Monday, May 4, 1998
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Ban on smoking goes up in a puff
The ban on smoking at the city's railway stations has turned out to be a total washout. Five days after the Delhi Government issued the ban, smokers could be seen in full form at the platforms of the city's stations. The order clearly stipulates that the ban includes railway employees, but the smoking community is clearly having its way with no restrictive authority in sight.
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14 die in jaundice epidemic in Kalyan
Jaundice is sweeping the suburbs of Dombivli, Kalyan, Ulhasnagar and Ambernath; unofficially, that is. Over the last eight days, 14 have died in the outbreak, and although private practitioners say the illness has reached epidemic proportions, Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) officials have denied any epidemic, saying few cases have been registered in civic hospitals.
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UP Govt relief to victims of police beating
On a recommendation of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the Uttar Pradesh government has paid interim compensation ranging between Rs 25,000 and Rs 10,000 to 20 people, mostly students, who were beaten up by Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) personnel with rifle butts and batons in Varanasi in 1997.
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Dope snuffs out lives in Pakistan
Mohammad Yusuf inhales the fumes rising from heroin burning on cigarette packet foil, resigned to the idea of death at the hands of the drug that has already claimed the lives of his four addict friends. "I have to go too because I am living in this valley of death," said Yusuf, 23, as he sniffed at the smoke from the deadly white power melted by a candle passed under the foil.
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