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People Living with HIV and AIDS (PLHIV) recently appealed to the government to pass a long pending draft legislation which seeks to bring relief to over 2.5 million people affected by the condition in India. The HIV/AIDS bill has been pending with the government for the last five years.After being finalised by the health ministry in August 2006, the bill was submitted to the law ministry in September 2007. The bill was drafted after nationwide consultations with various stakeholders, people living with HIV, communities at risk of HIV, healthcare workers, children's organisations and women's groups. The bill provides redressal against discrimination in the private sector. It also ensures the informed consent of the person should be taken before testing for HIV treatment or research. Although the government provides the first line treatment free of cost, availability of the second line is limited.The bill makes it the responsibility of the government to provide complete treatment free of cost. It also pro-vides for the appointment of a health ombudsman in every district. PLHIV has sought an early passage of the bill in the present Winter Session of parliament. (IANS) Story on Page 6

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FDI war: BJP refuses to budge, Congress backs government

New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) The deadlock over allowing foreign eq-uity in India’s retail market deep-ened Wednesday as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rejected the gov-ernment’s plea for toning down its adjournment motion on the issue and the Congress not favouring a rollback by the government.

BJP leader L.K. Advani con-veyed to Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee that the wording of the adjournment motion moved by the BJP on FDI in retail was non-nego-tiable, informed sources said.

At the end of the day, marked by intense political activity, Mukher-jee called up Advani in another bid to end the deadlock over the FDI in multi-brand retail, but failed to make any headway.

Advani made it clear that the only way to go was to follow the sugges-tion given by Sushma Swaraj, the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, at the all-party meeting, chaired by Mukherjee, Tuesday.

Sushma Swaraj had suggested at the meeting that the government should roll back its decision on the FDI in retail and start a discussion on price rise before this issue was cleared by the union cabinet.

The latest move by Mukherjee to break the deadlock came even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke to leaders of allies Trinamool Congress and DMK after attend-ing a meeting of the Congress core committee to find a way out of the impasse in parliament on the FDI issue.

The BJP has demanded that nor-mal business be suspended in parlia-ment to focus on FDI with a strongly worded adjournment motion de-manding revocation of the retail reforms. “If the government even wants to suggest they want to change the wording of the adjournment motion moved by me, I am making it clear there will be no change,” said the BJP’s Murli Manohar Joshi.

The Congress core committee met for a second time, in the evening, but failed to evolve a way out.

According to Congress sources, Manmohan Singh explained to lead-ers of the DMK and Trinamool, each of which have 18 Lok Sabha MPs, the need to avoid a political crisis over the FDI issue.

Lokpal panel still divided on inclusion of PM

Millions vote in by-polls in seven states

Rs.520 monthly pension for HIV-AIDS infected in KeralaThiruvananthapuram, Nov 30 (IANS) On the eve of the World AIDS Day Dec 1, the Kerala govern-ment Wednesday announced a monthly pension of Rs.520 for all those infected with HIV-AIDS.“A monthly sum of Rs.400 would be given to each HIV-AIDS patient and in the case of the death of the patient it would be given to the immediate family member. Since these patients require frequent visits to hospitals for treatment, they would be given an extra Rs.120 for meeting their monthly travel expenses,” said Chief Minister Oomen Chandy.According to the Kerala State Aids Control Society (KSACS), there

TDP to move no-trust motion in Andhra assemblyHyderabad, Nov 30 (IANS) A no-confidence motion against the Congress government and the Telangana issue are likely to dominate the brief winter session of the Andhra Pradesh assembly beginning Thursday. The five-day session is likely to be a stormy affair as it is being held against the backdrop of Speaker N. Manohar’s decision to reject resignations of 61 legislators, including those who quit on the Telangana issue and also loyalists of the YSR Congress party chief Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy.The speaker’s decision to accept only six resignations has come under criticism from opposi-tion parties, who accused him of discrimination.

New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) The par-liamentary standing committee on law and justice, examining the Lokpal bill, Wednesday remained divided over bringing the prime minister under the anti-graft ombudsman even as Anna Hazare threatened to launch a protest if the legislation is not passed in the winter session which ends Dec 21.

Chairman of the panel Abhishek Manu Singhvi told a news channel that among the three options being considered are to include the prime minister fully but defer prosecution, exclude him absolutely and to include him but with substantive exclusion on subject matter under the Lokpal.

“We have not reached the stage of adoption, rejection or dissension on the prime minister,” he said.

But sources said opposition mem-bers from the Bharatiya Janata Party,

the Communist Party of India and the Communist Party of India-Marxist plan to give dissent notes to the panel on the issue.

New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) Polling between 60 percent to as high as 80 percent was recorded in byelections held Wednesday to eight assembly constituencies in six states. Around 50 percent voter turnout was regis-tered in the Kolkata South parliamen-tary constituency where also by-poll was held.

By-polls were held for two assembly seats each in Haryana and Himachal

Pradesh and one each in Odisha, Bi-har, Jharkhand and Karnataka.

In Himachal Pradesh, by-polls were held in Renuka and Nalagarh constit-uencies, while in Haryana polling was held in Adampur and Ratia. The by-election was held for the Laukaha seat in Bihar, for Mandu in Jharkhand, the Umerkote seat in Odisha and the Bel-lary Rural seat in Karnataka.

New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) With the political battle intensifying between Kerala and Tamil Nadu on the Mul-laperiyar dam issue, Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy is to come here Thursday to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. After a cabinet meeting, Chandy claimed in Thiruvananthapuram that the prime minister was “already convinced” of his state’s demand for a new dam in place of the 116-year-old structure.

He said he would once again take up the issue with the prime minister and added that he would write to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa, explaining Kerala’s position on the Mullaperiyar issue.

The dam in Kerala’s Idukki dis-trict supplies water to Tamil Nadu. The MPs from Tamil and Kerala Tuesday sought Manmohan Singh’s intervention to resolve the complex issue.

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Dam row: Chandy in Delhi today to meet PM

are 55,167 HIV-AIDS infected people in the state.

Kolkata, Dec 1 (IANS) Alleging that the Congress was constantly using the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to settle scores with political opponents, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday said the federal in-vestigative agency had turned into a "Congress Bureau of Investigation".

"The Congress is constantly using the CBI against political opponents," BJP president Nitin Gadkari said dur-ing an informal talk with mediaper-sons here.

Asserting that it was prepared for mid-term polls in the country, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednes-day exuded confidence of crossing 170 Lok Sabha seats on its own.

Party chief Nitin Gadkari also said the BJP-headed National Democratic Alliance (NDA) headed would ex-pand with lot of others joining it once the BJP crossed the 170-mark in seat tally whenever the elections were held.

"We are ready for it," Gadkari said when asked whether his party was

ready for mid- term polls. "But I am no astrologer that I can

tell you when elections will be held… I don't know. Anything can happen in cricket and politics," he quipped.

Asked about the number of seats the BJP was expecting, he said: "At any cost we will go over 200 on our own".

He said once the BJP tally reached 170, those keeping away from his par-ty would join in and the NDA will be expanded.

Members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hold placards as they protest against the central government and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the retail sector during a demonstration in Amritsar.

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New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Wednesday spoke at the Global Bud-dhist Conference, but scrupulously avoided commenting on the post-ponement of the India-China bound-ary talks that was triggered by his par-ticipation in the conclave.

A scheduled press conference to be addressed by the spiritual leader was also abruptly called off. The decision to cancel the press conference was taken in view of the latest diplomatic row between India and China.

In a development that may irritate China, a new international Buddhist body headquartered in New Delhi was formed amid Beijing’s attempts to pro-ject itself as the real Buddhist nucleus of the world.

“It’s a political question. No com-ments,” the Tibetan leader, who has been living in India since 1959 after fleeing from China, said when asked by TV news channels to comment on Chinese objections to his participation

at the four-day Global Buddhist Con-ference that ended in the evening.

In his valedictory address, the Dalai Lama focused primarily on the impor-tance of Buddhist values of compas-sion and harmonious living in a world beset by stress and violence.

The boundary talks between spe-cial representatives of India and China, scheduled for Nov 28-29, was postponed last week over differences over the Dalai Lama’s participa-tion in the Buddhist conference in New Delhi.

