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Rangat, Oct 14: AndamanSheekha in 14th October Issuehad reported about lack of

Mosquito nets in all the wardsof CHC Rangat, followingAndaman Sheekha report theHospital Authority has

Senthil KumarSheekha News Service

Absconding Autodriver arrested

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Sarthak KanjilalSheekha News Service

Port Blair, Oct 14: Actingswiftly, the Police team of PSAberdeen has arrested Mr.Firoz, the auto driver, who

was absconding after hittinga lady tourist, since yesterday.

According to reports,the lady tourist Laxmi DeviSharma, w/o MukeshSharma had sustained severe

Public anger mountsover frequent breakdowns

of Nimbudera Express

TrinathSheekha News Service

Billyground, Oct 14: Small-time trader, Pradip Halder re-cently hopped on toNimbudera Express from theMohanpura Terminus to col-lect vegetable stock for hisshop. But little did he andother commuters sitting inthe STS Bus knew that theywould have to sweat out theentire journey till their desti-nation, Nimbudera. The busdeveloped snags three timesduring the six hour odd jour-ney and passengers coulddisembark late in theevening. Regular breakdownof the STS-run Nimbudera

Express has drawn public ireof late.

Following persistentdemands from the villagers ofBasantipur, Harinagar,Swadeshnagar and Betapurareas, the State Transport De-partment replaced the de-crepit Nimbudera ExpressBus with a new oneNimbudera Express L & Nabout a month ago much tothe respite of the villagers.However, the Bus wasabruptly replaced with an-other ageing one about 5 fivedays by the STS authorities.

Since the old bus waspressed into service, commut-ers have been suffering count-

less miseries due to frequentbreakdowns during the jour-ney. “Every time the old Busdeparts for its destination, itis bound to develop snagsatleast 2 times during thejourney. The situation hasbeen particularly distressingfor passengers when the Busstops for repairs in theJarawa reserve. On Oct 10,the Nimbudera Express suf-fered a breakdown in theJarawa reserve area and pas-sengers were forced to stayterrified for more than 2hours. Moreover, elder citi-zens and children were leftin extreme distress due to

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I, Rabin Mazumder, S/o Biren Mazumder R/o Dukenagarhas lost my Island Identity Card bearing No.10212801277604 on 2/10/2014 in between Dukenagar toBillyground Bazar. Finder may contact at 9474261781.

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ATO mourns deathof visiting Tourist

Port Blair, Oct 14: Mr. M.Vinod President Associationof Tour Operators along withall members of ATO deeplymourns the sudden and un-timely demise of Late.Lakshmi Sharma age 49years Female, W/o ShriMukesh Sharma , R/o Jaipur, Rajasthan who arrived hereas a Tourist and expired onearly morning of 14-10-11due to a Road Accident.

“We pray to the al-mighty to give courage to thebereaved family. The Presi-dent ATO has also expressedhis Gratitude towards, the Di-rector Health Services, Direc-tor Tourism and DYSP (SouthAndaman), SHO Aberdeenof A& N Police for Render-ing their full support in AirLifting the dead body of thedeceased to Delhi,” Mohansaid in a press release.

Congress neglectedAssam since 1950s:

Prafulla MahantaGUWAHATI: Former Assamchief minister Prafulla KumarMahanta today alleged thatthe Congress had neglectedAssam since the 1950s andwas responsible for the cur-rent problems faced by thestate.

"The injustice of theCentre towards Assam hadexisted since the early 1950sand continues even today.Both Congress and BJP areinsensitive to the problem ofthe state and lack will to re-solve it," Mahanta told theopening session of the AsomGana Parishad's (AGP) two-day state convention to markits 30th anniversary here.

The former AGPpresident alleged that chiefminister Tarun Gogoi "nowclaims that the Centre did notgive importance to Assamduring the floods, but all theseyears it was he who said thatthe Centre gives the statewhatever they asked for."

