Dharmendra Jore: Out of the Box, Into the Pan for the CM
Generation Y, especially college students, it seems haven't been happy with the way things are being run. Complaints have been coming in from youths that the policies that impact the country and states don't reflect their out-of-the-box ideas and aspirations.
They feel that policymakers - politicians and bureaucrats - are taking them for granted and arriving at decisions that have a genesis in closed-door discussions with only those in power participating, the ones who rely extensively on PowerPoint presentations and inputs provided on paper rather than on-the-ground experience.
When brains storm
In Maharashtra, however, things are set to be different as far as devising ways to transform the state are concerned. For the first time, the government will celebrate Maharashtra Day today - 57 years after it came into being - in a novel manner.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis will present a model of 'Transforming Maharashtra: Vision 2025' based on 11 subjects that 12,500 students from 654 colleges in 82 places across the state have deliberated on over the last six months. Other than Fadnavis, department secretaries and heads of government agencies working in industry and infrastructure will interact with the students. Top-notch industrialists, including Ratan Tata, and experts in various fields will spend quality time with the participants, who will display their best ideas at an exhibition at the National Sports Club of India (NSCI) in Worli.
(Source: Mid-day)
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City to Get 15 More Public Parking Lots by June
In two months, the city will have 15 additional multi-storey parking lots. The lots will accommodate 8,746 extra vehicles, as per the new parking policy.
Mirror had earlier reported that tenders would be floated for 91 lots, which would be operational by June. The tender documents for them have undergone scrutiny and bids will be invited next week. The proposed 15 lots will add to the 91lots.
Mirror had reported on April 3 how BMC’s controversial parking policy had made a comeback in South Mumbai, hiking parking charges for onstreet and off-street parking in Colaba, Cuffe Parade and Fort. On-street parking is when cars are parked in designated spots on roads while the latter means when cars are parked in existing parking lots. The BMC will be introducing these hiked rates in the 91 upcoming public parking lots (PPL).
(Souce: Mumbai Mirror)
Prima Facie, No Case Against The Quint’s Poonam Agarwal: Bombay HC
“Merely because the sting operation was done in a prohibited area would not automatically attract the provisions of Sections 3 and 7 of the Official Secrets Act,” said a Bombay High Court judge in the Anticipatory bail order of The Quint's reporter Poonam Agarwal.
The Judge granted anticipatory bail to Poonam and triple amputee war veteran Deepchand on 26 April and observed that “prima facie, at this stage, taking the prosecution case as it stands, it is doubtful whether any offence either under Section 306 or 500 of the Indian Penal Code or under Sections 3 and 7 of the Official Secrets Act, is attracted in the peculiar facts of this case.”
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After Stealing for 30 Years, Mumbai Thief Gets Caught for Foolishly Making Cop His Target
Call it rotten luck or karma, a 55-year-old thief, who had been stealing for nearly three decades, finally landed behind bars after he unwittingly made a police officer his soft target.
On Saturday, accused Abdul Mujeeb was on his usual pick-pocketing routine at Kurla station when he tried to steal a cell phone from a man standing there. Assuming he was an unsuspecting commuter, Mujeeb closed in on him, and tried to snatch the phone, when the alert target caught hold of him.
What Mujeeb didn’t realise was that the person was a personnel from the Railway Protection Force (RPF), dressed in plain clothes.
According to Suresh Atri, inspector at Kurla RPF, Mujeeb had managed to steal a mobile phone from a commuter, before approaching the cop. "The officer immediately brought him to our post and we recovered five mobile phones from him," said Atri.\
(Source: Mid-day)
How Thane Commandos' Quick Action Saved Two Kids From Drowning in Airoli
Two commandos from the Thane police's Quick Response Team (QRT) showed just how quickly they can react in a crisis when they had to rescue two kids who were drowning in a pond in Airoli forest on Friday afternoon.
A group of 5 to 6 boys - aged between 8 and 10 years — were playing in the water to beat the summer heat, when two of them went in too deep and began to drown. It was a stroke of luck that the commandos were present at the spot — they were participating in a Thane QRT commando camp organised at Airoli Forest, and had gone near the
pond to enjoy their lunch break.
One of the commandos, Shankar Shinde, told mid-day, "We were there for a one-day general tactics camp on a hill near the pond. At 2 pm, we went to the pond to freshen up before lunch, when we saw some boys swimming there. We warned them not to go too deep into the water, but they said they were locals and were familiar with the lake."
(Source: Mid-day)
How Saifee Hospital Is Ensuring It's Not Blamed for Eman Ahmed's Future Health Issues
As Eman Ahmed prepares to be transferred to Abu Dhabi, the doctors and management at Saifee Hospital want to immunise themselves against any further allegations from her family. Before she leaves, the hospital intends to get Eman's family and new doctors to sign off on a detailed health report to ensure that they are not blamed for any future health issues.
Long story short
In December, mid-day was the first to break the story when Eman —pegged as the world's heaviest woman at 500 kg — decided to come to Mumbai for a life-saving surgery by bariatric surgeon Dr Muffazal Lakdawala. Since her arrival here in February, Eman has dropped down to 176 kg, but she is now suffering from seizures. Last week, Eman's sister Shaimaa uploaded a scathing video online, accusing Dr Lakdawala of washing his hands off the case and asking Eman to leave despite her condition. The doctor defended himself saying that he had fulfilled his promise of reducing Eman's weight until she could sit up on her own. Post the fallout between Shaimaa and Dr Lakdawala, doctors from Abu Dhabi, UAE, offered to treat Eman further.
"Despite Lakdawala putting his career at stake for Eman, he is at the receiving end of these allegations. Once Eman is out of India, Shaimaa will not hesitate to make further allegations. Hence, we have decided to put everything in black and white before Eman is shifted," said a hospital official.
(Souce: Mid-day)
Man in Icu After Quack 'Treats' Piles With Knife
Kalwa clinician Ripon Kumar, who claimed to be an ayruvedic doctor specialising in piles, left a 39-yr-old man bleeding from his back, in a semi-comatose state.
A quack and his associate are on the run after risking a patient’s life by operating on his haemorrhoids ad-lib, with a knife and without anaesthesia. While the patient was left bleeding heavily from the back and had to undergo a corrective surgery that closed with 40 sutures, the fake doctor and his aide decamped even as the police mounted a hunt for them.
On April 21, Vilas Tupane, a 39-yearold patient from Kalwa in Thane, went to Laxmi clinic in the locality to seek treatment for his condition. He said he had heard from his neighbours that the incharge of the clinic, Ripon Kumar, claimed to be a specialist in treating piles through ayurveda.
But Kumar asked him to buy some antibiotics instead. When they failed to provide him any relief, Tupane returned to the clinic the next day. After examining him, Kumar took him to a procedure room and asked him to lie down so he could place a medicine in his anal canal.
“But he simply cut the haemorrhoids and it caused me severe pain,” Tupane told Mirror. “He pacified me saying everything would be all right in a little while and sent me home.”
When Tupane reached home, his wife, Durga, was stunned to see he was bleeding profusely from his back. He could barely talk, and collapsed soon after. She rushed him to Life Care Hospital.
The facility’s medical officer, Dr VK Yadav, said that Tupane was brought in a critical condition: “He was semi-comatose due to excessive blood loss. We shifted him to the intensive care unit and performed a surgery to stop the bleeding and fix the botch-up.”
(Source: Mumbai Mirror)
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