Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Rucika Sexual Abuse: 19 year Sentence to only 6 Months

Panchkula near Chandigarh Lawn Tennis Association at Rucika came to play tennis. Tennis Association, was director of the then DGP Rathore. Rathore here on August 12, 1990 Rucika of tampering. It became so upset that Rucika three years later she gave up her life by eating poison. But now that it had awakened hopes of getting justice Rucika see justice in the case so serious that all were shocked former DGP SPS Rathore, was sentenced to only six months. After the decision has spread outrage across the country. And once again with the same finger on the judicial system has begun to rise. The case is filled from the road to Parliament. But the government's silence is shameful. Rucika with what happened, this is not the first case, women with earlier sexual crimes have been many times but because justice delayed is still many criminals are roaming freely. Come know some similar cases where top police officers from how the women made by Professor target.

Just 19 years later sentenced to 6 months

Then when the police Inspector-General of 14 Rucika Girhotra SP S Rathore Bdsluki of her. He complained to his family, police oppression began. But his battle against the Abru put his hand slowly in - slowly everything was broken. The defendant made to police his brother. His father had to leave town. In three years his young dreams were shattered and he poisoned his life Niglkar Lila Lee finished. Then he was seventeen.

Rucika the uproar in Parliament

Convicted former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, the punishment of six months in both houses of Parliament Tuesday Mudwa raised. The opposition parties over Mudve government to round up such a shameful punishment did. CPM Rajya Sabha MP Brinda Karat said the taking of Mudve only six month sentence in such a big issue is embarrassing for the government together after so many years with the punishment the administration has kept open and expose the judicial system .

Only Six Month Sentence

Significantly, the CBI special court on Monday Nineteen years ago to molesting a teenager in the case of the former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, the convicted is sentenced to six months rigorous imprisonment. Also they have been asked to pay a fine of one thousand rupees. To pay fines or sentenced to a month and have to bear Rathore. Victim's kin Rathore six months rigorous imprisonment hear less told. Under Section 354 IPC convicted person sentenced to two years imprisonment may be. Friend and the only witness to the incident Rucika Aradhana Gupta decided to hear the case from Australia with her husband had come Chandigarh. Aradhana, Rucika ally and neighbor was a tennis player. He was 13 years old at the time of the incident. After the death of worship that Rucika his family had moved some unknown place. Since then his father were fighting this battle.

This family of victim complaints

- Light The decision was then comes alive when Rucika. Anyway, today revealed that the law punished those who have played with. Whether he or any other DGP. - Madhu Prakash, the complainant

Fight is not over. Now I also court Gsitunga those who tried to save Rathore in this issue. Victory of truth is. Rathore was punished, now it is time for Mddgaron.- Anand Prakash, Madhu Prakash complainant's husband

I am from Australia come to see today's justice. This sentence is too low. Action will continue until full justice. Rathore came before me I will tell you that Rathore had to be punished so easy. Rathore is a blot on khaki. I remember that day was chaired by Hajb Rathore Lawn Tennis Association. 14 and 13 years of that time I was Rucika. And I play lawn tennis were Rucika. Rathore and when I came back I sent invite coach saw that Rathore had Rucika grip the arms. I saw Rathore Rucika left. Two days later called again and again Rucika Rathore of tampering. - Aradhana, Rucika friend

VIP Treatment ..

Blames former DGP Rathore gave the course the court heard the sentence but the police retained their dominance Afsri. While other criminals from the court pronouncing sentence Dbockr 17 leads police station before pulling their photos in this case the fingerprint takes the court within the police took fingerprints of Rathore.

I did not Tamper

I will challenge the Court's decision that could come before Schci. I never Rucika not tampered with. From my side of justice, war will continue.- SPS Rathore, former DGP, Haryana

What When - When did

August 12: Rathore Rucika tried to tamper with. The act of worship's friend Rucika Rathore sees.
1990 August 15: Rathore's father said Rucika complained so bad.
August 16: Main - Home Secretary to the Minister submitted an inquiry.

1993 October 23: CIA's brother Ashu Rucika against 11 cases of theft and criminal acts filed. Nearly two months in jail kept Asu. November 26: Government not taking any action Aradhana Anand's father took him to high light matter. December 28: Rucika poison absorbed through the impatient. December 29: Rucika's death. After much banging on the same day Asu was thrown out of his house.

