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Time of India
3 days ago
- Automotive
- Time of India
Helmetless rider ends up with 33 glass pieces in throat after accident, gets back original voice after surgery
1 2 Pune: A 20-year-old college student almost lost his voice after 33 glass pieces got stuck in his throat when his two-wheeler crashed into a pickup truck in Chakan. Surgery and care helped him regain it in just over a month. The biker was without a helmet when he collided head-on with the four-wheeler. He was flung into its wind shield and the glass cut deeply into his neck. He was bleeding heavily and semi-conscious when brought to the emergency ward of a private hospital, where doctors removed all the glass pieces after one-and-a-half-hour of surgery and ligated the blood vessels. Dr Manohar Suryawanshi, ENT and head & neck surgeon at Medicover Hospital, said during the critical surgery, the team found that the cut was too close to his voice box, also known as the larynx, with several major blood vessels—including those to the brain — severely damaged. Some nerves were also affected. They feared it had badly affected his voice. Dr Suryawanshi said, "The accident and the surgery took place on April 21. The larynx was swollen. We had to remove 33 glass pieces from the patients' throat, some were so tiny and deeply embedded that it took immense precision and patience to remove them. The patient recovered and when he came to us on May 29, his voice was as it was before the accident. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Pinga-Pinga e HBP? Tome isso 1x ao dia se tem mais de 40 anos Portal Saúde do Homem Clique aqui Undo It is a rare outcome in such critical injuries." Dr Ninad Patil, consultant neurosurgeon, who first attended to the patient, said he was without a helmet and the injury suggested possible head trauma. "He was admitted under my care for a neurological evaluation, but we saw that the injury on his throat was much more severe," he added. The patient was discharged in a stable condition on April 29. He said the impact of the accident was so severe that the victim was unable to recall what had happened. "Everything went dark after the crash," he added. Dr Kiran Kumar Jadhav, associate professor in the surgery department at BJ Medical College and Sassoon General Hospital, said, "Such injuries to the vocal cords are rare even in our trauma department." He added that the most common trauma cases that come to them report injuries to the trachea, also known as the windpipe. "If the unilateral nerves' supply and the vascular supply is maintained until complete recovery only then can the original voice can be restored. It is a difficult and challenging process." Get the latest lifestyle updates on Times of India, along with Eid wishes , messages , and quotes !
Time of India
11-05-2025
- General
- Time of India
Rs 100 registration fee for FYJC admissions relief to students
Pune: Starting from the academic year 2025-26, the admission process for first-year junior college (FYJC, Std XI) across Maharashtra will be conducted through a centralised online system . Previously, a registration fee of Rs 225 was charged for Mumbai and Rs 125 for other regions. But from this year, a uniform registration fee of Rs 100 will be charged across the state which is a relief to students and parents. The deadline for online registration is from May 19 to May last year, the centralised online admission process was implemented only for junior colleges within the municipal limits of Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Mumbai, Nashik, Nagpur, and Amravati. However, from this year onwards, the centralised online admission process will be implemented throughout the Suryawanshi, state director, secondary and higher secondary education department, said, "This year, the entire state will follow the centralised admission process for Std XI. Previously, the registration fee varied between Rs 225 and Rs 125 depending on the location. However, to provide relief to students and parents and to streamline the process, a single fee amount has been set."The deadline for online registration is from May 19 to May 28, during which students can register and list their preferred colleges. The helpline number 8530955564. Official website for Std XI admissions is Get the latest lifestyle updates on Times of India, along with Mother's Day wishes , messages , and quotes !
