding and broke into threepieces at a Colombian island inthe Caribbean early today. Theregion’s governor said it was amiracle that only one persondied.

Colombian Air Force ColDavid Barrero said officials wereinvestigating reports the planehad been hit by lightning beforecrashing at 1:49 a m (1219 IST)while landing at San Andres Is-land, a resort island of 78,000people about 190 kilometreseast of the Nicaraguan coast.

San Andres Governor PedroGallardo said 125 passengersand six crew members had beenaboard, but the only personkilled was Amar Fernandez deBarreto (65). At least five peoplewere reported injured.

“It was a miracle and we haveto give thanks to God,” the gov-ernor said.

Barrero, commander of theCaribbean Air Group, said bytelephone from San Andres “Theskill of the pilot kept the planefrom colliding with the airport.”

Barrero said the 7,545-foot(2,300-metre) runway had beenclosed because parts of the planewere still scattered across it.

The Aires jet had left theColombian capital of Bogota atabout midnight.

PTI

NEW DELHI, AUG 16

London-listed mining groupVedanta Resources today en-tered the oil business by clinch-ing a United States dollars 9.6billion deal for a 60 per centstake in Cairn India, the ownerof India’s largest oilfield.

Vedanta Resources and itsgroup firm Sesa Goa will acquire40 per cent stake from Edin-burgh-based Cairn Energy PLCfor USD 6.65 billion and makean open for to acquire another20 per cent from Cairn India’sother stockholders, Vedanta Re-sources Chairman Anil Agarwal

told Press Trust of India (PTI)over phone.

Cairn Energy, the parent firmof Cairn India, will make up forany shortfall in the open offer,he said. “This deal will give usthe world-class Rajasthan oil-fields.”

Vedanta will pay Cairn EnergyRs 405 per share, a 32 per centpremium to Cairn India’s aver-age closing price, over 90 days.This includes a Rs 50 per sharenon-compete premium to CairnEnergy PLC for not entering intooil and gas business in India,Pakistan, Bhutan and Sri Lanka.

The open offer will, however,

be made at Rs 355 (offer priceminus the non-compete fee).

The process will take aboutthree months to complete, CairnEnergy Finance Director JannBrown said.

The acquisition will giveVedanta access to the Mangalaoilfield, which is currently produc-ing 125,000 barrels per day buthas potential to go up to 150,000bpd (7.5 million tons a year).

The Rajasthan block, whereCairn India has 70 per cent in-terest, has the potential to goup to 240,000 bpd or equivalentto the 12 million tons per annumoutput from Oil and Natural Gas

Corporation (ONGC) primeMumbai High fields.

Vedanta’s deal will be contin-gent on government approval,as Cairn’s three producing oiland gas assets, including the Ra-jasthan fields and seven explo-ration blocks, either haveexplicit provisions for seekingprior approval before transferof interest or gives pre-emption,or the right of first refusal(ROFR), to partners like ONGC.

“Whatever approvals are re-quired, we will take it. We are alaw abiding company and willdo what is required in the law,”Agarwal said.

Vedanta in oil business with Cairn

BlackBerryallows securityagencies access

PTI

NEW DELHI, AUG 16

The BlackBerry mobile phonemaker Research In Motion (RIM)has agreed to provide securityagencies partial access to itsmessenger services by Septem-ber 1 and would complete theproject by the end of the year.

The move by the RIM comesbarely within five days after thegovernment conveyed in no un-certain terms to RIM askingthem to come up with a techni-cal solution to the issue of in-terception of its services byAugust 31 or shut down its shop.However, the Canada-based firmsaid some more discussionswere required for giving accessto BlackBerry Enterprise Serv-ices (BES), official sources said.

Sources said the RIM, whichhas a subscriber base of nearlyone million in India, made thisoffer to the government in orderto end the logjam by agreeingto blink on the issue of providingaccess to its special services.

Initially, the BlackBerry hadagreed to provide manual detailsto law enforcement agenciesand the same would be madeavailable by the year-end, thesources said.

CWC debatessituation in

Kashmir PTI

NEW DELHI, AUG 16

As alliance partner Omar Abdul-lah battles unrest in Kashmir,the Congress Working Commit-tee today discussed the “worri-some” situation in the valley.

With Home Minister P Chi-dambaram briefing it on the sit-uation, the CWC called for a“balanced” approach of dialogueand action and expressed con-cern over the recent spate of vi-olence in the Kashmir Valley.

The concern of the Congressleadership over the situationcould be gauged from the factthat Chidambaram was speciallycalled to the meeting despitenot being a CWC member.

Chidambaram is understoodto have told the meeting thatthe situation in the Valley is “wor-risome”. (Continued on page 10)(Continued on page 10)

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HERALD REPORTER

VASCO, AUG 16

At a time when Chief MinisterDigambar Kamat is busy im-proving power deficit scenarioin the State by requestingUnion Minister for PowerSushil Kumar Shinde for morepower, errant electricity staffin Vasco are least concernedto save power.

The newly constructed St Jac-into Island Bridge is decoratedwith 68,250 watt sodium vapourlamps and another 10,800 wattpower focus tube below the archof the bridge.

With nearly one-third of the68 sodium vapour lamps andfew sodium vapour lamps kepton in daylight from Fridaynight till 4.30 pm on Saturdayshows the attitude of the elec-tricity staff, as no one is con-cerned to put off these highpower lamps.

According to some bar own-ers and residents of the area,nearly one-third of the lamps

HERALD CORRESPONDENT

PORVORIM, AUG 16

A petition has been filed againstthe newly elected directors ofMapusa Urban Co-operativeBank of Goa Ltd.

Shareholders Yeshwant Gaun-dalkar and Apa Teli have filed apetition before Registrar of Co-operative Societies Goa, Panjim,praying that the election of Ra-makant Khalap, Tulio de Souza,Gurudas Natekar, Michael Car-rasco, Ramesh Pankar, Jagdish ShetVerlekar, Mangaldas Naik, AshwinKhalap and Babuso Hadfadker,who were elected unopposed di-rectors of the bank be declaredas illegal, null and void and setaside.

They have also requested theregistrar that the directors beremoved and a Board of Admin-istrators be appointed to man-age the affairs and business ofMapusa Urban Co-operativeBank of Goa Ltd or alternativelyto direct the Bank to hold freshelection in terms of the proce-dure.

It may be recalled that the

election of members to Boardof Directors of Mapusa UrbanCo-operative Bank was sched-uled to be held on July 18, 2010.The Returning Officer was au-thorised to receive nominationson July 16.

Accordingly, Gaudalkar andTeli filed their nominations tocontest the elections within pre-scribed time. However, theirnominations were rejected byReturning Office R N Dessai.

Gaudalkar and Teli also statedthat the Returning officer re-jected 13 out of 22 nominationsreceived without any scrutinyand declared the Directorselected to the Board of Directorsof the Bank.

“Our nominations have beenillegally rejected with a view todeclare the Directors as electedto the Board without goingthrough the process of electionby voting method,” stated the pe-tition.

“The ‘elected’ directors wereaware that they may not succeedin a fair election and with the as-sistance of the Returning Officer,

got the rejected nominations ofthe members aspiring to contestthe election at the threshold itself,so as to have ‘no opposition’,” al-leged the petitioners.

Petitioners have stated thatby illegal, unfair and improperrejection of their nominationsthey have been deprived illegallyof the right to contest the elec-tions.

“The Returning Officer didnot give any reasons for reject-ing our nominations and otheraspiring candidates. We there-fore feel that the entire electionwas stage-managed by the Di-rectors in collusion with the Re-turning officer,” added thepetitioners.

“The election was ‘managed’and the entire process of issuingnominations, etc, was false. TheReturning Officer has acted in abiased manner and has not con-ducted the election process ina fair, transparent and fair man-ner. The procedure of electionas prescribed has not been fol-lowed by the Returning Officer,”stated the petitioners.

MUCB directors’ pollillegal: petitioners

HERALD REPORTER

PANJIM, AUG 16

The Corporation of the City ofPanjim today decided to put onhold its drive of sealing theshops, which have been closedfor years together, for next 15days.

The special meeting of theCCP, chaired by Mayor CarolinaPo to discuss market issues, feltthat since some people havestarted producing the docu-ments they should be givenmore time.

“The members felt the shop-keepers should be given oppor-tunity to prove their possessionsince some people have alreadyshown documents and startedopening their shops,” CCP Com-missioner Elvis Gomes told Her-ald.

Some of the shops in the new

market complex were closed foryears together and the CCP hadstarted sealing the shops.

The corporation had askedthe owners to prove possessionof these shops by presenting re-lated authentic documents in-cluding the allotment letterissued by the GSIDC, code num-ber and identity card providedby the CCP.

These lessees were also re-quired to keep their shops openfrom this month, as per the CCPdirection.

The meeting also decided tostart collecting the rent fromthe shopkeepers at the rate ofRs 195 per sq metre from April2009.

“Some shopkeepers havestarted paying the rent @ Rs30 per sq mt. Since we have fi-nalised the rent at Rs 195 per

sq mt the members decided tocalculate the balance amountand start collecting the rent,”Gomes said.

As per CCP report 458 shopsand stalls and 446 vegetable andflower vendors have occupiedspace in the market. And thereare 100-odd shops which are ei-ther closed down or are notfunctioning.

The CCP has not collected therent for last four to five yearsand sources informed that thecorporation has been paying theelectricity and water rent forthe new market complex sincepast 4 to 5 years, and the col-lective arrears of the shopkeep-ers and vendors pertaining totheir electricity bills havereached a whopping Rs 50 lakh,while the water bill dues standat Rs 15 lakh.

The CCP also decided to forma committee, which will includeopposition corporators to studythe issue of transfer of shops inthe new market complex.

Gomes said the committee willbe headed by the Mayor CarolinaPo and comprise ruling corpora-tors Rudresh Chodankar, BentoLoreno, Mangaldas Dessai and op-position corporators Menino daCruz and Rupesh Halarnkar.

Meanwhile, the oppositioncorporators have demandedthat the nomination of co-optedcorporator Daya Karapurkarshould be cancelled.

“Karapurkar has been in-volved in several scams andfrauds in the CCP and we havesubmitted a memorandum tothe mayor and commissionerthat his nomination be can-celled,” a BJP corporator said.

These lamps ‘glow’ even in daylight!

High watt sodium lamps shining along the newly constructed St Jacinto Island Bridge, Chicalim. Photo by M Prabhav

were kept on for nearly 24 hourson Saturday.

It is learnt that the con-cerned staff, who look after il-lumination of the bridgelamps, failed to put off thelamps.

When the bridge was newlyinaugurated, almost all lampswere shining throughout thenight, but electricity officialrealized that it would be amere waste of power to keeplamps on throughout the nightand hence decided to illumi-nate few lamps on either sideof the bridge for certain pe-riod.

According to electricity de-partment, these lamps have tobe illuminated by 6.30 or 7 pmdepending up on the darknessand it have to be put off by 11.30pm.

Efforts to contact officials ofElectricity Department, DivisionXI, Mormugao, proved futile, asno one was available for com-ment.

CCP to put shop sealing drive on hold for 15 days

Missingfisherman’s body found

HERALD CORRESPONDENT

CALANGUTE, AUG 16

The body of the missing fisher-man was found along the Can-dolim-Sinquerim seashore onMonday.

It may be recalled that on Sun-day morning, two fishermendrowned, while two othersswam to safety, after their mo-torboat capsized near thestranded vessel River Princessat Candolim.

Sanjay Harmalkar (29) andSadanand Kandolkar (64), bothfrom Tinto Vaddo, Nerul ,drowned due to heavy under-water currents. Gopal KrishnaKandolkar (43) of Nerul and Bho-laram Das, residing at Keri,swam to safety, while Kan-dolkar’s body was traced.

The body of Sanjay Harmalkar(29) from Nerul was traced onMonday. On being alerted by lo-cals, Calangute Police took pos-session of the body and handedit over to the relatives of thedeceased for final rites.

Trio rescued from

drowning HERALD CORRESPONDENT

CALANGUTE, AUG 16

Three tourists were rescuedfrom drowning in the sea offCalangute during the week-end.

According to reports, AdityaPappu (35) from Hyderabad, SV Raju (41) and Raju Shikaripur(41), both from Karnataka, wererescued by Drishti Surf Life Teamof Uday Paryekar, Ganesh Ped-nekar, Nagesh Dholage, SiddeshDhargalkar and Anil Gaonkar.

All the tourists had venturedinto rough seas at Calangute de-spite warnings by Drishti life-guards and were pulled in byheavy under water currents. TheDrishti Surf Life team rushed totheir rescue and saved themfrom drowning.

HERALD CORRESPONDENT

MAYEM, AUG 16

About 200 students of Govern-ment High School, Kudchirem-Bi-cholim,on Monday boycottedtheir classes to protest againstthe government’s failure to ap-point the required number ofteachers.

The students are also protest-ing against the dilapidated con-dition of the school buildingand lack of other amenities. Thestudents have decided to con-tinue with the agitation till theirdemands are fulfilled.

It is learnt that the examinationfor the English paper was not held,as there is no English teacher.

The Government High Schoolis facing acute problems, as thestudents do not have their ownschool building, due to whichclasses are conducted in thepremises of primary schoolbuilding, strength of the teach-ers to teach about 200 studentsfrom Std V to X is also low andthe school has no Mathematics,History and English teachers.

The examination for the Eng-lish subject was also not held,

as there is no teacher to teachEnglish. There are only nineteachers in the school, who arestriving hard to make the stu-dents learn, however, the ad-justment becomes difficult.

“The Education Departmentwas informed about the existingstate of affairs time and again,but in vain, due to which stu-dents were compelled to takethis step,” said PTA PresidentSawlo Gaonkar.

Meanwhile, Opposition LeaderManohar Parrikar, who was in-formed about the issue by theschool PTA, has assured to bringthe matter with the Director ofEducation. At present, there are15 students studying in SSC, whoare likely to face acute problemsbefore facing their examination.

It is learnt that the studentshave to go to Government HighSchool, Kerim, which is 15 kmsfrom Kudchirem, to attend com-puter classes, which are not con-ducted in the school due toleakage of water into classroom.

Some classes are also con-ducted in the adjacent old houseto accommodate the students.

Students and parents havestrongly demanded the Educa-tion Department to look intothe matter at the earliest to safe-guard their future.

Kudchirem students boycott classes

Classroom in the verandah at Government High School, Kudchirem-Bicholim. Photo by Vishnat Vaze

HERALD REPORTER

MARGAO, AUG 16

The fate of the Request For Pro-posal (RFP) floated by the Mar-gao Munic ipa l to engageconsultant to monitor the workof installation of waste process-ing and disposal facility at Son-sodo hangs in balance.

Neither the civic body hasopened the bids received fromreputed consultants nor hasconvened a meeting of theHigh-Powered Committeeheaded by Chief Minister,Digambar Kamat to decide onthe consultant.

The entire episode has gotan added twist after the civicbody abruptly called off the pre-bid meeting with the consult-ants after realization dawnedthat Hyderabad-based RamkyEnviro Engineering was one ofthe bidders for the RFP.

It may be recalled that Ramkyhad lost the bid to Goa-based

Fomento to treat the existingwaste and set up the waste pro-cessing facility at Sonsodo.Sources in the know said thepowers that be are worried overthe fate of the entire Sonsodoproject if Ramky bags the con-sultancy contract due to the bit-t e r r i v a l r y be tween theHyderabad-based company andFomento in the run up to theopening of the tender for theinstallation of the waste pro-cessing facility at the dumpingsite.

Inquiries have revealed thatthe Margao Municipal Councilhas suddenly lost interest in pur-suing the RFP to engage the con-sultant to monitor the works atSonsodo.

When contacted, MMC ChiefOfficer Y B Tawde said that hehas asked the municipal engi-neer to arrange a meeting ofthe High-Powered Committeemeeting to take a decision on

the Request For Proposal to ap-point a consultant.

He, however, had no an-swer when asked whetherthe High-Powered Commit-tee can dictate terms to thecivic body when the issue offloating tenders and RFPs liesin the domain of the munic-ipality.

Incidentally, Herald under-stands that one of the fourbidders, Ahmedabad-based PU Asnani has raised queriesand objections to certain pro-visions mentioned in the RFP.MMC officials have no ideawhether Asnani’s objectionswould be accepted or over-ruled by the civic body. Inci-den ta l l y, t he Margaomunicipality had handpickedAsnani to evaluate the techni-cal and financial bids receivedfrom both Fomento and Ramkywithout inviting Expression ofInterest.

MMC’s RFP fate on Sonsodo consultant hangs in balance

Now, police websitehas section on

women, kids’ issuesHERALD REPORTER

PANJIM, AUG 16

A string of serious offences against women and children apparentlycompelled Goa Police to induct a new section on ‘Information onWomen & Children Issue’ on its official website.

After a negative publicity Goa earned with recent incidents in-cluding attacks on foreign women and the drug nexus expose, atthe international stage, the Government is on a damage controlmission.

The latest update on Goa Police website reels out a list of 31registered Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) along withits address and contact numbers.

When contacted the police spokesperson Superintendent of(Special Branch) Police Atmaram Deshpande, said that the newsection is purely for information purpose.

“There are incidents of domestic violence, child trafficking andother related offences… the new section will enable people to in-form the matter to respective NGOs… We also rope in the NGOdepending on the case type,” said the officer.

Goa has been extensively debated on issues such as death ofBritish teenager Scarlet Keeling Eden, rape of a German minor,unsolved death of Russian tourist Elena Sukhonova, police-drugnexus, etc.

Expressing anguish over deteriorating image and spate of crimes,one may recount, the then tourism minister Mickky Pacheco onDecember 12, 2009 remarked that Goa may soon be dubbed ‘rapecapital’ of the country.

State Government roped in the young Bollywood actress PrachiDesai to promote the brand image of the tourism state of Goa.The actress was recently featured in movie Once Upon A Time InMumbai and Rock On.

The website, last updated on August 3, 2010 also includes im-portant guidelines on identification of terrorists. It informs that asuspected terrorist can be identified wearing clothes unsuited forthe season besides other parameters alerting to be cautious. Withfast approaching tourist season, the website also displays emergencynumbers.

Missing girls:Colva policeinvestigating

HERALD REPORTER

MARGAO, AUG 16

The Colva police are investigat-ing into the sudden disappear-ance of two young girls fromBenaulim and Mobor since Sat-urday.

Acting Colva Police station in-charge, PI Santosh Desai saidthe two girls – one aged 21 andthe other 25 years — went miss-ing from Saturday. He said thetwo girls were working in ashowroom at Mobor-Cavelos-sim.

Preliminary investigations bythe police through call detailsrevealed that the location of theone of the girl was shown atSindhudurg.

This morning, a group of res-idents of Benaulim came to theMargao police station to findout the progress into the policeinquiry into the missing girls.The police are investigating intothe case.

Convicted tourist’sfly moved Russiangovt, says lawyer

HERALD REPROTER

PANJIM, AUG 16

Family members of the Russian tourist, who has been sentencedto one-year imprisonment over the expiry of his visa, have movedRussian government seeking justice, Advocate Vikram Varma said.

Aleksandr Solomein did not prolong his Indian visa, whichexpired on April 25, 2010. He was arrested for overstaying onMay 29 when he approached police informing his visa status.

In a matter of 21-days, Solomein was convicted and sentencedby the Judicial Magistrate First Class at Mapusa for overstaying.

“He voluntarily walked into the police station requesting to getthe exit permission.…He admitted of delaying his stay uninten-tionally as he faced financial and personal crunches.,” said the ad-vocate.

The father of two teens, Solomein was charged under section7 (3) (iii) of the Foreigners Order, 1948 read with Section 14 of theForeigners Act, 1946.

The anxious Russian family is determined to follow up thematter for Russia and Goa share a good relationship.

“To the best of my knowledge, Russia is a time tested friendand ally of India. In matters of an inadvertent overstay ofIndians in Russia, they are provided assistance not only by theIndian Embassy in Moscow, but also by the Russian Authorities,”said Varma.

In the judgement copy dated June 19, Solomein represented byhis lawyer R Wadekar pleaded guilty and wished not to argue. Hefiled a formal application for leniency. “…the accused had no in-tention to overstay in India, but due to some financial and personaldifficulties, he could not leave India even after the expiry of thevisa. She stated that the accused is ready and willing to leaveIndia immediately,” read extracts of the judgement copy.

Whereas, the prosecution led by Public Prosecutor Santamariatermed this as “an offence against the nation.”

The court before unveiling the verdict directed Goa Police tomake necessary arrangements to deport the accused from Indiaafter the completion of his sentence of imprisonment.

HERALD REPORTER

VASCO, AUG 16

The religious ceremony of theVasco Saptah came to an end withthe immersion of Sreefal at Khari-wado Beach, Vasco, on Monday.

Damodar Narvekar, whoseforefathers were bestowed withthe privilege to immerse Sreefal,performed the rituals of immers-ing Sreefal to mark the end ofone-and-half day religious cer-emony of Vasco Saptah.

Damodar Narvekar carriedthe Sreefal, while devoteesdanced their way to the Vascobeach singing holy songs. Later,the group danced at the mainjunction near Vasco railway sta-tion and later proceeded to-wards the beach to immerseSreefal.

At the beach, Damodar

Narvekar along with other devo-tees immersed the Sreefal.

The devotees came out of thewater chanting “GopalkhalaGodzala, Gopalane GodkelaAmcha Vithoba Gharashi Ala”.Later, a copper tumbler filledwith sea water was given as holywater to the faithful.

Later, the devotees chanting“Gopalkala Godzala, GopalaneGodkela, Amcha Vitobha Gha-rashiala” danced all the way backto the temple.

The Bhajan Mandal was seensinging Bhajans and Kirtans,while the group which went toimmerse Sreefal was seen danc-ing inside the temple amidchanting of hymns and bhajans,followed by arti and distributingof Prasad by breaking last year’sSreefal.

Religious ceremony of Vasco Saptah ends

Devotees of Lord Damodar proceed to immerse the Sreefal to con-clude the one-and-half day religious ceremony at Vasco.

Photo by M Prabhav

Health workersscan Kharebandfor H1N1 cases

HERALD REPORTER

MARGAO, AUG 16

House-to-house surveillance gotunderway in the CommercialCapital on Monday, with healthworkers scanning the Kharebandlooking out of cases of fever inthe locality in the wake of H1N1flu.

Four teams attached to theMargao Urban Health Centre,each consisting of four workers,fanned out to the nook and cor-ner of Khareband this morningto unearth any case of fluamongst the residents.

Incidentally, out of the 312persons screened in the locality,only around 11 had ordinaryfever and were taking treatment,informed Margao Urban Healthofficer, Dr Geeta Kakodkar.

The screening and surveil-lance was carried out by Kr-ishna Panchwadkar along withhealth workers as per theguidelines issues by the districtCollector, South. “Guidelineswere issued to the healthworkers to find out fever casesin the Khareband area. Besidesthe fact that only 11 ordinarycases of fever were detectedin the locality, it was hearten-ing to note that people werewell aware of H1N1 and itssymptoms”, he added.

Panchwadkar said that Khare-band was selected as the firstward for the surveillance workdue to reports that fever caseshave been detected from the lo-cality.

He said the ongoing drivewill continue as per the Col-lector’s directions, adding thatthe health workers have alsolaid stress on schools andslums as part of the awarenessdrive on H1N1. “The healthteam have conveyed to theresidents to immediately re-port any case of fever or coldeither to the Margao UrbanHealth centre or Hospicio Hos-pital”, he added.

The health workers alsocleaned the area by gettingrid of breeding sites, by open-ing vessels and utensils withthe cooperation of the resi-dents.

After the drive, Dr Kakodkarfiled a compliance report withAshutosh Apte, Mamlatdar inthe District Collectorate, South.She said the health workerswould concentrate on the Gogolarea in the next two-days to notonly screen the residents, butto spread awareness on flu andfever.

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approved: Damu HERALD REPORTER

MARGAO, AUG 16

Fatorda MLA Damu Naik hasclaimed that he has managed toget approval for the desilting ofthe Madel nullah, besides roadhotmixing works costing Rs 1.5crore in this Margao Municipalward.

Incidentally, PWD Minister,Churchill Alemao has said that hehas approved the file for the twoworks at Madel due to constantfollow-up done by GPCC GeneralSecretary Vijay Sardessai.

The Fatorda MLA pointed outthat work on the desilting ofthe Madel nullah will be soonbe tendered at a cost of Rs 91lakh. “The work was pendingdue to various hurdles, and bysome vested elements who areout to take political mileagewithout doing anything”, Naiksaid.

Activist wants probe into police action

HERALD REPORTER

MARGAO, AUG 16

Accusing the police for what he termed as dictatorial attitude,social activist, Anthony D’Silva has demanded a probe into thepolice action of detaining him at the police station and preventinghim from participating at the Independence Day celebrations atthe District Collectorate here on Sunday.

Briefing newsmen, D’Silva said he was peacefully sitting nearthe Collectorate with placards having messages for the Chief Min-ister, Digambar Kamat and the PWD Minister on the plastic men-ace.

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The process to acquire landadmeasuring 30,000 squaremetres at Cutbona Jetty sansany specific “public purpose”has come to haunt the author-ities.

For, this is perhaps the firsttime the government has pub-lished Section 6 of the Land Ac-quisition Act without making

clear the purpose behind ac-quiring the land at the CutbonaJetty.

Ask the Land Acquisition Of-ficer, Deputy Collector, Margaofor the lapse and he pushed theblame on the acquiring depart-ment, ie the Fisheries Depart-ment for not specifying thepublic purpose.

Land Acquisition officialspointed out that the office re-

ceived the proposal for land ac-quisition of 30,000 square me-tres of land at the Cutbona Jettysans the public purpose.

“Since no public purpose wasmentioned in the land acquisi-tion proposal, the land acquisi-tion office notified the proposalminus the public purpose”, re-marked an official.

Incidentally, even the Fish-eries Department appears con-

Land acquisition at Cutbona sans specific purpose haunts officials

The Cutbona fishing jetty.

fused over the exact purposefor which the land is being ac-quired. Fisheries Minister,Joaquim Alemao is on recordsaying the land is being acquiredfor the purpose of setting up afish meal plant.

Sources in the know, however,pointed out that fisheries offi-cials have told the land acquisi-tion office that the land will beused for the purpose of exten-sion of the existing fishing jettyat Cutbona.

In fact, when Herald con-tacted Fisheries Minister,Joaquim Alemao over the factthat the land acquisition notifi-cation is silent on the publicpurpose, he categorically statedthat the land in question is beingacquired for the purpose of afish meal project.

Says Velim Civic and Con-sumer Forum Convenor, RamonaAlmeida: “We have given 15-daydeadline to the Velim Panchayatto convene a meeting with theLand Acquisition Officer and theDirector of Fisheries on theissue”.

In fact, at the Sunday meetingheld at Velim, villagers haveunanimously resolved to taketo the streets if the governmentfails to come up with the “publicpurpose” as they charged theFisheries Department for tryingto bulldoze the fish meal projectdespite opposition from thelocal populace.

HERALD REPORTER

PANJIM, AUG 16

Can Goa which has emerged asa prime destination for the cor-porate industry and commercialestablishments to host confer-ences, seminars, exhibitionsand business networking alsoturn out to be a forum to boosttourism related business?

With this objective in mindand also to advance State’stourism industry, Goa willhave its first InternationalTravel Mart (ITM) in Octoberthis year.

Nikhil Dessai, Managing Di-rector of Goa Tourism & Devel-opment Corporation (GTDC)told a press conference onMonday here, a four day ITMbeginning on October 14, willhave buyer-sellers interactions,interactive penal discussions,seminars addressed by keyspeakers from the industry etal but it will also be an oppor-tunity for Goa to enhance itsstake in the tourism business.

Sheldon Satwan, Editor ofTravel Biz Monitor, said Goalags far behind on domestictourist arrival – it is ranked 19and ITM should be looked atas an investment opportunity.

To a question about bad pub-licity Goa has received in thelast two years, he said, alltourist hotspots have receivedbad publicity from time-to-time.However what’s important is —what you do to counter it, he

Goa to have its first ITM this Oct

Rise in arrival of FITs, says Swapnil

HERALD REPORTER

PANJIM, AUG 16

Though there has been drop in the arrival of charter touristsduring last three years it should not worry stakeholders in thetourism industry. For change in the trend of tourists arrivalwitnessed during last two promises higher returns.

So, if there has been decline in the arrival of charter tourists— the number of arrival of Free Independent Travellers (FITs)has gone up. Two years ago, the proportion of arrival ofcharter tourists versus FIT tourists was 80:20 and last season itwas 50:50, told Swapnil Naik, Director of Tourism during apress conference on Monday here, which was held to brief aboutInternational Tourism Mart (ITM) scheduled to be held in Goamid–October.

He “said this trend is important to Goa,” as it means expansionin the spectrum of tourism — there has been tourists inflowfrom Iran, Kazakhstan and Poland.

The Tourism Department expects increase in tourists inflowonce it is develops hinterland tourism which is expected totake shape in the next one-and-a-half year.

CHARTER TOURISTS ARRIVAL IN LAST 3 SEASONSYEAR —————— NO Of TOuRiSTS

Oct 07 — May 08 — 175951

Oct 08 — May 09 — 145428

Oct 09 — May 10 — 137790

said.The GTDC and Tourism De-

partment with support fromIndia Tourism Goa, Travel &Tourism Association of Goa(TTAG) and Chamber of Com-merce & Industry (GCCI) are or-ganising the ITM whereinvarious State and internationaltourism boards, trade associa-tions, resorts, airlines and leisureoperators and tour operators,corporate travel planners andallied industries have displayedkeen interest participation.Bookings for approximately150 stalls are well underwaywith special deals and discounton offer, including corporateand early discounts, said GTDCChairman.

Also present were SwapnilNaik, Director of Tourism De-partment, Gaurish Dhond, Chair-man TTAG, Ralph D’Souza,Chairman Tourism Committeeexpressed confidence that ITMwill help tourism industry. Theo f f i c i a l webs i t ewww.itmgao.com was launchedtoday.

HERALD REPORTER

PANJIM, AUG 16

A rare instance of a green vinesnake (Ahaetulla nasuta) preyingupon a large scaled shieldtail

(U rope l t i s mac ro lep i smacrolepis) was recorded byherpetologist Nirmal Kulkarniand his team in the Chorla Ghatforests on Sunday.

Herpetologist, team ‘capture’ preying predator in Chorla

Rare instance of green vine snake eating a shieldtail snake.

This is the second report ofa green vine snake feeding on ashieldtail snake in the NorthernWestern Ghats of India.

