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I am confident of Mahadayi meeting’s 

success: Siddaramaiah 

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A man with too many 

achievements 

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BJP ‘sloganeering’ on temple to 

woo voters: Shiv Sena 

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5 healthy snack ideas 

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STATE 

Thieves attempt to 

enter Vijaya Bank’s 

strong room 

Mangaluru: Some unidentified 

thieves entered Vijaya 

bank, Baikampady branch 

on one of the last five days 

by breaking the iron window 

from behind. They failed to 

break the strong room and 

hence went empty handed, it is 

gathered. 

As the bank was closed for 

5 days due to festive holidays, 

the theft attempt was only discovered 

on Thursday, October 

13, when the bank employees 

entered the premises. 

It is said that the thieves 

also broke the CCTV system. 

Panambur police visited the 

spot with fingerprint experts 

and have registered case. 

One dead, two 

injured as KSRTC 

bus hits car 

Hassan: A woman died and 

two others, including a twoyear-old 

baby, were injured 

when the car they were travelling 

in was hit by a KSRTC bus 

near Hodedakatte village in 

Arakalgudu taluk on Wednesday 

evening. 

The deceased has been identified 

as Parvathy (50), native of 

Konanuru village in Arakalgudu 

taluk. 

She was travelling with her 

grandson and a driver. The KS- 

RTC bus, heading to Madikeri 

from Bengaluru, ran into an agriculture 

field after hitting the 

car. The injured have been admitted 

to a hospital in Hassan. 

Four killed in 

accident 

Belagavi: Four members of a 

family, including two children, 

were killed on the spot in an 

accident near Desur on Khanapur 

Road, under Belagavi rural 

police station limits on Tuesday 

night. 

Fakeerappa Rama Kuri (27), 

his wife Ganggavva (22), and 

their daughters, Manikantha 

(2) and Radhika (1), residents 

of Vadagaon in the city were 

headed to Kakkeri village of 

Khanapur taluk on a motorcycle. 

They were going to visit 

Sree Bhishta Devi temple on 

the occasion of Dasara when 

they were killed on the spot 

after a head-on collision with 

a speeding jeep coming from 

Dandeli. Senior police officials 

and ambulance shifted the 

bodies to the district government 

hospital. 

A case has been registered 

and further investigation is on. 

Three children 

drown in tank 

Vijayapura: Three children 

drowned in the farm tank in 

Bijjaragi village in vijayapura 

taluk on Wednesday. 

The deceased have been 

identified as Anand (10), Adi 

(5) and Bhagawwa (6). 

While first two were reported 

to be the children of Ravi 

Talwar, a native of the village, 

the girl was their neighbour. 

According to reports all 

three children, who were at the 

farmhouse, went fetch water 

from the farm tank but fell accidently. 

The family later found 

the children’s body which was 

later fished out. Tikota police 

has registered the case. Meanwhile 

the family is inconsolable 

after losing their children. 

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I am confident of Mahadayi 

meeting’s success: Siddaramaiah 

Bengaluru: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on 

Thursday said that he was confident of the success 

of the meeting on Mahadayi river water 

scheduled for October 21 in Mumbai. 

Speaking with media persons after releasing 

the special issue of Vartha Bharathi, a Kannada 

daily, on the occasion of its 14th anniversary 

at Krishna in Bengaluru, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah 

said Mahadayi Water Tribunal had advised 

the three states to resolve the water dispute 

through negotiations. “I contacted Chief 

Minister of Goa and Maharashtra over the 

phone to arrange a meeting for this purpose. 

I had made it clear that I am ready to attend 

the meeting irrespective of who organizes it 

(Maharashtra or Goa). Now, Maharashtra Chief 

Minister has come forward to organize the 

meeting. I have convened an all-party meeting 

on October 19 to get suggestions and opinion 

from all political parties,’’ Siddaramaiah said. 

When asked about Goa Congress leader’s 

statement that Goa would not release a drop of 

Mahadayi river water to Karnataka, the chief 

minister said that he decided to attend the 

meeting as per the advice of Mahadayi Water 

Tribunal. “The chief ministers of Goa and Maharashtra 

will attend the meeting after availing 

the suggestions and opinions of all political 

parties of the respective states. Therefore, 

we need not give too much importance to the 

statement of a particular leader. It will be the 

Hassan MLA Prakash accuses 

minister of harassing his brother 

Hassan: H.S. Prakash, legislator 

from Hassan, has accused 

Minister for Animal Husbandry 

A. Manju of harassing 

his brother and forcing him 

to take voluntary retirement 

as Assistant Director of the 

Department of Animal Husbandry. 

The MLA has also 

released an audio clip of the 

minister’s telephone conversation 

with the officer. MLA 

Prakash’s younger brother 

Dr. H.S.Mohan Das took voluntary 

retirement earlier 

this year. 

Addressing the media 

on Thursday, Prakash said 

Manju, who is also minister 

in-charge of Hassan district, 

had telephoned his brother 

Mohan Das on January 7 this 

year and told him that he had 

received a complaint 

against him 

and based on that 

he would get him 

transferred to a distant place. 

The minister in his conversation 

alleged that my 

brother had taken a bribe 

from someone and claimed 

he had photographs to prove 

his allegation. If he had received 

any complaint against 

my brother, who is a government 

official, he should 

have ordered an inquiry. But, 

instead, he threatened him 

with transfer. Fed up with 

the development, my brother 

took voluntary retirement 

from the service, though he 

had one-and-half-a-years of 

service left, Prakash said. 

The MLA alleged that the 

minister targeted his brother 

for political reasons. There 

was no need of threatening 

him with transfer. “This is 

purely for political reasons. I 

did not want to share this all 

with the media all these days. 

However, recently, the minister 

shifted the veterinary 

polyclinic set up in Hassan to 

Arakalgud, his constituency. 

This move prompted me to 

bring out the past incident,” 

he added. 

Further, he said the minister 

could order an inquiry 

into the allegation against his 

brother. “Let him order for an 

inquiry if he was found guilty 

let his pension benefits be 

withdrawn,” he challenged. 

Former minister Srinivas Prasad to quit 

Congress, criticizes Siddaramaiah 

Mysuru: Former state minister and veteran 

Congress leader, Srinivas Prasad, has decided 

to quit his assembly seat as well as the 

primary membership of Congress on October 

17. The senior most Dalit leader from 

the state, who represents Nanjangud constituency 

in the state assembly, made this 

announcement at a press conference held 

at Nanjangud on Wednesday October 12. He 

said that he has decided to leave Congress, 

having been frustrated at the conspiracy-driven 

politics being played by chief minister, 

Siddaramaiah. 

“Since young, I have maintained self-respect 

in political field. Siddaramaiah has 

delivered a blow to my self-respect. I had 

planned to resign during last month, but 

postponed it in view of Cauvery dispute. 

Congress does not seem to be in need of honest 

politicians like me. Congress is suffering 

under the grip of a handful of people here, 

and Siddaramaiah perhaps had to sacrifice 

my interests to carve out a future for Mallikarjun 

Kharge’s son,” he quipped. 

Although both JDS and BJP have begun 

efforts to woo Prasad, as per information, 

Prasad is considering the option of fighting 

the election as an independent candidate, 

and choose a political party after the 

victory. Still, both JDS state president, H D 

Kumaraswamy, and BJP state president, B S 

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah releasing the special issue of Vartha Bharathi, a Kannada daily, on the occasion of its 14th anniversary at 

Krishna on Thursday. Minister for Bengaluru Development K J George and others are seen on the occasion. 

first meeting. We want to have a comprehensive 

discussion on all issues during the meeting,’’ 

the chief minister said. 

On the issue of state BJP leaders meeting 

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, 

the chief minister said Mahadayi water 

dispute is between Karnataka and Goa and 

it would be better to discuss with the chief 

minister of Goa. “I am of the opinion that 

there is no need for any controversy at this 

stage. I want the proposed meeting 

Yeddyurappa, have got in touch with local 

leaders to discuss possibility of convincing 

the veteran to join their respective parties. 

As soon as his decision to leave assembly 

and the Congress came to be known, BJP 

leaders got in touch with him and invited 

him to join their party on the day retired IAS 

officer, Shivaram, is scheduled to join it. JDS 

also offered to admit him in a huge rally that 

would be held in the city for the purpose, 

and offered a position of responsibility if he 

opted to join their party. 

However, when a JDS leader recently met 

him, he reportedly told him that he wants to 

prove his might by fighting the bypoll independently 

as he felt he has suffered reverses 

within his own community. He feels that the 

coming election will be the litmus test for his 

popularity in the region. If Prasad decides to 

fight independently, both JDS and BJP might 

extend support from outside, without fielding 

their candidates, it is being analyzed. 

successful,’’ he said. 

He said the hearing of the special leave petition 

(SLP) on Cauvery is scheduled for October 

18 in the Supreme Court. “Legal experts 

and officials of water resources department 

are busy in preparing the necessary 

documents,’’ he said. 

He has assured to look into the objections 

and suggestions from the public on the 

proposed steel flyover between Basaveshwara 

Circle and Hebbal. 

Huge turnout at 

Muharram procession 

Bengaluru: People turned out in large numbers at several 

places in Bengaluru for the annual Yaum-e-Ashura Juloos, 

the procession on the 10th day of Muharram when Muslims 

mourn Imam Hussain, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad 

and his family who were martyred on this day. 

Dressed in black, the mourners began the procession at 

Masjid-e-Askari, Johnson Market and other places and moved 

towards the Persian Shia cemetery. 

In unison, the crowd called out Hussain’s name as men and 

young boys gathered at the centre of the procession, were 

beating their chests to the sound of drums. 

As women and onlookers watched, the men took out chains 

with blades and knives attached to them and whipped their 

backs with it. Scars from previous years were visible on the 

backs of many. Even young boys took part in the ritual, onlookers 

said. 

Abbas Khaleeli, a student explained that the Zanjeer ka 

matam, as it is known, is performed so that we feel the pain 

Hussain and his family went through in the Battle of Karbala. 

This battle was fought with Yazid, who was propagating anti-Islamic 

practices, he said. 

Zaki Khaleeli, a consultant, and his family refrain from all 

forms of entertainment during the first 13 days of Muharram. 

We do not have any parties and we listen to sermons more 

often. We had a death in our family recently but we did not 

have the usual mourning period or have a funeral ceremony 

because the mourning of Muharram precedes all else, he added. 

Families have congregations in their homes calling people 

from the community to gather and pray in their homes. “It is 

said that the spirit of the martyrs will come to your home if 

you have a congregation. Food is offered to the people who 

come,” Khaleeli added. 

There was an atmosphere of grief as poems about the sacrifice 

of Hussain and the sufferings of his family were recited. 

Banners with sayings condemning terrorism were also put up. 

The police monitored the crowd to ensure that no untoward 

incident took place and, ambulances were on standby to ensure 

medical aid to those in need. Volunteers handed out packets 

of water to the participants. Water was sprayed to provide 

relief to the participants and to clean the blood on the path. 

Kidnapped boy 

rescued in Hubballi 

Hubballi: An eleven-yearboy 

from Mumbai, who allegedly 

escaped from the 

clutches of kidnappers, 

was rescued by the railway 

police in Hubballi. 

