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YOUNG PENS In all likelihood they had the imagination that would be fodder for their work, since their time as toddlers. Imagine what an achievement is Eleanor Catton’s: a Booker at 28 for a book she started writing at 24. Here we check out similar people who achieved so much on the path of the pen when & they were quite young — some very young.

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HYDERABAD’S FIRST COMPACT AFTERNOON NEWSPAPER

SANI STARES AT CONGRESS IN AP Celestial bodies may or may not be conspiring against the State or the Congress, but the emerging political scene at the national level does not augur well for the ruling party with regard to Telangana creation and the consequent mess.

BLAST FROM THE PAST

This Friday, TV’s latest period drama hits screens. Reign, which follows series of the early years of Mary, Queen of Scots and is set in 1557 France is just the latest in a slew of acclaimed shows. Here’s a taster of the best of the best.

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ONE FAMILY, The RTA’s proposal is a brilliant one, but will politicians risk the ire of the rich and mobile?

ONE CAR

Should Hyderabadis limit themselves to the one-family-one-car formula? This was the proposal made by the Road Transport Authorities Hyderabad, recently, in a meeting held in Delhi. Hyderabad Traffic Police have consented to the concept and want the government to put a ceiling on the number of vehicles a family can own. This policy is already in place in a number of countries across the world. REPORT ON P7

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city events

TREKKING TIME

Hear ye! Hear ye! All outdoor enthusiasts are going to be thrilled with this piece of information. The Great Hyderabad Adventure Club is organising a 15 day trip to Kathmandu. Drop in at GHAC’s website for more information regarding the trip.

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AROUND THE CITY: YOUR GUIDE TO THE TWIN CITIES Journalist’s Colony, Road No. 3, Banjara Hills When: October 18, 6:30pm onwards Contact: (040) - 23350443

WORKSHOP Young Picasso Art & Craft Workshop The event is for kids between age group 4 and 16 years. The workshop includes different types of fun activities and many more. Where: Books N More, Library and Activity Centre, Plot No. 292, Street No. 6, West Marredpally When: Until October 19, 10:30am to 1:00pm Contact: (040) 27800722

Movie screening

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Movie Silver Linings Playbook will be screened. Where: Sarathi Studio, Ameerpet When: Oct 19, 6.30 pm Contact: 93910-20243 PERFECT BALANCE: A man who organises street plays seen at Charminar on Wednesday.

Midnight Buffet Looking for an awesome midnight meal? Head to Viva at Vivanta by Taj and relish the best of culinary indulgences served at the midnight buffet Where: Vivanta By Taj Hotel,Mayuri Marg, Begumpet When: Until October 26, 11.30pm2.30am Contact: (040) 67252626 Lunch Specials If you are looking to stuff yourself during lunch, then the best place to head to is Nautanki Galli which offers an expansive lunch buffet. Take a walk after if you don’t want to fall asleep when you get back to work. Where: Nautanki Galli, Madhapur When: Everyday, 12:30 pm onwards Contact: 789301000

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SHOWS Pinktober Go pink this October! The hot spot of music lovers, Hard Rock Cafe lends its support to the subject of breast cancer this month. Where: Hard Rock Cafe, GVK One Mall, Road No. 1, Banjara Hills

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Lunch with a Punch If you are looking for new places to eat at, then do check out The Yellow Chili’s new lunch buffet. Where: The Yellow Chilli E3-E4, 4th Floor, Kimtee Square, Road No. 12, Banjara Hills When: Until October 31, 12:30pm 3:30pm Contact: (040) 23383838

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Play A play in Hindi titled, Ji Jaisi Aapki Marzi, by theatre group Udaan wil be staged. Make sure to mark your calendars. Where: La Makaan, Adj lane to CBAY, Off Road No. 1, Banjara Hills When: October 19, 7:30pm onwards Contact: Saurabh - 8237209992 When: Until October 31, 12pm1.30am Contact: 7569016340 Vishal-Shekar live-in-concert Gear up for a musical evening filled with all masti and fun with VishalShekar. Where: Hitex Exhibition Centre, Madhapur

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Exotic hampers Godrej Nature’s Basket has added an extensive range of exotic and enticing gourmet gift hampers to their offering. Where: Godrej Nature’s Basket, Banjara Hills Contact: 8790432354

Green Bandits Pushed over the edge, 3 environment-friendly bank robbers set out to rob a bank and record their heist. A fictional political-thriller inspired by true events - the recent British Petroleum Oil Spill and the 1984 Union Carbide Gas Explosion at Bhopal. Where: Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad,

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YESTERDAY’S QUESTION

S NITISH KUMAR GOVERNMENT’S DECISION TO WAIVE TAX FOR CHEWING TOBACCO JUSTIFIED? 15% 85%

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HAIR-RAISING JAPAN, TOKYO: People walk against strong wind and rain in Tokyo on October 16, 2013. At least three people died as Typhoon Wipha, the "strongest in 10 years", passed close to Tokyo, causing landslides that swallowed houses on a Japanese island. AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO

CRIME

Cops nab drama queen A victim of cheating, the young woman resorted to a desperate drama, acting as victim of a robbery but it proved unlucky. MOHD SUBHAN Mohd.s@postnoon.com HYDERABAD: A young lady who aspired to be a business woman but found cheated by her male partner resorted to drama that excels a cine script but, at the end the police managed to crack her and get to the bottom of the conspiracy where she acted innocent victim of robbery which never took place. The girl whose identification was not given lives in Madina colony. Two weeks ago, she told

her parents Mohammed Baig and Rizwana Begam, that robbers entered their home when they were away, beat her and tied her up before looting the family jewellery and cash. The supposedly looted wealth runs into lakhs of rupees and 58 tola of gold. To make it sound true, the girl was gagged and sobbing when parents came. She said three men entered home from the rear part of the house, asked her to hand over keys of the cupboards, when she refused, they thrashed her and tied her up telling that she would

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As interrogation progressed she broke down and admitted it was a drama enacted by her with the help of a cousin to sell family jewellery.

die if not obeyed. They were speaking Telugu, she claimed, explained Falaknuma Inspector Ch Hussain Naidu. Parents lodged a complaint with the Falaknuma police and on investigation police found several holes in her statement. As interrogation progressed she broke down and admitted it was a drama enacted by her with the help of a cousin to sell family jewellery and cash to repay her debt she incurred from a employment agency she opened with a male partner.

Scientology church in fix for fraud PARIS: France's top appeals court has upheld a fraud conviction and fines totalling hundreds of thousands of euros against the Church of Scientology, for taking advantage of vulnerable followers. The Cour de Cassation on Wednesday rejected the organAROUND THE

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The court case followed a complaint by two women, one of whom said she was manipulated into handing over 20,000 euros in 1998 for products. isation's request that a 2009 conviction for "organised fraud" be overturned on the grounds it violated religious freedoms. From their Los Angeles headquarters, the group slammed the court ruling as "an affront to justice and religious liberty," in a statement that accused the French government of "anti-religious extremism". "The Court failed to address the fundamental violations of the human rights of each of the defendants that infected every level of this case," said the Scientology church. The group has previously indicated it will appeal the conviction to the European Court of Human Rights.

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FLOOD FURY

LAST YEAR... HERE Biodiversity meet slammed

ast year we had reported how social activists were slamming biodiversity meet. They believe that the UN-supported conference will only help further the interests of the rich in Third World countries. According to these activists, developed countries like USA, with their complete control over the UN were “generating resources for making their access to prospective markets for corporates.”

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being poured into the hometown of Communist China’s founding father Mao Zedong for projects marking the 120th anniversary of his birth, local media reported.

Things are totally under control. No new area has flooded over. Some 96,000 flood affected people (in Balasore district) are getting relief. Arabinda Kumar Padhee Revenue divisional chief

THINGS WE 5LEARNT TODAY The column that teaches everyone something new about the way the world functions.

A measure approved to end US shutdown Republican and Democratic senators announced a plan that would stave off the most pressing crisis by extending the US Treasury’s borrowing authority until Feb 7.

Anarchy in Brazil wears black. Experts ﬁnd it hard to build a clear proﬁle of the anarchist group, Black Bloc, which began attracting notice during June’s street protests against corruption.

Fresh lease of life for eels As part of “Eels Over The Dikes”, some 50 volunteers lend a hand to help these mysterious creatures get back to the sea.

30 million people in modern-day slavery An estimated 30 million people worldwide are living in modern-day slavery, according to the inaugural Global Slavery Index.

Thousands still stranded in Odisha Thousands of people have been stranded for the third consecutive day in Odisha.

SCATHING REMARK

Thousands still stranded in Odisha People took shelter on roof-tops, embankments and elevated places, as officials and volunteers made efforts to reach them food and other relief materials. B H U B A N E S W A R : Thousands of people have been stranded for the third consecutive day Wednesday in Odisha after massive floods triggered by Cyclone Phailin swamped their homes, officials and witnesses said. People took shelter on rooftops, embankments and higher places, as officials and volunteers made efforts to reach them food and other relief materials. The flood water has receded in many areas, but the situation continues to be grim in the worst-hit Balasore district, officials said. “Things are totally under control. No new area has flooded over. Some 96,000 flood affected people (in Balasore district) are getting relief,” Arabinda Kumar Padhee, revenue divisional commissioner (central), who is supervising relief and rescue operations, told IANS. “The flood has affected about seven lakh people in the district. The number of those stranded may be about 12,000,” he said. Heavy rain brought on by Cyclone Phailin that hit the state coast Saturday night triggered floods in Balasore, Mayurbhanj, Jajpur, Keonjhar and Bhadrak districts. More than a million people were affected when water from major rivers and their tributaries submerged low-lying areas and entered habitations, officials said. The army, the National Disaster Response Force, the Odisha Disaster Response Force and state police were

Labour figure lashes out at ‘bastard’ ex-PM SYDNEY: (AFP) Australia’s former attorney-general has launched a scathing attack on Labor colleague and ex-prime minister Kevin Rudd, calling him a rude and disorganised “bastard” who should quit parliament. Rudd, who lost national elections to Tony Abbott last month after ousting Julia Gillard as premier in June, has a reputation as a hot-tempered politician and Nicola Roxon did not mince her words in a speech on Wednesday evening. AROUND THE

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continuing relief operations in flooded areas. The government claimed flood water was receding, and said food and relief was being provided to the needy. Witnesses, however, disputed some of the government’s claims. “I have taken shelter here with my family. Except some dry flattened rice, officials have given us nothing,” said 45-year-old Sukanti Tudu, a woman who has taken shelter on a national highway near Balasore along with hundreds of others. “Some private individuals gave us food. That is what we survive on,” she told IANS. Tudu, along with eight others in her family, including children, has been living on the highway for three days. She

said it was days since the family had a full meal. “I visited more than a dozen villages in worst hit Balasore district. It was a super flood. The government was not prepared. They don’t have required food for the victims. There are places where not a single government official has reached,” former water resources minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Bijoy Mohapatra told IANS.

I have taken shelter here with my family. Except some dry flattened rice, officials have given us nothing. Sukanti Tudu Flood victim

“Although I was frustrated beyond belief by his disorganisation and lack of strategy, I was never personally a victim of his vicious tongue or temper,” said Roxon, who was health minister under Rudd from 2007-2010 before being elevated to attorney-general under Gillard’s rule. “I did, however, see how terribly he treated some brilliant staff and public servants. “Good people were burnt through like wildfire — losing senior people like chiefs of staff and deputies or contemptuously ignoring their advice left the government weaker.” Labour has been dogged by in-fighting for years, with two prime ministers toppled. New leader Bill Shorten vowed to draw a line under the past rancour after his election last weekend. But Roxon, who has quit politics, was determined to put her thoughts on record, saying the party did the right thing by getting rid of Rudd in June 2010.

NATION BRIEFS Cyclone relief works reviewed by CM

City to have its own aviation policy

Protest for constructing a grave for Sonia Gandhi

Conditional permission to YSR Congress party

The Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy said that the State Government will come out with its own Civil Aviation policy soon. Under this policy, several incentives will be announced for the development of regional airports. He was speaking after inaugurating the commercial ﬂights of Air Costa services from the city to Vijayawada from Tuesday.

Greater Hyderabad Congress Committee has launched a protest under leadership of Labour Minister and Greater Hyderabad Congress Committee president Danam Nagender for constructing a grave for AICC Chief Sonia Gandhi at Tirupati. The GHCC activists also performed ‘Evil sight’ removal ritual to a portrait of Sonia Gandhi.

The high court has given a conditional permission to the YSR Congress party to hold a public meeting in the City on October 19. Earlier, the government had refused it permission on grounds of possible unrest. Justice N Ram Mohan Rao asked the party to conduct the meeting peacefully and take precautions against violating law and order.

hief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy reviewed the cyclone relief works and power restoration issues. Officials said power has been restored to all the areas including villages. However, there is still a problem in restoring power supply in five to six villages since electric poles could not be erected there due to complete water logging.