The first report was from Ma-harashtra by herpetologist andcurator of the Bombay NaturalHistory Society a few years ago.

Interestingly, the green vinesnake is a partially arborealspecies of snake while the largescaled shieldtail is an inoffensiveburrowing forest species, whichare endemic of the WesternGhats.

The green vine snake is un-commonly seen on ground andfeeds mainly on lizards, frogsand small birds. It is a mild ven-omous snake and the venom iscapable of paralyzing small prey.

There is a lacuna of knowl-edge about shieldtail specieswhose ecology and habitat pref-erence is lest known merelyfrom a few observations andhence the current observationsof predator-prey relationshipswith a partially arboreal speciesare considered important by re-searchers.

The incident was recorded at630 metres above sea level insecondary forest vegetation.

Use Sada to disposewaste, not as landfill

site: HC to MMCHERALD REPORTER

PANJIM, AUG 16

The Bombay High Court at Goa today ordered the MormugaoMunicipal Council (MMC) not to carry out a landfill site at Sada,while allowing them to go ahead with their garbage disposalprocess.

The Division Bench comprising of Justice A S Oka and Justice FM Reis further directed MMC to go into the inspection report con-ducted by Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority (GCZMA) andtake necessary action as and when needed.

The court directives came after Mormugao Port Trust(MPT) pointed out that the landfill site at Headland-Sada isin gross violation of the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) No-tification of 1991. And accordingly inspection was carriedout by GCZMA.

GCZMA in its report cleared that the said place is not suitableto carry out a landfill site; however, MMC can go ahead with thegarbage disposal process at the said place.

MMC has constructed treatment plant at Headland Sada in14,000 sq mt area, which was allotted to them by the State gov-ernment.

The court has said that MMC can go ahead with the existingprocess of garbage disposal at the allotted area till further direc-tives.

Meanwhile, MMC told court that they had never opted for

permission from GCZMA for setting up of landfill site at Sada.MPT had stated before the court that the patients, doctors and

staff of MPT Hospital are unable to even breathe due to the con-tinuous entry of smoke and fumes into the hospital. The nearbyMPT residential colony and the Customs Colony are equally badlyaffected.

Since many years now, MPT has been making attempts to per-suade the MMC and the district authorities to relocate the garbagedump and composting unit away from the MPT hospital and theresidential areas.

Meanwhile, lawyer representing MMC brought to the court’snotice that every hospital should have a landfill site so as the MPThospital.

“If the hospital is having a landfill site then it too must be in vi-olation of CRZ or they must be illegally dumping it,” he stated.

As such, the Division Bench directed MMC to file a fresh appli-cation over the issue.

Cash stolen HERALD CORRESPONDENT

MARCEL, AUG 16

Cash of Rs 99,000 was stolenfrom Goa Bagayatdar, Shirodaunit, on the intervening nightof Saturday and Sunday.

In his complaint, Goa Bagay-atdar’s MD Ulhas Umarye toldPonda Police that the theft cameto light on Sunday morning,when the employees came toopen the store.

The shutter was found bendand the locker from the storewas broke open and cash of Rs99,399 missing. A police dogsquad and fingerprint expertswere pressed into service, butin vain. PSI Sanjay Dalvi is in-vestigating the case.

HERALD REPORTER

PANJIM, AUG 16

The Bombay High Court at Goatoday directed the State Gov-ernment to file an affidavit, overthe affairs of Asilo Hospital inMapusa, within next four weeks.

Amicus curiae Saresh Lotlikarsaid that the court has ap-

po in ted Advoca te RayanMenezes as a consultant to in-spect the machineries installedat the hospital.

The Division Bench compris-ing of Justice A S Oka and Jus-tice F M Reis today has askedgovernment to file a detail re-port on when the doctors and

nurses were appointed andwhere have been they posted.Report on recruitment of stafffor the hospital is also soughtby court.

The court was hearing a pe-tition by Prakash Sardessaiwhich has been pending sincethe last three years. The petition

has raised the issue of qualityof public health care and con-ditions of the government-runhealth institutions.

Goa Government has beenalso directed to shift trauma andICU in the old building on im-mediate basis till the new build-ing gets a facelift.

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Bahusaheb rememberedMARCEL (HC): Rich tributes were paid to former chief minister

Bahusaheb Bandodkar on his death anniversary on Thursday.Home Minister Ravi Naik, Transport Minister Sudin Dhavlikar

and Priol MLA Deepak Dhavlikar along with their supportersgarlanded the statue of Bahusaheb Bandodkar at Farmagudi-Ponda.

Incidentally, both the ministers preferred to pay homage tothe former chief minister separately.

Transport Minister Sudin Dhavlikar urged the youth to followprinciples of Bahusaheb Bandodkar.

“In order to go ahead, one must follow principles of Bahusa-heb Bandodkar, who was the leader of masses. I urge youth tostay united and help our State’s progress,” said the transportminister. Home Minister Ravi Naik expressed concern overtoday’s political scenario and urged the people to be cautious.

“Our politicians should have followed Bahusaheb’s footsteps,but I don’t think this is happening. Sometimes I feel politiciansmisguide youth and are not at all interested in the welfare ofthe society,” said Naik.

Forms invited for posts of data

enumeratorsHERALD NEWS DESK

PANJIM, AUG 16

Fishery Survey of India, Mormu-gao has invited applications fortwo posts of data enumeratorson contract basis for the periodup to March 31, 2012 to operatea centrally-sponsored schemenamely ‘Strengthening of Data-base and Information Network-ing for Fisheries Sector’.

To be eligible for the post,the candidate should be upto25 years of age, should be agraduate in zoology/fisheriesscience from a recognized uni-versity, should be familiar withthe local language and place ofposting will be Mormugao.

Applications in the prescribedformat with copies of certificatesshould reach the Zonal Director,Fishery Survey of India, oppositeMicrowave Station, Mormugaoon or before August 24.

Library Day organised

The winners and runners up with the management and staff ofRosary Higher Secondary School, Navelim.

PANJIM(HND): The Rosary Higher Secondary School, Navelimobserved Library Day recently. To mark the occasion, WorldCup football quiz competition was organized.

Mariano Dias, the winning coach of last years SantoshTrophy was the chief guest in the presence of the ManagerRev Father Joe Feniandes, Principal Victoria De Souza andVice-Principal Anthony Alvares, Oswaldo Da Costa, Treasurerof Goa Referees Association was the guest of honour.

The prize winners of the contest were Oliver D'Souza andJason Fernandes from XI Commerce D. Runners up: CarlosNoronha and Royden Dias from XII Commerce D.

Librarian Caraciol Rodrigues was the quiz master. Earlier,teacher Kirti Shet welcomed the guests; Mariano Dias delivereda speech. Alison D'Silva and Osburn Vaz compered the pro-gramme, while teacher Beryl Rodrigues proposed the voteof thanks. The teachers who co-ordinated the programmeare Lara Loiola Pereira, Kirti Shet and Beryl Rodrigues.

Medical camp organised

Patients examined at the Bone Marrow Detection (BMD) campat Dr Ajit Kamat Hospital.

PANJIM(HND): Bone Marrow Detection (BMD) camp washeld recently at Dr Ajit Kamat Hospital under the able guidanceof Orthopaedic Surgeon, Dr Shekhar D Shirwaikar.

According to a press release, a total of 178 patients whowere diagnosed as having Osteoporosis for a minimum periodof six months were treated with Zoldronic acid injectionsand calcium supplementations.

At the 3rd BMD camp it was found that 140 patients diag-nosed initially with osteoporosis had marked improvementin their condition after having attended three consecutiveBMD camps and having received treatment therein. Tenpatients who had already developed deformities of the kneejoint due to severe osteoporosis will now require surgery.Those patients who cannot bear the cost of surgery will beoperated free of cost. The remaining 38 patients have beencalled for the next BMD after starting the calcium and zoldronicacid treatment, adds the press release.

State celebrates 64th Independence DayCAnACOnAHERALD CORRESPONDENT

Nation’s 64th Independence Daywas celebrated all over Cana-cona taluka on Sunday.

The main government-spon-sored function was held attaluka’s Deputy Collector’s officeComplex, Chaudi, where DeputyCollector Deepak Dessai did thehonours of unfurling the na-tional tricolour in the presenceof Canacona MLA Vijay Paikhotand others.

After unfurling the nationalflag, Dessai said: “People, as partof their duty of national inte-gration, remember patriotismonly on August 15 and January26. Every citizen should feel na-tionalism every day and not onlyon these two days.”

“We should not leave everythingfor government officers to achieve,but as responsible citizens, everyone of us should do our bit as ourcontribution to the nation,” saidthe deputy collector.

He also mentioned the burn-ing garbage issue in his speechon the occasion.

In his speech, Canacona MLAVijay Poikhot indirectly soughtto blame the government forspineless development in thecountry.

Deputy Collector Deepak Dessai speaks after unfurling the nationalflag speaks. Photo by Kathy Pereira

“We say development is done,but infrastructure like roads,buildings gets destroyed beforetime, putting extra pressure oncountry’s economy. It is not trueto say that country’s economyas compared to other countrieshas improved over the years, in-fact country’s economic valueshave been degraded with manycountries of the world.”

Speaking further on naturalresources, Poikhot said: “Becauseof indiscriminate mining, Goa ison the verge of extinction now.”

Poinguinim ZP Daya Pagi,Canacona Municipal Council

Chairperson Shamsunder Des-sai, Councillor Santosh Tubki,Canacona Mamlatdar and JointMamlatdar and other officersfrom Canacona were present onthe occasion.

Different variety cultural pro-grammes were presented by stu-dents of St Teresa of Jesus HighSchool, Katiyani Baneshwari HighSchool, Shri Mallikarjun Vidyalaya,GPS-Chaudi, Anganwadi (Palolem)and Government Higher Secondary.

All the schools in the talukaalso held flag hoisting on Sundaymorning.

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The 63rd anniversary of Inde-pendence was celebrated at GoaShipyard Ltd (GSL) with patrioticfervour. Rear Admiral (retd) Vi-neet Bakhshi VSM, Chairmanand Managing Director unfurledthe National Flag at the GSL cam-pus, which was synchronizedwith the singing of National An-them and Guard of Honour bythe CISF personnel. The functionwas preceded by Patriotic songsin Hindi, Konkani and Marathicomposed and presented by GSLSerenade group, lending a pa-triotic atmosphere.

Speaking on the occasion,Chairman and Managing Direc-tor spoke of the sacrifices thatour Freedom Fighters had madeand their desire to be the mas-ters of their own destiny whicheventually made us independ-ent. He lauded each and everyemployee of GSL for the whole-hearted cooperation and teamspirit displayed by them, whichresulted in the increased pro-

Rear Admiral (retd) Vineet Bakhshi VSM, Chairman and ManagingDirector inspecting the guard of honour.

ductivity and quality of work.‘Good values’ and ‘Shiksha’ onecould make a difference to fu-ture generations, he added.

Asserting that successivemanagements and employeeshad built an outstanding brandimage to design and build qual-ity ships, RAdm V Bakhshi calledupon the employees to rededi-cate themselves for continuedimprovement of the Shipyard..

On the occasion, GSL employ-

ees were awarded with specialcommendation and commenda-tion certificates for outstandingperformance in their respectiveareas of work, while 266 meri-torious students received schol-arship awards from the handsof Mr Bakshi. Besides, qualitycircle awards, safety week cele-bration awards, safe drivingawards, best turnout awardsand public sector awards werealso presented on the occasion.

SAnGUeMHERALD CORRESPONDENT

Independence Day was celebrated with great enthusiasm at OurLady of Piety Primary School, Uguem-Sanguem, on Sunday.

Fr Agapito D’Cunha, headmaster and Chaplain of Our Lady ofPiety Chapel Uguem unfurled the tricolour in the presence of stu-dents, teachers and a large number of villagers.

Speaking at the function, Fr D’Cunha recalled the past gloriesof the school, which was initially started as a Portuguese teachingschool, before Pilar Fathers took over it and transformed theschool into English teaching school.

“The school has been in existence since prior to liberation andmany villagers who have studied in this school now occupy re-spectable posts and positions in the society,” claimed Fr D’Cunha.

Fr D’Cunha also apprised the villagers of the need for sendingtheir children to the nearby school not only to keep the schoolrunning, but in the best interest of the children.

He claimed that by sending the children to distance schools,not only affects the health of the students, but also their studiesand distance involved in traveling to the distant schools puts anextra pressure on the children at a young age.

Moreover, Fr D’Cunha pointed out that the school building re-cently constructed by the villagers would be of no use if theparents continue to send their wards to city schools.

Earlier, school student Ashleen Gomes spoke on the importanceof Independence Day celebrations, while Tazmeen Shaikh comperedthe function. The function ended with songs presented by thestudents.

MAPUSA HERALD CORRESPONDENT

Minister for Tourism Nilkanth Halarnkar unfurled the nationalflag on the occasion of the 64th India’s Independence Day cele-brations at a function organized at Mapusa, on Sunday.

Speaking on the occasion Nilkanth Halarnkar recalled the sac-rifices of Martyrs and known and unknown freedom fighters whostruggled against colonial British rule for the India’s Independenceand told the youths to draw inspiration from the freedom struggleand channelise their energies for development to take the Stateand nation to greater heights of progress and prosperity.

Halarnkar further said, due to the sacrifices and relentless effortsof the freedom fighters, today we taste the fruits of freedom andhave progressed in all fields of human endeavour. Halarnkar ap-pealed to the people to remain united and cooperate with theGovernment efforts to accelerate overall development of the State.

Halarnkar inspected the Guard of Honour on the occasion.The Tourism Minister was received by Dasharath Redkar, Dy

Collector at the venue. Gajanan Lotlikar compered the function.

HIGH COURTHERALD NEWS DESK

Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka,Senior Judge of Goa bench ofBombay High Court unfurled theNational Flag at the High Courtat Altinho to mark the 64th In-dependence day celebrations.Justice Oka later reviewed theparade presented by the GoaPolice.

Those present on the occa-sion were Chief Secretary SanjaySrivastava, Law Secretary P VKamat, Justice N A Britto, JusticeF M Reis, former chief justice ofGujarat High Court Justice G DKamat, Former Advocate Gen-eral Adv Atmaram Nadkarni, Ad-vocate General Adv SubodhKantak, Registrar of the HighCourt I K Jain, former MP andsenior lawyer Adv Amrut Kansarand others.

OLD GOAHERALD CORRESPONDENT

As part of Independence Day cel-ebrations, Ribandar Yuvak Manchorganized a ‘Run for Peace Healthand Unity Rally’ for the peopleof Ribandar on Sunday morning.

More than hundred peopleparticipated in the rally, whichstarted at Ribandar, Patto area,and proceeded towards Riban-dar-Sao Pedro area and back.

Speaking on the occasion,Ribandar Yuvak Manch PresidentRupesh Halarnkar said “RibandarYuvak Manch will try to organizevarious activities to inculcatetalents in the Youth of Ribandarand Independence Day was onesuch day, where every youth ofRibandar was getting involvedin youth activities.” AssociationSecretary Nandesh Kambli com-pered the programme.

Occupational therapy for IPHP patients held recently in coordi-nation with Printing and Stationary Department. Also presentare Director of Printing and Stationary, N D Agarwal and Dr V NJindal, dean of GMC.

HERALD CORRESPONDENTCALANGUTE, AUG 16

Resort Rio, a 5 star deluxe lux-ury resort, was inaugurated atBaga on the eve of India’s 64thIndependence Day on Satur-day.

Minister for Tourism NilkantHalarnkar inaugurated the resortin the presence of DirectorsAnup Shah and Lucindo Fariaand their hotel team led by Gen-eral Manager Terrence Nunes,beside a host of dignitaries.

Resort Rio is designed by theteam of Shahbuddin Kanikar(contractor and interior de-signer), Raghu Nath Dhume(pro-ject manager) and Siddarth Naik(architect).

The Resort offers a variety ofdinning comforts with PickledMango - a multi-cuisine restau-rant serving culinary delightsfrom around the world, MammaMia-Pizzeria and Restorante Ital-iano with its own Italian Chef,Jalsa - a pure vegetarian kitchenserving Gujrati, Rajasthani andSouth Indian cuisines, Aagor - aspeciality Goan and sea foodshack serving grilled sea food

Resort Rio opened at Baga

Resort Rio at Baga. Photo by Thomas Fernandes

and other local delicacies, CafeRio - is the 24x7 cafe shop andBar Terrazzo - an exclusive ele-gant well-stocked bar.

Addressing the gathering,Anup Shah explained the realityof the dream project Resort Riothrough his business partner Lu-cindo Faria and his friend PeterFernandes.

Shah made a fervent plea toMinister for Tourism Halarnkarto look into the road drawbackof the star resort in the interestof all.

Congratulating the Manage-

ment of Resort Rio, Halarnkarpromised every help in the in-terest of tourism-related busi-ness.

The Resort Rio Managementalso divulged its plans of invest-ing on its work force and em-ploying 95% Goans in their hotelindustry.

Resort Rio Director LucindoFaria and General Manager Ter-rence Nunes also spoke on theoccasion. Anjali Kamat intro-duced the chief guest, whileAllan Pinto compered the func-tion.

Ex-MLA criticises

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garbage menace

in St CruzHERALD NEWS DESK

PANJIM, AUG 16

V ictor Gonsalves, ex ML Astrongly condemns and criticizesthe negligence of the local au-thorities and elected represen-tat ives for not tak ing upseriously the issue of garbageproblem at Santa Cruz.

In a press note issued here,Gonsalves says that the garbagewhich is strewn all around hascreated a health hazard and thepeople have to bear the foulsmell emanating from it. Themonsoon has aggravated theproblem for the villagers whotravel in the village who haveto bear the menace of garbage.

The press release states fur-ther that Victor Gonsalves hasrequested the villagers of SantaCruz for unity to fight the men-ace and urged for the need ofthe Health Department to in-tervene immediately inorder toprotect the people of Santa Cruzagainst any possible viral infec-tions and skin diseases, addsthe press release.

HERALD NEWS DESKPANJIM, AUG 16

The NH4A Action Committee has come to know in a recent TV in-terview that the CM has gone back on his promise and stated thatCorlim residents have agreed for road widening which is absolutelyincorrect. Corlim gram sabha has passed a resolution on July 25that no NH4A should pass through the Corlim village.

According to a press release, the members of the National High-way Diversion Action Committee met the Chief Minister DigambarKamat, who is the chairman of the house committee of NationalHighway NH4A at his residence recently and handed him a mem-orandum requesting that National Highway NH4A be made to passthrough the hinterland instead of the present route which passesthrough thickly populated areas comprising of Chimbel, Old Goa,Corlim, Bhoma, Ponda Usgao and Morlem route.

The Chief Minister assured the delegation that the NH4A wouldnot pass through Corlim and other places.

The press release further states that the residents of Corlimwould like to express again our solidarity and unity with all othergroups from Chimbel, Bhoma, Old Goa, Ponda, Usgao under theNH4A Diversion Action Committee.

CM backtracked on promise, claim NH4A

Action Committee

HERALD CORRESPONDENTVALPOI, AUG 16

Goa State AIDS Control SocietyAssistant Director UmakantSawant recently inaugurated RedRibbon Club (RRC) at GovernmentHigher Secondary School, Valpoi.

Dr Saroj Salelkar, Dilip Dhar-galker, GHSS Valpoi Principal VK Samant and staff were presentat the function.

After inaugurating the RedRibbon Club, Sawant said RRCaims at harnessing the potentialof the youth by equipping themwith correct information on HIVand AIDS prevention.

“Our target is to reach out tomost vulnerable youth commu-nity. Our objective is to spreadmessage on positive health be-haviour and reduce new HIV in-fection among them by raisingtheir risk perception throughawareness on AIDS,” he said.

He also emphasized the need

GSACS objective to educateyouth on HIV: Sawant

of promoting voluntary non-re-munerated blood donationamong youth. Sawant urged ac-tive participation of the youthto attain RRC’s goal.

“Activities of the RRC mustbe youth-oriented, innovativeand interactive, which shouldgenerate active participation

and at the same time shouldprovide them with healthy en-vironment,” said Sawant.

Dr Saroj Salelkar highlightedthe preventive measures ofAIDS. “Students must be moreaware on this issue and help topromote message of preventingthis dreadful disease,” she said.

Goa State AIDS Control Society Assistant director Umakant Sawantinaugurates Red Ribbon Club at Valpoi. Photo by Ashraf Khan

HERALD NEWS DESKPANJIM, AUG 16

Chief Minister Digambar Kamatsaid Goa Government will con-stitute bravery awards from De-cember 19, 2010.

Chief Minister was speakingafter unfurling National Flag onthe occasion of State level func-tion of Independence Day nearOld Secretariat in the city onSunday.

Speaker Pratapsingh Rane,Transport Minister Sudin Dhava-likar, Leader of OppositionManohar Parrikar, MP ShripadNaik, MP Francisco Sardinha,Asha Kamat, Chairperson of BalBhavan, Vijayadevi Rane, Mayorof Panaji Carolina Po, MLAs, Sec-retaries to Government, free-

dom fighters, prominent citizensand large number of studentswere present on the occasion.

Speaking further Chief Min-ister paid rich tributes to thememory of freedom fighterswho fought for the freedomof the country under the lead-ership of Mahatma. Kamat alsopaid tributes to Goa’s firstChief Minister late D B Ban-dodkar.

Kamat said, the Governmenthas constituted a committeeunder the leadership of Raghu-nath Mashelkar to prepare a ‘Vi-sion document’ for Goa, whichwill be a road map for the statefor the next 25 years.

Dr Dayanand Rao comperedthe function.

Govt plans for bravery awards: CM

Samraat Club gatheringMAYEM(HC): Samraat Club International President Guruprasad

Shinkre has stressed the need for members of broad-mindednature, who wishes to help downtrodden sections of community.He was addressing the gathering during his official visit toSamraat Club Bicholim recently.

Avdhoot Salatri, Samrat Club Bicholim President NishantChanekar, Secretary Dattaram Shetye, Gopla Morajkar, MukundPopkar and Suresh Khanolkar were on the occasion.

On the occasion, artist Uttam Kudaskar from Bicholim andsome students from Bicholim vicinity were felicitated by Shinkrefor their outstanding services in the fields of art and education.Earlier, Nishant Chanekar welcomed and introduced the guests,Praveen Sawant compered the function, while, Dattarm Shetyeproposed the vote of thanks.

Contacto Goa on RTPPANJIM(HND):

Contacto Goa, the 58th episodewill be broadcast on RTP inter-national – India, Portugal andother places on Tuesday, August17 in India between 1:10 pmand 7:10 pm and Portugal be-tween 8:45 am and 2:15 pm andon Wednesday, August 18 inIndia at 6:30 am and Portugalat 2:00 am.

Timetable for other countriesw i l l be ava i l ab l e on l ine :www.rtp.pt.

AUG 17TORDA: Between 9 am to 2 pm. Areas affected are Britania

House, Gopal Nagar Torda, Ramachowado, Torda and surroundingareas. Between 2 am to 5.30 pm. Areas affected are Britona, Virlosa,Haliwada, RND Slipway, Malim, tourist complex, ice factory, Malimand surrounding areas.

AUG 18SANGOLDA: Between 9 am to 2 pm. Areas affected are Shan-

tadurga temple, Green hill, Sangolda, 20 point programme Sangolda,Alua Sangolda and surrounding areas.

BETIM: Between 2 am to 5.30 pm. Areas affected are Teen Build-ing, Mona Nagar, Shantadurga temple, Parel Nagar, Ramnagar, Gu-rudwara, Betim, RND workshop, Betim and surrounding areas.

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BY SHWETA KAMAT

PANJIM, AUG 16

Existing resources like busstands and properties seems tobe a major revenue earner forthe loss making KadambaTransport Corporation Limited(KTCL), which has netted Rs7.32 crore from them in lastthree years.

As per the official informa-tion available from corpora-tion’s office, it has spent Rsthree crores for the mainte-nance of these resources.

The government statisticsreveals that since 2006 to2009, KTCL has earned incomeof Rs 7.32 crores from all theten bus stands in form of rents,parking fees, stand fees, hoard-ing rents and toilet fees.

In 2006-07, the corporationhad earned Rs 1.98 crores, in2007-08 Rs 2.48 crores and in2008-09 Rs 2.84 crores. The

maximum amount was ob-tained in form of rents (Rs 4.8crores).

Among all the bus stands,Panjim bus stand was the high-est revenue earning resourcesin last three years. The KTCLwas able to fetch Rs 3.81 crorefor the said financial years.

However, the corporationhad to also spend the highestamount of money on its main-tenance. In last three years,KTCL had spent almost Rs 83lakhs on its repairs.

Rather than the capital city,KTCL has managed to earn agood proportion of revenuefrom Margao (68 lakhs), Cana-cona (38 lakhs), Bicholim (30lakhs) and Mapusa (10 lakhs)bus stands.

At the same time, KTCL hadto make expenditure of Rs 65lakhs (2006-07), Rs 87 lakhs(2007-08) and Rs 99 lakhs

(2008-09) for the maintenanceand repairs of all the ten busstands. The expenditure alsoincludes electricity and watercharges.

For the year 2006-07, KTCLspent around Rs 96 lakhs onsecurity services on the busstands. However, there was noexpenditure on security in thelast two years.

The corporation has beenunder severe financial crisisand with the implementationof sixth pay commission thesituation had worsen, whichhas increased the burden of Rsone crore as additional liabilityon salary.

The KTCL has a fleet of 392buses and around 1,900 work-ers. After initial struggle, thecorporation was able to wit-ness hike in its revenue by al-most 20 percent for the monthof May and June.

Bus stands, properties help fill the dwindling KTCL coffers

Freedom fighter Shamrao turns 100 on Aug 18

NGO to move HCif Majorda beach

not cleared of plasticHERALD REPORTER

MARGAO, AUG 16

The Green Goa Foundation hasthreatened to move the highcourt if the authorities fails toremove the plastic bags fromthe Majorda beach within 10days.

Foundation Chairman RaisonAlmeida, in his representationto the district Collector, Mem-ber Secretary GCZMA and theDirector of Tourism, said thatthousands of plastic emptybags stuffed with sand werefound dumped on the beach.Upon his inquiries, Almeidasaid the work was carried outby some contractors for abeach resort.

According to him, the plasticbags have now scattered allover a large area, giving an uglyappearance to the beach.

Expressing concern over theecological crimes, he said it isdifficult to believe that suchopen defiance of law could becarried out in a public placewithout the knowledge or con-nivance of the authorities.

HERALD REPORTER

MARGAO, AUG 16

Veteran freedom fighter, Com-munist leader and thinkerShamrao Madkaikar will becompleting 100 years on Au-gust 18.

He will be publicly felicitatedat his residence, behind RosaryCollege, Navelim at 9 am onWednesday by freedom fight-ers, friends and well wishers.

Madkiakar had actively par-ticipated in the 1942 Quit IndiaMovement, Goa Freedomstruggle led by Dr Ram-manohar Lohia in 1946 and theGoa Liberation movement from1954 onward.

He organized the freedommovement in Goa in associa-

tion with other freedom fight-ers and was imprisoned formany years by the Portuguese.Well know for his outspokenand fearless nature, Madkaikarworked throughout this life forcarrying forward a number ofnational and social causes.“Freedom and labour welfareare even today dear to hisheart and has struggled relent-lessly for upholding he rightsof the labour class in Goa. Hefought against the Gold Con-trol Act enacted by the Govern-ment of India and succeeded inthe removal of this black Act,which led many goldsmiths tocommit suicide”, stated Organ-ising Committee member,Prasana Utagi.

HERALD CORRESPONDENT

PORVORIM, AUG 16

Calangute MLA Agnelo Fernan-des said ‘Independent India’was the dream of each andevery Indian, who lived underthe British rule.

He was addressing the gath-ering at Reis Magos on the oc-casion of Independence Day.

“Freedom fighters faced sev-eral tortures, hardships and ex-ploitations to earn freedom.We should pay homage and ex-press gratitude to millions ofmen and women, who partici-pated in the freedom move-ment. It is now the duty of theyounger generation to pre-serve this freedom,” said Fer-nandes.

“Mahatma Gandhiji empha-sized the need to observehuman values in conductingthe affairs of the country sothat we have a just and equi-table society. Unless and untilpoverty and illiteracy are abol-ished, we cannot claim to haveearned freedom in the realsense of the term,” he said.

He further said the future ofIndia rests on the shoulders ofthe younger generation andhence it is the duty of the par-ents and teachers to inculcatethe spirit of patriotism andsense of discipline in the stu-dents so that they becomeideal citizens of the country.

ZP member Jayesh Sal-gaonkar said India achievedfreedom because of the sacri-fices made by freedom fight-ers.

“However, during the courseof last 63 years we havestrayed from the Gandhian Phi-losophy and his path of devel-opment. Corruption, violenceand immorality have becomeregular features today. The stu-dents should strive hard to ful-fill the aspirations of Gandhi,”said Salgaonkar.

On the occasion, Agnelo Fer-nandes felicitated studentsfrom Reis Magos, who secureddistinction at SSC and HigherSecondary examination of GoaBoard held in March/April2010.

‘Independent India wasdream of every Indian’

HERALD REPORTER

PANJIM, AUG 16

Indian Navy Captain G Prakash took over asCommanding Officer of INS Mandovi, on Mon-day.

Prior to taking over the charge, the officer hascommanded Indian Navy’s first training

squadron of four ships at Kochi. Following the ceremonial official parade, the

CO inspected Guard of honour. He was commis-sioned into the Indian Navy on July 1, 1985 aftergraduating from the National defense Academyat Pune. Captain Prakash is a specialist in Avia-tion and Anti Submarine Warfare.

G Prakash is commanding officer of INS Mandovi

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PTI

KOLLAM (KER), AUG 16

As uncertainty about the arrestor surrender of PDP leaderAbdul Nasser Madani contin-ued, Karnataka Governmenttoday charged the Kerala Gov-ernment with not extendingco-operation to facilitate hisarrest in the Bangalore blastscase in which he is listed as anaccused.

While two senior officialsfrom Bangalore police arrivedhere this morning, fuellingspeculation that the arrest was

imminent, the suspense con-tinued unresolved as the daywore on with the state author-ities remaining tight-lipped onhow the situation was going tobe tackled.

A medical team from a pri-vate hospital examinedMadani, who is feverish, andsaid they were awaiting the re-port of the blood tests to de-cide whether he should beshifted to the hospital or not.

Putting the blame for thedelay in the matter on Kerala,Karnataka Home Minister V S

Acharya told a Malayalam tele-vision channel that the ex-pected co-operation from thestate did not come.

