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India allows Malaysiato search missing

aircraft over Andaman

Port Blair, Mar 12: India hasallowed Malaysia to search for

the missing aircraft ofMalaysian Airlines on theairspace over Andamanand Nicobar Islands.“Air

Staff CorrespondentSheekha News Service

Unrest in Havelock overarrest of 24 people by CID

Havelock, Mar 12: A group ofvillagers today blocked road

at Havelock Island inprotest of 24 arrests madeby the CID/CCS unit ofAndaman and Nicobar

Staff CorrespondentSheekha News Service

Sudden rise in population of rodents inDiglipur, leaves Diglipur Residents in distress

Diglipur, Mar 12: After aseries of complaints fromfarmers the AgricultureDepartment has finallyinitiated measures to get ridof rodents. The field RatBandicota sp. is damagingthe field crop and resulting inhuge loss to the farmers,shopkeepers, householdgoods, of various villages ofDiglipur Sub Division.

DJ VenkateshSheekha News Service

Subhashgram, R K Gram ,Khudirampur andMadhupur is worst effected

 apart from other  six villages.The farmers themselves

(See page 7)Weird Rules and Regulations making

life difficult for Differently-abled people

Rangat, Mar 12: The Healthdepartment has made theirwork easier of issuing identitycard to differently-abled personby giving the power to MedicalOfficer of concerned area to fixthe disability percentage of theperson. But it has created a lotof headache to the differently-abled person as they have tofirst visit the Medical Officer foraccruing the disabilitypercentage then they have tomove to Directorate of SocialWelfare, Port Blair and theDirectorate of Social Welfaredirects them to go the MedicalSuperintendent, DHS Port

Senthil KumarSheekha News Service

Blair, after signature of theM.S. they have to submit thedocument to the DoS.W.After completing all theformalities they have tocome back to their homeand again after 15 or 20days they have to go backto Directorate of SocialWelfare, Port Blair to get theidentity card.Differently-abled Islanders now urgethe Administration to makethe process easier so thatthe needy people don’thave to make trip to PortBlair again and again. Afterpreparation of IdentityCard they may hand it overto the area CDPO fordistribution.

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PHC Billyground nurse declares normal baby as ‘dead’

Father finds new bornbaby alive, a few

minutes before burialBillyground, Mar 12: Adeeply upset and cryingfather when removed thecloth, wrapped around thedead body of a new born babygirl, a few minutes before theburial, to his utter shock,found that the baby is aliveand moving her lips.

Only few hours ago,one of the Staff Nurses ofPHC Billyground haddeclared the baby girl deadand asked the parents to takeaway the baby. According tothe parents, before release ofthe body no formality was

TrinathSheekha News Service

done and the hospitalauthorities now say that theydon’t have any idea whenthe body of the baby girl wastaken away for burial. Mr.

Arvind, a resident ofLaukinagar and father of thegirl soon lodged a verbalcomplaint in Police Station,

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AAP releases fifthlist of candidates

NEW DELHI: The AamAadmi Party (AAP) onWednesday released its fifthlist of 56 candidates for theLok Sabha elections, whichinclude eight from Bihar andnine from Uttar Pradesh.

The fourth list of 61

candidates, including journal-ist Ashish Khetan and satiristBhagwant Mann, was re-leased on Monday.

After the fifth list, theAAP has so far announced187 candidates for the gen-eral polls.

Former BiharCongress chief joins LJPPATNA: In a jolt to the Con-gress in Bihar, former statepresident ChaudharyMehboob Ali Kaisar Wednes-day joined the Lok JanshaktiParty (LJP) of Ram VilasPaswan.

Kaisar was report-edly unhappy with the Con-gress alliance with theRashtriya Janata Dal of LaluPrasad for the Lok Sabhapolls and had showed his dis-pleasure with his party's de-cision to surrender theKhagaria seat to the RJD.

Soon after Kaisar

joined the LJP, party chiefPaswan announced he will bethe LJP nominee fromKhagaria.

Meanwhile, fourRJD leaders - former minis-ter Shakuni Choudhary,Ganesh Yadav, Abu Qaiserand Suresh Mehta - joined theruling Janata Dal-United,state party presidentVashsisht Narain Singh said.

The LJP, which hasjoined hands with theBharatiya Janata Party, willcontest the polls from sevenconstituencies.

