Mehidy Hasan Miraz and Shoriful Islam’s fierce bowling helped Bangladesh defeat West Indies in the first ODI here at Providence Stadium.
Emerging spinner Mehidy Hasan Miraz was the hero for Bangladesh with a brilliant spell that netted 3/36 and the 24-year-old was adjudged as the Player of the Match.
Bangladesh captain Tamim Iqbal won the toss and was elected to bowl.
Chasing the target of 150 runs, Bangladesh also did not have a good start. Liton Das could only score one run. After this Tamim Iqbal and Najmul Hossain added 48 runs for the second wicket. Tamim was run out after scoring 33 runs off 25 balls. Hits 4 fours and a six.
Najmul and Mahmudullah added 49 runs for the third wicket to take the score to 100. Najmul was dismissed after scoring 37 runs off 46 balls. Afif Hossain scored 9 runs. Mahmudullah returned unbeaten on 41 off 69 balls. Hits 2 fours and a six. While Nurul Hasan remained unbeaten on 20 off 27 balls. Hit a four and a six.
That was never going to be enough, with skipper Iqbal (33) getting the visitors off to a fast start and Mahmudullah (41) using all his experience to ensure Bangladesh drew first blood in the three-match ODI series.
Earlier, West Indies failed to shine after being sent into bat first in Providence, with three of their top six batters unable to reach double figures.
West Indies did not have a good start and the team lost 5 wickets at 74. Shemrah Brooks, who came to the crease at number-3, scored the highest 33 runs. Captain Nicosal Pooran scored 18 runs.
The Men in Maroon lost 9 wickets on 110 runs on board. After this, Anderson Phillip and Jayden Seals added an unbeaten 39 runs for the final wicket to bring the score close to 150 runs. Philip scored an unbeaten 21 off 22 balls.
Off-spinner Mehdi Hasan Miraj took 3 wickets for 36 runs in 9 overs. On the other hand, left-arm fast bowler Shoriful Islam scalped 4 wickets for 34 runs in 8 overs.
No.3 Shamarh Brooks top-scored for West Indies with an overly cautious 33 and their total may have been even less if not for an unbeaten final-wicket stand of 39 between Anderson Phillip (21) and Jayden Seales (16*) at the end of their innings.
Nine people died while five others were injured in a road accident in the central Uganda district of Luweero, police said Sunday.
Police in a statement issued here said the Saturday accident occurred after a public service vehicle collided with a truck.
The statement said the alleged speeding passenger service vehicle (van) travelling from Kampala to Gulu burst its rear tire, lost control and overturned several times before colliding with an oncoming truck.
The passengers who died and others injured were in the van.
According to police statistics, some 20,000 road accidents occur nationwide each year, causing more than 2,000 deaths and thus making Uganda among the countries with the highest traffic fatality rates.
Sri Lankan parties agree to form all-party interim government after President Rajapaksa's resignation 4
Sri Lanka’s main Opposition parties on Sunday agreed to form an all-party interim government after the anticipated resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Wednesday, following unprecedented political turmoil that forced him and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to offer their resignations over the mishandling of the nation’s crippling economic crisis. Opposition parties held talks to seek ways to steer the country forward in the current unprecedented economic crisis after Rajapaksa’s resignation.
“We agreed in principle to form a government of unity with all parties participation for an interim period,” Wimal Weerawansa of the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna party’s breakaway group said. “This will be a government where all parties are represented,” he said.
Vasudeva Nanayakkara, another leader of the SLPP breakaway group said they need not wait for Rajapaksa’s resignation on July 13.
President Rajapaksa informed Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena on Saturday that he will resign on Wednesday after the country’s opposition parties demanded his resignation. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has also offered to resign.
The main Opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya party said they held extensive internal discussions. “We aim for an interim government of all parties for a limited period and then go for a parliamentary election,” Ranjith Madduma Bandara the SJB general secretary said.
At least 80 people in Mumbai, mostly in the 60-80 age group, were duped of over Rs 1 crore by cyber fraudsters who tricked them into paying online claiming their electricity bills are not updated, and if they do not comply with, their power supply will be disconnected, police said.
A man was arrested in connection with the fraud, they said. Interestingly, some of the victims who fell prey to this fraud between June 7 and July 4 are doctors, hoteliers, Navy officers, college students, engineers, businessmen, retired government employees and even some maidservants, a police official said. He said the fraudsters used to send random SMSes to people claiming that their previous month’s power bill was not updated and they need to contact the “electricity officer” immediately to avoid disconnecting the power supply.
