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Walk-a- thon: 2020Apollo Hospitals, NaviMumbai along with theCancer Survivors is orga-nizing a Cancer Aware-ness Initiative ‘Walk-a-thon:2020’ with an aim to spreadawareness on Cancer on9th February, 2020 from7.30 AM. The walkathonwill be flagged off at ApolloHospitals, Navi Mumbaiand will go to Jewel of NaviMumbai, Sector 26, Nerulcovering a distance of 3KM

MaharashtraSafai Karmachari

CommissionPresident visits

NMMCMukesh Sonu Sarwan,president, MaharashtraSafai Karmachari Commis-sion paid a visit to the NaviMumbai Municipal Corpo-ration to review the prob-lems of sewage and sani-tation workers…

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KTWA’s effortsfinally yield resultsThe persistent effort ofKharghar Taloja WelfareAssociation (KTWA) to getthe potholed roads re-paired has finally yieldedresults. The City and In-dustrial Development Cor-poration (CIDCO) hasstarted the road repairwork at Sector 35 and 36of Kharghar…

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NAVI MUMBAI: The department ofSports and Culture of the Navi Mum-bai Municipal Corporation (NMMC)has organised One Act Play compe-tition between 10th to 12th February,2020 at Vishnudas Bhave Audotori-um, Vashi with an aim to provideplatform to the local artistes to show-case their talent at state level com-petitions.

In this competition more than 21plays will be staged. The competitionhas no preliminary round and hencethe artistes will be performing di-rectly in the final round.

Judges for the competition will beDirector Purushottam Berde, ActorVijay Patkar and Pallavi Patil. Theprogramme will be inaugurated on

Navi Mumbai Mayor‘One Act Play’ competition

between 10th to 12th February

10th February at 10 am and prize dis-tribution ceremony will be held on12th February at 6p.m.

Fire breaks out inhigh rise building in

Navi MumbaiSeven firemen injured

By Crime Reporter

NAVI MUMBAI:Seven firemenwere injuredduring a rescueoperation after afire broke out inthe 21 storeyapartment ‘SeaHomes’ at PalmBeach Road onSaturday, 8th

February, 2020.The fire was

triggered byshort circuit on20th floor. Allresidents wererescued from20th floor byfiremen. Howev-er, while dousing thefire, seven firemenwere injured due to

the explosion ofcylinder on the same

floor.The flat is owned

by Chandrakant

Bhansali, a builder,who lives with his

wife, son and daugh-

Contd. on pg. 2Contd. on pg. 2

By Nikhil Nandeshwar

NAVI MUMBAI: It iswidely considered thatmigration of birds canbe spotted or seen atthe forests, at the bayof rivers or alongsidethe sea. However,contrary to thisphenomenon, gullsmainly black headedgulls can be seen atVashi near dream wallat sector 8.

Golden opportunityfor ornithologists to

see gulls at Vashi

“Those who areinterested in ornithol-ogy can see thesebirds closely early inthe morning neardream wall at sector8,Vashi and at ‘I loveNavi Mumbai’ selfiepoint,” says Corpora-tor ward no. 64, DivyaGaikwad.

“In recent times

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SCHEDULE OF PROPERTYFlat bearing No.101, Society known as Viceroy Park Co-Op. HousingSociety Ltd., on Plot No.3, Sector-18, Sanpada, Navi Mumbai, Tal.& Dist. Thane.

ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS LOST BY MY CLIENTa) Original Agreement For Sale.b) Registration Receipt of Agreement For Sale.Hence all those concerned or who have any information about theDocument or having claim, charge or lien upon the property moreparticularly described in the schedule are hereby invited to put theirclaims, objections in writing at the office of the undersigned during theworking hours within 15 days of Publication of hereof.Dated day of February 2020

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SCHEDULE OF THE PROPERTY ABOVE REFERRED TOFlat no. I - 350, on the 5th Floor, in Army Welfare Society,Raghunath Vihar, Sector – 14, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai – 410210, Tal Panvel, Dist – Raigad.

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ter in law along withgrandchildren. Afterelectricity supply wentoff, ChandrakantBhansali went tocheck the supply inbuilding. He sawsmoke coming out ofthe supply. He imme-diately sensed that fireis spreading andinformed all theresidents and got downon the ground floor. Heimmediately called thefire officials. Whiledousing the fire on the

Fire breaksout in high...

Contd. from pg. 1

floor, seven firemenD.V.Koli, G.B.Gade,

J.D.Joshi , J B Bhoye,T. J. Thakare, M. T.Pawar and D. M.Jawale were injured.They all are admittedin National Burn

Hospital, Airoli.According to thereports from thehospital, they havesustained around 20%burn injuries.

gulls are spotted inhuman-adapted areasand can often be seen intowns acting as scaven-

gers. Known for theirmellifluous voice, thegulls are the highly

versatile predators,skilled at handlingobject and foraging,”says Dr. Raju Kasam-

be, Assistant Director,Bombay NaturalHistory Society.

Golden opportunity...Contd. from pg. 1


By Chandrashekhar Hendve

NAVI MUMBAI: RotaryClub of Satellite Cityconducted the combinedsession on MenstrualHygiene managementand New Age solutionsfor the students of Ster-ling College of Com-merce, which was con-ducted by Smart Presi-dent 19-20 Dr SupriyaLad of RC Thane Pre-mium.

RC Satellite Cityclub member Rtn Son-al Modi who is also theAvenue Co-chair ofWinS in District 3142said, “Rotary IndiaWinS Program is a panIndia campaign initiat-ed by Rotary. Menstru-

Rotary Club of Satellite City spreads awareness on Menstrual Hygiene

al Hygiene is one of theprogrammes but thekey feature of the WinScampaign is to ensurethat governmentschools in India have aset of functioning and

well maintained water,sanitation and hygienefacilities. Water, sanita-tion and hygiene inschools refers to a com-bination of technicaland human develop-

ment components thatare necessary to devel-op and support appro-priate health and hy-giene behaviour amongchildren leading to ahealthy school environ-

ment.”A total of 98 stu-

dents participated inthe event. The otheractivities which Rotary

Club of Satellite City isinvolved is Cataractsurgeries, Blood dona-tion camps, Literacyetc.