NIA to probe Bastar Maoistattack: Sushilkumar Shinde

RAIPUR: Na-tional Investi-gating Agency(NIA) willprobe theMaoist attackwhich killed 15security per-sonnel and a ci-vilian nearTongpal inSukma districto fChhattisgarh,Union homem i n i s t e rSushilkumarShinde said onWednesday.

Ta l k -ing to reporters at Jagdalpur,the divisional headquarters ofBastar after paying homageto slain security personneland taking stock of situationat a high level meeting, hesaid "the martyrdom of thesemen would not go waste. Wewill fight them back".

Admitting that therecould be some coordinationissues at the ground level,Shinde said Chhattisgarhchief minister Raman Singhhas already given his consentfor handing over the probe toNIA. NIA is also probing thelast year's May 25 ambush

which killed 27 people includ-ing front line Congress lead-ers in Chhattisgarh.

Stating that Maoistswere trying to unleash terrorin order to disrupt the LokSabha polls, Shinde said therebels would not succeed intheir designs. "Assemblyelections were conductedpeacefully and Lok Sabha pollwill also be held without anytrouble," he added.

The Union home min-ister said para-military forcesand the state police wouldcarry out joint operationsagainst the rebels.

'Dismissed' air traffic controllersreinstated after a decade

MUMBAI: The Airport Author-ity of India (AAI) had dismissedfive Air Traffic Controllers with-out a chargesheet in 1999 soonafter they had launched a 'workto rule' agitation endangeringsafety of aircrafts and passen-gers. But a decade later it hadreinstated the three officers. Onehad died during pendency of acriminal trial which on Tuesdayended in an acquittal, and onehad retired. The five officerswho had been booked withcriminal charges under a speciallaw to ensure civil aviationsafety were PN Bahuguna, MKSinha, Parmi Srinivas,Sudhangshu Gupta andBirendra Kumar Shekhar. Theywere tried for charges underSuppression of Unlawful Actsagainst the Safety of Civil Avia-tion (SUSCA) which attracted amaximum punishment of lifesentence. But during a 15-year-long pendency as the trial gotdelayed, one officer B K Shekhardied, and Bahuguna retired.While their dismissal when chal-lenged had been upheld by theDelhi high court as valid, even-

tual dialogues years later resultedin their reappointment about fiveyears ago, said a lawyer for AAI.The ATC's agitation which wenton during January-February 1999had put authorities in a frenzy.No amount of perseverance orsettlement talks worked then.The officers were dismissed asmany flights carrying hundredsof passengers were left circlingthe Mumbai air space while ATCsrefused to accept even requestsfor priority landings.

One International flightwith around 300 passengers, thecourt was informed, wanted toland on priority as they wereshort of fuel, but the ATCs askedthe pilots to wait their turn as theflight was 22nd on the list. Thensessions judge Roshan Dalvi,who has since been elevated asBombay HC judge, framed theserious charges in 2001 againstthe five officers under Susca andIndian Penal Code.

The only other knowncase of criminal chargsheetagainst ATCs then was in the USduring president Richard Nixon'sreign. In February 1999, the five

officers were arrested and in jailfor 65 days without bail said MV Kini, special public prosecu-tor in the case. The trial howeverwas delayed and the court be-gan recording evidence only in2008. But the accused chal-lenged various orders furtherdelaying the trial. Finally onMarch 10, the trial concluded. Bythen, Kini said the spools ofvoice recording between ATCsand commanders of variousaircrafts which was used as evi-dence to prove how they had en-dangered people's lives, had"evaporated". Various businessmagnates, even the Tatas, werenot permitted to take off withtheir aircrafts, Kini said.

A number of pilots hadgiven statements and thechargesheet ran into 1000 pages.The ATCs were represented bydefence lawyers NiranjanMundargi and Sudip Pasbola.Kini later said the 15-year delayresulted in evidence which wasless forthcoming and there wasno meaning in pursuing the caseand wasting court time, hence itwas closed.

No airline can refuse to flydifferently-abled people: Govt

NEW DELHI: Heeding to yearsof pleas and protests by differ-ently-abled people, governmenthas finally come out with de-tailed rules governing their airtravel by making it clear that noairline would refuse to fly them.

