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SC GOES ON AN
APPROVALS SPREE
‘Cleanliness Drive’ at Vashi
station on Valentine’s day
` 87.91 crore worth civic works cleared
By Vijay Bhor/
Chandrashekhar Hendve
CBD-BELAPUR: NMMC’s Standing Committee has given approvals to a series of
civic works totaling Rs
87.91 crores during its
last sitting on 13 February, 2015. Among
the major works cleared
is the reconstruction of
the fire station at Vashi.
The project, to come up
on a plot admeasuring
5,401 sq meters, includes the construction
of a modern fire station
with parking space for
six fire tenders and 200
four wheelers.
There will also be
space for 22 twowheelers. Further, it includes
the construction of
six two BHK and
25 one BHK residential apartments meant for
the staffers.
In addition, there
will be a commercial
complex having 33 office units. The entire
complex is expected to
be properly landscaped
and beautified.
NMMC has received
three bids for the work,
the lowest one being Rs
56,70,89, 353 against
the official estimate of
Rs 43.65 crores. Two
other tenders are for
amounts exceeding Rs
61 crores each. Though
the project has been
‘cleared’ by the Standing Committee, the tender documents are yet
to be screened by the
building department.
Other
major
projects cleared include
the construction of a
fire station at Ko-
perkhairane at the cost
of Rs 7.25 crores, renovation of the talao at
MIDC, Mahape at a
cost of Rs 2.15 crores
and the construction of
a daily bazaar in Sector-1A, CBD. Yet another proposa – by the
social welfare department -l refers to the distribution of 2,500 bicycles to school children
belonging to OBC category. There is also a
proposal for the construction of a crematorium in Koperkhairane.
The speed with
which these proposals
were cleared suggests
that the members are
anxious about the coming election which is
less than two months
away.
Save a life……
India will soon become a much stronger
economic power than
it was few years back.
So we can soon expect to get more donations from public.
APMC Traffic Branch & Radhee Foundation had organized “Save A Life - give Way to Ambulance” program
at Truck Terminal, Sector 19, Vashi. Dr . Rita Savla addressed 100 truck tempo drivers & transporters. (By
Chandrashekhar Hendve)
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By Chandrashekhar Hendve
VASHI: Drive Fortune Hotel Group’s
Vashi team, under the
leadership of Vivek
Pathiyan, went out to
carry out cleanliness
drive on Valentine’s
Day.
When he was asked
the reason for choosing
Valentine’s Day he replied, “We love our city
and so we support
Modi’s Drive of Swatch
Bharat and we wanted
to drive a message to
all our Indian friends
that the government
alone cannot keep the
city clean but that we
need to watch where
we throw our garbage.
This effort is done to
create awareness and
hope to see our neighCont. on pg. 3
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Skeleton found in the
jungle in Uran identified
Smart detection by the police pays off
By Vikram Gaikwad
URAN: The abandoned half burnt remains of a human being has been identified
as that of a 15-year old
girl from Kelawane village in Panvel taluka.
And the culprit turns
out to be none other
than her father.
The discovery of a
half burnt body, most of
it reduced to a skeleton,
had remained a challenging mystery for the
police. It was found
abandoned in a jungle
on Indrayani hill in
Kelvan village on Sunday last. The cops also
found a human skull,
flowers and agarbattis
in the place which deepened the mystery. They
also found a vanity bag
with a bracelet, pendent and violent-blue
clothes and other items
used by girls in their
make up. The police
had collected the remains of the body and
sent it for chemical examination to the forensic lab in Kalina. The
lab had come to the conclusion that the remains belonged to a girl
of 15 or 16 years of age.
Accordingly the investigators started inquiries.
The only clue they
had was the name ‘Siddhi’ inscribed in the
pendant. When they
went out the adjoining
villages to find out if
anyone of that name
had gone missing, they
leant that one Siddhi
Gharat from Kelwan
village had indeed gone
missing and missing
persons complaint had
also been registered
with the Uran police. So
the needle of suspicion
pointed at her family
and her father, Sunil
Gharat (36) was subjected to intensive cross
examination. At some
stage he broke down
and confessed to the
crime. His explanation
was that Siddhi was
given to stealing valuables from home and
disappearing. Disap-
proving her behavior,
he decided to teach her
a lesson and took her to
the wooden hill on the
excuse of showing her
new clothes where, ‘in
a fit of rage’ he said he
had strangled using her
dupatta. Then to erase
evidence he poured kerosene on the body and
went away as though
nothing had happened.
1. During the investigation, the police
also learnt that after
her death, Sunil had
collected her mobile
phone and sold it to
some shop for Rs 450.
He also took all the
items like flowers and
agarbattis for performing her last rites and
returned home somewhat satisfied.
