A group of 15 people who hailed from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala had travelled to Nepal on holiday. They were traveling from Pokhara to take a flight back to India and had made a pitstop at a hotel in Daman in Nepal’s Makwanpur district, where they had turned on the gas heater for the night, to keep themselves warm. The area is at an altitude of nearly 2500 metres above sea level.
The manager of the resort told Himalayan Times that the guests had booked four rooms but eight of them stayed in a room, while the remaining others in other rooms.
Praveen's friend Renjith Kumar TB (39) who hails from Kozhikode, his wife Indu Renjith (34) and their son Vaishnav Renjith (2) were also sleeping in the same room, according to a press release issued by the District Police Office, Makwanpur. All three of them too died. The couple had two children, their son Madhav was reportedly was sleeping in a different room and his life was spared.
The deceased persons were found unconscious inside a locked suite inside the Everest Panorama Resort in Daman. According to the hotel manager, the room in which they were found unconscious was bolted from inside. The local police were alerted after the rest of the group staying in another room went to check on them. They were immediately airlifted to Kathmandu following this. A picture of the room shows an outdoor heater that was used in the room. There have been many cases in the past where people have died because of carbon monoxide poisoning. When a heater is used in an enclosed space, a gas leak can cause a carbon monoxide build up in the room, leading to poisoning.
They were airlifted in two sorties to HAMS hospital in Dhumbahari, Kathmandu, where they were declared brought dead on Tuesday morning.
Meanwhile, the Indian Embassy issued a statement on the deaths. "Our doctor, along with a member of the group, is in the hospital. Other group members and family from India/Dubai are on their way to Kathmandu. Contact details of Mission officials have been shared with family/friends," it said.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has sought the intervention of External Affairs minister S Jaishanakar to render all assistance to the families of the eight keralite tourists who died at a resort in Nepal.
Source : https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/8-tourists-kerala-including-4-kids-found-dead-nepal-hotel-room-116519
Two men have been arrested on charges of cheating elderly citizens in Calcutta on the pretext of helping them withdraw money from ATMs.
Police said the duo, who are from Gaya in Bihar, had used skimmers to steal encrypted data from the magnetic strips of ATM cards when elderly people handed over their cards to them, seeking help in withdrawing money.
The detective department’s anti-bank fraud section has seized 38 cloned cards, which suggest that data from at least 38 ATM cards had been stolen over the past few weeks in the city, the police said.
The police arrested Mudassar Khan and Irfanuddin on Thursday in connection with four cases.
Cops could get pictures of the accused through CCTV camera footage of the ATM kiosks from where money had been withdrawn without the knowledge of the card holder.
A few weeks ago, dozens of Calcuttans had lost money from their bank accounts through ATM withdrawals in south Delhi.
More than 60 cases had been reported and over Rs 25 lakh lost.
The police had busted a Romanian gang running the racket in Delhi.
Investigators, however, feel Mudassar and Irfanuddin were not linked to the Romanian gang.
“They do not appear to be part of a larger gang. Their modus operandi is different from the Romanian gang. The Romanian gang used to install skimmers in ATMs, leave it there and later use the data to clone cards,” an officer said.
“These two men mostly offered help to the elderly, asked them for the PIN to complete a transaction and exchange the cards with old invalid ones. At times, they would confuse the elderly and swipe the cards through a skimmer pretending to help them and steal the data for later use.”
Mudassar and Irfanuddin were picked up on Thursday evening minutes before they were to board a train to Darjeeling from Sealdah.
“A skimming device, a laptop, a Magnetic Strip Reader Writer (MSRW) have been seized from them,” Murlidhar Sharma, joint commissioner (crime), said.
The two had been living separately at rented apartments in Jadavpur and Tiljala.
The seized cloned cards had their PINs written on the back, an officer said. All the cases where the elderly were cheated had been reported from unguarded ATM kiosks.
“Elderly people are most vulnerable... they often find it difficult to follow the steps in different ATM kiosks and end up seeking help from guards or someone waiting to withdraw money,” an officer said. “Cheats keep watch for such people and offer help seeing them fumble at the kiosk.”
Via : The Telegraph
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North Bengal University introduced higher studies in pharmaceutical technology and food technology
The North Bengal University has launched post-doctoral (PhD) courses in pharmaceutical technology and food technology.
A few months ago, the varsity had introduced MSc courses in the two subjects.
“We have introduced higher studies in pharmaceutical technology and food technology. Twelve students have already been admitted to the post-doctoral (PhD) course in pharmaceutical technology, while two others have enrolled for PhD in food technology,” said Pranab Ghosh, the head of the department, pharmaceutical technology.
“The scholars will carry out researches on the molecular level involving natural products, their isolation, characterisation and possible application in medicine,” he added.
As the departments of pharmaceutical technology and food technology have been approved by the All India Council for Technical Education and Pharmaceutical Council of India , the research scholars will receive fellowship from the AICTE, said sources.
“At the NBU, we have a good number of instruments in the lab to take up such researches. Some more instruments would be brought in soon,” an official said.
The varsity has 18 seats for the masters’ course in pharmaceutical technology and 24 seats for MSc in food technology. In total, 12 faculty members teach these courses.
From the coming academic session, the NBU plans to introduce BPharm course.
The tea science department at the NBU has decided to send its experts to small tea plantations in the Siliguri subdivision, Jalpaiguri district and Islampur subdivision to provide field training to small growers. “We will organise camps to make the growers aware of different techniques of tea cultivation,” said Pranab Ghosh, the head of the tea science department at the NBU.
“We will also speak to youths in those areas and encourage them to take up undergraduate courses in tea science.”
Via : The Telegraph, published 8.1.20,