Airlines and airportshave been asked to provide allrequired facilities and assis-tance to meet the needs of thedisabled and make them publicthrough their websites withinthree months from now, officialsources said.

The rules also make itcompulsory for the airlines andairports to provide necessarytraining to their staff to assistsuch passengers.The airlineshave been asked to make provi-sions for guide dogs accompa-

nying persons with disabilities"subject to the condition thatthey are properly trained, remainon floor at the passenger's feet,properly harnessed and vacci-nated". In a new Civil AviationRequirement (CAR), aviationregulator DGCA has also askedairlines not to insist on medicalcertificates or special forms fromsuch persons who wish to travelwithout an escort. Such certifi-cates should be sought onlywhen such a traveller has somedisease or there is a possibilityof aggravation of medical condi-tion during flight, among otherthings, the CAR says. "No air-line shall refuse to carry personswith disability or reduced mobil-ity and their assistive aids/de-vices, escorts and guide dogs in-

cluding their presence in thecabin, provided such persons ortheir representatives, at the timeof booking, inform the airline oftheir requirement(s)," it said.

Apart from giving infor-mation on the facilities requiredby such a passenger duringticket booking, the concernedtraveller would have to again in-form the airline 48 hours beforethe flight about his or her spe-cific nature and level of specialassistance required while em-barking, disembarking and in-flight.

The detailed CAR,however, also says the do's anddon'ts for airlines and airportsgiven in it was "not an exhaus-tive list", indicating it could beevolved over time.

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INAUGURATION OF NEW ACADEMIC BLOCKATCOAST GUARD PUBLIC SCHOOL, CAMPBELL BAY

Port Blair, Mar 12: The NewAcademic Building of CoastGuard Public School,Campbell Bay was inaugu-rated by Inspector GeneralVSR Murthy, PTM, TM,Commander Coast GuardRegion (A&N) on 09 Mar14. Apart from CommandantHC Upadhyay, DistrictCommander, Shri AkhilKumar, Assistant Commis-sioner, Campbell Bay, ShriAgni Mitra , IFS, DFONicobar Divison, Mrs JayaUpadhyay Principal, CoastGuard Public School, otherDefence and Local dignitar-ies also graced the occasionby their presence.

The Coast GuardPublic School was estab-lished in Jul 1999. However,the school building had suf-fered serious damages dur-ing the Tsunami in the year2004. The school has there-after been functioning fromtemporary shelter provided

by an NGO. The newly in-augurated academic building,which consists of six spa-cious rooms, will providemuch needed standard ofbasic class rooms. Out of thesix rooms, two rooms havebeen earmarked for Com-puter lab and Library whichwill be fully established by theend of March 14.

The school has beenproviding quality education tothe wards of Defence per-sonnel, Government Employ-ees and local populace. 90%of students and teaching staffare locals. The Coordinat-ing Centre for Indira GandhiNational Open University atCampbell Bay is also locatedin the Coast Guard PublicSchool.Speaking on the oc-casion, IG Murthy expressedhis gratitude to State Admin-istration for their support insmooth functioning of CoastGuard Public School. He alsosaid that the stature attained

by the school over the past15 years has been possibledue to the sheer dedicationand commitment of CoastGuard District Headquartersand dedicated staff of theschool. The chief guest ap-

Sri Lankancourt orders

release of42 Indianfishermen

RAMESWARAM, TN: A SriLankan court on Wednesdayordered the release of 42fishermen, arrested for alleg-edly crossing the InternationalMaritime Boundary Line andfishing in the island nation'sterritorial waters.

The fishermen whowere arrested between Janu-ary and February this yearwere produced before a judi-cial magistrate atOorkavalthurai, who orderedtheir release, sources said.

The remand was ex-tended four times before theywere released on Wednesday,they said.

preciated the District Com-mander and his team for theirproactive efforts in timelycompletion of the project. Inthe end, he also comple-mented the MES authoritiesfor their continued support to

Coast Guard towards fasttrack infrastructure develop-ment in the Islands. Acommuniqué received fromAssistant CommandantVandana Sehrawat, PRO,Coast Guard.

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13.03.2014 Daily Issue::58

EDITORIAL.....After Third Front’s collapse,

future of a Federal Front dependson Lok Sabha’s arithmetic

When the year opened, Election2014 looked like a Narendra Modiversus Rahul Gandhi fight. Todaythe battle has acquired a Modi ver-sus 'Others' pitch, with the BJP'sprime ministerial aspirant the cen-tral poll issue.