1998 August: High Court case handed to CBI

2000 November 17: CBI court in Ambala file charge-sheet.

2001 October-November: CBI court in the case of abetment to suicide against Rathore and filed Section 306. Rathore in the High Court appeal, the High Court removed this section.

2006May: Rathore High to shift the case and urged anywhere from Ambala. Patiala transfer case.

2009 November 5: The matter came to Chandigarh from Patiala.

December 21: Rathore guilty of tampering

What is Sexual Harassment

In 1997, the case of Vishaka Vs Rajasthan Government The Supreme Court defined sexual harassment was a new manner. According to which sexual harassment, which refers directly or indirectly from that crime to a woman is sexual Hres. It by words, physically, showing pornographic things, or include demand for sex.

Friday, October 2, 2009

Vohra to Recommend Rukhsana Kausar for Bravery Award

Jammu and Kashmir Governor N.N. Vohra on Tuesday lauded Rajouri girl Rukhsana for fighting terrorists at her village home and killing one of them.

Vohra said he would seek a formal report from the state DGP on Rukhsana's encounter with the terrorists and recommend her for bravery awards. He also announced he would call the 19-year-old to Raj Bhavan and honour her.

Earlier, Rukhsana's daring act drew praise from across political parties. While RJD chief Lalu Yadav said she deserved a bravery award, the BJP's Shahnawaz Hussain said: "Rukhsana's act is a reply to all those who think they can get the support of Muslims in the name of jihad."

Rukhsana has now turned into a role model not only for her village but the whole of Jammu and Kashmir.

"She should be provided proper security as her act of courage is bound to disturb the terrorists' plans," said Kamal Farooqi, chairman of Delhi State Minority Commission.

Lauding Rukhsana, Mahmood A. Madani of the Rashtriya Lok Dal said: "Terrorism cannot be rooted out unless ordinary citizens stand up and face the terrorists."

Taking inspiration from Rukhsana, a girl in Srinagar said: "The women of Kashmir will have to be bolder for the sake of their security."

Another girl said: "Rukhsana gave a befitting reply to the terrorists and made it clear that the women of Kashmir are no Source: longer what they used to be."

Source: Indiatoday.com

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Haryana Girl Kills 7 Family Members

A family was brutally murdered by one of its members, all for the fear of a relationship not being accepted.
A teenaged girl in Haryana murdered seven members of her family after they discovered she was in love with a boy from their own clan.

19-year-old Sonam is accused of killing seven members of her own family and her lover, Naveen, abetted the crime.

Police say both of them did it fearing their families would never accept their relationship, as they belong to the same clan.

So, when Sonam's family found out that they were in love, the two decided to kill them all. Police claim Sonam poisoned her parents, brother, grandmother and three cousins.

"They knew that when they wanted to marry officially the family would oppose it. The parents and grandmother would never allow their wedding so they decided to kill them," said Anil Kumar Rao, SSP Rohtak.
Police say it was tough case to crack. A breakthrough was possible only after they questioned Sonam who gave it away during interrogation. Now, Sonam appears remorseful.

"I have done a wrong thing, I know that," said Sonam Daggar.

Marriage within the same clan is a strict no-no in rural Haryana. Village panchayats are dead opposed to any such relationship and there have been many killings in the name of protecting family honour.

But this case has come as a shock to many, who feel it will only fuel the anger and hatred against same-clan marriages.

Source:ndtv.com

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Pakistan Launches Stampede Probe

An investigation has been launched into the stampede in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi which killed at least 14 people on Monday, officials say. Women and children were crushed in a stampede to get free flour being handed out by a private group for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. The police have arrested the distributor of food for negligence and unintended murder. The government of Sindh province has also announced compensation packages. It says it will award 100,000 rupees ($1250) to the family of each victim.

The incident took place at Khori Garden in central Karachi, near the waterfront. The area is lined with narrow streets where wholesalers operate warehouses of wheat, grain, pulses and other such goods.

A private charity was handing out free flour at the time. An argument was reported to have broken out after which the stampede occurred. Hundreds of women had gathered and many of those who died were suffocated or trampled in the ensuing chaos. Police arrested the distributor of the food. Mohammad Iftikhar Memon was granted bail by a court on Tuesday morning.


