KARNATAKA CAMPAIGN: Film industry girds up

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KFCC plans Anti-Piracy Squad, seeks govt's permission
Watching pirated film CDs will be a thing of the past in Karnataka as the Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce (KFCC) is girding up to clampdown on such activities. A powerful Anti-Piracy Squad (APS) is to be set up soon, whose job will be to crackdown on pirated CDs and DVDs.

Confirming this, KFCC chairman Basanth Kumar Patil said retired police officers would head the squad. The government too has been informed about the move. Insiders said the cost of managing the squad that is Rs 10 lakh per month will be taken care of by Kannada film industry.

Patil announced that the squad will start functioning in August. Besides, it will also have the power to perform raids on outlets involved in piracy. But for turning this into a reality the film industry has to take permission from the state government. Will the government allow the film industry to take such a drastic step? Veteran actress, producer and former KFCC chairperson Jayamala is confident that the government will not block the move. She said: 'We have been considering to form such squad for long. If it gets a go ahead it will be easy for us to conduct raids and control this menace. We will do this by taking the government into confidence so it won't be illegal.' But Bengaluru City Police Commissioner Shankar Bidari disagrees with Jayamala on this count. He said: 'Private squad cannot be given the authority to conduct raids. It has to inform us about the pirated CD trade and then we will take action.' Patil was not available for comment. When contacted by TSI he said he was busy in meetings and thus won't be able to speak on APS. In the past couple of years, the cinema and music industry in the state have lost Rs 250 crore to piracy. And thus they are pushing for the setting up of the APS. The government too is seriously taking the issue.

Earlier, the state government implemented Goonda Act for containing piracy of films and music. The police have already performed thousands of raids and captured lakhs of CDs.

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Global applause for two young Indian scientists

Two young scientists ' Anis Mukherjee and Debarghya Sarkar ' are grabbing headlines after Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Lincoln Laboratory of the USA have re-christened two planets in their names.

Anis and Debarghya, the Higher Secondary pass-outs of Kolkata's South Point School, have won the second Grand Award in the Electrical and Mechanical category at the 2009 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair at Nevada. A statement released from MIT and LU said: 'Minor Planet 2000 AH52 (Citation No. 25629) and Minor Planet 2000 AT53 (Citation No. 25630) will henceforth be called Mukherjee and Sarkar respectively.' These two minor planets were discovered on January 4, 2000, by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro, under its Linear Programme. A minor planet is an astronomical object, not a dominant planet or a comet, in direct orbit around the sun. Ceres, the first minor planet was discovered in 1801 and since then over 200,000 minor planets have been discovered. Most of them are lying in the asteroid belt.

Anis and Debarghya, who are pursuing their study at Jadavpur University, won accolades from the jury, comprising Nobel laureates and eminent scientists for their research. They designed a novel clamped bottle neck and cap for single and multiple uses that has the potential to curb bottle forgery.

The award comes with citations and US $1500 for the team. They discovered this unique clamped bottle neck and cap while they were students of Class XI. Casually they thought to compete in the global competition and sent application. They were awarded at the IRIS National Fair at Science City auditorium, Kolkata. Then in Mumbai they were among the eight national awardees. Among them only six were sent for the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair at Nevada. There they touched new heights. Debarghya. 18, told TSI: 'We are really delighted with the result. This was our first award in any science fair or exhibition'. Anis, 18, said: 'We won awards earlier too, but not in any science fair. Debarghya is a drama actor and bagged awards earlier too. I got awards earlier in this segment. But this is our first award for any science-related activities.'

Apart from pursuing their study they are now awaiting for the Patent rights, for which they have already applied for. 'Friends wanted a treat and we offered them. Our parents are happy too', said Anis. 'For the time being we will concentrate on our study. However, we will look for college-level competition as the Nevada show was school level one,' added Debarghya.

Interestingly, another Indian boy, Vishnu Jayaprakash, also won second Grand Award in the Energy & Transportation category. He won it for his comprehensive study and modifications to a cow-dung fuel cell which is almost 90 per cent cheaper than the one available in the market.

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VC Kumari terms her dismissal a political vendetta

Is the post of vice chancellor of a university apolitical? This and other questions are being debated in the state after the removal of vice chancellor of Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Dr. P. Kusuma Kumari, by the chancellor and Andhra Pradesh governor E.S.L. Narasimhan.