New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) In an incident of road rage, a 50-year-old journalist, working with a promi-nent web newspaper, was arrested in the capital for shooting at a man after the victim’s car had brushed against his, police said on Wednes-day.

Journalist Arun Kumar Pandey was arrested from Vasant Kunj in south Delhi at 2 p.m. for firing at

Jagbir Singh, 60, who miraculously escaped as the bullet hit his belt buckle, a police official said.

The incident took place at Church Road, 100 metres away from Fortis hospital in Vasant Kunj sector A in south Delhi.

Police said Pandey, a resident of Raj Nagar in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, was on his way to Andhe-ria Mor from Mahipalpur when his

Hyundai i-10 was brushed by Sin-gh’s car, an Esteem, while the latter was trying to take a u-turn.

The two alighted from their cars and entered into an altercation. Two of Singh’s relatives, who were also in the car, joined in the quarrel.

In a fit of rage, Pandey fired twice in the air and once at Singh with his licensed automatic pistol, police said.

New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) Delhi Police on Wednesday claimed to have busted a major module of the homegrown In-dian Mujahideen terror outfit by arresting six of its suspected activists, including a Pakistani national, for their al-leged involvement in three attacks last year.

Two AK-47 assault rifles, a pistol and some explosives have been re-covered from these Indi-an Mujahideen suspects, arrested last week.

Confirming the arrests, Home Min-ister P. Chidambaram said police were probing their possible involvement in the Feb 13 Pune German Bakery blast,

April 17 Chinnaswami Stadium blasts in Bangalore and the Sep 19 Jama

Masjid shooting and blast in 2010.

“Six suspected ter-rorists have been appre-hended. One of them is a Pakistani. The inves-tigation is still under way,” Chidambaram told reporters here.

A Delhi Police spokesperson said 50 AK-47 cartridges, one 9mm pistol with 14 car-tridges, five kilograms of explosives, five deto-

nators, Rs.2 lakh in fake Indian cur-rency notes, and some “incriminating materials” have been recovered from the arrested men.

New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) Delhi Fire Service (DFS) plans to upgrade the fire-fighting facilities in the city by procuring high-end devices like two foam fire fighting tenders to combat chemical fires and six ve-hicles to reach congested areas, an official said on Wednesday.

“We will soon procure two high-capacity foam fire fighting tenders to douse chemical fires where wa-ter is ineffective and we will also procure portable spectrograph, a device, which helps in identifying the chemical in the fire. This will help the fire fighters to use the right method for dousing the fire,” said DFS Director A.K. Sharma speak-

ing at a three-day “Safety Conven-tion”.

The conference on safety con-vention, which started on Wednes-day, was organised by the Institute of Engineers, Safety and Quality Forum.

Besides this, the DFS is also

planning to get six fast response vehicles equipped them with latest state-of-the-art basic fire-fighting equipment, he said.

Apart from this the DFS control system will also be modernised with latest global positioning sys-tem (GPS)-based tracking system.

“The GPS automatic vehicle tracking system will help in im-proving the response time of fire-fighters by finding the shortest route to the fire spot,” said Sharma.

New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) With her mostly dressed in designer clothes, no one would imagine Lady Gaga indulg-ing in street shopping. But this is what the international pop star did during her recent visit to the capital and bar-gained while shopping.

The 25-year-old was in India in October for the India tour and during that period, she also chatted with Bol-lywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan for an hour-long show on UTV Bindass which will be telecast soon.

On the show while sipping “masala chai”, the “Born This Way” singer re-vealed how much she liked shopping in the capital and loved the coloured items the country has to offer. She also confessed how smartly she managed to bargain at the shops because she is naturally talented at bargaining.

“Oh yes, I am a New York girl. I am very good at bargaining,” she said.

Celebration of Indian literature in Delhi

Panel formed to set up Ambedkar centre, memorial in Delhi

New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) A two-day literature festival, “Samanvay: IHC Bharatiya Bhasa Mahotsav”, will bring more than 60 award-winning writers to the capital to discuss issues vital to the growth of contemporary Indian literature.The festival will begin Dec 16 at the India Habitat Centre. The session will feature acclaimed literary personalities like Kunwar Narain, UR Ananthamurthy, K. Satchidanandan, Dalip Kaur Tiwana,Lakshman Gaikwad, Ashok Vajpeyi and Om Prakash Valmiki.

New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) The central government on Wednesday set up a committee to develop Dr. Ambedkar National Centre for Social Justice and a memorial in Delhi.The 11-member committee, headed by Planning Commission Member Narendra Jadhav, was formed after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh directed Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Mukul Wasnik to take urgent steps to constitute a body to develop the memorial.The report has to be submitted in three months’ time.

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Six Indian Mujahideen suspects held for terror attacks

Delhi to get modern fire fighting equipment

NY girl Gaga bargained in Delhi

Journalist held for road rage shooting


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World’s first sex school opens in AustriaLondon, Dec 1 (IANS) While many people may think it’s an activity which should be best learned behind closed doors, an enterprising Swedish schoolmis-tress thinks otherwise. Ylva-Maria Thompson has opened the world’s first international sex school for teaching the art of being better lovers, the Daily Mail reported. The Austrian Interna-tional Sex School in Vienna offers ‘hands on’ lessons in seduction for 1,400 pounds a term. The ‘head-mistress’ says anyone over the age of 16 can enrol at ‘the world’s first college of applied sexuality’.

Climate summit looks at weak deal

Britain expels all Iranian diplomats

Gaddafi daughter asks Libyans to revolt

Germany asks Pakistan to attend Bonn conference

Haqqani network

leader held in Afghanistan

Durban, Nov 30 (IANS) The annual climate summit got into stride on Wednesday, with bureaucrats from 192 countries making some progress over the vexed issue of transferring green technologies to poor nations at cheap rates.

But the negotiators remained dead-locked on the most troubling issue of the extent to which each country should reduce its carbon emissions. At best, this summit could reach a weak agreement that would not help much in combating global warming, nor in adapting to its effects, delegates said.

The stalemate that has been going on for years continued to dog the Nov 28-Dec 9 summit of the UN Frame-work Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in this South African port city, with developing nations in-sisting that rich countries be legally bound to reduce the emissions that are warming the world, and meeting with refusal from countries like Can-

ada, Japan and Russia unless emerg-ing economies make similar pledges.

At stake is the future of the Kyoto

Protocol, which legally binds rich countries to reduce emissions, but whose first commitment period runs out in another year. Conference President Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, South Africa’s minister for Interna-tional Relations and Cooperation, said: “Durban will be the decisive moment for the Kyoto Protocol.”

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has con-siderably diluted an earlier stand strongly linking extreme weather events to climate change.

It now says it has “low confidence” in any observed long-term increase in tropical cyclone activity. It also states that it is “likely” that the global frequency of tropical cyclones “will either decrease or remain essentially unchanged”.

This goes against the strong em-phasis it placed on the connection be-tween climate change and cyclones in its fourth assessment report released in 2007.

London, Dec 1 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Britain has ex-pelled all Iranian diplomats from its territory after the British embassy in Tehran was stormed by a crowd, said the British Foreign Sec-retary William Hague.

Hague told the country’s parliament Wednesday that the Foreign Office demand-ed “the immediate closure of Iranian embassy in Lon-don”.

“Staff must leave within the next 48 hours,” he added. “If any country makes it impossible for us to operate on their soil they cannot ex-pect to have a functioning embassy here.”

Britain evacuated all its diplomats from Iran Wednesday.

“It is not possible to maintain an embassy under these circumstance

and these threats and actions,” Hague told members of the parliament.

Iranian protesters stormed the Brit-ish Embassy in Tehran Tuesday after rallying against sanctions the Britain imposed on Iran earlier this month.

The crowd, mostly students, at-tacked the embassy compound, tore down the British flag and replaced it with Iran’s.

Islamabad, Dec 1 (IANS) German Chan-cellor Angela Merkel telephoned Paki-stan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday, requesting the country to change its decision of boycotting the upcoming Bonn conference, Xinhua reported.

