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Scientist sees life on Mars
Budapest, September 7
Hungarian scientists today claimed to have found evidence of living organisms on Mars after analysing 60,000 photographs taken by the Mars Global Surveyor probe. The three-man team said the pictures showed evidence of thousands of dark dune spots, similar to organisms found near earth’s South Pole, in craters in Mars’ snowy southern polar region. “These spots indicate that on the surface below the ice there are such organisms which are able to create conditions of life for themselves,’’ team member Tibor Ganti said. Reuters

2 kids die after eating meat
Kotdwar (Garhwal), September 7
Two Dalit children died after consuming contaminated meat at Saloni village in Pauri district of Uttaranchal yesterday while the condition of another boy was serious, official sources said today. Reports said the children had eaten the meat of a goat which the villagers had sacrificed and later cooked, the sources said. However, after consuming the meat, many villagers started vomiting. Munni (11) and Manoj (8) died soon after, Mukesh (14) was admitted to the hospital at Pauri. PTI