Woman trampled to death by elephnat herd
Rourkela: An woman was trampled to death by a herd of elephant late on Friday night while her grand daughter escaped when the herd attacked their house at Juguludiha village under Ujalpur forest range in Sundargarh district. Sundargarh DFO Arjun Behera said a herd of 29 elephant had come to a pond in the juguldiha village where the old man was residing with her grand children. The elephant herd, he said came to the house probably to eat rice and damaged the thatched house. While the grand children apprehending threat to her life came out of the house, the victim women was trapped and later trampled to death by the herd. The woman was the fourth victim of the elephant herd during this year in Sundargarh district. The DFO said at present three herd of elephant are camping in the district. While one herd of five elephant is located inside the sundargarh forest zone, another herd of 12 elephant has been sighted in Panchara reserve forest and the herd of 29 elephant is residing inside the Ujalpur forest zone. (UNI)
Anil Ambani takes ‘Swachh Bharat’ campaign to Badri, Kedar
New Delhi: After Churchgate in downtown Mumbai, industrialist Anil Ambani on Saturday took the Swachh Bharat campaign to Badrinath and Kedarnath in Uttarakhand, and appealed to the people to particularly keep India’s temple towns clean. Ambani, who was among the nine people personally invited by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to join the clean India campaign and also prasied for such efforts, said there were two reasons that he was visiting the two holy towns. “The first reason is to take the blessings of Badrinathji and Kedarnathji. The second reason that I would like to share with you is: We do not keep our temples and places around it as clean as they should be,” Ambani said. “So let’s all take this responsibility from today and keep our religious places clean.” Anil, who cleaned the area around Churchgate station in downtown Mumbai last week along with his friends,” further said: “In the name of Badrinathji and Kedarnathji, let’s make each and every temple, place of worship clean to accomplish the Swachh Bharat Mission.” (IANS)
eToilets in Visakhapatnam unaffected by cyclone
Thiruvananthapuram: Four electronic public toilets installed in Visakhapatnam were unaffected by cyclone “Hudhud”, which hit the city last week. Kerala-based company Eram Scientific Solutions, which developed the automated public toilet units, said it received photographs of the eToilets Saturday which showed the country’s first electronic public toilets were “standing unaffected”. “We were not able to contact our service engineer in Visakhapatnam for over a week due to the broken communication lines. We received the photographs Saturday which showed the electronic public toilets were standing unaffected,” company CEO Anwar Sadat told IANS. The four eToilets were installed at R.K. Beach (two), Diamond Park and Jagathamba. eToilets have already proven their structural strength and exceptional functional stability in extreme temperatures and in climatic conditions as diverse as Jammu and Kashmir and Kerala, the company said. The company has installed over 600 eToilets in 11 states so far. The devastating cyclone claimed 32 lives and injured 43 people in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam, Srikakulam and Vijayanagaram districts and caused massive damage to the infrastructure. (IANS)
600-ft-long cake to mark Indian baking legacy
Thiruvananthapuram: In a first, the Kerala Bakers Association (KBA) is planning to bake a 600-feet-long cake to mark the 131st anniversary of cake-making in the country. The association is planning to bake the cake at a convention centre in Thrissur on October 30 to showcase the legacy of ‘plum cakes’ in the country. According to local historians, the first cake in the country was baked by an Indian in the historic town of Thalassery in north Kerala over a century ago. Taking cue from the European settlers in the Malabar region of Kerala, Mampally Bappu, a local entrepreneur, is said to have baked the first cake using local ingredients in the coastal town in 1883, they said. To mark the occasion, the KBA has roped in scores of its members to prepare and exhibit the massive cake. The event is being organised not just to commemorate the legacy of bakers in Kerala but to create awareness about the significance of baking industry in the economy, the association said. “Kerala may be the only place in the world which has such a large number of bakeries. (PTI)