PI Abhay Mahajan
under guidance from
DCP Yenpure, investigated and cracked the
case along with his
team members.
Illegal rikshaws rule
the roost at Nerul
Become a menace for the
legal operatives
By Vikram Gaikwad
NERUL: Illegal rikshaw operators have
become a menace in
Nerul area not only for
the passengers but also
for the legal permit
holders. The former
run their trade without
having a permit or a
badge, which are mandatory. They are also
known to over charge
the passengers, behave
Cont. on pg. 7
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Two arrested
By Vikram Gaikwad
PANVEL: New Panvel police have arrested
two brothers on he
charge of attacking to
women resulting in the
death of one.
The accused Kailash Pandurang Pawar
(30) and Pandarinath
Pandurang Pawar (26)
had a running dispute
with Nirabai Anant
Bhagat (58) who lived
in a hut in Mohdar village on the outskirts of
New Panvel. The
Pawar brothers were
claiming that the land
on which the hut stood
belonged to them and
wanted her to vacate it.
Since Nirabai had been
refusing to do so, there
had been several quarrels between the two
sides over it. To make
matters worse, lately
Nirabai had made
preparations for raising a pucca house on
the plot and unloaded a
truck load of bricks for
the purpose. That was
provocation enough for
the Pawar brothers.
On Friday, they entered Nirabai’s house
and picked up a quarrel
with her. In the course
of the heated exchanges
that followed, the
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Dispute over
land ends in
murder
Pawars rained blows
with sticks and stones
on Nirabai and also her
daughter, Surekha
Anant Bhagat (36).
Surekha sustained severe injuries and succumbed to the same in
a few minutes. Nirabai,
who has also sustained
injuries has been admitted to MGM hospital in
Kamothe for treatment.
New Panvel police
have arrested Kailash
and
Pandarinath
Pawar on the charge of
murder.
BJP National Vice President
Vinay Sahasrabuddhe in city
By Umesh Parida
PANVEL: The
Bharatiya Janata
Party’s national
vice president
Vinay Sahasrabuddhe was in the city
on Wednesday as
part of the program
to mark the death
anniversary of Pt
Deen Dayal Upadhyay to intensify
the membership
drive of the party.
Addressing the
workers he said the
party is working
for the overall
development of the
country.
He said that
those becoming the
members of the
BJP are becoming
part of the Prime
Minister’s repre-
sentative. This is the
efforts towards
Congress-free India
i.e. corruption and
family-free
politics. The
membership
drive will be
widely participated by people.
The BJP
Raigad District
President Balasaheb Patil told the
audience that
around 50 lacs
people of Maharashatra is
targeted to be
made a part of
the membership
drive. People
from Raigad,
Panvel, etc area
should not be left
behind as part of
the membership
drive of BJP, he
added.
Leave your I’s when you live and
Leave your eyes when you leave
By Vishal T Malhotra
KHARGHAR: The Humanity First Foundation launches it’s wide
scale eye donation drive
here on Sunday, 15 February, 2015. The drive
which is slated to
spread out to the city
and beyond will be inaugurated at their
Kharghar centre.
Kiran Oberoi, member, shared, “We have
initiated a process un-
Humanity First Foundation launches Netradaan Abhiyaan with
a touching message by
founder Naved Shaikh
der the guidance of our
founder, Naved Shaikh,
and we aim at creating
a benchmark for the
same. Through a
strong network of volunteers across the city,
which runs into thou-
sands, we intend to
make people aware of
the essence of donating
their eyes. We hope to
create socially aware
people dedicated to such
cause.”
Venue: Plot no B7,
Opposite HP gas agency, Sector 12, Near
Shivaji
Chowk,
Kharghar, Navi Mumbai
Timing: 5 pm onwards
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India - Pakistan To Renew Rivalry
At ICC World Cup 2015 Today
By Ashok Dhamija
India’s men in blue
will hope to extend
their unbeaten record
(5-0) against their old
foes Pakistan in World
Cup matches when the
two teams meet
each other in their
opening Pool B
league match of
the ICC World Cup
2015 at Adelaide
Oval in Australia
on Sunday 15 th
Feb, 2015.
Scores of supporters drape in
sea of India’s saffron, green and
white, and Pakistan’s green and
white. will be
present at the venue as they will try
to out-scream each
other. India led by
M S Dhoni who is one
of the four surviving
players from the victorious 2011 World Cup
team will try to defend
a proud World Cup
record while Misbah-ulHaq’s men will relish
the opportunity of creating history by becoming the first Pakistani
team to register a
World Cup win over its
cross-border neighbours.
India’s recent performances leading into
the game have only added to the pressure after
to pay respect to the
heightened importance
of the occasion, but attempt to not get so overawed by the expectations which is what
Dhoni and India will
try to do and rediscover their touch in the
marquee ICC tournament. As may be recalled Dhoni and his
men have faced greater odds before, albeit
off-field ones, and gone
on to win the Champions Trophy in 2013.
