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  • Visakha police gear up to curb anti-social elements in the city

    The Visakhapatnam police have geared up to curb the anti-social elements and taking strict steps to stop the rowdies from resorting to settlements and land grabbing in the city. The police are giving counseling to the rowdy sheeters at every SHO level.

    Against this backdrop, Visakha CP Trivikram Varma entered the field and gave a strict warning to the rowdy sheeters. The police have also paid special attention to the murders and kidnappings taking place in the state.

    Speaking to the media, Trivikram Varma said that the police had given counseling to 280 A category rowdy sheeters in Visakha and opined that counseling will be given to rowdy sheeters every Sunday in every police station. CP revealed that those who are out on bail and resort to crime will be published severely besides cancelling the bail.

  • City’s short story writer Mehndiratta passed away

    City’s short story writer Mehndiratta passed away

    A renowned Hindi short story writer, Professor Virendra Mehndiratta (1932-2023), passed away here today.

    The professor, who retired as Chairman, Hindi Department, Panjab University, had been writing short stories since 1952. Some of his notable works are “Dhoop Mein Chatakta Kaanch”, “Nabhikund”, “Ek Aur Draupdi”, “Raag Tantu” and “Suraksha Chakra”. He found his stories in the flow of life and moments that touch the heart. His writing style involves no embellishment or self-pity.

    His wife, Prof Kanta Mehndiratta, had also done her doctorate in Hindi literature. One of his friends used to call him ‘adivasi’ of Chandigarh for he had prioritised teaching poor children from villages on the city periphery.

    Professor Mehndiratta was honoured with the highest literary award of “Hindi Sahitya Shiromani” by the Punjab Government in 1989. He has also been felicitated by Aadhaar Prakashan, Panchkula; the Punjab Hindi Sahitya Akademi, Patiala; and the Indian Artists’ Association, Shimla, for his contribution to Hindi theatre. He was the recipient of several other awards instituted by literary and cultural organisations.

    He was the chairman of the Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi (1996-99) and also a member of the General Council of Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi (1996-2001).

    Basically a student of science at Government College, Lahore, in 1946, his post-Partition education took place in Shimla. In 1953, Ashk published Professor Mehndiratta’s first collection of stories, “Shimla ki Cream”. After this, “Purani Mitti Naye Dhanche”, “Mitti Par Nange Paon” and “Siddharth Se Poochchoonga” were published.

    At a time when there was no cultural activity in Chandigarh, he started doing theatre in the precincts of the college and later formed a theatre group, Abhinet.

    Author Madhav Kaushik remembers Professor Mehndiratta as a great teacher, author and kind-hearted person. “He always inspired new generation of budding authors. His writings gave new dimensions to aesthetics of Chandigarh in its formative years. All creative authors of the tricity are very sad over his demise. The vacuum left with his death would not be filled in near future,” said Kaushik.

    Inspired budding authors

    “He always inspired new generation of budding authors. His writings gave new dimensions to aesthetics of Chandigarh in its formative years. All creative authors of the tricity are very sad over his demise,” said author Madhav Kaushik.

  • City’s top police officer holds crime review meeting

    City’s top police officer holds crime review meeting

    Hyderabad: City Police Commissioner CV Anand held a high-level crime review meeting and discussed several administrative issues concerning HCP with all ACP and above rank officers on Monday at Hyderabad City Police Commissionerate, TSPICCC.

    Review was done on all the crimes pending for want of arrests, detection of property offences which is at a record 85 percent, investigation of some sensational cases, FSL reports, charge sheets and ACP s were asked to specifically focus on them. Emphasising on the importance of crime detection Anand stressed on the concerted efforts among clues teams and the investigative teams as it allows for a more comprehensive approach in tracing, analysing patterns and Mos, building evidence, database, all that helps in ensuring detection, conviction and prevention too. During the meeting threadbare discussion was also held regarding resolving grievances pertaining to cybercrimes and narcotics, capacity building at PSs and quality investigations.