Time of India
08-05-2025
- General
- Time of India
PCMC stops new water connection for two months, launches drive against unauthorised connections
Pune: PCMC has decided to halt new water connections for around two months from now and crack down on illegal supply move is aimed at ensuring consistent supply and curbing wastage amid growing complaints of water scarcity across Pimpri Chinchwad, a senior civic official said. "Measures like not giving new water connections for two months were being considered only for new projects and this may not be applicable for old properties and independent houses," the official said. Inspections would be intensified at construction sites to ensure use of recycled water, he current water stock in the city's dams was expected to last till July. In addition, a significant drop in groundwater levels had been observed, with many borewells already running officials said they also received several complaints about rising rates charged by private water tankers. Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has been providing alternate day water supply to citizens since 2019. Operation Sindoor Operation Sindoor: Several airports in India closed - check full list Did Pak shoot down Indian jets? What MEA said India foils Pakistan's attack on Jammu airport: What we know so far Many housing societies rely on water tankers, especially during summer, to meet their daily from the water supply department said that unauthorised connections, misuse of potable water for washing vehicles, and inactive sewage treatment plants (STPs) had exacerbated the issue of water last month, civic officials had launched a drive against illegal motor and pump connections on civic water supply lines. Rules prohibit connecting electric motors or pumps directly to the PCMC's water supply civic body has rolled out a set of measures to curb misuse. Housing societies and commercial establishments, including malls, have been instructed to reuse treated water from their STPs. Those who fail to comply would face strict penalties, including disconnection. Similarly, washing centres and individuals using drinking water for cleaning vehicles would face punitive action, the official said."The population of Pimpri Chinchwad has doubled from 17 lakh in 2011 to approximately 35 lakh, while the increase in water supply has been only 35%. Despite this, PCMC has been consistently providing water supply to citizens throughout the year. However, due to unauthorised usage and high summer demand, the supply is strained," he Suryawanshi, joint city engineer of PCMC, urged residents to use water responsibly. "Until monsoon arrives, everyone must cooperate. Those found wasting water or using it through illegal means will face strict action," he and housing society representatives emphasised the need for PCMC to address unauthorised connections as a priority. Sanjeevan Sangle, chairman of Chikhali-Moshi Pimpri Chinchwad Housing Societies Federation, said, "The civic body failed to take strong action against illegal connections." He added that many societies in Chikhali and Moshi had already shifted to tanker supply over the past month due to insufficient PCMC water to official data, nearly 40% of the city's water supply has been categorised as non-revenue water (NRW). This includes a large number of unauthorised water connections. Around 15% of water is lost due to Pandey, a resident of Wakad, said, "Though there is no increase in tanker charges in our area, the number of tankers in our society has increased. We are forced to pay for tankers despite paying all our taxes to the municipal corporation on time."
The Hindu
05-05-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Caste census will resolve Maratha reservation issue, says Congress
The BJP and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh are spreading venom in the name of caste and religion, causing divisions in society, Ramesh Chennithala, who is the AICC representative responsible for Maharashtra, said during the party's 'Samvidhan Bachao' yatra at Parbhani. Mr. Chennithala said, 'Rahul Gandhi raised his voice against the injustice done to Somanath Suryawanshi and Vijay Wakode. Three months later no action has been taken by the government against Suryawanshi's murderers, and Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis remains silent. Law and order does not exist in the State.' Suryawanshi, who travelled to Parbhani from Pune for his law entrance examination, was allegedly picked up by the police there on December 11, 2024, after violence erupted that day over the desecration of a replica of the Constitution a day earlier. One of the 50 people Parbhani police arrested between December 11 and December 12, he died in judicial custody on December 15. Vijay Wakode, who was leading the protest, died following a heart attack amid the violence. Maharashtra Congress President Harshvardhan Sapkal said Mr. Gandhi's firm stance on the caste census had forced the Modi government to concede. 'The Maratha reservation issue can be resolved if a caste census is conducted. The present level of 27% reservation for OBCs may be increased to 65%. Meanwhile, while the BJP incites caste conflicts, it is crucial the Bahujan community stay united. Six farmers commit suicide every day in Maharashtra, the youth cannot find jobs, yet the government prioritises the interests of Adani and Ambani. The government is now needlessly focusing on the ₹88,000 crore Shaktipeeth Expressway.' Uniting communities Legislative Party leader Vijay Wadettiwar said that the Sadbhavna Yatra aims to bridge hearts and unite communities and fix the damage done by the BJP since 2014. The BJP has been sowing the seeds of casteism and communalism across the country. He lashed out at BJP State chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule for directing his workers to bring down the Congress. 'BJP leaders are talking about breaking the Congress. BJP has a habit of breaking others' houses. We will take revenge when our time comes.' 'If you want to build your own house, buy iron and cement with your own hard work and do not steal. This mentality is not a sign of democracy and healthy politics. Congress will not fall for such tactics, because it believes in the religion of humanity and love.' Congress leader Chandrakant Handore said that the BJP, RSS, and Bajrang Dal are creating anarchy and are trying to divert public attention from pressing issues by fuelling caste and religious conflicts. 'Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar gave us the world's most sacred Constitution, granting equal rights to all, but BJP wants to replace it with the Manusmriti.'