Pakistan on the other hand which lacks
experience if not talent,
will try an capitalize on
the misfortunes of their
arch rivals. With
warm-up game wins
over Bangladesh and
England, they have
sights
• The last time this two
teams met in Australia was 15 years
ago.
• Former Pakistan
skipper Shahid Afridi is the only survivor from the
these two teams
which met in Adelaide.
• Head-to-head
India lead 4-3
against Pakistan
in Australia.
• Head-to-head
India lead 5-0
against Pakistan
in ICC World Cup
• Mohammad Irfan Pakistan pacer with a height
of 7’1" is tallest
player in the competition.
MS Dhoni on
the eve of the match
shared “How much
ever one keeps saying
about it being just like
any other normal
game, it is a bit different, What we try is to
keep that slight difference nominal, and try
to play like we would
against any other international team..The
logical thing is to pay
respect to the heightened importance of the
occasion, but attempt to
not get so overawed by
the expectations”
“We’ve got nothing
India’s League Schedule (Pool B)
Day-Date & Time*
Matches - Venue
Sun -15th Feb, 2015 09.00 (IST) Vs Pakistan - Adelaide Oval
Sun-22nd Feb, 2015 09.00 (IST) Vs South Africa - Melbourne
Cricket Ground
Sat - 28th Feb, 2015 12.00 (IST) Vs United Arab Emirates WACA Ground, Perth
Fri - 06th Mar, 2015 12.00 (IST) Vs West Indies - WACA Ground, Perth
Tue-10th Mar, 2015 06.30 (IST) Vs Ireland - Seddon Park, Hamilton
Sat -14th, Mar, 2015 06.30 (IST) Vs Zimbabwe - Eden Park, Auckland
the early exit in the triangular one-day series
against Australia and
England. The opening
warm up game for the
World cup too proved to
be a tough one as they
ran in to Glenn Maxwell blitz at Adelaide
Oval against Australia
and then their bowlers
could not dismiss Afghanistan in their allotted 50 overs. The logical thing to do would be
tried to made the best
use of whatever time
they have had in these
conditions before the
tournament, although
they began with a couple of heavy defeats to
co host in New
Zealand.
Recent Form Guide
(last five matches, most
recent first)
India: LLLWW
Pakistan: LLLLW
Trivia and In-
to lose – we need to just
go out there, express
ourselves and try to win
it. Try to play good
cricket. That will be a
key for us in this
match. We need be
afraid, because you
can’t control the result.
What you can do is control your effort - go
there, express yourself,
put your efforts in and
Cont. on pg. 6
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Mumbai FC Stuns Salgaocar FC For Their
Maiden Triumph: Hero I league 2014-15
A Salgaoncar FC striker’s attempts rebounds off Mumbai FC’s Japanese import Taisuke
Matsugae in the second half to deny the visitors any chance of comeback.
Text and Photos
by Ashok Dhamija
MUMBAI: A resurgent Mumbai FC
showed lot of character in their resounding 3-0 win against
strong favourites
Salgaocar FC in their
sixth round of the
Hero I League match
held under floodlights
at the refurbished
Cooperage Stadium
here on Friday. Goals
by Sampath
Kuttymani Brazilian
import Josimar da
Silva in the first half
and by under-23
player Jayesh Rane
in injury time allowed
the home team record
their first win in the
season and move to
eight position in the
11 team table, while
the visitors missed a
chance to go top..
Coach Khalid
Jamil who had
stressed on the need
for Mumbai FC to
score early and be
alert throughout if
they hoped to upset a
confident team like
Salgaoncar FC which
was being coached by
his mentor Derrick
Pereira on the eve of
the match was
delighted soon after
the match as his
strike force and
defence did exactly
that. In a post match
press conference Jamil
who could hardly
control himself after
the third goal and
even bent low to kiss
the turf said “Full
credit to my players,
who worked extremely
hard for this win.
Mumbai FC mid fielder Jayesh Rane is being congratulated by team fans after the match.
half from our defendThat the team was
ers Justin Stephen,
starting to believe in
Chika Wali, Ashutosh
themselves and
Mehta and Allan Dias
playing together as a
along with our custounit was evident in
dian Nidhin Lal who
the way that Rane
did equally well to
played a key role in
keep out a couple of
two of the goals the
good attempts from
first a cross for
Salgaoncar Clifton
Josimar who leapt
Dias and Gurjinder
high to head down
powerfully into the net Kumar who piled on
the pressure, looking
for the second goal,
to reduce the margin.
after Kuttymani had
scored the first goal off However it’s important that our players
a powerful drive that
keep their heads as
found the top corner
there were still a lot of
with an assist from
matches to be played.”
