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PAGE 2www.thehimalayantimes.comCAPITALTHE HIMALAYAN TIMES, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2013CIAA releasesfive DoI, DoFEofficialsWere held on bribery charges• IN BRIEFAn artist painting the idol of Kaal Bhairab in Hanumandhoka,Kathmandu, on Thursday.Sanitation campaign ahead of SAARC meetHimalayan News ServiceKathmandu, October 10Kathmandu Metropolitan Cityhas launched a sanitation programmein view of the upcomingSouth Asian Association ofRegional Countries (SAARC)meeting on October 21-October25.“The sanitation programmeswill mainly target Thamel areaand various heritage sitesCDC all set to introducenew course for Grade VIIIHimalayan News ServiceBhaktapur, October 10Curriculum Development Center, government’ssole body that prepares school curriculaand designs school textbooks, is allset to introduce a new course for Grade VIIstudents from the next academic session.According to CDC, it is going to introducenew text books for Grade VII to bringchanges in the academic course. GaneshPrasad Bhattarai, spokesperson, CDC,said the centre has already completed thetask of revising the textbooks and was goingto hand over the Camera Ready Copy(CRC) soon to the Janak Education MaterialCenter (JEMC) to print new text books.The School Sector Reform Plan (SSRP)has mainly divided school education intotwo levels- Basic Education (Grade I toVIII) and Secondary Education (Grade IXto XII) but the SSRP is yet to be implemented.Therefore, currently, school educationis divided in three levels- primarylevel (Grade I to V), lower secondary level(Grade VI to VIII) and higher secondarylevel (Grade IX and X). Now, higher secondarylevel (Grade XI and XII) will also bemerged in school education. Two subjects— occupation, entrepreneurship andtechnology and moral education will beintroduced in Grade VII as new subjectsfrom the next academic session, Bhattaraisaid. The new course comprises 10 subjectsand carries 800 marks in aggregate.Eight subjects are compulsory and eachsubject carries 100 full marks while MoralScience and Health and Physical Educationcarry 50 full marks each, he said.Introducing Occupation, Entrepreneurshipand Technology as a compulsory subjectis also a new idea of the CDC. Underthis, students will have to choose one outof five subjects, namely music, computer,mother tongue language, local subjectand sanskrit. Bhattarai said, “Schools arefollowing the revised courses based on thenew curriculum up to Grade VI at present,”adding, “Grade VIII curriculum willbe revised next year.” CDC is planning tolaunch a new course at the secondary level(Grade IX to XII) too from the next academicsession. According to Bhattarai, CDCis likely to introduce Gerontology, Corporativeand Market as new subjects inGrade IX.Himalayan News serviceKathmandu, October 10The Commission for the Investigationof Abuse of Authoritytoday released fiveDepartment of Immigrationand Department of ForeignEmployment officials, whowere arrested on briberycharges on August 23.“They were released assome of them were sufferingfrom poor health,” ShreedharSapkota, spokesperson,CIAA told The HimalayanTimes. According to him, theanti-graft body could notprosecute them due to theclosure of the Special Courtduring the festive seasonand the officials were facinga tough time due to the detainees’health issues.Those who were releasedon presence date were DoIand DoFE officials RameshKumar Adhikari, MohammadMustaff Miya, RameshPrasad Mainalai, NawarajKoirala and Shankar Karki.The anti-graft body hadarrested them on August 23,including 18 officials of DoIand 17 DoFE officials for acceptingbribe to approve illegaldocuments .The CIAA had said that 40to 50 per cent staffs of theDoI and DoFE had substantialnexus while approving ofthe illegal documents of 77migrant workers who wentLocals watching traditional mask dance at Khokana, in Lalitpur, on Thursday.Himalayan News ServiceKathmandu, October 10around the city,” said RabinMan Shrestha, chief of EnvironmentManagement Divisionat the KMC.According to Solid WasteManagement Technical SupportCentre, the valley dwellersproduces 1435 metric tonnes ofwastes every day. But only 80per cent of the garbage ispicked by the municipal authorities.“The city is cleanedonly on occasions like internationalconferences. To add tothe woes, the Capital looks likea war-zone since the roadwidening drive began twoyears ago,” SWMTSC officialssaid. Meanwhile, Nepal is alsohosting the fifth South AsianConference on Sanitation inNovember. The first conferencewas held in Bangladesh in 2003and the fourth in Sri Lanka.Fresh Water Action Nepal, anNGO, is organising the conference,where representativefrom the member countrieswill hold discussions and consultationswith concernedstakeholders to formulate policiesand programmes on sanitationin the South Asia countries.As per government statistics,only 62 per cent of thecountry’s population has accessto sanitation and it plansto provide sanitation facility toall by 2017.World Mental Health Day was celebratedwith the slogan ‘Mental healthand senior citizens’ across the countrytoday.On the occasion, Nepal MentalHealth Network organised awarenesscampaigns, rallies and free healthcamp. Gopal Dhakal, General Secretaryof Nepal Psychologist Associationsaid, “We focused on senior citizensthis year.”THTSC postponeshearingKATHMANDU: TheSupreme Court onThursday refused to issuehabeas corpus orderas demanded by the fiveofficials of the Departmentof Immigrationand Department of ForeignEmployment inseparate habeas corpuspetitions. A single benchof Justice Girish ChandraLal refused to issueorder as advocateKailash Neupane, on behalfof the petitioners,had filed a petition statingthat the interventionof the apex court wasnot necessary as theCIAA was ready to releasehis clients on ageneral presence date.Seeking the SC order torelease them, the relativesof the detaineeshad filed petitions onWednesday. — HNSto various Gulf countries, includingMalaysia and Qatarin the last two years.The anti-graft body hadarrested the officials basedon the statement of the officialsarrested earlier on thesame charge.World Mental Health Day observedTHTHe further said, “A health camp wasconducted for senior citizens atPashupati Old Age Home. Most ofthem were found suffering frommemory disorders and depression.Their self-esteem was very low. Theywere counselled and provided psychotherapy.”A free health camp was also organisedin Pashupati area and Kirtipur.Eighty persons benefited from thefree health camp in Pashupati andforty in Kirtipur. Most of them werelong term anxiety and depression patients.He further said, “There hasn’tbeen much progress in the field ofpsychiatric medication in Nepal. Thepolicies developed are not implementedyet.”Mental problem is a big challengeworldwide. According to WorldHealth Organization, 450 million peopleare suffering from mental disorders.In Nepal, more than 5 millionpeople are suffering from some or theother mental condition and out of fivemental patients, only one has accessto treatment.ReutersA priest looking out of the windowof a temple during the Shikalifestival at Khokana village, inLalitpur, on Thursday.Wearingcolourful clay masks, the mediumsparticipate in dances while villagersoffer sacrificed animals and prayersin hope of gaining blessing from thedeities in the annual Shikali festival.Outage hours slashedKATHMANDU: The Nepal ElectricityAuthority (NEA) has decided to reduceloadshedding hours in viewof the Dashain festival. According tothe new schedule, from October 11-16, there will be loadshedding onlyfor three and a half hours everyday. Currently, there is seven hourspower cuts everyday. Meanwhileno changes have been made inpower outage hours for industrialusers, the power utility said, addingthat new outage schedule willbe make public after the Dashainfestival. — HNSSubedi reappointedKATHMANDU: UN Human RightsCouncil in Geneva has decided to extendthe two-year mandate of humanrights envoy to Cambodia, Prof SuryaP Subedi. Nepali national Subedi,who is a professor of InternationalLaw at Leeds University, United Kingdom,described it as a ‘rather unprecedented’renewal. The Councilhad decided to reappoint him lastweek. Late last month, he had toldthe HR Council that Cambodia was ata critical juncture and the road aheadto establish democracy in the countrywas tough. “I regard this as evidenceof trust and confidence of theUN Human Rights Council on meand my work in Cambodia,” Subeditold Phnom Penh Post. Subedi hasheld the post since 2009, and is thelongest-serving among the fiveNepali Human Rights envoys to Cambodiasince 1993. — HNSMan falls to deathKATHMANDU: Saraswati Aryal, 18, ofChitwan died after falling off the windowof Sundhara-based hotel TwinTower on Thursday. Aryal who wasseriously injured after falling off thewindow of fifth floor died in course oftreatment at Bir Hospital, said police.According to police, the accident occurredwhile she was closing the curtainof the window. Aryal, who hadarrived Kathmandu with her eightfriends on Monday, had been livingon the hotel. Similarly, Tilak BahadurKarki, 85, of Okhaldhunga, who hadbeen living in Kapan-3, based rentedroom, died after falling off the thirdfloor of the house at around 11:45 onWednesday. Police are looking intothe both cases. — HNSIndian national heldKATHMANDU: An Indian nationalhas been arrested on charge of theftin capital on Thursday morning. Accordingto police, Shahid Khan, 20,was arrested by a team of MetropolitanPolice Circle, Thimi, at 4:30 am.Khan was about to flee the scene afterstealing utensils and electronic materialsworth Rs 500,000 from a shopnear Sajha Petrol Pump, Bhaktapur,police said. Police are investigatingthe case. — HNSSymposium on architecture,social responsibilityA man buying a rooster in Bhaktapur on Thursday.THTHimalayan News ServiceKathmandu, October 10Experts during a symposium on‘Architecture and Social Responsibility’,today highlightedthe development of ‘UniversalDesign — Public Toilet’ for all.Addressing the programme,president of ARCASIA Tan PeiIng, said that the concept ofpublic toilets for all is aimed atadvocating responsible architectureand universal design. Italso demonstrates how an architectcan make a difference toeveryone’s life, in particularthose relating to the less abled.“All of us at some stage of ourlife will experience some formof disability and our professioncontributes to equity amongstpeople by facilitating the basicrights of people to have accessto shelter, facilities, work, educationand culture without discrimination,”she said.Meanwhile, senior journalistKanak Mani Dixit said thatalong with the transformationof urban environment, the UrbanMinistry should also focuson proper accessibilities alongwith necessary provision for thedifferently-abled people.Dr Bijaya K Shrestha, who isan urban design expert, informedabout the child, gender,and differently-abled friendlyschool toilets in Nepal, and issuedrelated to planning, designingand implementation.According to Dr Shrestha, thegovernment should develop legaland institutional mechanismsincluding fund allocationfor implementation of schooltoilets that are child, genderand differently-abled friendly.“There is a lack of proper policyin the rural areas as there is onlyone toilet for more than 40 students,”he said.Architect Abu Hena ZiaUddinfrom Bangladesh said that it isimportant that the built-up environmentshould be barrierfreeand must be adapted to fulfilthe needs of all people equally.“As a matter of fact, the needsof the people with disabilitiescoincide with the needs of themajority, and all people are atease with them. As such planningfor the majority impliesplanning for people with variableabilities and disabilities,”he said. According to him, implementingbarrier-free accessibilityis as important as one ofthe basic human right in the designprocess neither in buildingdesign nor in urban design. Theprocess is to create or set upstandards as code of ethics.“Accessibility for the disabled— and barrier-free access is theuniversal design that is the essentialpart of design process,”ZiaUddin said.During the programme, ArchitectNoriyuki Okabe, aJapanese architect, informedabout the Architect’s role in disasters.According to Okabe, architectsare expected to proposedesirable reconstruction plansto the communities and to mitigatefrom natural disasters aswell.Meanwhile, Architect DavidTong, chairman of Hong KongArchitects Registration Board,informed about Hong Kong’spost quake reconstruction supportwork in Sichuan Province,China.ARCASIA Committee on SocialResponsibility facilitated bythe Society of Nepali Architectsand Hong Kong Institute of Architects,organised the symposiumto give rise to awarenessregarding issues of UniversalAccess and Designing for NaturalDisasters and further enhancethe developing field ofArchitecture in Nepal.

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PAGE 4www.thehimalayantimes.comNATIONALTHE HIMALAYAN TIMES, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2013Nepal says UCPN-M aparty sans principlesHimalayan News ServiceKathmandu, October 10Senior CPN-UML leaderMadhav Kumar Nepal, whois contesting the ConstituentAssembly electionsfrom Kathmandu ConstituencyNo 2, has said thatthe Unified CPN-Maoistwas a party without principles.“After the end of its socalledpeople’s war, theUCPN-M does not have anyprinciples and they simplyare opportunists who continueto knock on the doorsof various embassies,”Nepal said while inauguratingthe office of his constituencymobilisationcommittee at Koteshworyesterday. He also allegedthat the UCPN-Maoist didnot even have any plan ofaction to lead the countrytowards prosperity.Saying that the UCPN-Civil servantstold to stay indistrict tillelectionsHimalayan News ServiceKathmandu, October 10The government today directedall the civil servantsof the government officesin the districts not to leavetheir respective districtsuntil the completion of theNovember 10 elections.A Cabinet meeting heldat the Office of the PrimeMinister in Singha Durbartoday took the decision tothis effect.According to Ministerfor Information and CommunicationsMadhavPrasad Poudel, the governmenthas decided to directall the civil servants of thegovernment offices exceptthe ones working at districtcourts and districtelection commission notto leave their districts beforethe election process iscompleted. Governmentspokesman Poudel saidthe chiefs of the governmentoffices must takewritten permission of theconcerned chief districtofficer if they have to leavetheir district while othercivil servants must get thewritten consent of their respectivedepartmentheads. The decision willcome into effect from October19 and will concludeonly after all the processesof the November 19 pollscompletes.Maoist often talked aboutunity with the royalistswhom they called nationalistforce, Nepal said that theformer rebels were hatchingconspiracy to restoremonarchy removed by thepeople’s movement. Nepalalleged that the Maoistswere hobnobbing with formerking Gyanendra tocome to power after the royalmassacre.“They still call the royalistsas a nationalist force,”Nepal said, adding: I, therefore,suspect them and saythat they are trying to bringback the ousted monarchy.An aggressive Nepalasked his cadres and supportersto be ready for retaliationfor any attacks fromhis rival party and said thathe would expose the UCPN-Maoist’s true colours beforethe public, which, heclaimed, was responsiblefor the killing of more thanHimalayan News ServiceKathmandu, October 10Visiting Chinese leader YanJungi today met Foreign andHome Affairs Madhav PrasadGhimire and discussed aboutbilateral issues and issues ofcommon concerns, includingupcoming CA electionsand Tibet issues.The Vice-chairwoman ofthe Standing Committee ofthe National People’s Congressof China discussed securityand logistical preparationfor the upcoming CA15,000 people during theconflict, which was broughtto an end in 2006 followingthe signing of the ComprehensivePeace Accord.Nepal said that his party— the CPN-UML — was thesynonym to republic, nationalismand democracyand claimed that economicprosperity would be possibleonly after his party wona majority of seats in the upcomingelection of the CA,which will also double asParliament for five years.Nepal has set up six centersfor the mobilisation ofthe upcoming election and,Koteshwor is one of themthat he inaugurated yesterday.Regional party chairmanSubarna Shrestha saidthat they had formed a2,051-member election mobilisationcommittee tospearhead the electioncampaign in ConstituencyNo 2.Yan discusses CA polls with GhimireIssues relating to Tibet also figure during the meetingelections and Tibet’s issueswith Minister Ghimire, accordingto a source.Ghimire apprised her thatthe government would leaveno stone unturned to protectthe candidates and votersduring and in-the-run-up tothe CA elections despite theCPN-Maoist’s public call forall to boycott the votes dueon November 19. Ghimirealso reiterated that Nepal’sfirm stand on its one-Chinapolicy which ascribe that theTibet as well as Taiwan are integralparts of mainland China.The home and foreignminister also underscoredNepal’s continuous policythat it would not tolerate anykind of anti-China activitiesfrom its soil. Yan applaudedNepal’s continuous supportsto the Chinese interests inNepal, including the containmentof anti-Chinese activitiesand assured that hercountry was always there toextend supportive hands inachieving development andeconomic progress in Nepal.Yan, who hold the viceprimeminister’s protocol, arrivedin Kathmandu for afive-day visit on Tuesday.MoFA and Chinese embassyhere in Kathmandu, bothhave kept the high-profilevisit a hush-hush affairthough.She has already called onPresident Ram Baran Yadavand some political leaders.But, the matter of her discussionhas been kept underwraps. Earlier today, she hadvisited Lumbini, the birthplaceof Lord Buddha, and isscheduled to visit Pokharatomorrow.The kin and well-wishers of CPN-UML leader Mohammad Alam mourning his death in Bara on Thursday.Flower and garland shops in front of the Chhinnamasta Bhagawati Temple in Saptari on Thursday.THTElections round the corner,people confused who to voteTekendra DeubaDipayal, October 10Jamuna Sunar, 68, of Pipallain Dipayal cannot decidewhich leader and whichparty to cast her vote; neitherwas she self-decisive inthe previous elections.Though she is mentallyprepared to cast her vote inthe upcoming Novemberelections, she doesn’t’tknow who she is going tovote, but one thing she issure about is that she is goingto cast her vote to theone who her mukhiyaba(village magistrate) recommends.Jamuna reasonsthat the mukhiyaba in hervillage helps her all theways whenever she is inneed, hence, she, no doubt,votes as per his preference.Jamuna is not alone inthe village to cast her voteas per the wish of the magistrate,almost all rural folks2,066 male and495 female tempcops hired in ValleyHimalayan News ServiceKathmandu, October 10As many as 2,066 males and 495 femaleshave been selected as temporarypolice personnel (myadi prahari) inthe Kathmandu Valley.Metropolitan Police Commissioner'soffice today said, "Of the 8,038 applicants,1,655 in Kathmandu, 521 in Lalitpurand 365 persons in Bhaktapurwere selected as temporary cops forpoll security.""Most of them are young people betweenthe age of 20 to 30. The numberof women is also significant this time,"said MPCO Spokesperson SSP HemantPal. According to him, 267, 133 and 95women have been selected from Kathmandu,Bhaktapur and Lalitpur, respectively.He also said that 453 personswere on waiting list.Nepal Police had received around170,000 applications from 75 districtsfor 45,000 seats.According to police, across 75 districtsin the country, a total of 6,000 individualsare placed on the waiting list.Mostly, farmers in Tarai and collegestudents had shown interest to be recruitedas temporary police personnel,police said. The government had decidedto hire myadi prahari for polls.in the remote Doti districtcast their votes as per therecommendation of theirvillage leaders. The uneducatedand ignorant localrun after mukhiya, saukar,pradhan, dhami and bhandareamong others.Dandiraj Ojha, a localand a lecturer at Doti MultipleCampus, said, “Due toilliteracy, ignorance, andlack of adequate electioneducation in the remote villages,a handful of leadersin those areas have beengaining unnecessary advantage.”He also addedthat the general public havenot access to various electionrelated programmeslaunched by the state at thetime of election. Even thesituation of the people inand around the districtheadquarters is miserable,how is the situation of thepeople of hinterland?” hequestioned.Himalayan News ServiceDharan, October 10Likewise, Deepak Thapaof Jorayal said that the ruralfolks sometimes have toface threats of their villageleaders at the election time.“There are cases of votetrading in the villages,sometimes the locals areexcluded from the society ifthey refuse to cast theirvotes as per the interest ofthe local leaders, he said.Meanwhile, Pro BadriSharma Binadi said, “Politicalleaders and the partieseven don’t inform the localsabout their election manifestosand party’s workplans, because of whichalso they are deprived ofcasting their votes to theleader and the party of theirchoice.” Meanwhile, Dotielection officer TikaramDhakal said, “All measuresand strategies are beingused to provide election educationto the general publicin this election.”UCPN-Maoistleaders lay stresson developmentTHTAll the UCPN-Maoist leaders contesting inthe upcoming elections from Sunsari districtunder FPTP category today said that theywould be more concerned about the developmentalactivities of the district rather thandrafting of a constitution.While speaking to the media, all the sixUCPN-M candidates from the party in Dharantoday said they would prefer developmentactivities to a new constitution.Dambar Subedi, the contestant of ConstituencyNo 6 of the district, promised thatthat he would focus immensely for the overalldevelopment of the district, if he won theCA election from his constituency. “I will focuson drinking water, transportation andeducation, among others,” he pledged.Another contestant from Constituency No2, Ram Kumari Chaudhary, said women’srights and other developmental activities inthe region would be the first priority.” Likewise,other candidates Haidar Ali andLiladevi Mehata also pledged that theywould work for the development of their districtas per the party directives. All the sixcontestants of the district were present atthe programme and expressed their confidenceabout their party’s victory from all theconstituencies of the district.

