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For millions ofCalifornians it is sigh ofrelief to see that eightyears of Republican rule inthe state is finally comingto end as the “take backCalifornia” campaign paidoff big time last Tuesdaynight with the victory of keypositions for Democrats.The Californians seem tohave finally realized thestumbling block forCalifornia’s success. Oncethe richest state in US,California took consider-able beating in economicdownturn. Some criticsattribute the plight to partypolitics in passing state

budge rather than to itsactual economic crisis.Gov. Jerry Brown with con-siderable know-how andpast experience asCalifornia Governor seemsto have a plan to tackle theproblems instead of threatsof job cuts and layoffs. SanFrancisco Mayor as theLieutenant Governor isalso a very intelligentandarticulate young goal-oriented politician to makea formidable team withJerry Brown to take on thechallenges of solving prob-lems. Newsom has animpressive track recordand enormous public trust.

Above Samoan congregation of Nazarene Church meet here every Sunday from 10-11 AM for services.

Deepawali Celebration in SacramentoShree Laxmi Narayan Mandir

Elder Creek Shree Laxmi Nnarayan Mandir in Sacramento celebrated Deepawali with Flag hoisting followed performances in the main hall.

On his way to Sarcamento, havingdropped his wife at a weekend Christianretreat in Santa Cruz, Dr. Isekelistopped over for a brief interview withthe FIJISUN. Isikeli is a former FijiPolice payroll accounts assistant andimmigrated to US after the coups andtook theological studies choosing tostele in Sacramento where he is there is a “comfortable mix of Islanders– Tongan, Fijians and Samoans.” Dr. Isekeli accompanying with hisTogan associate Paula said what he could not see back in Fiji, he wit-nessed and enjoyed in the inter-denominational participation here inUSA. “Back homer we had lots of denominational issues that divided usrather than unite.” Dr. Isikeli told the Fiji Sun. ( Pictured: Dr. Isikeli rightwith Tongan associate Paula. Continued on page P8)

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New US agency to open in Fiji: ClintonThe US Agency forInternational Developmentwill soon open its doors in Fijisays America’s Secretary ofState Hilary Clinton. Theopening of this new office willalso include US$21million inaid for climate change in thepacific. Clinton made theannouncement in Hawaii onher first stop of a two-week,10-nation Asia Pacific tour.

Speaking at the East West Centre in Honolulu,Clinton clarified the importance Washington is placingon the Pacific region. She says they were workingthrough the Pacific Island Forum to support thePacific island nations as they try to confront andsolve the challenges they face.

Tourism Fiji welcomes casino proposalHaving a casino in Fijiwill open up new doorsand attract new marketssays Tourism Fiji.Chairman – PatricWong says this will seean increase in the number of visitor arrivals to thecountry. However, Wong says it is important that Fijidoes not stray away from the traditional Fiji brand.“By bringing this segment means we will be able tomarket into our emerging markets and not our tradi-tional markets especially the emerging markets, thenew markets like China, India, Europe, America andsome of these new markets require new segments.By bringing in casinos we’ll open a new segment forthe tourism industry.” The announcement of Fiji’s firstever casino was made last week by Tourism MinisterAiyazSayed-Khaiyum.

Negative report on NLTB Trust FundRecords and data of the NativeLand Trust Board Trust Fundhas been unclear and inaccu-rate over the last ten years, areport has found. This wasrevealed at the NLTB’s monthlyboard meeting last weekchaired by Prime MinisterCommodore VoreqeBainimarama. NLTB GeneralManager AlipateQetaki toldFBC News that top on theagenda was the financial sta-tus of the NLTB Trust Fund.

Qetaki says an audit report of the trust fund done bya chartered accountant gave a negative overview ofhow it was run in the last decade. This was due tochanges in the NLTB’s computer system which hap-pened three times. Another concern was the intro-duction of the MYSAP system which added to thecomplications within the fund. Qetaki says the trustfund records became much clearer after the VanuaDevelopment Corporation Limited was disbanded.

Nadi Hosts National Diwali celebration

The first ever NationalDiwali celebration starts inNadi today. “Nadi – thetown of hope and glory” isthe theme for the celebra-tion and organisers are hop-ing to attract a large numberof visitors to the event.Nadi Town Council in part-nership with Tourism Fijiand Nadi Chamber ofCommerce is organising the festival. Nadi Chamberof Commerce president – Dr Ram Raju is urging peo-ple to be part of the historic and colourful celebration.“This is the first time ever that a town like Nadi hasbeen prompted to celebrate Diwali in such a grandand big way. You are all invited to mount such aDiwali celebration in a manner that has never beenseen in Fiji before.”

The Rewa DairyCooperative Companyrecorded a trading loss

of $2.2 million dollars in 2009.-the Co-op’s annual meetingheard on Friday. Companychief executive officerR a t uSa v e n a c aSen i l o l iattributed the loss to a num-ber of local and internationalfactors that drastically affect-ed the company. Thisincludes the increasing pricein raw materials purchasedfrom overseas and the brucel-losis disease that stunted theindustry last year killing morethan 400 cows.RatuSavenaca also attributedthe loss to the devaluation ofthe Fiji dollar forcing the com-pany to increase their operat-ing costs. The damagecaused by Cyclone Mick alsoaffected the dairy farmers’production levels.Furthermore the delay by

the Prices and IncomesBoard in responding to anapplication to increase theprice of dairy products alsocontributed to the tradingloss. Company chairmanJosevaSeruilagilagi in his

report noted that despite thedraw backs, the companymanaged to achieve anincrease in raw milk produc-tion by 6.5 %. Seruilagilagisays the increase was possi-ble through the $2 million milk–gate subsidy scheme intro-duced by the government aspart of its assistance to thedairy industry. Prime MinisterCommodore VoreqeBainimarama says it is dis-heartening to note previousgovernments failure toaddress the squatter issuethat his government is now

focused on tackling.“Concomitantly previous

governments failed to tacklethe growth of squatter com-munities and neglected thosewho needed housing assis-tance,” the Prime Ministersaid. “My Government hasdemanded that HousingAuthority and Public RentalBoard contribute in a tangiblefashion to resolve and solvethe housing and squatterchallenges.” CommodoreBainimarama stressed theimportant roles the two hous-ing bodies played in providing

adequate and affordablehousing for the people.He made the comment at

the groundbreaking ceremo-ny at Tacirua East where theHousing Authority will devel-op land and build houses thatwill be available on the mar-ket for low, middle and highincome earners. “HousingAuthority in postIndependence Fiji played acrucial role in making housinglots available,” CommodoreBainimarama said.“However, subsequently andover the years, HousingAuthority and the PublicRental Board relented on itscore values and principles.”Today’s ground breaking cer-emony is a manifestation ofthat policy and drive whichsignifies the development of1,050 lots, for those who wantto build their own homes and900 housing units in TaciruaEast, Stage Two.

Remove bad reputationamongst you : PM

The Civil Servants in Fijifrom 35 participatingagencies were reminded

to remove the bad reputationthat is common amongst them.That was re-iterated by PrimeMinister, Commodore VoreqeBainimarama at the 2010Service Excellence Awards lastnight. He said he had alreadyhighlighted to them last year tochange their attitude as themembers of the public want tosee a professional standard intheir service. There is an audiofile attached to this story.Out of the 37 agencies, only

35 participated and wereassessed by 184 evaluatorswho were allocated to teams offour to each evaluate an agen-cy. As part of the evaluatoraward, three people were rec-ognized on their commitmentand achievement. The threeincludes MereseiniWaibuta andActing Chief Economist with theMinistry of Industry and Trade.SekoveTamanitoakula, SeniorEconomic Planning Officer alsowith the Ministry of Industry andTrade and Ana Tora, ActingSenior Adminstrative Officerwith the Department ofImmigration.

In a twist of the normal walkathon idea,Stella Marist Primary School students,parents and friends held a "Funathon"

event aimed at raising funds for upgradingworks at the school. Stella Marist ParentsTeacher's Association President CraigStrong said while the initiative is aimed atraising funds the main aim is to have funwhile doing so. Strong said ex-scholarshave also jumped on board to help. Thereis an audio file attached to this story. TheStella Marist Primary "Funathon" event isaiming to raise $50,000.

Rewa dairy records $2m loss for 2009BRIEF NEWS

Stella Marist organizes funathon

Fete to mark lift-ing of taboo

A MAJOR celebration is beingplanned by the Lomaiviti Province tomark the end of a three-year tabooon yaqona drinking and cigarettesnext month.Lomaiviti Provincial Council chair-

man Ratu Jolame Lewanavanua saidthe taboo imposed on yaqona drink-ing and cigarettes had benefited theprovince. "We have seen the positiveoutcomes of this taboo. There hasbeen a lot of planting activities in vil-lages since it was imposed. An exam-ple is the harvest of watermelon soldduring the festival in Suva."Watermelon is something we previ-ously did not plant a lot but sinceimposing the taboo, it has beenamazing and encouraging to see vil-lagers planting a variety of crops,fruits and vegetables," he said. Othervegetables that villagers have takena keen interest in farming are egg-plants, tomatoes and capsicum. "Weare grateful for the government'sassistance in donating sewingmachines to women groups, perhapsby next year there will be no need tobuy school uniforms because thewomen can sew them," he said.

Urban driftSuva and Lami Special Administrator Chandu

Umaria Chandhu Umaria dances with women ofLomaiviti during the opening of the festival. THEmigration of Lomaiviti villagers to urban centreshas become a major concern for the provinceleaders. In a bid to arrest this trend, the LomaivitiProvincial Council chairman Ratu JolameLewanavanua said they had listed the issue as apriority for discussions at the provincial council'smeeting tomorrow. "This is a key issue that we willaddress at our provincial council meeting. We aretrying to encourage people to return to the islandsand there are signs of people moving back but ona slow scale," he said. He confirmed that about500 villagers had returned to Koro Island this year."We realised it was because Koro had progressedwith its developments."Economic activities on the island has improved

by 120 per cent and this means there is a lot oftrading and selling of crops. About $40,000revolves in Koro every week," he said. He saidthey expected Gau villagers to return to the islandsoon because pine harvesting was due to beginearly next year. "During pine harvesting season,about $60,000 is generated from selling sawn tim-ber," he said. Ratu Jolame said the issue of urbandrift they faced was not confined to their provincebut was a trend that was also rife in everyprovince.He said they would discuss ways to keeptheir province attractive so that their people did notfeel the need to leave for urban centres.

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NZPA . America's Secretary ofState, Hillary Clinton, says the USAgency for InternationalDevelopment will return to thePacific with a new office in Fiji and$US21 million ($NZ27.8m) inaid.She made the announcementtoday in Hawaii on the first stop of atwo-week, 10-nation Asia Pacifictour, the ABC reported.Mrs Clinton will also visit New

Zealand, Australia, AmericanSamoa, and Papua New Guinea inthe Pacific, and Indonesia,

Vietnam, China, Cambodia, andMalaysia in Asia . Speaking at theEast West Centre in Honolulu, MsClinton clarified the importanceWashington is placing on thePacific region.

"We are working through thePacific Island Forum to support thePacific island nations as they striveto really confront and solve thechallenges they face." Those chal-lenges ranged "from climatechange to freedom of navigation"."To that end, I'm pleased to

announce that USAID would returnto the Pacific next year, opening anoffice in Fiji with a fund of $US21million to support climate changemitigation."

(Some would also call it anattempt to check growing Chinesefinancial aid, and political influence,in the South Pacific - which oftenearns backing for UN resolutions.)Since the 2006 coup, Fiji has beensuspended from theCommonwealth and the 16-nationPacific Islands Forum and has

been hit with sanctions by theEuropean Union and countriesincluding the United States,Australia and New Zealand. "Inept,heavy-handed" But AmericanSamoa's member of the USCongress, Eni Faleomavaega, ear-lier this year warned that the "ineptpolicies and heavy-handed actions"of the New Zealand and Australiangovernments in the Pacific wereputting American interests in theregion at risk. He is reported tohave told Mrs Clinton that "heavy-

handed tactics and misguidedsanctions" used by Wellington andCanberra politicians had hurt aver-age Fijians far more than the coupgovernment. Mr Faleomavaega,who chairs the Congress subcom-mittee on Asia, the Pacific and theGlobal Environment, warned theinterests of Australia and NewZealand sometimes diverged sig-nificantly from those ofWashington, and that their "foreignpolicy elites" wrongly viewed theregion with a eurocentric mentality.

FOLLOWING the success of the Fiji FashionWeek 2010 show last week, the Fashion WeekLimited has plans in the pipeline for a first-everSouth Pacific Fashion Week. FJFW managingdirector Ellen Whippy-Knight said the event isbeing planned for October 17-22 next year at theVodafone Arena. "It will involve all the countriesin the South Pacific region including Australiaand New Zealand," she said."There has been a marked improvement in

the execution of our shows. We are achievingour objectives of providing a platform and outletfor our local young designers. "However, what isof utmost importance is government support tobuild an independent fashion school. "At themoment, we have requested Professor PaulDiver, a fashion expert from London University,to write a paper on the objectives and potentialthat Fashion Week has for revenue generation inthe economy." Ms Whippy-Knight said majority ofthe 165 Fashion Week shows around the worldwere from countries that had strong support fromtheir governments and industry associates. Shesaid they were working on confirming fivedesigners for FJFW to nurture and developthrough training and further education."We wish to assist all the other designers to

get into production using our own garment man-ufacturers and of course organising more work-shops," she said. "Our main objective is toensure that fashion education becomes a per-manent fixture in schools or the university cur-riculum." Main events for the FJFW were held atthe Borron House in Suva from October 18-23.

Natasha Hughes struts the catwalk during the FijiFashion Week awards night at Borron House.

A diversity of communitybased organizations met todayto learn about micro insuranceand help map the next stepsforward for bringing the productto Fiji. The event was an informa-

tion exchange and consultation,co-hosted by The PacificFinancial Inclusion Programs(PFIP), and the AsianDevelopment Bank (ADB), withfunding from AusAID. It wasdesigned to assist these com-munity based organizations inidentifying several potentialpartners that are interested andcapable of serving as distribu-tion channels. The event beganwith a video and presentationfrom PFIP on the key conceptsof micro insurance. At PFIP weview micro insurance as a cru-cial tool to alleviating poverty inFiji. Given this, it is very impor-tant that the organizations work-ing with low income communi-ties understand how it works, sothey can help communicate itsvalue, explained Mike

McCaffrey, Technical Specialistfor PFIP. BPNG GovernorBenny PopoitaiBPNG GovernorBenny Popoitai. Dennis Garandand Jo Tayag, are internationalexperts on micro insurance,currently working for ADB. Theyhighlighted several viablemicroinsurance products thathave been successful aroundthe globe and explained howsimilar products could be suc-cessful in Fiji if the right partner-ships are made with communitybased organizations.Microinsurance products aresold to low income communitiesby people they trust. Thereforeour task to find an organizationin Fiji that both has a large net-work of low income members,but most importantly has astrong trusting relationship withthose communities, detailed Mr.Tayag. Mr. Garand highlightedthe presence of mobile moneynetworks and the ability to usethese platforms as means tomake payments for microinsur-ance products.