According to the police, 

the boy who identified 

himself as Abhay, told the 

police that he was from 

Bhaskar Nagar in Mumbai. 

In a statement given by 

the boy to the railway police 

officials, he was reportedly 

was kidnapped by four 

masked men from his place 

on October 10 and claimed 

to be drugged by them. 

After regaining consciousness, 

he said he managed 

to escape and came to 

Hubballi railway station. 

The incident came to light 

after the railway police 

questioned Abhay, who 

was found loitering at the 

railway station. 

After preliminary investigations, 

the railway police 

are now making efforts 

to contact Abhay’s parents 

in Mumbai. Meanwhile, 

Abhay is now under the 

custody of Bala Mandir in 

Hubballi. 

Further investigation is 

on, the police sources said. 

Yettinahole project- Centre 

permits to cut down trees 

Mangaluru: The department 

of forest and environment 

has given its 

clearance to cut down 

4,995 trees and 1,332 

bamboo groves spread 

over 14 acres of forest in 

Sakleshpur, Hassan district, 

for the much talked 

Yethinahole Project. Thus 

decks have been cleared 

for the project to move 

ahead. The trees and 

groves so cut have been 

ordered by the state government 

to be stocked 

in the timber yard at 

Hassan. The actual measurement 

of timber and 

firewood so got need to 

be got certified by deputy 

forest conservator 

before shifting them to the 

timber yard. 

The Yettinahole project, 

which proposes to 

provide drinking water 

to Kolar, Chikkamagaluru, 

and Bengaluru urban 

districts has not go down 

well with the people of 

western ghat region. 

Subsequently, it attracted 

various organizations 

to go on agitation across 

the region. Hence, the 

project was facing stumbling 

block in the form 

of non-clearance of the 

state’s proposals to clear 

forest areas. There were 

allegations that scores 

of trees were cut down 

Shifting of veterinary 

polyclinic opposed 

Jilted lover commits 

suicide in Koppal 

Koppal: A jilted lover 

committed suicide outside 

the girl’s residence at Munirabad 

in Koppal taluk, 

after she turned down his 

marriage proposal. The deceased 

has been identified 

as Kiran kumar of Jeerhal 

Kalgudi of Gangavati taluk, 

who was studying in college 

in Hubballi city. 

According to the police, 

Kiran kumar had reportedly 

left behind a video death 

note recorded on his mobile 

in Telugu, before taking 

the extreme step. 

Kirankumar and the 

girl were reportedly had 

without obtaining prior 

approval of the ministry 

of environment. There 

are a few cases against 

the project before National 

Green Tribunal. 

The state had given 

an undertaking to the 

tribunal not to cut down 

trees without getting 

clearance from central 

government. The tribunal 

is likely to issue its final 

orders relates disputes 

raised shortly. 

The forest ministry 

however, when approving 

the proposal of Karnataka 

Neeravari Nigam 

Ltd to clear the forest in 

around 14 acres of forest, 

has placed conditions 

that the area should continue 

to remain under 

forest department after 

project execution, steps 

should be taken to hand 

over land that is equal in 

size to forest department 

where forest should be 

grown, after completing 

works, about 40 hectares 

of land considered as 

dumping area should be 

restored and developed 

as forest after completion 

of works, water should 

be pumped only between 

June 15 and October 31 

every year, etc. A total of 

53 conditions have been 

set out by the department, 

it is gathered. 

Hassan: legislator from 

Hassan, H.S.Prakash and 

former MLC Patel Shivaram 

have opposed the State 

Government’s move to shift 

veterinary polyclinic from 

Hassan to Arakalgud, the 

assembly constituency represented 

by A. Manju, Minister 

for Animal Husbandry 

and minister in-charge of 

Hassan district. The government 

had issued an 

order to this effect earlier 

this month. 

In a press joint press 

meet, both the leaders opposed 

the government’s 

move. Meanwhile, Prakash 

said the minister shifted 

the polyclinic to his constituency 

for political reasons. 

“Polyclinic is required 

in Hassan as it is district 

centre. Being a Minister 

of Animal Husbandry he 

should have got a polyclinic 

allotted to his constituency, 

instead of shifting the clinic 

already set up in Hassan,” 

Prakash said. 

Shivaram alleged that 

the minister in-charge of 

the district was engaged in 

petty politics. “If our party 

also wanted to do politics 

over development works 

our leaders would have 

taken government medical 

college to Holenarasipur. 

We did not indulge in petty 

politics,” he said. 

a love affair for the past 

three years and were living 

together. When the girl’s 

parents found out about 

the affair, they decided to 

get her married and began 

searching for a suitable 

match, police said. 

Meanwhile, Kirankumar, 

got to know of this, went 

to her house, and vented 

his anger over the issue. 

The girl’s parents and the 

girl as well reportedly have 

turned down his marriage 

proposal, following which 

Kirankumar allegedly 

committed suicide by 

consuming poison.

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Gang stabs man to 

death in Bengaluru 

A 25-year-old man was 

stabbed by an armed gang 

in Devamachohalli village on 

Wednesday evening. The victim, 

Naveen Kumar, was playing 

volleyball at a playground 

in the area when, around 5.30 

p.m., a gang of 10-12 people on 

bikes arrived, stabbed him and 

fled. “According to eyewitnesses, 

there was no altercation. 

The gang members arrived on 

the spot stabbed the victim 

and rode away on their bikes. 

The killing is suspected to be 

motivated by a personal rivalry,” 

a source in the police has 

said. The Taverekere police 

have registered a case and are 

investigating. 

150 million Indians 

have mental health 

issues: Survey 

A nation-wide study by the 

National Institute of Mental 

Health and Neurosciences 

(NIMHANS), Bengaluru found 

that nearly 150 million Indians 

are in need of active intervention 

to treat mental health 

disorders. The findings were 

released on Monday on the occasion 

of World Mental Health 

Day, under the guidance of 

the Union Ministry of Family 

Health and Welfare. They show 

that a shocking 70 per cent of 

the population in need of mental 

healthcare is not getting any 

kind of help. The study — National 

Mental Health Survey 

— found that 13.7 per cent of 

Indians are in need of active 

intervention for one or more 

mental health issues. Primary 

data for the survey was collected 

from 12 States with a 

sample size of 34,802 adults 

and 1,191 adolescents. A pilot 

study was carried out in Kolar 

in Karnataka from January to 

November 2014 

Artists bring 

MG Road metro 

station alive 

Namma metro, Bengaluru’s 

urban railway transport line 

has turned into an artist’s canvas. 

Renonwed artists and students 

from the Srishti School 

of Design are using the walls of 

the metro station on MG road 

to create designs and installations 

that will help develop a 

sense of community ownership. 

The artists are looking at 

building a new image, that of 

a new ‘Brand Bengaluru.’ The 

artists have brought the station 

alive through their murals, 

installations and art work. The 

group is led by Arzu Mistry, 

who is one of the faculty members 

at Srishti, and has been 

involved in this artistic engagement 

with Namma metro for a 

couple years now. 









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A man with many achievements 

Meet Dr. K S Rangappa, who envisaged the 

future of the erstwhile University of Mysore 

for which he has successfully created 

the required platform. Credited with number 

of achievements stapled with patents 

and innovative research papers, Rangappa 

spoke extensively to Nadia S Ranganathan, 

Reporter with CityHilights, on his achievements. 

Can you elaborate on your 

achievements? 

There are many who achieved more than I did. 

I am a hardworker in simple words, I come from 

a very poor family background I had no other past 

time other than reading, and my hobby was to only 

read but I never dreamt of all this, never not once 

did I have the slightest clue. The interest was created 

when I was in my B.Sc and after M.Sc, all I wanted 

was a job so that I can support my family. I used 

to earn Rs 400 and hardly spend about Rs100 and 

the rest used to go to my family. I was very hard 

working I wasn’t limited under working hours or 

anything of that sort. To me my work never felt 

like work it was pure passion. And you know hard 

work never fails. Many of my well wishers told me 

to continue my studies. After M.Sc I earned a scholarship 

and did my research. Before getting my Ph.D 

degree I got my post doctorate offer in Canada and 

from that day I haven’t looked back. Canada was 

my first exposure and it had entirely changed me, it 

was my stepping stone. The University of Saskatchewan, 

in Canada had inspired me to stay in the research 

field. I have 10 countries working with me 

out of which very recently one Israel academy has 

awarded me one the best in the field. My interest is 

to work for the molecules that are good at treating 

cancer, Alzheimer and Diabetes. I have 10 patents 

in the area of drug and scoring program. Infact 

my group has synthesized more that 5,000 molecules. 

A major credit goes to them for their hard 

work. The Japan society for promotional science 

has awarded me 5 awards from their university. I 

also have a collaboration with Cambridge University, 

UK I have published 20 papers with them. I 

have travel quite a bit and that’s how I was able 

to publish all these papers. I have collaborate with 

JNCASR (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced 

Scientific Research) for research I have 2-3 patents 

who are working with me towards cervical cancer 

out of 5,000 only 10 molecules have been prominent 

as of now. You can’t preserve these molecules 

just because they are good you have to put them 

into use. The molecules will be taken to clinical trial 

and the results will know. I work for chemotherapeutics 

as my background is chemistry. I always 

look in for chemistry. 

Why did you take up chemistry? Was 

there any particular reason for this? 

Personally, chemistry is the best subject. I 

wasn’t a very bright child I used to score around 

70% to 75%. But my teachers used to encourage 

me a lot. I studied at Sharada Vilas College, Mysuru. 

My foundation is strong thanks to all of them, and I 

was drawn towards the subject. After my M.Sc and 

Ph.D my exposure to the subject was more hence 

I selected this field and I wanted to give back the 

knowledge that I had gained with whatever resources 

I have. 

You have been the Vice Chancellor for 

University of Mysore since January 

2013 what are the changes you have 

BGS Global Hospitals successfully performs 

complex revision hip replacement surgery 

Dr. KS Rangappa, Vice Chancellor, University of Mysore 

Bengaluru: The hospital 

giant BGS Global Hospitals, 

super specialty quaternary 

care center, successfully 

performed a complex 

revision hip replacement 

surgery, benefitting the 

quality of life of a 52 year 

old woman from Kenya. 

The surgery was led by Dr. 

Basavaraj C.M and Dr. Santosh 

Hakkalamani. 

Margaret Wanjiru, 

aged 52, was born with a 

dislocated hip joint. She 

underwent multiple correction 

surgeries through 

the years. In 1997, she 

underwent a primary 

hip replacement surgery 

which was met with a few 

hurdles. She had to go into 

surgery 4 times resulting 

in complete bed rest for 5 

full months. The surgery 

did not solve the issue at 

hand, causing limping and 

discomfort. In 2007, she 

met with a road accident 

that caused a fracture adjacent 

to the replaced hip. 

This was eventually fixed, 

though it left her in extreme 

pain, thereby affecting 

her ability to walk freely. 

At this point, Margaret 

decided to go in for a revision 

surgery and enquired 

a, a few medical facilities in 

the UK and US. Quoting the 

high cost of surgeries in 

these countries, Margaret 

reached out to BGS Global 

Hospital in Bangalore. Her 

research suggested that 

BGS Global Hospital carried 

out these surgeries at 

a fraction of the cost while 

not compromising on the 

quality of care or the quality 

of implants used in the 

surgery. 

