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Advani rath?Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Will senior BJPleader L K Advani givespace to former chief min-ister B S Yeddyurappa,who had to quit his poston charges of corruptionon his rath during the JanChetan Yatra when it pass-es through the state? Ad-vani’s yatra is being tout-ed as an anti-corruptionmovement.

The question had thestate BJP leadership,which is coordinating thestate leg of the yatra, in atight spot. Addressing apress conference to an-nounce the yatra itineraryin the state, BJP statespokesman and MLA C TRavi said, “You have towait and see till the yatrareaches the state. But hewill be part of the yatra.There is no doubt thatYeddyurappa is the un-questionable leader of thestate BJP.”

Questions were alsoraised about the Advani’s decision to make MPand BJP national general secretary H N AnanthKumar part of the yatra through its entire jour-ney across the country. Ananth Kumar hasbeen accused of involvement in multi-crore Hud-co scandal. Ravi said, “Those are mere allega-tions. The Centre has not even filed an FIR in thecase.”

But he had to keep quiet when media menpointed out that a case was already going on inthe court.

State convener for the yatra, Naveen KumarKatil, and Ravi said, “The yatra will enter thestate through Kasargod on October 30. The sameday evening at 6, a public meeting will be heldat National College Grounds at Basavanagudiin Bangalore.”

The next day it will move towards Mangalore.It will pass through Mulki, Yajamadi, Udupi,Knudapura, Baindoor, Bhatkal before reachingHonnavar, where a public meeting will beheld.

On November 1, a media conference will beheld at Gokarna. From Gokarna it will reach Kar-war and enter Goa. The yatra will pass throughthe state for three days, they added.

Terroristplot foiled

in DelhiNew Delhi: A suspected terror plot has beenfoiled in Ambala with the recovery of over 5-kgexplosives and detonators from a car parked out-side Cantonment railway station in the city, po-lice said.

A National Security Guard (NSG) team hasreached the site. The explosives have beensent for forensic test.

After a tip-off, a joint police team found theexplosives from a car parked outside the railwaystation last night.

Vijayalakshmimeets prosecutor

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Vijayalakshmi, who had filed a caseof battery againsther husband andKannada film actorDarshan, today metpublic prosecutorand received sometips on how to con-duct herself beforethe judge at the Kar-nataka High Court,which was to hear abail petition of theactor today.

Vijayalakshmi,who has filed a caseof assault against her and their son, spentsome time with public prosecutor Chandra-mouli.

The actor spent 29 days in Parappana Agra-hara central jail after his wife filed a case underarms act against him.

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MANE WAS SHOTPOINT BLANKBullet fired from behind points to friendly fire; autopsy

report out; ADGP Bipin may submit observationst todayManjunath Sharma

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The post-mortem reportof Mahadeva Mane, a member ofthe state’s Anti-Naxal Force whowas killed during a combing opera-tion at Belthangadi taluk early thisweek, points to a possibility of a po-lice bullet killing him.

The post-mortem states that Manewas shot point blank and in theback. Since the shot has been firedfrom the back, the suspicion is thatit could have been from the firearmof another police officer.

Internal security ADGP BipinGopalakrishna, who headed an in-quiry committee that probed thekilling, refused to confirm the theo-ry. “There is no bullet in Mane’s

body. We have not come to any con-clusion as the bullet was not found inhis body,” he told Bangalore Beat.

As Mane may not have worn a bul-let-proof jacket, the bullet has passedthrough his body easily. Mane diedof excessive bleeding, the post-mortem report adds.

Bipin Gopalakrishna has comeback with the report and is likely tosubmit it to DG and IGP NeelamAchuta Rao today. He was conduct-ing the probe at the spot of the inci-dent, Savanalu.

At the same time, Mangalore su-perintendent of police Shivakumar,

who was conducting the inquirywith the 11 other police officers, is alsolikely to sending the express report to-day. During inquiries with locals inand around Savanalu, the policefound that there was no presence ofNaxals in the area during the inci-dent. They have also come to the con-clusion that Savanalu is at least 15-20km from the area where Naxals movearound regularly.

During the combing operationaround Savanalu, the police foundbiscuit packets, rechargeable torch-es, rope, machetes, mineral water,leather bags and others. They haveconcluded that these are not proofenough to say that the Naxals hadcamped there. The police were told bythe locals that Naxals don’t carry bot-tled water.

Good Samaritan rushes injured boy, dies at hospital

Manjunath SharmaBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: A Good Samaritan, who had triedto help a youngster who had suffered a falland sustained injuries, fell dead at the doc-tor’s clinic where the latter was being treat-ed in the city today.

This morning, Manish (21), an errandboy, was asked to clean the terrace of a pri-vate business establishment at Kalasipalya.As the rain water had clogged on the terrace,Azafal asked Manish to climb on top of thesecond floor and to clear the drains. As hewas cleaning it, Manish slipped and fell tothe ground.

Shekar (32), who fills water at the estab-lishment, immediately rushed Manish in anautorickshaw to a private clinic nearby. Asthe doctors were treating the youngster,Shekar complained of giddiness. The doctortold him to sit on the sofa at the reception.

After the treatment, Manish was found tobe out of danger and he walked out of thetreatment room along with the doctor. Whenthey reached the reception, they foundShekar lying down, seemingly sleeping.

They called him out, but there was no reply.When they tried to wake him up, they re-alised that he was dead sitting at the samespot. Manish called up Azafal, who askedhim to rush the body back. Kalasipalya po-

lice too were informed and they shifted thebody to the Victoria Hospital for post-mortem.

Shekar was married and had two children,the police said.

Bangalore police commissioner Jyothi Prakash Mirji inspects goods recovered by the central police in Bangalore today. The police claimed to have solved 100 cases by arresting

65 accused and recovered Rs 1.75 crore worth of properties.

Major haulS Radhakrishna

Three venues before state for Jaya trial

Consensus over Parappana Agrahara

Manjunath SharmaBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The state govern-ment is thinking of various ven-ues and possibilities to conductthe trial of Tamil Nadu chiefminister J Jayalalithaa, who hasto appear before court in Banga-lore in disproportionate assetscase on October 20.

The state is making elaboratearrangements as Jayalalithaahas to be provided Z category se-curity.

The thinking within the judi-ciary and the police departmentis that the best option could bethe Parappana Agrahara centralprison, where either a specialjudge can record her statement orconduct video-conferencing fromthe jail premises. The other op-tions are a vacant house in

the Judicial Layout and theJakkur Flying Club. But the lasttwo options may not be feasibleas the state government eitherhas to move furniture or has tobuy them for recording of Jay-alalithaa’s statement only for aday. The judiciary too is not keenas the two destinations are too farfrom the heart of the city.

There seems to be a consensuson these three places. But thegovernment also considered BalaBrooie Government Guesthousenear Raj Bhavan. But again in-vesting for the furniture stoppedthe authorities from going aheadwith it. The other is the JudicialAcademy on Race Course road.But the traffic police did not wel-come the idea as they wouldhave to stop the traffic for the mo-

torcade to pass during the peakhours around 10 am.