Many Muslims hand out food to the poor during Ramadan, the most sacred month of the Islamic calendar, which ends next week.

Our correspondent says prices for staple goods have risen sharply in Karachi, and the government appears unable to provide relief to increasing numbers of people affected by poverty.

Source: News.bbc.co.uk

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Why the Hindu right wing loves Mr Jinnah

Why are some of India's Hindu nationalist leaders in love with Mohammed Ali Jinnah? The founder of Pakistan is a much reviled man in India, treated as a minor conspiratorial figure, and considered to be the architect of the bloody partition of the country on religious lines in 1947. Even the secular Congress party abhors him.

So when leaders of the Hindu right sing praises for Mr Muhammad Ali Jinnah, they stir up a hornet's nest. Four years ago, the leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), LK Advani, who led a successful Hindu revivalist movement in the early 1990s, praised the founder of Pakistan during a visit to the country. This raised the hackles of Hindu fellow travellers and invited scorn from the Congress party. The BJP leader even offered to put in his papers after the kerfuffle.

Now Jaswant Singh, a doughty senior party leader and former finance and external affairs minister, who counts people like Strobe Talbott as his friends and chess, golf and polo as his pursuits, has praised Mr Jinnah as a "self made man" who "created something out of nothing and single-handedly stood up against the might of the Congress party and against the British who didn't really like him." He has expanded on his thesis in his new, unimaginatively titled 669-page book Jinnah: India-Partition- Independence, which released this week.

What is surprising is Mr Singh's defence of Mr Jinnah in a TV interview in the run-up to the book release where he is even more effusive in his praise of the Quaid-e-Azam (Great Leader) as Mr Jinnah is remembered as in his homeland. He demolishes the popular Indian historiography of Mr Jinnah being a Hindu-basher and a born demagogue. "That certainly he was not," says the BJP leader. "His principal disagreement was with the Congress party. Repeatedly he says and he says this even in his last statements to the press and to the constituent Assembly of Pakistan."

Then Mr Singh goes on to say that India misunderstood Mr Jinnah "because we needed to create a demon". He insists the Congress party's majoritarian instincts were responsible for the federalist Mr Jinnah turning away from the idea of India and asking for a separate nation for Muslims.

Yet Mr Jinnah began his political career with the Congress and until after World War I remained India's best "ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity". Biographer Stanley Wolpert says he was as "as enigmatic as Gandhi, more powerful than Nehru, and one of the most charismatic leaders and least known personalities". Historians like Patrick French believe that though Mr Jinnah "remained a secularist of sorts until his death, but also at times... willing to use communal antagonism in a strategic way."

Listen to Mr Jinnah before the formation of Pakistan, raising the spectre of Hindu majoritaranism: "We Muslims have got everything - brains, intelligence, capacity and courage- virtues that nations must possess. But two things are lacking, and I want you to concentrate your attention on these. One thing is that foreign domination from without and Hindu domination here, particularly on our economic life that has caused a certain degeneration of these virtues in us."

Or listen to him after a meeting with Egyptian and Palestinian Arab leaders in 1946: "I told them of the danger that a Hindu empire would represent for the Middle-East... If a Hindu empire is achieved, it will mean the end of Islam in India, and even in other Muslim countries."

At the same time, it is true that Mr Jinnah felt short changed by the Congress. On 26 July 1946, Jinnah and his working committee spoke about Muslim India having "exhausted, without success, all efforts to find a peaceful solution of the Indian problem by compromise and constitutional means; and whereas the Congress is bent upon setting up Caste-Hindu Raj in India with the connivance of the British..."

Jaswant Singh In Mr Singh's book, Jawaharlal Nehru and the Congress emerge as some of the principal architects of the partition. He writes that the Congress "overestimated its strength, its influence, and its leaders were extremely reluctant to accept Jinnah as the leader of just not the Muslim League but eventually of most Muslims in India".

There is some truth in all this. But in trying to say that Mr Nehru and Congress were largely responsible for partition, Mr Singh is possibly ignoring the larger political realities of the time. Mr Jinnah positioned himself as the "sole spokesman of Pakistan", but his party Muslim League which led the Pakistan movement, won the last election in 1946 in British India with the number of Muslim voters at significantly no more than 10 to 12% of the total Muslim population in that year. As many historians say, the nation of Pakistan came into being "even before its mass base was established." The fault lines have widened since.