THE HIMALAYAN TIMES, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2013www.thehimalayantimes.comNATIONALPAGE 5Pokhara’s Bindhyabasini Temple lacks transparencyHimalayan News ServicePokhara, October 10Priests of Bindhyabasini temple,in the f Lake City of Pokhara,hand over only Rs 21,000 in cash,a negligible percentage of the totalannual offerings made at thereligious site, to the BindhyabasiniReligious Area DevelopmentCommittee. The remaining incomefrom offerings goes into thepriests’ pockets, stakeholders allege.Four priests have been workingin the temple for years, which,around 5,000 pilgrims visit everyday. It is learnt that more than Rs100,000 is collected in the donationbox alone on the templepremises. Even a layman understandsthat visitors offer more inthe temple than in the donationbox, but the temple has been anexception in this regard.Krishna Paudel, one of thepriests, said visitors don’t offer asmuch as you expect in the templethough a large number of visitorsvisit the temple everyday.The temple development committeeintends to use the collectedofferings for renovation andinfrastructure development ofthe temple, but it has failed to doso due to the meagre amount givenby the priests to the committee.Secretary of the site developmentcommittee Tirtha Shresthasaid, “We have to beg for help tocarry out any development activityin the temple.” Chairman ofthe committee Ganesh BahadurShrestha said if they could properlyutilise the cash, ornamentsand other offerings, they wouldn’thave to rely on others.Every month Rs 25,000 isearned from different pujas, weddingceremonies and other religiousrituals in the temple, whichis used for feeding the youngpriests, for their education, andaccommodation among others.The temple also generates Rs 8lakh a year from parking, Rs 1lakh a month from donation boxwhich is spent in managingdrinking water, electricity, sanitationand others.Accusing the priests of lack oftransparency, the developmentcommittee tried several times toappoint priests through opencompetition, but in vain.However, Paudel said, “I won’tobject to appointment of prieststhrough open competition.” Thepriests have been cultivating inthe 40 ropani temple land.

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(7) - 7Didn’t walk the street, we hear (4) - 8Artist in an eating-place able to holddrink (6) - 13 Some dark, handsomeruler in the east (4) - 15 Anger aboutone point of Latin in the matter (2,2) -16 The elder made King of England (8)- 18 Daniel’s upset by contradictions(7) - 20 Top means of telling the oldgirl’s one of the crowd (3,3) - 22 Easternteam the French made outcasts(6) - 24 It’s impressive, even whenmade of rubber (5) - 26 Buddy goesred in the face, or reddish (5) - 27Exam taken, as the Georgics were longago omitted (4).Yesterday’s solutionC O M P A N I E S M A BU O C M I A EB U R N T P A N A C E AS E I R E K R RA L T O R E S P O N DS L N T O IC R O S S Q U E S T I O NI O R C S GEWE L AMB E B R ON X T A S P A BC O U L O M B T H E R EE L M L I L RS E T S K E T C H I N GQUICKP I E D P I P E R P H IL N E R I U NO P T I C A D V E R T SW E C O Y A E II R M A I L L B R E DO E V N A EB U D D I N G A U T H O RL U M N E SI K E B A N A T U N EG X H N A Y B HA L I M E N T I M A G OT T A I N N PO A S D E S I G N E R SCRYPTIC• FLIGHT SCHEDULEINTERNATIONALFROM-TO DAYS DEPT/ARRV FLIGHT NOAIR ARABIAKTM-SHJ-KTM DAILY 1345/1305 G9532/G9531KTM-SHJ-KTM MON,THU,SUN 2225/2145 G9534/G9533KTM-SHJ-KTM DAILY 2125/2045 G9536/G9535AIR ASIAKTM-KUL-KTM TUE, THU 1530/1400 D7193/194AIR INDIAKTM-DEL-KTM SUN TO FRI 1000/0905 AI214/AI213KTM-DEL-KTM SUN TO FRI 1540/1455 AI216/AI215KTM-CCU-KTM SAT,MON,TUE,THU 1605/1515 AI248/247AIR CHINAKTM-LXA-KTM TUE,THU,SAT 1130/1030 CA408/CA407KTM-CTU-KTM WED, FRI,SUN 1130/1030 CA438/CA437KTM-CTU-KTM TUE,THU,SAT 1130/1030 CA408/CA407BIMAN BANGLADESH AIRLINESKTM-DAC-KTM SUN,FRI 1210/1110 BG702/701KTM-DAC-KTM WED 1440/1340 BG702/701DRAGON AIRKTM-HKG-KTM WED, FRI, SUN 2330/2230 KA191/192ETIHAD AIRWAYSKTM-AUH-KTM SUN,TUE,THU,FRI 2120/2005 EY293/292KTM-AUH-KTM MON,WED,SAT 1740/1615 EY291/290KOREAN AIRKTM-ICN-KTM MON,FRI 1355/1225 KE696/695NEPAL AIRLINESKTM-BKK-KTM MON, FRI 1155/1925 RA401/402KTM-HKG-KTM TUE, THU, SAT 1135/2150 RA 409/410KTM-KUL-KTM DAILY 2330/1035 RA415/416KTM-DOH SUN, TUE, THU, FRI 2055/2310 RA239DOH-KTM MON, WED, FRI, SAT 1920/2150 RA410QATAR AIRWAYSKTM-DOH-KTM DAILY 0935/0835 QR353/352KTM-DOH-KTM DAILY 1935/1730 QR357/356KTM-DOH-KTM DAILY 2020/1635 QR351/350KTM-DOH-KTM DAILY 2335/2235 QR355/354**Please check with airlines for any change in schedule

THE HIMALAYAN TIMES, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2013www.thehimalayantimes.comINTERNATIONALPAGE 7Lybian PM held, freed after hoursReutershotel where he lives under heavy capture of Liby, whose real name Gaddafi. Last month, on a visit toTripoli, October 10guard.is Nazih al-Ragye.London, he appealed for moreZeidan had distanced his government“His arrest comes after ... (Kerry) Western support to rein in the for-Libya’s prime minister was seizedfrom US assertions it had co-said the Libyan government was mer rebels.and held for several hours today by operated in last Saturday’s capture aware of the operation,” a Geoff Porter of North Africa Riskformer rebel militiamen, angry atthe weekend capture by US specialforces of a Libyan al Qaeda suspectin Tripoli.Ali Zeidan was freed unharmedbut the incident underlined the anarchyprevailing in the oil-richNorth African state, two years afterthe western-backed overthrow ofMuammar Gaddafi.A Reuters reporter saw Zeidan, aformer diplomat opposed to Islamistradicals, arriving at his officeafter his ordeal. He was expected togive an account shortly of his sixhours or so in captivity. Gunmen associatedof Abu Anas al-Liby, wanted for theal Qaeda bombing of the US embassyin Kenya in 1998. But thegroup which seized Zeidan appearedto hold him responsible forhelping Washington’s operation.His brief detention was the latestof many incidents that demonstrateLibya’s post-Gaddafi turmoil. Itsvulnerable central government andnascent armed forces are strugglingto contain rival tribal militias andIslamist militants who control largeparts of the country.The militia, which was hired bythe government to provide securityspokesman for the group, known asthe Operations Room of Libya’s Revolutionaries,told Reuters. Adding toconfusion, Libyan television latercarried a denial from the OperationsRoom that it was involved.The government said Zeidan hadbeen “kidnapped”.He was elected by the interim legislaturea year ago, when he pledgedto bring the rule of law to a countrywhere the US ambassador had beenkilled the previous month in an attackon Washington’s consulate inBenghazi.Zeidan, who lived in exile inconsulting said: “His kidnappingclearly indicates that his governmentis not cohesive, and that notonly is his government not in controlof the country, but that he is notin control of his government.”Before his release, an official inthe Interior Ministry anti-crime departmenttold the state newsagency that Zeidan, a former diplomatand exile opposition activistagainst Gaddafi, was being heldthere and was being treated well.The prime minister, who is in hisearly 60s and has held the post forthe past year, was taken from thewith the fragmented in Tripoli, said it “arrested” Zeidan Geneva, was among those who per-Corinthia Hotel, where many diplo-Libyan security apparatus hadhauled him at dawn from the luxuryafter US Secretary of State John Kerrysaid Libya had a role in thesuaded French and British leadersto support the 2011 revolt againstmats and top government officialslive.Tacit US backing forPhilippines in Chinasea disputeReutersBandar Seri Begawan, Oct 10US Secretary of State JohnKerry gave tacit backing tothe Philippines’ stance in atense maritime disputewith China today, sayingthat all countries had aright to seek arbitration toresolve competing territorialclaims.The Philippines, a USally, has angered China bylaunching an arbitrationcase with the United Nationsto challenge the legalvalidity of Beijing’s sweepingclaims over theresource-rich South ChinaSea.The United States hasrefrained from takingsides in the dispute, one ofAsia’s biggest securityheadaches, but has expresseda national interestin freedom of navigationthrough one of the world’sbusiest shipping channels.“All claimants have a responsibilityto clarify andalign their claims with internationallaw. They canengage in arbitration andother means of peacefulnegotiation,” Kerry toldleaders at the East AsiaSummit in Brunei, includingChinese Premier Li Keqiang.“Freedom of navigationand overflight is a lynchpinof security in the Pacific,”he added.China claims almost theentire oil- and gas-richSouth China Sea, overlappingwith claims from Taiwan,Malaysia, Brunei, thePhilippines and Vietnam.The last four are membersof the 10-member Associationof Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN).The row is one of the region’sbiggest flashpointsamid China’s militarybuild-up and the US strategic“pivot” back to Asia signalledby the Obama administrationin 2011.Diplomatic efforts toease tensions are now centredon Chinese talks withASEAN to frame a code ofconduct for disputes in theSouth China Sea, but Beijinghas restricted talks tolow-level consultationsrather than formal negotiations.The annual East AsiaSummit ended today withoutsignificant progress onthe dispute, with a jointASEAN-China statementsaying only that the twosides had agreed to “maintainthe momentum of theregular official consultations”.Frustrated by the slowpace of regional diplomaticefforts to resolve thedispute, the Philippineshas hired a crack internationallegal team to fightits unprecedentedarbitration case under theUnited Nations’ Conventionon the Law of the Sea— ignoring growing pressurefrom Beijing to scrapthe action.Any result will be unenforceable,legal experts say,but will carry considerablemoral and political weight.Beijing has accused thePhilippines of pursuing thecase to legalise its occupationof islands in thedisputed sea and said itwould never agree to cooperate.Some diplomatshave expressed concernthat the ASEAN-Chinaconsultations are a bid byChina to delay a finalagreement on a code whileit expands its naval reachand consolidates its expansiveclaims.Chemical weapons inspectorsvisit three sites in SyriaAssociated PressBeirut, October 10International weapons inspectorshave so far visitedthree sites across Syria, theirspokesman said today, asthey race to destroy itschemical arms stockpileand programme amid a ragingcivil war.The team is to visit morethan 20 sites around thecountry in their disarmamentmission. The threesites that it has visited in thepast 10 days have all been ingovernment-held areas,making it relatively easierfor them to reach, saidMichael Luhan, spokesmanfor the Organization for theProhibition of ChemicalWeapons.Operating on rare consensus,the UN has taskedthe OPCW to rid Syria of itsstockpile by mid-2014 —the tightest deadline evergiven to the OPCW. It’s alsothe first conducted amid atwo-year conflict which pittingdisorganised armedrebels against forces loyal tothe regime of Bashar Assad.While the first series ofsites on in governmentcontrolledregions, the 27-member team will have tocross rebel-held territory toreach some sites. The UNhopes to organise ceasefiresbetween rebels andgovernment forces to ensuresafe passage.Underscoring the complexityof their mission, inSyria, at least 18 peoplewere killed, mostly men, aftergovernment forcesbombed an area near thenorthern city of Safira in theAleppo province and in thenearby city of Manbij, saidthe British-based SyrianObservatory for HumanRights, which obtains its informationthrough a networkof activists on theground. The official Syriannews agency SANA also reportedanother six peoplekilled in the city of Aleppo inrebel fire.Clashes also broke outbetween al-Qaida fighters ofthe Islamic State in Iraq andthe Levant and Kurdishrebels trying to push backtheir advance in the northernborder province of Azaz,the Observatory reported.

