Mother flushed her newborn baby in the toilet in China

New born baby rescued from sewage pipe in China

He has no name, just a number: Baby 59. But his face is now familiar to millions and wellwishers across China are anxiously monitoring the fate of the tiny newborn after firefighters freed him from a sewage pipe where he was trapped beneath a toilet.
Weighing just 5lbs, the boy was found wedged in the pipe beneath a shared bathroom in a residential building in Jinhua, in China's eastern province of Zhejiang. His placenta was still attached.

Early reports suggested residents heard his cries late on Saturday and raised the alarm – but updates suggested his unmarried mother had been the first to call for help, pretending she had merely come across him.

The extraordinary footage of his rescue showed firefighters sawing away an L-shaped section of the narrow pipe from the floor beneath the bathroom after attempts to pull him out failed. Medics at Pujiang People's hospital helped them to take it apart piece by piece with pliers and saws – a process that took almost an hour. It reportedly had a diameter of just 10cm.
State media said the baby, identified only by the number of his hospital incubator, had a low heart rate when he was admitted and had suffered cuts and bruising, but was now in stable condition.
The woman was on the scene during the entire rescue process … and admitted [she was the mother] .Police had not yet decided whether to file charges and that there was no information on the father.

Deadly Heat wave claims 84 lives in Andhra Pradesh in India

The severe heat wave conditions in Andhra Pradesh in India  have so claimed 84 lives from April 1, officials said.
The state remained in the grip of heat wave Friday, with many towns recording maximum day temperature of over 43 degree Celsius.
Munuguru in coal mines area of Khammam district was the hottest place Friday with the mercury shooting up to 50 degrees, the highest this season. Rentachintala in Guntur district recorded 48 degrees.
Bapatla and Ramagundam recorded 47 degrees Celsius while for the third consecutive day, Hyderabad sizzled at nearly 44 degrees.
Officials said 26 people died Friday alone but the unofficial sources have put the day's toll at 100. Over 20 deaths were reported Thursday.
According to Commissioner for Disaster Management T. Radha, the heat wave claimed 84 lives since April 1. Karimnagar district bore the brunt, accounting for for 43 deaths. Twelve people died in Medak, 11 in West Godavari, six in Chittoor, four in Vizianagaram, three each in Nalgonda and Nizamabad and one each in East Godavari and Visakhapatnam district.
The death toll may be higher as reports were yet to reach the state capital from many districts. The commissioner directed the collectors to submit detailed reports about the loss of lives.
Revenue Minister N. Raghuveera Reddy, who reviewed the situation with officials, said under Apathbandhu scheme, Below Poverty Line (BPL) families of those who died due to sunstroke were eligible for assistance of Rs.50,000.
In a tragic incident, a mother and her two-year-old child died of sunstroke on a road at Hayatnagar in Ranga Reddy district. The woman, who was being taken to hospital by her husband, died on the way. Her daughter also succumbed in her lap.
The labourer couple had migrated from Mahabubnagar district. As the man was seen crying on the road, the local people donated money for last rites of his wife and daughter.
According to India Meteorological Department, severe heat wave to heat wave conditions prevailed over parts of the coastal Andhra Pradesh while heat wave conditions prevailed over most parts of Telangana.
It has warned that the head conditions would continue for next two days. The met office has attributed the heat wave to hot winds blowing from Rajasthan.

Eight people die from heat wave in Punjab, Haryana:

The on-going heat wave conditions in most parts of Punjab and Haryana on Saturday continued unabated, claiming at least eight lives and forcing people in the region to confine indoors.

While six persons lost their lives due to intense heat wave in Punjab, two died in Haryana in the past three days, officials said in Chandigarh on Saturday.

In Punjab, three persons lost their lives in Amritsar, two in Ferozepur and one in Tarn Taran, whereas in Haryana one each died in Hisar and Sirsa.
All the eight deaths took place due to the heat wave, officials said.

According to the Met office in Chandigarh, there are no chances of relief in the next couple of days.

The Met forecast that the maximum temperature will hover between 41 to 43 degrees Celsius at most of the places in the region.

Warm winds will also sweep the region and dust storms might strike in some areas, the Met office said, attributing the unusually high temperature in the region to the absence of western disturbances.
Chandigarh is braving a temperature of 43 degrees Celsius, the Met said.

