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Huge cache of ammunitions recovered from Jharkhand

March 16, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

East Singhbhum (Jharkhand), Mar 16 (ANI): Police recovered a huge cache of ammunitions during a raid at the office of a stone-crushing operation in Jharkhand”s East Singhbhum district.

Following a tip-off, police raided the place and recovered explosives amassed at the office.

3,245 detonators, power gel – explosive raw materials – (about 125 gram), and two 50-meter-long rolls of telephone wires were recovered.

“A case has been filed against the owner of the stone-crushing machine under the Explosive Substance Act,” said Dinesh Orawa, Deputy Superintendent of Police.

Machines used for mining require explosives for blowing up boulders but the office had amassed more explosives than the required amount. (ANI)

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US army set for “hopping rotochut” that hops to avoid rubble trouble

September 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, September 19 (ANI): The U.S. army’s fleet of robots will soon be enhanced with the addition of forthcoming reconnaissance craft called the ‘hopping rotochute’, which will be capable of travelling deep into obstacle-ridden spaces like caves and rubble-laden buildings to video what it finds.

The self-righting probe is being developed for the Army Research Lab in Aberdeen, Maryland, by Eric Beyer and Mark Costello, a pair of robotics engineers at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

The project attains significance because present-day military robots, which run on small tank-style tracks, cannot cope with irregular surfaces and obstacles such as rubble or boulders.

“They usually have trouble and get stuck with even low obstacles and walls a couple of feet high,” says Costello.

Although small helicopters are one alternative, continuous flying drains the batteries fast.

Thus, Costello stresses the need for a rotor-powered, bottom-heavy, self-righting vehicle that spends most of its time on the ground, conserving battery power.

AS to whether repeated hopping might harm the craft, a spokesman for the Impact Centre at Cranfield University in Bedfordshire, UK, said: “From a crashworthiness point of view this concept looks perfectly feasible. There should be no problem with the vehicle surviving hundreds of impacts, which is roughly equivalent to dropping a mobile phone from waist height.” (ANI)

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Gorkha Janmukti Morcha to be alert along India-China border

September 15, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Darjeeling, Sep 15 (ANI): Consequent to the reports about Chinese troops trespassing into the Indian territory, Bimal Gurung, chief of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) asserted that his party would form a special force to remain alert along the India-China border to keep away any kind of foreign intrusion.

Addressing a gathering here on Monday, Gurung said that the special force would be named as the Saheed Durga Malla Special Force, for which they would seek the federal government’s assistance.

“The problem faced by India at present…the incursion by China, for that we the Gorkha community, who have been in the service of the country for years … if China attacks India, then the GJM will on its part form a special force named as Saheed Durga Malla, which would send 500 cadres if a war breaks out,” Gurung added.

Officials sources have said that Chinese troops entered nearly 1.5 kilometres into the Indian territory near Mount Gya, which is recognised as the international border by India and China, and painted the word ‘China’ in Cantonese on the boulders and rocks there with red spray paint.

The incursions were reported from the area generally referred in the Chumar sector in east of Leh. (ANI)

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Government should lodge protest with China on incursion: BJP

September 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Sep 7(ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday observed the Centre should lodge protest with China Government on reports of its troops’ incursion in international border in Ladakh region.

“Reports of Chinese incursion in Ladakh is a matter of grave concern. Immediately swinging into action the Indian government should lodge a protest with China,” BJP spokesperson Prakash Javdekar told reporters in the national capital.

Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said that the Government has took up the matter at the official level.

“Foreign and Defence ministries are fully aware, the Government has initiated action at the official level. We not only condemn it, but would recommend taking strong action against any such incursion and China has been made aware of it,” Singhvi said.

The Chinese troops breached the international border in the region and painted ‘China’ on some boulders and rocks, which were later found by an patrol team in July.

It is also being stated that the Chinese troops had entered nearly 1.5 kilometres into the Indian territory near Mount Gya, which is recognised as International Border by both India and China.

A red marking was found around 1.5 to 1.7 kilometres inside the Indian territory, however, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has denied reports of any incursion.

Earlier, it was reported that two Chinese helicopters had entered Indian air space in the same region. (ANI)

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Fans mistake Katy Perry for Zooey Deschanel

September 1, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Aug 31 (ANI): Singer Katy Perry was mistaken for American actress Zooey Deschanel in Los Angeles.

