Cuckolded hubby posts wife's naughty pics

Ranip man accused ofviolation of privacy after he clicks wife's photograph with alleged lover,uploads it on FB

Revenge is a dish best served on the social media network seems to be the latest mantra for partners out to expose their adulterous spouses.Fuelled by the need to reveal the extramarital affair of his wife, a 32-year-old resident of Ranip recently uploaded her photograph on Facebook -the photograph had been clicked on the sly when she was in a compromising state with her lover. According to Crime Branch officials, where the wife registered a complaint, the husband was acting after his family members refused to believe his claims that his wife was two-timing him.

Women thrashed for not giving chanda

On the 4th day of Navratri, while the revel ers across city were busy upping thefes tive spirit, a group of goons at Vadaj was busy displaying their strengthto collect chanda (donation) by bashing two women. The women -Asha Dayama (32)and Sarla Kishori Tavar (40) -were beaten up by local goons for denying to payRs-5,000 as Navratri chanda.

At around 12.30pm on Friday, Kashinath Patel, a goon running bootlegging business, went to the duo's house along with 10 others to collect chanda. On refusal to pay, they allegedly began hitting them. However, Tavar claimed, “Despite paying chanda twice, they demanded Rs-5,000 for Navratri. When I refused, they started arguing and began trashing me. When I fell down, they started kicking me in my stomach. For help, I dialed 100, and afraid of cops they fled away.“

Gujaratis are largest skin donors

Gujaratis save lives of several burns patients by providing 80% of skin donations inIndia, according to National Burn Centre data.

Skin transplant is still in its infancy in India but it can save the lives of patients with severe burns. And, Gujaratis play a crucial role in saving lives of hundreds of such patients in India. According to the National Burn Centre. Of around 650 donations in the past five years, more than 500 donations were made by Gujaratis.

Shortage of medicine hits asthma, diabetes patients

Asthma patients and diabetics sufferwithout doxophylline and insulin as Ahmedabad Civil Hospital did not floattender on time, leading to delay in supply of medicines

Mohammad Qureshi, a farmer from Devli in rural Ahmedabad, was exhausted: physically and financially. He had been running around the whole day trying to arrange for money to get anti-asthmatic medicine for his daughter. Though his 14year-old should have been given the medicines by authorities at Civil Hospital where she is admitted, Qureshi had to face a tough time because the hospital had not floated its tender in time causing shortage of insulin and anti-asthmatic medicines.

Qureshi, 37, said, “My daughter has acute breathing problem. Her condition deteriorated after it rained in our village. We rushed her to Civil Hospital for treatment. She got better following primary treatment. Then, the doctors refused to administer the prescribed antiasthmatic medicine, doxophylline. After repeated pleas, a nurse informed me that the medicine was not available in the hospital. They asked me to get it from outside.“

The farmer spent more than Rs 2,000 ­ an amount he could

City's biggest Durga puja goes eco-friendly

Artisansbrought in by Bengal Cultural Association A' bad plan to decorate pandal withproducts made of sholapit

Come October and the city dolls up for nine nights of revellery while the Bengali community in Ahmedabad gears up for the much awaited Durga puja.And even as craftsmen in South Kolkata are busy sculpting the tallest idol of Maa Durga in the world, artisans brought in by the Bengal Cultural Association Ahmedabad, are giving an eco-friendly twist to decorations at the oldest puja in town, with decorations made with sholapit. An essential part of the Bengali culture, sholapit is made of a plant that grows in marshland.

Elaborating on the attempt to decorate the massive pandal at Ahmedabad Education Society ground with this plant product, SN Chakraborty, president of Bengal Cultural Association Ahmedabad, said, “From the time of its inception 78 years ago, this will be the first time we will use shola to decorate the pandal. An essential part of the community, shola is used to make products used in religious ceremonies.“

`Heart troubles' up by 14% for women in city

Data from 108 services revealed by Union Health Ministry says cardiac ailments among women have surged due to sedentary lifestyle, work-related stress

» All seemed normal with Ravita Sharma, a 32-year-old call centre employee at Navrangpura, till one night when she experienced chest pains. Used to working night shifts, Ravita was at work when she started sweating profusely and had chest pains.

