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NDTV
17 hours ago
- NDTV
Kidneys Removed During Uterus Surgery; Probe Agency ED Case Against Fake Doctor
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a prosecution complaint under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) before a special court in Patna against a quack and his assistant in a case of alleged "organ removal and financial fraud". The economic intelligence agency initiated the investigation based on an FIR registered by a police station in Bihar's Muzaffarpur for offences under various sections of IPC, 1860 and the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994, an ED statement said. The ED Patna zonal office filed a prosecution complaint on June 17 under the provisions of the PMLA before the special court (PMLA) at Patna against Pawan Kumar and Ravindra Kumar alias R K Singh in the case of alleged illegal organ removal and financial fraud, the agency said. The special court took cognisance of the prosecution's complaint on July 17. The ED investigation revealed that one Sunita Devi, accompanied by her mother Tetari Devi, visited Shubhkant Clinic in Muzaffarpur for the treatment of her uterus. Pawan Kumar, the operator of Shubhkant Clinic, allegedly in connivance with Ravindra Kumar alias R K Singh, a quack, advised surgery for her supposedly damaged uterus and "demanded Rs 20,000", the statement said. During the operation, both of Sunita Devi's kidneys were allegedly removed along with her uterus, contrary to the claim that only the uterus and tumours were removed. Post-surgery, Sunita Devi's health deteriorated, and she stopped urinating. Subsequent medical examinations confirmed the removal of both kidneys, leading to her death. Additionally, an extorted amount of Rs 40,000 was allegedly taken from Sunita Devi's family members at another hospital, totalling Rs 60,000, which is considered Proceeds of Crime (POC), the ED said. The ED investigation further revealed that Pawan Kumar and Ravindra Kumar allegedly conspired to commit the crime, generating POC amounting to Rs 60,000, which was utilised for their personal benefits, the statement said. In the police case, Pawan Kumar has been convicted by a special court (SC/ST Act), Patna, while Ravindra Kumar is currently facing trial, it said.
Yahoo
04-07-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Climate Change's Fingerprints Came Early, a Thought Experiment Reveals
Physicists are fond of Gedankenexperimente—thought experiments that are difficult or impossible to perform in the real world. Schrödinger's cat is a well-known example of a thought experiment, used to illustrate the complexities of quantum mechanics. This puzzle occupied some of the best and brightest physicists of the early 20th century. We tried the same thing recently, only with climate change. Given today's network of satellites and temperature sensors, when could scientists have first known, beyond a reasonable doubt, that increases in atmospheric CO2 from fossil fuel burning and land use change were altering our global climate? The results might surprise you, and they help to illustrate why it's critically important to continue long-term monitoring of Earth's climate. Our thought experiment used simulations of historical climate change from nine different state-of-the-art computer models. We made three key assumptions. The first was that back in 1860, scientists in our 'Gedanken world' had the technology to monitor global temperature changes in both the troposphere (the atmospheric layer extending from the surface up to about 15 kilometers) and the stratosphere (ranging from roughly 15 km to 50 km). Historically, global monitoring didn't happen until the 1940s using early weather balloon networks. More recently, since the late 1970s, we've monitored global atmospheric temperature changes with satellites. [Sign up for Today in Science, a free daily newsletter] Second, we assumed that over the period 1860 to 2024, the model simulations used reliable estimates of human-caused changes in greenhouse gases, particulate pollution and land use, as well as accurate estimates of natural changes in external factors like volcanic activity and the sun's energy output. All of these inputs to the model simulations are primarily derived from observational data. Third, we assumed the model-simulated responses to human and natural factors were realistic, and that the size of modeled 'climate noise' associated with natural phenomena like El Niño and La Niña was in reasonable agreement with observations. We tested the third assumption by comparing modeled and observed climate change and variability and found no evidence of model errors that would negate our bottom-line findings. The work of Syukuro ('Suki') Manabe helped inspire this investigation. Back in 1967, Manabe—who would later go on to receive the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics—published one of the most famous papers in climate