The ‘I Kissed a Girl’ hitmaker was stunned when a group of fans mistook her for the ’500 Days of Summer’ star.

“F**k. I’m outside minding my own business eating pinkberry and some s**tz yell out the car “zooooooeeey desccchanel” FML, welcome to LA.(sic),” Contactmusic quoted her as having written on her Twitter page.

Perry had recently revealed that she once raised 2,000 pounds for charity by auctioning off a replica pair of her boobs on eBay.

The singer, who recently claimed that the power of her prayer had resulted in her impressive 32DD ‘boulders’, says that she’s proud of her twin assets. (ANI)

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Katy Perry’s boobs raised £2k for charity before she was a star

August 25, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Aug 25 (ANI): Katy Perry has revealed that she once raised 2,000 pounds for charity by auctioning off a replica pair of her boobs on eBay.

Perry, who recently claimed that the power of her prayer had resulted in her impressive 32DD ‘boulders’, says she’s proud of her twin assets.

“They had to get extra plaster to cast them because they are so big,” the Sun quoted her as saying.

“I was very proud because it was early in my career and they fetched 3,500 dollars which I think is pretty good.

“I’m very proud of that,” she added.

The singer has vowed to keep her bust natural.

“I haven’t had a boob op and I never would. I love them just the way they are and guys seem to as well,” Perry said. (ANI)

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Heavy rainfall disrupts normal life in Uttarakhand

August 18, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Pipalkothi (Uttarakhand), Aug 18 (ANI): Heavy rainfall has disrupted normal life and triggered landslide along National Highway-58 in Uttarakhand.

Due to the impact of the landslide, huge boulders started rolling down the hill slopes blocking Rishikesh-Badrinath National Highway also known as NH-58.

This caused disruption in traffic and caused a lot of problems for the tourists and the devotees.

Avtaar Singh, a devotee from Amritsar who was visiting Gurudwara Hemkunt Sahib in the Himalayas, said that he faced a lot of problems because of the bad roads.

“On the way, we faced a lot of problems. The roads are broken. Rocks are lying on the road. We had to get down on the way and cross the roads,” said Singh.

Uttarakhand Disaster Management Minister Khajaan Das said: “The district officials have been directed to act if there is a natural calamity. There should not be any kind of laxity.”

The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) who has been entrusted with responsibility of maintaining the NH-58 continues the rescue work with heavy machines and bulldozers clearing off the debris from the road. (ANI)

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BRO gets eight Shaurya Chakras, two for working in Taliban infested Afghanistan

March 25, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Mar 25 (ANI): The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) achieves a distinction when the President Pratibha Devisingh Patil would confer on Thursday as many as eight Shaurya Chakras on its men.

This is the first time in more than a decade that the premier road building defence organisation has bagged the most Shaurya Chakras, the country’s third highest non-combatant gallantry award, in a year and all of them have been awarded posthumously.

For the first time in its close to five decades long history, BRO’s dozer operator Zalim Singh would be conferred with Bar to the Shaurya Chakra, having won the same award twice over. On April 16 last year Zalim Singh was crushed under shooting boulders as he tried to clear a strategic road near village Theing in north Sikkim for a column of tanks.

Two Shaurya Chakras have gone to men of the project Zaranj in Taliban infested Afghanistan. Superintendent Mahendra Pratap Singh and mason C. Govindaswamy died on April 12, 2008 in a suicide bomb attack by Taliban militants on their convoy while it was passing between Delaram and Minar on the Zaranj-Delaram highway, which was handed over on completion by India to Afghanistan just two months ago.

Another two BRO men, Assistant Executive Engineer Santosh Kumar Singh and driver Jaikrit Singh Rawat have won the award in Kashmir, working on the Kishtwar-Sinthan Pass, an alternate axis to link Kashmir Valley. They were martyred in an ambush on June 13, 2008 on their way back from Sinthan Top.

Driver Surinder Pal was martyred in an attack by militants in Meghalaya on May 26 while supervisor M. Sundaram, deployed on the Kailash Mansarovar route, fell in a 60 meters deep valley of Kali river on Indo-Nepal border on 2nd July last year. Dozer Budhu Khan of project Vartak was hit by debris while clearing the Hapoli Sarli-Huri road on Feb. 22, 2008. (ANI)

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