"We are requesting the Ker-ala Government. Things arenot happening. If the co-oper-ation is not coming we willhave to think of some otheroption", Acharya said.

Joint Police Commissioner,Bangalore, Alok Kumar andDCP Omkarayya, who held dis-cussions with district SPHarshitha Attalluri, were learntto have made it clear that Kar-

nataka was keen to avoid anyfurther delay in the arrest orsurrender as the deadline forproducing him in the court inBangalore was fast approach-ing.

Though the PDP leaders sig-nalled in the morning thattheir leader might surrender bythe afternoon, they later de-clined to give any firm indica-tion on when that wouldhappen.

A six-member team of seniordoctors were called in from anearby private hospital and an

ambulance was also brought toMadani's camp, creating theimpression that he would bemoved to the hospital wherehe would surrender to the po-lice.

After the examination, thedoctors said for time being hewas not going to be taken tothe hospital and they werewaiting to get the blood testresults.

The situation aroundMadani's camp at Anwarasserycontinued to be under tightcontrol of the police.

K’taka blames Kerala for delay in Madani’s arrest

PTI

NEW DELHI, AUG 16

Parliament was rocked todayover farmers' protest againstland acquisition in UttarPradesh with several non-BSPparties seeking to corner theMayawati government over thepolice action that left threedead.

The Lok Sabha adjourned forthe day without transactingany business, while the RajyaSabha took up Question Hourand later witnessed two quickadjournments following uproarover the issue.

BJP, SP, RLD, Shiv Sena andJD-U members stormed thewell in the Lok Sabha as soonas the House assembled for theday while Congress membersthreatened to follow suit inprotest against the Mayawatigovernment.

Though Question Hour wasconducted in the Rajya Sabha

after an assurance from theChair that the matter could beraised later, the issue gener-ated heat during the Zero Hourand the House witnessed twoadjournments before lunch.

When the House assembledat 2 PM, Deputy Chairman KRahman Khan adjourned it forthe day after BJP memberstrooped into the well demand-ing an immediate statementfrom the government on theissue.

BJP members raised sloganseven as members belonging toBSP, which is in power in UttarPradesh, said they were readyfor a discussion.

It was similar story in theLok Sabha which adjourned till1400 hours after papers werelaid and Minister of State forHome Ajay Maken introduceda Bill seeking amendment tothe Repatriation of PrisonersAct, 2003.

'Kisano par atyachar bandkaro (stop atrocities againstfarmers)', shouted angry Oppo-sition members, includingVarun Gandhi (BJP), and did notallow the Chair to take up anybusiness.

BSP leader Dara SinghChauhan attempted in vain toput forward the Uttar Pradeshgovernment's position. Hecould not be heard in the din.

The farmers have beenholding demonstrations fornearly three weeks near Ali-garh demanding compensa-tion at the rate paid to Noidaand Greater Noida farmers.The protests turned violentover the past two days withthree persons being killed inpolice firing.

The 165 km-long eight-laneexpressway connecting Noidato Agra is aimed at reducingdriving time between NewDelhi and Agra drastically.

Parliament adjourned over farmer’s protest in UP

PTI

NEW DELHI, AUG 16

Making light of yesterday's in-cident in Srinagar in which ashoe was flung towards hisson, J and K Chief MinisterOmar Abdullah, Union MinisterFarooq Abdullah today said itwas "wonderful" that he hasjoined the elite club of formerUS President George Bush, Pak-istan President Asif Ali Zardariand other leaders.

"He has joined an elite clubof former US President GeorgeBush, Home Minister P Chi-dambaram, Pakistan PresidentAsif Ali Zadari and a few otherswith the reward of shoe. It is awonderful thing," he quippedwhen reporters sought hiscomments outside ParliamentHouse on yesterday's incident.

A suspended police headconstable had thrown a shoetowards Omar during the Inde-pendence Day function in Sri-nagar but missed him.Following the security scare,15 policemen including four of-ficers were suspended.

Omar is the latest victim of"shoe protest" which all startedwhen an Iraqi journalist at apress conference in Baghdadduring his visit to Iraq in De-

cember 2008 flung a shoe atBush who ducked in time.

Zardari too faced a similarincident in the UK. An unhappyPakistani threw a shoe atZardari during a rally in Birm-ingham early this month. Chi-nese Premier Wen Jiabao andUnion Home Minister P Chi-dambaram have also been thetargets of such protests.

Like all the previous shoeprotests which have capturedthe imagination of people, thefootwear flung at Omar duringthe Independence Day func-tion by a suspended policehead constable today toomissed the 'target' and theprotester ended up beingtaken into the custody by thepolice.

Farooq said Sunday's inci-dent showed the security appa-ratus is "useless".

Asked if the incident re-flected a sense of disillusion-ment in the state, he said, "Wehave to fight out the situationthat exists. We can't run away."

He said Jammu and Kashmiris part of India and he did notsupport the calls for its separa-tion from the country. "Eitheryou stay with us or sink withus," he said.

Farooq makes light of shoe throwing incident

Former MP Pappu Yadav

arrestedUNI

PURNIA, AUG 16

Sleuths of CBI today arrestedformer MP Rajesh Ranjan aliasPappu Yadav from Gurgaon areaof New Delhi in connectionwith murder of the then CPI(M)MLA Ajit Sarkar.

Deputy Inspector General(Purnia range) Amit Kumar heresaid a local team was sent tothe national capital on a tip-offthat Mr Yadav was gettingtreatment at a private hospitalnear Gurgaon.

Raid was conducted at thehospital by the CBI team, lead-ing to the arrest of Mr Yadav, headded.

''The former MP was wantedsince long in connection withmurder of the then MLA AjitSarkar after cancellation of thebail by the apex court whichwas earlier granted by PatnaHigh Court,'' he said.

All Police Superintendentsacross the country had been in-formed earlier for tracking MrYadav, who was evading arresteven after cancellation of thebail granted to him in connec-tion with the case. It may be re-called here that a local court ofPatna had awarded life sentenceto Mr Yadav in connection withAjit Sarkar murder case.

PTI

JAMMU, AUG 16

After remaining suspended fortwo days due to security rea-sons and bad weather condi-tions, the annual Amarnathyatra today resumed from herewith a new batch leaving forthe holy cave shrine in southKashmir Himalayas.

The batch of 875 pilgrims,comprising 514 men, 145women, 8 children and 208sadhus, left in a cavalcade of 24vehicles from the base camp ofBhagwati Nagar here around10:25 hours, police officialssaid.

With today's batch, as manyas 86,072 pilgrims from differ-ent parts of the country hadleft from here for onward jour-ney to pay obeisance at the3,880 metre high cave shrine inthe Valley.

The yatra remained sus-pended for last two days due

to security reasons and badweather conditions due toheavy rains in the Valley.

This is the sixth time thatthe pilgrimage was haltedsince its commencement onJune 30.

Over 4.50 lakh pilgrims haveso far paid obeisance at thecave shrine.

Meanwhile, Buddha Amar-nath yatra in Poonch districtwas today suspended fromJammu due to bad weather, of-ficials said.

No new batch was allowedto leave from Jammu to Bud-dha Amarnath Shrine Mandihills of Poonch district fromhere due to inclement weatherconditions and heavy rains en-route, they said.

The yatra, which started onFriday, has been suspended forthe first time. As many as 4,000pilgrims have left for the shrinetill now.

Amarnath yatra resumes after 2-days suspension

Army jawan, 3 others hurt

in Rajouri gunbattle

PTI

JAMMU, AUG 16

An Army jawan was killed andthree others, including amajor injured, in the gunbat-tle between militants and se-curity forces in Rajouridistrict which entered thethird day today.

Senior Superintendent ofPolice (SSP), Rajouri, R K Jallatold PTI that a fierce gunbat-tle was going in the SharaWali forest belt in Thanam-nadi tehsil of the district.

Additional forces have beenrushed to the area and thecordon strengthened to pre-vent the militants from flee-ing. In the gunbattle, an Armyjawan was killed and threeothers including a major wereinjured, he said.

PTI

AIZAWL, AUG 16

Sixty-year-old Thangbawihi,resident of Tuirial Airfield vil-lage, near here, was stabbed byher 63-year-old husband onthe night of July eight during aheated argument and suc-cumbed to her injuries a fewdays later at a hospital.

The incident was termed bythe police as an extreme caseof domestic violence, but inci-dents of this nature, though ona lesser scale, have been fre-quently reported from thestrictly conservative patriarchalsociety of Mizoram.

Though the state CID(Crime Branch) said only 16cases of domestic violencehad been registered in theperiod between 2007 and2009, social workers believedthe number could be muchhigher since majority of theincidents had not been re-

ported.Data collected by the Na-

tional Family Health Surveyin 2005-6 said an average 22per cent of wives in Mizo-ram suffered at the hands oftheir husbands, while thenational average was 37 percent.

Angela Ch Ralte, secretary ofthe Aizawl-based NGO 'Centrefor Peace and Development',says that many women just donot report cases of physicalabuse by their husbands fornot being aware of the exis-tence of a law against domesticviolence.

This was endorsed byLalthansangi, counsellor of the'Centre for Peace and Develop-ment', who has been helpingvictims of domestic violenceand sexual harassment.

“The victims are from differ-ent sections of society, includ-ing the poor, middle class and

government employees, andmost of them have husbandswho are given to drinking ex-cesses,'' she said.

Lalthansangi says while ahigh percentage of domesticviolence perpetrated by hus-bands against wives are physi-cal, all categories of domesticviolence - economic, emo-tional, sexual and others - areinter-related.

A senior psychiatrist DrJohn M Ralte says that whiledomestic violence is ex-tremely traumatic for the vic-tims and also for the children,only a few of them had ap-proached psychiatrists forclinical treatment.

The officer of the statehealth department says that hewas not approached by suchvictims when he was workingin the civil hospital, Aizawl‘most probably due to lack ofawareness’.

Most domestic violence cases in Mizoram go unreported

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Independence from what?Antonio Lobo, Mapusa

That is the question that the posters carriedby protestors on 15 August at Margao asked.Fellow Goans, let us ponder the questionseriously, after taking the trouble of inform-ing ourselves in all respects. My congratu-lations to Anthony Da Silva, the GoencheaXetkararancho Ekvott and others for havinghad the courage to protest on a day whenvery few in Goa would have dared. However,it seems that this is the only way that mayget Goans somewhere.

One more Alemao?Arwin Mesquita, Abu Dhabi

I am sure that the people of Goa know bynow what the actual achievements of theAlemaos are for Goa (not for themselves).For, they will decide if we really need stillanother MLA from the family, based on theperformance of Churchill and Joaquim.

Deadly roadAires Rodrigues, Ribandar

Young 21-year-old Nimesh Kholkar was thelatest casualty of the treacherous Ribandar-Panjim road. The stretch from the Goa In-stitute of Management (GIM) to Panjim isin a pathetic state, with countless potholes.Repairs over the years have been sub-stan-dard. PWD Minister Churchill Alemao re-cently visited Ribandar and saw for himselfthe awful state of the road.

Reckless speeding and overtaking bybuses, especially on the Ribandar-Panjimcauseway, has cost precious lives. Overtakingis officially prohibited here, yet the author-ities continue to turn a blind eye. How manymore lives will have to be lost before theyawaken… only after one of their own familymembers becomes a victim?

Cleanliness firstGlestone Fernandes, Cuncolim

Savio Coutinho’s idea of beautifying a certainpart of Margao could be put on hold. Whathe really needs to do is clean the city ofgarbage and dog faeces. Fish vendors stillhave liberty to do business at the old fishmarket and various locations around thecity. Local buses, with the blessings of thetraffic police, crawl and stop at will. Well,Senor Savio, beauty and development is nogood without cleanliness.

Getting things rightRodney de Souza, Assagao

Since 1961, there has been grave distortionof facts and names in Goa. It is often saidthat Goa was under Portuguese rule for 451years. This is wrong. Only a part of Goa –the ‘Velhas Conquistas’ comprising pres-ent-day Tiswadi, Bardez, Salcete andMormugao, was under the Portuguese from1510 / 1543 to 1961. The rest of Goa, ‘NovasConquistas’, was under Portuguese rule onlyfrom 1685/1778; for a period of 183 to 276years.

The oldest institution of Goa, the ‘Co-munidade’ must be written with a single‘m’ and not a double ‘m’, as is often done.The name of the village to the north eastof Panjim is Penha de França and not Penhade France, as often misquoted. Despite

knowledgeable writers explaining that ‘Soçe-gado’ or ‘Susegad’ means contended or‘take it easy’, it is deliberately used to de-scribe laziness.

Distortion, whether wilful or due to ig-norance, must be resisted. If we continueto tolerate these distortions, very soon wewill even cease to be called Goans. Are weprepared to be called ‘Goanese’ or ‘Goa-wallahs’?

SEZs and villagersAugusto Monteiro, Loutolim

In the news report, ‘50% NIT quota assuredfor Goans: CM’ (Herald, 14 Aug), the partabout denotification of SEZs is misleading.The villagers of Loutolim, Verna and otheradjoining villages have voiced their concernin Gram Sabhas about their unwillingnessto accept SEZs in their villages.

The matter was before the High Court,the hearing was on a day-to-day basis andended on Thursday 12 August. A date hasbeen fixed for submission of written argu-ments and the Court’s verdict is expectedthereafter.

The government is quite aware of this.

So the statement of the Chief Ministerabout denotification of SEZs is mis-leading and politically motivated. Ifthere is a will, there is a way. Why keepcitizens in suspended political animation?I call upon my fellow villagers to stay united,for the fight is not yet over.

Parent’s plightGlency D’Sa, by email

It is shocking to see that even after someof the private unaided schools charge ex-orbitant fees (Rs7,000-16,000) from par-ents, our children do not get a qualityenvironment in school. Children werecomplaining that they were made tosit three on a bench during the 1st mid-term exams held recently. Owing to lack ofspace, some of them were shifted to theoffice, staff room and even library to answertheir exams!

When we are paying such high fees, whycan’t the children get the required facilities?Some schools in Margao do not have evena playground. The whole day children aremade to sit within the four walls of con-gested classrooms, in which the children

are unable to even move. We send our children to these schools in

the hope that they will get the best ofeducation, but it is now clear that theseschools just take fees, and are not con-cerned about the child’s future. I wouldkindly request that the Education De-partment makes surprise visits to theseschools in Margao.

Vasco ‘underground’Adelmo Fernandes, Vasco

Speaking on the sidelines of the inaugura-tion of the newly erected electric polesalong Swatantra Path in Vasco, RevenueMinister Jose Philip D’Souza said that theunderground electricity cabling in Vascowill be completed by the next Saptah festival(Herald, 13 August).

If Vasco is to get underground cablingnext year, what was the need to put upnew overhead electric lines this year?Couldn’t we wait for just one more yearand replace the old wires by under-ground cables? Isn’t this wasteful expendi-ture?

That wasn’t meIrineu Santana Dias, Margao

With due respect to Maria Dias’ outrage(‘Teachers’ response, Herald, 16 August), Iwould like to clarify that I have not writtenthe letter ‘Tough teachers’ (Herald, 13 Au-gust). Someone has impersonated me in aletter sent to the editor by email. Pleasenote that I have nothing to do with theletter in question.

H1N1 Flu dangerErrol D’Souza, Porvorim

The second wave of H1N1 Flu is doing therounds; 14 cases have been detected inGoa. But many Goans seem to be leastbothered. They cough, sneeze and spitopenly in public places. The new Panjimmarket is red with paan spit in everycorner.

I feel ashamed that I have to reprimandmy friends on this issue. I hope the mediawill create greater awareness on H1N1 Flu,in the interest of the general public. Afterall, prevention is better than cure.

Crab in the Basket

Chief Minister Digambar Kamat should takeimmediate steps to prevent large tracts ofland from being transferred to private cor-

porations in future, whereby neither the govern-ment nor the people of Goa will benefit in anyway, even as some individuals with vested interestswill end up having the last laugh.

In the name of national interest and with thebest intentions of the state at heart and mind,the Government of Goa had handed over land tocentral government agencies like the Oil and Nat-ural Gas Commission (ONGC). The MormugaoPort Trust (MPT), on the other hand, took overland that was occupied by the erstwhile colonialPortuguese regime.

In the case of MPT, instead of working in con-sonance with the state government in the bestinterest of Goans and the country, it has beenfunctioning as a state within a state, paying scantregard to the laws and rules of this state. Believeit or not, the MPT does not even bother to takethe mandatory permissions and licenses from thestate authorities when it has to put up construc-tions. Over and above this, it has the sheer au-dacity to object to acquisition of land at Velsaofor traditional fishermen, on the grounds thatthe area concerned comes within what they claimis their ‘jurisdiction’. The strange thing is that infact, the government is fully seized of this matter.It has even been debated at length ad nauseamin the august Legislative Assembly.

However, what is of much greater significancehere is the fact that the MPT is on its way to becorporatised, as has already been done with theJawaharlal Nehru Port (JNPT) in Navi Mumbai. Ifthis happens, then the huge tracts of land alreadyin MPT’s possession will pass on to a private cor-poration thereby denying Goans and even thestate government of any control over it. Worse,the enormous tracts of land and sea area thatthe MPT claims as its ‘jurisdiction’ will now becomethe fief of the private corporate entity. Therefore,the state government needs to act immediately

to ensure that the MPT retains only as much landas is required for its operations.

The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC)also has a large tract of land in its possessionnear Betul, which was apparently given to iton lease by the state government. But, underthe disinvestment policy of the Governmentof India, the ONGC is slowly being turnedinto a private entity. In such a situation, thelarge tracts of land that were given to theGovernment of India undertaking will end upbeing in the possession of a private corporation,which once again is not in the interest of Goaand Goans.

The Navy, too, continues to be on an acquisitionspree. The State government is always underpressure to give in to their demand, in the name

of national interest. However, when the Navykeeps poking spokes in any activity aimed at theState’s benefit, like the expansion of the Dabolimairport (it is pertinent to note that Dabolim wasnot a military facility but a civilian airport initially),it is time for the government to begin some hardbargaining with the Navy too, in the interest ofits citizens.

The adamant attitude of the Navy is visible tothe naked eye at Dabolim already, where the di-vider along the four lane highway has had to bereduced significantly, as the Naval authoritieswould not permit the demolition of a compoundwall of a grocery store.

The Navy apparently has now cast its eyes uponthe two islands of Mormugao and wants moreland at Bimbvel beach. The state government

would do well not to bow down to this demandof the Navy, as these islands can well be developedas a base for the offshore casinos that bring inrevenue to the state’s coffers. Besides, the Gov-ernment of Goa has already given the Anjediv Is-land to the Navy, without asking for any compensation.

All said and done, Goa is a small state (in fact,it is the country’s smallest state in terms of area).Given our size and the rate at which our popula-tion is increasing, we cannot afford to take up aphilanthropic attitude in dishing out land to any-body and everybody who seeks it. Therefore, Iearnestly the Chief Minister that he should gothrough any request for land with a fine-toothcomb and, at the same time if possible, reviewearlier decisions to ensure that only the quantumof required land is retained by these central gov-ernment agencies.

Permit me to cite the example of Zuari Indus-tries. In the name of industrialisation, they weregiven large tracts of land in the late ’60s and early’70s. In fact, they have so much excess land thatthey have now set up an engineering college cam-pus by using the same land that was given tothem to set up their industrial plant. If the sameland was to be provided for the engineering col-lege now, the state would have earned some sig-nificant revenue. Strangely, no seats are reservedfor Goan students in this prestigious college. Theobvious question that comes up when one seesthe situation is; what benefit do Goa and Goansget from such ventures?

It is in the light of all the above cases that Imake this humble request to the Chief Minister,the other Ministers and the MLAs of all partiesin the Legislative Assembly. Let us not repeat themistakes made by us earlier; rather, let us try torectify them if we can. And, in the future, let usinstead be not only judicious but even miserly,while giving our land to any agency.

(The author is a social activist and a former Minister forTourism, Government of Goa)

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Letters to the EditorLetter of the Day

Ravi didn’t feign illnessDr Francisco Colaço, Margao

I hold no brief for Home Minister Ravi Naik. Many may also look for ulterior motivesin my letter. But after gathering facts about Mr Naik’s illness (from first-hand sources)it is clear that all those who assumed that Ravi was ‘feigning’ illness to avoid the bruntof the assault by the Opposition and some of his own coalition MLAs in the Assembly,were wrong.

Mr Naik suffered from severe pain in the upper abdomen and lower chest. As hissymptoms were unrelenting, he flew to Mumbai. To compound matters, there was aconfusing array of diagnoses. Different doctors prescribed different lines of treatment.One misleading diagnosis even said he should immediately go for a second open-heart bypass surgery!

Weak and frail, Ravi then travelled from Mumbai to Bangalore. Here, Dr Vivek Jawali,the surgeon who had performed bypass surgery on Mr Naik three years ago, performedmeticulous tests and reassured him that all was well with his heart. Dr Jawali identifiedMr Naik’s problem as being caused by his gall bladder, which was then removed justin time by a Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy (keyhole surgery for gall bladder removal),and the Home Minister’s health was restored to normal within 48 hours.

That is how he could fly back to Goa from Bangalore and attend the LegislativeAssembly on the last few days.

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Paths of Wisdom

Goa must not give land to central government agencies being privatised, says MATANhY SAlDhANA

OHERALDO

We The PeoPle

Oscar Rebello is a good doctor; highly respected and successfulin his profession, and even more respected for all that hehas done outside of it. He has the goodwill of the people

of Goa, and their faith. And so, of course, it becomes really importantto tear him down. To destroy an organisation, you have to first de-stroy the individuals of the highest worth within it.

From the day the Goa Bachao Abhiyan (GBA) took to the streetsand proved that it could wield people power, there have beenendless efforts to tear it down, both from outside and from within.Members have had not only to struggle with keeping the movementgoing, but also with being regularly attacked. It is interesting tosee that the most vicious rumours have been aimed at the individualswho we most prize.

Oscar and ‘cash transactions’? That’s a laugh. Except that tiredof giving everything he has to the cause and repeatedly being pil-loried, Oscar isn’t laughing. He’s hurt and sick of the thankless jobof being an activist. He’s not the only one.

Dean D’Cruz put his office, his people, and his experience at thebeck and call of the GBA. Just the paper and printing bills alonecame to over a lakh of rupees, but never once did Dean hesitateto give whatever resources we needed. For that, he got labelledas a ‘part of the building lobby’. A man who lost clients by thedozen when he stood up against RP2012, who in public forumshas taken on builders and spoken out fearlessly, was tagged abuilding lobby sympathiser. Such is the ability of those who wantto believe the worst that this rumour still persists, in the face of

all logic and all facts. Ritu Prasad was at the receiving end of absurd allegations that

she was a BJP sympathiser. I guess that charge would have beenhard to press against someone with a surname like Rebello orPinto, so poor Prasad got to be the fall girl.

Patricia Pinto, on her part, slogged to try and get the RP2021 tobe a planning document that would preserve and not destroy. Forall her efforts, she got a barrage of abuse on how she had goneabout it the wrong way. Recently, she was appointed to the com-mittee to revise the TCP Act. But then, another so called activistcirculated an email that crudely questioned her abilities.Patricia resigned from the committee. And we lost someonewho would have been a true people’s representative; who would havefought to include provisions that would have served Goa well.

Please observe that the rumours serve their purpose. Worthypeople become disillusioned, feel hurt and step back. And so welose our best fighters, our most upright citizens, our real strengths.Those who would have served us well, are forced out of the fight.

Isn’t it time the people of Goa stopped helping these rumourmongers? Must you believe the worst of those who have servedyou so long and so well? ‘Ego hassles’? ‘Cash transactions’? ‘Partof the building lobby’? ‘Conflict of interest’? ‘In-fighting in theGBA’? ‘Political agendas’? ‘GBA members themselves are sayingthis’? Come on. If you refuse to step forward to fight the fight, atleast have the decency to give your support to those who do – andthat includes giving them your trust and not gossiping.

Even more insidious is the new rumour that is being circulatedto undermine the GBA – that the organisation is nothing at allwithout Oscar. I am sure there are many in Goa who wish this tobe true but, thank God for the future of Goa, it is not.

This rumour insults the rest of the members, who may not havechosen to have as high a profile, but have slogged for years. As thedead weight slowly drifted away, it came down to a handful ofpeople to keep the GBA going. And they have.

In the last year alone, the GBA started an initiative to teachpeople how to do socio-economic planning by organising workshopsat Nachinola and Padi, and releasing a special booklet that simplifiessuch planning. It led a procession to the TCP office and then to theChief Minister’s bungalow – a move that forced the CM to dust off RP2021.

This was followed by several morchas to the CM’s house, meetingswith the Chief Town Planner, endless visits to the TCP Department,and non stop insistence that the Regional Plan had to be notified.It put its weight behind several agitations against mega projectsin the South.

And, in the last few months, it has worked out rules and regu-lations and a strategy that will allow it to open up to new membersand new energies. The GBA is alive and well and working. Wantfinal proof? The rumours won’t stop. As long as the GBA is anactive force and a threat, you will continue to hear the worst about it.

But it is up to you to stop believing it, Goa. It is your belief inthese rumours that does the most damage. Stop proving the ‘crabin the basket’ adage true.

The Accidental Activist

By Venita Coelho

OHERALDO

A Mother’s RoleLord Krishna visited Queen Gandharito console her after the battle of Ku-rukshetra . She accused Him: “ThoughYou are God, how could You be so par-tial. You supported the Pandavas, butcould not save at least one son out ofthe hundred sons I bore.” Krishnareplied: “Sister, I am not responsiblefor the death of your children. Youare responsible.” Gandhari replied:“Krishna how can You be so hardhearted to accuse me thus?” Kr-ishna replied: “Sister, you gavebirth to a hundred sons, but didyou ever cast your loving glanceon at least one of them? You choseto remain blindfolded. You couldnot see for yourself how your sonswere faring. Your sons are indeedthe most unfortunate ones, becausethey could not enjoy their mother’stender care and affectionate glance.How could they grow into disciplined,dutiful and righteous heroes? Amother is the first teacher andpreacher”.

“Just think for yourself about thisthe situation and compare it with thatof Queen Kunti. Kuntî, from the mo-ment of her husba n d ’ s d e a t h ,brought up her sons with greatcare and affection. She was withthem both in the palace and in thehouse of wax as well. The Pandavaswould never do anything withoutthe blessings of their mother. Theycould earn My grace not becauseof their individual talents but be-cause of Kunti’s constant prayerto Me: ‘Oh Krishna! You aloneshould protect them.’ Those whoare not fortunate enough to enjoythe loving glance of their mother, can-not earn the divine vision, nor can theywin the love of God.”

Thus Lord Krishna enlightenedQueen Gandhari on the role of themother.

(Source : Chinna Katha)

100 Years Ago

17 August 1910

A good moveThe appointment of the Council for theState’s Decentralisation is providing theright impetus to hold a conference ofthe Press in this state of Goa.

Bills Pending It is reported that the Naval Minister isstill holding in his hands various con-tentious Bills to be tabled in Parliament,one of them being the Reorganisationof Military Services, while another is oncivil administration in overseas colonies.

Painter Murdered In Old Goa, in the vicinity of the Churchof Milagres, a painter from Ribandarcontracted to undertake painting workat the Se Cathedral, was found bru-tally murdered by someone for un-known motives.

PRIMEIRO DIARIO NAS COLONIAS PORTUGEZAS

Independence Day

On the eve of Independence Day, PWD Minister ChurchillAlemao proclaimed his own freedom. Speaking in afunction at Navelim, he categorically said that he will

contest the coming Assembly election from Navelim even ifthe Congress denies him a ticket. At another function inFatorda, he called upon his close comrade-in-arms, GPCCGeneral Secretary Vijay Sardessai, to get ready to contest ontwo tickets – the party ticket and what he called the “people’sticket”.

This is obviously Churchill’s new catchphrase. At both Nave-lim and Fatorda, the PWD Minister went on and on about therunning on the “people’s ticket”, in the event the Congressdenies him or any of his family members a Congress ticket.

According to Churchill, what is important in politics is thepeople and not the ticket: “I have no problem if someonecomes to Navelim, because there is the Congress ticket andthe people’s ticket. One should have two tickets if one aspiresto contest the polls…” he asserted.

The immediate provocation for Churchill’s histrionics, ob-viously, was former Chief Minister Luizinho Faleiro’s recentannouncement that if Congress President Sonia Gandhi askedhim, he would contest the next Assembly election, eitherfrom Navelim or Fatorda. Churchill even criticised Luizinhofor claiming credit for the new direct Vasco-Nagapattinamspecial trains for Vailankanni pilgrims, saying they had beenintroduced only because of the recent completion of a broadgauge line to Nagapattinam.

This is not the first time that Churchill has threatened toleave the Congress if he does not get his demands. Monthsearlier, he announced that his daughter Valanka would contestthe election from Benaulim, regardless of whether or not shegot the Congress ticket. He reiterated this on IndependenceDay, when he kick-started Valanka’s election campaign byopening her office in Benaulim. Valanka too asserted thatshe would contest the coming Assembly polls from Benaulimwith “people’s support” irrespective of the Congress party’sdecision on the ticket.

There is a clear discernable pattern in Churchill’s dalliancewith the Congress. A year or two before the election, hestarts expressing open dissatisfaction with the party. The fric-tion gets noticeably worse. Then, about six months beforethe poll, some of Churchill’s supporters get together andform a party; or identify a suitably moribund party that theycan take over. About a month or so before the election,Churchill resigns from the Congress and takes leadership ofthis new party. He exploit the people’s dissatisfaction withthe Congress to gain their sympathy. Then, after he getselected − about a year into the new government’s term inoffice − he negotiates a sweetheart deal with the Congressthat includes an extremely lucrative ministry for him, andmerges his party into the Congress.

Churchill, of course, sees things quite differently. He saidon Sunday that local party leaders had been “acting as thorns”and “forcing me to leave the party in the past”. Be that as itmay, the fact is that every time he leaves the Congress, heswears before the people on everything that is holy that hewill “never” return to the Congress. And, without fail, everytime, he has broken his promise.

Are events now going to once more follow this familiarpath? It appears that they will, unless the Congress HighCommand buckles at his threats and gives in to this blackmail.The point is that Churchill is now able to call the shots becausehe has the most lucrative portfolio in the cabinet, and expectsto build a huge war chest by the time the election comesaround in two years. It is for the Congress to assert itself andact now in this matter, to firmly restore party disci-pline. Otherwise, events will inexorably follow thepre-determined path.