BREATHE AT YOUR OWN RISK

The city has reported five deaths in 19 incidents involving illegal dumping of toxic waste in open drains in the past two years. But GPCB has no mechanism in place to protect lives or environment

Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB), which is tasked with protecting the environment, has reduced itself to being a sitting duck.Devoid of mechanism in place to monitor illegal dumping of hazardous chemical waste in the city's industrial areas, the pollution control body depends on citizens and local bodies for assistance. At least five people have lost lives and several affected in as many as 19 incidents involving illegal dumping of toxic waste over the past two years.

Smugglers strike gold at city airport

With two cases in 2012 to 51 cases in2014, Ahmedabad airport is at number 8 in number of gold smuggling cases across country in 2014

Curbs on the import of gold has been eased, yet there has been an unprecedented jump in cases of gold smuggling at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in the past year.Ahmedabad stood eighth in the number of gold smuggling cases registered at airports across the country in 2014, according to the Anti-Smuggling Unit under the Department of Revenue in the Ministry of Finance.

Triumph of good over bad

Meet chemist who blew whistle on sale of stolen medicines

It was an alert pharmacist who reported a nurse to a patient's family when she came to the store to sell stolen medicines. If not for 33year-old Yogesh Maru the theft of medicines prescribed to a 75-year-old patient admitted to UN Mehta hospital's ICU would have gone undetected. It could have possibly complicated the patient's health condition had her family not found out that medicines meant for her were being stolen and sold off.

Maru, who has been working at Dev Medical Store near the hospital for three years, could have simply bought back the medicines from the accused nurse. But he suspected something fishy about the whole thing and, like a dutiful citizen, promptly reported the matter to the patient's son.

50% Gays married, 14% were sexually abused as 7-yr-olds

Strap: Study conducted on 410 homosexuals in the cityreveals that around 50 per cent got married to hide their sexual orientation asthey feared social stigma; 14% sexually abused at age 7 or 8
Mrs and Mr Jignesh Mehta (name changed) were envied by many for their perfect love life. They were best friends in college and got married in 2010. Everything was fine till a third person walked into their life. What hurt Mrs Mehta was a secret her ‘best friend’ hid from her for years.  “I am a gay. I love you but I also love him,” he told his wife one night.  That was the last time they had a private conversation. Every meeting later was in the presence of divorce lawyers. Two years later, they parted ways.

City battles HIV drugs shortage

Around 40,000 HIV patients dependent on ART centres for treatment are at risk of missing their medication due to rising shortage in drugs The nationwide shortage of HIV drugs distributed at Anti retroviral Therapy (ART) cen tres has affected people in and around Ahmedabad too, with patients being turned away or given medicines for three days as opposed to the norm of six months. The reason, say experts, is National Aids Control Society's (NACO) delay in filing a tender for the supply of the medicine. The shortage, say doctors, is alarming because irregular consumption of medicines could lead to patients developing drug-resistant HIV.

Passport dept excuses curfew delays

Passport offices in the city accepteddocuments of applicants who failed to reach the offices for scheduledappointments on Wednesday due to curfew

With several passport seekers missing their appoint ments at the passport seva kendras on Wednesday due to the curfew, the city passport department on Thursday allowed walk-in interviews to facilitate the affected applicants. As per reports, only 40 per cent applicants made it for interviews on Wednesday. While exceptions were also made for applicants who reached after their scheduled time due to the curfew on Thursday, others will have to apply for a second appointment.

Maninagar police refuse to file FIR, play agony uncle

A helpless and distraught 22-year-old woman has beentrying to report her abusive husband to Maninagar police for the last twomonths. But the cops are apparently so 'concerned' about her family life andher son's future that they have been playing agony uncles instead ofregistering an FIR. According to the law, it is the statutory duty of a policeofficer to register an FIR whenever any information pertaining to a cognisableoffence is reported to him/her. However, despite approaching the cops fivetimes to report the alleged dowry harassment, an FIR has not been registered.Police inaction has only worsened Sarita Joshi's (name changed) plight. Herhusband, who allegedly used to thrash and abuse her when she was living withhim, now goes to her mother's house and allegedly beats up both the women.

KILL PILL

In blatant disregard forthe law, medical stores in the city are selling life-threatening abortion pillsto minors without seeking their age proof, doc’s prescription and an approvalletter by the guardian

Girls aged 10-19 years account for 11 per cent of all births worldwide and 23 per cent of the overall burden of disease (disability- adjusted life years) due to pregnancy and childbirth, according to World Health Organisation. Fourteen percent of all unsafe abortions in low-and middle-income countries are among girls aged 15–19 years. About 2.5 million adolescents have unsafe abortions every year, and they are more seriously affected by complications than are older women.

