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All schools in Thane district to remain

closed till January 16, 2021

Considering the second wave of corona in other countries, the district administration has decided to close all the schools in Thane district till January 16, 2021. In this connec-tion, District Collector Rajesh Narvekar has given instructions to the concerned agencies.

Police crack APMC murder case

The Navi Mumbai Police has succeeded in solving the murder case of Pravin Nair (50), whose decomposed was found in a garbage dump at APMC. The police said that he was killed by his acquain-tance, Prem Bahadur Laxman Bahadur Sawan (49), a Nepali man...

(More on page 3)NMMC & PCMC extend lockdown

till 31st Jan, 2021The Navi Mumbai

Municipal Corporation (NMMC) & the Panvel City Municipal Corpora-tion (PCMC) as per the guidelines issued by Maharashtra Govern-ment have extended lockdown restrictions in their jurisdiction till 31st January, 2021...

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Juinagar RoB- A distant dream

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Even after two years of train-bus accident at Juinagar railway crossing, there is no sign of any development yet

By Ryhea george

The underground pipeline of Ma-

hanagar Gas Limited (MGL) in front of Jain Mandir, Sector-9, Vashi was damaged at around 11.30 in the morning on Thursday, 31st Decem-ber, 2020 during the on-going road repair work. As soon as the incident was reported, the Vashi Fire Brigade rushed to the spot and averted a major tragedy.

The gas connection was stopped on the spot. An official from Vashi Fire Brigade said, “Two fire tenders rushed to the spot immediately

on being informed of the incident. It took around 30-45 minutes to stop the leakage. The

road was also blocked to ensure speedy repair of the pipe and barri-cades were placed on

the roads. The gas was compressed with water to ensure there was no further leakage from the

damaged pipe." “As soon as we re-

Mahanagar Gas pipeline damaged during road repair work in Vashi

No casualty reported By Abhitash d.Singh

It has been more than two years since the

empty rake hit the Navi Mumbai Municipal Transport (NMMT) bus that was packed with passengers. After the ac-cident the officials of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) surveyed the spot and announced that a new Railway over Bridge

(RoB) will be built soon. But even after surveying the area in November 2018, the implementa-tion and execution of the project still remains a distant dream.

According to the NMMC officials, "On 24th November, 2018 an empty rake had hit the NMMT bus packed with the passengers. Our

officials went to survey the spot one day after the incident and it was announced that the RoB will be constructed there with a proposed budget of around Rs.70 crore."

NMMC, executive engineer Manoj Patil informed, "Soon after the accident, we sur-veyed the spot a couple of times and according-ly prepared a detailed

project report (DPR) and presented it before the general body meet-ing for the approval. On 24th December, 2018 the general body ap-proved the project."

"After getting the ap-proval from the general body, we issued tenders for the project twice in

By Chandrashekhar Hendve

The wrestlers of Navi Mumbai Shahar

Kushtigir Sankul, San-pada who have been practicing on the floors,

will now be able to wres-tle on the mats. MLA Manda Mhatre has allo-cated Rs 5 lakh from her MLA fund for the Navi Mumbai City Wrestling

Complex at Sector 3, Sanpada. She has given a written statement to Thane District Collector

City wrestlers to get wrestling matMLA Manda Mhatre hands over Rs 5 lakh

PHoTo By SuMiT ReNoSe

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By Chandrashekhar Hendve

The Navi Mumbai Municipal Cor-

poration (NMMC) maintains various roads in its limits. Lakhs of rupees are spent on their maintenance and upkeep every year. This money is collected from the people by way of taxes. G S Patil, the working president of Navi Mumbai NCP, met the NMMC Commis-sioner Abhijit Bangar and demanded that the toll tax on vehicles at Airoli and Vashi toll plazas should be waived off as the citizens of the

satellite city are paying twice.

“As per the gov-ernment order, the companies which are in charge of collecting tolls, have to take care of the maintenance and repair of the roads. However, as NMMC is maintaining various roads connecting Vashi and Airoli toll nakas, vehicles from Navi Mumbai entering both the toll plazas should be exempted from toll,” said Patil.

“If the money col-lected from the resi-dents of Navi Mumbai by way of tax, is being used for maintaining roads, then the corpora-tion and the govern-ment should make toll free for Navi Mumbai,” said G S Patil.

“We intend to get the Sion Panvel High-way transferred to the Corporation. We will also take up the issue of toll exemption with the state government”, said Mr. Bangar.

Citizens of NMMC area should be exempted from toll: G S Patil

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pUBLiC NOTiCE This Notice is hereby given that my Client who is the owner of the below mentioned Flat, i.e. mR SANJOG NiKAm residing at SECTOR- 10, NERUL, NAV1 MUMBAI, who have lost Original Agreement for Sale dated 12-02-2001 entered into between mR SURESH NiLOO LOHAR and mR. NARESH SiTARAm pAGE, in respect of FLAT NO. 302, 3Rd FLOOR, A WiNG, NEW mRUG NAYAN CHS, situated at pLOT NO. 31, SECTOR-10, Nerul, Navi mumbai- 400 706 All persons are hereby informed to put in their claims or interest in or to the said Agreement For Sale thereof within 14 (Fourteen) days at the above mentioned address with sufficient evidence from the appearance of this Notice, as otherwise the Flat will be Sold by my Client to prospective Purchaser name without any reference or regard to any such claim or interest which shall be deemed to have been waived. Sd/- KHALid B. SHAiKH B Com, LL.B Advocate High Court & Tax Consultant N- 2/1/A-1, Sector - 9, Near Dr. D.Y. Patil Hospital, Nerul, Navi Mumbai - 400 706 Tel.: 022-27713179, Mob.: 9820749646 Date: 01-01-2021 Email : [email protected]

