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NEWS DIGEST

I-T dept searches atNagarjuna’s home

The income taxdepartmentconducted searchesat the residencesand offices ofseveral Telugu filmpersonalities, includ-ing actor Nagarjuna,

in Hyderabad on Wednesday. P 11

HC takes note of CM’s statement: TheMadras high court has taken note of areport which quoted TN chief minister M Karunanidhi as saying that stepsinitiated by the Election Commission tocheck poll expenditure and ensure fairelections were “excessive”. P 5

New post-study work rules in UK: TheUK Border Agency’s regional director,Chris Dix, has said that students going tothe UK for a degree would no longer beallowed a two-year timeline to look forjob opportunities after their course ends.The tier-I (post-study work) route wouldbe closed from April 2012. P 9

Concern over radiation in Tokyo tapwater: A spike in radiation levels in tapwater in Tokyo spurred new fears aboutfood safety on Wednesday as risingblack smoke forced another evacuationof workers trying to stabilize Japan’sradiation-leaking nuclear plant. P 16

Nato flotilla starts patrol off Libya’scoast: Nato warships started patrollingoff Libya’s coast on Wednesday toenforce the United Nations armsembargo, as the alliance appeared set toassume responsibility for the no-fly zoneover the North African nation to protectits civilians. P 16

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Life is all aboutplanting trees for

others: BuffettAsha Rai & Vinay Kamat | TNN

Bangalore: On the second dayof his maiden India trip onWednesday, Warren Buffett spenta busy day which started with abrief chat with Karnataka chiefminister B S Yeddyurappa be-fore a factory visit to the onlyBuffett investment in India,TaeguTec India, a high-end tool-ing company. After addressingemployees and planting a tree,it was time for a meeting withcity CEOs. He then left for NewDelhi. In the midst of his packedday, the ‘Oracle of Omaha’ alsospoke exclusively to TOI.

EXCERPTS� We noticed that when youwere planting the tree, therewas a different Warren Buf-fett, different from the per-sona of an investor or a phi-lanthropist. You seemed toopen up in a different way?

Well, I like to think that Iopen up even otherwise (laughs).But part of life is to plant treesthat other people will sit under.Somebody planted a tree for me

long ago in the form of an edu-cational institution and I sat un-der that tree, metaphorically.Same thing happened in onearea after another in my life. So,life is about planting trees thatother people sit under.� The chairman of Infosys,N R Narayana Murthy, talksof compassionate capitalism.Is philanthropy going to bethe compassionate side ofcapitalism?

I think philanthropy shouldbe part of humanity. I don’t re-late it to capitalism or to thebusiness. When you have every-thing that you possibly couldneed yourself and other peopleneed what you have that is ofno use to you and has enormoususe to them, I think you need todo something about it.� Philanthropy till now haslargely been an individual ef-fort. As it becomes bigger itmight become an institu-tional effort with its own sys-tems, processes, checks andbalances. Will it take awayfrom the spontaneity of theindividual effort?

No, I don’t think so. What weare encouraging is more indi-vidual effort. We are not askingpeople to join us or to give towhat we believe in. We are en-couraging people to enjoy giv-ing and do it their own way. Theycan do it when they want, withwhom they want. Maybe theycan learn from each other. I havelearnt from other people I havemet. It’s not designed to cen-tralize anything. It’s designed toencourage people individuallyand in their families to do thethings we found so enjoyable.

‘I look at people’, P 17

INVESTING FOR THE FUTURE:Warren Buffet planting a saplingin Bangalore on Wednesday

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Chennai: Kanchi Sankaracharya Jayen-dra Saraswati on Wednesday did some-thing that he does several times a day, butthis time he had politicians sitting up andtaking notice. Lighting a traditional lampin Chennai, the seer officially launched aparty, the Tamil Nadu Desiya AanmigaMakkal Katchi (Tamil Nadu National Spir-itual People’s Party), under the aegis ofthe Kanchi Sankara Math.