MsElenoaFonolahiRalulu,representative formSoq o s o q oVa k ama r ama ,thought the discussions to bevery interesting and highlightedthe importance of surmountingthe remaining challenges tooffering microinsurance. Thereis great potential for microinsur-ance in Fiji and it will be verybeneficial for indigenous com-munities as we are so used todealing with family emergencieson ad-hoc basis. I think microinsurance will be

a great product for rural and lowincome people as it will helppeople out of poverty and assistthem in areas that are oftenneglected like sudden deaths inthe family, accidents, emergen-cies and other unplannedevents, statedTevitaRavumaidama, represen-tative from Partners inCommunity Development(PCDF). Consultations by ADB and

PFIP will continue with variouspartners until next week with the

goal of producing a detailedscoping and costing documentfor microinsurance interven-tions with commercial providersin Fiji, and rural communities.The event concluded by high-lighting the need of aligningcommon issues, that is, impor-tance of communication, theneed of identifying and manag-ing the right partners in thecommunity, capitalizing on theexisting channels and designingspecific microinsurance prod-ucts to suit the various commu-nities in Fiji. PFIP is funded bythe Australian Agency forInternational Development(AusAID), United NationsCapital Development Fund(UNCDF), European Union,and the United NationsDevelopment ProgrammePacific Centre. For full detailson (PFLC) PFLC. (PFLC) hasShort Term PowerRatings atTradingMarkets. Details on(PFLC) Short TermPowerRatings is available atThis Link.

ANZ Bank recordsprofiting year

ANZ Bank business opera-tions in the Pacific have record-ed a net profit after tax of $132million for 2010. Bank CEO inthe Pacific Michael Rowlandsays the bank’s investment inthe Pacific shows their commit-ment to provide affordable andreliable banking services to the12 Pacific countries in theregion. Part of the Bank’srestructure to take the banksservices to new heights includethe opening of ANZ new branchin Suva by the end of the year. Rowland says the bank has

recognized the importance ofsupporting the community andthe capability of their staff andthey have appointedIsikeliTuituku of Fiji as CEO ofthe Kiribati branch. ANZ has alittle over 2000 staff across thePacific.

US returns to Fiji with $27m aid; Congressman calls NZ, Aust 'inept'

South Pacific fashionshow after success of

Fiji Fashion Week

Communicating with Communities in Fiji: Microinsurance

EXHIBITIONS : ARTS AND CULTURE

Laite's back and will chase her dreamLaite Vonolele, second right, with the other she went with to India for

heart surgery, and their mothers. LIFE was not that rosy for young LaiteRadravu Vonolele as she had congenital heart problem when she wasseven months old. Her hopes of fulfilling her childhood dream to be alawyer were nearly shattered as she had to endure the pain of stayingindoors watching her friends as they played at Nacobo Village in Levuka.But after receiving a lifeline from a joint venture between Vodafone ATHFiji Foundation and Fiji College of General Practitioners Children HeartFoundation, the Class Three student of Visoto District School successful-ly underwent a heart surgery at the Frontier Lifeline & Dr KM CherianHeart Foundation in Chennai, India. She was teary-eyed when she wasinterviewed upon her arrival at the Nadi International Airport yesterdaymorning knowing she can now achieve her ultimate dream. Laite was among the four childrenwho recently returned from heart surgery in India. The other three that were also successfullytreated are seven-month-old Amishal Prateek Chand, nine-month-old Litia Niumataiwalu andseven-month-old Josefa Mavoa. Vodafone ATH Fiji Foundation director Manorama Singh saidthe joint venture with Fiji College of General Practitioner Children Heart foundation was grate-ful that they managed to play a part in saving lives.

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Most worship places in USA specially has look beyond its boundaries and cater for cultural andsocial needs which includes wedding and other social events and also both indoor and out-door sports. Ruus Street Mandir – Hayward Hindu Temple incorporates sports and cultural pro-

grams. Check their website for more information.

Chief Priest at Shree Laximi Narayan Mandir, Elder Creek, Sacramento waiting to serve devotees.

American Islamic Academy andInterfaith America to host Inter-religious Conference inHayward

FREMONT –At its last month BoardMeeting, Interfaith America directortook a final decision to host its firstInterreligious Conference at the EastBay Cal State University campus.Speakers of all faith have been invitedto address the Conference “SpiritualHealing in Your faith” at which guestspeakers will enlighten you on theirexperimental spiritual journeys in life“healing with their faith power.”

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Washington. The HinduAmerican Foundation (HAF) articu-lated the extensive oppression ofHindu minorities in Muslim-majoritynations at The Plight of Minoritiesand Expatriates in Arab and MuslimCountries: What the U.S. ShouldDo, a conference sponsored by theCenter for Democracy and HumanRights in Saudi Arabia (CDHR).Drawing upon extensive data inHAF’s 2009 human rights report,Hindus in South Asia and theDiaspora: A Survey of HumanRights, Professor Ramesh Rao,HAF’s Human Rights Coordinator(pictured below), highlighted thediscrimination faced by minorities,particularly Hindus, in Saudi Arabia,Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysiaand Afghanistan.

Other presentations focused onthe persecution of Copts in Egypt,plight of Christians in the MiddleEast, repression of minorities in theArab Middle East and Iran, experi-ence of Baha’i communities in theMiddle East, status of Jews in Arabcountries, women’s rights underSharia law, compatibility of Sharialaw with the U.S. judicial system,and oppression of minorities in Iraq.

Labeling the muted complaintsand silence of the media, govern-ments and scholars in recordingthis history of oppression of minori-ties in Muslim-majority countries as“taboo history,” Prof. Carole Basri of

the University of Pennsylvania LawSchool urged speakers and partici-pants to engage lawmakers morevigorously by shedding light on theplight of minorities in many Muslim-majority nations. Dr. Ali Alyami,Executive Director of CDHR, said,in his introductory remarks, thatrepresentatives of these persecut-ed minorities should collaborateand speak with one voice to givevoice to the oppressed in Muslim-majority nations.“It was heartening to meet with

representatives of the Copts,Ahmaddiyas, Baha’i, Christians,and Jews at this conference, andjoin them in voicing our distress atthe fate of minorities, includingHindus, in Muslim-majority nationsacross the world,” said Prof. Rao.“It is important we build on the syn-ergy created in this first meetingand demand action from our law-makers and administration officialswho have succumbed to the pres-sures of the 57 member-nations ofthe Organization of IslamicConference (OIC) by disregardingthese atrocities.”

The Hindu AmericanFoundation is a 501(c)(3), non-prof-it, non-partisan organization pro-moting the Hindu and Americanideals of understanding, toleranceand pluralism.Contact HAF at 301.770.7835 oron the web at www.HAFsite.org.

Hindu Temples more than house of worship HAF Highlights Persecution of

Hindus in Muslim-majority Nations

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The Fiji Football Association in it’s Board ofControl meeting yesterday has set thedates of the 2011 Fiji Sun/WeetbixNational Soccer League. The dates are12th and 13th February 2011. NationalLeague Board Chairman DR HariKewalsays he is confident of the dates set tofinish the national league prior to theSouth Pacific Games. Kewal added thatthe National League Board will meet soonwith affiliate members to finalise the fixtures.Meanwhile FBC Sports has established the

dates of the champion’s league and it is set tokick off from 22nd of January until the 5th ofFebruary. Ba, Rewa and the Fiji Under 20swill battle for the champion’s league title.FBC also understands that the three majortournaments, Fiji Fact, Battle of the Giantsand Inter Districts Championship tentativevenues have also been decided. The FijiFact will be played at Ba’s Govind Parkwhile BOG will take place at RatuCakobau

Park in Nausori and the IDC will be played atthe TFL National Stadium in Suva.

Fiji Hockey has selected twostrong men’s and women’s nation-al teams to represent the country atthe Oceania Pacific Cup inDecember. A Fiji men’s andwomen’s team plus a President XIs(11s) men’s and women’s outfitswere picked yesterday whichmeans Fiji will have doublechances at making the gold medalplay-offs. Coaching the men’steam is hockey stalwart Hector

Smith and Duane Underwood forthe women. Fiji will up againstdefending champions NewZealand Maoris, AustralianCountry and Pacific Island neigh-bors Samoa and Papua NewGuinea. Should Fiji achieve goldthis year, they will be able to play atnext year’s hockey world cup qual-ifiers. Fiji will host the OPC hockeycompetition for the third consecu-tive year before it moves offshore.

GOLDEN BOY GETS ONE IN THE FACE

National soccer league 2011 dates set

Fiji hockey teams selected FIJI BASKETBALL TEAM

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France-based and formernational sevens speedster TimociMatanavou yesterday said hewould love to be part of the FlyingFijians team for the World Cup inNew Zealand.Speaking from France yester-

day, the Mont de Marsan pace acesaid it was every rugby player'sdream.He said he would like to be

given the chance to prove himselfand be part of the national team forthe World Cup.Matanavou, a for-mer national sevens wing, said hehad been working very hard andsacrificed a lot in order to securehis position for his team in the ProD2 competition.The Nawairuku native from Ra

was instrumental in helping Montde Marsan beat Aix-en-Provencewhich had the service of fellowFijian Seva Rokobaro. Matanavouscored a runaway try in the win andsaid he looked forward to beingrecalled to the Fiji camp. He said hewould also love to be part of thenational sevens team for the IRBsevens series.Matanavou, whomoved to France in 2008, is one of

the leading try scorers in the ProD2 competition. His fine perfor-mance was good enough toimpress the management of Montde Marsan who renewed his con-tract for another two seasons.Matanavou captured the attentionof scouts in Europe when he scoredthe most tries in the 2008 sevensseason. The former NasinuSecondary School student laterfound himself playing in Francethrough his cousin and MetroRacing 92 wing Sireli Bobo.Meanwhile, Bobo could not help histeam secure another win againstnewly-promoted SU Agen, losing21-20. After claiming a crucial winagainst La Rochelle last week,Agen produced one of the upsets ofthe season to do their prospects inthe relegation tussle a world ofgood. Third-placed Racing-Metrosuffered a double blow as fly-halfJonathan Wisniewski suffered aknee injury. This has left his partici-pation in France's internationalmatch against Fiji on November 13in doubt. In a tightly-fought gamewhen the leader shifted a few timesin the closing stages, fly-half

Valentin Courrent was the hero forthe hosts as he scored all his side'spoints and slotted the winning penalty.

Matanavou dreams of 'Fiji' chance

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MUMBAI: In the spirit of give andtake, US President Barack Obamaon Saturday signalled the easing ofexport controls on dual use technol-ogy even as he announced signingof deals worth $10 billion with UScompanies, something he saidwould create 50,000 jobs backhome.Hammered by plummeting

approval rating and the loss of theHouse of Representatives to theRepublicans, and under pressure tooffer his Indian hosts somethingmore tangible to chew on rather thansoaring rhetoric, Obama used hismeeting with the high priests andpriestesses of India Inc to placateboth constituencies — it was a dualuse speech, as one person presentat the gathering quipped to TOI. His20-minute special keynote addressat the US-India Business andEntrepreneurship summit at TheTrident was understandably pep-pered by references to creation ofjobs both in the US and India andother key issues such as the needfor a strong partnership between thetwo largest democracies of theworld, developing the spirit of

entrepreneurship and innovationand the need for India to lift certaintrade and investment barriers.''Even as we strengthen our

national security, we should makesure that unnecessary barriers don'tstand in the way of high-tech tradebetween our countries. We will workwith India to fundamentally reformour control on exports, which willallow greater cooperation in a rangeof high-tech sectors to strengthenour relation,'' he said commenting onthe issue of dual use technologies,something the Indian side has beenlobbying for a while. He, however, inthe same breath, asked the Indianside to reciprocate and reduce tradebarriers. The easing of export rulescould benefit entities like DRDO andIsro, which have been denied tech-nologies from the US in the past.But, on the whole, it was really jobsand emphasis on partnership thatdominated the US president'sspeech, who is on a three-day maid-en trip to India, which he himselfdescribed as his longest to anycountry, after taking over as thepresident. The US president, whoarrived just before noon, expressed

confidence about the economicpotential of the partnership and saidthat he was absolutely sure that rela-tionship between the two countrieswas going to be one of the definingpartnerships of the 21st century.''There is no reason why India

cannot be our top trading partner. Ofall the goods that India imports lessthan 10% comes from the US. Of allthe goods America exports to the

world less than 2% go to India,''Obama said.

Here he mentioned that USexports to India is less than USexports to The Netherlands, a coun-try with a population less than that ofMumbai. Every time he made refer-ences to the potential of trade andinvestments between the two coun-tries, the who's who of business fromboth sides, present on the occasion,clapped zealously. He drewapplause even when he wishedeveryone a Happy Diwali at thebeginning of his address. Hedescribed India as the fastest grow-ing economy and said that the sheersize and pace of growth have beenstunning in the last two decades.Among those present from the

Indian side included Ratan Tata,chairman of Tata group, MukeshAmbani, chairman of RelianceIndustries Limited, Anil Ambani,chairman of ADAG, AnandMahindra, vice chairman and MD ofMahindra & Mahindra to just name afew. Among the 300-odd US CEOsflown in as part of a business dele-gation were Jeffrey Immelt, chair-man & CEO General Electric, Indra

Nooyi, chairman & CEO of PepsiCo,Louis Chenevert, chairman & CEOUnited Technologies and DavidCote, chairman and CEO,Honeywell. ''Several landmark deals have

been done shortly before my arrivalhere. Boeing is going to sell dozensof planes to India and GE is going tosell hundreds of electric engines.The deals are worth USD 10 billionand will create more than 50,000jobs in the US,'' he said, making astrong start to his India visit.The commercial deals include the

purchase of 33 (thirty-three) 737sfrom Boeing by SpiceJet; the IndianArmy's plans to buy aircraft enginesfrom General Electric; and prelimi-nary agreement between Boeingand the Indian Air Force on the pur-chase of 10 C17s. Just before theaddress at USIBC, Reliance Powerannounced a power equipment dealfor 2,400 MW plants with GE , whilelow-cost carrier Spicejet announceda deal to buy 33 new generation 737aircraft from Boeing. While theReliance Power deal with GE isworth $750 million, the SpiceJet-Boeing deal is worth $2.7 billion.