But to return to the original question, why did Mr Singh write this book? Does it have to do with his wider political ambitions? He is a self-professed liberal in a party of hawks. In 1992, at the zenith of the BJP's rathyatra (motorised chariot) movement to whip up support for a temple at Ayodhya, Mr Singh did not attend a single function on the road. His induction into the cabinet in the late 1990s was vetoed once by the party's ideological fountainhead, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

With his mentor and BJP's only pan-Indian leader and former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee fading out and Mr Advani himself weakened by political defeat and party infighting, is Mr Singh trying to position himself as a liberal party leader-paterfamilias that Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee once occupied? It is difficult to say.

In a sense, one could argue, Mr Singh kills two birds with one stone with his revisionist take on the partition - as a senior leader of the main opposition party, he goes for the Congress's jugular by holding it responsible for the partition along with Mr Jinnah; and by heaping encomiums on Mr Jinnah, he endears himself to Indian Muslims, who have been lukewarm to the BJP's overtures. Is Mohammed Ali Jinnah a way for Mr Singh to reach out to Muslims and push his political ambitions in a party which appears to have lost its way in modern India? We will know in the days ahead.

Source: bbc.co.uk

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Girl finds her 15 brothers and sisters on Facebook!

London, August 25 (ANI): A teenaged girl has been reunited with her parents and 15 brothers and sisters, thanks to popular social networking website Facebook.

Sophie Featherstone was devastated after the demise of her beloved grandmother Pat, who raised her.

"I occasionally asked about my parents and Nan would tell me what happened with my mum, but she didn't know who my dad was," the Mirror quoted Sophie as saying.

The 19-year-old went into depression after losing her granny to cancer, and destiny struck when she checked her Facebook account while visiting a friend in Liverpool.

She had received a message from unknown woman, called Sarah Prescott, which said: "Your dad would love to get in touch with you."

Sophie began chatting with Sarah, who revealed her partner, Paul, always suspected that the teen was his daughter and when the two met there were no grounds for doubt.

She also met her half-brother, Jessee, 19 months, and Sarah's children Kerry-Ann, 16, and Scott, 12, from a previous relationship.

Sophie also found that she had five half-brothers and half-sisters from Paul's previous relationships.

Sophie's mum Debbie Featherstone, mum of Jamie, 16, Katie, 15, Ffion, 12, Jack, 10, Bailey, four, Madison, two and Declan, one, and eight months pregnant with her ninth child, soon heard the news about the reunion and her daughter initiated a contact using Facebook again.

Sophie said: "I was at my dad's and saw the message from Katie saying 'Mum would love to see you'.I was so happy I almost cried. I thought my mum and I would never meet again because too much time had passed to ever be a family again."

Sophie added: "It was like history repeating itself, we arranged a meeting and I moved in with her and her family for a couple of weeks. It has been incredibly easy to bond with everyone here, I already feel part of the family." (ANI)

Source: news.yahoo.com

Was Mr Lal Bahadur Shastri murdered?

Was India's third prime minister, Lal Bahadur Shastri, murdered? Officially, the diminutive leader died of a heart attack in a dacha in Tashkent, hours after he signed a peace agreement with the Pakistani president, Ayub Khan, on 11 January 1966, some four months after the end of the second war between the two neighbours. But if you believe surviving members of Mr Shastri's family and an enthusiastic Delhi-based journalist, Mr Shastri was possibly poisoned.

What has added grist to the conspiracy mill is the Indian government's refusal to declassify a document it has in its possession pertaining to Mr Shastri's death. In response to a right to information request by the enterprising Anuj Dhar, a journalist and a self-proclaimed "declassification enthusiast", the prime minister's office said that making public that document could "harm foreign relations, cause disruption in the country and cause breach of parliamentary privileges". Totally non-controversial in his life, Mr Shastri has become controversial in death. I did a little digging around and found that most of the better-known accounts of Mr Shastri's death have raised no doubts - death by heart failure. In his magisterial India After Gandhi, historian Ramachandra Guha writes Mr Shastri "died in his sleep of a heart attack".

In her biography of Indira Gandhi, Katherine Frank writes that after he "went to bed in the early hours of the 11th January, Mr Shastri had a fatal heart attack".

