Eatery introduces ‘Anna aahar’
ALLAHABAD: A restaurant here has introduced a low-priced ‘thaali’, part of whose proceeds go to India Against Corruption (IAC), the network backing fasting Anna Hazare.The `Anna Aahar’, offerred for Rs. 55 by Tandu Restaurant in Civil Lines locality, is contributing about 10 percent of each purchase to IAC, said restaurant owner Raju Jaiswal.”It is our way to support the Anna Hazare campaign,” Jaiswal told IANS.(IANS)
Adoption of animals at zoo soon
PATNA:The state government will soon launch a scheme for adoption of animals at Sanjay Gandhi biological garden-cum-zoo, Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi said on Sunday.Under the scheme an individual or an institution may adopt an animal housed at the zoo and help the authorities in its upkeep upon payment of a certain fee, he said.Modi said that some banks had evinced interest in adopting animals at the zoo and the same was under the consideration of the concerned department.Meanwhile, a pair of Asiatic lion, a pair of white Royal Bengal tiger and a Royal Bengal tiger were produced for public viewing at the zoo.Efforts were being made to bring a pair of leopard and two female wild cats from the state zoo at Guwahati in exchange of a pair of fox, a male langur and two female golden pheasant, Modi, who is also in charge of the forest and environment department, said.A chimpanzee will also be brought here, he said. (PTI)
Couple held with 15 pistols
LUCKNOW: A young couple involved in smuggling firearms was arrested with 15 pistols in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad district Sunday, police said.Arif, 24, and his wife Anjum, 21, were nabbed from Shikohabad area while they were on their way to hand over the consignment to some of their clients.”Preliminary investigations reveal that the two have been operating in various states, including Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand and also NCR ( National Capital Region) for around last four years,” Deputy Superintendent of Police B.P. Singh told reporters in Firozabad, some 350 km from Lucknow.”Though the pistols are of a high-quality, we are yet to ascertain whether the firearms are foreign-made or country-made,” he added. Arif and Anjum are natives of Uttar Pradesh.(IANS)
Death toll in floods reaches 92
LUCKNOW:With flood situation in Uttar Pradesh improving, the death toll in the recent floods and rain related incidents on Sunday reached 92 in the state. State Relief Commissioner K K Sinha, who visited the flood affected areas of Sitapur district on Sunday said 9.74 lakh population have been affected in the floods crossed over 17 districts.He said 1425 villages of 45 tehsils have been affected in the floods in which 1772 houses were fully damaged. Government has already distributed relief materials worth over Rs six crore among the affected people.Mr Sinha said over 1.76 lakh hectare land with standing crops have been damaged in the floods.Meanwhile most of the rivers in UP has started receding due to stop of rainfall but the flood situation in the state is still grim.The road traffic on Dehradun-Bijnore National Highway and NH-24 between Delhi and Lucknow remained disrupted for the sixth day in succession on Sunday as the flood waters inundated the roads.A report from Bareilly said waters have entered the transmission room of Akashwani and Doordharshan centre at Bareilly forcing the authorities to close down the functioning of FM Channel,Akashvani and Doordarshan for the second day on Sunday.(UNI)
Jaya govt indulging in political vendetta: Karuna
CHENNAI: Criticising Tamil Nadu Government’s decision to convert the Rs 1,200 crore Assembly-secretariat complex into a hospital, DMK chief M Karunanidhi alleged it was a clear case of political vendetta and waste of public money.Writing in his party organ ‘Murasoli’, the former chief minister said the government did not want to function from the new complex only because it was constructed during the DMK regime.Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Friday announced in the Assembly that her government has decided to convert the complex into a multi-super-speciality hospital on the pattern of All-India Institute of Medical Sciences at Delhi and a new medical college.Seeking to pick holes in the government’s move, Karunanidhi said, “If it is going to be used as a hospital, how much would it cost more and what will happen to the money that was already spent in constructing the building?””Some people criticised the new Assembly complex saying it does not have adequate space and infrastructure. But now they say it will be used as a hospital. You can run a hospital in the same building but you cannot run a Secretariat. It is an act of political vendetta,” he said. (PTI)