Monkey Business: Visiting Shimla? Hide Your Spectacles
There’s a new twist to the monkey menace plaguing the tourist destination. Be prepared to barter hard to get your belongings back Pradeep Kumar outlookindia.com 2021-04-04T19:06:17+05:30
Perhaps it was short-sighted. Perhaps it was hungry. Maybe it was both. Whatever the reason, a tourist strolling past the Indian Coffee House on Shimla’s crowded Mall on Saturday got the fright of his life when a monkey jumped out of nowhere and snatched his spectacles off his nose.
While other tourists scrambled for cover, local residents reassured the startled tourist that all he needed to do was to offer the monkey some food (ice cream is a hot favourite) in return for his spectacles. And sure enough, it worked.
Nursing cadets take out ‘alankrit’ parade during commissioning
Lucknow: Following in the footsteps of Florence Nightingale, the third batch of 39 young women cadets passed out from College of Nursing, Command Hospital, Central Command and were commissioned in Indian Army as nursing officer with rank of lieutenant.
The commissioning ceremony of probationer nurses took place on Wednesday at Army Medical Corps (AMC) followed by oath and ‘alankrit’ parade in the presence of reviewing officer Maj Gen Dr Ramesh Kaushik, the commandant of CH (CC) Lucknow, Brig Sunita Sharma, principal matron CH (CC) and other officers.
Maj Gen Kaushik also presented awards to meritorious officers: Lt Suman Rawat (23), a gold medallist, for securing first rank in final year of examination conducted by KGMU, Lt Pooja Bharti and Lt Ayushi Mishra (24) for securing the second and third ranks and Lt Chanpreet Kaur (22) for best clinical nursing cadet. Lt Swati Dogra and Lt Nidhi Rawat were awarded fo