“The fraudsters also used to mention the contact number of ‘call centres’ in the SMS and when the gullible victims used to call on that number, they were told that their power supply will be disconnected at night. They were given the option to pay online to avoid any hassle. Once they made the payment, the fraudsters would copy details of their accounts and withdraw money,” the official explained. Altogether, Rs 1.06 crore was siphoned off from the bank accounts of 80 people, he said, adding that an elderly woman from suburban Andheri lost Rs 11.8 lakh in the fraud after she received an SMS warning that her power supply will be disconnected at night.
The FIRs, under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) charge of cheating, were registered across 40 police stations in various suburbs of Mumbai, the official said, adding that the victims are consumers of various utilities. Police arrested a 37-year-old man for his alleged involvement in sending such fake SMS to a woman, a resident of the posh Napean Sea Road, who lost money from her two credit card accounts. Apart from the cyber police, the local police are also conducting a parallel investigation, the official added.
India stands with the people of Sri Lanka as they seek prosperity and progress through democratic means and constitutional framework and continue to follow the development in the island country, the Ministry of External Affairs said.
This comes after protesters stormed into President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s official home and later broke into Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s private residence and set it on fire on Saturday.
Both President Rajapaksa and PM Wickremesinghe have announced to step down from their posts amid the ongoing protests.
External Affairs Minister spokesperson Arindam Bagchi, in a statement, said, “We continue to follow closely the recent developments in Sri Lanka. India stands with the people of Sri Lanka as they seek to realise their aspirations for prosperity and progress through democratic means and values, established institutions and constitutional framework.”
Responding to the situation in Sri Lanka, the MEA Spokesperson said that India is Sri Lanka’s closest neighbour and our two countries share deep civilizational bonds. “We are aware of the many challenges that Sri Lanka and its people have been facing, and we have stood with the Sri Lankan people as they have tried to overcome this difficult period,” he said in a statement.
In pursuance of the central place that Sri Lanka occupies in our Neighbourhood First policy, India has extended this year unprecedented support of over USD 3.8 billion for ameliorating the serious economic situation in Sri Lanka.
The worsening economic situation in the country has led to increasing tensions and over the last few weeks, there were reports of several confrontations between individuals and members of the police force and the armed forces at fuel stations where thousands of desperate members of the public have queued for hours and sometimes days. Police have used tear gas and water cannons at times in a disproportionate manner. On occasions, armed forces have also fired live ammunition.
Sri Lanka is suffering its worst economic crisis since gaining independence in 1948, which comes on the heels of successive waves of COVID-19, threatening to undo years of development and severely undermining the country’s ability to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The oil supply shortage has forced schools and government offices to close until further notice.
Reduced domestic agricultural production, a lack of foreign exchange reserves, and local currency depreciation have fuelled the shortages. The economic crisis will push families into hunger and poverty – some for the first time – adding to the half a million people who the World Bank estimates have fallen below the poverty line because of the pandemic.
Mumbai's each government hospital has a horror side to it 8
Most of the government hospitals in Mumbai are in horrible conditions. Most of the time, Rajawadi, KEM, Bhagwati and Shatabdi Hospital hit the headlines for the wrong reasons. Well, mostly only those patients who choose to go to government hospitals, who cannot afford private healthcare. Patients are treated like objects. Overcrowded wards, dirty unhygienic toilets, stinking corridors, worst food and substandard medical facilities are common factors in all these government and BMC-run hospitals.
Recently monkey menace at KEM hospital has created panic in patients. They found one monkey attacking patients, visitors and staff, taking away their bags. A nurse said there have been three cases of monkey bites within the premises. Those bitten or scratched now have to take the anti-rabies vaccine. While dogs, cats and mice are often found on the hospital premises, this time one monkey has made the hospital its adventure trip. This time it was just a monkey but there are bizarre incidents of rats nibbling on the eye of a patient in the ICU of Mumbai’s Rajawadi hospital.
The patient, Shrinivas Nagesh Yallapa, was admitted in a serious condition and was on ventilator support. Rats nibbled his eye and hospital management was in denial mode. Rajawadi hospital has been in a state of neglect for a long time. Rajawadi is one of the biggest hospitals in the eastern suburbs; the BMC has not been sanctioning enough funds to maintain it. The ICU is not secured enough, there are many rats around and the rats enter when someone opens the ICU door. There are colonies of rats in the ICU ward. The whole day they remain quiet and during night hours they nibble on all that is available to them including patients.