Japanese import
Salgaoncar coach
Taisuke Matsugae.
Derrick Pereira felt
That Rane later
his team just did not
scored on a quick
adjust to the condibreakaway in a one on
tions and the pace of
one with a minute to
the match in the first
go in a one on situahalf, which led to
tion. It’s not very
them conceding two
often a goalkeeper of
goals late shared. “A
Subrata Paul (played
lapse in concentration
for Mumbai City FC
from Clifton let
in ISL last year)
Kaisuke through and
caliber who is highly
rated Indian custodian it was great strike
from Kuttymani. The
is beaten thrice in a
second goal was also a
match”. He further
well-planned move.
added “Our defence
It’s very difficult to
also rallied behind the
get back against a
midfield and it was a
determined perforCont. on pg. 6
mance in the second
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Labour union to intensify
protest against All Cargo
By Umesh Parida
URAN: The labourers
of All Cargo will go for
a massive protest if
their demands are not
met within a few days.
This was threatened by
labour leader Mahendra
Gharat. The workers
have been protesting for
the last seventeen days.
The dispute was
raised after the dues of
the workers were not
paid. The agreement
between the TDW and
the company management could not be inked
leading to delay in
clearance of the workers’ dues. The issue has
been pending for over a
year as is alleged by the
workers.
The TDW workers
union head Kersi
Parekh, secretary Mr
Raman and others
held a meeting with
Mahendra Gharat. If
the demand of the
workers is not met
within the next few
days then the workers
will intensify their protest, it was decided.
A close encounter on a Valentine’s DayDrama In My Real Life
By Laxman Sundar
It was six years
ago - on this day it
happened. I was returning home from
Reliance at DAKC,
Koparkhairane.
I got down from
the company’s bus
at Shivaji Chowk at
Vashi. As I began to
walk across the
road past signals, I saw
a resplendently beautiful girl in red salwar
kameez coming in the
opposite direction. The
wind was blowing and
D Y Patil SC To Take On Serco In Capital
T-20 Cricket League ‘B’ Div Final
Text and Photo
by Ashok Dhamija
NAVI MUMBAI: Nerul
based D Y Patil Sports
Club and Serco will
contest the finals of the
‘B’ Division in the Capital T-20 Cricket
League. The former
made it with a four
wicket win over Mumbai Customs while Serco routed Mumbai Port
Trust by eight wickets.
All-rounder Siddharth
Chitnis played a crucial role for D Y Patil
claiming 2/24 and scoring 31 runs. Customs
managed to score 132/
8 due to useful contributions by Jude Singh
(33) and Balakrishna
Shirke (35). Customs
lost the plot despite
Aditya Dhumal grab-
bing 3/11 and Parag
Khanapurkar taking
two wickets.
MbPT were bundled out by spin twins
Sagar Udeshi and
Shashikant Kadam
with Aishwarya Surve
too making his presence felt. Jiniv Joshi
scored 44 for SERCO to
wrap up the win.
Brief
Scores:
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Mumbai Customs 132/8 ( Jude Singh 33,
Balakrishna Shirke
35,Siddharth Chitnis
2/24, Vinit Sinha 2/28)
lost to D Y Patil
Sports Club - 133/6
(Aditya Dhumal 3/11,
Parag Khanapurkar 2/
23) by 4 wickets,
MbPT:
89 all
out (Mairaj Khan 26
no, Aishwarya Surve 2/
I suddenly felt something pulling me physically from behind. I
turned back to see the
girl’s fragrant dupatta
got entangled with the
zip of my office bag! No
amount of our effort
could disengage us!
Soon a small crowd
had gathered much to
our embarassment.
“Kya Valentine’s Day
Yaar”, someone commented. Then we
moved to the sidewalk
and battled hard to dis24,
Sagar
Udeshi 2/11,
Shashikant
Kadam 2/22,
Karan Nande
2/5) lost to
Serco - 90/2
(Jiniv Joshi 44,
Vikrant Auti
20 no) by 8
wickets
All-round
performance by
Siddharth
Chitnis for
D Y Patil Sports
Club
entangle the dupatta
from my bag. At last I
could wriggle out her
clothes from the innocuous zip after a few
minutes.
The crowd clapped
as if it was a film
shooting getting over!
She thanked me and
said,”I will remember
this day,” with a
radiant smile. “Me
too,” I reciprocated.
Then we shook
hands and said
goodbye.