pUBLiC NOTiCERe: Apartment No.B-10/35/0:2, admeasuring 22.90 sq. mtrs. built up area on the Ground floor of the building no.B-10/35, on plot no.4, situated at Sector-15, Vashi, Navi mumbai, Tal. & dist. Thane.THIS is to notify that my Client i.e. mR ANANd SHRAVAN KARVEKAR is the Owner of the Apartment No.B-10/35/0:2, ad-measuring 22.90 sq. mtrs. built up area on the Ground floor of the building no.B-10/35, on plot no.4, situated at Sector-15, Vashi, Navi mumbai, Tal. & dist. Thane.The original documents i.e. a) Allotment letter issued by CIDCO in favour of the Original Apartment Owner MR JAINULLA ABDUL AJIJ and b) Possession Letter issued by CIDCO in favour of the Original Apartment Owner MR JAINULLA ABDUL AJIJ are lost, misplaced by my client on 11th December 2020 while traveling from Vashi Station to home and the same are not traceable and a complaint was lodged with Vashi Police Station on 30th December 2020 and recorded the same under Property missing register no.2570/2020 dated 30th De-cember 2020. Any person/s, Organization/s, Company/ies, Institution/s, Bank/s or any other Govt. / Concerned authorities having any right, title, claim etc. against or in the aforesaid Apartment or by virtue of the loss of aforesaid document, by way of inheritance, mortgage, possession, sale, gift, lease, charge, trust, maintenance, development, ease-ment, transfer, licence, either agitated in any litigation or otherwise or any other right or interest whatsoever are hereby required to make the same known in writing to the undersigned within a period of 15 days from the date of publication hereof.If no claim is made as required hereinabove, my client will be at lib-erty to deem that such right/s, if any, have been waived for all intents and purposes and shall not be binding on my client. Sd/- AdV m.T. THACKER AdVOCATE m.T.THACKER & ASSOCiATES Advocates, High court E-6/0:4, Sector-1, Vashi,Navi Mumbai-400 703. E Mail: [email protected] Tel: 27825052 / 27825084 / 85Date: 01-01-2021 Ref: no.2011051

pUBLiC NOTiCEBE IT KNOWN TO, the general public that, MR. KIRAN POPAT BAGAL, residing at B-103, Jayashri Bagal, Shreeji Plaza, Sector - 25, Seawoods Navi Mumbai – 400 706.Mr. Kiran Popat Bagal had lost the original Documents of follow-ing description in respect of property within Nerul Police station Jurisdiction.1. Original Sale Deed executed by and Between Mrs. Rajkumari M. Advani & Mr. Mahendra C. Advani and Mr. Dilip Ramdas Deshmukh & Mrs. Kirti Harshal Mahajan dated 01-11-2012 duly registered with the Sub- Registrar, Thane-11 under Sr. No. TNN-11-03456-2012 along with the Registration Receipt of the said Document pertaining to the Property i.e. Flat No.406 on 4th floor, Super Built up area 560 Sq. Ft in C-3 Building in the Nilgiri Gar-dens Co-operative Housing Society Ltd., situated in Sector-24 at C.B.D, Belapur, Tal. And Dist. Thane, Navi Mumbai – 400 614.The Police report was made at Nerul Police Station, Navi Mum-bai – 400 706 on 07-07-2017 vide Property Missing Register No. 2120 / 2017, any person/s find the same return to me at the fol-lowing address within seven days from the date of publication of this notice. Or any person/ Bank/ Corporate Body having any claim against or to the said property by way of sale, mortgage, charge, gift, lease, trust, possession, inheritance, lien, mainte-nance, easement, attachment or otherwise is hereby required to make the same known to the undersigned address along with the certified copies or necessary documents pertaining to the claim within 7 days from the date of publication hereof. Sd/- Adv. Rakesh V. mhatre Add: Shop No.1, Gayatri Apartment CHS Ltd., Plot No.148, Sector-44, Seawoods(W),Date: 01-01-2021 Nerul, Navi Mumbai – 400 706.

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MAHANAgAR gAS PiPeliNe dAMAged...

ceived news, we rushed to the place within min-ute as the incident had occurred right in front of the fire station. Without wasting any time, we asked the MGL officials to stop the connection. This is the main pipe

distributing the gas sup-ply to houses in sector 9 and 10 of Vashi,” said divisional fire officer. P. V. Jadhav.

“It took almost 3-4 hours to plug the leak-age and rectify the pipe-line. The gas line con-nection was suspended for the residents of sec-tor- 9 and sector-10 of

Vashi. As soon as the work was completed and after conducting the safety check, the supply was restored”, said an official from the opera-tional maintenance de-partment of Mahanagar Gas Limited.

By Crime Reporter

Lured to get VIP mobile number, a

businessman living in Panvel was cheated of Rs 65,000. Panvel city police has registered a case against the under the IT Act and fraud.

The victim Kedar Nadgaudi, received a message last July on his mobile from Airtel that VIP mobile numbers were available for sale at Rs 55,000 plus 18 per cent GST. The message had signature of Bharti Airtel's defunct com-pany secretary Krishnan Puri and stamp by Bharti Airtel.

Believing, Nadgaudi reverted to the message

which was handled by Varun Diwan and ex-pressed his readiness to buy the VIP number. Following which Varun sent an invoice of Rs 64,900 on Nadgaudi's email ID with GST num-ber, PAN number, Airtel address in Mumbai.

Nadgaudi then sent Rs 64,900 to his bank account. Meanwhile, Varun promised to send the VIP mobile SIM card four days later. Accordingly, Nadgaudi contacted Varun Diwan several times after four days. However, he did not respond to Nadgaudi calls.