Panvel Sangharsh Samitidemand portraits of former

CM A.R. Antulay andD.B.Patil in CIDCO HallBy Staff Reporter

NAVI MUMBAI:Panvel SangharshSamiti has demandedthe installation of theportraits of formerChief Minister ofMaharashtra Barris-ter A. R. Antulay andD.B.Patil in theadministrative hall ofthe City andIndustrialDevelop-mentCorporation)CIDCOBhavan andothergovern-mentsoffices inRaigaddistrict.

Barrister A. R.Antulay was instru-mental in the develop-ment of Konkanregion, said a memberof the Samiti. “Barris-ter A.R. Antulay wasborn in Raigaddistrict, he wascentral minister inDr. Manmohan Singhled UPA governmenttwice. During histenure as CentralHealth Minister hehad started Poliovaccination pro-gramme pan Indialevel,” he added.

“Sanjay GandhiNiradhar Yojna” wasflagship projectstarted by him andstill continues,” saidKantilal Kadu ofSangharsh Samiti.

“His birth anniver-sary is on9th February. Byhaving his portrait in

government offices, areal homage will bepaid by the Maharash-tra government,” hestressed.

D.B.Patil wasformer leader ofopposition in Maha-rashtra assembly.Under his dynamicleadership manydevelopment projectswere completed. ‘Hehad resigned to opposethe Mandal Commi-sion. His fight for thefarmers is well knownin the area” saidanother member ofthe Samiti.

Jitendra Gharat is new president and Prashant Thakurnew advisor of Shell India Employees Union

PANVEL: Talojabased Shell Indiaemployees union haselected PrashantThakur as its advisorand Jitendra Gharatas the president.

Banner displayingunit information was

unveiled at the handsof MLA PrashantThakur. On theoccasion Unionpresident JitendraGharat, Jai BharatiyaGeneral Kamgarunion Vice presidentPandurang Patil,

Vinod Patil, SDachinPatil, Union secretaryRamdas Ghondhali,vice president SunilPati, Yasin Shaikh,Anil Pawashe,Jayram Jadhav,SurajHarishchandrakar,Santosh Gharat,

Ankush Bhoir BalKhutarkar, PramodJoshi, Companymanagement HR SujitKulkarni,RajeevKadam, SagarKarulkar, Siddharthalong with otherworkers were present.

The workers of Taloja based Balmer Lorry and company unveiled the banner of Jai Bhartiya General Kamgar Sangath-ana at the hands of MLA Prashant Thakur.


Issue : 238 9 February, 2020

Commencement of road repair work at sector -35 and 36 of Kharghar

Kharghar Taloja Welfare Association’sefforts finally yield results

By Ryhea George

KHARGHAR: Thepersistent effort ofKharghar TalojaWelfare Association(KTWA) to get thepotholed roads re-paired has finallyyielded results. TheCity and IndustrialDevelopment Corpora-tion (CIDCO) hasstarted the road repairwork at Sector 35 and36 of Kharghar.

“CIDCO hadassured the com-mencement of roadrepair from 5thFebruary. However, asthere was no sign ofthe promise beingfulfilled even after thesaid deadline, theKTWA decided to startan andolan as thatwas the only optionleft,” said MangeshRanawade, Chairmanof KTWA. The

andolan was staged infront of CIDCO officialsin their premises. “Themembers gatheredfrom 11am till 4pm.The officials finallycomplied and theworks have beenstarted,” he added. Theexecutive engineer MrRaghuvanshi, Engi-neer Mr Panndulehave assured that thework would be com-pleted in two months.

Changing sedentary lifestyle“Health is wealth” thus goes the (old) saying. In the present

times this saying, however, seems to have lost its meaning atleast for a large section of urban populace. Leaving those in showbiz and sports, rarely do we find people giving due importance tohealth. The lifestyles in cities have become sedentary and “lateto bed and late to rise makes a man wealthy and wise” has re-placed the otherwise popular saying. The health to wealth rela-tionship is inversely proportional in the present scenario whereearning wealth if required at the cost of even health, is more prev-alent.

The health has taken backseat in today’s life, but this is notthe end but beginning of more difficult problems, sometimes evengrave than the dearth of wealth. Obesity and its associated prob-lems of heart diseases and diabetes have multiplied at an alarm-ing rate. The sheer pace at which these urban diseases are grow-ing has pressed the panic button in the urbanites. Sooner or laterthey are realizing that striking a balance between the desire toearn and requirement of maintaining a good health is mandatoryin the long term. This has led to the need for urban health carecentres, more so in environment where people have money tospend and no impulse to take care of health the natural way. Healthcare centres equipped with physical trainers and loads of import-ed machines have propped up in every nook and corner of thecity luring people with catchy advertisements. Their promise toset the things right in the shortest possible time is all the moreluring, as time is one commodity, which is scarce in the metropo-lis. Even if this service is available at an exorbitant cost.

In the days when most of the health care centres are makinghay, many spurious centres have also propped up in the neigh-borhood to have the piece of cake. They are promising wondersat nominal cost without any expert trainers or methodologies.Some have come up with magic equipments, others with wonderdrugs or wonder drinks promising to solve all health related prob-lems without any medicine or exercise. Many of such centres arefly-by-night operators who collect fee from large number of peo-ple and wind up one fine night. Also, there have been incidenceswhere more damage has been done, than any good, due to igno-rance and ill-trained instructors.

Maintaining health the natural way is the best solution. If atall, in an environment with cut- throat competition, it becomesunavoidable to pay less attention to health as a matter of surviv-al, then choosing a good reputed health care centre is the rightsolution. Also the government should formulate sound regulationsin issuing licences to these centres so that an average citizendoes not get cheated by the spurious operators.

CR, Indian Oil To Vie For GloryIn Men’s Rink Hockey Final

By Ashok Dhamija

Central Railway,Mumbai will take on astar-studded Indian Oil,New Delhi in the Men’sfinal of the 39th VictorD’Mello Memorial Invi-tational Rink HockeyTournament 2020 orga-nised by WillingdonCatholic Gymkhana andplayed at its floodlit Ten-nis Courts on Fridayevening.