The most vivid account is in my dog eared copy of the long out-of-print book India, The Critical Years by veteran Indian journalist Kuldip Nayar. He was part of the prime minister's travelling press corps to Tashkent.

Lal Bahadur Shastri Mr Nayar writes that the Indian prime minister was already a heart patient, having suffered two attacks. He had had a hectic day, holding talks with the Russian premier, Alexey Kosygin - the Russians having brokered the pact - and his officials and had had very little sleep. "That evening," writes Mr Nayar, "I met by chance his personal physican Dr RN Chugh, who accompanied him. I asked him how Shastri was standing the strain. He looked up to the sky and said: 'Everything is in the hands of God'." Mr Nayar does not elaborate. Mr Nayar then proceeds to describe the fateful night in Agatha Christie-like detail. Since he was to travel in the prime minister's airplane early next morning to Kabul en route to Delhi, he retired to bed early an hour before midnight. "I must have been dozing when someone knocked at my door and said: 'Your prime minister is dying.' A Russian lady was waking up all the journalists," writes Mr Nayar.

A group of journalists then sped to Mr Shastri's dacha from the hotel. On arriving, Mr Nayar found a grief-stricken Mr Kosygin standing on the verandah. "He could not speak and only lifted his hands to indicate Shastri was no more."

When Mr Nayar went in, he found Dr Chugh being questioned by a group of Soviet doctors through an interpreter. In the next room Mr Shastri lay still on his bed. The journalists emptied the flower vases in the room and spread them on the prime minister's body. Mr Nayar also noticed an overturned thermos flask on a dressing table some 10 feet away from Mr Shastri's bed and wondered whether the prime minister had struggled to get to open it to get water. "His slippers were neatly placed near the bed; it meant that he walked barefoot up to the dressing table in the carpeted room," Mr Nayar writes. Mr Nayar then pieces together the events leading up to Mr Shastri's death - of how the prime minister reached the dacha around 10 pm after a reception, chatted with his personal staff and asked his cook Ram Nath to bring him food "which was prepared in the dacha by the Russians". It gets more interesting from here. "In the kitchen there was a Soviet cook helped by two ladies - both from the Russian intelligence department - and they tasted everything, including water, before it was served to Mr Shastri," Mr Nayar writes. Remember this was at the height of the Cold War and India-Pakistan hostilities and the security paranoia was extreme.

As Mr Shastri tucked into a frugal spinach and potato curry meal, he received a call from a personal assistant in Delhi and sought the reaction to the Tashkent agreement back home. Then he spoke to his family in Delhi. He asked his eldest daughter, Kusum, about how she had found the peace pact. "She replied, 'we have not liked it'," writes Mr Nayar. "He asked 'what about her mother?' She too had not liked the declaration, was the reply given." A crestfallen Mr Shastri, according to Mr Nayar, then remarked: "If my own family has not liked it, what will the outsiders say?"
Mr Nayar writes that the prime minister's wife did not come on the line to talk despite many requests - a contention that is disputed by many of his surviving family members. This upset Mr Shastri. "He began pacing up and down the room... For one who had had two heart attacks earlier, the telephone conversation and the walking must have been a strain," he writes. Then his staff gave him milk and some water in the flask. Around 1.30 am, his personal assistant Sahai, according to Mr Nayar, saw Mr Shastri at his door, asking with difficulty, "Where is the doctor?"

The staff woke up Dr Chugh, while the prime minister's staff, assisted by Indian security men, helped Mr Shastri walk back to his room. "If it was a heart attack - myocardiac infarction, and obstruction of blood supply to the heart muscles, as the Soviet doctors said later - this walk," writes Mr Nayar, "must have been fatal." Mr Nayar writes - presumably from an eyewitness account by the personal assistant - that Mr Shastri began coughing "rockingly", touched his chest and became unconscious. Dr Chugh arrived soon after, felt the prime minister's pulse, gave an injection into the heart, tried mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, but to no avail. More doctors arrived. They found Mr Shastri dead. The time of the death was 1.32 am. Talk about foul play began as soon as the body arrived in Delhi. Mr Nayar says the prime minister's wife asked him why Mr Shastri's body had turned blue. He told her that when "bodies are embalmed" they turn blue. Mrs Shastri was not convinced. She asked about "certain cuts" on Mr Shastri's body. Mr Nayar told her he hadn't seen any. "Apparently, she and others in the family suspected foul play," Mr Nayar writes.

