India among five nations to build world’s biggest telescope
Tokyo: India, along with four other countries, will Tuesday start work to build the world’s biggest telescope in Hawaii Island, the media here reported Monday. The 30-metre telescope, also known as TMT, will be constructed near the summit of the Mauna Kea volcano on Hawaii Island. Construction is likely to be completed by 2022, Japan Times reported. Besides India, other nations involved in the project are Japan, the US, China and Canada. The project would cost $1.47 billion with Japan covering about a quarter of the cost, the report said. Around 100 astronomers and officials from these five countries will attend a ceremony in Hawaii Island to mark the beginning of the construction work. (IANS)
Arun Jaitley discharged from AIIMS
NEW DELHI: Finance minister Arun Jaitley was on Monday discharged from AIIMS and he went straight to his new official residence on Krishna Menon Marg. 61-year-old Jaitley, who holds additional charge of defence portfolio, was admitted to the isolation unit of AIIMS last week. He was taken there after he had complained of respiratory problems following his stay in a private hospital where he was readmitted for post surgery check up. Arun Jaitely had undergone diabetes management surgery on September 2 in that hospital. Jaitley has been dealing with urgent official matters even in the hospital but is expected to attend office in the next few days. (PTI)
18-year-old girl gangraped
Jaunpur : An 18 year-old girl was allegedly gangraped by three youths in Dewakalpur village here, police said on Monday. The incident took place last night when the victim was sleeping outside her house which falls under Kerakat kotwali police station area, police said. The accused who are from the same village, forcibly took her to a nearby agricultural field and raped her, Additional Superintendent of Police, Ramji Singh Yadav said today. On the basis of the complaint by father of the girl, an FIR was lodged and the three accused have been arrested, police said. The victim has been sent for medical examination, they added. (PTI)
CCTV cameras to catch poachers in Odisha forest
Bhubaneswar: Odisha government is planning to install CCTV cameras in forest divisions to keep a tab on the hunters and poachers, Forest department officials said. “CCTV cameras would be installed in forest divisions as part of protective measures,” said secretary of Forest and Environment Department RK Sharma. Though such facilities are already in place in two tiger reserves like Similipal and Satkosia for enumeration of big cat population, CCTV cameras would now be used in vulnerable pockets to identify poachers and hunters. While CCTV cameras are fixed in Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary, such systems need to extended to other places to provide a better protection to the wild animals. The department, which is worried over large scale elephant poaching in the state, has apparently identified Sambalpur wild life division for installation of CCTV cameras. At least 378 elephants have died in Odisha between 2009-10 and 2014-15. During this period, at least 35 elephants have fallen prey to poaching while another 17 have died of poisoning. Besides, as many as 60 elephants have died of electrocution during last five years. Of the 60, as many as 33 cases are of deliberate electrocution which take place in retaliation to crop raiding and house damage by the jumbos. PCCF J D Sharma said, the CCTV cameras would be put on tress secretly which could help in preventing animal poaching inside the forests. (PTI)
South African woman molested
Thane: A 48-year-old South African woman was allegedly molested and duped by a person in Navi Mumbai on the pretext of helping her in getting some business in India, police said on Monday. One person has been arrested in this connection while the main accused is absconding. The woman, who owns a petrol pump at a town in South Africa, developed friendship with the accused – Kush Agnihotri – through a popular social networking site, Mahatma Phule police station sub-inspector M B Kadam said. Kush, who is a choreographer, called her to Vashi area in Navi Mumbai while offering her help in getting good business in India, he said. The nature of business which the accused promised was not specified by police. When the woman came to India in the last week of September, the accused allegedly debited money from her account equivalent to 34,000 in Indian currency, he said. Kush later abused and beat up the woman. He also took her to a lodge in Kalyan where he allegedly molested her, Kadam said quoting the woman’s complaint filed last night. (PTI)