MUMBAI: Imparting a touch of infor-mality, US President Barack Obama andFirst Lady Michelle on Sunday dancedspiritedly to a foot-tapping Marathi folksong as they participated in symbolicDiwali festivities with children at a cityschool. The US first couple took a breakfrom their formal engagements to savourdance presentations by youngsters andvisit a science exhibition at the HolyName High School, close to the Hotel TajMahal where they are staying. "Hello!Namaste! Good Morning!", said a beam-ing 49-year-old Obama to the media ashe entered the venue wearing blacktrousers, a matching tie, a spotless whiteshirt with folded sleeves and without theformal jacket. The Obamas, who lit alamp to mark the celebrations, weregreeted by the students in traditionalIndian attire as they interacted with thechildren, shaking hands and posing forphotographs. The students were seen

gleefully clicking the couple's picturesusing cellphone cameras. Both Obamaand Michelle, 46, attired in a pink top andgrey-check skirt, sat through the dance

performance by the students and couldnot resist the temptation to join them toshake a leg when invited. Sporting broadsmiles, the visiting dignitaries watched

with keen interest the foot-tapping 'Koli'song and dance, a folk art form ofcoastal Maharashtra, clapping andcheering the children. The fun-lovingKolis (fishermen) are known to be thefirst inhabitants of the Mumbai city.Atfirst, it was Michelle who showed herdancing skills by matching the steps withthe children. When Obama told the chil-dren in a lighter vein that he had notbeen asked to join the celebrations, hewas pulled in by the students and hesoon began swaying on the floor of thehall bedecked with fresh flowers andleaves. The couple mingled freely withthe children, their parents and teachersfor a good five minutes, happily signingautographs and posing for pho-tographs.Salman Khurshid, minister ofstate for corporate affairs and minister-in-waiting for Obama, was seen explain-ing the significance of performances tothe US President.

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama dances withunderprivileged children at the Mumbai

University in Mumbai, India.

MUMBAI: It was not just theTatas and Ambanis who got to meetthe US president, Barack Obama.The US prez had a tete-a-tete with achosen few entrepreneurs with inno-vative models as part of aroundtable at the Trident Hotel.From Irfan Alam, the man who helpsrickshaw pullers, to Chetan Sinha,founder of Mann Deshi Bank, amicrofinance bank that lends, fundsand teaches entrepreneurial skills torural women, Obama lent his keenear to understand how their busi-ness models ticked.Sammaan is an organization that

works with cycle rickshaw pullers inparts of northern and eastern India.''The rickshaw pullers rent a vehicleand we arrange finances for them.We also enable them to use theirvehicles for advertisements,'' Alamtold TOI. Obama, said Alam, wasimpressed that Sammaan was theworld's largest organization with 5lakh illiterate and unskilled mem-

bers. Alam, who has also set up aSammaan Foundation in the US,and wants Obama to be its honorarychairman, said, ''The president tookmy file and said he would look intoit.'' Similarly, Siraj Ubdil Qureshi's

company works on livestock devel-opment by providing healthcare ser-vices for animals. ''There are 1.30lakh people registered with theorganization and we offer servicesto 7 lakh animals in Uttar

Pradesh,''said Qureshi, who alsoassists people in converting animalwaste into power. ''We had gone tothe White House in April for theentrepreneurial summit, whereentrepreneurs from all over theworld were invited. There were fivepeople from India. I was amongthem,'' said Qureshi.Another entrepreneur, Anant

Kumar's LifeSpring Hospitals is achain of maternity hospitals for thelower-income group in Hyderabadand other parts of Andhra Pradesh.Also part of the entrepreneurs meet,were Anand Mahindra, vice chair-man and managing director,Mahindra & Mahindra and Stuart EMarwell, president & CEO, CurtisInstruments, a New York basedworld leader in advanced electricvehicle technology control systems.Marwell and Mahindra represent-

ed the 15-year relationship betweenthe Reva Car Corporation, the elec-tric car company, and Curtis

Instruments, a global technologyleader in electric vehicle technolo-gies. Mahindra shared perspectiveon how future of collaborationbetween India and the US, and theadvancement of beneficial technolo-gies, such as electric cars, will ben-efit from US expertise in developingtemplates and business models,including new transportation mod-els. Ajay Piramal of Piramal Corp,who was also present, said, ''Wehad a very engaging discussion onhow high technology from US andcollaboration with India can create aworld-class product, and not onlylow-cost product.'' Shahnaz Husain,CEO, Husain Herbals, said she wasupset with Obama's dipping popu-larity in the US. ''Give the man achance. We should be grateful thatsuch a man walks on the earth,''said Husain, who also took Obama'sautograph on 'The Bridge', a bookon the life and rise of the US presi-dent.

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NEW DELHI: US presidentBarack Obama did not mentionPakistan while expressing solidaritywith the victims of 26/11 in Mumbaion Saturday. While it may have beenan opportunity to beat the US on itstreatment of Pakistan, it's not such abad thing.

If there is one thing that Indiawants, it's to "dehyphenate" itselffrom Pakistan in the minds of theinternational community. To thatextent, there is no doubt in the mindsof policymakers here that for Obamato do the Pakistan routine in Mumbaiwould have only served to strength-en the 'hyphenation'. The last thingIndia wants is to have the US viewingit through the Pakistan lens, so it wasprobably a good thing that Obamadesisted.

To believe that Obama would doan encore of British PM DavidCameron is naive in the extreme. It isundeniable that the US should thinkof a better thing to do for Pakistanthan sell it sophisticated weaponsthat are used against India, not theTaliban. (As one Indian official said,"Last we heard, Taliban does nothave a navy. So why give maritimerecon aircraft to Pakistan?") Theyneed the Pakistan army to make suretheir logistics chain to Afghanistan

remains intact and fire-free — noticehow, when there is a disagreementbetween the US and Pakistan, likekilling of Pakistani soldiers, thePakistan Taliban set NATO convoysablaze. Obama's real conversationon terrorism and Pakistan will be inthe Capital — if the two sides canovercome a traditional hesitation andtalk openly about Pakistan. It's a con-versation that's overdue in the Indo-

US context— high level officials saythe future of Pakistan needs to bediscussed between India and the US.India wants a Pakistan that will nolonger breed terrorists to sendacross. Presumably the US, too,wants the same thing, specially afterthe Times Square bombing attemptthis summer. While the US approachto Pakistan is to bribe them into astate of quasi-submission, India's

policy is totally confused. With thegovernment pitching for better rela-tions with Pakistan, there is no artic-ulation of any Indian policy to say,degrade Pakistan army's ability toengage in terrorism. Just as the UShas failed to put sticks into itsPakistan policy mix, India, too, hasfailed to create a deterrent forIslamabad from engaging in this low-level warfare. But if Obama chose

not to address the Pakistan questionin Mumbai, in Washington,Republican leader John McCain tookthe issue head on. McCain cut to theheart of the Indo-US strategic dilem-ma. Officials say, McCain's state-ment is a reflection not only of thebipartisan support for the Indo-UStango in DC, but a more forceful artic-ulation of strategic concerns, thatObama is yet to articulate.

The moment US President BarackObama's Air Force One touched downin Mumbai, the Twitterati got active,and inundated cyberspace with mes-sages -- ranging from eating out sug-gestions for the US first couple tohumorous comments on his visit. "Ihope Obama pays a customary visit toMamledar Misal inThane. Should eat two Misal Pavs

with oily red hot rassa. Will neverreturn to (Washington) DC!" postedMumbai-based Venkat Ananth onmicro-blogging website Twitter.Meanwhile, Delhi-based GursimranKhamba, a humorist, turned hisTwitter account into an Obama paro-dy. "All I have to do is smile, saynamaste and make an AmitabhBachchan reference to have all of youeating out of my hands," saidKhamba, in lighter vein. But therewere some genuine positive postsafter Obama's speech to pay tribute tothe Mumbai terror attack victims."What a charismatic, resilient &

dynamic speech made by Obama atthe Gateway of India across the Taj...highlighted strong Indo-US ties," saidZoran Saher. And there were somenegative comments to the BharatiyaJanata Party's criticism of Obama notmentioning Pakistan as the source ofterror. "People who are disappointedwith Obama's Taj speech mustremember that he is not here for anypre-war mobilization. He is here forbusiness," said Sunil Kumar Singh. Aninternet entrepreneur Sushant Sahooalso chipped in after watching theevening news that analysed Obama'sspeech. "There's no reason to gogaga about why he skipped Pakistan,"said Sahoo. An anonymous commen-tator on international relations, with atwitter name of 'pragmatic_d', alsomade fun of BJP's comment. "Ha haha... A party when in power, whichinvited (then Pakistan presidentPervez) Musharraf for a summit afterKargil, has the gall to feel outragedabout Obama," he said.

IT can take India directly to 21st century: ObamaMUMBAI: US President Barack Obama on Sunday got a first hand account of howinformation technology (IT) has revolutionised life in rural India, and said this technologywould help India directly leapfrog into the 21st century. "India may be in a position toleapfrog, avoiding 20th century straightaway into the 21st century. I look forward to theday you will be a model for countries around the world," he told villagers of Kanpuranear Ajmer while interacting with them from Mumbai through video conference. After ashort introduction by National Knowledge Commission chairman Sam Pitroda, Obamaspoke to the villagers who shared the benefits of broadband penetration - from onlinemedical consultation, education and local e-governance. The President expressed hap-piness about the progress being made with the aid of IT. "Here is a good news. In theUS, we are trying to do the same thing. Trying to make the government accountableand efficient," Obama said. The villagers interaction was coordinated by Union Ministerof State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot, who said IT was not just about export-ing services, but was also about changing lifestyle of rural India. India expects toachieve broadband penetration in all panchayats by 2012. Broadband spectrum wasauctioned earlier this year and the network roll-out is currently underway.

The red carpet is rolled out in front of Air Force One as President BarackObama and First Lady Michelle Obama arrive in Mumbai, India, Saturday,

Nov. 6, 2010. President Obama is in India.

US President Barack Obama (R) and First Lady Michelle Obama (L) write in the visitors book during their tourthrough the Mani Bhavan Gandhi Museum in Mumbai. (Inset) U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady

Michelle Obama left their words during their visit to Mani Bhavan, the Gandhi Museum.

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NEW YORK: George W Bush hassuggested that Republican leaderSarah Palin is "unqualified" and shespoiled the party's 2008 presidentialelection campaign, a top aide of theformer US President has said."Naming Palin makes Bush think lessof McCain as a man. He thinksMcCain ran a lousy campaign with anunqualified running mate anddestroyed any chance of winning bypicking Palin," a Republican officialclose to Bush was quoted as sayingby the 'New York Daily News'. Bushsuggested that the 46-year-old glam-orous former Alaskan governor is notat all qualified to be President and crit-icised Senator John McCain for pick-ing her as his Running Mate in 2008,the report said. Matt Latimer, formerspecial assistant to Bush, wrote in abook released last year: "'I'm trying toremember if I've met her before. I'msure I must have'. (Bush's) eyes twin-kled, then he asked, 'What is she, thegovernor of Guam?'" Bush has beendisparaging about Palin in the past.

As the United States recoversfrom this recession, the biggest mis-take we could make would be torebuild our economy on the samepile of debt or the paper profits offinancial speculation. We need torebuild on a new, stronger founda-tion for economic growth. And part ofthat foundation involves doing whatAmericans have always done best:discovering, creating and buildingproducts that are sold all over theworld.

It's hard to overstate the impor-tance of Asia to our economic future.Asia is home to three of the world'sfive largest economies, as well as arapidly expanding middle class. Mytrip will therefore take me to fourAsian democracies India, Indonesia,

South Korea and Japan, each ofwhich is an important partner for theUnited States.

During my first visit to India, I willbe joined by hundreds of Americanbusiness leaders and their Indiancounterparts to announce concreteprogress toward our export goal bil-lions of dollars in contracts that willsupport tens of thousands ofAmerican jobs. We will also exploreways to reduce barriers to USexports and increase access to theIndian market.

Indonesia is a member of the G-20. Next year, it will assume thechairmanship of the Asean, a groupwhose members make up a marketof more than 600 million people thatis increasingly integrating into a free

trade area, and to which the UnitedStates exports $80 billion in goodsand services each year. My adminis-tration has deepened our engage-ment with Asean, and for the firsteight months of 2010, exports ofAmerican goods to Indonesiaincreased by 47% from the sameperiod in 2009. This is momentumthat we will build on as we pursue anew comprehensive partnership withIndonesia. In South Korea,President Lee Myung-bak and I willwork to complete a trade pact thatcould be worth tens of billions of dol-lars in increased exports and thou-sands of jobs for American workers.Other nations like Canada andmembers of the European Union arepursuing trade pacts with South

Korea, and American businessesare losing opportunities to sell theirproducts in this growing market. Weused to be the top exporter to SouthKorea; now we are in fourth place.Finally, at the Apec meeting inJapan, I will continue seeking newmarkets in Asia for Americanexports. The great challenge is tomake sure that America is ready tocompete for the jobs and industriesof the future. We cannot be shut outof these markets. Our government,together with American businesses,must take steps to promote and sellour goods and services abroad par-ticularly in Asia.

(This article is excerpted froman Oped piece in The New YorkTimes)

NEW YORK: New York MayorMichael Bloomberg had once saidthat a conversation with BarackObama was "like verbal ping pong"and that the US president was the"most arrogant man" he had evermet, according to a media report.

Bloomberg had called onObama, during the latter's vaca-tion at Martha's Vineyard inAugust. He played a round of golfat the Vineyard Golf Club, alongwith a few other officials.

Bloomberg and Obama talked inthe clubhouse for about 15 minut-ess about the economy.Apparently, the conversation didnot go well, and Bloomberg "cameback and said 'I never met in mylife such an arrogant man', mediamagnate Rupert Murdoch wasquoted as saying by TheAustralian Financial Review.

Murdoch said: "Bloomberg saidit was a pleasant day. In conversa-tion he put a few ideas He said it

was like verbal ping pong." Aspokesman for Bloomberg, how-ever, did not respond to a requestfor comment, ABC news reported.Murdoch, Australia-born founder,chairman, and chief executive offi-cer of the News Corporation,which owns Fox News Channeland the New York Post amomgothers, later said that Obama"might make great speeches butdoesn't get things done and does-n't listen to anybody".

NEWARK (US): A Honduran man who admitted pulling the trigger in theexecution-style killings of three college students in a schoolyard was sen-tenced on Friday to three consecutive life terms in a case that jolted NewJersey's largest city into dealing with its crime problem. Melvin Jovel, 21,pleaded guilty to murder, attempted murder and weapons charges daysbefore his trial was to begin in September. Prosecutors said Jovel and fiveother young men lined up Iofemi Hightower and Dashon Harvey, both 20,and 18-year-old Terrance Aeriel, against a schoolyard wall in Newark andshot each of them in the back of the head on a summer night in 2007. Jovel,wearing dark green prison scrubs and translation headphones, staredstraight ahead throughout the proceedings, making only a brief statement inSpanish before his sentencing. "The only thing I have to say is the personwho was sentenced had nothing to do with it," Jovel said, an apparent ref-erence to co-defendant Rodolfo Godinez, who was sentenced in July tothree consecutive life sentences for the killings.

Obama to GOP:Let's work together

WASHNGTON: A chastenedPresident Barack Obama admittedhe had suffered a "shellacking" inthis week's US mid-term elections,but refused to see it as a repudia-tion of his transformative domesticagenda. Holding out the olivebranch, Obama said he had invitedtop Republicans to the WhiteHouse for talks after Congressreturns later this month, saying thetwo sides had to work together "Wecan't afford two years of just squab-bling," Obama said, after rivalRepublicans routed his Democratsin Tuesday's elections to re-takeoverwhelming control of the Houseof Representatives.

