North Kolkata Calling !!

A hospital in Meghalaya at last gets an automated teller machine. The funny thing is that the inventor Adrian Shepherd Barron-was born in that same hospital in the year 1925. Hence the hospital get its 1st ATM half a century after the first machine was installed by Barclays in London in 1967.   While in his bath tub he  was inspired by the chocolate bar disp- ending machine. Thereby he devised the world's 1st ATM. His idea was placed before Barclays and the bank accepted it immediately.

An asteroid named '16 Psyche' is racing towards earth. It contains huge amount of nickel, metalic iron with solid gold core. The estimated value of the asteroid could be around $10,000 quadrillion -enough to make everyone in  the world sufficiently rich !!

The Rudraprayag District is well known for  leopards . We have heard of the famous Jim Corbett who after many failures finally succeeded in shooting the man eater of that area-I mean Rudraprayag. Man-eaters still roam in the area and incident still happens. On saturday night a toddler named Rishika was snatched away by a leopard from her front yard. No trace except a drop of blood was found near her home. The villagers demanded it to be declared as a man-eater and hence either trap or eliminate the big cat. Vaibhav Singh the DFO of Rudraprayag said as the villagers were scared and worried we have to either trap or kill it. In this respect two shooters Joy Hukki and Zahir Baksh are deployed.

The Tokyo Games will loose many features of an  Olympics. It will probably be noted in history as the weirdest Games played  with empty stands and devoid of all glamours. There will be changes in the making of medals too. Recycled materials from used consumer electronic goods- such as- digital cameras, laptops, games consoles etc. will be used. General public, electronics shops, schools too donated in yellow donation boxes set up in Post Offices & Street corners. The Japanese public themselves donated around 6,21 millions old mobiles.

Finally China built the world's fastest train that could travel at a speed of 600kmph. Its a maglev train and was  manufactured in the city of Qingdao. Chief Engineer Ding Sansan says it can travel with 2 to 10 carriages.Each carriage is capable of accomodating 100 passengers. The train makes no contact between its body and rail since electro-magnetic  force has been used. It takes 2.5 hours to complete a journey from Beijing to Shanghai which is more than 1000 km.

A farmer accumulated Rs2 lakes by selling vegetables on  his two-wheeler. He sweated out with the sole purpose for saving money for his abdominal surgery. Redya Naik the farmer from Vemunur village in Mahabub- Abad district kept his hard earned money in a cotton bag. He further kept the bag in his almirah which he thought was safe. He even had to borrow cash from his relatives for the said surgery. All the money was of Rs500/- notes as that was the only way he could think of. He was shocked to find all that money shredded to pieces by rats. Finding no other ways he took all the pieces to the bank for replacement.  The bank unfortunately refused !!

He is around 26/27 years old , tall and stout with a good figure. He is wearing a blue jeans but without any dark glasses. I could see him from my balcony clearly and distinctly standing on the opposite footpath. He is a handsome young man and there is no doubt  about it. Handsome elegant and well composed wearing  a red shirt which along with the jeans looked terribly attractive. But for whom has he been waiting for ?  After half an hour he suddenly seems uncomfortable for some reason unknown to me. Was he waiting for his fiancee ? Perhaps he is been kept waiting for reasons only known to her ! For few moments I moved away from my balcony to come back again. My sight of course fell on the same spot where the young man stood impatiently. There was no one and I thought she must have come and they together went to their  chosen  place. My heart leapt up to see once again the same young man but little upset - standing on the same spot. He took out a cigarette from his packet and vehementl