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Sweet and sour
of NMMC election
By Vijay Bhor
CBD-BELAPUR: Even
as 111 candidates celebrate their victories,
there are 291 who are
licking their wounds
having forfeited their
deposits. They include
nominees of all parties
– NCP, Shiv Sena,
BJP, Congress and of
course, independents.
Candidates belonging to reserved classes (SC, ST, OBC) are
required to deposit Rs
2,500 and others Rs
5,000 as security
amount at the time of
filing nominations.
Those who get one third
or more of the votes
polled get their deposits
back. The rule is appli-
cable to those who have
won as well as those
who have lost!
According to the final count, four candi-
dates of Nationalist
Congress Party (NCP)
which is getting ready
to assume charge of the
c i v i c
body, 66
of Congress, 7
of BJP
and two
of Shiv
S e n a
have lost
their deposits.
All candidates
of RPI
and PWP have forfeited their deposits.
Congress had put up
92 candidates out of
whom 66 have lost
291
candidates
lose their
security
deposits
their deposits. NCP had
nominated 108 out of
whom four have forfeited their deposit. Shiv
Sena had put up 41 candidates out of whom
two lost their deposit;
out of 41 put up by BJP,
seven lost theirs. Five
of those who fought as
independents have got
elected while 143 have
forfeited their deposits.
Partywise, NCP
nominees have polled
1,51,582 votes, Shiv
Sena 1,00,483, Congress 42,484 and BJP
39,143 votes.
Lotus blooms in full swing in
Vadale Talav, attracts many
He is the political leader who sells tickets to
contest elections the
way cinema tickets are
sold in black.
By Umesh Parida
PANVEL: The Peshwa-built Vadale talav,
cleaned a year ago by
the group of volunteers
belonging to Dr Dharmadhikari foundation,
is found full of lotus
flowers. The centre of
the talav is become the
centre of attraction as
lotus flowers have
bloomed over there in
large scale.
Many people from
across the city gathered
here around the talav to
take a look of the nature’s beauty. The lotus
flowers in several thousand numbers have
given an aesthetic look
to the talav. The person
who resides near the
talav is found to be
making a living out of
the same.
The family often
plucks the lotus flower
and sells them. They
get a living out of the
same it has become one
of their sources of in-
come. A Panvel resident
Rakesh Patil says, “The
family collects the seeds
of the lotus flower
which is sold in the
market. They earn
more through selling
the lotus seeds rather
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than the flowers.”
Soon after the sunrise the lotus flowers
bloom. It seems as if the
talav is covered with
pink strips with the
leaves of the lotus flowers submerged on the
water. The lotus flowers and leaves leaves
little space to the person who ventures in to
the water to collect the
seed or flowers.
Parties come
out humbled
New alliances on the anvil
By Chandrashekhar Hendve
VASHI: Even as the
party leaders are busy
calculating how to form
a stable administration
at NMMC, some of
them seem to look
tance of it, is said to be
inclined to enter into an
alliance with Congress.
The initiative to
that effect is said to
have come not from the
local units of the parties
chastened if not humbled. Nationalist Congress Party which had
steadfastly refused to
share power with Congress in the past, is said
to be thinking of forming an alliance with the
parent party.
To refresh our memories, NCP has won 52
seats, Shiv Sena 37,
BJP 6, Congress 10 and
independents five seats
in a 111 strong house.
A party or alliance
would require 56 seats
fro a simple majority.
NCP, which has come
within the striking dis-
but from the state bodies. MPCC President
Ashok Chavan is said
to have broached the
subject with his NCP
counterpart Sunil Tatkare and the two are
said to be keen on an
alliance. The move has
reportedly got the endorsement of the local
leaders – Ganesh Naik
of NCP, Ramesh Bagwe, Mushtaq Antulay
and Chaya Ajgaonkar of
Congress. They are said
to be viewing it from
the point of view of
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Put details of contract workers on Two suicides reported in one
the civic website: Namdev Bhagat day, in two separate incidents
By Chandrashekhar Hendve
CBD-BELAPUR:
“The names and PF
numbers of people
working as contract
labourers with Navi
Mumbai Municipal
Corporation, should
be published on
NMMC’s website.”
This demand has
been made in a
communication
addressed to the
Municipal Commissioner by the newly
elected Shiv Sena
corporator Namdev
Bhagat recently.
“For one thing, no
one knows for sure
how many people are
working for the civic
body on contract
basis. NMMC only
pays their salary.
Worse still, the
contractor deducts
the PF contributions
of these workers
month after month,
but they never know
if the same has been
forwarded to the
respective authorities
or not. They have no
means of knowing
how much money is
accumulated in their
accounts. This has
been the result of the
strange contract
system in use in the
city,” the letter says.
To put an end to
the enigma, Bhagat
has demanded that
NMMC put the details
of the contract workers along with their
PF numbers of the
civic body’s official
website which can be
accessed by one and
all. “By doing so, even
the citizens will know
how many people are
working in their area
on contract basis,” the
letter concludes.
