Indian Voter Gets Dog's photo in his Voter ID card

North Bengal resident Sunil Karmakar received his ‘corrected’ voters ID card on Tuesday. But instead of his own visage, he found himself staring at that of a hairy pooch.

A West Bengal resident was shocked to see a dog’s photo instead of his own on his voter ID card and has decided to file a defamation suit against the Election Commission of India (ECI).

North Bengal resident Sunil Karmakar received his ‘corrected’ voter ID card on Tuesday. But instead of his own visage, he found himself staring at that of a hairy pooch.

“There were some errors in my voter ID card so I had applied for a correction. When the corrected card came, the information was correct, but my photo had been replaced,” the irate 64-year-old voter of Bewa II’s Ramnagar village in Bengal’s Murshidabad said.

Karmakar feels the error was intentional and intended to humiliate him in public. “People who saw my card, mocked it publicly. I will drag the Election Commission of India (ECI) to court,” he said.

A government official involved in correcting voter ID card errors said that the mistake had, indeed, been spotted earlier, but that he had no idea how it remained uncorrected.

“We noticed the dog’s picture after the publication of the draft voters’ list. I rushed to Karmakar’s residence and brought back a picture of the man. But I am clueless as to how the card got printed with the dog’s photo anyway,” he said.

The mistake may have occurred due to the large-scale panic across Bengal over a possible citizenship screening exercise. Over the past few months, more than 0.83 million peoole including 0.24 million new voters from 22 Assembly segments in Murshidabad district, scrambled to apply for fresh voter IDs and rectifications of errors in existing ones. The district administration had cancelled leave for all government employees to ensure an error free voters’ list.

Rajarshi Chakraborty, the block development officer of Farakka, said that the administration will investigate Karmakar’s charge that the error was intentional.

“He will be given a new voter ID card in April. Meanwhile, government employees involved in the process are being asked to show cause,” Chakraborty said.

Source: Hindustan Times

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Alcohol Flows from the Water Taps of Residents

Thrissur: It was supposed to be a normal day for the residents of Solomon’s Avenue Flat near KSRTC bus stand at Chalakudy in Kerala's Thrissur district. But the residents were in for a shock on Monday morning when they opened the taps as the water had a 'spiritual' smell. The residents checked with one another and found that the situation was the same at all the flats in the building.

Speculations on how the booze got mixed with the water in the tank spread. Their search led to a bunch of excise sleuths whose attempt to destroy seized liquor had gone horribly wrong, leading to a strange situation.

The officials now found themselves in a spot over the issue and are struggling to come up with an escape route.

The bar

A bar named Rachana was located near the apartment. Around 6,000 litre liquor was seized from the bar around six years ago. The excise personnel had seized it as it was stored unlawfully.

After the case proceedings, the court gave the go-ahead to destroy the booze. But how to destroy so much liquor? The sleuths got into a huddle and finally came up with a solution. They decided that as the liquor was seized from the bar, it should be disposed of on the same land.

Pit disposal
A huge pit was dug on the bar premises. And each bottle of the seized liquor was uncorked and poured into it. It took a long time to dispose of 6,000 litres in this manner. The task that was started by 2pm was over only by 8pm.

Neighbours' spirit trouble
A well, from which the residents drew water, was located close to the periphery of the bar property. When the liquor was poured into the pit, it seeped through the soil and entered the well on the nearby property and got mixed with the water. This water was pumped into the tank, triggering the trouble.

The excise sleuths rushed to the spot and promised the families that they would resolve the issue. They suggested cleaning the well and supplying drinking water to the families until the well is cleaned.

But the residents refused to withdraw the complaint and sought action against the erring officers.

The residents filed complaints with the Chalakudy municipal secretary and health department, seeking action against the excise officials. A probe has already begun into the issue.

Chalakudy is famous for its obsession with booze. The Kerala State Beverages' outlet here had recorded the highest sale of liquor during Onam and Christmas seasons these past years. 

Source: english.manoramaonline.com

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Man's Gut Makes Him Alcoholic

It began as a simple thumb injury. Then, it spiralled into a dangerous syndrome where a man's gut essentially became a brewery fermenting its own endless alcohol supply - which is not as fun as it sounds.

In a recent case study, doctors recount the strange symptoms of auto-brewery syndrome (ABS): a rarely diagnosed medical condition where simply ingesting carbohydrates can be enough to make you wildly inebriated. Even worse, nobody believes you when you say you haven't been drinking.

At least, that was the case for the unfortunate 46-year-old patient in question, an otherwise healthy man who'd only ever been a light social drinker.

His troubles began in 2011, after he completed a course of antibiotics for a thumb injury. Within one week of finishing the meds, he reported experiencing uncharacteristic personality changes, including depression, 'brain fog', aggressive behavior, and memory loss.

He was eventually referred to a psychiatrist and given antidepressants, but it was only when the man was pulled over by police one morning in an apparent case of drunk driving that the true nature of his illness started to reveal itself.

When pulled over, he refused to take a breathalyzer test and was hospitalized, with tests showing he had a blood alcohol level of 200 mg/dL, equivalent to having drunk approximately 10 alcoholic drinks, and sufficient to induce confusion, disorientation, impaired balance, and slurred speech.

"The hospital personnel and police refused to believe him when he repeatedly denied alcohol ingestion," researchers from Richmond University Medical Centre note in their case report.

After being discharged from hospital, he sought treatment at a clinic in Ohio. In medical tests, most of his readings looked normal, but his stool sample showed the presence of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (also known as brewer's yeast) and a related fungus.

S. cerevisiae has a long history in beer brewing and wine making (in addition to baking), as it helps ferment carbohydrates and produces alcohol.

While the patient was successfully treated at the clinic, his ABS diagnosis revealed itself in subsequent flare-ups, with the most serious incident involving a fall while inebriated that resulted in intracranial bleeding.

While recovering in hospital, his blood alcohol spiked as high as 400 mg/dL – twice the concentration recorded when he was pulled over – but still "medical staff refused to believe that he did not drink alcohol despite his persistent denials", the researchers write.

Fortunately for the patient, he eventually sought treatment conducted in collaboration with the Richmond University specialists, who used a combination of anti-fungal therapies and probiotics to treat the man's gut microflora.

With the exception of one relapse – brought upon by a pizza and soda binge, unbeknownst to his treating doctors – the patient's fungal growths look to have been successfully treated.

"Approximately 1.5 years later, he remains asymptomatic and has resumed his previous lifestyle, including eating a normal diet while still checking his breath alcohol levels sporadically," the researchers explain.

It's a happy ending for the patient, who looks to be finally free not only of his unasked-for drunkenness (and resultant health problems), but also of the cloud of disbelief it invited in those around him.

"For years, no one believed him," one of the medial team, Fahad Malik, now a chief medical resident at University of Alabama at Birmingham, told New Scientist.

"The police, doctors, nurses and even his family told him he wasn't telling the truth, that he must be a closet-drinker."

As for how the auto-brewing fungus colonized the man's insides, the researchers suspect they started to set up their boutique brewery after the man received his thumb injury in 2011.

"We believe that our patient's symptoms were triggered by exposure to antibiotics, which resulted in a change in his gastrointestinal microbe allowing fungal overgrowth," the authors explain, noting that we are only starting to recognize the complexity of this rare and probably under-diagnosed condition.

Source: Science Alert

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