science. Together with his colleague Richard Wetherald at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton, N.J., Manabe used a simple climate model to show that increasing levels of atmospheric CO2 would lead to more efficient trapping of heat in the troposphere. The consequence? Warming of the troposphere and cooling of the stratosphere. The former has captivated most of the world's attention for good reason—it is where we humans live—but the latter turns out to be particularly useful in our thought experiment. The 1967 Manabe and Wetherald paper made a testable prediction: if humans continue to burn fossil fuels and ramp up levels of CO2 in the atmosphere, the vertical structure of atmospheric temperature will change not only in the troposphere but also in the stratosphere. But back in 1967, scientists lacked the long-term records necessary to test this prediction, particularly for the mid- to upper stratosphere, between approximately 25 and 50 km above Earth's surface. Decades after 1967, weather balloon and satellite temperature records revealed that Manabe and Wetherald were right. Their predicted pattern of change in the thermal structure of the atmosphere was observable. Importantly, this pattern of human influence—showing long-term, global-scale warming of the troposphere and cooling of the stratosphere—couldn't be confused with natural patterns of temperature change. The human 'fingerprint' on atmospheric temperature was distinctly different from the natural temperature fingerprints caused by the sun, volcanoes and internal climate noise. When climate scientists say we know people cause climate change, this fingerprint is one defining reason why. Which brings us back to our 'When could we have known?' thought experiment. Although the question is simple, the answer isn't obvious. The first 40 years of the thought experiment (from 1860 until 1899) were a time when large-scale fossil fuel burning and deforestation were just beginning to ratchet up during the industrial revolution. The resulting increase in atmospheric CO2 over this time, which we can estimate from Antarctic ice cores, was only 10 parts per million. This is small relative to the recent CO2 increase of roughly 54 parts per million over the 25 years from 2000 to 2024. Nevertheless, this modest 10 parts per million early CO2 increase is still large enough to lead to significant cooling of the stratosphere over 1860 to 1899. The size and pattern of this stratospheric cooling is very different than what we would expect from natural forces affecting temperature: the solar variability at the time, the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, and internal climate noise. Because of these differences between signal and noise, our thought experiment shows that even the relatively small human-caused signal of stratospheric cooling could have been identified in 1885. Put differently, given today's measurement capabilities, humans could have known that our actions were significantly changing global climate even before Carl Benz patented the first gasoline-powered car. The human-caused signal of tropospheric warming emerges later, in the second half of the 20th century, partly because human and natural patterns of climate change are more similar in the troposphere than in the stratosphere. Would this advance knowledge have made a difference? Would humanity have followed a different energy use pathway given the understanding that fossil fuel burning eventually leads to large, global-scale changes in climate? That's outside of our sandbox as climate scientists—it's a question for philosophers, social scientists, and historians of science. But in our opinion, based on the history of other global environmental problems, it's certainly conceivable that early knowledge of the reality and seriousness of climate change could have spurred earlier global action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It's worth noting that our identification of the atmospheric 'fingerprints' predicted by Manabe and Wetherald was enabled by NOAA and NASA satellite remote sensing. The work of these agencies is an essential part of our research, and of the national and international climate science enterprise. But in the United States in 2025, federally funded climate science, including observation and modeling work, is being systematically dismantled. This is not a thought experiment. It is all too real. We are now observing what happens when decades of work to understand the nature and causes of climate changes are rejected, and are replaced by ideology, conspiracy theories and disinformation. Stopping climate work will lead to a data vacuum that could last years or even decades. This experiment in willful ignorance can only end poorly. This is an opinion and analysis article, and the views expressed by the author or authors are solely their own and not those of any organization they are affiliated with or necessarily those of Scientific American.