When Nadgaudi in-quired about the bank

account to which he had sent the money, the bank officer said that the account was not in the name of Bharti Airtel but in the name of Prashant Chandrakant Narvekar. Nadgaudi then went to Airtel and inquired about the invoice sent to him by Varun Diwan. He was also told that the invoice was fake.

Realizing that he had been cheated, he lodged a written complaint with the Panvel City Police Station. After confirm-ing the complaint, the police on Wednesday registered a case under the IT Act against Varun Diwan and have started searching for him.

Lured to get VIP mobile number, man losses Rs 65,000

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By Ryhea george

Pravin Yadav (24) a resident

of Airoli, who works in a well known company that exports fruits, was disturbed to see a large amount of wast-age of bananas. “Even if there is a slight discolou-ration on a fruit, these get rejected and are dumped,” said Pravin.

Determined to make the best utilisation of these rejected bananas, Pravin along with his Head, Ansh Sakhuja de-cided to distribute the fruits, especially the ba-nanas, among the needy people living in the slums.

“As per the export criteria, only the best, complete ripened banan-as with yellow colour can be exported to west-ern countries. Hence, a lot of pigmented ones, although good and deli-cious get left out. Every-day100-200 kgs of ba-nanas are left out from the export criteria. After getting permission from the company, we dis-tribute these among the

needy,” said Pravin.Pravin along with his

two friends, distribute the highly nutritious ba-nanas in Panvel, Airoli, Mumbra and Thane ar-eas.

Pravin says, “Ba-nanas are rich in mag-nesium, potassium and fibre and is loaded with the essential minerals. This yellow fruit con-

tains all the nutri-ents that is needed to support heart. It is a well-known fact that bananas are really good for energy and hence many nutritionists even ask people to include a banana in their daily diet”.

“Bananas are rich source of po-tassium and a po-tassium rich diet can lower blood pressure. They con-

tain several essential nutrients that are help-ful for digestion, heart health & weight loss as well. Apart from being nutritious they are also highly convenient food”, said Bhavani Swamina-than, Nutritionist & Ho-listic Wellness Coach, Founder of Aakanksha: Desire For Wellness.

By Crime Reporter

The Navi Mumbai Police has suc-ceeded in solving the murder case

of Pravin Nair (50), whose decom-posed was found in a garbage dump at APMC. The police said that he was killed by his acquaintance, Prem Ba-hadur Laxman Bahadur Sawan (49), a Nepali man.

The murder of Pravin Nair had come to light, after his body was found in a heap of trash last Sunday. After that, the APMC police investi-gated and arrested the accused Prem Bahadur within 24 hours, said Suresh Mengde, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Circle-1.

The deceased Pravin Nair lived with his ex-wife Paru Sheikh in a hut-ment in APMC area. However, Paru had abandoned him a few years back as he was always arguing with her for money. After which Paru got married to Prem Bahadur and was living with him in a hut there. However, since Pravin Nair and Prem Bahadur were acquainted with each other, they used to drink alcohol together and from time to time they would sit in Paru's hut to drink alcohol. After Diwali, Pravin Nair and Prem Bahadur were sitting in Paru's hut drinking alcohol till late at night. A verbal argument ensued between them. In a fit of anger, Prem Bahadur beat Pravin Nair to death.

Prem Bahadur later had wrapped his body in a plastic banner and dumped it in a garbage heap at some distance from the hut after learning

that he had died in the attack the next morning. He then threatened Parul not to tell anyone about the incident. He then went to live in a hut at Mafco with Paru and the children. Meanwhile, the body of Pravin Nair was completely decomposed. A month later, after his decomposed body was found wrapped in a plastic banner last Sunday, APMC police launched an investigation.

The APMC police formed a special squad and started an investigation in the surrounding slums. During the in-terrogation, police received informa-tion that a woman named Paru, who lived in a hut some distance away, had left the hut without telling anyone. So the police searched for Paru on suspi-cion. After further questioning by the police, she confessed that her second husband Prem Bahadur Sawan had killed her first husband Pravin Nair and dumped his body in the garbage. Police later arrested Prem Bahadur, who was trying to flee to Nepal. This information was given by Suresh Mengde, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Zone-1.

Helping the needy gain immunity

police crack ApmC murder case

By Vikram gaikwad

Although the Covid-19 cases in the satellite city is reducing, however,

the pandemic is far from over. Keep-ing this in view the Republican Party of India (RPI) has demanded action against illegal food stalls which have started mushrooming in Vashi area.

Recently, RPI's Thane Lok Sabha Youth President, Yashpal Ohol and other prominent activists met the Vashi divisional officials and gave them a letter in this regard. The department officer Hanshetti promised to take ac-tion against the unauthorized Chinese, Vadapav and Bhurji vehicles.

Rpi demands action against Chinese and Vadapav stalls operating illegally in Vashi

For the last 52 years, Tarun Mitra Mandal has been striving hard with

various activities such as blood dona-tion, eye donation, skin donation, guid-ance under RTI Act etc. for public inter-est with a view to have a better tomorrow for the people and lay foundation for the development of better society.

Tarun Mitra Mandal, a charitable trust, on the occasion of its 100th Vol-untary Blood Donation Camp, is organ-ising another camp on January 3, 2021 at Shree K.V.O.S. Mahajan Wadi, Dr. B.A. Road (Opp. Voltas), Chinchpokli, Mumbai. During the month of Janu-

ary 2021, blood donation camps will be organized at 11 different places in Mumbai. Voluntary blood donors are requested to enthusiastically participate in the blood camps.

The organization’s Blood Dona-tion Movement has earned recognition at the State and National level and the Eye Donation Movement at the Inter-national level. Donation to the organi-zation is exempt under Section 80G of Indian Income Tax Act. The organiza-tion has been granted approval by the Govt. of India, under FCRA, to accept foreign donations.