The patient presented 

with severe damage to the 

bone in the hip socket. 

She was short by 2 inches 

in one leg, causing a 

prominent limp. She was 

experiencing extreme pain 

and was regularly on painkillers 

to manage it. 

The team at BGS Global 

Hospital, led by Dr. Basavaraj 

C.M, successfully 

completed the revision 

surgery, by reconstructing 

the missing bone, using 

prosthesis made of a tantalum 

element, that has the 

advantage of being 80% 

porous, ceramic hip bearing 

and techniques such 

as allograft. With a well 

defined surgical plan, they 

were able to tackle the core 

issue as well as the short 

limb. The patient is now 

completely pain free and 

she has now regained her 

limb length. 

Commenting on the 

case, Dr. Basavaraj C.M, 

Consultant Orthopedic 

Surgeon, BGS Global Hospital 

said, “Although Hip 

and Knee Joint Replacement 

surgery is very successful, 

there continues to 

be a need for Revision Joint 

Replacement Surgery in 

cases where the prosthesis 

has loosened, the bearing 

surfaces have worn, 

or a patient has sustained 

trauma with associated 

fracture adjacent to the hip 

or knee joint. These procedures 

can be quite involved 

and require experience 

in dealing with the complex 

issues that arise intra 

operatively.” 

brought in as the VC? 

I knew what I have to do for the university. I 

have been in this university for the last 30 years 

as a student, faculty and now the VC of this institution. 

Therefore, I know the requirement of the 

students and faculty. I have to give back what this 

university has given me. If you see the equipments 

and infrastructure, what I have given is the best. I 

make it a point that whenever I get the time I visit 

the lab. I prefer the laboratory more than this position. 

I would definitely rate my university the best. 

You are one of the leading chemists 

in the country. Can you tell us your 

plans? 

After retiring as the VC I will have my own area 

of interest. I will be independent. For now Madras 

University, National Institute of Singapore (NIS) 

and another Chinese professor would like to work 

on the cancer treating molecules in the area of Biotech. 

I haven’t accepted the offer yet. 

How different is the education system 

in the country when compared with 

other countries? 

In most of the countries, education is a serious 

issue; here it’s a little casual. We cannot improve 

BMTC plans to extend 

services till 1 am 

Bengaluru: To cope with 

the following the extension 

of nightlife deadlines 

and yielding to the 

demand for extension 

of bus services till late 

in the night, Bengaluru 

Metropolitan Transport 

Corporation (BMTC) is 

planning to operate buses 

till 1 am in the coming 

weeks. 

A senior official of 

BMTC has said that the 

corporation is planning 

to extend the late night 

services from Kempegowda 

Bus Station to Kadugodi, 

Anekal, Attibele, 

JP Nagar, BTM Layout, 

KR Puram, Yelahanka 

Satellite station, Peenya, 

Yeshwantpur, Kengeri, 

Jigani, Hoskote and other 

places. 

There are already 62 

buses catering to these 

areas and recently, 10 

more buses were added 

to the late night services, 

which is running till 11 

pm as of now. BMTC is 

charging one-and-half 

times the bus fare for 

those buses catering to 

service after 10 pm. 

The official said, 

though the public commute 

till 1 am in areas 

like Majestic, Railway 

Station and Shivajinagar, 

there are no BMTC bus 

services. People arriving 

in the city late in the 

night and those returning 

home from offices are 

deprived of BMTC bus facilities 

and are forced to 

either travel by autorickshaws 

or cabs, the official 

added. There was a petition 

filed with Change. 

org wherein more than 

98% of the 15,000 people 

who signed the petition 

voted for BMTC services 

to be run till 1 am. 

Recently, BMTC introduced 

night buses to certain 

areas - the last bus 

from Majestic to Chikkbanawara 

is at 11 pm, KR 

Market to Jalahalli Cross 

at 10.40 pm, Shivajinagar 

to Yelahanka at 10.20 

pm, Yelahanka to Kengeri 

at 8.25 pm, Hebbal to 

Satellite Bus station at 

9.15 pm, Jalahalli cross to 

Bommanahalli at 10.15 

pm, Hebbal to KR Puram 

at 10.20 pm, Majestic 

to Nelamangala at 

9.20 pm and Central Silk 

Board to Nelamangala 

at 8.15 pm. 

as a nation unless education is given importance. 

Foreign countries respect intelligence they respect 

any kind of job you do. That is why they are leading. 

Here in our country there is a lot of politics and 

that is why the talent of each individual isn’t channelized 

in the right direction. 

You have co-authored five books, how 

did that happen? 

It just happened and I lent my support and 

co-authored books since the past two years. Recently 

we have published book on organic chemistry. 

To be honest, it is very difficult to write books. 

Who inspired you? Whom would you 

thank? 

Earlier days my teachers encouraged me recommended 

me to read more books. They had a big 

hand in supporting me and encouraging me to aim 

higher. And none of them discouraged me. They 

used to force my father to send me to school and 

not the field. My mother was my primary support 

system. She used to quarrel with my father and 

make sure I was sent to school. Her support and 

blessings has brought me here. 

Centenary celebrations were organized on 

grand scale. People said you’re the right man at the 

right time at the right place for making that event 

happen. How do you react to this? 

University of Mysuru is a 100-year-old university. 

We had invited the president of India, Pranab 

Mukherjee andPrime MinisterNarendraModi to inaugurate 

the event. No university till now had 10 

Nobel laureates invited, that’s the pride we hold. 

The then HRD Minister SmritiIrani was present at 

the event. 

For the next person who would be 

stepping into your shoes what will be 

your advice to him/her? 

I do not know whether he/she will listen 

to me or not but whoever comes has to do a 

better job than what I have done. If not then 

I atleast hope they do not spoil my university 

and the atmosphere. 

Jagadish Shettar demands 

govt to withdraw cases 

against Mahadayi agitators 

Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition 

in the Assembly 

Jagadish Shettar on Thursday 

demanded the state 

government to withdraw 

cases against Mahadayi agitators 

without any preconditions. 

Speaking with media persons, 

Jagadish Shettar said 

the police have registered 

cases against the farmers 

for demanding the government 

to implement Kalasa 

Banduri project aimed for 

supplying drinking water 

to North Karantaka. “The 

innocent farmers are made 

to attend the court. I want 

the government to withdraw 

cases against such 

farmers immediately. The 

police have registered false 

cases against 187 farmers 

during the agitation. I want 

the state government to 

withdraw all these cases,’’ 

Jagadish Shettar said. 

He demanded the state 

government to make senior 

police officer Raghavendra 

Auradkar’s report public. 

It may be recalled the state 

government had directed 

Raghavendra Auradkar 

to probe police atrocities 

on farmers and villagers 

during Kalasa Banduri agitation 

and submit a report. 

He also demanded the 

state government to withdraw 

cases registered 

against Kannada activists 

for participating in protest 

during Cauvery crisis in 

Bengaluru. “The police have 

registered cases against innocent 

people and Kannada 

activists. I want the police 

to withdraw all these cases 

and the release those who 

are in the prison,’’ he said. 

BJP MLA Suresh Kumar 

writes letter to Siddramaiah 

Bengaluru: Bharatiya Janata 

Party MLA S Suresh Kumar 

on Thursday appealed 

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah 

not to go ahead with the proposed 

steel flyover between 

Basaveshwara Circle and 

Hebbal due to the strong opposition 

from public. 

Suresh Kumar, in a letter 

to the chief minister, said 

that any government should 

be sensitive, accountable, 

responsive and transparent 

but in this case, all these 

essential qualities of administration 

are conspicuously 

absent. “There are many 

reasons for the opposition 

of the proposed steel flyover. 

One of the reasons is 

that there has been no public 

hearing on this massive 

project involving nearly Rs 

1800 crore. The other reason 

is that details of this 

project not made public. 

Many judgments of Supreme 

Court have ordered that 

public hearing is necessary 

on any public project involving 

a huge amount of money. 

In fact there are very easy 

alternative solutions to ease 

traffic on Bellary Road that 

has been studied by these 

concerned activists but their 

voice is not reaching the 

authorities because of the 

vested interests involved in 

building the steel flyover,’’ 

Suresh Kumar said.

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NATION 

Dalit found 

murdered in UP 

A 30-year-old Dalit man 

was found murdered in Dhamat 

village under Purqazi 

police station in the district, 

police said.The body of Pappu 

was found with his throat 

slit. He was killed after he 

went to relieve himself in 

the fields, SP Crime Pradeep 

Gupta said.Police have 

registered a case against 

unidentified miscreants and 

the body has been sent for 

post-mortem. 

Leopard kills 

12-year-old boy 

in Reasi 

A 12-year-old boy was 

killed by a leopard in Reasi 

district of Jammu and Kashmir, 

police said. Noor Hussain 

was in the compound of his 

house in Mohara Bagla village 

in Chasana tehsil when 

a leopard attacked and killed 

him, a police officer said. As 

the people came out of their 

houses, the leopard left behind 

the victim. The body 

was recovered, he added. 

Woman CISF 

constable commits 

suicide at NSCBI 

airport 

A woman CISF constable 

allegedly shot herself on duty 

with her service revolver at 

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose 

International airport in the 

wee hours, an airport police 

official said.The incident 

took place at Gate number 3 

of the airport. The constable, 

identified as Lagni Biswas 

from Assam, was rushed to a 

hospital where she breathed 

her last, the official said. Tension 

prevailed at the airport 

following the sound of gunshot 

and senior CISF officials 

and airport police personnel 

rushed to the spot, he said. 

The body has been sent for 

post mortem, the official said 

adding a suicide note was recovered 

from the constable. 

Preliminary investigations 

revealed that Biswas had lent 

money to a person and this 

may have become a bone of 

contention in her family, the 

official said. 

Man dies as bus 

full of pilgrims 

rams into truck 

8 more arrested for assault 

on Somaiya, BJP workers 

Eight more Shiv Sena 

activists have been arrested 

in connection with the 

assault on BJP leader Kirit 

Somaiya and party workers 

Bihar police suspended 

three policemen, including 

a Station House 

Officer (SHO) of Bhojpur 

district, after a video 

showing them dancing 

with bar girls went viral, a 

senior police official said. 

“We have suspended 

three policemen including 

an SHO, an ASI and a constable 

of Koilwar police 

station of Bhojpur district 

after a video footage 

went viral showing them 

dancing with bar girls at 

a function held at Koilwar, 

a small township in 

Bhojpur, the day before 

yesterday,” Patna Zonal IG 

Naiyar Husain Khan told 

the media. 

The action was taken 

after verifying the video 

footage, he added. 

Sources said that the 

dance programme was 

at suburban Mulund here, 

police said. 

The fresh arrests were 

made last night, taking the 

number of total arrests in 

3 policemen suspended for 

dancing with bar girls 

organised by a puja committee 

at Koilwar chowk 

on Vijayadashmi. 

The three policemen 

who have been suspended 

with immediate effect include 

Koilwar police station 

SHO Sanjay Shankar, 

Assistant Sub-Inspector 

Devchandra Singh and 

a constable Bhushan, 

IG said. 

“Bhojpur Superintendent 

of Police has also 

been asked to initiate departmental 

proceedings 

against these policemen 

for their improper conduct. 

