Lakshmi Mittalnamed most

powerful Asian in UK

London: Lakshmi Mittal, the NRI steel tycoonwith a fortune estimated at 15.5 billion pounds,is the most powerful Asian in Britain, accord-ing to a new list of eminent Asians in thecountry.

Mittal, 61, Chairman of the Board of Directorsand CEO of ArcelorMittal, the world's leadingintegrated steel and mining company, heads thePower list of 101 in the category of Industry pub-lished by Eastern Eye, a weekly newspaper here.

"Today, Mittal has all the trappings of wealth,power and influence - properties in Kens-inghton Palace Gardens, a private jet, a 266 mil-lion pound yacht, and an eco-friendly house seton a 340-acre estate in Surrey," according to theGG2 (Garavi Gujarat) Power 101, Britain's MostInfluential Asians 2011.

The list was released by Britain's DeputyPrime Minister Nick Clegg at the GG2 LeadershipAwards here last night.

Leading NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paulranked 17th in the list in the category of Industry.

According to the report, Lord Paul was in-fluential enough to get the Lancaster House,which is generally reserved for government func-tions, as a venue for a wedding reception for hisyoungest son Angad in 2005.

"One of the painful things has been to reducethe guest list - in the end we could invite only1,600 people," Lord Paul said at the time.

"There are people from the Lords, MPs, op-position, business, and there will be a sub-stantial number from the government. I have notinvited anybody on the basis of their profession.I have invited friends."

According to the report, Lord Paul does havemany friends, among them Sarah and Gordon,a reference to Sarah and Gordon Brown, the thenPrime Minister. A point in Lord Paul's favour isthat he is not a fair-weather friend.

"He (Paul) does not drop his political allieswhen they fall from power. He always did havea special relationship with Mrs Indira Gandhibut Paul stuck by her when the Indian primeminister lost the general election in 1977 and allthe pundits in the world predicted (wrongly) shewas finished for good," the report said.

"He is a much respected business figure, guid-ing Caparothrough a choppy waters and creatinga great British steel company," the report said.

He is quite justified in claiming: "I've mademanufacturing fashionable in Britain," the re-port said.

Baroness SayeedaWarsi, who hails from thePakistan-Occupied Kashmir, Minister withoutportfolio in the Conservative Party, is listed atno 2 in the Power list in the category Politics.

Leading NRI Labour MP Keith Vaz has beenranked 3rd in the list in the category of Politics.

"He became the first Asian MP in moderntimes since DadabhaiNaoroji first entered par-liament in 1892," the study said.

S P Hinduja and G P Hinduja, Chairman andVice Chairman respectively of the HindujaGroup, are No 4 in the list and they are listed inthe category of "Business".

"Of all the influential Indian business fami-lies in the world, the Hindujas are unlike anyother. The closeness of the four brothers, Sric-hand, Gopi, Prakash and Ashok and now theirchildren, explains why they have been able toweather many a storm and yet prosper andemerge stronger as a group," the study said.In-dia's best-known sculptor AnishKapoor is 6thin the list.

Lord NavnitDholakia, Deputy Leader of theLiberal Democrats in the House of Lords is list-ed 12th and listed in the category Politics.

"When I look back I am proud to see theprogress the Asian community has made - inevery field," Dholakia said.

Dr KartarLalvani, founder of Vitabiotics,Britain's leading nutraceutical company, islisted 49th and in the Pharmacy category.

Lord Karan Bilimoria, founder of Cobra Beer,is 61 in the list.

KF Air asks lessor to takeback 2 planesMumbai; Kingfisher Airlines today said one ofits lessors, AerCap Holdings NV, would take backtwo of its aircraft in coming months as both thecompanies could not agree on extension terms.

The two jets were coming up for renewal inthe next three months, a spokesman for King-fisher said.

Kingfisher would add a new aircraft to thefleet in December to replace one of these two,he added.

Kingfisher, India's third largest airline by mar-ket share, has cancelled scores of flights in No-vember and is struggling to raise funds.

BELLARY SHOCKFOR JD(S)Dist chief Suryanarayana Reddy to join BJP?

Harish D LBangalore Beat Bureau

Bellary: The Bellary Rural by-election seemsto have far-reaching effects on the parties in-volved.

While the BJP has lost its trump card in BSriramulu, who has been contesting theelection as an independent, the JD(S) is allset to lose one of its prominent leaders fromthe district.

Party sources told Bangalore Beat thatJD(S) district president Suryanarayana Red-dy has raised a flag of revolt and is all set tojoin the BJP in a day or two.

His departure has been triggered by the be-hind-the-scenes understanding betweenparty state president H D Kumaraswamy andformer minister B Sriramulu. Though Ku-maraswamy did not openly campaign or ex-press support for Sriramulu, it has beenknown by now that the former chief minis-ter has been giving a tacit support to the for-mer minister.

Sriramulu even went to the extent of an-nouncing three days ago that Kumaraswamywould campaign for him for the by-electionin the coming days.

But Kumaraswamy’s overtures have foundno favour with the ground level workers inthe district. They have been upset that a one-time enemy has overnight become their

leader’s favourite. They argue that they hadbeen till now, fighting the dictatorial attitudeof Sriramulu and his mentors and miningbarons Reddy brothers in the area.

Suryanarayana Reddy too has been op-posing any alliance with Sriramulu. Ku-maraswamy, who came to know about hisparty district president’s plans to switchparties, first sent Chamrajpet MLA from hisparty Zameer Ahmed Khan to convince Red-dy. But that did not have any effect as he re-mained adamant. His one-point demand wasthat the JD(S) should distance itself from Sri-ramulu.

But Kumaraswamy, for reasons bestknown to him, has been bulldozing his waythrough. His visit to Bellary yesterday was,in fact, to pacify Suryanarayana Reddy to re-main in the party. But his efforts bore nofruits. Reddy has told the former chief min-ister that an alliance with Sriramulu couldwork at the state level and not on the ground.

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Prostitution racket over internet busted, 3 held

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Three persons, who were carrying out a prostitution racket through theinternet, were arrested in thecity yesterday.

They had released an adver-tisement on the internet withthe header my sexy body is wait-ing for you with a mobile phonenumber.

The three accused used to tellpotential customers that girlsfrom other states were availablefor Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000.

They would get the customersto a house, No. 402/37, 13th cross,

16th A Main, VenkateshwaraLayout, Madiwala.

The women and narcoticswing of the City Crime Branch carried out an operationand arrested S K Srinivas (30), NSrinivas (36) and Asha Sheikh(20).

The police also recovered Rs17,000 and three mobile phonesfrom them.

Another accused, Ravi, whohad taken the house on rent, hasbeen missing. The search is on,the CCB police said.

A complaint has been registered with the Madiwalapolice.

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The city police conductedmassive raids and rounded up 52 rowdysheeters in its east division.

Of them, the police arrested 19 for pro-viding wrong information and let go ofothers. They were booked under CrPC Sec-tion 110. They were produced beforecourt.

The city police have been conductingsuch raids for the last one areas in dif-ferent divisions in the city to containcriminal activities.

Normally, rowdies have to regularly vis-it police stations in their jurisdictions andprovide information about their resi-dence, their activities and others.

The police raided the houses men-tioned in their declarations and arrestedthose who were found to have givenwrong information.

The rowdies are also supposed to giveinformation about their followers andtheir activities.

The police rounded up notorious row-dies Auto Chandra, Puneet, Raja aliasGooli, Srirampura Sunil, Vinod and oth-

ers from Srirampura, Nandi Layout, Ma-halakshmi Layout and other areas.

The police stations maintain files ofsuch rowdies and exchange informationwith other police stations about the ac-tivities of these anti-social elements.

HC puts offbail order inBSY case to

MondayBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The Karnataka HighCourt has put off order in the bail ap-plication of former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa to Monday.

T h o u g hthe hearingin the fifthco m p l a i n tfiled by advo-cate SiranjinBashan al-leging illegalland denoti-fication byYeddyurappacompletedtoday, the or-der had to be held back due to a tech-nical reason.

A petition had been filed beforethe bench headed by Justice Billap-pa that the case should be heard byanother bench that heard earliercases of Yeddyurappa.

Justice Billappa who received theclarification from the court registrarhas now decided to pass the order onMonday.

Yeddyurappa has already got bailin four other cases filed by advocateBasha.

Bail pleas of Kani, 5 others to be

heard tomorrowNew Delhi: The Delhi High Court today al-lowed the early hearing of the bail pleasof DMK MP Kanimozhi and five other ac-cused in the 2G spectrum allocation case.Justice V K Shali said that the matterwould be heard Friday morning.