Tarun mitra mandal to organise 100th blood donation camp


guru Vijay Shanker

The year 2020 will be re-membered in the history

for Covid-19 pandemic and also the challenges that the people faced during lock-down across the world. For Bollywood too the year 2020 was a black year. Bollywood got a tagline of drugs den, nepotism, killer of talents after the suicide of young talented actor Sush-ant Singh Rajput (SSR) on 14th June, 2020.

In 2020, the world's most prolific

movie industry saw the heartbreak-ing deaths in April, 2020 of luminar-ies Irrfan Khan and Rishi Kapoor. The other well-known fraternities from the industries who left for the heavenly abode were music composer Wajid Khan who died of coronavirus at 42, director Basu Chatterjee, Bol-lywood's first female choreographer Saroj Khan, Singer S P Balasubhrah-manyam who sang around 40,000 film songs and many others.

The suicide of 34 year talented star SSR created a ripple in the coun-try. After his death there were many theories and news by all the electron-ic, social and print media regarding nepotism, murders, involvement of politicians and how the talents are killed in the industry which maligned the image of Bollywood industry.

Big names like Rhea Chakraborty was accused of involvement in the murder or abetment to suicide of

Sushant Singh Rajput with black magic and cannabis. Even though the 28 year old actress denied any wrong-doing, she spent months in custody for allegedly buy-ing drugs for Rajput. Many stars like Deepika Padu-kone, Shradha Kapoor and

Soha Ali Khan were also hauled for questioning as the investigation esca-lated.

Swara Bhaskar, while counting the year 2020 as one of the disastrous

years for Bollywood said, "2020 has really been a terrible year for Bolly-wood. The slender campaign by some sections of the media against the film industry has been horrendous."

Shreyas Talpade, Bollywood Ac-tor, Director and Producer said, "We would love to say bye-bye to the year 2020 on a priority basis because this year we have lost many well-known celebrities and really it was the worst year in the history of Bollywood. We pray that 2021 is the best year for Bollywood and everything should come on the track."

One of the leading social and cultural

organisations of India, Teamwork Arts group, has done great service to the society, particularly for the arts fraternity, as they were badly hit by the pandemic. Artists form an integral part of the society and for the performing artists it is the per-formance that matters the most. In other words, the "show must go on" but the pandemic had completely shattered the scenario.

Sanjoy Roy, the director and founder of Teamwork Arts launched "Art Matters I believe", advocacy and fundraising initiative in order to promote and preserve arts and crafts with the partnership with top organisations like UNESCO, FICCI and ICCR. With the inception in April this year, Team Work Fine Arts Society has been showcasing India's rich cultural diversity with views 1.90.000 and featured in India Ahead News Channel, thereby supporting 5,000 artist families across India. Kudos for this great noble social service. The grand gala programme was held in October this year.

The top organisations which

had come forward to complete this great task are A.R. Rahman Founda-tion (Mumbai), Artists and Artists (Mumbai), Brah-maputra Cultural Founda-tion, (Assam), Sufi Kathak Foundation (New Delhi), the Rajasthan Josh Sidhar Vikas Sansthan (Jaisel-

mer Rajasthan), Ananda Shankar Centre for Performing Arts (Kol-kata), Zariya Foundation (Mumbai), Jaipur Rugs (Rajasthan), Amar Rass Society for Performing Arts (New Delhi), Sutradhar Social Ventures - Behrupiya community, Box: Light sense Art Foundation, Independent Artists, PAN India and Vimor Hand-loom Foundation.

Several top and famous perform-ing artists from the field of music, dance and drama came forward to showcase their art and also to contribute for this wonderful social cause. They include Usha Uthup, Mahabharat by Anurupa Roy, Kailash Kher, Rahmat-e- Nusrat, Javed Ali, Raja and Radha Reddy, Malvika Sarukkai,A R.Rahman, Attakkalari Centre for Performing arts. Dr L Subramaniam and Kavita Krishnamurthy and others.

Artists form an integral part of the society

2020- A black year for BollywoodBollywood got tagline of Drugs Den, Nepotism, Murder; Country also lost

many gems from film fraternity

Abhitash d.Singh


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and District Planning Of-ficer in this regard.

MLA Manda Mha-tre said, “The wrestlers of Navi Mumbai Shahar Kushtigir Sankul, San-pada and the trainees had visited my residence and demanded the mats and other materials required for wrestling”.

My colleagues and BJP supporter from San-

pada Jagannath Jagtap, Pandurang Amle, Shrim-ant Jagtap from Sanpada had spoken to me about the need for an additional facility at the Wrestling Training Association.

She further said, “A fund of Rs. 5 lakh has been provided for this purpose and additional funds will be made avail-able if there is still a need for other materials as well as other facilities”.

Meanwhile, the wres-

tlers have expressed their gratitude to MLA Manda Mhatre saying that Navi Mumbaikars will soon be able to watch profes-sional wrestling on the mat.

Navi Mumbai Shahar Kushtigir Sankul, San-pada President, Cdr RK Shirgaonkar said, “With the allotment of funds for the mat, the wrestlers will be motivated and many youths will come forward for the sport”.

By dinesh Pawar

To ensure that the night curfew im-

posed by the state gov-ernment is followed strictly on New Year’s Eve, a tight police ban-dobast was imposed on Thursday, 31st Decem-ber, 2020, said Senior Police Inspector Jagdish

Kulkarni.Strict police secu-

rity was maintained till late at night at Pirwad beach, Uran Charphata, Uran Sheva-Char Fata, Dastan Fata, Khopta and other strategic places in the west of Uran city. Nine officers and 54 em-ployees were deployed.

All vehicle was in-spected and care was taken to ensure that no untoward incidents take place.