Conman cheats bank in a big way,
arrested along with his two accomplices
By Vikram Gaikwad
NAVI MUMBAI: Navinkumar Kunjar, a conman, and his two accomplices were arrested
by Kharghar police for
cheating Andhra Bank
of Rs 3 crores 28 lakhs
as house loan. The police, during investigation into this case, have
found that Navinkumar Kunjar, after
cheating the bank, invested the money on export business at Singapore and Dubai.
Navinkumar Kunjar (36), in 2010, had
opened an account in
Andhra Bank at
Kharghar under the
name Evershine Pharmaken. After that he
opened the fake accounts of 28 workers of
the same company with
monthly payment of Rs
18 to 20 thousand. Thus
Kunjar gave to the bank
authorities an impression of having a big
number of workers in
the company. He also
obtained 53 crores of
guarantee from the government offices which
he knew and submitted
to the bank. Thus the
bank was convinced that
Kunjar was a very big
client of theirs.
Once Kunjar took
the bank authorities
into confidence, he approached the bank manager of Manoday
Branch and expressed
his wish to provide houses to the lowly paid workers on behalf of the company. He then requested
for a house loan. The
bank agreed to provide
the loan and Kunjar immediately took the help
of builders Bhaskar Dehar and Ramkrishna
Shetty and told the bank
that the building Lilabai
Nivas which was being
constructed at Nerul
Sector-27 for providing
28 houses to the workers
of the company. He also
made fake documents
and submitted to the
bank.
Since the bank had
developed a good impression of Kunjar they
readily agreed to give
him the loan after accepting all the reports
relating to house loan
provided by Sumit Agency.
After obtaining the
house loan, Kunjar initially started paying
back the loan amount on
installment basis. But
suddenly he stopped paying the money. The bank
then started issuing reminders to him to pay
back the loan amount.
But Kunjar would ignore
the reminders and continue not paying. The
bank then made enquiries at the address given
by Kunjar. They found
that there was no person
by that name residing at
that address. The bank
then checked all the documents that were provided by Kunjar and
they realized that Kunjar had cheated the
bank in a big way. The
bank authorities then
registered a complaint
with Kharghar police.
The police then registered a criminal case
of cheating against the
trio who cheated the
bank and they arrested
Navinkumar Kunjar at
Bangalore and Bhaskar
Dehar and Ramkrishna
Shetty at Nerul. During
investigation, it was
found that Kunjar had
indulged in similar kind
of crime at Karnatak
and Malad in Mumbai.
This information was
provided by deputy inspector of police Shrikant Shinde. The court
has remanded the trio to
police custody till 29
April.
Parties
come...
Cont. from pg. 1
state equations though
assembly elections are
a few years away.
DCC Chief Dashrat
Bhagat however is noncommittal. “Since I was
not present at the discussion, I can say nothing about it. If the state
leaders want it, we will
accept and obey their
directives,” he said.
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By Vikram Gaikwad
NAVI MUMBAI: Incidents if suicide due to
depression has increased in city youth
from past decade be it
due to professional or
personal stress on mental health. Regarding,
two youths were reported to have end their
lives for specific reasons
on Sunday.
In first incident, a
man, Naresh Namdev
Vaiti (32) hanged himself because of depression of being severely ill
and being on bed rest
after two months. He
was a resident of Koliwada area in Ghansoli
and had been sick since
two months with no
signs of recovery. On
Sunday morning, he
hanged himself on the
ceiling fan which
caused his death. Similarly, a youth, Shailendra Kahinath Prasad
(22), who worked in a
car workshop in sector
3 in Koparkhairne,
committed suicide at
his home in sector 4,
where he lived in a flat
on rent with his two
friends. On Sunday,
when both his friends
were out, Prasad
hanged himself at 10
am on Sunday morning. The reason for his
suicide is however not
known. Rabale police
and Koparkhairne police have registered the
incidents respectively.
Meanwhile, the police
are investigating to find
the reason behind Prasad’s suicide.
Bengal youth dies after
coming under NMMT bus
By Vikram Gaikwad
CBD: A 28 year old
youth died after
coming under an
oncoming NMMT bus
in CBD on Saturday.
The deceased man,
Sareep Makki Muiddin Shaikh (28) was
crossing the street in
front of the Castor
Hotel in sector – 11 of
CBD when the NMMT
bus crashed into him.
Sareep was origi-
nally from West
Bengal and had
temporarily come to
Navi Mumbai to
attend to some business past few days.
On Satuday, at 12.45
pm he was walking
from CBD station
towards Killah
Village. On his way,
while he was on the
crossroad near Castor
Hotel, he was run
over by a NMMT bus.