W A S H I N G T O N :Indian-American NikkiHaley, who created his-tory by becoming thefirst women governor ofSouth Carolina, hassaid generating jobsand boosting the econo-my would be her topmost priorities. "Wewant the government toknow the value of a dol-lar and we want jobsand the economy to come first. Thiswas people finding the power of

their voice. "It was peo-ple saying we want gov-ernment to rememberwho it is that they workfor," Haley, 38, told CNNin an interview. Born ofSikh parents who migrat-ed from Punjab, Haley isonly the second India-American to be governorof a US state. Accordingto final tally, she received51.38% of the total votes

polled against her Democratic rivalVincent Sheehan who got 46.89%.

BOSTON: Chinese President Hu Jintaohas been named the most powerful personin the world by Forbes, ahead of USPresident Barack Obama who is rankedsecond among 68 people "who matter," alist that also includes Congress PresidentSonia Gandhi and Prime MinisterManmohan Singh. Gandhi ranks 9th on theForbes 2010 list of the 'World's MostPowerful People.' Singh comes in at num-ber 18. (Read: Indians in Forbes' mostpowerful people list) Jintao, 67, occupiesthe top slot for being the "paramount politi-cal leader of more people than anyone elseon the planet" and one who "exercises neardictatorial control over 1.3 billion people,one-fifth of world's population." Forbes saidunlike his Western counterparts, Hu, headof the world's largest army in size, can

"divert rivers, build cities, jail dissidents andcensor Internet without meddling frompesky bureaucrats, courts." His country,which refuses to "kowtow" to US pressureto change its exchange-rate regime,recently surpassed Japan to become theworld's second-largest economy both inabsolute and purchasing power terms.China is also poised to overtake the US asthe world's largest economy in 25 years."Creditor nation oversees world's largestreserves at 2.65 trillion dollars - 1.5 trilliondollars of which is in US dollar holdings,"Forbes said.

His handpicked successor, Xi Jinping,is set to assume the presidency in 2012.Forbes said the second most powerful per-son in the world is Obama who has slippedin this year's ranking after occupying the

top slot last year. His Democratic Party suf-fered a mighty blow in the just concludedUS midterm elections, with the Presidentdecisively losing support of the House ofRepresentatives and barely holding ontothe Senate, Forbes said.

"It is quite a come-down for last year's

most powerful person, who after enactingwidespread reforms in his first two years inoffice will be hard-pressed to implement hisagenda in the next two," the publicationadded. The 49-year old first African-American President of the US can however"take comfort" in the fact that he remainscommander-in-chief of the world's largest,deadliest military, leader of world's largest -in spending - and most dynamic economyand holds the unofficial title of "Leader ofthe Free World," Forbes said.

Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz alSaud is ranked third, followed by RussianPrime Minister Vladimir Putin (4), PopeBenedict XVI (5), German ChancellorAngela Merkel (6), UK Prime MinisterDavid Cameron (7), Federal ReserveChairman Ben Bernanke (8) and spiritual

leader the Dalai Lama (39). Pakistan'sChief of Army Staff Ashfaq Parvez Kayani,the "quiet army chief now Pakistan's defacto leader," ranks 29th. Forbes said 58-year old Kayani took lead on flood crisis,"controls Pakistan's powerful intelligenceagency and recently demanded PresidentZardari and Prime Minister Gilani dismisscorrupt members of their bloated 60-mem-ber cabinet." His term was extended threeyears in July. On the 31st spot is NorthKorean leader Kim Jong-il. Even though hishealth appears to be fading, 68-year oldKim remains in firm control of "renegadenuclear power and its 22.7 million impover-ished people." He keeps the world on edgewith eccentric antics. His youngest son,Kim Jong Un, is now the Hermit Kingdom'sheir apparent.

We need to rebuild on a new, stronger foundation

New York mayor called Obama themost arrogant man he ever met

Bush 'thinks' SarahPalin 'unqualified'

UN calls for emis-sion, transport taxesUNITED NATIONS: A top UN panelhas called for increased taxes oncarbon emissions and air and seatransport to raise $100 billion a yearfor poor nations to combat climatechange. The group led by the primeministers of Norway and Ethiopiaalso proposed a tax on internationalfinancial transactions for a UN fundaiming to be ready by 2020. Thepanel — which also included financeministers and financier GeorgeSoros — was set up at last year'sacrimonious Copenhagen climatesummit and its proposals will get afirst international airing at the UN cli-mate conference in Cancun, Mexicostarting at the end of the month. UNsecretary general Ban Ki-mooncalled the proposals "financially fea-sible and politically viable."

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"Mangal Pandey", says RaviKishan and it's ironical thatKishan chooses a foreigner toplay the character of an Indianrevolutionary who was instrumen-tal in starting the rebellion againstforeigners. But why not? If Britishactor Ben Kingsley can be themost convincing portrayal ofMahatma Gandhi who foughtagainst the Britishers, why can'tObama play the revolutionaryMangal Pandey?

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Then there are some whobelieve he should just be leftwhere he is and one should notdrag him into Bollywood. ShreyasTalpade, who is basking in thesuccess if Golmaal 3 says, 'NoBollywood character would suithim".

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have no issues with any co-star ofmine, male or female. I have alwaysshared an amazing camaraderie withSalman. He's a fantastic co-star and agreat human being. In fact, my co-starin Kavalan, Vijay, and I were shooting inChennai when Salman's Dabangg hadreleased. Along with a few friends fromthe unit, we went to watch the film onthe first day. We also went to seeEndhiran on the first day along with theentire crew while we were inMettupalayam." Well, point taken!

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They were the most beautiful couple in Bollywood, but des-tiny had other plans for the gorgeous Aishwarya Rai andthe hunky Salman Khan! While Ash is now the Bachchan

bahu, married to Abhishek Bahchan, Salman, till not long ago,was dating the hottest girl in B-Town, Katrina Kaif! Of courseSalman, and Ash both have moved on, but the relationshipbetween the two remain so strained that the couple is doingeverything in the book to avoid coming face-to-face. But is thisaffecting the promotions of their respective films? With the smallscreen's huge popularity, films these days are using the televi-sion as a platform for movie promotions. And with Salman Khanhosting the popular reality show 'Bigg Boss', it seems as thoughAsh and her producers have more to lose. Only recently, Salmanrefused to promote Guzaarish on 'Bigg Boss'. The channel andthe team of 'Guzaarish' (read: Hrithik Roshan and AishwaryaRai) were to come to the Bigg Boss House, but Salman flatlyrefused. Also, Akshay Kumar and Vipul Shah (actor and directorof 'Action Replayy'), it is heard, will partake in the reality gameshow 'Kaun Banega Crorepati' hosted by actor and Ash's father-in-law, Amitabh Bachchan. Aishwarya is cast opposite Akki inthis flick but refused to appear even on the show hosted by herpa-in-law only because the proceeds were going to be givenaway to Salman's NGO 'Being Human'! Insiders from the'Guzaarish' team maintain, "Bigg Boss is huge in popularity. Ofcourse, we were keen that we be seen there, but in today's dayand age it's not the end all and be all. There are several ways topromote a film these days. Also, the major strength lies not inhow well you promote your movie,but how good the moviereally is, and Bhansali isdamn sure of the quality ofhis product." A unit memberfrom 'Action Replayy's pro-duction house insists,"Akshay Kumar and VipulShah did appear on KBC. Soour objective was met. Themovie was promoted. Noone's complaining," whilst hechose not to divulge, agree ordisagree why Ash really didn'tappear on the game show!

It isn't an easy situation. Sanjay Dutt, who has hada chequered relationship at best with his NewYork-based daughter Trishala, won't be able to

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NEW DELHI: Army Chief GeneralV K Singh has said India was "notsure" of China's intentions for devel-oping infrastructure along the borders,but a repeat of the 1962 aggressionwas "never" possible. Describing theregional security situation as "fragile,"Singh said Pakistan Army's India-cen-tric posturing and diversion of UScounter-terrorism military aid againstIndia were matters of concern.

"China is doing a great amount ofinfrastructure development, which itsays is for locals of the area. Nobones about it, no crib about it. Butour problem is we are not very sureabout the intentions. And when inten-tions change, with this capability,things can go wrong. And that is whatis a matter of concern," he said. "But,there is going to be no 1962. Never,"he said, referring to the Chineseaggression of Indian territory thatyear.

Singh reasoned that he did not seethe kind of signages of 1962 at pre-sent, as there were no military buildup or territorial claims that were wit-nessed just before the only time thetwo countries went to war. "Absolutely,with full conviction," he said, whenasked if he was confident there wouldbe no repeat of history. "Things are

better than what it was in 1962," hesaid, noting that situation along theborders was peaceful "to an extent"and the stand-offs were within theknown parameters governed byConfidence Building Measures, with"nothing going astray".

There were also mechanismsbetween the two countries now to takecare of such stand-offs. But there wasa question mark over the intentions ofChina's infrastructure development,he said. On regional security, Singhsaid, "Any country which has unset-tled borders, which are undemarcatedand with problems, the security situa-

tion in the overall calculus remainsfragile. It remains a cause for concernand that is what it is." On Pakistan, theArmy Chief told the 'Devil's Advocate'talk show on CNN-IBN that "the majorproblem is that the terrorist infrastruc-ture is intact (across the border)".

Pointing to Pakistan Army ChiefAshfaq Pervez Kayani's remarks thathis whole Army was India-centric,Singh said, "when you combine this(with the economic condition, terrorand political uncertainty there), itmeans the following: That the proxywar will carry on. And they will keeplooking for an alibi. And this is a mat-ter of concern."

On the $2 billion American militaryaid to Pakistan for war against terror,Singh said all aid that were evergiven to Pakistan were divertedagainst India and there were credibleinputs to support this charge."Historically, all aid that has evercome to Pakistan, for whatever pur-poses, despite the assurances, havebeen used against India. We havecredible inputs to say that out of thisassistance to fight terror inAfghanistan and coalition support, afair amount is being funnelled forupgrading capability against India,"the Army Chief said.

Training for Indiajihad on in PoK?

L O N D O N / I S L A M A B A D :Hundreds of students, includingforeigners are being trained in mili-tant camps in PoK to wage 'jihad'against India, but Pakistan onSaturday denied the report by theBBC as "baseless". After a lull, sev-eral militant outfits have now againraised their heads and increasedtheir activities in and aroundMuzaffarabad, the capital ofPakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK),to wage 'jihad' against India, BBCUrdu Service has reported.

A 25-year-old engineering stu-dent from Lahore, fresh from atraining stint in one of the campstold BBC from POK that "a largenumber of youths from Pakistaniuniversities and abroad are under-going training in PoK under super-vision of a militant group to wagejihad against India."

NEW DELHI: "Increased com-merce between the US and Indiacan be and will be a win-win propo-sition for both nations," US presi-dent Barack Obama told top busi-ness executives in Mumbai onSaturday.

While the formal announcementis expected only on Monday, the UShas decided to take Isro and four ofits subsidiaries and DRDO and itssubsidiaries off its entities list. A sig-nificant removal from the entities listis expected to be Bharat DynamicsLtd with its four subsidiaries, hintingat future Indo-US cooperation onmissile defence, because BDL ispart of India's missile technologyactivities.

While that is certain to bring

immediate cheer to the Indianstrategic sector, a more long-termstep by the US will have greaterimpact on India's technology future.

The US will announce that Indiawould get out of its country classifi-cation — that is, it would no longerbe on classified along with Pakistanand North Korea, but move into agroup populated by US top allieslike the UK and Japan.In the current classification sys-

tem, India cannot even accesssome critical kinds of technologiesthat it wants. The US will also sup-port India's membership to globalnon-proliferation regimes likeWassenaar Arrangement andAustralia Group and, in future,Nuclear Suppliers Group.

Pranab Mukherjee'sson to enter politics?

SURI (WB): A meeting attendedby Union finance minister PranabMukherjee's son, Abhijit, has set offspeculation in political circles onwhether he would plunge into poli-tics by being a Congress candidatein the assembly elections in WestBengal scheduled next year. Whatfuelled the speculation wasMukherjee attending a meeting onNovember three at Nalhati inBirbhum district, about 70 km fromhere, at which Congress leadersand workers were present.Birbhum DCC president Asit Malsaid though it was a goodwill meet-ing after Eid and Bijoya Dasamiorganised by a non-political organi-sation, party workers and leaderspresent declared in one voice that

SRINAGAR: Hundreds of road-side vendors today defied hardlineHurriyat Conference leader SyedAli Shah Geelani's announcementto observe 'civil curfew' as they dis-played their merchandise in thepopular flea market in the city.

Geelani had announced a three-day 'civil curfew' to be observed,beginning with arrival of USPresident Barack Obama to Indiayesterday, but the roadside vendorsdecided to defy the diktat."We have seen enough of

strikes and curfews for the past fourmonths and now we want to feedour families. We cannot go on for-ever like this," a vendor, who identi-fied himself only as Khalid, said.

Khalid said he also wanted reso-lution of Kashmir issue but not byforcing his family to starvation."There has to be a strategy... anymovement that forces the poor intofurther poverty cannot sustain fortoo long," the graduate from S PCollege said.The sentiments were echoed by

many of Khalid's fellow traders atthe Sunday market, but would notspeak on record for the fear ofreprisal from separatist elements."We do not want to indulge into

politics. We are trying to fulfill ourbasic needs... the separatist havenot cared and the Government atbest has been absent," NazirAhmad (name changed) said.

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British Royal Familyjoins 'Facebook'

LONDON: You can now catch up withthe British Monarchy on social networkingwebsite 'Facebook'. The Royal Family mem-bers, who are already regular users ofmicro-blogging site 'Twitter' and video-shar-ing site 'YouTube', have now set up theirown Facebook page. The 'British Monarchy'page features pictures, news videos andspeeches from Queen Elizabeth II, king-in-waiting Prince Charles and his sons, PrincesWilliam and Harry, apart from other Royals,the media reported. In fact, its creation is acollaboration between the BuckinghamPalace, Clarence House and the RoyalCollection. Buckingham Palace has said thatit's not a personal profile page, but users can"like" the service and receive updates ontheir news feed. The page will also featurethe Court Circular, recording Queen's previ-ous day's engagements. The Royal Family'slaunch of the Facebook page follows theintroduction of the Monarchy's Twitteraccount in 2009.

WASHINGTON: By omittingPakistan from the itinerary of hiscurrent trip to Asia, starting withIndia, President Barack Obama hasshown that the US is "not sensitive"to the sentiments of Pakistani peo-ple, former President PervezMusharraf has said. Disappointedthat Obama would not be visitingPakistan during the trip, Musharrafhas also conceded that the USpresident is unlikely to take up theissue of Kashmir during his meet-ings with the Indian leaders."I would take it as a disappoint-

ment, yes, indeed." This reflectsthat the US president is not sensi-tive to the sentiments of the peopleof Pakistan, Musharraf, the formermilitary ruler who stepped down in2008, said. "I don't think there isgoing to be any talk about Kashmir.