We will not tolerate 

such conduct at any 

cost in which policemen, 

including SHO, were 

seen dancing publicly 

at a stage,” 

IG said adding that this 

is not expected from a 

police officer. (PTI) 

BJP ‘sloganeering’ on 

temple to woo voters: Shiv Sena 

this case to 13, an officer of 

Navghar Police Station said. 

On Wednesday five 

persons were held during 

the day. 

The MP from Mumbai- 

North-East constituency 

was allegedly assaulted by 

Sena workers on Tuesday 

after they disrupted a programme 

organised by Somaiya 

wherein an effigy of 

‘corruption mafia in MCGM’ 

was to be burnt to mark the 

festival of Dussehra. 

Three persons, including 

a woman, were injured 

in the clash between the 

workers of the two alliance 

partners. 

All the accused would be 

produced before a local today, 

the officer said. 

MCGM is ruled by the Sena-BJP 

alliance for the last 

20 years and civic polls are 

scheduled early next year. 

Somaiya, a former 

Mumbai BJP chief, has 

aggressively targeted 

Sena and has repeatedly 

alleged that civic body was 

riddled with “mafia-raj and 

corruption”. (PTI) 

JNU orders probe into effigy 

burning of PM on Dussehra 

JNU administration 

ordered an inquiry into 

burning of effigy of Prime 

Minister Narendra Modi 

and others by a section of 

students in the university 

campus on the occasion 

of Dussehra by projecting 

them as Ravana. 

“We have ordered an inquiry 

into the effigy burning 

incident and are examining 

the issue,” said JNU 

Vice Chancellor Jagadesh 

Kumar, whose picture was 

also put on the effigy set 

ablaze on Tuesday night. 

The move comes nearly 

a week after the varsity 

ordered a proctorial 

inquiry into burning of 

effigy of Gujarat government 

and ‘gau-rakshak’ 

(cow vigilantes) 

and issued show-cause 

notices to the students 

concerned. 

While Pakistan’s Prime 

Minister Nawaz Sharif, 

26/11 mastermind Hafiz 

Saeed and heads of several 

other militant organisations 

were the faces 

of Ravana effigies burnt 

on Dussehra across the 

country, members of Congress-affiliated 

National 

Students’ Union of India 

(NSUI) chose the visages 

of PM and BJP chief Amit 

Shah to represent the demon 

king and burnt the 

effigy on Tuesday. 

They claimed that it was 

a protest against the Centre’s 

“failure” to honour its 

promises and the “continuous 

attacks” on various 

educational institutions 

across the country. (PTI) 

LDF govt in Kerala to 

frame law on nepotism 

Minor Dalit rape victim attempts 

self-immolation in Madhya Pradesh 

A Dalit rape victim at a 

village in Madhya Pradesh’s 

Itarsi allegedly tried to immolate 

herself by pouring 

kerosene, fearing that an 

accused in the case, who 

came out on bail recently 

may kill her, police said. 

The minor girl suffered 

40 per cent burn injuries 

in the incident on Wednesday 

and is being treated 

at a hospital, they said, 

adding her condition is 

Loss of telephone cables: No relief 

by Bombay HC to MTN officer 

stated to be stable and 

out of danger now. 

She took the extreme 

step at her residence in 

Nayagaon, out of the fear 

that the accused would 

harm her, Itarsi Sub Divisional 

Officer of Police 

(SDOP) Anil Sharma said. 

She was raped in February 

this year following 

which two accused were 

arrested, he said. 

The main accused in the 

Kerala Government 

decided to bring a law to 

prevent nepotism in appointments 

in key positions 

in public sector units, 

a decision which comes in 

wake of a controversy over 

certain appointments in 

the PSUs in the Industrial 

Department. 

The decision in this regard 

was taken at a cabinet 

meeting chaired by Chief 

Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. 

The cabinet also entrusted 

Chief Secretary S 

M Vijayanand to examine 

the various complaints 

with regard to the appointments 

which have become 

controversial. 

“This is to prevent nepotism 

in appointments,” 

a statement quoting the 

Chief Minister said. 

The cabinet also decided 

that henceforth vigilance 

clearance would be mandatory 

for appointment of 

posts like Managing Director 

and General Manager 

in state PSUs 

Besides this, a committee 

of national level experts 

will be henceforth 

make appointments in senior 

posts in PSUs in the 

state, he said. 

The LDF government is 

facing flak after Industries 

Minister E P Jayarajan appointed 

some of his close 

relatives in key posts in 

some state PSUs. 

Jayarajan had appointed 

P K Sudheer, his nephew 

and son of CPI (M) Kannur 

MP P K Sreemathi, as Managing 

Director of Kerala 

State Industrial Enterprises 

Ltd. 

The minister had also 

appointed his brother’s 

daughter-in-law Dipthi Nishad 

as General Manager 

of Kerala Clay and Ceramics 

Products Ltd at Kannur. 

Following the heat 

generated over the issue 

after Congress-led 

UDF and BJP launched 

agitation, Sudheer’s posting 

was quashed by the 

government and Dipthi, 

who had taken charge, 

resigned. (PTI) 

case is still lodged in jail 

but one of his accomplices 

(Anil Yadav) was released 

on bail nearly two months 

back and since then the victim 

is gripped with a fear 

that he may take revenge or 

might kill her, Sharma said. 

It appears that in a disturbed 

state of mind, she 

poured kerosene to immolate 

herself and suffered 

40 per cent burn injuries, 

he said. 

Soon after the incident, 

Yadav was arrested and 

booked under relevant 

sections of Indian Penal 

Code (IPC) and the SC/ST 

(Prevention of Atrocities) 

Act, he said. 

Police and social organisations 

were helping the 

victim and her family in all 

possible manner, the SDOP 

said. (PTI) 

CBI registers three cases in Jat 

reservation agitation 

A man was killed and 12 

others were injured when a 

bus in which they were travelling 

rammed into a truck 

in Bharatpur district, police 

said.Ashiq, 28, died on the 

spot and his body has been 

shifted to a local hospital for 

post-mortem, a police official 

said.The bus was full of pilgrims 

and was on its way to 

West Bengal from Ajmer. 









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In the backdrop of Prime 

Minister Narendra Modi’s 

Dussehra rally in Lucknow, 

Shiv Sena said the celebration 

of the festival in Uttar 

Pradesh was an attempt by 

BJP to consolidate votes in 

the name of Ram temple for 

the forthcoming Assembly 

elections. 

At the same time, the ruling 

alliance partner sought 

to know what prevents BJP 

from making use of its absolute 

majority in the Lok 

Sabha to start construction 

of the temple in Ayodhya 

instead of just engaging in 

sloganeering on the issue. 

“The Prime Minister 

twice said the slogan of ‘Jai 

Shree Ram’ while speaking 

in Lucknow and thereby 

sounded the poll bugle 

for the state. What impact 

this sloganeering is going 

to have will be seen in the 

near future. But, the fact is 

that the UP polls are a matter 

of life and death for BJP,” 

an editorial in Sena mouthpiece 

‘Saamana’ said. 

It said Modi’s act of 

performing ‘Ganga aarti’ 

(in Varanasi) soon after 

becoming the PM led to 

enthusiasm among party 

workers and believers of 

Hindutva. It was also significant 

that he was the first 

PM to do so. 

“The whole idea behind 

celebrating Dussehra in 

Lucknow and raising the 

slogan of ‘Jai Shree Ram’ 

was to garner votes in the 

name of constructing a 

Ram temple in the upcoming 

UP polls,” it said. 

“It (BJP) hopes that even 

if the temple is not constructed, 

the lotus would at 

least bloom,” the Sena said, 

adding, the BJP should once 

and for all announce how 

much more politics it wants 

to play over the issue of 

Ram temple. 

“You have 280 seats in 

the Lok Sabha and along 

with other parties like 

Sena, you have 300 plus 

seats. If a Ram temple is not 

constructed now, when will 

it be?” it asked. 

“Don’t just engage in 

sloganeering but start 

construction of the 

temple and the Shiv Sena 

will help you, because 

it was the Sena which 

had brought down 

the dome of the Babri 

Masjid,” it said.(PTI) 

The Bombay High Court 

has refused to interfere 

with the decision of authorities 

to compulsorily 

retire a junior telecom officer 

in Mahanagar Telephone 

Nigam Ltd after a 

departmental inquiry held 

him guilty in a case of loss 

of telephone cables. 

“No case has been made 

out by the petitioner to 

cause interference by this 

(High) court in exercise 

of its writ jurisdiction… 

the petition is dismissed,” 

Justices Naresh Patil and 

Prakash Naik said in a recent 

judgement. 

The petitioner, Prakash 

Tyagi, joined services as 

Junior Telecom Officer 

in the erstwhile Mumbai 

Telephone in 1979. By an 

order dated February 4, 

1988, he was placed under 

suspension, as a departmental 

enquiry was ordered 

on account of missing 

600 metres of cable. 

The charges mentioned 

in the charge-sheet issued 

in 1989 related to loss of 

telephone cable and other 

related matters. An 

FIR was lodged with Juhu 

Police Station on February 

9, 1988 in connection with 

the incident. 

The department alleged 

that the petitioner, while 

working as Junior Telecom 

Officer (JTO), had not 

laid cables of about 600 

metres, but created record 

showing that he had 

executed the work. The 

un-utilised stock of cable 

thus remained unaccounted 

for, according to the 

department. 

The petitioner denied 

the charges levelled 

against him. An Enquiry 

Officer was appointed who 

held a probe and filed a 

report on January 7, 1991, 

holding the petitioner 

guilty of missing cables 

mentioned in charges 1 to 

4 in the chargesheet, while 

exonerating him from two 

other charges. 

Petitioner’s contention 

was that the Enquiry Officer 

has not given any 

reason as to why he had 

recorded finding of guilt 

in respect of charges 1 to 4 

in the chargesheet. Thereafter, 

the disciplinary 

authority passed an order 

on August 17, 1995, 

compulsorily retiring the 

petitioner. 

The petitioner filed 

an appeal on October 18, 

1995, before Appellate Authority 

against the penalty 

of compulsory retirement 

imposed on him but it was 

rejected in August 1997. 

He had argued that he 

was acquitted by a Magistrate 

in March 1996 after 

a full trial. He then filed a 

review petition which too 

was rejected by the Competent 

Authority in 1998. 

The aggrieved petitioner 

moved the Central 

Administrative Tribunal 

(CAT) which rejected his 

plea. He then challenged 

the CAT order in the 

High Court. 

The High Court was of 

the view that all the authorities 

had concurrently 

held that the charges 

levelled against the petitioner 

were proved. The 

HC further held that the 

CAT in detail had scanned 

the material referred to in 

the charges, considered 

the pleadings of the parties, 

the stand taken by the 

petitioner and had upheld 

the findings of the Enquiry 

Officer. Therefore, the 

bench refused to give relief 

to the petitioner and 

dismissed his petition. 

CBI registered three 

cases to probe incidents of 

violence and arson during 

the Jat quota agitation in 

Rohtak in February, including 

the burning of residence 

of Haryana Finance 

Minister Capt Abhimanyu. 

CBI spokesperson said 

the agency took over investigation 

in these cases 

on the request of Haryana 

government and further 

orders from Department of 

Personnel and Training. 

“Allegations include attacking, 

looting of weapons 

of the police guard, 

attempting to murder the 

family members and burning 

down the residence 

of Finance Minister in the 

government of Haryana,” 

she said. 