Protect and Preserve Our Land

INDIA Pg 9GOA, TUESDAY, 17 AUGUST, 2010

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Underdevelopment in the Garb of Development

By Walter D’Souza

Independence!’ ‘Independence!’ ‘Independence!’. It seemsto be very funny that these words are used freely by politi-cians, whereas the very same words do not hold water for

the people of Mopa and surrounding villages, where the in-ternational airport is on the verge of becoming a reality. Tothese people, it spells death.

What is freedom? Does it not include freedom of speechand freedom of having a right to livelihood? That is why thetalk of independence seems to have become an empty sloganto the villagers of Mopa. When they protest against Mopaairport, why does the government pays no heed to them?Why do the MLA’s behave like inactive bystanding spectators?Why do they deny their basic rights and livelihood? Why donone of the MLAs lend a listening ear to their cry?

Such an attitude gives credence to the narrative that ourMLAs and their cronies have a big share in the huge bootyfrom the project. This is why they perhaps cannot identifywith their people’s aspirations. This government is not ofthe ordinary ‘aam admi’, but of the rich ‘khaas admi’!

Is the government not robbing the natural resources ofthe people of Mopa? Like the capitalists, is the governmentnot guilty of trading on the natural habitat of the people?The conversion of agricultural land into an airport will certainlybring huge dividends to the government, but at the cost ofdisplacing the simple people of Mopa and surrounding areas,by alienating them from their traditional livelihoods.

How sustainable is this conversion of the natural source oflivelihood into a Babu culture of the bureaucratic-driven rev-enue-leaking source of jobs to the locals? How much revenuewill stay for the people of Mopa who, at present, are themasters of their own destiny while they practice agriculturein their own lands? Will it not amount to surrender of thisautonomy and embracement of a slavery that comes in thegarb of an airport?

What jobs will the airport offer the poor, unskilled and un-educated people of Mopa? The argument that the airportwill develop the people is false propaganda. It offers nothingless than death and destruction for the people of Mopa.

This propaganda of development has invented the under-development of the village of Mopa. The people of the placewill simply carry the weight of so-called development thatwill only leave them behind, as the blind march of so-calledprogress will crush them by displacing them from their sourceof livelihood.

If the government is serious and is genuinely interested inthe well-being of the people, why does it impose a mode ofdevelopment where the people cannot become equal partners?Will not the lack of skills and expertise of the aviation industrybecome a divide that cannot be bridged by the people in anydiscernible near future? By the time they become fit enoughto overcome the divide, will they be not left behind by thosewho already have grabbed the lion’s share of the cake?

The underdevelopment engineered by the government inthe grab of development exposes the hypocrisy of the socalled ‘aam admi’ government. The development that leavesbehind the local ‘aam admi’ is indeed clearly anti-people andis rightly resisted by the people.

If the government really wants to develop the village ofMopa and its surroundings, why does it not promote horti-culture, agriculture, handicrafts etc, which would benefitlocals? If the Government is true to its claims, why can’t it de-velop the people by helping the poor agricultural tenants tobecome owners of their lands?

It is glaringly clear that the airport does not come to developthe people but to prey on their land resources. The lands ofthe poor farmers have become the raw material that will bechurned out into an airport, only to increase the profit marginsof those hungry predators.

It is even more amazing how the Opposition, which roarslike a lion on every other issue in the Assembly, chooses toremains a silent lamb when it comes to the Mopa airport?The silence of the Opposition is indeed disturbing. Equallydisturbing is the double-speak of a certain pro-Dabolim MLAwho had won his seat purely by politicising the Mopa airportissue.

All these leaders seem to have joined the league and ranksof the hungry predators. It is unfortunate that our ChiefMinister and the 40 thieves are busy plotting underdevelop-ment in the guise of development. Why can’t our politicians,both ruling and opposition, take a leaf from book of RailwayMinister Mamata Banerjee, who drove away underdevelopmentthat came to colonise Singur under the guise of the industrialplant of Tata Nano?

Goans refuse to be fooled by this seductive propaganda ofdevelopment. The architects of underdevelopment who hidetheir vicious plot under the cover of development are finallyexposed. We refuse to accept their pseudo-development andre-claim our right to say NO!

(The author is a seminarian at the Rachol Seminary)

PTI

LEH, AUG 16

With about 6,000 Army person-nel involved in rescue and reliefoperations here following thecloudburst and flash floods,Chief of Army Staff General V KSingh today paid a visit to over-see the progress.

General Singh arrived by aspecial aircraft from New Delhiand visited a relief camp atop ahill run by his force.

The relief camp has been setup near the worst hit Choglam-sar area, where a number of peo-ple are still feared to be buriedunder slush that rolled downthe hills following the cloud-burst on the intervening nightof Aug 5 and 6.

The phenomenon has claimedover 200 lives so far.

Interacting with the survivors,General Singh assured the peo-ple of all help and cooperationby the Army.

When the sarpanch of the vil-lage informed him that the cloud-burst and subsequent flash floodsthat brought slush and bouldershad blocked the 'nallah' (drain)running along the village, GeneralSingh asked his officers to get theArmy Engineers Corps workingon it.

The General also visited the Mil-itary Hospital, where he interactedwith the patients, both civilian andArmymen who had sustained in-juries during the calamity or duringrescue operations.

He was later given a detailed brief-

Army Chief oversees relief work in cloudburst-hit areas

Rahul's visit, a healing touch for Leh victims!

PTI

LEH, AUG 16

Rahul Gandhi's whirlwind visit to Leh today won many a heart with some of the survivors of thedevastating flash floods banking on his trip to provide the much needed healing touch.

Dressed in his trademark white 'kurta pyjama', the 40-year-old Congress leader during his five-hour visit tried to pep up the spirits of people recovering from the trauma and empathised withthem.

Rahul's visit came a day before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's trip here and ten days afterthe natural disaster had struck this picturesque place.

He visited various relief centres set up by the Army, ITBP and Border Roads Organisation andmade an instant connect, especially with the youngsters.

"I am very happy that he came here and spoke to us. I believe that he will help us as promised,"said Jigmat

Yangcham, a first year psychology student of Leizer Joldan Memorial College said.Asked whether she felt happy about meeting Rahul the politician or Rahul as a person she said

"both".Yangcham, who was crying when she first spoke to Rahul was all smiles by the time he left.Rahul spent at least 45 minutes at the relief camp that he visited talking to a large number of

people present. He shook hands and freely put his arms around the shoulders of others.He sat on the plain dusty ground and listened to the villagers pouring their hearts out. He

went under the barricades to visit a tent set up for the victims.At times, he could be seen having an intense conversation with children. He even spoke in

English to a child and patted his head when the child said he wants to be a teacher when hegrows up.

Sporting a stubble, Rahul enthralled them with his plain speaking and rapport buildingskills.

"He is just like any of us. Remove the security and he looks like any other regular person," saidTaki, a Taxi driver who waited for over an hour to catch a glimpse of the Congress leader.

While Rahul shied away from the media, repeated requests for a quick interaction was metwith only a smile.

ing of the relief operations by LtGeneral S K Singh, General Officer

Commanding, 14 Corps at theheadquarters here.

Gen Singh also carried out an

aerial survey of the calamity af-fected areas before flying outto Srinagar.

Nearly 10 Armymen havebeen killed in the cloudburst at

Leh and other areas of the re-gion while 33 personnel, sweptaway in flash floods that strucka camp near Siachen glacier, areyet to be traced.

DELHI BUREAU

AUG 16

KOCHI, AUG 16 Going one stepfurther in strengthening the se-curity of the Indian coastline,the Navy is planning to carryout the first-ever coastal securityexercise covering the entire westcoast of the country.

The Naval headquarters isyet to take a final decision onthe timing of the exercise, de-signed to test the security ofthe entire west coast - fromthe Indo-Pak border to the Ker-ala coast.

Initially, there were plans toconduct the major exercise afterthe third edition of Triton seriesof exercises to be conducted inOctober-November 2010.

Now, the Naval headquartersis actively considering anotherpossibility of conducting the ex-ercise along with Triton III. How-ever, a final decision on themode of conducting, timing andother related factors is yet tobe taken.

“It would be a massive exer-

cise covering the entire westcoast - starting from the Gujaratcoast, going through the coast-line of Maharashtra, Goa, Kar-nataka, Kerala along with theLakshadweep Islands. The ex-ercise will have the participa-tion of both the Western andSouthern Naval Commands, theCoast Guard districts in Gujarat,Mumbai, Kerala along with thelocal police and other coastalagencies. The Air Force and theArmy will also take part in themassive security workout. Itwill be a first-of-its-kind securitydrill in the country,” said topsources.

Considering the massive na-ture of the exercise, which in-volves four states and two JOCs(Joint Operation Centre) andmany other agencies, the exer-cise would be a major affair.“The Naval headquarters is con-sidering different possibilitieson how to conduct the exercise.A joint team of officials fromthe Southern and Western NavalCommands would be formed to

conduct the exercise,” sourcessaid.

Discussions are currently onto assess the positive and neg-ative aspects of conducting theexercise along with Triton III.The issue of having an exerciseimmediately after another is alsobeing discussed.

If the exercise is being con-ducted along with Triton III inOctober-November 2010, itwould be given a different name.However, if it’s going to be acompletely different exercisefrom Triton, it would be con-ducted sometime in the begin-ning of 2011.

Agencies like Fisheries, Ports,Customs, Harbour Engineering,Coastal Shipping and Inland Nav-igation; Directorate-General ofLighthouses and Light Shipsalong with Kadalora JagrataSamitis will take part in the ex-ercise.

The concept is to check theefficiency of the existing meas-ures and to plug the probableholes in security.

Navy to conduct coastal security exercise cover

PTI

NEW DELHI, AUG 16

The BJP today attacked PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh for"overlooking" Parliament on theCommonwealth Games contro-versy while making a statementoutside it on the issue, sayingit was "clearly a breach of priv-ilege".

BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap

Rudy told reporters here thatthe Prime Minister had "beensilent" on the issue of corruptionin CWG when his party andother opposition raised it for15 days in Parliament and hadheld a meeting to make hisstatement.

The Prime Minister, whochaired a meeting to reviewpreparations for the Games onSaturday, had while clipping thewings of organising committee

Suresh Kalmadi given overridingpowers to a Committee of Sec-retaries, headed by Cabinet Sec-retary, to supervise preparationsfor the October event.

Rudy said, "This is clearly abreach of Parliament as the ses-sion is in progress now and thePrime Minister has overlookedParliament to make his state-ments outside it."

Rudy said besides the Oppo-sition parties, including the BJP,which had raised the issue andcriticised what was going on inthe name of CWG, some Con-gress members too had doneso.

"Instead of taking Parliamentinto confidence, the Prime Min-ister preferred to make com-ments outside Parliament andgiven statements on the issue,"he said.

PM's remarks breachof parliamentaryprivilege: Rudy

n Prime Ministerhad "been silent"on the issue ofcorruption inCWG when hisparty and otheropposition raisedit for 15 days inParliament andhad held ameeting to makehis statement.

Rapid Action Force personnel at Tengpora bypass in Srinagar on Monday where demonstrators were

PTI

JAMMU, AUG 16

The nearly 50-hour-long en-counter between militants andsecurity forces in Rajouri districtended today in which a Lashkar-e-Toiba militant and an Armyjawan were killed and three oth-ers, including a major, injured.

A total of three LeT militants,believed to be involved in theattack on a bus in Rajouri lastweek, have been killed in theencounter which started whensecurity forces launched a searchoperation in Shara Wali forestbelt in the district on Saturday,Senior Superintendent of Police,Rajouri, R K Jalla told PTI.

The deceased Army jawan hasbeen identified as Sepoy S K

Singha, while the injured havebeen identified as Major SusheelMahapatra of 38 Rashtriya Rifles,Special Police official IftikharMalik and civilian Abdul Razak.

The LeT militant killed todayhas been identified as Zargar.

Two LeT militants were killedand constable Nasir Ahmed wasinjured in the gunbattle in thearea yesterday. The militantswere identified as Sajjad Kash-miri and Abu Qamran.

The slain militants were be-lieved to be part of a group in-volved in the attack on apassenger bus at Der-Ki-Gali areain the district on Wednesdaylast in which two civilians werekilled and 18 others, includingtwo jawans, injured.

Rajouri encounter ends, another militant,

Army jawan killed

Farooq critical ofsecurity around

son OmarPTI

NEW DELHI, AUG 16

Union Minister Farooq Abdullahtoday was critical of the securityapparatus in the wake of the in-cident of a shoe being flung athis son and Jammu and KashmirChief Minister Omar Abdullah.

The incident showed the se-curity apparatus is "nalayak"(useless), he told reporters out-side Parliament House.

A suspended police head con-stable had thrown a shoe at Omarduring the Independence Day func-tion in Srinagar yesterday followingwhich 15 policemen including fourofficers were suspended.

Farooq Abdullah, at the sametime, sought to take the incidentin his stride, saying his son hadjoined an elite club.

LS adjourns tillnoon over

farmers protestsin UP

PTI

NEW DELHI, AUG 16

BJP and SP members todaystalled the Question Hour in theLok Sabha protesting land ac-quisition from farmers in UttarPradesh in which three personswere killed.

Barely minutes after it metfor the day, the House was ad-journed for an hour by SpeakerMeira Kumar.

SP and BJP members rushedto the well raising slogansagainst the killing of three per-sons in Mathura and Aligarh dur-ing protests over land acquisitionfor Yamuna Expressway.

The Speaker took up thelisted questions, but nothingcould be heard in the din.

Kumar tried to bring theHouse to order but with themembers unrelenting, she ad-journed the House till noon.

The farmers have been hold-ing demonstrations for nearlythree weeks near Aligarh de-manding compensation at therate paid to Noida and GreaterNoida farmers.

PTI

KOCHI, AUG 16

Describing PDP leader, Abdul NasserMadani, an accused in the 2008Bangalore blast case, as a 'habitualterrorist', Vishwa Hindu Parishad(VHP) International President, AshokSingal, today said those not allowinghim to be arrested 'want to perpe-trate terrorism'.

'Madani is a habitual terroristand those not allowing him tobe arrested. What do they want?.They want terrorism to perpe-trate', Singal told reporters atthe sidelines of a function here.

More and more problems arebeing created in the country asterrorists are being allowed tohave a free hand, he said.

Kerala Chief minister, V SAchutanandan had said separatis-tism was a great problem in thecountry. 'Madani is a terrorist.

They are trying to save these

people. Why? Only because theyare vote hungry.... More andmore problems are being cre-ated in the country as they areallowing terrorists to have a freehand in the country', he alleged.

Referring to the Afzal Guru,who was convicted of conspiracyin the Deceber 2001 attack onParliament and was sentencedto death in 2004, Singal said thesentence was yet to be carriedout. 'they (government) was suc-cumbing to the greed of muslimvotes. This greed of muslim voteswill take the country to dogs'.

Prime Minister ManmohanSingh and Kerala Chief MinisterAchutanandan are 'pamperingthose people who are engagedin separtist and terrorist activi-ties. Same is happening in Kash-mir. They want to give autonomyto Kashmir, which belongs tothe whole country', he said.

VHP: Madani is habitual terrorist

PTINEW DELHI, AUG 16

The images of Marilyn Monroe with herblowing skirt, James Dean walking throughthe rain drenched streets of Times Squarepuffing a cigarette and Clark Gable in a pen-sive mood during the shooting of 'Misfits',are all part of Hollywood lore.

And now these images from the archivesof Magnum, which captured some of thebiggest icons in tinseltown in 'behind thescenes' moments, are on display in the cap-ital in an exhibition to celebrates 100 yearsof Hollywood.

They are part of a 10-day-long exhibition'At the Movies-Magnum ke Tasveer'.

The photographs from 1940 to 2000 giveglimpses of Hollywood's golden age and itsbiggest icons, be it Swedish actress IngridBergman in a contemplative mood on theset of 'The Arch of Triumph' in 1946 or Hol-

lywood pin-up Brigitte Bardot posing defi-antly for the cameras during the filming ofFrench film 'La bride sur le cou' in 1960.

The collection is from the archives ofMagnum Photos, a photographic coopera-tive founded by noted French photographerHenri Cartier Bresson, Swedish photogra-pher Robert Capa, George Rodger and DavidSeymour.

Indian cinema legend Satyajit Ray is alsopart of this exhibition, who was pho-tographed by Marc Riboud during the shoot-ing of his 1956 film 'Aparajito'.

Other photographs include Americanactor Gary Cooper by Capa, Paul Newman's2000 photograph by Bruce Davidson, Eliz-abeth Taylor during the shooting of 1959film 'Suddenly Last Summer' by Burt Glinn,David Hurn's photographs of Italian film-maker Roberto Rossellini and Sophia Lauren,Dennis Stock's iconic image of James Dean

walking the street at Times Square and El-liott Erwitt's Marilyn Monroe.

Magnum's archive represent the historyof cinema with it's photographers workingon fim sets and capturing behind-the-scenesmoments by photographing film directors,actors and actresses on and off the camerafor over 60 years.

The exhibition inaugurated by yester-year's film star

Sharmila Tagore were brought to Indiaby Tasveer art gallery and jewellery brandGanjam.

"It is great to have these Hollywood iconsin India.

They are not only about Hollywood butwe have also included images from French,Iran and Indian cinema. We are planning totake it to different cities including Kolkata,Mumbai and Ahmedabad," Abhishek Poddarof Tasveer said.

The golden era of Hollywood comes to India

PTI

MUMBAI, AUG 16

The Hindi remake of 'Shik-shanacha Aaicha Gho', beinghelmed by Mahesh Manjrekarmay see national award winningactress Kangana Ranuat pairedopposite Salman Khan.

"I have asked Kangana for thefilm which is a remake of theMarathi movie, 'ShikshanachaAaicha Gho'," Salman told PTI.

The Hindi version too will behelmed by Manjrekar and maystar Salman and Kangana in piv-otal roles.

The original movie, which wasreleased in 2009, dealt with phys-ical, mental and psychologicalpressures on school children.

The movie is about parentsbelief that a child's intellect isonly reflected in their mark-sheets and focuses on a father-son relationship in this context.

"I have suggested a few changeshere and there. Since it is a remake,the film needs to be larger thanlife… so we are still working onthe project," Salman said.

Soon after Kangana's appear-ance as a guest on Salman's re-

ality show 'Dus Ka Dum' in Julylast year, the actor on his bloghad praised Kangana for her sim-plicity and acting skills.

During the show, Salman alsoexpressed his desire to workwith Kangana.

Shedding her serious on-screen image, Kangana is tryingher hands at comedy. The ac-tress has two-comedy films re-leasing this year, Anees Bazmee's'No Problem' and Anand Rai's'Tanu Weds Manu'.

Kangana may star in Hindi remake of

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ISLAMABAD, AUG 16

Former P res ident Per vezMusharraf, currently living inLondon on a self-imposed exile,will not visit Pakistan for thelaunch of his All Pakistan MuslimLeague party in September asdecided earlier, according to amedia report on Monday.

Sources close to the formermilitary ruler were quoted bythe Daily Times as saying thatMusharraf had decided to steerhis party from London and thathe would not come to Pakistanduring this year because of"some formidable challengesand serious risks he would beexposed to here".

The moves come a week afterthe Sindh High Court declaredhim a proclaimed offender fol-lowing his non-appearance be-fore it despite several notices.

The sources told the news-paper that a core team of legaland political experts is finalisingthe manifesto of the newlyformed APML and the party willbe launched after Eid-ul-Fitr in

London, Pakistan, Dubai and theUS.

Some of Musharraf's aides hadrecently announced that hewould return to Pakistan laterthis year to lead the APML.

Over the past few days,Musharraf has been seen in anadvertisement aired on Pakistaninews channels in which he an-nounced a donation of Rs 1crore for victims of the unprece-dented floods in Pakistan.

Musharraf said the amountwill be handed over to APML of-ficials so that it could be usedin a transparent manner to helpflood victims.

Asked about the requirementof an APML office in Dubai, thesources said the Middle Easterncity and London were politicalhubs for exiled or self-exiledPakistani politicians and otherpersonalities to meet their sup-porters.

The APML office in Dubai willbe a special venue for Musharrafto meet his fans, they said.

A decision was made to setup a party office in the US be-

cause Musharraf had some closefriends and fans in Dallas andthese people want to run a partychapter there and play an activerole in Pakistani politics throughtheir financial, moral and polit-ical support to the APML, thesources said.

The APML was founded inKarachi earlier this year and theparty was registered in allprovinces of Pakistan by Saif AliKhan and Maj Gen (retired)Rashid Quraishi, two of Mushar-raf's closest aides.

It was named after the his-torical All India Muslim League,which is credited with winningindependence for Pakistan.

The party has chapters inBritain, the US, Canada and theUAE.

Musharraf, who resigned asPresident in 2008 to avoid im-peachment by the Pakistan Peo-ple's Party-led government, hasbeen living outside the countrysince last year.

He left Pakistan after a slewof legal and police cases werefiled against him.

Musharraf not to visit Pakfor his party launch

Work on new

uranium plant

to begin in

early 2011: IranAFP

TEHRAN, AUG 16

Iran is to start building its thirduranium enrichment plant inearly 2011, a top official said,defying world powers whichhave slapped new sanctions onTehran for pursuing the sensitivenuclear work.

Iran's atomic chief Ali AkbarSalehi, cited on state televisionlate yesterday, said the searchfor sites for 10 new enrichmentfacilities "is in its final stages.

"The construction of one ofthese will begin by the end ofthe (current Iranian) year (toMarch 2011) or the start of nextyear, inshallah (God willing)."

Iran is already enriching ura-nium at its main plant in thecentral city of Natanz and isbuilding a second enrichmentfacility inside a mountain atFordo, southwest of Tehran.

The country's hardline Presi-dent Mahmoud Ahmadinejadannounced the planned con-struction of 10 new enrichmentplants late in 2009 after Tehranwas censured by the UN atomicwatchdog over building theFordo facility.

Reuters

BANGKOK, AUG 16

Thailand lifted a state of emer-gency in three provinces todaybut kept the controversial se-curity law in place in seven oth-ers, including Bangkok, whereit said the situation remainedvolatile.

The emergency decree hasbeen in place since April, givingsecurity forces broad power todeal with anti-governmentprotests that spiralled into theworst political violence in mod-ern Thai history and left 91 peo-ple dead and nearly 2,000wounded.

Security and government of-ficials have continually warnedof potential unrest in Bangkokand some provinces as reasonto keep the decree in place, de-spite pressure from rightsgroups, businesses and tour op-erators to revoke it.

''While there are still rum-blings in these provinces, the

premier views that existing lawis enough to maintain orderthere,'' Panitan Wattanayagorn,deputy secretary-general toPrime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva,told Reuters after a cabinetmeeting.

The intractable, five-year cri-sis in Southeast Asia's second-biggest economy has eased offsince May 19, when troops en-gaged in six days of bloody con-frontations forcibly dispersedthousands of ''red shirt'' protest-ers demanding new elections.

The Thai stock market is up17 per cent this year at a two-year high, despite large foreignselling during the unrest, whilethe government and economistshave forecast growth of up to 8per cent this year.

Foreign inflows helped lift thebaht to a 28-month high lastweek and consumer confidencerose sharply in July, showing theeffects of the political violencewere short-lived.

However, reconcil iationamong powerful groups remainselusive and many Thais expecttensions to resurface in future.

The provinces where the de-cree were lifted included one inthe northeast and two populartourist destinations in the north,Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai.Tourism accounts for six percentof Thailand's economy and em-ploys 1.8 million people directly.

The state of emergency banspolitical gatherings of more thanfive people and gives the gov-ernment powers to impose cur-few and censor media anddetain suspects without chargefor 30 days.

Areas still under emergencyrule are three provinces in thenortheast, deemed hotbeds ofanti-government activism, aswell as Bangkok and its sur-rounding areas, which wouldallow security forces to blockwould-be demonstrators fromentering the city.

Thailand lifts emergency rule in 3 more provinces

Reuters

KABUL, AUG 16

Afghan police have seized nearly17 tonnes of ammonium nitrate,a key component in roadsidebombs that are one of the mainweapons used by insurgentsagainst Afghan and foreigntroops, a government officialsaid on Monday.

While the discovery of cachesof materials used to makebombs is not unusual, this wasthe largest find of its kind sincethe chemical was banned earlierthis year.

Home-made roadside bombsare among the most effectiveweapons used by the Talibanand other insurgents. Independ-ent monitoring website iCasu-alties.org estimates roadsidebombs, or improvised explosivedevices, have accounted forabout 60 percent of fatalitiesamong foreign troops over thepast three years.

The total number of foreigntroops killed in Afghanistansince the Taliban were oustedin 2001 topped 2,000 at theweekend. June was the worstmonth of the conflict for foreignforces, with 102 killed.

The cache was uncovered onSunday by Afghan border policewho found 16,819 kg of the ma-terial in southern Kandaharprovince, the heartland of the

Taliban and a focal point of theinsurgency, Interior Ministryspokesman Zemarai Basharysaid.

He said four suspects werearrested, including two Pakistaninationals.

The seizure was the biggestof its kind since President HamidKarzai banned the use, produc-tion, storage or sale of ammo-nium nitrate – commonly usedas fertiliser – early this year.

The use of ammonium nitratein roadside bombs has spreadas a resurgent Taliban movedout of the strongholds in thesouth and east in recent years,especially into the once-calmnorth where pockets of resist-ance have sprung up.

Finding and clearing suchbombs is one of the mostpainstaking and time-consumingtasks for foreign and Afghantroops, with bombs often clev-erly hidden on dirt tracks, dryriver beds or even under tarmacroads.

Civilians are also oftem vic-tims of such bombs.

A UN report last week saidcivilian casualties had risen 31percent in the first six monthsof this year compared with sameperiod last year, including 1,271killed. Of those, the Taliban andother insurgents were blamedfor 76 percent of casualties.

Afghan cops seize17 tonnes of

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hiding in

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WASHINGTON, AUG 16

Al-Qaeda chief Osama BinLaden, the world's most wantedterrorist, is probably hiding inthe remote mountainous re-gions of Pakistan, but no oneknows where he actually is, atop US General has said.

"I think he remains an iconicfigure, and I think capturing orkilling Osama bin Laden is stilla very, very important task forall of those who are engaged incounter terrorism around theworld," General David PetraeusCommander of US-led NATOforces in Afghanistan told NBCtelevision's "Meet the Press"when asked about the Osama'swhereabouts.

"I don't think anyone knowswhere Osama bin Laden is. Thefact that it took him four weeksto get a congratulatory mes-sage out, or a message of con-dolence in, say, in the courseof the last year or so whenwe've seen these, indicates, lit-erally, how far buried he is prob-ably in the very, very mostremote and mountainous re-gions," he said.

In the interview, that wasrecorded in Kabul on Friday andaired in the US yesterday, Pe-traeus said that there is unlikelyto be any possibility of peacetalks with Mullah Omar – theTaliban leader.

Reuters

BEIJING, AUG 16

China lacks the power to blockplanned US naval exercises near

US drill bolsters case for stronger China military

Reuters

RAMALLAH, West Bank, Aug 16

The Palestinian Authority'sbudget is in the red and donorsshould make good on pledgesto fill the gap, said Norway's for-eign minister, who chairs adonor group that backs thePalestinian government.

Jonas Gahr Stoere also saidhe was optimistic face-to-facePalestinian-Israeli talks wouldresume soon, restarting thepeace process his countryhelped to launch 17 years ago.

Cash for Palestinians needed to support peace: Norway

''If these negotiations getgoing now, I think that shouldbe at the same time a messageto donors – and I would in par-ticular address donors in theArab world, the Gulf world – toseize this opportunity,'' he toldReuters in an interview in Ra-mallah late yesterday.

''According to the accountswe run, the budget support toPrime Minister (Salam) Fayyad'sgovernment is running into thered, and that is high-risk,'' Stoeresaid. ''The day will come thatthe Palestinians can do withoutdonors.... But that moment isnot now.''

He described the gap be-tween donor pledges and actualcontributions as ''important'' butdeclined to give figures.

Fayyad's Ramallah-basedPalestinian Authority has pro-jected a budget shortfall of 1.2 billiondollar for this fiscal year, or 16 percentof the territories' GDP.

Any donor failure to makegood on pledges would derailefforts ''to boost the growth ofthe Palestinian economy'', Stoeresaid. ''I hope that by Septemberwe are able to demonstrate that

the budget support is accordingto expectations.''

Donor aid for Fayyad's gov-ernment has helped drive eco-nomic growth in the West Bank,which Stoere put at 10 percent.

Support for the Palestiniansis vital to what Stoere describedas a ''bottom-up'' approach tosettling the six-decade-oldPalestinian-Israeli conflictthrough building ''accountableand transparent Palestinians in-stitutions''.

He described the negotiationprocess which the United Statesis trying to revive through thelaunch of direct talks as the top-down part of the equation.

Norway played a vital role inlaunching the dip lomaticprocess by hosting secret Israeli-Palestinian negotiations thatproduced the Oslo Accords, aninterim peace deal, in 1993.

''When you analyse it, it'sgoing to be very complicated.Both parties have internal com-plications. But when I speak tothe (Israeli) prime minister, Ispeak to the (Palestinian) pres-ident, my sense is that the al-ternative is worse,'' he said.

Reuters

MANILA, AUG 16

The new Philippine governmentis optimistic of securing a lastingpeace with Muslim separatists,and its chief negotiator said onMonday a review of the processwas almost complete and talkscould resume in the near future.

Marvic Leonen also said hewas not unduly concerned byreports the Moro Islamic Liber-ation Front (MILF) was buildingup its strength in case of a break-down in negotiations.

''The MILF is a military force,and of course it is understand-able for them to say they aretraining their fighters,'' he toldforeign correspondents, addingthe Philippine military was alsomodernising its equipment.

The MILF, the country's largestMuslim guerrilla group, has beenfighting for a separate homelandin southern Mindanao island forthe past four decades. Morethan 120,000 people have diedand 2 million displaced in the

rebellion.Philippine governments and

the MILF have been in stop-startnegotiations since 1997, but anacceptable political deal remainelusive.

Leonen said the review or-dered by President BenignoAquino III was not aimed atrestarting the peace processfrom scratch, but to give thenew team an understanding ofwhat had been achieved in try-ing to end the insurgency.

''Nine years under a differentadministration; you cannot justexpect a two-month old gov-ernment to simply take the dri-ver's seat immediately after thatnine years,'' said Leonen.

He indicated internationalparties would remain involvedin the peace process, but didnot provide details. Malaysia hasfacilitated talks since 2001 andthe rebels want them to stay onin that role.

The government has said it

was keen for talks to restartafter the holy month of Ra-madan, and Leonen noted thatwhile it had named some of itspanel, the MILF had not yetnamed any of its team.

