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BENNETT, COLEMAN & CO. LTD. | ESTABLISHED 1838 | TIMESOFINDIA.COM | EPAPER.TIMESOFINDIA.COM BENGALURU | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2015 | PAGES 46 | METRO | PRICE . `4.50 ( `7 ALONG WITH BANGALORE MIRROR) * Mina (Saudi Arabia): At least 717 pilgrims were killed on Thursday in a stampede outside the holy city of Mec- ca, the worst disaster to strike the annual Haj pil- grimage in 25 years. At least 863 others were in- jured at Mina, a few kilo- metres east of Mecca, when two large groups of pilgrims arrived together at a cross- roads on their way to per- forming the ‘stoning of the devil’ ritual at Jamarat. The disaster was the worst to occur at the pilgrim- age since July 1990, when 1,426 pilgrims were crushed to death in a tunnel near Mec- ca. Both stampedes occurred on Eid al-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice), Islam’s most im- portant feast and the day of the stoning ritual. Photographs showed pil- grims lying on stretchers while emergency workers in high-visibility jackets lifted them into an ambulance. Two weeks ago, 110 people died in Mecca’s Grand Mosque when a crane work- ing on an expansion project collapsed during a storm and toppled off the roof into the main courtyard, crushing pilgrims underneath. The Haj, the world’s large- Stampede 2 Wks After 110 Died In Crane Crash DEADLIEST SINCE 1990 Sept 11, 2015 110 die as crane crashes into Mecca’s Grand Mosque 2006 Stampede in Mina near Mecca kills 364; 73 die in a hostel collapse 2004 Crush of pilgrims in Mina kills 244 and injures hundreds 1998 180 trampled to death after pilgrims fall off an overpass in Mina 1997 340 killed, 1,500 injured in a massive tent fire in Mina 1994 270 killed in stampede during the stoning ritual in Mina 1990 Worst-ever tragedy claims 1,426 lives in a Mecca tunnel stampede A pilgrim mourns the demise of a relative in the crush SAUDI ARABIA MECCA Photo: AFP On Eid-eve, 717 crushed to death in Mecca; worst Haj tragedy in 25 yrs st annual gathering of peo- ple, has been the scene of numerous deadly stampedes, blazes and riots till 2006 when safety was improved. REUTERS Saudi panel to probe, P 20 FULL COVERAGE: P 20 Bengaluru: The Karnataka bandh called by pro-Kanna- da organizations is expected to disrupt normal life across Karnataka on Saturday. The dawn-to-dusk protest is to press for implementing the Kalasa Banduri and Mekdatu projects. With nearly 1,000 unions, including labour and other organizations backing the bandh call, the organizers expect a total shutdown. With employees of all the four state-owned road trans- port corporations (includ- ing BMTC and KSRTC), along with drivers of cabs and autorickshaws, decid- ing to participate, commut- ing is likely to take a beating. Private schools are likely to declare a holiday. The Asso- ciated Managements of Pri- mary and Secondary Schools in Karnataka, which has thousands of private schools as its members, has written to the state government to de- clare a holiday for the safety of students and teachers. K’taka bandh tomorrow may affect normal life WHAT’S OFF Private buses, autorickshaws, cabs including airport cabs, civic services, private schools, vegetable supply, goods transport IN DOUBT Government bus services, including KSRTC and BMTC, and government schools (they will take a call depending on the situation) UNAFFECTED Namma Metro services, pharmacies, hospitals, milk supply, other essential services and courts TIMES NEWS NETWORK A s many as 175 doctors and 130 paramedical staff of the Kempegow- da Institute of Medical Sci- ences Hospital in south Ben- galuru boycotted work on Thursday, seeking pay parity with government hospitals, reports Sunitha Rao R. Hun- dreds of patients who came to the outpatient department re- turned without treatment. Doctors alleged that the man- agement hasn’t paid them the promised dearness allowance, salary is far less than what’s paid in government hospitals, and tempstaff are paid pit- tance. The management said it’s ready to hold talks. KIMS doctors, nurses strike work over pay Full report on page 5 T he Information Tech- nology Investment Re- gion — a 10,000-acre tech enclave planned to come up in the