RTO gives final call
to lottery winners
30 April to be the last date
for submission of papers
for taxi permits
By Vijay Bhor
VASHI: The city
RTO has fixed 30
April, 2015 as the last
date for submitting
the papers by the
winners of taxi
permits in the lottery
held on 29 November
2014.
The state government had decided to
distribute 7,843 new
taxi permits in the
state out of which
Navi Mumbai share
was to be 341. Online
applications were
invited and since the
response was huge, a
lottery was conducted
to pick the lucky
winners. They have
been given the final
call to appear before
the Dy RTO with the
original papers on or
before 30 April, 2015
for getting the permits.
The papers re-
As the accident was
severe, he was injured
quite seriously and
was immediately
admitted into a
private hospital.
There, unfortunately
he was pronounced
dead. CBD Police has
therefore registered a
complaint against the
driver in question,
Ganesh Sopan Shevare (29) and arrested
him.
quired are: 3 passport
size photographs,
valid taxi driver’s
badge, proof of 15
years domicile in the
state, a certificate
from the local police to
the effect that there
has not been any
criminal case against
the applicant during
the last one year, a
declaration that the
applicant doesn’t hold
a job of permanent
nature either in the
government or a semigovernment
organization,
certificate
showing his
educational
qualification
and a declaration that he
doesn’t hold
another taxi or
auto permit in
his name, a print out
of the application filed
on-line and a challan
showing that he has
paid the fee of Rs 100.
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Takawale’s Ton In Vain, Khanvilkar Guides Payyade
To Glory Against DYPSA; Prabodhan T-20 Final
Text and Photos
by Ashok Dhamija
NAVI MUMBAI: A sensational ton by wicket
keeper batsman Yogesh
Takawale went in vain
as four time winners
and current champions
D.Y. Patil Sports Academy (DYPSA) were
shocked by Payyade
Sports Club in the final
of the 8th edition of the
Prabodhan Mumbai T20 Cricket Tournament
held at Goregaon on
Sunday.
In a pulsating final
batting first DYPSA
were off to the worst
possible start as they
lost both their openers
in quick succession.
Shrideep Mangela was
run out off the very first
ball, while skipper
Shoaib Shaikh who had
scored a ton in the
quarter-final round was
the next to follow as he
was undone by change
of pace and was brilliantly caught off his
own bowling by pacer
Saurabh Netravalkar.
The Nerul based academy never got a partnership going and they
were reduced to 73 for
5 at the half way stage.
Winners Payyade Sports Club led by Onkar Khanvilkar enjoying their moment of glory
after they upset four times champions DYPSA in the final
Takawale who was part
of the Royal Challengers Bangalore team in
IPL 2014 however took
charge for the second
time in as many
matches and hammered 113 off 54 balls
with 9 fours and 10 sixes. His 113 runs stand
for the sixth wicket
with south paw Pankaj
Jaiswal who contributed 53 off 27 balls with 4
fours and as many sixes turned things
around for the defending champions. Aided
DYPSA’s Yogesh Takawale poses with his Man of the
Tournament award in presence of Chief Guest Dilip Vengsarkar, MCA Vice President Vijay Patil and other dignitaries.
by a quick fire 14 in the
last over by Rakesh
Prabhu - Man of the
Match in the semis
DYPSA in the end put
up 227 for 6 in their allotted 20 overs, their
highest score in the
tournament this season,
Tanmay Wins Three-Point
Contest Again….
Chasing Payyade
were given a good start
of 51 by hero of the previous match Jineev
Joshi and current
Mumbai Indians player Akhil Herwadkar,
both scoring 27 each.
Medium pacer Shashank Singh provided
the crucial break
through as he dismissed Joshi. DYPSA
soon made in roads as
Abhay Waghmare (3/
17) accounted for Herwadkar and Swapnil
Salvi in quick succession. Young Karsh
Kothari too joined the
party by dismissing
Bravish Shetty. With
the score reading 61 for
4 at this stage, it was
Payyade
skipper
Onkar Khanvilkar and
Parag Khanapurkar 65
runs in a little over 5
overs that put their run
chase back on track. .
Khaqnapurkar (34)
however skied one to
Shoaib off Shashank
Singh which brought in
wicket keeper Prasad
Pawar who contributed
21 off 13 balls before
being dismissed. Onkar
who played a waiting
game however led a
charmed life when he
was caught at a no-ball
at midwicket off the
bowling of pacer Prashant Bhoir. In the company of Abhishek Tiwary (12) Onkar took
the attack to the opposition and plundered
19, 16 and 21 runs in
the 17th, 18th and 19th
over respectively which
in the end saw his team
through with four
wickets in hand and
three balls to spare.
Onkar Khanvilkar deservingly got the Man
of the Match award
and his team was richer by Rupees One
Lakh. DYPSA however had to settle for Rupees Fifty Thousand
while Yogesh Takawale
was adjudged as the
Man of the Tournament
and presented with a
motor bike by none other than by Chief Guest
and former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar
in presence of other dignitaries which included
MCA Vice President Vijay Patil and former
Test cricketers Umesh
Kulkarni, Ajit Pai and
members of organizing
committee.
