Fed up with the 50 per cent of the blood banks in the state that do not update their stock on the e-Rakt Kosh website, the State Blood Transfusion Council (SBTC) has instructed them to bring their data up to date or risk losing their licence. The decision was taken at a meeting on May 22, that was chaired by Dr Arun Thorat, assistant director of the council, along with representatives of 48 blood banks across the city. However, representatives of 12 blood banks, including St George Hospital, KEM, Wadia, Bhabha hospital, skipped the meeting.

The e-Rakt Kosh website was started The Mumbai police have finally registered an FIR against the person behind the Twitter handle from where a comment had been posted against filmmaker Anurag Kashyap's daughter.