    Discussion was also held on the reorganisation of Hyderabad City Police and the accommodation for the new police stations and ACP/DCP offices, men redistribution, vehicles, D-CAMO (Drones & Cameras Maintenance Organisation) is now operational and the expansion of CCTV network was discussed.

    Additional CP Traffic G Sudheer Babu apprised the meeting on the status of Cantonment roads, special drive against illegal sirens, procuring modern gadgets and summer measures for field level personnel. Furthermore, the meeting delved in detail about the performance of patrols and blue colts, and the effective functioning of the night round system.

  • City startups excited by new medical device policy

    City startups excited by new medical device policy

    Hyderabad: Hyderabad-based medical devices startups are jubilant with the announcement of the National Medical Devices Policy 2023 on Wednesday by the Centre which is an essential and integral constituent of the Indian healthcare sector. The medical devices sector in India is a sunrise sector which is growing at a fast pace. The market size of the medical devices sector is estimated to be $11 billion (approximately Rs 90,000 crore) in 2020 and its share in the global medical device market is estimated to be 1.5 percent.

    The National Medical Devices Policy, 2023 is expected to facilitate an orderly growth of the medical device sector to meet the public health objectives of access, affordability, quality and innovation. With this policy, most of the startups feel that issues such as manufacturing, assembling, and marketing of the devices can be addressed.

    “With the announcement of this policy, it eases regulatory hurdles with the single window clearance system,” said Habib Ali, founder of startup BeAble. “The policy allows for more R&D and innovation abilities. We hope to see more investments and funds flowing from now onwards. If the policy is implemented effectively, we aim to deal with better and skilled human resources for manufacturing,” he said.

    Aparna Bhogu, Co-founder of startup Monitra Healthcare, which offers band-aid-like patches for a non-invasive way to ensure preemptive treatment of heart conditions says that this policy aims to cover six broad areas of policy intervention such as facilitating R&D and Innovation, human resources development and regulatory streamlining.

    “An important dimension of this policy is establishing Centres of Excellence (CoE) in academic and research institutions. This is a significant move because it can lead to collaboration with medical devices startups in coming days,” she said. Most importantly, the policy addresses the constraining factors for medical devices startups such as manufacturing, hardware design, assembling, marketing awareness, expanding our distribution chain across various cities in India and others.

    Suresh Susurla, founder of Startoon Labs Private Limited and leading physiotherapy device maker Phezee which is suitable for patients with neurological disorders says with policy focusing on indigenous R&D and manufacturing, it gives confidence to the founders of medtech startups. The regulatory mechanism can be accelerated and helps startups to market their products very swiftly.

    The medical devices sector in India is a sunrise sector which is growing at a fast pace

    The market size of the medical devices sector is estimated to be $11 billion (approx Rs 90,000 crore) in 2020 and its share in the global medical device market is estimated to be 1.5%

  • Class 9 girl student sexually assaulted and murdered in Ooty, accused absconding

    Class 9 girl student sexually assaulted and murdered in Ooty, accused absconding

    CHENNAI: A Class 9 student who was allegedly abducted and harassed in Ooty, Nilgiris district died on Monday.

    The victim was waiting for a bus after school yesterday when Rajnesh Kuttan came by car and picked her up, promising to drop her at home. The accused was said to be under the influence of alcohol. He, however, took the car to the nearby forest, where he sexually harassed and killed the girl.

    Meanwhile, as the girl did not return home after school for a long time, her relatives began searching and saw Kuttan came out of the forest in his car. When he was asked about the girl, he gave contradictory answers.

    When the relatives went to the forest area, they were shocked to find the girl murdered in a pool of blood. Immediately, the police were informed about this, who rushed to the spot and sent the girl’s body for post-mortem.

    Rajnesh Kuttan, who is involved in this incident, is absconding now. As the video footage of him coming from the forest area in his car has been released, the police have formed a special team and are actively searching for him.