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Gymkhana manager held in Chembur body parts case

November 6, 2013

Gymkhana_managerMumbai, Nov 6: With the arrest of a gymkhana manager on Tuesday, the Chembur police claimed to have solved the mystery of the body parts of a woman that were found Chembur and Trombay last week.

The police said Prabhakar Shetty (31), manager of Chembur Gymkhana, killed 36-year-old fashion designer Kanta Shetty and cut her body into pieces in the bathroom of his first floor flat at Subhash Nagar in Chembur with a sharp knife and dumped the body parts in Chembur and Trombay.

“We have booked Prabhakar under Sections 302 (murder) and 201 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). He will be produced before the court on Wednesday,” said Prahlad Panaskar, senior police inspector of Chembur police station, adding that Prabhakar also showed the nullah at Shell Colony in Chembur where he dumped the head of Kanta.

The police are yet to trace the hands and the blood-stained knife. “During the interrogation it was revealed that Prabhakar and Kanta met each other two-and-half year’s ago on a train to Mangalore and they became close friends,” Panaskar said, adding that Kanta started pressurising him to marry her.

Fed up with the mental torture, Prabhakar decided to kill her. “On the night of October 29, Kanta visited Prabhakar’s flat. They had a fight. Then Prabhakar took her to the bathroom and slit her throat with a knife. He chopped her hands, legs and head and put them in four big polythene bags,” said the official.

The police said Prabhakar hired an autorickshaw and told the driver that he wanted to dispose of puja articles. He then reached Charai lake in Chembur at 9.45pm and dumped the torso concealed in polythene bags. Then he returned home in the same auto.

“Later, he hired another autorickshaw and threw the hands and legs in the mangroves in the Trombay creek and returned home. After that he took another rickshaw to throw the head in a Shell Colony nullah in Chembur,” the official added.

The police said the incident came to light on November 4 when the victim’s elder sister Suhasini Shetty lodged a missing person’s complaint at Sakinaka and suspected Prabhakar’s involvement.

The missing person’s descriptions matched with descriptions of torso and limbs of a woman found at Chembur and Trombay, respectively. The Chembur police rushed to the spot and interrogated Prabhakar Shetty. During interrogation, Prabhakar confessed to the crime.

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January 29,2020

Jan 29: Multiple organisations have called for a Bharat Bandh today in order to protest against the recently passed Citizenship Amendment Act and the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC). The Bharat  Bandh today has been organised in Surat in Gujarat, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh. Increased security measures have been put in place in the three states keeping in view the call for shutdown.

According to media reports, the call for Bharat Bandh was given by Maulana Sajjad Nomani of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB). This was to protest against the controversial CAA-NRC. This call is supported by an NGO based in Surat, Versatile Minorities Forum (VMF). Apart from the VMF, the call for strikes has been supported by organizations such as Bahujan Kranti Morcha, National Association of Street Vendors of India Surat chapter and the Textile Market Workers' Union.

The workers of the VMF were also spotted distributing pamphlets and urging people to support the strike. Several shopkeepers have also put up notices stating that their shops will be shut for the day.

Earlier, Bharat Bandh was called by 10 trade unions and several bank employees in order to protest against the "anti-people policies of the government" on January 8 and 9. A few violent incidents during this Bharat Bandh were reported in West Bengal.

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July 30,2020

New Delhi, Jul 30: Even as COVID-19 cases continue to surge in various parts of India, more than 1 million people have recovered and discharged till now, informed Rajesh Bhushan, Secretary, Ministry of Health, here on Thursday.

"More than 1 million people have recovered from COVID-19 in the country. This landmark recovery has been achieved because of the selfless work and dedication of our doctors, nurses and frontline workers," Bhushan said at a press conference.

Giving the number of cured persons, Bhushan said, "More than 1,020,000 patients have recovered. They have been discharged. It is a great achievement."

He said, "The recovery rate has shown positive trends. It was 7.85 per cent in April and today it is 64.4 per cent, which is another heartening news which tells us that whatever battle is put by the Union government in collaboration with state governments is showing results."

"Sixteen states of the country have a recovery rate that is more than the national average. Of these, Delhi has a recovery rate of 88 per cent, Ladakh 80 per cent, Haryana 78 per cent, Assam 76 per cent, Telangana 74 per cent, Tamil Nadu & Gujarat 73 per cent, Rajasthan 70 per cent, Madhya Pradesh 69 per cent and Goa 68 per cent," Bhushan said.

He said effective clinical management lead to a decrease in case fatality rate. In June it was 3.33 per cent and now 2.21 per cent.

Bhushan said the case fatality rate in India today is 2.21 per cent and it's among the lowest in the world. Twenty-four states and Union Territories have lesser fatality rate than that of the country.

Herd immunity in a country of the size and population of India can not be a strategic option. It can only be achieved through immunisation.

"Over 18,190,000 tests have been conducted in the country including RT-PCR and rapid antigen tests. There has been a week-on-week increase in average tests per day. India is conducting 324 test per 10 lakhs population per day," Bhushan said.

He added, three vaccine candidates, are in phase 3 clinical trial. These three are in the US, UK and China. In India, two indigenously developed vaccine candidates are in phase I and II of clinical trials. 

Trial of the first vaccine involves 1,150 subjects at eight sites, second on 1,000 subjects at five sites.

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June 30,2020

Mumbai, Jun 30: Senior Congress leader and former Union minister Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday demanded a ban on NaMo app alleging that it was violating privacy of Indians.

The former Maharashtra chief minister also alleged that the NaMo app, the official mobile phone application of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, surreptitiously changes the privacy settings and sends data to third party companies in the US.

"Its good that Modi government is protecting privacy of 130 crore Indians by banning 59 Chinese apps. The NaMo app also violates privacy of Indians by accessing 22 data points, surreptitiously changing the privacy settings and sending data to third party companies in the US," Chavan tweeted.

India on Monday banned 59 apps with Chinese links, including hugely popular TikTok and UC Browser, saying they were prejudicial to sovereignty, integrity and security of the country.

The move came against the backdrop of the border stand-off with China and recent clash in Galwan Valley in which 20 Indian soldiers were killed.

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