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Girl, you made it 7bn

8th billion baby will be born in 2025, 10th in 2083
WHY A GIRL?
India is the worlds second most-populous country with a population of 1.2 billion. The country struggles with a deeply held preference for sons and a skewed sex ratio because of millions of aborted female foetuses. The birth of a girl as the worlds seven billionth baby will help highlight the plight of the girl child in India. It will help in bringing global focus back on girls

Saif Ali Khan with mother Sharmila Tagore after he was anointed the 10th Nawab of Pataudi at his ancestral palace

NIA looking for 3 more suspects in Delhi blast

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is on the look out for three more suspects in the Delhi high court blast case, Union home minister P Chidambaram said in New Delhi on Monday. Three persons have been already arrested, he said. Based on the information provided by them, the NIA is looking for three more suspects, Chidambaram said.

2G scam case: CBI in trouble over bail pleas

The CBI has been caught on the wrong foot over its stance on giving bail to some accused in the 2G spectrum allocation scam, such as DMK MP Kanimozhi, but being averse to the jailed corporate honchos seeking the same. page 6

DGCA issues notices to over 20 flying schools

DGCA has issued notices to more than 20 flying schools and given them a 30-day deadline to comply with regulations. A Rajasthan school has been asked to shut down, while the Bombay Flying Club, under strict watch, has been allowed to conditionally restart operations. page 6

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Russia, China veto UN resolution on Syria

Russia and China have vetoed a UN Security Council resolution threatening action against Syrias crackdown on protests. Amid new deaths in Syria and new threats of individual sanctions, the US said it was outraged by the rejection of the resolution.

Some say our planet is too crowded. I say we are 7bn strong. We will be able to use that strength for the benefit of all if our societies are built on mutual respect and understanding.
UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon

Nargis Seven billionth baby born, 7.20am, October 31, 2011, at Mall near Lucknow, UP AP

Around 250 babies were born in Indore on Monday. Out of them 23 were born at MYH alone

Did you know?

babies are born every second. Every minute, 51 babies are born in India, 11 of them in Uttar Pradesh India's population is expected to surpass China's by 2025, when it will have approximately 1.5 billion people

150 mn
children live without parents globally while 925 million people go hungry worldwide

Landmarks
The worlds population touched seven billion on Monday. A look at various landmarks in the growth of the world population

893

India has 893 girls for every 1,000 boys at birth

1804 1 billion 1927 2 billion 1959 3 billion 1974 4 billion 1987 5 billion 1999 6 billion 2011 7 billion

Qaeda-linked group persecuting Shias in Pak

Pakistani intelligence agencies probing the spate of execution-style sectarian killings in Balochistan have concluded it is part of a campaign launched by a Qaeda-linked sectarian-cum-jehadi group to persecute half a million members of the Shia Hazara community into leaving Pakistan.

Tinus tune: Dont blame me for what hubby did

Suspended IAS officer tells Lokayukta she was not aware of investments made by her husband
P Naveen BHOPAL

JOSHI VS JOSHI
I-T officials in February 2010 raided the premises of Arvind Joshi, principal secretary (jails), and his wife Tinu Joshi, principal secretary (women and child development) and recovered over `3 Arvind Joshi crore in cash and lots of foreign currency. Tinu Joshi Inventory of the assets of the 1979-batch officers included 25 flats and 400 acres of land estimated to be worth more than `360 crore by the I-T department. Later in December, the Lokayukta took cognisance of this, registered a case against the Joshis.

Arunachal Pradesh to get new chief minister

Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Jarbom Gamlin resigned on Monday even as 40 of the 42 Congress legislators in the state authorised party president Sonia Gandhi to decide on the next CLP leader, most likely on Tuesday. page 7

Suspended IAS officer Tinu Joshi has pleaded ignorance about the investments made by her husband, also an IAS officer, Arvind Joshi. In her reply to the Lokayuktas notice, Tinu Joshi said that she should not be held responsible for what her husband did. Being a public servant, I am not only a separate person but also a

separate legal identity. And in respect of the IT Act, I have the status of an independent Income Tax assessee therefore I cant be held responsible for any acts of alleged omission or commission or possession of any assets by any other person, may he be my husband, responded Tinu Joshi in a written communication to the Lokayukta office. She requested the investigators

to deal with her case separately. Assessment of my income expenditure and assets may please

be dealt with separately from the income expenditures, assets of my husband, she wrote.

Tinu Joshi also washed her hands off share-trading and investments allegedly made by her husband in her name. She claimed that she was not aware of the quantum of the amount deposited or its nature. I dont even know how much investment has been done in my name in the shares, since my husband managed the entire thing in my name. She also claimed ignorance about the total amount withdrawn in favour of trading corporation in her name citing that she used to give blank signed cheques

to her husband. `11, 63,700 were invested in shares through STCI in my name by my husband without my knowledge, Tinu explained. About the jewellery IT officials included in their inventory of seizures, she said that those were Streedhan given by her family members. Similarly, about the `3,03,20,350 seized from their residence, she maintained that the said amount, to her knowledge, was given as a part-payment to Turn to p4 her father-in-law