He further allegedthat both the Congress andBJP were not interested inensuring peace and develop-ment in Assam as evidentfrom the land transfer deal

signed with Bangladesh."The Congress-led

UPA government signed thedeal by which Assam's landwill be handed over toBangladesh while the BJP ledNDA government will ratifyit in the next session of Par-liament," Mahanta said. H esaid AGP while in power"may have made a few mis-takes but it should also begiven credit for the goodwork in the interest of the in-digenous people of the state."

Mahanta further said

that people, particularly thenew generation, wantedchange and "we are commit-ted to bring about the change.During the next two days we'lldiscuss and chalk out plans torevamp the party keeping theinterest of the indigenouspopulation at the forefront."

Mahanta had steppeddown as party president own-ing moral responsibility afterthe last Lok Sabha electionsin which the party failed to wina single seat of the 12 constitu-encies it had contested.

Three Persons heldfor Gambling at Dairy farm

Near Lall Bijan by CIDPort Blair, Oct 14: Threegamblers were arrested bythe Police team of SpecialBranch (CID) on 13/10/2010night. In continuation of fightagainst illegal activities, aPolice team comprising ofASI Rakesh Singh, HeadConstable Timmi Raj, IbrahimAli, Ajeesh Kumar, ConstableSenthil Kumar and MiltonBaul of Special Branch(CID), on a tip of information,conducted a raid at Dairy

Farm near Lall Bijan and ar-rested three persons namelyYogesh Rao, aged 38 yrs. R/o School Line, Sanju KumarIndwar, aged 30 yrs. R/oDairy Farm and A. Raja, aged31 yrs. R/o Dairy Farm andrecovered Rs 5165/- (Rupeesfive thousand one hundredsixty five only) including stakemoney Rs. 3125/- (Rupeesthree thousand one hundredtwenty five only) from thespot. They were challaned

under the Andaman &Nicobar Gambling Regulation.

The members of thegeneral public are requested toinform about any credible in-formation pertaining to gam-bling, illegal sale or possessionof liquor/ganja or any other il-legal activity on the followingtelephone Numbers-9434288536, 9434289985 &9531856155. The identity ofthe informer will be kept se-cret.

Atlanta Youth Club takespart in Swach Bharat Campaign

Port Blair, Oct 14: AtlantaYouth Club along with theresident of Atlanta Pointparticipated in the cleaningof Parking places adjacentto Ayush Hospital on the

11th of  Oct. The Campaign be-

gan by administering SwachBharat Oath. PBMC offi-cials also participated underSwach Bharat Campaign.

Later door to door aware-ness campaign was also ini-tiated in Atlanta Point areajointly by the members ofAtlanta Youth Club andPBMC staff.

My R.C book, insurance paper and road tax of my MarutiOmni vehicle bearing no. AN-01-F-7951 on 10.10.14 inbetween my resident to Neil Kendra jetty. Finder pleasemay contact Mr. Ramkrishna Biswas Phone Number -9474201387

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Two day UT level seminar gets underway

Need for developing entrepreneurshipto stimulate Isles economy stressed

Port Blair, Oct.14: Entrepre-neur has a leading role in theeconomic development notonly for himself, but for thesociety and the nation aswell. Hence it is necessary toinculcate entrepreneurshipspirit among individual so asto enable them take up selfemployment venture as alsoprovide employment to theunemployed. This was pre-cisely, the objective of thetwo day Union Territory levelseminar on ‘Self Employ-ment for Sustainable Liveli-hood and Rural Develop-ment’ that got underway inthe auditorium of Dr. B RAmbedkar Institute of Tech-nology here today. The ChiefSecretary, Shri AnandPrakash inaugurated theseminar as the chief guest.Ms. V K Mariyam Bibi,Adhyaksha Zilla ParishadSouth Andaman also gracedthe occasion. The seminar isbeing organized by the Di-rectorate of Industries, in as-sociation with Directorate ofAgriculture, AH&VS, Fish-eries, ACCI, Environment& Forests, NABARD, SBI,DIC, Tourism, ANIIDCO,IT, ANIKVIB and AN-CON.The chief guest, while ad-dressing the gathering on theoccasion called for entrepre-neurship developmentalongside tourism develop-ment in the islands so as tostimulate the Islands’ eco-nomic growth. While en-couraging entrepreneurship,importance has to be given

to self-employment generat-ing activities, which willgradually provide employ-ment opportunity to the un-employed, he said and un-derlined the need for en-couraging activities such ascatering, transport, boatoperation etc which will pro-vide more employment andhelp in improving economicgrowth. He expressed hopethat the ‘would be entrepre-neurs’, attending the semi-nar will make best use of theseminar and come out withpositive approach towardsself- employment for self-reliance.