Directing the Central Bureau of Inves-tigation (CBI) that is probing the case andthe defence counsel, Justice Shali askedthem to submit a statement on the chargesagainst all the accused and the evidenceseized against them.

Kanimozhi and the five other accusedmoved the court Wednesday for earlyhearing of their bail applications after theSupreme Court granted bail to five cor-porate executives co-accused in the case-- Sanjay Chandra of Unitech Wireless,Vinod Goenka of Swan Telecom and Re-liance Group's Gautam Doshi, Surendra Pi-para and Hari Nair. With the five gettingbail, nine people are now behind bars.

Besides Kanimozhi, Kalaignar TV chiefSharad Kumar, Cineyug Films' KarimMorani, Kusegaon Fruits and VegetablesPvt Ltd directors Asif Balwa and Rajiv B.Agarwal, along with former telecom sec-retary Siddharth Behura have movedbail applications originally slated for a Dec1 hearing.

Citing the Supreme Court order, Kani-mozhi stated in her plea that keeping herin custody for some more days would bea violation of her fundamental rights

and that she should be granted bail aseven the CBI was not opposing her plea.

Earlier this month, the high court hadissued notice to the CBI seeking its re-sponse on bail applications of the six byDecember 1.

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Kumaraswamy

Kanimozhi

S K Srinivas (30), N Srinivas (36) who were arrested.

Dravid reaches13,000 Test runsMumbai: With a boundarythrough the covers off DarrenSammy, Rahul Dravid becamethe second player – after SachinTendulkar – to reach the ex-traordinary milestone of 13,000runs in Test cricket on the thirdday's play between India andWest Indies at the WankhedeStadium on Thursday.

He reached the landmark in his160th Test and 277th innings,and although Tendulkar (163) re-quired a lesser number of in-nings, Dravid has achieved thesame in the shortest span, in his16th year of Test cricket.

It had taken Tendulkar 20 yearsand 63 days to reach 13,000 Testruns, in January 2010.

Dravid has been in outstandingform in 2011, nearing 1,000 runsfor the calendar year with one Testto go for India, against Australiaon the Boxing Day.

Australia's Ricky Ponting and South Africa's Jacques Kallis stand behind Dravid with 12,557 and 12,005 runs re-spectively.

Tendulkar, currently on 15,086Test runs, leads the pack by somedistance.

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TRAIN SCHEDULE

MADHUVE MANE (U)Ganesh, Avinash, Shraddha AryaAdarsha (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Balaji (Tavarekere) (10 am, 1,5, 8 pm) Eshwari (11.15 am, 2.30,6.15, 9.15 pm) Cinepolis (3.55 pm,5.40, 7.20, 9.20 pm) Fame (Lido)(10.25 am, 3.35 pm) Fame (White-field) (3.45 pm) Gopalan (Ban-nerghatta Road) (12 pm, 7.15 pm)Gopalan (Mysore Road) (10.15 am,1.15, 3.50 pm) Gopalan (Rajarajesh-wari Nagar) (1 pm, 3.45 pm) Goverd-han (11.30 am, 2.30, 6, 9 pm) HMTCinemas (10.30 am, 1.30 pm) Inox(Jayanagar) (7.10 pm) Inox (JP Nagar)(1.30 pm, 4 pm) Inox (Magrath Road)(12.50 pm, 6.20 pm) Inox(Malleswaram) (10.45 am, 7, 9.35pm) Kapali (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30,7.30 pm) Maruthi (11 am, 2.30, 6,9.30 pm) Navrang (10.15 am, 1.15,4.15, 7.15 pm) Prasanna (10.15 am)

BODYGUARD (U)Daisy Shah, Jaggesh, Spoorthi Cinepolis (1.10 pm, 6.35 pm)Gopalan (Rajarajeshwari Nagar)

(12.15 pm, 7 pm) Inox (Jayanagar)(1.15 pm) Inox (JP Nagar) (10.10 am,6.45 pm) Inox (Malleswaram) (10.10am, 3.45, 6.25 pm) Nandini (11 am,2, 5, 8 pm) PVR Cinemas (10 am,2.40, 7.20 pm) Rajarajeshwari (Mal-lathahalli) (1.30 pm, 4.30, 7.15, 9.30pm) Srinivasa (Gowdanapalya) (11am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Siddhesh-wara (11.00 am,2.30 pm) Triveni(10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm)Veeresh (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Venkateshwara (Avalahalli)(11.15 am, 2.30, 6, 9 pm)

KAANCHAANA (U) Ragini Dwivedi, Diganth Anupama (10.30, 1.30, 4.30, 7.10pm) Siddhalingeshwara (11, 2.30,6.30, 9.30 pm) Vinayaka (MysoreRoad) (10.30 am,1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm)

NAANALLA (U/A)Tarun, Shubha Poonja, AnanthNag, Rangayana Raghu, RameshBhat Savitha (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30,7.30 pm)

IN TIME (U/A) Justin Timberlake, AmandaSeyfriedCinemax (2.15 pm, 7.30 pm) Cinepo-lis (10 am, 2, 7.10, 10 pm) Fame(Lido) (3.20 pm, 7.45 pm) Gopalan(Bannerghatta Road) (12 pm, 6, 8pm) Gopalan (Rajarajeshwari Nagar)(5, 10 pm) Inox (Magrath Road)(2.40 pm, 9.30 pm) Inox

(Malleswaram) (2.55 pm, 10 pm)PVR Cinemas (10.30 am, 3, 7.35pm)

TOWER HEIST (A) Cinemax (1.15 pm, 10 pm) Cinepolis(12.10 pm, 5.15 pm) Fame (Lido)(1.10 pm, 5.35, 10 pm) Fame (White-field) (10.15 am, 3.30, 5.40, 7.50,10 pm) Gopalan Cinemas (Ban-nerghatta Road) (10 am, 2 pm) Inox(Jayanagar) (10.30 am, 6.50 pm)Inox (JP Nagar) (4.25 pm, 9.45 pm)Inox (Magrath Road) (10.05 am,4.55 pm) Inox (Malleswaram) (12.55pm, 7.55 pm)

THE RUM DIARY (U/A) Johnny Depp, Aaron EckhartInox (Magrath Road) (10.15 am,1.30, 4.45, 8 pm) Inox (Malleswaram)(10 am, 9.45 pm)

DOLPHIN TALE (U)Cinemax (10 am, 8 pm) PVR Cinemas(10.20 am, 2.55, 7.25 pm)

Movie ListingsKANNADA

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MILEY NAA MILEY HUM (U/A)Kangna Ranaut, Kabir BediApsara (11.30 am, 2.30 pm) Bhu-mika (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Cinemax (3.30 pm) Cinepolis(1 pm, 10 pm) Gopalan (Ban-nerghatta Road) (10 am, 5.15 pm)Gopalan (Rajarajeshwari Nagar)(10 am, 3 pm) PVR Cinemas (12.40pm)

RA.ONE (U/A) Shah Rukh Khan, KareenaKapoor ‘3D’ Abhinay (10.30 am,1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm) Anand (10am, 1, 4, 7 pm) Cinepolis (10 am,11, 1, 4, 7, 10 pm) Cinemax (10 am,1, 4, 7, 10 pm) Everest (11.30 am,2.30, 6.15, 9.30 pm) Fame (Lido)(11.15 am, 2.30, 5.45, 9 pm) Fame(Shankarnag) (11.15 am, 2.30, 5.45,9 pm) Gopalan (BannerghattaRoad) (10 am, 1, 10 pm) Gopalan(Rajarajeshwari Nagar) (10 am,9.40 pm) HMT Cinemas (4 pm, 7,

9.30 pm) Inox (Magrath Road)(11.15 am, 2.30, 5.45, 9 pm) Inox(Malleswaram) (11.15 am, 2.30,5.45, 9 pm) Lakshmi (BTM Layout)(10 am, 11.15, 5.15, 8.30 pm) Lak-shmi (Gottigere) (10 am, 1, 5, 8pm) Lakshmi (Taverekere) (10 am,1, 5, 8 pm) PVR Cinemas (10.20am, 3.40, 9 pm) Rex (10.15 am,1.10, 4.05, 7, 9.50 pm) Vaibhav(Sanjay Nagar) (11.30 am, 2.30, 6,9.30 pm) Veeresh (10.30 am) VisionCinemas (10 am, 1, 7, 9.45 pm) Ur-vasi (10.45 am, 2.30, 6, 9.30 pm)Fame (Lido) (10.05 am) Fame(Whitefield) (10.15 am, 10.55, 12.25,1.30, 2.25, 4.45, 5.40, 8, 8.55 pm)Gopalan Cinemas (Mysore Road)(10 am, 7, 9.45 pm) Inox (Jayanagar)(10.25 am, 12.40, 3.45, 9 pm) Inox(JP Nagar) (10.15 am, 12.55, 2.30,5.45, 9 pm) Inox (Magrath Road)(10.15 am, 1.30, 4.45, 8 pm) Inox(Malleswaram) (12.55 pm, 5, 6.40pm) PVR Cinemas (1.20 pm, 2,3.25, 4.40, 5.20, 8. 8.40, 8.50 pm)

