₹9 crore still needed to save child suffering from rare disease
The Hindu
Crowdfunding campaign seeks to raise ₹18 crore for buying medicine from Switzerland
Six-month-old Imran still needs ₹9 crore. A crowdfunding campaign to raise ₹18 crore to save the life of the little child is inching towards fulfilment from the halfway mark. The child’s parents are fervently seeking the kindness of philanthropists even as Imran is fighting the debilitating spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a genetic disease affecting the central nervous system, with ventilator support at the Government Medical College, Kozhikode.
In , the grape capital of India and host of the Simhastha Kumbh Mela every 12 years, environmental concerns over a plan to cut 1,800 trees for the proposed Sadhugram project in the historic Tapovan area have sharpened political fault lines ahead of local body elections. The issue has pitted both Sena factions against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which leads the ruling Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra. While Eknath Shinde, Deputy Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief, and Uddhav Thackeray, chief of the Shiv Sena (UBT), remain political rivals, their parties have found rare common ground in Tapovan, where authorities propose clearing trees across 34 acres to build Sadhugram and a MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) hub, as part of a ₹300-crore infrastructure push linked to the pilgrimage.