The bandobast was carried under the guid-ance of Sandeepan Shinde, Senior Inspector of Police, Mora Marine Police Station.

A police cordon was set up at Hanuman Koliwada Uran mora Road

Tight police bandobast at Uran Naka


FRoM THe CAMPuS: youR New yeAR ReSoluTioN?The word itself, tells us that it is a New Year time and a new be-ginning. Everybody has their own goals or target that they want to achieve but resolution is a myth that everybody believes that they can achieve but eventually forget about it. But still, at the end of the year, everyone will hope that they will work according to the Resolution next year.

Vishakha Ratnaparakhi

I hope the New Year treats us well and we have a better year than before. I hope that this year I will get a job in the field of my liking. My resolution for this year is to be happier and to be able to deal with situations like this in a positive way.

Suraj Jadhav My resolution for this year is to get a job as I finished my Gradu-ation last year. I hope I get a good one. Also I hope that this year, I work on my graphic skills more and would like to join a Diploma programme for my Masters’ degree.

Mammen Jacob QueSTioN FoR NexT week: do you Feel NAVi MuMBAi

will Be ABle To BAg FiRST PoSiTioN iN NATioNwide CleANliNeSS SuRVey 2021?

Send your views along with your picture to [email protected]

A year full of problems is about to end, waving a goodbye to 2020 and welcoming 2021 with new and positive views to ad-just in the new normal. For me, my family comes over anything and everything and I prefer to start my new year with them at the most safest and happiest place- My House. I would bake cake with my mom and start the year in the sweetest way pos-sible. Enjoying the new beginning the right way. Happy New Year to all. May this year be better than any other year. Stay

home, stay safe and stay happy.Harsha Nair

By Ashok dhamija1980 Moscow Olym-

pian and Arjuna Awardee Adille Sumariwalla and Satish N. Uchil, both of Mumbai City District, were re-elected unop-posed as President and Hon. General Secretary respectively of the Ma-harashtra Athletic As-sociation (MAA) for the period 2020-2024 during the MAA elections and AGM which were con-ducted in Pune recently. Abhay Chajjed of Pune District was also elected as Chairman of the asso-ciation.

The MAA during its AGM also decided to appoint four Olym-pians and a couple of international athletes as Chairpersons of various Sub-Committees of the Association.

Olympian Kavita Raut was appointed Chairperson of the Athletes Commission, Olympian Lalita Babar was named as Chairper-son of the Disciplinary Committee, Olympian Rachita Mistry is the Chairperson of Women Committee and Olym-pian Anand Menezes will be the Chairman of Marathon and Road

Races Committee. Inter-nationals Homiyar Mis-try is the Chairman of the Selection Committee and Sharad Suryawanshi will be the Senior Joint Secretary.

The entire 25-mem-ber Executive Commit-tee, which also included eight Vice-Presidents, a Hon. Treasurer, eight Joint Secretaries (Se-nior) including Thane District Amateur Athlet-

ic Association’s Ashok Aher and five Commit-tee Members, according to a MAA media release. Three candidates were later co-opted as Mem-bers of the Committee.

The entire AGM and Election process was conducted under the supervision of Sunil Shinde (Election Offi-cer, MAA) and Madhu-kankt Pathak (Treasurer, Athletics Federation of

India) and Balasaheb Landge (Secretary Gen-eral, Maharashtra Olym-pic Association), who were the two observers.

Sumariwalla who was re-elected as Ath-letics Federation of In-dia (AFI) President for the third time recently proudly stated that MAA is witnessing a historic moment as there are five Olympians, includ-ing himself, who will be

serving the association. “This is a historical mo-ment for Indian sports as MAA comprises of Olympians and several international athletes nominated to the post of Chairperson of various Sub-Committees of the Association. They will be the integral part of the Executive Commit-tee of the Association.

Adille, Uchil re-elected MAA President, Secretary

Adille J. Sumariwalla Satish N. Uchil


Advertisement Man-ager of Kailash

Chandra Prakashan, Divakar Gore retired on 31st December, 2020 after working for 15 years in the organisa-tion. Mr. Divakar Gore and his wife, Mrs. Deepa Gore were felicitated by the staff of Newsband, Apale Naveshahar and K. D. Constructions.

On this occasion Shailesh Jadhav, editor of Apale Naveshahar and Mrs. Varda Sharma, editor of the Newsband, Anant Hadawale, Man-ager, M/s. K.D. Con-structions and all the colleagues of Divakar Gore were present.

Speaking during the occasion, Mr. Kailash Gindodia, owner and publisher Mr. Shiv Gindodia wished Mr. Gore all the best for his future endeavour.

Advertising manager of Kailashchandra prakashan, divakar Gore retires after 15 years of service

Editors of Newsband Varda Sharma and Aaple Nave Shahar Shailesh Jadhav felicitate their marketing manager divakar Gore and his better half with a citation on his final day of his service (photos by Ashok dhamija)

mr. Kailash Gindodia, owner of Kailash Chandra prakashan along with mr. divakar Gore and mrs. deepa Gore.

Editors of Newsband Varda Sharma and Aaple Nave Shahar Shailesh Jadhav felicitate their marketing manager divakar Gore and his better half with a citation on his final day of his service (photos by Ashok dhamija)


EditorialiSSue: 174 1 JANuARy, 2021

The year 2020 is one that will never be forgotten for many

generations. The year saw the global pandemic, where people were con-fined to their houses, trying to fight the battle against the coronavirus. This will be the year that will re-mind humanity to never take things for granted.

2020 literally brought the world to a standstill. Distressing images of migrants walking along highways, pregnant migrant workers, gasping for breath and yet marching ahead, haunt us. The Indian economy was adversely hit and the people faced acute financial crunch. However, the year also made us aware of many other things. It made us realise the importance of being together, need to focus on health and strike a bal-ance in our activities. It also made

us realise that there is a need to fo-cus on public health and upgrade health facilities.