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POLITICS

Sani stares at Congress in AP Celestial bodies may or may not be conspiring against the State or the Congress, but the emerging political scene at the national level does not augur well for the ruling party with regards to Telangana creation and the consequent mess. PK SURENDRAN surendranpk@postnoon.com

f the Sonia team in Delhi had happened to read astrological takes on Telangana, they’d probably have skipped the whole issue and kept it afloat like it did for 60 years. As it is now clear, they never did read, and now the Telagana situation is getting into more and more mire. This was what one astroforum had to say of AP’s stars and Telangana score: Rahu and Kuja are two planets causative for divisive forces, explosion, rebellion and partition. It is in these sub periods that the actual formation of Telangana State will materialize. Andhra State indicates that January 2014, when Sukra-Rahu period will be coming to a close, separation of State is possible. Andhra Pradesh chart indicates

The state elections are likely to cause a delay in the starting of Parliament’s winter session. tat in the dasa of Sani and Rahu bhukthi ie., during September 2013, Telangana will be formed. This period will be a testing time for Andhra Pradesh State, as once again many controversial issues regarding Hyderabad, security to settlers etc., will crop up. Large scale public unrest, disturbance to public life and loss of many lives are indicated. Over all it is indicative that separate Telangana State will be announced during June 2013 to January 2014 and there is every possibility of Andhra Pradesh is going to lose

Indian state government employees and supporters of united Andhra Pradesh participate in protest against the formation of Telangana state inside the Secretariat in Hyderabad on October 8, 2013. India’s cabinet on October 3 cleared a long-awaited proposal for the creation of a new state to be carved out from the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh, reports said. AFP/Noah SEELAM

Hyderabad.” While many would bung the astro predictions in the nearest basket, there remains a fact as clear as day. If the Congress party loses heavily in the five states, as is indicated in a series of poll surveys, the Telangana bill will see a tough time in Parliament. “The Congress banks heavily on the BJP and its allies to get the T bill through but if the BJP is wise it would not allow the Congress to walk way with the thunder for creating T,” says a TDP leader. The state elections are likely

Garjana’ rally a few weeks.

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to cause a delay in the starting of Parliament’s winter session. While the Winter session usually starts around November 23 and ends around December 22, elections may postpone them to a later date than the usual date. Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha and senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj gave an indication to this effect while she was addressing the ‘Palamuru

A bigger worry for the Congress which is expecting a post-poll alliance with the YSRC is the danger of its rank taking divorce from the party. As of today, there are no takers for the Congress ticket in Seemandhra. Those invested in the party are now drawing mournful deep breaths. A little less than three months after the dramatic announcement of Telangana, the Centre has given no indications

as to how it plans to deal with the tricky issue of resource-sharing, which would pulverize even the best of experts in the economic issues. Even the party could not clarify on the status of Hyderabad, what to talk of resources? The Centre has done no homework on a crucial issue like bifurcation and allowed inept quacks to dominate the scene who are experts in one-liners, not in statecraft. It is indeed Sani for the Congress, if not for Andhra Pradesh, as events point out.

NATION BRIEFS Maoists kill three policemen in Maha GADCHIROLI: At least three security personnel were killed when a patrol party was attacked by armed Maoists in Gadchiroli early Thursday, ofﬁcials said. The incident took place near Shevargaon village in the dense forests close to the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh state border, said police ofﬁcial Dharamdas Bhusari of Gadchiroli Police Control.

Karnataka pontiff to honour Malala BANGALORE: Karnataka’s popular Lingayat pontiff Shivamurthy Muruga Sharana of Bruhanmath at Chitradurga, about 200 km from the state capital, will honour Pakistan’s celebrity student and education activist Malala Yousafzai with the Basavashree award soon. “In recognition of Malala’s bravery and outstanding contribution to the cause of education in Pakistan, the Murgha Math (a religious institution) has decided to honour her with our prestigious award named after the 12th century social reformer Basavanna,” spokesman of the math, CT Jayanna, said.

Indian foreign secretary in Maldives NEW DELHI: has rushed Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh to Maldives ahead of Saturday’s repeat presidential election as President Mohammed Waheed expressed doubts over the credibility of the election process. Singh arrived in Male on Wednesday evening, official sources said.

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SANKALP SABHA

Cops detain 42 VHP men in UP The Akhilesh Yadav government in the state has banned ‘Sankalp Sabha’ citing fears of trouble and communal flare up. LUCKNOW: Sensing trouble during the ‘Sankalp Sabha’ of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) October 18 at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh, police searched many locations and detained 42 persons, an official said on Thursday. The Akhilesh Yadav government in the state has banned the event citing fears of trouble and communal flare up, but the VHP and Bajrang Dal have said that they will go ahead with the event, as it was their “constitutional and democratic right”. Police searched many places, including hotels, VHP offices and dharmshaala’s (guest houses) in search of VHP activists and supporters. It rounded up around four dozen

CAUSE AND CONSEQUENCE

Islander bids to be first climate change refugee WELLINGTON: A Pacific islander is attempting to become the world’s first climate change refugee in New Zealand as rising seas threaten his low-lying homeland, the man’s lawyer said Thursday. Ioane Teitiota, 37, launched an appeal this week against a decision by New Zealand immigration authorities to refuse him refugee status and deport him to Kiribati in the central Pacific, lawyer Michael Kitt said. Kitt acknowledged Teitiota’s New As the environmental problem Zealand visa had expired but said he should not face deportation because of worsened a new class of refugee was the difficulties he would encounter in emerging that was not properly covered Kiribati -- which consists of more than by existing international protocols, Kitt said. 30 coral atolls, most only a “It’s a fluid situation, few metres (feet) above sea AROUND THE WORLD eventually the courts and level. legislatures are going to He said rising seas had already swamped parts of Kiribati, have to make a decision on how we deal destroying crops and contaminating with this,” he said. Kitt said deporting Teitiota to water supplies. “Fresh water is a basic human Kiribati was like forcing a gay person to right... the Kiribati government is return to a country where they faced unable, and perhaps unwilling, to guar- persecution or a domestic violence vicantee these things because it’s com- tim to go somewhere which offered no pletely beyond their control,” Kitt told protection of women’s rights. In refusing Teitiota’s application earRadio New Zealand. He said Teitiota’s case had the lier this year, immigration authorities potential to set an international prece- argued that the Kiribati man could not dent, not only for Kiribati’s 100,000 resi- be considered a refugee because no one dents but for all populations threatened in his homeland was threatening his life if he returned. by man-made climate change.

people. The police will seal the district boundaries of Faizabad district in the state Thursday noon, as the local intelligence unit (LIU) reports suggest chances of trouble during the Oct 18 event. Intelligence reports have suggested that heavy deployment of security and para-military forces to prevent the Sankalp Diwas were not enough, as hundreds of VHP workers and sympathizers had already camped in various places in the temple city of Ayodhya. “We have reports that the gathering could be much larger than what we are expecting. We are hence leaving nothing to chance” a senior official told IANS. District Magistrate

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Faizabad, Vipin Dwivedi said all precautions were being taken to ensure normal life was not hit. The Sankalp Sabha has been called to press to demand construction of a Ram temple at Ayodhya. The saints, VHP and affiliates had held a ‘84-kosi’ and a ‘Panch Kosi’ yatra AugustSeptember for the same purpose. The two events were banned by the Samajwadi Party (SP) government in the state and many senior VHP leaders including Ashok Singhal and Praveen Togadia were arrested. IANS

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TRAFFIC WOES

ONE CAR, ONE FAMILY! Should Hyderabadis limit themselves to the one-family-one-car formula? Well this was the proposal made by the Road Transport Authorities Hyderabad recently in a meeting held at Delhi. Hyderabad Traffic Police consented to the concept and wanted government to put a ceiling on number of vehicles a family can own. ALEENA ALICE aleena.t@postnoon.com

ook at the knots we contrive on the public roads at peak hours. It can hardly be called traffic where everyone is honking and emitting smoke with abandon and blame others for the situation. The fact is our craze for machines is leaving an indelible black smut on the city atmosphere that claims a hefty tax on our health. One way to limit the damage is to bring down unnecessary vehicles bought as a status symbol rather than necessity. At present there are 35 lakh vehicles in the GHMC limits, out of which 60-70 per cent are two wheelers and 10-15 per cent are 4- wheelers. Everyday, at least 600 new vehicles are sold, out of which 10 per cent are 4 wheelers. With companies offering attractive discounts throughout the year and banks offering low interest loans, buying a new car is no

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new vehicles are sold every day out of which 10% are 4wheelers.

longer a rich man’s affair. And, therein lies a problem. “One may argue that a vehicle empowers common man. You can’t argue an ordinary man should not have his own wheels. But excessive motor-consumerism adds to misery: loss of life, injuries to limb, polluting atmosphere more than necessary. The whole idea of RTA is that a family needs a wheel today but not everyone from father to teenager needs a vehicle for his own, which is dangerous and a luxury,” says a official. It is to put a brake on the AROUND THE

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ever-growing traffic and pollution in the City that the RTA and the Hyderabad Traffic Police have come up with the proposal of every family owning only one car. As per the proposal, there should be an increase in the existing road tax and the lifetime tax of the vehicle. And families who own more than one vehicle will have to pay 2 per cent tax more. Confirming this, an official from the Hyderabad RTA told Postnoon, “Everyday more and more vehicles are coming onto the roads. So we have had a discussion with the traffic authorities and are thinking of restricting one car per family. We know there will be a lot of opposition to this proposal, but at the moment this seems to be the only feasible option,” he said. Adding that because of no limit, a car which has the capaci-

ty of 5 passengers is only used by one passenger, he asserted, “Most of the cars on the roads are self driven and used by only one person, Car-pooling is another option. We see many cars with just one person in it. Just imagine the amount of space that can be saved on the already congested roads if such persons choose carpooling or travel by any public transport,” he added. The developed West has disabused themselves of this luxury. There the richest man uses a bicycle. Here people show off for lack of wisdom. Earlier too, such kind of proposals have been made, however with pressure from various departments, these proposals have not been implemented.

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The RTC should come under the government control completely. Be it in profit or loss, the government should take up the management of the RTC. Battery vehicles should be encouraged so that there will also be a check on the pollution level. Tax for battery vehicles should be exempted. The RTC should increase AC buses and the facilities so that more and more public would prefer travelling by public transport rather than private vehicles. CNG vehicles should also be encouraged.

However now that the RTA and the Traffic Police have come up with this proposal, one has to wait and watch as to how long this proposal will be taken to be implemented. Jayaprakash, a nature scientist sums it up succinctly: time

has come for us to take a hard look at our action today that will have an impact on tomorrow. Tomorrow means our kids. Don’t we want to leave a world for them to live? A loving parent will plant a tree for his/her ward, not buy a killer bike or a car.”

WORLD BRIEFS French minister deports 15 year old Roma girl

Three bomb blasts in eastern Myanmar

Opera House at 40 is Australia’s top icon

19-year-old shot by friend in Kamere

Japan rescuers search for typhoon survivors

PARIS: France’s Interior Minister Manuel Valls has defended the treatment of a 15-year-old Roma girl who was detained by police during a school trip and deported to Kosovo. Confronted with an angry backlash from the left of the ruling Socialist party, PM Jean-Marc Ayrault promised the family would be brought back to France.

YANGON: Three bombs exploded in eastern Myanmar leaving one person dead, police said Thursday, the latest in a series of explosions. The region has been shaken in recent years by ﬁghting between the military and ethnic minority rebels. Police said several other people have been questioned in connection with the blasts.

SYDNEY: Sydney’s celebrated Opera House was Thursday declared Australia’s best-known icon ahead of its 40th birthday this weekend, in a report that said it was worth Aus$775 million to the economy every year. The Opera House is more highly esteemed abroad than “brand Australia itself”, accounting ﬁrm Deloitte said in a report.

NOUMEA: One of four people shot and wounded in the French Paciﬁc island territory of New Caledonia this week, allegedly by a friend after a night of drinking, has died of his injuries, prosecutors said Thursday. The 19-year-old had been shot in the head and thigh on Tuesday in Kamere, a popular area in the north of the capital Noumea.

OSHIMA: Rescuers in Japan picked through mud and splintered houses Thursday after a typhoon that killed at least 18 people. Hundreds of police, ﬁreﬁghters and troops searched through the night in an area where buildings were swallowed when a mountainside collapsed. At least 17 people died and 39 were still missing.