There has been a growingawareness in those opposed toModi that if he has to be stopped, itcan be done only by a front of non-Congress, non-BJP parties — call it"Third Front", "Federal Front" oranother variant — and supportedby Congress. Given the angeragainst UPA, the chances of Con-gress leading the next governmentappear slim. Whatever be its rheto-ric, Congress seems reconciled tothis possibility.

The Left parties had puttogether an 11-party 'Third Front' toslow down the Modi rath. But it isshowing signs of coming apart.Jayalalithaa has ended her electoralunderstanding with CPI and CPM.Obviously, she wants to keep heroptions open. So does NaveenPatnaik, and for that matter AGP'sPrafulla Mahanta, who did not at-tend the Third Front's last meeting.Barring AIADMK and BJD, whoseem to be holding their ground,others in the Third Front, be it SP,JD(U), AGP or JD(S), are decliningforces. The four Left parties havenot gathered momentum as theyhad hoped to.

AAP, a wild card this elec-tion, was also expected to breakBJP's march to power, as it did inthe Delhi assembly polls. ArvindKejriwal is clearly trying to widenAAP's base and eyeing the supportof minorities. His resolve to contestagainst Modi wherever he standsoutside Gujarat, his visit to Gujaratand beard the lion in his den, hisdecision to utilise his detention inGujarat — it showed Kejriwal'ssharp political reflexes — to protestoutside BJP's national headquar-ters, were calculated to demonstratethat if anyone was taking on Modifearlessly, it was AAP.

The trouble is that the up-per classes and a section of themiddle class are disenchanted withAAP, after Kejriwal's 'dharna', hisresignation as chief minister and therecent violence it was embroiled in.With these sections gravitating toBJP, Kejriwal might end up helpingModi. And denting Congress —and possibly some of the regionaloutfits — that much more. T h e nthere is the MAJAMA — Mamata,Jayalalithaa and Maya-wati — phe-nomenon. These are three womenwho represent three large states. Asthings stand today, together "Ma","Ja" and "Ma" may well add up toaround 75-80 Lok Sabha seats.Maverick and gutsy, they are ex-pected to be king/queen makers andwe may see the rise of woman powerin the coming weeks.With the

launch of her "Federal Front", Mamatahas upstaged Left parties' initiative fora Third Front and she has alreadyreached out to Jayalalithaa, projectingher as a possible PM.

Mayawati cannot go with theThird Front because of Mula-yamSingh's presence, but so far she hasbeen silent about the Federal Front evenas she has taken on Modi stridently,and is unlikely to join hands with himeven after the elections. It is for thesimple reason that with state electionsdue in 2017, she will not want to riskthe possibility of minorities moving to-wards Mulayam, robbing her of thepossibility of becoming CM again. Thesame logic applies to Mamata who facesassembly polls in 2016.

Mamata is better placed thanMayawati or Jayalalithaa (whose in-come-tax cases are expected to fructifyin the next three months) to tap into thecurrent mood for clean politics. Havingroped in Anna Hazare, the duo wantsto encash the anti-corruption mood inthe country which AAP has benefitedfrom. Both Mamata and Anna enjoy aclean and austere image. Mamata wouldobviously like a "national party" sta-tus for Trinamool Congress and to en-large the Federal Front for which she isreaching out to other regional partieslike BJD.

The significance of her initia-tive, however, goes beyond these twogoals. If Mamata's "national party"emerges as a solid group, with say 35seats, it is not inconceivable that shemight decide to join hands with SharadPawar's NCP, which, like TMC, came outof the Congress womb. Together theycould act as a bloc of formerCongresspersons to improve their bar-gaining position with other state sa-traps after the polls, were an opportu-nity for a non-Congress, non-BJP-ledgovernment to arise.They could alsocompel the Congress high command toaccept their choice of who should leadthe government. A weakened Congress— this time it will comprise MPs whowould have won largely on their ownsteam — may have to fall in line, if theyhave to stop Modi, or it could becomevulnerable to a split. Undoubtedly, thereare many ifs and buts in this scenario.