One of the cases registered 

by the agency relates 

to alleged arson at the residence 

of Abhimanyu on 

February 19 while another 

is related to assault and 

looting of weapons from 

the company of BSF and 

Haryana Police by the rioters. 

The rioters had allegedly 

attempted to murder the 

troops while they were on 

law and order duty at Delhi 

bypass, Rohtak, the spokesperson 

said. 

“A large number of persons 

were allegedly injured 

& some of them grievously 

in these violent attacks. It 

was further alleged that 

property worth crores 

of rupees was burnt and 

weapons of police guards 

were looted by the agitators 

who were demanding 

reservation for a certain 

community in Haryana. 

These cases have been 

transferred by the Government 

of Haryana to CBI,” the 

spokesperson said. (PTI)

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WORLD 

Russia says 

Damascus embassy 

targeted in mortar 

attack, no staff hurt 

The Russian embassy in 

Damascus was targeted in a 

mortar attack on Wednesday, 

the Russian Foreign Ministry 

said, condemning what it 

called “a terrorist attack” in 

the Syrian capital. 

One of the mortar shells, 

fired from a district controlled 

by rebels, exploded 

close to the guard post in 

front of the embassy, while 

another detonated near the 

entrance to the consular office, 

the ministry said in a 

statement. 

The embassy compound 

was strewn with shrapnel, 

but none of embassy staff 

were hurt, it said. It said material 

damage was being assessed. 

“We confirm that Russia’s 

consistent policy of uncompromising 

fighting against 

terrorists in Syria will be 

continued,” the ministry said. 

Three South 

Koreans found shot 

dead in Philippines 

The bodies of three South 

Koreans with gunshot wounds 

to the head have been found in 

the Philippines, a South Korean 

foreign ministry official said on 

Thursday, the latest in a string 

of killings of Koreans in the 

southeast Asian nation. 

Philippine President Rodrigo 

Duterte has waged a ruthless 

anti-crime campaign since 

taking office on June 30 in 

which more than 3,600 people 

have died in police operations 

and alleged vigilante killings. 

The bodies of two men and 

a woman, all older than 40 and 

all with gunshot wounds to the 

head, were found on Tuesday 

in Bacolor outside the capital, 

Manila, the ministry official 

said by telephone. 

Chief of police at the town 

of Bacolor, Sonia Alvarez, said 

the deaths were unlikely to be 

related to drugs and instead 

looked like a crime of passion 

or indebtedness. 

The case takes to six the tally 

of South Koreans found dead 

this year in the Philippines, 

where more than ten South Korean 

citizens have been killed 

each year since 2013, South 

Korean media said. 

India, Russia ink 

pact to set up 25 

irradiation centers 

New Delhi, India and 

Russia signed a pact to set 

up 25 integrated infrastructure 

centers for irradiation 

treatment of perishable food 

items to improve shelf life 

and cut post-harvest losses. 

At least 7 centers will be 

set up in Maharashtra, with 

the first centre near Shirdi 

to be ready next year. Perishable 

items ranging from 

flowers to fish will be treated 

there on a commercial scale. 

The agreement was signed 

between Russia’s United Innovation 

Corporation (UIC) 

-- a subsidiary of Rosatom 

State Atomic Energy Corporation 

-- and Hindustan Agro 

Co-op Ltd on the sidelines of 

the BRICS Business Forum. 









Concerned about king’s health, 

Thais flock to Bangkok hospital 

About 300 people gathered 

at a Bangkok hospital 

on Thursday where 

Thailand’s King Bhumibol 

Adulyadej, the world’s 

longest reigning monarch, 

is in an unstable condition 

as the government urged 

jittery stock market investors 

to ignore rumours. 

The palace said in a 

statement late on Wednesday 

the king’s health had 

“overall not yet stabilized” 

and the 88-year-old was 

on a ventilator and battling 

a new infection. 

It followed a statement 

on Sunday saying the king 

was in an unstable condition 

after receiving haemodialysis 

treatment. 

Well-wishers gathered 

on Thursday outside 

Siriraj Hospital, which 

is near Bangkok’s Chao 

Phraya river. 

Some wore yellow, the 

king’s colour, and others 

donned pink, a colour 

they believe will bring the 

king an improvement in 

his health. Some prayed. 

“I was worried so I came 

here to see for myself,” 

said housewife Thornpan 

Tornueng, 67. 

“This evening I will take 

part in chanting for the 

king.” 

District police commander 

Rithee Visetkamin 

said more people 

were expected to gather 

at the hospital through 

the day. 

The king has long been 

seen as a unifying figure 

in Thailand, which 

has grappled with political 

uncertainty in recent 

years. His health, which is 

watched closely, is a sensitive 

subject. 

Strict lese-majeste laws 

mean public discussions 

of his health and any succession 

plans are punishable 

by lengthy jail terms. 

Investors in the Stock 

Exchange of Thailand have 

sold shares since Sunday’s 

statement from the Royal 

Household Bureau on the 

king’s health. 

The main index fell as 

Putin rejects accusations of 

meddling in U.S. election 

Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted 

on Wednesday his country was 

not involved in an effort to influence 

the U.S. presidential election even as 

WikiLeaks released another trove of internal 

documents from Hillary Clinton’s 

campaign. 

Last week, the U.S. government formally 

accused Russia of launching a 

hacking campaign to “interfere with the 

U.S. election process.” 

Clinton’s campaign, which has 

charged the Kremlin is trying to help Republican 

Donald Trump win the White 

House on Nov. 8, took its allegations a 

step further on Tuesday when John Podesta, 

chairman of the Democratic nominee’s 

campaign, accused the Trump 

campaign of colluding with Russia. 

At events in Florida, Trump said he 

had nothing to do with Putin or Russia. 

“I promise you, I don’t have any business 

deals with Russia,” Trump said at a 

rally in Lakeland. 

In Moscow, Putin said nothing in the 

hacking scandal is in Russia’s interests 

and accused all sides in the U.S. presidential 

campaign of misusing rhetoric 

about Russia for their own purposes. 

“They started this hysteria, saying 

this (hacking) is in Russia’s interests, 

but this has nothing to do with Russia’s 

interests,” Putin told a business forum. 

Putin said his government would 

work with whoever won the U.S. election, 

“if, of course, the new U.S. leader 

wishes to work with our country.” 

WikiLeaks, the organisation started 

by Julian Assange that publishes leaked 

information on the internet, this week 

released thousands of emails from Podesta’s 

email account and has not said 

how it obtained them. Last week, it 

posted excerpts from Clinton’s private 

speeches to banking and financial firms. 

The Clinton campaign has not confirmed 

the authenticity of the messages. 

The leaks, coming as the election 

campaign reaches the final stretch, have 

the potential to embarrass the Clinton 

camp. In recent days, however, Trump’s 

own campaign has been in deeper trouble 

over the emergence of a 2005 video 

in which Trump bragged about groping 

women. Many Republican elected officials 

have turned their back on him and 

Clinton’s lead in national opinion polls 

has increasedeft 

Trump escalated his attacks on U.S. 

House of Representatives Speaker Paul 

Ryan on Wednesday, deepening a fracture 

in the Republican Party. 

Clinton, a former secretary of state, 

has repeatedly accused Trump of having 

overly friendly ties with Putin and 

Russia. 

She has noted that Trump’s foreign 

policies have tended to align with Russian’s 

interests, whether it has been 

questioning NATO’s role in defending 

Eastern Europe, failing to recognise 

Russia’s intrusion into Ukraine, and supporting 

Russia’s actions in Syria. 

Trump, a New York businessman 

who has never previously run for office, 

has shifted his policies on a wide range 

of issues, from taxes to the minimum 

wage to immigration during his White 

House campaign but his statements on 

Russia have been consistent. His friendly 

stance toward Moscow departs from 

the views of many prominent Republicans. 

During a presidential debate on 

Sunday, Trump publicly disagreed with 

his own vice presidential choice, Mike 

Pence, who had called for a more hawkish 

approach toward Russia. 

“I DON’T KNOW PUTIN” 

At that debate, Trump questioned 

whether Russia was behind the hacks, 

as the U.S. government has asserted. 

And on Wednesday, during a rally in 

Ocala, Florida, Trump echoed those remarks. 

“Have you ever noticed, anything 

that goes wrong they blame Russia?” 

Trump told the crowd. “They always 

blame Russia and then they says Donald 

Trump is friends . . . I don’t know Putin, 

folks. What the hell do I have to do with 

Putin?” 

Trump has said that as president he 

would seek warmer relations with Russia 

and that it would be in the United 

States’ best interests to seek Russia’s 

help to defeat Islamic State. 

“Trump is the most pro-Russian presidential 

candidate ever,” said Max Boot, 

much as 6.9 percent on 

Wednesday to its lowest 

since March 1, but recovered 

to close down 2.5 

percent, its lowest since 

the end of May. 

It was down 2.1 percent 

by the mid-day break on 

Thursday. 

Deputy Prime Minister 

Somkid Jatusripitak said 

he had asked the Securities 

and Exchange Commission 

(SEC) to investigate 

rumours that had 

been affecting the market. 

“I will tell the SEC to 

investigate who spread 

the news and who caused 

stocks to fall. Foreigners 

are waiting to pick up 

stocks and Thais are selling 

them,” Somkid told reporters. 

“I don’t think it’s beneficial 

to do that because 

this is an important time 

for the country and we 

should not undermine 

ourselves.” 

“Don’t listen to rumours. 

Please only listen 

to the government,” 

he added. 

The government on 

Wednesday urged people 

to ignore rumours 

on social media and wait 

for official announcements. 

[Reuters] 

a senior fellow for national security 

studies at the Council of Foreign Relations. 

“Putin no doubt sees a once-ina-lifetime 

opportunity to reorient U.S. 

foreign policy in his direction by electing 

Trump.” 

A Russian ultra-nationalist ally of 

Putin who is known for his fiery rhetoric 

said Trump was the only person 

able to de-escalate dangerous tensions 

between Moscow and Washington, and 

predicted nuclear war if Clinton were 

elected. 

“Relations between Russia and the 

United States can’t get any worse. The 

only way they can get worse is if a war 

starts,” Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a flamboyant 

veteran lawmaker, told. 

Clinton campaign chairman Podesta 

said on Tuesday the FBI was investigating 

a “criminal hack” of his emails, and 

he tied the Trump campaign to the leaks 

by suggesting that a former Trump adviser, 

Roger Stone, had advance warning 

of the hacks. 

The Trump campaign has not responded 

to the allegation about Stone, 

but Trump has denied any coordination 

with the Russian government to embarrass 

Clinton. 

He has, however, made clear he 

supports WikiLeaks’ efforts. “I love 

WikiLeaks,” he said at a rally in Pennsylvania 

on Tuesday. 

The United States has an ongoing 

criminal investigation into Assange’s 

publishing of classified material. Clinton 

has been a fierce critic of Assange, who 

remains at the Ecuadorean embassy in 

London where he sought refuge in 2012 

to avoid possible extradition to Sweden. 

Last week, the Office of the Director 

of National Intelligence and Department 

of Homeland Security said the government 

was confident the hacks of Democratic 

political groups and campaign 

officials originated from high levels of 

the Russian government. 