The Secretary(Ind.), Smt. RashmiKrishnan in her address onthe occasion said that self-reliance is the need of everyindividual, the family, societyand the nation. It is neces-sary, therefore, for an indi-vidual to set up his own ven-ture and create job oppor-tunity for others. This needshuman resources with qual-ity to offer services, havingthe strength and ability to

stand pressure at time, i.e.skill, planning, vision and in-novation, she said.

In his welcome ad-dress, the Joint Secretary-cum-Director (Ind.), Shri MN Murali said that entrepre-neur has a leading role in eco-nomic development. Thisseminar aimed at creatingentrepreneurship tempera-ment among the youth andstudents to take up self-em-ployment.

The inaugural sessionconcluded with the vote ofthanks, proposed by Shri A.Sinha Roy, Executive Officer,A&NIKVIB.

Later, a technicalsession was held in which re-source persons from differ-ent departments and organi-zations presented their pa-pers on how to set up ownenterprises, agriculturebased industries, poultryfarming, incentives forMSME, forest based indus-tries and business opportu-nity through tourism. Theseminar is scheduled to con-clude tomorrow.

Bids invited to outsourceFood & Beverage & Bar services

of Dolphin Resort HavelockPort Blair, Oct 14: The Dol-phin Beach Resort, Havelockmanaged by the TourismDepartment, A&N Adminis-tration is a prime propertythat has been upgraded andrenovated. The Resort has 31rooms, multi-cuisine restau-rant, bar, convention centre,gym, etc and 31 cottages arebeing added. On completion,the resort would be equiva-lent to a four star categoryaccommodation. The Tour-ism Department has invitedbids from reputed, experi-enced and registered Hote-liers/ Resort/Restaurant own-ers, to Outsource Food &Beverage & Bar services ofDolphin Resort Havelock, onannual premium basis for a

period of 3 years, extendablefor another 2 years. The ten-der document containing de-tailed terms and conditionscan be downloaded from theAdministration websitewww.and.nic.in or can becollected from the Cashier(IP&T) on payment ofRs.1000/-. As per the tendernotice, the last date for re-ceipt of bid is fixed on 28/10/2014 at 1500 hrs.

A pre-bid meeting on17/10/2014 at 1500 hrs in theConference hall of Director-ate of Tourism. Interested bid-ders having queries with re-gard to the terms and condi-tions of the said work can getit clarified during the pre bidmeeting.

Port Blair, Oct 14: The PCCPresident Kuldeep RaiSharma met the Chief Sec-retary Shri Anand Prakashand submitted him that resi-dents of Southern group ofIslands have informed himthat for last three years theirchildren are celebratingDiwali festival without anycrackers whereas theircounterparts in other islandsare enjoying it. It is due tothe reason that for carryingof crackers no boat is avail-

Kuldeep demands boathaving license for carrying explosives

for Southern Islandsable since these crackers arecarried by boat having li-cense to carry explosive .Hence Kuldeep has re-quested him to consider tosend a boat having license forcarrying explosives for send-ing crackers to the Southerngroup of Islands beforeDiwali so that the residents,especially the children, maycelebrate the festival withjoy and happiness. The ChiefSecretary has assured to lookinto the matter.

1) MV Swaraj Dweep is expected to arrive here fromKolkata via Mayabunder at 1600 hrs.2) The public hearing by the Hon’ble Lt Governor at RajNiwas will be held from 11.30 am.3) The Directorate of Industries will be organizing UTlevel seminar on entrepreneurship development’ with thetheme ‘self employment for sustainable livelihood and ruraldevelopment’ from 10 am at DBRAIT auditorium, PortBlair.