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GLOBAL SLAVERY INDEX

India has the most ‘slaves’

The index said that while India by far had the largest number of enslaved people, the problem was most prevalent in the west African nation of Mauritania. ROBIN MILLARD feedback@postnoon.com LONDON: An estimated 30 million people worldwide are living in modern-day slavery, according to the inaugural Global Slavery Index. The index, compiled by the Walk Free Foundation, said that while India by far had the largest number of enslaved people, the problem was most prevalent in the west African nation of Mauritania, where four percent of the population was deemed to be held in slavery. The WFF hopes the annual index will help governments to monitor and tackle what it calls a “hidden crime”. “A lot of governments won’t like hearing what we have to say,” chief executive Nick Grono told AFP. “Those governments that want to engage with us, we will be very open to engaging and looking at ways in which we can better measure the issue of modern slavery.” Established in May last year, the WFF is a 20-strong team based in Perth on the Australian

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west coast, founded by philanthropists Andrew Forrest — the chairman of Fortescue Metals Group — and his wife Nicola.

POLITICS

Served notice for deriding Congress president as ill and dragging Priyanka into the political space

LUCKNOW: Two Congressmen in Allahabad were late Wednesday suspended from the primary membership of the party for seeking Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s candidature from Phoolpur parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh. Shreesh Chandra Dubey and Haseeb Ahmad had put up hoardings in the Civil Lines area of Allahabad saying that since Congress president Sonia Gandhi was unwell and Rahul Gandhi was overburdened, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra should campaign for the party and contest from Phoolpur in Allahabad district of the state, a constituency represented by the late prime minister Jawahar Lal Nehru a long time back. The district Congress committee had served a notice to the leaders Wednesday seeking an explanation on their conduct and “deriding Congress president as ill and dragging Priyanka into the political space”. Congress state spokesman Dwijendra Tripathi told IANS that the two have been

The foundation’s definition of modern slavery includes slavery itself, plus slavery-like practices — such as debt bondage,

forced marriage and the sale or exploitation of children — human trafficking and forced labour.

The foundation has pulled together the best available experts in the field, data from respected outside sources and their own analysis to compile the 162-country index. Mauritania, Haiti, Pakistan top rankings. The countries with the highest prevalence of modern slavery were Mauritania, Haiti, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Moldova, Benin, Ivory Coast, Gambia and Gabon. Moldova — once part of the Soviet Union — was the only European nation in the top 10. In terms of total numbers, the countries with the most people in modern slavery were estimated to be India (13.95 million), followed by China (2.95 million) and Pakistan (2.1 million). The report estimated that 72 per cent of people in modern slavery live in Asia. In India, “by far the largest proportion of this problem is the exploitation of Indian citizens within India itself, particularly through debt bondage and bonded labour”, the report said.

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CBI recovers `25 Cr from Hindalco NEW DELHI: The CBI has recovered `25 crore in cash from Aditya Birla group company’s Hindalco office in Delhi as part of its investigations in the coal block allocation controversy, an official said Wednesday. AROUND THE

asked to file a response within a week on why they should not be expelled for anti-party activities. The Congress party may also be contemplating legal action against them, sources said. Meanwhile, reacting to his suspension, district secretary Haseeb Ahmad said he will not be cowed down by such actions. “I only said through the hoardings what is the public sentiment, and that of the grassroot Congress worker. I will continue to echo it till I am alive,” he said. A combative Ahmad also threatened to go on a hunger strike outside the Anand Bhawan - the ancestral house of the Nehru’s or the 10, Janpath, the residence of Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi till his demand of fielding Priyanka was not met. IANS

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The money was recovered during searches carried out Tuesday after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered a case against industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and former coal secretary P.C. Parakh on charges of criminal conspiracy and misuse of official position over alleged irregularities in the allocation of coal blocks. The CBI had booked Birla as a representative of Aditya Birla Group and his group company Hindalco. IANS

News THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2013 NUCLEAR ISSUE

Iran, world pledge new talks JONATHAN FOWLER & MOHAMMAD DAVARI feedback@postnoon.com GENEVA: Both Washington and Tehran were upbeat after Iran agreed to hold fresh nuclear talks with world powers next month and made a “breakthrough” proposal to allow spot checks on its nuclear sites. After the talks deal Wednesday, Iran said it was hopeful for a “new phase in our relations” with the international community. The White House said Iran had shown a greater level of “seriousness and substance” than ever before at the two days of talks in Geneva. AROUND THE

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Germany was also positive, saying the latest talks had boosted hopes for a diplomatic solution but a wary Russia warned there was “no reason to break into applause”. European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton told reporters the next meeting would convene in Geneva on November 7 and 8. She read from what she underlined was an unprecedented joint statement agreed with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and herself as chair of the international negotiating team.

THE SNOWDEN FILES

CLIMATE CHANGE

NSA involved in drone strikes NSA cyber spying helped pinpoint a senior Al-Qaeda figure, Hassan Ghul, who was killed in a drone strike in Pakistan in 2012, the Washington Post wrote. WASHINGTON: The National Security Agency is deeply involved in US drone strikes against Al-Qaeda militants, using electronic surveillance tools to track down terror suspects, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. The report was based on documents provided by Edward Snowden, the US intelligence contractor turned leaker who has exposed the massive scale of the NSA’s eavesdropping efforts. NSA cyber spying helped pinpoint a senior Al-Qaeda figure, Hassan Ghul, who was killed in a drone strike in Pakistan’s tribal belt in 2012, the Post wrote. The operation was made possible in part by an email from Ghul’s wife that was scooped up by the National Security Agency’s vast surveillance dragnet, it said. The US has never publicly confirmed that it took out Ghul. But documents passed to the Post by Snowden made clear he was killed by the US government last year. Ghul was captured in 2004 and under questioning helped reveal Osama bin Laden’s courier network — information that

Man bids to be first eco-refugee WELLINGTON: A Pacific islander is attempting to become the world’s first climate change refugee in New Zealand as rising seas threaten his low-lying homeland, the man’s lawyer said. Ioane Teitiota, 37, launched an appeal this week against a decision by New Zealand immigration authorities to refuse him refugee status and deport him to Kiribati in the central Pacific, lawyer Michael Kitt said. Kitt acknowledged Teitiota’s New Zealand visa had expired but said he should not face deportation because of the difficulties he would encounter in Kiribati AROUND THE

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eventually led to the US commando raid that killed the AlQaeda mastermind. Ghul spent two years at a secret CIA prison and in 2006, the United States transferred him back to his native Pakistan, where he was released and returned to Al-Qaeda. To help the CIA locate Ghul and other terror suspects, the NSA placed “a surveillance blanket over dozens of square miles of northwest Pakistan” to uncover communications and whereabouts of Al-Qaeda militants.

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The operation was made possible in part by an email from Ghul’s wife that was scooped up by the National Security Agency’s vast surveillance dragnet.

— which consists of more than 30 atolls, only a few metres above sea level. He said rising seas had already swamped parts of Kiribati, destroying crops and contaminating water supplies. “Fresh water is a basic human right... the Kiribati government is unable to guarantee these things because it’s completely beyond their control,” Kitt told Radio New Zealand. He said Teitiota’s case had the potential to set an international precedent, not only for Kiribati’s 100,000 residents but for all populations threatened by man-made climate change.

LAOS AIRLINES CRASH

Search on for bodies in Laos crash Seven French citizens, six Australians and five Thais were among the 44 thought to have been killed when the turboprop ATR-72 came down on Wednesday near Pakse airport in Champasak province. BANGKOK: Rescuers searched for bodies Thursday after a Lao Airlines plane carrying dozens of people, about half of them foreigners, crashed in the Mekong River with everybody on board believed dead. Seven French citizens, six Australians and five Thais were among those thought to have been killed when the turboprop ATR-72 came down on Wednesday near Pakse airport in Champasak province. “The search and rescue is still going on in Pakse,” Thai foreign ministry spokesman Sek

Wannamethee told AFP. Citizens from some 10 countries were reported to have been on the flight from the capital Vientiane. The state-run Laos news agency KPL said all 47 passenAROUND THE

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gers were believed to have perished. “The plane was about to land but appeared to be hit by a strong wind, causing its head to

ascend and pushing it away from the airport area and out of reach of the air traffic control radar,” it quoted a witness as saying. State-owned Lao Airlines said the aircraft hit “extreme” bad weather and had crashed into the Mekong with “no news of survivors at this time”. It gave a different figure of 44 passengers and five crew and did not confirm the number of deaths. France said it was rushing officials to the site of the crash in Pakse, which is a hub for tourists travelling to more remote areas in southern Laos.

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CONSERVATION

Dutch fishermen’s initiative offers eels fresh lease of life As young “glass eels”, they enter freshwater systems which they use as nurseries to grow and mature, before heading back to sea. In the low-lying Netherlands, reclaimed land called polders, surrounded by myriad small canals and ditches, form the ideal eel habitat. Getting in and out of this “polder paradise” however presents the greatest obstacle to the eel, as water levels differ on both sides of the dikes. “Because we have to constantly pump water across the dikes to the sea to stay dry, thousands of eels try to swim through the pumping stations and inevitably get caught in the blades,” Van der Waal said.

Over the last three decades, European eel numbers have been devastated, falling by as much as 99 per cent in some areas. Pump houses, sluice gates or hydel projects often prove fatal to migrating eels.

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JAN HENNOP Agence France Presse NIEUWENDIJK: On an autumn morning on a small Dutch canal, fisherman Aart van der Waal pulls up a fish trap stuffed with squirming eels, not for the pot, but as part of a bold initiative to save the critically endangered species. Weighed and recorded, the serpentine swimmers are then carried several hundred metres across a dike in a plastic bucket, before being released back into the water on the other side with an unceremonious splash. Once in the Haringvliet, a

North Sea estuary some 15 kilometres downstream, the rescued eels will complete their final freshwater swim, before tackling an arduous 7,000-kilometre journey to spawning grounds in the central Atlantic Ocean. Twice a week, Van der Waal sets out on his flat-bottomed boat to pull up the traps as part of an ambitious plan to help save Europe’s decimated eel population, an indicator species for the health of the continent’s estuaries and seas. As part of “Eels Over The Dikes”, some 50 volunteers consisting of professional and recre-

ational fishers backed by funds from a fishing-industry foundation, the Dutch government and the European Union, lend a hand to help these mysterious creatures get back to the sea. Over the last three decades, European eel numbers have been devastated, falling by as much as 99 percent in some areas, according to EU figures. One of the main reasons is that eels, which migrate from sea to fresh water and back, often find their paths blocked or are killed or injured when they swim through pump houses, sluice gates or hydro-engineering projects. Poaching and over-fishing, pollution and climate change also play a role in the decline of the eel population, which “European member states are doing too little to save,” European MPs said last month. Young transparent eels are known as “glass eels” and they have become particularly prized in Asia over the last 15 years, mainly to be fattened in farms, as a result of which the price of glass eels in the mid-2000s exceeded that of caviar. The European eel (Anguilla anguilla) is now listed as critical-

The pilot project to help eels navigate man-made barriers was a success, with some 4,600 eels safely transported across dikes at 11 points.

ly endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on its Red List of Threatened Species. Eels are complex migratory animals, believed to hatch in the Sargasso Sea, before drifting back to continental shores on the currents. Eels can live for more than 80 years, during which they swim many thousands of miles.

Last year, the Sustainable Eel Fund Netherlands foundation (DUPAN) funded a pilot project to see whether it would be possible to catch the eels before they are sliced to pieces and carry them safely across the dikes. The pilot project was a success, with some 4,600 eels safely transported across dikes at 11 pumping stations. In April, May and June this year, the foundation’s helpers released more than a million baby eels in lakes and canals across the country to restock their numbers. Wednesday marked the official start of the “Eels Across The Dikes” project, backed with around 230,000 euros ($310,000) in funds from the Dutch government and European Union. It will run around the country until December in 23 spots. “The Dutch have been fighting against the water since the 13th century,” said Alex Koelewijn, DUPAN’s chairman. “When we built coastal fortifications against the water we never took into account that there are fish that migrate from salt to fresh water or the other way around. “The only and simple solution is to help the migrating eels across the dikes,” he told AFP. London-based Sustainable Eel Group chairman Andrew Kerr said eels are seen across the continent as “a very important indicator species.” “If eels suffer, it means that we’re getting it wrong in terms of how we manage our wetlands and our oceans,” he expressed.

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PAINT IT BLACK

Anarchy in Brazil wears black Experts find it hard to build a clear profile of the anarchist group, Black Bloc, which began attracting notice during June’s street protests against substandard public services, corruption and the cost of the 2014 World Cup.