However, everything that ends, marks a new beginning. It is the be-ginning of an era of psychological and spiritual awareness and growth. We need to let go of 2020 with a re-newed resolve to be human, to sur-vive together, to learn together and persevere in the many beginnings that we are still to see. We need to welcome the New Year 2021 with great hope, positivity and renewed vigour.

On behalf of the entire team of Newsband, we wish all our readers and advertisers a Very Happy and Prosperous New Year. May each day of the New Year brings lots of happiness, joy and good health in everyone’s life.

Ushering in New Year with renewed vigour

By Ashok dhamija

The upcoming Ma-harashtra Common

Entrance Test (MHT CET) 2021, a state level entrance examination conducted by the State Common Entrance Test Cell, Government of Maharashtra will be held based on a re-duced HSC syllabus.

The common test, which serves as a standard qualifier for students interested in pursuing graduate courses in the field of Engineering, Phar-macy, Agriculture etc. across the state, will not include questions from the deleted portions of Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Biol-ogy syllabi as deleted by Maharashtra Rajya

Pathyapustak Nirmiti va Abhyaskram San-shodhan Mandal for the forthcoming HSC exam-ination due to COVID-19 pandemic situation.

As per the revised weightage for MHT CET 2021 syllabus, 20

percent will be based on Class 11 curriculum, the remaining 80 per-cent will on the syllabus taught in Class 12.

The MHT CET will consist of three multiple choices question pa-

pers (100 marks and 90 minutes each) of which candidates are required to attempt two accord-ing to their subjects will be devoid of any nega-tive marking this time around. The difficulty level of Physics, Chem-

istry and Mathemat-ics sections will be at per with the Joint Entrance Examina-tion (JEE) Main and the difficulty level of Biology will be at per with the National Eli-gibility cum Entrance Test (NEET).The online applica-

tion process for 2021 session is expected to start from the month of January 2021, while the exam will be conducted in the 1st week of May 2021 tentatively

By Ashok dhamija

It has been decided by Central, Western and Southern Railway to revise the timings of fully reserved Special Trains via Konkan Railway (KR) route as

per the details given below:

Passengers are requested to kindly note the same.

Reduced syllabus for forthcoming mHT CET

Railways revises timings of special trains via KR route

2019. But till date not even a single bidder has come forward for the project and hence there is a delay in starting the work" added Patil.

A senior official from the NMMC informed, "This entire year went in fighting the pandem-ic. Hence, we were un-able to start the work of RoB at Juinagar railway crossing. However, the work will start in the early months of 2021. We will try to complete the project by the end of the year."

In the mid of 1990's, the City & Industrial Development Corpora-tion (CIDCO) had built the arterial road above the railway tracks and since then the commut-ers have been risking their lives while cross-ing it.

The Central Railway, after two months of the accident, had installed a level crossing gate.

An official was also deployed to close the gate whenever the train passed through the spot.

The official who is deployed for taking care of it informed, "Every day around 15-20 trains on the harbour and trans- harbour lines ply on the tracks to go to the San-pada car shed. I close the gate soon after receiving the signal of an incom-ing train. But there are few people in the area, mostly pedestrians, who cross the gate even when I close them. And when I ask them not to do it, they argue with me."

President of Panvel Pravasi Sangh, Bhakti Dave said, "The popu-lation of the city is in-creasing at a great pace. Even if the frequency of the trains on the spot is not too high, the fre-quency of the people has increased. Also in future, the city population will rise due to development in the city and there will be a lot of changes in the coming years. So there

is an urgent need of an RoB at Juinagar."

Sanjay Pandey, a resident of Juinagar sector-23 said, "We are really disappointed with the civic body for the delay in the completion of the project. I have seen people crossing the tracks and risking their lives. People staying in Sanpada & Juinagar use the track to reach the Juinagar railway station. We have urged the au-thorities several times to come up with some con-structive solution. But till date, demands have fallen into deaf ears."

Abhishek Ranaware, another resident from Juinagar Sector-24 said, "Both the NMMC and the CIDCO have enough resources to build class infrastructure in the city but they are delaying it. It is also important that a survey is conducted to see which areas need RoBs. Accordingly, steps should be taken to ensure that the travel is smooth for everyone."


JuiNAgAR RoB- A diSTANT dReAM...


Who would have thought that the

citizens of the empire on which the sun nev-er sets would one day be denied entry to the world? It has happened. The British who had inscribed: Indians and dogs not allowed in var-ious parts of the country they ruled, are now re-fused entry to almost all countries of the world. It is karma. Those who believed that bad Kama would be punished in the next life, have now to believe that what one gives in this life comes back in this life itself, not in any other janam.

Not only have the tables been turned in this matter, but in other matters also. The whites sneered at our curries and the rich aroma (for which they wrinkled their nos-es). Today, scientists believe that the small amounts of adhrak, jeera, spices that we add to our cooking builds up more resistance to germs and diseases than any medi-cine. People now believe in our kadhas which our grandmothers and their grandmothers prescribed as homemade medi-cines for almost all ills.

It is but repetition but it has to be told that our age old practices like yoga, our ancient beliefs in haldi milk, and other things are now forming part of the daily routine in other countries.

Our villages and an-cestral homes had the toilets a distance away from the living rooms.

We always washed our hands and feet after vis-iting the toilets. Look what the world is now doing-sanitising hands after every visit to the washroom. Water is now seen as the best cleans-ing agent rather than tissues, wet wipes and the like. Of course, the cold weather in western countries made wiping more a habit than wash-ing. Tables, utensils, crockery all are wiped clean because water from the taps was cold but now every house-hold in the west has hot and cold water side by side.