PAGE 8www.thehimalayantimes.comTHE HIMALAYAN TIMES, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2013TheHimalayanT I M E SA THOUGHT FOR T ODAYIf you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get whatyou’ve always gotten.—Tony RobbinsThe central messageBada Dashain comes every year, heralding the endof the rainy season and the faint beginnings ofwinter. It is the greatest festival of the vast majority ofNepalis, who are Hindus, and it also represents thelongest festival holiday in the country, ranging fromfive days to the end of Tihar, the second most importantfestival. Durga or Bhagawati, the Goddess ofPower and Protector of the Earth, is worshipped onthe nine days of Navaratri, culminating in VijayaDashami Day when elders and seniors give tika andjuniors receive it, with the showering of good wishesand blessings. This is the day when enmity and illwillis supposed to be forgiven and forgotten, as DurgaPuja means the victory of light over darkness, goodover evil, truth over falsehood, and righteousnessover unrighteousness. Goddess Durga is invoked togrant peace, good sense, prosperity and good health.In a little over a month after Dashain, another ConstituentAssembly election is scheduled to take place,a rare, rather unheard-of occurrence in the life of anation. More than five years was wasted in connectionwith the last CA election, and the first assembly,whatever it might have done, came to a naught in thefinal analysis, as it could not deliver a constitution,the prime task for which it had been constituted. Perhapsour political parties and their leaders could nothave lived up to the higher levels of devotion throughan improvement in theirIn celebratingDashain, letnobody missthe centralmessage theoccasion of BadaDashainembodiesbehaviour, petty-mindedness,and extremeselfishness. This Dashain,the anti-Dashain rumblingsof some membersof some ethnic groupsseem to have died down,perhaps they have understoodthe universalmessage of Dashain,transcending over castes,creeds, ethnicity,religion, gender, and suchother things.As a social and cultural reunion, too, Dashain holdsgreat significance for Nepalis, for, among otherthings, people return home from far and wide to bewith their family and near and dear ones and celebratethe occasion with great gusto. Apart from therigours of fasting and worshipping Goddess Durga,Dashain has also been associated with eating, drinkingand making merry, as it spreads over several days.And in these non-spiritual terms, poor people mayfind it a little harder to meet the higher expenses ofDashain. Nevertheless, Bada Dashain is an occasionto forgive and forget grudges and foster a feeling ofbonhomie and camaraderie. Sanatan Dharma, beingamong the most liberal and broad-minded of religions,does not believe in any religious bureaucracyor in conversions, let alone by dangling materialgoodies, nor does it tend to force believers to do thisor that, except when they do something of their ownaccord. On the occasion of this rich tradition, the topleaders of political parties also release their Dashainmessages, wishing the people a Happy Dashain andhighlighting the core spirit of the occasion. Let GoddessBhagawati bestow good sense on them to resolvethe country’s pressing problems in the best waypossible. In celebrating Dashain, let nobody miss thecentral message the occasion of Bada Dashain embodies.The main thing is to capture the central messageof the occasion.Urban farmersWow, it sounds great that among all the conferencesall over the world, one on rooftop farmingis to be organised some time in December. Thethrust as stated by the organiser is to promote environmentand sanitation in Kathmandu. Yes, a patchof greenery on the top of the building is not a badidea when quite a chunk of the trees in the city havebeen cut down to make room for the widening of theroads. Moreover, the skyrocketing prices of the vegetablesin the market have been a drain on the meagreearnings of the majority of the Kathmandu folks,even those who have their own residence.The rooftop farming not only saves your hardearnedmoney, but also adds that dash of freshness ofa tomato or two, some coriander leaves, or a chilly tospice up the meal that you have cooked to you uttersatisfaction. Maybe, the Kathmandu MetropolitanCity will decide to provide some basic training for theinterested to go headlong into rooftop farming practices.The cultivation of this vocation would also providethe sedentary city dwellers a little exercise in thefresh air tending lovingly to the dear plants.• LETTERSConfusioncontinuesTime has come for the voters tothink twice before voting forany preferred political partyand candidate considering theoutcome of the 2008 CA election.They should deeply assessthe roles played by theirfavoured political parties duringthe last five years. Theyshould try to find out whethertheir votes were properly utilizedfor the well-being of thenation and its people aspromised by them. Consideringthis, the end result of this secondCA election might show anopposite trend to that of the2008 election results as reportedin “Will ’08 results indicatevoting trends this time? (THT,Oct. 10, Page 1).I think the voters must haveMINXIN PEIChina’s “princelings” –the offspring of seniorChinese officials who benefitfrom lavish privileges ineducation, employment,and business – are comingunder scrutiny as never before.Bo Xilai, the son of oneof Mao’s comrades and asupposed “immortal” of therevolution, was recentlysentenced to life in prisonafter his conviction oncharges of corruption andabuse of power. OutsideChina, princelings are feelingthe heat as well. Not longago, the United States Securitiesand Exchange Commissionannounced that itwas investigating JPMorganChase’s hiring of princelingsin Hong Kong, who apparentlydelivered lucrative underwritingdeals for thebank.While recent scandalshave put China’s princelingsunder a harsh media spotlight,they have been hotcommodities for Westerncompanies seeking to capitalizeon their guangxi (connections)in order to securemulti-billion dollar transactions.The list of financial institutionsthat have engagedin such hiring practicesreads like a who’s who of investmentbanking.Of course, it is prematureto conclude that JPMorgan• TOPICSBIR PRAKASH MALLAWhether we like it or not, weare growing older with thepassage of every day. In retrospect,we have regrets. We mighthave knowingly or unknowinglyhurt others. If only we had notdone them, we would have enjoyedmore peace of the mind.This is one of the most soughtafterdesire of humans who areafter it but fail miserably to do so.What has been done cannot beundone. After all, humans beinghumans are bound to make follies.So it would be best if we exercisedcaution and tried toavoid them. But this is asking forthe impossible.We are bound to make mistakesno matter how hard we try.• BLOG SURFLost paradiseGHANASHYAMShame on the world’s self-declared wisestcreature who can’t be happy unless otherscry. That is why people go on consoling wheneveryou weep. Go and weep at any corner ofthe world, you will find people everready tohave pity on you. As if, they were waiting youfor ages! They come to console you even withoutasking the cause. They are not showingsympathy out of love. They are not really sorry.Though they try to console you in your sorrow,inwardly they are enjoying a lot. Their ego isvery satisfied at the moment. Your sadness isthe proof that they are in better condition. Theworld still contains many dismal people towhom they too can be of great help. No matterhow much agony surrounds them, theyare still in the condition of showing sympathyon others. Your sorrow and your tears isthe great proof. Your sorrow is the greatest reliefto their mundane life. They say that theworld is like this, that you are not the onlyone to be in this condition, that everythingwill be ok. —bodhighanashyam.wordpress.comFriends are foreverMost people merely want to livesimply, but this is a difficultproposition because life is not allthat easy. There are many impedimentsand, therefore, wehave to struggle. Man being agregarious animal or so it is saidis always seeking company. Manalso has the herding instinct thatprovides people with a sense ofbelonging. When it comes to it,many enjoy socializing and goout of their way to make newfriends and acquaintances. Astime passes, friends keep onchanging but you always rememberthe good time you hadwith them.Occasionally friends, old andnew, hold social gatherings andyou fail to recognize many ofthem. It is because of the age youWooing China’s princelingsSomething to wonder about• CARTOONby now realized that castingvotes for a political party wouldnot simply mean that they usedtheir voting rights. They shouldask themselves whether theyvoted for the right candidate ornot. In Nepal, voters still needto be made aware of their votingright and they should properlyexercise it using their conscience.It should be known toeverybody that the votes castduring the first CA electionwere wasted. Keeping this inmind, all the eligible voters areurged to cast their votes for thepotential candidate who can reallyplay a crucial role in draftingthe new constitution.However, the outcome of thesecond CA election is doubtfulconsidering the boycott by theCPN-Maoist leading other 32political parties. Will the secondCA be able to produce a newconstitution in time and willthat new constitution beacceptable to the agitatingparties? Considering all these,there seems to be a seriousconcern among the commonpeople as to whether thesecond CA election will be heldon schedule or not, and if it isheld, whether the outcome ofthe CA will be agreeable andacceptable to all?Rai Biren Bangdel,Maharajgunj, KathmanduBanking fraudsThis has reference to the newsIn China, by contrast, pervasive corruption,the absence of a free press, and statecapitalism mean that princelings’ conductis unconstrained – and typically shroudedin secrecy. Chinese censors methodicallysuppress news coverage of princelings’business dealingsmight look different to others asthey look to you. Anyway, it isnice to be with friends, if youhave any. Somebody once toldme that your best friend is theone in front of you. So it is best toalways try to respect others andfrom the heart wish for theirwell-being.If you have well-wishers inabundance, you can consideryourself as very fortunate. Sinceyour childhood you know manypeople and with the passage oftime you get to meet more andmore people. You tend to rememberfriends particularlywith those with whom you hadshared many things in common.Be thankful that you havefriends. Friends are those withwhom you share your innermost“Bank staffer held for megafraud” (THT, Oct. 9, Page 3). TheRepublic is witnessing a greatleap forward in white-collarcrimes involving bank, financeand co-operative officials.These thugs in suits and tiesbrazenly plan and execute seriousheists that can attract flogging,caning, long incarcerationand even hot lead in the head inmany countries around theworld. Most banking crimestake place in this republicbecause of the lack of propermanagement, rules,regulations, supervision,monitoring and criminalnegligence on the part of thetop management.J. Talchabhadell, BhaktapurHumiliatingviolated the US Foreign CorruptPractices Act by employingchildren of Chineseofficials who oversaw companiesthat retained thebank to underwrite theirstock offerings.Nonetheless, the casehighlights a broader trend:the wooing of China’sprincelings by prestigiousWestern educational institutionsand businesses forthe purpose of advancingtheir parochial interests inthe burgeoning Chinesemarket.The unseemly race to recruitprincelings starts atthe world’s leading collegesand universities. BecauseChina has no universitiesthat rival the Ivy League orOxford and Cambridge, seniorChinese officials preferto send their children tothese schools.Given the opacity surroundingadmission tothese highly selective institutions(where the acceptancerate typically is as lowas around 8 per cent), it isimpossible to tell whetherprincelings get in on thebasis of merit or familybackground. But it is notablethat princelings arenot found in the most prestigiousdoctoral programs,where professors, not administrators,make admissionsdecisions.Likewise, MIT and Caltech,where only the trulygifted survive, have a dearthof princelings.Indeed, thesheer number ofprincelings, including childrenof incumbent Chineseleaders, now attending IvyLeague universities clearlypoints to the importance offamily ties. President Xi Jinping’sdaughter, for example,studies at Harvard underan assumed name, andBo Xilai’s son has been a studentat Oxford and Harvard’sKennedy School ofGovernment; he is nowstudying at Columbia LawSchool.Simply put, elite Westerncolleges and universities,having identified China as atop market for fund-raisingand high-end networkbuilding,regard theprincelings as a valuable investment.Nurturing tieswith China’s political elite isgood business, and theprincelings can help opendoors.But preferential treatmentfor princelings at eliteuniversities (and businessschools) has real socialcosts, because admission tothese institutions is zerosum.A place awarded to aless-qualified princeling is aplace denied to a more qualifiedapplicant.Worse still, this injustice isself-perpetuating. Westerninvestment banks andmultinationals can useprincelings’ elite academiccredentials to justify hiringthem, even if the real reasonis the hope that putting aprinceling on the payrollwill give the company arainmaker in China.Defenders of this practiceinsist that princelings arewell educated and highlythoughts and feel assured thatthey wish you all the best. Timecomes when we have to go ourown separate ways and shouldwe meet again there is much tocheer about. So when you wishyour friends adieu, be contentthat you had the good fortune toknow them. Destiny is such thateverybody has something differentto do. As we go differentways, should we meet again, allthe better.Life would be better for all ofus if we all were on amicableterms, to say the least. But wehave to admit that there aresome who do not play fair andaccording to the rules. It mightnot be possible to change thembut what we could do is wishthem well.Nepal’s performance in the ongoingGroup A Qualifiers of AFCU-19 tournament wasdisappointing. The main reasonwas that the team went on tolose the first match 2-1 againstQatar, the second by 1-0 toIndia and the third one toUzbekistan by a big margin of5-0. Now, the team is out of thetournament as it performedpoorly. It shows that the teamneeds strong preparation,necessary training andsufficient practice if it wantsto fare well in such types oftournaments. Only then willsomething good happenfor the team.Pratik Shrestha, BuddhanagarLetters to this column should be addressed toLetters C/o Edit Page Editor,The Himalayan Times,Post Box 11651,APCA House,Baidya Khana Road, Kathmandu, Nepalemail: edit@thehimalayantimes.com,Fax 0977-1-4771959qualified. Undoubtedly,some of them are; but manyare not. Apologists alsoclaim that nepotism is universal,citing examples ofchildren of American politiciansand business leaderswho have graduated fromIvy League universities andsecured coveted privatesectorjobs.But hiring Chineseprincelings is not the moralequivalent of Americanstylenepotism. The politicaland social environments inwhich the two practices occurare completely different.In the US, nepotism is difficultto hide, and publicscrutiny helps to check itsmost blatant manifestations.The democraticprocess, particularly the roleplayed by a free press, constrainsrent-seeking by childrenof government officials.In China, by contrast, pervasivecorruption, the absenceof a free press, andstate capitalism mean thatprincelings’ conduct is unconstrained– and typicallyshrouded in secrecy. Chinesecensors methodicallysuppress news coverage ofprincelings’ business dealings.Most important, aspart of its strategy for regimesurvival, the Chinese CommunistParty favorsprincelings for appointmentsin government andstate-owned enterprises.Now, in the wake of Bo’sfall from grace, and in lightof the controversy over JP-Morgan’s hiring of Chineseprincelings, Western academicand business leadersmust ask themselves atough question: Do theywant to be complicit inhelping the Party perpetuateits hereditary rule?Pei is Professor ofGovernment at ClaremontMcKenna CollegeCopyright: ProjectSyndicate, 2013.• THT 10 YEARS AGOCops claimbreakthrough inLalitpur killings caseHimalayan News ServiceLalitpur, October 10, 2003The police team probing the killings ofall the five members of the NagarkotiPahari family at Badikhel in Lalitpurclaims they have achieved a major breakthroughin the case. “We have got a clue.We are confident that the culprits willsoon be in the police net. However, wecannot disclose the same until the investigationis complete,” a police officer involvedin the probe, said, adding, “Wecan’t make it public until we gatherenough evidences.” Though no specialteam has been formed to investigate intothe murders, a joint team of the districtpolice office and valley crime subbranch,under Keshav Adhikari, superintendentof police at Lalitpur district policeoffice, is probing the incident. BhanuNagarkoti Pahari, 45, along with hisspouse Dhan Kumari, two daughters anda son were killed by a group of unidentifiedmen on the night of the seventh dayof Dashain. Bhanu had been working as apeon at the Nepal Rastra Bank, Thapathali.Following investigations by thepolice team, it has come to light that hehad withdrawn around Rupees threelakh from the Rastra bank within the lastthree months. The team had earlier recoveredRs 14,550 from the house. Policehas detained some people in this connection.MOES plans actionagainst collegesHimalayan News ServiceKathmandu, October 10, 2003The Education Ministry is planning totake action against a dozen collegesthat are directly affiliated to foreign universitiesand are not submitting their applicationsseeking prior permission fromthe ministry to run these institutions. Thegovernment had directed them to submittheir affiliation papers and prove their legality.However, at least 12 colleges havenot submitted their complete details.Three colleges with concerns with theHigher Secondary Education BoardHSEB and Centre for Technical Educationand Vocational Training CTEVT, todaysubmitted their reports. “The collegesneed to be registered with the ministryand only then they will be permittedto function after procuring a clean chitfrom the probe committee,” said LabaPrasad Tripathi, spokesperson of the EducationMinistry. “It is illegal to run thecolleges as they have to follow the directives,”he said. The government had lastyear issued directives on the practice ofproviding higher education by taking affiliationsfrom foreign educational institutions.A committee has been formedunder the convernorship of the educationminister to investigate into the practice.Presently, 23 colleges have submittedtheir applications out of which theministry has forwarded 12 colleges to theUniversity Grant Commission, HSEB andCTEVT for further advice. Eleven collegesare awaiting investigation.