Trouble brewing for AI pilots yet again

Sindhu Bhattacharya NEW DELHI

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This may well hurt Air India's international operations in the coming days. Over 100 pilots under the aegis of Indian Pilots Guild (IPG) have threatened to quit the airline, charging the management with adopting discriminatory attitude against them and stalling their career progression. In a letter to Air India CMD Rohit Nandan, these pilots have said they are compelled to seek a no-objection certificate from the airline so that they could seek employment elsewhere. The threat of mass resignation of

these pilots comes amid reports that the airline was planning to launch a training programme for pilots to fly the Boeing 787 Dreamliners, the first of which is expected to join the airline by December. The IPG represents around 200 pilots of the pre-merger Air India, while the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) that had gone on strike in April-May this year represents around 1,400 pilots of Indian Airlines. The pilots have marked copies of their letter to civil aviation minister Vayalar Ravi and other officials, besides the re Turn to p4 gional labour

MBA at the front office and B Tech as typist

Priyanka Golikeri
BANGALORE

POLICE PIED PIPERS: Indoreans will now be treated to music scores rendered by police band every Sunday at prominent city gardens. The first of such melodious presentations comprising Hindi film songs was made at Shivaji Vatika on Sunday evening and conducted by sub-inspector Thomas. Anand Shivre. DNA

KHYATI MADAANS PREDICTION COMES TRUE WITH Ra.One GROSSING A RECORD `95 CRORE IN ITS INDIA OPENINGS

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IIM-I students box office formula is a superhero

Aditya Singh Parmar INDORE

After 1,760,000000000, numbers dont shock me anymore

For years film-making has been considered a gamble whose fate cant be predicted. But accurate predictions made by a student of IIM-Indore before the release of Shahrukh Khans Ra.One indicate that there may be after all a magic formula that guarantees success on the box office. On October 20, Khyati Madaan, a second-year student of the IIMs post-graduate programme, had forecast that Ra.One will get the biggest opening in the history of the cinema.

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The prediction, reported by DNA, was based on a formula that Madaan had derived on the basis of management principles. And her prediction has hit bullseye. In spite of being ripped

apart by majority of critics and viewers, Ra.One grossed `96-crore in its opening weekend, the highest ever for an Indian film. It beat Salman Khans Bodyguard by almost `10 crore. I had predicted that the films net opening would be `95 crore, says Madaan. The IIM student has based her formula on factors that include the combined equity of the lead pair, the films director and the production house. The other factors that decide the outcome include the genre fit of the film and its stars, the competition at the time of release, the hype gener-

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Model predictions as per the Khyati Madaan Formula for Ra One vis-a-vis the actual business Domestic Net (All-India business) Model prediction `95 cr Actual `96 cr Deviation = Less than 1% Total Business Net (Domestic + Overseas) Model prediction `141 cr Actual `137.25 cr Deviation = 2.5 %

ated by the films marketing before release and the reaction soon after release. So, what can Bollywood learn from Ra.Ones success? To begin with, have a star cast that is pop-

ular among viewers, spend a lot on pre-release publicity, release the film when people are in a mood to spend (the film hit the screens before Diwali).
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For nearly 11 months since completing his BTech, Anup Mehta (name changed) was scouting for a job. His institute in Mumbai witnessed a poor placement season last year, with a vast majority being left to fend for themselves. Wherever he applied, Mehta was rejected on account of poor communication skills, analytical ability, and below par domain knowledge. Finally, the 23-yearold applied for the post of a typist with an education firm in the capital for a salary of `5,500 per month. Last month, Bangalore girl and MBA graduate Srividya R took up the job of a receptionist with a little-known tech firm in the IT city after she failed to get any job compatible with her course. Her job involves only receiving and connecting calls; and it fetches her just `6,700 per month.
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Salman Ansari DNA

Lucknow: Countries around the world celebrated the arrival of the symbolic seven billionth baby on Monday. India welcomed the birth of Nargis as the symbolic seven billionth baby to highlight the plight of the girl child and cases of female foeticide in the country. Weighing three kgs, Nargis was born in Mall on the outskirts of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, at 7.20am on Monday. Phillipines was the first country to announce the arrival of the worlds seven billionth baby Danica May Camacho was born just two minutes before midnight. Doctors said that was close enough to count for a Monday birthday. The United Nations Population Division, the agency that keeps track of the number of humans, had decided earlier this year to declare October 31, 2011 as Seven Billion Day. The world has added another China since the sixth billion baby was born in 1999. The worlds population has now doubled in 50 years. Agencies

What does it mean to the planet and us

Seven billion and rising means the load on the planet and its resources is only increasing

How the UN arrived at 7bn

It was a symbolic exercise to promote the girl child and highlight the issues faced by them.

Water demand could exceed supply. By 2025, 1.8bn people will be living in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity. Oil only enough for the next 46.2 years if
global production remains at current rate.

The 5th and 6th billion babies

Both Adnan Nevic, 12, of Bosnia, the sixth billionth baby, and Matej Gaspar from Croatia, who was number five billion, have complained that the UN chose them at birth and then ignored them.

Natural gas in reserves will last for the

next 58.6 years.

Phosphorus is needed for plants to

grow. We could run out of phosphorus in 50 to 100 years.

Coal resources are the largest reserves of

all fossil fuels, but as developing countries continue to increase their appetite for coal, demand could finally outstrip supply.