So in the overall con-text, I think it doesn'tresonate well with thepeople of Pakistan,where they take it thatthe United States or thepresident of the UnitedStates is not that con-cerned aboutPakistan's own sensitiv-ities and interests,"Musharraf said."I know one does

understand that visitingIndia is a bilateral issue betweenthe United States and India, andone wouldn't be overly Indo-centricin approach."But our concern, as a Pakistani,

certainly within Pakistan, isn'tPakistan an important player in theregion? It is in the front role fighting

terrorism. It's a strate-gic partner towardsfighting al-Qaida andTaliban towards eradi-cation of terrorism," hesaid. Obama has invit-ed Pakistan PresidentAsif Ali Zardari for afuture visit to the USand also announcedthat he would travel toPakistan next year."Kashmir is a sensitiveissue with Pakistanis.

In fact, the world ought to be con-cerned that Kashmir dispute, with-out solving Kashmir dispute, it isleading to extremism within oursociety. There are a number ofmujaheddin groups which haveemerged who want to go and sup-port their Indian brethren.... So we

have to resolve the Kashmir dis-pute. And this is what I have beenalways saying," he said. "Terrorism,al-Qaida and Taliban inAfghanistan, in the tribal agenciesof Pakistan, the mujaheddin in fight-ing in Kashmir, extremism in theMuslim youth on the rise in India,with extremism in our society, inPakistan society, all of them aredeveloping a nexus. And now it'sinternational connotation," he said.Musharraf said the army and the

government in Pakistan are doingtheir best to fight al-Qaida and theTaliban. "I'm not really privy to thetactical details of the operations, butat the strategic level, I do under-stand the commitment of the army,of the military and the governmenttowards defeating al Qaida andTaliban is certainly there," he said.

A woman feeds a swan at the lakeside of the lake Zeller See in Zell am See,Austrian province of Salzburg . The weather forecast predict warm and

sunny weather all over the country.

SEOUL: Jo Myong Rok, a long-time confidant of North Korean lead-er Kim Jong II, who travelled toWashington in 2000 on a thenunprecedented goodwill mission,has died. He was 82.Jo, who had served as first vice

chairman of the North's powerfulNational DefenseCommission since 1998,died yesterday of inveter-ate heart disease, the offi-cial Korean Central NewsAgency reported in a dis-patch from Pyongyang."His death is a great loss tothe party, the army andpeople of (North Korea)waging a dynamic struggleto win the victory of thecause of building a thriving socialistnation," it said. Jo, a Korean War vet-eran, visited Washington in October2000 as Kim's special envoy and metwith then President Bill Clinton. Healso later pledged to then USSecretary of State, MadeleineAlbright, that North Korea would takesteps to fundamentally improve rela-tions in the interests of peace andsecurity. Jo was the highet-levelNorth Korean official ever to visitWashington, and his trip, followed byAlbright's landmark visit toPyongyang, was part of Pyongyang'sefforts to keep up the momentum

generated by the breakthrough sum-mit between the leaders of the twoKoreas held in earlier 2000. The rec-onciliatory mood, however, has sincechanged following tension betweenPyongyang and Washington over theregime's nuclear weapons programand other issues. Jo's body will lie in

state at Pyongyang'sCentral Hall of Workers toreceive mourners before astate funeral Wednesday,the dispatch said. Kim andhis son and heir apparent,Kim Jong Un, are amongthe members of the funer-al committee, it said. Aswell as the No. 2 job at thedefense commission, Joalso served as a deputy to

the Supreme People's Assembly anda member of the politburo of the rul-ing Workers' Party, the KCNA dis-patch said. The North's state mediahasn't reported on Jo's public activi-ties for several years, sparkingintense South Korean media specu-lation about his health and a possiblechange in Pyongyang's power struc-ture. The two Koreas are still techni-cally at war because their conflict inthe early 1950s ended with anarmistice, not a peace treaty. The USstations 28,500 troops in SouthKorea to deter aggression fromNorth Korea.

Saudis defy no-women-

cashiers fatwaJEDDAH: Women cashiers

were at work in several Jeddahsupermarkets on Saturday astheir employers ignored a fatwaby the country's highest reli-gious authority forbiddingfemale checkout clerks.The popular Marhaba chain

kept the women on the jobdespite the six-day-old rulingsigned by grand mufti Sheikh al-Sheikh and six other senior reli-gious scholars which contradict-ed a key government policy tocreate jobs for women. AMarhaba official said thewomen would keep workinguntil the labour ministry orderedthem to stop the practice , onlybegun in the past three monthsafter the ministry said it waspermitted. "We will continue tolet the women do their jobs. Wehave not received any officialletter from the ministry of labourto stop the practice ," he said oncondition of anonymity. "Wehave more than 25 womenworking now in all our branch-es," he added. It was unclearwhether Panda, another super-market chain pioneering the useof female checkout cashiers,had its women working.

HAVANA: Cuban investigatorshave probed the country's worstplane crash in two decades, whichkilled all 68 people on board, includ-ing 28 foreigners. The domesticAerocaribbean aircraft crashed in themountainous Sancti Spiritus region incentral Cuba late Thursday after thepilot reported an emergency.Investigators found the "black box"voice and data recorders of airliner atthe crash site, located some 400 kilo-meters east of Havana, on Friday. Byyesterday rescue crews had finishedremoving the remains of crash vic-tims, which were transported toHavana for identification. The plane,a twin turbo-propeller ATR-72-212built by French-Italian manufacturer

Avions de Transport Regional, wasbound for Havana on a flight from theeastern city of Santiago de Cubawhen the pilot reported an emergen-cy. French ATR aviation experts willarrive soon to participate "as guests"in the crash probe, a spokesman forCuban Institute of Civil Aeronautics(IACC) said . "All the bodies areburned, except for two that were inthe back of the plane," Sancti Spirituspublic prosecutor Rolando Diaz. "Nobody is missing. Apparently the pas-sengers had no time to movebecause they all burned in their ownseats," Diaz said. Locals who rushedto help immediately after the crashsaid that the weather was good whenthe plane went down.

Cuba probes planecrash that killed 68

Indonesia volcanokilled 85 in latesteruption: OfficialJAKARTA: Indonesia's Mount

Merapi volcano killed 85 people inits latest eruption, with scores moresuffering severe burns, an officialsaid. Many of the dead were inArgomulyo village, about 18 kmsfrom the crater of Merapi, as dead-ly heat clouds hit their village.Thelatest deaths bring the overall toll to128 since the country's most activevolcano started erupting onOctober 26. "The death toll hasrisen to 85 people and 289 peopleare injured," disaster managementagency spokesman Sutopo PurwoNugroho said.

SYDNEY: Archaeologists onFriday revealed they have found apiece of a stone axe dated as35,500 years old on sacredAboriginal land in Australia, the old-est object of its type ever found.The shard of stone, found in

Australia's lush and remote farnorthern reaches in May, has marksthat prove it comes from a ground-edge stone axe, MonashUniversity's Bruno David said."We could see with the angled

light that the rock itself has all thesemarks on it from people havingrubbed it in order to create theground-edge axe," he told the ABC."The person who was using the axe

was grinding it against a sandstonesurface in order to make it asmoother surface." David said theprevious oldest ground-edge axeswere 20,000 to 30,000 years old,and the conventional belief was thatthe tool first emerged in Europewhen populations grew and forestsflourished at the end of the last IceAge. "What we've got in Australia,however, is evidence of ground-edge axes going back 35,000 yearsago," he said. "What this all meansis that we know that the conven-tional story that comes from Europedoes not explain the origin of axesglobally. So we've got to think of it ina very different way."

US not sensitive to sentiments of Pakistan : Musharraf

Confidant of NorthKorea's Kim Jong II dies

World's oldest axe found in Australia

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You may be slim and still havedangerously high levels of fatwithin you, according to the

British Medical Research Council.Using MRI body scanners doctorsdemonstrated that even super-slimpeople could have high levels of inter-nal fat collecting around the heart, liver,kidneys and pancreas. These people,dubbed "skinny-fats'''', could be seri-ously putting their health at risk. "Thefat we can see on overweight people issubcutaneous fat," The Daily Telegraphquoted Dr Ron McCoy, Melbourne-based spokesperson for the RoyalCollege of Australian GPs, as saying.However, what could be more danger-ous is visceral fat or the fat we can't seebut which surrounds vital organs. DrMcCoy said: "Visceral fat ismetabolised by the liver, which trans-forms it into cholesterol. Cholesterol cir-

culates in the blood and can collect inyour arteries, creating heart diseaseand high blood pressure." Visceral fat isalso believed to produces more hor-mones and proteins than subcutaneousfat, affecting glucose levels and leadingto the onset of type 2 diabetes andother health problems like cardiovascu-lar disease. But the question is if one isthin then how does fat accumulateinside the body. Lack of physical exer-cise is the biggest reason. Sam Mower,an exercise physiologist, said: "If yourbody isn't moving, it doesn't metabolisethe fat that's building up - either outsideor inside." Diet is another factor. "Ifyou're eating foods high in saturatedfat, such as butter, cheese, cakes andbiscuits, it's nearly all stored as visceralfat," Mower said. The menopause andsugar intake by way of alcohol con-sumption are among other causes.

Are you an early riseror do you preferwaking up when the

sun is overhead? Your hairmay be an indicator – saysa new study.

According to NationalGeographic News , that'sbecause the genes thatregulate our body clockscan be found in hair-folliclecells, researchers havediscovered. MakotoAkashi, of the ResearchInstitute for Time Studiesat Yamaguchi University inJapan, and colleaguesconducted the study onhair samples of four sub-jects who followed a strictschedule as per their pref-erences – waking up earlyor late and eating, amongother lifestyle choices.When the researcherstested the genes in thesubjects' follicles, theyfound that body-clock geneactivity peaked right after a

subject had woken up, beit 6 a.m. or 10 a.m. Thisindicates that the brain'turns on' the genes at dif-ferent times of the morningin different people. Thestudy may helpresearchers understandbody-clock disorders a lit-tle better than before.Disorders of the bodyclock have been implicatedin high blood pressure,diabetes—even cancer.The follicle test could beused to develop "workingconditions that do not dis-turb clock function" bybuilding in enough time toadjust, the authors wrote. Ihope that our method willbe used for regular healthchecks in schools andcompanies to keep healthyclocks," Akashi said. Thestudy appears August 24in the journal Proceedingsof the National Academy ofSciences.

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Indian researchers haveclaimed that breathingexercises, stretching,relaxation and medita-tion improve heart health. According to theresearchers at IIT-Roorkee in Uttarakhand,heart rate variability, a sign of a healthy heart, hasbeen shown to be higher in yoga practitioners than innon-practitioners. Ramesh Kumar Sunkaria, VinodKumar and Suresh Chandra Saxena of the ElectricalEngineering Department evaluated two small groupsof men in order to see whether yoga can improveheart health. The team said that in their preliminarystudy of 84 volunteers, there was strengthening ofparasympathetic (vagal) control in subjects who regu-larly practice yoga, which is indicative of better auto-nomic control over heart rate and so a healthier heart.They analysed the "HRV spectra" of the electrocardio-grams (ECG) of 42 healthy male volunteers who werenon-yogic practitioners, and 42 who are experiencedpractitioners, all volunteers were aged between 18and 48 years. The spectral analysis of HRV is animportant tool in exploring heart health and the mech-anisms of heart rate regulation, according to the team.

Anew study has indicatedthat a strict diet for twodays a week consisting

solely of vegetables, fruit, milkand a mug of Bovril could pre-vent breast cancer.

Women who cut back to just650 calories a day, twice aweek, had significantly lowerlevels of cancer-causing hor-mones in their blood, the studyfound, reports the Daily Mail.The researchers saidwomen at high risk ofbreast cancer could beput on similar diets forthe rest of their livesto try to preventtumours developing.The study examined50 overweight womenaged 30 to 45 who weredeemed to have a highgenetic risk of developingbreast cancer, as either theirmother or sister had sufferedfrom the disease. For two dayseach week they were limited toeating just a third of the recom-mended 2,000-calorie daily

intake for women. This had toinclude four portions of vegeta-bles, one piece of fruit, twopints of semi-skimmed milk andeither green tea, a diet softdrink or a salty beverage such

as a cup of hot Bovril. For theremainder of the week theywere allowed to eat as muchas they wanted, as long asthey stuck to healthy food thatwas relatively low in fat. After

six months scientists found thatthe women had far less leptinand insulin in their blood – hor-mones that can cause cancer.Leptin fell by an average of 40per cent and insulin by an aver-age of 25 per cent. The womenalso lost an average of a stonein weight and recorded a 15per cent drop in levels of thepotentially harmful C-reactorprotein, which is also known toincrease the risk of breast can-cer, in their blood. Another 50women were put on a diet inwhich they were restricted to1,500 calories every day andtold to avoid sugary foods, fattymeat and excessive alcohol.These women also had fewercancer-causing hormones intheir blood six months later, butinsulin had fallen slightly lessthan in women on the two-day-a-week diet. But the scientistsbehind this latest study believethat the two-day-a- week dietcould be even more effectivethan general dieting. They saythat when the body is deprivedof food the amount of sugarreaching breast cells decreas-es, which may result in themdividing less frequently andturning cancerous. Theresearch was published in theInternational Journal of Obesity.

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25�� November, 2010Life Style

Your profile on Facebook may become acause of worry when looking for a job, asemployers are checking on networking

sites to know more about the people they intendto recruit, a new study claims.

The survey has found that one in 10 wererefused job for boasting about drinking and drugsonline. Similarly, 13 per cent were vetoed formaking racist comments and nine per cent wereoverlooked for placing racy photos. Big Brotheremployers reported the most common mistakethat job seekers made was putting information oftheir qualification on line. A total of 38 per cent ofjob seekers were rejected for boosting up theirqualifications on their resume and then gettingcaught on Facebook. "More employers are nowusing social networking sites to uncover any dig-ital dirt," the Telegraph quoted Career Builderpresident, Farhan Yasin, as saying. He added"Job seekers are urged to be mindful of the infor-mation they post online. They are indirectly com-municating with potential employers. Social net-

working is a great way to make connections withpotential job opportunities in 2010 and to promoteyour brand across the internet. Make sure youare using this resource to your advantage by con-veying a professional image and underscoringyour qualifications. Clean up digital dirt beforeyou begin your job search. Remove any photoscontent, and links that can work against your inan employers' eyes. Consider creating your ownprofessional group on sites like Facebook toestablish relationships with business leaders,recruiters and potential referrals." He advised,"Keep your gripes offline. Keep the content focus-es on the positive, whether that relates to profes-sional or personal information. Make sure youhighlight specific accomplishments inside andoutside work. Don't forget others can see yourfriends, so be selective about who you accept asfriends. Monitor comments made by others andconsider using the block comments feature or setyour profile to private so only designated friendscan view it, he said."

