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The unearthed world war-II period bomb from a construction site at lamba line a thickly populated area has been removed from the spot and has been discarded 7 nautical miles away from shore, a team of about ten army personnel headed by Maj. Senthil kumar arrived from Barrackpur, west Bengal and examined the bomb,after 10 days of anxious waiting, the finding about the bomb was not made public to avoid any unnecessary problems. Under heavy security bomb was shifted to a boat and was safely disposed into the sea.

Here is some information about Coconut Water: ‘It’s a natural isotonic beverage, with the same level of electrolytic balance as we have in our blood. It’s the fluid of life, so to speak. ‘During the Pacific War of 1941-45, both sides in the conflict regularly used coconut water - siphoned directly from the nut - to give emergency plasma transfusions to wounded soldiers. Most coconut water is still consumed fresh in tropical coastal areas - once exposed to air, the liquid rapidly loses most of its organoleptic and nutritional characteristics, and begins to ferment. Coconut Water is More Nutritious than whole milk - Less fat and NO cholesterol! Coconut Water is More Healthy than Orange Juice - Much lower calories Coconut Water is Better than processed baby milk- It contains lauric acid, which is present in human mother’s milk Coconut water is naturally sterile — Water permeates though the filtering husk! Coconut water is a universal donor– Its identical to human blood plasma Coconut Water is a Natural Isotonic Beverage - The same level we have in our blood. Coconut water has saved lives in 3rd world countries thru Coconut IV. Coconut water is the very stuff of Nature, biologically Pure, full of Natural Sugars, Salts, and Vitamins to ward off fatigue… and is the next wave of energy drinks BUT natural!’, according to Mortin Satin, Chief of the United Nation’s Food & Agriculture Organization. Coconut water contains more potassium (at about 294 mg) than most sports drinks (117 mg) and most energy drinks. Coconut water has less sodium (25mg) where sports drinks have around 41mg and energy drinks have about 200mg!Coconut water has 5mg of Natural Sugars where sports and energy drinks range from 10-25mg of Altered Sugars.Coconut water is very high in Chloride at 118mg; compared to sports drinks at about 39mg.Data is based on a 100ml drink

How did one survive growing up in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s?(if there was Cltrl+Z in life)

We had no seatbelts, no airbags..
Cycling was like a breath of fresh air…
No safety helmets, knee pads or elbow pads, with plenty of cardboards between spokes to make it sound like a motorbike…
When thirsty we only drank tap water, bottled water was still a mystery…
We kept busy collecting bits & pieces so we could build all sort of things … and we were fearless on our bicycles even when the brakes failed going downhill…
We were showing off how tough we are, by how high we could climb trees & then jumping down….It was great fun….
We could stay out to play for hours, as long as we got back before dark, in time for dinner…
We walked to school, or sometimes we even rode our bicycle.
We had no mobile phones, but we always managed to find each other…. How?
We lost teeth, broke arms & legs, we got cuts and bruises and bloody noses…. nobody complained as we had so much fun, it wasn’t anybody’s fault, only ours
We ate everything in sight, cakes, bread, chocolate, ice-cream, sweet sugary drinks, fruits..yet, we stayed skinny by fooling around.
And if one of us was lucky to find a 1 litre coca cola bottle we all had a swig from it & guess what? Nobody picked up any germs…
We did not have Play Stations, MP3, Nintendo’s, I-Pods, Video games, 99 Cable TV channels, DVD’s, Home Cinema, Home Computers, Laptops, Chat-rooms, Internet, etc …
BUT, we had REAL FRIENDS!!!!
We called on friends to come out to play, never rang the doorbell, just went around the backdoor…
We played with sticks and stones, played cowboys and Indians, doctors and nurses, hide and seek, soccer games, over and over again…
When we failed our exams we were given a second chance by simply repeating the same grade…without visiting psychiatrists, psychologists or counselors..

Such were the days…
We had freedom, success, disappointments and responsibilities. ..
Most of all, we learned to respect others…
Maybe this message will help them forget the stress that surrounds us these days….and just for a few moments puts a smile to their faces as they remember what life was really like in the good old days……

Free Rural Dental Camp by Rotary club at Caddlegunj
Port Blair, Oct 05
A free rural dental camp was held by Rtn. Dr. Dinesh, Dental Surgeon, at Caddlegunj, yesterday. The camp was organized by Rotary Club of Port Blair in association with ‘Surabi’, an NGO based at Caddlegunj, South Andaman.
According to a report, the camp evoked good response from the people of the surrounding areas and a total of 59 cases were attended to using disposable dental diagnosis kits. Overall 19 tooth extractions were done at the camp and free medicines were distributed to all the patients. Power point presentations and video shows were conducted to educate the importance of oral hygiene to the general public.
Rtn. G. Dhinakaran, President, Rtn. Zakir Jadwet, Secretary and Rtn. Dr. Dinesh along with other members of the Rotary Club of Port Blair and Fr. Johnson along with the staff members of Surabi, were present in large numbers to oversee the successful conduct of the camp. Rotary Club of Port Blair has plans to conduct more such camps on the future on different rural areas of South Andaman.