Washington Post
21-03-2025
- General
- Washington Post
The loneliest people (and places) in America
America's purported loneliness epidemic, with its fuzzy definitions and clashing claims, is the type of gnarly challenge that's guaranteed to both attract and destroy data journalists. So we appreciated the simplicity of D.C. reader Omika Suryawanshi's question on the subject: How many American adults feel lonely? We didn't have a great answer back in 2022 when Suryawanshi posed this question. But last month, we were rummaging around in the Census Household Pulse survey after the Trump administration briefly took it offline and axed its questions about sexual orientation and gender identity. And we discovered that recent Pulse surveys shed some light on loneliness. In 2024, the Pulse asked more than half a million American adults how often they felt lonely. For most of us, the answer was rarely (34 percent) or never (26 percent), suggesting that a robust 60 percent of us either never feel lonely or take the occasional twinge of loneliness in stride. Only 5 percent say they always feel lonely, while 8 percent usually feel that way. In maps, people who are 'always' lonely tend to live in the Sun Belt, with a particular focus on the belt's defiant Deep South buckle. Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia lead the pack. As a rule, this extreme loneliness tends to be higher in states with higher poverty rates. On the other side, the states where people are 'rarely' lonely tend to be in the northern half of the country, peaking in Minnesota, Vermont, Iowa and Utah — though if we include places that aren't states, D.C. tops the list. It relates strongly to other measures of community cohesion: These places also tend to have the highest rates of volunteering and organizational membership. The states where folks are 'never' lonely follow a similar pattern, but a few oddballs come out on top — notably Florida. Florida surprised us. We figured loneliness would increase by age, and because Florida has one of the nation's oldest populations, we expected loneliness to run high in the Sunshine State. After all, folks over age 65 are 2½ times as likely to live alone than folks ages 25 to 54. And living alone struck us — perhaps simplistically — as a logical cause of loneliness. And indeed, our early explorations showed age predicted loneliness quite well. But not in the way we thought. Among our youngest compatriots (ages 18 to 24), about 28 percent say they always or usually feel lonely. That's four times the rate of retirement-age folks! In fact, retirement-age Americans are about three times as likely to 'never' feel lonely as college-age folks. Unfortunately, the Household Pulse, which was born from the pandemic, wasn't around when today's retirees were teens, so we can't say whether humans in general become less lonely as they age or — as might seem more likely — today's youngsters are growing up in a more alienating environment. We also see enormous gaps by household income and education. The more you earn, the less alone you feel. People who don't earn at all are particularly likely to feel lonely — especially if they lost their jobs through layoffs or company closures, are sick or disabled, or can't work because they don't have access to transportation. Marital status matters too. At any age, single people feel more lonely. And once you account for the fact that younger folks are lonelier, it doesn't seem to make a huge difference whether you're single because you never married, or because you're separated, divorced or widowed. Looking at people who identify as LGBTQ, the data at first suggested that they tend to be lonelier. But it's largely because self-identified LGBTQ folks tend to be younger. Similarly, race and gender don't seem to have a huge impact — though we do find that men, especially older ones, are much more likely to report that they're never lonely, while women of all ages are more likely to say they're sometimes lonely. Contrary to the headlines, we see little reason to single out the loneliness of young men. They look an awful lot like young women, except that they're 'never' or 'rarely' lonely at higher rates. Most of the biggest gender gaps actually open as we age. Why are young people so much lonelier? Could it be related to how much time we spend alone? Probably not! The hours per day you spend alone increase steadily with age. (Though the gap isn't as wide