Philippines keen to restart talks with Muslim rebels

Cow slaughter:Yeddyurappaslams JDS for opposing ban

PTI

BANGALORE, AUG 16

Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa today slammed JDSsupremo H D Devegowda and the Congress for opposing the Billbanning cow slaughter and expressed confidence on getting Pres-ident Pratibha Patil's approval on the issue.

"It was the dream of Mahatma Gandhi to ban cow slaughter. Itis already in force in seven-eight states. Supreme Court has alsoupheld (ban on cow-slaughter)", he told reporters here.

"The minorities are not opposed to the ban on cow slaughter", he said.Yeddyurappa alleged Devegowda and the Congress were opposing

the Bill only to "please minorities" and flayed them for goingagainst the "beliefs" of the majority Hindus.

He said he has explained to the President about the bill andwas confident that she will give her assent.

On Congress' recent 'Bellary Chalo' Padayatra over illegal miningand the public meeting held in the mine-rich town, Yeddyurappasaid sarcastically that the Congress high-command was happy withstate leaders "for coming out of slumber".

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its shores, but those drills riskdeepening distrust of Washing-ton and bolstering pressure fora stronger

Chinese military, a Chineseadmiral said on Monday.

Rear Admiral Yang Yi, a seniorresearcher at the National De-fence University in Beijing, toldReuters that China was also ''con-cerned'' about joint exercisesthis week between thousandsof US and South Koreantroops.

Those mainly land-basedexercises could ''inflame''neighbouring North Koreaand fuel regional tensions,said Yang.

However, China sees a muchmore direct threat in Pentagonplans for a new joint naval ex-ercises with ally South Koreathat would send a US aircraftcarrier into the Yellow Sea, be-tween China and the Koreanpeninsula, he said.

The Pentagon has not givena date for these exercises, whichYang said would be provoca-tively close to north China's po-litical and economic heartland.

''If the United States does

enter the Yellow Sea, China can'tpossibly use military force toblock it. That could risk a mili-tary clash, and that would beunwise for China and the UnitedStates,'' Yang said in the tele-phone interview.

''But if the United States in-sists on going ahead with this,that will be dropping a stoneon its own foot. It will damagelong-term relations betweenChina and the US.

Yang's comments, along witha volley of commentaries inChina's main military newspaper,including one written by him,suggest friction over the navalexercises will continue to un-settle ties, while falling short ofconfrontation at sea.

''How will China's militarystrategic planners view this?When the United States preparesto use military might to threatenChina's national interests, whatcan we do? We must enhanceour military strength,'' Yangsaid.

Karnad threatens to quit of Liberation I had hoped to celebrate,” Karnad said.

Kamat, in his Independence Day address, had said that Goa willbe guided to the pinnacle of glory in the next 25 years by followingthe road map prepared by the Golden Jubilee Development Coun-cil.

The chief minister further elaborated on Goa Vision 2035, thevision document being prepared by the government for Goa toprepare a road map for 25 years ahead.

When contacted by Herald Kamat said he has no knowledge ofthe issue.

“I am in Hyderabad for some work and as such I have no knowl-edge of any such letter,” Kamat said in a telephonic conversa-tion.

No setback area...Recently, bowing to representations and the protests, the

chief minister announced that the RoW would be kept at 45meters wherever possible while widening the NH17 andNH4A, and it would be restricted to 35 m in densely populatedareas.

What is interesting to note here is that the PWD has moved afile pertaining to fixing of setback area but the government hasbeen dilly dallying on the matter.

“The file was moved two years ago to fix the setback as perHigh Court order but for one reason or the other the file keepson coming back from the secretariat,” officials stated.

The PWD has proposed that the setback for village roads bemaintained 10 meters and RoW be seven meters.

For MDRs, the PWD wants setbacks and RoW of 18 and 15meters respectively while for State highways it is proposed to befixed at 23 and 15 meters respectively.

“For the national highways the decision on setback and ROWshas to be taken by government and the NHAI but we have proposed45 and 40 meters respectively,” the officials said.

When contacted by Herald PWD Chief Engineer J N Chimulkarpreferred to keep mum on the issue.

“We have moved the file to the government on finalizing thesetback and awaiting their reply,” he said.

On the circular, he said, “We are awaiting replies from the gov-ernment on some queries.”

It may be recalled Herald had reported that the gov-ernment was granting permissions for buildings alonghighway despite the PWD’s refusal, by taking an under-taking from the builders.

Many of these people who had given an undertaking to demolishtheir structures if NH17 is widened are now refusing to do so andhave started an agitation against the project.

Reuters

KOZA SIRAI, Pakistan, AUG 16

Millions of dollars may havebeen donated for Pakistan'sflood victims, but on the groundauthorities are having to usedonkeys to slowly transport sup-plies to cut off mountain vil-lages.

Logistical nightmares, short-ages of helicopters to access re-mote areas and more rains thattriggered landslides have forcedauthorities and aid agencies totake desperate measures.

Reaching remote villagestucked between mountains isone of the most daunting chal-lenges. In scenic Shahpur valley,where Koza Sirai is located,some 150,000 people are in ur-gent need of food and medicalsupplies, officials say.

With an area roughly the sizeof Italy affected by floods, gov-ernment and foreign aid hasbeen slow in coming and theUnited Nations has warned of asecond wave of deaths amongthe sick and hungry if help doesnot arrive.

As urgent appeals for inter-national aid are made, police-men guide 30 donkeys strappedwith flour, rice, cooking oil andsugar along narrow, muddytracks and mountain terrain tovillages.

Pakistan's powerful military,

which has raised its profile withrescue and relief efforts in theflood catastrophe, is overseeingsuch operations, which take fourhours each way.

Local officials are managingthe donkey missions. That maynot have inspired confidencein the government, which hasdrawn heavy criticism for itsperceived slow respone to thecrisis.

TIRED BEAST OF BURDEN''If you're a relative of some-

one who is influential, you willget more food no matter howbig or small your family is,'' saidteacher Mohammad Niaz at afood distribution centre.

Swollen by torrential mon-soon rains, major rivers haveflooded Pakistan's mountain val-leys and fertile plains, killing upto 1,600 people and leaving two

million homeless.The villages, part of the

greater Swat valley, were cut offfor four days after the floodswashed away houses, marketsand crops.

Officials say the donkeys havehauled over 20 tonnes of sup-plies along the route to Shahpursince August 3.

Before the floods, the gov-ernment promised to pour hun-

dreds of millions of dollars intoSwat to rebuild infrastructure,schools and hospitals damagedin the war against Taliban insur-gents there, in order to win overthe public.

Now the economic damagesof the flood disaster may forcethe government to hold back orcut into that strategic spending.

Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gi-lani has urged the internationalcommunity to provide Pakistanwith helicopters, boats and hov-ercrafts to help relief efforts.

Only a quarter of the 459 mil-lion dollar aid needed for initialrelief has arrived, according tothe United Nations.

Getting food distributed bydonkeys is in some ways a luxurybecause the programme is sosmall. Hundreds of thousandsof villagers make the journeyon their own. The sick andwounded are carried on people'sshoulders on a charpoy, a framestrung with light ropes.

Military officials say many vil-lages are still inaccessible.

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Pakistan on Tuesday said it is consideringIndia's offer of USD five million as aid forits flood victims but a decision has beendelayed as there is "sensitivity" involved inthe relationship with India.

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshisaid his Indian counterpart S M Krishna of-fered the aid during a telephone conversa-tion on Friday.

"Yes, they have offered assistance to Pak-istan and they have asked the governmentof Pakistan to prioritise what kind of assis-tance we require," he said.

"In line with the conversation that I'vehad with Mr Krishna, I've informed the lead-ership about the details and the leadershipis giving it consideration," he told a newsconference at the Foreign Office.

Qureshi was responding to a questionon whether Pakistan had accepted the aidoffered by India.

In response to another question on whyPakistan has accepted aid from other coun-tries but is yet to decide on India's offer, hesaid the kind of relationship with India andthe "sensitivity" involved is "different".

Qureshi kept the door open for the pos-sibility of accepting the Indian offer at alater stage.

Noting that "the matter has not ended,"he said Pakistan will need a long-drawnstrategy as the floods were still causingdevastation.

After the ongoing relief operations, therehabilitation and reconstruction processwill continue for about two years, he said.

Qureshi said Krishna had called him to"condole on the loss of life that had takenplace, to sympathise with the people ofPakistan and express solidarity in this hourof grief with Pakistan".

Earlier, diplomatic sources told PTI that"no decision" had been made as yet onIndia's offer of aid.

Asked about the matter, Foreign Officespokesman Abdul Basit said: "We appreciatethis offer made by India. It has been con-veyed to the relevant authorities".

He did not give details.Krishna described the offer of aid as a

"gesture of solidarity with the people ofPakistan in their hour of need".

The floods triggered by unusually heavymonsoon rains have killed over 1,700 peopleand affected 20 million. It has also destroyedmillions of acres of crop land and washedaway key roads, bridges and communicationinfrastructure.

Meanwhile, the Daily Times newspaperquoted its sources as saying that Pakistanmight accept the Indian aid if it is routedthrough the United Nations.

Pakistan had accepted aid from Indiawhen a devastating earthquake struck theKashmir region in 2005.

India had then sent three consignmentsof relief materials in military aircraft.

Pak still considering Indian aid offer for flood victims

Reuters

ISLAMABAD, AUG 16

The worst floods in decades inPakistan have left millions with-out clean water, food andhomes.

The UN has reported the firstcase of cholera and warned ofother imminent waterborne dis-eases, including typhoid fever,shigellosis and hepatitis A andE, and vector-borne diseases likemalaria and dengue. Aid agen-cies, like Save the Children, havealready seen cases pneumonia,diarrhoea and malaria.

Below are key facts of someof these diseases:

CHOLERA

Cholera is an acute diseasethat causes watery diarrhea andsevere dehydration and can killwithin hours if left untreated.Up to 80 per cent of cases canbe successfully treated with oralrehydration salts. Safe water andsanitation is critical in reducingthe impact of cholera and otherwaterborne diseases. Vaccina-

Health risks ahead for flooded Paktion for cholera can be consid-ered, but a two-dose protocolwill be very challenging logisti-cally.

TYPHOID FEVER

A bacterial disease caused bySalmonella typhi, it is transmit-ted through ingesting of foodor drink contaminated by thefaeces or urine of infected peo-ple. Symptoms are high fever,malaise, headache, constipationor diarrhoea, rose-colouredspots on the chest, and enlargedspleen and liver. It can be treatedwith antibiotics but resistanceto common antimicrobials iswidespread. Healthy carriersmust not handle food.

HEPATITIS A and E

Hepatitis A and E virus is shedin feces of infected people andthey are acquired by ingestingfaeces-contaminated food orwater and is spread under un-sanitary conditions. There is notreatment and therapy can onlybe supportive and aimed atmaintaining comfort and ensur-ing proper nutrition.

MALARIA AND DENGUE

These mosquito-borne dis-eases proliferate in floods be-cause of a sudden increase invector breeding sites. Early treat-ment is critical for malaria,which endangers particularlychildren and pregnant womenbecause of their weaker immunesystems. The best availabletreatment is artemisinin-basedcombination therapy. Unlikemalaria, there is no treatment

for dengue, so early diagnosisand careful clinical managementwill be critical to save lives.

LEPTOSPIROSIS

The bacteria leptospira spp.is found in a variety of bothwild and domestic animals, in-cluding rodents, insectivores,dogs, cattle, pigs and horses.Outbreaks happen due tocrowding together of rodentsand humans, and people be-come infected through directcontact with the urine of in-fected animals or by contactwith a urine-contaminated en-vironment, such as surfacewater, soil and plants. The bac-teria gains entry through cutsand abrasions in the skin andthrough mucous membranes of

the eyes, nose and mouth.

Donkeys come to the rescue in Pak floods

Pakistani soldiers assist a man to load supplies onto a donkey at a village in Karora, located in Pak-istan's northwestern Swat Valley on Sunday.

PTI

BEIJING, AUG 16

A fresh purge appeared to be inthe offing in Tibet with a topleader of the Communist Partyof China calling for reforms inBuddhist monasteries by ap-pointing monks and nuns whoare "politically reliable".

In a move that could be aimedat weeding out pro-Dalai Lamaelements in the clergy, DuQinglin, head of the UnitedFront Work Department of theParty's Central Committee, alsodemanded that "greater, con-certed and solid efforts" mustbe made to implement demo-cratic management in themonasteries.

"Concerted and solid effortsmust be made to implementdemocratic management in Ti-betan Buddhist monasteries,"Du was quoted as saying by thestate-run Xinhua news agency,in what appeared to be a fresheffort to strengthen govern-ment's hold on Tibet's influentialreligious centres in the politi-ca l ly sensit ive Himalayanprovince.

"Competent Tibetan Buddhistmonks and nuns who are polit-ically reliable, extraordinarilylearned and widely respected

should be selected to monasterymanagement committeesthrough thorough democraticconsultation," he said.

As per the prevailing rules,the posts of all the top monksknown as Lamas have to bemade with the approval of theChinese government.

Du, also vice-chairman of theNational Committee of the Chi-nese People's Political Consul-tative Conference, made theremarks of sweeping changesin the powerful clergy in Tibetduring a two-day conference ondemocratic management of Ti-betan Buddhist monasteries atXigaze in Tibet Autonomous Re-gion, which began yesterday.

His remarks were timed evenas another powerful CommunistParty leader He Guoqiang, amember of the Standing Com-mittee of the Politburo under-took a tour of the politicallysensitive province visiting thePotala Palace, which was theseat of the Dalai Lamas.

Tibet's provincial capital Lhasawitnessed large scale riots in2008 be fo re the Be i j i ngOlympics in which large num-bers of Tibetan mainly monkswere killed.

The riots were directed

against non-Tibetans in whichseveral monks reported to havetaken part. Chinese governmentblamed the Dalai Lama for in-stigating the riots, which he hasdenied.

Du said that in implementingmonastery democratic manage-ment, the lawful rights ofmonasteries, orderly religiousactivities of monks and nuns,and normal religious practise ofbelievers must be ensured.

Monasteries play a very vitalrole in Tibet where Buddhismand Monks or heads of varioussects of the religion wields spir-itual and political influence overthe masses.

Many of the top monks ofTibet including the Dalai Lama,the spiritual head, who fled toIndia in 1959 were selectedthrough the complex processwhen they were children andthen graduated through theseinstitutions.

The 11th Panchen Lama, Bain-qen Erdini Qoigyijabu, regardedas the second spiritual head ofTibetan Buddhism sent a con-gratulatory message to the con-ference which was attended bysome 150 people from TibetanBuddhist circles and relative gov-ernmental organisations.

Chinese Communist party demands reforms in Tibetan monasteries

China to signpact withIAEA on

nuke safetyPTI

BEIJING, AUG 16

China is set to ink an agreementwith the UN atomic watchdogto firm up cooperation in train-ing and nuclear safety in EastAsia and the world during theongoing visit of its chief YukiyaAmano, in the backdrop of itsplans to construct two new nu-clear reactors in Pakistan.

It is not clear, however,whether the agreement wouldmake any reference to the pro-posed two new nuclear reactorsChina wants to construct forPakistan.

China and the InternationalAtomic Energy Agency (IAEA)will boost cooperation in per-sonnel training and nuclearsafety in East Asia and acrossthe world, according to a draftof the agreement, Chinese newsagency Xinhua reported.

The agreement with IAEA issignificant as China has beenmaintaining consistently that itscooperation with Pakistan con-cerning the civil nuclear tech-nology is for peaceful purposesand being carried out under thesafeguards and supervision ofthe IAEA.

Reuters

MOSCOW, AUG 16

''Titanic'' director James Cameronspent his birthday underwater.

Cameron, who turned 56 onMonday, dove beneath the surfaceof the world's deepest lake in asubmersible he used to film thewreck of the Titanic, the Founda-tion for the Preservation of LakeBaikal said.

Cameron boarded the Mir-1submersible and spent a fewhours in Lake Baikal's waters, theRussian-based group said.

The Mir-1, less than 8 metres (26 feet)long, is one of two submersibles Cameronused to film the Titanic in preparation forthe 1997 blockbuster. Russia used the vessel

in 2007 to plant aRussian flag on the seafloor near the NorthPole.

Today, it was pilotedby Anatoly Sagalevich,the director of thetechnical council ofthe preservation foun-dation, who invitedCameron on his firstvisit to Lake Baikal andgave him a hardy ''hy-dronaut's'' watch.

The sickle-shapedlake in Siberia, some 5,000 km (3,000 miles)east of Moscow, is the world's oldest anddeepest lake, according to UNESCO, whichlists it as a World Heritage Site. It holds

one-fifth of the world's unfrozen freshwater.

Ecologists say the 25 million-year-oldlake – which reaches a depth of 1,637 metres– harbours 1,500 plant and animal species,including a unique freshwater seal.

The two Mir craft have been used to ex-plore the lake since 2008.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who lastwinter signed a controversial order allow-ing a paper mill environmentalists say pol-lutes the lake to reopen, dove to thebottom of Baikal in 2008 and declared thelake clean.

Cameron, an avid deep-sea diver, hassaid his initial motive in proposing tomake Titanic was the hope of filming thefamous wreck on the floor of the NorthAtlantic.

Director Cameron spents b’day underwater

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Sensex down by over 100 points

PTI

MUMBAI, AUG 16

Profit-booking across sectors saw the BSE benchmark Sensexshedding over 100 points today, with metal and realty countersthe worst-hit. Wholesale price-based inflation falling to single dig-its at 9.97 per cent in July failed to bolster the investor sentiment,marketmen said.

In lacklustre trading, the 30-share index of the Bombay StockExchange was trapped in a very narrow range, veering in and outof positive terrain for most of the day. But towards the end of thesession, hectic profit-booking emerged on mixed cues from Euro-pean bourses.

BOARD MEETINGSEducomp Solutions LimitedFertilizers And Chemicals

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AGENCIES

NEW DELHI, AUG 16

Life insurance industry contin-ues to bring out strong num-bers even as companies gearup to face the challenge posedby the new norms.

Dispelling any fears that thenew IRDA regulations mighthave on the growth of the LifeInsurance industry, the sectorseems all geared up to em-brace the new norms that areset to take effect from Septem-ber 1, 2010. Despite the uncer-tainty that prevailed due to thecontroversy on regulations ofULIP’s, companies have contin-ued to produce numbers in-dicative of the strong connectwith the grass root investors.

New business premium forthe period April-June 2010 in-creased by 76.76% y-o-y fromRs. 14,466 last fiscal to Rs.25,571 crs this year. New busi-ness premium for linked prod-ucts increased by 101% to Rs.13,941 cr. from Rs. 6,935 crs.Correspondingly new businessnon-linked premium increasedby 54.42% to Rs.11,630 cr fromRs. 7,531 crore.

Single-linked premiumsshowed a significant growth ofover 220% with premium col-lections going up to Rs 7,945crore as against Rs 2,479 crorein the last fiscal. The premiumcollected for single non-linkedbusiness grew by 23.5% to Rs.4,773 crore as against Rs.2,479 crore last year.

Unit linked renewal premi-ums have grown significantlyto Rs 55,492 crores from Rs8,825 crore from FY 2006-07 toFY 2009-10, a CAGR of 58.35%.For the period Apr-Jun 2010the unit linked renewal pre-mium of private life insurershave grown by 12.40% to Rs7,945 crore as against Rs 7,047crore last fiscal. This can bemainly attributed to the uncer-tainty that prevailed due to theULIP controversy, promptingpolicyholders to defer therepayments.

Total renewal premium ofthe industry was however flatdue to stagnation in renewalpremiums of traditional poli-cies where LIC is a dominantplayer. However, with the newregulations about to come into

effect, the industry is ready toput the uncertainty behind itand get back on the highgrowth path of renewal premi-ums with higher focus on per-sistency.

Total premium of the indus-try grew by 24% to Rs 58,508crore as against Rs 47,173crore in previous year.

Significantly, in Q1 the com-mission also has come down to5.81% from 6.72% level thatprevailed in March 2010 due tocapping of charges introducedby the regulator last year. How-ever the full year’s impact willbe felt in the current year andcommissions will further comedown with the new regulationscoming into force from 1stSeptember 2010.

Total infrastructure invest-ment of the industry till June2010 stood at Rs 1,42,283crore as compared to Rs.1,19,248 in the correspondingyear, a growth of 19% YoY.

The total AUM of life compa-nies as of 30th June 2010 stoodat Rs. 13,50,803 crore, up 39 %from last year figure of Rs.9,69,381 crore.

Life insurance continues to remain robust

PTI

NEW DELHI, AUG 16

A government panel today op-posed a bauxite mining projectin the ecologically sensitiveNiyamgiri Hills in Orissa byVedanta Group, which said itwould not start operations tillit gets "100 per cent clearance".

Reacting to the panel report,Vedanta Resources ChairmanAnil Agarwal said, "We are lawabiding people. We will notstart mining at all until and un-less we get 100 per cent clear-ance from the authoritiesconcerned."

"We have to keep patience inIndia... We are cooperating 100per cent in all their (govern-ment) queries," Agarwal added.

Commenting on the reportby the panel, EnvironmentMinister Jairam Ramesh said,"A final decision in the matterwill be taken after the ForestAdvisory Council (FAC) takes aview on the committee's find-ings on August 20."

The committee alsoslammed the Orissa govern-ment for recommending the

project.The panel, appointed by the

Ministry of Environment andForests to assess the environ-mental impact of mining in theNiyamgiri Hills, said miningwould deprive the two primi-tive tribal groups in the region-- the Dongaria Kondh andKutia Kondh -- of their rights.

"This committee is of the firmview that allowing mining in theproposed mining lease (PML) areaby depriving two primitive tribalgroups of their rights... in order tobenefit a private companywould shake the faith of thetribals in the law of the land,"said the N C Saxena Committeein its report.

The committee said that thetwo tribes are notified by thegovernment as 'Primitive TribalGroups' and eligible for specialprotection.

It also added, "The entireNiyamgiri Hills will suffer majorecological damage if mining isallowed in the proposed min-ing lease area."

Coming down heavily on theOrissa government, the com-

mittee said, "The Orissa gov-ernment is not likely to imple-ment the Forest Rights Act in afair and impartial manner as faras the PML area is concerned.It has gone to the extent of for-warding false certificates andmay do so again in future.

Vedanta Group firm SterliteIndustries has entered into anagreement with state-ownedOrissa Mining Corporation formining bauxite in the Niyam-giri Hills, which is venerable tothe local tribal population. Asper the agreement, OMC willmine bauxite and give it to theVedanta Group firm for feedingits alumina refinery at Lanji-garh, which is being expandedat a cost of about Rs 6,000crore.

The committee also accusedthe Vedanta Group of increas-ing the capacity of its proposedalumina refinery in Kalahandidistrict of Orissa from 1 milliontonnes per annum (Mtpa) to 6Mtpa "without obtaining envi-ronmental clearance" under theEnvironment (Protection) Act(EPA).

Panel opposes mining in Niyamgiri Hills

PTI

NEW DELHI, AUG 16

In line with the industry trend,State Bank of India todayraised its benchmark lendingrate by 50 basis points and de-posit rates by up to 150 basispoints.

While the increase in thebenchmark prime lending rateto 12.25 per cent will make ex-isting home, auto and corpo-rate loans from the country'sbiggest lender dearer, the hike indeposit rates will ensure better re-turns for deposit-holders.

The decision comes daysafter Finance Minister PranabMukherjee expressed hopethat lenders will not raise theirinterest rates in response tothe RBI's monetary tighteningmeasures last month.

"The bank has revised thebenchmark prime lending rateupwards by 50 basis pointsfrom 11.75 per cent to 12.25per cent effective from August

17," SBI said a filing to theBombay Stock Exchange.

However, for new borrow-ers, the base rate, which be-came effective from July 1 thisyear, stands at 7.5 per cent.The base rate is the minimumlending rate below which loanscannot be offered.

As far as the revision in fixeddeposit rates is concerned, SBIincreased the interest rate by150 basis points (1.5 per cent)to 4 per cent for term depositsof 15-45 days' tenor. The de-posit rate increase is the maxi-mum in this slab.

For fixed deposits with atenor between 181 days andless than one year, the new in-terest rate will be 6 per centagainst the existing 5.25 percent, while 555-day fixed de-posits will attract an interestrate of 7.25 per cent, an in-crease of 125 basis points.

The interest rate on term de-posits of between 3 to 5 years'

tenor will go up by 75 basispoints to 7.25 per cent fromtomorrow, while interest onthe 5-8 years' maturity slab hasbeen increased by 25 bps to7.50 per cent. Shares of SBIclosed at Rs 2,820.25, down1.02 per cent on the BombayStock Exchange.

Meanwhile, the bank alsoannounced the launch of afloating fixed deposit productlinked to base rates with effectfrom September 6, 2010.

"The bank announcedlaunching of floating rate termdeposit products linked to the'Base Rate' effective from Sep-tember 6, 2010," the bank saidin a filing.

This innovative depositproduct will not carry a fixedrate, unlike the existing fixeddeposit product. The interestrate would change in tandemwith the base rate, as andwhen a revision in the bench-mark rate takes place.

SBI raises lending, fixed deposit rates

Ybrant Digital acquiresLycos Inc

PTI

HYDERABAD, AUG 16

Ybrant Digital, the end-to-endprovider of digital marketing solu-tions, today announced the signingof the stock purchase agreement toacquire Lycos Inc, the leading brandof search based internet propertiesand services, from Daum Commu-nications of Korea.

Lycos consistently averages12-15 million monthly uniquevisitors in the US, and is a top25 Internet destination world-wide, reaching nearly 60 mil-lion unique visitors globally.

The Lycos network of sites andservices includes Lycos.com, Tri-pod, Angelfire, Gamesville, andHotBot.together. "Brand Lycosneeds no introduction, we are ex-cited to bring in the Lycos proper-ties into our fold," Chairman andCEO, Ybrant Digital, Suresh Reddysaid.

"The quality of content and toolsoffered by Lycos has always at-tracted the best of the consumersacross the world. Our goal is tocombine the benefits of Ybrant'sglobal network with what Lycos hasto offer in creating a compellingglobal destination for our advertis-ing clients worldwide.

GDP poised togrow by 9.2 pc

in FY 11, says CMIE

PTI

MUMBAI, AUG 16

The Indian economy is poisedto return to the nine per centgrowth trajectory in FY 11, theCentre for Monitoring IndianEconomy (CMIE) said in itsmonthly review here.

"The boom in economic ac-tivities is likely to continue inthe remaining three-quarters ofFY 11. As a result, we project a9.2 per cent growth in real GDPin fiscal 2010-11," the CMIE re-port said.

Between FY 06 and FY 08,the economy clocked an abovenine per cent growth. Theglobal liquidity crisis had de-railed the growth to 6.7 percent in FY 09 and 7.4 per centin FY 10.

However, during the quarterended March 2010, the econ-omy grew by an impressive 8.6per cent, thanks to a spurt ingrowth in the manufacturingsector at 16.3 per cent, miningand quarrying at 14 per centand trade, hotel, transport andcommunication at 12.4 percent.

PTI

MUMBAI, AUG 16

FMCG player Godrej ConsumerProducts (GCPL) is likely to giveup the license to sell the air-freshener brand 'Ambipur' inIndia to global major P&G inthe next 2-3 months, a topcompany official said today.

GCPL, which holds the li-censing right for Ambipur inIndia till 2012, is looking tobring the air-freshener brandof the recently acquired In-donesian firm Megasari toIndia.

"Talks are on and we might sell

our licence to P&G in the next 2-3months. We are currently cateringpredominantly to the auto sectorand that too mainly cars. Its contri-bution to our total revenues is in-significant," GCPL's ManagingDirector, A Mahendran, told PTIhere.

Ambipur is the air-care brandof GCPL's subsidiary GodrejSara Lee, in which GCPL hadbought 51 per cent stake thisyear for about Rs 800-crore andrechristened it as GodrejHousehold Products Limited(GHPL). It has an annualturnover of Rs 1,100-crore.

While the insecticide seg-ment with brands like 'GoodNight' contributes 80 per centto the total sales, air-freshenerand shoe-care (Kiwi shoe pol-ish brand) forms the rest.

"The air-freshener categoryis very small in India. It con-tributes a very insignificantamount to our total sales andhence it won't affect us forsome time," Mahendran said,adding that the company islooking at launchingMegasari's air-freshener in thecountry in the near future.

"We might bring into India

Megasari's air-freshener brand.However, nothing has been fi-nalised as we have only re-cently acquired Megasari and itwill take about 6-months toone-year for integration. Wewill take any decision onlyafter that," Mahendran said.

The company had in Aprilthis year completed the acqui-sition of insecticide manufac-turer Megasari Makmur Group,a market leader in Indonesia.Its insectide category has 30per cent marketshare whereasthe air-care brand forms 15 percent.

Godrej to sell Ambipur license to P&G

Tribals toget 26%

share from mining

profits: GovtPTI

NEW DELHI, AUG 16

Government has given an as-surance in the Rajya Sabha thattribals would be given 26 percent share from mining profitsand full justice would be doneto them if mining activities takeplace in their area.

A Group of Ministers (GoM)has been constituted in Junefor considering the draft Minesand Minerals Bill, 2010, MinesMinister B K Handique said dur-ing Question Hour.

He said the bill would ensurethat issues relating to ecologi-cal balance are kept in mindwhile carrying out mining ac-tivities, mainly in tribal areas.

"Justice would be done totribal population, though thematter is still with the GoM.Tribals would be given sharefrom mining profits. We haveearmarked 26 per cent sharefrom mining profits for them,"the minister said.

He said the draft bill hasbeen prepared on the basis ofpolicy directions in the Na-tional Mineral Policy, 2008, andHoda Committee recommenda-tions after consultations withthe stakeholders.

Major issues laid down inthe policy include making theregulatory mechanism moreconducive to technology andinvestment flows, ensuringtransparency in the concessionprocess, and strengthening therole of Geological Survey ofIndia and Indian Bureau ofMines.

Govt in talks with RIM

UNI

NEW DELHI, AUG 16

The Government is in dialoguewith service providers and Re-search in Motion (RIM) - themaker of Blackberry device, tofind out a solution for intercep-tion and monitoring of its serv-ices,the Lok Sabha wasinformed today. .

Security agencies are unableto intercept and monitor a fewBlackberry services namelymessenger, chat and enterpriseemail services in readable formatbecause of complex encryptedcomminication, Information andTechnology Minister A Raja said ina written reply.