vicinity of Bengalu- ru’s international airport in Devanahalli — may not take off in the near future, reports Manu Aiyappa. The Karna- taka government’s big-ticket project is buffeted by a host of reasons: spiralling land pric- es, long-drawn acquisition process, and tepid response from tech companies. A senior KIADB officer said the cost of an acre of land has rocketed up from Rs 20 lakh about 6-7 years ago to over Rs 2 crore now. Poor response, land cost stall ITIR project Full report on page 21 Autos will stay off, P 4 Bengaluru: On Thursday, In- dian Space Research Organi- sation’s Rs 450-crore Mars Or- biter Mission (MOM) spacecraft completed a year in the Martian orbit. MOM, which carries five payloads, has sent in more than 1 terabyte of data from the red planet, which scien- tists are still deciphering. Senior Isro scientist M An- nadurai, who played a key role in the Mars project, said: “We’ve received more than one terabyte of data from the five payloads. All of them are work- ing well even after completing their expected lifespan. This is really encouraging.” Isro chairman AS Kiran Kumar is confident MOM will live on for years. He had earlier said it will survive till September 2016. MOM was initially expect- ed to last until March 24, 2015. The good performance of payloads and the saving of fuel have led scientists to be- lieve MOM will live longer. Isro is justifiably proud of the milestone, but celebra- tions were muted as scientists are busy with other projects. Mars orbiter marks a year, sends 1TB data Chethan.Kumar @timesgroup.com FULL COVERAGE | PAGE 6 Four Indians reported killed A mid reports of four Indians, including Mohammed from Kerala and Bibi Jaan from Hyder- abad, being killed at the Mecca stampede, Haj Committee of India CEO Ataur Rahman told TOI that any such information would be confirmed only on Friday. He said the stampede spot was far away from the Indian camp and the number of casualties and injured was likely to be very low. “Our staff is identifying bodies at the mortuary,” Rahman said. P 20 INCLUDES 12 PAGES OF BANGALORE TIMES AND 6 PAGES OF *TIMES PROPERTY (*FOR CITY AREAS ONLY) Dhananjay.Mahapatra @timesgroup.com New Delhi: Taking note of the high-pitched push for abolition of death penalty when Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon des- perately attempted to avoid the gallows, the Supreme Court on Thursday asked whether life imprisonment could be truncated through remission if death penalty was done away with. The court was reacting to the demand from a section of legal experts for abolition of death penalty while dealing with petitions by five young men from Chhattisgarh challenging their convic- tion for a murder. They were seeking bail during penden- cy of their appeal in the apex court on the ground that SC: If we end death penalty, shouldn’t life term be till death? they had been in jail for more than five years. A bench of Justices T S Thakur and V Gopala Gow- da said, “Today, there is a movement against death penalty. They say instead of hanging a convict, put him in jail for entire life. ” Today, there is a movement against death penalty. If convicts are awarded life even in brutal and heinous crimes, they ask for bail if they have served 5 or more years in jail on the ground that life sentence is only for 14 years. Is it not incongruous? —Supreme Court Seeks bail after 5 yrs, P 13 T he CBI on Thursday raided 40 places in MP and UP, including the prem- ises of alleged Vyapam mastermind Jagdish Sagar and Dhanraj Yadav, former OSD to MP governor Ram Naresh Yadav. P 13 40 places raided in Vyapam probe A s part of efforts to pop- ularise the electronic mode of filing income tax returns, the CBDT is plan- ning to provide “pre-filled” return forms to filers which will have an automatic up- load of data on income. P 21 Pre-filled ITR forms on cards G old bars worth Rs 28 lakh were seized at Mumbai international air- port on Thursday. A Jet Airways cabin crew mem- ber was arrested for smug- gling them. P 17 Jet staffer held with `28L gold Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering. ROLAND BARTHES CONTRA PUNT O OTHER TOP STORIES Paraplegic man walks using his brain power, P 19 FB stalking your ex make it harder