Man Utd team up with Azeri telecoms company

LONDON (Reuters) - English Premier League soccer club Manchester United have signed their first sponsorship deal in a former Soviet country, teaming up with Bakcell, a telecoms company in Azerbaijan.

The three-year agreement announced on Monday is one of a number of local sponsorship deals done by United, English champions a record 19 times, who enjoy a large following around the globe.

The club's international commercial expansion is a model that rivals are keen to emulate.

Bakcell will broadcast the club's MUTV channel in Azerbaijan, while its mobile subscribers will also be offered club news and video highlights.

"This new agreement is another first for Manchester United, with it being the only partnership the club has in the country," its commercial director Richard Arnold said.

United have 659 million followers around the globe, according to the results of a survey commissioned by the club earlier this year.

Around 1.68 million of them were in Azerbaijan, a country of more than 9 million people which is wedged between Russia and Iran on the Caspian Sea.

(Writing by Keith Weir; Editing by Mark Potter)

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New computer spying program linked to Flame authors

By Joseph Menn

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The security company that has discovered some of the most sophisticated spying software unearthed to date says it found a related program, dubbed "miniFlame," which can carry out more precise attacks on targets in the Middle East.

While the original Flame virus swept in data from perhaps 5,000 computers, largely in Iran and Sudan, the new miniFlame struck only about 50 "high-value" machines, according to Kaspersky Lab research published on Monday. Ira n had previously blamed Flame for causing data loss on computers in the country's main oil export terminal and Oil Ministry.

"Flame acts as a long sword for broad swipes while miniFlame acts as a scalpel for a focused surgical dissection," Roel Schouwenberg, a senior researcher at Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab, told Reuters.

Kaspersky theorized that miniFlame was distributed mainly by Flame and another recently discovered spyware program, Gauss, which was most prevalent in Lebanon and may have been aimed at tracking financial transactions.

Not much is known about miniFlame's victims, except that they were more geographically dispersed than those of Flame and Gauss. Infections were found in Lebanon and Iran most of all but also in the Palestinian Territories, Iran, Kuwait, and Qatar, according to Kaspersky.

Kaspersky and U.S. security software company Symantec Corp have said that some of the code in Flame also appeared in an early version of Stuxnet. Found in 2010 and aimed at Iran's nuclear enrichment program, Stuxnet is sometimes described as the first true cyber-weapon. Cybe r experts widely believe Stuxn et is an American project.

Kaspersky and Symantec said in a joint research paper last month that Flame's control software remotely directed a number of smaller programs, and that the effects of only one of those programs was clear.

Symantec said at the time the overall project "fits the profile of military and intelligence operations," in part because encryption kept some operatives in the dark about what data they were taking from infected machines.

The many technological innovations in Flame included its hijacking of Microsoft Corp's Windows Update feature, which is critical for keeping the operating system current as new security problems come to light.

The new discovery concerns one of the smaller programs controlled by the Flame command software, referred to in the original code as SPE.

According to the Kaspersky analysis, it includes a "back door" allowing for remote control, data theft and the ability to take screen shots - or images of the computer screen - as the user engages with Microsoft Office, Adobe Systems Inc's

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Children hospitalised after being punished by teacher

Gopeshwar (Uttarakhand) Oct 15 (PTI) Some children of a school in Chamoli district fell ill and had to be hospitalised after being punished by a teacher for allegedly disobeying him, officials sources said here today. The children of class eight fell ill after they were asked by the teacher to stand in stress position. They had to be admitted to a hospital at Tharali after they returned home. However, they were discharged after a brief treatment. The incident occurred on Saturday, the sources said . An inquiry has been ordered into the incident by the Chief Education Officer after the parents of the children lodged a complaint with the authorities. PTI Corr ALM SHS

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Traffic cop knocked down by DTC bus

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New Delhi, Oct 15 (PTI) A Delhi Police constable was crushed to death by a DTC bus in south Delhi this morning, police said. Ratan Pal was deputed at south Delhi's Lajpat Nagar traffic circle. The bus hit him near Lajpat Nagar flyover at around 8.30 am. Pal was taken to the AIIMS where he was declared brought dead. Bus driver Somveer Singh (24) has been arrested. PTI SJY PAL

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Kulaste had alleged that the police "have chosen not to Kulaste had alleged that the police "have chosen not to probe or reveal the call details of S P Gupta, Aman Arora and Lovely Singh, all prosecution witnesses, although co-accused Sohail Hindustani has categorically stated they were instrumental in introducing/conversing with Patel to make a deal to pay BJP 'venerable' MPs to vote in favour of the UPA". The police, however, told the court that the Congress leader had joined the investigation and made a statement denying allegations made by Hindustani and stated that no conversation took place between them on mobile of Lovely Singh. The police had also said that the call details of Lovely Singh were analysed and no call were found to have been made or received from the landline or mobile numbers of the Congress leader at the relevant time. The probe agency has also denied the allegation of the investigation being influenced by the Centre. Regarding the DVD procured from a news chanel containing the interviews of three BJP MPs and shots of currency notes, the court said that "the investigating agency for some unexplainable reasons has not carried out any investugation on the DVD which according to Kulaste shall bring out the hidden truth that some of the accused are only the whistleblowers and had engineered the sting to expose horse trading..." The court also rejected police's arguments that no further probe could be ordered at the behest of an accused after the filing of the charge sheet and "the application was merely seeking to cast aspersions on the probe agency by making wild allegations." On July 22, 2008, some BJP MPs had waved wads of currency notes on the floor of Lok Sabha during the trust vote faced by the UPA-I government, claiming they were given the cash to vote in favour of the Manmohan Singh government. Samajwadi Party's former general secretary Amar Singh, BJP leader L K Advani's former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni, BJP MP Argal, Kulaste, ex-party MP Mahabir Singh Bhagora along with Amar Singh's former aide Sanjeev Saxena and alleged BJP activist Suhail Hindustani are accused in the case. PTI AKI RT