When I told my
wife of the incident
after
reaching
home, she cautioned me not to cross
from that particular
spot thenceforth to
avoid falling prey to
Cont. on pg. 7
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CR Mega Block Today
Issue : 241
15 February, 2015
The top party has become
a flop party
The Congress failed to win even a single
seat in the Assembly elections in Delhi. This
could be because of the resistance within the
party. The resistance comes from those younger leaders who do not see a future for themselves under the leadership of heir apparent
Rahul Gandhi who has been installed as party
president. An overwhelming majority in the
party believes he does not have what it takes:
he has neither demonstrated the ability to sustain an idea or the hard work demanded of a
full-time politician in a leadership role. There
are now open whispers in party circles of a
possible split in the party should Gandhi be
elevated.
Until the ‘Gandhi’ family vacate their seats
at the head of the table and allow the introduction of fresh young leaders, as well as
change their policies from ‘Pseudo-Secularism’ to nationalistic and developmental ones,
the slide of the Congress/UPA will continue.
People have realised that they cannot be
fooled by the Gandhi name anymore. People
want real improvements in their lives, both
economically and environmentally as well as
the eradication of corruption.
The popular perception of Congress today
is that it is steeped in corruption, suffers from
leadership crisis and no longer serious about
national security issues. They must first acknowledge that this is their image and take
ruthless action to weed out the corrupt and
incompetent whoever it may be – may it be
even Gandhi family. Till then there is no hope.
The Congress of the Mahatma is not the
Congress of today. There is no need to feel
any sympathy to this scam-ridden minorityappeasing colonial dynastic shame and think
about ways to revive it. The Congress is decimated for good.
On a deeper look, we can see that people
have rejected not only Congress but almost
all tradtional political outfits, CPM, CPI, DMK,
NCP, BSP, SP, JD and now BJP. People have
realized all these parties and their leaders have
secret agenda of their own which are inconsistent with the needs, aspirations and sensitivities of common man. It is not only the
people but the party cadres who have also lost
faith in their leaders. The present crisis is of
credibility deficit of Indian political leaders,
that is is there exists a leadership vacuum.
We need Men like Kejriwal in every State. Do
we have them?
Well the “figure zero” was certainly unexpected from a party who were the champions
of the Indian National Movement during the
days of British India. The party has lost its
sheen after the demise of Mahatma Gandhi.
The Congress is digging its own grave by
obstinately insisting on having Gandhi family
as its leader. This family is a flop leader and
this has been proven by the defeat of Congress in probably every election it has undertaken under Gandhi family’s leadership.
By Ashok Dhamija
MUMBAI: Central
Railway (CR) will operate Mega Block o-n its
suburban sections
for carrying out maintenance work o-n Sunday 15th Feb, 2015 as
per the following
schedule : A) Kurla - Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus UP Harbour
Line
From: 11.30 am to
3.30 pm
UP Harbour line
services to Chhatrapati
Shivaji Terminus
(CST), Mumbai leaving
Kurla from 11.08 am to
3.20 pm will run via
Main Line o-n UP Fast
line UP to Byculla
India Pakistan...
Cont. from pg. 4
wait for the result that
happens.” shared Misbah-ul-Haq ahead of
the match.
Teams (from)
India: Mahendra
Singh Dhoni (Capt,
WK),Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma,
Virat Kohli, Suresh
Raina, Ajinkya Rahane, , Stuart Binny,
Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Mohit Sharma,
Mohammed Shami,
Umesh Yadav, Axar
Patel, Ambati Rayudu
and Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
Pakistan: Misbahul-Haq (Capt), Ahmed
Shehzad, Nasir Jamshed, Younus Khan,
Umar Akmal, Sohaib
Maqsood, Sarfraz
Ahmed (WK), Shahid
Afridi, Haris Sohail,
Yasir Shah, Mohammad Irfan, Wahab Riaz,
Ehsan Adil, Rahat Ali
and Sohail Khan.
Pool A League
Matches Update:
Earlier in their
opening round of Pool A
league matches on Saturday both the co- hosts
New Zealand and Australia registered comfortable victories over
Sri Lanka (by 98 runs)
and England (111 runs)
respectively.
· Indian standard
Time
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halting at Sion, Matunga. Dadar and
Parel stations and further o-n UP Sow line
between Byculla and
CST, Mumbai stopping
at all stations.
All UP and DN Har-
bour line services arriving and leaving CST
from 11.00 am to 5.00
pm will arrive destination 10 minutes behind
schedule.
B) Vadala RoadMahim UP & DN
Harbour Lines
From: 11.30 am to
3.30 pm
All DN Harbour
line services to Bandra
/ Andheri leaving CST
Mumbai from 10.20
am to 3.33 pm and all
UP Harbour line services for CST Mumbai leaving Bandra /
Andheri from 10.40
am to 3.17 pm will remain suspended.
Harbour line passengers for Bandra/
Andheri are permitted to travel via Main
Line and Western
Railway from 10.00
am to 6.00 pm.