The pontiff holds no post in the party;Avadi Ravichandran, a businessman as-sociated with the Kanchi Math, is desig-nated the founder-leader. The party, forthe time being, has no plans to contestpolls, but it does have a manifesto: A lawbanning religious conversions, anotherto ban cow slaughter and the shifting ofadministrative powers over temples fromthe government to private organizations.

‘To fight all evils’, P 10

Kanchi seer launchesSpiritual People’s Party

‘Batcha’sdriver fledwith `6cr’

A Selvaraj | TNN

Chennai: Sadhick Batcha’sdriver had escaped with `6crore from his car last Augu-st, his widow Reha Banu toldcops probing the suicide offormer Union telecom min-ister A Raja’s aide on Wed-nesday, according to policesources. Police quoted RehaBanu as saying that Batcha,who was found dead onMarch 16, was upset afterdriver Salim disappearedwith the money but preferrednot to file a police complaint.

The probe revealed thatBatcha spoke to a friendcalled Subbudu (Subraman-ian) 40 times on the day be-fore he allegedly took his life.

‘Trusted his driver’, P 10

Josy Joseph | TNN

New Delhi: An Army court ofinquiry (CoI) has found twoformer Army chiefs, GenDeepak Kapoor and Gen N CVij, responsible, among sever-al other senior Army officers,responsible for the Adarshhousing society scam.

The CoI probing the scam,which was exposed by TheTimes of India, has said thatthe conduct of several topArmy officers — among themthe two ex-Army chiefs, fourLieutenant Generals and threeMajor Generals — was “blame-worthy”. This the first timethat so many top Army offi-cers have been indicted by anArmy court.

Apart from Gen Kapoorand Gen Vij, others black-balled by the CoI include LtGen G S Sihota, Lt Gen P KRampal, Lt Gen ShantanuChoudhry, Lt Gen TejinderSingh, Maj Gen Ram KanwarHooda, Maj Gen A R Kumar,Major Gen V S Yadav and MajGen Tej Kishen Kaul.

The CoI report was recent-ly submitted to the defence

ministry. The Army has rec-ommended that the CentralBureau of Investigation beasked to look into specific ev-idence established by the CoIagainst the officers, most ofwhom are retired.

Three serving officersfound “blame-worthy” wouldface punishment, most likelyadministrative action such asloss of seniority, sources said.

The possibility of a full-fledged court-martial is beingruled out for now.

The Army had constituteda three-member CoI in Decem-ber last year at Pune, the head-quarters of the Southern ArmyCommand, in the wake of TOI’sexpose of senior Army officerswho overlooked objections or

played along with the lead play-ers of the housing scam and re-ceived apartments in the up-scale Mumbai complex.

The senior-most serving of-ficer figuring in the list ofthose against whom prima fa-cie evidence has been found bythe CoI is Major Gen Ram Kan-war Hooda, who was the Gen-eral Officer Commanding, Ma-harashtra, Gujarat and Goa,until a few months ago.

Gen Hooda owns at leastone flat in the Adarsh complex.The Army headquarters hasalready taken him off the listof those to be considered forthe next rank. He is to retirethis month-end. He could alsobe summoned for further dis-ciplinary action, sources said.

Top Officers‘Responsible’

For AdarshSociety Muddle

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New Delhi: In a fierce and bitter deba-te on the alleged bribing of MPs dur-ing UPA-1’s July 2008 trust vote overthe nuclear deal, the government gotthe better of the opposition, arguingthat graft charges were unproven andaccusing the BJP of mastermindingthe cash-for-votes operation.

Anticipating that the main oppo-sition would train its guns on Prime MinisterManmohan Singh over his claim that no onefrom the Congress or the government broke thelaw, the government said it was the BJP’s desireto destabilize UPA-1 that motivated a TV sting.

The PM chose offence as his weapon. Leav-ing the nitty-gritty of the government’s defence

to his colleagues Pawan Bansal, KapilSibal and P Chidambaram, he hit outat the weak link in the BJP’s Wikileaksoffensive — a cable in which saffronveteran L K Advani assured the US thatthe BJP, contrary to its opposition tothe nuclear deal, would not junk theagreement if it came to power.