Pakistan decided to boycott the conference on Afghanistan’s future to protest against NATO bombing of two Paki-stani posts at the week-end in which 24 soldiers were killed.

The boycott decision was taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by Gilani in La-hore.

“The German Chancellor expressed her desire that Pakistan’s attendance in the Bonn conference was of utmost im-portance to Germany and stressed upon that Pakistan’s representation was essen-tial for making the conference meaning-

ful,” said the Pakistan prime minister’s office in a statement.

“The prime minister stated that Paki-stan holds Germany in the highest esteem

and attaches highest importance to peace, stability and sovereign-ty of Afghanistan, the statement said.

Replying to Merkel’s request, Gilani said that since Germany and Pa-kistan shared excellent relations in the past and also the German for-eign minister was the

first to express solidarity with Pakistan and also condolences to the families who were killed in the NATO/ISAF attack, he would refer the matter to the parliamen-tary committee on national security to take the decision.

The conference is to be held in Germa-ny’s Bonn city Monday (Dec 5) to discuss Afghanistan’s future.

Moscow, Nov 30 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Aisha Gaddafi, daughter of slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has urged Libyan people to overthrow the new government which came to power “with the planes of NATO”.

“My father has not left, he is al-ways among us,” CBS News quoted Aisha Gaddafi as saying in an audio message broadcast on Syria’s al-Rai television Tuesday.

“Do not forget the orders of your father urging you to continue fight-ing, even if you no longer hear his voice,” Aisha said.

Gaddafi, who had ruled the coun-try for almost 42 years, was captured and executed by rebels near his home town of Sirte Oct 20.

Aisha, her mother Sofia, and Brothers Hannibal and Moham-med, accompanied by their children, crossed the border into Algeria Aug 29 after the fall of Tripoli. Aisha de-livered a child in an Algerian clinic hours after crossing the border.

CBS News said Aisha could face extradition for her statements, as she and her family members had vowed not to make any public appeal after receiving refugee status in Algeria.

Kabul, Nov 30 (IANS) A leader of the Haqqani network was detained in Afghanistan on Wednesday, Afghan forces and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said. The leader, whose name was not disclosed, was arrested in Pul-e Alam district of Logar province, 60 km south of Kabul, Xinhua reported cit-ing a NATO press release.

The man conducted attacks against NATO troops and dis-tributed weapons throughout the area.

The Haqqani network is the military wing of the Taliban operating in Ka-bul and the eastern prov-inces along the border with Pakistan.

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Petrol prices lowered by 65 paise a litre

Sibal meets telecom operators on 3G issue

Order reserved on plea for CBI probe into Air India deal

Eurozone ministers agree to expand rescue fund

Policymakers concerned over slowdown

New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS): A fort-night after giving consumers relief for the first time in almost three years, India’s fuel retailers again cut petrol prices Wednesday -- by 65 paise a litre, excluding state taxes and levies -- bringing further suc-cor to vehicle owners. The price cut, effective midnight Wednesday, move may help the United Progres-sive Alliance (UPA) government in a price rise debate in parliament in the ongoing winter session of par-liament as opposition parties are likely to highlight the high cost of

petrol during the debate. IndianOil Corp (IOC), the largest of the three state-run oil marketing companies

(OMCs), said a fall in global crude prices was the reason it could bring down prices of petrol.

New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS): Com-munications Minister Kapil Sibal Wednesday met chiefs of leading tel-ecom service providers such as Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications, Idea Cellular, Tata and Vodafone to discuss the issue of 3G roaming and spectrum pricing, official sources said. The meeting which saw partici-pation from telecom czars including Sunil Bharti Mittal of Bharti Airtel, Anil Ambani of Reliance Commu-nications, Kumar Mangalam Birla of Idea Cellular, Ishaat Hussain from Tata and Vittorio Colao of Vodafone took place after the operators sent a letter to the prime minister seeking

his intervention in the 3G intra-circle roam-ing (ICR) issue last week. According to official sources, issues such as 3G roaming and spectrum pricing were discussed in the meet-ing however no formal assurances were given by the government on anything. Airtel, along with Vodafone and Idea Cellular, had en-tered into a roaming agreement to offer 3G services in the circles where they could not win the 3G spectrum.

However, the tel-ecom regulator and the enforce-ment cell of the tel-ecom department said the agree-ment was illegal. The operators last week expressed discontent and sought the prime minister’s inter-vention in the ICR issue, saying that

the government should refund the 3G licence fees if such pacts were not allowed.

New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS): The Delhi High Court Wednesday re-served its order on an NGO’s plea seeking direction to the Central Bu-reau of Investigation (CBI) to probe a Rs.67,000 crore purchase order by Air India for 111 aircraft. After hearing arguments from both the petitioner and the central government and the national carrier, a division bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw said: “The judgment is reserved.” “Our specific query is whether the PAC (public accounts committee) can recom-mend the investigation or not,” Act-ing Chief Justice Sikri asked earlier, seeking to know if the PAC had the right to set up a CBI inquiry or look

into the criminality of the issue. The court was hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed in 2010 by NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) through counsel Prashant Bhushan. “The petitioner requests this court to direct the CVC to con-duct a thorough inquiry into aircraft acquisition deals of Air India and its loss of market-share by giving up profitable routes and timings, and the role played by the civil aviation min-istry,” the CPIL said.

“If the CVC finds a prima facie case, it can then get the matter inves-tigated through the CBI as per law,” the petition said. Opposing the plea, Additional Solicitor General A.S. Chandhiok said: “The CAG report is

under consideration before the PAC which would submit its report to par-liament, which is supreme.” Bhush-an told the bench that material was available for ordering criminal inves-tigation into the deal which caused a huge loss to the exchequer. Bhushan also referred to a report of a parlia-mentary committee saying that it had raised concerns on the issue.

The PIL alleged that the ministry through its decisions and actions drove the Air India and the erstwhile Indian Airlines into heavy losses. The NGO said even parliamentary committees, in their reports, recom-mended a probe into the fleet expan-sion way back in 2010 but no action was taken.

New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS): The country’s policymakers Wednesday expressed concern over GDP grow-ing at its slowest pace in more than two years at 6.9 percent in the quar-ter ended Sep 30, but added that the situation is expected to improve by the end of this fiscal. Finance Min-ister Pranab Mukherjee said the government would do its best to im-prove the situation. Mukherjee said the overall Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth has slowed in the last two quarters mainly because of poor performance of mining and manu-facturing sectors. Growth of the manufacturing sector slumped to 2.7 percent for the quarter ended Sep 30, 2011, as compared to 7.8 percent dur-ing the same quarter of the last fiscal. The mining sector growth slowed to 3.2 percent during the quarter under

review from 8 percent during the cor-responding quarter of 2010-11. The GDP growth in the first six months of the current financial year slowed to 7.3 percent from 8.6 percent during the same period of last fiscal, official data showed Wednesday.

Deputy Chairman of the Plan-ning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia forecast a similar growth pattern for the third quarter, add-ing that the GDP growth for the fis-cal is expected to be between 7 to 7.5 percent. He also did not rule out the possibility of a small slippage in fis-cal deficit target. Meanwhile, Chief Economic Adviser to the finance ministry Kaushik Basu blamed the slowdown on global factors and sluggish decision-making. How-ever, he was optimistic about future growth.

Brussels, Nov 30 (IANS): Eurozone finance ministers agreed Tuesday to expand a rescue fund and to turn to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for help to contain the spreading debt crisis. The finance ministers’ meeting raised two possible approaches to beef up the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF): by allowing EFSF fund to guarantee 20 percent to 30 percent of potential losses incurred by inves-tors who buy bonds of governments in financial trouble, and by creating a common investment fund to attract foreign investors to buy eurozone gov-

ernment bonds. Klaus Regling, head of the EFSF, said he could not put a single figure on the scaled up EFSF, which EU leaders had hoped would reach one tril-lion euros. Market participants have fears that the fund would not reach that amount, reported Xinhua. The EFSF alone might not be able to solve all the problems. Finance ministers have agreed to turn to the IMF for help, mainly through bilateral loans to “ad-equately match the new firepower of the EFSF” and “cooperate more close-ly”, Eurogroup chairman Jean-Claude Juncker told a news conference.

