Monkey that babysits infant

Presenting a unique bond of love between simians and human beings, a monkey in Orissa’s Dhenkanal area has adorned a baby-sitter’s role by taking care of an infant human baby when its mother is busy doing household chores.

Every morning, the monkey arrives at the 21-day-old baby’s house and spends the rest of the day taking care of the baby boy. At times, the monkey goes asleep with the infant in the house.

"Initially, I was scared by this unusual affection shown by the monkey towards my baby. But today, the monkey takes care of him the whole day when I am busy with my household work. Sitting next to my baby son, the monkey looks after him as a mother and never harms," said Kamalini Khuntia, the mother.

Rohit Khuntia and Kamalini Khuntia, the parents of the infant were scared and reluctant to allow a monkey to come near the child. They even tried to shoo the simian away. But it did not stop the monkey from visiting their house and play with the baby.

Both of the parents have now given up their fear and now treat the monkey as family.

The unique incident showcasing an astonishing relation of love and care between a monkey and human child has become the talk of the town.

"Look this is an animal but showers love and affection like a real mother to a human baby. For the past 15-16 days, it is taking care of the baby as a mother would do," said, Shantanu Das, a neighbour

Khuntia’s home has today become a favourite tourist spot of sorts, as several curious people keep visiting to witness the unique bond. Who knows the sight may influence the general mindset that usually perceives the presence of monkeys to be a menace for the human world?

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Orissa students use pocket money to build Gandhi statue

Bargarh, Oct 1 (IANS): All the students of a school in an Orissa village have been spending a part of their pocket money for the past four years to build a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in front of their school.

The unveiling of the statue on Gandhi's birth anniversary on Oct 2 is a dream come true for the students of the government upper primary school in Haldipali village, about 370 km from the state capital Bhubaneswar.

The school provides education to about 50 children from class one to five. Since the inception of the school in 1957, students and teachers have been regularly singing Ram Dhun at the beginning of the classes but since there was no Gandhi idol in the school, they would treat a stone as Bapu's idol.

For the past four years they had been collecting one rupee each from every student at the beginning of a month to build the statue.

Initially, the villagers were not aware of the children's initiative. When they came to know about it, they decided to support them. An artiste from a neighbouring village built the statue using cement, mosaic, white powder, gum and colour.

"We are happy that the statue will be inaugurated on Oct 2," Sonic Sahu, a class four student of the school said. "The total money spent on the statue would be about 10,000 and more than 70 percent of the money was collected by the school children. Moreover, the artiste who made the statue did not take any remuneration," schoolteacher Prashant Dash said

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Orissa Villages go Wi-Fi, Have an E-postman

Raghurajpur (Orissa): In Orissa, a state transport bus service is contributing to Internet connectivity. Every time the bus passes through Raghurajpur village in the state, it becomes the villagers' ticket to Internet connectivity. The bus is fitted with a Wi-Fi box and is a source of help to many villagers.

"The Internet has really improved my sales. In my 30-year career as an artist, we never had such facilities. Now, I can contact customers, and they can contact me,” says artist Sarat Mohapatra.

The United Villages kiosk in Raghurajpur is equipped with a Wi-Fi antenna and computers, and Mohapatra saves his emails on the hard disk. When the Wi-Fi enabled bus passes through Raghurajpur, it picks up his email and delivers it to a nearby town with Internet connectivity.

"Many villages cannot be connected because of lack of infrastructure and because most people can't afford it. With this, email is Re. 1 and attachments cost an extra Re. 1. The infrastructure is just a bus,” said Kishore Sutar, manager, United villages.

The United Village concept is also called Daknet, or Internet Post, and the bus is like a postman. It connects 25 remote villages in Orissa to already Internet-enabled areas.

A Self Help Group worker, Pranati Mishra, now doesn't have to travel 30 km to Puri to check email from funding agencies. "It's good to have these facilities to contact head office and funding agencies. Now it's very easy; it doesn't waste time or money,” she said.

The Daknet service is not real-time click and surf, but it is still a step towards creating one big global village.

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Three-year-old reads newspapers

ROURKELA: A three-year-old child prodigy in the steel city has taken everybody by surprise as he is able to read newspapers and text books even though he is yet to start schooling.
Arjya Niskam took everybody by surprise when he read the newspapers and books with clear pronunciation on Wednesday in the presence of Additional District Magistrate, Niteen Bhanudas Jawale.
Born on May 14, 2004, Arjya started reading newspaper headlines and Oriya signboards written in bold letters at the age of two years and seven months, said his father, Amarendra Behera, an employee of Rourkela Steel Plant.
The child prodigy surprised everybody by reading panchayat election posters mostly printed in Oriya and slogans of mass education movement (Sarba Sikhya Abhiyan) written in village school building when the proud parents along with him had visited their village in Kendrapara district in coastal Orissa during last panchayat elections in February. Source : Times of India

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