Philanthropic service by Rotary, SCAW
464 needy students get Slumber Kits

Port Blair, Feb 11
As part of social & philanthropic service, the Rotary Club of Port Blair, in association with Sleeping Children Around the World (SCAW), Canada and Rotary Club of Ambattur, Chennai has distributed slumbers kits to as many as 464 underprivileged students of different schools here at a function held in the auditorium of Govt. Girls’ Senior Secondary School this morning. The Deputy Commissioner, South Andaman, Shri S N Jha distributed a set of kits to a student on the occasion, to inaugurate the function.
Addressing the function, the chief guest expressed gratitude to SCAW, Rotary Club of Ambattur and Port Blair for the noble gesture and to all the people of Canada, who donated for the kits to help underprivileged children of the islands. He appealed to the people of the islands, to draw example from this holistic work and take initiative in extending such help to children of this section. He also expressed hope that this annual activity of Rotary club will go a long way in covering maximum underprivileged children of the islands.
Mr. Tom Belton, team leader SCAW, while speaking on the occasion, said that the bed kits are donated by people, including students, who care for the poor boys and girls children, by earning through hard working and contribute for helping such children around the world at least to have a good sleep at night. It is an operation of spreading the message of love and friendship among people of the world, he said.
In his welcome address, Rn G Dinakaran, President Rotary Club of Port Blair, informed that this was the second year the club has conducted such programme here. The club he said, is striving to cover maximum underprivileged children of the islands by providing kits for study, playing, sleeping etc in the coming years and added that the club will also organize such function at Baratang to distribute slumber kits to 236 underprivileged students of that area.

Habitants of remote Andaman and Nicobar islands have finally got their own social networking portal to connect with the people.”The portal www.andamani.com is for the people of Andaman living around the world,” said Sudhir Sreenivasan, an islander presently working in Tehno park and living in Trivandrum, Kerala. Within a few days of its launch, the www.andamani.com has got more than 151 members from different corner of the globe.

International News

`Baywatch` beauty Pamela Anderson has revealed that it was her decision to tile her swimming pool with platinum that led her to bankruptcy. The 42-year-old blonde
bombshell has spoken for the first time about the huge debts she has been left with after splurging on a dream home, reported Daily Mail online.

The former Playboy model has been forced to move into a trailer park and she now fears that will have to sell the semi-constructed beach house.

“I am USD 3million over budget and I should have moved in over a year ago. I`m tiling the whole pool in platinum, that`s expensive!,” she said.

The star revealed that she sobs whenever she visits the house, because she put her heart into it`s construction.

“I`m going to sell it. I hate it. People commit suicide over constructions. Relationships break down over constructions and I can see why. It rips your heart out,” said Anderson who shares her trailer with her electrician boyfriend Jamie Padgett, 42, and her two sons Brandon, 13, and Dylan, 11.

She reportedly has just USD 4,000 in the bank and needs to spend at least USD 800,000 more to make the house habitable.

No board exam for Class X in CBSE from 2011-Source The Hindu
Dated:-8/9/09
Anita Joshua
NEW DELHI: Beginning 2011, Class X board examinations will become a thing of the past. Instead, students will be promoted to senior secondary through an internal assessment. This was announced here on Monday by Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal as a major stress buster for students.
Grading for 2010 boards
Since the decision has been taken in the middle of the academic year, students in Class X this year will have to appear for the board examination as scheduled, but will be graded instead, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) chairman Vineet Joshi said. Students will be graded into nine categories, from exceptional to unsatisfactory.
Though initially there were indications that students changing schools after Class X would have to appear for the board examination, Mr. Joshi said that instead they would appear for an online/offline/on-demand assessment and would be issued certificates on pre-printed stationery supplied by the CBSE and attested by the regional offices of the Board.
Students who may need certification of the Board at a later stage to change schools can also appear for same assessment.
It will also be available to students who want an independent assessment of their academic skills.

DDC

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala reported its first swine flu death with a patient, who was admitted to a private hospital in the city a week ago with severe respiratory distress, succumbing to the illness on Tuesday night.

Wilson Lukose (33) of Vettucaud here had been travelling from the Andaman and Nicobar islands to Chennai, from where he reached the capital by train.

Health Department officials said he was treated at some local hospitals before he got admitted to the KIMS hospital.

“He was very sick when he got admitted to the hospital. He had a history of haemoptysis [coughing up of blood]. He had to be put on ventilator because of respiratory distress. Following a suspicion about A (H1N1), the hospital authorities informed us and his throat swab sample was sent to National Institute of Communicable Diseases, New Delhi, on August 7. We got the result as A(H1N1) positive on August 9,” Additional Director of Health Services K.S. Anilkumar said.