THE HIMALAYAN TIMES, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2013www.thehimalayantimes.comNEIGHBOURSPAGE 9• SNIPPETSA visually impaired girl using hermobile phone during a protest inNew Delhi on Thursday. Dozens ofvisually impaired people demandedthat the government implementone per cent reservation for theblind in jobs in all private and publicsectors, a media release said.20 pilgrims dieReutersNEW DELHI: Police say at least 20people were killed and another 35 injuredwhen a truck carrying Hindupilgrims crashed into a gorge innorthern India. Police officerSukhchain Singh Gill says the accidenthappened on Thursday as thedriver lost control of the vehicle afterits brakes failed. Singh says the driverwas among those injured in the accidentnear Hoshiarpur, a town 380kilometres north of New Delhi. — APBomb kills fiveQUETTA: Police say a bomb explodedhas outside a police station in acrowded market in southwest Pakistan,killing at least five people. Policeofficial Mohammed Mohsin saysthe blast on Thursday in Quetta, thecapital of Baluchistan province, alsowounded at least 20 people. — APAnti-govt protestsTAIPEI: Thousands of anti-governmentprotesters gathered on thefringes of Taiwan’s carefully choreographedNational Day celebrationsThursday, waving banners andchanting slogans denouncing thepolicies of President Ma Ying-jeou.The large-scale protests against hisincreasingly unpopular governmentwere the first to dog the normallystaid National Day observance sinceMa entered office in 2008. Police keptthe estimated 10,000 protesters wellaway from Taipei plaza. — APAgence France PresseAgra, October 10Indian police saidtoday they hadfiled a case againstMiss Universe forconducting anunauthorisedfootwear fashionshoot at the TajMahal which wasslammed as an ‘insult’by the monument’scaretaker.Twenty-one-year-oldAmerican Olivia Culpo,wearing a long peachcoloureddress, visited theworld-famous ‘monumentto love’ in Agra on Sundayduring a 10-day tour of India.“We have registered acase against Ms Culpo andher team members afterreceiving a complaint,”Sushant Gaur told AFPfrom the tourism policestation in Agra, 180 kilometressouth of New Delhi.“We have booked herunder various sections... ofIndia’s Ancient Monumentsand ArchaeologicalSites and Remains Act,” headded. Gaur said Culpoposed for photographerswith branded shoes whilesitting on the Diana Seat, amarble ledge in front of thewhite mausoleum namedafter the late Britishprincess who visited in1992. “There are strictguidelines against any sortof branding and promotionat Taj Mahal and thephoto shoot conductedwas without any prior permission,”said NK Pathakfrom the Agra unit of ArchaeologicalSurvey of India.A case has also beenregistered against Indianbornfashion designer SanjanaJon who accompaniedEU human rights prize for Malala16-yr-old was shot last year for promoting education for girlsReutersPhotoshoot at TajMahal lands MissUniverse in soupCulpMiss Universe to the site.Registering a case is apreliminary step and theissue may not necessarilygo tocourt. Visitorsmust take off theirshoes while visitingthe monument,an Islamicmausoleum builtfor the late wife ofMughal ruler ShahJahan and completedin 1648. Footwear isallowed in the garden areawhere the Diana Seat is located.Culpo’s office wasnot immediately availablefor comment.The complaint was filedby the monument’s caretakeron behalf of the ASI,an official working for thestate-run body told AFP oncondition of anonymity.He said she would face afine if found guilty.The Mumbai-basedMid-Day tabloid quotedTaj caretaker Munazzar Alias saying Culpo’s modellingat the Taj amounted to“disrespect and insult”.“The sandals from a bagshe carried were taken andplaced on the Diana Seatfor shooting pictures,which is not permitted bythe ASI. It also amounts todisrespect and insult,” hetold the paper.The tabloid also suggestedthat security personnelresponsible for frisking atthe entrance gates of themonument “were too impressed”with Culpo andallowed her to carry herbag inside.Culpo, seemingly unawareof any brewing controversy,uploaded a photoof the Taj to an Instagramaccount on Monday, a dayafter her Agra visit.Brussels, October 10Pakistani teenager MalalaYousafzai, shot in the head bythe Taliban for campaigning foreducation for girls, won the EuropeanUnion’s annual humanrights award today, beatingfugitive US intelligence analystEdward Snowden.The 16-year-old was attackedlast year while on aschool bus in northwesternPakistan, but recovered aftermedical treatment in Britain.She is also a favourite amongexperts and betting agencies tobe named the winner of theNobel Peace Prize on Friday.“She is an icon of courage forall teenagers who dare to pursuetheir aspirations and, like acandle, she lights a path out ofdarkness,” said Joseph Daul,chairman of the centre-rightEuropean People’s Party in theEuropean Parliament.Has done nothing to earn award: TalibanMIRANSHAH: The PakistaniTaliban on Thursday saidteenage activist MalalaYousafzai had done ‘nothing’to deserve a prestigious EUrights award and vowed totry again to kill her. “She hasdone nothing. The enemiesof Islam are awarding her becauseshe has left Islam andhas became secular,”Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistanspokesman ShahidullahShahid told AFP by telephonefrom an undisclosedlocation. “She is gettingawards because she is workingagainst Islam. Her struggleagainst Islam is the mainreason of getting theseawards.” He repeated theTehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’sthreat —made numeroustimes in recent months — tryagain to kill Malala, ‘even inAmerica or the UK’. “Malalais the enemy of Islam andTaliban and she wrote thisbook against Islam and Taliban,”he said. — AFPYousafzai started her campaigningby writing blogs in2009 in which she describedhow the militant Islamist Talibanprevented girls like herfrom going to school. Shequickly rose to internationalfame when more and more foreignmedia outlets conductedinterviews with her. Her growingprofile attracted the Taliban’sattention and led to frequentdeath threats. “I was notworried about myself thatmuch. I was worried about myfather. We could not believethey would be so cruel as to killa child, as I was 14 at the time,”Yousafzai said in a US televisioninterview with The DailyShow on Tuesday.Her book I Am Malala is currentlythe second-best sellingbook on Amazon.com. TheSakharov Prize for freedom ofthought has been awarded bythe European Parliament eachyear since 1988 to commemorateSoviet scientist and dissidentAndrei Sakharov. Its pastwinners include Nelson Mandelaand Myanmar oppositionleader Aung San Suu Kyi.Yousafzai was chosen by a voteamong the heads of all the politicalgroups in the 750-memberparliament. Snowden hadbeen nominated by the Greengroup in the parliament forwhat it said was his enormousservice to human rights andEuropean citizens when he disclosedsecret US telephone andsurveillance programmes.Children sitting inside cement water pipes on the Marina beach in the southern Indian city of Chennai on Thursday.Chinese man jailed for pimping teenAgence France PresseSingapore, October 10A Singapore court todaysentenced a Chinese pimpto six years in prison forforcing an underage compatriotto work as a prostituteunder abusive conditionsin the city-state.Tang Huisheng, 37, hadpleaded guilty to multiplecharges after bringing the17-year-old girl from China’ssouthern city of Zhuhaiin May and living off herearnings as a sex worker.Prostitution is legal in Singaporebut pimping isbanned and any man whopays for sex with a womanbelow 18 can be jailed orfined. A total of 24 men, includingfive Chinese nationals,have been charged afterpaying for the girl’s services.District Judge ShaiffudinSaruwan said Tang’s “depravity,callousness andoutright cruelty” wereviewed with “abhorrence”.“He subjected the minorto extreme sexual, physicaland mental abuses,” hesaid, noting that the girl wasforced to service a “mindnumbing”average of 10clients a day over a 15-dayperiod. “This to me is veryunfair!” Tang yelled in Mandarin,as he was led away byprison guards. According tocourt documents, Tang tookaway all of her earnings andlost heavily at a casino inSingapore. Before arrivingin Singapore, Tang haddrugged the girl withmethamphetamine andforced her to have sex withhim multiple times.ReutersChina arrests scribeamid crackdown onrumour-mongeringReutersBeijing, October 10A Chinese investigative journalistwho has accused officialsof corruption has beenarrested, his lawyer said today,becoming the latest in aseries of government criticsto be swept up in Beijing’scrackdown on rumours.Liu Hu, a reporter with theGuangzhou-based newspaperNew Express, was arrestedon a charge of defamationon September 30, said hislawyer, Zhou Ze. Liu hadbeen detained in late Augustin the southwestern metropolisof Chongqing on suspicionof ‘fabricating andspreading rumours’.China’s crackdown on online‘rumour-mongering’,widely seen as a tool to haltcriticism of the ruling CommunistParty, has chilled politicaldiscourse, with highprofilebloggers saying theyhave reined in sensitive postingsfor fear of detention.Lawyers and activistscalled the crackdown a significant,if crude, expansionof powers to police the Internetand a blow to those whorely on microblogs to disseminateinformation that isoften not monitored asstrictly as traditional media.On July 29, Liu accused MaZhengqi, deputy director ofthe State Administration forIndustry and Commerce, ofdereliction of duty during histime as party secretary of alocal district in Chongqing.Liu had posted these allegationson his microblog. Theadministration said it hadbeen informed of the accusationbut made no furthercomment, according to theBeijing Times newspaper.Zhou called the chargeagainst his client a ‘speechcrime’ and said the governmentcould be retaliatingagainst Liu because he detailedspecific allegationsagainst a wide range of officials,including many seniorones, across manyprovinces. Liu’s informationcame from his reporting andthrough his network, Zhousaid, adding that Liu had noreason to suspect theveracity of the content.“It’s impossible that passingon this information constitutesthe deliberate spreadof false information or theintentional fabrication andtransmission of information,”Zhou said. “Thereforeit doesn’t constitute defamation.”Liu’s microblog accounthas been deleted. Officials inChongqing could not bereached for comment. ChinesePresident Xi Jinping hasmade fighting graft a toptheme of his new administration,and has specificallytargetedextravagance and waste,seeking to assuage angerover corruptionand restore faith in theparty.While the party has encouragedpeople to use theInternet to expose graft, ithas detained activists whohave called for officials topublicly disclose their assets.Zhou said he believes theChinese government ‘issomewhatuneasy’ about people usingthe Internet as a tool tofight corruption.Wary of any threat to itsauthority or social stability,the party has also stepped upits already tight controls oversocial media to limit publicdiscussion of sensitive politicalissues. In September, thegovernment unveiled toughmeasures to halt the spreadof what it called irresponsiblerumours, threateningterms of three years in jail ifuntrue postings online werewidely reposted. “Weeks afterthe government passed anew rule criminalizing ‘onlinerumours’, a well-knownwhistleblower is arrested fordefaming officials — themessage cannot be clearer,and it is likely to further silenceChinese netizens whoare already quite worried,”said Maya Wang, a researcherat Human RightsWatch.

PAGE 10www.thehimalayantimes.comTHE HIMALAYAN TIMES, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2013Business• WEEKLY DOLLAR RATEIN RUPEES• WEEKLY SILVERPRICES IN RUPEES PER TOLA (11.66 GRAM)Source: Federation of Nepal Gold and Silver Dealers’ Association (FNegosida)• WEEKLY GOLDPRICES IN RUPEES PER TOLA (11.66 GRAM)Source: Federation of Nepal Gold and Silver Dealers’ Association (FNegosida)Himalayan News ServiceKathmandu, October 10Ministry of Urban Developmentis coming up with apolicy to promote concept ofbuilding affordable housingunits for lower-middle- andmiddle-income groupsthrough cooperatives.“We have already starteddiscussions on framing thepolicy and we are planning tocome up with its draft by theend of this fiscal year,” saidjoint secretary at urban developmentministry SureshPrakash Acharya. “Once thedraft is prepared we will hireconsultants to fine tune itand get it endorsed.”(Source: Nepal Rastra Bank)Interest spread not to exceedfive per cent: Central BankHimalayan News ServiceKathmandu, October 10Financial institutions from now on willhave to fix their interest rates in such amanner that the interest spread does notexceed five per cent.Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has asked financialinstitutions to maintain the averagedifference in deposit and lending rate— also known as interest spread — withinfive per cent. The central bank also providedthe financial institutions a formula tocalculate the interest spread.The average spread will be calculatedbased on monthly average interest incomeand expenses and average credit and depositswith the bank. Financial institutionswill have to start publishing the monthlyinterest spread on their respective websitesand report it to the regulator — NRB —from the beginning of the third quarter ofthe current fiscal year.OPEC sticks to globaloil demand forecastsAgence France PresseVienna, October 10The OPEC oil cartel on Thursdaystuck to its forecasts forglobal oil demand, projectinga rise of one per cent this yearand of 1.2 per cent in 2014.The Organisation of PetroleumExporting Countriessaid in its October monthlyreport that demand wouldaverage 89.74 million barrelsper day (mbpd) in 2013 and90.78 mbpd in 2014.Those financial institutions that have interestspread higher than five per cent willhave to bring it down to the prescribed levelby the end of the current fiscal year.While announcing the monetary policy,the central bank had said that it will imposethe regulation that will limit the spreadof the banks which made interest ratesinelastic despite the state of liquidity in thefinancial system.However, bankers have been expressingthat they are not able to bring down lendingrates despite bringing down the depositrate due to low returns in alternative investmenttools. Moreover, they also point outthat only a few banks have interest spreadhigher than five per cent.Though NRB’s policy is not to directly intervenein the interest rate determinationof financial institutions, but, now it hasstarted to explicitly steer the interest ratemovement. The average net interest spreadof commercial banks increased to 4.4 perIt kept its economic growthforecasts at 2.9 per cent thisyear and 3.5 per cent in 2014,‘although ongoing developmentsregarding the budgetstand-off in the US requireclose monitoring’, OPEC said.OPEC, pumping about 35per cent of the world’s oilsupply, revised upwards itsoil demand forecasts forOECD members of the Americasand Europe after an ‘improvementof macroeconomicindicators’.Govt plans to promote housing cooperativesSays it will help in the development of affordable housesThe policy primarily aimsat facilitating housing cooperativesdeveloping housingprojects in urban areas tobuild various infrastructureand public utility facilities.“The policy will make sureof the presence of infrastructurelike schools and healthcentres in the locality,”Acharya said. “It will alsomake sure that electricity,drinking water and sewagefacilities are available in thearea where cooperatives arebuilding housing units.”Acharya, however, declinedto elaborate citing thediscussions are in the ‘initialstage’. But he said: “Such apolicy will help in the developmentof affordable housingunits for people of lowermiddle-and middle-incomegroups who are currentlyforced to live in rented roomsor apartments.” At present,many people living in urbanareas are living in rentedrooms or apartments becausethey cannot afford tobuy houses and apartmentsbuilt by housing developmentcompanies.Nepal Living StandardsSurvey 2010-11 says almost50 per cent of the householdsin Kathmandu Valley are hiringrooms and apartmentsfor accommodation.Another survey conductedby the Central Bureau of Statisticssays that around255,444 of the total of 435,544households in Kathmandudistrict are living in rentedrooms and apartments. Similarly,44,806 of total 109,505households in Lalitpur district,and 22,349 of 68,557households in Bhaktapurdistrict are hiring rooms andapartments for accommodation,says the survey report.“Housing cooperatives canplay a key role in movingthese people from rentedrooms and apartments totheir own houses, as suchunits can pool financial resourcesto build housingunits for members at affordableprices,” Acharya said.ReutersSan Francisco, October 10Janet Yellen, PresidentBarack Obama’s pick to leadthe Federal Reserve, combinesa solid reputation asan economist with a keeninterest in communication— fitting for someone whoonce joked that her dinnerguests should expect a discussionof economics.Yellen, a former professorwho is currently the Fed’svice chair, has a reputationas one of the central bank’smost employment-focusedofficials and has also beenat the forefront of a communications‘revolution’ atthe once-secretive Fed.She has been a close allyof chairman Ben Bernankeas he took the central bankfurther and further into unfamiliarterrain to boost thecent in the fourth quarter of the last fiscalyear, according to the unaudited financialreports of the commercial banks. Amongthe 31 commercial banks in existence, thenet spread of only seven banks was abovefive per cent.Likewise, NRB has also said the share ofinstitutional deposit to total deposit shouldnot exceed 60 per cent and the share of depositparked by single institutional depositorshould not exceed 20 per cent of the totaldeposit collected by the institution.Any financial institution that is handlingdeposits exceeding the limit will have tobring it down to the regulatory level by theend of the current fiscal year.Most of the institutional depositors atpresent are government agencies andfunds managed by government agenciessuch as Nepal Police, Nepal Army, governmentcorporations, Employees ProvidentFund, Citizens Investment Trust, and publiclimited companies, among others.AFP / RSSA model holding Samsung's first ‘curved' smartphone GalaxyRound, a 5.7” handset with a display that is slightly rounded onboth sides, at the Electronics and IT Industry Fair in Goyang, northof Seoul, on Thursday.Chinese, European centralbanks strike currency dealAgence France PresseBeijing, October 10The Chinese and European centralbanks said on Thursday theyreached an agreement to set up a‘currency swap’ mechanism forthe purchase and repurchase oftheir respective currencies, theyuan and euro.The ‘bilateral currency swaparrangement’ will be valid forthree years, the European CentralBank said in a statement onits website.When Chinese yuan are providedto the ECB, the maximumsize of the arrangement will be350 billion yuan (42 billion euro),the statement said. It will stand at45 billion euro when the singlecurrency is provided to the People’sBank of China (PBoC), thestatement said.The PBoC released a similarstatement on its website announcingthe deal, which it saidwas agreed on Wednesday.