C) Matunga-Mulund DN Main Fast
Line
From: 10.45 am to
3.15 pm
All DN Fast services leaving CST Mumbai from 10.08 am to
2.54 pm will be diverted o-n DN Sow line between Matunga and
Mulund stations halting at all stations between Sion and Mulund and further diverted o-n DN Fast line
beyond Thane. These
services will arrive destination 20 minutes
behind schedule.
All UP Fast services leaving Thane from
10.46 am to 3.28 pm
will halt at Mulund,
Bhandup, Vikhroli,
Ghatkopar and Kurla
stations in addition to
their respective scheduled halts and will arrive destination 15
minutes behind schedule.
All Slow services
arriving and leaving
CST Mumbai between
11.00 am and 5.00 pm
will arrive destination
10 minutes behind
schedule.
Special Trains On KR Route
By Ashok Dhamija
PANVEL: Ministry
of Railways have
decided to run following Special trains on
Konkan Railway (KR)
route to clear extra
rush of passengers in
co-ordination with
Central Railway and
Northern Railway.
The details are as
under:A) Lokmanya
Tilak (T) – Madgaon - Lokmanya
Tilak (T)
Train No. 01005
Lokmanya Tilak (T) Madgaon Special
train will leave from
Lokmanya Tilak
Terminus, Mumbai at
00:45 hrs on 19th
February 2015 . The
train will reach
Madgaon at 13:30 hrs
on same day. On tis
return journey Train
No. 01006 Madgaon Lokmanya Tilak (T)
special train will
leave from Madgaon
at 15:30 hrs on 19th
February 2015. The
train will reach
Lokmanya Tilak
Terminus, Mumbai at
03:30 hrs on next day.
This Special train
will have 18 coaches
and will have halts at
Thane, Panvel, Roha,
Khed, Chiplun,
Sangameshwar,
Ratnagiri, Rajapur,
Kankavali, Kudal,
Sawantwadi Road and
Thivim stations enroute. Booking will be
open from 14th Feb,
2015.
B) Hazrat
Nizamuddin –
Thiruvananthapuram (One
Way)
Train No. 02656
Hazrat Nizamuddin Thiruvananthapuram
Special train will
leave from Hazrat
Nizamuddin at 10:05
hrs on 14th February
2015 . The train will
reach Thiruvananthapuram at 14:00
hrs on third day.
This Special train
will have 19 coaches
and will have halt at
Mathura Jn., Bharatpur, Sawai Madhopur,
Kota Jn, Ratlam,
Vadodara Jn,
Bharuch, Surat, Vapi,
Dahanu Road, Vasai
Road, Panvel, Ratnagiri, Karmali, Madgaon, Karwar, Udupi,
Mangalore Jn,
Kannur, Kozhikode,
Shoranur Jn, Thrisur, Ernakulam Jn,
Alpuzha, Kayankulam Jn and Kollam
Jn stations.
Mumbai FC...
close on a couple of
occasions one of which
event struck the
upright and their
goalkeeper Nidhin Lal
too made some good
saves, but that is
football,” signed off
Pereira.
Mumbai FC await
Wahindoh Shillong at
home, while Salgaoncar will travel to Pune
to take on Kalyani
Bharat.
Result:
Mumbai FC 3
(Sampath Kuttymani
6’, Josimar da Silva
26’, Jayesh Rane
90+1’) beat Salgaoncar FC 0 (HT 2-0).
Hero of the
Match – Sampath
Kuttymani (Mumbai
FC).
Cont. from pg. 4
team like Mumbai
FC, once they start
dominating,” On the
second half, the coach
said that their plan
was to apply all out
pressure and try to
reduce the margin,
but it was just not
their day. “We came
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Ayurved Chaitanya Award for Love personifies on Valentine’s Day
By Vikram Gaikwad
Love lorn girl tries to end life
veteran doctor Dr B K Dave
VASHI: A love-lorn
By Umesh Parida
PANVEL: Noted
Ayurvedic doctor cum
senior Congress
leader Dr Bhaktikumar Dave has been
awarded with
Ayurved Chaitanya
Award by the Kantilal Pratisthan. The
award was bestowed
upon the doctor by Pt
Hridayanath
Mangeshkar in an
event recently organized.
The senior doctor
had earlier been
awarded with the
Raigad Medical
Association Excellence Award for
Senior Physician and
Indian Medicine,
Panvel Bhusan,
Raigad Bhusan,
Sevashri Award of
Rotary International,
besides many others.
Letters to the Editor....
girl who was hoping to
tie the knot on the occasion of Valentine’s
Day ended in the creek
waters in an attempt
to commit suicide on
Saturday.
The survivor, Neha
Ramesh Oberoi (23)
lived in GTB Nagar in
Koliwad, Mumbai with
her aunt, as her parents were no more.
Lately, she had developed a love affair with
a boy and wanted to accomplish her marriage
as soon as possible.