He said the immediate cause of death was reported to be pneumothorax, a medical emergency resulting from chest trauma or excess pressure on lungs.

Family, friends and neighbours who might have come into close contact with the patient would be asked to go to hospital in case they developed flu-like symptoms.

Thiruvananthapuram: The body of Wilson Lukose, who died at a private hospital in the city on Tuesday following A(H1N1) infection, was received by his relatives and buried on Thursday evening without a post-mortem.
The body was transferred to the Medical College Hospital mortuary on Wednesday after the relatives of the deceased refused to receive the body and insisted on a post-mortem. Following the dispute, the government had deputed an expert committee under Joint Director of Medical Education Sudheendra Ghosh to conduct an audit into the patient’s death.
With the committee reporting on Thursday that the cause of death was very evident from the case records — ‘patient had died of haemorrhagic broncho pneumonia following H1N1 infection’ — the Health Department decided that there was no need for an autopsy.
The report also said the patient had been a diabetic for quite a while and that he had received proper medical care at the hospital.
Earlier, the doctors at the MCH too had protested that a post-mortem was not required in this case.
They had also pointed out that the body had been brought without any precautions to the MCH.

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It was 7.8 magnitude quake in Andamans

(source: THE HINDU)

Special Correspondent
Aftershocks felt in many cities in the south and east of the country

CHENNAI/HYDERABAD: An earthquake of 7.8 magnitude was recorded in the region of Andaman islands with the epicentre 260 km north of Port Blair at about 1.25 a.m. on Tuesday, causing aftershocks in many cities in the southern and eastern parts of the country.

The Hyderabad-based National Tsunami Warning Centre issued the first bulletin within six minutes of the earthquake stating that it was evaluating its tsunamigenic potential.

Its next bulletin came at 2.45 a.m., pointing out that there were no significant water level changes in the Bottom Pressure Recorders and tide gauges in the Andamans, after receiving real time data from them.

Satish Shenoy, Director of the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) — which houses the Tsunami Warning Centre — said no tsunami alert was issued. He said a tsunami watch, issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre, was withdrawn later. The information was shared with other countries along the Indian Ocean rim and also with regional tsunami warning centres in Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Maldives and Sri Lanka.

In Chennai, S. Rasappan, a resident of Srinivasapuram, Foreshore Estate [where about 750 families of fishermen live] said: “I felt the aftershock. Several of my neighbours also stayed awake till early morning. But, the sea remained calm last [Monday] night.”

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It wasn’t a mechanical snag that led to North Korean merchant vessel MV Mu San dropping anchor off Little Andaman. It was Union agriculture

minister Sharad Pawar’s announcement on July 31 allowing private firms to import sugar at zero duty that led the ship, carrying some 16,500 tonnes of the commodity to Iraq, to change its destination mid-course.

While the ship’s charter in India eyed gains from offloading duty-free sugar here, the captain stood to earn $7,000 (Rs 3.5 lakh) a day for stalling and diverting the ship.

So, within hours of Pawar’s announcement, the ship’s charter in India asked the captain to divert the sugar to Kakinada on the Andhra coast, said a source involved in the interrogation of the captain and his 38-member crew. To ensure that the consignment reached only after the zero duty came into effect, the charter asked the ship’s captain Yong Jung Sun to ‘‘slow down and take shelter’’, evading the Indian Coast Guard and the Navy.

‘‘The minister had made the announcement on July 31, but the gazette notification was expected only around August 5. The captain, however, said he would reach the Indian shores by August 3, however slow he moved,’’ the source said. At this point, the charter offered Yong $7,000 for every day that he delayed the consignment, and asked him to drop anchor somewhere off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

North Korean merchant vessel MV Mu San dropped anchor off Little Andaman eyeing gains from Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar’s announcement on July 31 allowing private firms to import sugar at zero duty. The ship was carrying some 16,500 tonnes of the commodity to Iraq, while it decided to change its destination mid-course.

‘‘We suspect the ship must have dropped anchor off Hut Bay on August 3,’’ the source said. For two days, the shop went unnoticed but on August 5, passengers of a ferry informed Indian authorities of a ‘‘suspicious’’ ship off Hut Bay. ‘‘When we cornered the ship, the crew cooked up the story of a mechanical snag,’’ the source said.

‘‘Intelligence agencies want to do a thorough inspection of the cargo and the ship. If we get the nod on Tuesday, a ship from Port Blair will escort Mu San and meet Sarang mid-sea. Or else, Sarang will reach Port Blair and, along with a big vessel, accompany Mu San to Kakinada,’’ the source said.

With drought-like conditions affecting sugarcane cultivation, wholesale sugar prices soared from Rs 2,450 to Rs 3,050 per quintal last week. The global prices went up from $420 to $560 per tonne, registering a 28-year high, as Brazil, the biggest sugar producer, lost most of its crop to heavy rain. According to the International Sugar Organization, London, the global demand for sugar will exceed output by 5 million tonnes through September 2010.