Based on the report submitted to the government by Justice A. Hanumanthu, the governor dismissed the VC for willful omission and refusal to carry out provisions of the AP Universities Act. The nine-point report by Hanumanthu commission confirmed the charges of various irregularities committed by the VC while appointing assistant professors without required qualifications during the 2009-10 academic year.

Disgruntled Kumari termed her dismissal a political vendetta. 'With the death of Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy (YSR), we (her group) have become political orphans in the state and turned out to be vulnerable for political vindictiveness,' she wailed before the media.

Kumari of Sri Padmavathi Mahila University assumed office of SKU as a VC in August, 2008, using her political clout. She is the sister-in-law of former TTD chairman Bhumana Karunakar Reddy, a close aide of late YSR and now a staunch loyalist of Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy (Jagan)'s camp.

Alleging partisanship in removal of Kumari, some MLAs in Jagan camp wittingly, or unwittingly confirmed that the VC was political prot'g' of YSR.

YSR was notoriously known for his nepotism. Besides, during his rule he had set an example by appointing his aides in pivotal posts for years, without following the basic norms. The appointment of Kumari also drew flak at that time. CPI leader and former MLA K Ramakrishna told TSI: 'Bhumana Subramanyam Reddy, VC's husband, was directly collecting money from candidates applying for the assistant professor posts.'

The Hanumanthu commission revealed that the VC, besides appointing unqualified assistant professors, illegally regularised the services of eight assistant professors who were appointed temporarily on contract basis under X Plan, with retrospective effect from the date of their appointment with payment of arrears. Taking a serious exception on ousted VC's remarks on her dismissal, Chief Minister K. Rosaiah faulted her for politicising the issue. Higher Education Minister D. Sridhar Babu, condemned Kumari's statements.

'As many as 23 vice chancellors were appointed during YSR's tenure but action was taken only against Kumari because she committed irregularities in recruitment,' he said.

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The history of hiring mercenaries to conduct war on a country's behalf is certainly not a new phenomenon. The Saika mercenary group of the Kii Province, Japan, played a significant role during the Siege of Ishiyama Hongan-ji in the 15th century. Although, the concept of mercenaries ' also known as overseas security consultants ' may have changed, but using these trained troops to do one's evil work is still rampant. The mercenaries, who had been hired for international peacekeeping duties, are now being used for different purposes. Present day governments across the world (especially in developed countries) use them as convenient tool to meet their political ambitions.

Ironically, Fort Benning'a mercenary producing factory and popularly known as the Army School of the Americas (or SOA) in Georgia ' widely known for recruiting best of instructors and students from Latin America's military forces. These instructors and students, however, undergo rigorous training for counter-insurgency, military intelligence, interrogation techniques, jungle operations ' to name a few. But these students are not trained to protect their border or safeguard their country from foreign invasion, rather to wage a war against their own people! Congressman Josheph kennedy was once found quoting, ''US Army School of the Americas is a school that has run more dictators than any other school in the history of the world." Apparently, if media reports are to be believed, in the past 60 years, the SOA has trained over 60,000 mercenaries who have tortured and killed thousands of Latin Americans till date. Even Colonel Alberto Quijano (Colombian Army's special forces) was recently arrested for helping Diego Le'n Montoya S'nchez ' who is on FBI's most-wanted list and is the leader of Norte del Valle Cartel. Besides, name like Atlacatl Battalion, Romeo V'squez Vel'squez and Juan Velasco Alvarado are some of the alumni of this war factory. Moreover, Gen. Hernan Jose Guzman Rodriguez (responsible for the deaths of at least 149 people), Gen. Hector Gramajo (architect of genocidal policies from 1980-1991 in Guatemala) are other prominent names. Reports say, the SOA graduates conducts most horrendous crime across the world. In fact, over 10 high-ranking military officers (SOA graduates) are accused of human rights abuses.

After huge public outrage and protest, the SOA changed its named to the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC). However, reports have confirmed that the training at SOA still prevails in the Latin American countries. In 2008, the Congress completely terminated $20 million annual funding bill for the SOA/WHINSEC. This has boosted the spirits of NGOs and social watch groups, who are still optimistic about the closure of the facility. With Obama closing down the Guantanamo Bay and advocating humans rights across the world, activists seem hopeful that the US President will close the "bloody" school.

With series of WikiLeaks and surfacing of human rights abuses by the US, Obama may soon curb the funding of the institution, if not the closure.

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