Advani’s chat with a US diplomatbefore the May 2009 election result sawthe PM remark, “The opposition party,

right from 2004, adopted the attitude that wewere an usurper. Advaniji believes that beingthe PM was his birthright... And, therefore, hehas never forgiven me. All that I can say is —please wait for another three-and-a-half years.”

Advantage government, P 10

Govt gets the better of oppn indebate on cash-for-vote scam

FOR THE PEOPLE: Jayendra Saraswatiblessing Menaka Gandhi at the party’slaunch in Chennai on Wednesday

Protest by Cong cadres

Y outh Congress activists burnt an effigyof TNCC president K V Thangkabalu in

Chennai, protesting against the exclusion offormer Chennai deputy mayor R ‘Karate’ Th-iagarajan from the list of candidates. Theycriticised Thangkabalu for getting his wifeJayanthi picked for the Mylapore seat. P 4

GET OPENERS EARLY | Hard-hittingopening pair of Shane Watson andBrad Haddin are crucial for Australia.Look to dismiss them cheaply andexpose fragile middle order. Openingwith spin might not be a bad idea

BYE-BYE PONTING |Aussie skipper visiblyout of form. But if hefires, can single-handedly win match.

Get his nemesisHarbhajan on the

moment he takes guard

HANDLE BATTING POWERPLAYWISELY | Against England and WestIndies, Team India becameoverambitious and collapsedduring the third Powerplay. Itshould consider getting 40runs without losing a wicketfair enough. If the situationwarrants, India should takebatting powerplay from the16th over itself

ATTACK THEIR SPINNERSThe weak link in the Ozbowling must be exploited tothe hilt, be it Steve Smith orJason Kretza, or both

PLAY OUT LEE | The veteranpacer has been impressive.Sehwag-Tendulkar should play

him out, and attack the pacy buterratic Shaun Tait and Mitchell Johnson

BAT OUT FULL 50 OVERS | Indiahaven’t managed that in their last two

matches. While batsmen needto avoid suicidal shots,tailenders too must chip

in with more runs

FIELD WELL | Australiahave a clear edge in thisdepartment. But TeamIndia must field as ifthere’s no tomorrow —which will be the case inthis World Cup if they lose

BAT, IF DHONI WINSTOSS | If he gets lucky,India should target a 300-plus score. But if we batsecond, ensure Australia

don’t get past 250

IMPROVE REVIEW STRIKE RATE |India have got only 2 out of 9 reviewsright so far. Need to doa lot better

FULL COVERAGEP 19, 20 & 22

HOW TO BEATAUSTRALIASachin Tendulkar (17,955) has themost runs in ODIs. Ricky Ponting(13,184) is at No. 3. One of them willplay his last World Cup match todayas India meet Australia in the secondquarterfinal in Ahmedabad. Here’swhat the Men in Blue need to do todethrone the champs, who have wonthe last three World Cups

Man of the match Mohammad Hafeez (in pic, centre) took 2 wickets for 16 runsfrom 10 overs and hit an unbeaten 61 as Pakistan crushed the West Indies by 10wickets in the first quarterfinal on Wednesday. After the Windies were shot outfor 112, with Shahid Afridi grabbing 4 wickets, Pakistan overhauled the meagretotal in just 20.5 overs. They will now play either Australia or India in thesemifinal at Mohali on March 30 — their first match on Indian soil since 2007

INDIA VS PAK In Mohali

Semifinal?

N Narasimha Murthy

COUNTER ATTACK:Manmohan

IRREGULAR HIGH: An aerialview of the Adarsh housingsociety building in Mumbai

BLACK SHEEPThe Army court of inquiry found manysenior officers responsible for theAdarsh housing society scam

Gen Nirmal Chander Vij

Gen Deepak Kapoor

Lt Gen G S Sihota

Lt Gen P K Rampal

Lt Gen Shantanu Choudhry

Lt Gen Tejinder Singh

Maj Gen Ram Kanwar Hooda

Maj Gen A R Kumar

Maj Gen V S Yadav

Maj Gen Tej Kishen Kaul

One of the greatestactresses of the 20thcentury, Liz Taylor died ofheart failure in Los Angeles

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She won twoOscars in a careerspanning over 70years and 50 films

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