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Gosaba (Sunderbans), Tuesday, 10 June 2008: A prompt action by forest officials prevented any bloodshed in another encounter with the tiger that occurred at Adibasipara village here yesterday.

No one in Nikhil Mondal’s house had heard a thing through the night when a tiger entered the cowshed in the backyard, killed and devoured a cow, and quickly stole into the warmth of the kitchen of the house. kit

all the Nikhil Mondal’s wife walked into the kitchen, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes in the morning and almost tripped over the tiger. The sleep gone, and her heart in her mouth, she turned round and fled. In shock, she had even forgotten to scream. Only when she was outside did she shout for help. Her family rushed out after her.

Alerted by the screams, hundreds of villagers gathered with whatever weapons they could get. Seeing so many people, the tiger growled but stayed back in the kitchen. Fortunately, at this time the forest guards arrived and tranquillized the tiger. Then they caged the animal and transported it in a boat to the Sajnekhali Wildlife Sanctuary to be released later into the deep forest.

Baldeo, the watchman, was awake. He stretched himself, slowly unwinding the heavy shawl that covered him like shroud. It was close on midnight and the chill air made him shiver. The station, a small shack backed by heavy jungle, was a station in name only; for trains only stopped there, if at all, for a few seconds before entering the deep cutting that led to the tunnel. Most trains merely slowed down before taking the sharp curve before the cutting.

Baldeo was responsible for signalling whether or not the tunnel was clear of obstruction, and his hand-worked signal stood before the entrance. At night it was his duty to see that the lamp was burning, and that the overland mail passed through safely. sleepily, still lying

“Shall I come too, father?” asked Tembu in a corner of the hut.

“No, it is cold tonight. Do not get up.”

Tembu, who was twelve, did not id not always sleep with his father at the station, for he had also to help in the home, where his mother and small sister were usually alone. They lived in a small tribal village on the outskirts of the forest, about three miles from the station. Their small rice fields did not provide them with more than a bare living.

India has the highest number of malnourished children in the world, with Madhya Pradesh being the worst affected state.

About 47% of children under five in the country, totalling 57 million, are underweight. Even sub-Saharan Africa is better off, with 33% of children malnourished.

These shocking figures have been mentioned in UNICEF’s Progress for Children: A Report Card on Nutrition’, released globally on Tuesday.

The other badly affected states in India are Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Odisha, Bihar and Maharastra. Over 50% of the children in some of these states are malnourished. However, some Indian states have better report cards. Malnourishment among children is significantly low in Goa, Kerala, Mizoram and Tamil Nadu.

According to doctor Werner Schultink, UNICEF India’s chief of child development and nutrition programme, the causes for this malnutrition are many bad quality feeding, high population density, high rate of infectious diseases, high rate of illiteracy among women, gender inequality, low rate of immunization and high rate of birth of underweight babies.

Kolkata……Basanta Singha Roy and Debasish Biswas of the Mountaineers’ Association of Krishnanagar (MAK) in West Bengal’s Nadia district set foot on the peak of Mt. Everest at 7.45 a.m. on Monday, 17 May, 2010.

“The team had intended to climb Everest from the Tibetan side through the North Col* and the Northeast ridge. But they had trouble getting the necessary permissions from the Chinese Government.” Alok Ray, son of Ashok Ray who was one of the members of the expedition, thus informed The Hindu over telephone from Krishnanagar.

The seven member expedition, including five members of MAK and two locals, Pasang Sherpa and Pemba Sherpa, had started off on April 4 to scale the peak from the Nepalese side of the mountain. They crossed the treacherous Khumbu Icefall on May 12. According to the schedule, they were to have reached the peak on Sunday morning but bad weather caused a delay.

“This is a momentous achievement and when the climbers return the State Government shall felicitate them,” said West Bengal’s Sports Minister, kanti Ganguly.

Members of the Association have earlier successfully climbed several peaks of the Himalayan range. The decision to climb Everest was to commemorate the Association’s silver jubilee year.

The State Government has awarded Rs. 5 lakh to the Association to encourage its activities.

A wonder in the plant kingdom, the Great Banyan Tree of the Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Botanic Garden at Shibpur in Howrah occupies a unique position in the Guinness Book of World Records. It is now regarded as the widest tree in the world in terms of the area of canopy. The present crown of the tree has a circumference of 450 metres and the highest branch rises to 24.5 metres.

The tree was first noticed in 1786, three years before the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, came into existence. The Great Banyan Tree has captured the fancy of many artists across the world, who have both sketched and sculptured it. The government has released postage stamps on the tree. The Great Banyan Tree also holds the distinction of being the emblem of the Botanical Survey of India.

The garden authority is now busy recovering its lost glory. “There were only two living beings which were as old as the city of Kolkata. One was the giant turtle of the Alipore Zoo, which died a few years ago after living for 304 years. Now the only surviving witness of the city’s history spanning over 300 years is the Great Banyan,” said H. S. Debnath, the Joint Director of the garden.

Some 30 years ago, a wide-eyed, impressionable girl stood beneath a towering rocket inside one of India’s earliest rocket launching stations in Kerala. The rocket was readying to be fired in a few days. The student, on a school trip to the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, quietly relished the experience of being near a real rocket-“fascinated” by something she knew “little about”.

Today Tersy Thomas-dubbed “agniputri” or the daughter of fire by the media is the project director of Agni V at the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) station in Hyderabad. She was a member of the team that developed the long range intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)—Agni V. The missile was successfully test-fired stfrom Wheeler Island in Odisha.

Young Tersy’s life took a significant turn when after a B. Tech in Electrical Engineering in Kerala, she applied for a postgraduate course in Guided Missile Technology. When Agni V took off, Thomas says it was “an indescribable and a great” moment.

After the launch, she visited her former boss and mentor, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. “He is the role model for all our Indian scientists. He praised us for doing a good job and gifted me his latest book of poems,” Thomas says with enthusiasm.

She was a junior in the DRDO when Kalam took over as its director. Kalam often cites her case when he encourages young woman students in colleges to take up science.

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