In a keenly contestedsemi-final encounter,Central Railway over-came a hard fought winagainst Uncle’s Kitchen,Malad in their high scor-ing 5-4 win. Narad Ba-hadur struck two goalswhile Mohd. Nizamud-din, Anup Walmiki andRajendra Pawar scoredone each for the railmen.On the other handYuvraj Walmiki scored abrace of goals while his

younger sibling Dev-ender and Tyron Perei-ra scored one goal eachfor Uncles Kitchen.

In the other semisIndian Oil got the bet-ter of a determinedUnion bank of India,Mumbai by a narrow 3-2 margin. Former Indi-

Cont. on pg. 7

Olympian Dhanraj Pillaiscored two goals in theVeteran's semifinal matchfor Rebels SC (File Photo)

an internationalsVikramkanth, V.R. Ra-ghunath and TalwinderSingh scored a goal eachto secure Indian Oil’svictory. Union Bankwho put up a spiritedfight before going downfighting scored throughVinod Saini and PrinceChaurasia.

The Women finalswill be contested be-tween Bombay Republi-cans and Sporting LionsFoundation who regis-tered contrasting victo-ries over their rivalsFreunds SC (6-5) andSea View SC (7-0) respec-tively.

Meanwhile, four-time hockey OlympianDhanraj Pillai scoredtwo goals in leadingRebels SC to a 5-2 winagainst Bombay Repub-

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HC panel asks Environment Department to look into JNPT mangrove ‘violations’NAVI MUMBAI: The

High Court appointedMangrove Protectionand Conservation Com-mittee has asked theState EnvironmentDepartment and Ma-harashtra CoastalZone Management Au-thority (MCZMA) tolook into the com-plaints of mangrovedestruction in JNPTarea.

E n v i r o n m e n tgroups and fisher-men’s forum had ear-lier complained to theCommittee againstmassive killing ofmangroves in the ex-pansion of JNPT’s4th Container Termi-nal. The groups havealso objected to the rec-lamation of 110 hect-ares of the sea for theproject as it could haveserious environmentrepercussions.

Acting on a com-plaint from environ-ment non-profit com-pany NatConnectFoundation, MCZMAhad earlier has askedthe Konkan Divisional

Commissioner andRaigad District Collec-tor to give “due priori-ty” to the issue and fileinspection reports.

Subsequently, ajoint inspection by the

revenue and forestteams have confirmedthat “several’ man-groves have dried updue to blocking of wa-ter flow, SandeepBhandari, a revenueofficial, said

The mangrove com-mittee at its Januarymeeting has trans-ferred the matter tothe Environment de-partment for appropri-ate action, said D Sta-

lin, a panel memberwho also heads Van-ashakti Foundation.

“As per the infor-mation given to us inresponse to our RTI ap-plication MCZMA,

while giving environ-mental clearance toJNPT, had clearlystipulated no construc-tion should be done onmangroves or withinthe 50 mtr buffer zonefrom the sea plants,”

said B N Kumar, direc-tor of NatConnect.

The MCZMA lettersigned by Sanjay San-danshiv, Under Secre-tary in the Environ-ment Department,

asked the divisionalcommissioner and thecollector to verify andtake necessary actionin the matter if any vi-olation of provisions ofCRZ notification of1991 and 2011 and Hon

High Court orders dat-ed 06-10-2011, 27-01-20120 and 17-09-2018are observed.

Citing a recent in-stance, Dilip Koli ofPaaramparik Machhi-

mar Bachao KrutiSamiti said chemicaltankers were also seenflushing out the washinto mangroves, thuschoking them. Manymangroves have driedup due to this. The

wash happens brazen-ly during the high tideperiod of full moon daysleaving many fishdead, Koli alleged.

N a n d a k u m a rPawar, head of ShriEkvira Aai Pratishtansaid, “Information ob-tained by the NGO un-der RTI Act shows thatJNPT planted terres-trial plants in lieu ofmangroves killed. Thisdoes not serve the pur-pose and the killing ofmangroves goes un-compensated.”

The fishing commu-nity and environmentNGOs have earlier op-posed the massive land-fill on 110 hectares ofthe sea and destructionof mangroves in 19.5hectares. Apart fromblocking tidal waterflow, the landfill wouldaffect the lives of fish-ermen, they said.

By: Crime Reporter

NAVI MUMBAI: A drugsupplier who was sup-plying the drugs to theNavi Mumbai area wasarrested on late Fridayfrom Shivkrupa Chawlof Pawane town. Thetotal cost of drugs is es-timated to be Rs. 6.75lakhs which is around28kg 80gm. The ac-cused was arrested byAnti Narcotics cell,Zone-1 of Navi MumbaiPolice. He is identifiedas Dinesh RamsahayArya (60).

Acting on the tip-off,a team led by AssistantPolice Inspector Gan-gadhar Devade caughtred handed DineshRamsahay Arya (60),who had come to NaviMumbai to supply theopium to other sellers.For further investiga-tion police took him tohis home from where

Drug supplier arrestedfrom Pawane town

28kg 80gm opium seized

27kg 80gm opium wasseized. He was arrest-ed under the NarcoticsAct.

Police is interrogat-ing further to ascertainfrom where he got thedrugs, said AssistantPolice Inspector Gan-gadhar Devade. The ac-cused was produced be-fore sessioncourt which has grant-ed him Police Custodytill 14th February.

Under the guidanceof Pankaj Dahane ,Deputy Commisioner ,Zone 1 a major drive isbeing conductedagainst drug sellers inthe vicinity of Railwaystation, Bus Stand,Gardens, School, Col-leges and malls. Tillnow police have taken71 actions and have ar-rested 126 people andhave seized differentvariety of drugs.

By: Crime Reporter

NAVI MUMBAI: Twowomen Tara Tripathi(42), Nikhat FatimaMohammd Us-man(50) and PareshVed (54) have beenarrested for sellingopium at KalamboliRailway Station.Drugs weighing

Two women and a man arrested for selling drugs

Drugs worth Rs 9lakhs75thousand seized

975gm worth Rs9lakh75thousandwere seized fromthem. Police arefurther interrogatingthe trio to know fromwhere they procuredthe drug and whoare their targetcustomers, saidpolice.