Many Congressmen, who quitthe party in the past managed to be-come prime ministers, whether it wasMorarji Desai, Charan Singh, V P Singh,Chandra Shekhar, H D Deve Gowda, orI K Gujral. But they did not manage tocapture Congress, though they mayhave dreamt of a Cong-ress minus theGandhi-Nehru family, and some maycontinue to harbour these ambitions.

Clearly, the idea of a pre-pollThird Front has received a setback. TheFederal Front is yet to become viable.But regional satraps continue to posi-tion themselves.

The chance that fortune mightsmile on them is only an outside one. Itgoes without saying that everything willhinge on the arithmetic of the 16th LokSabha.

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Smart phones to diagnosediseases: University of Houston

Not just helping us with roaddirections, finding favouritefood joint, photo sharing andchat sessions, smart phoneswould soon diagnose diseasesfor us in real time.

Researchers fromUniversity of Houston are de-veloping a disease diagnosticsystem that offers results thatcould be read using only asmart phone and a Rs.1,200lens attachment.

This new device relieson specific chemical interac-tions that form between some-thing that causes a disease - avirus or bacteria, for example- and a molecule that bondswith that one thing only, like adisease-fighting antibody.

A bond that formsbetween a strep bacteria andan antibody that interacts onlywith strep, for instance, cansupport an iron-clad diagnosis.

"The trick is finding away to detect these chemicalinteractions quickly, cheaplyand easily. The device involvesa simple glass slide and a thinfilm of gold with thousands ofholes poked in it," explainedJiming Bao, assistant profes-sor of electrical and computerengineering at University ofHouston.The device starts witha standard slide covered in alight-sensitive material knownas a photoresist.It uses a laserto create a series of interfer-ence fringes - basically lines -on the slide, and then rotates it90 degrees and creates anotherseries of interference fringes.

The intersections ofthese two sets of lines createsa fishnet pattern of UV expo-sure on the photo-resist. Thephoto-resist is then developedand washed away.While mostof the slide is then cleared, the

spots surrounded by intersect-ing laser lines - the 'holes' inthe fishnet - remain covered,basically forming pillars ofphoto-resist.

The end result is aglass slide covered by a filmof gold with ordered rows andcolumns of transparent holeswhere light can pass through.

These holes are key tothe system.The device diag-noses an illness by blocking thelight with a disease-antibodybond - plus a few additionalingredients.Here is where thesmart phone comes in.

"One of the advan-tages of this system is that theresults can be read with simpletools," said Richard Willson,Huffington-Woestemeyer pro-fessor of chemical andbiomolecular engineering.

A basic microscopeused in elementary schoolclassrooms provides enough

light and magnification to showwhether the holes are blocked.

With a few smalltweaks, a similar reading couldalmost certainly be made witha phone's camera, flash and anattachable lens.

This system, then,promises readouts that are af-fordable and easy to interpret.

There are some tech-nical hurdles to clear before thesystem can be rolled out,Willson noted.

One of the biggestchallenges is finding a way todrive the bacteria and virusesin the sample down to the sur-face of the slide to ensure themost accurate results.

But if those problemsare overcome, the systemwould be an excellent tool forhealth care providers in thefield, said the research pub-lished in the journal ACSPhotonics.

Nation-wide dengueawareness campaign launchedAiming at early prevention ofdengue, a nationwide aware-ness campaign about the deadlydisease was today launchedhere that includes a dedicatedround-the-clock multi-lingualhelpline.

The two-month longcampaign 'U & Me AgainstDengue', a public-private part-nership is spread over six ma-jor cities including Delhi, andwill target school children andadults alike to effective dis-semination of information.

Global health majorReckett Benckiser haspartnered with North DelhiMunicipal Corporation(NDMC), All India institute ofMedical Sciences (AIIMS),Indian Medical Association(IMA) and NGOs like Rotaryto raise awareness months be-fore the actual dengue seasonsets in. NDMC, which is theon ground partner for the cam-paign will help carry out fumi-gation drives in concernedschool in the municipal areas.The campaign which will berolled out in phases in five othercities -- Mumbai, Kolkata, Ban-galore, Pune and Ahmedabadalso has a dedicated websiteand a presence on social me-dia.

"As part of the cam-paign we will have a schooloutreach programme targetingover 65,000 students acrossmore than 130 schools. TheNDMC will help us with thefumigation drives and identify-ing municipal schools.