CLAIRE DE OLIVEIRA NETO feedback@postnoon.com RIO DE JANEIRO: Wearing black clothing, scarves and ski masks, so-called “Black Bloc” anarchists have taken a starring role in Brazil’s social unrest, using violent tactics to target symbols of capitalism. But experts find it hard to build a clear profile of the group, which began attracting notice during June’s street protests against substandard public services, corruption and the cost of the 2014 World Cup. With the social turmoil growing more sporadic, Black Bloc tactics have inspired more violent actions, mainly in Rio and Sao Paulo. Black-clad anarchists infiltrate protest demonstrations to carry out acts of vandalism against capitalist symbols such as McDonald’s restaurants or banks. On Tuesday, they fought police in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo at the close of a

march by striking teachers, hurling firebombs and tearing metal shutters from buildings to use as shields against police who responded with tear gas and pepper spray. Demonstrators also set fire to a police car and ransacked a bank branch. A 18-year-old youth was hospitalized with gunshot wounds but was reported to be in stable condition after surgery. The Black Bloc tactic of using black clothing to conceal protesters’ identities and hinder criminal prosecution first appeared in the 1980s in the European autonomist movement’s protests against squatter evictions, nuclear power and restrictions on abortion. But they gained notoriety during the anti-globalization protests that marred the World Trade Organization conference in Seattle in 1999. “We don’t speak to reporters” In Brazil, they keep a low profile. The Rio branch of Black Bloc turned down an AFP request for an interview, saying: “It is

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difficult to contact us by telephone because we are wiretapped. We prefer to communicate via Facebook.” “We don’t speak to reporters,” the group’s national office said. The elusive group is an enigma for experts. “It is difficult to know who they are. There is no clear hierarchy. The movement is very horizontal, very young,” said Luiz Antonio Machado, a sociologist at the Rio Institute of Social and Political Studies (IESP). “This movement grew out of the general discontent with the poor functioning of institutions. It is not revolutionary but is likely to become more radical due to the absence of dialogue.” Machado believes the establishment media are using the actions of Black Bloc and other rioters to discredit the protest demonstrations, which leads to police repression. According to Alba Zaluar, who studies violence at the University of Rio, the

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group “throws away all that our democracy built” after the (1964-1985) military dictatorship. “This leads to lower attendance at demonstrations. People are not trying to get rid of the state, they just want to improve health, education, transport,” she added. Meanwhile, sociologist Jose Augusto Rodrigues insisted that “not all acts of vandalism should be blamed on the Black Bloc” but he noted that the group’s tactic “was not a success.” “In June, there were huge crowds in the streets but since they infiltrated the demonstrations, people are staying away,” he added. Rodrigues said it was difficult to predict the anarchists’ future impact on the country’s political scene, noting that this will depend on how the state and its police react. But the Black Bloc has vowed to step up their violent protests during the World Cup, which will kick off next June.

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MAILING HAPPINESS

The Serbian postman who went that extra mile

Filipovic covers a dozen mountain villages scattered along the border with Kosovo, travelling along dirt roads from his post office in the small town of Kursumlijska Banja.

KURSUMLIJSKA BANJA: When Filip Filipovic was named postman for a cluster of isolated villages deep in the mountains of southern Serbia, he soon knew his job would not stop at delivering the mail. “I simply knew I could not look away and turn a blind eye to reality, to the living conditions of these children who have nothing, and lonely and abandoned elderly people,” said the 30-yearold, recalling his first tour of the remote area. Filipovic covers a dozen mountain villages scattered along the border with Kosovo, travelling along dirt roads from his post office in the small town of Kursumlijska Banja. “When I saw children having to walk to school 10, 15 kilometres (6-9 miles) every day, who live without water and electricity, often in a single room with their parents, I decided to do something to help,” he told AFP. Kursumlijska Banja, some 300 kilometres (180 miiles) south of the capital Belgrade, hosts one of Serbia’s oldest spas, which has been closed and in ruins since 2007, sign of the economic hardship blighting the country. Filipovic was 28 when he first made the journey from his hometown Kursumlija to Kursumlijska Banja, a dozen kilometres along a narrow road lined with rows of pine trees and empty houses, some collapsed, abandoned cafes and restaurants. “I told myself I had to do something. A few kilometres

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For two years he has financed, organised and helped with the renovation of the local school’s only classroom that provides education for six boys aged 7 to 11.

from 21st century civilisation, we have people forgotten in the 19th century,” Filip said. He started by renovating the post office, in a shabby building which also hosts the local primary school, using his own money to repaint the premises. At the same time, chipping away at his salary of barely 300 euros ($) per month, he was bringing chocolates and sweets to children in remote villages, for whom such luxury was unheard of.

‘OUR GUARDIAN ANGEL’

At 6:30 am in Kursumlija, it is a morning like any other. With a list in hand, Filipovic

tours shops to buy a range of items from bread to newspapers or cleaning products, before swinging by the office for his post bag and hitting the road. “There are no more shops in the home villages of the people I help, so I do the shopping for them,” explained the self-effacing young man, with light brown hair and bright eyes. “Filip is our guardian angel,” said Marika Pavic, a grateful 70year-old woman whom Filipovic visits daily. Around midday he knocked at the door of the Dragicevic family in a remote house on a meadow, surrounded by dense

forest. That day, he picked up their boys Milomir, 7, and Radomir, 9, and drove them on to school so they would not have to walk the eight-kilometre journey. “At the Dragicevic’s, we have started to build a bathroom as they don’t have one. I hope it will be done by the end of the year,” Filipovic said. “Without Filip, we could never afford to provide our children with everything they have. What he is doing is very rare and precious,” whispered Milena, the boys’ 28-year-old mother. The postman did not stop there.

For two years he has financed, organised and helped with the renovation of the local school’s only classroom that provides education for six boys aged 7 to 11. Last year, the six left home for the first time in their lives for a one-day excursion, organised by their postman to a town in central Serbia. He bought the boys schoolbags, notebooks and pencils, and also provided six computers. Filipovic rebuilt the school’s toilets in the yard. This summer, during his vacation, he built a playground for his young proteges. “When I saw the swings I told him ‘You are the best, better than Santa Claus’,” said smiling Aleksandar, an eight-year-old boy surrounded by his classmates. “Two swings and a slide. For children from the town it’s certainly no big deal, but to them it changed their whole universe,” smiled the postman.

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TOKYO STOCKS UP BY BREAK ON US DEAL

Tokyo stocks rose 1.17 per cent Thursday morning as investors cheered a last-minute deal to reopen the US government and avoid a catastrophic debt default.

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Debt crisis averted, now let the battles begin Republican and Democratic senators announced a plan that would stave off the most pressing crisis by extending the US Treasury’s borrowing authority until February 7. MICHAEL MATHES feedback@postnoon.com WASHINGTON: Pulling America’s economy back from the edge of an abyss, the Senate approved a measure Wednesday that should end the US government shutdown and averts a potentially catastrophic default. The last-gasp bill, which passed 81-18 with broad bipartisan support, now heads to the House of Representatives, less than four hours before a midnight deadline. Republican and Democratic senators announced a plan that would stave off the most pressing crisis by extending the US Treasury’s borrowing authority until February 7. After several chaotic days running up to Thursday’s deadline, the agreement would also re-open shuttered federal agencies, bringing hundreds of thousands of furloughed employees back to work, by funding government through January 15. Even before the bruising and acrimonious battle was to reach its finish with the House vote, President Barack Obama sought to heal the wounds caused by the showdown. But he also warned that Washington must stop governing by crisis. Obama said US leaders needed to “earn back” the trust of the American people in the aftermath of the crisis, in a short statement after the Senate vote. “Once this agreement arrives on my desk, I will sign it

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook began letting teenagers publicly share posts Wednesday as the social network moved to bolster appeal to youth and advertisers. “Teens are among the savviest people using social media, and whether it comes to civic engagement, activism or their thoughts on a new movie, they want to be heard,” Facebook said in a blog post. “So, starting today, people aged 13 through 17 will also have the choice to post publicly on Facebook.” Previously, teenagers could share comments, pictures or other digital posts no further than with friends of friends on the social network.

NUMEROLOGY

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is the amount Wal-Mart is investing in Brazil. Wal-Mart said it would shut some small and medium-sized stores while opening 22 new ones and revamping 40 others.

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Senate Democratic Whip Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) (L) and Senate Majority Leader Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) listen to questions during a press conference after a vote on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. AFP/BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI

immediately,” he said. “We’ll begin reopening our government immediately, and we can begin to lift this cloud of uncertainty and unease from our businesses and from the American people.” With a bitterly divided Congress locked in stalemate for a month, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid worked behind closed doors with his Republican rival Senator Mitch McConnell to craft the compromise that had eluded Washington. “The bipartisan senate rose

to the occasion and broke this deadlock,” number two Senate Democrat Dick Durbin said. While the deal was welcomed on Wall Street, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the broader S&P 500 index up almost 1.4 percent, the signs of a close-to-humiliating, lastminute bid to avert possible economic turmoil around the world were plain to see. “I hope that we’re nearing the end of this ordeal, this impasse which never should have happened in the first place,” said Senator Susan

Collins, a Republican who has led efforts to broker a compromise. After the agreement was unveiled, House speaker John Boehner bowed to the inevitable and admitted there were “no reasons for our members to vote no today,” while maintaining that Republicans didn’t like the terms. After approval by the Senate, the measure passed the House of Representatives with broad bipartisan support. The measure now goes to President Barack Obama for his signature.

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HIGH-FLYING THOUGHTS The Haryana government on Thursday gave its nod to the state authorities to file another chargesheet against senior IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who had blown the lid off the land deals done by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra in the state. Cronyism of the first order, eh?

AFTER THE SHUTDOWN

No matter what happens, the US economy has been hurt PAUL HANDLEY feedback@postnoon.com

he US economy and consumer confidence have taken significant hits from a two week federal government shutdown, economists say, and a major dent to already sluggish American growth is expected. Even as stock markets rebounded with gusto Wednesday, analysts said there was clear evidence of damage, and warned that a revival of political battles in January could inflict more pain. The credit rating agencies Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s estimated that the partial closure of the government from October 1 would slice 0.5-0.6 percentage points from annualized growth in the fourth quarter. S&P said the shutdown took $24 billion from the economy, as hundreds of thousands of government workers stayed at home unsure of getting paid, government contracts were delayed and national parks that drive crucial tourist industries were closed. Because of that, several economists cut their forecasts for fourth quarter growth to around two per cent, barely enough to generate the jobs needed to pull down unemployment. Many said they expected the Federal Reserve would see the

need to keep its stimulus in place through the end of the year, if not longer, to mitigate the drag from the crisis. “The bottom line is the government shutdown has hurt the US economy,” S&P said. Jim O’Sullivan of High Frequency Economics, added: “Even without an extreme outcome being realized, some damage has been done.” Democrats and Republicans in Congress were expected to

pass legislation late Wednesday to end the impasse by funding the government for the first part of fiscal 2014, which began on October 1, and increasing the debt ceiling. The eleventh hour deal soothed worries that the Treasury could be forced to default on payments, including the debt, in the coming days. Furloughed government workers are expected back at work on Thursday, and will col-

lect back pay for the time spent laid off. The deal sparked a strong rally on Wall Street Wednesday, with gains of nearly 1.4 percent. The markets were helped by stillbuoyant profits in corporate America, with the results from the first releases of the thirdquarter reporting season beating forecasts on average. That left the S&P 500 index less than 1 percent shy of its peak, struck in mid-September.

Even so, the shutdown exacerbated what already appeared to be a weak spot in the economy, with higher interest rates from the Fed’s expected tightening of its stimulus beginning to slow activity in sectors such as real estate. The Fed saw vulnerability when in September it decided not to begin reducing its $85 billion a month in bond purchases, though it also cited the dangers of the looming shutdown and debt ceiling fight. Confidence still a question But just how the economy performed last month remains unclear, because publication of key government data, especially the job creation and unemployment report for September, were canceled. The Fed’s Beige Book survey of regional economic activity, released Wednesday, showed slowing in some areas since the September 4 report. In addition, it noted “an increase in uncertainty” due mainly to the shutdown and fears over the frozen debt ceiling. S&P said: “If people are afraid that the government policy brinkmanship will resurface again, and with it the risk of another shutdown or worse, they’ll remain afraid to open up their checkbooks. That points to another Humbug holiday season.”

EDITORIAL Stand up for your rights

here is something fundamentally wrong with our country’s outlook. India still goes around as if it was a major global power and yet it hardly take a firm stance to justify its own beliief. The latest is an American ship that floated around Indian waters with weapons in it. Our three major wings of Defence are armed to the teeth and have the extra edge of nuclear nubs, and yet the pusillanimity of the country in defending its land and waters is puzzling. Nobody suggests India should

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flex its muscles at neighbours but the troublesome neighbours like Pakistan, China have no right to poke at the ribs

of India for no valid reasons. The county has shown no determination when dealing with the debilitating forces from across the borders. Any country that has no self respect will be trampled upon. There is hardly any point in making a show of bonhomie with Pakistan which is a failed and miserable nation now adrift across the sea like a deadlong. It would be prudent for India to totally block the borders and allow no communications with the country as it is in the firm hands of Islamic terror

outfits. The facade of democracy it shows is only to hoodwink international community and beg for aids which it desperately needs. Same is the situation across Sino-Indian borders. China has, at no point of history, proved trustworthy to any. Japan knows it much better. Now since India and China are nuclear powers, it is time India told China in no uncertain terms that its mischiefs are not going to bring rewards. But this is all possible if a strong government is at the Centre.