HINDI

TAMIL

7AUM ARIVU (U/A) Suriya, Shruthi HassanAjantha (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Amruth (10.30 am, 2, 5, 8 pm)Cinemax (12 pm, 3.15, 6.30, 9.45pm) Cinepolis (10.10 am, 1.10, 2.15,4.10, 7.10, 10 pm) Fame (Lido) (10.45am, 2.05, 5.25, 8.45 pm) Fame(Whitefield) (10.15 am, 1.40, 5.05,8.30 pm) Gopalan (BannerghattaRoad) (4 pm, 7, 10 pm) Gopalan(Mysore Road) (1 pm, 4, 6.45, 10pm) Gopalan (Rajarajeshwari Nagar)(10.10 am, 6.30, 10 pm) Inox (Jayana-gar) (1.40 pm, 5.05, 8.30 pm) Inox(JP Nagar) (10.15 am, 1.40, 5.05,8.30 pm) Inox (Magrath Road) (10.45am, 2.05, 5.25, 8.45 pm) Inox(Malleswaram) (10.30 am, 1.55, 5.20,8.45 pm) Maheshwari (10.30 am,1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm) Pushpanjali(BN Pura) (6, 9pm) Pallavi (10 am,1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm) PVR Cinemas(10.40 am, 10.45, 2, 5.20, 5.30,

8.40, 8.45 pm) Sampige (10.30 am,1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm) Vinayaka (SultanPalya) (11.15 am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30pm)

VELAYUDHAM (U/A)Vijay, Genelia, HansikaCinepolis (10 am, 4.10, 9.40 pm)Fame (Lido) (6.20 pm) Inox(Malleswaram) (3.30 pm) Lavanya(10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm) Ma-hadeshwara (11.15 am, 2.15, 6.15,9.15 pm) Natraj (10.30 am, 1.30,4.45, 7.45 pm) Prithvi (11 am, 2.30,6.30, 9.30 pm) Poornima (10.30am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm) Pushpanjali(BN Pura) (11 am, 2.30 pm) Push-panjali (Sultanpalya) (10.45 am,2.15, 6, 9.15 pm) PVR Cinemas (2pm, 3.40, 9 pm) Srinivasa (SG Palya)(10 am, 1, 5, 8 pm) Vaibhavi (11.30am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Vijay (11.15am, 2.30, 6.15, 9.15 pm) Vision Cin-emas (10 am, 1, 4, 7 pm)

LOOT (U/A)Hansika Motwani, Govinda, Mahaakashay Chakroborty

Cinemax (11 am, 5.45 pm) Cinepolis(11 am, 3.20, 7.10 pm) Fame (Lido)(1.10 pm, 9.30 pm) Fame (White-field) (10 am, 9.50 pm) Gopalan(Bannerghatta Road) (4 pm) Inox

(Jayanagar) (9.50 pm) Inox (JP Na-gar) (9.50 pm) Inox (Magrath Road)(10.15 am, 3.45, 9.15 pm) PVR Cin-emas (10.15 am, 1.20, 6.45 pm)Vision Cinemas (4 pm, 9.45 pm)

Marine industry tohit Rs 68K cr by ʼ15

Bangalore: Growing at a compound an-nual growth rate (CAGR) of about 7 per-cent, India’s marine and fish industry islikely to reach Rs 67,800 crore by 2015from the current level of nearly Rs 53,000crore, apex industry body Assocham saidtoday.

The processed segment is about Rs8,000 crore which is over 15 percent oftotal size of the domestic marine andfish industry, according to a study titled‘Indian Marine & Fish Industry’ releasedby the Associated Chambers of Commerceand Industry of India (ASSOCHAM).

The fish production in India is likelyto cross 12 million tonne (mt) by 2015from the current level of about 9.3 mt.Captured fish accounts for about 65 per-cent of total fish production, while aqua-culture accounts for over 30 percent ofannual fish production, said the study.

India is the second-largest fish producerin the world after China and accountsfor nearly 6 percent of global fish pro-duction.

“Over 8,000 km of coastline, four mil-lion hectares of reservoirs, two millionhectares of brackish water and nearly51,000 sqkm of continental shelf area of-fers a plethora of opportunities for thegrowth of marine and fish industry ofIndia,” said D S Rawat, secretary-generalof Assocham while releasing the findingsof the study.

“India’s substantial fishery resources

are under-utilised and there is tremendouspotential to further increase the output,”he said. “There is a huge scope for in-vestments in packaged marine processingplant, operations in preservation, pro-cessing and export of coastal fish for theprivate sector as it holds vast, untappedmarine resources with a great export po-tential.”

Nearly 30 percent of marine and fishproduced domestically is exported an-

nually. Processing of fish into cannedand frozen forms is carried out almostentirely for the export market.

The export earnings in 2010-11 reachednearly three billion dollars (about Rs15,000 crore), recording a growth of about20 percent compared to the previous year.Vannamei shrimp, black tiger shrimp,cuttlefish, lobster, clams, fish fillets andsquid are certain products that provideopportunities for export of marine items

fromIndia.The seafood exports from India are

likely to touch 4.7 billion dollars (aboutRs 23,500 crore) by 2013 from 2.8 billiondollars (about Rs 14,000 crore) in 2010-11 through value addition, expansion ofaquaculture, technological upgradationand by tapping unexplored resources,according to an Assocham study titled‘Indian Seafood Exports Market: 2014.’

The units in the fish processing sectorare largely small-scale proprietary, part-nership firms and fishermen cooperatives.There has been spectacular growth inthe marine fisheries sector due to well-developed harvest and post-harvest in-frastructure and increased demand forseafood both in the domestic and exportmarkets, said Assocham.

There is a scope for developing tech-nology for value addition and infrastruc-ture for exports in the form of marineproducts based food parks through publicprivate partnership.

Besides, there is an increased demandfor processed and ready-to-eat marineproducts in the domestic market and assuch Assocham suggests the governmentto encourage foreign investment in in-frastructure for distribution and storage.

Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka,Kerela, Maharashtra, Odisha, Tamil Naduand West Bengal are certain key statesthat have huge potential to enhanceIndia’s seafood export potential.

Job Melaon Nov 27

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: A job mela to providejobs on the spot for unemployedyouths will take place at Rajaji-nagar on November 27.

The mela that will be held atVenkat International School willbe inaugurated by urban devel-opment and law and parliamen-tary affairs minister Suresh Ku-mar. More than 40 industries arelikely to take part in the mela.

Employment opportunitieswill be provided to job-seekersfrom Rajajinagar, Basvesh-waranagar, Kamakshipalya andsurrounding areas.

Computertraining

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The BabuJagjivanRam Social, Cultural and Chari-table Trust has organised freebasic computer, basic embeddedand software testing training.Interested can call 9035481037/8792817929.

PowerShutdown

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: There will be no pow-er in following areas on Novem-ber 28 due to emergency worktaken up. Power supply will beaffected at Vidyanagar Cross,Doddajala, Chikkajala, Sonnap-panahalli, Meesaganahalli, Hut-tanahalli, Kolipura, Kadigena-halli, NavaratnaAgrahara, Sada-halli Gate, Channahalli, Bailana-halli, Utopia Layout, Tarabana-halli, Gadenahalli,,Kudurenagar,Kattigenahalli, Hosahalli,Dwarakanagar, Satanur, Bagalur,Hunasamaranahalli andVidyanagar and surrounding ar-eas.

Computertraining

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Awake Skill TrainingCentre has organised a basiccomputer training programmefrom today till December 7. In-terested can contact: Awake, B– 76, KSSIDC Industrial Estate,Rajajinagar or call: 97409 96074.

Marketingweek

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The agricultural mar-keting department of the stategovernment has organised Mar-keting Week from November 26.The week has been organised togive information on various ac-tivities and schemes of APMCcommittees and the agriculturemarketing department. For freemarket information call18004251552.

Dance dramacontest

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The youth servicesand sports department has or-ganised a dance drama compe-tition at Yavanika on November28.

The entry for the competitionis free. Interested teams shouldregister by Saturday, a press re-lease stated.

The winners will get Rs 15,000,runners up Rs 10,000 and thethird place winners Rs 8,000and certificates.