CGDA lays foundation stonePort Blair, October 14, 2014:The Controller General ofDefence Accounts, MsVandana Srivastava, laid thefoundation stone for an addi-tional block of Type-3 resi-dential quarters inGaracharma today.

The construction ofthe dwelling units would beundertaken at an estimatedcost of Rs 96 lakhs, which isto be completed by August2016. The Chief Engineer of

Andaman and Nicobar Com-mand, Brig. Anil Singh,Controller of Defence Ac-counts , New Delhi, MrKamal Chowdhery, Inte-grated Financial Advisorto the Andaman a ndNicoba r Command, MrPadam La l Negi, Addi-tional Controller of De-fence Accounts, Mr AnilKumar Kokate and otherofficials par t icipated inthe event.

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EDITORIAL.....

Nobel Peace Prize brings littleimpetus for peace in India and Pakistan

NEW DELHI: New Nobel peacelaureate Malala Yousafzai wastedlittle time living up to the accoladelast week, inviting the leaders of In-dia and Pakistan to accompany herand fellow winner KailashSatyarthi, an Indian child rights ac-tivist, to the award ceremony.

But, just hours later, a freshexchange of fire between troops inKashmir provided a stark reminderthat the prospect of lasting peace

remains as distant as ever.The offices of Prime Min-

ister Narendra Modi and his Paki-stani counterpart Nawaz Sharif bothdeclined this week to say whetherthey would accept Malala's over-ture.

It is a diplomatic hot potato,given the fractious relationship be-tween the nuclear-armedneighbours, who have fought threewars since partition in 1947.

100 years ago when Australiantroops in World War I set out onthe long voyage to Europe’s war-front they took along an appledeveloped in Australia. It had agood taste and stored well, butbefitting its down-under origin,also had a topsy-turvy appear-ance.

When apples are greenit usually means they are unripe,hard and sourly inedible, butGranny Smith apples glowedbright green, yet had a crisp tex-ture and a refreshing sweet-sourtaste. Most fruits that seem so un-ripe would never sell, yet GrannySmiths are the exception.

WWI took them to thewider world and they have be-come iconic. The Beatles used ahalved Granny Smith as the logoof their Apple Records and innu-merable toothpaste ads haveshown gleaming white teethcrunching into a Granny Smith.There are other edible greenapples, but the vivid green ofGranny Smiths now stands for‘apple green’, their aroma is usedin perfumes and their freshflavour in candies and vodka.

Long before MasterChefand macadamias , Granny Smithswere the first famous Australianfood export. As often happenswith apples, their origin was purechance. Apples rarely grow iden-tical from their seed, but alwaystend to mutate and change. Goodnew varieties have often beenfound growing wild, with no ideaof parentage and among similarwild trees, each slightly different

and all mostly inedible, except for th at go o d one.The standardisedapples we see in the market are notgrown from seed, but are clones,grafted from the original tree.

Maria Ann Smith was thewife of a poor farm labourer in En-gland who in 1838 signed on witha British government scheme tocolonise Australia.They settled nearSydney, growing produce to sell inthe city, and also tried new variet-ies, like French crab apples, small,sour relatives of regular apples thatgrow wild and are used for cook-ing. Smith discarded some near herhouse, from where they seeded andgrew, having possibly pollinatedwith a domestic apple at some pointto create this unlikely hybrid.

Smith found it one day,tasted and liked the fruit. She de-veloped it from cuttings and in 1868showed it to other horticulturistswho also started growing it. Shedied two years later, but by then thevariety was already known asGranny Smith. Australia startedgrowing them on a large scale andby the time WWI came had enoughfor export. Granny Smith sales havegrown steadily since, not least be-cause their good storage qualitiesmade them ideal for long distancetransportation.Recently, GrannySmiths have also been found to beparticularly healthy, high in antioxi-dants, but low in calories. It is onereason they sell in India, but also, Ithink, there is the sheer surprise oftheir taste. Imported apples areflooding our markets, and they of-ten look great, but have a blandlysweet taste and mushy texture.