She was distraught to
learn that the boy’s
by jumping off Creek bridge
boys had disapproved
the alliance. She was
however hopeful of
marrying the youth
with the consent of her
aunt and protector and
told her about her
plans. She was further
disappointed to find
that her aunt too had
disapproved the relationship. Frustrated,
Neha came to Vashi
creek bridge on a
Scooty, left the vehicle
parked on the bridge
and jumped down. The
incident was however
noticed by some fishermen who rushed to the
spot with their boats
and rescued her. They
however found that the
girl had imbibed liquor
probably to muster
courage for the act.
Va s h i
police
rushed to the spot and
took the girl to NMMC
hospital. After proper
counseling, the girl
was handed over to
her relatives, informed API Vasudev
More of Vashi Police
Station.
Free-of-cost lecture on Astronomy
at Takale Charitable Trust
Crematorium for pets
needed in Navi Mumbai
I want to highlight a very serious issue through
your paper regarding the cremation/burial ground
in Navi Mumbai. The authorities had totally neglected this issue which is a long pending demand of many animal lovers.
There is a special bond between people and their beloved pets and this
bond cannot be measured. We can never repay the unconditional love and
affection our pets provide us.
The final farewell to our beloved pet should be filled with respect and
dignity they deserve. But due to non availability of crematorium/ burial
ground most of the corpses of dogs/ animals which die on the road or in
shelters are simply discarded away in garbage trucks.
When faced with the death of family pet, many people believe that full
funeral or cremation is in order, but where can they perform such a rite?
In Navi Mumbai, animal lovers are totally deprived of the facilities
and animals’ crematorium to perform the last rite of their dead pets with
full respect and dignity.
It is very sad that the whole city has only one crematorium for dogs,
cats and other animals which is situated in BSPCA, Parel.
It is our demand that Government or local authorities should build
another crematorium in Navi Mumbai so that animal lovers can do their
beloved pets’ last rite with full honour and respect.
- Probir Kumar Bose, New Panvel 410206
By Umesh Parida
PANVEL: The
Takale Charitable
Trust is organizing
one night program for
school teachers and
students for free of
cost lecture on
Astronomy, Star
Gazing and Telescopic
Observation of Moon
and Planets. Till date
the Trust has conducted more than
1000 numbers of such
sessions.
At venue, participants will be provided
with drinking water,
safe place for night
stay and toilets.
Nobody will be
charged anything for
this program. The
schools are requested
to take care of participants’ transport,
sleeping bag, evening
snacks and dinner.
These were completely free social awareness cum educational
programs and are
pen for all. Lectures
are delivered in
Marathi, Hindi and
English. Minimum
number of participant
required to organize
the event is 50. Hence
schools are requested
to send 10 days
advance intimation
and confirmation
with complete details
as required to
arrange the event.
The schools will
have to report to the
TCT Gurukul,
Shirdhon, Panvel,
Raigad. The subjects
to be covered are
Basic Astro Lect-I
(Sky Observation),
Telescopic Session-I
(may be Venus, Mars
and Moon), Star
gazing Session-I,
Basic Astro Lect-II
and III (Origin and
Vastness of Universe),
Star gazing Session-II
Telescopic Session-II
(may be M31, M45,
M42 and Jupiter),
Star gazing SessionIII and Telescopic
Session-III (may be
M44, Saturn and
Mizar/Alcor). All
observations and star
gazing depends on
sky condition on
camping day.
Swine Flu - cause for worry
A close...
cident to some of my
male colleagues in Reliance, all of them
wanted me to show the
spot so that they could
try their luck! A few
had actually tried also
but in vain! It was a
happenstance for me.
Anyway it turned
out to be a memorable
Valentine’s Day for me
and today around six I
can try for an encore!
Army colony rikshaw
stand. Some legal operators tried to intervene
and calm the situation
but the latter were arrogant. They collected
a crowd and started attacking the interveners. Sore over the incident, the legal rikshaw
operators belonging to
the Shiv Sena sponsored
Auto Rikahaw union
declared a strike. They
also went to local police
station and submitted a
memorandum listing
their grievances. That
forced the cops to come
to the place and take
action against some of
the miscreants. Responding to the development, the striking operators are reported to
have withdrawn their
agitation by afternoon
and returned to work.
Swine Flu has affected part of the country. In Navi Mumbai, it is
spreading slowly and steadily in epidemic form. A number of people are
undergoing tests in Navi Mumbai but the line of treatment appears to be
not effective.
This is not the first time we are handling such a ticklish situation in
a most ridiculous way. After all human life is costly and nothing can
compensate the loss of life. As a matter of fact, outsiders from UP and
Bihar bring Swine Flu to satellite city. It is shame that the doctors and
government machinery come cropper and fail at such a crucial juncture.