Our aim is to sensitisecitizens way before the vec-tor-borne disease breaks induring its season," ReckittBenckiser India, General Man-ager Nitish Kapoor said.

The organisers saidapart from a dedicated websitea 24x7 helpline has been set up

to entertain all queries con-cerning the disease that affectsmany lives year after year.

"The toll-free denguehelpline (1800-200-0801) isoperative as we speak. It isavailable in four languages En-glish, Hindi, Bengali andKannada," Kapoor said.

NDMC Mayor AzadSingh said, "Early rain in thecapital means we should bealert beforehand.

And, this campaignwill help build the right ground-work before we hit the den-gue season civic campaign.""The campaign aims at creat-ing a healthy environment forpeople before the dengue sea-son sets in, so that citizens arewell-equipped to handle anysituation.

Also, we will be un-dertaking huge cleanlinessdrives in schools andneighbourhoods to create ahealthy atmosphere," Vice-President, Reckitt BenckiserSouth East Asia Chander

Mohan Sethi said atthe launch. Last year, 5,574cases of dengue were reportedfrom Delhi and the disease,spread by female Aedes mos-quito claimed six lives, as perthe official tally provided by theMunicipal Corporation ofDelhi. North Delhi had re-ported maximum number ofcases with the disease peak-ing in October-November .

The capital had wit-nessed a large number of den-gue cases in the 2010 withover 6,000 cases being re-ported. In 2008, over 1,300cases were registered, 1,153in 2009, over 1,100 cases in2011 and 2,093 in 2012.

While AIIMS andIMA serve as knowledge part-ners, Rotary Blood Bank is theblood donation partner.

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Man Hospitalized AfterKissing Turtle

An animal lover learned thehard way that snappingturtles are called that for areason after he tried to kissone and ended up in the hos-pital.

The Chinese manwas releasing the turtle intothe wild when he decided tokiss it goodbye.

Unfortunately, theturtle responded by biting theman’s lip. The turtle dangledfrom the man’s face untilsomeone could pry it from hislips. The man was immedi-ately taken to the hospital.

According to Shang-hai Daily news, the turtle wasan alligator snapping turtlenative to North America andknown to be extremelydangerous.The alligatorsnapping turtle is the largest

freshwater turtle in the world(in terms of weight) and cangrow to a foot-and-a-half inlength. The turtle is also

known for its powerful jaws,which are strong enough tobite through a broomstickhandle.

Two Indian students winIntel Science Talent Search awards

Washington: Even as the IntelCorporation and Society forScience & the Public (SSP)honoured the winners of theIntel Science Talent Search,two Indian-American studentsalso made it to the top 10 of theprestigious awards. Intel Sci-ence Talent Search, which isthe nation's most esteemedpre-college science and mathcompetition, saw the innovativeresearch of the teen scientistsranging from new cancer treat-ments to an exploration of howtechnology affects the adoles-cent brain. Anand Srinivasan ofGeorgia bagged the eighth po-sition while Shaun Datta from

Maryland took the last 10thspot in the awards, baggingprize of USD 20,000 each.EricS Chen, 17, of San Diego,bagged top award of USD100,000 from the Intel Founda-tion for his research of poten-tial new drugs to treat influenza.His interdisciplinary approachcombined computer modellingwith structural studies and bio-logical validation, while focus-ing on drugs that inhibit endo-nuclease, an enzyme essentialfor viral propagation.Eric is theco-president of his school’sfencing team and is a juniorOlympics qualifier. He hopeshis work will lead to a new class

of drugs to control flu outbreaksduring a pandemic, allowingtime for a vaccine to be devel-oped. “We at Intel celebrate thework of these brilliant youngscientists as a way to inspirethe next generation to followthem with even greater energyand excitement into a life of in-vention and discovery,” WendyHawkins, executive director ofthe Intel Foundation, said.“Imagine the new technologies,solutions and devices they willbring to bear on the challengeswe face. The Intel ScienceTalent Search finalists should in-spire all of us with hope for thefuture,” added Hawkins. c

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SC to hear Sahara plea forrelease of Subrata Roy on ThursdayNEW DELHI: The SupremeCourt will hear Subrata Roy'splea against his detention onThursday.Earlier, Saharagroup chief Subrata Roy onWednesday challenged hisdetention by filing a writ peti-tion in the Supreme Court.

