www.facebook.com/hindustantimes www.twitter.com/htTweets ■ DOWNLOAD OUR iPAD APP www.hindustantimes.com/iPad ■ OUR EDITION ON KINDLE http://read.ht/JS4 hindustantimes.com Kolkata / METRO ■ R 2.50 ■ Vol. XII No 240 ■ 20 pages, including 4 pages of HT City THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2012 TNIFTY 5,652.2 -52.5 TSENSEX 18,631.1 -162.3 TDOW JONES 13,473.5 -110.1 TNASDAQ 3,065.0 -47.3 TRUPEE/$ 53.0 -0.3 SRUPEE/EURO 68.3 +0.0 SGOLD/10G R31,750.0 +230.0 TSILVER R61,000.0 -450.0 hindustantimes com HT CITY BUSINESS SPORT TRUTH & HYPE AAMIR BANS CAMERA IN GUJARAT PUTTING E-WAYS BOLT’S FUTURE MAY Teesta Setalvad on the issues that PHONES FROM SET ON FAST TRACK BE IN FOOTBALL matter in the elections Ever since photographs from the sets of Dhoom:3 were leaked, Govt plans to set up World’s fastest man says he could play ball hindustantimes.com/gujaratelections the cast, crew and producers have become extra cautious company to construct after retiring from the track > P13 expressways >P11 short stories Schools study handwriting to understand students better ranking city schools, and even costs R7,000, also imparts knowl- practises it regularly it reacts ht SPECIAL some teachers on their own, CHARACTER TRAITS edge in child psychology. back to our thoughts via the are attempting,” director of the “The course covers more than same neuro-muscular path and Joydeep Thakur Kolkata Institute of Graphology ■ Graphology is the art of analysing hand- 50 aspects of child psychology, influences the thought process. ■ [email protected] Mohan Bose told HT. writing and using the information to including mood disorders, con- This is an age-old practice and Bose said the institute had change the behaviour of people. flicts, social relationships, par- is being exploited across the KOLKATA: City schools are increas- already trained teachers of such ■ Cops use the method to track criminals. ent-child relationship, memo- world,” Bose added. ingly turning to graphology — schools as MC Kejriwal Vidya- ■ Many companies use graphology to ry retention, suicidal tenden- “The use of graphology to the science of analysing hand- peeth and Laxmipat Singhania identify favourable character traits of cies and crime-prone behavi- understand the psyche of stu- ■ Robert Lefkowitz and writing — in order to understand Academy. More than 30 teach- applicants before recruiting them. our, among others,” Bose added. dents has become all the more Brian Kobilka the special needs of students ers of several other top schools, Bose explained that the human important and useful at a time ■ Graphology is used extensively in courts. instead of resorting to corporal including La Martiniere, Future brain was highly malleable and when society’s changing very Parents can take the help of graphologists AMERICAN CHEMISTS punishment to discipline them. Foundation, Assembly of God could be dramatically influenced fast. There’ve been several inci- to change the behaviourable pattern of “Through graphology, you Church and DPS have under- by external factors. All aspects dents over the past few years LEFKOWITZ, KOBILKA their children. can’t only identify nearly 180 gone courses in graphology. of an individual’s experience can where students have either com- GET NOBEL PRIZE character traits of an individ- “We’d sent about 25 teach- alter the brain circuit and induce mitted suicide or have reacted STOCKHOLM: US chemists ual, but even change them to ers from various departments tify certain character traits by managing trustee of M C Kejri- come up with a specially tai- changes in it. “When an indivi- violently against their teachers Robert Lefkowitz and Brian some extent by changing the and classes of our school to get analysing handwriting. The wal Vidyapeeth, which has about lored course spanning two and dual changes his handwriting when the latter tried to mend Kobilka won the Nobel Prize handwriting in a scientific man- them trained in graphology. results have, indeed, surprised 3,000 students. a half months to train school in a scientific manner, as pre- their behavoiur in a traditional on Wednesday for work on ner. And this is what some top- They were taught how to iden- all of us,” said KK Kejriwal, Bose said his institute had teachers. The course, which scribed by a graphologist, and manner,” said a senior teacher. cell receptors, yielding vital insights into how the body works at the molecular level. The award is for che- ICC SUSPENDS 6 mistry but the big benefici- Still B’wood’s Shahenshah at 70 ary should be medicine, the Nobel committee said. AFP TAINTED UMPIRES Anti-graft Act will Chautala backs khap idea PENDING INQUIRY of early marriage KAITHAL: As Haryana Agencies witnessed another rape, ■ [email protected] cover bribe-givers