The White House on Tuesday promised 

a “proportional” response to Russia 

over the hacks. 

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei 

Lavrov told CNN the United States has 

offered no proof of his government’s involvement, 

and suggested Moscow was 

unconcerned about possible reprisals. 

“If they decided to do something, let 

them do it,” Lavrov said. ( Reuters) 

India rejects Pak’s reference to 

women’s condition in Kashmir 

United Nations: Innocent Indian women 

have suffered for long due to the persistent 

terrorist acts perpetrated by “proxies of Pakistan”, 

India has said as it strongly rejecting references 

by Islamabad to conditions of women 

in Kashmir. 

Counsellor Mayank Joshi in India’s Permanent 

Mission to the UN here “completely” 

rejected the “baseless allegations” made by 

Pakistan about women in Jammu and Kashmir, 

saying “in fact” it is the innocent Indian 

women who have for “long suffered due to the 

persistent terrorist acts perpetrated by proxies 

of Pakistan.” 

Joshi exercised India’s Right of Reply after 

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s Special Envoy 

on Kashmir Shezra Mansab Ali Khan referred 

to the conditions of women in Kashmir 

during an October 11 session on Advancement 

of Women in the General Assembly’s 

Third Committee, which focuses on social and 

humanitarian issues. 

Khan said armed conflict and illegal occupation 

accentuates the plight of women. 

Citing the situation in Kashmir, she said 

“thousands of women have fallen victims to 

brutal oppression and occupation. 

Countless others have suffered rape and sexual 

abuse, the worst and most traumatic form of 

violence.” 

Joshi said it is “ironical” that a country 

that has “institutionalised the oppression” of 

women in its society including through “medieval 

draconian laws is making claims about 

the rights of women in a pluralistic democracy 

such as India.” 

He said Pakistan will be well served to 

“seriously examine” what ails its women and 

hampers their advancement. 

Pakistan has been constantly raising the 

Kashmir issue at various platforms in the UN, 

including in the General Assembly and its various 

committees that deal with diverse issues 

such as disarmament and decolonisation. 

Joshi asserted that India will not respond 

to the “lies and deceit” Pakistan has been 

resorting to at the world body to pursue a 

diplomacy of “hate”. 

“We are aware of Pakistan s cynical attempts 

to pursue diplomacy of hate through 

lies and deceit. We do not intend to further 

respond to such misguided and futile efforts,” 

he said. 

A Pakistani official however again took the 

floor to exercise the Right of Reply to Joshi s 

remarks, saying no amount of “obfuscation” 

could hide the alleged human rights violations 

in Kashmir. 

He said Jammu and Kashmir was an “internationally 

recognised” dispute and Pakistan 

rejected “any insinuations to equate the legitimate 

struggles of the Kashmiri people with 

acts of terrorism. [PTI] 

Indian faces threat from inside, 

not outside: Shivshankar Menon 

Washington: The real 

threats to India are “internal” 

and emanate from 

communal and social violence, 

not from outside forces 

such as Pakistan or China, 

former national security 

advisor Shivshankar Menon 

has said. 

Asked if Pakistan or China 

pose an existential threat 

to India, Menon said: “No”. 

“In terms of national 

security, I think the real 

threats are internal,” he 

told. 

“There’s no existential 

threat to India’s existence 

today externally, unlike in 

the 50s or when we were 

formed. And for many years 

till late 60s there were actual 

internal separatist 

threats, not any more. I 

think that we have actual 

dealt with,” Menon said. 

His long career in public 

service spans diplomacy, 

national security, and 

India’s relations with its 

neighbours and major global 

powers. Menon served as 

national security advisor to 

Prime Minister Manmohan 

Singh from January 2010 to 

May 2014. 

Menon’s first book post 

retirement - ‘Choices: Inside 

the making of India’s 

Foreign Policy’ - is all set 

to hit book stores globally 

next week. 

Asked to elaborate on 

what he meant by internal 

threats, he said: “If there are 

real threats to India, to the 

idea of India, India’s integrity, 

today they actually come 

from within the country.” 

“If you look at violence 

in India, deaths from terrorism, 

from left wing extremism, 

declined steadily 

throughout this 21st century 

until 2014-2015. Even 

now the basic trend for terrorism, 

left wing extremism 

is down. What has increased 

is since 2012, communal violence, 

social violence, internal 

violence has increase. 

That is something we need 

to find a way in dealing 

with,” Menon said. 

“This is not a traditional 

law and order problem, 

which our traditional instruments, 

the police, the 

states know how to deal 

with. You look at violence 

against women, communal, 

caste violence, if you 

look at those firms of violence, 

these are all a result 

of tremendous social and 

economic change of uprooting 

of population, urbanization... 

various forms of 

change, which we still need 

to learn how to deal with,” 

he said. 

Menon said those are 

the threats, which in the 

long run, has a “potential to 

make real difference”. 

“India has changed. It is 

normal. It happens to most 

societies where there is 

change. But you also have to 

learn new ways of dealing 

with,” he said and attributed 

the new threats to the rapid 

and fast development of the 

country. 

When asked that some 

people attributed this to 

the BJP coming to power, 

Menon said even that is a 

consequence of the change 

that the Indian society is 

undergoing now. 

Menon previously served 

as India’s foreign secretary 

from 2006 to 2009 

and as ambassador and 

high commissioner to Israel 

from 1995-1997, Sri 

Lanka (1997-2000), China 

(2000-2003) and Pakistan 

(2003-2006). [PTI]

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BUSINESS 

China assures wider market 

access for Indian products 

New Delhi: China has 

agreed to look into India’s 

concern expressed over providing 

greater market access 

to its domestic products to 

bridge the widening gulf 

between the two countries 

over trade market. 

The issue was raised and 

discussed in detail during 

the meeting held here in 

Capital city between Commerce 

and Industry Minister 

Nirmala Sitharaman 

and Wang Shouwen, Vice 

Minister for Ministry of Finance 

and Commerce, China, 

sources said. 

In a statement released 

by the commerce ministry 

said that the Chinese 

Vice- Minister assured that 

China would act on the concerns 

expressed by India 

regarding market access for 

Indian goods in the Chinese 

markets.” 

According to sources, 

Sitharaman raised concerns 

over the widening trade deficit 

between the two countries 

during the meeting in 

a strong voice. Meanwhile, 

both the leaders exchanged 

notes on trade and commerce 

and agreed that the 

“mounting bilateral trade 

deficit has been a cause for 

concern for India” which 

seeks greater market access 

for its goods for a long-term 

sustainable trade relationship, 

a statement said. 

Sitharaman requested 

expeditious clearances for 

import of Indian rice besides 

a Green Channel for import 

of Indian pharmaceutical 

products to China especially 

those which already have 

USFDA and EUFDA accreditation, 

it added. 

She also requested the 

Chinese Vice- Minister to 

consider demonstration of 

IT/ITeS projects for Indian 

companies - which have 

acquired global acclaim. 

“Sitaraman expressed concerns 

at the long drawn procedures 

for clearances which 

tend to frustrate the Indian 

companies seeking business 

opportunities in China,” 

it added. 

Adding further Sitharaman 

asked for ‘buying 

missions to India to source 

amongst other things, Indian 

tobacco and oil meals. 

On the other hand, the 

Chinese Minister informed 

that China has quickened 

the pace of granting 

clearances to Indian pharmaceutical 

companies 

for import of the pharma 

products, it said. 

FOOD & TRAVEL 

New food norms to open up 

value-added market 

The Food Safety & Standards 

Authority of India 

(FSSAI) is planning to 

come out with new guidelines 

on fortifying rice, 

milk, wheat flour, edible 

oil and salt soon as existing 

food standards require 

salt to be fortified with 

iodine. 

According to the draft 

of guidelines circulated 

among stakeholders, 850- 

1,100 parts per million 

iron can now be added to 

salt in order to increase 

the level of micronutrients. 

It is believed that 

the move acquires significance 

since it opens up 

the value-added market 

for branded commodity 

players. 

The final guidelines are 

expected to be released by 

the end of October or in 

the first week of November, 

said sources. The authoritative 

board, FSSAI, 

recently held a food summit 

in Delhi to discuss the 

matter in detail. During 

the special meeting, FS- 

SAI’s Chief Executive Officer 

Pawan Kumar Agarwal 

had said the guidelines 

would help address the 

issue of malnutrition,” 

he said. 

Companies, scientists 

and researchers who are 

into the business attended 

the meeting and said to 

have shared their piece of 

mind over the issue. Few 

more from the companies 

are expected to participation 

in the two-day summit 

to discuss food fortification. 

“We will study the 

guidelines to see how we 

can come out with food 

that fits the requirements,” 

said S Nagarajan, managing 

director, Mother Dairy 

Fruit & Vegetables. 

R S Sodhi, managing 

director of Gujarat Co-operative 

Milk Marketing 

Federation, which manufactures 

the Amul brand of 

dairy products, welcomed 

the development. 

Toyota, Suzuki may drive together 

Japan’s automobile giants 

Toyota Motor Corp 

and Suzuki Motor Corp 

said they plan to explore a 

possible partnership, citing 

technological challenges 

and the need to keep up 

with consolidation in the 

global auto industry. 

Toyota invests hugely in 

research & development 

(R&D) on automated driving 

functions and artificial 

intelligence for mobility 

purposes, while cost-conscious 

Suzuki, which specialises 

in affordable compact 

cars, has not yet made 

any announcement on major 

strategic plans in order 

to stay in competent in 

new world of automotive 

technologies. 

Meanwhile, both the 

companies said that they 

had just begun discussing 

possible cooperation, so 

nothing was decided about 

areas in which they might 

collaborate. 

However Osamu Suzuki, 

chairman of Suzuki said in 

a news conference that his 

firm was struggling to keep 

pace with the breakneck 

speed of R&D, “R&D in the 

auto industry is changing 

rapidly. The future looks 

perilous.” A partnership 

between Toyota and Suzuki 

would be the latest in an 

increasingly consolidating 

auto industry. Nissan Motor 

Co. in May announced 

it was planning to take 

a controlling stake in 

embattled Mitsubishi 

Motors Corp. 

A partnership Suzuki 

had with Germany’s Volkswagen 

ended on a sour 

note last year, after the 

German carmaker accused 

it of violating their pact by 

agreeing a diesel engine 

deal with Italy’s Fiat. 

Toyota completed a buyout 

of Daihatsu Motors earlier 

this year. The world’s 

largest automaker by vehicle 

sales in 2015 said last 

week it will set up a company 

with Daihatsu to focus 

on emerging markets. 

Suzuki, 

Japan’s 

fourth-largest automaker, 

competes fiercely with 

Daihatsu in the domestic 

market and dominates the 

Indian market through its 

majority stake in Maruti 

Suzuki India. Both firms 

concentrate on smaller 

vehicles. 

5 healthy snack ideas 

for road trips 

1. Pack some protein 

2. Load up on fruit and veggies 

It will help you feel full and alert. 

Try: 

• peanut butter and jam sandwiches 

• pita pockets stuffed with turkey, cheese, tomatoes and 

lettuce 

• smoked salmon pinwheels made with whole-wheat 

wraps 

• whole-grain crackers with cheddar 

• low-fat muffins with single-serving containers 

of yogurt 

3. Make it personal 

They’re full of disease-fighting antioxidants. Plus, their 

high water content will help you stay hydrated. 

