Pilot project for helping TN fishermen take up deep sea fishing
Chennai: The innovative ‘Mid Sea Fish Processing Units-cum-carrier Mother Vessel’ project would be introduced on a pilot basis to help Tamil Nadu fishermen take up deep sea fishing, Fisheries Minister K V Jayapal told the State Assembly on Tuesday. Moving the demand for grants for his department, he said the project,implemented under Public-Private-PartnershIp (PPP) mode, would help fishermen take up deep sea fishing and reduce the fishing pressure in inshore waters. He said the Mother Vessel will act as a source of critical inputs for the ‘baby vessels’ involved in commercial fishing in the deep and will have facilities for onboard fish storage through Refrigerated Sea Water (RSW) system. ”This wiLl also act as a ‘value added export oriented facility’ and ensure quality standards for export and fetch good price to fishermen for their catch”, Mr Jayapal said. He said the consultant appointed to provide transaction advisory services and to carry out the feasibility study has completed various studies and finalised a workable implementable model for operating a carrier mother vessel in Tamil Nadu. (UNI)
Search operation to trace launched in south Kashmir village
Srinagar: A joint operation was launched by security forces in a village in south Kashmir district of Pulwama this afternoon following information about the presence of militants, official sources said. Following intelligence inputs about the presence of militants in Karimabad village, troops of Rashtriya Rifles (RR) and Special Operation Group (SOG) of Jammu and Kashmir police and CRPF launched a joint operation this afternoon. However, so far no contact was established with militants, they said, adding security forces have started search operation. Further details are awaited, they said, adding on September 12 a Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) commander and a soldier were killed in a fierce encounter in Kakpora area in the district. (UNI)
Brahmins threaten to convert to Islam
Baghpat (UP): Over 150 members of Brahmin community in Singhawali Ahir village here have threatened to convert to Islam if a missing teenage girl of their community was not recovered by the police. While the family is alleging that the girl was kidnapped by a Dalit youth on September 8 from the village here, the police have registered a case of missing person, they said. The community members met Additional Superintendent of Police Vidya Sagar Mishra to press for their demand. “Over 150 brahmins of Titrauda area met me to press for their demand to find the girl, who was allegedly taken away by a Dalit youth on September 8. They have also threatened to convert to Islam, if she is not found,” the ASP said today. The villagers had also staged a demonstration yesterday at District Magistrate’s office and gave him a memorandum warning of mass conversion if the girl was not recovered. Investigations are on to trace the girl, police added. (PTI)
Pilot project for helping TN fishermen take up deep sea fishing
Chennai: The innovative ‘Mid Sea Fish Processing Units-cum-carrier Mother Vessel’ project would be introduced on a pilot basis to help Tamil Nadu fishermen take up deep sea fishing, Fisheries Minister K V Jayapal told the State Assembly on Tuesday. Moving the demand for grants for his department, he said the project,implemented under Public-Private-PartnershIp (PPP) mode, would help fishermen take up deep sea fishing and reduce the fishing pressure in inshore waters. He said the Mother Vessel will act as a source of critical inputs for the ‘baby vessels’ involved in commercial fishing in the deep and will have facilities for onboard fish storage through Refrigerated Sea Water (RSW) system. ”This wiLl also act as a ‘value added export oriented facility’ and ensure quality standards for export and fetch good price to fishermen for their catch”, Mr Jayapal said. He said the consultant appointed to provide transaction advisory services and to carry out the feasibility study has completed various studies and finalised a workable implementable model for operating a carrier mother vessel in Tamil Nadu. (UNI)
Andhra laddu-maker eyes to break own Guinness records
Rajahmundry (AP): A city-based sweetshop, which has already set four Guinness Records for making large ‘laddus’, is attempting to better its achievement by making a mammoth laddu weighing 8,000 kg for the Ganesha festival celebrations commencing on Thursday. Sri Bhaktanjaneya Sweets owner Saladi Venkateswara Rao said this is the fifth consecutive year that they have prepared huge laddus, with the biggest one weighing 8,000 kg and the other about 6,400 kg (excluding the bowl that alone weighs a whopping 875 kg), for two tallest Ganesha idols installed in Andhra Pradesh. The 8,000 kg sweet named ‘Navyaandhra Laddu’ is ready for delivery tomorrow to an 80-feet tall Ganesh idol put up by Visakha Integrated Social Welfare Association supported by NRIs at the Gajuwaka area in Visakhapatnam. The laddu was prepared by 12 workers in eight hours, he said. “We want to break our own Guinness Record this year by making these laddus. We also have orders for large laddus from Odisha, Bengaluru, Chennai and from Hyderabad. We will be taking orders even on the festival day,” Rao said. (PTI)
Man threatens DTC bus conductor with knife, gets one yr jail
New Delhi: A man has been sentenced to one year in jail by a court here for threatening a DTC bus conductor with a knife on being asked to buy a ticket. Additional Sessions Judge Manoj Jain handed down the jail term to Prakash, a north Delhi resident, while holding him guilty under relevant provisions of the Arms Act. The court, which also held his accomplice, Sunil, guilty of criminally intimidating the conductor, jailed him for two months, the period already spent by him behind bars. “Possession of knife cannot be taken in a nonchalant manner. Convict Prakash had no business to possess such button actuated knife much less using the same. He had taken out such knife when conductor had asked him to buy a ticket. “The minimum sentence here is of one year which can be reduced if special reasons exist. In the case in hand, I do not find any special reason which may compel me to reduce such minimum sentence,” the judge said. The court, however, said that it was not a case of robbery as alleged by the prosecution, saying the knife was used as the convicts wanted a free ride. “The knife was not shown to extort anything at all or to rob anyone. It was shown so that conductor does not make demand for money from the accused for purchasing the tickets. Both the accused had no intention or motive to commit any robbery. (PTI)