Food Fables – theother iconic apple

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Living Near A Busy Road Increasesthe Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death

According to the new study,living near the major roads in-creases the risk of suddencardiac death in women.

In this study, data ofmore than 107,000 Americanwomen was collected. Theyhad the average age of 60years and took part in theNurses’ Health Study startedin the year 1986 and ended in2012. Among them, 523women faced sudden cardiacdeath.

It was found that therisk of sudden cardiac deathwas about 38 percent higherin the women living in thearea 50 meters away fromthe major roads than thewomen living at least 500meters away.

Every 100 meter dis-tance increased the risk ofsudden cardiac death up to 6percent.The details of this study have

been published in the journalCirculation on October 13.

In the journal newsrelease, study author JaimeHart, an instructor in medicineat Brigham and Women’sHospital and Harvard Medi-cal School in Boston, said thatliving near a major road couldincrease the sudden cardiacdeath risk in the same wayas obesity, smoking and pooreating habits.

The researchers re-

ported that living near thebusy roads increases air pol-lution exposure.

It is not the first studyassociating heart disease withliving near a major highway.Another study published in theJournal of the AmericanHeart Association earlier thismonth found that living in thevicinity of the major highwayincreased the high blood pres-sure risk in postmenopausalwomen.

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Mangalyaan sends pictureof Mars’ moon Phobos

India’s maiden spacecraft toMars, Mangalyaan, has cap-tured the image of Phobos,the larger and closer of thetwo natural satellites of theRed Planet.

Both moons of Marswere discovered in 1877.Phobos, a small, irregularlyshaped object with a meanradius of 11km, is seven timeslarger than Mars' outer moon,Deimos.

“The larger of thetwo Martian moons, Phobos,is seen travelling west to eastover Mars in its typical orbit.The images were taken froman altitude of 66,275km,” In-dian Space ResearchOrganisation (Isro) said onFacebook on Tuesday.OnOctober 7, Mangalyaan hadsent a full disc image of Mars,taken by the Mars ColorCamera, from an altitude of66,543km.

The spacecraft hadbeamed its first photos ofMars’ crater-marked surfacea day after India successfullyput the probe into the RedPlanet’s orbit.

Soon after, Isro haduploaded the regional duststorm activities over northernhemisphere of the RedPlanet, captured by MarsColour Camera. The imagewas taken from an altitude of74,500km from the surface ofMars.

India joined an ex-clusive global club of deepspace explorers on Septem-ber 24 when the indigenouslymade spacecraft successfullyslipped into the orbit aroundMars after a 10-month jour-ney on a relatively shoe-stringbudget.

Mangalyaan's scien-tific goals include using fivesolar-powered instruments togather data that will help de-termine how Mars weathersystems work and what hap-pened to the water that isbelieved to have once existedon the planet in large quanti-ties.

It will also searchMars for methane, a keychemical in life processes onEarth that could also comefrom geological processes.

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Assam CM praises Modi's'MP Model Village Scheme'

UWAHATI: Assam chiefminister Tarun Gogoi on Tues-day praised Prime MinisterNarendra Modi's ambitious'Saansad Adarsh GramYojana' (SAGY) but felt itwould take more than 50years to cover six lakh villagesin the country.

The comments aresignificant from a Congressleader coming as they doclose on the heels of the con-troversy surrounding ShashiTharoor's praise of Modi,which cost him his job as theCongress spokesperson.

"Modi's SaansadAdarsh Gram Yojana is laud-able. However, it would takemore than 50 years to coversix lakh villages in the coun-try," the chief minister's officesaid in a release, quoting atweet by Gogoi.

"The Yojana needs tobe taken up in a vigorousmanner if we want to seeacche din and a clean India,"Gogoi said.

Gogoi had earlier

welcomed Modi's Clean Indiacampaign and took part in acleanliness operation inGuwahati, following whichModi had praised him.

With a view to devel-oping rural India, Modi hadlast week launched SAGY, orMP Model Village Scheme,under which he asked each ofthe around 800 MPs to de-velop physical and institutionalinfrastructure of three villagesby 2019.

