Fraud on the pretext of increasing children’s IQ; DC orders closure of unscientific activities
Mangaluru: District Commissioner Sasikant Senthil has strictly warned the ‘Efficient Brain’ institute of Puttur against conducting unscientific activities on the pretext of increasing children’s Intelligence Quotient and concentration power.
Narendra Naik, president of the Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations (FIRA), has lodged a complaint with the DC saying that on the pretext of increasing IQ of the children, the institute forces students to undergo some techniques which are against the nature.
Based on the complaint, the officials of education department carried out an inspection at the institute and had submitted a report. After going through the report, the DC warned that motivating students for good is appreciable, but spoiling pupils by indulging them into some unscientific methods is punishable act.
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Terrorist hideout busted in J-K’s Poonch; IEDs, wireless sets seized
Mendhar/Jammu (PTI): Security forces unearthed a terrorist hideout in a forest area in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, leading to the recovery of five improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and two wireless sets, officials said on Monday.
All the ready-to-use IEDs, weighing between half-a-kg and five kg, were destroyed in a controlled explosion on-the-spot, thwarting terrorist plans to set off explosions in the border district, the officials said.
The hideout was busted during a joint search operation by army and special operations group of J-K police at Suranthal in Marhote area of Surankote late Sunday evening, the officials said.
While two IEDs were found planted inside steel buckets, three others were packed in tiffin boxes, the officials said.
In addition, the officials said two wireless sets, five packets containing urea, one five litre gas cylinder, one binocular, three woolen caps, three blankets and some trousers and utensils were recovered from the hideout.