Eating with hands

was frowned upon by the elite who used knives, forks and spoons. Sci-entists now tell us that food should be appreci-ated by the eyes, smelt by the nose and felt by the hands. Only then is the full value of food ap-preciated. That is what we have always been doing. Our food has rich red, brown, yellow, green or orange colours. A handful of ripe red to-mato cubes, sprinkling of lush green coriander and the aroma of sea-soning with rayi, jeera, kadipatta etc looks so very appealing. The ap-petizing smell that wafts from our food, can this be compared with the baked chicken, meat, veggies or anything?

Indians always had

fresh nimbu paaani dur-ing summer months. Lemons are rich in Vi-tamin C, a necessity now during the covid problem. Following the west our five star ho-tels welcomed guests with artificial flavor of fruits while giving fresh lemon slices with warm water for washing hands after food. Now the tables have turned and fresh lime or lemon is part of every person’s diet to ward off the co-rona virus.

How the tables have turned. The west fa-voured unitary families where only the couple and their children (that

too till eighteen only) lived together. Now our ways of all members liv-ing together has shown the world that there is satisfaction and love in sharing and companion-ship. Especially during lockdown and quaran-tine when blood rela-tions are Godsend.

Let the New Year bring in prosperity and acceptance by the world of our culture, our people, our food and behaviour. Let this new decade be the Decade of India. It is possible if all of us decide to be proud of our culture, and our people. We will be num-ber one in the world. We will lead while the oth-ers follow.The writer is a freelancer from Navi mumbai

New Year musings: Tables turned

By dr. Veena Mohan Adige

By Abhitash d.Singh

The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corpo-

ration (NMMC) & the Panvel City Municipal Corporation (PCMC) as per the guidelines issued by Maharashtra Gov-ernment have extended lockdown restrictions in their jurisdiction till 31st January, 2021.

The Maharashtra government had earlier imposed a night curfew in all the municipal ar-eas of the state. The cur-few is in place from 11 pm to 6 am and will re-main in force till 5 Janu-ary, 2021.

Abhijit Bangar, NMMC Commissioner said, "As of now the cases of Covid-19 in

the satellite city is in control but we do not wish to take chances. As precautionary measure, we have extended the lockdown restrictions till 31st January, 2021 in order to prevent further spread of the Covid-19 in the city."

Sudhakar Deshmukh, PCMC Commissioner said, "We are following the Maharashtra Gov-ernment guidelines in extending the lockdown restrictions and accord-ingly have extended the lockdown in PCMC ju-risdiction till 31st Janu-ary, 2021."

Sanjay Shinde, Ad-ditional Commissioner, PCMC, Education said, "The PCMC has also

extended the deadline for opening schools in its jurisdiction till 15th January, 2021. Strict ac-tion will be taken under the Epidemic Disease Act, 1897 an offence punishable under sec-tion 188 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) against those who are found to be violating Covid 19 protocols."

Over the past few months, the government has eased several lock-down restrictions in the state. Last month, the government had allowed reopening of places of worship. Schools for students from Std 9th to 12th were also reopened in some parts of the state.

NMMC & PCMC extend lockdown till 31st Jan, 2021

Maharashtra Athletics Association is the only State Association in the country which has five Olympians in the Ex-ecutive Committee. The focus is on Development of Athletics throughout Maharashtra.”

The Executive Com-mittee (period 2020

– 2024):President: Adille J.

Sumariwalla (Mumbai City).

Chairman: Abhay Chajjed (Pune).

Vice-Presidents: Narayan Shankar Khad-ke (Nashik), Gopals-ingh Rajput (Amravati), Sanjay Badole (Latur), Balaram Patil (Mum-bai), Lalit Jiwani (Nag-pur), Sanjay Patil (Kol-hapur), Raju (Basavraj) Pyati (Pune), Srikant Joshi (Aurangabad).

Hon. General Sec-retary: Satish N. Uchil (Mumbai City).

Hon. Treasurer: Madhav Desai Shejul (Parbhani).

Hon. Joint Secretar-ies: Sharad Suryawanshi (Nagpur), Suresh Farak-

te (Kolhapur), Pankaj Balsakhale (Aurang-abad), Dinesh Bhalerao (Pune), Atul Patil (Am-ravati), Pralobh Kulkar-ni (Latur), Ashok Aher (Thane), Hemant Pande (Nashik).

Committee Mem-bers: Rakesh Save (Pal-ghar), Rajeev Joshi (Na-shik), Ranjitsing Rane (Sindhudurg), Rajeev Kulkarni (Pune), Ful-chand Salampure (Au-rangabad), Co-opted - Rajesh Jadhav (Jalgaon), Ramesh Gangawane (Hingoli), Suresh Adpe-war (Chandrapur)


Adille, uCHil Re-eleCTed MAA...

By Crime Reporter

Vashi police raided a hookah par-lour on Wednesday night and

arrested 32 youths and 4 employees. Police also seized tobacco and other materials required for smoking hoo-kah from the hookah parlour.

To curb the spread of the corona virus, the state government has is-sued strict instructions to all types of hotels, pubs and bars. Suresh Mengde, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Cir-cle-1, had received information that the R.B.D Lounge located in Shakti Arcade in APMC Sector-19D runs a hookah parlour, which is in violation to the rules imposed by the govern-

ment in the backdrop of Covid. Ac-cordingly, Mengde ordered action against the hookah parlour. According to the report, a crime detection team led by senior police inspector Sanjeev Dhumal of Vashi police station raided the hookah parlour at around 8 pm on Wednesday.

During the raid, police arrested 32 young men, as well as four employ-ees of the hookah parlour who were supplying the customers with hookah smoking materials. All of them have been booked at the APMC police sta-tion under the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act and the Disaster Management Act.