Acting on the tipoff, police got infor-mation some peopleare coming nearKalamboli RailwayStation to sell thedrugs. Senior PoliceInspector SatishGaikwad and hasteam laid a trap.When police team

saw some peopleroaming suspiciously,they started enquir-ing and when the triocould not answer thepolice, they werearrested. Duringinterrogation theyconfessed to thecrime. Further probeis going on.


All that Glitters is Not Gold

By Dr. Monica Khanna

From an expensiveluxury to a basicnecessity, the mobilephone has come a longway. And with datapackages havingbecome affordable, ourphones are constantlyflooded with messagesthat act as triggersand influence us inmore ways than wethink. From healthto politics, we arebombarded withinformation that isoften subjective,dangerous andunreliable. Theauthenticity andcredibility of thesource of the mes-sages is oftendubious, but un-thinkingly andmindlessly, we tendto forward suchmessages spreadingbaseless, inaccuratefabrications that canhave serious repercus-sions.

The one qualitythat could help us indiscerning andscrutinizing messagesis critical thinking – askill that must beinculcated in childrenfrom school days. Thisprocess of challengingassumptions, anddeciding whether oneaccepts or rejects aparticular idea, helpsan individual inmaking sound andrational judgments.

To begin with, oneneeds to be able todistinguish betweenfacts and opinions,and ascertain wheth-er or not the facts arebased on sufficientdata collected duringthe process of re-search. One cannotafford to makegeneralizations basedon one or two cases.The remedies for

ailments that wehear about, or weightloss tips we receive,may have worked ina couple of cases, butthat does not givethem scientificapproval.

We also tend tonormalize, or perceiveideas we have beenexposed to over theyears as ‘normal’.Just because atradition or practicehas existed forgenerations does notmake it sacrosanct.The reasons certainpractices wereintroduced at a givenpoint of time may notbe relevant in thisday and age. For

instance, decades ago,women were barredfrom entering thekitchen when theywere menstruating soas to ensure that theyrefrained fromphysically laborioustasks and got the restthey needed. Whiletimes and situationshave changed, thesepractices continue tobe followed in count-less homes even tothis day.

Most of us areunaware of our ownsocial conditioning,and do not realizehow we are subcon-sciously trained tothink in a particularmanner. Fromgender role expecta-tions to the value ofmoney to the choicesof subjects, careersand life-partners, tothe tolerance of otherreligions, races andnationalities, or evenour attitudes, preju-dices, tastes andpreferences – our

entire behaviour, infact, is a result of theinfluences that wehave had from ourearly childhood. Weact in certain waysbecause that behav-iour has been deemedappropriate, andrewarded at somepoint. We resistbehaviour that we aretold is deviant orunacceptable, andhas been punished.Yet, we do not ques-tion what is appropri-ate and what is not,because we have notbeen taught toquestion.

However, if we arenot trained to ques-tion and challenge

the information thatis given to us, we willend up believing andaccepting ideas thatmay be damagingand detrimental toour physical andmental well-being. Itis imperative that weclosely scrutinise theinformation wereceive, analyse whatwe observe aroundus, and criticallyevaluate what we aretaught consciously orsubconsciously. Mostimportantly, we needto be more responsi-ble when we dissemi-nate information andensure that we do notforward, post or shareanything and every-thing we come across– for all that glittersis not gold; and goldtoo is not alwayspure.

The writer is Associate

Professor, Indira Institute

of Business Management,

Consultant, Indian School

of Management and

Entrepreneurship

Road has been dug up for cable work at Teen Taanki signal, Kopar Khairane causinggreat deal of inconvenience to the motorists and pedestrians. As details like whosework, contractor details, date of starting and ending etc. are nowhere mentioned, theresidents are at a loss to understand when the work is likely to get completed. (Photocourtesy: B N Kumar, Activist)

NAVI MUMBAI: Saras-wati College of Engi-neering’s StudentCouncil and Rotaractclub along with theNSS on 7th February,2020 arranged an AutoExpo with 150+ superbikes and 7+ supercars.The aim behind orga-

Auto Expo for a cause

nizing the event was toraise funds for the fam-ilies of the martyrs.

All the funds raisedwere donated to ’TheVoice of Martyrs’ an80G verified NGO.

The first femalemotovlogger in IndiaVishakha Fulsunge

was present on the oc-casion. A fitness enthu-siast and a public fig-ure Vinayak Patil most-ly known as ‘Super Vi-nay’ and other wellknown motovloggersfrom Mumbai, ‘Thun-der on Road; also at-tended the event.

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Good Shepherd School celebrates 18th Annual Day Function with great zeal

BELAPUR: Good Shepherd School Belapur cele-brated its Annual Day function on 8th February,2020 with great enthusiasm and enjoyment atVishnudas Bhave auditorium, Vashi in the pres-ence of eminent guest Mr. Vishwarath Nayar, se-nior journalist and Mr. Ashok Palwe, Actor & Di-

rector.The theme for the cultural programme was

marriages. Every dance brought out the religiousand cultural essence of the weddings in India. Itwas a sight for the eyes watching the students-right from the nursery to 10th- putting up won-

derful dance performances one after another.But the icing on the cake was the presenta-

tion of the mementos which was presented toevery child of the school by the managing direc-tor, Mr Prakash D. Powar and Mrs. Lata PrakashPowar.

By Chandrashekhar Hendve

NAVI MUMBAI:Mukesh Sonu Sar-wan, president,Maharashtra SafaiKarmachari Commis-sion paid a visit to the

Maharashtra Safai KarmachariCommission President visits NMMC

Navi Mumbai Munici-pal Corporation toreview the problems ofsewage and sanitationworkers.

Workers demandedthat sanitation workers

should get the payscale at the level ofsemi-skilled workers;they must get pay-ment on schedule timeon 7th of every month;they should be provid-

ed with safety instru-ments; 1% paymenton public holiday etc.

After the reviewmeeting, Mr. Sarwanagreed to consider thedemands positively.