to move on, P 19 Fingerprints of 5.6m sto- len in US data hack, P 20 Ashwin main accused in 2nd chargesheet, P 4 Man kills wife, convinc- es cops it's suicide, P 5 B’luru boy kidnapped by kin, rescued in 4 hrs, P 5 Startups check into budget hotels, P 22 Times Classifieds | P 8, 10 & 12 B engalureans are risk- ing limbs, lives and ve- hicles traversing the city’s cratered roads, but city minister R Ramalinga Reddy found just one pot- hole on a carefully orches- trated inspection tour. On Thursday morning, Reddy and his entourage of BDA and BBMP officials and the mayor drove 25km — from Silk Board Junction to Heb- bal. The route had been care- fully marked, alleged citi- zens, who invited Reddy to ride up service roads lead- ing to IT firms. Page 5 Mantri finds just 1 pothole in 25km ride TIMES NEWS NETWORK A n opinion poll done for Times Now and released on Thursday suggested that the BJP-led alliance would have a slight edge in a keen contest in the Bihar assembly elections, but could just fall short of a majority. The poll projected be- tween 109 and 125 seats for the alliance in the 243-member House while giving the JD(U)- RJD-Congress combine be- tween 104 and 120 seats. The half-way mark is 122 seats. The poll, done by CVoter, also indicated that the BJP- NDA noses ahead but Bihar could see hung House: Poll led front had gained since a similar poll done two weeks ago, which had given the rival alliance a slight lead. In terms of vote shares, the latest poll gives 43% to the NDA and 42% to the Mahagathbandhan. 4 percentage points, P 15 ROUND 1 (Sept 8) ROUND 2 (Sept 23) Seats Vote share NDA 102 117 43% RJD+ 124 112 42% Others 17 14 15% Times Now-CVoter opinion poll shows NDA gaining in last 15 days SURGE FOR SAFFRON? 46.8% of those surveyed want Nitish Kumar to be the CM; 16% name Sushil Modi TOTAL SEATS 243 EID MUBARAK
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BENNETT, COLEMAN & CO. LTD. | ESTABLISHED 1838 | TIMESOFINDIA.COM | EPAPER.TIMESOFINDIA.COM BENGALURU | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2015 | PAGES 46 | METRO | PRICE .̀ 4.50 (`̀7 ALONG WITH BANGALORE MIRROR) *
Mina (Saudi Arabia): Atleast 717 pilgrims were killedon Thursday in a stampedeoutside the holy city of Mec-ca, the worst disaster tostrike the annual Haj pil-grimage in 25 years.
At least 863 others were in-jured at Mina, a few kilo-metres east of Mecca, whentwo large groups of pilgrims
arrived together at a cross-roads on their way to per-forming the ‘stoning of thedevil’ ritual at Jamarat.
The disaster was theworst to occur at the pilgrim-age since July 1990, when
1,426 pilgrims were crushedto death in a tunnel near Mec-ca. Both stampedes occurredon Eid al-Adha (Feast of theSacrifice), Islam’s most im-portant feast and the day ofthe stoning ritual.
Photographs showed pil-grims lying on stretcherswhile emergency workers inhigh-visibility jackets liftedthem into an ambulance.
Two weeks ago, 110 peopledied in Mecca’s Grand
Mosque when a crane work-ing on an expansion projectcollapsed during a storm andtoppled off the roof into themain courtyard, crushingpilgrims underneath.
The Haj, the world’s large-
Stampede 2 WksAfter 110 Died In Crane Crash
DEADLIEST SINCE 1990 Sept 11, 2015 110 die as crane crashes into Mecca’s Grand Mosque
2006 Stampede in Mina near Mecca kills 364; 73 die in a hostel collapse
2004 Crush of pilgrims in Mina kills 244 and injures hundreds
1998 180 trampled to death after pilgrims fall off an overpass in Mina
1997 340 killed, 1,500 injured in a massive tent fire in Mina
1994 270 killed in stampede during the stoning ritual in Mina
1990 Worst-ever tragedy claims 1,426 lives in a Mecca tunnel stampedeA pilgrim mourns the demise of a relative in the crush
S A U D IA R A B I A
MECCA
Photo: AFP
On Eid-eve, 717 crushed to death inMecca; worst Haj tragedy in 25 yrs
st annual gathering of peo-ple, has been the scene ofnumerous deadly stampedes,blazes and riots till 2006 whensafety was improved. REUTERS
�Saudi panel to probe, P 20
FULL COVERAGE: P 20
Bengaluru: The Karnatakabandh called by pro-Kanna-da organizations is expectedto disrupt normal life acrossKarnataka on Saturday. The dawn-to-dusk protest isto press for implementingthe Kalasa Banduri andMekdatu projects.
