I\u2019ve been meaning to comment on the news in India. I very much enjoy reading local papers when I travel. Here are four articles that I liked a lot, all from the 16th of December in the Times of India, Kolkata edition:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Baby saved from building ledge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Residents and passers-by had their hearts in their mouth when they spotted the newborn, wrapped in a towel, lying on its precarious perch. Even as they panicked, a young police officer held his nerves, clambered up a neighbouring building, jumped onto the ledge and rescued the infant with the deftness of a trapeze artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nikhil Ranjan Mitra, a sub-inspector (SI) of the Dum Dum police station was rewarded for his courageous effort. But the police could not explain how the baby came to be on the sunshade. The owners of the flat said they were unaware of the baby\u2019s presence above their window. The police are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was around 11.30 am that neighbours first spotted the baby. Soon, people gathered under the building, trying to figure out if he was still alive. Some tried to climb up the building but failed. The police were called in but they were at a loss. The fire brigade was also informed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was then that Mitra swung into action. Climbing up the pipes of a neighbouring building with the skill of a seasoned athlete, the braveheart stepped onto the narrow perch and gingerly picked up the tiny bundle. The baby was alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Women give birth by candlelight<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The load shedding at Malda District Hospital started around 8 pm and lasted for three hours. Nurses and doctors were left with no option but to use candles so that they could carry out their duties despite the risks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rashuda Biwi of Old Malda was taken to the labour room around 10 pm on Monday. Being an emergency, doctors decided that the nurses would hold candles to facilitate the operation. After Rashuda, Ranu Roy of Englishbazaar went under the scalpel in near-darkness. Fortunately, both operations went off without any glitch and the mothers gave birth to girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hospital superintendentin-charge Dr Subrata Shome said he was not aware of the incident. \u201cI\u2019ll look into the matter,\u201d was all that he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sabhadipati of the Malda Zilla Parishad, Sabina Yasmin, who visited the hospital on Tuesday evening, said: \u201cIt is a crime. The hospital had been provided with a generator. I need to know how and why this could still occur.\u201d A probe has been ordered into the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Behead rage singes Assam health centre<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Early Tuesday, villagers saw a dog carrying the chopped-off head of a child from a nearby thicket, close to the Heart City campus run by controversial \u201csurgeon\u201d Dhaniram Barua, who had shocked the world 12 years ago by transplanting the heart of a pig in human body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Smelling foul play, tribals of the area stormed the research centre armed with sticks and sharp weapons. They pelted stones, broke windows and beat up employees before setting the private research on fire. The second head was retrieved from the grove around 3.30 pm. Police and villagers identified the two heads to be that of Atul (6) and Tukul (9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Car Crash leaves her craving for sex<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A nerve in Joleen Baughman\u2019s pelvis that controls desire for sex got permanently switched on during the accident two years ago. Now even the slightest movement like sitting on a bus, bending over or walking across a room gets the 39-yearold mother turned on. \u201cIt\u2019s unbearable. Just my clothes rubbing gets me so aroused that I can hardly think straight,\u2019\u2019 the Mirror quoted her as saying. Joleen who comes from New Mexico confessed that even sex with her husband does not completely please her. She said: \u201cWe\u2019d have sex once and I\u2019d feel no release at all. \u201cSo we\u2019d go again and then it would start really hurting but I would still want sex, even more than before. \u201cIf my husband managed to go for a third time it would be agony but I would still feel no release.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBeing aroused pretty much 24-hours a day is exhausting.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ve been meaning to comment on the news in India. I very much enjoy reading local papers when I travel. Here are four articles that I liked a lot, all from the 16th of December in the Times of India, Kolkata edition: Baby saved from…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-bloggin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1834,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Kolkata: He lay peacefully on the narrow sunshade above the third-floor window of an apartment in Dum Dum\u2019s Mailakhana area, inches away from a fatal fall and blissfully unaware of the commotion he was creating<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\nEveryone, including Mitra\u2019s colleagues, heaved a sigh of relief when he managed to climb down safely with the baby in his arms. He has been given a good service (GS) mark and a letter of appreciation by North 24-Parganas SP Rahul Srivastava. \u201cHe did a good job. So, I gave him a GS mark and sent him a letter of appreciation,\u201d said the SP. The baby is healthy and has been taken to Sukanya, a home for destitute children in Salt Lake. The baby boy, his rescuer Nikhil Ranjan Mitra and the building where the child was precariously perched<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\nMalda: Two women allegedly gave birth to baby girls at a hospital in Malda in neardarkness on Monday night as doctors operated upon them using candles during a load shedding. The generator, it was learnt, was not working.<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\nCMOH Dr Srikanta Ray said: \u201cThere\u2019s nothing unusual about a power failure. But there should be adequate alternative arrangements. It seems the generator was not working.\u201d<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\nGuwahati: Villagers of Jogdol went on the rampage on Tuesday after they found the heads of two children in a bamboo grove near a private research centre, Dhaniram Barua Heart City, at Sonapur. The children were among six of a tribal family hacked to death on Sunday.<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\nThough locals alleged Barua was behind the killings, he denied the allegation. \u201cI was in Bangalore,\u201d he said.<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\nLondon: A car crash has left a woman sexually aroused 24 hours a day.<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n
She added: \u201cIt\u2019s very embarrassing and it\u2019s impossible to concentrate.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s so embarrassing. I have to try to keep my feelings under control and to ignore them so I can get on with normal life.\u2019\u2019 \u201cBut I often worry people can guess what I\u2019m feeling even though they can\u2019t.\u2019\u2019 However, she is learning to deal with her condition known as Restless Genital Syndrome or Persistent Sexual Arousal. She added: \u201cIf my urges get really strong I lie down very still so there is no vibration at all and that helps a little bit. \u201cIt\u2019s mind over matter. But I\u2019m hoping a medical cure can be found in the future.\u2019\u2019<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"