PANVEL: A seminar “Commerce and Management” was held at CKT College in association with National HigherEducation Programme. More than 140 professors participated from across the country and some select researchpapers were presented.

International Symposium held at CKT College

licans in a Veteran Men’s semi-final clash. Theywill next meet Hockey Dadar who made it to thefinal at the expense of Hockey Navi Mumbai.Hockey Dadar were starched by the Navi Mum-bai based team in their 3-1 victory. Ryan Alphon-so, Gavin Vandrine and Deepak Kotian scored agoal each forthe winners.While Ma-hesh Shindescored thelone one forthe losers.

Results(Semi-finals):

Men: CentralRailway 5 (Nar-ad Bahadur 2,Mohd. Niza-muddin, AnupWalmiki, Rajen-dra Pawar) beatUncles Kitchen 4(Yuvraj Walmiki2, Tyron Perei-ra, DevenderWalmiki); IndianOil 3 (Vikramkanth, V.R. Raghunath, Talwinder Singh) beat UnionBank of India 2 (Vinod Saini, Prince Chaurasia) .Women: Bombay Republicans 6 (T.H. Ranjita 2, Rijuta Mullick2, Chaitrali Gawde, Kelley John) beat Freunds SC 5 (ReshamMahadik 2, Madhavi Patil 2, Ruqqaiya Shaikh); Sporting LionsFoundation 7 (Yogita Passi 4, Nimmy Nair 2, Priya Dubey) beatSea View SC 0. Veteran Men’s : Rebels SC 5 (Dhanraj Pillai2, Alexander Solomon 2, Stanley Fernandes) beat BombayRepublicans 2 (Ashish Gonsalves, Leonard Pereira); HockeyDadar 3 (Ryan Alphonso, Gavin Vandrine, Deepak Kotian)beat Hockey Navi Mumbai 1 (Mahesh Shinde).

CR, Indian Oil To Vie...Contd. from pg. 4

Action from a Men's Rink Hockey in-volving CR in Blue jersey


Ruby Ahluwalia dedicates the book ‘Fragrance of a Wild Soul’to all brave hearts fighting Cancer on World Cancer Day 2020

MUMBAI: AuthorRuby Ahluwaliarecently launched thebook ‘Fragrance Of AWild Soul’, a story ofself exploration –which led her toanswers that lay inpatterns of humanbehavior. The bookreading event washeld at Mumbaiamongst a literaryand passionategathering.

Ms. Ahluwalia hasgone through herpersonal journey withcancer. “I have baredmy soul to showcasemy vulnerabilities inthis book. It is invulnerabilities thatour strength lies.Through my story,discover yours” saidRuby at the formalworldwide launchheld at Mumbai onWorld Cancer Day.

Ruby Ahluwalia, abureaucrat with awandering, adventur-ous spirit, had it all -a successful career, ahappy, supportivefamily and a creativeand analytical mind.A pro multitasker,she was juggling hertime and energies tobe a super profession-al and a super mom,wife and daughter.

Little did sherealize that in this

process, she wasbecoming a ‘belowaverage her’. Justwhen she realizedthat she was almost

losing the groundbeneath her feet, shehad a knock on herdoor – a knock thattoppled her life upsidedown on full velocityand changed thecourse of her life…

Here’s her journeyof self exploration —that led her to an-swers that lay in thepatterns of humanbehaviour.• If your urge to

nurture others isleading you tounder nourishyourself,

• If your suppressedself is leading you

to abuse your body,soul and mind,

• If you are cravingto mend the splitsin your soul..

“We all have ourown cancers, even ifthey may not havebecome tumors asyet. How can we healourselves and comeout of our self-createdpits and discover ourinfinite potential isthe purpose of tellingthis story” says Ruby.

The book isavailable in allformats – Hardcover,Paperback and kindleon Amazon, Flipkartand Notion Press.

About the authorHailing from the

charming town ofDehradun, Ruby

Ahluwalia is abureaucrat nowposted in Mumbai,where she lives withher husband, son and

daughter.While her academ-

ic expertise is in thefield of finance andadministration, hervarious interests andachievements haveearned her the‘Changemakers’award from GrantThornton - Sabera.She was recentlyconferred the ‘Excep-tional contribution’ inGovernance awardmeant for bureau-crats by gFilesFoundation.

Of the manychange makinginitiatives she has

introduced, one is hercommitment tobringing about asocial change for thebetterment of health-

care in the developingIndian society.

She is the Founderand the guiding forcebehind ‘Sanjeevani…Life Beyond Cancer’- anot-for-profit organiza-tion that workstowards holistic cureand rehabilitation ofunderprivilegedcancer patientsthrough innovative,long-term solutions.Sanjeevani runsholistic healingcenters in fourteencities across ten statesand has made animpact on more thantwo lakh patients.

Truly raising thebar of cancer care inIndia, the NGO hasbeen bestowed withmany nationalawards for its excep-tional performance asa non-profit organiza-tion in the field ofhealthcare.

Besides hercontinuing role inchanging the face ofhealthcare in thecountry, Ruby is alsoa vocal advocate ofthe ‘Empowerment ofthe Masses’ dialogueand speaks at variousforums. Taking fromthe same, she hasnow also dipped hertoes in motivationalspeaking.