Time of India
21-04-2025
- Sport
- Time of India
Football: Legendary 1860 Munich coach Werner Lorant dies
The legendary German football coach Werner Lorant passed away aged 76 on Sunday, his family and former club, TSV 1860 Munich , confirmed. As a player in the 1970s and 1980s, Lorant represented Borussia Dortmund, Rot-Weiss Essen, 1. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now FC Saarbrücken, Hannover 96, Schalke 04 and Eintracht Frankfurt, winning the German Cup and UEFA Cup with the latter. But it was as the long-serving head coach of 1860 Munich between 1992 and 2001 that Lorant really made his name, leading Die Löwen (the lions) from the third division to the Bundesliga. His greatest achievement was the team finishing fourth in 2000. This position in the Bundesliga saw 1860 enter the Champions League qualification play-off round — where they lost to English Premier League side Leeds United. The German club confirmed Lorant's death following a long illness on Sunday, describing him as "one of the most successful coaches in the club's 125-year history." "Football meant the world to him," his sister told 1860 fan website dieblaue24, who first reported the news. "When he no longer had football, he was no longer well. He loved Die Löwen. They were close to his heart." 'Everyone is entitled to an opinion — but only mine counts' During his coaching career, Lorant developed a reputation for no-nonsense management. Asked once by a journalist why he hadn't substituted a clearly injured player despite being 5-1 up against Nuremberg, he replied: "Players are only subbed if their leg falls off." After being sent to the stands during an away game against Werder Bremen for insulting the referee, he then said the official "can be happy that I didn't slap him" — earning himself a fine of 8,000 marks (around €4,000 or $4,560). Later in his career, he wasn't a fan of new technology and banned his players from using mobile phones, saying: "If a phone goes off [on the team bus], they can get off and use the phone to call a taxi." Tired of too many ads? go ad free now His general motto as a coach was: "Everyone is entitled to an opinion — but only mine counts." 1860 Munich today: up for sale? Nowadays, 1860 Munich – Bayern Munich's city rivals – are marooned in the third division again, having been forcibly relegated to the fourth tier in 2017 as a result of a complicated relationship with a controversial investor. Jordanian billionaire Hasan Ismaik purchased a 60% stake in the club in 2011, helping to save it from insolvency, but he failed to understand that German football's 50+1 ownership rule prevented him from actually exercising majority control. Following relegation to the third division in 2017, Ismaik effectively attempted to blackmail the club, withholding the necessary funding for a league license unless he was given full control — something the club were neither wiling nor legally able to do. Consequently, 1860 were automatically relegated to division four, before fighting their way back up. But the relationship with Ismaik has remained strained — until he announced last Sunday that he would finally be interested in selling his stake in the club. "I think 1860 needs someone new, they don't need Hasan," he told German public broadcaster ARD, referring to himself in the third person. "I want to sell the club and just be an 1860 fan."
Times of Oman
21-04-2025
- Sport
- Times of Oman
Football: Legendary 1860 Munich coach Werner Lorant dies
The legendary German football coach Werner Lorant passed away aged 76 on Sunday, his family and former club, TSV 1860 Munich, confirmed. As a player in the 1970s and 1980s, Lorant represented Borussia Dortmund, Rot-Weiss Essen, 1. FC Saarbrücken, Hannover 96, Schalke 04 and Eintracht Frankfurt, winning the German Cup and UEFA Cup with the latter. But it was as the long-serving head coach of 1860 Munich between 1992 and 2001 that Lorant really made his name, leading Die Löwen (the lions) from the third division to the Bundesliga. His greatest achievement was the team finishing fourth in 2000. This position in the Bundesliga saw 1860 enter the Champions League qualification play-off round — where they lost to English Premier League side Leeds United. The German club confirmed Lorant's death following a long illness on Sunday, describing him as "one of the most successful coaches in the club's 125-year history." "Football meant the world to him," his sister told 1860 fan website dieblaue24, who first reported the news. "When he no longer had football, he was no longer well. He loved Die Löwen. They were close to his heart." 