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Order on complaint against Kejriwal, Ramdev amp; Bhushan on Nov 8

New Delhi, Oct 15 (PTI) A Delhi court today reserved its order on complaint against Arvind Kejriwal, Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev and noted lawyer Prashant Bhushan for their alleged remarks against Parliamentarians and supporting plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir respectively. Metropolitan Magistrate Purshottam Pathak reserved his order for November 8 on three different complaints, all seeking directions to the police to register FIR against Kejriwal, Ramdev and Bhushan. The complaint had been filed by Vibhor Anand, a law student. In his complaint against Kejriwal, Anand has sought direction to the police to register an FIR for sedition saying he had triggered a political storm by stating in a rally at Ghaziabad early this year that Parliament was filled with "murderers, rapists and dacoits". Anand had also sought registration of FIR against Bhushan on charges of sedition for his alleged remarks supporting plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir and for withdrawal of the Army from the valley. He had also made a similar complaint against Ramdev saying he had made derogatory allegations against parliamentarians who "are running the system of the country" and had attacked MPs calling them "dacoits and murderers", which amounts to sedition. Addressing media, while launching his month-long yatra in Durg, Chhattisgarh, Ramdev had said "there are good people among the parliamentarians and he respected them. But there are (also) dacoits, murderers, illiterates among them. We have to save Parliament. We have to remove corrupt people." PTI AKI RKS RAX

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Naveen shown black flags in Baripada

Baripada (Odisha), Oct 15 (PTI) Black flags greeted Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik as he came here to inaugurate certain projects and lay foundation stones for some others in this tribal dominated district. Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) workers took out a procession at the district headquarters town of Baripada prior to his visit demanding a medical college in Mayurbhanj district. He was shown black flag by JMM activists raising slogan 'Naveen Patnaik Go Back' in several areas of the town and its adjacent areas wherever the chief minister went to either inaugurate or laying foundation stone of any project. At one point Patnaik was seen asking the officials around him "what is happening". Two JMM workers were beaten up by ruling BJD supporters, but police rescued them soon. BJD workers shouted 'Police Hai Hai' as they were rescued by the cop. Black flags were also shown to the chief minister by supporters of Youth Congress, BJP and Bajrang Sena in different areas of the town. Police detained about 135 activists of different political parties for smooth passage of the chief minister in the town, but released them later. PTI COR AAM PR HKS

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Govt to take step to check rhino poaching

Guwahati, Oct 15 (PTI) Under fire for the recent killing of rhinos in Assam, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today said the state and Centre are formulating a comprehensive plan to stop such incidents and save the species. "We are looking at measures to stop poaching and also reduce deaths of rhinos due to flood. A policy is being worked upon," Gogoi told reporters here. He said besides involving locals living in the vicinity of Kaziranga National Park, Manas National Park and Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, the government is also working on steps like floodlighting and fencing sensitive areas. "Recently union Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan was here and she assured all help from Centre, including boats and aircraft. The guards in the reserve areas are also being provided with sophisticated weapons," he said. On the issue of flood, Gogoi said over 40 lakh people were affected and 151 lost their lives during the three waves which hit the state this year. Over ten lakh people took shelter in camps after being displaced by floods. "However, as of today the situation has improved and only 1,920 person are still living in camps, five of which are still operating," he said. The Chief Minister said steps like help for farmers to have a good rabi crop are being taken to make up the loss in agriculture. Regarding the recent violence in Bodoland Territorial Area Districts and nearby places, Gogoi said of the total 4.85 lakh displaced, over 3.43 lakh have left for their homes. MORE PTI PPB MM PS

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Autorickshaws, taxis strike tomorrow

New Delhi, Oct 15 (PTI) Commuters may face difficulty omorrow as a number of auto rickshaw and taxi operators' unions will go on a strike demanding hike in fares, not heeding to an assurance by Delhi government today that a decision on the issue will be taken within 15 days. The auto unions have also been protesting government's directive to install global positioning systems in their vehicles due to "high cost" of the equipment. In view of the strike, Delhi government asked Delhi Transport Corporation to deploy as many buses as possible on the road tomorrow. Representatives of various auto-rickshaw unions today held a meeting with Transport Minister Ramakant Goswami, following which a number of unions decided not to participate in the strike while some others refused to reconsider the decision. "I have told the unions that government will take a decision on the issue of fare within 15 days. However, I told them that there can be no review of decision on installation of GPS on auto-rickshaw," Goswami said. On installation of GPS, the auto unions told the Minister that they will not be able to install the GPS device selected by the Delhi Integrated Multi-Modal Transit System Ltd which would cost Rs 13,500 each. PTI MPB PAL

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Nifty ends in green: Udayan

Udayan Mukherjee, managing editor, CNBC-TV18, says that it was expected to be a range-bound session of trade. The Nifty moved in a 30 point band in the entire session.

Stocks like Hindalco , Bharti, Cipla , Ranbaxy and Dr Reddy's did well. Infosys continues to slide lower. Maruti and L&T did not have very special session.

The breadth was split right down the middle. So, nothing in the midcaps either today, same number of advancing and declining stocks. Some names stood out on the wining side, like Network 18 , Balrampur Chini , Syndicate Bank and some real estate names like HDIL , Unitech and DB Realty did quite well.

Dish TV had an off day. United Spirits was not very strong and PFC and REC also looked slightly subdued. All in all a forgettable session of trade despite the inflation number which came in the middle of the session which was on the higher side, stock markets finally bounced back from early losses and managed to close absolutely flat, though bond yields edged up a little higher a couple of basis points after the inflation numbers came in.

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