‘Fragrance of thewild soul’, her debutwork in the literaryworld, is all abouther spiritual questand digging withinthrough introspec-tion, reflection andexpression to explorethe causes forupheavals in ourlives and turningour catastrophicexperiences intoopportunities andliving life to itsfullest potential

Email: admn@sanjeevani-lifebeyond-cancer. com; wild-soul@ sanjeevani-lifebeyond cancer.com


CR’s Special Trains During Holi Festivaland Long Weekends Via KR Route

By Ashok Dhamija

Panvel: Central Railway (CR) incoordination with Konkan Railway(KR) has decided to run special trainsbetween Lokmanya Tilak Terminus(LTT), Mumbai / Panvel & Karmalistations to clear extra rush of passen-gers during the forthcoming Holi Fes-tival and long weekends on Specialcharges as per the details below:

A) Lokmanya Tilak Terminus- Karmali Weekly Special*

Train No. 01039 Lokmanya Tilak(T) - Karmali Special will leavefrom LTT, Mumbai at 20:45 hrson Friday, 6th, 13th, 20th and27th March 2020 and willreach Karmali at 08:30 hrs on thenext day. On its return journey TrainNo. 01040 Karmali – LokmanyaTilak (T) Special will leavefrom Karmali at 13:00 hrs on Sunday,8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th March 2020and will reach LTT, Mumbai at 00:20hrs on the next day. The above Spe-cial will comprise of 22 LHB Coachesincluding One 2 Tier AC, Four 3 TierAC, Twelve Second Class Sleeper,Three General Second and Two Gen-erator Car Coaches. The above

Special Train will halt at Thane,Panvel, Roha, Mangaon, Khed, Chip-lun, Sangameshwar Road,Ratnagiri, Vaibhavwadi Road, Kankavali, Sindhudurg, Kudal,Sawantwadi Road and Thivim sta-tions.

B) Panvel - Karmali WeeklySpecial*

Train No. 01041 Panvel - Karma-li Special will leave from Panvelat 21:00 hrs on Saturday, 07th, 14th,21st and 28th March 2020 and will

reach Karmali at 08:30 hrs on thenext day. On its return journey TrainNo. 01042 Karmali - Panvel Specialwill leave from Karmali at 10:30 hrson Saturday, 07th, 14th, 21st and28th March 2020 and willreach Panvel at 20:15 hrs onthe same day. The above Special willhalt at Roha, Mangaon, Khed, Chip-lun, Sangameshwar Road, Ratnagi-ri, Vaibhavwadi Road, Kankavali,Sindhudurg, Kudal, SawantwadiRoad and Thivim stations

C) Lokmanya Tilak (T) -Karmali Weekly Special*

Train No. 01043 Lokmanya Ti-lak (T) - Karmali Special will leavefrom LTT, Mumbai at 01:10 hrson Friday, 21st February and6th March 2020 and willreach Karmali at 12:30 hrs onthe same day. On its return journeyTrain No. 01044 Karmali – Lok-manya Tilak (T) Special will leavefrom Karmali at 13:00 hrson Friday, 21st February and6th March 2020 and will reach LTT,Mumbai at 00:20 hrs on the nextday. The above Special will halt atThane, Panvel, Roha, Mangaon,Khed, Chiplun, Ratnagiri, RajapurRoad, Vaibhavwadi Road, Kankava-li, Sindhudurg, Kudal, SawantwadiRoad and Thivim stations.

Passengers are requested to kind-ly avail the services.

*All the above Weekly SpecialTrains will comprise of 22LHB Coaches including One 2 TierAC, Four 3 Tier AC, Twelve SecondClass Sleeper, Three General Secondand Two Generator Car Coaches.

has excess maidawhich has a lot ofcarbohydrates, verylittle protein and nofibre at all. Delhi’sparathas are too oilyand Mumbai doesn’thave a typical break-fast as such.

People eat breadmostly, which just hascarbohydrates. Nutri-tionists say thenutrient value in ruralareas down south iseven greater as manyof them consume ragi.Ragi is rich in VitaminB, fibres, protein,calcium, iron andphosphorus. It isconfirmed that idli and

sambhar are a “com-plete meal”. The riceand urad dal in idliscomplement eachother, making it acomplete protein. Thevegetables and dal inthe sambhar are goodsupplements.

The study foundthat one in fourIndians skip break-fast. Although thenumber of thoseskipping meals werefewer in Chennai,‘skimping’ (eatinginadequately) wasmore prevalent. It isreliably learnt that theeffect of skipping andskimping meals ismore or less the same.Only the intensity willbe lesser in the latter.It was also found thatin Chennai nearly 50%of the housewives, 30%of the elderly and 20%working adults haveonly a beverage forbreakfast.

The writer originallybelongs to Chennai and

is now a resident ofNavi Mumbai

Some food histori-ans believe idli wasderived from somesteamed rice prepara-tions from Indonesia.It is believed that thisrecipe was invented bythe cooks of the Hindukings who ruled someparts of Indonesia.References to themodern way of making

the idli appear inIndian works onlyafter 1250 CE.

K.T. Achaya, thefood historian, specu-lates that the modernidli might haveoriginated in theregion that is nowIndonesia, which hashad a long tradition offermented food.According to him,cooks employed by theHindu kings of thelocal kingdom mayhave invented thesteamed idli there, andbrought the recipe toIndia during the period800-1200 CE. But thistheory is being ques-tioned by modern foodhistorians.

Generally, the Dosabatter is thinner thanthan the Idli batter.This consistency isrequired to make thecrepe or thin pan-cakes. The Dosa iscrusty and crisp, whilethe Idlis are soft andfluffy.

Three idlis, a bowlof sambhar and a

Idli- The Best Breakfast

tumbler of filter Cofee (kaapi ) - Chennai’straditional breakfast isnot just a gastronomi-cal delight for manybut also the mostnutritious morningmeal compared tothose in other metros.‘India BreakfastHabits Study’, asurvey conducted infour metros, foundthat Chennai has thebest breakfast ‘nutri-ent profile’ in thecountry. The studycovered other metroslike Mumbai, Delhiand Kolkata on asample size of 3,600subjects, split across 8

to 40 years age group,and described ‘alarm-ing’ figures of nutri-tional inadequacy inour country. Althoughpeople in India areincreasingly becominghealth conscious, thisdoesn’t reflect in theireating behaviour.

The nutrition scalewas assessed based onthe adequacy ofcarbohydrates, energy,proteins, fats andcalcium. While therehave been manystudies on the numberof people skippingbreakfast, very littlehas been done on thecontent of the mealand its nutritionalvalue. The study foundthat 79% of thosesurveyed in Mumbaihad nutritionallyinadequate breakfasts,followed by Delhi andKolkata at 76% and75%. In Chennai only60% reported thattheir breakfast wasnutritionally inade-quate. Kolkata’straditional breakfast

By C K Subramaniam


Four convicts in Nirbhaya rapeand murder case should be

hanged to deathThe four convicts in the Nirbhaya rape and

murder case — Mukesh Kumar Singh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay KumarSharma and Akshay Kumar Thakur should be hanged to death at theearliest so that men who keep treating women like sex objects may learna lesson from this incident. It’s a shame that some men keep treatingwomen like sex objects only to play with them. When will our men learnto treat women with dignity? Weren’t they born from a woman’s womb?

