Karnataka Rakshana Vedike activists at Belagavi. (Video screengrab/ ANI/ Twitter)Belagavi-Maharashtra News Highlights (December 6): Political leaders in Maharashtra started seeking Centre’s intervention as vehicles from the state were being targeted in Belagavi, Karnataka. NCP chief Sharad Pawar said, “If Karnataka CM (Basavaraj Bommai) is going to make provocative statements, then Centre must intervene.” He also said that he would request MPs from Maharashtra to take a delegation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, since the winter session of the Parliament is beginning tomorrow.
BJP Rajya Sabha MP Udayanraje Bhosale said “The Centre should intervene. It should call all political parties leaders from Maharashtra and Karnataka. The issue should be discussed to find amicable solution on long pending boundary dispute.” “Today, just making statements and counter statements by Maharashtra and Karnataka leaders is not going to solve the vexed problem,” he added. “It has to addressed by taking all leaders into confidence. Dialogue is must. Otherwise this fight will continue, and nobody will benefit.”
Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis called Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and expressed his displeasure over the incidents at Hirebagwadi near Belagavi. Bommai said that strict action will be taken against the culprits after looking into these incidents. He also assured in a telephonic conversation with Devendra Fadnavis that the vehicles coming from Maharashtra will be protected.
Doctors in Mumbai have removed a 10-centimetre fibroid weighing 1.5 kg from a 48-year-old woman’s cervix after she complained of heavy bleeding.
The woman had undergone tubal surgery and two lower-segment Caesarean section (C-section) surgery for deliveries. After the deliveries, she complained of intense abdominal pain and menorrhagia or abnormally heavy bleeding during menstruation for the last eight months. Upon examination, Dr Rajashri Tayshete Bhasale, consultant gynaecologist, laparoscopic surgeon and obstetrician at Wockhardt Hospitals, Mira Road, found out about the cervical fibroid.
“Cervical fibroids are less common. Less than 1 per cent of women encounter this problem. These need skillful surgery as they are close to the ureter (pipe draining urine from kidney to bladder),” said Dr Bhasale.
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The onset of winter combined with poor air quality has led to a rise in chronic respiratory illnesses with patients flocking to hospitals OPDs with recurrent cold and cough with many taking nearly over two weeks for recovery.
Over the last two to three weeks, there has been an almost two-fold rise in the footfall of patients with complaints of cold-fever and other symptoms of viral infections. “Yes, we have seen an increased footfall of patients, mainly kids or patients who have a history of bronchial asthma, lung complications, or COPD. These patients tend to have increased cough and cold, and short-duration fever when there is a change in weather,” said Dr Kirti Sabnis, Infectious Disease Specialist, Fortis Hospital.
Dr Radhika Banka, Consultant, Pulmonary Medicine, Hinduja Hospital, Khar cited drastic change in weather and ambient temperatures, deterioration of air quality and increasingly unhealthy lifestyle causing a decrease in natural immunity as the main reasons behind more patients with respiratory symptoms being witnessed this season.
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With less than 4,000 students dropping out, civic schools run by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) have recorded the lowest drop-out rate of the past 10 years in 2021-22 session.
Praja Foundation, an NGO, released a white paper on the state of municipal education in Mumbai on Monday according to which, in 2021-22, only 3,977 students dropped out of BMC schools.
The comparative data revealed that the drop-out number has always been above 10,000, with the highest figure recorded in 2014-15 with over 57,000 students dropping out of civic-run schools in the city.
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A fire has been reported on the top floor of an under construction building at Gaondevi Road, Andheri West.
Fire brigade is on the spot.
Former CM and senior Congress leader Ashok Chavan tells Maharashtra government to immediately withdraw the stay given to developmental works sanctioned in border areas of Maharashtra.
"As a PWD minister in the previous government I had sanctioned developmental works worth Rs 192 crore in Degloor area which is bordering Maharashtra. This government has given stay on those projects. These projects were meant for the development of the area and the government should now withdraw the stay to those sanctions," Chavan said.
State corporation buses will not go to Karnataka from Maharashtra. MSRTC which runs bus services in state has decided to not run bus services between Maharashtra and Karnataka.
NCP leader Ajit Pawar in a statement said, "Maharashtra will not tolerate high handedness of Karnataka."
Meanwhile, senior party leader Chhagan Bhujbal said, "Maharashtra should reassert its rights over border villages. The state cannot buckle under Karnataka."
Shiv Sena ( UBT) activists have taken aggressive stand in Kolhapur.
They have taken to streets in large numbers to voice their protest against attack on Maharashtra vehicles in Karnataka.
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Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti lead a delegation to district administration at Belagavi. They wanted to submit a petition, but police drove them away.
In Pune, Shiv Sena (UBT) workers defaced Karnataka buses. They threw ink and blackened the name plates. The Sena workers wrote Jai Maharashtra on these buses.
Reacting to the violence in Belagavi, BJP Rajya Sabha MP Udayanraje Bhosale said, "The Centre should intervene. It should call all political parties leaders from Maharashtra and Karnataka. The issue should be discussed to find amicable solution on long pending boundary dispute."
"Today, just making statements and counter statements by Maharashtra and Karnataka leaders is not going to solve the vexed problem," he added. "It has to addressed by taking all leaders into confidence. Dialogue is must. Otherwise this fight will continue, and nobody will benefit."
"Karnataka elections are approaching and therefore it is possible that the present issue is being raised as a conspiracy," said NCP chief Sharad Pawar.
"I am going to request all MPs from Maharashtra to take a delegation to HM and PM and raise the issue as parliament session begins from tomorrow," he said.
The Karnataka Rakshak Vedike which triggered violence in Belgavi has political patronage of Karnataka Congress and Janta Dal (S), BJP chief spokesperson Keshav Upadhyay said.
"The Congress, NCP which is questioning BJP should explain why it failed to resolve boundary dispute for past six decades," he added.
NCP leader Sharad Pawar said, "Never before such issues were raised. Some elements seem to be provoking people purposely and our state government isn't taking action."
"What is happening now should be stopped within 48 hours. Otherwise leaders here along with me will have to go to Belagavi to support people in Belagavi," he added.
Reacting to the violence in Belagavi, NCP chief Sharad Pawar said, "Maharashtra has taken patient position. But it has limits. If attacks on Maharashtra vehicles do not stop in 24 hours then whatever happens will be responsibility of Karnataka CM. People of Maharashtra are patient. But if Karnataka CM is going to make provocative statements, then Centre must intervene."
The Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) Kolhapur unit has threatened to visit Belagavi to protest against the targeting of Maharashtra vehicles in the area.
Maharashtra agriculture minister Abdul Sattar said, "The Maharashtra and Karnataka boundary dispute is long pending. It has to be resolved at proper forum."
"The attack on Maharashtra vehicles in Belagavi cannot be justified. The top leadership of centre, states of Maharashtra and Karnataka should hold discussions to address the issue," he added.
Six Maharashtra vehicles at Hirebagwadi near Belagavi have been targeted by Karnataka Rakshak Vedike activists.
Maharashtra Deputy CM Fadnavis has apprised the Centre of the incident.
Maharashtra Police has increased patrolling in the districts and commissionerates on the Maharashtra-Karnataka border.
An officer said that they are ensuring that there is no retaliatory violence in the state, especially on Karnataka based busses
Maharashtra minister Shambhuraj Desai has termed the violence at Belgavi as "unfortunate".