For information and to register,contact: assistant director, StateYouth Centre, Nruptathungaroad, or call: 22214911, 9449986712.

Caste censusBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The Bangalore Urbandistrict administration has de-cided to take up the social, eco-nomic and caste census this andnext month.

The information is being col-lected through tablet PCs withthe help of BEL.

The citizens in Bangalore Ruraland Urban areas should coop-erate with the enumerators,states a press note.

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The Bangalore Uni-versity has decided to form ahostel management committeeto improve the condition of hos-tels within its ambit.

The decision was taken at the98th annual syndicate meetingyesterday.

The syndicate decided to ap-point C K Jagadish as presidentof the committee.Puranik committee: Universityvice-chancellor N Prabhudevsaid that there has been a delayin calling for applications forthe university distance educationcourses and it should be donewithin a week.

Last year, there was a delayin calling for applications andannouncing results. This year,care should be taken to avoidsuch delays, the vice-chancellorsaid.

The syndicate decided to im-prove the distance education di-vision by appointing a four-mem-ber committee headed by Prof.ChambiPuranikLocal inspection committee:Several colleges have applied forpermission to start evening cours-es. The university local inspectioncommittee decided to have arelook at the applications andgive approvals after inspectingthe facilities available at thesecolleges.

Meeting highlightsThe syndicate approved the

annual report 2009-10 submittedto the academic council

The syndicate approved abudget of Rs 1.5 crore to celebratethe RangaThorana programme

A proposal allowing non-teaching staff to pursue PhD wasapproved

Bangalore: Kaspersky Lab, Tech Mahindraand Mahindra Satyam have signed amemorandum of understanding for abroad range of collaboration in informa-tion security solutions.

Under the MoU, the three partnershave agreed to leverage their strengthsin security products and services to de-velop joint security solutions in the areasof mobility and endpoint security, andcloud security services.

These solutions will aim to addressthe ever-increasing security threats toconsumers and corporates in the countryand Asia-Pacific.

The focus of mobile security solutionswill be to secure the growing number ofsmartphone users. Security analysts haveidentified mobile malware as one of thekey emerging sources of security threats,due to the increasing acceptability and

penetration of such devices into the cor-porate environment.

Kaspersky Lab will also work withTech Mahindra to create a range of man-aged security services offerings aimed atthe SMB sector in the sub-continent andbeyond. These services, built using Kasper-sky Lab’s proven endpoint security prod-ucts and Mahindra’s expertise in servicedelivery, will provide small businesseswith access to enterprise-class securityat low transaction costs.

C P Gurnani, CEO, Mahindra Satyam,said, “Information security services isgrowing at a rapid pace globally and weare doing very well in this area. Our un-derstanding with Kaspersky Lab is tojointly address this market with solutions,platforms and models, to provide cus-tomers with new “security-as-a-service’offerings and address mobile security

threats.”"India is one of Kaspersky Lab's key

markets and growing extremely fast. Hav-ing Indian system integrators, like TechMahindra and Mahindra Satyam, part-nering with Kaspersky Lab isa successstory. Kaspersky Lab has reached the No.1 position in the Indian AV market andwith strong partners like Tech Mahindraand Mahindra Satyam, we can furthergrow our market share in India while ex-tending the same success to other APACmarkets. We are very excited about thispartnership. It is th -e value-driven serviceorientation of Tech Mahindra and Mahin-dra Satyam to provide world-class securitysolutions to clients and the potential towin new business that will make thispartnership a very fruitful and successfulone," said Harry Cheung, managing di-rector, Kaspersky Lab, Asia-Pacific.

Lucius Lobo, vice-president, securityservices, Tech Mahindra, said, “With therapid growth of smartphones and tabletsand their use for commerce, new threatsfrom mobile malware have already startedbecoming a major problem. Nearly 6 bil-lion individuals today have a cellphoneand can be the target of cybercriminalsover the next 2-3 years. The partnershipbetween Kaspersky Lab, Tech Mahindraand Mahindra Satyam will help addressthese challenges by bringing a compre-hensive portfolio of mobile security so-lutions to consumers and enterprises ona wide scale.”

Bernie Bengler, director,cloud services/ software as a service, Kaspersky Lab,Asia-Pacific said, "Every day, 70,000 newthreats are discovered. In 2011 alone,70,000,000 malware have been collect-ed.”

Kaspersky, Tech Mahindra sign MoU

BU panel to betterhostel condition

Continued from page 1District in-charge and munic-

ipal administration minister Bal-achandraJarkiholi too has playedan important role in convincingReddy. Sources within the BJPnow say that Suryanarayana Red-dy would join their party in aday or two along with hundredsof his supporters. They say partyMP Venkaiah Naidu is landingin Bellary to campaign for party’scandidate GaadiLingappa overthe next two days and Reddycould join the party in a big func-tion. Chief minister D VSadanandaGowda, Yeddyurap-pa, party state president K S Es-hwarappa and other prominentleaders are expected to be presentat the function.

Sources said JD(S) nationalpresident H D Deve Gowda todayspoke to Suryanarayana Reddyand tried to convince him not toleave the party.

Kumaraswamy’s brother H DRevanna told the media this af-ternoon that the JD(S), whichhas not fielded a candidate inthe by-election, has not takenany stand and would remain aby-stander.

But he asked voters not to casttheir franchise in favour of anyof the candidates representingthe national parties, the BJP andCongress. That left only Srira-mulu. But when he was askedto name the politician, whomthe people of Bellary Rural as-sembly constituency choose, he

refused. This would not have come at

a better time for the BJP, whichhas taken Sriramulu head-on.

Party sources told BangaloreBeat that former chief ministerB S Yeddyurappa, who has beencampaigning here for the lastthree days, has held a series oftalks with Suryanarayana Reddyand has offered him a plum postsoon after the by-election.

Yeddyurappa has asked Reddyto work for Lingappa’s victoryin the constituency in return fora favour.

Suryanarayana Reddy has en-joyed limelight with the JD(S).He was the political advisor toKumaraswamy when the lattewas the chief minister.

Bellary dist JD(S) chief to resign?

CITYThusday, November 24, 2011 3CITY EVENTS

GeneralVijaya Evening PU College:Kannada Rajyotsava-2011, jour-nalist Nagesh Hegde to attend,Prof Narayana Rao Auditori-um, Jayanagar, 4th Block, 6pm.

Commercial Tax DepartmentEmployees’ Association: Tal-ent Awards-2011 and fruit andvegetable exhibition, Depart-ment building, 1st Main Road,Gandhinagar, 5.30 pm.

CulturalHAL Central Kannada Sang-ha: Eighth Kannada SahithyaSammelana, Prof Chan-drashekhar Patil, Prof H CShanthaveeraiah, RichardLouis participate, HMA Audi-torium, Near HAL Hospital,3.30 pm.

Magnitude Gallery: Exhibi-tion of paintings on the theme‘Just Reflections’, 140/13, 27thCross, 13th Main, 3rd Block,Jayanagar.

Kannada SangharshaSamithi: ‘Rajyotsava KaviGoshti’, poet MarkandapuramSrinivas presides, Kuvempuauditorium, 2nd Floor, Kan-nada Sahitya Parishath, Pam-pa Mahakavi Road, Chama-rajpet, 6 pm.

Reserve Bank Kannada Sang-ha: Karnataka Rajyotsava and42nd annual function, RBI Re-gional governor Uma Shankar,actor Ananth Nag and play-wright V Ramamurthy to par-ticipate, Yavanika, State YouthCentre, Nrupathunga Road,5.25 pm.

Sambhrama: ‘Karthika Ran-gotsava’ inauguration by Kan-nada Books Authority Chair-man Siddalingaiah, writer SG Siddaramaiah, Seva Sadan,14th Cross Road,Malleswaram, 6 pm.

KPTCL: Kannada Rajyotsava,M Chidananda Murthy to par-ticipate, Bharatiya Vidya Bha-van, Race Course Road, 3.30pm.

ReligiousChinmaya Mission: BhagwadGita discourse by Swami Ga-hanananda, Jayarama SevaMandali, 8th Block, Jayanagar,6.30 pm.

MusicDr Nithyashree MahadevanLive: 4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.Chowdaiah Memorial Hall. Anight of Carnatic music withDr Nithyashree Mahadevan.Performances by NithyaShikaripur & Party (Hindus-tani) and and flautist MasterS Akash precede the event.

Dubstep & Drum 'n' BassNites: 8:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.Bacchus. DJ Vachan treats thecrowd to dubstep and D'n'B .

Eating outThe Grand Indian Lunch Buf-fet: Noon to 3 p.m. Turquoise,Koramangala. The Grand In-dian Lunch buffet with over35 dishes with around 5starters, 4 vegetarian gravies,2 non vegetarian gravies , 7desserts and lots more.