Massive tornado hits through Moore, Oklahoma USA : 51 killed, including 20 children; more feared dead

A devastating, two-mile-wide tornado touched down near Oklahoma City In US on Monday, killing at least 51 people—including at least 20 children—decimating homes, businesses and a pair of elementary schools in the suburb of Moore.
According to the state's medical examiner, the death toll was expected to rise.
The schools—Plaza Towers Elementary and Briarwood Elementary—were leveled by the tornado. It was unclear how many children were in them at the time the twister hit, but according to KFOR-TV, at least seven children died at Plaza Towers, and as many as two dozen more were feared to be trapped inside the rubble.  A makeshift triage center was set up in the school's parking lot.
Emergency officials urged people to remain off the roads so rescue workers and first responders could reach people potentially trapped in rubble, as the National Guard was called in to help in the search for victims.

The tornado left a debris field 20 miles long and several miles wide. According to the National Weather Service in Norman, Okla., the tornado was on the ground for approximately 40 minutes, and a tornado warning was in effect for 16 minutes before the twister developed.
Weather officials estimated the strength of the storm to be an F4 or F5 on the Fujita Scale—the highest rating a tornado can achieve. The National Weather Service said the tornado's preliminary classification was an F4, with winds up to 200 mph.
Communication was snarled as landlines and cellphone towers were knocked down. A water treatment plant in Oklahoma City was also damaged.

Cyclone Mohasen may hit Bangladesh early Thursday

Bangladesh and Myanmar are bracing for Cyclone Mahasen, a severe storm which could affect millions of people in coastal areas of South Asia region, the United Nations has warned.
The cyclonic storm may hit Bangladesh coast with a speed of 115 to 134 kilometer per hour on late Wednesday night or Thursday morning, says different met office sources.
According to the bulletin the cyclone now lied over West Central Bay and adjoining east Central Bay and was centred at 6:00 pm Tuesday about 1080 kms southwest of Chittagong Port, 1015 kms Southwest of Cox's Bazar Port and 970 kms South Southwest of Mongla Port.
The bulletin said the storm was likely to intensify further and move in a north-northeasterly direction. "We, however, don't expect the cyclone to hit our coastline ahead of tomorrow night or Thursday morning," met office director Shah Alam told BSS.
The cyclonic storm "Mahasen" over south Bay and adjoining west central Bay moved slightly northwards in the same area on Tuesday evening.
It is likely to intensify further and move in a north-northeasterly direction, said the bulletin. Maximum sustained wind speed within 54 kms of the storm centre is about 62 kph rising to 88 kph in gusts/ squalls. The sea will remain very rough near the storm centre.
The cyclone forced the authorities to hoist local cautionary signal No. four for maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox's Bazar and Mongla.
All fishing boats and trawlers over North Bay have been advised to remain close to the coast and proceed with caution. They are also advised not to venture into the deep sea till further notice, the bulletin added.
The cyclonic storm 'Mahasen' has caused heavy rains in the north and eastern parts of Sri Lanka killing at least seven people and leaving nearly 3,000 people homeless. The Disaster Management Centre in Lanka said that at least 7 people were killed, while two more are missing as a result of the storm.

Latest China food scandal :Rat meat sold as lamb meat

Rat meat sold as Lamb meat

Chinese police have broken up a criminal ring accused of taking meat from rats and foxes and selling it as lamb in the country's latest food safety scandal.

The Ministry of Public Security released results of a three-month crackdown on food safety violators, saying in a statement that authorities investigated more than 380 cases and arrested 904 suspects.
Among those arrested were 63 people who allegedly ran an operation in Shanghai and the coastal city of Wuxi that bought fox, mink, rat and other meat that had not been tested for quality and safety, processed it with additives like gelatin and passed it off as lamb.
The meat was sold to farmers' markets in Jiangsu province and Shanghai, it said.
Despite years of food scandals — from milk contaminated with an industrial chemical to the use of industrial dyes in eggs — China has been unable to clean up its food supply chain.
The announcement came as China's top court on Friday issued guidelines calling for harsher punishment for making and selling unsafe food products in the latest response to tainted food scandals that have angered the public.
The Supreme People's Court said the guidelines will list as crimes specific acts such as the sale of food excessively laced with chemicals or made from animals that have died from disease or unknown causes.
China's penal code, which forbids unsafe and poisonous food, does not specify what acts are considered in violation of the law.
Adulterating baby food so that it severely lacks nutrition is also punishable as a crime under the guidelines. Negligent government food inspectors are also targeted for criminal punishment.
The supreme court said 2,088 people have been prosecuted in 2010-2012 in 1,533 food safety cases. It said the number of such cases has grown exponentially in the past several years. For example, Chinese courts prosecuted 861 cases of poisonous food in 2012, compared to 80 cases in 2010.

"The situation is really grave and has indeed caused great harm to the people," Pei Xianding, a supreme court judge, told a news conference.