The Government has formu-lated the policy regarding en-crypted cominication throughinternet. As per policy's Clause2.2(vii), the licensee shall en-sure that bulk encryption is notdeployed by ISPs. Further, indi-viduals/Groups/ Organisationsare permitted to use encryp-tion up to 40-bit key lengthwithout obtaining permissionfrom the licensor.

PTI

MUMBAI, AUG 16

Country's leading manufacturerof corn starch and starch-basedproducts, Anil Products Lim-ited, (APL) has recorded a 121per cent jump in its profit at Rs8.82-crore in the quarter endedJune 30, 2010.The company had posted a netprofit of Rs 3.9-crore in theyear-ago period.The total income of theAhmedabad-based firm stoodat Rs 106-crore in the firstquarter of this fiscal, up 40 percent as against the Rs 85-crorein the corresponding period a

year-ago.APL, that makes products suchas dextrose monohydrate, an-hydrous dextrose and cornsyrup used in textile, food,paper, pharma and other in-dustries in India, is alsolooking at overseas expan-sion."We are looking at expandingour global footprint by open-ing dedicated offices in theMiddle-East and Europeancountries this fiscal. This willallow us to work more closelywith our foreign customers andhelp us gain marketshare inthese regions," Sheth said.

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NEW DELHI, AUG 16

Inflation for July slid back insingle-digit to 9.97 per centafter a gap of five months, onaccount of moderating foodand non-food prices, raisinghopes that it would decline fur-ther in the coming months.

The inflation based onwholesale prices had entereddouble digits in February anddeclined 0.58 per cent lastmonth, from 10.55 per cent inJune, as the prices of potatoes,onions and cement moderated.

Buoyed by the decline, Fi-nance Minister Pranab Mukher-jee expressed the hope that thedrop in prices would continue,while Planning CommissionDeputy Chairman MontekSingh Ahluwalia said inflationwould reach 6 per cent by De-cember.

"Of course, it (inflation) willmoderate", Mukherjee told re-porters.

He pointed out that besidesseasonal factors and the baseeffect, the monetary policysteps taken by the ReserveBank were having impact on in-flation.

"Policy rates had some im-pact but there are also base fac-tors", the Minister said.

Besides, he added, seasonalfactors in food items like fruits,vegetables and milk were alsohelping moderate the rate ofprice rise.

Meanwhile, Ahluwalia saidthat although July inflation at9.7 per cent was "still too high... I am glad that it is downbelow the double digit range...It will go to 6 per cent by De-cember".

Referring to supply side

problems, he said, "the mon-soon as a whole, except insome part of the country, hasbeen very good. We don't seesupply side problem in agricul-tural commodities."

The inflation has come downmainly on account of year-on-year decline in prices of essen-tial items like potato (-44 percent), vegetables (-14.50 percent), cement (-8.36), onion (-6.85 per cent) and edible oil (-0.34 per cent) in July.

"The drop in (wholesaleprice) index was lower than our

expectation. We believe thatoverall inflation will be moder-ate in both August and Septem-ber and food inflation andmanufacturing figures will re-main subdued due to seasonal-ity", Axis Bank chief economistSaugata Roy said.

For the year as a whole, hesaid, "the WPI will be in therange of 7-8 per cent and theprobability is more on thelower side... may be around 7.1per cent or 7.2 per cent."

As regards the monetary pol-icy, Roy said, the RBI wouldcontinue with tightening of themoney supply to tame the infla-tionary pressure.

"However, we cannot be cer-tain if the RBI will go for anymore hike in the short termlending and borrowing rates inits September mid-quarterly re-view, although the chances arehigh", he added.

The RBI has raised severaltimes its short-term lending(repo) and borrowing (reverse-repo) rates in the recentmonths to check rising infla-tion.

Ahluwalia said, "We are notout of the range where infla-tion is not a problem... but it isnow moving in the right direc-tion."

Meanwhile, inflation for Mayhas been revised upwards to11.14 per cent from the provi-sional number of 10.16 percent. Inflation had entered thedouble digits in February whenit climbed to 10.06 per cent, asper the final figures.

Rising prices have become apolitically sensitive issue, withopposition parties raising theissue within and outside Parlia-ment.

Inflation down to single-digit at 9.97%

‘Inflation togo downfurther’

PTI

NEW DELHI, AUG 16

Finance Minister PranabMukherjee expressed confi-dence that inflation wouldcome down further even as therate of price rise after a gap offive months came down in sin-gle digit at 9.97 per cent in July.

"Of course, it will moderate,"he told reporters, when askedabout the possibility of infla-tion sliding further in comingmonths.

Siemens bags10 m euro

SAIL orderPTI

MUMBAI, AUG 16

German engineering majorSiemens today said it hasbagged a 10-million euro orderfrom Steel Authority of India(SAIL) to supply an RH vacuumdegassing plant to the RourkelaSteel plant.

The Erlangen, Germany-based Siemens VAI MetalsTechnologies, a division ofSiemens AG, will help the steelmajor to open a new plant bythe middle of 2012, which helpit produce high-quality steelgrades up to cold-rolled non-oriented types.

Under the agreement, Siemenswill design, configure, construct, aswell as supervise installation of theRH plant and the associated auxil-iary installations.

This order is important as itre-starts the relationship be-tween Siemens VAI andRourkela Steel in bringingabout further technological en-hancement in special gradesteel production.

UNI

NEW DELHI, AUG 16

The Ministry of Railways hasdecided to accept credit cardsissued by banks with laminatedphotograph as proof of identityfor travelling on e-tickets.

The new provision has comeinto effect from August 6,2010. The bank credit card is in

addition to the existing sevenproofs of identity for undertak-ing journey on e-tickets.

Voter Identity Card, passport,PAN Card, driving license, photoidentity card issued by Central/StateGovernment, student identity cardwith photograph issued by recog-nised School/College for their stu-dents and Nationalised Bank

Passbook with photograph havebeen used as ID proof while travel-ling in train.

Ministry of Railways has asked allZonal Railways to issue necessaryinstruction to all ticket checkingstaff so as to educate them aboutthis modified provision and toavoid inconvenience to the passen-gers.

Credit card can be used as ID proof for E-ticket travellers

PTI

MUMBAI, AUG 16

Life insurer, ICICI Prudential,today launched the country'sfirst fully online term insuranceplan which will reduce costsand bring more transparency.

The product--christenediProtect--is 30 per cent cheaperthan the company's conven-tional term products as the de-pendency on intermediarieswho sell it and administrativecosts go down, ICICI Pruden-tial's Executive Vice-President,Madhivanan Balakrishnan, toldreporters here.

Inside a specified age limit, aperson can log-on to the site,fill up necessary details and payonline through credit card ornet banking, he said. The policycover gets activated instantly insuch cases.

The insurer is primarily tar-geting Internet-savvy people in

the age group of 35-45 and isbetting big on a surge in e-commerce space in the coun-try, which witnessed a 43 percent growth last year.

"Portals dedicated to traveland rail bookings have shownthat if the site is convenientand easy to use, you can getgood business. In insurance,we also have a conducive regu-latory environment," Balakrish-nan said.

In 2009-10, ICICI collected Rs72.10-crore in premium throughonline payment while 53 per centof policy servicing work was doneonline, he added.

ICICI Prudential has insuredover 6-million lives, of which14 per cent are the traditionalterm products. Not being sav-ings-inducing products, thesepolicies contribute around0.3-0.4 per cent of premium, Bal-akrishnan said.

ICICI launches India’sfirst fully online plan

UNI

BANGALORE, AUG 16

Karnataka Power CorporationLimited (KPCL) will invest Rs43,000 crore to generate an ad-ditional 8000 MW of power inthe next four years, KPCL Man-aging Director S M Jaamdarsaid today.

Speaking at the inductionceremony for the newly re-cruited Engineers here, he saidat present the total generationby KPCL was 6000 MW, and asthe demand was increasing, itwas proposed to increase thegeneration to 14,000 MW inthe next four years.

He said the company hadearned Rs 711 crore profit inthe year 2009-10 and it was tar-geted to make it Rs 3000 crorein the next five years.

Energy Department Principal

Secretary Shamim Banu, in heraddress, said KPCL proposes toraise the required Rs 43,000crore through Rs 8000 equityand borrowing.

He said bids for the mostambitious gas based powerproject at

Bidadi with 1400 MW capac-ity would be opened in theevening today. Nine compa-nies, including six foreign, hadapplied for the contact.

Jaamdar said the clearancefor the proposed 2100 MWTadadi project was in advancestages. First stage of environ-mental clearance has alreadybeen received. This projectwould be the eighth of its kindin the world. There would noterminal or Pipeline drawn.

The ship with 2 lakh tons ofgas would arrive every week

and it would be downloadedand power would generated.By middle of May, next year theproject may take off.

He said the recruitment ofengineers was being done aftera gap of eight years and it wasproposed to recruit 13,000 bynext four years.

Karnataka Energy Regula-tory Commission (KERC)Chairman M R SreenivasaMurthy said new engineersneed to update their knowl-edge as technology was de-veloping very fast.

He said in the country,power availability was 700units per head. By 2012, it wasproposed to be increased to1000 units per head. In Europeand North America the percapita availability was 12,000units.

KPCL to invest Rs 43,000 cr togenerate 8000 MW of power

PTI

MUMBAI, AUG 16

India's leading microfinance firm,SKS Microfinance, made a decentdebut on the Bombay Stock Ex-change at Rs 1.036, up 5.17 percent over its issue price.

The firm, that lends credit torural poor especially women,has raised around Rs 1,650-crore through its IPO whichwas oversubscribed 13.6-times.

"We have got a huge re-sponse from the investing com-munity. It (IPO) wasoversubscribed 13.6 times onthe bourses and this gives us alot of confidence. This will alsoallow other such firms to hitthe capital market in the nearfuture," SKS' Chief Financial Of-ficer, D Dilli Raj, told PTI heretoday. On the National Stock Ex-change (NSE), the firm debuted atRs 1,040, up over five per cent overits issue price of Rs 985.

The company had given a 50per cent discount to the retailinvestors. While the HNI seg-ment was subscribed 18 times,the QIB was subscribed 20times and retail 2.8 times.

The proceeds would be usedto expand the company's net-

work by adding more branchesand acquiring new members aswell as increasing its disburse-ments, Dilli Raj said.

He, however, did not wish togive any forward-looking statementas the company was in a silent pe-riod of 40 days. Asked whether thecompany is looking at overseas ex-pansion, Dilli Raj said," that is an op-portunity, however, we have no firmplans as yet."

There is a landmark opportu-nity of USD 50-billion for thesector in India. It also sendsout a key message that we haveconnected the public sectorwith the micro finance industry(MFI)," Dilli Raj said.

The firm's disbursements forthe last fiscal stood at Rs 7,500-crore and its loan-book hasgrown at a CAGR of 162 percent over the last 5-years.

Its PAT has witnessed an an-nual growth of 233 per centduring the same period.

The Hyderabad-based firmfounded by Vikram Akula in2003, which had fixed its IPOprice-band at between Rs 850-985 per share, hit 1,110 pershare in the opening hours oftrading.

SKS Microfin lists atover 5 % premium

Government fixes ethanol price at Rs 27 a litre

PTI

NEW DELHI, AUG 16

The government today fixed aninterim price of Rs 27 a litre forsugarcane-extracted ethanolfor doping in petrol, but a finalrate will be set after an expertgroup gives its recommenda-tion.

The Cabinet Committee onEconomic Affairs has approvedan interim price of ethanol toRs 27 per litre from existingprice of Rs 21.50 per litre forfive per cent mandatory blend-ing with petrol.

"Government intends to im-plement the programme earlyand this will be possible with afixed price initially and there-after dynamic formula basedpricing recommended by theExpert Committee," a govern-ment release said.

A committee, headed byPlanning Commission memberSaumitra Chaudhuri, would de-termine the formula for decid-ing the future pricing ofethanol.

The Ethanol Blending Pro-

gramme (EBP) "would becomesustainable with the dynamicpricing formula which will en-sure that there is no adverseimpact on oil or the sugar in-dustry," the statement said.

Following the announce-ment, shares of sugar compa-nies rallied over six per cent onthe stock exchanges. On theBombay Stock Exchange, BajajHindusthan gained 6.11 percent, Simbhaoli Sugars was up5 per cent and Shree Renukamoved up 3.4 per cent.

Last month a Group of Min-isters (GoM) had reaffirmed Rs27 per litre price for ethanol tobe paid by the oil marketingcompanies to the sugar compa-nies.

The chemical industry andoil marketing companies haddemanded a much lower pricein line with prevailing domesticprice of around Rs 18 per litre.

In October 2007, the Cabinethad made mandatory five percent ethanol blending acrossthe country sans Jammu &Kashmir, North East and island

territories. However, the Petro-leum Ministry had not beenable to implement the decisionof mandatory doping of 5 percent ethanol in petrol due tonon-availability of the productfrom producers.

In March, the governmenthad constituted the GoM to re-solve differences over mixingof ethanol in petrol.

The Chemical Ministry wasobjecting to the use of ethanolfor petrol-blending, saying theprice of molasses they use formanufacturing liqour had goneup.

Both ethanol and alcohol aremade from molasses and thesugar industry has estimated aproduction of 160 crore litresin 2009-10.

A price increase was sup-posed to lure the producersinto selling ethanol to oil firms,but the Chemical and FertiliserMinistry protested sayingpetrol-doping programme willimpinge upon the demand ofpotable liquor sector andchemical makers.

PTI

BHUBANESWAR, AUG 16

Defending its stand on Poscoproject, the Orissa governmenthas claimed before the Centrethat the Forest Right Act, 2006,does not apply to the land ear-marked to house the proposedmega steel plant near Paradip,officials said.

The state government's viewwas intimated to H C Chaud-hary, assistant inspector gen-eral of forests under theMinistry of Environment andForest (MoEF), who on August5 had issued a direction to thestate's forest and environmentdepartment to stop project-re-lated works at the proposedsite for Posco.

"The FRA, 2006 is not appli-cable to the land identified forPosco project because neitherany tribal family resides in thearea nor any other traditionalforest dweller (OTFD) has beenstaying there for more than 75years," the state government'sresponse said.

Stating that under the Acttribals residing on forestland or OTFDs inhabiting ona forest patch for over 75years can make claim rightsover the land, the state gov-ernment pointed out thatno such situation exists inthe three gram panchayatareas.

The area earmarked tohouse the Rs 51,000 crore proj-ect, was declared as forest landbarely 49 years ago, the stategovernment wrote in its letterto Chaudhary.

Gram panchayats l ikeGada Kujang, Nuagaonand Dhink ia ear l ier be -

longed to Burdhawan Es-tate , which was mergedwith Kujang tehs i l in1952.

"Nine years later in 1961,two villages like Jatadharand Bhuyanpal under GadaKujang gram panchayatwere givenforest statuswhile Dhinkia and Nuagaongot the same status in1997," the letter pointedout.

Therefore, revenue ministerS N Patro argued that when thearea was not declared as forestland 50 years ago, people livingthere could not make claim tobe inhabitants of forests forover 75 years.

"The state government hasnot violated rules under FRA,2006," Patro claimed.

Basing on the report ofthe N C Saxena Committeethat visited the proposedplant site villages, the Cen-tre had issued directions tostop all project related ac-tivities in the area.

Forest Act not applicablefor Posco project: Orissa

Wockhardt launches

newsletter PTI

RAJKOT, AUG 16

City based N M Virani Wock-hardt hospital has launched amonthly news letter called "TheExpert" for the doctors of theregion with an aim to improvethe quality of clinical care andshare complicated cases.

"The idea is to share the ex-perience of dealing with un-usual cases and performingrare surgeries with the largermedical fraternity so that therecan be an exchange of views oropinions on the same" ChiefOperating Officer (COO) Wock-hardt hospitals (Gujarat),Deepak Venugopal said.

The news letter will makeclinical knowledge available todoctors in rural areas and helpthem gain access to the latestmedical procedures and techniquesand assist them in taking more in-formed decisions while treatingtheir patients, he said.

The motive of the launchingof the news letter is only toshare knowledge among doc-tors to benefit the people ofthe region by improving thequality of clinical care, he said.

Yes Bankcompletes

fund-raising PTI

MUMBAI, AUG 16

Private sector Yes Bank todaysaid it has completed a fund-raising of Rs 665-crore andwould use the proceeds to fuelits growth.

The bank raised Rs 225-croreof Perpetual Tier I capitalthrough a private placementissue of unsecured, non-con-vertible sub-ordinated bonds inthe nature of promissory notes.

The issue was over-sub-scribed by leading public sectorbanks, pension funds and cor-porates, a press release issuedhere stated.

Another Rs 440-crore ofUpper Tier II sub-ordinateddebt was raised from the LifeInsurance Corporation (LIC),the bank said.

This placement has a tenorof 15-years. LIC's total holdingof Yes Bank's sub-ordinateddebt (Upper and Lower Tier II)aggregates to Rs 1,110-crore inaddition to their consolidatedequity holding of 3.06 per centin the bank, the release said.

PTI

WASHINGTON, AUG 16

Slamming the critics of H-1B, aUS think-tank and corporateAmerica have suggested re-moval of Congressional cap onthis popular work visa pro-gramme and allow markets todetermine number of skilledforeign workers eligible towork in the country.

"The best policy for theUnited States is one that sideswith freedom and innovation,not restriction. It is a policywhere the H-1B cap is eithereliminated or set high enoughthat we can let the market de-cide on the number of newskilled foreign nationals whowork in America each year," areport said.

The 81-page report titled "Re-gaining America's Competitive Ad-vantage: Making our ImmigrationSystem Work" has been jointly pre-pared by US Chamber of Com-merce, which is the top

representative body of the Ameri-can businesses, American Councilon International Personnel, an em-inent think-tank.

US President Barack Obamaon Friday signed into law anew 'Border Security Bill' pro-posing a steep hike in somecategories of H-1B and L-1 visafees which is expected to badlyhurt Indian IT firms which mayhave to shell out an additional$250 million annually for thenext five years.

"The best policy would easethe way for employers to spon-sor high skilled individuals forgreen cards by exempting fromlabour certification and currentemployment-based immigrantquotas many who now lan-guish in 6 to 20 year queues,"the report said.

"Allowing top talent whograduate from US universitiesto gain a green card directlywill help US employers retainthe world's leading future in-

novators," the report said. The report has come out with

some very interesting findingabout H-1B visa programme, ac-cording to which popular foreignwork visa has been a key factor inUS' competitiveness and its eco-nomic growth.

Who is in a better positionto determine which employeesare most likely to make Apple,Amazon or other US compa-nies successful? Is it critics ofimmigration, government bu-reaucrats, or the companiesthemselves?" the report said.

Findings of this report showthat leading US companies citethe role played by highly edu-cated foreign nationals in thesuccess of the organisation.

Noting that the critics argueUS has too much talent entryof high skilled foreign nation-als should be blocked, the re-port says realimmigration-related problem isthat many talented people

have not been able to stay in USafter graduation because of lowquotas for H-1B visas and employ-ment-based green cards.

"H-1B visas are a largesource of scholarship moneyfor US students, with H-1Btraining and scholarship feeslevied on each petition (and re-newal) having funded morethan 53,000 math and sciencecollege scholarships for US stu-dents through the National Sci-ence Foundation," it said.

"There is little evidence highskilled foreign nationals on H-1B visas are in general paid lessthan their American counter-parts," the report said.

The report said critics whoinsist H-1B professionals arehired to "save money" fail tonote that in addition to legalrequirement to pay H-1B visaholders higher than prevailingor actual wage paid to US workers,employers must pay significantlegal and government fees.

Remove cap on work visaprogramme: US think tank

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So, How Do You Know when you have a great movie on your hands? You look up and see ReeseWitherspoon, Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson and the legendary Jack Nicholson all sharing the big screen. Yep,the Oscar winners and the former bat mitzvah star have teamed up for ‘How Do You Know’.

This may seem like your typical rom-com – a woman ponders her love life and gets caught between twodesirable men, Rudd and the always hilarious Owen Wilson, but don't let that fool you! The chemistry

between Rudd and Witherspoon infuses even the most clichéd scene with irresistible charm and appeal.

And with a third Oscar winner at the helm, James L Brooks who has delivered wonderslike ‘Terms of Endearment’, ‘As Good As It Gets’, ‘How Do You Know’ could take a

well-worn formula but still stand out.

The romantic comedy pivots on the love trianglebetween professional softball player Lisa Jor-genson (Reese Witherspoon), corporateexecutive George Madison (Rudd), andmajor-league pitcher Matty (Owen Wil-son).

Lisa, facing a difficult transition inher life, seeks a distraction and jumpsinto a relationship with the self-centredMatty.

Later, she meets Madison, who too islooking for a distraction, because he isfacing financial ruin and a federal investi-gation on account of deals made by a com-pany owned by his father (Jack Nicholson).

Asking the question ‘what if the best thinghappened on the worst day of your life?’ thefilm is scheduled to be released on December17, 2010.

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All you Queen Kat fans need not get panicky, KatrinaKaif has no plans of getting married anytime soon,but she has already decided the colour of her wedding

outfit. The actress, who walked the ramp at the inauguralof the India International Jewellery Week to showcase theNakshatra bridal collection, will go green on her D-day.

“At the moment I don't know when I'll marry. I had oncesaid 2012, but for that too I have two years to go. Suchthings are not planned. You never know what's in storefor you, but whenever it happens, I would love to wearsomething in green,” Katrina told reporters.

“I don't know why, but I have this thing in my mind,”added the 26-year-old.

Garbed in a peach ruffled lehenga with a jewel encrusted

top by Neeta Lulla, the actress sported a chunky dia-mond set that was based on the traditional seven-stone floral cluster design.

Being at the jewellery event, Katrina said that jew-ellery given to her is very special.

“Jewellery is something that becomes all the morespecial when it is gifted. My favourite piece of jewelleryis a pendant that was gifted to me. It has a religioussymbol on it, something from the Quran. That pieceis very special to me.”

On the work front, the actresses is rumoured tohave enchanted Aditya Chopra who has taken a keeninterest in her and is giving her loads of career advice;she is also the top candidate for a couple of his up-coming ventures after giving him a hit in ‘New York’.

I would like to wear something green for

my wedding: Katrina

Reese and Rudd share Great Chemistry

BY DOLCY D’CRUZ

HERALD FEATURES

Afew years ago, Gospelmusic was one of thegenres that youngsterswould not willingly givea second listen to. They

would have rock, hip-hop and popsongs on their playlist but gospelmusic would be given a secondthought. But now the trend is chang-ing as youngsters are taking to feel-good, praising the Lord songs ratherthan the senseless lyrics of hip-hopsongs. With Gospel music getting anew feel with catchy beats and sing-along lyrics, youngsters are filling upvenues of such events more than theirparents.

Fr Ubaldo Fernandes, Parish Priestof Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Amboli,Quepem recently released his VideoCD titled ‘Hanv Tuzo Mog Kortam – ILove You’. The album features Gospelreadings explained by the priest followedby Gospel songs. “I got a good responsefor the album. God has given me the giftof singing and I preach His gospelthrough music. I prayed a lot and then Igot the title for the album. The songsspeak of the creation of the world, Godbeing our watchman and the life of MotherMary. The youth played an important rolein promoting the music. They are our fu-ture and they look very optimistic aboutthe music,” says Fr Ubaldo.

Brother Joel Lasrado, a preacher at theDivine Retreat Centre in Kerala for the last 17 years is also influencedby youngsters. He has released three albums till date, ‘Somiak Dinvasuia’and ‘Vorto Amcho Dev’ in Konkani and ‘Eyes on Jesus’ in English. He hasfeatured singers from Goan bands like the Big City Band, Sky High andLynx in his devotional album. He says, “I noticed that teenagers andyoungsters would participate in hymns that were sung live for retreatsand they really liked it. Gospel music has changed and the beat is fasteras compared to how it was before. There is a great response for thealbums too. More youth are coming forward to sing and play musicalinstruments for the Lord’s Praise. The response has been so tremendousthat we are planning to come out with another album by next year.”

Emmanuel Antao from Chandor is a regular singer for retreats inPotta and has featured in two albums with Brother Joel. “I have been

singing Gospel music for the past eightyears. I studied in Don Bosco BoardingSchool and Gospel music has highlyinfluenced me since that time. Thereis a lot of demand for Gospel music.The music has a slight beat of rockto it too, this attracts youngsters.”

Armando Gonsalves from HeritageJazz, besides bringing down Jazz mu-sicians, also brought Mumbai basedGospel band, Yeshua to Goa duringthe Carnival season. “The crowdwas fantastic and even though therewere other carnival festivities hap-pening, youngsters flocked to at-tend a Gospel band show.”

Fr Lawrence Mascarenhas fromthe Saligao Seminary is very mo-tivating and has followed the trendvery carefully. Influential in theDivine Mercy Band, he says,“There is a huge difference in anindividual once they start listen-ing to Gospel music as it touchestheir soul. It is an inspiration ofthe Holy Spirit and they respondto God’s love through their tal-ents of singing and playingmusic. Once they hear the songagain and again, the Holy Spiritcomes into them. Many young-sters are getting drawn towardsthe genre. At the age of 12-14,parents motivate their children

and by age 19-20, youngstersthemselves take part to get close to God. There are two stages

of participating in music, the first stage being their love for God andthe other when they get fed up of worldly music and turn to the deepermeaning of Gospel music.”

Cuckoo Sequeira has been a young musical prodigy and has beenawarded the National Award for Music and Limca Book of Records buthas recently shifted into Gospel music. Cuckoo says, “It is God’s calland once you get motivated to sing His praise, the feeling is totally dif-ferent as one feels God’s presence while performing. I have formed a11-member band called Musiqca comprising all youth and we are workingtowards our own album. I urge parents to be more encouraging and toallow their children to participate in more church choirs and retreats.”

So the next time you see a few songs in your friend’s music playertitled ‘Praise the Lord’ or ‘Argam Tuka Somia’, do take a listen, youmight just love it.

St Augustine of Hipposaid, “He who sings, prays

twice.” Today’syoungsters are getting

more absorbed intoGospel music and are nowpraising God through theirsongs. Herald takes a peek

into the changing trendsof Gospel music

Changing Trends of Gospel Music

BY NOMRATHA FERNANDESHERALD FEATURES

Voluntary, Eco-Friendly, Community Festsays the header, in bold text, on theposter informing of Salvador doMundo’s ‘Patoianchem Fest’. The evenbolder and larger font saying ‘Live

Music…’, ‘Traditional Goan Food’ and ‘RainGames of Goa…’ meets the eye, lower on theposter.

The poster carries a potent message to theGoan people, one that, presently in the villageof Salvador do Mundo, will not stop at words,but be put to action with this upcoming fest.“When people keep in mind these three things,good will follow,” says Mario Fernandes, headorganiser. He says, “To begin with, the fest willhave no chief guest, everyone is important here,everyone has pitched in. There will be no prizes,no use of plastic, no spitting, no smoking andno sponsors.” Certainly! Voluntary work is takingcare of everything that a sponsor would.

Musicians will entertain the audience withtraditional Konkani music played live on tradi-tional instruments. There will be rain of gamesof Goa. Games like katodieo, koindabal, godde,gontamni to name some. Authentic Goan foodlike sanna, pudde, patoieo, xacuti and pez, all

cooked by the vil-l agers wi l l be

ser ved . Thegames , themusic and thefood have a l lbeen g iven

thought. Familieshave been assigned

tasks that will alsoinvolve children and

teenagers. “Kids arebeing trained on musical

instruments, being taughtto cook

Goan foodand wi l lp a r t i c i -pate in thegames as

well,” Mario says. We learn this while the planningof the fest is ongoing.

It has been hard getting volunteers he laments,but not impossible. “Once they see it being donein other villages, they feel capable. It’s all a men-tality, that has to be broken,” Mario says firmly.

Here, he takes us to how it all began. Nineyears ago when he came down from the UK, henoticed that the Goan youth has little to no timefor local activities. Nine years saw no change.With a busy schedule involving family or friends,work or school, and just about enough time forleisurely activities much premium wasn’t givento local activities. Deciding to act upon it, hetried the concept at a 15 day summer camp inApril 2008 at a school. It worked, much to thedelight of the students and their parents. Fromhere, he has taken it to a other villages in Goa,Pomburpa being one. He plans on bringing it toevery village in the tiny state, for them to havethe knowledge of their local culture.

The prime reason behind these fests is thepassing of the Goan culture to the next genera-tion. As Goa entered the 21st century her identityis constantly being challenged, and not just ex-ternal challenges but internal as well. Culture iscarried forward by the young in the very thingsthey do. As the number of Goa’s young whovalue culture and follow tradition religiously isgradually diminishing, fests like these are theneed of the hour. Besides it is also helping gen-erate employment for talent in the performingarts. “Musicians and tiatrists are performing pro-fessionally on the Konkani stage,” he says. Thesefests are surely a platform.

With the voluntary aspect of the fest Mariohas sought to bring about a selfless communityspirit to the village. “You don’t need big fundsor an external body that manages the activitiesthat go into setting up of a festival,” he says,“Just give in a few days and a little bit of effortto your village and watch the results.” The con-cept is also seeking to extend feelings of harmony,love and self-belief to its participants. “If onecan go ahead and make it happen by makingcontributions in their back yards, their belief inthe community doubles,” he states. The fervourbuilt around this fest goes along the lines of re-ligious events that villages collectively take partin, notices Mario. Religion is impetus to thatkind of fervour. With this fest however difficultit has been so far, religion aside; momentum isbuilding in preparation for it.

Mario works towards strengthening thecultural fabric of

the village be-cause that iswhere cu l -ture, customand traditionlie, and by itsvery nature,make Goaunique.