The government may also givethe option of recording the state-ment at the City Civil Court com-plex on either a Sunday or a sec-ond Saturday when courts wouldbe closed. On such a day, therewill be no crowd. Earlier, thesame complex as venue hadbeen shot down as on any givenworking day there are hugecrowds, posing a threat to theAIADMK leader. The complexcould be vacated the by 5 pm theprevious day and handed over tothe police for sanitisation. Thereis also a thinking of conductingthe trial at the judges’ quarters atthe National Games Village com-plex at Koramangala.

But from all quarters, Parap-pana Agrahara is being wel-comed as the ideal venue. Thetraffic police too are OK with it asit is not too much of a problemcontrolling the traffic in thoseparts. Even if Jayalalithaa startsfrom Koramangala during thepeak hours, she can reach thecentral prison within an hour.

A high-level meeting has beenconvened this evening and on thetable will be the three options.The meeting will be attended bydeputy commissioner of police(central), home secretary, publicworks department secretary, reg-istrar of civil court complex andregistrar of the high court. Themeeting will narrow down theoptions to the three and sendthem to the Tamil Nadu govern-ment through the protocol de-partment of the Karnataka gov-ernment.

B S Yeddyurappa

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Snag in flight,6 MLAs fromstate escape

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Amritsar: Six Karnataka legislators had amiraculous escape whentheir flight developed atechnical snag beforetakeoff from here thismorning.

The six legislators, whohad arrived here for an es-timation committee meet-ing, were to leave for NewDelhi in the morning viaJet Airways flight 8040.But before the takeoff,the pilots noticed tech-nical problems and all passengers were madeto get down.

The six legislators who were in the flight were:Jayanagar MLA B N Vijay Kumar, Tiptur MLANagesh B C, Gundalpet MLA Mahadev PrasadH S, Kushtagi MLA Amregouda LinganagoudaBayyapur, Hubli rural MLA Veerabhadrappa andHunagund MLA Doddanagouda G Patil.

The problem with the plane was detected ontime and the passengers on board had a luckyescape from tragedy.

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TRAIN SCHEDULE

SAARATHEE Darshan, DeepaAdarsha (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Eshwari (9.15 pm) HMT Cinemas(Jalahalli) (10.45 am) Gopalan (Ban-nerghatta Road) (1 pm) GopalanCinemas (Rajarajeshwari Nagar) (10am, 6.30 pm) Goverdhan (11.30 am,2.30, 6, 9 pm) Inox (Malleswaram)(12.30 pm, 3.15, 8.50 pm) Mohan(11.30 am, 2.30, 6.15, 9.15 pm) Nar-taki (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm)Navrang (10.15 am, 1.15, 4.15, 7.15,10 pm)

LOKAVE HELIDA MAATHIDU Ravi Teja, AnithaKailash (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Ranganath (10.30 am, 1.30,4.30, 7.30 pm) Vishal (10.30 am,1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm)

MARYADE RAMANNA (U/A)Komal Kumar, NishaAnupama (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30,7.30 pm) Banashankari (Hongasan-dra) (11.30 am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30

pm) Rajarajeshwari (Mallathahalli)(10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.15, 9.30pm) Siddalingeshwara (11.30 am,2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Ullas (11.30am, 2.45, 5.45, 8.45 pm) Uma (10.15am) Veerabhadreshwara (10.45 am,1.45, 4.45, 7.45 pm) Venkatesh(Avalahalli) (11.30 am, 2.30, 6.30,9.30 pm) Vijayalakshmi (Garu-dacharpalya) (11 am, 2.30 pm)Vaibav (11 am, 2.30 pm) Veeresh(10.30 am,1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm)

MANASALOGY (U/A)Rakesh, AmoolyaNalanda (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.40pm) Tribhuvan (10.30 am, 1.30,4.30, 7.30 pm)

KALLA MALLA SULLA (U)Bharathi (11 am, 2.30, 6, 9.15 pm)Gopal (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Inox (Malleswaram) (6.30 pm)Krishna (KR Puram) (10.30 am, 2, 8pm) Prasanna (10.30 am,1.30, 4.30,7.30 pm) Siddheshwwara (11.30 am,2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Triveni (10.30am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm) Uma (1pm, 4, 7 pm)

LIFU ISHTENE (U/A)Diganth, Samyuktha BelawadiCinepolis (5.10 pm) Eshwari (11.15am, 2.15, 6.15 pm) Inox (Jayanagar)(1.10 pm) Inox (JP Nagar) (10.45 am,6.10 pm) Inox (Malleswaram) (10am, 12.35, 6.20 pm) Krishna (Bom-manahalli) (11.15 am, 2.30, 6.30,9.30 pm) Sagar (10.30 am, 1.30,4.30, 7.30 pm) Sri Eshwari (11.15am, 2.15, 6.15, 9.15 pm)

90 (U/A)Rangayana Raghu, Sadhu KokilaSanthosh (10.30 am, 1.30).

DRIVE (U/A)Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan,Bryan Cranston, Albert BrooksInox (Magrath Road) (12.40 pm,7.25 pm) PVR Cinemas (10 am, 2,6, 7.25, 10 pm)

JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (U/A) Rowan Atkinson, Rosamund PikeCinepolis (10 am, 3.05, 7.40 pm)Fame (Lido) (2.50 pm) Fame (ValueMall) (2.45 pm, 7.40 pm) Fun Cine-mas (1.15 pm, 6.50 pm) Inox (Jayana-

gar) (1.35 pm) Inox (JP Nagar) (4pm) Inox (Magrath Road) (10 am,2.45, 5.05, 10 pm) Inox (Malles-waram) (10.10 am, 2.40 pm) Push-panjali (11 am, 2.15, 6, 9.15 pm)PVR Cinemas (12 pm, 4, 10 pm)Santosh (2 pm, 6, 9 pm)

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES “3D” PVR Cinemas (10 pm)

KUNG FU PANDA 2“3D” Cinepolis (5.05 pm)

Movie ListingsKANNADA

ENGLISH

SAHEB BIWI AUR GANGSTER (A)Jimmy Sheirgill, Mahie GillApsara (5.30 pm, 8.30 pm) Cinemax(12.15 pm, 5, 10 pm) Cinepolis (10am, 12.05, 3.15, 9.45 pm) Everest(11.30 am, 2.30 pm) Fame (Lido)(10.25 am, 1, 6.50, 9.30 pm) Fame(Shankarnag) (3.20 pm) Fame (ValueMall) (10 am, 2.55, 4.55, 9.40 pm)Fun Cinemas (11 am, 4.30, 9.45 pm)Gopalan (Bannerghatta Road) (10am, 10 pm) Gopalan Cinemas(Mysore Road) (10.10 am, 9.15 pm)

Gopalan Cinemas (RajarajeshwariNagar) (12.30 pm, 10 pm) InnovativeMultiplex (10.10 am, 12.20, 7.45 pm)Inox (Jayanagar) (1.20 pm, 3.45, 9.30pm) Inox (JP Nagar) (10 am, 3.50,9.15 pm)

HUM TUM SHABANA (U/A)Tusshar Kapoor, Shreyas Talpade,Minissha LambaAbhinay (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Anand (12 pm) Apsara (10.45am, 1.45 pm) Cauvery (2.30 pm,9.30 pm).

