Aeroplane grounded in Delhi as Rats run riot

As per a report:

Rats forced the grounding of an Air India aircraft that arrived in New Delhi from Kolkata as the plane was taken to a remote bay for fumigation. The crew of the Airbus A-321, operating flight AI-021 from Kolkata, found a rat in the rear of the aircraft, airline sources said. Read full story here at......Aeroplane grounded in Delhi as Rats run riot

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A Temple in India Where Rats are Revered

Reverence for all living things is a special trait of Hinduism. But nothing prepares you for the freak show at this temple in Rajasthan overrun by thousands of overfed rats. There are more than 20,000 of them living within the temple precincts and people come from far and wide to pay them obeisance. Read more here.....Where Rats are Revered

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Rats nibble on paralysed man as hospital staff sleep

Jodhpur, A 70-year-old paralysed man on ventilator in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a government hospital here was allegedly attacked by rats who nibbled on his ears, nose, lips and cheeks while hospital staff slept, hospital sources said.

The authorities at the government hospital have launched an investigation into the incident. The man, whose identity was withheld, was unable to move due to paralysis when the incident took place early Tuesday at the Mathura Das Mathur Hospital. Read More................Rats nibble on paralysed man as hospital staff sleep

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Eating Rats Can Solve World Food Price Crisis: Indian official

Oh! what a suggestion to solve world food price crisis!!!!!!

As per Vijay Prakash, secretary of the state's welfare department in Bihar state of India :

"Eating rats is the best way for rich and poor people to solve the global crisis of rising food prices, an Indian official said Wednesday as he unveiled his plan to put rodents on menus.

Regular rat snacks would translate into fewer rodents eating precious grain stocks -- 50 percent of which are lost in the northeastern state of Bihar every year to the animals, said Vijay Prakash, secretary of the state's welfare department.

"This will help in mitigating the global food crisis. We are sure that it will work wonders," Prakash told AFP. "It will save half our grain, and will also reduce villagers' dependence on food stock." Read more...........................................................Rat snacks can solve world food price crisis: Indian official

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Where Army fight against rodents too!!!!!

In Manipur state, alongside fighting a dozen insurgent groups, Indian Army has just finished its successful campaign here against an unknown enemy - a band of rodents.

"The Army was called in to fight the rat menace in Henglep and Thingat subdivisions of Churachandpur district in Manipur," said Group Captain R K Das, Army s spokesman in Eastern Command. Read more.................Army fight against rodents in Manipur

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Govt buys over 5 lakh rat tails

In Mizoram state of India, state government in an effort to encourage farmers to kill rats and contribute in lessening the rodent population, has begun purchasing 5,23,165 rat tails.

Lawngtlai District Agriculture office has collected 1,20,219 rat tails and Aizawl district has purchased and burnt 1,01,674 rodent tails while only 15,207 rat tails have been collected from Mizoram-Myanmar border Champhai district which had experienced destruction of crops, especially paddy by rats since last year.

Read more................Mizo govt buys over 5 lakh rat tails

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Cash rewards to kill 400,000 rats

In India, north-eastern state of Mizoram has offered cash rewards for people to kill a population of an estimated 400,000 rats as widespread destruction of paddy crops by the ravenous rodents has sparked fears of a famine in the region,as per a news report "We are motivating villagers to kill rats and bring tails as evidence to local authorities," James Lalsianliana, the head of the state's rodent-control cell told, "We are awarding two rupees [5 cents] per rat killed."..........Read more.......Indian state offers cash rewards to kill 400,000 rats

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Alcoholic Rats raid Liquor Store

Getting alcoholic is not in the domain of humans only. In India Rats have developed a taste for alcohol and are chewing into beer cans and whiskey bottle tops at a police storehouse.

Rats are gnawing at beer cans and making holes in caps of whisky bottles stored in police storehouses in eastern India and apparently getting drunk, authorities said.

The rodents' love for liquor has the police department in Bihar state of India stumped as it tries to store hundreds of bottles seized from illegal sellers from across the state in Capital City Patna, said Kundan Krishnan, a senior officer.

"We are fed up with these drunk rats and cannot explain why they have suddenly turned to consumption of alcohol," he said.

The problem costs revenue as the seized liquor is usually sold through auctions, he said.

Rats were also attacking people near the police buildings, nibbling at their toes, although it was not clear if they were under the influence, officials and witnesses said.

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2.5 US Cents for every Rat tail

To control the problem of rats who can wipeout crops in the fields, government in Mizoram state of India is offering Indian Rupee one ( 2 1/2 U.S. cents) reward for every rodent tail that is given to its officials.

This is separate from a $25 reward for a Chawmnu, dead or alive. The Chawmnus are giant rats, each believed to be the size of a female pig which, according to unconfirmed local rumors, already are stalking some villages.

As to the other rats, their expected onslaught threatens nearly 500,000 farmers with famine in the tiny eastern state bordering Bangladesh and Myanmar. In an earlier invasion in 1958-59, the rats caused havoc on crops, rice paddies and village granaries.

The government reward campaign already has recorded more than 400,000 rat kills, evidenced by the tail pile.

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Rats feast on dead patient

Kolkata - West Bengal - India : If there is a corpse in the Sambhunath Pandit Hospital morgue, it will be feasted on by rats or cockroaches or ants. As per TV reports, same happened with the body of Bishom Roy, a man above 60 & who was admitted to Shambhunath Pandit Hospital a few days back with diabetes. He died subsequently but his body had to be kept in the hospital morgue since his sons lived in Patna.

The hospital authorities will never admit it — even after the furore over Roy’s body, nibbled at by rats on Tuesday night — but the real story tumbles out once you meet the right set of insiders.

While the deceased was kept in the morgue after payment of a 'fee' to the hospital employees, when the body was handed over to his sons it was found with ear and nose nibbled away by rats.

Soon a mob led by the youth wing of the Congress started protesting inside the hospital premises and even blackened the face of the hospital superintendent.
Later police arrived and controlled the situation. Read more........Rats feast on dead patient in Kolkata hospital

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