Shatabdi Hospital has gone to the rats. The patients get brutally attacked by rats. – One victim’s eye was nibbled at, while the other woman’s toe was gnawed on by the rodents. All the hospital management has done is to place trap cages around the premises, while the rodents continue to have the run of the place. Even today, no authorities could control the rat population and its attack. There is no vigilance, no management in place, no one is here to see the inconvenience faced by poor people.
Whenever a patient arrives in an emergency department, he /she first encounters the EMO room, whose job is to assign a patient either outpatient treatment or if severe, he/she is required to go to a specific emergency room (e.g., Surgery, medicine, ortho emergency etc) During the way, sometimes the stretcher is missing and the unconscious patient has to wait until it arrives and sometimes the attendant goes missing. (As there are only 2–3 stretchers which fall short when patient load increases).
Senior doctors are only available three times a day (morning rounds, afternoon and evening rounds). The junior residents are mostly irresponsible and insensitive towards their patients because they are also equally irritated with the circumstances. The AC in the operation theatre was mostly in non-working conditions, and we can see sweat dribbling from the resident’s forehead directly on the patient getting operated on. Sometimes operation theatre lights are not working, most of the time doctors are busy chatting with each other during surgery.
Ventilators in the paediatric department always have problems. Nurses are rude and insensitive towards women patients who deliver babies. Lack of toilet facilities, no attendants, and no doctors are available in time. The conditions of these hospitals are very inhumane. These human lives have no value and it does not give them basic dignity. The corrupt staff, ward boys and girls are another nuisance. Governments come and go, but the conditions of these hospitals remain the same. There are several reasons for government-funded hospitals in India being filthy. The cleaning crew is usually lazy and unmotivated. This usually happens with regular government employees, who are mostly disinclined to work. Government hospitals see a heavier footfall than private ones. The crowd outside our OPDs resembles a protest gathering on most days. People are spitting gutka openly on the premises. I have seen small children defecating and urinating openly near the patient queues despite lavatory facilities being available for patients but those lavatories are just hell dirty.
Most of public hospitals are grossly underfunded. Hence, these hospitals do not spend on services which are perceptibly more essential to patient care (e.g., drug and instrument supplies) and sanitation. People don’t believe in the ownership of public facilities like they do in developed countries. Mumbai’s busiest public medical centre, Sion Hospital, stands as a defining landmark on the southeast border of one of the city’s most well-known slums. The medical centre, Sion Hospital, opened in 1947 and has had to deal with unprecedented and unexpected growth and a range of health issues that accompany the extremely poor living conditions of local residents. It wasn’t until 1976 that the government began providing water and electricity services, and even today, those services don’t reach all residents. Over the years, cramped living quarters, lack of sanitation, trash issues and unsafe water have created serious health ramifications for the community. The hospital’s growth from a 50-bed facility in its infancy in the 1950s to a 1,400-bed facility today tells a story about its surrounding area that decades of census neglect have failed to record. The walls are so dirty and spider webs are everywhere. A few tube lights and a few fans are in good condition, but a few fans are off because of some technical problems.
You visit any government hospital in Mumbai; the conditions are similar everywhere. The population is on the rise, medical facilities are inadequate. Mumbai has many challenges in taking care of the enormous population. Most government hospitals share the additional burden of jail inmates’ check-ups, post-mortems and health investigations. Staff is not sufficient, doctors lack the will, and the government lacks commitment to the people. India might progress on the paper but ground realities are not going to change ever.
KEM hospital patients are hassled by rats, cats, dogs and monkeys 10
KEM hospital is a shelter for dogs and an eatery for cats and rats. In the meantime, monkey made a new entry here. There were many reports of rats nibbling patients, cats stealing milk and dogs sleeping in the general ward of the hospital and there is no mechanism to control such annoyance. Monkey menace at KEM Hospital had created anxiety since they found a monkey attacking patients, visitors and staff, taking away their bags. The forest department traps and takes the monkey out of the hospital.
KEM staff said there were three cases of monkey bites within the premises. Those bitten or scratched now have to take the anti-rabies vaccine. While we often saw dogs, cats and mice on hospital premises. For some, it was entertaining to see the monkey, but some others had a terrible experience.
Raju Bansare, the relative of a patient, said, “I came from Nanded for my brother’s treatment and have been staying here for a month. For the past 4 to 5 days, a monkey has been coming inside the corridor looking for food. It also went through the bags and threw things around. It even attacked a woman in front of us. Some people are feeding it while others are scared.” Bansare said the monkey is generally seen around 10 to 11 am and then again around 8 to 9 pm.