Lunch Buffet: 12:30 p.m. to 3p.m. at Applewood. A Globaland Indian lunch buffet, whichincludes soups, starters, maincourse and desserts, priced atRs. 299 plus taxes per head.

Mediterranean Set Lunch:Noon to 3:30 p.m at Fireflies,Lavelle Road. A set lunch ofsoups, salads, appetisers, maincourse and dessert. The twocourse meal is priced at Rs299, and the three course mealat Rs 399.

New Soups and Starters: Till11 p.m. The Tasty Tangles, UBCity, introduces new soupsand vegetarian starters. Guestscan expect picks like WontonNoodle Soup, Spinach andSweet Corn Soup, and SeafoodCilantro Broth, as well as Sweet

and Sour Crispy Vegetablesand Spicy Lemongrass PaneerCakes.

Kebab and Wine Pairings:Till 11 p.m. Jashn Restaurant,Le Meridien. Kebabs to bepaired with Four Seasonswine. Salmon Tikka pairedwith Four seasons CheninBlanc, and mushrooms andbroccoli for the vegetarians.

Loi Krathong Festival: Till11:30 pm Benjarong, UlsoorRoad, HalasuruBenjarong cel-ebrates the Thai festival oflights with Thai delicacies.

Jashn-e-Lahore: Till 11:30 p.m.Great Kabab Factory, MantriSquare, celebrates the kababsof Lahore with a series of sig-nature menus, titled Jashn-e-Lahore.

Russian Food Festival: Till11:30 p.m. Touche, Indirana-gar, celebrates Russian farewith a menu that showcasescharacteristic dishes, such asBorsct, Okroshka, Kubasa andBlini.

Masala Klub: Till 11:30 p.m.Masala Klub, The Taj WestEnd, introduces a new menuthat highlights the cuisine inand around Amritsar, Jammu,and Srinagar. New additionsto the menu include Nadruaur Channe ki Tikki, KhadeMasale ka Murgh, Kalimirchaur Currypatte ka Jhinga, Teen-mirch Paneer, and RabriGulkand ki Chakki.

Night lifeLive night with David James:8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. BananaBeach Bar, Koramangala.David James performs reggaeand retro at Banana BeachBar.

Ladies Night: 8 p.m. to 11:30p.m. The Beach, Indiranagar.DJ Deepak plays house at TheBeach. Unlimited drinks forthe girls till 10:30 pm.

Karoake Wednesday: 8 p.m.to 11:30 p.m. Love Shack,Amarjyoti HBBCS Layout, Ko-ramangala. Martin Dsouzaspins. Girls get two drinks free,while guys pay Rs 1,000.

Retro Night at Retro Price: 8p.m. to 11:30 p.m. i-Bar. DJVicky spins retro hits thisWednesday. Drinks at 50% off.

Ladies Night with DJ Rohit:8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Cirrus,100 Feet Road, Indiranagar.House with DJ Rohit. Ladiesdrink for free till 10:00 pm.

Wow Diva's Night: 7:30 p.m.to 11:30 p.m. F Bar & Kitchen,No 18, Ali Askar Road, Cun-ningham Road. A night dedi-cated to the ladies, who getfree cocktails while DJ Ivanspins the best tracks fromaround the world on LEDscreens.

Ladies Rock: 8 p.m. to 11:30p.m. Hard Rock Cafe. Cus-tomised cocktails, music and

tons of games.

ComedyLOL: 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. UrbanSolace - Cafe for the Soul, Ul-soor Lake. A stand-up comedyand open mic night that fea-tures guest comedians and aplatform for the audience toshow off their entertainingskills.

ShoppingHigh on Heels: 10:30 a.m. to8:30 p.m. Mochi, CommercialStreet. A collection of stilettos,wedges and pumps in thecolours of the season.

Bangalore Book Festival 2011:Till 8 p.m. Palace Grounds,Jayamahal Road. 398 stallswith close to a million books,spread over more than 2.5 lakhsq. ft.

The Great Garuda ShoppingFest: Till 10 p.m. Garuda Mall,Magrath Road. A shoppingfestival with special discounts,decorations, and games forshoppers.

Bar suppliers killed colleagueover stolen mobile phone

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The police have solved themurder of a supplier at a city bar, whosebody was found at the KempegowdaCircle last week, with the arrest of threeof his colleagues.

During interrogation, the police foundout that the three accused had beatenup the deceased Abhishek over thetheft of a mobile phone. They haddragged him into the staff quarters atthe bar, slapped him and stabbed himin the leg.

When he died in the attack, the three

panicked colleagues dumped the bodyat parking lot near Kempegowda Circle.

The three arrested have been identi-fied as Sunil (19), Kumar (21) andShashikumar (23).

The police had registered an unnat-ural death case as no apparent injurymarks could be seen on the body of thedeceased.

The investigation was intensifiedafter the doctors concluded that it wasa case of murder.

The police are now on the lookoutfor other accused in the case who havegone missing.

Hisss gets bigger at Mysore zoo Mysore: Mysore Zoo has anotherfeather, rather an animal, in itscap now. It is now home to theworld’s biggest snake, anaconda.

Five green anacondas, flewfrom the Sri Lankan NationalZoo by the Sri Lankan Airlines,reached the Chennai airport onTuesday and from there theywere shifted to the Mysore zoolate that night.

The green anaconda is thelargest snake in the world inboth weight and length. It canreach up to 30 ft in length andweigh up to 227 kg.

The green anaconda is a mem-ber of a family of snakes calledconstrictors. Constrictors are notvenomous snakes. They don'tkill prey by delivering venomthrough a bite. Instead, constric-tors wrap their bodies aroundtheir prey and squeeze until itstops breathing.

All the five anacondas, whichare 15 months old, arrived at thezoo safe. They are around 3-5feet long and weigh 400 to 1,500grams.

Females are significantly largerthan males. Other anacondaspecies, all from South Americaand all smaller than the greenanaconda, are the yellow, dark-spotted, and Bolivian varieties.

The green anaconda is anaquatic snake. It lives in swamps,marshes, and slow-moving rivers,mainly in the tropical rain forestsof the Amazon and Orinocobasins.

It's nocturnal or active at night.An anaconda will hunt on land,but prefers to stay in the water,where its huge size feels lessbulky. The green anaconda canmove swiftly both underwaterand on the surface. To hunt, it

lies on the surface of a pond orstream waiting for an animal tostop by for a drink. Its nostrilsare located on the top of itssnout, so it can breathe whilealmost entirely submerged. Whenit attacks, it springs from thewater and grabs the unsuspect-

ing creature with its small, sharpteeth, quickly wrapping its bodyaround the victim and squeezingit until it stops breathing. It thenmanoeuvres its prey into itsmouth, usually headfirst, andpowerful muscles contract inwaves to crush the meal and

push it down to its stomachThey reach their monumental

size on a diet of wild pigs, deer,birds, turtles, capybara,caimansand even jaguars. Theycan go weeks or months withoutfood after a big meal.

Female anacondas retain theireggs and give birth to two tothree dozen young. Baby snakesare about 2 ft long when theyare born and are almost imme-diately able to swim and hunt.Their lifespan in the wild is about10 years and in captivity theycan live up to 20 years. In mating,several competing males form abreeding ball around one femaleand that can last up to fourweeks.

The animals will temporarilybe housed in the python enclo-suretill the completion of thenew enclosure for anacondas,which is getting completed bythe yearend.

Mysore Zoo is building a newanaconda enclosure adjacent tothe snake enclosures, with di-mension of 40’ x 20’ area, withkeeper’s passage behind. Theestimated cost of the enclosureis Rs9lakh. There are two sepa-rate enclosures, and two viewingpointswith glass panelling. Nat-ural environmental conditions,such as water pond and green-ery,will be simulated to makethe animal feel comfortable andmove around freely.

Green Anaconda is newlyadded to other snakes in the zoocollection, like striped keel back,king cobra, rat snake, indiansand boa, rough scaled sandboa, reticulated python, rockpython, common Indian krait,and Russell viper and Indian co-bra.

Two of the five green anacondas that have been brought toMysore zoo.

9 premisesof ex‑DMK

ministerraided

Chennai: Vigilance officials today raided nine premises of senior DMK leader Duraimugu-ran on charges of accumulatingassets disproportionate to hisknown sources of income duringhis tenure as Minister for PWD,Law and Prisons from 2006 to2009.

The police said a case under the Prevention of Corruption Actwas registered against him yes-terday as a prima facie case ofcognisable offence was madeout.