AIR-POCALYPSE

If commuting on Ashram Road makes you nauseous, don’t be shocked. You are breathing in the most polluted air in the city; industrial areas such as Narol and Odhav are less polluted

It might not shock you if told that Delhi is the most polluted city in the world (World Health Organisation report last year). But what if you get to know that the air you are breathing in aapnu Amdavad is more poisonous? Ahmedabad records the highest dangerous concentration of air pollutants in the country on certain days every month, if the data procured from the state’s first air quality index station in Maninagar is anything to go by.

But if you think that air pollution is highest in industrial areas, you are mistaken. The air in commercial and residential areas is most poisonous with highest concentration of unhealthy pollutants. Ashram Road and Sabarmati are the most polluted in the city, while air pollution is within limit in Narol and Odhav, data from Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) suggests (see box for pollution levels in different areas).

No place for the old

Harassed at home by their own kids, vulnerable and easy targets against crimes, Ahmedabad accounts for the highest number of cases against senior citizens in the state

— On June 13, a 29-year-old painter asked his mother to accompany him to a nearby field in Vatva. He gagged and raped her before abandoning her. When no one heard her cries, the shocked woman mustered courage to reach her daughter’s house in the same locality.

— Hemant Mehta, a 77-year-old retired government officer lives alone at a flat in Praladnagar. Recently when his eldest daughter Kinjal Mehta came to meet him, she found that Rs 50,000 was missing from the house. Police investigation revealed that one of the two nurses employed to look after him had stolen the money and escaped.

Blessed by tech, Blocked by babu

Sumita Singh, a 52-year-old Canadian citizen of Indian origin, came to aapnu Amdavad in February to make her family "complete". After a long wait, her prayers bore fruit when she held her surrogate daughter in her arms. It was a picture perfect moment for her. And the preparation to go back home started. However, she had not reckoned with the Indian bureaucracy and its ways.

Foreign Residents Registration Office (FRRO) in Ahmedabad, which grants exit visa to foreign couples' children born on Indian soil, has held back the document for the child on the ground that there is 1 per cent discrepancy between the DNA reports of the child and the parents. This, when according to medical experts, 90 per cent match is enough to conclude that baby belongs to a couple.

Denied passport twice, surrogate baby finally flies to Japan with mum

Following lack of clarity on the baby's nationality in the surrogacy certificate, the case was referred to MEA; passport officials later issued the child an identity certificate

A middle-aged Japanese couple who became parents of a child born to a surrogate mother through IVF (in-vitro fertilisation) had to face bureaucratic hurdles to procure a passport for their newborn.

Reason: According to the surrogacy certificate submitted to the passport office, the couple's embryo was transferred into the surrogate mother in September 2014, she tested positive for pregnancy in June 2014 and the baby was delivered in February this year.

If the conception took place before the embryo transfer, as the document issued by Anand-based Dr Nayna Patel stated, the child was clearly not theirs and therefore the nationality of the newborn was questionable.So, the officials at Regional Passport Office sought clarity on the matter from the commissioning parents.

US visa glitch - Students cancel tickets, worry getting late for first sem in US varsities

Several students who have securedadmission in US universities, have cancelled the tickets as their visa interviewshave been rescheduled

A technical glitch that has brought down the computer system for issuing visas and passports at US embassies worldwide will not be fixed until at least next week, according to reports. The issue has left hundreds of visa applicants in the city worried. Several students, who have enrolled in the US varsities that will soon begin their sessions, have been left in the lurch.

GANDHI LOST IN MODI'S MODEL

Ahmedabad'shallmark of consensual politics inherited from Gandhi is being replaced bytop-down private sector approach to urban development that has no room for thepoor. This is the conclusion of a study funded by Bill and Melinda GatesFoundation

SUSHILABEN MANIBHAI NAIDU, 44

The government did not provide any financial assistance while displacing us. We have created these huts with our savings. The place is very unsafe for girls and being a mother of four girls I am always concerned about their safety. My husband had written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that our entire family would commit suicide if we weren't provided with houses but we never got a response.