“The swap arrangement hasbeen established in the contextof rapidly growing bilateral tradeand investment between theeuro area and China, as wellas the need to ensure the stabilityof financial markets,” EuropeanCentral Bank statement said.The deal is also meant ‘to serveas a backstop liquidity facilityand to reassure euro area banksof the continuous provision ofChinese yuan’, it added.China has taken steps in recentyears to increase internationaltrading of its currency and hasbeen working eventually to makeit fully convertible for internationaltransactions, though keyrestrictions remain.It is convertible for tradepurposes, for example, butthe government keeps a tightgrip on the capital accounton fears that unpredictableinflows or outflows could harmthe economy and reduce itscontrol.US economy, backing threerounds of bond buying thathave swelled the Fed’sbalance sheet to about$3.7 trillion.Obama announced onWednesday that he wouldnominate Yellen to succeedBernanke. If confirmed bythe US Senate, she would bethe first woman to head theFed in its 100-year history.The white-haired Yellenplayed a big role in the Fed’sadoption of a two per centinflation target and its decisionto treat undershootingand overshooting that targetas equally problematic.Like many Fed officials,Yellen, who counts hikingand cooking among herhobbies, believes ensuringthat the public and financialmarkets understand thecentral bank’s plans iscritical in making those‘Protect labour rights’DOHA: A delegation from an internationallabour federation inspectingthe situation of migrant workers inthe 2022 football World Cup hostcountry, on Thursday urged immediate‘bolder’ steps by Qatar to protectlabour. “Bolder steps are needed now,not in the future,” said a statement bythe Building and Wood Worker’s Internationalfederation whose 18-member team on Thursday concludeda four-day mission in the gas-richstate. Qatar has come under mountingpressure to end exploitation ofmigrant workers, as it embarks on amulti-billion-dollar constructionprogramme to prepare to host the2022 football World Cup. — AFPEtihad boosts stakeABU DHABI: Etihad Airways says ithas nearly doubled its stake in carrierVirgin Australia to 19.9 per cent aspart of the fast-growing airline’s effortsto bolster international partnerships.The moves by Abu DhabibasedEtihad reflect the intense competitionwith regional rivals QatarAirways and Dubai’s Emirates, whichmade a partnership this year withAustralia’s Qantas Airways. Previously,Etihad had a 10.5 per cent stake.Etihad also holds shares in airberlin,Air Seychelles and Aer Lingus. — APNike revenue targetBEAVERTON: Nike Inc, today, providedan overview of its progress on keystrategic initiatives to achieve sustainable,profitable long-termgrowth. During an investor meetingat its world headquarters in Beaverton,Oregon, the company stated itexpects to deliver revenues of $30 billionby fiscal year 2015, at the top endof its previously announced fiscalyear 2015 target range of $28-$30 billionand shared a new fiscal year 2017revenue target of $36 billion. — APHP stays upbeatSAN JOSE: Hewlett-Packard is upbeatabout 2014, saying it will be a year of‘recovery and expansion’. Technologybellwether, on Wednesday, projectedearnings for the fiscal year starting inNovember that exceeded analysts’forecasts and predicted ‘stabilisingrevenue declines’. HP has been tryingto ease pain of a declining PC marketby cutting costs and focusing onmore profitable areas. — AP• FOREX RATESThe foreign exchange rates for October 11 as fixed by Nepal Rastra Bank are as follows:CURRENCY UNIT BUYING (in Rs.) SELLING (in Rs.)Swiss Franc 1 108.68 109.34Australian Dollar 1 93.35 93.92Canadian Dollar 1 95.24 95.82Singapore Dollar 1 79.09 79.57Saudi Riyal 1 26.40 26.56Qatari Riyal 1 27.19 27.35Thai Bhat 1 3.15 3.17UAE Dihram 1 26.95 27.12Malaysian Ringit 1 31.02 31.21Swedish Krona 1 15.20Danish Krona 1 17.95Hong Kong Dollar 1 12.77Note: Under the present system the open market exchange rates quoted bydifferent /commercial banks may differ.Yellen brings dovish bent to Fed tablepolicies effective.“The effects of monetarypolicy depend critically onthe public getting the messageabout what policy willdo months or years in thefuture,” she told a journalists’group in April.The softly spoken 67-year-old is, by her own admission,willing to tolerateinflation overshooting theFed’s two per cent targetwhen faced with uncomfortablyhigh unemployment.“A wise and humanepolicy is occasionally to letinflation rise even when inflationis running above target,”she said in 1995.In a speech last year, sheargued the central bank canachieve the best economicoutcome by allowing inflationto exceed the Fed’s targetfor several years toachieve a faster reduction inunemployment, as long aslonger-term inflation expectationsremain in check.Yellen, who earned herdoctorate in economicsfrom Yale, was the daughterof a Brooklyn doctor whosaw patients in the familyhome. Her mother wasden mother to a troop ofCub Scouts.Rich Rubin, a retired professorof medicine who wasa classmate of Yellen’s fornine years, said that as a boyhe frequently visited the‘cozy’ Yellen home. He recalledYellen, quiet as usual,lingering around the fringesof the all-boys Cub Scoutgroup as they discussed literature.“I remember her momtalking about books withus. It was clear the familywas a very cultured family,”Rubin said.

THE HIMALAYAN TIMES, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2013www.thehimalayantimes.comBUSINESSPAGE 11• BIZ BRIEFSNepse benchmark index shoots past 565 pointsNissan's New Mobility CONCEPTultra-compact electric vehicle isseen during a ceremony, inYokohama, on Thursday.AFP / RSSAeroflot’s new serviceMOSCOW: Russia’s Soviet-era flagcarrier Aeroflot unveiled its own budgetairline on Thursday that will haveno reclining seats or business class,but aims for fares nearly half thosecharged by the competition. Aeroflotsaid its new Dobrolyot carrier —loosely translated as the ‘nice flight’airline — will fly initially fromMoscow to Saint Petersburg and fiveother Russian cities before expandingits horizons. — AFPBoE interest rateLONDON: The Bank of England(BoE) voted to keep its key interestrate at a record low level of 0.50 percent, it said on Thursday, followingits monthly monetary policy meeting.BoE policymakers decided alsoto maintain at £375 billion theamount of cash stimulus that thecentral bank is pumping around theBritish economy, a statement said.The outcome had been widely expectedby markets. — AFP• STOCKSN NAME OF THE COMPANYSHARE VALUE IN RUPEES SHARES QTYMaximum Minimum Closing1 Ace Dev Bank Ltd 134 133 133 6072 Agricultural Dev Bank Ltd 287 274 287 9,0843 Arun Valley Hydropower Dev Co Ltd 332 322 328 3,7794 Alliance Insurance Co Ltd 244 244 244 8065 Asian Life Insurance Co Ltd 441 425 435 5,2236 Bank of Kathmandu 538 525 538 5597 Butwal Power Co Ltd 795 795 795 1508 Bishwa Bikas Bank Ltd 151 151 151 619 Chilime Hydro power Co 1,260 1,246 1,250 3,93310 Citizen Investment Trust 1,683 1,683 1,683 5011 Commerz and Trust Bank Nepal Ltd 158 152 152 1,95412 Citizens Bank International Ltd 252 250 251 1,54313 Citizens Bank Int Ltd Pro Share 135 126 135 333,03714 Everest Bank Ltd 1,566 1,560 1,560 1,01715 Excel Dev Bank Ltd 343 343 343 2016 Everest Insurance Co Ltd 211 211 211 6717 Garima Bikas Bank Ltd 150 150 150 7718 Global IME Bank Ltd 435 417 428 8,22519 Guras Life Insurance Co Ltd 264 249 264 6,59220 Grand Bank Nepal Ltd 181 179 180 2,62121 Gaurishankar Dev Bank Ltd 97 97 97 7722 H & B Dev Bank Ltd 49.97 48.04 49.98 3,32423 Himalayan Bank Ltd 735 718 733 43224 Himalayan Gen.Insu. CoLtd 387 387 387 6025 Infrastructure Dev Bank Ltd 62 62 62 1126 International Leasing And Fin. Co 136 134 135 38527 Janata Bank Nepal Ltd 165 163 164 3,07528 Janaki Finance Ltd 249 249 249 21029 Kumari Bank Ltd 311 301 301 1,01830 Kasthamandap Dev Bank Ltd 63 63 63 7231 Kabeli Bikas Bank Ltd 115 115 115 2232 Kamana Bikas Bank Ltd 153 153 153 5033 Laxmi Bank Ltd 354 348 354 21234 Lumbini Finance Ltd 124 122 124 35135 Lumbini General Insurance 230 220 226 67936 Life Insurance Co Nepal 1,375 1,375 1,375 4837 Lumbini Bank Ltd 201 196 201 1,56738 Machhachapuchhre Bank Ltd 246 238 240 6,03139 Mega Bank Nepal Ltd 186 180 182 12,82440 Multipurpose Finance Co Ltd 65 63 65 3041 Nabil Bank Ltd 2,035 2,015 2,030 1,25542 NABIL Bank Ltd Promotor Share 1,270 1,270 1,270 18943 Nepal Bangladesh Bank Ltd 392 382 392 19,32544 Nepal Bank Ltd 164 157 164 13,27045 Nepal Credit And Com. Bank 288 282 282 11,82046 NDEP Dev Bank Ltd 82 80 82 3,61647 Nilgiri Bikas Bank Ltd 131 131 131 2348 Nepal Investment Bank Ltd 862 851 860 3,37749 NIC Asia Bank Ltd 620 603 620 2,61250 Nepal Insurance CoLtd 446 430 446 17751 Neco Insurance Co 166 166 166 2752 Nerude Laghubita Bikas Bank Ltd 720 710 712 55453 NLG Insurance Co Ltd 478 470 470 32054 Nepal Life Insurance Co Ltd 2,175 2,170 2,170 1,05455 National LifeInsu. CoLtd 1,040 1,000 1,040 15,08356 NMB Bank Ltd 260 254 260 3,24157 Nepal Doorsanchar Co Ltd 601 599 601 28058 Nirdhan Utthan Bank Ltd 475 475 475 57259 Prime Commercial Bank Ltd 330 320 323 4,30860 Prudential Finance Co Ltd 60 60 60 45061 Premier Insurance Co Ltd 174 174 174 1062 Prime Life Insurance Co Ltd 390 384 390 2,34863 Purnima Bikas Bank Ltd 103 103 103 10064 Rural Microfinance Dev Centre Ltd 592 560 570 35,36865 Sanima Bank Ltd 259 242 255 4,61366 Nepal SBI Bank Ltd 794 765 794 47667 Siddhartha Bank Ltd 395 390 390 2,20868 Standard Chartered Bank Ltd 1,793 1,760 1,760 12469 Sewa Bikas Bank Ltd 119 115 117 87870 Shine Resunga Dev Bank Ltd 204 198 200 1,43971 Soaltee Hotel Ltd 310 288 310 9,14272 Sagarmatha Insurance CoLtd 805 790 805 1,25773 Shikhar Insurance Co Ltd 520 511 511 78274 Sana Kisan Bikas Bank Ltd 718 652 690 23,56575 Swarojgar Laghu Bitta Bikas Bank Ltd 347 341 345 24876 Surya Life Insurance Co Ltd 244 244 244 4577 Sunrise Bank Ltd 232 228 232 45878 Swabalamwan Bikash Bank 498 496 496 41679 Tourism Dev Bank Ltd 90 89 90 4,55880 Union Finance Ltd 100 100 100 14781 United Finance Ltd 138 138 138 5682 Uniliver Nepal Ltd 9,999 9,999 9,999 4083 Western Dev Bank Ltd 95 94 94 132Total Traded Amount Rs: 156,505,776Float Index: 39.77 (0.33 )Total Market Cap Rs: 570,583.67 millionsBase: 24/08/2008=100Total Shares: 579,846Nepse Index: 566.99 (6.52)Total Transactions: 1,423Base: 16/07/2006, (Adjusted on 10/04/2007) = 100 Date: October 10, 2013Himalayan News ServiceKathmandu, October 10The stock market has rocketedpast the 565-point mark,reaching a 35-month high asinvestors seem to have revertedto stock buying this week —October 6 to 10.The benchmark index restedat 566.68 points by the end ofthe week, gaining 21 points. Itwas this high back in mid-November2009.Despite the lucrative dividendsannounced by listedcompanies, the market hadfailed to react positively in theprevious weeks. The possibilityof CA election coming tofruition within the next twomonths has also kept investorsentiment upbeat.“Moreover, the slight gain inthe beginning of the weekBrick kiln operators comeunder Value Added Tax netHimalayan News ServiceKathmandu, October 10The Inland Revenue Departmenttoday gave away certificates to 97brick kiln operators that cameunder value added tax network.“We have finally settled the differencesof last 18 years that delayedprocess of bringing brickmanufacturing firms under theVAT network,” said IRD directorgeneral Tanka Mani Sharma at afunction in Kathmandu, today, togive away certificates.“We hope we will now be ableto maintain a cordial relation.”The government, in mid-July,Agence France PresseSan Francisco, October 10For those who use a mobilewallet, a new app aimsto help keep track ofwhen electronic cash isrunning low.Level Money applicationunveiled on Thursday aimsto give smartphone users a‘money meter’ at a timewhen carrying cash ispasse. The app, for thosewho use Apple’s mobile iOSgadgets, is aimed squarelyat people age 35 oryounger, referred to as Millennialsor Generation Y.“For the vast majority ofthat group, money managementis checking thebalance at the ATM afterthe money comes out ofthe machine,” said Levelco-founder and chief executiveJake Fuentes.“Frankly, we don’t thinkabout money the same wayour parents do,” the 27-year-old continued. “Wedidn’t grow up with savingsbank passbooks and physicalmoney; you swipe acard and put it back in yourwallet.”Level Money lets smartphonesshow whether itwould be fiscally smarterto pass on buying thatextra round of drinks orsleek new gadget. “Wewant to give you this realtimemoney meter,”Fuentes said.had made it mandatory for brickkiln operators to come under VATnet within October 17. If theyabided by this instruction, thegovernment had agreed not toslap VAT, interest and fines ontransactions conducted by themprior to October 17. “We will takestrong action against firms thatdo not cooperate in this regard.”First vice president of BhaktapurBrick Entrepreneurs AssociationBishwa Ram Kawa said brickmanufacturers were willing topay taxes to the government. Thegovernment is hoping to collectVAT of Rs two billion per yearfrom brick kiln operators.Data show China passingUS as biggest oil importerAssociated PressBeijing, October 10China has achieved anotherworld-beating status itsleaders don’t want: Biggestoil importer.China passed the UnitedStates in September as theworld’s biggest net oil importer,driven by fastereconomic growth andstrong auto sales, accordingto US government datareleased this week.Chinese oil consumptionoutstripped productionby 6.3 million barrelsper day, which indicatesthe country had to importthat much to fill the gap,the Energy InformationAdministration (EIA) saidthis week.“China’s steady growthin oil demand has led it tobecome the world’s largestnet oil importer, exceedingthe US in September 2013,”the agency said in a report.“EIA forecasts this trend tocontinue through 2014.”China’s economic boomhas raised incomes and increasedits global influence.But it also hasspurred demand for importedoil and gas, whichcommunist leaders see as astrategic weakness.Rising auto ownershiphas left China’s cities chokingon smog and addedto pressure on Beijingfrom its own public to curbpollution.New app aimsto keep tabs onmobile walletLevel Money synchroniseswith bank accountsand credit or debit cards,analysing entries to identifyincome and monthlybills such as rent or mobilephone service. The applicationlets people specifyhow much of their pay theywant to save.“We distill it down tostuff that has to be paidevery month, savings, andeverything else comes upas spendable,” Fuentessaid. “That is the way thisgeneration thinks: Am Ifeeling rich today or am Inot?” San Francisco-basedLevel entices people byprojecting how muchmoney they are on pace tohave saved at the end of amonth to put towardsplurging on themselves.Level partnered with personalfinance software titanIntuit to handle people’spersonal informationwith ‘bank-level securityand encryption’.“Level is a radically simpleapproach to moneymanagement,” Fuentessaid. “We think this is partof a sea change to usingmobile devices for financialdecisions in a way notseen before.”Level Money is availableonly for iPhones in theUnited States but the ninepersonstartup was intenton expanding quickly tomore devices.| WEEKLY SHARE UPDATE |(Figures in points. Source: Nepse)made investors hopeful regardinga future price rise,” accordingto broker number 35Bharat Ranabhat.“We were handling morebuy orders than sell orders especiallyfor the recently listedRural Microfinance DevelopmentCenter and Sana KisanBikas Bank and other regularfirms,” he added.On Sunday afternoon, themarket had opened at 545.37points, which reached 551.38points by the time the marketclosed. The index that hadstarted to get bullish from thevery first day of the week continuedto skyrocket in the nextfour days. By Thursday, whenthe market closed, the indexhad reached 566.68 points — afour-year high.This week, the stock exchange’sfloor witnessed tradingof 2.05 million units ofshares worth Rs 615.9 millionin 7,298 transactions. Lastweek, Nepse’s trading floor hadobserved transaction of 2.05million units worth Rs 546 milliontraded in 8026 transactions.This week’s transactionvolume increased by 12 percent as the bullish index hasstarted to attract investors.Share trading of blue chipstocks belonging to class ‘A’companies comprised of 37.09per cent of total transaction,amounting to Rs 187.1 million.The sensitive index increasedby 0.17 points. Likewise, thefloat index also went up by 1.25points to 39.77 points.This week all subgroups registeredgains. The biggest gainerwas others subgroup thatregistered a gain of 37.58points as Nepal Telecom’sshare price appreciated by Rs23 a unit. Manufacturing subgroupearned 30.27 points asBottlers Nepal Terai’s shareprice rose by Rs 289 per unit.Likewise, the insurance subgroupgained 29.45 points asNepal Life Insurance and NationalInsurance earned Rs 95and Rs 20 per share, respectively.Likewise, Chilime HydropowerCompany’s sharesearned Rs 22 and Butwal PowerCompany earned Rs five perunit and the hydro subgroupwent up by 19.32 points. Financecompanies and developmentbanks registered gainsof 8.48 points and 2.65 points,respectively.As banks such as Nabil Bank,Everest Bank and StandardChartered Bank earned Rs 56,Rs 100 and Rs 79 per unit, respectively,banking gained27.69 points. This week, NepalBangladesh Bank topped thecharts in terms of transactionvolume with trading worth Rs59.9 million. Citizens Bank InternationalPromoters Sharetopped in terms of number ofshares traded with trading of333,037 unit shares. MegaBank Nepal was the forerunnerin terms of number of transactionswith 1277 transactions.