Sangeeta Ravat, Dean of the College, informs Afternoon Voice, “Forest Department officer Abhijeet Patil is coordinating with KEM security to catch the monkey. We cannot catch the monkey since monkeys are quick animals and tranquillizers are avoided in animals’ interests. We kept 3 cages on campus at places frequented by monkeys. Stray incidence of minor monkey bite is there, typically due to the patient’s relatives trying to feed it.”
Abhijeet Patil from the Forest Department told the Afternoon Voice, “We caught the monkey on Sunday morning. Now we are going to send it to our medical centre in Kalyan and will do a medical checkup. If it has any injuries, we are going to treat it. If they find the monkey fit to survive in the jungle, the authorities will decide in which forest to leave the monkey.”
A family member of Patience said, “Animals are living beings like us. I have seen dogs, cats and monkeys on the hospital premises. I feed them because they crave food like us. We humans should do some charity by feeding these strays as they have no place to go. By doing this we shall add to our good karma.”
Another patient’s family member told the Afternoon Voice, “We have problems with cats and rats around; they are not good in regards to hygiene. Moreover, patients cannot be comfortable if these stray animals wander around hospital beds.”
India has won its first medal at The World Games 2022 being held in Birmingham, USA, with the archer duo of Jyothi Surekha Vennam and Abhishek Verma bagging a bronze medal in archery, bringing home the country’s first-ever medal in the discipline by defeating Canada’s Andrea Becerra & Miguel Becerra.
With this, they have also won India’s fifth overall medal at The World Games. They defeated the duo of Becerra and Miguel Becerra by a margin of 157-156.
“st MEDAL FOR INDIA AT #TWG2022 The Star Compound mixed duo of @VJSurekha/ @archer_abhishek defeated Andrea Becerra & Miguel Becerra 157-156 to win at @TWG2022 The duo creates history to win ‘s an st medal in #Archery & the overall at The World Games,” tweeted SAI Media.
The 11th edition of The World Games is in Birmingham, Alabama, the USA from July 7-17 2022. Initially planned for 2021, this edition was postponed to 2022 because of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The World Games are considered the Olympic Games for non-Olympic sports. Compound archery is not part of the Olympic Games.
NIA arrests the seventh person in connection with the Udaipur tailor's killing 13
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a seventh person, identified as Farhad Mohammad Sheikh, in connection with the brutal killing of tailor Kanhaiya Lal in Udaipur last month, a spokesperson said on Sunday.
The spokesperson said Sheikh, alias Babla, was arrested on Saturday evening.
He was a ”close criminal associate” of Riaz Akhtari, one of the two main accused, and took an active part in the conspiracy to kill the tailor, the spokesperson said.
Kanhaiya Lal was killed with a cleaver inside his tailoring shop on June 28.
The gruesome attack by Riaz Akhtari on the tailor was recorded on a phone by Ghouse Mohammad, and the video was posted online. They said in a video later that they hacked Lal to death to avenge an alleged insult to Islam.
The duo was arrested within hours of the killing. Four more persons were arrested subsequently.
Shiv Sena Party leader Aaditya Thackeray on Sunday stated that he has requested Maharashtra Government to build a veterinary hospital at the construction site of the Aarey metro car shed.
The Shiv Sena leader said, “ Whatever anger they (Maharashtra Government) have against us should not be taken out on the city. Jungles and the environment need to be protected, climate change is upon us”. After which he also said, “ We had proposed construction to be turned into a veterinary hospital for jungle”.
In the past, Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray urged the Eknath Shine government to scrap the Aarey metro project. The Aarey Colony has 13,000 hectares is home to 27 Adivasi villages and many animal species and in that area, Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation announced a plan to cut down 2,700 trees from the Aarey colony to build car shed for the Metro.
In the year 2019 Bombay High Court stated a verbal direction was given to the Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRCL) and the state government to not cut the trees in the Aarey colony for its metro car shed. The decision was agreed upon by the MMRCL and the state government.
The High Court in the year October 2019 dismissed all petitions against the proposed cutting of over 2,500 trees in Aarey Colony of Mumbai to build a Metro car shed.
After the dismissal of the petitions from the High Court, However Maharashtra government still kept a stay on the order for the Aarey metro car shed project.
When the Maharashtra government gave a stay order on the Aarey metro car shed project there was a huge agitation in the city.
After the agitation in the city of Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray in the year 2020, announced that the state government has withdrawn cases that are registered against people who were protesting against the Aarey metro car shed.