Karnataka farmers to protest against agri-summit

Airtel touches 50mn customers mark in Africa

Bangalore, Nov 30 (IANS): Even as the Karnataka government braces to hold the global agri-business and food process summit in this tech hub Thurs-

New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) Leading telecom service provider Bharti Airtel Wednesday said it has touched the 50 million customers mark in Africa, where it acquired telecom operations in a $9 billion debt-funded deal last year. “Bharti Airtel Limited today celebrated a significant milestone when it acquired its 50 millionth mobile customer in Africa. It has achieved this milestone within just 17 months of acquiring Zain’s mobile operations in 16 African countries and added 14 million new mobile customers during this period,” the company said in a statement.

Oil firms increase jet fuel price by 3.70%New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS): State-owned oil marketing com-panies (OMCs) Wednesday in-creased the prices of aviation tur-bine fuel (ATF) by 3.70 percent, effective from Dec 1. This is the second such increase in Novem-

ber. The OMCs had increased jet fuel prices by 1.95 percent on Nov 15. The latest hike is expected to further burden the industry, which has seen many airlines re-porting losses owing to the high cost of jet fuel.

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day, leading farmers’ organizations in the state have decided to conduct a parallel meeting to protest against overseas investments in the farm sector. “About 5,000 farmers and agricultural workers from across the state will participate in the protest meeting as we are opposed to the state government selling farm lands to overseas investors,” Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha (KPRS) general secretary G.C. Bayyareddy told reporters Wednesday.

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ing while a blackboard in the back-ground reads "all is well". Parvati and Amar (names changed) are as talented and active as anyone else their age but have been discarded by their kin for being HIV positive.Parvati is a student of Class 6 in a Karnataka government school and has been the topper of her class while Amar is the captain of his school. For 35 children living in Makkala Dham, Belgaum a hostel for children with HIV/AIDS, life is about the struggle to get their right to dignity. Most of them are orphans, shunned by rela-tives. But now fighting for them is a man who himself has the virus.Mahantesh Mali, 38, is founder of the Spandana Network of Positive Peo-ple, an organisation dedicated to sup-porting people with HIV/AIDS which runs the hostel. The organisation won the Women and Child Development Ministry's National Award for Child Welfare this year.For Mali, who has been fighting HIV/AIDS and the discrimination as well, meeting the financial requirement for his hostel is the biggest challenge. He gets some grants from NGOs and pools the resources from individual

donors."We find individual donors, some may give ration for a month or two, some pay the electricity bill. Some doctors help us by looking after the children," Mali told IANS.The only support from the govern-ment is a promise to provide Rs.500 per month for every child, but the promise is still trapped in red tapes. Such is the financial condition of this social crusader that when Spandana was awarded by the ministry, he had to borrow money for his travel to Delhi.But the Rs.3 lakh reward given to Spandana Nov 14 could not be cashed till now as there are no branches of Patiala Bank, the issuing bank of the draft, in Belgaum."It will take some time, I will have to send the draft to Delhi to get it cashed," Mali said .As he continues with his struggle for the rights of others suffering from HIV/AIDS, his own story is no less interesting. He had a happy life working in a local factory. But shortly after his marriage in 1993, he was detected with HIV/AIDS.Mali was soon reduced to a mere skeleton, without any hope. In 1994, he weighed only 28 kg, and

could not even drink water. His wife became his main support and moti-vated him to live positively and come back to a normal life.Gradually, with help from counsel-lors at the district hospital, Mali started Spandana, a network of peo-ple with HIV/AIDS. The Makkala Dham was started by Spandana in December 2008.With the hostel running now in a rented accommodation, his dream now is to have his own building for it."If we have our own building, we can accommodate more children," he

said, adding that he has not been able to pay the rent for the present build-ing for the last two months.The children at the hostel go to local government schools and are trained in painting, music, yoga and spir-ituality by volunteer teachers at the hostel.For these kids discarded by all, Mali and the others here are their family. One of the girls is in fact going to be married, her groom being HIV posi-tive as well."We have a child whose parents had died and he lived in a temple. The neighbours would give him some left-overs. Another girl had gone to her relatives a few weeks back; she was beaten by her uncle and sent away,"

an emotional Mali said."One boy was turned out of a child welfare committee hostel when they came to know he was HIV positive. These chil-dren need extra care, they have to be given medicines every 12 hours, they have so many health

problems; who will take care of them?" he asked.

Mali himself is now living with minimum medication. His wife Rama, who is also HIV positive, runs

a beauty parlour at Chikori, 60 km from Belgaum. The couple has an HIV negative son."Nobody dies of AIDS, they all die of fear and stigma," Mali said, adding, "it is our job to spread awareness and things are changing".He said over 300 children have been tracked in Belgaum alone who need support, but due to dearth of resourc-es, they are unable to help them."The government should step in to provide support to these children," he added.The visit to the hostel was arranged by the Centre for Advocacy and Re-search.

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A few weeks ago, I went to Nehru place and parked my car in the official MCD parking area. The attendant gave me a parking slip which I did not really look at. When I was leav-ing he came and asked me for Rs. 30 I paid him although I was a little suspicious as to how come the cost had increased as normally it is not more than Rs. 10 and I had barely parked my car there for but an hour. Later on, I found the slip and took another look at it and realised that the parking atten-dant had torn the slip in such a manner that it looked like Rs. 30 was the parking cost for a car, when actually it was for a tempo or larger HCV, and it was really Rs. 10 for a car. I let the incident slide until I went back a few days later and again the attendant asked me for Rs. 30 This time I was prepared and I gave him a piece of my mind threatening consequences.

Although he initially retaliated, he quick-ly calmed down and started apologizing for trying to cheat me and begged me not to go to the police. I thought this was just one errant attendant trying to make a few bucks, but when I went back there again a few days ago, another one did the same thing. There is evidently some sort of nexus there which preys upon people who they feel will be easy targets, gener-ally women like myself. I think that this is something that the MCD or Delhi Police should look into seriously as Nehru place may only be one of many locations where such practices are taking place.

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Chidambaram visits Jharkhand, Odisha to review Maoist operations

Sonia hits out at Team Anna, commits Lokpal

Ranchi/Bhubaneswar, Nov 9 (IANS) Union Home Minister P. Chidam-baram Wednesday visited the Mao-ist-affected states of Jharkhand and Odisha to review operations against the rebels and also implementation of the developmental schemes in areas hit by Leftwing extremism.

In Ranchi, Chidambaram said he was reasonably satisfied with the im-plementation of Integrated Action Plan (IAP) in Jharkhand’s Maoist districts.

“I am reasonably satisfied with IAP implementation going in Jharkhand districts. More needs to be done. There has been significant success in Maoist operations between June and

October,” Chidambaram told report-ers.

He said “Jharkhand is one of the most Maoist affected states of the country. There are 14 battalions of CRPF and two battalions of Cobra forces are in Jharkhand. There are enough forces to deal with the Maoist menace in the state.”

The meeting was attended by Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda, state police Chief G.S. Rath and other senior got officials. Sources said Chidambaram asked the state government to implement central schemes properly in the Maoist af-fected districts.

Chamoli (Uttarakhand)/New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi Wednesday hit out at Team Anna and said the party and the UPA government were com-mitted to a strong anti-corruption ombudsman (Lokpal). Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal expressed hope the bill would be passed in the winter session of parliament.

The main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said that Gandhi’s comments “reflects their views”.

Welcoming Sonia’s statement, read out in absentia in Chamoli (Utt-

arakhand), Kejriwal expressed hope “the Congress would keep its word and pass the legislation in the winter session starting Nov 22”.

Hitting out at Team Anna for threatening another agitation on the Lokpal bill, Sonia Gandhi said “Corruption cannot be fought by speeches, so I don’t understand why this noise.”

She also reminded Team Anna that “It was the National Advisory Council (NAC) headed by me which had first started public consultations for a Lokpal”.