PAGE 12www.thehimalayantimes.comTHE HIMALAYAN TIMES, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2013SportsNepali camp confident to makefull use of Harris’ mentoringAdarsha DhakalKathmandu, October 10Nepali camp was confidentthat the 10-day training providedby Australian batting coachChris Harris would bear fruitsfor the country in the upcomingtournaments.Harris is leaving on Friday afterproviding batting tips toNepali players and coach PubuduDassanayake was hopefulthat his boys would make themost of his mentoring in theICC World Twenty20 and ICCCricket World Cup Qualifiers.“Chris did a very good jobwith us and the boys are reallyhappy. I can clearly see the improvementsin them and theconfidence that have beengained in the last couple ofdays,” said Dassanayake. “It’snot that we will get the thingschanged in a short span of timebut he has given us a pictureand I am confident that theboys will begin adapting tothem,” added the coach.Harris instilled various battingtechniques in Nepali boyswhich Dassanayake called a 360degree approach to the game.“Cricket nowadays has changeda lot. The bowlers are alwaystrying different variations, theteam strategies change accordingto the game conditions. Wehave to take care of all these aspectsand play shots all over thegrounds and Chris has given usa 360 degree approach in thebatting department,” Dassanayakesaid.The file photo shows Gyanendra Malla during a team trainingsession in Kathmandu.National team vice-captainGyanendra Malla — who is consideredthe most technicalbatsman of Nepal — said Harris’mentoring would bringchanges in due course. “It’s notTHTthe case that we learn somethingtoday and see the changeinstantly,” Gyanendra said.“It all depends on how oftenwe practice the newly-learnttechniques. We have to keep onpracticing the techniques andimplement them frequently toconvert the one per cent into 90or 100,” he added. The righthandedbatsmen said the betterthing learnt was to adapt selfunder changing conditions.“We were given a basic pictureon playing shots accordingto the game situation. We learnthow we are going to select ourshots by evaluating demand ofthe situation and field that hasbeen set,” Gyanendra told TheHimalayan Times.Since Nepal are beginningtheir most gruelling and testingjourney in the cricketing historywith the World Twenty20Qualifiers at the United ArabEmirates, Dassanayake was notin a hurry to think about 50-over Qualifiers, to be held inJanuary next year.“I am not rushing up thingsbecause there is still a lot oftime left for us to face the paceand bouncy wickets of NewZealand. The plans for NewZealand are yet to come out andright now we have been givenideas on how we adjust ourselvesand rest of the thing isabout adapting to it,” he said.Harris landed here on October10 as per the invitation fromHigh Performance ProgrammeCommittee, formed by theCricket Association of Nepal toprepare the national team forthe two Qualifiers. The HPPChas also brought four SriLankan fast bowlers in a bid tomake it easy for Nepali batsmenin facing quality seamers.Jitendra, Maheshin; Chandra axedHimalayan News ServiceKathmandu, October 10Right-arm seamer ChandraSawad was the biggest casualtyand Mahesh Chhetrimade a fairy comeback asthe Cricket Association ofNepal today announced a15-member squad for theICC World Twenty20 Qualifiersbeginning in the UnitedArab Emirates (UAE)from November 15.Chandra — who had amemorable debut with thenational team picking up 4-24 in a 28-run victory overHong Kong in the 2012 ICCWorld Twenty20 Qualifiersin the UAE — lost his placeto another right arm pacemanJitendra Mukhiya. Jitendrais yet to make debutwith the national team.After almost a three-yearhiatus, Mahesh vaultedback to the national fold forthe November 15-30 Qualifiers.Mahesh won his placeahead of Prithu Baskota —who had been already ruledout from the tournamentdue to a ligament tear in hisright knee.Mahesh last played forthe national team duringthe 2010 Asian Games inGuangzhou. He was themost consistent batsman inthe recently held Pepsi StandardChartered NationalTwenty20 Cricket Tournamentslamming three halfcenturies in four matches.Experienced right-armspinner Sanjam Regmi wasanother big name omittedfrom the squad. Sanjamdidn’t compete in the NationalTwenty20 due to aninfected eye. He was alsorested for the ACC EmergingTeams Cup held in Singaporein August.Teen fast bowler AvinashKarn has retained his placefollowing his decent performancein the EmergingTeams Cup and left-armseamer Amrit Bhattarai returnedback to the team afterbeing kept out of Singaporeevent. Paras Khadkawill lead the Nepali side thatincludes Gyanendra Mallaas his deputy, Sharad Vesawkar,Basanta Regmi, AnilMandal, Sagar Pun, ShaktiGauchan, Pradeep Airee,Binod Bhandari, Rahul KumarBK and SubashKhakurel. Chandra alongwith Ram Naresh Giri,Naresh Budhayer andBhuwan Karki have beennamed in reserve pool.Former skipper and veteranBinod Das had left thecamp two days earlier dueto a hamstring tear, whileothers eliminated from the23-member preliminarysquad were ManjeetShrestha, Som Pal Thapaand Yagya Man Kumal.Nepal are pitted in Group‘B’ in the Twenty20 Qualifiersalongside Afghanistan,the Netherlands, Scotland,Kenya, Bermuda, Denmarkand Papua New Guinea. Thetop six teams will book theirtickets to the 2014 ICCWorld Twenty20 to be hostedby Bangladesh.Shiva Ram falters onfinal day, finishes 10thHimalayan News ServiceKathmandu, October 10Himalayan News ServiceKathmandu, October 10Rishav Acharya won the titleof the Faldo Series Qualifiersselection tournamenthere at the Royal Nepal GolfClub today.Played under stroke playscratch handicap formatover 36 holes, Rishav cameup with the 36-hole total of154 over to finish first in theU-20 category of the Kathmandudistrict selectiontournament for the FaldoSeries Qualifiers slated atthe Gokarna Golf Club onOctober 22-23. IshwarBharati came second at 156,while Sandesh Khanal wasthird at 157.In the boys’ U-15 section,Sam Doublard came firstwith the score of 171, whileSaurav Acharya and SabinKhanal were second andthird at 175 and 177 respectively.Likewise in girls’ U-20competition, Aditi GhimireNepal No 1 Shiva Ram Shresthafaltered on the final day of theBTI International Golf Championshipat the Kurmitola GolfClub in Dhaka today.The 2013 Surya Nepal Masterswinner, Shiva Ram played fiveover77 today to end the tournamentat even-par 288 and finishat 10th position. Out of the totalcash purse of three million taka,Shiva Ram earned 36,400 taka.Kurmitola pro Jamal HossainMollah produced the best card ofthe day at four-under 68 to winthe tournament with the totalscore of 12-under 276. Overnightleader Shamim Khan of Indiaplayed even-par 72 to finish secondat 11-under, while his countrymenRanjit Singh and HarenderGupta were tied on thirdalong with local pro Sayum atnine-under 279.Another Kurmitola pro MilonAhmed and India’s Raju Ali Mollahshared the sixth position atseven-under, whereas local amateursMd Nazim and Md Musawere impressive throughout theevent with the duo finishing atfive-under and four-under respectively.Shiva Ram, who was five-undergoing into the final round,took the turn at two-over 38 andadded three-over 39 on the backnine. He started the day with abogey and added another on thethird hole in the first half. In theeventful back nine, Shiva Ramshot three bogeys and a doublebogey against two birdies.A total of 72 players took partin the tournament organised byBangladesh Golf Federation, underthe auspices of BangladeshProfessional Golfers Association.Only 38 players survived the cutthat was applied at eight-over152. Of the three Nepali pros whoparticipated in the tournament,Sanjay Lama and Krishna ManRajbahak failed to make it to thefinal two rounds.finished first with the scoreof 160, whereas PratimaSherpa (164) and KasmiraShah (182) were second andthird respectively.On Wednesday, sevenplayers from Sunsari and sixfrom Kaski made it to theQualifiers. Arun Tamang,Sonam Bhujel and Ajit BKearned berths in the U-20category, while Sudeep BK,Sudeep Tamang and AjayBK claimed top three spots• TIME OUTBrazil's Neymar joins Daniel Alves(left) and Oscar (right) during theirtraining at National Football Centerin Paju on Thursday. Brazil will playa friendly match against SouthKorea in Seoul on Saturday.National taekwondoAP / RSSKATHMANDU: Koteshwor TaekwondoDojang is organising the fourthKoteshwor Invitational NationalTaekwondo Championships herefrom October 25. A total of 168 playersin senior and junior categorieswill compete in the two-day event offering15 gold medals — nine in seniorand six in junior categories — informedthe organisers. Ten teams —five regional teams, Nepal APF Club,Nepal Police Club, Tribhuvan ArmyClub and hosts ‘A’ and ‘B’ — will competein the senior category, whileKathmandu, Bhaktapur and Lalitpurwill join them in the junior section.Top four players in both the sectionwill share cash rewards. — HNSOpen VolleyballKATHMANDU: New Diamond SportsClub defeated Dhorpatan SportsClub 25-15, 18-25, 25-15, 25-22 intheir last round robin league matchof the 15th Rajendra Memorial OpenVolleyball Championship here onThursday. With their fourth successivewin in the five-team tournament,New Diamond finished as winners,while Dhorpatan joined them in thechampionship match as the runnersup.Chitra Bahadur KC of the winningside was adjudged the man-of-thematchand received a silver chain.The final is slated for Saturday. — HNSCompton wins awardSAN MARTIN: Two-time heart transplantrecipient Erik Compton is thewinner of the inaugural PGA TourCourage Award. The PGA TourCourage Award is for players whohave overcome extraordinary adversityto make meaningful contributionsto golf. Compton was diagnosedat age nine with viral cardiomyopathyand had his first heart transplantthree years later in 1992. He had aheart attack in 2008 and required asecond transplant. Compton stillmanaged to make it to the PGA Tour,and this year made it through twoFedEx Cup playoff events. The awardincludes a $25,000 donation to thecharity of the winner’s choice. — APRishav wins selection golf tournamentSam claims boys’U-15,Aditi clinches girls’section trophyPhoto Courtesy : NGAWinners of selection golf tournament with officials atthe Royal Nepal Golf Club in Kathmandu on Thursday.in the U-16 section at theHimalayan Golf Course inPokhara.Likewise, Shivraj Majhi,Yubaraj Bhujel and AnshuLimbu were selected in theU-20 category from thetournament held at the NirvanaCountry Club in Dharan,while Suman Pariyar,Sudre Rai and Sagar Gurungmade the cut in the U-16category. In the girls’ section,Narking Pakhrinearned the lone berth fromSunsari district. The selectiontournaments in all thethree centres were sponsoredby Satpal Singh ofGaekwad Foundation.The Nepali players willnow compete with golfersfrom Bangladesh, Bhutanand UAE in the Faldo SeriesQualifiers. The winners ofthe three categories willearn berths for the Faldo Series(Asia) final, which willbe held at the Mission Hills,China in March next year.