Searches are being conductedat Vellore, Kanchipuram andChennai district by the Direc-torate of Vigilance and Anti Cor-ruption (DVAC), police said.

Several former DMK ministersand senior party functionarieshave been facing the heat fromthe Jayalalithaa government oncharges of either land grabbingor amassing wealth dispropor-tionate to their known sourcesof income.

Former DMK Ministers Veera-pandi S Arumugam, K Pon-mudy,K N Nehru, M R K Pan-neerselvam, T M Anbarasan, KP P Samy, former MLA B Ran-ganathan, sitting MLA J An-bazhagan and those close toUnion Minister M K Azhagiri inMadurai are among those whohave faced action.

Manrobbed

of his carBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: A man was attackedand robbed of his car at BTMLayout last night.

Akbar Sharif had finished hisdinner and was relaxing insidehis car when four persons tappedon the windows on the pretextof asking for an address around11.30 pm. When he rolled downthe window, they threw chillipowder into his eyes. The crimi-nals then pushed him out of thecar (KA-51, A-6829) and escapedwith the vehicle.

They also took away his twomobile phones.

Three suppliers, who were arrested for the murder of their colleague

Two cartoonists, Laxmanand Thackeray, to meet

Pune: They had a common entryto the world of cartooning, andwhile one became a legend inthe field, the other moved tomake a name in politics. Thurs-day is the day when R.K. Laxmanand Bal Thackeray are set tocome face to face.

Thackeray will meet Laxmanat the latter's residence here inthe afternoon, a family membersaid.

Both Thackeray, 86, and Lax-man, 90, started their careerswith Mumbai’s daily, the FreePress Journal, way back in the1950s.

“Yesterday, we got a call fromUddhav Thackeray that the fam-

ily wanted to meet my husband.They are going to meet him inPune later this afternoon,” Lax-man’s wife Kamala told IANS.

There is no fixed agenda forthe meeting and it is describedas a "courtesy call" by the Thack-erays on the Laxmans.

She said though Laxman iskeeping okay “given the circum-stances”, Thursday morning hedeveloped a bout of cough. Ka-mala Laxman said besides ShivSena chief Bal Thackeray, hisson Uddhav and grandson Adityaand other family members wouldalso come to meet the legendarycartoonist, who created thefamed Common Man.

Incidentally, starting nextMonday (Nov. 28), a new televi-sion serial, “RK Laxman KiDuniya” will be launched onSAB TV. Directed by J.D. Majethia,veteran actor, writer and directorin the Hindi and Gujarati filmindustries, the serial is based onLaxman’s works and the travailsof the Common Man over thepast six decades. Generations ofIndians have grown up on these,as portrayed by Laxman throughhis stinging comment and subtlewit.

Pune police have made elab-orate security arrangements forthe Thackeray family visit to thecity.

N‑plant: Protesters allege threat to lives

Kudankulam: Days after talksbetween government represen-tatives and villagers protestingagainst the setting up of a nuclearpower plant at Kudankulam inTamil Nadu failed, protesters arealleging a threat to their lives.Activists Udhayakumar, Push-parayan and Jesudas have al-leged that they have receivedthreats over the phone.

The activists have said thatthey will hold the Centre respon-sible if anything happens to themor their family.

Pushparayan and Jesudas arepart of the state-appointed panel.Activists and villagers are de-manding closure of the Rs. 13000-crore nuclear plant. Protestersare marking the 100th day ofprotest at the Kudankulam nu-clear plant.

Talks today between the stategovernment and a panel of ex-perts failed a week back.

At stake is expensive equip-ment and the maintenance re-quired to keep the plant's safetyfeatures intact.

The atomic plant was expectedto provide respite from the powershortage that has become a staplefeature in Tamil Nadu with manybelieving that it's adversely af-fecting the state's chances of de-velopment.

Two nuclear reactors were tostart functioning within the nextfew months. But all time-lineshave sunk after protesters beganblocking the main road leadingto the plant, preventing staff en-gineers and others from gettingto work.

Boycott London 2012 Olympics, says MP CMBhopal/New Delhi: MadhyaPradesh Chief Minister ShivrajSingh Chouhan appealed to theCentre to lodge a strong protestagainst the sponsorship of thenext year's Olympic Games inLondon by US firm Dow Chemi-cal.

He urged the Centre to con-sider boycotting the Games incase the sponsorship continuesbecause of the company's link

with the defunct Union Carbideresponsible for the gas

tragedy here in 1984, officialsources said.

In a letter to Union Ministerfor Sports and Youth WelfareAjay Makan, the Chief Ministerreminded him about Dow's linkwith the world's worst industrialdisaster. Chouhan pointed outthat liabilities related to thetragedy are not yet fully settled

and are subject of litigation towhich Government of India isalso a party. The CM said it wouldnot be appropriate if a companyresponsible for a tragedy of thismagnitude is allowed to sponsoran event like the Olympics, con-sidered as an ultimate

expression of fair play, honestyand healthy endeavour.

Dow purchased Union Carbidein 2001.

Bhanwari case:CBI finds proof,submits report

Jaipur: There is some positivemovement in the Bhanwari Devicase with a joint team of theCentral Bureau of Investigation(CBI) and the Rajasthan Policereportedly finding vital evidenceafter they reconstructed the crimescene. The evidence unearthedsuggests that the auxiliary nursewas negotiating with Shahbud-din, the prime accused in thecase.

Three suspects have beenquestioned again.

The CBI has also submittedits status report in a sealed coverand requested for hearing in thepersonal chamber of the Ra-jasthan High Court judge. Thenext date of hearing in the casewill take place on December 15.

The Rajasthan High Court hasgranted the CBI permission tointerrogate the suspects in aclosed room.

Bhanwari has been missingfor 85 days now and former Ra-jasthan water resources ministerMahipal Maderna is accused ofhaving a role in her disappear-ance.

A CD allegedly showingMaderna in compromising po-sition with 36-year-old Bhanwari,an auxiliary nurse midwife at asub-centre in Jaliwada village,had come to light after whichshe went missing from Bilara onSeptember 1. Congress MLAMalkhan Singh has also beenquestioned by the CBI in thecase.

Her husband Amarchand hadalleged she was abducted at thebehest of Maderna.

The CBI has already doubledthe reward from Rs 5 lakh to Rs10 lakh to anyone providing cred-ible information about the miss-ing nurse.

Mumbai Schoolboy gets hit byhoarding, dies

New Delhi: In a very tragic inci-dent, an 8-year-old boy travellingby his school bus lost his life onThursday when his head hit ahoarding which was danglingfrom an electric pole in CentralMumbai.

Viraj had moved his head outto wave at his friends. He wastaken to the hospital where hewas declared brought dead.

It is mandatory for all schoolbuses plying in Maharashtra tohave grilled windows but un-

fortunately the bus didn't haveany grills.

The hoarding was originallyplaced at 12-feet above groundlevel but after the pole was hitby another vehicle earlier it hadfallen down to seven feet, whichwas exactly at the level of Viraj'sbus's window. As per rules, allthe school buses in Maharashtraare supposed to have windowgrills which were missing in Vi-raj's school bus which led to hisvery early demise.

ISI man survivesbid on his life

Islamabad: A top ISI official hada narrow escape in an attemptedsuicide attack outside the Pak-istani spy agency's headquarterswhen the bomber's vest failedto detonate, sources said today.

The incident, which occurredon Tuesday morning, was largelysuppressed in the media.

Police officials only said theyhad found and defused a suicidevest in a forested area atShakarparian, located a shortdistance from the ISI's head-quarters at Aabpara.

The bomber jumped in thepath of the motorcade of one ofthe senior most officials of theISI as it was on its way to theheadquarters of the spy agencyshortly before 9 am on Tuesday

but his vest failed to detonatefor unknown reasons, they said.

The attempt on the life of theISI official, who was not identi-fied, occurred near an office ofthe Capital Development Author-ity, located adjacent to the spyagency's headquarters.

The official's security detailensured that the motorcade spedinto the heavily fortified head-quarters, which is ringed byfences and a wall of sand bags.

The security personnel cameout to chase the would-be suicidebomber only after the officialwas safely inside the ISI com-pound, but by then the attackerhad fled into a forested area lo-cated on one side of nearby Kash-mir Highway.

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Ashwin bags 2nd five‑for, India lose Sehwag earlyMumbai: Off-spinner R Ashwin com-pleted his second five-wicket haul ofhis career as West Indies folded theirfirst innings at a mammoth 590 beforeIndia made a brisk reply to reach 74 forone at lunch on the third day of thethird and final cricket Test here today.