With nearly 1,000 unions,including labour and otherorganizations backing thebandh call, the organizersexpect a total shutdown.With employees of all thefour state-owned road trans-
port corporations (includ-ing BMTC and KSRTC),along with drivers of cabsand autorickshaws, decid-ing to participate, commut-ing is likely to take a beating.
Private schools are likelyto declare a holiday. The Asso-ciated Managements of Pri-mary and Secondary Schoolsin Karnataka, which hasthousands of private schoolsas its members, has written tothe state government to de-clare a holiday for the safetyof students and teachers.
K’taka bandh tomorrowmay affect normal life
WHAT’S OFF Private buses, autorickshaws, cabs including airport cabs, civic services, private schools, vegetable supply, goods transport
IN DOUBT Government bus services, including KSRTC and BMTC, and government schools (they will take a call depending on the situation)
UNAFFECTED Namma Metro services, pharmacies, hospitals, milk supply, other essential services and courts
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
As many as 175 doctorsand 130 paramedicalstaff of the Kempegow-
da Institute of Medical Sci-ences Hospital in south Ben-galuru boycotted work onThursday, seeking pay paritywith government hospitals,reports Sunitha Rao R. Hun-
dreds of patients who came tothe outpatient department re-turned without treatment.Doctors alleged that the man-agement hasn’t paid them thepromised dearness allowance,salary is far less than what’spaid in government hospitals,and tempstaff are paid pit-tance. The management saidit’s ready to hold talks.
KIMS doctors,nurses strikework over pay
� Full report on page 5
The Information Tech-nology Investment Re-gion — a 10,000-acre
tech enclave planned to comeup in the vicinity of Bengalu-ru’s international airport inDevanahalli — may not takeoff in the near future, reportsManu Aiyappa. The Karna-
taka government’s big-ticketproject is buffeted by a host ofreasons: spiralling land pric-es, long-drawn acquisitionprocess, and tepid responsefrom tech companies. A seniorKIADB officer said the cost ofan acre of land has rocketed upfrom Rs 20 lakh about 6-7 yearsago to over Rs 2 crore now.
Poor response,land cost stall
ITIR project
� Full report on page 21
�Autos will stay off, P 4
Bengaluru:On Thursday, In-dian Space Research Organi-sation’s Rs 450-crore Mars Or-biter Mission (MOM)spacecraft completed a yearin the Martian orbit.
MOM, which carries five
payloads, has sent in morethan 1 terabyte of data fromthe red planet, which scien-tists are still deciphering.
Senior Isro scientist M An-nadurai, who played a key rolein the Mars project, said:“We’ve received more than one
terabyte of data from the fivepayloads. All of them are work-ing well even after completingtheir expected lifespan. This isreally encouraging.”
Isro chairman AS KiranKumar is confident MOMwill live on for years. He hadearlier said it will survive tillSeptember 2016.
MOM was initially expect-ed to last until March 24, 2015.The good performance ofpayloads and the saving offuel have led scientists to be-lieve MOM will live longer.
Isro is justifiably proud ofthe milestone, but celebra-tions were muted as scientistsare busy with other projects.
Mars orbiter marks a year, sends 1TB dataChethan.Kumar
@timesgroup.com
� FULL COVERAGE | PAGE 6
Four Indiansreported killed Amid reports of four Indians,
including Mohammed fromKerala and Bibi Jaan from Hyder-abad, being killed at the Meccastampede, Haj Committee ofIndia CEO Ataur Rahman toldTOI that any such informationwould be confirmed only onFriday. He said the stampedespot was far away from theIndian camp and the number ofcasualties and injured was likelyto be very low. “Our staff isidentifying bodies at themortuary,” Rahman said. P 20
INCLUDES 12 PAGES OF BANGALORE TIMES AND 6 PAGES OF *TIMES PROPERTY (*FOR CITY AREAS ONLY)
New Delhi: Taking note ofthe high-pitched push forabolition of death penaltywhen Mumbai serial blastsconvict Yakub Memon des-perately attempted to avoidthe gallows, the SupremeCourt on Thursday askedwhether life imprisonmentcould be truncated throughremission if death penaltywas done away with.