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By Chandrashekhar Hendve65-year-old male patient resi-

dent of Nerul came to Terna Spe-ciality Hospital & Research Centre with lower urinary tract complaints suggestive of benign enlargement of prostate. However, on detailed inves-tigations doctors found that the pa-tient had an 11 cm diameter tumour in his left adrenal with uncontrolled hypertension. This patient was evalu-ated by the team of Urologist, endo-crinologist and physicians and they prepared the patient for surgery over a month. Given his uncontrolled hy-pertension and biochemistry sugges-tive of Pheochromocytoma, this sur-gery was risky with high degree of mortality and morbidity.

Commenting on this Dr. Nishant Kathale, Consultatnt Urology and Andrology from Terna Speciality Hospital said, “Angiomyolipoma, a benign form of tumor of mesen-

chymal origin, is characterized by smooth muscle cells, thick-walled blood vessels, and adipose tissue.

Angiomyolipoma is most commonly found in the kidney and in the extra-renal area in the liver. It is rarely re-

ported that angiomyolipoma is found in the retroperitoneum, spleen, bone, lung; ovary and so on. Adrenal tu-

mours of such nature are extremely rare. This tumour was above the left kidney, behind large intestines, com-

pressing on pancreas and spleen and had to be separated delicately from these organs and removed. Patient underwent surgery at the beginning of this month and was in ICU for 2 days. He got discharged within a week. The histopathological exami-nation of the tumour showed that he had an Angiomyolipoma of Adrenal gland with adrenal hyperplasia. It is an extremely rare tumour, with litera-ture reports of only 20 cases of ad-renal Angiomyolipoma in the world. As per Indian medical record this is 3rd patient in India before those 2 pa-tients were found this type of tumour in 2007 & 2014 respectively. The pa-tient was absolutely fine on follow up and has resumed work. Such dif-ficult and rare surgeries are routinely done at Terna Speciality Hospital & Research Centre in Navi Mumbai, which has a great team of specialists and super specialists."

By Ryhea george

The commissioner of the Navi Mumbai

Municipal Corporation (NMMC), Abhijit Ban-gar paid a surprise visit and inspected the ongo-ing sanitation works in Belapur, Nerul, Vashi, and Koparkhairane nodes.

The civic chief vis-ited the fire station in Belapur division, Sec-tor 1, 2, Sector 8, 8A, Sector 15, Agroligaon, Parsik Hill, Rahulna-gar and Sector 19, 19A, 21 in Nerul division, Kukshet village, Sector 2, Juinagar, Chincholi Lake, Sector 2 Sanpa-da, The Commissioner also visited Sanpada Railway Station, Vashi Sector 15, 16, Sector 9 bazaar, mini sea shore as well as Nisarg Park and Swachhata Park in Koparkhairane division and the adjacent waste dumping yard and in-spected the sanitation, beautification work.

Bangar, while in-specting the cleanliness of some public and com-munity toilets in differ-

ent wards also interacted with the caretakers. The commissioner noticed that the caretakers were not aware of many things related to the nationwide cleanliness survey and hence conducted an in-formative workshop for

them, said DMC, Solid Waste Management, Ba-basaheb Rajale.

He further said, “While inspecting the sludge removal and cleaning work of Chin-choli Lake, the Commis-sioner told the officials concerned to ensure that cleanliness is maintained in the vicinity”.

While inspecting the market area at Sector 9, Vashi, the commissioner

directed to pay more at-tention towards cleanli-ness and make it manda-tory to keep a garbage bin.

During his visit to Sanpada railway sta-tion, he suggested that a coordination meeting be

held soon to ensure that CIDCO, Railways, and concerned authorities contribute to the survey work while cleaning the interior and exterior of the station.

The commissioner also emphasized on the need to prevent the use of plastic. All the de-partments were directed to conduct anti plastic drive and submit a re-port every evening.

Navi mumbai doctors perform rare tumour surgery on senior citizen

NMMC chief inspects ongoing sanitation works

Only 20 cases of adrenal Angiomyolipoma cases found in the world

By Ryhea george

With an aim to spread awareness about the ill-effects of plastic,

the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corpora-tion, with the help of Nerul ward has come up with a novel concept. A man dressed in plastic bags and called as ‘Plastic Man’ will visit various stalls, bus stops and even markets and will be spreading awareness on the ill effects of using plastic.

“We are striving to make the city cleaner and beautiful. Through this ac-tivity, we plan to raise awareness and educate people on finding alternatives for thin plastic bags. As 31st Decem-ber is the last day of the year, we de-cided to start activity for the Swacch

Bharat Abhiyan 2021,”said Deputy Municipal Commissioner, Solid Waste Management Department, Dr. Babasa-heb Rajale.

plastic man of Navi mumbai to spread awareness on ill effects of plastic

By Crime Reporter

Vashi police have arrested a man

near Raghuleela Mall in Vashi for possessing country pistol illegally. The arrested man has been identified as Amit Kumar Ashok Jha (27). Suresh Mengde, Deputy Commissioner of Po-lice, Zone-1, informed that further investigation is underway to ascertain from where and from

whom the man bought the pistol.

Senior Inspector Sanjeev Dhumal had re-ceived information that a person would come near Raghuleela Mall in Vashi to sell firearms illegally. Accordingly Vashi police laid trap near the mall on Mon-day afternoon. Police ar-rested the suspect after he was spotted heading towards the bus depot at

around 3 p.m.When police be-

gan questioning him and searched him, they found a pistol in his trousers along with two live cartridges. He was later arrested on the charge of illegally pos-sessing firearms. A case under the Indian Arms Act has been registered against him said, Deputy Commissioner of Police Suresh Mengde.

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