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The Americans

ownton Abbey is a British period drama television series created by Julian Fellowes. The series, set in the Yorkshire country estate of Downton Abbey, depicts the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the postEdwardian era — with the great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy. Downton Abbey has won numerous accolades.

ipper Street is a BBC TV series set in Whitechapel in London’s East End in 1889, six months after the infamous Jack the Ripper murders. The series stars Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn and Adam Rothenberg. Sam Wollaston of The Guardian wrote: “It would be easy to be negative about Ripper Street, but [the] script is real, alive and human. It’s beautifully performed, and beautiful to look at.”

oardwalk Empire is an American period drama series from HBO, set in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition era. Primetime Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and producer Terence Winter adapted the show from Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City, a book by Nelson Johnson about historical criminal kingpin Enoch L Johnson.

The Borgias

he Borgias is a historical-fiction drama television series, created by Neil Jordan; it debuted in 2011 and ended in 2013. The series is set around the turn of the 16th century, and follows the Borgia family, an Italian dynasty of Spanish origin. It stars Jeremy Irons as Pope Alexander VI with François Arnaud as Cesare, Holliday Grainger as Lucrezia, David Oakes as Juan, and Aidan Alexander as Gioffre Borgia.

BLAST from the

PAST

he Americans is an American television drama series created and produced by former CIA officer Joe Weisberg. The series premiered on FX. Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington DC and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI CounterIntelligence agent.

This Friday, TV’s latest period drama hits screens. Reign, which follows series the early years of Mary, Queen of Scots and is set in 1557 France is just the latest in a slew of acclaimed shows. Here’s a taster of the best of the best.

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will host the Golden Globes again. The duo will reunite to host the 2014 and 2015 ceremonies, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and broadcaster NBC announced on Tuesday (October 15). “Tina and Amy are two of the most talented comedic writer/performers in our business and they were a major reason the Golden Globes was the most entertaining awards show of last season,” said NBC president of alternative programming Paul Telegdy.

DID YOU KNOW

Mark

Wahlberg has revealed that ‘greed’ is delaying the production of the Entourage movie. The actor, a producer of the HBO series, appeared to confirm reports that the TV show’s stars’ contract issues are holding up the film. Asked by TMZ when the movie was releasing, Wahlberg replied: “As soon as them guys stop being so greedy.

TRENDING...

Mad Men

ad Men is an American television period drama series. The series premiered on the American cable network AMC. Mad Men is set in the 1960s, initially at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue in New York City, and later at the newly created firm, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce (later Sterling Cooper & Partners). The plot focuses on the business of the agencies as well as the personal lives of the characters, regularly depicting the changing moods and social mores of the United States in the 1960s. Mad Men has received widespread critical acclaim, particularly for its historical authenticity, visual style, costume design, acting, writing, and directing, and has won many awards.

Anthony Hopkins has sent fanmail to Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston. The legendary actor wanted to share his admiration for the star’s thespian skills and reached out to him through their mutual representatives in Hollywood. Hopkins gushed about how he couldn’t tear himself away from watching the show.

Dark Horse Comics has announced the return of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel & Faith. The two new series were unveiled at New York Comic Con. Angel & Faith Season 9 creators Christos Gage and Rebekah Issacs will reunite to take the reins on the main Buffy series.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2013

spotlight

SHOW THE TALENT

I Livewire, which will work towards bringing hidden latent of college graduates to the forefront, was launched with much fanfare in the City.

ALL FOR FUN Party peeps turned up in their chic best at Kismet for a night of fun. They were seen dancing till the wee hours in the morning.

DRAPES OF WONDER

Shrujan -Threads of Life, a non-profit organisation from Kutch, Gujarat organised an exhibition at Veeves boutique, Banjara Hills. Tollywood actress Tanusha inaugurated the show.

A GRAND GATHERING

Felicitation ceremony of L&T ECC Infra and Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited held at Taj Banjara was a well-attended affair.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2013

health ALLERGY WOES

Self-medication for allergy can be dangerous Each individual on earth is allergic to something and it should not be ignored, but one should not do selfmedication as the problem could further aggravate, experts said.

“A

llergy, if categorised, can be of more than hundred types and every one of them need separate medication to be cured,” Vanden Boobna, consultant internal medicine at Max Super Speciality Hospital in Shalimar Bagh said. “Allergy at the initial stages can be treated, but when it reaches the extreme end stage, it can be immensely perilous,” she added. Boobna said that she has come across many who in an attempt to treat their allergyrelated ailments on their own have ended up making it more severe. “One should not try to treat skin allergies on their own. I have seen many cases in which people have self-medicated themselves and then have to undergo major treatment and even drastic surgeries,” Boobna said. As the Oct 16 is observed as World Allergy Awareness Day, experts said the first thing any-

one should do when they suffer from any allergic problem is to find the trigger point, and then to visit the expert and get proper treatment. An allergy is a hypersensitivity disorder of the immune system. Allergic reactions can happen when a person's immune system reacts to normally harmless substances in the environment. Allergies can play a major role in conditions such as asthma. It can be caused by anything such as egg, unhygienic places, milk, cold, rain and even dust. Anurag Mahajan, a consultant in internal medicine at Pushpawati Singhania Research Institute at Sheikh Sarai, said that many patients without doctors’ prescription take anti-allergic tablets such as cetrizine, avil etc to get rid of it. “This may even aggravate their problems. Moreover, if they do not know what is the dose they have to take, they could face side-effects (of the medication) like dizziness, excess sleepiness and laziness,” added Mahajan.

The aim is to kill the disease and not to escalate it, he added. Mahajan said that not in all cases they suggest patients to undergo anti-allergy test. “It is easy to treat allergy at the initial stages. If they come to us on time, we can treat it with steroids and the anti allergy treatments. “But once the patients start self-medication, the problem becomes complicated as many a times the allergy gets worse and requires advance treatment, last-

ing months or in some cases years,” Mahajan said. Vishal Singh, a dermatologist at Apollo, said that around 45 percent of people in the world suffer from Rihinitis Medica Menntosa — a problem caused due to excess usage of anti allergic tablets. He said in India, however, it is less severe as compared to the west, but it is fast catching up. “Once the allergic patients start self-medication without proper knowledge, the

medicines instead of curing starts showing reverse reactions and even in some cases it could lead to death specially in bronchitis and respiratory allergy, which is very common among Indians,” Singh said. “It is always advisable to patients that they should find out the trigger factor and consult the doctor rather than getting into self-medication, which of course will deteriorate it rather than curing,” Singh added. IANS

NEW FINDING

Air pollution during pregnancy can retard baby's growth

regnant women exposed to even low levels of air pollution during pregnancy face an increased risk of lower birthweight babies, a study suggests. The research report that was published in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine Journal finds that the exposure to common air pollutants and traffic during pregnancy significantly increases the risk of restricted foetal growth and have a higher

risk of health problems and death of babies. The study was done in 12 European countries involving over 74,000 women. The researchers found that for every increase of five micrograms per cubic metre in exposure to fine particulate matter discharged by cars and industrial houses during a woman's pregnancy, the risk of low birthweight rises by 18 percent.

According to the study, all air pollutants, particularly fine particulate matter and traffic fumes increased the risk of term low birth-weight and reduced average head circumference at birth, after accounting for other factors like maternal smoking, age, weight, and education. “Our findings suggest that a substantial proportion of cases of low birth-weight at term could be prevented in Europe if urban air

pollution, particularly fine particulate matter, was reduced”, lead author of the study Marie Pedersen said. “The widespread exposure of pregnant women worldwide to urban ambient air pollution at similar or even higher concentrations than those assessed in our study provides a clear message to policy-makers to improve the quality of the air we all share,” Pedersen added. IANS

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2013

Technology APPLE 3.0

Apple’s new hires boost fashion credentials While the tech and fashion industries seem miles apart on the surface, it is not surprising to some analysts to see Apple burnishing its credentials with the kind of brand-building used by luxury goods makers.

BRAZIL MAY GO RUSSIAN

BRASILIA: Brazil said it hopes

to develop state-of-the-art combat aircraft with Russia, and purchase surface-to-air missile batteries from Moscow. Brasilia is already in talks with other countries to modernise its air force by purchasing 36 fighter jets valued at up to $5 billion. US firm Boeing’s F/A-18 Super Hornet is competing against the Rafale made by Dassault and Saab’s Gripen NG for the fourth-generation aircraft contract. “We are very interested in discussing projects relating to fifth generation aircraft with new partners,” Defense Minister Celso Amorim told reporters after talks with his Russian counterpart.

TEST FOR LUNG CANCER

WASHINGTON: An experi-

mental blood test has shown promise toward detecting early lung cancer and may offer a more accurate tool than scans and invasive biopsies, researchers said. Only about one in ﬁve patients who undergo surgery or a biopsy for a small lung mass found during a CT scan actually have cancer, and experts say there is a great need for better technology. Lung cancer is the world’s most common and deadliest cancer, killing about 1.3 million people each year.

MICROCHIPS FOR RHINO SOPHIE ESTIENNE feedback@postnoon.com NEW YORK: Fashion and technology may not be so different after all, if one looks at the hiring strategy from iPhone maker Apple. In its latest move, the California tech giant hired Burberry’s top executive Angela Ahrendts on Tuesday to become head of retail. The appointment comes just months after Paul Deneve returned to the US gadgetmaker after the Belgian national had stints with fashion houses Courreges, Nina Ricci, Lanvin and Yves Saint-Laurent. While the tech and fashion industries seem miles apart on the surface, it is not surprising to some analysts to see Apple burnishing its credentials with the kind of brand-building used by luxury goods makers.

“Apple has always been a design house,” said Jack Gold, president and analyst with J. Gold Associations. “They’ve always excelled at that. They’ve always had the best design in the marketplace. Not always the best technology, but the best design.” Gold told AFP that the fashion industry lives on “a lot of show, impressions, name, branding” and “that’s what Apple continues to excel at in the marketplace better than anyone.” Trip Chowdhry at Global Equities Research said that hiring people from the luxury goods industry was a way for Apple to spark more demand. “These people make sure that every consumer that buys an Apple product feels like he got the best product in the world, that every consumer

feels special,” Chowdhry said. Ahrendts may give Apple the star power it has lacked since co-founder Steve Jobs died two years ago, and help counter the impression that the company is losing its edge. Jobs had been the showman for the company showman, with a flair for product launches like the iPhone and iPad. But he also broke new ground earlier in Apple’s history with products like the Macintosh computer. Since Ahrendts became Burberry chief in mid-2006, the British group has doubled revenues and more than tripled its share price. Ahrendts was last year by far the highest-paid chief executive among the FTSE’s 100 top companies last year, with a package totaling $27 million, according to a survey by pay

consultancy MM&K. “She’s a star, she has great vision and her underlying philosophy is the same as that of Steve Jobs,” said Robin Lewis, who publishes the retail strategy newsletter The Robin Report. “Apple created one of the most exciting experience in retail... However, it’s getting redundant.” Lewis said Ahrendts has the qualities to be CEO at Apple, a goal she surely has in mind. Ahrendts has had abundant praise for Apple, telling The Wall Street Journal in 2010, “If I look at any company as a model, it’s Apple.” Gold said Apple’s moves may be “an indicator of the kind of partnerships they might be looking for in the future, less technology oriented partnerships and more fashion oriented partnerships.”