HINDI

TAMIL

MURAN (U)Cheran, Prasanna, NikithaAjantha (4.30 pm, 7.30 pm) Balaji(Tavarekere) (10 am, 1, 5, 8 pm)Cinemax (3.45 pm) Cinepolis (12.35pm, 3.45, 6.25 pm) Fame (Lido)(1.05 pm) Fun Cinemas (4.25 pm)Gopalan (Bannerghatta Road) (1.10pm, 4 pm) Gopalan Cinemas (Ra-jarajeshwari Nagar) (1.15 pm, 5.05pm) Inox (JP Nagar) (3.45 pm) Inox(Magrath Road) (6.40 pm)

Inox (Malleswaram) (6.35 pm) La-vanya (10.30 am, 1.30 pm) Sribalaji(Vannarpet) (10.45 am, 1.45 pm)Vaishnavi (11.15 am, 2.15, 6.15, 9.15pm) Vinayaka (Mysore Road) (10.30am,1.30 pm)

VEDI (U)Vishal, Sameera ReddyAmruth (10.30am, 2.15, 5.15, 8.15pm) Ajantha (10.30 am, 1.30 pm)Aruna (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Cinepolis (10.30 am, 12.30,9.05 pm) Fame (Lido) (12.15 pm,7.10 pm) HMT Cinemas (Jalahalli)(4.15 pm) Inox (Jayanagar) (7 pm)Inox (JP Nagar) (10.30 am, 6.30 pm)Inox (Malleswaram) (1.05 pm, 9.20pm) Keshava (11 am, 2.15, 5.30,8.30 pm) Lavanya (4.30 pm, 7.30pm) Mahadeshwara (11.15 am, 2.15,6.15, 9.15 pm) Maheshwari (Jayana-gar) (10.15 am,1.15, 5.15, 8.15 pm)Natraj (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.45, 7.45pm) Poornima (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30,7.30 pm) Pushpanjali (BN Pura)(2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm).

FORCE (U/A)Genelia D’Souza, John Abraham

Anand (3.30, 7, 10 pm) Bhumika(10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm)Cauvery (11.30 am, 6 pm)Cinemax (11 am, 1.45, 7, 9.45 pm)Cinepolis (10 am, 12.35, 4.20, 7.15,10 pm) Fame (Lido) (10.35 am,1.15, 4, 6.45, 9.30 pm) Fame (ValueMall) (10.30 am, 1.15, 4, 6.45, 9.30pm) Fame (Shankarnag) (10 am,9.20 pm) Fun Cinemas (10.35 am,1.25, 7.10, 10 pm) Gopalan (Ban-nerghatta Road) (10 am, 4.55, 7.25,10 pm) Gopalan Cinemas (MysoreRoad) (1.15 pm, 4, 6.45, 9.30 pm)Gopalan Cinemas (Rajarajeshwari

Nagar) (10 am, 4.10, 7.35, 9.45pm) HMT Cinemas (Jalahalli) (1.30pm, 7.15 pm) Innovative Multiplex(12 pm, 5, 10 pm)Inox (Jayanagar) (10.35 am, 4, 6.45,9.30 pm) Inox (JP Nagar) (10 am,3.55, 6.40, 9.25 pm)Inox (Magrath Road) (10.05 am,12.55, 3.45, 6.35, 9.25 pm) Inox(Malleswaram) (10.05 am, 12.40, 6.15, 9.30 pm) Narendra(KG Halli) PVR Cinemas (10.20 am, 1.05, 1.15, 3.30, 7.15, 9.20,9.25 pm) Rex (1.30 pm, 4 pm)Vaibhav (Sanjay Nagar).

Kasperskyout withsolutionfor firms

Bangalore: Kaspersky Lab hasreleased Kaspersky Endpoint Se-curity 8 for Windows and Kasper-sky Security Center. The newendpoint protection solution andcomprehensive managementconsole are designed to keepbusinesses safe from emergingthreats.

“With this new release, wedeliver an endpoint protectionplatform that consists of inte-grated security modules. We havemerged real-time, cloud-assistedprotection with endpoint pro-tection, and have created a se-curity center that will help com-panies protect themselves againstemerging IT threats, includingtargeted attacks,” said PetrMerkulov, chief product officerof Kaspersky Lab.

Deep anti-malware protection,based on Kaspersky Lab’s strongexpertise and balanced globalfootprint, is supplemented witha broad set of IT security features,including application control,web filtering, and device control.

The solution has been testedby AV-Test.org, an independentresearch centre. A total of sevencorporate security solutions fromdifferent vendors were evaluatedin the testing, and KasperskyEndpoint Security 8 for Windowswas awarded the highest numberof points.

Specifically, Kaspersky Lab’scorporate solution successfullydetected 100% of widespreadmalware samples, blocked allzero-day malware attacks, andreturned the best result in thedetection and removal of activemalware from an infected ma-chine.

Expo by businesswomen

Bangalore: FKCCI is organisinga two-day exhibition-cum-saleby women entrepreneurs on Oc-tober 14 and 15 on FKCCI prem-ises, KG Road, from 10 am to 5pm.

The exhibits include diwalilamps, gift Items, candles, pot-tery, art works, craft items, fash-ion accessories, homemadecondiments etc.

The exhibition will be inau-gurated by Sarojini Bharadhwaja,chairperson, Karnataka StateWomen Development Corpora-tion, on tomorrow at 10 am inthe FKCCI Cabinet Hall.

ImplementRTI in full:

Federation Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The Right To Infor-mation Act should be imple-mented fully.

Otherwise, an agitation will be held, the Federation ofRTI Activists and Forums haswarned.

Though RTI came into forcesix years ago, many of the pro-visions have not been imple-mented.

It specifies that governmentofficials have to provide infor-mation within 30 days, but theyare still not following the rules,said Federation president J S DPhani.

The government should ap-point someone with the knowl-edge of RTI and related issuesas information commissioners,he demanded.

Expodentfrom

tomorrowBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The National DentalIndustry and Marketing Organi-sation is holding Expodent, anexhibition of dentistry and re-lated products in the city tomor-row and Saturday.

The exhibition will focus onthe latest developments in treat-ment, the industry, new equip-ment and cure for serious dentalhealth issues.

Over 350 companies will takepart in the expo, said presidentDr B Subhashchandra Shetty.

Anuradha Vikranth and Drishti Art Centre present the Sundara Vishwam, a dance ballet,celebrating the ‘Circle of Life’ on Saturday at Chowdaiah Memorial Hall.

The performance is part of Drishti’s annual dance festival for its students. It is performedby over 100 students of Drishti Art Centre.

Dance festival

RBI must hold back ratehike for growth: FKCCI

Bangalore: Confirming economicslowdown, the slow industrialgrowth (4.1%) continued in Au-gust 2011 as well, after a 21-monthlow of 3.3 per cent in July 2011. Itis also a worrying factor that themanufacturing sector is contin-uing to grow at a far lower growthof 4.5% in August.

Federation of KarnatakaChamber of Commerce and In-dustry is seriously disturbed overcontinued low industry growth.Because of this slowdown, FKCCIagrees with the economists’ as-sessment that the Indian econ-

omy’ growth will narrow downto about 7.5% this fiscal.