Ashwin (5/156), who had bagged 6/47in the West Indies second innings inthe first Test in Delhi, claimed the lastWindies batsman in the form of De-vendra Bishoo 3.1 overs after the visitorsresumed the day at 575 for nine at theWankhede Stadium.

West Indies then struck a big blowto India by sending back danger manVirender Sehwag, leaving India 516runs behind and needing 315 more runsto avoid following on.

On a wicket that still played true ason the first two days, the hosts rocketedoff to 67 in less than 15 overs with Se-hwag and his opening partner GautamGambhir making a string reply beforethe former was out for a 50-ball 37.

At the lunch break, Gambhir wasbatting on 30 after a 101-minute stay atthe crease with four fours in 52 balls.Rahul Dravid was giving him company

on one.Gambhir and Sehwag began the reply

in a positive manner that they are knownfor. The former settled down after fishing

dangerously outside the off-stump whilethe latter was his usual, ebullient self.

Both the batsmen were confrontedby packed off-side fields, even someunusual field positions like a fly slipbehind the gully for Sehwag, but stillmanaged to find the gaps with easeagainst speedsters Fidel Edwards andRavi Rampaul who opened the visitors'bowling.

Gambhir, after surviving a leg beforeappeal by fast bowler Edwards, wenton the offensive by square-driving thebowler for his first boundary in thethird over of the day.

He hit two more off-side boundariesagainst both the fast bowlers while Se-hwag used minimum footwork to sendthe ball past the ropes twice despite a7-2 field.

ehwag then stepped out in disdainagainst Darren Sammy, when theWindies captain brought himself onafter the 10th over in place of Edwards,and deposited the ball over extra coverfor a six.

The 50 of the opening stand, whichcame with the six, was raised in just 54minutes after which Gambhir square-

cut Rampaul for a four.Sehwag, looking good for a big score,

was out when Sammy got his revengeby clean bowling the swashbucklingopener with a ball that moved in ashade and sneaked through the gapbetween bat and pad as he stretchedforward for a drive. Sehwag's 37 con-tained three fours and a six off 50 balls.

Gambhir and Dravid were peggedback by some tight bowling by Sammy,Rampaul and Edwards. The latter gothis first run -- a single -- from the 15thball he faced.

Earlier, India dismissed the last WestIndian wicket 16 minutes after start ofplay when Ashwin, bowling round thewicket, clean-bowled last man DevendraBishoo when the tail-ender tried analmighty heave to leg to end the visitors'innings off the 19th ball of the morn-ing.

Left-handed Bishoo added 10 runsto his overnight two while Edwards re-mained unconquered on 11. The touristsadded 15 runs today before losing theirlast wicket and the total is their highestin 36 years.

Food inflation falls tosingle digit at 9.01 pcNew Delhi: Food inflation fellsharply to single digit at 9.01 percent for the week ended Novem-ber 12 even as prices of mostagricultural items, barring po-tatoes, onions and wheat, con-tinued to rise, on an annual ba-sis.

Food inflation, as measuredby the Wholesale Price Index(WPI), was 10.63 per cent in theprevious week.

The rate of price rise in fooditems stood at 11.38 per cent inthe corresponding week of theprevious year.

According to the data releasedby the government on Thursday,onions became cheaper by 32.85per cent year-on-year, while po-tato prices were down by 7.23.Price of wheat also fell by 3.09per cent.

However, all other food itemsbecame expensive on an annualbasis during the week under re-view.

Vegetables became 17.66 percent costlier, while pulses grewdearer by 14.28 per cent, milkby 10.46 per cent and eggs, meatand fish by 11.98 per cent.

Fruits also became 4.59 percent more expensive on an an-nual basis, while cereal priceswere up 2.86 per cent.

Inflation in the overall primaryarticles category stood at 9.08per cent during the week endedNovember 12, as against 10.39per cent in the previous week.Primary articles have over 20 percent weight in the wholesaleprice index.

Inflation in non-food articles,

including fibres, oilseeds andminerals, was recorded at 4.05per cent during the week underreview, as against 5.33 per centin the week ended November 5.

Fuel and power inflation stoodat 15.49 per cent during the weekended November 12, the sameas in the previous week.

The decline in the rate of risein food prices is likely to bringsome relief to the governmentand the Reserve Bank, whichhave been facing flak from allquarters for persisting highprices.

The government had said stepswere being taken to remove sup-ply bottlenecks and expectedprices to ease from December.

Finance Minister PranabMukherjee on Wednesdayhadsaid that the government's im-mediate priority is to containprice rise.

"High inflation and also someof the effort to control liquidityhas a detrimental effect on short-

run growth. The immediate pri-ority is to control inflation sothat long-term growth prospectsare not affected," Mukherjee hadsaid in a written reply in RajyaSabha.

Earlier this week, he had saidin Parliament that inflation islikely to moderate to around 6-7per cent by March 2012.

Headline inflation, which alsofactors in manufactured items,has been above the 9 per cent-mark since December, 2010. Itstood at 9.73 per cent in Octoberthis year.

The RBI has hiked interestrates 13 times since March, 2010,to tame demand and curb infla-tion.

In its second quarterly reviewof the monetary policy lastmonth, the central bank hadsaid it expected inflation to re-main elevated till December onaccount of the demand-supplymismatch, before moderating to7 per cent by March, 2012.

Man slaps Pawar at NDMC centre in DelhiNew Delhi: A man slapped Union Agri-culture Minister Sharad Pawar at theNDMC Centre in New Delhi on Thursday.The man identified as Harvinder Singhslapped Pawar shouting slogans againstprice rise and corruption cases. He hasbeen arrested by the police and takento Parliament Street Police Station.

On being asked why he slapped theminister, he said that he was tired ofscams in the country. Speaking agitat-edly, he also said he did not not do itfor publicity and added, "I would havekilled him if I had my kripan today."

After slapping Pawar, Singh alsobrandished a small knife and threatenedto kill politicians accused of being in-volved in corruption cases. He also said

that he was not worried about the con-sequences.

"The prices for all essential com-modities have risen. Annaji requestedfor Lokpal but it did not work out. I'mnot a terrorist as a terrorist would nevertake such a step. I'm fed up of all thecorrupt ministers involved in variousscams," he said.

Pawar said such incidents shouldbe ignored.

"He has done it in media presence,it was a scuffle. It's a serious matter,but not sure whether he was a journalistor one amongst many who were there.We don't have to give much of an im-portance to this incident," said Pawar.

MPs criticised the attack on Pawar

even though they said that price risewas a burning issue facing the commonman.

"We have just been told that SharadPawar has been assaulted over pricerise and the government says that priceshave come down," BJP MP SS Ahluwaliasaid in the Rajya Sabha.

"Such kind of violent actions willnot be tolerated," another BJP MP SmritiIrani said.

"Whatever has happened is wrong.Everybody is concerned about pricerise. I am not in favour of violence,"said Samajwadi Party MP MulayamSingh Yadav.

The man claimed to be the same per-son who attacked former telecom min-

ister Sukhram at Rohini court on Sat-urday. The 86-year-old Sukhram wasin the court as he had been convictedand sentenced to five years in jail bySpecial CBI judge RP Pandey for takingRs 3 lakh as bribe to award a lucrativecontract to a telecom firm in 1996.

In another major security breach anunidentified man tried to enter Parlia-ment from the main gate today.

He got into a scuffle with the securitypersonnel when he was stopped fromentering as he didn't have proper pass.

He slapped the security guard onbeing asked for his identity.

The man has been taken into custodyby the police personnel present at thegate.

Day 3: Price riseissue stalls House

New Delhi: The third day of the wintersession of Parliament began with an up-roar in both the Lok Sabha and the RajyaSabha over the issue of price rise even asthe TDP gave an adjournment motionnotice on price rise while the Left, too,agreed to a discussion under rule 193that does not entail voting.

Both Houses were first adjourned tillnoon and then till 2 pm. A discussion onprice rise is now sceduled to take placein Lok Sabh at 2 pm.

Meanwhile, the government is likelyto give in to the Opposition's demand foran adjournment motion on the blackmoney issue.

Senior BJP leader LK Advani will movean adjournment motion on black moneyasking the government to explain thesituation arising out of the black moneydeposited in foreign banks and the actionbeing taken against the guilty.

The BJP Parliamentary party met onThursday morning to discuss their strat-egy.

The black money rowThe government has been under a lot

of pressure to reveal the names of thearound 800 tax evaders.

Last week CNN-IBN had learnt that aParliamentary Panel had grilled FinanceMinistry Officials On the black money is-sue and set a 15-day deadline for actionon tax evaders.

MPs had also asked Finance MinisterPranab Mukherjee to disclose the namesof the evaders. MPs had asked him todisclose the opinion given by the AttorneyGeneral of India as well.