A Supreme Courtbench, headed by the CJI, hadagreed to hear Subrata Roy'spetition at 2pm on Wednes-day. Later, it postponed thehearing for tomorrow.

On March 10, theSupreme court had deferredhearing in his case slated forTuesday, apparently in theabsence of any concrete re-fund proposal that could pro-long his stay in the jailindefinitely.On the last date ofhearing on March 7, the apexcourt had asked the Sahara

group to come out with"honourable proposal" for de-positing Rs 20,000 crores ofinvestors money and postedthe hearing on March 11.

The special benchhad on March 4 sent Roy andtwo directors Ravi ShankarDubey and Ashok RoyChoudhary to judicial custodytill March 11 while express-ing unhappiness over the pro-posal of his group on the re-fund of investors' money.

It had rejectedSahara's proposal which hadoffered to pay Rs 2,500 crorewithin three days and the restof the amount in fiveinstalments by the end of July,2015."It is not a proper pro-posal and the proposal shouldbe honourable," the benchhad said.

adopted various measures forthe same in last few years butall seemed to be failure. CARIalso announced two yearsago that 90% of the ratproblem solved by them,which seems to be incorrectnow. As per the sources it isbelieved that the agriculturedepartment estimates of morethan One Lakh rats burrowsfound, which are creating theproblem.  In every villagefarmers are complainingabout damage of crops &stored items.

To overcome thesituation already theliterature on rodent controlhas been circulated but inspite of adoption of all themanagement practices theproblem still persists andspreading in larger areas inabove mentioned villages.

In view of the abovefacts, the Department ofAgriculture, Diglipurorganized a massivecampaign namely ‘RodentEradication Campaign’ bymeans of community basedapproach. It involves thefarmers, farmer’s friends &Staff of AgricultureDepartment. The areascovering are Subhashgram,Diglipur, R K Gram,Khudirampur, D B Gram,Rabindrapally, Madhupur,Laxmipur, Keralapuram &Sitanagar village. Technicalguidance and baitingmaterials are being providedby the AgricultureDepartment.

About 10 teams

carrying this operation alongwith the help of the farmers.From 5th Mar, 2014 to 10thMar, 2014 the team Identifiedlive burrows than sealed theburrows with mud andcounted the live burrows.

Pre-baiting is beingheld between 11th Mar to 13thMar, 2014. Baiting with ZincPhosphate will be held on14th Mar at 4.00 PM andRemoval of bait & Properdisposal of rodents will beheld on 15th Mar, 2014. On21st Mar 4 PM for the left outrodent repeat baiting will beheld and removal of bait fromthe fields & proper disposalwill be held on 22nd Mar,2014 at 5.00AM.

Unconfirmed reportssays that about   2000kg rice, 3 truck load of Husk &Coconut shell, Coconut oil/groundnut oil, Disposablespoon polythene bags areprocured for this masscampaign.

To oversee the‘Rodent EradicationCampaign’, Mr. U.K.Nayak ,plant protection Officer andMr. S.C.bairagi, TechnicalAssistant of CentralIntegrated Pest managementCentre, Port Blair assistingthe Agriculture Department.

 This is one part of thecampaign but lot ofshopkeepers and farmerscomplaining the rodentmenace are increased sharplyfrom last few years. The ratsare so big that Mouse trapswon’t work and  glue boardsso costly that they fail to

change every day. MostDrains, which are flowing infront of shops in Diglipur, arefilled with Rat Bandicota. Anofficer of the AgricultureDepartment, who does notwant his name to be quoted,told Andaman Sheekha thatinitially they never thoughtthat this menace will be soserious.

N o o t h e rdepartments apart from CARIand CIPMC are involved inthis Operation. The Hospitalsare just intimated about thiscampaign as Zinc phosphateis being used in this. If theagriculture gets success inthis operation it will beeffective to control in fieldsand farmers home only. Butthe rat menace will remainsame in other parts of theDiglipur. This is one timecampaign by residents fearthat next year again this willspread and the Agriculturedepartment will have to fightwith this again.

Instead of this, thewhole A & N Administration,Health Department, Agriculture , CARI & CIPMCshould work out together toeradicate else there is no useof these type of one timecampaign.