NAIROBI: Kenya will place microchips in the horn of every rhino in the country in a bid to stamp out a surge in poaching the threatened animals, wildlife ofﬁcials said Wednesday. “Poachers are getting more sophisticated in their approach,” Paul Udoto, spokesman for the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), told AFP. “So it is vital that conservation efforts also follow and embrace the use of more sophisticated technology to counter the killing of wildlife.” Kenya has just over 1,000 rhino, and the tiny chips will be inserted and hidden in the horn, which is made of keratin, the same material as hardened hair.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2013

Entertainment QUALITY MATTERS

CINE BYTES

‘Doosukeltha will outshine Dhee’

fter watching forthcoming Telugu action-comedy Doosukeltha at a private screening, director Srinu Vaitla is so impressed with lead actor Vishnu Manchu's work that he predicts it will outshine the success of Dhee. "The ﬁrst half of the ﬁlm is gripping, while the second half is even more absorbing," Srinu Vaitla said in a statement. IANS

ctress Shruti Haasan, who featured in a cameo in recently released Telugu action-drama Ramayya Vasthavayya, says she doesn't give importance to the length of a character but its impact. "I knew my character was very important in the film. What matters to me is the impact of a character, but not its length. This is why I agreed to do the role," Shruti said. She was speaking at the success meet of Ramayya Vasthavayya, which released Friday worldwide, and has reportedly raked in over `20 crore in its opening weekend. Shruti was paired with Junior NTR in the film, which also featured Samantha Ruth Prabhu in the lead. Directed by Harish Shankar, the film was reportedly made on a budget of `35 crore. Producer Dil Raju is extremely happy with the response to the film. "We have already collected `20 crore in the first three days. I'm sure I will be able to break even by next weekend. I'm extremely happy as a producer as well as distributor," Raju said. IANS

Impact of character important, not length:

SHRUTI HAASAN

Swamy Ra Ra to be remade in Tamil

rime comedy Swamy Ra Ra, which was one of the few Telugu films of the recent past to enjoy a 100day run at the box-office, will soon be remade in Tamil and Malayalam. Tamil actor Srikanth has bought the remake rights of the film. IANS

Thanga Meengal chosen for IFFI, director elated

he critically acclaimed Tamil drama Thanga Meengal will be showcased in the Panorama section of the 44th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) next month. Director Ramsubramaniam considers it a privilege. Thanga Meengal is one among the other 25 feature ﬁlms that have been selected for IFFI, which will be held in Goa Nov 20-30. IANS

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2013

fashion

CAUGHT BY BOSS SANS MAKEUP

THE SURVEY conducted by British wet wipe brand Halo shows that out of 2,000 British women, who participated in the study, more than one in five feared being seen by their boss without being fully made up more than by their partner, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

Forty first edition of MODALisboa was a celebration of Portuguese style and a peak into the fashion trends that will hit the streets in the coming year. Eighteen established Portuguese designers showcased their collections during the show.

PALTROW, KORS, CREATE CHRISTMAS LINE TOGETHER

FASHION DESIGNER Michael Kors and actress Gwyneth Paltrow have teamed up to create a limited Christmas collection that will be featured on the latter's website â&#x20AC;&#x201D; goop.com.. It will be inspired by her own wardrobe and favourite pieces from Kor's collections.

DARK ALLURE

22&23

Entertainment THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2013

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2013

Chai Time

THOUGHT OF THE DAY

“Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it.” - Stephen Colbert

KAKURO

QUICK CROSSWORD

SUDOKU How to play kakuro Kakuro is a popular game similar to sudoku in some ways. But is also suitably different. The key question: ‘How do you play kakuro?’, well here are the rules of kakuro. The answer: The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku, can be of any size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells like in a crossword. And, just like in a crossword, some of the dark cells will contain numbers. Some cells will contain two numbers. However, in a crossword the numbers reference clues. In a kakuro, the numbers are all you get! They denote the total of the digits in the row or column referenced by the number. Within each collection of cells — called a run — any of the numbers 1 to 9 may be used but, like sudoku, each number may only be used once. Let’s have an example to explain this concept more clearly: In the image above, which shows a section of a kakuro puzzle, you will see the numbers ‘26’ and ‘14’ in the top row. Look at the 14. This means that the total of the three cells underneath must sum to 14. Therefore 9, 4, 1 could be the answer, or perhaps 7, 4, 3 and so on... So, how do you work out the actual combination? Well, this is done through elimination and cross-referencing. For instance, as you work out the answers for other kakuro clues, this will naturally limit the valid combinations, and hence the answer for this particular run. Note the second cell in row two — it contains two numbers, 30 and 11. The 30 refers to the vertical run underneath the number 30 and the 11 refers to the two cells to the right, horizontally, of the number 11.

ACROSS

PREVIOUS PUZZLE ANSWER

SCRIBBLING PAD

1 Taj ___ 6 Immediately, if not sooner 10 One-time Red giant 14 Words with “a Rainy Night” or “Lucy” 15 Friend of Boots the Monkey 16 Fancy chopped liver 17 Opt 20 “And that’s how it’s done” 21 Olympic gymnast Korbut 22 Displaced person 23 Biblical mount 25 Being number one? 26 Cotton stuffing 28 Material for a film editor 32 Butter wannabes 34 Rajah’s mate 35 Word with “baseball” or “gas” 38 Signals for races 42 Cape ___ (cottage style) 43 Far from terra firma 44 Hard-to-see specks 45 Strong-smelling cleanser 48 “Don’t change!” to a printer 49 Big desert in Asia 51 Nightingale or Barton, e.g. 53 Hauling done by a wrecker 55 Word on an oven dial 56 17th letter of the Greek alphabet 59 It may be read after church 62 “A Death in the Family” author James 63 Kunis of “Oz the Great and Powerful” 64 Philip Nolan’s fate 65 Cincy team 66 Kill, as a dragon 67 Furnishes, as support

DOWN

1 Karaoke bar equipment, for short

2 Common lotion ingredient 3 Range residence 4 St. crossers, in Manhattan 5 Allow aboard 6 Slower than andante 7 AA member’s club? 8 “___ you with me?” 9 Tempo 10 Encouraging aspect 11 Steppe antelope 12 Attack en masse, as a castle 13 Russo of “In the Line of Fire” 18 Patron saint of Norway 19 Early 20th century poetry movement 24 “Ripley’s Believe ___ not!” 26 Autumn pear 27 Singing voice 29 Common church or arena instrument 30 “This is Spinal ___” (1984) 31 Singer DiFranco 33 Lasting power 35 Small machinery securer 36 Away from 12-Down 37 “Wanna hear a secret?” 39 “Real” ending 40 Prefix meaning “new” 41 Casually throw 45 Waits patiently for 46 From one viewpoint 47 Razor-billed birds 49 Overcharge, big time 50 Had title to 52 Beat back 53 Old Russian leader 54 P.E. places 55 Composer Bartok 57 Detained at the precinct 58 Lode loads 60 Not a whit 61 Apt rhyme for lumberjacks

Chai Time THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2013 Thiruvaikumar

STAR POWER for 18-10-2013

As per Hindu panchang thiruvaikumar@yahoo. co. in, 040-27177230 / 9177596118

ARIES

TAURUS

GEMINI

CANCER

LEO

VIRGO

LIBRA

SCORPIO

SAGITTARIUS

CAPRICORN

AQUARIUS

PISCES

Businessmen will win over the competitions and gain upper hand. You will spend good time with family members. Govt. officials will be of great help. Expected transfer and promotion are on the cards for employees.

STRIP TEASE AGNES

You will spend good time with family and children which make them cheerful. Relationship with blood relatives is cordial. Practice yoga to drive away the tensions and confusions you face. All the tasks undertaken will get completed successfully.

Journey undertaken will be successful and purpose will be met. Employees will get appreciation from superiors.Demands put by them also will be accepted by the management and implemented. Some have bright chance to buy vehicle.

Politicians are advised to keep away from the internal controversies within the party. Businessmen are advised to keep their records updated or else chances of getting penalized by the concerned departments are most likely.

Businessmen will add new customers and also plan for minor expansion. Good events to take place at home. Blood relatives will help you in performing good events that are to take place at home. Increased workload is likely for the employees.

Employees will manage the problems faced in a wise manner. Deficit financial flow is most likely as expected payments might get delayed. Transfer on cards for employees of their choice destination, hence they will feel cheerful.

Parents will support and extend their wholehearted help to you. Those planning to change their residence are advised to postpone the same for some time as time is not favorable. Avoid handing over important works to colleagues.

Financial position will be satisfactory. You will take part in religious and temple renovation activities. Businessmen will get good support from their staff as they take care of them well and their demands were fulfilled.

Chance of theft or losses is likely; need to be careful and protect your household items and movable assets with foolproof methods. Employees are likely to get promotion and pay hike which will make them cheerful. Be polite with all.

TAROT READ

Sumaa Tekur

tarotreadhyd@gmail. com

ARIES:

GEMINI:

The Empress – There may be minor irritants in a relationship. But it’s important you deal with them completely before moving on.

LEO:

Justice – You cannot always control what happens to other people, although you may be their responsibility, in the technical sense.

LIBRA:

PEARLS BEFORE SWINE

Four of Cups – A job offer is likely to take you by surprise. It will be in a field you’re not too familiar with. Don’t doubt your abilities.

SAGITTARIUS:

Two of Pentacles – Balance is the name of the game. Working mothers, especially, have a tough time with this. Go easy on yourself. You’re not a machine.

TAURUS:

Temperance – Sudden changes in the process of an important project has you worried. You begin to imagine all the things that could go wrong.

CANCER:

Seven of Pentacles – Money will follow you if you’re willing to do the different. Open your mind to new possibilities and don’t be intimidated by others.

VIRGO:

Eight of Wands – Good luck favours those who are prepared. They can then convert this opportunity to something wonderful. This is such a lucky phase for you.

SCORPIO:

The Lovers – Decision time is here and you are at a crossroads. You want to take the best option available. Trouble is, you don’t know what that is. Trust your instinct.

CAPRICORN:

Eight of Swords – A friendship turning sour will leave you in quite a shock. You may not have expected this from this particularly close friend.

PREVIOUS SOLUTIONS

PISCES:

Seven of Swords – Be careful of injuries while working out. Always follow your trainer’s instructions and don’t do anything that will push your body too much.

NUMBER GAME

Swords – Focus on your diet. It will solve all your health problems, at least for the time being. You’re tempted to go to extremes but dont.

SCRABBLE

AQUARIUS: Knight of

POOCH CAFE

Businessmen can expect good jump in the profits. Those suffering with chronic disease will get a major relief. Employees might be overburdened but and transfer to a not so favorable destination is likely. But, keep your cool.

for 18-10-2013

Two of Cups – Partnerships are in focus. Two minds are better than one. Be open to sharing your ideas and collaborating and learning as you go along.

NON SEQUITUR

Employees will be entrusted with new responsibilities and on successful completion of the same they will get good recognition. Blood relatives will be more affectionate towards you and extend good support.

SUDUKO

Avoid unwanted apprehensions that are worrying you a lot. You need to be cheerful as you will get good support from parents. Self confidence level will increase with which you will be able to handle any situation. Health will be fine.

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Entertainment THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2013 CINE BYTES

NEW LOOK

N Jamie Foxx denies “hilarious” rumors

o new couple alert here, friends. An In Touch story published today claimed that Katie Holmes and Jamie Foxx took their friendship to the next level, reporting that the pals “have been dating for a while,” but the actor quickly set the record straight, telling Entertainment Tonight that there’s nothing going on with him and Suri Cruise’s mama.

Julia, Meryl Streep get dysfunctional

atalie Portman shows her sexy side on the cover of Marie Claire’s November issue, which hits newsstands Oct 22. The busy actress is getting ready to grace the big screen for the first time in two years with her return as Jane Foster in the upcoming sequel Thor: The Dark World. In her Marie Claire sit-down, Natalie referred to costar Chris Hemsworth as “one of the greatest men in Hollywood,” adding that “he’s the kind of actor who’s so charismatic, he must be tired when he goes home.” Also inside the magazine, Natalie opens up about her love for LA and impending move to Paris — her husband, choreographer Benjamin Millepied, was recently tapped to run the famed Paris Opera Ballet — as well as her feelings on confrontation and Hollywood’s efforts to typecast her. Despite Scarlett Johansson also being of the Jewish faith, Natalie says she gets all the Jewish roles. She says, “Like, every Jewish role comes to me. I look more Jewish than Scarlett [Johansson].”

he Oscar-winning actresses Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep engage in a good old-fashioned girl ﬁght in the brand-new one-sheet for August: Osage County, the forthcoming adaptation of Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play that centers on the dysfunctional Weston family as they come together to deal with a family crisis.

Gravity hits $200mn worldwide

ravity crossed the $200 million mark on Monday as Warner Bros. 3D pic continues to reach new heights at the global box ofﬁce. Having already won back-to-back weekends domestically, Gravity took in an additional $6.2 million on Monday in the U.S. to bring its total to $128.5 million since Oct. 4. Overseas, the Alfonso Cuaron pic has added $71.9 million.

NATALIE PORTMAN:

“I LOOK MORE JEWISH” THAN SCARLETT JOHANSSON

sports

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2013

INDIAN OPEN WORLD SNOOKER

ADVANI, MEHTA IN LAST 16 Advani beat World No. 11 Mark Allen of Northern Ireland 4-2 for the biggest win of his professional career while Mehta survived some tricky moments before defeating Hammad Miah 4-1.

