Ishant Sharma was unhappy at not being able to procure vegetarian food on Day 3 at lunch in Brisbane.

Brisbane: Barely two weeks after mutually sharing the grief of Phillip Hughes' death, Indian team's relations with Cricket Australia is turning sour as pacer Ishant Sharma left the Gabba at lunch on the third day, after finding that there was no vegetarian preparation in the menu. (Scorecard | Blog)

Apparently they have been unhappy with the food provided to the visitors ever since they landed here.

The team was very unhappy about the food provided at Glenelg Oval for the two practice matches and the same was notified to the concerned authorities. However they did not make their grievance public as it was the time that the nation was in mourning after Hughes' tragedy.

The team was happy with the arrangements made for the first Test in Adelaide where South Australia Cricket Association arranged for an Indian chef to prepare food for the Indian team during the match.

But things have taken a turn for the worse here in Brisbane. On day three, proper vegetarian food was not provided at lunch, as was noticed in the media room as well.

Two Indian players Ishant Sharma and Suresh Raina complained about the same. They then proceeded outside the stadium premises to procure proper vegetarian food for themselves, accompanied by ICC's ACSU personnel and team director Ravi Shastri.

However on their return, they were told that food or beverages can't be brought inside the stadium.

The two players consumed their food sitting outside and then returned to the dressing room. It should be noted that Raina isn't playing in this match, though Ishant is and he bowled for India on the third day.

Despite the incident being of unprecedented nature where one of the cricketers had left the venue in the middle of the match, ICC's ACSU unit refused to make any comments in this regard.

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December 20, 2014

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Carnivorous plants are so named because they capture and digest tiny creatures for nutritional purposes, but new research published Thursday in the journal Annals ofBotany suggests that they are capable of overcoming their natural instincts and converting to vegetarianism.

According to the website Science 2.0, researchers from the University of Vienna report that the aquatic carnivorous bladderwort, which can be found in many lakes and ponds worldwide, dines not only on small animals but also algae and pollen grains if prey animals are hard to find.

This practice can improve the evolutionary fitness of the bladderworts if they properly balance animals and algae, wrote Marianne Koller-Peroutka and Wolfram Adlassnig of the University of Viennas Core Facility Cell Imaging and Ultrastructure Research and colleagues from the Silver-Stable Isotope Lab and the Gregor Mendel Institute for Molecular Plant Biology.

Aquatic bladderworts catch their prey with highly sophisticated suction traps consisting of little bladders that produce a hydrostatic under pressure, the study authors said in a statement. A valve-like trap door opens upon stimulation and the surrounding water including tiny organism flushes in rapidly within three milliseconds.

Once the prey enters the trap, it dies of suffocation, and the bladderworts digestive enzymes begin to degrade it. Due to the minerals provided by those prey organisms, the aquatic creatures are able to live and propagate, even when their habitats are extremely poor in nutrients.

Algae was first observed within the traps of bladderworts (Utricularia) as early as 1900, but their role within the prey spectrum is just now being analyzed. The authors looked at prey objects in over 2,000 traps, and found that just 10 percent were animals while 50 percent were algae. More algae was present in those living in nutrient poor habitats such as peat bogs, they added.

Over one-third of the prey consisted of pollen grain from trees growing on shore areas of the home waters, they added, but the bladderworts do not appear to select what it eats. Rather, it sucks in all living things, plant or animal, that are small enough to fit within its trap.

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Yes, that's a vegetarian, meat-eating plant

For the second consecutive day, various outfits continued to be on the agitation spree, staging protests, blocking roads, and throwing stones, condemning the management of Sri Aurobindo Ashram and the police for the death of two sisters expelled from the Ashram and their mother.

Five sisters were evicted from Sri Aurobindo Ashram-run Ambabhikshu apartments at Vazhaikulam on a Supreme Court directive. Along with their parents, they attempted to commit suicide. The mother and two sisters embraced death while four others were rescued. The death of the three women kicked off a series of violent protests by various political and social organisations on Thursday.

As a fall-out, on Friday around 200 residents, including women, assembled before Ambabhikshu Apartments and tried to enter the premises. The police stalled them and so the protestors pelted stones on the apartment. The police and protestors were pulled, pushed and dragged for sometime on the road before the apartment. The protestors moved towards the Ambour road and staged a road blockade.

S. Jayanthi, a protestor, said, the authorities should have provided alternative accommodation before evicting them from the apartments.

P.Anand of Vazhaikulam Residents Welfare Association said that whoever wished to join the Ashram should bequeath their property and pay the cash in advance.

+The family too might have adopted that way only.

The sisters were allegedly subjected to sexual harassment, and to them, it would have appeared that they failed to get justice and were driven to end their lives.

The trustees of the Ashram should be held responsible for the death of three persons, the Ashram sealed and taken over by government.

Around 100 activists of Nam Tamizhar Iyakkam, Puducherry unit staged a demonstration in front of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram demanding that the government take over the administration of Ashram. They were arrested and removed from the spot.

Vijayalakshmi, co-ordinator of Nam Tamizhar Iyakkam, Puducherry unit, said mysterious deaths and sexual harassments allegedly had been occurring in the Ashram and now three women had committed suicide. The trustees should be held responsible for incidents and the government should take control over the Ashram.

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