THE HIMALAYAN TIMES, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2013www.thehimalayantimes.comSPORTSPAGE 13Tendulkar to retire from TestsReutersMumbai, October 10Indian Sachin Tendulkar,the world’s most prolific internationalrun-scorer, willretire after playing his 200thTest match at home againstWest Indies next month.“All my life, I have had adream of playing cricket forIndia. I have been living thisdream every day for the last24 years,” the 40-year-old,who compiled a record 100international centuries,said in a statement releasedby the BCCI on Thursday.“It’s hard for me to imaginea life without playingcricket because it’s all I haveever done since I was 11. It’sbeen a huge honour to haverepresented India andplayed all over the world. Ilook forward to playing my200th Test match on homeAssociated PressChittagong, October 10Mominul Haque smasheda half-century to helpBangladesh recover fromthe quick loss of two wicketsand reach 103-2 atstumps on the second dayof the first Test today.In response to NewZealand’s first inning totalof 469, Bangladesh made asluggish start but Haque’sstormy batting broughtBangladesh back on track,although still trailing by366 runs. Bangladesh losttheir two openers by thefourth over, with TamimIqbal going for a duck andAnamul Haque on three.Mominul amassed 77 off13 boundaries and MarshallAiyub was 21 not out.Brendon McCullumused six bowlers butMominul continued tobatter them amid cheersfrom a few thousandBangladeshi supporters.For New Zealand, BJWatling scored his secondTest century and added 127runs with Trent Boult intheir last-wicket stand.Bangladesh took five wicketson the day to dismissNew Zealand, who resumedon 280-5. Boultcontributed 52 runs.Watling survived afterbeing caught off a deliveryfrom Rubel Hossain becauseof a no-ball when heTendulkarsoil, as I call it a day.”Tendulkar, who made hisdebut against bitter rivalsPakistan in 1989 as a sixteen-yearold, has gone onto accumulate 15,837 runsin 198 tests and 18,246 runsin 463 one-day internationals.He played just oneBangladesh recoverafter early losswas on four, but he went onto score 103 off 182 balls.Part-time left-armerMominul Haque dismissedWatling, stumped byMushfiqur Rahim.Watling and Boult dominatedBangladesh for morethan a session after NewZealand lost their ninthwicket in the morning for342 runs. However, NewZealand’s progress stoppedwhen Watling fell 10 minutesinto an extended secondsession. Watling’s totalcame off 182 balls with sixboundaries and two sixes.Boult’s 52 featured fourboundaries and three sixesfrom 137 balls.Earlier, nightwatchmanBruce Martin (one) departedin the first over of theday and Abdur Razzak (3-147) claimed Corey Anderson(one) in the secondover, leaving the visitors introuble at 282-7. NasirHossain caught him at slip.Doug Bracewell pairedwith Watling to add 57 runsin the eighth-wicket standbefore being dismissed bySohal Gazi (2-79). Shakibtrapped Ish Sodhi lbw forone run.On Wednesday, No 3Kane Williamson scored114 and Peter Fultonadded 73 to give Kiwis astrong ground. After a sluggishtwo sessionsBangladesh rebounded bytaking three wickets.Monfils dumps out FedererReutersShanghai, October 10Fifth seed Roger Federerwas dumped out of theShanghai Open, losing toFrenchman Gael Monfils 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-3 in the thirdround today, while top seedNovak Djokovic progressed.After dropping the firstset, Federer was on thebrink of going out in straightsets at 3-5 down in the second,and later 3-5 down inthe tie-break before winningfour straight points.Monfils then broke the formerworld No 1 in thefourth game of decider.It was Monfils’s secondvictory over Federer in eightmeetings, and leaves theSwiss battling to reach theend-of-season ATP WorldTour Finals for the 12th consecutiveyear. “I knew that Ichoked on this forehand at5-4 (in the tie-break),” Monfilssaid. “Then I changedmy ideas because I wasmaybe nervous, too. Even(though) I was tired, I triedto play more aggressivelysometimes, going more formy shots and it worked.”Monfils will play top seedand defending championDjokovic in the quarters afterthe Serb defeated FabioFognini of Italy 6-3, 6-3,while sixth seed Juan Martindel Potro, French Jo-WilfriedTsonga, German FlorianMayer and Spanish NicolasAlmagro also advanced.Del Potro went throughafter German Tommy Haaswithdrew due to injury,while Tsonga beat Japan’sKei Nishikori 7-6(5), 6-0.Mayer beat 2011 runner-upDavid Ferrer 6-4 6-3 whileAlmagro beat Czech TomasBerdych in three sets.France’s Gael Monfils returns to Switzerland’s RogerFederer during the Shanghai Masters at the QizhongForest Sports City Tennis Centre on Thursday.Keys ousts Zhang, enters quartersAP / RSSOSAKA: Sixth-seededMadison Keys reachedher fourth WTA quarterfinalof the season Thursdayby beating China’sShuai Zhang 6-3, 6-0 inthe second round of theJapan Open. The 18-yearoldAmerican won ninesuccessive games to wrapup the match in 51 minutes.Keys lost just threepoints in the second set.Ninth-seeded KristinaMladenovic of France falteredafter winning a 67-minute first set, losing 6-7(5), 6-2, 6-0 to Jie Zheng ofChina. Jie will play Keyson Friday for a place inthe semifinals.Misaki Doi alsoreached the quarters bybeating fellow JapaneseKimiko Date-Krumm 7-6(3), 6-4. Doi will faceAmerican Samantha Stosur,who at No 3 is thehighest seeded player stillin the tournament. — APTwenty20 match for Indiaagainst South Africa in December2006, before retiringfrom the shortest formatof international cricket.Tendulkar fulfilled hislong-cherished dream ofwinning the World Cupwhen India won the tournamentin 2011 at home andlast December he hung uphis boots from the 50 oversgame to make way foryoungsters. Talk of Tendulkar’sretirement had polarisedopinions in thecricket-mad nation andspeculation was rife afterthe BCCI announced a twotestseries at home in Novemberagainst theCaribbean side.“I thank the BCCI foreverything over the yearsand for permitting me tomove on when my heartfeels it’s time!” said Tendulkar.“I thank my familyfor their patience and understanding.Most of all, Ithank my fans and wellwisherswho through theirprayers and wishes havegiven me the strength to goout and perform at mybest,” he added.Hotspotdumped forreturn AshesTest seriesReutersSydney, October 10The controversialHotspot technology willnot be available to umpiresto review decisionsin the upcoming Ashesseries between Australiaand England, its inventorWarren Brennan said.Hotspot, which usesinfrared cameras to determinewhether the ballhas struck the batsman,bat or pad, was the subjectof much controversyin the Ashes in Englandseries earlier this year,which the hosts won 3-0.With a second series inAustralia getting underwayin Brisbane on November21, Brennan toldthe Sydney Morning Heraldthat the technologyhad been dumped byhost broadcaster ChannelNine for cost reasons."It's their decision andthat's what's been communicatedto us. As far asI'm concerned, it is final,"Brennan, a formeremployee of ChannelNine, told the paper."We're just moving onwith things. ChannelNine have got a new dealwith Cricket Australiawhich I know has costthem a lot more money. Igather there had to besome restructuring ofcosts," Brennan added.Channel Nine said itwas not in a position tocomment on the matterat this stage.I am not dead yet, Matthaeus tells courtReutersBerlin, October 10A stamp on a court letter thatlabelled former Germanycaptain Lothar Matthaeusas “deceased” after authoritiesfailed to contact him hasleft the 1990 World Cup winnerfuming.The former Germany captain,who has long angled fora Bundesliga coaching job aftervarious stints inSerbia, Israel, Hungary,Bulgaria andSouth America, wasto be sent Munichcourt papers regardinghis alimony tohis former wife. Afterauthorities failedto locate one of Germany’smost prominentformer footballers, whois currently registered inMatthaeusHungary, the letterwas stamped withthe word “deceased”.“That is outrageous,”the 52-yearoldtold Bild newspaperon Thursday.“Everyone can seethat I am alive,whether on TV or onthepitch.”Matthaeus was once one ofthe sport’s biggest namesduring his playing days in the1980s and 1990s, where hewon the World Cup and astring of titles with BayernMunich and Inter Milan.He has repeatedly complainedabout Bundesligaclubs refusing to offer him ajob in his home country. Hewas recently linked with thecoaching job at Hamburg SVbefore the club chose DutchmanBert van Marwijk.

PAGE 14www.thehimalayantimes.comTHE HIMALAYAN TIMES, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2013THTgreenThe reality is that zero defects in productsplus zero pollution plus zero risk on the jobis equivalent to maximum growth ofgovernment plus zero economic growthplus runaway inflation — Dixie Lee RayHaving fun to one’s heart’s content is one thing that everyone looks forward to during any kind of festivity.While doing so, many of us tend to be extravagant and often irresponsible making the festival an occasion to destroynature.With the onset of Dashain, if you are looking forward to make this year’s celebration different and worthyby being eco-friendly, listen to ideas of some personalities’responsible festive plansDashainI will be celebrating thisDashain with the farmers inSurkhet. We have established anorganic ginger processing unit inChhinchu of Surkhet where 320farmers will be working. And Iwill be putting tika on thosefarmers while my two daughterswill also go together with me.Going greenNo single festival of our cultureis against environment —all festivals in one way or theother are preserving nature.Dashain also is a very environment-friendlyfestival. Peopledon’t drive and stay mostly athome, so vehicular pollution isreduced. And it is also associatedwith ecology. For instance, flyingkites in Dashain is an indicationthat we don’t need more rainfall.So, we should also respect theseaspects of our culture while havingfestive fun.— Sameer Newa,MD,The Organic ValleyTable that basksin sun’s gloryDashain plansI will go to worship at variousshaktipeeths together with myfamily. Nonetheless, receivingblessings from elders while givingblessings to those who areyounger to me is also part of celebration.Along with adhering tothe cultural aspects, we havealso taken initiatives to urgewomen’s groups and municipalitiesto clean the temple areasduring this festival.Going greenI would like to tell people thatgods and goddesses are happyonly in those places that areclean. So, let’s keep our templesclean. Don’t throw rice grainsand waste oils in the temple —these things make temple areaunclean. We should take examplesof temples from other countrieswhich are very clean andmake efforts to keep our templesneat and clean. Besides, the staffof municipalities collectinggarbage are on leave duringDashain and they don’t come forwaste collection every day. Onthese days, don’t take out wastefrom your houses — segregatedegradable and non-degradable.While you can use the degradablefor composting, keep thenon-degradables inside yourhouse until the waste collectorscome.— Dr Sumitra Amatya,Executive Director,Solid WasteManagementTechnical Support CentreDashain plansI will celebrate this year’sDashain here in Kathmandu. Iwill be reading books and writingarticles on natural resourcesduring this Dashain.Going greenDon’t cut down trees rampantlyfor firewood during Dashain.Make proper use of forest resources.Don’t waste firewoodwhile cooking, learn to get maximumbenefit using minimumresources. Your activity as a singleperson can have impactupon the entire society and naturalresources. So, always becareful and responsible whiletaking any action.I would also like to wish allthose related to forest conservationa Happy Dashain.— Apsara Chapagain,President,Federation ofCommunity Forest UsersGroup Nepal (FECOFUN)Dashain plansFor those who are involved inthe tourism sector, tourism becomesa kind of religion. It is thesame for me where we believethat guests are like gods (Atithidevo vawa). And the festivalDashain falls in the peak seasonof tourism. Therefore, I celebrateDashain, only if there is time leftfrom serving the guests.Going greenDashain is the time when youwill find crowds gatheredaround the temples of variousgoddesses. During my recentvisit to Shobha Bhagwati, I sawmany people there. Though thevolunteers from Scouts were tryingtheir best to manage people,it was quite difficult for them asthey were very few in number. Assuch, one could see garbagescattered everywhere aroundthe temple area. Everyone isaware that the Bhagawati templesare crowded duringDashain. So, there is a need forsufficient volunteers in these areasso as to keep them clean.Also, it is the responsibility of thedevotees not to dirty the religioussites. I would also like toFestive impacts on environmentFestivities increasingly becoming non-eco friendly,say expertsFile Photos: THTinform that our Bagmati cleaningcampaign at Tilganga toMinbhawan continues this Saturdaytoo, despite it beingDashain.— Megh Ale,President,NepalRiver Conservation TrustGREENGIZMOgreenlaunches.comHaving green and energy efficientinstallations set up in educationalinstitutions have several benefits.Firstly, this is a great way to teach youngerminds about eco-consciousness, in a subtleand practical way. That apart, these installationsare used more often, given thefact they cater to a bigger audience, that isuniversity folk. It goes without saying themove by the Boise State University to installa solar-powered picnic table is a fantasticidea. Called the Solar Power-Dokstation, the table basks in the glory of thesun, soaks energy and uses the same tocharge up smartphones and more!The picnic table is made from recycledmaterials and is completely powered bythe sun. The table is set up at a main intersectionat the campus, allowing studentsto plug-in and recharge their cell phones,tablets and laptops. — greenlaunches.comMUMBAI: Thefestive seasonis here. For environmentalistsand environment-conscious,alongwith the excitement comesconcern, because, as they say,our festivities are increasinglybecoming non-eco friendly.The effect on water bodiesisone of the biggest concerns.Traditionally, after a festivalconcludes, idols are immersedin a water body. But given themodern day changes — in thekind of material used to makethe idols, the scale and numberof festivities — environmentalistssay that water bodiesare seriously affected.“Earlier idols were made ofrecyclable material like wood,bamboo, hay and clay and vegetabledyes were used to paintthem; now it’s mostly synthetic.Use of plastic and chemicalcolours to paint leads tochromium and other heavymetals being released into thewater during immersion. Thismeans toxicity is deliberatelyintroduced into the food chainbecause there is no effectivetreatment to take these chemicalsout of the water,” AnumitaRoychowdhury, Executive Director(Research and Advocacy)and head of the air pollutionteam of the Centre for Scienceand Environment said.“Back in the late 1990s, theCentral Pollution Controlisharethese.blogspot.comBoard had done a study on theHooghly river after the DurgaPuja celebrations and found 30tonnes of colour, mercury,lead, chromium and othermetals in the water.”“In Kolkata itself, the numberof Puja pandals over adecade has doubled. The scaleand number of celebrationshas gone up in other cities. Incities like Bhopal, lakes are becomingvulnerable; it’s a similarscenario in Delhi’s Yamunariver,” he added.In Hyderabad, where theGanesh festival was recentlycelebrated, environmentalistsand those at the municipalcorporation were concernedabout the effect of the growingscale of celebrations on thecity’s water bodies, especiallythe Hussain Sagar lake.RP Khajuria, member (Environment)of the HyderabadMetropolitan DevelopmentAuthority, said that as a resultof the increasing pollution levelsin the Hussain Sagar lakethey had tried to make theGanesh festival more ecofriendlyby encouragingtweaks of some traditionalpractices. “We asked people toreduce the size of Ganesh idoland immerse these smalleridols at the household level,maybe in bucket of water, andthen use the water for gardening,”Khajuria said, addingthey also promoted clay idols.“But when it comes to religioussentiments, we cannotuse force. We had extra deploymentof people to take out thedisposed material from the lakesafter immersion,” he said.The effects are not restrictedto water bodies. Amita Khurana,a doctor in Delhi, pointedto rising air and noise pollutionduring festivals. “DuringDiwali and Dussehra, manypeople suffer from breathingproblems and stinging of theeyes because of the thicksmog, thanks to fire crackers.Those with asthma, the old,and children are the worst affected...andthe effect remainsfor days,” Khurana said.But all hope is not lost. Sectionsof conscious individualsare doing their bit to make festivalsmore eco-friendly. TheDurga Puja committee of Delhi’sGreater Kailash II draws inspirationfrom the religioustexts in making the idol.“The religious scripturesnarrate exactly how the idolshould be made, which is, obviouslyvery eco-friendly andwe have been following for thelast seven-eight years,” committeevice president SamratBanerjee told IANS.The wooden frame, Banerjeesaid, has been retained for thepast 22 years. “We ask the pottersto take it out five days afterthe bisarjan. For this, we tie thestructure loosely to the bank,”he said, adding they use minimalamount of nails, and jutecable instead of nylon one.The idol, 85 per cent ofwhich is made of hay and therest of clay, is clothed in fabricthat is made 70 per cent of bananastalk and the rest of jute,making it biodegradable.The colours used are alsonatural. “Where non-biodegradablematerial is used, likethe crown, we use householdwires which can be taken outand sold to the scarp dealer,and the money used to pay thepotters”. The flowers too afterthe puja are buried and used tomake compost. — IANS

