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A 20-year- old hotel management student, who had lost her left leg after she accidentally slipped and fell on the railway tracks at the Dadar railway station on June 23, lost her badly injured second leg as well, which doctors amputated on Wednesday.
The Government Railway Police (GRP) said that Pooja Patil, a Thane resident, was on her way to Bandra from Dadar on June 23. The accident occurred around 9.15am.
Shivaji Shinde, senior inspector of Mumbai Central GRP said, “The girl lost her balance and fell on to the tracks. We have made an entry of the incident in the register, though no case has been registered.”
The investigation revealed that Pooja, a student of Anjuman-e-Islam’s hotel management course, was trying to board a Borivli slow local from platform 1 of Dadar (western) station.

Translated simply, the word ‘bandish’ would mean song or composition. But more than a century ago, some schools of Hindustani classical music held bandishes in such high regard that they would give them to their daughters as dowry.
Today, though not always the central focus of a classical music concert, the bandish — made up of melody, rhythm and lyrics — is still respected as the peg upon which a raga is hung.
This week, in its carefully curated three-day Bandish festival, the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) will shine a spotlight on seven of the most distinguished bandish composers in the history of classical Indian music, i ncluding Bade Ghulam Ali Khan from the Patiala gharana, Shrikrishna Ratanjankar from the Agra gharana and Bade Ramdas from the Benaras gharana.
To render the works of each composer on stage, the festival will feature performances by six celebrated contemporary vocalists, i ncluding Girija Devi and Ajoy Chakrabarty.
“The mainstay of Indian classical music is to bring out the personality of a raga,” says Suvarnalata Rao, curator of the festival and programming head for Indian music at the NCPA.

On Saturday, Skymet, a private weather forecast company, predicted heavy rains starting Sunday night till July 3. The company has forecast that the rainfall will exceed 100mm over the two days.
However, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) maintained that the city will witness only a “few spells of rain” in the next 48 hours and that the monsoon would revive only around July 3 or July 4.
According to the civic body, the high tide in the sea will cross the 4.5m danger mark on July 3, 4, 5 and 6. Heavy rain with high tide can lead to flooding.

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