NEW DELHI: Pankaj Advani and Aditya Mehta kept Indian hopes alive by reaching the round of 16 in the Indian Open World Snooker professional ranking tournament, here Wednesday. Advani, ranked 70th, beat World No. 11 Mark Allen of Northern Ireland 4-2 for the biggest win of his professional career while Mehta survived some tricky moments before defeating rookie Hammad Miah of England 4-1. Mehta is next up against former double World champion and boxer-turned-cueist Mark Williams who wrote his own script as he defeated World No. 2 Mark Selby 4-1 in a surprisingly one-sided match while Advani will face Stuart Bingham who beat Thailand’s Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon 4-2. Advani, the 28-year old Bangalorean and ranked 70th, played brilliantly while also enjoying the roll of the balls as he saw off a rather tentative Allen, winner of the recent Ruhr Open in Germany with the Irishman making a mess of several openings that came his way. Advani who scalped World No. 10 John Higgins en route to the semi-finals of the Paul Hunter Classic in Germany earlier this year, played a fine allround game in sharp contrast to Allen’s inconsistent potting and safety play. Allen was fortunate to win the opening frame on the colours after Advani sold the yellow

after a double-kiss while attempting a safety shot and the Irishman went on to take a 1-0 lead. Advani recovered well to take the next two frames on breaks of 55 and 71 for a 2-1 advantage. He began the fourth with a 45 break, but Allen replied with a 46 and eventually took the frame when Advani missed a red. A 31 clearance put Allen on level terms at 2-2. Advani then took control with some delightful snooker and pocketed the fifth and sixth, aided by small but timely breaks to win his first meeting with Allen. “It was all about putting the balls away and keeping the opponent off the table. Neither of

RETIREMENT

THE RESULTS:

Second round: Pankaj Advani (IND) bt Mark Allen (IRE) 4-2 (48-72, 81-0, 92-05, 45-87, 69-42, 73-27); Aditya Mehta (IND) bt Hammad Miah (ENG) 4-1 (20-97, 74-02, 69-27, 68-00, 69-60); Neil Robertson (AUS) bt Rod Lawler (ENG) 4-2 (00-108, 67-10, 73-49, 67-08, 30-75, 63-14); Ding Junhui (CHN) bt Mark Joyce (ENG) 4-3 (07-75, 68-44, 70-09, 22-70, 22-60, 70-19, 89-07); Stephen Maguire (SCO) bt Tom Ford (ENG) 4-3

(85-00, 52-71, 59-79, 60-52, 01-70, 93-00, 54-46); Robbie Williams (ENG) bt Andrew Higginson (ENG) 4-1 (62-18, 75-13, 60-05, 11-73, 103-00); Michael White (ENG) bt Zhang Anda (CHN) 4-3 (08-92, 00-133, 69-23, 55-21, 41-66, 76-40, 79-26); Liang Wenbo (CHN) bt Dechawat Poomjaeng (THA) 4-2 (01-71, 100-01, 87-00, 75-11, 47-63, 84-50); Anthony McGill (SCO) bt Fergal O’Brien (IRE) 4-1 (63-65, 77-25, 75-0, 6244, 60-49); Mark Davis (ENG) bt Michael Holt (ENG) 4-1 (01-71, 83-1, 58-38, 60-11, 75-00); Mark Williams (ENG) bt Mark Selby (ENG) 4-1 (79-39, 76-0, 69-64, 00105, 100-00); Mike Dunn (ENG) bt Ratchayothin Yotharuck (THA) 4-0 (85-08, 82-08, 139-00, 78-01); John Higgins (SCO) bt Li Yan (CHN) 4-0 (73-00, 68-34, 8400, 105-00); Stuart Bingham (ENG) bt Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon (THA) 4-2 (4769, 72-1, 119-06, 54-07, 36-99, 629); Gary Wilson (ENG) bt Marco Fu (HK) 4-3 (85-14, 44-64, 62-18, 120-0, 0-81, 0-137, 99-31). Centuries: Marco Fu - 137; Pankaj Advani - 134; Zhang Anda - 133; Ratchayothin Yotharuck - 131, 101; Aditya Mehta - 127, 122; Gary Wilson 125; Anthony McGill - 123, 103; Gary Wilson - 120; Stuart Bingham - 119; Mark Joyce - 114; Ding Junhui - 109, 106; Rod Lawler - 108; Neil Robertson 103, 103, 103; Robbie Williams 103; Ricky Walden - 102; Ken Doherty - 102; Liu Chuang - 101; Liang Wenbo - 100; Mark Williams - 100 IANS

2016 OLYMPICS

Agarkar calls it a day

MUMBAI: All-rounder Ajit Agarkar has announced his retirement from all forms of cricket. Agarkar represented India in 26 Tests, 191 ODIs and four T20 Internationals from 1998 to 2007. He took 288 wickets in ODIs and 58

us was playing well today, but I was effective on the colours and that made the difference. “Today, it was also all about winning and so my break-building suffered a bit. I was not as fluent as I was yesterday. It was a different tactical game tonight (Wednesday night) with the balls all over the place that called for a different strategy. “Although I was not entirely happy with my game today, I am still striking well and potting the balls I should,” summed up Advani. Earlier, Mehta, the 27year old from Mumbai and ranked 72nd, kept his composure after losing the first frame that Miah, whose family hails from Bangladesh, clinched with a break of 97 that began when the

Indian bungled on a pink. However, Mehta, who had beaten Miah 5-0 in the Shanghai Masters qualifying tournament, squeezed through the crucial second frame with 28 and 42 before taking control of the match with some astute safety play. “I thought I played better today (Wednesday) and forced a few mistakes from my opponent. He is a very good potter and my plan was to keep him tight. “In the first frame, I missed an easy pink after opening the bunch of reds and he made a 97. So, I decided not to hurry. My mindset was not to get negative and go for my shots when there was an opportunity,” said Mehta. The next four frames went to Mehta who made a break of 67 in the fourth that he said was his best moment in the match, and then pocketed the fifth despite trailing by over 40 points as Miah, a product of the Q-school and in his first season on the pro tour, missed the yellow. Mehta cleared the table to clinch the tie.

wickets in Tests. He was a member of the Indian team that won the inaugural ICC World T20, played in South Africa in 2007. In 1998, Agarkar established a record for taking the fastest fifty wickets in ODIs, completing the tally in only his 23rd game. His best performance in Tests was his match-winning 6-41 against Australia at Adelaide in 200304. His finest performance with the bat in Tests was his unbeaten 109 against England at Lord’s in 2002. In ODIs, his highest individual score was 95 against the West Indies at Jamshedpur in 200203. IANS

Team GB sign Games base BELO HORIZONTE: British Olympic Association chairman Sebastian Coe on Wednesday signed an agreement with Brazilian officials to use the central southern city of Belo Horizonte as its Rio Games base. Team GB will prepare for the 2016 Games in the city after Coe signed the agreement with Mayor Marcio Lacerda and Minas Gerais regional State Governor Antonio Anastasia. The agreement was signed at the Minas Tenis Clube multi-purpose facility, which will serve as the British team base in the city just an hour’s flight from Rio. As well as serving as an Olympic base, Belo Horizonte

Team GB will prepare for the Games in the southern city of Belo Horizonte after Coe signed the agreement.

will also host six matches during next year’s World Cup. The city was famously the site of one of the greatest upsets in British sporting history when

England lost a 1950 World Cup pool match to rank underdogs the United States. Coe described the city “the best possible environment for our athletes to prepare for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and all the partners have shown their commitment to understanding and meeting our needs.” AFP

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TUITION MATTERS

Tsonga close to naming new coach VIENNA: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga revealed on Wednesday that he is nearing a decision on a new coach but won’t make any announcement until a deal is done. The Frenchman fighting for a place in the eight-man season finals in London next month is top seed at the Austrian Open and begins in the second round after a bye when he faces German Daniel Brands. Tsonga, who missed nearly three months of play over the summer with a knee injury, said that he will soon have a new mentor after splitting in September from Australian Roger Rasheed, who also formerly coached Gael Monfils. “I’m looking for a coach and I’m getting close to one,” Tsonga said in his only words on the subject. The former

Australian Open finalist has gone it alone in the past, playing without a coach in 2011 before picking up Rasheed after the Australian ended with Monfils. World number eight Tsonga is coming off a Shanghai semifinal last week, losing to eventual champion Novak Djokovic. Tsonga stands provisional ninth in the field for the World Tour Finals from November 4, but needs to keep earning ranking points if he is to be assured of making the trip. He is trying to stay ahead of a pursing pack led by compatriot Richard Gasquet and Canadian Milos Raonic.

As third-ranked Wimbledon champion Andy Murray has already withdrawn from the London event due to injury, the ninth-placed finisher will qualify. The Frenchman said that he is still playing at less than 100 percent on his knee, but has been cleared by doctors to compete. “The knee is not 100 percent but I have to play on it, just to work the muscles. Doctors told me I can’t hurt it by playing. If I want to make it to London, I have to get out on court.” Tsonga won the Vienna title in 2011, his only previous appearance, and in his eyes he is defending that crown after not playing here in 2012. “I’m feeling good and I’m fresh in my head,” said

AUSTRIAN OPEN

Monfils crashes out

VIENNA: Sixth seed Gael Monfils fell victim to a 213thranked lucky loser on Wednesday as the Frenchman crashed to a 7-6 (7/0), 7-5 firstround defeat against Jaroslav Pospisil at the Austrian Open. A week after beating Roger Federer, an out-of-sorts Monfils had no answer to his littleknown opponent, who got into the draw hours before the match when Australian Marinko Matosevic pulled out with a shoulder injury. “I’m pissed, I didn’t come here to lose in the first round,” said Monfils, who admitted that he failed to make the quick turnaround required after arriving from Asia and working to adjust once again to Europe. “Credit to him, he played well, but it was more about my body and my lack of game. He was playing tough but I was just not ready. I’m not happy with tonight. “I tried hard, I did the best I could, but it’s not easy to come from outdoors (Shanghai) and adjust to an indoor court in only a few days. This is tough to take.” Czech fifth seed Radek Stepanek reached the quarterfinals after taking nearly two

AUSTRIA, Vienna : France’s Gael Monfils reacts during his game against Czech Republic’s Jaroslav Pospisil during their first round match as part of the Vienna ATP 250 tennis tournament held in Vienna, on October 16, 2013. Pospisil won 7-6, 7-5. AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER KLEIN

and three-quarter hours to defeat Lukas Lacko 7-6 (7/4), 57, 7-6 (7/5). Fellow Czech seed Lukas Rosol joined in tuning up for next month’s Davis Cup final by defeating Mirza Basic of Bosnia-Herzegovina 6-3, 7-5. Monfils went down to love in the first-set tiebreaker but got a break back in the second for 4all before Pospisil again found his range. The Czech broke for 6-

5, then a game later earned three match points from a weak Monfils return. One was enough to see him through to the second round against Austrian Dominic Thiem. French top seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga said he is nearing a decision on a new coach but won’t make any announcement until a deal is done. Tsonga, who is fighting for a

place in the eight-man season finals in London next month, is top seed at the Austrian Open and begins in the second round after a bye when he faces German Daniel Brands. Tsonga, who missed nearly three months of play over the summer with a knee injury, said he will soon have a new mentor after splitting in September from Australian Roger Rasheed, who also formerly coached Monfils. “I’m looking for a coach and I’m getting close to one,” Tsonga said in his only words on the subject. The former Australian Open finalist has gone it alone in the past, playing without a coach in 2011 before picking up Rasheed after the Australian ended with Monfils. World number eight Tsonga is coming off a Shanghai semifinal last week, losing to eventual champion Novak Djokovic. Tsonga stands provisional ninth in the field for the World Tour Finals from November 4, but needs to keep earning ranking points if he is to be assured of making the trip. He is trying to stay ahead of a pursing pack led by compatriot Richard Gasquet and Canadian Milos Raonic.

the player starting his fourth event in the last five weeks since making his return. In a first-round match, Czech Lukas Kubot defeated German Florian Mayer 7-6 (7/1), 6-4 and will next play third seed Fabio Fognini of Italy. Australian Marinko Matosevic was forced to withdraw with a sore right shoulder prior to his first-round match with Gael Monfils. France’s sixth seed Monfils will instead make his start at the Stadthalle later against Czech Jaroslav Pospisil, ranked 214 and a lucky loser from the qualifying rounds. The exit of Marinko and the Tuesday defeat of Lleyton Hewitt by Canadian Vasek Pospisil — no relation of Jaroslav’s — ended Australian involvement at the indoor

GRAND SLAM OF GOLF

Scott lifts title

SOUTHAMPTON: Australia’s Masters champion Adam Scott eagled the par-five 17th on Wednesday as he rallied for a two-shot win over US Open winner Justin Rose in the Grand Slam of Golf. Scott had five birdies without a bogey in a seven-under par 64 at Port Royal Golf Course, erasing a three-stroke overnight deficit in the four-man unofficial event. He had a winning 36-hole total of eight-under 134. “I’m thrilled to come out on top,” Scott said. “Fun, but a trying couple of days here really, especially today. It felt like a long round out there but I was happy with the score.” Overnight leader Rose of England stretched his lead to four shots through seven holes on Wednesday. But two bogeys opened the door for Scott and Rose finished with a 69 that left him second at six-under. PGA Champion Jason Dufner carded a 70 and placed third at three-under. Defending champion Padraig Harrington closed with a 71 to finish last on three-over 145. Harrington replaced Phil Mickelson in the field after the British Open champion withdrew.