They're young, successfuland live life out of a suit-case. But, once the work

is done, they know how toparty!Aspiffy suit, Berluti shoes

and a glass of bubbly in hand.This is Gaurav Bhatia, luxeexpert and South Bombay boy,who 'lives' and sells cham-pagne in India. He also loves toparty!The new breed of achievers

is not shying away from thePage 3 circuit any more! Adecade ago, there was a madscramble to make a mark onthe social register as designersand other celebs made it to thehottest dos in order to make itto the next day's papers. Butthen, the trend swung and'celebs' disclaimed their'socialite' status. Page 3 wasconsidered a dirty word andassociated more with personalpromotion. Looks like it's allabout to change as smart,savvy, entrepreneurs, CEOs,fashionistas, music expertsand art promoters learn to lettheir hair down after a gruellingweek.With eight years in advertis-

ing on Madison Avenue,Gaurav moved back home toMumbai from New York in 2006before he turned 30 to becomepart of the luxury story in India.With a degree in internationaleconomics and filmmakingfrom the US, he was recentlyinvited to speak at the presti-gious International HeraldTribune Luxury Conference.And the man celebrates lifeand is a total party animal. "Aparty for me is all about fabu-lous conversation, decadentgastronomy, a creative disrup-

tion. It's always a high to meetnew people in a stimulating,enriching and meaningfulspace," says Gaurav, market-ing director, Moët HennessyIndia. She may call herself laid-back, but quick short trips toDubai and longer stays inLondon and New York onceevery three weeks for work,combined with party-hopping,is commonplace for PriyankaChoksi, the daughter of MehulChoksi, chairman and CEO ofGitanjali group. A Bachelor ofArts from Columbia University,she brought t h e A Ja f f ebrand from New York to Indiaand opened a flagship retailstore in Mumbai this year.Besides travelling and discov-ering new places, clubbing withfriends is her idea of chillingout. "I am very clear about mypersonal and professionalgoals. I would like to open newstores, expand my businessand have time to enjoy life,too," says Priyanka.Agrees Kim Verma, director

of marketing - India, SixSenses Resorts & Spas, "Iparty a lot and work a lot. I'mdetermined to have a goodtime when I'm out; I can makeconversation with anyone, any-where and enjoy it too!" Born inEngland, most of her formativeyears were spent at boardingschool in England and thenuniversity in the US. "I lovewhat I do. I travel a lot and amfree to be creative and thinkoutside the box," she signs off.Heads turn when 27-year-

old Akshai Sarin enters a gath-ering, especially when the 6'3"tall music composer spikes hishair that increases his heightby two inches. Being a party

animal is not only his claim tofame. With a decade havingpassed since his first interna-tional album release, musicdirector and composer Akshaiwas shortlisted among India'sTop 20 Young CreativeEntrepreneurs by BritishCouncil and IIM, Bangaloreand nominated for the YoungMusic Entrepreneur of the Year2009 award. Young achieverslike him take frequent tripsabroad, seamlessly combiningbusiness with partying, discov-ering that there's very little dis-tance between the boardroomand the dance floor.For eight hours Monday to

Friday, Kajal Fabiani, enterpris-ing young owner of an Italianfine dining resto lounge,checks accounts, parties,events, food control and hasmeetings with chefs and man-agers. After that, it's time to doher own thing. "Weekend is forpartying and going out. I just letgo and enjoy the moment,"says Kajal. Based on the sim-ple philosophy of savouring thepleasures of life, NikhilAgarwal, director, All ThingsNice, carries his brand philoso-phy into his leisure space aswell. Organising tastings —tea, coffee, beer, cognac,vodka or wine — for a profes-sion, Nikhil enjoys going forelaborate dinners to pubs andbars that have great decor. Hisonly rule: "I don't go to placesthat don't sell beverages at rea-sonable price." There's alsoTushar Sethi, following in thesuccessful tradition of hisfather and chairman of SafsetGroup, Vickram Sethi. Havingexperimented with privatebanking after graduating fromthe prestigious RegentsBusiness School in London,Tushar founded the online por-tal The Arts Trust in 2005 andhas curated over 150 exhibi-tions. Work hard, party harderis Tushar's motto. "I love goingout and try all kinds of cuisines.When in China, I relish exoticdishes like snakes, snails,crocodiles, monkey's brains,"says Tushar. Working hard andpartying harder is definitelyback in vogue!

All eyes are set on United States (US)President Barack Obama and his wifeMichelle Obama — the most important

guests India is currently playing host to.Everyone is bound to talk about Mrs Obama’sflawless style statement. The US First lady,with her impeccable dressing and an ability tomix high street with couture fashion, has giventhe style savvy the much-needed dose offashion democracy. Designer Alpana of Azarasays, “Mrs Obama’s style is interesting — shemakes fashion look so effortless andapproachable. You see her in a J Crew cardi-gan or a high street shift dress, things thatevery stylish woman can aspire for.” The Firstlady is also celebrated in style circles forsome of the trends that she has re-introduced.From her kitten heels to her shift dresses,everything that she has worn, has become arage. We get the experts to talk about some ofthe top trends that Michelle has brought backto the fashion scene.MMIICCHHEELLLLEE OOBBAAMMAADDRREESSSS MMEE UUPP

TREND : SHIFT DRESSESExpert speak: “Michelle Obama has startedthe trend of bright and cheerful shift dresses.Even the floral prints are a big hit. They lookgreat on her and she carries them off verysmartly. Understated and simple shift dresslooks way better than the embellished dress-es,” says designer Falguni Peacock.Get the look: A big day bag looks very goodwith shift dresses. Also, keep the jewellery min-imal; diamond earrings or ring will look great.

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Expert speak: Designer Anupamaa Dayalsays, “Cinch belts are back, thanks to MichelleObama. People think belts were only for thesize zero. But it’s not true. Belts give you adefined and flattering look. They look veryclassy and feminine.”

Get the look: Those who’re skinny,should opt for narrow belts. Curvier onesshould pick up medium-sized belts. Team up

the belt in grey or black with a bright shift dress.TTHHAATT’’SS AA SSTTAATTEEMMEENNTT NNOOWW!!TREND: STATEMENT NECKPIECES

Expert speak: Designer Urvashi Kaur says,“Statement neckpiece is a rage now. Michellecarries them off really well. They look classyand are very eye-catchy. Various mix of stones,metal chains, flower motifs and appliques areused in such necklaces.”Get the look: Keep the dress simple and letthe neckpiece grab the attention. A high hairdolooks great with shift dresses, low cut gownsand one-shoulder dresses, teamed up with thechunky neckpiece.

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Expert speak: “Michelle Obama is very oftenseen in the more practical kitten heels insteadof the fashionistas’ essential high heels. Withher fashion sense, Michelle reiterates the factthat to look good, you don’t necessarily need tofollow the fashion diktats.Get the look: Kitten heels can be worn with fit-ted or skinny jeans, short dresses, bolero andboyfriend jackets. Don’t forget to carry a bigbag with you to get the overall look.

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Expert speak: “Michelle Obama has broughtthe trend of bobs back. She looks stunning inthem. The dresses and one-shoulder gownsshe wears, go very well with her hairstyle,”says make-up and hair expert AngelinaJoseph.Get the look: Bobs look great on those with anoval face. Bobs and A-shaped dresses lookvery nice, as they make you look slim and tall.

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PARIS: Top-rankedRafael Nadal withdrew fromthe Paris Masters on Fridaybecause of a shoulder injurythat will keep him sidelinedfor at least a week. Nadalsaid in an e-mail sent out byhis management team thathe was suffering from "asmall case of tendinitis in myleft shoulder which cameabout through forcing my serve too muchduring training this week." "I am very sorrynot to be able to play the Paris-Bercy tour-nament this year," Nadal said. TheSpaniard said the injury wasn't serious,but that he had been advised by doctorsthat he needed six or seven days rest withintensive rehabilitation treatment. Nadal isscheduled to play in the season-ending

ATP World Tour Finals inLondon between November21-28. The ATP tour saidNadal would still make anappearance at the Paristournament and would dis-cuss his injury further at anews conference in Paris onSunday or Monday. "It'salways a blow for a tourna-ment to lose Nadal," tourna-

ment director Jean-Francois Caujolle said."But we still have nine of the 10 best play-ers in the world and I don't think the tour-nament has been hampered by his with-drawal, even though it would have beenbetter to have him." Nadal recently said hewas feeling some fatigue from a success-ful season in which he won the FrenchOpen, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open.

Ana Ivanovic of Serbia in traditional Balinese outfit holds herchampionship trophy after winning the final at the WTA Bali

Open tennis tournament in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.

A majority of Australian cricket fans ina newspaper poll published Sunday sayAustralia cannot win back the Ashes andwant Shane Warne as the national teamcoach. An online poll of more than 6,000fans conducted by the Sunday Telegraphblame the selectors for Australia's slide tofifth on the Test

rankings and 74% of them believe thatMichael Clarke should not becomeAustralia's next Test captain.

The poll showed that fans have lostfaith in the national team after a run ofseven international defeats in all forms ofcricket. Almost 57% of those polled

believed that Ricky Ponting's team willnot retrieve the Ashes they lost toEngland last year. One fan wrote: "Whata disastrous build-up to the Ashes this isturning out to be," while another said:"Where's our mongrel? We were famousfor it, now we couldn't knock a maggot offa chop." The pessimism comes despitethe fact that England have not won anAshes series in Australia since 1986-87.The poll took a harsh view of the nationalselectors for the current malaise, with90% claiming the panel is not doing agood job, while 68% delivered the samescathing verdict on coach Tim Nielsen.

Almost 48% of fans want former spinking Shane Warne as the coachingreplacement for Nielsen. Warne has beena vocal critic as the Australian team hasbeen in decline since his retirement fromTest cricket in 2007. One-day allrounderCameron White is the preferred optionwith the fans to take over from RickyPonting, 35, when he retires as Test cap-tain, according to the poll.

White has 29% support from the pollto be the next Test skipper, while currentvice-captain Clarke is preferred by 28%.The Ashes series gets underway inBrisbane on November 25.

Less than a month after being lauded for salvagingthe national pride in the wake of the trouble-plagued preparations for the Commonwealth

Games, India's athletes are heading to China carryinggreat expectations for the Asian Games. The monthsleading up to the New Delhi Commonwealth Gameswere marred by security concerns, allegations of cor-ruption and delays in construction of venues that led toa last-minute rush to get things finished.The filthy state of the games village only days

before athletes were due to arrive sparked global criti-cism and calls by some to boycott the event. But thatgalvanized the government and organizers to completepreparations and the mostly successfullyCommonwealth finished with a bang _ India overhauledEngland for second spot behind Australia on themedals table on the final day of competition. The ath-letic performance has raised expectations at home andabroad. Suddenly, the ills of Indian sports administra-tion have been forgotten and the likes of shooter GaganNarang, badminton player Saina Nehwal, wrestlerSushil Kumar and discus thrower Krishna Poonia havebecome household names in India after outstandingperformances in front of home crowds in an event thateven drew some attention away from cricket _ thenational obsession. "The present lot of sports personsis hungry to perform at the international level. You willsee that they will do well in major international compe-titions including the Olympics," said Abhay Chautala,the head of India's delegation to the Asian Games. TheAsian Games are an opportunity to consolidate the per-formances in the Olympic disciplines, which have lan-guished in India for years because of a lack of infras-tructure and sports budget constraints. The unprece-dented $146 million budget provided primarily forpreparation of the Commonwealth Games team isexpected to stand the country in good stead during theAsiad, when the focus will again be on its shooters,wrestlers, weightlifters, boxers, archers and badmintonplayers, who contributed the bulk of India's 101 medalsat New Delhi. At the Doha Asian Games four years ago,

India won 54 medals, including 10 gold, for an eighth-place finish. India has set its sights much higher forGuangzhou. The challenge for athletes is to peak twicein a season and to channel enough energy to the con-tinental event, where the competition will be moreintense in some disciplines. Shooting is one sport werecompetition will be of a higher standard at the AsianGames. "The Asian Games are going to be muchtougher for India with the presence of Chinese andKorean shooters," warned India's national shootingcoach Sunny Thomas, whose team won 30 medals atthe Commonwealth Games, including 14 gold. "But weare improving and are expecting do well with all theexposure in the past few years." India, however, will bewithout some high-profile competitors in Guangzhou.Star wrestler Sushil Kumar has decided to skip theAsian Games due to a niggling shoulder injury after win-ning the World Championship and CommonwealthGames gold medal. "The injury has been troubling mefor the past six months and officials have advised that Iensure the injury does not flare up to jeopardize mychances in the London Olympics two years from now,"the 66-kilogram category freestyle wrestler. India is alsolikely to miss last edition's tennis doubles gold medalwinners Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathy, whiletop chess players Viswanathan Anand and KoneruHumpy are also missing from the Indian team for thegames.

China hoping to controlweather for Asian Games

China . China is armed and ready to stave off a per-cieved threat to the Asian Games: rain. Five planes andmore than 1,000 rockets have been prepared to dispersestorm clouds that threaten the Nov. 12-27 event in thesouthern city of Guangzhou, according to Huang Minhui,spokesman for the provincial meteorological bureau."The weather is usually sunny this time of year, but we'renot taking any chances," Huang told The AssociatedPress in a telephone interview Thursday.Although mostforeign experts consider weather modification an inexactscience at best, Chinese authorities claim to have scoredmajor successes in the field.Its weather modificationarsenal includes 6,781 artillery guns and 4,110 rocketlaunchers dispersed throughout the country to shoot dryice or silver oxide into storm clouds with the aim of mak-ing it rain when and where needed. In particular, Chinesemeteorologists say they succeeded in keeping rain awayfrom the opening ceremonies of the 2008 OlympicGames in the capital Beijing. Yet even Chinese scientistsacknowledge a lack of rigorous testing on the effects ofcloud seeding, and information about the national raincreating program is a tightly kept secret.

Australia can't win back Ashes: fans' poll

Injured Nadal pulls outof Paris Masters

After big focus on Comm Games, India takes on AsiaThe 16the Asian Games will hold 42 com-

petitions during 16 days, including 28Olympic sports and 14 non-Olympic

sports, such as Gymnastics, Taekwondo,Table Tennis, Rowing, Cricket, Volleyball andFootball. Cricket is among the debutant sports,with Dancesport, Dragon Boat, Weiqi andRoller sport added as unique to the Games.Football will be held before the opening cere-mony from 7th November. A total of 476 goldmedals will be awarded during the competitiondays.

