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.

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.

`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.

DEAD BODY

More than 80 per cent cases of negligence and malpractice registered with Gujarat Medical Council have been pending foryears; GMC cries manpower crunch
The Gujarat Medical Council (GMC), a statutory body which is authorised to handle cases related to medical malpractice and negligence, has been twiddling its thumbs for a long time now -more than 80 per cent of the cases registered with the body have been pending for years.

In the past 10 years, more than 1,300 cases have been recorded with the council from various parts of Gujarat. However, only in 223 cases, justice has been delivered.

Up in smoke

Severalof the 60 CCTV cameras installed in city’s industrialunits to monitorpollution lie defunct; GPCB issues notices, takes no action
Thick smoke rises menacingly from the chimney of an industrial unit in the city. It spreads to nearby areas, permeating the respiratory tracts of unwary Amdavadis and increasing their mortality by causing respiratory infections and diseases, lung cancer, and other cardiovascular diseases. This could easily have been prevented had Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) properly implemented its plan to install CCTV cameras to keep a watch over industrial units and monitor emissions.

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.

Illegal kilns thrive, harm environment, brick by brick

GPCB says around 60 of the 75 kilns inthe city operate in an unauthorised manner as they do not have the board’s NOC.However, the board has not taken action yet as it is ‘short-staffed’

A growing number of unauthorised brick kilns in the city are posing environmental concerns and health hazards. According to Gujarat Pollution Control Board’s (GPCB) report submitted to State Environment Ministry on July 24, around 60 of the 75 kilns in the city are illegal.

IN DEEP WATER

The Centre has identified 34,846 habitations in Gujarat considered arsenic andfluoride-affected even as the state government sits on more than Rs 150 croreprovided for the purpose

Thousands of people across the state have been condemned to drink groundwater with naturally high quantities of arsenic and fluoride that can have serious repercussions on their health, according to the central government. However, the Gujarat government has turned a blind eye to the concerns raised by the Centre asserting that not a single case of fluorosis and arsenicosis has been reported from the state. To top it all, a sanctioned sum of over Rs 150 crore by the Union government meant for ‘arsenic and fluoride-affected habitations’ remains unused.

Government and private hospitals have maintained that they have been steadily receiving patients with ailments caused by arsenic and fluoride, but the state continues to maintain an ostrich-like approach to the grave situation.

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.

Body blow

While more and more Amdavadis aredonating their bodies for advancement of science, medical colleges refuse toaccept them citing lack of facility to preserve bodies or reluctance to workafter office hours

While medical colleges across the country are struggling to meet shortage of cadavers, city colleges are turning away donors' bodies. Lack of infrastructure to preserve the bodies is the reason that colleges like NHL and Sola give while refusing to accept the donations. LG and BJ medical colleges accept bodies, provided it is brought during office hours.

Ushmaben Shah, a 79-year-old cancer patient who breathed her last on May 22, 2015, wanted to donate her body to benefit medical students.But this noble approach hit a roadblock when medical colleges refused to take her body citing several excuses.

Banks lead list of tax-payers

Axis bank tops chart for sixth year;telecom, infra and pharma sectors follow suit. Gujarat is growing and so is tax collection in the state. The size of the bag has increased by 21.89 per cent over last year's collec tion. And this time again, banking sector leads the tax payers' list with Axis Bank topping the chart for the sixth consecutive year. It is followed by Vodafone, Adani Port and SEZ, Gujarat Mineral Developmental Corporation, Sun Pharma and Gujarat Gas.

GUJ MISSES TAX TARGET BY 4K CR

Eleven of the top 18 taxdefaulters in the country are from state. Huge tax-to-GDP collection gap led toshortfall, say experts

Gujarat seems to be following Prime Minister Narendra Modi blindly. People from the state seem to have latched on to his idea that the state does not pass on any tax to the Centre and, in turn, does not seek any aid for it. Gujaratis seem to have taken his statement a bit seri ously. This year, they have paid less taxes.

With the Centre likely to miss the revised target of direct tax collection by around Rs 40,000 crore, Gujarat has emerged as one of the worst performing states with its direct tax collections falling short of meeting the target by more than Rs 4,000 crore.

F(L)UTILE

Prevention is better than cure,they say. But shortage of swine flu vaccines is making it a tough advice tofollow. Flu season has hit Gujarat hard, with experts predicting it to growworse. As death toll rises to 108 in the state this season, shortage ofvaccines is stoking people's fears. "I recently learned that we could vaccinate ourselves against swine flu. I visited four big pharmacies and several small ones across the city but was unable to find anyone stocking the vaccine.

Why is it not available to the common man?" asks Viren Patel, a 34-year-old Bodakdev resident working with a private firm. Monica Raval, a 28-year-old homemaker from Prahladnagar, says, "There are two types of vaccines available: shots and nasal spray. I am pregnant and cannot take the nasal spray which is unsafe for children. I have put my entire family on vaccine watch. They have been to many pharmacies across the city but were unable to find even one that stocked flu shots.'

HOW JUVENILE

State registered a 51% increase in crimes against children in just a year, says NCRB. But who cares!

The district Child WorkingCommittees (CWC), the final authority to dispose of cases related to protectionand rehabilitation of children, are short of members

*Existing CWC members do not meet regularly

*Selection panel that chooses members of CWC has not been formed yet

Crimes against children in the state have surged by 51 per cent in just a year as per the 2013 data provided by the National Crime Records Bureau. These include child abuse, child labour and exploitation to name a few.In 2012, there were 1,327 such cases.However, in 2013, as many as 2,000 cases were registered across Gujarat. Several of these cases, which violate child rights and require victim's protection, go to the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) formed in each district of the state.

TAINTED TRANSFUSION

Sunita Mishra, a21-year-old student from Ahmedabad, met with a car accident in 2012 on her wayto grandparents' home in Vadodara. She was admitted to a private hospital in acritical condition. She was discharged a few days later. However, every month,her parents have to go to civil hospital to collect her medicines. Reason: Sunita had been infected with HIV after being administered tainted blood during treatment.

While Gujarat is peddling med ical tourism to the world, as many as 2,500 people in the state have contracted HIV through blood transfusion in six years. In reply to an application filed under the Right to Information Act, the Union ministry of health and welfare revealed that the state stood highest with 271 cases of HIV infections caused by blood transfusion. The shocker is that Gujarat has continuously recorded the highest number of cases in past six years. Experts attribute infections to medical negligence and rampant malpractice among blood banks.

RTI to the rescue of Amdavadis

Mirror highlights fewsuccess stories that may not be of public interest but cases of injustice,personal vendetta or simple lacuna in govt functioning

The Right to Information has be come an effective tool for citizens to bring to light the inade quacies in the government functioning and seek justice.

There are Amdavadis who have got justice after getting information under RTI, but there are many others whose cases have been disposed of or they have been made to run from department to department for information but to no avail.