Brief Scores (Final):
D.Y. Patil Sports Academy
– 227/6 (Yogesh Takawale
113, Pankaj Jaiswal 53 no.,
Deepak Shetty 2/56, Abhishek
Tiwari 2/31) lost to Payyade
Sports Club – 228 for 6 in
19.3 overs (Jineev Joshi 27,
Akhil Herwadkar 27, Parag
Khanapurkar 34, Onkar
Khanvilkar 88 n.o., Prasad
Pawar 21 ; Shashank Singh
2/50, Abhay Waghmare 3/17)
by 4 wickets.
Man of the Match:
Onkar Khanvilkar (Payyade
Sports Club).
Man of the Tournament: Yogesh Takawale (D.Y.
Patil Sports Academy)
Eight Extra AC Superfast Weekly
Specials On Mumbai – Lucknow Route
Fr Agnel Multipurpose School’s national level player Tanmay Mali regained the ThreePoint Contest being conducted as part of the 3rd Kaustubh Memorial All India Basketball Tournament at Vashi to promote skills. Picture shows Tanmay (Centre) receiving
the winners award from Ravi Tangudu , MD of Capstone Securities in presence of Fr S
Almeida, Director of F r Agnel Technical Complex (Text and Photo by Ashok Dhamija)
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By Ashok Dhamija
MUMBAI: Central
Railway (CR) has
decided to extend the
run of Lokmanya
Tilak Terminus Lucknow AC Superfast Weekly Special
Trains to clear the
extra rush of passengers. The details are
as under –
02111 AC Superfast Weekly Special
will leave Lokmanya
Tilak Terminus at
14.20 hrs every
Saturday from 9th to
30th May, 2015 and
arrive Lucknow at
13.35 hrs next day.
On its return
journey 02112 AC
Superfast weekly
special will leave
Lucknow at 16.20
hrs on every Sunday
from 10th to 31st.
May,.2015 and arrive
Lokmanya Tilak
Terminus at 17.30
hrs next day.
The fifteen coaches Weekly Special
Train will include
One First AC, Three
AC-2 Tier, Ten AC-3
Tier, One AC Pantry
Car.. Halts en-route
includes Thane,
Kalyan, Nasik Road,
Jalgaon, Bhusaval,
Habibganj, Jhansi,
Orai and Kanpur
stations
Reservation for
the same opens from
29th April, 2015.
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IPL Cricketing
Extravaganza
Fortune favours the brave
By C K Subramaniam
The hit and run
game of IPL cricket is
power packed as bold
and purposeful hitting
paves the way for
achieving name and
fame in T-20 form of
cricket. When the 25th
match of the IPL 8
Championship was
played on Sunday one
thing was very clear.
Teams having powerful
batting line up should
make use of the available resources and
should not make the
raw talent sit up in the
dug out without offering an even chance to
show up the talent in
this form of the game.
Mumbai Indians suffered the dubious fate of
losing five matches and
Brendon McCullum’s
heroics with the bat on
Saturday special under
sweltering heat at
they are just
last but one
in the points
table. The
table is led
by Rajasthan Royals
with 5 wins in as many
matches and Chennai
Super Kings stood at
the second spot after
Chennai. The battle
lines are clearly drawn
and the fight for supremacy is going on
with fringe players hitting the top gear and
paving the way for their
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Disaster
and after
effects
Last Saturday
was full of devastation when a powerful
earthquake shook
Nepal near its
capital, Kathmandu, killing
more than 1,900
people, flattening sections of
the city’s historic centre, and
trapping dozens
of sightseers in
a 200-foot
watchtower that
came crashing
down into a pile
of bricks. As
officials in Nepal
faced the devastation on Sunday morning,
they said that
most of the 1,931
deaths occurred in
Katmandu and the
surrounding valley,
and that more than
4,700 people had been
injured. But the
quake touched a vast
expanse of the sub-
continent. It set off
avalanches around
Mount Everest,
where at least 17
climbers died. At
Katmandu ran into
the streets and other
open spaces as
buildings fell, throwing up clouds of dust.