Mamata calls up Buddha with invite for film fest

Madhu Koda’s aide arrested in Dubai

Congress targets Uttarakhand over Haridwar stampede

Kolkata, Nov 9 (IANS) Breaking the ice after three years, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday personally called up her predecessor and arch-foe Bud-dhadeb Bhattacharjee to invite him to the 17th Kolkata film festival starting Thursday. This is the first time the film festival is being held after Bhattacharjee demitted office following the Left Front’s rout in the April-May assembly elections. The festival is considered Bhattacharjee’s brainchild. Banerjee told Bhat-tacharjee, an avid film buff, “it will make me happy if you come for the inauguration”. However, the former chief minister cited pre-occupation with another programme which will keep him away.

New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) Sanjay Chaudhary, a close aide of jailed former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda, was arrested in Dubai Wednesday on an Interpol red corner notice, the CBI said, adding it would initiate steps for his extradition. Chaudhary is ac-cused of investing Koda’s dubious funds by using his contacts in the alleged siphoning of public money.

New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) The Congress Wednesday said the Haridwar stampede, in which at least 20 people were killed, occurred due to insufficient ar-rangements by the Uttarakhand administration.At least 20 people were killed and 40 injured in the stampede that occurred Tuesday when massive crowds had gathered near the Ganges for a religious meet in the temple town.

Notice to CBI on bail plea of Kanimozhi, four others

New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday sought the CBI’s reply by Dec 1 on the bail pleas of DMK MP Kanimozhi and four other accused in the 2G scam and asked the jail officials for a medical report on accused Cineyug Films founder Karim Morani.

A notice was issued to the Cen-tral Bureau of Investigation (CBI) after hearing arguments on behalf of Kanimozhi, Kalaignar TV chief Sharad Kumar, Karim Morani and Kusegaon Fruits and Vegetables Pvt. Ltd. directors Asif Balwa and Rajiv B. Agarwal.

The court also directed Tihar Jail superintendent to submit a medical report on Morani, who has sought bail on health grounds. Appearing for Kanimozhi, a senior advocate contended bench that the trial court ignored the CBI’s willingness to al-low bail to the five accused.

“A set of accused who came in ap-peal against the trail court bail de-nial order are not made accused in the principle charge sheet, in which former communications minister A. Raja is named,” said the defence counsel.

Mumbai, Nov 9 (IANS) The Bom-bay High Court Wednesday reject-ed the bail application of Lt. Col. Prasad Purohit, one of the prime accused in the Malegaon 2008 blast case, a legal official said.

The court, while rejecting the bail application on grounds that “prima facie material was avail-able against” Purohit, said that a detailed order would be delivered soon, according to advocate Sharif Shaikh, an intervener appearing in the matter on behalf of family members of a victim in the blast.

“The state had opposed the bail plea stating that the investiga-tions into the Malegaon blast was transferred from the state Anti-

Terrorism Squad to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) vide a notification last April,” Shaikh told IANS.

He said the grounds for opposing bail were since the NIA investiga-tions are still continuing, granting bail to Purohit could hamper the ongoing probe into the terror in-cident in the minority-dominated town in Nashik district of north Maharashtra.

Prasad was among 11 accused in the blast case, including Sadhvi Pragnya Singh Thakur. Alleged to be linked to a right-wing organiza-tion, Purohit has been continuously in custody since his arrest for his role in the blast case.

Jammu, Nov 9 (IANS) The Uni-fied Command Wednesday evening asked the two panels looking into the question of revoking the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) to “speed up” their recommenda-tions.

The two panels, with two Corps Commanders of the Indian Army, Director General of Police and

Principal Secretary, Home, were constituted in September last year to suggest the areas from where the Disturbed Area Act and AFSPA could be lifted. But the panels were not able to finalise their recommen-dations.

Official sources told IANS at the conclusion of more than three-hour-long meeting of the unified com-

mand held in the civil secretariat and chaired by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and senior army com-manders, that it has been decided to “speed up the work and make rec-ommendations about the removal of AFSPA as early as possible”.

“However, no deadline has been suggested at the meeting,” the official told IANS.

Apex court to hear Sanjiv Bhatt’s plea

Nov 18

Army officer refused bail inMalegaon blast case

Panels to speed up recommendations on AFSPA

New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) The Su-preme Court will Nov 18 hear a peti-tion by suspended Indian Police Ser-vice officer Sanjiv Bhatt challenging the Gujarat government’s stand in a trial court which may adversely im-pact him in a 1990 case linked to a suspect’s death in Jamnagar district.An apex court bench said the mat-ter would be listed on its scheduled Nov 18 date after Bhatt’s counsel D. Sharma did not press for a stay of the trial court framing charges.The framing of charges was Tuesday put off by the Gujarat High Court till Nov 21. Sharma told the apex court that the high court had itself extended the stay and thus, there was no immediate need for action.

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You know what you’re doing. You know how things stand in a certain area. You know how helpful it would be if certain oth-ers knew what you know. Your finger is on a particular pulse in ways that others’ are not. An important discussion needs to be had between you and those who need putting in the picture and rarely does the sky offer such support to make your point.

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You’re on a need to know basis and you don’t really need to know!

Years ago, doom mongers publicized the end of the world by wearing sandwich-style plac-ards and wandering city streets. Nowadays, there are more immediate and far-reaching platforms to allow them to promote the message. We can all choose to worry about worst possible scenarios or we can accept that best possible outcomes do happen sometimes. You’re about to discover the latter. You don’t need to believe the worst outcome is inevitable.

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The sky speaks of you finally ‘knowing where you stand’ regarding an issue you’ve grown increasingly frustrated with being kept in dark about. You appear to have experienced one obstacle and delay after another where getting to the bottom of something or being enlightened is concerned. Trust that informa-tion hasn’t been deliberately withheld from you. What comes to light now is doing so because the time is right in more ways than one.

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Back in the sixties, French mathematician Rene Thom devised something called The Catastrophe Theory. Before you misinterpret the word ‘catastrophe’, allow me to explain that this involves sudden, transforma-tional changes to the behavior of a system. Something ticks along predictably and then it flips suddenly, becoming the very opposite to what it has been. That’s occurring in your world now. Prepare to experience a very real and positive transformation to one situation in particular.

Oct. 23 - Nov. 21Scorpio

A solar eclipse in your sign won’t go un-noticed. Most eclipses herald events of a dramatic nature but fortunately, the one you’re hosting is one of the friendlier types. An opportunity to take the initiative in ways you’ve struggled to do of late is being presented to you. The issue to address sur-rounds how confident you are to have as much power as you will have shortly to make a significant, long-term change. The sky will help you to use it wisely.

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Are you asking too much from someone? Does a particular person believe you en-joy adding demands to your growing List of Demands? You are likely to be wonder-ing if you’re either taking something too seriously or have expectations way above of others. You and someone else can find a way to meet in the middle now but you might have to accept you’re the one adopt-ing a ‘run before you can walk’ approach to something that needs more time and patience.

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It’s not often Aquarians ask for help with something. You’re more used to people ask-ing you for advice. Others are aware of your abilities to identify potential problems and pitfalls before they happen but you appear to recognize a need now to enlist help or cooperation from certain others in some way. This is likely to involve willingness on your part to expand a social circle or two. If you are willing, you can make some lifelong and useful contacts now.

Jan. 20 - Feb. 18Aquarius

One person’s trash, they say, is another person’s treasure. In terms of an idea you discarded some time ago that seems to have developed not only a life of its own but con-siderable interest within certain circles, the word ‘trash’ is very inappropriate. The solar eclipse is urging you to return to something you believed didn’t warrant attention or effort previously. If you’re willing to, then there are likely financial benefits on offer. Take your rightfully earned share of credit for creating whatever-it-is.

Feb. 19 - March 20Pisces

A solar eclipse is occurring in the area of your chart associated with fears, hopes and wishes. The same area rules the subcon-scious mind, intuition, all that’s hidden, behind the scenes or confidential as well the end of cycles such as hospital stays, nursing homes or jail sentences. That’s quite a list but you’ve much progress yet to make regarding something that has some level of secrecy or confidentiality attached to it. Relax in the knowledge that you will, very soon.

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As one drawn-out saga comes to a close, another begins. The fact that resolution of some kind is on offer, probably regarding a financial or possibly legal issue, is bound to provide relief you’ve wanted to experience for some time. A complex, tense scenario surrounding money owed by you or to you is reaching a conclusion. You have had to pay a price in other ways to achieve this but at least you can breathe a sigh of relief that discussions and negotiations are finishing.