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RECORD CHASERS

Top-order stun Australia India scored 362 for one, in response to Australia’s 359, to record their highest and the overall second highest ODI chase, tying the seven-match ODI series against the visitors 1-1. JAIPUR: Superlative batting by Rohit Sharma (141 not out), Virat Kohli (100 not out) and Shikhar Dhawan (95) helped India comfortably chase down Australia’s mammoth target of 359 for five in 43.3 overs and win their second ODI by nine wickets at the Sawai Mansingh stadium here Wednesday. India scored 362 for one to record their highest and the overall second highest ODI chase so far, tying the seven-match ODI series against the visitors 1-1. Having put up 359 for five, Australia seemed to have batted India out of the game but Dhawan, Rohit Sharma and Kohli played superbly to comfortably overhaul the Australian score. Kohli’s 100 off 52 balls became the fastest century by an Indian and the seventh fastest ODI hundred. India started the chase with a 176-run opening stand between Dhawan and Rohit. Things, however, could have been different had wicketkeeper Brad Haddin not dropped Dhawan on 18. Dhawan made the Australians pay dearly for Haddin’s lapse taking their bowlers to task on a placid batting wicket. The left-hander smashed his way to 95 off 86 balls before a loose shot cost him his wicket. After that it was all Kohli’s show as the Delhi batsman blast-

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ed seven sixes and eight fours in his blitzkrieg innings. In between all the Kohli mayhem, Rohit Sharma completed a much-awaited third career century with a fine innings. He had to wait for three years for this

feat and was visibly elated. Both players looked in a hurry to head back to the dressing room, piling on the pressure on the Aussie bowlers. Earlier, Australia got off to another quick start courtesy

India 362/1 in 43.3 overs vs Australia - Jaipur (Oct 16, 2013) India 330/4 in 47.5 overs vs Pakistan - Dhaka (Mar 18, 2012) India 326/8 in 49.3 overs vs England - Lord’s (Jul 13, 2002) India 325/5 in 47.4 overs vs West Indies - Ahmedabad (Nov 15, 2002) India 321/3 in 36.4 overs vs Sri Lanka - Hobart (Feb 28, 2012) India 321/5 in 48.5 overs vs New Zealand Bangalore (Dec 7, 2010) India 317/3 in 48.1 overs vs Sri Lanka - Kolkata (Dec 24, 2009) India 317/8 in 49.4 overs vs England - The Oval (Sep 5, 2007) India 316/7 in 47.5 overs vs Pakistan - Dhaka (Jan 18, 1998) India 310/4 in 46.5 overs vs Sri Lanka - Karachi Jul 3, 2008.

Aaron Finch (50). The right-hander, who has made his way into the national squad thanks to his performances with Pune Warriors in the Indian Premier League, hit seven boundaries and a six.

PAKISTAN VS SOUTH AFRICA

Pakistan inch closer to victory ABU DHABI: Pakistan’s lethal mixture of pace and spin caught world number one Test team South Africa napping on the third day of the first Test in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday. South Africa lost four toporder batsmen against a spirited Pakistan and they now need another 121 runs to avoid an innings defeat and concede the lead in the two-Test series. AB de Villiers was unbeaten on 11 and with him nightwatchman Dale Steyn on nought on a day when Pakistan captain Misbah-ul Haq scored his fourth Test hundred and then sent his rivals into submission. Pakistan removed Alviro Petersen (17), Graeme Smith (32) and Jacques Kallis (nought) by the 19th over and then first

innings centurion Hashim Amla for ten to move closer to a big victory when bad light curtailed play seven overs early. Paceman Mohammad Irfan started aggressively, trapping Smith in front off the very first ball of the innings but Pakistan’s referral was unsuccessful after the umpire initially ruled it not out. But Irfan struck in his sixth over when a rising delivery caught Petersen by surprise, the batsman failing to keep his glove out of the way before Adnan Akmal held the catch cleanly. Smith looked confident during his 61-ball knock but missed one delivery from Saeed Ajmal and was stumped on the second attempt by Akmal, leaving

South Africa at 57-2. With Smith’s scalp, Ajmal completed his 150 wickets in 29 Tests — the joint fourth fastest to reach the milestone and second Pakistani behind paceman Waqar Younis, who completed the tally in 27 Tests. A run later Kallis was trapped in front of the wicket by fast bowler Junaid Khan for a five-ball duck, spoiling South Africa’s most reliable batsman’s comeback and 38th birthday. Amal, who hit 118 in the first innings, fell caught behind off left-armer Zulfiqar Babar’s first delivery in the innings to leave South Africa tottering at 72-4. South African paceman Vernon Philander admitted it will be tough work to save the

match. “We need to be in a positive frame of mind, its going to be hard work tomorrow because Pakistan’s spinners have been good but we need to try and get some partnerships going,” said Philander. Pakistan opener Khurram Manzoor said his team was in a strong position. “We are in a strong position and taking four wickets before the day ended was very good. I think the spinners will have a big role to play (tomorrow),” said Manzoor. Earlier Misbah (right) ensured Pakistan increased their lead after opener Manzoor departed for 146, adding an invaluable 82 for the fifth wicket with Asad Shafiq, who made 54. AFP

Scorecard

Australia: Aaron Finch run out (Raina) 50 Phil Hughes c Dhoni b Ashwin 83 S Watson c I Sharma b V Kumar 59 George Bailey not out 92 G Maxwell run out (Raina/Kumar/Dhoni) 53 A Voges c Kumar b Vinay Kumar 11 Brad Haddin not out 1 Extras (lb 5, w 5) 10 Total (for 5 wickets in 50 overs) 359 Bowling: B Kumar 10-0-54-0 I Sharma 9-1-70-0 R V Kumar 9-0-73-2 Ravindra Jadeja 10-0-72-0 Ravichandran Ashwin 8-0-50-1 Yuvraj Singh 4-0-35-0 India: Rohit Sharma not out S Dhawan c Haddin b Faulkner Virat Kohli not out Extras (lb 5, w 21) Total (for 1 wicket in 43.3 overs) Bowling: Mitchell Johnson 9-1-68-0 Clint McKay 7-0-64-0 Shane Watson 5-0-47-0 Xavier Doherty 10-0-70-0 Glenn Maxwell 5.3-0-48-0 James Faulkner 7-0-60-1

141 95 100 26 362

Phil Hughes (83) and Shane Watson (59) then added to India’s woes with an 108-run stand for the second wicket. Captain George Bailey picked up from where Watson left off and smashed 92 off 50 balls. IANS

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BALE SET FOR RETURN AFTER TRAINING WITH REAL

Gareth Bale looks on course to return to the Real Madrid side for their La Liga clash with Malaga on Saturday after he trained with the squad on Wednesday, the club announced. The 24-year-old has started just one game since he joined the club owing to a series of niggling injuries.

ROAD TO WORLD CUP

We Love You! ‘AMIGOUS’

Guardiola gets tough with his stars

Losing 2-1 to Costa Rica, Mexico were flirting with disaster until Uncle Sam, who already qualified, rode to the rescue by defeating Panama 3-2. LAURENT THOMET Agence France-Presse MEXICO CITY: Mexicans never imagined being in this position: Having to shamefully say “gracias” to bitter rivals the United States for helping their football team stay in contention for next year’s World Cup. Losing 2-1 to Costa Rica on Tuesday, Mexico were flirting with disaster until Uncle Sam, who had already qualified, rode to the rescue by scoring two stoppage time goals to defeat Panama 3-2. The US victory torpedoed Panama’s dream of qualifying for the World Cup for the first time while helping Mexico finish fourth in the CONCACAF regional group and secure a twoleg playoff against Oceania champions New Zealand next month. More than a year after Mexico celebrated winning the gold medal at the London Olympics, Mexican media berated “El Tri” while running headlines in English to express gratitude to adversaries they regularly disparage as “gringos.” “Gracias Uncle Sam,” “Thank you, USA!” and “God bless Ame-

ball federation had fielded overaged players in a youth championship. The sports marketing firm Dreamatch Solutions estimates that broadcasters, sponsors and other businesses stand to lose $600 million if Mexico fail to qualify. Former Mexican president Felipe Calderon, recalling that he had met the gold medal winners last year, tweeted “What happened?”

‘TO CRY FOR’ Costa Rica’s Cristian Bolanos (C) is marked by Mexico’s Javier Aquino (R) and Jesus Zavala (L) during their 2014 World Cup qualifier match at the Nacional stadium in San Jose, on Tuesday. AFP/EZEQUIEL BECERRA

rica” were some of the front-page news hours after the federation US Soccer had cheekily tweeted “#Youre Welcome Mexico.” The sports daily Record published a photo montage of Manchester United forward Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez holding a US flag, with the purposely misspelled headline “WE LOVE YOU! ‘AMIGOUS’” . The Cancha sports pages said Mexico’s qualifying campaign had been “one of the most shameful performances in its history” after the “broken” team

played with “no courage.” But Mexico manager Victor Manuel Vucetich, brought in last month to save the team, insisted he did not have to “send any message” to US counterpart Jurgen Klinsmann, though he praised US “football ethics and professionalism.” Missing out on the World Cup in Brazil next year would be emotional and financial torment for Mexico. The country has seen its team play in 14 of the last 19 tournaments and last missed it in 1990 because the Mexican foot-

Shouts of joy were heard in Mexico City bars when the US scored, but fans were angry at their team’s performance, especially since some make millions playing for wealthy European clubs. In 10 qualifiers, Mexico won just twice and scored a paltry seven goals. Mexicans expected better after Raul Alonso Jimenez scored a memorable bicycle kick last Friday to beat Panama. “The team is worthless. They make a lot of money and do nothing,” said Angel Hernandez, 30, eating an orange at a taco stand in a market. Across his stall, Ivan Pena sliced jalapeno peppers as he wondered how Mexico could have lost when all they needed was a draw to secure the fourth spot.

FOR THE SUB-CONTINENT

Liverpool announce India plans LONDON: Liverpool are preparing to launch a new youth academy in India next year, the Premier League giants announced on Wednesday. The five-time European champions will work with Indian club DSK Shivajians to set up the facility, which will open in January and will be known as The LFC International Football Academy DSK. Accommodating players up to the age of 18, it will feature a residential complex, full-size pitches, practice areas, classrooms, changing rooms, a gym, a canteen, a lecture theatre

and medical facilities. Liverpool have also committed to providing coaches to help run the project. “At the academy in Liverpool we aim to develop outstanding players and good human beings,” Liverpool academy director Frank McParland told the club website. “The results speak for themselves, as last season seven academy players made their first-team debuts. “Education and community work is key to the development of our young

players and we look forward to taking our knowledge and experience of developing young footballers to India.” DSK are based in Pune, 150 kilometres (95 miles) from Mumbai in western Maharashtra state, which is also the base of Indian poultry firm Venky’s, the owners of English second-tier side Blackburn Rovers. English clubs view India as a potential source of playing talent and teams including Chelsea and Queens Park Rangers have run coaching classes there in recent years. AFP

BERLIN: Pep Guardiola has got tough with his Bayern Munich stars by warning the players he will not stand for any dissent as it will only hurt their chances in defending their league crown. “I am convinced we will be even better when all the players are fit,” he told the Bayern Munich magazine. “But we will only fight for the (league) title at the end of the season if every player in this big squad accepts my decisions, otherwise we will have problems. “I am a great friend of my players when they accept my decisions. “I support those who accept them, but those who don’t want to understand them will often find themselves sitting in the stands.” Guardiola can expect to have Germany midfielder Mario Goetze, plus Spain stars Javi Martinez and Thiago Alcantara back from injury in the following weeks and the coach believes the situation is healthy both for competition and to rotate his squad. “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: we need every player,” he insisted. “I am glad when they are all here and fit. “With a view on the whole season, it’s not good when Franck Ribery or Philipp Lahm plays an entire game every three days. “The more players I have, the more I can vary the squad.” Bayern face a busy run of matches up until the winter break with Bundesliga, Champions League and German Cup matches, as well as the FIFA Club World Cup in Morocco in December. AFP