Two groups of students from a Mumbai-based engineering college have emerged as winners in the global aero-design competition held in the USA.
While one team won the first prize globally at the Aero Design in Micro Class SAE Aero Design West Micro Class 2014, another team emerged as the top winner from Asia in the Advanced Class contest, a release issued here said.
The competition was held at Fortworth, Texas, United States, from March 28-30, and both the teams returned last week to Anjuman-i-Islam’s M H SabooSiddik College of Engineering at Byculla in Central Mumbai.
The college students have also been invited to participate in other international events of this stature.
The SAE Aero Design competition is intended to provide undergraduate and graduate engineering students with real-life engineering challenges and provide exposure to the kinds of situations that engineers face in their real-life work environment.
SAE Aero Design features three classes of competition-Regular, Advanced, and Micro, the release said.
In the micro class of the competition, the team secured first position and it was accredited by Lockheed Martin and NASA.
“The entire design had overwhelming response in which best institutions such as IIT Kanpur, Vellore Institute of Technology and highly reputed institutions from all over the globe took part,” a spokesperson of the college said.
The team comprised of Sanjay Kumar (Faculty), Adith Ajayan (Captain), Abdul Kadir Poonawala, Imran Merchant, Hussain Shaikh, Muzammil Sarkhot, Darpan Agarwal, Afsan Gujarati and Sharang Biradar, from the automobile engineering stream.
Seventeen teams from across the world including seven teams from India represented by premier Institutes like IIT Kanpur, NIT, Jamshedpur, VIT, Vellore, besides the Mumbai team participated in the advanced category.
In this event, the Indian team missed the top slot narrowly but emerged as the first in Asia, the release said.
The team comprised Deleep Talwai (faculty) Mustafa Hatiyari (captain), Saqlain Siddique, Atharva Joshi, Harshad Bhanushali, Abdul Karim Sarang, Hanif Shaikh, Shehzaad Keralwalla, Faheem Chaudhary, Manish Shukla, Zameer Ansari, Asma Khan and Shaziya Shaikh, who are students of mechanical engineering and electronics engineering.

Two persons were arrested for allegedly gangraping a 21-year-old married woman at her house in suburban Goregaon five days ago, police said.

The accused, identified as Vellipandi Devendra (29) and his cousin Jaisraj Devendra (27), were apprehended from Dadar railway station as they were about to escape to their native place in Tamil Nadu, said an officer at Mumbai Crime Branch.
Vellipandi, who is the son of a slumlord, his cousin Jaisraj and two others allegedly at knifepoint gangraped the woman who lived as a tenant in their shanty in a slum area at Aarey Colony in the wee hours of Saturday.
According to the police, the four accused had offered money to the woman for sexual favours. When she rejected their offer, the four took turns to rape her.
A case of gangrape, wrongful confinement and restraint and criminal intimidation has been registered against the accused. The other two accused are absconding.

Ace tennis player Leander Paes has filed ‘a guardianship petition’ in the family court in Mumbai seeking permanent custody of his eight-year-old daughter from her mother and his estranged live-in partner Rhea Pillai.
In his 30-page petition, filed yesterday in the Bandra court, Paes alleges that Rhea’s “escapades, indiscreet and irresponsible behaviour, lack of personal maternal supervision, volatile temper and self-indulgence created insecurity in the child and was detrimental to a healthy upbringing”.
As per the law, custody of a child born to a couple in a live-in relationship generally goes to the mother, unless the father establishes that child’s upbringing would suffer in the mother’s care.
Paes’s petition claims that he would be a better parent than Rhea. It says that since the child’s birth, Paes attended to her and took care of the chores such as changing diapers, giving her a bath, packing her school bag and reading her bedtime stories before putting her to sleep.
Meanwhile, Paes has also approached the city police alleging that his daughter was in danger and she may be forcibly taken out of the country by Rhea.
Paes submitted an application to Mumbai Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria, who forwarded it to Additional Police Commissioner Milind Bharambe to look into the matter, police sources said.
Paes has also urged the family court to restrain Rhea from taking the child out of the country.
His petition said his relationship with Rhea started in 2003 when they met on a flight, however, they never married “because Rhea did not believe in the institution of marriage due to a failed relationship experienced by her earlier”.
It alleges that Rhea told him wrongly in 2005 that she had divorced actor Sanjay Dutt, while the couple’s divorce by mutual consent came only in 2008 and Paes learnt about it only in 2013.

Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil today said the state government would initiate probe into the controversial statement of Samajwadi Party leader Abu Azmi in Lucknow yesterday.

“We will investigate the statement and if he is found guilty a case will be registered,” Patil told.

Azmi has stoked a controversy by saying at an election rally that the Muslims who did not vote for his party were not “true Muslims”, and their “DNA” should be tested.

At least two persons were injured and several vehicles damaged when two groups hurled stones and assaulted one another over a petty issue during a marriage function in Virar area of the district, according to police.
Nearly half a dozen persons have been arrested in connection with the incident.

During a marriage function of a community at a farm house in Virar’s Mandvi village, a bus carrying people arrived at the spot and was parked in a narrow road late last night.

A car coming from opposite direction could not pass through which led to a heated exchange between villagers (the passengers of the car) and those present in the bus.

Members from both sides then started assaulting each other and pelted stones at one another.

Following rumours of a communal flare-up, DSP Vasai Srinivas Ghatge rushed to the spot with police force.
Local MLA Vivek Pandit also rushed there and helped in resolving the dispute between the two sides following which the marriage ceremony was held.

Police have registered case of rioting and arrested half a dozen persons from both sides

Three persons, including the owner of a hospital and her children, who were tried in a case of medical negligence leading to death of a young woman after her delivery, were acquitted by a court here.

In his order, additional sessions judge S N Shelke said the prosecution failed to prove charges under section 304 read with 34 of IPC against the trio which relates to culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

According to prosecution, Heena Sayeed (23), a resident of Mumbra, was admitted to Vasi hospital for delivery on May 20, 2012.

The doctor, who was examining her all through her pregnancy, was away in Dombivili. Before he could arrive, Heena delivered a male child. However, there was continuous bleeding, which could not be arrested by the hospital staff.

She was sent to Kalsekar hospital for post delivery uterine inversion, which failed following which she died.

The family members of the deceased alleged that she died due to negligence of the staff of Vasi hospital.

Sayeed’s husband complained to TMC about the hospital, following which the civic body’s medical department conducted an inquiry and found medical negligence by Vasi hospital, the court was informed.

The accused were arrested on May 21, 2012.

Defending the three accused – Juleka Sheikh (52- the owner of Vashi hospital), her son Anas Sheikh (27- who used to manage the hospital staff) and daughter Roshna Sheikh (25- who assisted Juleka in hospital management) – advocate Baba Sheikh challenged the TMC’s inquiry report stating that due legal procedure was not followed by the inquiry officer, who had failed to give an opportunity to the accused to defend. The report was biased, he said.

Even though more than eight days have passed after Gayatri Sunil Khandagle (22) committed suicide after she was harassed by her husband Sunil Khandagle and in-laws but the Kashimira Police station are yet to file a complaint against her husband.

Gayatri who hails from Nagpur had arrived in Mumbai on April, 24 and stayed at her relative Kishor Dhomne’s house in Pandurang Wadi. The next day she was found hanging on a ceiling fan by relatives. Police have recovered a suicide note in which Gayatri held her husband responsible for taking this drastic step.

Gayatri’s father informed Kashimira Police that he had already filed a complaint against his son-in-law at his native place. Gayatri’s mother had alleged that her daughter has been harassed by her in-laws and husband. She had given birth to baby girl three years ago. Kashimira Police is planning to register a complaint against the accused.