November 13: Aquatics (Swimming)Final, Aquatics (Water Polo), Badminton,Baseball, Basketball, Board games (Chess,Chinese Chess), Canoeing (Slalom), Cricket,Cue Sports, Cycling (Track) Final, DancesportFinal, Football, Gymnastics (Artistic) Final,Handball, Hockey, Judo Final, Shooting Final,Soft Tennis, Table Tennis, Tennis, TriathlonFinal, Volleyball (Indoor), Weightlifting Final,Wushu Final

November 14 : Aquatics (Swimming)Final, Aquatics (Water Polo), Badminton,Baseball, Basketball, Board games (Chess),Board games (Chinese Chess), Canoeing(Slalom) Final, Cricket, Cue Sports Final,Cycling (Track) Final, Dance sport Final,Equestrian Final, Football, Gymnastics(Artistic) Final, Handball, Hockey, Judo Final,Rowing, Sailing, Shooting Final, Soft TennisFinal, Table Tennis, Tennis, Triathlon Final,Volleyball (Indoor), Weightlifting Final, WushuFinal

November 15: Aquatics (Swimming)Final, Aquatics (Water Polo), Badminton Final,Badminton Final, Baseball, Basketball, Boardgames (Chess), Board games (ChineseChess), Bowling, Canoeing (Slalom), Cricket,Cue Sports Final, Cycling (Track), Equestrian,Football, Gymnastics (Artistic) Final, Handball,Hockey, Judo Final, Rowing, Sailing, ShootingFinal, Soft Tennis Final, Table Tennis, Tennis,Volleyball (Beach), Volleyball (Indoor),Weightlifting Final, Wushu Final

November 16: Aquatics (Swimming)Final, Aquatics (Water Polo), Badminton,Basketball, Board games (Chess) Final, Boardgames (Chinese Chess), Bowling Final,Boxing, Canoeing (Slalom) Final, Cricket, CueSports Final, Cycling (Track) Final, Football,Gymnastics (Artistic) Final, Handball, Hockey,Judo Final, Rowing, Sailing, Sepaktakraw,

Shooting Final, Soft Tennis, Table Tennis Final,Tennis Final, Volleyball (Beach), Volleyball(Indoor), Weightlifting Final, Wushu Final

November 17 : Aquatics (Swimming)Final, Aquatics (Water Polo) Final, Badminton,Badminton, Baseball, Basketball, Boardgames (Chinese Chess), Bowling, Boxing,Cricket, Cue Sports Final, Cycling (Track)Final, Equestrian Final, Football, Golf,Gymnastics (Artistic) Final, Handball, Hockey,Sailing, Sepaktakraw, Shooting Final, SoftTennis Final, Table Tennis, Taekwondo Final,Tennis, Volleyball (Beach), Volleyball (Indoor),Weightlifting Final, Wushu Final

November 18 : Aquatics (Swimming)Final, Badminton, Baseball, Basketball, Boardgames (Chess), Board games (ChineseChess), Bowling Final, Boxing, Cricket, CueSports Final, Cycling (Mountain Bike) Final,Dragon Boat Final, Equestrian, Fencing Final,Football, Golf, Handball, Hockey, RowingFinal, Sepaktakraw, Shooting Final, SoftTennis, Squash, Table Tennis, TaekwondoFinal, Tennis, Volleyball (Beach), Volleyball(Indoor), Weightlifting Final

November 19 : Aquatics (SynchronizedSwimming) Final, Aquatics (Water Polo),Archery, Badminton Final, Baseball Final,Basketball, Board games (Chess), Boardgames (Chinese Chess) Final, Bowling,Boxing, Cricket Final, Cue Sports Final,Cycling (BMX) Final, Dragon Boat Final,Equestrian, Fencing Final, Golf, Handball,Hockey, Rowing Final, Sailing, Sepaktakraw,Shooting Final, Softball, Soft Tennis Final,Squash, Table Tennis Final, Taekwondo Final,Tennis, Volleyball (Beach), Volleyball (Indoor),Weightlifting Final

November 20 : Aquatics (SynchronizedSwimming) Final, Aquatics (Water Polo),Archery, Badminton Final, Basketball, Boardgames (Chess), Board games (Weiqi),Bowling, Boxing, Cricket, Cue Sports Final,Cycling (Road) Final, Dragon Boat Final,Equestrian Final, Fencing Final, Football, GolfFinal, Handball, Hockey, Sailing Final,Sepaktakraw Final, Softball, Squash, TableTennis Final, Taekwondo Final, Tennis,Volleyball (Beach), Volleyball (Indoor)

November 21 : Aquatics (SynchronizedSwimming) Final, Aquatics (Water Polo),Archery Final, Athletics Final, Badminton Final,Basketball, Board games (Chess), Board

games (Weiqi), Bowling Final, Boxing, Cricket,Fencing Final, Football, Gymnastics(Trampoline), Handball, Hockey, Rugby,Sailing Final, Shooting Final, Softball, SquashFinal, Tennis, Volleyball (Beach), Volleyball(Indoor), Wrestling Final

November 22 : Aquatics (Diving) Final,Aquatics (Water Polo), Archery Final, AthleticsFinal, Basketball, Board games (Chess),Board games (Weiqi) Final, Bowling Final,Boxing, Canoeing (Sprint), Cricket, Cycling(Road) Final, Equestrian Final, Fencing Final,Football, Gymnastics (Trampoline) Final,Handball, Hockey, Kabaddi, Rugby,Sepaktakraw, Softball, Squash, Tennis Final,Volleyball (Beach), Volleyball (Indoor),Wrestling Final

November 23 : Aquatics (Diving) Final,Aquatics (Water Polo), Archery Final, AthleticsFinal, Board games (Chess), Board games(Weiqi), Bowling, Canoeing (Sprint), Cricket,Cycling (Road) Final, Fencing Final, Football,Handball, Hockey, Kabaddi, ModernPentathlon Final, Roller Sports Final, RugbyFinal, Sepaktakraw, Shooting Final, Softball,Squash, Tennis Final, Volleyball (Beach) Final,Volleyball (Indoor), Wrestling Final

November 24 : Aquatics (Diving) Final,Archery Final, Athletics Final, Basketball,Board games (Chess), Board games (Weiqi),Bowling Final, Boxing, Cricket, EquestrianFinal, Football Final, Handball, Hockey Final,Kabaddi, Karate Final, Modern PentathlonFinal, Sepaktakraw Final, Shooting Final,Squash, Volleyball (Beach) Final, Volleyball(Indoor), Wrestling Final

November 25 : Aquatics (Diving) Final,Aquatics (Water Polo) Final, Athletics Final,Basketball Final, Board games (Chess), Boardgames (Weiqi), Boxing Final, Canoeing(Sprint) Final, Cricket, Football Final,Gymnastics (Rhythmic) Final, Handball,Hockey Final, Kabaddi, Karate Final,Sepaktakraw, Softball, Squash Final,Volleyball (Indoor), Wrestling Final

November 26 : Aquatics (Diving) Final,Athletics Final, Basketball Final, Board games(Chess) Final, Board games (Weiqi) Final,Boxing Final , Canoeing (Sprint) Final, CricketFinal, Gymnastics (Rhythmic) Final, HandballFinal, Kabaddi Final, Karate Final,Sepaktakraw, Softball Final, Volleyball (Indoor)Final, Wrestling Final

November 27 : Athletics Final,Sepaktakraw Final, Volleyball (Indoor) Final,Closing Ceremony

SPORTS AND SCHEDULE ASIAN GAMES

STAR AGE/ 27�� November, 2010

ARIES

March-21to

April-20

TAURUS

April-21to

May-20

You will be putting your best diplo-matic foot forward. If you are tryingto sell anything, charm will be yourgreatest asset. You need to re-thinksome of your personal beliefs andfind a different perspective on yourlife. If you are involved in heated dis-cussions, treat them as a challengewhich will help you see which ofyour views needs to be refined.

GEMINI

May-21to

June-21

CANCER

June-22to

July-23

Your ability to sparkle in the spotlightis certainly attracting a stream of com-pliments and new admirers. Todayyou will be flirting, having fun, and try-ing to duck out of boring chores asmuch as possible. But you aren’t tak-ing your feelings lightly now. You areon people or off them, either adoringor loathing. There’s no middle way.

LEO

July-24to

August-23

Venus, planet of love, is in yourhouse of family matters, so addingelegant touches to your intimate sur-roundings is a top priority. Havingbeauty around will make you feelhappier. Looking after your health is apriority since you do feel pressuredby demands on your time which canbe draining on your energy reserves.

VIRGO

August-24to

September-23

LIBRA

September-24to

October-22

You have a taste for what is fine andelegant. If your extravagances look likeoutrunning your budget then turn yourcreative skills to earning more money.All it takes is imagination and effort.Then you can afford a good many moretreats. You are in one of your periodicupheavals at home, trying to clear outwhatever you feel is blocking you.

SCORPIO

October-23to

November-22

Venus, planet of love, is in your ownsign for a while so admirers will notbe in short supply. You will be wearingyour heart on your sleeve, expressingyour feelings of affection. But you canbe a touch too forceful in expressingyourself and may get into argumentsbecause of your inability to take in theother person’s point of view.

SAGITTARIUS

November-23to

December-22

CAPRICOM

December-23to

Januar-20

This is an emotionally light-heartedtime when you will want to have agang of buddies around you. You willbe spreading your social favours in alldirections, not tying yourself down atany point. Safety in numbers will beyour motto. You are coming across asa strong personality, but secretive andunfathomable as well.

AQUARIES

January-21to

February-19

If you have creative talents you shouldbe making the effort to get them out ondisplay to best advantage. You can turnyour dreams into reality if you find theself-discipline. You are having quite aprofound influence on the peoplearound you because the strength ofyour personality. Maybe you arestronger than you give yourself creditfor.

PISCES

February-20to

March-20

There is nothing light hearted aboutyour romantic life. Because Venusin sitting in the hidden area of yourchart you want more drama thanusual — a grand passion — orparadoxically you could be shuttingoff your emotional needs altogether.You are wary that if you open up towhat you really want it could bringup uncomfortable feelings.

Maybe you are being too analyticalabout your feelings, standing back todissect them rather than plunging intoemotional situations. Is there some-thing you are not admitting to yourself?Pluto around in the deepest area ofyour chart sometimes makes yourepress your stronger feelings becauseyou are wary of letting go of control.

Thoughtful gestures from everydaycompanions are making you feelappreciated. You are discovering thatyou don’t have to move far from yournormal routines to find affection. Itmay not be grand passion but it ispleasant. You have ambitions to besomeone grand so use your talents toachieve and you will gain the statusyou seek.

Love may not come as easilybecause you are sensitive to rejection.You would shut yourself away than letyour feelings be seen. But don’t letopportunities for romance slide bybecause you can’t speak out aboutwhat you need. You are developing areal capacity for managing money butyou have to watch that you don’t over-spending.

Socially charming, you want to mixwith a wider range of people andexplore new leisure activities. Youwant to be out of your normal rut tofind companions who will stretch yourmind as well as keep you entertained.If you are thinking of throwing a partyyou will want it to be flamboyant orwith a foreign theme.

VVAASSTTUU MMAANNDDAALLAAVastu is a composite whole or

professional blend of five elements --Earth, Water, Ether, Air and Fire.Their equitable proportions createbioelectric magnetic energy, whichbestows health, wealth and prosperi-ty. Vastu Shastra is a scientific struc-tural design principle and is theprime method for synchronizing yourstructure with nature. Vastu Shastrais based on the forces and elementsof nature. Vastu harnesses positiveenergies and vibrations within homesand commercial work premises,which leads to an atmosphere &environment of absolute harmony,peace, good health and success.Our ancient sages and commonersfor building homes, temples, andcities keenly practiced the path ofadaptation of Vastu Principles. Thishas gained momentum in modern

times. According to theVishwakarma, the celestial architect,Lord Brahma was the first recepientof this knowledge from Lord Shiva asa part of the Vedas, just like Hereceived the knowledge of Jyotish.Vaastu Shastra as is practisedpresently is based on the 125 versescontained in Brihat Samhita ofVarahamihira. This very point indi-cates the vital link between Jyotishand Vaastu. Unfortunately, what thestandard Vaastu experts are applyingtoday is the use of temple architec-ture in homes and offices. There is aneed to use the Astakavarga andother charts of Vedic Astrology alongwith Vaastu principles for every indi-vidual home, provided this is to bedesigned for a particular person tooccupy for a long period. If insteadflats and apartments are beingdesigned for the general public, thenthe standard principles can be used.

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VVaassttuuVVaassttuu iiss tthhee aanncciieenntt IInnddiiaann ttrraaddiittiioonn ooff aarrcchhiitteeccttuurree.. TThhee wwoorrdd VVaassttuurreeffeerrss ttoo aa sshheelltteerr,, eeiitthheerr ffoorr tthhee sseellff oorr ddeeiittyy.. VVaaaassttuu SShhaassttrraa mmeeaannsstthhee sscciieennccee ((sshhaassttrraa)) ooff ccoonnssttrruuccttiioonn ooff aa VVaaaassttuu.. VVaassttuu iinn SSaannsskkrriittmmeeaannss nnaattuurree,, aa ssuurrrroouunnddiinngg oorr eennvviirroonnmmeenntt.. TThhee wwoorrdd ""VVaaaasstthhuu""ccaammee ffrroomm VVaasstthhuu -- rreepprreesseenntt aannyytthhiinngg eexxiissttiinngg ee..gg.. hhoouussee,, bbuuiillddiinngg

eettcc.. SShhaassttrraa iinn SSaannsskkrriitt mmeeaannss SSyysstteemmss oorr KKnnoowwlleeddggee..

The Supreme Being is Karta Purakh,the Creator, transcendent and All-pervasive. Creation is His manifes-

tation. "True is He and true is HisCreation, All has emanated from GodHimself", says fifth Sikh Guru Arjan.Nature has all attributes of its Creator.Vaheguru, the wondrous Master, is thedata or giver as well as karta or doer.Nature is but His creation and cosmicplay. Nature teaches us humility. You arehumble when you are satisfied with your-self, your life and the world around. In allreligions, humility is regarded as the firststep towards Self-realisation. Lack ofhumility leads to 'haumai' the feeling 'iam', that is, ahankar, egoism or self-cen-tredness which is considered not only asan inner disease but as root cause of allevil impulses. A man full of haumai orego, manmukh, is oblivious of the inter-ests of others. He asserts his own needs,and this makes him selfish and arrogant,separating him from other humanbeings. Guru Nanak, the founder of theSikh faith, gives the example of a Simaltree which is very tall, symbolising anarrogant man, but this tree bears no edi-ble fruit, and so is of no use to other life.He says, "The Simal tree is tall andstraight/ But if one comes to it with hopeof gain, what will one get?/ Its fruit iswithout taste, Its flowers have no fra-grance/ Its leaves are of no use/ ONanak, humility and sweetness are theessence of virtue and goodness/ Readilydo we all pay homage to ourselves,/Before others we refuse to bow."

Haumai is a major block in the way ofrealisation since it is not compatible withthe practice of simran or remembering

the Lord's Name, the two cannot coexist.What is the way out, then? How to get ridof ego, the biggest hurdle to spiritualdevelopment? The first step is to realiseand acknowledge the presence andpower of God. Compared to the vastnessand scope of God and His Creation whatwe are, but tiny specks on the Creationcanvas? Guru Nanak regards Nature asboth the manifestation and abode ofGod.

