No escape from heat

not even in death. The stench outside the post-mortem room at the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital is unbearable. The reason: Six of the seven cold storage chambers at the morgue are out of order. The searing heat has aggravated the woes of hospital staff who are compelled to store two bodies in one box and preserve them using ice slabs. But the bodies continue to rot, attracting maggots and spreading a stink that has left everyone squirming except the...

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IS THIS GOVT’S IDEA OFGOING GREEN?

Roads & buildings dept is chopping 200 trees at Sachivalaya to create space for new roads, landscaping, fountains The New Sachivalaya in Gandhinagar will get better roads and lighting, fountains and an artificial waterfall under a Rs 15-crore project aimed at giving the place a new look. It will, however, lose some of its oldest residents: trees. At least 200 trees on the campus, some 100 years old, are going to be cut to create space...

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RIL’S OFFICE UNDER SIEGE

Angry Reliance petrol pump owners who have been outpriced by public sector petroleum companies lay siege to RIL’s Paldi office, demanding the company return the money they have invested Around 100 petrol pump dealers barged into Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) office at Vraj building near Parimal crossing around 2 pm on Wednesday, demanding refund of their investments. Claiming losses worth millions of rupees over the past four years because...

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The Mystery of the Indian who fasts for more than 70 years.

Guarded 24 hours over 24 in a hospital for two weeks, Prahlad Jani has not eaten or drunk anything.Tags: INDIA, Prahlad Jani, Mataji. After two weeks of continuous observations, scientists do not understand how this ascetic Hindu survives 83 years, claiming that he has not eaten or drunk since the age of 8 years. Blessed at the age of 8 years by the goddess Amba Mata, Prahlad Jani, 83 years, going from water and food. At least that is what the...

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Swapnil Joshi and Ami Trivedi in Optimystix new fiction for SAB TV

Optimystix and SAB TV will now be working on the adaptation of popular writer Shahabuddin Rathod, which will have Swapnil Joshi and Ami Trivedi as leads.. Optimystix, after the success of Sajan Re Jhoot Mat Bolo is now working towards their second fiction show for SAB TV, which will be based on the literary works of the very popular orator cum writer of Gujarat, Shahabuddin Rathod. As per our source, "Shahabuddin Rathod is a famous orator whose...

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Air India’s Mangalore Plane crash [Video] is eleventh big air disaster of India

New Delhi, May 22 (IANS) The Air India’s plane collapse at the Mangalore airfield in which over 160 persons died Saturday is the eleventh big air disaster that includes Indian carriers or in the nation’s air field since 1962. - July 7, 1962: Alitalia Flight 771 from Sydney crashed into a hill about 84 km north-east of Mumbai while on approach, killing all 94 people on board. - Jan 1, 1978: Air India Flight 855 bound for Dubai crashed about 3 km off...

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Scorcher

Just as a US-based weather site predicted and Mirror reported five days back, mercury touched 46 degrees on Friday. Desert-ed: Hot roads, killing heat, almost-nil greenery. Ahmedabad is burning What Met Dept’s Kamaljit Ray told Mirror on May 15 There is no chance of temperature reaching 46 degrees Celsius. The IMD is official, and may I add, most reliable when it comes to predicting weather. Don’t rely on such websites, American or whatever,...

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Plane lies laid bare

This picture clicked by a villager minutes after a Cessna crash-landed near Gota on May 14 proves conclusively that there were only two girls in the aircraft. That there were two women in the Cessna plane that crash-landed in a field near Gota on May 14 can no longer be called just a supposition. In all probability, it’s a fact. Mirror — which, on the basis of witnesses’ account, had disputed the official theory that a female trainee pilot and...

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Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)

Future Innoversity (An initiative of future human development ltd) Invite applications for admission to MBA MBA: Retail; Entrepreneurship 2 year full time masters degree programmes designed by industry experts from India’s leading retail enterprise and the world’s largest open university Unique features of the programme: MBA degrees awarded by IGNOU are recognized by AICTE; certificate of field training awarded by the future group; full time...

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Sachin comes to aid of bed-ridden friend

The battle between optimists and pessimists has been decided in the former’s favour, and man of the match is Dalbir Singh Gill. When Ahmedabad Mirror broke the story of this man, who was rescued by cops from his wife’s year-long captivity in his own house (One year as wife’s hostage, April 4), the conscientious among us prayed that God should not put even enemies through such an ordeal. Mentally and physically shattered Dalbir was rescued from his...

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Delhi serial blasts accused given copy charge-sheet

A city court Thursday handed over a copy of the charge sheet to the two suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorists accused of involvement in the 2008 Delhi serial blasts. Delhi police filed the charge sheet against Salman Ahmed and Mohammad Shahzad May 15. The defence will give its reply on the charges to Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja May 24. Baweja May 5 allowed police 10 days' time to file a charge sheet against Shahzad and Salman, arrested...

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Will it touch 46 degree Celsius?

City will see the mercury rise to 46 degrees Celsius on May 21 and 22, according to an American weather website; Met dept says no chance If an American weather website is to be believed, May 21 and 22 will see the city at its hottest worst. According to www.weather.com, reputed as the most comprehensive and accurate weather guide for the world, it’s going to be a merciless 46 degrees Celsius on May 21 and 22 (Friday and Saturday). The hottest day...

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4 Questions for cops

Charging cops with inaction, public went on a rampage at the Sanand police station on Thursday over the abduction and subsequent murder of a teenager. Two persons, including the kidnapped youngster’s classmate, have been arrested. Two are still on the run. The body of the 16-year-old Shaktisinh Zala was recovered from a well of a house under construction at a deserted place at Goraj, 6 km off Sanand. The boy went missing on Tuesday night. He...

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Census skirts Bopal

Census 2010, country’s biggest population count exercise, is yet to take off in Bopal.Reason: Collector’s office and AMC were at oggerheads over their jurisdiction Though the Census work in the state teed off on April 21 with much hype, the survey work is yet to take off in Bopal, the much-advertised satellite town on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. Reason: Confusion over who would conduct the survey. While AMC turned down the Census department’s...

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Stop Work

With the state government fixing new zones for Bopal’s town planning (TP) schemes, the Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (Auda) on Tuesday asked builders to immediately stop construction work in the satellite town. The edict has rattled developers, already upset with the new zoning policy that restricts construction of high-rises in developed areas of Bopal.  According to an estimate, the freeze order will affect 35 residential and commercial...

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AMC gym bldg in Bodakdev ready

The gym being set up by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC)  at Bodakdev is complete. The gym is in the municipal garden near Western India Automobile Association (WIAA). The corporation will also construct a gym for women in Shahibaug. This will be the city’s first-ever woman’s gym. The civil work on the Bodakdev gym building is complete. Soon equipment will be installed, for which the civic body has already floated tenders. It will have cardio gym equipment like motorised treadmill, elliptical cross trainer, recumbent bike, upright bike,...

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Expired drugs: Rajasthan govt stamp found on packets

The doctor remanded in police custody after 155 expired drugs were found in police raids from his residence, clinic In a significant development in the ‘expired drug racket’ investigations, the Bhavnagar police have found the insignia (stamp) of the Rajasthan Government on the medicines sold to the main accused, Dr Hemal Mehta. Bhavnagar Food and Drugs Control Authority (FDCA) Commissioner Deepika Singh said, “The Lignocain Gel — an anesthetic...

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