least 34 deaths
occurred in northern
India. Buildings
swayed in Tibet and
Bangladesh. The
earthquake, with a
magnitude of 7.8,
struck shortly before
noon, and residents of
Wide cracks opened
on paved streets and
in the walls of city
buildings. Motorcycles tipped over and
slid off the edge of a
highway. By mid
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Transporters’ strike
Employees of BEST and members of auto
and taxi unions have announced that they will
go on a day’s strike on 30 April, 2015 to protest
against some provisions of the proposed transport bill. .It may be mentioned here that all the
three are organized under the banner of one
union. This sort of senseless agitation has been
the hall mark of democracy in India. According
to the union, the bill stipulates that a taxi or auto
operator should have his permit suspended for
a few days whenever he commits a serious traffic offence. Absence of such a provision has made
these operators a law unto themselves. The local transport – a rickshaw or a taxi – is the first
service a visitor seeks when he visits a place
whether it is a city or a town. Unfortunately, few
of our transport operators, especially automen
are known to run on meter. That applies to members of the trade in Delhi, Mumbai or a small
place. The very same auto men do no hesitate
to skip a signal or park his vehicle in a No Parking zone if a cop is not around. They also refuse
fares at will which is considered an offence is all
civilized countries. That is why they are fitted
with meters in the first place. Even if a cop notices an offence, he is generally more sympathetic to the automan than the man or woman
trying to hire his services. It has also become
common for automen to ask for return fare whenever you want to go to any destination outside
the main business hub! Their excuse is that the
roads are bad and two, he may not get a return
fare! That the probability of his not getting a return fare is already taken into consideration
while determining the fare structure is never
mentioned. What happens if he gets one?
The point is that the unionized transport operators, hawkers and municipal workers, whose
services are considered essential, have become
a law unto themselves. These groups, though
small in strength, are used to dictating terms on
the vast majority. Let us remember that their
(union) leaders are not elected in a popular vote
unlike the MLAs and MPs. They gained importance because of their ability to hold to citizens
to ransom by organizing strikes.. The government went on yielding to their demands, irrespective of whether they are genuine or otherwise, owing to their political relevance. The fact
that they were given a long rope for decades
has resulted in mal-governance. Decades of failure of the government to enforce, for example,
the minimum retail price (MRP) rule, has made
the shop keepers a law unto themselves. Groups
like head loaders (mathadis) at railway stations,
government servants, the sand minors or brick
kilt operators care two hoots for rules that govern their trades. The lawlessness is so widespread that restoring it has become the biggest
problem for the incumbent government. Establishing rule of law at the ground level has become as important as setting up big industrial
projects to promote growth. Discussions in the
parliament or the state assemblies hardly reflect
these problems. They only commiserate with
one section of the society or the other but rarely take a universal view.
By Ashok Dhamija / Meena R Prashant
CBD BELAPUR: On account of block that
will be availed by Northern Railway (NR) on
Sunday 10th May, 2015 between 04:30 hrs to
11:15 hrs at Tuglakabad station, following
temporary changes will be effected for Trains
passing via Konkan Railway route:
a) Train no. 12287 Kochuveli – Dehradun
Express leaving Kochuveli on 8th May, 2015
and arriving Dehradun on 10th May, 2015
will be cancelled.
b) Train no. 12288 Dehradun – Kochuveli
Express leaving Dehradun on 11th May,
2015 and arriving Kochuveli on 13th May,
2015 will be cancelled.
c) Train no. 12431 Trivandrum – Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express leaving Trivandrum on 8th May, 2015 and arriving Nizamuddin on10th May, 2015 is likely to be
delayed by three hours and 30 minutes.
d) Train no, 12617 Ernakulam – Nizamuddin Express leaving Ernakulam on 8th
May, 2015 will be diverted via Agra Cantt
Junction.
Passengers are requested to kindly note
these changes.
Disaster and...
severe flooding, which can result in the
spread of waterborne bacteria and malaria.
As a result, health complications can be
prevalent among survivors of natural
disasters, and without the help of international relief organizations, death tolls can
rise even after the immediate danger has
passed. After natural disasters, food can
become scarce. Thousands of people around
the world go hungry as a result of destroyed crops and a loss of agricultural
supplies. The impacts of hunger following
an earthquake, typhoon or hurricane can
be tremendous.
Natural disasters can be particularly
traumatic for young children. Confronted
with scenes of destruction and the deaths of
friends and loved ones, many children
develop post-traumatic stress disorder
(PTSD), a serious psychological condition
resulting from extreme trauma. Left
untreated, children suffering from PTSD
can be prone to lasting psychological damage and emotional distress. Although nobody
can prevent natural disasters, we can help
people in need in their wake. We are with
people who have lost their loved ones.
Cont. from pg. 5
afternoon, the United States Geological
Survey had counted 12 aftershocks, one of
which measured 6.6.
Millions of people are affected by natural disasters every year, and the impact
can be calamitous. From the destruction of
buildings to the spread of disease, natural
disasters can devastate entire countries
overnight. Tsunamis, earthquakes and
typhoons do not just wreak havoc on land;
they also disrupt people’s lives, especially
for those living in remote regions. One of
the most immediate effects of natural
disasters is population displacement. When
countries are ravaged by earthquakes and
other powerful forces of nature, many
people have to abandon their homes and
seek shelter in other regions. A large influx
of refugees can disrupt everything from
accessibility of health care and education to
food supplies and basic hygiene.