THE HIMALAYAN TIMES, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2013 www.thehimalayantimes.com PAGE 15CAREERVariety• ON THE JOBIs your employer spying on you?You may know that youremployer can legally spyon you at work (and outsideof work) in severalways. But how do you actuallyknow if your employer issnooping? Here are some signs thatyour employer may be spying on you:Handbook: Your employeehandbook may well have some policieswhere your employer tells youthey’re spying. For instance, theremay be a policy saying that your workon your computer belongs to thecompany, that they monitor emailssent and received on company devices,that they record calls for customerservice purposes, or even thatthey monitor your social media. If itsays so in your handbook, that’s agood indication that big employeris watching.Contract: This is an easy one. Ifyou have a contract with clauses sayingyour computer and companyowneddevices aren’t private, theyprobably aren’t. If your contract saysyour phone calls are being monitored,they probably are.Other policies: Sometimes, thepolicies indicating the company iswatching you are separate from thehandbook. Read those new policiesyour employer sends out. You mightbe surprised what they say. If youhave to sign policies saying you’ve receivedthem, you’d better read andunderstand them. You might signsomething saying you agree thatyour conversations can be taped, allowingyour photos to be used incompany advertising, oracknowledging that you have no expectationof privacy at work (whichyou probably don’t).Lack of confidence holdingwomen back: StudyCameras: If you see camerasaround the workplace, someone iseither behind them or there’s a devicerecording your actions. While thereare restrictions on recording audio,most employers are allowed to videotapeyou at work. Cameras are easy tohide, so just because you can’t seethem doesn’t mean they aren’t there.Computer camera is on: Ifyou see your computer’s camera lighton, someone may be watching youup close and personal. Before youadjust those pantyhose or unzip toanacissastipsntricks.blogspot.comward for it. We don’t ask forthat pay rise — men are muchbetter at that. More men areapplying for jobs; we perhapslook at the job descriptiontuck in a shirt, best make sure nobodyis watching. If the camera turnson unexpectedly, either turn it off orput a post-it over it.Discipline: If you’re written upfor a conversation you thought wasprivate, your employer may have anaudio recording device in the workplace.On the other hand, the coworkerwhom you thought you couldtrust might just have blabbed. Becareful what you say at work, and towhom you say it. Sometimes evenpeople whom you thought werefriends will rat you out.Counter-spying: There are lotsof articles written about how tocounter-spy on your employer tofigure out if they’ve snoopedyour computer.Ctrl-Alt-Delete on a PC brings up amenu called Task Manager. If you goto the Processes tab, it will show youeverything that is running in thebackground. If you look at your Startmenu and see anything called VNC,RealVNC, TightVNC, UltraVNC, Log-MeIn, Shadow, Web Sleuth, SilentWatch, or GoToMyPC, then youmight have a spy.Stuff you said privately gets repeated:Even if something you saiddoesn’t end up in a written warning,if your boss makes a snarky commentlike, “Some people think I’mtough on them. You haven’t seentough yet,” right after you told a coworkerthat you thought the boss wastough on you, then there’s either atechnological or human spy. Youmight try a test, such as saying somethingcompletely false but innocuousto a person whom you suspect of beinga spy. Maybe share that you’veand then only focus on theone or two that we can’t do.“Women have to stand upand be counted,” she adds.“We have to just have a go, bedecided to take up quilting orkaraoke and see if it comes backto you.Weird stuff starts when the newguy starts: If a company suspectswrongdoing such as theft or corporateespionage, they sometimes hirea private detective or a company thatwill send in undercover snoops to spyon employees. If a new person ishired and private conversations aresuddenly known to management, oryour personal papers start to disappearor get moved around, you mayhave a hired spy in your midst.Your boss comments about yourpersonal life: Companies like tomonitor social media. If you findyour boss commenting about thingsyou posted on Facebook or Twitter,you can assume that you’re beingwatched outside the office as well.A co-worker was snooped on: If aco-worker is disciplined for an inappropriateemail, a social media post,or something they said about theworkplace, you can be darned surethe company is also watching you.Therefore, assume that everythingyou say, do or write at work is beingmonitored. Many courts say that youhave little or no expectation of privacyat work. That means you shouldn’tcheck personal emails on companydevices, shouldn’t open personal inappropriateemails, and shouldn’t door say anything at work that you don’twant to appear on the front page ofthe company newsletter. If you needto check personal email at work, thenbring your own device, and don’thook up to the company’s wi-fi orserver. If you’re on social media, don’tpost anything that could get you introuble. — jobs.aol.comachieve their potential,” she says.“Frommyperspective, a big part of the problem isthat because so many businesses aremale-dominated, women often have towork twice as hard and be twice as confidentto make an impact.”But the survey also found that 24 percent of women lack confidence to highlightthings they’ve done well and 17per cent aren’t sure enough of themselvesto seek promotion. For Bolt, it’sultimately down to the individual toconquer their inhibitions. “We’re notoriouslybad at holding ourselves back,”she says. “We don’t push ourselves forthat promotion or put ourselves forcdn.blog-sap.comconfident and not shy awayfrom asking for those pay increases,appraisals and beprepared to have awkwardconversations.” — The Guardianexecmag.bizPreparing tospeakIf this is your first time speakingat a seminar, conference or otherevent, you may be a little apprehensive.Here are tips for preparingfor a speaking opportunity.Know the audience: To get a clearpicture of the audience, visualisesomeone you know in the audiencewho is typical of the group. If youdon’t know anyone who fits that description,create that person by askingyourself questions such as: Howold is this person? What does this persondo for a living? If you were sittingacross the dinner table from this person,how would you communicatethe messages you wish to convey?Set a goal: Have a specific goal foreach presentation, being clear inmeasurable terms what result you intendto achieve by giving this talk. Is itto change behaviours, sell something,inform, entertain, et cetera?Why is it important for you to makethis presentation?Digestible presentation: Do notwrite out your presentation word forword and then plan on reading it.Participants like presenters who areauthentic, genuine, know their topicand relate to them. Prepare bycreating an outline and then take thetime to practice what you will say outloud to give yourself confidence andan idea of whether or not you havetoo much information for the timeavailable.Practice in front of a mirror: Somespeak with their hands, which can bedistracting, while others are frozen intheir place, neither are appealing toaudiences. Similarly, with practicecomes perfection and you can becomeof aware of the ‘ums,’ ‘like’ or‘you know’ that pervades many beginners’speeches. — msn.careerbuilder.comtanlin.orgLONDON: Almost50 per cent ofwomen believethey would be furtherin their career if theyhad more self-belief, accordingto a new survey.In a survey of 2,000British women — carriedout by Head & Shoulders— 92 per cent ofrespondents admitted tohaving hang ups, with themost frequent obstaclebeing anxiety about theirappearance.These inhibitions arehaving a severe impact onwomen in the workplace;24 per cent of women saidthey’d be at a more seniorlevel in their careers ifthey were freed of theirself-doubt.So what can be done tohelp women overcome alack of confidence?Jo Swinson, Mministerfor Women and Equalities,said that although thegovernment is providingmore opportunities forwomen to flourish,employers must alsodo more.“Confidence can be areal barrier to womenachieving their full potential,that’s why we arelooking at ways to broadenthe ambition and aspirationof girls, supportwomen at all stages oftheir careers and helpthem set up theirown businesses.“But action cannot bedriven by governmentalone. Employers thatwork hard to create aworkplace where talent isnurtured and staff canflourish will reap the benefitsof more productiveand effective employees.”Amanda Bolt, ManagingDirector of BoardroomMum,urged companiesto run more women’scoaching sessions,training and parentgroups — and to encouragemore interaction betweenstaff.Company culture is alsoa significant factor, accordingto Sarah Grahamfrom The Feminist Times,“Companies need to decidewhether they are goingto foster an environmentwhich is dog-eatdogor where they nurturethe skills of individuals toproactively help their staffgain confidence and

PAGE 16YOUR LUCKHAPPY BIRTHDAY: This year you’ll want tomake changes on a deep and profound level.Youmight question what is too much andwhat serves a purpose. Others could becomereactive if you always seem to goyour own way. If you are single, you drawmany people toward you. Be honest withyourself about who really knocks yoursocks off. If you are attached, you often feelas if you don’t have enough to offer. Youneed to get past this insecurity. You are creative,and you have a lot of great qualities.Besides, your sweetie values you. CAPRI-CORN can be too serious for your taste.A baby born today has a Sun in Libra and a Moonin Capricorn all day.ARIES (March 21-April 19):Your preference might be toend the week on a positivenote. When you finally achieveyour goals, you could find out otherwise.Maintain a balanced perspective. Realisethat disagreement has an important role inlife. Respect others’ differences. Tonight:Out on the town. ✹✹✹✹TAURUS (April 20-May 20):Reach out to someone at adistance. You could decide totake most of the day off, asyou might not be present in the moment.You seem to feel shut out by a close lovedone. This situation could change quickly.Remember, you can only control yourself.Tonight: Off on a trip. ✹✹✹✹✹GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Yousee a situation differently fromhow a partner sees it. Youeasily could create a difficultsituation if you’re not careful. The alternativewould be to compromise and respectthese different ideas. Try to be considerate.Tonight: Spend some time with a dearfriend or loved one. ✹✹✹✹CANCER (June 21-July 22):Defer to others. Trying to convinceyour normal supportersor a special person in your lifethat you are right will not happen today. Releasethe need for control, and trust thatothers will come to the same conclusionthat you have come to. Tonight: Go alongwith a suggestion. ✹✹✹✹LEO (July 23-Aug 22): Youmight need to spend sometime cleaning your desk andputting the finishing toucheson a project. You’ll want to greet Mondaywith a sense of rejuvenation. Approach asituation and your work in this manner.Tonight: Let the good times rock and roll.Still, make it an early night. ✹✹✹VIRGO (Aug 23-Sept 22): Youcan’t seem to hide your enthusiasmabout the comingweekend, nor should you. Attemptto carry out what has not yet beendone this week. Wrap up or initiate a conversation,as it might be more importantthan you realise. Tonight: Be as spontaneousand happy as possible. ✹✹✹✹LIBRA (Sept 23-Oct 22): Beaware if what is dragging youdown. You could be upset atthe expense of proceeding in acertain direction.You might want to come toa new understanding with a family member.It seems that lately you have felt especiallypushed by this person. Tonight: Head homeearly. ✹✹✹✹SCORPIO (Oct 23-Nov 21): Youhave many creative ideas, yetyou refuse to share them. Behonest with yourself aboutwhy you might be holding back.Are you tryingto withhold some important information?That type of secrecy could backfire. Becareful! Tonight: Hang out with friends andloved ones. ✹✹✹✹SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec21): You might be too concernedwith a money matter.Seek advice from a friend sothat you can see how a problem developedand your role in it. Do not be so hard onyourself. Just accept what is, and try toavoid having a situation like this happenagain. Tonight: Treat yourself well. ✹✹✹CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19):You’ll beam, and someoneelse will respond in kind. It isclear that there is an innatemutuality between you. A friend seems a bitoff and unwilling to share. Don’t take his orher behaviour personally; instead, loosenup. Tonight: Avoid crowds, but be with aloved one. ✹✹✹✹✹AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18):Know when to pull back andsay less. You might not agreewith a boss or higher-up, buthold off on expressing how you feel rightnow; otherwise, it could cause you evenmore trouble. In the meantime, you’ll hearsome other views and information. Tonight:Play it low-key. ✹✹✹PISCES (Feb 19-March 20):You have a keen sense of direction,and it will be confirmedin a meeting. Just thesame, you still might not be able to see thebigger picture. Before launching into action,you will want to detach a little more. You’llneed to hear others’ perspectives. Tonight:Where the crowds are. ✹✹✹✹✹Born today: Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt(1884), philanthropist Charles Revson (1906),HJ Heinz company founderHenry John Heinz (1844)By Jacqueline BigarNote: Bigar’s Stars is based on the degree ofyour sun at birth.The sign name is simply a labelastrologers put on a set of degrees for convenience.For best results, readers should refer tothe dates following each sign.Just IN JESTAt one point during a game,the coach called one of hisseven-year-old hockey players asideand asked, “Do you understandwhat cooperation is? Whata team is?”The little boy nodded in the affirmative.“Do you understand that what matters isnot whether we win or lose, but how we playtogether as a team?”The little boy nodded yes.“So,” the coach continued, “I’m sure you know, when a penalty is called,you shouldn’t argue, curse, attack the referee, or call him a pecker-head.Do you understand all that?”Again the little boy nodded.He continued, “And when I call you off the ice so that another boy gets achance to play, it’s not good sportsmanship to call your coach ‘a dumba**hole’, is it?”Again the little boy nodded.“Good,” said the coach. “Now go over there and explain all that toyour mother.” — Hi LamaTHIS WEEK’S QUESTIONTravelling is fun. One gets to know many things visiting new placesand meeting people. How often do you travel and which places ofNepal have you visited? Describe your favourite place and themost memorable experience.Send your replies in not more than 200 words by Friday, October 11 by 2 pm to FeaturesDepartment, The Himalayan Times, e-mail: features@thehimalayantimes.comwww.thehimalayantimes.comVARIETYStorytelling in 60 secondsInviting filmmakers to make a 1-minute film that reflects NepalipannKATHMANDU: For allNepali eminent andaspiring film-makers— living in Nepal orabroad — here isyour chance to showcase yourtalent in filmmaking, that too injust 60 seconds. If you want tobring out any story that reflectsthe country or success storythrough cinema, then 60 SecondsShort Film Festival(60SSFF) is your voice.The 60SSFF is taking place forthe first time to “engage and encourageyoung talents and theirLautner’s pornavataartwilightsaga.wikia.comLONDON: Actor Taylor Lautnerwill reportedly essay aporn star named Dirk Digglerin the reading of 1997 adult classicmovie Boogie Nights. FilmmakerJason Reitman will conduct thelive reading of the movie at Film Independentat the Los AngelesCounty Museum of Art on October10 night, reports eonline.com.The names of all actors who willessay other roles in the readingwere announced via Reitman’sTwitter page.Judy Greer will take over the roleAmber Waves, a character previouslyportrayed by Julianne Moore.Mae Whitman will play Rollergirl,Kevin Pollak will be The Colonel,Jim Rash will take on Buck Swope,Jarod Einsohn will be Todd Parkerand Jurnee Smollett will play JessieSt Vincent. Actor Mark Wahlbergplayed Diggler in the on screen version.— IANScreativity”. Interface, Nepalworking in the campaign ofmedia since a decade is organisingthe festival.“Our youth has both creativityand energy. We want to supportit,” Festival Director Shikha Prasaishares. She believes a storycan be told in 60 seconds.Election, peace, democracy,environment, water, conflict,harmony, tolerance, corruption,load shedding, festivals, culture,comedy, fiction, animation, creativity,human rights, women,children ... anything that bringsout the colours of the countrycan be the topics your film.Citing why such topics, Prasairemarks, “We want the youth tobe more aware about the surroundingissues. Through thisfestival, we wish to enhance thatawareness level too.”The festival is looking formore participation from youngNepali people. And you canweave a 60-second story with amessage from your mobiles tohigh technology equipment.However, “a film should havean original idea” because “creativityand concept” is thefocus of the festival. Foreign nationalsliving in Nepal can alsoparticipate.The submission deadline isNovember 25. After the submissionof the films, the best threefilms will be chosen on the basisof on-line voting and by an independentjury. The screeningof as many as films will takeplace from January 2014 in differentparts of the country.To upload your films or forfurther details, log on towww.interfacenepal.com — HNSPriyanka’s double role in Krrish 3MUMBAI: PriyankaChopra will be seenin a double role in Krrish3. While it is being kepthush-hush, an insider revealsthat the actress has a doublerole in the film. However, it isnot like a traditional doublerole. She will seen in a goodand a bad avatar.Adds the source, “Priyanka isplaying the character of PriyaMehra (married to KrishnaMehra or Krrish aka HrithikRoshan). When she was offeredthe role as Krrish’s wife,Konkona playsTagore’s museMUMBAI: Konkona Sen Sharmais in Kolkata shootingfor Bengali film Kadambari.Kadambari Devi was the wife of JyotirindranathTagore and nearly thesame age as his brother RabindranathTagore. She inspired thepoet with her creative feedback andcomments.emirates247.comHer relationship with Tagore wascontroversial and much-discussed.Kadambari committed suicide fourmonths after Rabindranath Tagoremarried. According to the directorAniket Chattopadhyay, Sen had themixture of intelligence and vulnerabilitywhich was required of thecharacter. Meanwhile, the actress isamused by the rumours that she hasquit acting. — Agenciesmrpopat.inTHTPC hardly had any scope toemote. When she learnt thatthe other actress Kangana hasa role with more layers, sheasked for meat to be added toher part. And thus her newcharacter was written by directorRakesh Roshan. PC will beseen in two roles — a good oneas Krrish’s wife and one whichevolves into another personwhich is pure evil. All will berevealed in the climax. PC’sgood and bad characters areexpected to be one of the highlightsof the film.” — AgenciesTHE HIMALAYAN TIMES, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2013Ranveer, Deepika to sharescreen space againMUMBAI: It is learntthat Ranveer Singhwill join the cast ofthe Deepika Padukone andArjun Kapoor starrer FindingFanny Fernandes. DirectorHomi Adjania approachedthe actor to do a cameofor the film and he immediatelyagreed.Naturally, as it gives himchance to spend time with hisgirlfriend Padukone, not thatthe shooting of Ram Leela isover. The film is said to bebased on a road trip, and aSUDOKU-1767major portion of it will beshot in Goa.Singh is currently recuperatingfrom dengue at home,and the pair will start promotingtheir film as soon ashe gets clearance from thedoctors. FFF also starsNaseeruddin Shah, DimpleKapadia and Pankaj Kapoor.The film, said to be a KonkaniEnglish short film, is beingbacked by Saif Ali Khan andDinesh Vijayan’s IllumanatiFilms. The team made Cocktaillast year. — AgenciesYESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONHOW TO SOLVE: Every number from 1 to 9 must appear in each ofthe 9 vertical columns, in each of the 9 horizontal rows and ineach of the 9 boxesyoutube.comPublished by: International Media Network Nepal (Pvt) Ltd, APCA House, Baidya Khana Road, Anamnagar, Kathmandu, Nepal, PO Box 11651 Phone: 4770358, Fax: 977-1-4770701 / 4771959, E-mail: editorial@thehimalayantimes.com Regd No 143/051/052 Postal Regd. 070-071 Printed at: Sama Printers (Pvt) Ltd, Sainbu VDC, Lalitpur. Editor: Ajaya Bhadra Khanal