But Pranab claimed that the AttorneyGeneral had advised against making thedisclosures. The House Panel also wantedto know why no prosecution has so farhappened.

MPs had also threatened to invokeprivilege if details were not shared.

Sources say that Pranab told them thata disclosure will end India's chances ofgetting any further lists from banks intax havens.

Tamil Nadu bansmovie ʻDam 999ʼ

Chennai: Tamil Nadu govern-ment today banned 'Dam 999'with immediate effect after themovie faced a storm of protestsfrom various political partieswhich claim the controversialfilm is based on the Mullaperiyardam, over which the state islocked in an escalating row withKerala.

"The Tamil Nadu governmenthas banned the screening ofmovie 'Dam 999' with immediateeffect," a terse one line an-nouncement by Chief SecretaryDebendranath Sarangi said.

The government's decisioncomes a day after theatre ownersacross the state decided not toscreen the movie, saying it wasagainst the interests of the state.

Political parties, includingDMK, MDMK and PMK hadraised their voice against the re-lease of the movie, a Hollywoodmovie directed by Sohan Roy.The objection mainly centredaround the contention that thefilm justifies breaking of the Mul-laperiyar dam as the plot revolvesaround the collapse of a reservoirand was against the interests of

TN.The ban comes in the midst

of war of words between Keralaand Tamil Nadu over the 116-year old structure in Idukki dis-trict of Kerala, which is underTamil Nadu's control and meetsthe irrigation needs of farmersin southern districts.

Tamil Nadu chief minister Jay-alalithaa had yesterday shot offa letter to Prime Minister Man-mohan Singh, accusing Keralaof trying to whip up fear amongits people for political mileage,though the dam is as "safe andgood as new".

She had also sought Singh'sintervention to advise Kerala notto venture on a new dam as the

present one was functioning welland not to whip up panic amongpeople for political mileage.

An all-party meeting in Keralahad yesterday taken note of re-currence of tremors in the dam'svicinity and asked the Centre tointervene to resolve the issue.

The meeting convened byChief Minister Oommen Chandyhad also requested Tamil Naduto co-operate with the state forbuilding a new dam.

Citing safety concerns, Keralahas proposed construction of anew dam to replace the old struc-ture, but Tamil Nadu has beenopposing it, saying it would affectthe state's interest.

DMK chief M Karunanidhi hadwarned that the film's releasewould affect cordial ties betweenpeople of Tamil Nadu and Keralaand pose a law and order prob-lem.

MDMK chief Vaiko had saidthe film, financed by Keralites,starring Indian and Hollywoodactors has been named 'Dam999', referring to the legal rightsheld by Tamil Nadu over thedam for 999 years and warned

IPS officer inUP moves HC

Lucknow: An IPS officer hasmoved the Allahabad High Courtalleging harassment by UttarPradesh Principal SecretaryHome and another senior bu-reaucrat.

Amitabh Thakur, a 1992 batch IPS officer, filed a writ petition yesterday in the Lucknowbench of the high court demand-ing a high-level inquiry into thecase and compensation for dis-crimination and harassment byPrincipal Secretary Home, Kun-war Fateh Bahadur and VijaySingh, Secretary to Chief Minis-ter.

Thakur alleged he was not be-ing promoted as DIG due to in-fluence of these officers and wasbeing discriminated against andtortured by the officials becauseof personal animosity.

"I have made a number of rep-

resentations to Chief Minister,Chief Secretary, DGP and othertop officers over the years butnothing was done," Thakur, cur-rently posted as Rules and Man-uals SP in Lucknow, said.

The IPS officer is contestingcases against his superiors since2008 after he was denied studyleave for pursing a course in IIM,Lucknow. "I got study leave onlyafter I moved CAT, Lucknow andthe High Court," he said, addingthat while study leave applica-tions of other IPS officers gotprocessed within 100 days it tookeight court cases and so manyyears in his case.

Thakur claimed an inquiry re-lated to his suspension as GondaSP and another probe during histenure as Deoria SP were delib-erately kept pending by PrincipalSecretary Home.

Sharad Pawar

Why should Ireact: Pawar

New Delhi: Union AgricultureMinister Sharad Pawar, who wasslapped by a man today, said he did not think it was a breach of security and wouldnot react.

“Why should I react? I won’tcall it breach of security becauseI don’t take security with me. I’llsee if this needs to be reviewed,”Pawar told a news channel.

"I was going to my car andthere was a group of journalistsand they were asking some ques-

tions. At the same time, I sawhim (the attacker) trying to comeforward...It looked like he waswith the group of journalists,"Pawar added.

The turbaned Sikh man,Harvinder Singh, had also at-tacked former telecommunica-tions minister Sukh Ram herefour days ago.

Singh also took out his kirpanwhen security guards tried tooverpower him and whisk himaway.

No hikein rail fares now

New Delhi: Amid reports thatthere could a hike in passengerfares, Railways today made itclear that there was no such pro-posal at present.

"At present, there is no pro-posal for increasing passengerfares," Minister of State for Rail-ways K H Muniyappa informedthe Lok Sabha today.

In a written reply, he also saidthe recent hike in freight chargeswere "marginal" in nature.

The assesses impact of the in-creased rates on the prices ofthe essential commodities is ex-pected to be negligible," the Min-ister said.

He said in the case of trans-portation of foodgrains and fer-tilisers, the increase per kg per1,000 km is 5 paise and 4 paisein the case of salt and sugar.The increase is 3 paise and 6paise for transportation of onionand edible oils.

"It is estimated that Railwayswould earn about Rs 1,914 crore during the remaining part of the current financial yearfrom the levy of these charges,"he said.

To another question, he said the Finance Ministry did not agree a proposal for grantof a temporary loan of Rs 2,100crore to Railways."However, thematter is being taken up withthe Finance Ministry again," hesaid.

Omar ready to amendRPC to protect Army

Jammu: In a bid to allay con-cerns on the issue of revocationof AFSPA, Jammu and KashmirChief Minister Omar Abdullahhas said his government is readyto give legal protection to theArmy by amending the RanbirPenal Code and making it onpar with the CrPC.

He also stated that the finaldecision on the revocation of theArmed Forces Special PowersAct (AFSPA) vests with the Gov-ernor.

"They (security forces) havepointed out that in all otherstates of the country, Army enjoysprotection under the CriminalProcedure Code (CrPC), whichis not applicable in Jammu andKashmir's RPC. We are ready toamend the RPC to make it onpar with CrPC to remove doubtsof the Army", Omar said in aninformal chat with mediapersonslast night.

e said government is ready togive the Army all powers enjoyedby them under CrPC in otherstates.

RPC can be amended to theextent of providing operationalsafeguards to the Army, Omarsaid.

During the last Unified Com-mand meeting chaired by theChief Minister on November 9,the CRPF had sought implemen-tation of CrPC in the state to pro-vide them legal cover for opera-tion if government wants to re-move AFSPA.

"There are two issues - onethe rights of the Army and otherlegal immunity to them - which

they have raised during interac-tions," he said, adding "Armyhas apprehension that SHOs orhavaldars would arrest theirjawans and they will get entan-gled in unnecessary cases" ifAFSPA is revoked.

To another question, he saidthe Governor has to take a finaldecision on revocation of AFS-PA.

He also said that a team of of-

ficers would be sent to New Delhifor talks over AFSPA.

Debate over the partial revo-cation of AFSPA began lastmonth when Omar announcedthe Act would be revoked fromparts of the state "within fewdays". The Army maintains thatany tampering with the law will"handicap" their capability toconduct counter insurgency op-erations.

Omar Abdullah

PM speaks to Pawar

New Delhi: Prime Minister Man-mohan Singh today spoke to

union Agricul-ture MinisterSharad Pawarafter he wasattacked by aSikh youthand con-demned theassault.

"The primeminister spoke

to Sharad Pawar and condemnedthe assault on him," a statementfrom the Prime Minister's Officesaid here.

The Nationalist Congress Party(NCP) chief was attacked at theNDMC Centre.

The attacker, Harvinder Singh,had Saturday assaulted formertelecommunications ministerSukh Ram.

The turbaned Sikh man alsotook out his kirpan when securityguards tried to overpower himand whisk him away.

Training ingardeningBangalore: The horticulture de-partment has organised a short-term course at Lalbagh from No-vember 28 till December 3.

Kitchen garden, plant im-provement, medical plants, land-scaping and plant protectionwould be taught at the course.It will be held from 2.30 pm till5.30 pm. Those who have passedSSLC can register themselves bypaying Rs 100.

Contact: assistant horticulturedirector, Horticulture TrainingCentre, Lalbagh or call: 26564538.