Aside from the obvious danger that
natural disasters present, the secondary
effects can be just as damaging. Typhoons,
hurricanes and tsunamis often cause
IPL Cricketing...
Cont. from pg. 5
ed approach.
A. Rahane touched top form and had the
orange cap with an aggregate total of 323 runs.
Mumbai Indians missed out the services of the
consistent scorer and searched in darkness to
find out a consistent scorer. Mumbai Indians
management missed out key players this season like Rahane, Shreyas Iyer, Tambe and
Dhawal Kulkarni and these players did perform well for other teams in the Championship so far. As an ardent fan of Mumbai cricket from my younger days, I sent few suggestions to the management to push a left handed
batsman if a southpaw gets out early in the
innings and to make use of the pinch hitter to
prop scoring in the middle order. Both the
suggestions were well taken as Corey Anderson was sent ahead of Rohit Sharma and the
Harbhajan Singh was sent in as a pinch hitter and the move helped the side to put up a
brave 183 at home and gave the side much
needed impetus to score more than 200 in the
next match. And that approach helped to win
two matches after drawing blank in the first
four games. The dug out is full of former test
cricketers but my piece of advise went a long
way in helping the side to bring back their old
magic later on.
Rohit Sharma’s lazy approach failed to give
the side much needed confidence and depended mostly on Pollard to prop up the score in
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the latter half of the innings. David Warner
warmed up and he is the second top scorer with
259 runs. Others touching 200 plus scores in
the list include Rohit Sharma (244)), B. McCullum (232) and DR Smith (228) - all big hitters of the cricket ball. In all it is fine exhibition of top order batting hitting out and with a
will to score runs of every balls paves the way
for imposing totals and that in turn help their
sides to win in a very convincing manner and
get an early lead in the Championship except
in the case of Mumbai Indians
IPL bowlers are scared to attack the batsmen and they generally bowl negative line
most of the time. But the purple cap winner
Imran Tahir from DD had other ideas and attack from the word go and he captured 13
scalps. Other strike bowlers include Ashish
Nehra (12), Chahal (10) and Malinga (10) attacking the stroke filled batsmen with clever
bowling line in the mid overs. Malinga was
penalised for his march on order displayed
when Warner got out.
Kieron Pollard argued with umpire Kulkarni and later on put on cello-tape to show his
resentment. We need to see attacking and aggressive cricket but that does not mean that
one should fight with umpires and fellow players to show our aggressiveness. Virat Kohli
suffered because of his aggressive attitude during World Cup. IPL Cricketing extravaganza
is taking an interesting turn after almost
touching half way stage of the Championship.
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Traffic policemen told not to spare even women who violate traffic rules
By Dinesh Kamath
NAVI MUMBAI: There
is a common belief that
men are the ones who
flout traffic rules all the
time. But the fact is
that now the time has
changed. Nowadays
many girls and women
are found violating the
traffic rules many a
times. They could be
girls from colleges or
housewives who drive
mo-bikes.
The policemen tend
to overlook the violation
of traffic rules by females and they are left
just with a warning.
But violation of traffic
rules by women has
become so common that
the authorities of Navi
Mumbai traffic department have issued orders to all the traffic
policemen to not spare
women even if they
break the traffic rules.
They have been told to
take to task women
who violate MV Act.
laws while driving. The
authorities said that
such stringent measures will create fear
among the women drivers and they will drive
They have been ordered
not to fine just male violators of traffic rule
but also the women who
fail to abide by traffic
carefully to avoid paying the penalty in case
they get caught.
It has been found
that just like some
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Nepal urgently needs help
Racing against time, rescuers waded through
tonnes of rubble of flattened homes and buildings
in Nepal to look for survivors of the earthquake
that devastated Nepal in general and Kathmandu
in particular. It is believed that more and more
bodies will be recovered in a week’s time and the seriously injured may
succumb to fatal injuries; the
death toll may touch round about
5000, the worst ever devastation
in 8 decades. Fresh powerful aftershocks triggered panic among
the stricken people and caused
avalanches on Mt. Everest, which
had taken toll of 22 lives already.
The aftermath of earthquake continues to haunt the people in the
capital city and the surrounding
areas as strong 6.7 magnitude after-shock followed by another measuring
6.5 on the Richter Scale sent people scrambling for open spaces. However,
the intensity is coming down every day and the situation will become
normal within a couple of days. The 7.9 magnitude temblor left a trail of
devastation and suffering with people spending the cold night in the open
because of fears of fresh quake. The sufferings of the people and the aftermath affecting their routine life make things most difficult in cold rainy
weather. Nature’s fury had struck Nepal and it needs great help from all
over the world to bring back the lives of the people to normalcy in the days
to come.