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The living room is where the family meets & entertains. It is also where the family gathers so good Feng Shui & Vaastu in the living room affects the harmony, prosperity and success of the family. This is thus the best room in the house to energize. The living room is the most yang and public room in the house. It should be warm and cheerful, welcoming and comfortable. It is meant to bring about opportunities for social interaction for you and your guests and should be decorated with your most aesthetically pleasing possession. The living room can become the main room for the installation of Feng Shui related improvements. This room thus becomes a microcosm of the whole house, with changes made here affecting the prosperity of the entire house.Simple tips of Feng Shui & Vaastu would make most families much happier and positive, it also helps in increase the odds in our favor, some of these protection, and remedies will improve your luck and enhance both your personal and professional life.

Shape : A square or rectangular – shaped living room is the most auspicious. If the main door opens in the living room, try not to have it face a window directly opposite. Having a window immediately by its side is also not recom-mended. Also avoid placing any tall cabinet or chair next to near the main door.

Location:Ideally the living room should be located in the north, west or northwest of the house. The north is guarded by Kuber the god of wealth, whose presence in a room creates an auspicious ambience. West and northwest living rooms receive the rays of the setting sun, as most of us spend our evening together and both the locations are good. If the living room is located else where in your house, there are lot of cures which would bring positive energy of north, west or northwest into your room. The living room should also be in proportion to the other rooms of the house, with regular shape and it should re-ceive some natural light through the windows. However, there should not be a window or door directly facing the main entrance to the room.

The Sacred Centre: As per Vaastu, the living room represents the heart of the home, with the centre of the room as its soul. The center of the house is often kept empty as it is thought of the place of Brahma the creator and is the most holy place of your property. For this reason, it is never recommended to position an occasional table in the middle of a living room, especially if the table is loaded with ashtrays, cups, plates etc. The center of anything is sacred and should therefore be kept empty. If you must have a small table in the living room, try to position it off – centre so that the place of Brahma retains its holiness and continues to bestow its blessing.

Ceiling: The ceiling in any room is very important, but in the living area it is even more, as the Ch’i bounces off the ceiling and back down to the people below, so if the ceiling is not uniform the rebounding Ch’i will create an uncomfortable atmosphere and most people find it hard to relax.

Lighting :All living things are naturally drawn towards light, so if you leave a light on in any area where you would like to see more activity it will be beneficial. This is a particularly effective cure to use in the relationship, knowledge or health area. Dim lighting can create headaches and depression, so bringing more light into your life is also likely to lead to an improvement in your health. Lighting is unique in that you can quickly change the appearance and ambience of the Living room at the flick of a switch .By using a range of lighting in a room, you can change the mood from bright and lively to subdued and inti-mate to suit the appropriate occasion.

Furniture : The largest pieces of furniture in this area are likely to be the sofa and chairs, cabinet for books and music etc. placing these items in the southwest of the room is sup-ported by Earth and its predominant guna tamas, they can serve as a block that prevent prana from escaping. If possible, place your chair or sofa along the south wall, so that while sitting one is facing north. In Vaastu this direction is known as Kuberasthana and bestows wealth and power on those facing it. Try to avoid L-or a U- shape furniture configuration. Chairs and sofa should not be placed directly facing each other, except over the dining table. Try to position them at 45 or 90 degree angles to each other. Also avoid keeping chairs under the overhead beam.

Photos :Photos of yourself can influence you more powerfully than anything else in your home. When you see your self looking happy and joyous in a photo, this sinks deep into your subconscious mind, programming you for more happiness. A photo in which you look stern or unhappy, or one where you were unhappy at the time it was taken, will be a constant affirmation for unhappiness. The best placement for picture of older generation is in the north – the direction of wellbeing and prosperity. Photographs of those who have passed on should be displayed in the south – the direction of Yama. Children’s photographs are best in the east – the direction of youth and rising sun

Water Feature: A water feature in your house can be extremely valuable asset, especially if it is placed in the North or East sector. Fresh, clean, sparkling water is symbol-ic of good health, good Chi, good cash flow and a lack of stagnation in your career. Any kind of water feature – Fish Aquarium or Water Fountain within your Living room needs to be proportionate in size to the room that it is in.

Plants: Plants play an important role in Feng Shui be-cause they bring a life force into the house and help to keep the air clean and fresh. Depending on their shape, plants produce various type of energy, as plants are extremely excellent Feng Shui cure and they make excellent stimulant. Real plants are better, artificial plants can be used as a feng shui tools. Dried flowers which are obviously dead emitting too much yin energy so please do not keep them in your home and office. Never place plants that have thorns or whose leaves look like needles inside.

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Leather Belt A leather belt is one accessory women shouldn’t do without, simply because it’s both chic and functional at the same time. It will play buoyantly with your dress (go for the high waisted va-riety) and will definitely revamp your simple blue jeans (look for the ones with bold buckles). Colors We Love: Black, sil-ver, gold, red or brown because they’re neutral and have the abil-ity to blend in with any outfit.

Statement Necklace Quite simply, a necklace that makes a statement- one that stands out and instantly brightens up any outfit. Therefore, the next time you’re late for a party, all you need to do is throw on your favorite statement necklace and you’re good to go! Fashion Requisite- Leave your wrists and earlobes bare in order to avoid looking over-dressed.

Just like you can’t do without a leather belt; a leather handbag is a must-have as well! Think about it- you can accessorize your outfit and toss in everything you need at the same time. The best part is that there are a myriad of options available in the market so go ahead and indulge yourself! Colors We Love- If you want to stay on the safer side, stick to black and brown but if you don’t mind playing with all the colors of the rainbow, go ahead and take your pick!

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Wordsticuffs:Experimental Architecture

I wanted to talk to you about a report I saw in The New York Times that said that air pollution in New Delhi was worse than it was in Beijing.

And while there are obvious steps to take regarding any kind of pollution anywhere certain types of deciduous plants consume up to one-third of all oxygenated volatile organic compounds worldwide (‘OVOCs’ are an important contributor to what makes smog smog); one oyster can clean up to 50 gallons of water a day, which is why bundles were dumped into the waters around New York City and Boston it doesn’t hurt to think a bit creatively, too!

One year I was taking a taxi cab through Cambridge, Massachusetts. The driver quickly pointed out that not only was he from Turkey, but that tomorrow was Thanksgiving, too, where the food everyone eats is turkey. Talk about a double whammy, he said, continuing on to say that turkeys probably don’t call Thanksgiving “Thanks”-giving, but “Uh-oh’s”-giving or “This isn’t going to be fun’s”-giving, giggling openly at his own jokes, which I kind of liked, as the last cab ride I’d taken had left me with an exceptionally racist driver. We drove by a building on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently finished by Frank Gehry (Well known American architect) and I was glad that I didn’t have to put up

Though from the housing market to pollution Beijing numbers should always be approached with a bit of caution, it’s exciting to think about becoming indulging in a bit of experimental architecture, prompted in large part by all the time I used to spend reading a website called BLDGBLOG (an abbreviation of “Building Blog”), which is packed full of stories about someone trying to create a column of ‘cloud’ a mile high in Liverpool to coincide with the Olympics, how a city in Mongolia tries to conserve money and power spent on air conditioners by building a giant wall of ice around the city so that it will melt slowly during the summer, and things like that: treating architecture and the environment as if it were the main character of a science fiction novel.

What if there was a way to chemically and genetically engineer daisies so that when the quality of the air reached a certain point they became puffballs, and those puffballs when knocked off the stamen by the wind flew through the air, cleaning up the city as it went? Is there a way to balance the idea of a miniature filter and how a daisy typically distributes its seed?

Would attaching filters to the lights that line the Rajpath start to help? Probably not! What about rolling a carpet of grass across the Rajpath and Janpath just for the day? Cute. It’d inspire a lot of cartwheels, but: NO!

with any kind of verbal smog.The solution of clearing the city of smog remains the same as it’s ever been: better cars, alternative sources of energy, the close monitoring of thermal power plants, or perhaps building what Julien Combes and Gaël Brulé call the LO2P skyscraper, which would be a Ferris wheel designed to clean the air, and a thing that would look astonishing to boot.