Under SAGY, which

was announced by the primeminister in his IndependenceDay address, MPs will befree to choose any village,but it should not be their ownvillage or that of their in-laws. If all the MPs adoptthree villages each, nearly2,500 villages will be devel-oped by 2019.

Modi said he willchoose a village under thescheme in Varanasi, his par-liamentary constituency inUttar Pradesh.

Mosquito Nets....

Absconding Auto...

placed new Mosquito nets inevery ward from today.

This action of HospitalAuthority has brought great re-

lief to patients, who weretroubled by mosquito men-ace inside Hospital Cam-pus.

head injuries, which resulted inher death this morning ataround 3.30 am. The ladyalong with her family includ-ing husband, a son and adaughter had arrived Port Blairyesterday itself from Rajasthan.Sources told AndamanSheekha that the auto driverdid pick up the injured touristand handed over her to PCR but

while shifting the lady theauto driver escaped and re-mained underground wholenight. However, the PC Ab-erdeen police team managedto locate the Auto Driver af-ter a whole night search, itis reported. Meanwhile thebody of Late Laxmi DeviSharma was sent to Main-land by today’s flight.

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non-availability of food andwater. After being tormentedfor hours, passengers couldreach Nimbudera not before 10pm in the night,” lamented apassenger speaking toAndaman Sheekha.

“Surprisingly, theConductor or the Driver do nottake any initiative to get a re-placement from the BaratangSTS Division and passengerswere made to face the ordeal.

It has become a rou-tine for the Nimbudera Expressto develop snags during thejourney and many passengersare either forced to drop thejourney or avail private trans-port service. Even today, thebus suffered a breakdown be-tween Kadamtala andKaushallyanagar,” informed a

passenger informed overphone. According to infor-mation, villagers ofNimbudera and adjoiningareas are in a state of ex-treme unrest over the stateof affairs and are planningto hold protests against thetop brass of the TransportDepartment if the old STSbus is not replaced by a newone in the route in the nexttwo days.

The secretary andother senior officers ofTransport Department hasalready intimatedAndaman Sheekha thatthey are not interested ingiving comment to media inany such issue hence theywere not approached for acomment.

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UN's snub to Pak a great diplomatictriumph for Modi govt: BJP

JAMMU: BJP on Tuesday hailed theUnited Nation's snub to Pakistan onraising Kashmir issue, as a diplo-matic triumph for the Narendra Modigovernment.

"The refusal of UNGA totake cognizance of the nasty letterof Sartaj Aziz and it's big 'no' to Pa-kistani suggestions that it should in-tervene so that the so-called Kash-mir issue is resolved as per the aspi-rations of Kashmiri people is a bigslap on the face of the Pakistani po-litical and military establishments,"Prof Hari Om, political adviser to BJPstate president told reporters here onTuesday. Sartaj Aziz, adviser to Pa-kistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharifon national security and foreign af-

fairs, had written to UN SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon on the recentborder tension with India and soughtthe UN's intervention, stepping up itsattempts to internationalize the Kash-mir issue.

The UN chief last week is-sued a statement encouraging Indiaand Pakistan to resolve all differencesthrough dialogue and engage con-structively to find a long-term solu-tion for peace and stability in Kash-mir.

"The UN's decision to nottake any cognizance of Aziz's letterto Ban Ki-moon is yet another out-standing diplomatic triumph of PrimeMinister Modi," Om said.

The BJP leader said UN only

vindicated the Indian stand thatJammu and Kashmir was a bilateralissue that needed to be resolved bythe two neighbours in accordancewith the 1972 Simla Agreement.

The UN's refusal to inter-vene also constituted a big snub forKashmiri separatists like Syed AliShah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq,Yasin Malik, Shabir Shah and oth-ers, Om added.

"Indian nation is in safehands. It ultimately got the govern-

ment it needed the most to showPakistan, an irresponsible non-stateand epicenter of global terrorism, itsrightful place and obtain for it a sta-tus in t e comity of self-respectingnations."The Narendra Modi government hasproved in just 100 days that it meansserious business, that it would not tol-erate anything non-sense and that itis committed to upholding the unityand territorial integrity of India at anycost," Om said.