How many days in voluntary work would you give your village? The villagers of Salvador do

Mundor say plenty, in their preparation for ‘Patoianchem Fest’, to be held on August 22 in

the Paitona Chapel courtyard in the green village of Salvador do Mundo. Herald informs

Spreading Goan Culturethrough Village Fest

10:30 Saath Nibhana Saathiya 11:00 Mann Kee Awaaz Pratigya 11:30 Behenein 12:00 Sapna Babul Ka ...Bidaai 12:30 Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai13:00 Tere Mere Sapne 13:30 Hamari Devrani 14:00 Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat 14:30 Chhote Ustaad: DoDeshon Ki Ek Awaaz : Highlights 15:00 Chaand Chupa Badal Mein 15:30 Sapna Babul Ka ...Bidaai 16:00 Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai16:30 Mann Kee Awaaz Pratigya 17:00 Sasural Genda Phool 17:30 Saath Nibhana Saathiya 18:00 Tere Liye 18:30 Sabki Laadli Bebo 19:00 Saath Nibhana Saathiya 19:30 Sasural Genda Phool 20:00 Chaand Chupa Badal Mein 20:30 Behenein 21:00 Sapna Babul Ka ...Bidaai 21:30 Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai22:00 Tere Liye 22:30 Mann Kee Awaaz Pratigya

11:00 Entertainment Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega 12:30 Comedy Ka Daily Soap 13:00 Baat Hamari Pakki Hai 13:30 Aahat 14:30 Baat Hamari Pakki Hai 15:00 C.I.D 19:30 Godh Bharaai 20:00 Maan Rahe Tera Pitaah 20:30 Baat Hamari Pakki Hai 21:00 Comedy Ka Daily Soap 21:30 Entertainment Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega

10:30 Sanjog Se Bani Sangini 11:00 Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi 11:30 Pavitra Rishta 12:00 Mera Naam Karegi Roshan 12:30 Yahan Main Ghar Ghar Kheli 13:00 Jhansi Ki Rani 13:30 Pavitra Rishta 14:00 Sanjog Se Bani Sangini 14:30 Mera Naam Karegi Roshan 15:00 Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi 15:30 Choti Bahu 16:00 Pavitra Rishta 16:30 Jhansi Ki Rani 17:00 Yahan Main Ghar Ghar Kheli 17:30 Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi 18:00 Sanjog Se Bani Sangini 18:30 Mera Naam Karegi Roshan 19:00 12/24 Karol Bagh 19:30 Choti Bahu 20:00 Jhansi Ki Rani 20:30 Yahan Main Ghar Ghar Kheli 21:00 Pavitra Rishta 21:30 Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi 22:00 Sanjog Se Bani Sangini

10:30 Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta…11:30 Sajan Re Jhoot Mat Bolo 12:00 Mrs. & Mr. Sharma Allahabadwale 12:30 Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta…13:00 Sajan Re Jhoot Mat Bolo 13:30 Papad Pol 14:00 Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta…14:30 Mrs. & Mr. Sharma Allahabadwale 15:00 Lapataganj 15:30 FIR 16:00 Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta…16:30 Papad Pol 17:00 Mrs. & Mr. Sharma Allahabadwale

17:30 Gutar Gu 18:00 Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta…18:30 Papad Pol 19:00 Lapataganj 19:30 Mrs. & Mr. Sharma Allahabadwale 20:00 Papad Pol 20:30 Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta ..21:00 Sajan Re Jhoot Mat Bolo 21:30 Mrs. & Mr. Sharma Allahabadwale 22:00 Lapataganj 22:30 FIR

10:00 Mile Jab Hum Tum

10:30 Rang Badalti Odhni 11:00 Geet 11:30 India's Magic Star 13:00 Rang Badalti Odhni 13:30 Geet 14:00 Dill Mill Gayye 14:30 Mile Jab Hum Tum 15:00 Geet 15:30 Rang Badalti Odhni 16:00 Dill Mill Gayye 16:30 Mile Jab Hum Tum 17:00 Geet 17:30 Rang Badalti Odhni 18:00 Dill Mill Gayye 18:30 Mile Jab Hum Tum 19:00 Geet 19:30 Rang Badalti Odhni 20:00 Dill Mill Gayye

20:30 Jaane Pehchaane Se Yeh 21:00 Mile Jab Hum Tum 21:30 Geet 22:00 Rang Badalti Odhni 22:30 Dill Mill Gayye

11:00 Fear Factor 12:00 Top Chef Masters 13:00 Criss Angel Mindfreak14:00 Top Chef : Restaurant Wars15:00 E Buzz 15:30 Slamball 17:00 Guinness World Records 18:00 Fear Factor19:00 E Buzz 19:30 Total Wipeout

21:00 So You Think You Can Dance 22:00 Keith Barry: The Escape

10:30 How I Met Your Mother 11:00 Moment of Truth 12:00 V.I.P 13:00 MasterChef Australia 14:00 Criminal Minds15:00 Ugly Betty16:00 The Simpsons16:30 Friends 17:00 Criminal Minds 18:00 V.I.P 19:00 Glee 20:00 The Simpsons 20:30 How I Met Your Mother 21:00 MasterChef Australia 22:00 Criminal Minds

10:30 Rogers Masters H/ls 11:30 Cincinnati: Western & Southern Financial Group Masters 13:00 Asian Tour Golf Show 14:00 Barclays Premier League 2010/11 16:00 Motorsports : Petronas 16:30 Engine Block 2010 17:00 2010 DTM : Valencia 18:00 TNA Impact 20:00 Intercontinental RallyChallenge 2010 : Magazine:Round 8 20:30 Golf Focus 2010 21:00 Score Tonight 21:30 TNA Impact 23:30 Cincinnati: Western & Southern Financial Group Masters

10:00 Fina Aquatics World

10:30 Hitz 11:00 Winter X Games 13 12:00 Barclays Premier League 2010/11 : Manchester United vs. Newcastle United 14:00 MLB Regular Season 2010 : Detroit Tigers vs. New York Yankees 17:00 The Monday Night Verdict 18:00 Barclays Premier League Express : Manchester United vs. Newcastle United19:00 Barclays Premier League 20:00 Sportscenter India 20:30 Sportscenter Asia 21:00 Champions League Twenty20 2009 H/ls : League Stage: Trinidad & Tobago vs. New South Wales Blues 22:00 Sportscenter India 22:30 Sportscenter Asia 23:00 KFC Twenty20 Big Bash H/ls : South Australia vs. Victoria

ten-sports09:30 Sri Lanka Triangular Se-ries in 2010 H/ls : 3rd ODI: Indiavs. Sri Lanka

11:30 World Hockey Magazine

12:00 ATP 1000 Masters : Final:Rogers Masters

15:00 Sri Lanka Triangular Se-ries in 2010 H/ls : 3rd ODI: Indiavs. Sri Lanka

17:00 WWE: After Burn

18:00 Motorsport Mundial

18:30 Moto GP H/ls : Cardion AbGrand Prix Cesky Republiky

19:30 WWE: After Burn

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09:40 Kill Switch 11:40 Independence Day 14:30 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull16:55 The Faculty 19:00 New in Town 21:00 Behind Enemy Lines 23:10 The Sixth Sense

09:45 Foxfire 12:00 Universal Soldier13:45 Death Race 16:15 Fracture 18:45 TMZ 19:15 Amusement 20:00 American Ninja 2: The Confrontation 22:45 10,000 BC

08:15 Amaanat 11:55 Maa Beti 15:55 Hum To Mohabbat Karega20:00 Bal Ganesh 22:40 Deewana Mastana

09:30 Agar Tum Na Hote 12:30 Yakeen 16:00 Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai 20:00 Yahaan

09:25 The Karate Kid 11:55 Alex and Emma

13:50 A Good Woman 15:45 My Life 18:35 Dark Blue 21:00 The Benchwarmers 22:55 Turistas

12:00 Ek Aur Himmatwala 16:00 Aaj Ke Angaarey 20:00 Golmaal: Fun Unlimited 23:25 Commando: The Force

08:00 The Gentleman 12:00 Maa Durga Divya Haathi 16:00 Aulad Ke Dushman 20:00 Kuch Tum Kaho Kuch Hum Kahein

E N T E R T A I N M E N TE N T E R T A I N M E N T

Across1- Applaud; 5- Ova; 9-Choose; 14- Hot rock; 15-Run-down quarter; 16- Wordwith panel or energy; 17-Take ___ from me; 18- Balletskirt; 19- Device with 88keys; 20- Follower; 22-Small, sassy woman; 24-Follows orders; 26- Bind; 27-Supple; 30- Salt of tartaricacid; 35- Colorado resort;36- Seine feeder; 37- Red-dish-brown gem; 38- Land inla mer; 39- Prior; 42- Manip-ulate; 43- Gather, harvest;45- Pro follower; 46- Makeamends; 48- Stand astride;50- Frank; 51- Digit of thefoot; 52- Honeybee; 54-Roof item; 58- Whenever;62- Make watertight; 63- De-pression in a surface; 65-Part of Q.E.D.; 66- Aristo-cratic; 67- Siouan speaker;68- Hindu music; 69- Com-position; 70- E-mail command;71- Agitated state;

Down1- Dressed; 2- After the bell; 3-Tel ___; 4- Indian baby; 5-Prize; 6- Sticky; 7- Kind of reac-tion; 8- Brown-bag stuff; 9-Lively intelligence; 10- Tarries;11- Airline to Tel Aviv; 12- Bam-boo stem; 13- Horse's gait; 21-Steak order; 23- ___ Grows inBrooklyn; 25- Pompous; 27-Dens; 28- Atoll unit; 29-

Chucked weapon; 31-Bhutan's continent; 32-Brother of Moses; 33-Triple; 34- Gardening tool;36- Like some history; 40-"As You Like It" forest; 41-Coming down; 44-Kneecap; 47- Seesaws;49- Ass; 50- Habitual; 53-Babbled; 54- Skin disorder;55- Greek temple; 56-Baths; 57- Bustles; 59-OPEC member; 60- Bibli-cal trio; 61- Coup d'___;64- Hot time in Paris;

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WHAT’S UP IN GOA??

‘Rain or Shine Konkani Rocks’, or-ganised by Heritage Jazz will take placeon August 20, World Goa Day, at 6pmat the Gonsalves Mansion, Campal,Panjim. Call 2228010.The Lambert Mascarenhes Award,the Felicio Cardozo Award and theCyril D’Cunha Photojournalist Awardwill be handed over to deserving workingjournalists for their works that have beenpublished from April 1, 2008 to March31, 2010. Registration closes on August25. Call 9822179125 or 9822175940.The final work of ‘People’s Canvas’,organised by Sunaparanta - Goa Centrefor the Arts will be held on August 17from 11am to 7 pm at the Sunaparanta- Goa Centre for the Arts, Altinho, Panjim.Call 2421311.The Ultimate Gift by Jim Stovall, firstbook reading-cum-discussion, organisedby the International Centre Goa will beheld on August 17 from 6pm to 7:30pmat the International Centre Goa, DonaPaula. Call 9765404391 or 2452805-10.A trek to the Bhagwan MahaveerWildlife Sanctuary and National Park,Mollem, organised by the UWA willtake place on August 22. Cal l9423886358 or 9420178820.‘Save the Girl Child’ will be the themefor the state level inter-college streetplay competition organised by the Di-rectorate of Health as part of the im-plementation of the Pre-conception andPre-Natal Diagnostic Technique Act onSeptember 21 and 22 at the MaquinezPalace, Panjim.A Science Film Festival, organisedby Goa Science Centre, Miramar isbeing held till September 5 from10.30am to 12.30pm and 2.30pm to4pm at the Goa Science Centre, Mira-mar. Call 2463426.Preliminary rounds for ‘Vem Cantar– The Portuguese Song Contest2010’, organised by the Heritage Cell

of the Rosary College of Commerceand Arts, Navelim and the FundacaoOriente will be held on September 11from 5pm onwards at the Clube Har-monia de Margao, Margao and on Sep-tember 12 at 5pm at Clube Vasco deGama, Panjim. Call 2736864, 2701584,2701564 or 2714546.‘Sanvsor Bhonvtim Yontram’ and‘Soponio Natt Kuleachi’ books by Fa-ther Antonio Francisco Sousa andJames Fernandes, respectively, will bereleased on August 20 at 5pm at HotelNanutel, Margao. It is being held bythe Dalgado Konknni Academy tocommemorate the inclusion of Konknniin the 8th schedule of the Indian Con-st i tu t ion. Cal l 9881810832 or9923412182.‘Forms of Expression’, the inter-school elocution competition, organ-ised by the Mushtifund Middle School,Mala-Panjim will be held on August17 from 9am to 1pm at the Kala Acad-emy, Panjim. Call 9923652465 or9764598157.The V M Salgaocar Award Presen-tation which is presented to toprankers from the SSC and ICSE Boardexams held in Goa, April 2010, willtake place on August 18 at 5pm atthe Grand Ballroom, Goa Marriott Re-sort, Miramar, Panjim. It is organisedby the V M Salgaocar Foundation.Call 2463333, 6656033, 6656130 or6656713Raksha Bandhan Special classeswill be held where one can learn tocreate paper quilling, punchcraft orparchment rakhi. It will be held at theHobby Centre. Call 9881696445.‘Beyond Sight’, a photo exhibition bythe visually impaired, organised by Her-itage Jazz will take place on August 20at 4pm at the Kala Academy, Panjim. Itwill remain open for public viewing tillSeptember 22 from 10am to 7.30pmat the same venue. Call 2228010 or2420452.

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HERALD FEATURES

Konkani musicreached i t speak w i thLorna and Chris

Perry’s songs, so muchso that the names be-

came synonymous withKonkani music. To revive the old charm of the music,Heritage Jazz, in association with the Tiatr Academyof Goa (TAG) and the GHRSSIDC, is getting the Goansinger to perform on the occasion of World GoaDay on August 20, 2010 at the Gonsalves Mansion,Campal.

The programme, named ‘Rain or Shine – KonkaniRocks’, has been planned as a multi-layered enter-tainment programme with music, tiatr, arts andfood, everything Goan.

“Lorna will be performing with her seven-memberensemble, along with a tiatr titled, ‘Tthikann’,” saidArmando Gonsalves, CEO of Heritage Jazz, while

addressing the press. Tomazinho Cardozo, representing TAG, said

that he was in full support of the event. “Ithank Armando for giving a platform to Konkanimusic and drama,” said Cardozo while appre-ciating the fact that with this event, tiatr willbe taken to a wider audience, thus giving it aboost.

Nikhil Desai, MD of GHRSSIDC added thatthere will be stalls with crafts, thus givingGoan handicraft a wider platform. “Since it isabout everything Goan, we decided to includethe crafts also,” he said.

The celebrations will include a food festivalwith Goan delicacies on the platter. “Our basicaim is to take the authentic Goan culture tothe world,” said Gonsalves. Since the concertwill be held in the peak of the monsoons, inthe open air, the first 100 entries will begifted tri-coloured umbrellas, in keepingwith the celebration of the day.

Lorna to perform on World Goa Day

HERALD FEATURES

Tri Nation Trio, a classical music concert featuringthree girls, each from a different nation, enrap-

tured audiences last Friday. The Kala Academy’s Di-nanath Mangueshkar Kala Mandir Auditorium waspacked beyond its capacity, so much so that therewere a few standing and enjoying the musical dis-play.

Linlin Fan from China, Sabine Ehlscheidt from Ger-many and Sanya Myla Cotta from Goa, India combinedtheir talents to give a splendid musical performance.The solo performances told us plenty; the musician’spersonality, passion and dedication towards theirart were just a few qualities revealed. Chopin’s‘Scherzo No 1’ saw a stork figured Linlin dressed ina long, fish silver skirt and a black top, give a rivetingperformance that held the audience through it all.

Schubert’s ‘Sonata in a minor D 821’ saw Sabineon violin coming together with Linlin at the piano.The two musicians were in complete tandem andgave a soulful rendition that had plenty of changein tempo, all with a smooth transition.

Like every other performance, Sanya, who lightlyswayed to the music, dispelled plenty of rhythmicenergy to the audience. The sombre feel of J Marti-non’s ‘Sonatine No 5’ for solo violin was only en-hanced with her splendid rendition of the piece. Allof the three musicians made their instruments speak.

Most of the classical pieces chosen were of com-posers - J Brahms, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert andMartinon – primarily from the Romantic era of clas-sical music.

Troika of Musical Talentenrapture Audience

HERALD FEATURES

The All Goa YMCA Charcoal and Pencil Drawing competitionreceived a participation of 105 entries from a cross-

section of age groups. The competition levitated around anot-so-common art medium, charcoal, along with pencil. Itwas a black and white display of creativity.

The complete works of the participants will be on displayat the YMCA premises in Campal, Panjim till August 17,2010 and the prizes will be announced fifteen days afterthe date of the competition.

Quaint Shades and Hues

of Charcoal and Pencil

Jose Pereira, an employee of the PWD, hoists India’s nationalflag on the occasion of India’s 64th Independence Day at Junta House, Panjim, in the presence of colleague Rajendra Naik. A

resident of Taleigao, Pereira diligently cycles his way to JuntaHouse on the mornings of Independence Day, Republic Day andLiberation Day to hoist the flag. He has been partaking in thistask for the last 28 years and also lowers the flag in the lateevenings of these national holidays.

August 15 also saw the participation of students from cityschools. The young ones began a procession from the PanjimChurch and completed it at the Azad Maidan.

Years of Dedication toOne’s Motherland

Photos by Herald Features

HERALD FEATURES

The Ribandar river belt was flocked withpeople from all over Goa, carrying theirfishing rods heading for the 11th All

Goa Fishing Contest on August 15, 2010. Thecontest organised by the Fishing Lovers ofRibandar, to celebrate the feast of Assump-tion of Our Lady.

“The response was overwhelming;we had to cut off the participation to10, because of lack of space,” saidMichael Fernandes. The contest wasjudged upon the weight of the fishcaught along with the time taken tocatch it.

The winners of the fishing contestwere Santano Lobesform Rivona, who hada good 40 minuteswait before catchingthe biggest fish, fol-l o w e d b y Pa re s hPisurlekar from Riban-dar and Cruz Fernan-des from Ribandar.

The contest, whichstarted at noon, wasfollowed by a food fes-tival and a footballmatch, which was or-ganised by the Jolly

boys of Ribandar and was played betweenthe New Challengers and the Portois SportsClub.

Locals hooked by Fishing Contest

(Right) Santano Lobes, the winner enjoy-ing a fishing day out

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Third Division football: BAFFv. Sirsaim SWC, Tivim ground;Dando Boys Club v. St. Sebast-ian SC, Dando ground, Be-naulim; Holy Cross SC Arambolv. Siolim Sodiem SCA Siolimground. Kick off 4 p.m.

MahaBank Platinum soccertrophy:Nerul Sports Club v. ClubeSao Minguel Taleigao, CalanguteAssociation ground, 4.30 p.m.

1st All-Goa 9-a-side ReisMagos Panchayat Cup soccer:Sangolda Lightning v. SaiAvatar SC Anjuna, Verem Pan-chayat ground, 4.45 p.m.

Catherine Viegas memorialsoccer: Fatima Boys, Baida v.Dramapur Boys , churchground, Chinchinim, 4.30 p.m.

Subroto soccer semis: InfantJesus HS, Colva v. Mae Dos Po-bres HS, Nuvem, 8.30 a.m.;Rosary HSS, Navelim v. Fr.Agnel HSS, Verna, 9.45 a.m;Manora ground, Raia.

The captain of CRCC team, receiving the trophy and Rs 30,000 award from Sports Minister, Babu Azgaonkarafter the finals of Chinchinim-Deussua Panchayat Cup 2010 football tournament organised by ClubeRecreativo e Cultural de Chinchinim at Chinchinim church ground on Sunday in the presence of Water Re-sources and Forest Minister, Fillip Neri Rodrigues, Sarpanch Olwin Antao. Photo: Naveedanjum Mujawar

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CALANGUTE, AUG 16

Nagoa Sporting Club got thebetter of United Club of Nerul6-5 via the tie-breaker after bothteams were involved in an ex-citing 2-all draw in the inauguralmatch of All-Goa Inter-VillageMahabank Platinum Jubilee Tro-phy soccer tournament organ-ised by Adarsh Yuvak Sangh atCalangute Association ground,Calangute on Monday.

Dominating the initial pro-ceedings, Nagoa shot into thelead in the 15th minute through

Lawrence Rodrigues. Goadedby the success, Nagoa mountedpressure and doubled the leadin the 20th minute throughShaish Palyekar.

Down by two goals, Nerultried their best to bounce backinto the game but a goal eludedthem.

Changing over, Nerul keptmounting on pressure and suc-ceeded in reducing the marginwith five minutes remainingthrough Agnelo Lobo.

With time running out, Ag-nelo once again scored to bring

his team on level terms andtake the match into the tie-breaker.

Nagoa kept their nerves toprevail over Nerul 4-3 in the tie-breaker. Venancio Gonsalves,Stanley Coutinho, Gaurish Naikand Lawrence Rodrigues con-verted for Nagoa while John Vaz,Benit D'souza and Alex were ontarget for Nerul.

Earlier, the tournament waskicked off by Prakash Shinde,asst. general manager, Bank ofMaharashtra in the presence ofa large number of spectators.

Nagoa squeeze past UC Nerul

Prakash Shinde kicks off the All-Goa Inter-Village Mahabank Platinum Jubilee Trophy soccer tournamentorganised by Adarsh Yuvak Sangh at Calangute Association ground, Calangute on Monday.

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MAPUSA, AUG 16

St Xavier’s High School, Mapusadefeated DM Kushe 2-0 in the finalof inter-school badminton tour-nament organised by DSYA at Ped-dem complex here on Monday.

Xaviers defeated SFX SiolimHigher Secondary School andShiv Bhumika Higher Secondary

St Xavier’s HS aheadSchool in the earlier rounds toqualify for the final.

Vaibhav Kalangutkar, RiddhiNaik, Nikita Miranda, Sonali Gaun-der and Ankita Azgaonkar madeup the victorious Xaviers team.

R i tha V ishwakarma, T.Sivakami, Murial Pereira, PoojaVernekar, and Sharda Bangar were

part of the DM Kushe line-up.Meanwhile on the first day of

the inter-school football at Ped-dem complex, DM Kushae HSS,Assagao defeated SFX SiolimHSS by a solitary goal scored byAbhijit Salgaokar.

St Thomas HSS, Aldona defeatedKamleshwar HSS, Korgao 3-0. ArunReddy scored a brace while JasonViegas also scored for Aldona.

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MAPUSA, AUG 16

Domnic Fernandes bagged a hat-trick as Youth Sports Club ofColvale defeated Eagle SC 3-1in GFA’s Third Division at Tivimground on Monday. Colvale led2-1 at the breather.

In t r i ca te pass ing f romColvale’s right winger Dom-nic Fernandes and centralmidfielder Philino Ratos al-l o w e d C o l v a l e t o e n j o ygreater territorial advantageand create plenty of goalscoring chances throughoutthe 90 minutes.

Eagle battled hard, but therewas no communication betweenthe players especially the de-

fence which put them on theback foot for most of the match.If it was not for the reflexes ofgoalkeeper Virendra Majik thescore would have been a lotmore in Colvale’s favour.

In the 9th minute, the Eagle’sdefence failed to clear their linesleaving Domnic Fernandes tointercept the ball and punt pastthe Eagle custodian to giveColvale the lead.

Six minutes later, Eagleequalised through Jan Rodrigueswho scored a free kick from 23yards out, the ball deflecting offthe post on its way in.

Domnic was on the score-sheet again in the 24th forColvale, slipping the ball past

the Eagle goalkeeper who hadstrayed outside his 18-yard boxin an attempt to clear the ballbut came off second best.

After the lemon break Colvaledid not sit back. The coach gavethe team ten minutes beforemaking his first change. DeepGovekar came in for Azdam Fer-nandes. This was followed byswitching Anthony Xavier forMilton Lobo. To counteract thechanges, Eagle themselvesbrought in Vency Bosco forGirish Parab.

In the 72nd minute, Domnicproceded into the rival box andblasted into the bottom cornerto secure the points for Colvaleand notch up his hat-trick.

Domnic tricks for Colvale

HERALD CORRESPONDENT

QUEPEM, AUG 16

Ward No.6 Copelabhat ofQuepem Municipal Council wonthe 7- a-side Alex and Alex me-morial football Quepem Munic-ipal ward- wise tournamentorganiSed by Deumol Boys atDeumol ground.

In the exciting final, WardNo.6 defeated Ward No.9(Condy) via the tie-breaker 4-3 as during regular time thematch ended in a goallessdraw.

Copelabhat were awardedRs.10,000 while Condy wereawarded Rs.7,000.

Piedade Fernandes and IvoFernandes of Ward No.6 wereawarded best goalkeeper andbest defender prizes respec-tively. Lario Colaco of WardNo.9 was declared best playerof final.

Chandrakant Kavlekar, MLAand IDC Chairman was the chiefguest. QMC Chairperson, LydiaD’Costa and Subhash Fall Dessaiwere the guests of honour whoawarded the prizes.

Copelabhat (Quepem) triumph

Quepem Ward No 6 alongwith Chandrakant Kavlekar, Lydia D’Costa, Subhash Fall Dessai, Camilo Simoes.Photo: John Fernandes

Jharkhand style: A goat astrophy for winners

BY FEROZ FERNANDES

PILAR, AUG 16

Can you believe this! A goatas a reward for the winner ofa football match? Yes, twofootball matches were playedat Pilar on I-Day and the win-ners took goats as their tro-phies for the Khasi Cup. InSadri, the local language of theJharkhand people, Khasi meansgoat.

Over 1000 youth from Jhark-hand gathered at Pilar schoolground to play an orally pre-setcontest of a football match. Theyouth from Jharkhand workingin Pilar emerged winners de-feating the Jharkhand youth

from Mapusa with a 2-1score.Twenty-one-year old SanjayKullu scored the winning goalfor Pilar team.

In the other match, Kundaimdefeated Odxel 4-0 to take agoat home as a winning prize.

With no shoes and no jerseysto identify the opponents, theJharkhand youth managed topull things together to come toa joyful finale of the Independ-ence Day.

For over a decade the Jhark-hand youth are gathering to playhockey and football matches invarious parts of Goa. The tro-phies for these matches may begoats, pigs and poultry, stated

Bharat Gop, a resident of Jhark-hand who is working in Pilarfor the last 15 years.

There were two more hockeymatches which were not played.The prize was a pig each fromboth the contests. These teamsdid not turn up as there was an-other tournament organised bythe youth of Jharkhand in Vasco.In Sadri, pig means banda andwhen the trophy is a pig it iscalled Banda Cup.

Call the Jharkhand youth any-thing. This piece of writing willsurely not be read by Jharkhan-dis working in Goa but it is ahonour that they do a lot ofwork for us in the State.

The Jharkhand youth with the trophy – goat.

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MASON (Ohio), AUG 16

Kim Clijsters survived threematch points before a rain breakthen produced a remarkablecomeback after the weathercleared to beat Maria Sharapova2-6 7-6 6-2 and win the Cincin-nati Open.

Sharapova had three cham-pionship points at 5-3 in thesecond set before rain left herstranded at deuce, two pointsfrom victory, and ending up hav-ing 74 minutes to ponder themissed chances before play re-sumed yesterday.

Belgian Clijsters emerged fromthe break a different player, andsteamrolled the Russian in thethird set after winning the secondset tiebreak from 3-0 down.

''I think it certainly gave hertime to relax, and more than theconditions themselves, I think itwas about just maybe her goingin and having a chance to thinkabout what she needs to do dif-ferently,'' said Sharapova, whotook a medical time-out in thethird set to treat a heel injury.

''She came out and startedplaying really good tennis.''

After holding serve followingthe rain-break, 27-year-old Cli-jsters broke Sharapova beforeholding again to take the gameinto a tiebreak.

She clawed her way back fromthe 3-0 deficit to take thetiebreak 7-4, and broke Shara-pova in the third game of thefinal set when the Russian dou-ble-faulted.

The Belgian failed to win onthree title points, but held hernerve in the end to secure a350,000 dollar prize and her38th WTA win.

The victory, watched by herdaughter Jade, was her fourthsince returning to the sport aftera two-year maternity break.

Clijsters returned to the tourat this event a year ago and wenton to win the US Open, the Bris-bane International and the SonyEricsson Open in Miami.

''You can't start a match whenyou come out of the locker roomlike that, you can't start it at 0-0. You have to be ready to goand you have to get yourself alittle bit pumped up and firedup. That's what I tried to do,''she said.

Clijsters fights back for Cincinnati title

Europe’s clubsturn to Brazil,

ArgentinaAP

NEUCHATEL, AUG 16

A study of Europe’s top clubssays Argentine footballers arecatching up with Brazilians asthe favored foreigners to sign.

The Professional FootballPlayers Observatory says thatBrazil still had the most playerswith top-tier clubs in Europe’sfive highest-ranked leagues, butits lead over Argentina was 139-120 last season. The gap hadbeen 60.

France sent 106 players toEnglish, German, Italian andSpanish top divisions.

The Swiss-based report saysclubs employed 42.6 percent ofplayers from abroad. England’sPremier League was almost 60percent foreign.

Arsenal gave 93.3 percent ofplaying time to non-English play-ers, edging European championInter Milan.

Athletic Bilbao fielded onlySpanish players.

AGENCIES

MADRID, AUG 16

Spanish giants Real Madrid planto make a new offer to WerderBremen for German World Cupsensation Mesut Ozil after anearlier bid was rejected, Spanishsports newspapers said Mon-day.

Real, under new coach JoseMourinho, plan to offer 14 mil-lion euros for the 21-year-oldmidfielder, five million morethan previously, the daily Marcareported.

Another sports daily, AS, said"the idea is to reach a figure ofbetween the 10 million offeredby Real and the 16 (million)which the German team is de-manding."

Werder sports director KlausAllofs said on Friday that theclub had rejected an offer fromReal as "unacceptable".

Financial details of that bidwere not disclosed but Germanmedia reported that a 16-mil-lion-euro price tag had beenplaced on Ozil whose contractwith Werder expires in June2011.

Ozil has also been the recenttarget of clubs such as Arsenaland Manchester United.

The player, who joined Bre-men in January 2008 for 4.25million euros, impressed duringthe World Cup this summer inwhich Germany finished third.

Ozil himself told the twoSpanish sports papers that he

could move to Real this season.The deadline for any such

transfer could be Wednesday,when Bremen takes on Italy'sSampdoria in the ChampionsLeague. If Ozil plays, he wouldbe ineligible to take the fieldfor Real in the same competi-tion.

Since taking over at the Span-ish club last month, Mourinhohas already recruited Spanishmidfielders Sergio Canales andPedro Leon, German midfielderSami Khedira and Argentinestriker Angel Di Maria.

Real, who finished second inthe Liga last season behindchampions Barcelona, opens thenew season with a match at RealMallorca on August 29.

Real pushing Werder to sell OzilRossi to join Ducati from

Yamaha

AGENCIES

MILAN, AUG 16

MotoGP wor ld championValentino Rossi will switch toDucati from Yamaha for nextseason, delighting millions ofhis bike-mad compatriots whohave yearned to see the sport-ing great finally race for theItalian team.

Rossi, arguably Italy's mostfamous sports personalitythanks to his extraordinary skilland madcap antics, has won hisseven top class world champi-onships with Japanese teams.

"We are de l ighted thatValentino Rossi will be with usfrom 2011. He is a paragon ofexcellence in the world of mo-torcycling," Ducati Motor Hold-ing president Gabriele DelTorchio said in a statement.