THE LO2P skyscraper was conceived by Julien Combes and Gaël Brulé and won the first prize in the eVolo 2011 Skyscraper competition. Designed in the shape of what could be mistaken for a large ferris wheel, it is meant to be a sort of giant turbine

that will recycle old cars and use them as building material for the new structure. The building is designed as a giant lung that would clean New Delhi’s air through a series of large-scale

greenhouses that serve as filters.

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Eight Indians advance to knockout stage of World Snooker

Bangalore, Nov 30 (IANS) While century-breaks con-tinued to rain in the IBSF World snooker champion-ship, and eight Indians qual-ified for the knock-out stage, 26-year old Omar Alkojah provided a lot of cheer for Syria by defeating twice Asian champion Yasin Mer-chant 4-3 in a cliff-hanger en route to the knock-out round here on Wednesday.

The defeat notwithstand-ing, Merchant progressed to the knock-out round along with Pan-kaj Advani, Manan Chandra, Brijesh Damani, Anuj Uppal, Kamal Chaw-la, Alok Kumar and IH Manudev. Of the lot, only Advani came through

the league winning all his matches.Merchant, the 44-year-old from

Mumbai playing his last competi-tive snooker event, also made it to the knock-out round by finishing third behind group topper Martin

O'Donnell and Alkojah, but it was anything but a convinc-ing performance from the veteran.

Alkojah, a relative green-horn compared to Merchant, but well-drilled in the basics, courtesy S. Jairaj, the for-mer national champion now coaching the Syrians, led 3-1, but a miss on the black helped Merchant back in the match.

Meanwhile, Advani cracked his third century (103) of the tournament

while vanquishing Swiss Pascal Ca-menzind 4-1 and complete his Group D league engagements with an all-win record and book his spot in the round of 32.

Saqib takes six-shot lead in Western India junior golf

Mumbai, Nov 30 (IANS) Saqib Ahmed of Bangalore increased his lead to six shots following an even-par 70 in the second round of the Toyota IGU Western India Juniors Golf Championship at the BPGC on Wednesday. Saqib, who shot 69 on the first day is now one-under 139 for two days and six clear of Aman Raj (75-71).

Yash Jindal (75-72) and Yashas Chandra (71-76) were tied for third at 147.

However, the day's best score came from young Viraj Madappa in Cat-

egory B, where he shot two-under 68 and moved to the top. He was second overall at 140, one behind Saqib.

Lying second in category B was overnight leader, Piyush Sangwan (71-73) at 144. Harsh Gangwar (72-74) was third at 146.

Leading Category C was Kshitij Naved Kaul (80-76) at 156 and he was followed by Karan Pratap Singh 77-81). Overnight leader Jaiveer Singh (77-84) slipped to fifth.

Aadil Bedi with a card of 74 was leading in Category D. He was fol-lowed by Harshjeet Singh Sethi (76). Ranji Trophy: Nehra bags six wickets,

double ton for Yadav New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) Puneet Bisht's unbeaten century and a six-wicket haul by pacer Ashish Nehra brought Delhi back into the match against Baroda while Suryakumar Yadav struck a double-hundred to put Mumbai in a commanding posi-tion against Orissa on the second day of the Ranji Trophy Elite Division matches on Wednesday.

It was a topsy-turvy day at Feroze-

shah Kotla with both Baroda and Delhi having their moments. Baroda resumed the day at a promising 273 for three but collapsed to 318 all out in the first innings courtesy Nehra (6/102), who ran through their mid-dle-order. The left-arm pacer silenced his critics after having an ordinary opening day when he conceded 84 runs in 18 overs.

The hosts were struggling at 74/5

bur a 136-run stand between wicket-keeper Bisht and skipper Mithun Manhas resurrected the innings to 250 for six at stumps. Bisht smashed 114 off 134 balls while Manhas con-tributed with 49. Baroda's Irfan Pa-than continued his good form with the bowl in the current season, pick-ing up five for 82. He is currently the leading wicket-taker in the tourna-ment with 19 scalps in four matches.

WSH: Indian striker Rajpal Singh in Delhi Wizards

New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) India striker Rajpal Singh was named in the Delhi Wizards squad for the inaugural season of the World Series Hockey (WSH) that starts Dec 17.

Pakistan's Shakeel Abbasi, Dutchman Martijn de Jager and New Zealand's Matias Minz and Patrick Harris have also been named in the 21-member squad that would be led by Argentine Lucas Villa.

The squad will be coached by Dutch legend Roelant Oltmans. The 57-year-old had coached the 1990 World Cup-winning Dutch women's team and he also guided the Dutch men's team to win the

1996 Olympic Gold in Atlanta and the 1998 World Cup at Utre-cht.

"It is always a great pleasure to be associated with Indian hockey. I am glad that Wizcraft has cho-sen me to coach and mentor the Delhi Wizards team. At Delhi Wizards, we have a good mix of youth and experience, including some of the best-known interna-tionals. I am confident that this squad has what it takes to form a winning team and I am looking forward to working closely with the boys. We are confident that we can aim for a title win in the inau-gural season of the World Series Hockey," said Oltmans.

Goalkeepers: Mrinal Choubey, Kamaldeep SinghDefenders: C.S. Khalko, Jaswinder Singh, Keisham Roshan, Love-deep Singh, Manjeet Kullu, Rupinder Pal SinghMidfielders: Anand Tirkey, Gurbaj Singh, Martijn de Jager (the Netherlands), Matias Minz, Patrick Harris (New Zealand), Vickram Kanth, Vivek GuptaForwards: Bruno Lugun, K. Victo Singh, Manoj Antil, Rajpal Singh, Shakeel Abbasi (Pakistan), Lucas Vila (captain, Argentina)Coach: Roelant Oltmans (the Netherlands)Assistant Coach: Darryl D'Souza (India)

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New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) Indian tennis star Ma-hesh Bhupathi has broken the silence on his split with Leander Paes, saying it was his partner's deci-sion to part ways in the same year when they re-reunited on the court after nine years.

The Indian-Express announced their latest split last week and will be seen in action in 2012 with different partners. Paes is likely to team up with Czech Republic's Radek Stepanek while Bhupathi will play with compatriot Rohan Bopanna, who has parted with long-time partner Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan.

"I guess everyone has their own opinion. Lean-der just felt that we were possibly a little too old on the tour and not able to gel on a consistent basis. He felt that our team needed fresh legs on either side. That was his point of view," Bhupathi told CNN-IBN.

Paes-Bhupathi had joined hands at the start of the year in their bid to win the Australian Open, the lone Grand Slam they have not won in their doubles career. They got back also keeping in sight the 2012 London Olympics.

Bhupathi said he was at loss of words explaining the rationale behind Leander's decision.

Qureshi rules out bitterness with Bopanna after split

Karachi, Nov 30 (IANS) Pakistan's tennis star Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi on Wednesday ruled out any bitterness with India's Rohan Bopanna after their split on the ATP doubles tour, saying his former doubles partner is his friend and will even come to at-tend his wedding.

Qureshi, 31, joined hands with Bo-panna in 2007, the time when Indo-Pak diplomatic relations were at a boiling point, and were together till the World Tour Final which conclud-ed in London last week.

Their unique partnership was hailed and appreciated by different circles and was described as a symbol of friendship between the rival coun-tries, Xinhua reported.

The pair dubbed as "Indo-Pak ex-press" was currently ranked at career high ninth position. They got world fame when they reached the US Open doubles final in 2010.

"Some months ago Bopanna told me that in order to qualify for 2012 London Olympics he has to play with an Indian partner. Although it was shocking for me, I respect his deci-sion," said Qureshi, while talking to local media.

While Bopanna has already told the Indian media that he would make his team with veteran compatriot Mahesh Bhupathi in 2012, Qureshi is hopeful of teaming up with Dutch-man Jean-Julien Roger at the Austral-ian Open in January.

Lakra to lead Indian women's hockey team in ArgentinaNew Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) Asunta Lakra will lead the 18-member In-dian women's hockey squad in two quadrangular international tour-naments in Argentina from Dec 7 as part of preparations for the next year's Olympic qualifiers.

