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Thursday, May 31, 2012
GREEN DRIVE ON RIGHT TRACK CR confident of 100% plastic ban in food sale
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Thursday hottest of month, but May was no scorcher
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Brace for floods this year too
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Civic body to crack down on bakeries
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Three Bhayandar youths drown at Arnala beach
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Diagnosis of multiple sclerosis better, but little awareness: Docs
Mumbai: Sudha Kulkarni (64) walks with the aid of a crutch. She limps a little but can still perform yoga with the support of a wall. It is this passion for practising and teaching yoga that has kept the Goregaon resident going, although she has been suffering from multiple sclerosis.
Sudha's problem started 18 years ago after she had a fall and broke two bones of her left leg. After this, she fell down twice within six months. "Even after undergoing surgeries and physiotherapy, my leg suffered complete numbness. Doctors found different reasons for the state of my leg," said Sudha. "However, in 2008 I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis," sheadded. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an auto-immune disease that affects the brain and spinal cord. Though the diagnosis of the disease has improved, there is hardly any improvement in the awareness. "Presently, there are about 5-15 cases in one lakh people in India. Diagnosis has become easy and there are new drugs to reduce relapse and improve the quality of a patient's life. However, there is lack of support from society for those who suffer from multiple sclerosis," said Dr B S Singhal, neurophysician at Bombay Hospital. Apart from physical barriers like lack of ramps for patients, there are social obstacles. Experts say that there is lack of compassion on part of the government. MS does not come under any disability quota, moreover, there is no insurance cover for patients, who have to buy medicines worth anywhere between Rs 3 and 6 lakh per year to avoid a relapse."It is vital that the government, health professionals and the public work towards improving policies and supporting people afflicted with MS," said Sheela Chitnis, vice-president of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of India. The Disorder
• Multiple sclerosis is an auto-immune disease that affects the brain and spinal cord. The disorder affects women more than men and is most commonly diagnosed between ages 20 and 40
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Monday, May 28, 2012
27 wedding guests killed in freak e-way mishap Worst Accident In 11 Years On Road To Pune
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Sunday, May 27, 2012
Mumbai buildings under salt attack?
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There will be floods: BMC warning for Parel a month before monsoon Survey shows due to technical problems, apart from cleaning drains there's little BMC can do to prevent flooding
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‘THE POWAI LAKE IS IN DANGER AND IS HEADED FOR A DISASTROUS SITUATION’
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High tobacco use in city worries docs
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Saturday, May 26, 2012
COUNTDOWN TO MONSOON 2012 Monsoon on mind, civic body eyes social media to give weather updates
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Expect monsoon to hit Mumbai on time: IMD
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E-way to get air ambulance State Also Plans Trauma Centre For Mishap Victims
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Businessman mugged near police station in Bandra (E)
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
City fumes after petrol price hike Latest Increase Sees Rate Near 80-Mark
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Petrol price up 7.92 to 78.58, sharpest hike ever
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Flood-prone Hindmata, Mithi on civic radar
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Monday, May 21, 2012
Parel rly stn is a disaster waiting to happen
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THE 2-MINUTE READ SNORERS AT HIGHER RISK OF DYING FROM CANCER
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5 bridges already useless in less than 15 yrs
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BMC to urge people to take up rainwater harvesting
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Sunday, May 20, 2012
Cough syrup takes more teens on a trip Codeine Addiction Catches Fancy Of Adolescents In City
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BMC & police chiefs step out to ‘clean city’
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
RAIL TRAGEDY Stunt duo ducks suddenly, victim caught unawares
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Citizens at risk as hawkers prevent access to rly stns
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Monday, May 14, 2012
Cops want all rental deals reported Defaulting Tenants, Estate Agents & Landlords Face Action
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822 trees to be hacked in city for utility projects
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Sunday, May 13, 2012
26/11: This time, a mock drill
Those awaiting long-distance trains at CST early on Sunday froze as a group of young men dressed like terrorist Ajmal Qasab stormed in around 2 am; until the Railways announced that it not a terror attack
Minutes later, another group – this one wearing battle fatigues of the state's newly formed elite counter-terror outfit, Force One, took up strategic positions.
It took an announcement on the railway public address system, that every bit of action at the station was part of a mock drill, to calm the passengers who, by then, had begun to panic, mistaking the action to be a real terror attack.
According to officials, it was not a very coordinated effort. The plan to carry out a mock drill in the suburban section of the stations – the first seven platforms – fell flat when the Force One teams were confronted with the sight of scores of photojournalists running around to take vantage positions to click from.
The mock drill had to be confined to the Main Line section – on platform No 10 – though officials later said that it would have been far better if mock drills could have been carried out on both suburban and Main Line sections of the sprawling terminus.
Senior railway officials, who were unaware of the mock drill, rushed within almost half an hour into the drill to ensure that panic on part of the passengers did not escalate into something drastic.
Several constables of Railway Protection Force (RPF) and officials took up the job of controlling the crowd of commuters. This, even as a few officials of the RPF and the Force One monitored the mock drill on the closed-circuit television system that covers the 18 platforms at CST.
The drill lasted for almost a couple of hours, from around 2 am to 4 am.
Force One officials refused to comment on the drill, saying it was a routine one to ensure that newer methods of counter-terror could de devised in real time.
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
CAN YOU FEEL THE HEAT? Another Antarctic ice shelf under threat
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