Try: 

• fresh veggies such as baby carrots, cucumbers, bell peppers 

and grape tomatoes 

• fresh seasonal fruit such as apricots, peaches, plums, 

nectarines, grapes and berries 

4. Keep it safe, clean and 

litter-less 

Ask your kids to help make their own snacks and 

lunches. They’ll be more likely to eat it, which will make it 

even easier for you to zip right past those fast-food stops. 

Try: 

• Trail mix made with any combo of: popcorn, shredded 

coconut, low-fat granola, whole-grain cereal, 

sunflower seeds, nuts and dried fruit 

• Milk or chocolate milk in a stainless steel water bottle 

It will help you feel full and alert. 

Try: 

• Ice packs to keep food cold 

• Hand sanitizer or antibacterial wipes 

• Reusable containers and cutlery 

5. Compromise 

If you’re destined for the fast-food stop, eat wisely- 

Try: 

• A small burger instead of the jumbo combo 

• A salad instead of fries (go easy on the dressing) 

• Milk or water instead of pop 

• Your own piece of fruit for dessert

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BUSINESS SPORTS 

South Africa sweep Australia 

despite Warner heroics 

Cape Town: David Warner hit a magnificent 

century for Australia but could not prevent 

South Africa from completing a clean sweep 

by winning the fifth and final one-day international 

by 31 runs at Newlands. 

Warner hit 173 off 136 balls but received 

scant support from his teammates as Australia, 

chasing South Africa’s 327 for eight, were 

bowled out for 296. 

South Africa won all five matches in the series, 

the first time Australia have suffered such 

a beating in a five-game bilateral series. Australia 

will retain their number one ranking in 

one-day internationals, however, with South 

Africa two points behind in second place. 

“Davey was phenomenal but the rest of us 

didn’t stand up,” said Australian captain Steve 

Smith. “Credit to South Africa, we’ve been outplayed 

in all the games.” 

Rilee Rossouw hit 122 and JP Duminy made 

Fury vacates world heavyweight 

titles to focus on recovery 

Tyson Fury’s troubled 

11th month reign as world 

heavyweight champion 

came to an end on Thursday 

when the British boxer announced 

he would be vacating 

his WBO and WBA titles 

“to fully focus on his medical 

treatment and recovery”. 

The 28-year-old has 

not fought since beating 

Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko 

to win the titles in November 

2015 and has since 

admitted taking cocaine to 

battle depression. 

Fury has twice called off 

a fight against Klitschko, in 

July because of an ankle injury 

and last month for an 

unspecified medical condition, 

and also briefly retired 

from the sport. 

“I feel that it is only fair 

and right and for the good 

of boxing to keep the titles 

active and allow the other 

contenders to fight for the 

vacant belts that I proudly 

won and held as the undefeated 

heavyweight champion 

of the world ...” Fury said 

in statement released by his 

promoter Mick Hennessy. 

“I won the titles in the 

ring and I believe that they 

should be lost in the ring, 

but I’m unable to defend 

at this time and I have taken 

the hard and emotional 

decision to now officially 

vacate my treasured world 

titles 

“(I) wish the next in-line 

contenders all the very best 

as I now enter another big 

challenge in my life which I 

know, like against Klitschko, 

I will conquer.” 

Tyson’s points victory 

over Klitschko in Duesseldorf, 

Germany at the end of 

November last year was one 

of the biggest upsets in the 

long history of heavyweight 

boxing. 

It was a first defeat 

for Klitschko in 11 years 

and the now 40-year-old 

Ukrainian immediately demanded 

a re-match. 

Klitschko expressed his 

frustration after Fury called 

off a fight for the second 

time last month and last 

week accused the Briton of 

“dragging boxing through 

the mud”. 

At the start of October, 

ESPN reported Fury had 

tested positive for cocaine, 

citing a leaked letter sent by 

the Voluntary Anti-Doping 

Agency (VADA) .A couple of 

days later, Fury announced 

his retirement in an expletive-laden 

tweet, only to 

abruptly reverse the decision 

hours later, saying he 

planned to carry on fighting. 

In an interview with Rolling 

Stone published on Oct. 

4, Fury admitted to drinking 

heavily and using cocaine 

to help him deal with 

depression, saying he had 

been diagnosed as “manic 

depressive”. 

In the interview, he denied 

ever taking banned 

substances before he fought 

and said his cocaine use had 

started only after he beat 

Klitschko. 

Fury has also been 

charged with an anti-doping 

rule violation by UK 

Anti-Doping after a urine 

sample from February 2015 

- nine months before his victory 

over Klitschko - showed 

traces of the banned stimulant 

nandrolone. He denies 

any wrongdoing. 

Hennessy described the 

decision to vacate the titles 

as “heartbreaking” and Peter 

Fury, the boxer’s uncle 

and trainer, said he was convinced 

his nephew, who has 

a professional record of 25- 

0, would return to the ring. 

“Tyson will be back 

stronger from this 

and I will make sure, 

no matter what we 

have to deal with, Tyson 

not only comes back 

but will reclaim 

what’s rightfully his,” 

he said. [Reuters] 

73 as South Africa piled up the third-highest 

total in a one-day international at Newlands, 

making them firm favourites on a ground 

where the highest successful run chase was 

258. 

Warner was dropped by wicket keeper Quinton 

de Kock off Kagiso Rabada when he had 11. 

He went on to play a thrilling innings, hitting 

24 fours, and Australia remained in with a 

chance of victory until he was ninth out with 

the total on 288, run out by a throw from the 

point boundary by Imran Tahir, desperate for 

a risky second run in order to keep the strike. 

Leg-spinner Tahir had earlier taken two 

wickets in his first over, ending an opening 

stand of 72 between Warner and Aaron Finch, 

then bowling Smith two balls later. 

South African captain Faf du Plessis paid 

tribute to Warner for an “incredible innings” 

but said South Africa deserved their series triumph. 

“At different times different guys stood 

up. Whatever Australia threw at us we had the 

answers. I’m very proud of the team.” 

Mitchell Marsh and Travis Head both made 

35 but Australia were not able to stage a big 

partnership such as the 178 off 170 balls posted 

by Rossouw and Duminy after South Africa 

had been struggling at 52 for three.[PTI] 

Stokes believes in-form 

England can top ODI rankings 

England will climb to 

the top of the one-day international 

(ODI) cricket 

world rankings if they can 

maintain their fine form in 

the format, all-rounder Ben 

Stokes said after the side 

completed a series victory 

in Bangladesh. 

Stokes played a key role 

with an unbeaten 47 as England 

won the deciding third 

match against the hosts in 

Chittagong on Wednesday 

to wrap up a third successive 

one-day series triumph, 

having beaten Sri Lanka and 

Pakistan at home earlier 

this year. 

England are currently 

fifth in the ODI rankings, behind 

Australia, South Africa, 

New Zealand and India. 

“It’s really exciting. If 

we carry on like this we’ll 

achieve our target of being 

world number one,” Stokes, 

who was named the man of 

the series, told Sky Sports. 

England’s loss to Bangladesh 

in Adelaide, which 

knocked them out of the 

2015 ODI World Cup, 

spurred a string of changes 

to the national team set-up 

and Stokes felt the squad 

are starting to yield the dividends 

of the strategy. 

“The team we have had 

together for the last 18 

months have been playing 

unbelievable cricket,” the 

25-year-old added. 

With skipper Eoin 

Morgan sitting out the 

Bangladesh series over 

security concerns, wicketkeeper-batsman 

Jos Buttler 

was tasked with leading a 

young and inexperienced 

squad against a side that had 

won their six previous home 

ODI series. 

“Me and Jos work quite 

well. We’re quite aggressive 

in how we want to play our 

cricket, not just with the 

bat and the ball, but with 

field placings,” Stokes, who 

was vice-captain for the 

series, said. 

Morgan and influential 

opening batsman Alex Hales 

are expected to return to the 

squad when England travel 

to India for their next threematch 

ODI series in January. 

[Reuters] 

India to open against Canada in Junior World Cup 

Jayaram, Kashyap enter 

pre-quarterfinals of Dutch Open 

Almere (Netherlands): 

Defending champion Ajay 

Jayaram and Parupalli 

Kashyap continued their 

good run to reach the prequarterfinals 

of the men’s 

singles competition at 

Dutch Open badminton 

tournament, here. 

Top seed Jayaram, who 

has clinched the Dutch 

Open thrice in his career, 

spanked Philip Shisov 

of Bulgaria 21-7 21-9 in 

his second round match, 

while 11th seed Kashyap 

beat Denmark’s Rasmus 

Gemke 21-11 7-21 21-10 

in a 50-minute contest 

late last nigth. 

Jayaram will next play 

Norway’s Marius Myhre, 

while Kashyap face sixth 

seed Raul Must of Estonia, 

who had reached the finals 

in the last edition. 

However, it was curtains 

for Lakhanee Sarang as he 

suffered a 17-21 17-21 

loss against Raul in the 

second round. 

Among other Indians 

in fray, mixed doubles 

pair of B Sumeeth Reddy 

and Meghana Jakkampudi 

beat German duo of Daniel 

Benz and Theresa Wurm 

21-11 21-17 to set up a 

clash against Dutch combination 

of Jelle Maas and 

Imke Van der Aar in the 

next round. 

Fourth seeds Pranaav 

Cherry Chopra and Sikki 

Reddy, who clinched two 

titles this year at Brazil 

and Russia, defeated local 

pair of Ties Van Der Lecq 

and Alyssa Tirtosentono 

21-5 21-16 and they will 

face France’s Jordan Corvee 

and Anne Tran next. 

In men’s doubles, top 

seeds Manu Attri and B 

Sumeeth Reddy will open 

their campaign against 

Jacco Arends and Ruben 

Jille, while Pranaav and 

Akshay Dewalkar face German 

duo of Bjarne Geiss 

and Fabian Holzer. [PTI] 

Hamilton misses Barcelona 

test to rest sore foot 

Triple Formula One 

world champion Lewis 

Hamilton has pulled out 

of a tyre test in Barcelona 

to rest a sore foot ahead 

of next week’s U.S. Grand 

Prix in Austin, his Mercedes 

team said on Thursday. 

The Briton had been due 

originally to test the 2017 

Pirelli tyres with a modified 

2015 ‘mule’ car on 

Wednesday but team mate 

and championship leader 

Nico Rosberg took on those 

duties instead. 

A team spokesman said 

German reserve driver Pascal 

Wehrlein, who races for 

Manor, would stand in for 

Hamilton on Thursday. 

“Lewis had some discomfort 

in his foot after 

training on Tuesday,” he 

said. “It was agreed he 

wouldn’t test so he could 

rest it and get physio to be 

in good shape for Austin, 

which he will be. No concerns 

on that front.” 

Hamilton is 33 points behind 

Rosberg in the world 

championship with four 

races remaining, meaning 

that even if he wins everyone 

it will still not be 

enough if Rosberg finishes 

second each time. 

The Briton won his third 

title, and second with Mercedes, 

at Austin’s Circuit 

of the Americas last year 

when Rosberg started on 

pole but made a mistake 

that gifted his team mate 

the victory. 

Rosberg, who is now 

heading for his first title, 

then went on to win the 

three races after that in 

Mexico, Brazil and Abu 

Dhabi before starting the 

new season with four successive 

victories. 