Another worrying factor issubstantial decline in coal pro-duction. It is reported that thepower ministry has estimatedthat the country has lost 4 billionunits (bu) of power generationbetween April and September2011-12 due to a severe dip incoal supply from Coal India andits arms. The low power avail-ability is also crippling the in-dustry, both nationally and inthe state, badly and is telling onits operative costs and returns.

In view of this grim scenario,FKCCI strongly urges the ReserveBank of India to take a pause atthe interest rate hike in its ensu-ing review in the last week ofOctober.

FKCCI, while welcoming theRBI decision to extend interestsubvention of 2% on rupee exportcredit with effect from April 1,2011 to March 31, 2012 to handi-crafts, handlooms, carpet andsmall and medium enterprises(SMEs), wants it to be extendedto as many exporting sectors aspossible.

Plan must to tacklecalamities: IISc prof

Bangalore: The country has toplan preparedness to reduce therisk of huge losses during earth-quakes. Earthquake is not a dis-aster but only a hazard. A well-planned disaster managementprogramme will reduce the lossof life and property, said T GSitharam, professor departmentof civil engineering, IISc, whileinaugurating a three-day trainingprogramme on capacity buildingof architects and engineers inearthquake-risk reduction in Uni-versity Visvesvaraya College ofEngineering.

Bangalore University vice-chancellor N Prabhu Dev saidthere is a huge loss of lives be-cause of disasters like floods,tsunamis and earthquakes. Tech-nology should be developed sothat we can give warning wellin advance and minimise theloss of lives.

UVCE principal Venugopal KR said the Japanese model ofdisaster management should beadopted in the country. He em-phasised that the Japanese couldcome to terms within a week ofthe disastrous tsunami in theirCountry. They could lay the roadswithin three days. Though, theycontinuously live with the riskof earthquakes and violent vol-canoes, they are confident ofovercoming such calamities.When the whole world was anx-

ious about the nuclear leak intothe sea, they were confidentlyexecuting their plan with ease.Japan was destroyed in the twoWorld Wars, still it grew as astrong industrial leader. Theirproducts are acclaimed worldwide, it may be Sony, Mitubushi,Toshiba or Akai. The post-grad-uate earthquake engineeringcourse at UVCE is only secondin the country and aims to train

and build enough infrastructureand capacity to tackle earth-quakes in the country.

V Devaraju and L Govindarajupresented details of the three-day training programme on ca-pacity building of architects andengineers in earthquake risk re-duction. Chairman H N Rameshwelcomed the gathering and Ja-yaramappa proposed the voteof thanks.

Bangalore University vice-chancellor N Prabhu Dev and T GSitharam, professor department of civil engineering, IISc, inaugurate a three-day training programme on capacitybuilding of architects and engineers in earthquake-risk

reduction in University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering.

TCS ranked 3rd in financial techTata Consultancy Services

(TCS), a leading IT services,consulting and business solu-tions organisation, has beenranked third in the FinTech 100,an annual international listingof the top vertical technologyvendors that derive more thanone-third of their revenue fromfinancial services industry asnamed by American Banker,Bank Technology News and IDCFinancial Insights.

For the fourth consecutiveyear, TCS has been rankedamong the top 10 in the Fin-Tech100. Nearly 45% of TCS’ rev-enue came from banking, finan-cial services and insurance dur-ing 2010-11.TCS has moved onespot up from last year. The Fin-Tech 100 ranking is categorised

and evaluated based on calendaryear revenues and the percentageof revenue attributed to financialservices.

“TCS’ continued improvementand recognition is a reflectionof our customers’ confidence,”said N Ganapathy Subramaniam,president, TCS financial solu-tions.

“As the industry navigatesthrough these challenging eco-nomic conditions, TCS remainscommitted to providing best-in-class services and technology tothe financial services industry.”

AEG opens plant in cityBangalore: AEG Power Solu-

tions, manufacturer of powerelectronic systems and solutionsfor industrial power suppliesand renewable energies, inau-gurated its power electronic fac-tory in the city.

AEG PS will produce two solarinverter series PV250 and PV500at the factory. The facility has acapacity to manufacture productsgenerating 400 mw per year withapproximately 150 employees.In the new plant, the next stageof completion foresees the pro-duction of uninterruptable powersupplies (UPSs).

“India invests high amountsof money in solar energy and isone of the most important mar-kets for AEG PS. With a localproduction, we strengthen ourcustomer relationship in focusingon the specific demands,” saidHorst J. Kayser, chief executiveofficer of AEG Power Solutions.

Since 2008, the Indian gov-ernment follows a National Ac-tion Plan on Climate Change,where the extension of solar en-ergy plays a key role. Photovoltaicfields, solar power plants androoftop installations should gen-erate 1,000 mw of power by 2013.Besides this, it is planned to pro-duce further 200 mw by solarsystems, which are not connectedto the public power network.Under the plan, the use of solar-powered equipment and appli-cations would be made compul-

sory in all government buildings,as well as hospitals and hotels.

Kayser and Tarun Kapoor, jointsecretary, Union ministry of newand renewable energy, and N SPrasanna Kumar, managing di-rector, Karnataka Renewable En-ergy Development Ltd, were pres-ent at the inauguration

Horst J Kayser, chief executive officer of AEG

Power Solutions, announcessetting up of a factory in

Bangalore.

CITYThursday, October 13, 2011 3

Mayor Sharadamma and BBMP commissioner Siddaiah take part in a tree plantationprogramme at Lakkasandra this morning. Deputy mayor S Harish, area MLA Ramalinga

Reddy and others were present at the function.

Going green

CITY EVENTSGeneralCaritas India: Valedictory cer-emony of the Golden JubileeCelebrations, governor H RBhardwaj, Archbishop DrBernard Moras, KarnatakaWomen’s Commission Chair-person Manjula C to partici-pate, St John’s Medical Collegeauditorium, 4 pm.

Volvo Buses: Celebrating adecade, chief minister D VSadananda Gowda and pres-ident and CEO Volvo Buss Cor-poration Sweden Hakan Karls-son to participate, MLR Con-vention Centre, Whitefield,6.45 pm.

AEG Power Solutions: Newfactory inauguration, ministryof new and renewable energyjoint secretary Tarun Kapoorand Karnataka Renewable En-ergy Development Ltd MD NS Prasanna Kumar to partici-pate, factory premises, No 85,

Kaniminike village, Kengerihobli, Bangalore South taluk,3:30pm.

CulturalKarnataka Nataka Academy:Monthly play – “Naralu” di-rected by Bharani, RavindraKalashretra, 6.30 pm.

The Indian Institute of WorldCulture: Bharatiya Vidya Bha-van and Infosys Foundationpresent flute recital by VVamshidar – Mysore, No 6,Shri BP Wadia Road, 6.15 pm.

Kannada Yuvajana Sangha:Discussion on Pampa’s liter-ature, Kannada YuvajanaSangha auditorium, Hombe-gowda Nagara, 6 pm.

Penguin Books India: Un-common Ground – Dialoguesbetween business and socialleaders by Rohini Nilekani,Ball Room, The Taj West End,25, Race Course Road, 7:30pm.

Shopping DCalvin Klein Fall 2011: 11a.m. to 8 p.m. Calvin KleinJeans, The Forum Value Mall,Whitefield. CK One Jeanswearpresents a new range suitedfor the urban explorer, whilethe men's range has bold printsand neon colours, across allits outlets.