Jubel D’Cruz, Mumbai

Mumbai cricket team is out of reckoning in Ranji Trophy

All said and done; Mumbai Cricket Team is in a bad state and theywere not in a position to scale new heights despite having the best playingconditions available in this part of the state. This year has been badfor Mumbai as they struggled from the beginning and the trend contin-ued for the 41 time Champion side. Now the chances of peeping into theknock out round of the Championship looked diminished. It is indeed yetanother inglorious season for the Mumbai side. Administrative goof-ups,failure of big guns resulted in in early exit of the domestic giants from thetournament.

The State is not doing anything good for the game as we find batsmenplunder runs at the school and university level against below averagebowling sides and once the team is pitted against stiffer opposition thewriting is on the wall. Even this year, Sarfaz Khan amazed on triplehundred and a double hundred but the team was struggling to get firstinnings lead, leave along winning matches. This season, the team suf-fered two early defeats and a solitary win by Mumbai Team is not goodenough.

When Mumbai was basking in the past glory and the other low rankedteams had other ideas and won the crucial matches rather convincinglyagainst former Champions. Just like Indian team batting is good only onpaper and the team fair badly when they play away matches just likeIndian team on overseas conditions. But this time Mumbai side failed athome as well and that is pathetic.

It is indeed a lesson for the Team Management to forget regional biasand select a team without any partiality. Again green top wicket is notfor the Mumbai team’s liking as they crumble in such conditions. Andthey are are good enough against spin as well. It is high time to revampthe side with fresh talent and look for quality bowlers rather than man-aging with military medium stuff. The coach and the captain needs to bechanged and experienced players should be brought into the reckoning. Atotally different outlook can change the mindset of the side for the nextseason. In all Mumbai’s team is facing music for the last couple of sea-sons and this time they were knocked out ratherearly. Mumbai musings continue to haunt the team.

Mumbai Ranji side is facing a ticklish situation as they were derailedby Railways first and now lost to champion side Karnataka. The pity isthat the side could not last for full four days and lost tamely for the secondtime in succession. The batting looked brittle, bowling ordinary and field-ing simply lacking the required standard. Batting failed against bothpace and spin and it was sorry state seeing the players perish in a proces-sion and no one is there to stem the rot. At the local level, batsmen amassruns in hundreds and thousands and when it actually matters, they failand could not cope up with quality bowling. Mumbai out cricket needsthorough introspection and the bowling needs to be pruned up for betterresults against tougher opposition.

Blame game has already started and there is no fighting spirit. Thekiller instinct was lacking. Mumbai team should come up with betterplaying option and the 3-5 months of monsoon rains make them lethargicand fight a losing battle from the day one. Domestic cricket is for spottingtalent and not just for putting up big scores in the lower level matches.Mumbai lack quality spinners and the pace department is also not up tothe mark. Tall and lanky bowlers should be put to test to bowl with thenew ball and more left arm bowlers should be given chance to have betteroption rather than just going through the motion.

C.K. Subramaniam, Millennium Towers, Sector 9, Sanpada

Letters to the Editor....

MUMBAI: RED FM,one of the largest andmost awarded privateradio networks in Indiahas launched a brand-new show ‘Ricky SinghKa VYRLcountdown’ to put spot-light on the growth ofnon-film artists andsupport their music.They have also collabo-rated with UniversalMusic India whichaims to create a spaceand associate with non-film music on radio.The show revolvesaround ‘Ricky Singh’who has an undyinglove for non-film music,will be taken-up by RJRishi Kapoor. The showwas launched by RJRishi Kapoor alongwith the RED FM teamin the presence of mul-tiple celebritysingers at Soho Housein Mumbai today.

To bring out thechallenges and obsta-cles confronted by anindependent artist,Ricky Singh humorous-ly weaves his story whois a growing indepen-dent musician. He willhost the show and sharehis unique past experi-ences with music direc-tors that will take youon a rib-tickling ride.While his taste in inde-pendent music will getyou glued to radio for anhour, his desi personal-ity will keep the audi-ence entertained till the

RED FM launches ‘Ricky Singhka VYRL countdown’ to support

non-film music artists

last second.Commenting on the

show, Nisha Narayan-an, COO & Director,RED FM and Magic FMsaid, ”There is a pool oftalent in independentmusic segment whichis yet to be heard. Re-gional music is beingconsumed more thanever due to evolvingtastes and preferencesof the audience. At REDFM, we strongly believein supporting diversegenres whether it is in-die or regional musicsegment through vari-ous on-air, digital andon-ground initiatives.We wanted to createcontent that not onlysupports non-film mu-sic but also celebratesthe journey of an artist.Our new show ‘RickySingh ka VYRLcountdown’ is an enter-taining take, which willbring fresh content forour listeners. We arehappy to collaboratewith VYRL Originals(Universal MusicIndia) for this show andwe look forward to cre-ating more such initia-tives with them.”

Additionally, VinitThakkar, Senior VicePresident, UniversalMusic Group India &South Asia said ”VYRLOriginals, an artist-first music label, hasbeen instrumental increating a culture andcategory of non-film

music in India. Withover 40 songs across 30artists in the last twoyears, we have openedthe eyes and ears of peo-ple to non-film musicand it’s potential. Wehave differentiated our-selves at every level in-cluding our integratedmarketing and promo-tions approach withequal emphasis to bothdigital and traditionalplatforms. Radio is oneof the most importantand potent medium ofbreaking new artistand sampling their con-tent to wide set of audi-ences. We are very ex-cited to partner withRED FM who shares asimilar vision like oursto build a culture andcategory of non-filmmusic in India.”