The first tournament will be held in the capital city of Buenos Aires Dec 7-11 while the second will be held at Parana Dec 14-18. Besides hosts Argentina, Ireland and South

Africa are the other participating teams.

India has been clubbed with South Africa, Italy, Canada, Ukraine and Poland in the Olym-pic qualifiers that would be held here Feb 15-26.

South Africa, who had earned automatic qualification for the women's event, chose to play in-stead in the qualifying tournament, giving Argentina a lucky direct en-

try in the 2012 London Olympics.The squad: Yogita Bali (goal-

keeper), Savita (goalkeeper); Jas-preet Kaur, Preety Sunila Kiro, Th. Pinki Devi, P. Sushila Chanu, Asunta Lakra (captain), Kirandeep Kaur (vice-captain), Ritu Rani, M.N. Ponnamma, Deep Grace Ekka, Rosalin Dung Dung, Rani, Th. Anuradha Devi, Poonam Rani, Vandana Katariya, M. Lily Chanu and Lilima Minz

Court questions government on hockey coach's plea

New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the central government and Hockey India (HI) after taking note of a hockey coach's plea alleging that the latter was threatening players to prevent them from taking part in the World Series Hockey (WSH) tourna-ment starting next month.

The tournament, a joint initiative of the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) and Nimbus Sport, is to be held in the country between Dec 17 and Jan 22, 2012. The WSH is not sanc-tioned by the International Hockey Federation (FIH), which recognises the HI as the official custodian of the national sport in the country.

A bench of Acting Chief Justice

A.K. Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw issued notice to the respond-ents seeking their reply within three days and fixed the matter for hearing Dec 7.

Former player and coach Joachim Carvalho approached the court alleg-ing that the HI, which is fighting legal battles with the IHF, was threatening players that if they took part in the WSH they would not be selected for national duty.

The WSH's organisers claimed that the tournament was aimed at reinvig-orating hockey here and to make it a sport of choice for youngsters. On the lines of IPL, the WSH would be played among eight franchisee-based teams.

Juventus extend unbeaten streak to draw 3-3 with Napoli

Rome, Nov 30 (IANS) Italian Serie A leaders Juventus extended their un-beaten record in the current football season after they fought back to draw 3-3 with hosts Napoli.

Napoli had a dream start as they raced to a 2-0 lead before the break, but suffered a nightmarish ending af-ter conceding two goals in the last 18 minutes on Tuesday.

Marek Hamsik opened the scoring for the hosts before Goran Pandev scored the second. Alessandro Matri pulled one back for Juventus, but

Pandev's second restored the two-goal lead before Marcelo Estigarribia and Simone Pepe scored late to earn a draw.

Napoli head coach Walter Maz-zarri blamed his side's poor showing in the second half on fatigue.

"We had a spectacular first half while our strength held out, but un-fortunately we paid the price for the many fixtures. When the games notch up, you pay for it," Mazzarri was quoted as saying by Xinhua.

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Rohan Bopanna of India (L) and his partnerAisam-ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan (R).

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Juventus' players Andrea Pirlo and Simone Pepe (C) celebrate their third goal during.

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Lucknow, Nov 30 (IANS): Bollywood star Salman Khan, his bodyguard and five others have been booked for assault-ing a social activist during a promotion of a movie in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district in August this year, police said Wednesday. A case against Salman, his bodyguard Shera and five unidentified people was registered at the Kakadev police station Tuesday. "The FIR has been lodged on direc-tions of a local court. According to the complainant Bharat, an ex IITian, he was roughed up by Khan's bodyguard Shera and other security personnel after he approached the Bollywood actor to present him a cap," police Inspector Bhupendra Singh Rathi told reporters in Kanpur, some 80 km from Lucknow. Though Bharat, who runs an NGO, had approached the police at the time of incident, no case was registered. "The FIR has been registered under various sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC), including 147 (rioting), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace)," said Rathi .

'Kolaveri Di' crosses 11-million mark

New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS): Tamil star Dhanush's song "Kolaveri Di" has become a sleeper blockbuster by crossing 11,724,249 hits since its release Nov 16 on youtube.com. Composed by 18-year-old Anirudh Ravichander, the song with funny lyrics is sung in an unconventional manner by Dhanush himself and it will be a part of his next film "3", which is being directed by his wife Aishwayra. The film also stars Shruthi Haasan. Seldom has any song created such a craze - from children to youngsters to celebri-ties, everyone is hooked on to the song.

'Dam 999' director moves Supreme Court against ban

New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS): The director of the film "Dam 999", which has been banned in Tamil Nadu for supposedly taking a pro-Kerala stand in the Mullaperiyar dam row, Wednesday said he had filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the move. The film has been made with a "global view" as dams have collapsed in Brazil, China and other countries and the ban by the Tamil Nadu government was unjustified, director Sohan Roy told

a press conference. The film deals with the miseries of people following the collapse of a dam. But its critics say it tries to portray the dispute over the century-old Mullaperiyar Dam, which is situated in Kerala and supplies water to Tamil Nadu. Panic spread among the residents in four districts of Kerala recently follow-ing some earthquakes. Kerala has demanded the construction of a new dam, but Tamil Nadu says the old dam is safe.

Late Amy's dress fetches over 40,000 pounds

London, Nov 30 (IANS): Late singer Amy Winehouse's polka dot dress from the cover of her "Back to Black" album has fetched over 40,000 pounds at an auction. The chiffon dress, by Thai designer Disaya, was taken by a south American fashion museum and the proceeds will go to the Amy Winehouse Foundation, set up by her father Mitch in her memory, reports contactmusic.com. It was expected to raise between 10,000 pounds and 20,000 pounds, but ended up fetching much more. Winehouse died in July following a lengthy battle with alcohol and drugs. Her father Mitch, who set up a foundation in her name, was at the auction to witness the winning bid come in from Museo de la Moda in Santiago, Chile. "We are very proud to be helping these deserving causes and have been overwhelmed by the support the foundation has received. We are willing to consider a wide range of projects, as there are so many great organisations out there working with young people in need," Mitch said. Other items that were sold at the auc-tion were dresses worn by Hollywood icons Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor.

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Craig criticizes the Kardashian family London, Nov 30 (IANS): Actor Daniel Craig says the Kardashian family has made millions from their TV show, but feels he won't resort to their style to earn big money. Although the "James Bond" actor explained he is no one to judge the family, what he doesn't agree with is the idea of selling your soul to make good television, reports femalefirst.co.uk. "It's a career, I'm not being cynical. And why wouldn't you? Look at the Kardashians, they're worth millions. Millions! I don't think they were that badly off to begin with, but now look at them," he said. "You see that and you think, 'What, you mean all I have to do is behave like an idiot on television and then you'll pay me millions?' I'm not judging it. Well,

I am obviously," he added.

Hasselhoff out of 'Britain's Got Talent'London, Nov 30 (IANS): Actor David Hasselhoff has con-firmed his exit following reports that he had been axed from "Britain's Got Talent" judging panel. Earlier this week, the 59-year-old had urged fans to put pressure on Simon Cowell to keep him, but has now tweeted about his departure, reports express.co.uk. "So it's official, I'm not coming back to 'Britain's Got Talent'. So if you want to see me live come check me out in Bristol as Hoff the Hook in 'Peter Pan'," he posted. "Thanks to everyone who supported me on my 'Britain's Got Talent' days. Nothing but fond memories of the cast and crew and thanks to Simon Cowell," he added.

Moscow, Nov 30 (IANS/AKI): A purse that once belonged to Italian movie diva Sophia Loren was bought at an auction by a Russian buyer for $287,000, The Voice of Russia re-ported. Proceeds from the sale of the Georgio Armani purple leather bag will go to a charity for the treat-ment of sick children in the isolated Siberian Kemerovo region. In October, Loren launched a charity mara-thon in Kemerovo, aimed at helping sick children. She traded her purse with regional governor Kemerovo for a sable sole, the report said. The buyer was reportedly a business-man from the east Siberian city Krasnoyarsk. Funds from the charity have paid for the treatment of 228 children and another 100 will receive treatment by the end of the year.

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