The Great Forum ShoppingFestival: 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.The Forum Mall, Koramangala.A month-long shopping festi-val that has great discountsand prizes worth Rs 50 crorefor shoppers. Adding to thefestivities are dance troupesfrom all over the country and

live music performances.

Wrangler’s Autumn/WinterCollection: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.Wrangler, No 777, 100 FeetRoad, Indiranagar. The col-lection depicts the characterthat denim acquires after en-during an adrenaline fueledroad trip and shows the rela-tionship it shares with its wear-er.

Swarovski Charm Collection:10 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Swarovs-ki, 1st Floor, Monarch Plaza,Brigade Road. Symbolic,quirky, feminine or offbeat,the charm collection allowswearers to express their per-

sonalities through miniatureworks of art.

Samriddhi Offer: 11 a.m. to 9p.m. Gitanjali, No 3049, 80Feet Road, Indiranagar Gitan-jali offers discounts of up to20% on its Diya range of jew-ellery.

Eating out

Mexican Fiesta: Noon to 11:30p.m. Sports Bar and Lounge,Le Meridien, No 28, SankeyRoad, High GroundsA specialmenu, which pairs Mexicancuisine with beverages. Com-bos include Tequila with Tacosand Beer with Burittos.

Lunch Buffet @ Applewood:12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Apple-wood, No 760, 100 Feet Road,Indiranagar A Global and In-dian lunch buffet, which in-cludes soups, starters, maincourse and desserts, priced atRs. 299 plus taxes per head.

New Italian Menu @ Mocha:11:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Mocha,Lavelle Road, Mocha has in-troduced a new Italian menu,which pays homage to the vi-brant flavours and hearty dish-es of the country. On offer aredishes like Bruschette Di Po-modoro e Basilico, Peperon-cino Della Cucina Messicana,Risotto alla Milanese and Fet-

tucine con Pollo.

New Vegetarian Menu at Nan-do’s: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Nando's, No 1/A, Church Street, Nan-do’s gives vegetarians a reasonto smile with a meat free menu.On it are grilled burgers andwraps, and specialities likethe Veg Espetada, Veg Platter,and Roasted Veg Meal.

Chocofest: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.Baskin Robbins, No 218, NewBEL Road, Chocolate loversare treated to a host of indul-gent flavours like choco chipsmousse, chocolate ice cream,three cheers chocolate, maltedchoco fudge, world classchocolate, mint milk chocolatechips and more. There's alsoan offer where patrons cantake home a family pack onthe purchase of a party packof any of the chocolate flavors

Exhibition Photos for Rato @ Tasveer:11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tasveer, No26/1, Kasturba Cross Road,Photos for Rato is a collectionof twenty rare photographsby Nicholas Vreeland, takenduring the 26 years he hasbeen a Rato monk. They pro-vide a glimpse into daily lifein a monastery, which onlyan insider could have experi-enced.

Painting exhibition: 10 a.m.to 7 p.m. Kynkyny Art, No148 Embassy Square, InfantryRoad, Kynkyny Art presentsan exhibition of paintings byYuvan Bothi Sathuvar andDhrubajyothi Baral.

Nirantara @ Galleryske: 11a.m. to 7 p.m. Galleryske, No2, Berlie Street, Langford Town

Galleryske presents 'Nirantara'by Srinivasa Prasad. The artistemploys materials that high-light the organic growth cycleof life, death and continua-tion.

Next In Line: 11 a.m. to 7p.m. Gallery Blue Spade, TheChancery, 10/6 Lavelle Road,This exhibition features workby 13 women artists such asSonia Jose, Dimple B Shah,Pooja Iranna, Proyanka Govil,Ritu Kamath, Shivani Aggar-wal and others.

Fiesta of Art: 10 a.m. to 6p.m. Gallery Third Eye, No A-1 Epsilon Office Block, Yemalur

Main Road, Yemalur An exhi-bition of paintings by AshokKumar G Hiremath and Swa-pan Sarkar.

ReligiousChinmaya Mission: Discourseon Bhaja Govindam by SujayChaitanya, ChinmayaVidyalaya, 15th Main, 4thBlock, Koramangala, 6.30 pm.

Where is our Rs 20,ask 2 rail travellersClaim Indian Railways not giving full refund of cancelled tickets

L RaghunandaBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Some railway passengersin the city have a curious grievancethat they want addressed. Two indi-viduals claim that the railway bookingoffice is not refunding the correctamount of money on cancelled tickets.

Sharanappa, a wholesale grocerydealer from Yadgir district, told Ban-galore Beat: “I wanted to travel inUdyan express, from Bangalore cityrailway station back to my hometownof Yadgir on the July 31 evening. Myticket was booked for the morning train.The previous evening I decided to cancelmy ticket. The cost of the ticket is Rs270 and I should have received a refundof Rs 250. But I was given only Rs 230.When I and others in the queue askedthe person at the counter he didn’t giveus a satisfactory response.”

Tapan Mukherji, a garment factoryworker from Kolkata also had a similartale to tell. “I had booked a ticket onGuwahati Express on July 26 for Rs508. My ticket was confirmed. My jour-

ney was to be on July 31. However, dueto my wife’s ill-health, I decided to can-cel my ticket. I was supposed to get arefund of Rs 468, but got only Rs 448.When I asked the person at the booking

counter I didn’t get a proper response.Also language was a problem.”

These two individuals approachedBangalore Beat of their own accord asthey did not know of any other way of

redressing their grievances. Soon otherpeople also came forward to say theyhad also come across such problems.An individual who did not wish to benamed said that people who travel by

evening trains and men more thanwomen are victimised. Also people whobelong to economically weaker sectionsand who are not well educated becomea target.

The Bangalore Beat team got in touchwith Y N Babu, deputy manager receiptscommercial section, who was in chargeof ticket refunds. “South Western Rail-ways is known for fair practice in issuingof tickets, and such irregularities arenot found and certainly have not cometo the notice of any of the railway offi-cials.”

“However as per ticketing and re-funding rules, in case of reserved ticketsand confirmed tickets that are cancelled,you will be refunded by deducting Rs40 from the original ticket price.

“In case of non-confirmed tickets,that is, tickets booked some hoursbefore the departure of train, the de-duction will be Rs 20 from originalticket price, so why is all this fuss beingcaused by passengers, there has notbeen a single case that has come to mynotice” said Babu.

Justice Hegde: Only cure for disease of corruption is jail

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Mysore: the department of studies in eco-nomics and cooperation, Mysore universityhad organised an interaction with formerLokayuktha N Santhosh Hegde.

Speaking on corruption, Hegde said“Transparency is everything. India is ranked87th in the world corruption index. When Iassumed the post of Lokyuktha, it was 84th.Corruption is not a new concept; it wasthere before any of us were born. But it ison the increase now. Earlier there was asaying that five fingers were enough to stopcorruption but now, you need five fingersto point out the clean people. Earlier cor-ruption was in terms of two zeros, like 100sor 500s, now it’s in terms of fifteen zeroes.There is no limit to corruption. Public needsto wonder, what will be the future if thislevel of corruption continues. Politicianssay India has seen a lot of development,where is this development? There is no de-

velopment in the rural areas. We have totake administration to the villages. Panchayatraj was good concept for this. But now thereis corruption even there. Every year thegovernment gives 4-5 crores to each villagebut where is that money?