Today, radio hasbecome a widely ac-cessed medium in bothmetros and non-metros. It has suc-cessfully adapted tothe ever-evolving audi-ence base. Moreover,this platform is beingused to bring about achange in society andvastly supports vari-ous musicians andtheir music. With‘Ricky Singh KaVYRL countdown’,RED FM is back withanother innovativeshow to bring the un-told journey of a non-film music artist tovarious cities in India.

(L-R) RJ Abhimanyu, RJ JMAN, RJ Rishi Kapoor, RJ Malishka with musical artists, Akulland Mellow-D


Dr. Sahu’s 29 Yrs of Journey in making Ahmedabad Zoo the best model in IndiaBy: Vinod C. Dixit

Can anyone imag-ine that a person canleave a well-paying cor-porate job to take upthe challenge of reviv-ing a collapsed enter-prise? But Dr. R. K.Sahu, the present di-rector of Ahmedabad’sKankaria Zoo, took thisdecision 29 years ago.He left his job withTata Group to take theposition as the head ofa zoo that was deeplyburied in losses.

He joined Tatagroup and worked forthem for almost a yearin different parts of thecountry. Since child-hood he wanted towork for the welfareand conservation ofanimals and birds andthis was a very good op-portunity so he appliedfor the post of the

Head of Kankaria Zoo.He joined in 1990 afterthe death of the legend-ary Reuben David, whofounded the zoo andcontinued to work forit even after his retire-ment. There was lot ofexpectations from himto change the shape ofZoo from very bad sit-uation. He startedworking for the devel-opment of the zoo, thefirst and major chal-lenge for him was toturn the zoo into aprofit making as it wasmaking 42 lakhs lossevery year. In the year1995, he came up withthe idea of open tigerenclosures where visi-tors can see the tigersin an open area andalso tigers were givennatural surroundingsinstead of jail like at-mosphere. He also

came up with the Lionopen enclosures in2000, followed by Bearopen enclosures in 2005and also doubles storeyhospital for animalsand birds in the zoo it-self. He even came upwith the scheme wherecitizens could adopt an-imals and pay for theirdaily activities. Hecame up with the ideaof Reptile house, But-terfly Park and nowwith Nocturnal houseand Crocodile open en-closure.

He has done lot ofimprovement in the in-frastructure of the zoo.Dr. Sahu feels that Zoocan play a major rolefor better plantationand creation of betterenvironment in zoowhere animals and vis-itors both feels com-fortable in all season

especially during sum-mer. Giving Thanks toAhmedabad MunicipalCorporation he saysthat getting funds fornew infra structure isvery tough but Ahmed-abad Municipal Corpo-ration had providedspecial funds for zoodevelopment and mod-ernization of enclosuresand this has helped toconstruct NocturnalHouse.

Today, after puttingin a lot of hard work,he has not only man-aged to turn it into aprofit-making venture,but has also startedseveral welfareschemes for the ani-mals and birds there.It has been more than29 years since Dr. Sahuis taking care as theHead of the KankariaZoo and there is no

doubt that his journeyhas been remarkable.

Dr. Sahu inspiresthe Zoo visitors under-standing for wild ani-mals and spreadsawareness about theneed for conservation ofnatural resources andfor maintaining theecological balance. To-day the Kankaria Zoois the best model in In-dia. Directors like Dr.Sahu are also wellaware about the needto address growing pub-lic skepticism of ani-mal captivity, whichmeans more zoos areworking not only tomake their exhibitsbetter suited for theanimals–but also to beable to demonstratethat to their visitors.

He also keeps a reg-ular check on the qual-ity of food and its sup-

ply for animals andbirds. Most of the ani-mals and birds thathad stopped breedinghave started breedingand this is our biggestachievement. He haseven used certain tech-niques which helpthem breed. His ini-tiative with coming upwith amusement parksand water parks hasturned the zoo intoprofit making. Thisclearly shows that car-ing for animals can re-quire around-the-clockattention in some set-tings. Wildlife biologycan involve workingoutdoors in sometimesdifficult field environ-ments. Today Kankar-ia Zoo stands amongstthe best 14 Zoos in In-dia.

The writer is freelancer,writer and cartoonist.


Xavierians Sporting Fiesta

By Ashok Dhamija

NAVI MUMBAI: St.Xavier’s High SchoolAnnual Sports Daywas held on Saturday,8th Feb 2020 withgreat excitement andenthusiasm at itsschool premises inAiroli. The pro-gramme began withHead Mistress Mrs.Blasie D’Souzawelcoming theesteemed gatheringwhich included theGuest of HonoursHarshal More (Na-tional Player- Soft-ball), ChintamaniJadhav (Jr. NationalHockey Player),Nutan Dhanawade(International &National Kho Khoplayer and Footballreferee), SnehalManchkar (Interna-tional level Footballplayer) and empha-sized the importanceof sports in everychild’s life.

The programmecommenced withspecial prayersfollowed by thehoisting of the SchoolFlag and lighting ofthe games torch. Animpressive Marchpast parade of all thefour houses, Fluteband, Cubs andBulbuls, Toy band bythe tiny tots of pre-primary section. A

motivational dance bythe young artistsreceived great ap-plause and set stagefor the games.

Fun filled competi-tive races saw stu-dents from Pre-

Primary to Standard- II showcased thefitness and sportingside of the youngathletes Among thesewere the Balling pin,Alphabet race, Ballrace, Collecting ball,

Beam balance andball in the box, BoxBalancing , FlagCollection, BallBalancing, Flip FlapRace, Grab thesimilar objects, BigFish race, Exchang-

ing the Gift, Crossthe Track, Grab thechair.

The programmecame to an end withwords of inspirationsby the Guest ofhonours, PrizeDistribution ceremo-ny and expression ofgratitude by theprimary studentsfollowed by closingchorus

“Our ChairmanSir’s vision is to trainstudents to be all-rounders and moti-vate them to be fit sothat they become thechampions of tomor-

row in the sportsarena be it at theState, National orInternational levels.The Annual Sportsday is one suchactivity which servesas a talent huntingprogramme for us.Sports as such keepsus fit and healthyand this was alsoshowcased by varioussports dance by ourtiny tots and theenthusiastic partici-pation in variousraces by the stu-dents” shared HeadMistress Mrs. BlasieD’souza.

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