Both Hamilton and Rosberg 

were at the team’s 

Brackley headquarters and 

Brixworth high performance 

engine facility on 

Tuesday, with the Briton 

seen to be limping slightly 

later in the afternoon. 

Hamilton triggered a 

media spat at the last race 

in Japan when he was criticised 

for playing around 

with Snapchat during a 

news conference, taking 

pictures of fellow drivers 

and complaining of the boring 

format of the event. 

He then walked out of a 

media briefing on Saturday 

and hurriedly left the circuit 

after the race, flying back to 

Europe with non-executive 

chairman Niki Lauda and 

Mercedes motorsport head 

Toto Wolff. 

The team said then that 

Hamilton had to be back in 

Europe as soon as possible 

to be ready for Wednesday 

testing. [Reuters] 

Viral fever rules Raina out of first ODI 

New Delhi: India will open 

their campaign against Canada 

in the FIH Junior Hockey 

World Cup to be played in 

Lucknow from December 8 

to 18. 

With only one rest day, 

hockey fans will be treated 

to 10 days of high-speed, 

action packed hockey at the 

Major Dhyan Chand Hockey 

Stadium. There, the world s 

rising stars will battle it out 

to be crowned junior men 

s world champions in what 

will be one of the most competitive 

hockey events of the 

year. 

The pool stages will take 

place between December 

8-12 before the classification 

matches begin on 

December 14. The medal 

matches will then be held on 

December 18. 

Besides India taking on 

Canada, New Zealand and 

Japan kick-off what will be 

a hugely entertaining opening 

day which will also see 

reigning champions Germany 

start their title defence 

against Spain. 

Day two highlights include 

Oceania champions 

Australia match against 

Korea, while the game between 

2014 bronze medallists 

Netherlands and Pakistan 

is sure to offer plenty 

of excitement. 

Super Saturday then follows, 

with a battle between 

the Pan-American and Oceania 

champions Argentina 

and Australia possibly the 

pick of the day, followed 

later by a renewal of an old 

rivalry between India and 

England. 

Belgium versus Netherlands 

is bound to offer a few 

surprises on Sunday, with 

Pakistan s match against 

African junior champions 

Egypt another crucial game 

as the pool stages near completion. 

Amongst the last matches, 

some tough challenges 

await Austria who play Australia, 

and South Africa who 

take on India in the concluding 

game of the pool stage 

on Monday evening. 

India are placed in Group 

D alongside Canada, South 

Africa and England. [PTI] 

New Delhi: Indian batsman Suresh Raina, 

who was brought back into the ODI side 

after a gap of one year, has been ruled 

out of the first one-dayer against New 

Zealand due to viral fever. 

“The BCCI Medical team has confirmed 

that Suresh Raina, who is recovering from 

a bout of viral fever, is ruled out of the 

first ODI against New Zealand. There will 

be no replacement in the team,” the BCCI 

said in a statement. 

Raina was looking forward to feature 

in his first ODI since October 2015. 

The opening match of the five-ODI series 

will be played in Dharamsala on 

October 16. India have already swept 

the Test series 3-0. 

The southpaw was dropped for the ODIs 

in Australia and the limited-overs tour of 

Zimbabwe earlier this year besides the 

two-match T20 series against the West 

Indies in USA. 

He has not had time in the middle since 

the Duleep Trophy where his scores read 

52, 35 and 90. 

Raina led Uttar Pradesh in the team’s 

Ranji Trophy opener against Madhya 

Pradesh last week but did not come 

out to bat. 

Uttar Pradesh ended up suffering an 

innings and 64 run defeat at the hands of 

Madhya Pradesh. [PTI]

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ENTERTAINMENT 

Santhu Straight Forward to 

Simbu’s advice to Sivakarthikeyan 

release in Deepawali! 

Yash and Radhika Pandit starrer Santhu 

Straight Forward is nearing completion. Two 

songs shooting is only pending for the film. The 

makers have kick started the post production 

activity too simultaneously. 

The music and trailer’s launch is being planned 

grandly. Mahesh Rao is wielding the megaphone. 

K Majnu is bankrolling the project under the K 

Majnu Cinemas banner. Santhu Straight Forward 

is expected to release during Diwali. 

Chaitanya enjoying double 

success of Premam 

Now that both Samantha 

and Naga Chaitanya 

have come out in 

open about the relationship, 

the golden beauty 

have slowly begun to 

uncover their private 

pictures. As Sam is kind 

of enjoying her holiday 

period by not signing 

any films, she is often 

seen with Chaitanya in 

the recent day. Following 

pictures from their 

Sunburn outing, a new 

funny image of the dazzling 

pair is out. 

The recent tweets and 

pictures from Samantha 

clearly proves she’s in a 

really happy phase now. 

Sam hints how much 

she is loving her life to 

the completest these 

days. On the sidelines of 

Premam success. Not to 

forget, Samantha recently 

wished him before the 

release of film. 

The much-in-love 

couple would get 

hitched next year and 

in the meanwhile, we 

may get to more such 

pictures on Internet. 

In next few days, Naga 

Chaitanya will kick start 

his next project with 

Soggade Chinni Nayana 

director Kalyan Krishna 

and it’s said to be a family 

entertainer. 

Disha Patani sashays down the 

ramp for Love Gen at AIFW 

Mallu Beauty with 

Midas Touch 

Young Malayalam 

actress Anupama 

Parameswaran looks to 

join the long list of Mallu 

actresses who have and 

are ruling the Telugu film 

industry. 

Anupama has done 

only two Telugu films till 

date but she is already 

rated one of the most 

promising talents. She 

began her filmy career 

with stupendous Malayalam 

hit film ‘Premam’. 

After watching this romantic 

drama, top Telugu 

director Trivikram 

immediately roped her 

in to play a key role in his 

directorial ‘A...Aa’. Anupama’s 

possessive character 

of Nagavalli was well 

received and the film became 

a big hit. 

Next came the Telugu 

remake of ‘Premam’ 

in which she reprised 

her role from the original. 

With this film also 

becoming a success, Anupama 

is branded as a 

lucky lady. The recently 

released teaser of Sharwanand’s 

‘Shatamanam 

Bhavathi’ looked promising 

and since it was a Dil 

Raju production venture, 

there is very little doubt 

for it to fail at box office. 

‘Shivaay’ action will be 

visual treat for everyone: Vir Das 

It’s a known fact that 

Sivakarthikeyan got a 

little emotional during 

Remo’s thanksgiving 

meet which was held 

on Wednesday. He also 

said that few people are 

trying to unsettle his 

career though he never 

mentioned who or what 

they did. 

On hearing about this, 

Simbu took his Twitter 

to register his support 

for the Remo actor. 

“Don’t worry Shiva .Not 

only u, even i know who 

they r and that’s what 

they r good at .Hard 

work is all that matters. 

Leave the rest to god”. 

Kim calls off Las Vegas club 

appearance after Paris robbery 

Reality TV star Kim 

Kardashian has cancelled 

a scheduled appearance 

at Las Vegas’ 

Hakkasan Nightclub 

on the heels of her 

life-threatening robbery 

in Paris. 

The “Keeping Up 

With The Kardashians” 

star was supposed to 

appear at the late-night 

spot on October 28, a 

week after her 36th 

birthday, sources said. 

“Given recent circumstances, 

Kim Kardashian 

will be unable 

to make her previously 

scheduled appearance 

at Hakkasan Las Vegas 

Nightclub,” a representative 

for the club said. 

Kardashian has a 

USD 1 million deal with 

Hakkasan, in which she 

agreed to make four 

appearances in 2016. 

She already visited in 

April and July and has 

two more events to 

schedule to fulfill the 

agreement before the 

year is up. 

After being held at 

gunpoint by robbers in 

her Paris luxury stay, 

Kardashian has stayed 

out of the spotlight. 

Anton Yelchin’s death was 

devastating: Felicity Jones 

Blossomed under the 

vibrant, dynamic and 

bold look, actress Disha 

Patani walked down 

the ramp for Love Generation, 

which made a 

sparkling debut on the 

first day of Amazon India 

Fashion Week. 

The couturiers behind 

Love Gen include 

Nandita Mahtani, Bhavana 

Pandey and Dolly 

Sidhwani, the three 

Mumbai girls, who are 

all stalwarts of the Indian 

fashion world. The 

show was in collaboration 

with British Airways. 

The show, which had 

guests like Dino Morea, 

Chunky Pandey, Ritesh 

Sidhwani, Riddhima Kapoor 

and Nitya Mehra 

seated in the first row, 

began with Disha taking 

over the ramp with 

her Bollywood moves in 

denims. 

The 21-year-old actress 

rocked the runway 

with her smile and 

confidence and was no 

less than a sight for sore 

eyes. 

“I loved walking for 

Love Generation because 

it is a collection I 

would love to wear personally. 

I can dress it up 

or dress it down with 

the right make-up and 

shoes!” Disha said. 

Meanwhile, the models 

donned perfect everyday 

summer wardrobe 

with full of ruby 

reds, boisterous blues, 

youthful yellows, pinks 

and peaches. 

From crepes and denims 

to georgettes and 

cotton, the collection 

was an assortment of 

the fabrics that are completely 

breathable. 

While, shedding more 

light on their chic collection 

one of the co-founders 

of Love Gen, Nandita 

said, “It is a collection for 

the modern-day women, 

who don’t have time to 

dress up. So, they wear 

something light and go 

to work and then play it 

up and go for a party. 

Actor Vir Das is all 

praise for the action sequences 

in Ajay Devgn’s 

upcoming film “Shivaay”. 

“I think he (Ajay) has 

been able to pull off the 

story very well. I think 

nobody is able to pull 

off action the way Ajay 

has done in ‘Shivaay’. It 

will be a visual treat for 

everyone,” Vir told the 

media. 

Vir was surprised 

when Ajay offered him a 

role in “Shivaay”. 

“He (Ajay) called me 

and said come to office. 

His team of writers 

narrated the film and I 

liked it,” he said. 

The” Delhi Belly” actor 

reveals he is playing 

a Pakistani hacker in the 

film. 

“It’s not a negative 

role. I am playing a Pakistani 

hacker. I am under 

contract, I can’t reveal 

much details about the 

film,” he said. 

Directed by Ajay, 

the film also starring 

Sayyeshaa Saigal and 

Erika Kaar releases on 

October 28 

Actress Felicity 

Jones says she was devastated 

after the death 

of actor Anton Yelchin. 

The 32-year-old actress 

starred alongside 

Yelchin in the 2011 

film “Like Crazy”, and 

had formed a close 

friendship with the 

star, whom she called 

a “unique soul,”sources 

said. 

“It’s been devastating. 

It doesn’t feel like 

there’s any justice or 

there’s no way of understanding 

it, really. 

It’s just been a very difficult 

time for his family. 

They’re very dignified, 

beautiful people. 

He was just like no 

one else. He really was 

a unique soul,” Jones 

said. 

The actress said her 

film roles have given 

her a chance to focus 

her energy on something 

else, in an attempt 

to move on from 

her grieving. 

Printed & Published by P Sunil Kumar, Chief Editor: Benedict Jaikumar, M/S. Immaculate Broadcasting Consortium World News Private Limited, (RNI No: KARENG / 2015 / 63243.) 

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