“In my five years of experience as theLokayuktha I have seen corruption every-where. Even in things like pensions for oldpeople, handicapped people and widows.We are forgetting human values. This is adisease called ‘greed over need’. The onlycure for it is to go to jail. Ambition I finewithin limits, but if it crosses the limit thenthis treatment is needed. People have de-veloped aversions like, if they go to a gov-ernment hospital, they will not come back.Doctors need to be honest and straightfor-ward. Everywhere corruption is increasing.We should think about this.”

Hedge also released a book ‘removal ofcorruption by human beings’ by Dr R Bala-subramaniam.

Former Karnataka Lokayukta JusticeSantosh Hegde.

`1.75 cr property found,100 cases solved in city

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The Bangalore cen-tral police division have arrested65 accused and recovered prop-erties worth over Rs 1.75 crorefrom them.

At a property parade today,the police displayed the proper-ties recovered from the accused.

With the arrests, the policeclaimed to have solved 100 casesof theft, dacoity and robbery indifferent places of the city.

The police have recoveredgold, jewellery and other orna-ments, 40 motorbikes, 20 cardsand other valuables from theseaccused.

The property parade was in-spected by city police commis-sioner Jyothi Prakash Mirji, ad-ditional commissioner of police(law and order) T Sunil Kumar,central deputy commissioner ofpolice Ramesh and other policeofficers.

Cabinet may extendservices of 5 officers

D L HarishBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The state cabinet,which is meeting today, may ap-prove the continuation of servicesof five KAS officers who haveretired.

Four of these Karnataka Ad-ministrative Service officers arewith various ministries, whileone is a special officer to Kar-nataka’s representative in NewDelhi Dhananjay Kumar.

A V Prasanna, who is the per-sonal secretary of higher edu-cation minister Dr V S Acharya,H M Kempe Gowda, who is withhome and transport minister RAshok, Mendonca Antony, whois with Dhananjay Kumar at Kar-nataka Bhavan in New Delhi, MR Hegde, who was the state elec-tion commissioner and then legaladvisor to the governor, S F Yo-gappanavar, who was specialofficer to public works depart-

ment minister C M Udasi, andHiremaniavar, who is with socialwelfare minister ANarayanaswamy, are the officerswho are likely to get the wind-fall.

The cabinet is also likely toapprove a floriculture universitythat is likely to be set up nearKolar. Allocation for the univer-sity has already been made inthe budget.

The cabinet will also approvedrinking water projects for inand around Hosakote in Banga-lore Rural district. It is likely toallocate Rs 10 crore for the proj-ects. The much-fancied idea of

excise minister Renukacharyaof producing wine from beetrootmay also get the cabinet nod. Itwill be part of a new wine policythat has been formulated by theexcise ministry.

The group of ministers wouldapprove allotment of five acreland to Parimala Nagappa,whose husband and former min-ister H Nagappa was killed byforest brigand Veerappan in2002. The allotment is likely tohappen in and around Kumbal-agodu on the outskirts of Ban-galore. During the regime of for-mer chief minister S M Krishna,the government had promiseda 10-acre land to the widow. Butafter the BJP government cameto power, it has been pared downby half.

Sources told Bangalore Beatthat it was not clear whether theland would be donated to heror a nominal cost would be re-covered from Parimala.

Bangalore police commissioner Jyothi Prakash Mirji inspects goods recovered by the central police in Bangalore today.

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Going back in time

Protesters distribute kerosene lamps to households while demonstrating against loadshedding at Mysore today. The state has been facing a severe power shortage.

G S Ravishankar

It's cut‑throat business: BoparaAfter a couple of important

innings for England duringtheir home ODI series

against India, Ravi Boparastartedthe tour of India with a score of73 against Hyderabad, whichwas crucial to the England XIwinning the game. However,Bopara, who has been in andout of the England side duringhis career, is not taking anythingfor granted.

"It's a cut-throat business,"he said. "You've just got to keepplaying well whenever thingsare in your favour, and makesure you nail it."

England dominated India athome, winning the Test series4-0 and the five-match ODI series3-0, but the challenge for themwill be to adapt to conditions inthe subcontinent, where theystruggled during the World Cup.Bopara said singles would beimportant since sometimes itwas difficult to go through withyour shots on Indian pitches.

"You've always got to look forboundaries; you've got to keephitting the ball very hard. But itis a lot more difficult in Indiabecause you do know that if thepitch is not playing quite rightyou can't go through with all

your shots. There is the worryof chipping it to the infield.

"You've got to have that inmind. You don't then hit the ballquite as hard or freely as youwould like to. On those sorts ofpitches, the singles do becomevery important - you don't wantto be tied up with too many dotballs and put yourself underpressure, and have to look for abig shot on a pitch that is notquite suited to the batters."

England's batsmen had atough time of it against Hyder-abad, losing four wickets in the

first 15 overs before Bopara andChris Woakes took them to ascore of 219. "It was a little bit ofa difficult pitch, especially upfront," Bopara said. "With thenew ball, it was quite tough. Butonce the ball got older, it gotbetter.

"It was hard to get the ballaway, and quite a soft outfield.It was one of those where wethought we should be scoring alot quicker, but in reality Ithought 240 would have been agood score, and as it proved 220was a good score."

Bopara recently put in a sur-prising performance with theball, taking 4 for 10 to help Eng-land beat West Indies in a Twen-ty20 international at The Oval.He said he expected his bowlingto be called upon against Indiaas well.

"I think it's important for meto get my bowling right on thistour. At some stage my bowlingis going to be called upon andI'm going to have to do a goodjob because, as we know, thisIndian side have a very, verygood batting line-up; they areplaying in their own conditionstoo." He said he hoped to kickon from the positive start to thetour.

Meanwhile, wicketkeeper-batsman Craig Kieswetter is setto join England at practice forthe first time on October 10, afterSomerset were eliminated fromthe Champions League T20 atthe semi-final stage.

Kisewetter suffered a bruisedarm during the semi-final againstMumbai Indians, when he wasstruck by a smash down theground from his batting partnerJos Buttler.

England will assess the injuryas soon as possible.

Youth Congpolls on infull swing

Haveri: The police today pro-vided tight security for voters inthe Youth Congress presidentialpoll in the district. There waseven a small scuffle between twogroups during the voting in Hana-gal town. Today the second roundof voting takes place for the postof KPYCC president. Countingwill be on Oct 15 and the winnerwill be announced the same day.The candidate who gets the sec-ond highest number of votes willbe the vice-president and thenext highest will be general sec-retary of the youth congress.

BSY: Powerproblems willsoon be over

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Shimoga: The central govern-ment has agreed to supply suf-ficient coal to the state, said for-mer chief minister B S Yedyu-rappa here today.

Addressing the media duringthe inauguration of a new andimproved KSRTC bus terminusat Shimoga, Yedyurappa said,“The power crisis in the state isdue to shortage of coal. Thisproblem will be solved in twodays when we get a supply ofcoal from the central govern-ment.”