He feels the presence of theSupreme Being in every object of Naturehills, mountains, valleys and oceans.Nature is a source of joy and peace. Hesays, "In Nature we see the Lord/ InNature we hear His speech/ Natureinspires the divine awe/ In Nature is theessence of joy and peace." Guru Nanakreminds us that each one of them is an

embodiment of the divine light, which Heagain explains with reference to Nature,"The drop of water is in the sea,/ And thesea is in the drop of water, who shallsolve the riddle?" Man is, therefore, apart of Nature and God, his goal being tomerge in Him. A journey from being amanmukh or ego-centric person to a gur-mukh or God-oriented one liberates youfrom ahankara or ego and all suffering.Gurmukh meditates upon Nam orSabda, bani in the form of kirtan, livinglife as a householder, earning an honestlivelihood and sharing it with others.Therefore, it is not surprising that com-munity service is at the very core ofSikhism, entirely relevant in currenttimes. October 20 is the day of the instal-lation of the Guru Granth Sahib as theEternal Guru.

IN HARMONY WITH NATURE

28 �� November, 2010

PPRRAAVVEEEENN CCHHAANNDDRRAA &&SSAARRAASS CCHHAANNDDRRAA

The hot morning sun filtered throughthe dusty humid Suva air as I parkedthe rental car opposite the Fiji

Broadcasting Commission building inCarnavon Street. Walking down the streetat 8:30 A.M. on Monday 8th January 2001was like a homecoming. I had spent anumber of years working in Suva and hadmany a memorable memory of this oncebubbling city. But today the city lookedalmost alien, ruptured and bleeding fromtheturbulence of the last fourteen years.The people walked along the street-silentand resigned. Had Suva changed somuch? Perhaps I had been away too long,having migrated to Brisbane, Australia on14 June 1987 – exactly one month afterthe first military coup in Fiji. I walkedtowards the old Parliament building insearch of the National Archives only to betold by a civil servant that I was headed inthe wrong direction. I turned back and

leaving my car behind walked to thecity end of Carnavon Street and found thewhite concrete double storey building sotypical of government offices in Fiji.

A strange feeling of anticipation over-whelmed me as I entered the building. Atlast I, of all my relatives, was doing some-thing concrete about tracing my ancestryback to India. What will I find? Will I findanything? And yet the thought of trying tofind records relating to family long depart-ed was itself astounding. Records writtenand forms filled by officials for personsstanding silently before them. The person Iwould start with was my paternal greatgrandfather, Baijnath.

All I knew for certain was that mygrandfather had come from India as anindentured labourer and was living inVitogo, Lautoka when he was convictedand hanged for murder he may not havecommitted. I was not even certain of anydates. I knew that my father was born in1919. Also it was generally believed thatmy grandfather was born in Fiji in 1900 or1899 and was about 13 years old when hisfather was hanged. That was all we knewabout in my great grandfather’s short life inFiji.

At the Archives, I told the girl on theground floor of the reason for my visit. Sheasked if I knew Baijnath’s father’s name,the year of his emigration and the name ofthe ship he came to Fiji in. No, I did not, Itold her. Then it would be extremely diffi-cult to find anything, she said. Was this theend of my journey? The girl must havenoticed my distress; she went away andreturned with a book. It was about an inchthick, A4 size and had the letter B writtenon its spine. She then asked me to com-plete an application to doresearch andtook me to the main library upstairs beforehanding me the book she had brought.This book, she told me, contained a list ofall persons whose names started with theletter “B” who came to Fiji from India underthe indenture system.

I sat down at a desk. At least the officewas air-conditioned - the morning heat ofthe city had begun to choke me. Therewere a few other people engaged inresearch in addition to two very lethargiclooking clerks. My car! I remembered that Ihad it at a parking meter which was aboutto expire. I rushed out, moved my car intothe Morris Hedstrom car part and returnedto the cool comfort of the Archives library. Ithumbed through the pages of the book Ihad been given until finally Baijnath! Butthere were forty-four Baijnaths! Each hadhis father’s name, name of ship and dateof arrival against his name. All but two alsohad the emigration pass numbers listed. Acold sweat broke out on my face. FortyfourBaijnaths! How was I to find out which one

was my ancestor? I went to ask the clerk ifI could see the forty-two emigration pass-es only to find that the offices were closingfor lunch. Despite the sweltering heat out-side, I went out to do some shopping. Ireturned an hour later - my shirt wet withperspiration and my mind almost numb atthe prospect of the task ahead. At myrequest, the clerk brought about twenty-two emigration passes. I sat down andstarted looking through the sheets - namesof people, places, ships and ports. I felt asense of sadness going through the pass-es. The passes before me had belonged topeople who long ago had left their mother-land and ventured into the unknown. Mymind conjured up images of their facesand the hardships they suffered exiled andin virtual slavery in a remote and hostilecorner of the earth. But which one of thesewas my great grandfather?

What meagre information I had aboutmy ancestor was of no help. I started byeliminating those who had arrived in Fijiafter 1900. This left me with about fournames and a sinking feeling that I hadreached the end of my unfruitful journey. Itwas now past four in the afternoon, and asI waited for the remainder of the emigrationpasses to be brought to me, a man cameup and spoke to me. I had noticed himdoing research since the morning. A slight-ly older, but fit looking, man with fair com-plexion, wearing black plasticframedspec-tacles. He asked me if I was searching forthe records of my ancestors. I said yes andbriefly told him what little I had been ableto find. He said that the history of theindentured labourers was one of the fieldshe had done a lot of work on. Then itdawned on me! “You are Dr Ahmed Ali, thefamous academic and former politician!”, Isaid. He smiled and then said, "Do not loseheart, we will find the records, but firstly donot rely solely on this alphabetical list thatyou are consulting, it has a lot of errors".

I was overjoyed. Dr Ali told me that hehad come to know the system as well asany of the staff at the archives. He askedthe clerks to bring the first volumes of theShips' Registers and the Death Registers.The first column of the pages of the DeathRegisters would have the name of the per-son and last column would have the causeof death of the person. Our first task wouldbe to find a Baijnath whose cause of deathwas hanging. The Ships’ Registers, on theother hand, gave a list of all persons whocame from India, in chronological order. Athis suggestion I started with the first vol-ume of the Death Register. The officeclosed at 4:30 in the afternoon. Dr Ali saidhe was going to be in the office after 11:00the next day. He seemed as interested inmy search as I was.

The next day, Tuesday 9 January, Iwent to Nausori to do some shoppingbefore coming into the Archives library inSuva. It was about 10:30 in the morning. Icontinued perusing the first volume of theDeath Register and also asked the clerkfor the second volume. Dr Ali came in ataround 11:00 and enquired about myefforts. I told him I had not found anyBaijnath who had been hanged. Heencouraged me to persevere as we hadnot finished looking at all the available doc-uments. It had started to rain and as I satat the desk I felt tired and disheartened.And yet as I ran my fingers across thepages of the death register, a strange feel-ing descended upon me.The large regis-ters with entries beautifully handwritten inred and black ink told of events of longago. Again I started thinking about the livesof people who had come to work and die in

a strange hostile land. I finished the firstvolume and with the hope of success slow-ly fading away, started on the second.

At about midday I found it. Baijnath -judicial hanging - hanged at Suva Goal -17/3/1913. The next three entries had thesame comment in the last column of therecords. Rajkumar Singh, Kallu, Houbaalso had judicial hanging against theirnames. A sudden bolt of electric thrill shotthrough my whole body. I was overjoyed.At last I was looking at records on my greatgrandfather. I called Dr Ali who was equal-ly excited. I noted the emigration passnumbers of the four and asked the clerksto get them for me. There

was also a file reference number onthe last column, 1720/1913. Dr Ali said thatthat would be the reference number for thefiles of the court case. He asked the clerksfor these files as well. The office closed forlunch. I came back about 2:30 P.M. soakedby the rain and sweat. Good and bad newsawaited me. The Emigration Passes wereavailable but the case files were not. I putin a request for the Emigration Passes tobe photocopied. Dr Ali came up with anoth-er scheme for finding more about the case.He asked for the Fiji Times of 1913 to bebrought out and asked me to go throughthe thick folder. I went through the volumeslabouriously looking for reports of a murderand hanging but did not have any success.When the office closed at 4:30, Dr Ali toldme that he would be in again at 8:30 thenext morning. On Wednesday 10thJanuary I came in early. Dr Ali came a littlelater and with a smile on his face told methat there were in fact two newspapers in1913 - the other one being “The WesternPacific Herald”. He had the 1913 volume ofthese brought for me to search through. Atabout ten I struck gold again. I could notbelieve my luck and silently thanked thegovernment for establishing the archives.Monday February 24, 1913 carried a storyof the case and sentencing. Dr Ali and Iwere both excited. I had already obtainedthe copies of the four Emigration Passes. Irequested a photocopy of the newspaperarticle. There was something that puzzledme - the case in the newspaper only men-tioned three people Baijnath, RajkumarSingh and Kallu. Who was Houba and whywas he hanged? I had been so excited bymy find that I had failed to notice the reportof a murder case on the same page of theold newspaper. Had I done so I would havefound out that, although the four werehanged at the same time the last personwas hanged for a different murder thattook place in Rakiraki. I decided that Iwould be happy with the EmigrationPasses and the newspaper article andwould leave for Lautoka after lunch. Dr Alialso left for home but said that he would try

and get the case file for me. I gave him myBrisbane address, got copies of the emi-gration passes and the newspaper cuttingand, at about noon, went downstairs to saygoodbye to the girl who had helped me.When she saw me she said, "I have foundthe case files for you". I was overjoyed; aperson could only take so much good for-tune in a day. She gave me three files thatI took up to the library to study. The filescontained all the relevant details of thecase: names, statements, a sketch of thecrime scene, three death warrants and apetition signed by a number of villagersrequesting a pardon for the accused men.The murdered man was Ramsamuj andthe three men hanged for his murder wereBaijnath, Rajkumar Singh and Kallu. Mostimportantly I found a copy of a submissionmade to the Governor of Fiji by one of thedefence lawyers, Reginald Berkeley, inwhich he claimed that the guilty verdictwas reached on circumstantial and fabri-cated evidence from unreliable witnesses.I postponed my decision to leave forLautoka the next day and asked for photo-copies of the files. I also extracted the emi-gration passes of the murdered man, hisfather and his mother. He had come to Fijiwith his parents in 1900 at the age of eight.And so after about fifteen dollars in parkingfees, a few dollars in photocopying fees,almost three full days of research and a lotof help from Dr Ahmed Ali, my search in Fijifor records of one of my ancestors hadended. Or had it? I still had to study thecase files in detail to determine the fair-ness of the trial and to ascertain whetherthe persons executed were in fact guilty ofthe murder. More importantly I had to try tofind out if I could trace my long lost rela-tives in India. Over the next few months Iread and re-read the case files and tried torecall what little was discussed at homeand in our village during the 1950s and1960s about the fate of my great grandfa-ther. At home the topic was mentionedoccasionally - not with any sense of shameor disdain butwith the feeling that a greatinjustice had been done. The real murder-er had escaped justice. My paternal grand-mother was the person most willing toshare her knowledge of the affair with us.She would have been in here early teensat the time of the execution. The culprit,everyone seemed to believe withoutdoubt, was a person named Bahraichi,who had lived in our village of Vitogo inLautoka. Bahraichi had killed, as he hadon a few other occasions, purely for themoney Ramsamuj was carrying with himthat fateful night. As children in the 1950s,we were petrified at the mere mention ofBahraichi’s name. Nothing struck morefear in our hearts as his name. “I will giveyou away to Bahraichi”, children who weretold by their mothers. “Bahraichi passedthis way today”, people, especially women,would tell one another – relieved that apotential danger had passed. The veryname “Bahraichi” to us came to mean acold-blooded killer who, for some mysteri-ous reason, seemed immune from prose-cution no matter how solid the evidenceagainst him. Whether he got his aliasbecause he was from Bahraich in India orbecause of an epithet became immaterial.His real name is still a mystery. I rememberseeing Bahraichi on a few occasions.During an Indian wedding once I saw ashort, slim grey-haired man in khakitrousers and light coloured shirt, sittingalone on a chair. He looked to be in his six-ties, quiet, and seemed unaffected by thefestive atmosphere around him. A smallgroup of young boys came to me and said,

“Do you see that man? He is Bahraichi. Hehas killed many people!” One of the boyseven dared another to go up and touch theman. On other occasions, people pointedout Bahraichi to us as he went on his wayat a distance. An element of silent mysterysurrounded the man. By the time wereached our adolescent years, Bahraichiseemed to have moved away from Vitogo.Out of sight, out of mind. People nowtalked even less about him. His murderousexploits became topics discussed only onrare occasions. Information on Bahraichitherefore remained sketchy. A lot of what isknown is supposed to have come fromBahraichi himself. People recounted howin the earlier days, the killer would tell hisfriends in great detail how he carried outhis crimes. He would recount his plan andits execution after each case was closed.Was this due to a secret urge in him to tellthe truth because the authorities could notfind the killer and sometimes ended upprosecuting innocent people, or simplydue to his arrogance, is difficult to tell.Based on these stories, as well as her ownknowledge, my grandmother once told mebrief details of each man Bahraichi hadkilled. It added up to four or five murders.

One was the murder of a poor farmerButru (real name not known) and his wife.As a sideline business Butru used to pro-duce coconut oil and sell the bottled oil inthe market. He would spend months col-lecting coconuts and then go through thelaborious task of producing the oil andwhen he had made a dozen or so bottles,he would sell them at the Lautoka\ market.The story of these two murders wasspread around the village by Bahraichi’sown confession to his few close mateslong after the deed. It so happened thatBahraichi was at the market that fatefulSaturday when Butru was selling his oil.Business was good that day and Butru hadmade quite a profit that day. Bahraichinoticed this and in the evening went toButru’s house. Butru, being a simple hos-pitable fellow invited Bahrachi to stay fordinner not knowing that he was inviting hisown death and the death of his wife. Thecouple had no children. After dinner,Bahraichi and the couple talked until it wasquite late and Bahraichi was given bed-dings in a corner of the small house andinvited to sleep over. In the early hours ofthe morning Bahraichi got up, took Butru’saxe from its usual place of storage andkilled the couple in cold blood. He thencalmly took all the money and any otherpossessions of value that the couple hadand quitely slipped out of the house. Noone was ever arrested and prosecuted forthe crime. The other murder that Bahraichimay have commited was the murder ofRamsamujh for which my great grandfa-ther, Baijnath, and two of his

friends were hanged.The year was 1912. A large number of

girmitiyas lived in Vitogo and Vakabuli -two villages outside Lautoka town. InVitogo, sharing the border with Vakabuli,lived Baijnath, Yaro, Chotkai, Samdhani,Rajkumar Singh, Kallu and Janki.Samdhani was living on Baijnath’s land.Seorattan, lived in Vakabuli. He had a 20-year old son, Ramsamujh, who worked forthe Colonial Sugar Refining (CSR)Company. Rajkumar Singh’s sister,Lachminia, was married to Yaro.Ramsamujh had recently run away withLachminia to the neighbouring town of Ba.But soon afterwards, Lachminia’s husbandYaro and Ramsamujh’s father Seorattanwent to Ba and persuaded the couple toreturn to Lautoka. Ramsamujh now lived inthe CSR lines in Lautoka town.

(To be Countinue...)

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