former CM Om Prakash Chautala backed the khap DUBAI: Cricket’s chief decision- suggestion to reduce mar- making body, the International PM TALKS TOUGH Singh hints S&P MAY DOWNGRADE riageable age of boys and Cricket Council (ICC), on girls to 16 to curb inci- Wednesday suspended six at tough anti-corruption legislation INDIA’S CREDIT RATING dents of sexual assault.P10 umpires — three Sri Lankans, two Pakistanis and a HT Correspondent DESPITE THE REFORMS Cauvery row: TN files Bangladeshi — caught in a TV ■ [email protected] 44 proposals okayed contempt against K’taka sting pending completion of in just 3 meetings HT Correspondent NEW DELHI: The Tamil Nadu an inquiry against them. NEW DELHI: In a decision that ■ [email protected] government, on Wednes- Footage from the sting indi- could prove to be a game-chang- New Delhi: Stung by the alleged policy paralysis, Prime Minister day, moved the Supreme cated that the umpires were er in the fight against corrup- NEW DELHI: US credit rating Court seeking launch of willing to fix Twenty20 match- tion, the government is plan- Manmohan Singh has got 44 agency Standard and Poor’s contempt of court proceed- es. ning to amend the anti-graft proposals through in the last (S&P) warned on Monday that ing against Karnataka CM “The International Cricket Act to cover bribe-givers, espe- three meetings of his cabinet. India still faced a “one in three” Jagadish Shettar and oth- Council and its relevant full- cially private companies, instead Singh led the last cabinet meet- chance of a downgrade despite ers for allegedly defying the member board have agreed of only the bribe-taker. ing to take 18 decisions in just the recent spate of moves to court’s order to supply not to appoint any of the Prime Minister Manmohan one-and-a-half hours. The cabi- open up the insurance, pension 9,000 cusecs of water from umpires named in a sting oper- Singh announced this on net committee on economic and multi-brand retail sectors the Cauvery river to the ation recently conducted by Wednesday, saying, “Experience affairs approved five items in to foreign investment— the bold- state. PTI India TV to any domestic or has shown that in a vast major- half-an-hour while the cabinet est reforms initiated by the UPA international crickes match- ity of cases, it is difficult to tack- committee on infrastructure since assuming power in 2004. Mukesh Ambani richest es, pending the outcome of the le consensual bribery and the decided on three issues in 15 “The negative outlook signals Indian with $19-bn wealth ongoing investigations into the bribe-giver gets away by tak- minutes flat. What’s more, the at least a one-in-three likelihood NEW DELHI: Reliance Indus- allegations made,” ICC said in ing advantage of the Prevention cabinet committee on political of a downgrade of the sovereign tries chairman Mukesh a statement. of Corruption Act.” He said big- affairs took barely 20 minutes rating on India within the next Ambani is the country’s India TV had shown video ticket corruption was mostly to decide on reducing the sub- 24 months,” S&P analysts said richest man with a person- clips purportedly taken by their related to operations by com- sidy on LPG and diesel. >>P9 in a note. al fortune of $19.3 billion, undercover reporters, in which mercial entities. “It is, there- The effects of the announce- says a report. According the umpires allegedly showed fore, also proposed to include In an oblique reference to the ment were immediately visible: to China-based research willingness to give certain deci- corporate failure to prevent anti-corruption crusade by social the Sensex tumbled by 162 points firm Hurun’s inaugural sions for a sum of money. bribery as a new offence.” activist Anna Hazare and later to close at 18,631.1 and the rupee India Rich List, Ambani is The umpires featured in the Inaugurating a conference of by his estranged associate, India fell below the 53-mark. followed by the London- video clips include Nadeem the CBI and state anti-corrup- Against Corruption leader Arvind The agency also maintained based steel baron L N Ghauri and Anees Siddiqui of tion bureaus in Delhi, the PM Kejriwal, he said, “The mindless India’s rating at BBB-, which is Mittal, who has a wealth of Pakistan, Nadir Shah of said his regime would provide atmosphere of negativity and only a notch above “junk”. A down- USD 16.9 billion. PTI Bangladesh, and Gamini a clear definition of “corruption”, pessimism that is sought to be grade would mean India would Dissanayake, Maurice Winston ■ Amitabh Bachchan poses with wife Jaya on the eve of his birthday. >>See also P10 PTI PHOTO and also amend the Act to “pro- created over the issue of cor- have to pay higher interest rates and Sagara Gallage of Sri Lanka.