Tragedy-struck Nepal is now limping back to normal but the relief
work is hampered by fresh tremors and intermittent showers. With no
power, water and thundershowers forecast, fears mount of humanitarian
disaster. Nature’s fury struck our neighbouring country and the people of
India shared the sorrow and extended all the possible help in a record
time. A quake backlash in the form of powerful after-shocks, continues to
rattle Nepal sending residents of Kathmandu waling into the streets after the destruction claimed more than 3200 victims and over 10000 people injured and homeless. It is indeed a sorry state that the rescuers
racing against time, trudged through mounds of rubble of flattened homes
and buildings struggled to look for survivors. With whole-hearted support
from the world, Nepal will limp back to normal in a couple of months
time.
- C. K. Subramaniam, Sanpada
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men, women too violate
traffic laws by not
wearing helmets, indulging in triple riding
or speed-driving, on
talking on mobile
phones while driving.
The authorities of traffic department have given orders to all the traffic policemen to penalize all these female culprits who violate MV
Act.
There are women
who drive two-wheelers
with more than one
school-going kid sitting
behind them. They neither fear the possibility of meeting with accident nor do they care
if they are caught violating MV Act by the
traffic policemen.
But now the traffic
police is determined to
implement traffic rules
extremely strictly and
be equally strict with
both men and women
violators of traffic laws.
The thing is there is no
provision in the law
which says that women are allowed to violate the traffic laws
which men break. The
traffic law is the same
for both men and women. The traffic department has now started
posting police women
too on the roads so that
they can tackle the
women violators of traffic rules.
An expert on traffic
matters said, “Traffic
on roads may consist of
pedestrians, ridden or
herded animals, vehicles, streetcars, buses
and other conveyances,
either singly or together, while using the public way for purposes of
travel. Traffic laws are
the laws which govern
traffic and regulate vehicles, while rules of
the road are both the
laws and the informal
rules that may have developed over time to facilitate the orderly and
timely flow of traffic.
Organized traffic generally has well-established
priorities, lanes, rightof-way, and traffic control at intersections.
Traffic is formally organized in many jurisdictions, with marked
fault, traffic signs and
traffic lights must be
obeyed. These rules
should be distinguished
from the mechanical
procedures required to
operate one’s vehicle.
Traffic going in opposite directions should be
separated in such a way
that they do not block
each other’s way. Vehicles often come into con-
lanes, junctions, intersections, interchanges,
traffic signals, or signs.
Traffic is often classified by type: heavy
motor vehicle (e.g., car,
truck); other vehicle
(e.g., moped, bicycle);
and pedestrian. So women almost all the time
belong to the second category – the ones who
drive mo-bikes. Rules of
the road and driving etiquette are the general
practices and procedures
that road users are required to follow
and
these road
users include women
too. They are
not made exceptions.
These rules
usually apply to all
road users, though they
are of special importance
to motorists and cyclists. These rules govern interactions between vehicles and with
pedestrians. As a general rule, drivers are expected to avoid a collision with another vehicle and pedestrians, regardless of whether or
not the applicable rules
of the road allow them
to be where they happen
to be. In addition to the
rules applicable by de-
flict with other vehicles
and pedestrians because
their intended courses of
travel intersect, and
thus interfere with each
other ’s routes. The
higher the speed of a
vehicle, the more difficult collision avoidance
becomes and the greater the damage if a collision does occur. Therefore, the traffic department has limited the
maximum speed allowed on their roads.
Vehicles are not supposed to be driven at
speeds which are higher than the posted maximum. To enforce speed
limits, two approaches
are generally employed.
It is common for the police to patrol the streets
and use special equipment (typically a radar
unit) to measure the
speed of vehicles, and
pull over any vehicle
found to be in violation
of the speed limit. Nowadays there are computerized speed-measuring
devices spread throughout the city, which will
automatically detect
speeding drivers and
take a photograph of the
license plate (or number
plate), which is later
used for applying and
mailing the ticket. So
both men and women
speed-drivers should be
extremely careful.”
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Nirankari Mission Organises 76 Blood Donation Camps
Across India To Commemorate Manav Ekta Diwas
By Ashok Dhamija
NAVI MUMBAI: To
commemorate Manav
Ekta Diwas which
marks the supreme
sacrifice of Baba Gurbachan Singh who laid
down his life on 24th
April,1980 while crusading for truth, love,
peace and unit, the
Sant Nirankari Mission organized 76 blood
donation camps across
the country under the
auspices of the Sant
Nirankari Charitable
Foundation on 24th and
26th April, 2015. One of
the camp which was
organized in Khanda
Colony on 26th April
saw Nirankaris coming
out in large numbers
and donating 183 units
of blood.
The camp at Khanda Cololy was inaugurated by Prashant
Thakur, MLA. Prominent leader and Ex MP
of Raigad Ramseth
Thakur who too was
present on the occasion. Ganesh Patil, local Corporator on the
occasion and extended
necessary help for the
camp. All of the dignitaries appreciated the
Mission’s selfless services towards the soci-
ety. Special Congregations (Satsangs) were
organized on Manav
Ekta Diwas to uphold
ideals & teachings of
Baba
Gurbachan
Singh Ji all over the
Globe.