The court was reacting tothe demand from a section oflegal experts for abolition ofdeath penalty while dealingwith petitions by five youngmen from Chhattisgarhchallenging their convic-tion for a murder. They wereseeking bail during penden-cy of their appeal in the apexcourt on the ground that
SC: If we end deathpenalty, shouldn’t life
term be till death?
they had been in jail formore than five years.
A bench of Justices T SThakur and V Gopala Gow-da said, “Today, there is amovement against deathpenalty. They say instead ofhanging a convict, put him injail for entire life. ”
Today, there is a movement against
death penalty. If convicts are awarded life even in brutal and heinous crimes, they ask for bail if they have served 5 or more years in jail on the ground that life sentence is only for 14 years. Is it not incongruous?—Supreme Court
�Seeks bail after 5 yrs, P 13
The CBI on Thursdayraided 40 places in MP
and UP, including the prem-ises of alleged Vyapammastermind Jagdish Sagarand Dhanraj Yadav, formerOSD to MP governor RamNaresh Yadav. P 13
40 places raidedin Vyapam probe
As part of efforts to pop-ularise the electronic
mode of filing income taxreturns, the CBDT is plan-ning to provide “pre-filled”return forms to filers whichwill have an automatic up-load of data on income. P 21
Pre-filled ITRforms on cards
Gold bars worth Rs 28lakh were seized at
Mumbai international air-port on Thursday. A JetAirways cabin crew mem-ber was arrested for smug-gling them. P 17
Jet staffer heldwith ̀̀ 28L gold
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
ROLAND BARTHES
C O N T R A P U N T O
OTHER TOP STORIES�Paraplegic man walksusing his brain power, P 19
�FB stalking your ex makeit harder to move on, P 19
�Fingerprints of 5.6m sto-len in US data hack, P 20
�Ashwin main accused in2nd chargesheet, P 4
�Man kills wife, convinc-es cops it's suicide, P 5
�B’luru boy kidnapped bykin, rescued in 4 hrs, P 5
�Startups check into budget hotels, P 22
Times Classifieds | P 8, 10 & 12
Bengalureans are risk-ing limbs, lives and ve-hicles traversing the
city’s cratered roads, butcity minister R RamalingaReddy found just one pot-hole on a carefully orches-trated inspection tour. OnThursday morning, Reddyand his entourage of BDAand BBMP officials and themayor drove 25km — fromSilk Board Junction to Heb-bal. The route had been care-fully marked, alleged citi-zens, who invited Reddy toride up service roads lead-ing to IT firms. Page 5
Mantri findsjust 1 potholein 25km ride
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
An opinion poll done forTimes Now and released
on Thursday suggested thatthe BJP-led alliance wouldhave a slight edge in a keencontest in the Bihar assemblyelections, but could just fallshort of a majority.
The poll projected be-tween 109 and 125 seats for thealliance in the 243-memberHouse while giving the JD(U)-RJD-Congress combine be-tween 104 and 120 seats. Thehalf-way mark is 122 seats.
The poll, done by CVoter,also indicated that the BJP-
NDA noses ahead but Biharcould see hung House: Poll
led front had gained since asimilar poll done two weeksago, which had given the rivalalliance a slight lead.
In terms of vote shares,
the latest poll gives 43% to theNDA and 42% to the Mahagathbandhan.
�4 percentage points, P 15
ROUND 1 (Sept 8)
ROUND 2 (Sept 23)
Seats Vote share
NDA 102 117 43%
RJD+ 124 112 42%
Others 17 14 15%
Times Now-CVoter opinion poll shows NDA gaining in last 15 days
SURGE FOR SAFFRON?
46.8% of those surveyed want Nitish Kumar to be the CM; 16% name Sushil Modi
TOTAL SEATS243
EID MUBARAK