Instead of attending the cases on war footing the action by the NMMC is
rather slow and requires further follow up.
More and more Children are being tested positive and few deaths this
year has caused great reason for concern not only in Navi Mumbai but
also in the suburbs. The symptoms are very clear and the government
machinery should act immediately. We waited for too long to tackle this
ailment and allowed the situation to go out of hand with government
lacking control over it.
Likewise, Swine Flue has spread in an epidemic form and it is high
time to treat the patients in the best way possible. That is my clarion call.
- C. K. Subramaniam, Sanpada
CMYK
Cont. from pg. 5
some bewitching beauties!
Next day when I
narrated that real in-
Illegal
rikshaws...
Cont. from pg. 3
with them rudely and
also refuse the fares if
they so chose.
On Friday, there
was a confrontation between the two sides.
Some illegal rikshaw
operators had a spat
with a passenger at the
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Hospital celebrates Valentine’s Day with Senior Citizens
By Chandrashekhar Hendve
VASHI: Every year on
February 14, many people exchange cards,
candy, gifts or flowers
with their special “valentine.” Many hearts
will speak with red
roses the symbol of love
to express their feelings. The couples enjoy
their time tighter on
this day of love by opening up to their partner
and expressing their
feelings.
But the elderly people in our society are
many a times left be-
hind in this celebration. The age factors
being a curse along
with the diseases which
don’t let them live their
lives to the fullest. The
problems related to
joints are the mostly
Swami Sukhbodhanand
visits Laxmi Eye Institute
By Umesh Parida
PANVEL: The renowned
spiritual
speaker Swami Sukhbodhanand had visited
the Laxmi Eye Institute
on Thursday. His discourses based on Ramayana, Mahabharat,
Bhagvad Gita, etc has
made him popular with
many followers. He is
also famous as a speaker on Corporate issues.
How people can get
mental peace while
moving in the tensed
life cycle is the bigger
issue in the present day
corporate world. During his visit, the Laxmi
Eye Institute’s head Dr
Suhas Haldipurkar ap-
painful and comes
along with age. About
85% in their old age
suffer joint pains and
about 60% have to opt
for joint replacement
surgery due to being
critical and not able to
walk.
Wockhardt Hospital, Vashi organized a
Valentine’s Day Celebration for the senior
citizens. The ex pa-
tients of the hospital
who had been through
knee replacement and
hip replacement surgeries were called with
their Spouse to celebrate this day and to
remember their day of
love.
The patients from
Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane and Raigad
had arrived to celebrate
Valentine’s Day. They
all shared their success
story of their victory
over the conditions they
were in before the operation. After which a
cake was cut to celebrate this day followed
by games. The people
even danced on the
music which was
played. Later, a lunch
was organised for the
couples and in total
they had a blast.
The Valentine’s Day
celebration brought a
lot of joy to the couples.
The couples will always remember this
day of love as they celebrated it with their
life partners. The reason to celebrate this
day was to create an
awareness of the growing joint pain problems
in the elderly people
and to take care of it
before it’s too late.
Rajasthan Artisans Enthrall Xavierians
prised him on the role
of the institute.
The
Swami’s
Prasanna Trust has
agreed to finance 100
cataract surgeries to be
conducted by the
Laxmi Eye Institute.
The Laxmi Charitable
Trust in association
with the Prasanna
Trust will explore opportunities wherein
both the trusts can
work together for social
causes.
‘Urja’ gets good response
Ustad Zakhir Hussain and Rakesh Chaurasia performed an event called Urja. Urja
Creative Foundation which organized this show got huge response from Navi Mumbaikar (By Sumit Renose)
CMYK
Text and Photo
by Ashok Dhamija
NAVI MUMBAI: St.
Xavier’s High School
Airoli in collaboration
with Junior
Red Cross
hosted a
musical
troupe from
Rajasthan as
part of the
Interactive
Cultural
Exchange
Programme
on Thursday.
Artisans in
the age
categories of
7 to 45 years performed folk songs and
dance that reflected
the culture of their
state These young
artists with their
vibrant musical notes
with traditional
instruments captured
the hearts of the
audience and teachers.
An interactive session
with the audience
enriched the institute
students and staff of
the rich cultural
tradition of Rajasthan.
“The performance
provided us an opportunity to understand
our rich cultural
heritage of our coun-
try. Watching them
live at close range
with bare minimum
musical instruments
will certainly be a
moment to cherish for
all of us,” shared Jyoti
Kamat, Supervisor of
St. Xavier’s High
School Airoli.
Swach Bharat Project
Dawoodi Bohra Community of Navi Mumbai took up
Swach Bharat project on 14 February, 2015 Saturday at 8
am. They started this project from Vashi Station. The
project was flagged off all over India on 14 February by
Dawoodi Bohra Community. (By Sumit Renose)