“Not just Karnataka, but manyother states too are facing severe

power crisis. We are not readyto blame anyone. Oppositionparties should not make baselessallegations against the govern-ment.

“Instead they should cooper-ate with the government to over-come the crisis.” Yedyurappasaid.

Guv accepts Upa Lokayuktaʼs

resignationBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Governor H RBharadwaj has accepted the res-ignation of Upa Lokayukta R Gu-rurajan. In a sudden move yes-terday, Gururajan tendered hisresignation from the post of UpaLokayuktha to the city citingpoor health. Sources believe how-ever that that is not the real rea-son. Gururajan was unavailablefor comment.

Gururajan took up the positionof Upa Lokayukta just twomonths back, but became em-broiled in a property scam in

HBCS. Gururajan bought a sitein judicial layout in 2001 andgave an affidavit at the time stat-ing that he does not own anyother land. However, Gururajanalready owned a flat inMalleswaram at the time. Healso constructed a house in theChitrapura housing co-operativesociety.

A person who owns asite/flat/house in Bangalore isnot allowed to buy a site fromany other house building co-op-erative society. This affair comingto light has left Gururajan red inthe face.

Maruti strike declared illegalNew Delhi: The strike at theMaruti Suzuki India's Manesarplant entered its seventh day onThursday with it being declaredillegal by the Haryana LabourDepartment the police and theadministration. The protestingworkers told to evacuate theplant's premises immediately.

In support of the striking work-ers, different trade unions havepledged to hold a meeting out-side the Manesar plant.

Meanwhile, the HaryanaLabour Department has initiatedthe process to cancel the regis-tration of union at the Manesarplant, along with those at SuzukiPowertrain and Suzuki Motor-cycle.

When contacted, a Labour De-partment official said, "The work-ers have not replied to the notice

issued against them for the vio-lation of settlement agreementsigned on October 1 and hencea prosecution will be filed againstthem in the court."

Since the strike has been de-clared illegal, the police has beengiven the power to evict theworkers from the factory, headded.

Workers at MSI's Manesarplant went on stay-in strike onOctober 7 afternoon completelyaffecting production at the plant,demanding reinstatement of over1,000 casual workers and 44 per-manent employees, who weresuspended during the standoffthat started on August 29.

Simultaneously, workers atSPIL and SMIPL have gone onstrike in support of their col-leagues at MSI Manesar plant.

Blow for Uphaar victims,SC lowers compensation

New Delhi: In a major relief for AnsalTheatre and Clubotels Ltd in the 1997Uphaar Cinema fire tragedy in New Delhi,the Supreme Court on Thursday reducedthe compensation payable to the familyof those killed in the tragedy.

The apex court reduced the compen-sation for persons above 20 years whodied in the tragedy from Rs 18 lakh to Rs10 lakh and that for people below 20

years has been reduced from Rs 15 lakhto Rs 7.5 lakh.

Ansal Theatre and Clubotels Ltd, whichowned the Uphaar theatre, will pay 85per cent of the the compensation whilethe remaining 15 per cent will have to bepaid by the Delhi Vidyut Board (DVB).

However, the court also observed thatthe Ansals and the DVB are liable for theUphaar tragedy, and not the Municipal

Coprporation of Delhi and the licencingauthority. The decision comes more than14 years after the inferno snuffed out 59lives and injured 103 others.

The Association of Victims of UphaarFire Tragedy (AVUT) had sought a civilcompensation from Ansal Theatre andClubotels Ltd. and the Delhi governmentalleged 'negligence' on their part led tothe fire in the cinema hall.

The verdict of this case came on April24, 2003, and the Delhi High Court foundowners of the Uphaar cinema, MCD, DVBand the licensing authority 'guilty of neg-ligence', and awarded Rs 25 crore civilcompensation to the relatives of victims,which included Rs 15 lakh each to therelatives of the victims, less than 20 yearsat the time of the tragedy and a sum ofRs 18 lakh each to those, above 20 years.

Bhushan attack: Tejinder Baggaand Vishnu Gupta arrested

New Delhi: Two of the threemen who attacked seniorSupreme Court lawyer PrashantBhushan on Wednesday insidehis chamber have been arrestedby the Delhi Police. Tejinder PalSingh Bagga and Vishnu Gupta,the two men who had been ab-sconding after attackingBhushan, were arrested by theDelhi Police on Thursday froma house where they were hid-ing.

The duo, who apparently be-long to a little known outfit calledthe Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena,has been brought to the TilakMarg police station. Both havebeen booked for trespass, crim-inal assault and criminal con-spiracy.

Earlier they had said that theywould court arrest in PatialaHouse Court at 11.30 am. How-ever, the police arrested thembefore they could reach the court.

Soon after Bhushan was at-tacked Bagga claimed responsi-bility for the incident. He alsoclaimed that he had attacked

Hurriyat Leader Syed Ali ShahGilani and activist ArundhatiRoy for their remarks on Kash-mir.

The third person who attackedPrashant Bhushan Inder Vermawas arrested on Wednesday itself.Verma claims that he is the pres-ident of a right wing group calledSri Ram Sena.

Bhushan, a close aide of anti-corruption crusader Anna Haz-are, was beaten up by three peo-ple inside his chamber in theSupreme Court on Wednesdaybecause of his comments on theremoval of the Armed ForcesSpecial Powers Act from theKashmir Valley.

The trio barged into Bhushan'schamber on Wednesday after-noon claiming that they had anappointment with him and bru-tally assaulted him.

The attackers pulled the lawyerout of the chair, slapped, draggedand repeatedly punched him.Even after Bhushan fell downthe attackers kept on hitting himwith their legs. Bhushan's shirt

was torn and his spectacles fellwhen he was roughed up.

Attacker distanceshimself from BJPNew Delhi: Tejinder Singh Bag-ga, one of the three men whoattacked senior lawyer PrashantBhushan, says he does not regrethis act and denies any link withthe RSS and BJP.

Just before going to PatialaHouse court to surrender, hesaid," We did this becausePrashant Bhushan said thereshould be a referendum on Kash-mir. I don't think Bhushan de-served any other treatment."

"Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena is an organisation which also does social work. We alwayscondemn anti-national state-ments. Anyone who makes state-ments like these will be attackedby us," he said.

When asked if this act was onanyone's behest, he said, "It wassolely our own decision. We did-n't like his statements and that's

why we attacked him."This was not the only act of

Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena. Baggaclaimed that he had attackedHurriyat Leader Syed Ali ShahGilani and activist ArundhatiRoy in the past.

He denied any connectionwith BJP, saying he was with theparty two years ago and nowhave no connection with it.

"I have no links with the BJPnow. I used to be their memberonce upon a time. I don't deny Ihave posters of BJP leaders inmy house. But they were put upa year back," he said.

On why he is going to surren-der, he candidly said, "We havebroken the law. We accept it. So,we are going to surrender."

His father Preet Pal Singh has condemned his son's act,saying,"What he did was wrong. I don't support his action.I have noticed this in past thatwhenver someone has spokenagainst Kashmir he has reactedthis way."