Overl at the state
level, 11 camps were
organized on 24th
April including Chembur, Vasai and Ulhasnagar in Mumbai Metropolitan area and one
at Bhandup on 26th
April, 2015. 1359 units
were collected in 5
camps organized in
Mumbai Metropolitan
area.
Blood banks who
collected blood in Mum-
bai Metropolitan area
on the occasion included Red Cross, LTMG
(Sion)
Hospital,
J.J.Metro, Rajawadi
Hospital, M. T. Aggarwal Hospital, NMMC
Hospital, Tata Memorial (Kharghar) Hospital, Central Hospital
(Ulhasnagar), Thane
Civil Hospital and St.
George Hospital
“The Mission observes 24th April as
Manav Ekta Diwas to
commemorate the supreme sacrifice of Baba
Gurbachan Singh Ji
who laid down his life
on this day in 1980
while crusading for
truth, love, peace and
unity. Hundreds of other martyrs of the Mission are also remembered” shared Pravin
Chhabra, Media Coordinator, Mumbai on the
occasion. He further
added “Large turnout
at these camps and the
magnanimous arrangement to host at
76 camps across the
nation attributes to the
call given by Baba
Hardev Singh Ji Maharaj that ‘blood
should flow in veins
and not in drains’.
Ever since, the devotees of the Mission
have been participating in these blood donation camps with
PMC fails to obtain letter from CIDCO
and MJP on permanent water supply
By Umesh Parida
PANVEL: The Panvel
Municipal Council had
prepared water supply
plan for the year up to
2045 which has been
finally dumped by the
Maharashtra Jeevan
Pradhikaran (MJP).
The MJP Pune office
has reportedly rejected
the PMC proposal on
the ground that the
PMC do not have source
of water supply to meet
the need.
An official privy to
the developments told
this newspaper that
“Based on the sources
from where PMC would
get the additional water, there is need of
some concrete proposal
from the sources. How-
great enthusiasm and
spirit of devotion considering the noble gesture as a part of their
tribute to Baba Gurbachan Singh Ji,
Chacha Partap Singh
Ji and hundreds of other martyrs of the Mission. The series of
camps was inaugurated by His Holiness
Nirankari Baba Hardev Singh Ji Maharaj,
head of the Sant
Nirankari Mission on
24th April, 2015 in Delhi, where 1470 devotees
donated their blood.
The camps held on
April 24, in other
states include: 10 in
Uttar Pradesh; 6 in
Rajasthan; 5 each in
Madhya Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana; 4
each in Gujarat and
Himachal Pradesh; 3
each in Jharkhand and
Uttarakhand; 2 each in
Bihar, West Bengal and
Jammu and Kashmir;
and one each in Chandigarh, Assam, Sikkim, Andaman, Goa,
Chhattisgarh, Odisha,
Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and
Tamil Nadu”.
Speaking on the
numbers of blood donation camps over the
years Chhabra said” To
chart the growth for
this noble cause, in
2009 the Mission organized 306 blood donation camps at different
centres in the country.
This was followed by
371 camps in 2010 and
394 in 2011. In 2012,
the Mission organized
429 camps and in 2013
and 2014 it was a record
number of 446. The
Mission has already
emerged as one of the
leading blood donating
voluntary organizations in the county with
4,073 camps and the
donation of 7,09,595
units of blood in India
so far”.
ed at 37 MLD for a population of 2.66 lacs. The
MJP wanted the figure
up to 2031, going by the
old rule book. Accordingly, the water requirement up to 2031
will be 28 MLD whereas the population will
be 1.86 lacs.
The MJP Chief Engineers’ Office, Pune,
has not been satisfied
with the PMC report as
the latter failed to get
proper assurance letter
from the water supply
sources to justify the
approval from MJP.
PMC is trying to get
water from Morbe dam
(not the NMMC one) in
Panvel taluka and Usran dam in Rasayani
but nothing seems to
have gone in its favour.
Khanda Colony Camp Accrues 183 Units
ever, in our case, the
sources City and Industrial Development
Corporation (CIDCO)
could not be solved as
we could not obtain a
letter from them.”
What is surprising
and MJP have not given us the letter stating
that they would provide
water. This problem
is that the PMC has
been getting water from
CIDCO and MJP for
three months starting
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from April to June but
there is no official confirmation regarding the
water supply. Hence the
PMC was not able to
satisfy the higher ups
in the MJP Pune office.
This has led to dumping of the PMC water
revamp proposal on the
ground.
MJP had earlier
asked the PMC to revise the plan up to 2031
instead of 2045. The
technical queries raised
by MJP are of genuine
nature but PMC failed
to satisfy the MJP. According to official sources, for the plan up to
2045 water requirement in the PMC area
excluding CIDCO developed nodes is project-