People of Diglipurare getting worried now as ifnothing is done nowtomorrow bigger healthproblems will hit Diglipur.PRI members and politiciansare least interested in thisissue as they are busy withcoming elections.

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Nature's shield against brain damage from strokeWashington, March 12: Amolecular substance hasbeen discovered to substan-tially reduce brain damageafter an acute stroke - con-tributing towards a betterrecovery.

This substance,named peptide AcSDKP,occurs naturally in humansand rats.

A new study by re-searchers at Henry FordHospital has shown that thepeptide AcSDKP providesneurological protectionwhen administered one to

Port Blair, Mar 12: The De-partment of Art & Culture,Andaman & Nicobar Ad-ministration in collaborationwith the South Zone Cul-tural Centre, Thanjavur,Government of India is go-ing to organize “Workshop

on Painting” for childrenbelow 10 years, Make-upand Carnatic Music (Vocal)during 20 t h-27 th March2014 at Port Blair. The ex-ponents from the SouthZone Cultura l Centr e,Thanjavur will be conduct-

ing the classes. In this re-gard, Department of Art &Culture invites applicationfrom local Artists for theworkshops by 18 th March2014.Registration can bedone over phone No:230117.

Painting Workshop for children,Make-up workshop, Carnatic Music (Vocal)

Website of GSS Bhatubasti launchedPort Blair, Mar 12: In pur-suance of CBSE’s affilia-tion by laws, the Govt. Sr.Sec. School Bhatubasti haslaunched i t s schoolw e b s i t e  www.gsssbathubasti.ac.in today. The Director (SIE),Dr. R. Dev Das launchedthe website as chief guestin the presence of Shri V.S.

Vijay Nagu, Scientific Of-ficer, NIC and ChairmanSDMC. Speaking on theoccasion, the chief guesturged the teachers to workhard and give quality edu-cation to the students.

Earlier, the Princi-pal, Shri B.D. Thaledi wel-comed the gather ing, acommunication said.

four hours after the onsetof an ischemic stroke. A nischemic s troke occurswhen an artery to the brainis blocked by a blood clot,cutting off oxygen and kill-ing brain tissue with crip-pling or fatal results."Strokeis a leading cause of deathand disability worldwide,"said Li Zhang, lead authorof the study.

"Our data showedtha t tr eatment of acutestroke with AcSDKP aloneor in combination with tPA(tissue plasminogen activa-

tor) substantially reducedneurovascular damage andimproved neurological out-come,” Zhang added.

Commonly called a'clot-buster', tPA is the onlyFDA-approved treatmentfor acute stroke.

However, tPAmust be given shortly afterthe onset of stroke to pro-vide the best results as italso has the potential tocause a br a inhaemorrhage. The studywas published online in thejournal Stroke.

Police yesterday. Accordingto reports the agitatingpeople blocked road andalso sat on dharna infront of

Unrest in...Havelock PHC. Later afterconsultation with the PoliceDepartment the agitationwas called off.

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Force, Navy, Coast Guardlikely to join in the searchoperation for the missingaircraft. Andaman NicobarCommand is in standby. Nodfrom Ministry of Defence isawaited,” Col. HarmeetSingh, the Public RelationsOfficer of Andaman NicobarCommand told ‘AndamanSheekha’ today.

Col. Singh said thatAustralia and New Zealandare also likely to be permitted

to conduct search overAndaman Sea.

“ M a l a y s i apermitted, Australia and NewZealand likely. For balanceorders awaited,” Col Singhadded.

Malaysian Airlines’aircraft MH-370 haddisappeared from radar onSaturday early morning andsince then various countrieshave joined the search for themissing aircraft.

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following which there was achaos in the hospital. Angryvillagers demanded justiceand punishment for theStaff Nurse.

Soon the JointDirector of DHS, Dr.Tulasidasan and the DC ofNorth and MiddleAndaman reached the PHCfrom Mayabunder, tounderstand the groundreality.

After hearing fromboth side the DC accepted

that the fault was from theside of Health Departmentand said sorry on behalf ofstaffs of the PHC.

He reportedly alsodirected the Joint Director ofDHS to submit a report bytoday evening and assuredstringent action against thestaff concern by tomorrow.

The villagers alsocomplained to DC about thearrogant behavior of Dr.Tulasidasan towards thepublic.

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