'Everyone is entitled to an opinion — but only mine counts' During his coaching career, Lorant developed a reputation for no-nonsense management. Asked once by a journalist why he hadn't substituted a clearly injured player despite being 5-1 up against Nuremberg, he replied: "Players are only subbed if their leg falls off." After being sent to the stands during an away game against Werder Bremen for insulting the referee, he then said the official "can be happy that I didn't slap him" — earning himself a fine of 8,000 marks (around €4,000 or $4,560). Later in his career, he wasn't a fan of new technology and banned his players from using mobile phones, saying: "If a phone goes off [on the team bus], they can get off and use the phone to call a taxi." His general motto as a coach was: "Everyone is entitled to an opinion — but only mine counts." 1860 Munich today: up for sale? Nowadays, 1860 Munich – Bayern Munich's city rivals – are marooned in the third division again, having been forcibly relegated to the fourth tier in 2017 as a result of a complicated relationship with a controversial investor. Jordanian billionaire Hasan Ismaik purchased a 60% stake in the club in 2011, helping to save it from insolvency, but he failed to understand that German football's 50+1 ownership rule prevented him from actually exercising majority control. Following relegation to the third division in 2017, Ismaik effectively attempted to blackmail the club, withholding the necessary funding for a league license unless he was given full control — something the club were neither wiling nor legally able to do. Consequently, 1860 were automatically relegated to division four, before fighting their way back up. But the relationship with Ismaik has remained strained — until he announced last Sunday that he would finally be interested in selling his stake in the club. "I think 1860 needs someone new, they don't need Hasan," he told German public broadcaster ARD, referring to himself in the third person. "I want to sell the club and just be an 1860 fan."
Yahoo
20-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Football: Legendary 1860 Munich coach Werner Lorant dies
The legendary German football coach Werner Lorant passed away aged 76 on Sunday, his family and former club, TSV 1860 Munich, confirmed. As a player in the 1970s and 1980s, Lorant represented Borussia Dortmund, Rot-Weiss Essen, 1. FC Saarbrücken, Hannover 96, Schalke 04 and Eintracht Frankfurt, winning the German Cup and UEFA Cup with the latter. But it was as the long-serving head coach of 1860 Munich between 1992 and 2001 that Lorant really made his name, leading Die Löwen (the lions) from the third division to the Bundesliga. His greatest achievement was the team finishing fourth in 2000. This position in the Bundesliga saw 1860 enter the Champions League qualification play-off round — where they lost to English Premier League side Leeds United. The German club confirmed Lorant's death following a long illness on Sunday, describing him as "one of the most successful coaches in the club's 125-year history." "Football meant the world to him," his sister told 1860 fan website dieblaue24, who first reported the news. "When he no longer had football, he was no longer well. He loved Die Löwen. They were close to his heart." During his coaching career, Lorant developed a reputation for no-nonsense management. Asked once by a journalist why he hadn't substituted a clearly injured player despite being 5-1 up against Nuremberg, he replied: "Players are only subbed if their leg falls off." After being sent to the stands during an away game against Werder Bremen for insulting the referee, he then said the official "can be happy that I didn't slap him" — earning himself a fine of 8,000 marks (around €4,000 or $4,560). Later in his career, he wasn't a fan of new technology and banned his players from using mobile phones, saying: "If a phone goes off [on the team bus], they can get off and use the phone to call a taxi." His general motto as a coach was: "Everyone is entitled to an opinion — but only mine counts." Nowadays, 1860 Munich – Bayern Munich's city rivals – are marooned in the third division again, having been forcibly relegated to the fourth tier in 2017 as a result of a complicated relationship with a controversial investor. Jordanian billionaire Hasan Ismaik purchased a 60% stake in the club in 2011, helping to save it from insolvency, but he failed to understand that German football's 50+1 ownership rule prevented him from actually exercising majority control. Following relegation to the third division in 2017, Ismaik effectively attempted to blackmail the club, withholding the necessary funding for a league license unless he was given full control — something the club were neither wiling nor legally able to do. Consequently, 1860 were automatically relegated to division four, before fighting their way back up. But the relationship with Ismaik has remained strained — until he announced last Sunday that he would finally be interested in selling his stake in the club. "I think 1860 needs someone new, they don't need Hasan," he told German public broadcaster ARD, referring to himself in the third person. "I want to sell the club and just be an 1860 fan." Edited by: Darko Janjevic