as it used to be, as our frenemy John Burn-Murdoch at the Financial Times has reported.) And the amount of time we spend alone has remained shockingly constant for as long as the Bureau of Labor Statistics has been tracking it in its modern format. In 2003, the average working-age adult (age 25 to 64) spent 4.4 free hours a day by themselves. By 2023, after two decades of reports of epidemic loneliness and solo bowling, that number had inched up to 4.6 hours. To be sure, you'll notice some verbal asterisks in that previous paragraph. First, we specify free time. That's because there's one area of our lives in which our time alone has changed substantially: work. In just a decade, we've gone from spending an average of 1.8 hours alone at work to spending 3.5 hours alone at work. Most of the increase came amid the pandemic-driven remote-work revolution. (If you see reports that Americans are spending more time alone since the pandemic, it's really about remote work.) Next, we specify working age. That's because younger men have started spending so much time alone, engaged in a single activity, that it throws the numbers off for everybody. That activity is, of course, gaming. No matter how much time you think young men devote to video games, you're probably underestimating it. Two decades ago, high-school- and college-age males (ages 15 to 24) spent about a quarter of an hour a day alone playing games. Now, that figure has more than quintupled to 1.4 hours a day. (You may be pondering the political implications of gaming, given young men's rightward shift. But, for the record, YouGov's David Montgomery tells us a poll just last month found that 'Democrats and Republicans show very similar rates of gaming.') With both activities — gaming and remote working — you can quibble about whether folks are really alone. Many of the work-from-homers are mumbling into Zoom mics while their gamer sons (and, more rarely, gamer daughters) holler into headsets. But regardless how many digital friends are present, humans are awful at keeping themselves company. We're less happy when we're alone than when we're with almost anyone else. The one exception? Hanging out with work people (including colleagues, bosses, employees and customers) outside of work. The best company is child relatives who aren't descended from you — e.g., nieces and nephews or younger cousins — followed by hanging out with your partner and children together. (We're happier with both than when we're alone with either a spouse or a child separately.) Playing games scores okay on happiness. People say it makes them about as happy as cooking or (non-grocery) shopping, a bit happier than yard work and reading and significantly less happy than physical activity, child care or socializing. However, out of 26 activities for which we have sufficient data over the past two decades, gamers rate gaming as the least meaningful thing they can do with their time. It's not hard to connect a dot or two, then, and assume spending time alone, glaring into a screen, might makes us lonelier. But in general, loneliness doesn't seem to correlate with time spent alone. People of any age rate alone time similarly on the happiness scale, with the slight exception of retirement-age folks, who are happier than average when alone. (People who have 'achieved' retirement are also less lonely than people with any other employment status, including working, unemployed or disabled.) Instead, loneliness seems to go hand in hand with a lack of social, economic and community strength. As another Pulse question shows, retirement-age Americans are twice as likely as their young friends to say they always 'get the social and emotional support' they need. Across the data, nothing we tested relates more strongly to loneliness than a lack of social support. When you ask who's 'always' lonely, more than half of the people who say they never get social support raise their hands. Hi! The Department of Data still needs good old-fashioned queries! Why are older women much more likely to live with their siblings than are older men? Why are fentanyl deaths suddenly falling? What time of day do kids usually wake up? What are you curious about? Just ask! If your question appears in a column, we'll send you an official Department of Data button and ID card. This week, we owe one to Omika and to Therese Beauclair in Monterey, California, who asked about maps and demographic breakdowns.