PM race: Umabacks Advani

New Delhi: On the third day ofthe LK Advani's Jan Chetna Yatra,BJP senior leader Uma Bharti onThursday added fuel to the dis-cussions over the party's primeministerial candidature in thenext Lok Sabha elections, sup-porting the veteran yatri's namefor the race.

Bharti pitched for Advani asthe BJP's Prime Ministrial manwhile supporting Advani's anti-corruption yatra.

Addressing a rally at Varanasi,she said, "Those who have start-ed the yatra from Varanasi, havegone on to become the becomethe Prime Minister of India."

The former MP CM who in thepast has slammed Advani forhis remark on Jinnah, was ofall-praise for the 83-yr-old Ad-vani.

Uma Bharti was recently reind-cuted into the BJP with an eyeon UP polls.

As his Jan Chetna Yatra en-tered third day on Thursday, Ad-vani had to face protests againsthis proposed rally in Varanasi.

Congress workers shoutedAnti-Advani slogans wirth hoard-ings in their hands.

The police personnel deployedto check the crowd escorted theprotesters into a bus.

Advani is expected to proceedtowards Mathura later in the daywhere BJP senior leaders SushmaSwaraj and Arun Jaitley are ex-pected to flag off the Mathurasegment of the yatra.

With this, Advani will wrapup the Uttar Pradesh leg of JanChetna Yatra against corruption.He is expected to enter MadhyaPradesh's Rewa district later thisevening.

Explosive was for Delhi: PoliceNew Delhi: The Delhi police

today revealed that the explosivesfound in an abandoned car inAmbala was meant for bannedterror outfit Babbar Khalsa In-ternational and was to be usedin Delhi.

As per the Delhi Police, centralintelligence agencies had pro-vided the input that a moduleof the Lashkar-e-Toiba was activein J&K. Then on October 12, aspecific input was passed onabout a consignment of explo-sives being sent from J&K foruse in Delhi.

A possible terror attack wasfoiled just days before the Diwali

festival with the recovery of over5-kg explosives and detonatorsfrom a car parked outside theAmbala Cantt Railway Station,police said on Thursday.

Haryana Police sources saidtwo newspapers with Jammudateline and empty sweet boxfrom a shop in Jammu was foundin the car.

Acting on a tip-off, a joint po-lice team of Delhi and Haryanafound the explosives in a blueIndica car parked outside therailway station on Wednesdaynight.

"Five detonators, two timerdevices, five kg explosives in two

packets and two batteries wereseized from the car lying parkedoutside the railway station,"Haryana's Director General ofPolice, Ranjiv Dalal, who alongwith senior officials of HaryanaPolice rushed to the spot, said.

Bomb disposal squads weresummoned from Madhuban andother neighbouring places.

A box of sweets was found ly-ing in the car, which showedthat it was purchased from Jam-mu's Bari Brahmna area besidestwo newspapers from Jammuand Kashmir.

The car was bearing a fakeHaryana registration number

and police suspect that it was astolen one.

When asked if the intendedtarget of the terror plot couldhave been Delhi, Dalal said, "Se-nior officers from various inves-tigating and security agenciesare here. We are probing everyangle".

As the cantonment area is alsolocated in Ambala, police wouldalso be probing if the target couldhave been a military installationin the region.

The explosives have been sentfor forensic test and a team ofNational Security Guard (NSG)from Delhi has reached the spot.

Sensex listless;

ICICI, SBImove up

Mumbai: Indian equity bench-marks were moving around keypsychological levels - Nifty washovering around 5100 and Sen-sex 17000 level. Banks, technol-ogy, realty, ADAG and select met-al stocks were supporting themarket while FMCG, power,healthcare, auto and capitalgoods stocks were on sellers'radar. The 50-share NSE Niftyfell 21 points to 5,078 and the30-share BSE Sensex declined69 points to 16,889.

The roller-coaster ride for themarkets may continue, saysRakesh Arora of Macquarie.

"Globally, the European issueis likely to remain in a limbo tillthe meeting on November 4.Thus domestic issues will takecentre stage. We are not expectingpositive newsflow from earningsand the next Policy meet, hencerecommend selling on rallies,"he reasoned.

Among largecaps, ITC, L&T,Bharti Airtel, M&M, Tata Motors,HUL, ONGC, NTPC, Maruti, TataPower, Jaiprakash Associates,Coal India and JSPL lost 1-2 percent. HDFC and Hero Motocorpfell 0.6 per cent.

However, buying continuedin ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, SBI,TCS, Tata Steel, Sterlite and DLF,which gained 1-2 per cent. Infosysand BHEL rose 0.4 per cent each.

Market breadth was in favourof advances; about 818 shareswere on buyers' radar while 553shares were under pressure.

Stir againstN‑plant

intensifiesin TN

Chennai: The protests againstthe Kudankulum nuclear powerplant in Tamil Nadu have inten-sified with the villagers blockingall entry points to the project onThursday.

Around 700 of the 1000 sci-entists and engineers could notreport for work at the Kudanku-lam nuclear plant, which is inthe Tirunelveli district of thestate, after the protesters blockedroads and stopped them fromproceeding to the plant. Around5000 of the 6000 contract work-ers could not reach the plantsite.

More than 100 villagers areon on indefinite fast while an-other 1000 are on relay hungerstrike near the nuclear plant site.They are demanding the nuclearpower project should bescrapped.

The protests have intensifiedjust a day after Prime MinisterManmohan Singh wrote a secondletter to Tamil Nadu Chief Min-ister J Jayalalithaa seeking thestate's help in continuing thework at the power plant.

Govt mooting Rajyotsavaawards for lens men

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: “Photographers inthe state should have an academyand I will talk to chief ministerto set up one such academy,”said law and parliamentary af-fairs minister Suresh Kumar herethis morning, while inauguratinga Chaaya Vishishta –Masters andFellows, a photography exhibi-tion from different photogra-phers, at Karnataka ChitrakalaParishath this morning.

The neighbouring states ofAndhra Pradesh and Tamil Naduhave such academies, he said.“Photographers make obscureconcepts real. They also capture

the present for use by the futuregenerations,” he said.

The exhibition with 150 pho-tographs will be on from October13 to October 17. It has works ofsome of the state’s best photog-raphers.

M Y Ghorpade, T N A Perumul,B Srinivas, M N Jayakumar, H VPraveen Kumar, R Dev, C Ra-machandra Rao, S Nagaraj, SThippeswamy, H Satish, Dr GThomas, C Rajagopal, B N S Deowere among the photographerswho have put up their works.

Animals, birds, domestic life,dawn and dusk are the conceptson display here.

Suresh Kumar said, “The gov-

ernment is thinking of recognis-ing the works of photographersby giving them rajyotsava awardsfrom next year.”

The exhibition has been or-ganised by Prakruthi Creationsand showcases works of thosewho have spent most parts oftheir life clicking photographs.

The exhibition also aims atcreating awareness about differ-ent species that are on the vergeextinction and the necessity ofprotecting our environment, saidK Soumya, coordinator, PrakruthiCreations.

Renowned filmmaker M SSathyu too took part in the in-auguration.

Law and parliamentary affairs minister Suresh Kumar and renowned filmmaker M S Sathyinaugurate Chaaya Vishishta –Masters and Fellows, a photography exhibition from different

photographers, at Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath this morning.

S Radhakrishna