The 31-year-old Rossi, a win-ner of nine motorcycling worldtitles in all, sparked rumours ofa departure from Yamaha by en-tering the last year of his con-tract without a new deal.

He also said it was awkwardbeing team mate with currentchampionship leader JorgeLorenzo given they were bothso strong.

A vacancy at Ducati aroseafter Australia's Casey Stonersaid last month he would beleaving for Honda next year.

UNI

MELBOURNE, AUG 16

Australian captain Ricky Pontingtoday asserted that off-spinnerNathan Hauritz will be a part ofthe Australian Test squad for theupcoming Indian tour and theAshes series.

Hauritz missed Australia's re-cent series against Pakistan inEngland due to a foot injury, buthas resumed running ahead ofOctober's two-Test series againstIndia in Mohali and Bangalore.

''I've spoken a bit to Nathanover the last couple of weeks.”

''He has started running againwhich is a good sign, without painin his foot. He started bowlingagain last week,'' Ponting told 'AAP'.

''I will be doing a lot of workwith him over the next few weeks.I'll be facing a lot of him consid-ering we've got (Graeme) Swannand Harbhajan (Singh) to confrontover the next few months. Is hea lock-in? I think so. What he'sdone over the last 12 or 18

months as our number one spin-ner has been of the highest qual-ity. With him back to full fitnessI think he'll get himself back intothe side again.”

''Is he a lock-in? I think so,''he added.

Hauritz willprobably teamup with youngleg-spinning all-rounder StevenSmith, who madehis debut in thetwo-Test seriesagainst Pakistanin England.

Smith claimedthree wicketsand scored ahalf-century dur-ing the Headin-gley Test, and Ponting statedthat the 21-year-old's develop-ment during the England tourhas brought into contention fora place in the Ashes squad.

''Steven came along really well

in the two Tests that he playedin the UK. We saw towards theend of the Headingley Test hisability with the bat and also hiswillingness to be aggressive withthe ball. That's not an easy thing

to do for a youngleg-spinner tomaintain that ag-gression.”

''He's a work inprogress but themore games thathe can play is ob-viously going tobe better for himand he'll learn allthe time. WithShane Watson inour side it givesus the flexibilityto be ab le to

look at playing two spinners,''Ponting said.

Australian tearaway pacerShaun Tait is determined to stickto the shortest version of thegame, and has ruled himself out

of this year's Ashes.Tait asserted that he would

not return for the Ashes serieseven if asked by the selectors.

''I don't think they would askme to play anyway.”

''You have got to put some per-formances on the board playingfour-day cricket before you canjust walk into a Test side,'' he said.

The 27-year-old played threeone-dayers during Australia's re-cent visit to England, whichprompted captain Ricky Pontingto ask him to consider playingin ODIs and Tests.

Tait, however, turned downthe offer.

''He just mentioned it quickly butnothing was really talked about,''Tait told reporters.

''I think I have made it quiteclear what I'm doing.”

''Obviously you get througha couple of one-day games anda few people get excited I sup-pose and there is talk about it,''he added.

Ponting wants Hauritz for India tour

Milan nominates 5 for UEFA awardAP

NYON (Switzerland), AUG 16

European champion Inter Milanhas five players named on a 12-man shortlist to be UEFA’s ClubFootballer of the Year.

Nominations announced onMonday from Inter includeNetherlands playmaker WesleySneijder and Argentina strikerDiego Milito, who scored bothgoals in the 2-0 victory over Bay-ern Munich in the ChampionsLeague final.

The German champions arerepresented by Netherlandswinger Arjen Robben.

Barcelona -- which was elimi-nated by Inter in the semi-finals--has four contenders, includingArgentina forward Lionel Messi,who won the award last year.

France goalkeeper HugoLloris is included after helpingLyon reach the semifinals. Man-chester United striker WayneRooney is the only candidatefrom England after no Premier

League club advanced beyondthe quarter-finals.

Nominations were chosen by16 coaches whose teams reachedthe knockout rounds of theChampions League last season.

Their votes have also createda three-player shortlist for eachof four positional categories.

Results are to be announcedon August 26 in Monaco, whenthe draw for this season’s groupstage is made.

Nominees: Goalkeeper of the

Year: Julio Cesar (Inter Milan), HugoLloris (Lyon), Victor Valdes(Barcelona).

Defender of the Year: Lucio(Inter Milan), Maicon (InterMilan), Gerard Pique (Barcelona).

Midfielder of the Year: XaviHernandez (Barcelona), ArjenRobben (Bayern Munich), WesleySneijder (Inter Milan).

Forward of the Year: LionelMessi (Barcelona), Diego Milito(Inter Milan), Wayne Rooney(Manchester United).

Nathan Hauritz

State level PYKKA TT winners - Aldona, runners-up Calangute and 3rd place Priol.

4-a-side football at SiolimPANJIM (HSD) – The first All-Goa 4x4 boys one-day 4-a side

football tournament organised by Tasca Tropa Siolim, will beheld on August 22 at 10.30 a.m. at Bibiano stadium, BancarVaddo, Tropa-Sodiem Siolim, near Holy Cross Chapel. Spotentries will be accepted. Rs.10,000 plus trophy and jersey set(winners), Rs. 7000 plus trophy and jersey set (runners-up) andindividual prizes for best player, best forward, youngest player,best defender will be awarded. Details may be obtained fromRoque Fernandes on 9822481071/9158157709; Baptist Fernandeson 9822166725; Bernard on 9822171452.

Kabaddi tourney at MollemCOLLEM (HC) – The SAG will organise kabaddi tournaments

for U-16 boys and girls of Sanvordem constituency under PYKKAon August 17 at Mollem VP ground from 9 a.m. Teams fromDharbandora, Sancorda, Dabal Kirlapal, Mollem, Collem, Kale,Sancordem can participate. Block level winners will get Rs20,000, Rs 12,000 and Rs 4000. Participants must be resident ofthe rural area and bonafide student.

Inter-school marathonPANJIM (HSD) – The Goa Pradesh Youth Congress will organise

an all-Goa inter-school marathon race on the occasion of 66thbirth anniversary of late PM Rajiv Gandhi. The run for peace willstart at 7 a.m. from Cortalim Junction for U-17 boys as well asPilar Junction for U-12 boys and U-17 girls and proceed to RajivGandhi Memorial at GMC complex, Bambolim. Rs 3000 and goldmedal (winners), Rs 2000 and silver medal (runners-up), Rs 1000and bronze medal for 3rd place will be awarded besides a specialtrophy to the school winning the highest number of medals.Entries from HS and HSS students may be submitted upto August19 at Congress House, D B Bandodkar Marg, near Hotel Mandovi,Panjim. Details may be obtained from Janardan Bhandari on9881619999 or Jitesh Kamat on 9370868989 or Shrish Naik on9326139445 or Xavier Fialho on 9822155070 or Sunil Painginkaron 9822160016.

Areal panchayat cup soccerMARGAO (HC) - Sao Jose de Areal Sports Club will organise

their 29th Sao Jose de Areal Panchayat Cup inter-village footballtournament on September 11 at Padribhat ground, Sao Jose deAreal. Ambelim Sports Club will meet Fr Agnel Youth Club,Paroda in the inaugural match. Rs 20,00 and Rs 15,000 will beawarded.

HERALD CORRESPODNENT

CANACONA, AUG 16

Tsaunami Boys beats MarathaWarriors 2-0 to win the first one-day football tournament organ-ised by St.Teresa of Jesus, ChaudiParish Youth at Devabhagground on Sunday.

Tsaunami Boys won Rs.4000while Maratha had to be contentwith Rs.2000. In all, 15 teamsparticipated.

The semis had to be decidedvia the tie-breaker. TsaunamiBoys defeated Palolem, MarathaWarriors beat Palolem B.

Chaudi church parish priest, Fr.Manuel Fernandes was the chiefguest. Simon Rebello and Joe Bar-retto were the guests of honourand gave away the prizes. Assis-tant priest, Fr. Agnel Dias ledChaudi Parish Youth in organisingthe first one-day tournament.

Tsaunami Boysemerge champs

Fr. Manuel Fernandes giving away a prize at Deumol on Sunday. Photo: Kathy Pereira

HERALD SPORTS REPORTER

PANJIM, AUG 16

Varca Sports Club have beenfined Rs 5000 by GFA for illegallyconducting the finals of the all-Goa football tournamentforAlvernaz Alemao Trophy underfloodlights at Varca.

Laxmiprasad were fined Rs2000 for late submission ofentry forms for Second Division.

Meanwhile, a sub-committeecomprising Elvis Gomes, VinodParkoot, Savio Messias, AlvaroPinho to shortlist candidates forthe post of full time paid secretary,stated Tonito Botelho, GFAspokesman. He disclosed that outof 31 applications, four or fivenames will be finalised and the ap-pointment could take place eitheron September 1 or October 1.

GFA fines Varca SC

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MARGAO AUG 16

Fr Agnel Multipurpose HigherSecondary, Verna, Rosary HigherSecondary, Navelim, Mae dosPobres High School, Nuvemstormed into the semi-finals ofSalcete Taluka Under-17 SubrotoMukherjee inter-school footballtournament organised by Direc-torate of Sports and Youth Af-fairs at Government ground,Manora-Raia on Monday.

Fr Agnel scored a fluent 2-0win over Cuncolim UnitedHigher Secondary. All goalscame in the first half.

Fr Agnel scored after strikerRoyston Fernandes’ rasping rightfooter crashed on the post and

the rebound went to Filpert Crastowho tapped it in. They doubledthe lead when striker Royston Fer-nandes punished the rival goal-keeper with a snap shot.

Crossing over, CuncolimUnited put up a tough show buttheir efforts proved futile as FrAgnel’ s Jose Vaz and Elvis Fer-nandes were stubborn.

Perpetual Succour ConventHigh School, Navelim failed toturn up against Mae dos PobresHigh School.

Rosary Higher Secondary,Navelim had to sweat out tobeat Fr Basilio Andrade HigherSecondary,Majorda 1-0 .

The all-important goal wasscored by Placinho Fernandes.

Mae dos Pobres, Fr Agnel in semis

MARGAO (HC) --Sirlim SportsClub A defeated Sarzora SportsClub 2-1 to move into the quar-ter-finals of Catherine Viegasmemorial football tournamentorganised by Union of Chin-chinim Villagers at churchground, Chinchinim on Monday.

The teams were tied 1-1 at halftime.

Sarzora went into the lead whenstriker Jolex Fernandes found suc-cess beating Sirlim Sports Clubgoalkeeper hands down.

Sirlim hit back and veteranstriker Domnick Noronha put

them on equal terms after receiv-ing a through pass from Atley.

Crossing over, Sirlim campedin the rival territory with Dom-nic Noronha being a thorn inthe rival defence. He scored thesecond off a pass from An-thony.

Sirlim prevail over Sarzora

YCL Lazor champs in Quitula League

HERALD SPORTS DESK

PANJIM, AUG 16

YCL Lazor beat Koimavaddo 1-0 in the finals of Quitula Youth7-a-side Quitula League, Quitulaon Sunday. Norbert Fernandesscored the match winner.

Premanand Parab, Quitulapanch, was the chief quest andgave away the prizes.The tour-nament was sponsored byWilliam Fernandes of Nachi-nola/Qatar and was organised bySteven Correia of Qatar Airways.

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PANJIM, AUG 16

Candolim Sports Club defeatedMilagres Sports Club 3-1 toenter the quarter-finals of 1stAll-Goa 9-a-side Reis Magos Pan-chayat Cup soccer organised by

Verem Boys at Verem Panchayatground, on Monday.

At the breather Candolimwere leading by a solitary goal.

Sameer Naik curled his freekick in, which left the rivalkeeper rooted to the ground in

the 20th minute.On resumption Roy Das

pumped in two more goals.In the closing stages, Anup

Govekar scored the consolationgoal for Milagres from thepenalty spot.

Candolim oust Milagres

HERALD CORRESPONDENT

MARGAO, AUG 16

Floyd Simoes won a doublecrown in All-Goa BPS MajorRanking Badminton tournamentorganised by BPS Sports Clubat SAG multipurpose hall, Fa-torda on Sunday.

Floyd made short work ofSunny Sawant 21-15, 21-19 toemerge champions in men’s sin-gles. Floyd later teamed up withNavneet to record an easy winover Vishal and Arush 21-11, 21-18 to wrap up the men’s dou-bles event.

Anura Prabhudessai put up astellar performance as she out-played Emiiliya Silveira 21-9,

21-7 to clinch the under-13 girlstitle. Dhru Angle beat Tejan Fal-lary 21-18, 21-10 to retain theunder-13 boys singles crown.

Rahul Chandrashekar put upstupendous performance inbeating Chinmay Kamat l4-21,21-17, 21-18 to win the under-16 boys singles title. SharmadMaherjern defeated ChinmayKamat 21- 5, 21-19 to claim theunder-19 boys singles crown.

Anusha Kavelkar was in topform as she won the ladies eventbeating Anura Prabhudessai 21-11, 20-22.

Results: Under-13 girls: AnuraPrabhudessai bt. Emiliya Silveira21-9, 21-7. U-13 boys: Dhruv

Angle bt.Tejan Fallary 21-18, 21-16.

U-16 boys: Chinmay Kamatlost to Rahul Chandrashekar 14-21, 21-17, 21-18. U-19 boys:Sharmad Maherjern bt. Chin-may Kamat 21-5, 21-19. Ladiessingles: Anushka Kovelkar bt.Anura Prabhudesai 21-11, 20-22, 21-15. Men singles: FloydAraujo bt. Sunny Sawant 21-15, 21-19. Men doubles: Floydand Navneet bt. Vishal andAnkush 21-11, 21-18. Veteranssingles ( 45 and above): Roopc-hand H. bt. T. Sawant 21-13, 21-16. Veterans doubles P. K. Guptaand T. Sawant lost to Santoshand Dr. Borkar 21-19, 21-17.

Floyd wins double crown

Carmona downCavelossim YA

HERALD CORRESPONDENT

MARGAO, AUG 16

Carmona Sports Club registeredtheir second victory when theydefeated Cavelossim Youth As-sociation, Mobor 2-0 in SalceteZone Group B GFA’s Third Divi-sion League at St John Baptistground, Dando, Benaulim onMonday. Carmona were leading1-0 at the breather.

Carmona outplayed their op-ponents with an enterprisingsoccer especially in the openingsession. Cavelossim were on thebackfoot throughout.

Carmona surged ahead whenColumban Noronha bulged thenet following a goalkeepingerror by Denzil.

Crossing over, Carmona dou-bled the lead when Patrick Dias’snap shot went in.

Cavelossim tried their best toreduce the margin but could getpast Mohammed Shaikh underthe Carmona bar.

In a Group E encounter atVerna ground, Verna Sports Clubtrounced St Rock’s Youth Club,Calata-Majorda -0. Verna led 2-0 at the breather.

Verna were rewarded whenWilson Fernandes put them intothe lead in the 16th minute.

Richard Dias increased thetally in the 40th minute whenhis stiff shot gave no chance tothe rival goalkeeper.

Xavier Pereira made it 3-0 infavour of Verna in the 58thminute wh i l e Matas s ioAbranches rounded off the tallyin the 86th minute.

6 Goans in

India throwball

HERALD SPORTS REPORTER

MAPUSA, AUG 16

For the first time in history ofGoa, six throwball players (2boys and 4 girls) have been se-lected to represent India at AsianYouth Championship to be heldin Colombo from August 23-25.

Abdul Sadic Beg of ATAG, hasbeen appointed coach of the na-tional team due to his perform-ance at the recently concludedsub-junior national champi-onship at Valpoi.

The players left today for a4-day coaching camp in Banga-lore.

The Goa players who have been selected for India team for Asian Youth Throwball Championship inColombo. Sitting (r to l) - Jalalodin Shaikh, Priya Sinha, Neha Kudtarkar, Vaibhavi Kalangutkar, NeekitaSamant and Mozam Khan. Standing Abdul Sadic Beig (coach), Faiyaz Beig, Nasir Khan, Arshad Shaikh S.M. Hanif Vishwajit Rane (Health Minister and president ATAG), Ashok J. Porob, Akhtar Shah , A.R.Khan.

Mary to leadNEW DELHI (PTI) --Four-time

champion and Khel Ratnaawardee M C Mary Kom willspearhead the 10-woman strongIndian challenge in the 6th AIBAWorld Women's Boxing Champi-onship in Barbados next month.

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PTINEW DELHI, AUG 16

The Cricket Board today strongly denied receiving anycomplaint from Indian cricketers about a cramped cal-endar and said the growing list of injuries was not be-cause of overwork.

"I have not received any letter from any player.Mr (Mahendra Singh) Dhoni has written no letterto me. I have not seen what he has said in thepress conference and before making a comment Ihave to see what he has said," BCCI secretary NSrinivasan said.Asked if the growing injury list ofthe Indian players was because of being over-worked, Srinivasan said, "If some one falls down

and gets injured that doesn't mean (they are over-worked)", he said.

Srinivasan was responding to recent reports thatthe Indian players had sent an SOS to the Board, re-questing it to cut down on the matches and do awaywith meaningless series.

Even skipper Dhoni had recently talked about theworkload on his bowlers in a press conference.

However, BCCI Media and Finance Committeechairman Rajiv Shukla Board said the Board wasnot forcing any player to play in case of fatigue orinjury.

"If any player is feeling tired or fatigued or if he feelsthat he would not be able perform due to some illness

then he must inform the selector," Shukla told reportersoutside the Parliament.

"BCCI policy is very clear. We will give the playerrest. We are not forcing any player to participate inthe series," Shukla asserted.

He denied that the BCCI has received such a letterand rejected reports that the players are unhappy withthe scheduling.

"We have not received any letter from any playersaying that players are unhappy or complained aboutthe schedule is absolutely wrong. There is no truth init," he said.

"The international calender is like that. But still weare working it out," he added.

Players injury not due to overwork: BCCIl Says we are not forcing fatigued cricketers to play

UNILONDON, AUG 16

The long list of star athletespulling out of this year's Com-monwealth Games has grownlonger with England's world hep-tathlon champion Jessica Ennisand 800m world championshipbronze-medallist Jenny Mead-ows withdrawing from the Oc-tober 3-14 multi-sports eventin New Delhi.

Ennis, the women's world andEuropean heptathlon champion,has not revealed the reason forpulling out of the controversymarred event, while Meadowshas been dogged by an Achilles

injury, this season, which forcedher to opt out.

But England are still expectedto field a strong squad withWorld and European triple jumpchampion Phi l l ips Idowu,Olympic 400 metres championChristine Ohuruogu, double Eu-ropean champion Mo Farah, Eu-ropean 110m hurdles goldmedallist Andy Turner, and 100mWorld Championship silvermedallist Mark Lewis-Francisamong the probables.

Idowu and Ohuruogu are alsodefending Commonwealthchampions and will be eager todefend their crowns.

Top British athletes pull out of CWG

PTINEW DELHI, AUG 16

It will be another 10 days beforethe Commonwealth Gamestheme song is officially launchedbut Oscar-winning composer AR Rahman today promised itwould be worth the wait as his‘Yaaro India Bula Liya’ would beunlike anything that has hap-pened before.

Rahman said the song wouldgo beyond Shakira's chart-busterfor this year's soccer World Cup‘Waka Waka’.

Rahman said the launch ofthe song will have to wait somemore because he is still givingsome final touches.

"I have been working on thesong for the past six months. Itis in my voice with a chorus andI promise that it will be a bigpart of the celebration and willbe unlike anything that has hap-pened before in India," the cel-ebrated musician told reporters.

Rahman, however, refused togive details about the song be-yond the opening line ‘Yaaro IndiaBula Liya', saying it would be bet-ter if it is launched properly.

"I can't reveal much because I

Rahman unveils theme songl Promises to go beyond ‘Waka Waka’

have to tweak the lyricsa bit and add somesound elements. But thesong is about India,about energy, winningand not giving up. Wewant the crowd to singalong with us at theopening ceremony. It is

simple but not simplis-tic," he said.

When asked whetherthe song will manage toovershadow Shakira'spopular football WorldCup an them ‘ WakaWaka’, Rahman said it is‘exactly no’ ‘Waka Waka’.

AGENCIESNEW DELHI, AUG 16

The government on Mondayclarified that accounting regu-lator ICAI hasn't reported anyirregularity in the account booksof some Indian Premier Leagueteams.

"The Institute of CharteredAccountants of India (ICAI) has

not reported any irregularitiesin the accounts and violationsof auditing norms by some In-dian Premier League ( IPL)teams," Corporate Affairs Min-ister Salman Khurshid told the

Rajya Sabha.The ICAI

had begunscrutinisingf i n a n c i a lstatementsof the eightfunctional

teams for possible violation ofauditing norms, following thecontroversy relating to sweatequity in the Kochi team to afriend of the then Union Minis-ter Shashi Tharoor.

IPL teams clearedof irregularities

nThe Institute ofCharteredAccountants ofIndia (ICAI) hasnot reported anyirregularities inthe accounts andviolations ofauditing normsby some IndianPremier League(IPL) teams-- Salman Khurshid

PTIDAMBULLA (SRI LANKA), AUG 16

Sri Lanka prevented VirenderSehwag (99 not out) from scor-ing a century but could not stophim from steering India to acomfortable six-wicket win inthe cricket tri-series here today.

India needed just five runs tochase down the 171-run targetand Sehwag just one run to gethis hundred when Lankan spin-ner Suraj Randiv came in to bowl35th over of the Indian innings.

The off-spinner gave four byesin the first ball, which kept a lit-tle low, bowled two dot balls,and then bowled a big no-ball,which Sehwag smashed out ofground.

Since it was a no-ball, no runs

were added to Sehwag's scoreand he remained not out on 99.

It looked a deliberate no-ballsince Randiv's back foot waswhere bowlers normally havetheir front foot while bowling.

Sehwag though had no com-plaints as when match endedhe said, "Bowlers try to do thatwhen batsmen are on 99. Fairenough."

The win, which was set up bythe bowlers, brought India's tri-series campaign back on trackas they had suffered a huge 200-run loss in the opening matchagainst New Zealand.

India's pacers and spinnersrose to occasion and exploitedthe helpful conditions to bundleout Sri Lanka for a paltry 170

after Kumar Sangakkara electedto bat.

Sehwag was the hero of In-dian chase as he batted throughthe innings in his terrific 99-runknock, which was a mix of con-trol and aggression.

Sehwag's knock was a respon-sible one as it came in a trickysituation and under challengingcircumstances.

India's top-order had col-lapsed at the beginning andSuresh Rania (21) also threw hiswicket after getting his eye inbut Sehwag held the Indian in-nings together and in companyof M S Dhoni (23) steered hisside to win.

Sehwag's 99 came off 100balls with 11 fours and two sixes

and Dhoni also supported himwell with his 38-ball knock andhad two fours.

India lost Dinesh Karthik (10),Virat Kohli (0) and Rohit Sharma(0) in quick succession early inthe innings.

Skipper Kumar Sangakkara'sdecision to bat backfired as In-dian bowlers were all over thehosts right from the first ballwhen Upul Tharanga wascleaned bowled by PraveenKumar.

Had Suraj Randiv (43) andNuwan Kulasekara (22) notplayed defiant knocks down theorder, the hosts innings wouldhave been wearing a more mis-erable look.

They put up a 39-run stand,

highest of Lankan innings, forthe eighth wicket to help SriLanka go past the 150-mark.

Tillakaratane Dilshan (45) was

the only top-order batsman whoshowed stomach for fight butfell while going for an extrava-gant shot when situation de-manded patience.

The Pace trio of Kumar (2/20),Ishant Sharma (2/32) and AshishNehra (1/39) blew away the hosttop-order to start the devasta-tion of the Lankan innings.

The spinners -- Pragyan Ojha(3/36) and Ravindra Jadeja (2/34)-- joined the party and brokethe back of the Lankan inningswith lethal blows.

In an ominous start for homeside, Opener Tharanga and histeammates were shell shockedwhen a swinging first ball of thematch by Praveen Kumar up-rooted the stumps.

The heavy conditions wereideal for bowling and Indian pac-ers rose to the occasion.

Soon skipper Kumar San-gakkara (2) fell to Nehra and Ma-hela Jayawardene (4) becamesecond victim of Kumar.

Lanky Ishant Sharma got hisfirst wicket in Thilan Sama-raweera (7) and Lankan inningswas in complete disarray.

They never recovered fromthe early shocks and Ojha andJadeja kept the pressure by tak-ing wickets.

Dilshan was batting beauti-fully from the other end but lostpatience and top-edged to RohitSharma off Ojha.

Jadeja struck twice by remov-ing Chamara Kapugedara andAngelo Mathews to puncture allLankan hopes.

Sehwag, bowlers shine in India’s win

Virender Sehwag goes on theattack against Lanka atDambulla on Monday.

Praveen Kumarremoves Upul

Tharanga with thefirst ball of the

match atDambulla on

Monday.

Sri Lanka: U Tharanga b Kumar 0, T Dilshan c Rohit b Ojha45, K Sangakkara c Ojha b Nehra 2, M Jayawardene lbw bKumar 4, T Samaraweera c Jadeja b Ishant 7, A Mathewslbw b Jadeja 15, C Kapugedera b Jadeja 10, S Randiv cRaina b Ojha 43, N Kulasekara c Dhoni b Ishant 22, L Malingast Dhoni b Ojha 5, D Fernando not out 6. Extras: 11. Total:170 all out. Fall of wickets: 0-1, 14-2, 23-3, 44-4, 82-5, 83-6, 103-7, 142-8, 158-9, 170-10. Bowling: P Kumar 8-2-20-

2, A Nehra 9-0-39-1, Ishant Sharma 9-1-32-2, P Ojha 9.1-0-36-3, RJadeja 10-2-34-2, V Sehwag 1-0-5-0. India: D Karthik c Kulasekara b Mathews 10, V Sehwag not out 99, VKohli c Sangakkara b Fernando 0, Rohit Sharma lbw b Mathews 0, SRaina c Tharanga b Fernando 21, MS Dhoni not out 23. Extras: 18.Total: 171 for 4. Fall of wickets: 30-1, 31-2, 32-3, 91-4. Bowling: LMalinga 7-0-34-0, N Kulasekara 5-0-23-0, A Mathews 7-1-32-2, D Fernando8-0-33-2, S Randiv 7.3-0-38-0.Man-of-the-match: V Sehwag.

PTIDAMBULLA, AUG 16

In a shocking display of un-sportsmanship, Sri Lanka spin-ner Suraj Randiv bowled adeliberate no-ball to leaveVirender Sehwag stranded on99 in a cricket tri-series matchhere tonight.

The scores were tied at 170and Sehwag was just oneshort of his 13th One Day hun-dred when Randiv, who hasnot bowled a no ball in theTest or ODI series this season,bowled a no ball which washit by the swashbucklingopener for a six. The six how-ever did not count becausethe no ball amounted toIndia's winning run.

Without realising that, Se-hwag raised his arms in theair in celebration only to betold that the score boardwould show him not out at99.

India comprehensively wonthe match comfortably by sixwickets but the conduct ofthe Sri Lankan team causedupset in the Indian camp.

Minutes later, a livid Se-hwag told journalists that SriLanka has a record of doingsuch things and he pointedout that they had left SachinTendulkar stranded at 99 with

similar tactics in Cuttack.Sehwag said that Randiv

had not bowled a single noball earlier and asked "Howcan he bowl one at this point."

" I t was c lear that theLankan team did not wanthim to get his 100," theopener said.

Sri Lankan captain KumaraSangakkara appeared to takethe episode lightly but later onsaid he would talk to Randiv.

"He is not that kind of acricketer. If some members ofthe team have coaxed him Iwill take it up strongly," hesaid.

"This is not the spirit ofcricket," he acknowledged.

Former India Capta inSourav Ganguly speaking toa TV channel said that thiswas not the first time SriLanka had done such a thing.

They had done the same tohim in a Test match at Kandyin 2002 where he was leftstranded on 98, he said.

"That happens in Cricket.Bowlers try to do that whenbatsmen are on 99. They tryto bowl wides or no balls.They do not want cricketersto score century. But that isfair enough," Sehwag said.

"I think he(Randiv) has doneit deliberately," he added.

Lankans leave Lankans leave Sehwag stranded Sehwag stranded

at 99, kick upat 99, kick upcontroversycontroversy

Somdevqualifies

mason masters AGENCIES

MASON, AUG 16

Somdev Devvarman qualifiedfor singles main draw of theATP Western and Southern Fi-nancial Group Masters aftermaking short work of local wildcard Tim Smyczek in straightsets.

The unseeded Indian won thesecond and final round 6-3, 6-2to qualify for his second suc-cessive Masters event.

By making the main draw,Somdev has already pocketed25 ranking points.youth olympics

AGENCIESSINGAPORE, AUG 16

Woman wrestler Pooja Dhandawon India's first medal at theYouth Olympic Games whileshuttlers Sai Praneeth and HSPrannoy kept themselves in con-tention after the second day inthe inaugural event in Singa-

pore.After beating three oppo-

nents without conceding apoint, Pooja lost 1-3 to Baatar-zorig Battsetseg of Mongolia inthe final and had to settle for asilver in the 60kg freestyle cat-egory.

The Indian beat AmericanBurkert Jenna Rose (3-0), localwrestler Puteri Erna Natasha (4-

0) and Ahmed Dzhanan of Bul-garia (3-0) in Group A en routeto the final.

In badminton, Sai Praneethbeat Asher Richarson of NewZealand 21-12, 21-12 beforenotching an identical win overCuba Mario of Persia in the boys'singles to place second in PoolH.

After a resounding first day,

H S Prannoy continued his ram-paging form and thrashed Phet-phanom Keophiachan of Laos21-11, 21-12 to top pool C.

In tennis, junior AustralianOpen champion and sixth seedYuki Bhambri made a winingstart, beating German KevinKrawietz 6-3, 6-0 to set up asecond round clash with HuangLlang-Chi.

Wrestler Pooja Dhanda wins silver AGENCIES

TORONTO, AUG 16

Andy Murray clinched his firsttitle of 2010 with a straights-set victory over Roger Federerin the Toronto Masters final.

The defending champion pre-vailed 7-5 7-5 after outlasting theformer world number one in amatch which was severely dis-rupted by two lengthy rain delays.

When the weather relented it

was Murray who forced the issue,his new-found aggressive ap-proach paying dividends againsta strangely subdued Federer.

The win improves Murray'srecord against the Swiss ace toseven wins from their 12 meet-ings and also gives him an ele-ment of revenge after he wascomprehensively beaten in thefinal of the Australian Open ear-lier this year.

Murray beats Fedex to clinch title

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