They still do. I went to meet Sidharth Nath Singh, the prime minister's grandson and a senior member of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, recently to hear the family side of the story. He told me that Mr Nayar's account of the telephone conversation that Mr Shastri had with his family members that night was inaccurate, and that he HAD spoken to his wife. Mr Singh, who was two years old when his grandfather died, says that one person was detained on "suspicion of poisoning Mr Shastri", but was released. Mr Nayar's book has no mention of this.

"Knowing the truth is important for our family. The truth has never been out," Mr Singh told me. Then he talked about the cold war politics of the day, and who would have gained from poisoning Mr Shastri who had served as prime minister for only 19 months: a foreign power, political rivals. Some of it sounds remotely credible; other bits outlandish. But Mr Singh and the nation deserve to know why the government is holding the paper about Mr Shastri's death back. How will it imperil our foreign relations? With whom? India has a notoriously stodgy reputation as far as declassifying historical documents is concered; the state almost encourages a statist historiography. The truth should be out and the controversy should be buried, once for and all.

Source: bbc.co.uk

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Yoga can Cure Swine Flu: Baba Ramdev

Amidst growing concern on the increasing spread of the H1N1 virus in India, renowned yoga guru Baba Ramdev prescribed yoga as a cure for the disease.
Talking to reporters here on Tuesday, Baba Ramdev advised people to practice yoga as a preventive measure against swine flu.
"People with strong immune system cannot be affected with swine flu. Through yoga and pranayma, you can keep your immune system particularly the respiratory system strong," he added.
He further said that the media was creating panic among the people.
"There is a lot of panic among the people. The news channels round the clock make it breaking news every time there is a death due to swine flu," said Ramdev.
The yoga guru also advised people to use facemasks while in crowded places.
However, a doctor and a 29-year-old woman succumbed to the deadly swine flu virus in Nashik and Pune respectively on Wednesday taking the country's' swine flu death toll to 14.
With the increasing number of swine flu cases, the Central Government has unveiled fresh measures to control the spread of disease by allowing private labs to conduct tests and private hospitals to provide treatment.

Source:
littleabout.com

Tulsi can help keep Swine Flu Away: Ayurvedic Experts

Use “Nilgiri Oil” (Eucalyptus oil) drops on handkerchiefs and masks as one of the preventive measures against Swine Flu (NIV) National Institute of Virology.

Not just Tulasi, Vitamin C rich substances are known to boost immunity. So taking hot Lemon or Amla (Indian Gooseberry) powder mixed with hot water would be very helpful.

Wonder herb Tulsi can not only keep the dreaded swine flu at bay but also help in fast recovery of an afflicted person, Ayurvedic practitioners claim.

"The anti-flu property of Tulsi has been discovered by medical experts across the world quite recently. Tulsi improves the body's overall defence mechanism including its ability to fight viral diseases. It was successfully used in combating Japanese Encephalitis and the same theory applies to swine flu," Dr U K Tiwari, a herbal medicine practitioner says. Apart from acting as a preventive medicine in case of swine flu, Tulsi can help the patient recover faster. "Even when a person has already contracted swine flu, Tulsi can help in speeding up the recovery process and also help in strengthening the immune system of the body," he claims. Dr Bhupesh Patel, a lecturer at Gujarat Ayurved University, Jamnagar is also of the view that Tulsi can play an important role in controlling swine flu. "Tulsi can control swine flu and it should be taken in fresh form. Juice or paste of at least 20-25 medium sized leaves should be consumed twice a day on an empty stomach." This increases the resistance of the body and, thereby, reduces the chances of inviting swine flu," believes Patel.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Symptoms of Swine Flu

The Symptoms of Swine Flu or H1N1 flu virus in people are same to the symptoms of seasonal fluwhich include headache, fever, sore throat. some people also reported vomiting and diarrhea. The main Symptoms of Swine Flu in Children are given below:

1.Not drinking enough water or other fluids

2.Fast breathing or problem to take breath

3.Severe or persistent vomiting

4.Being so irritable that the child does not want to be held

5.Bluish or gray skin color

6.Not waking up or not interacting

7.Flu-like symptoms, fever, cough

Symptoms of Swine Flu in adults are given below:

1.Pain or pressure in the chest or abdomen

2.Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath

3.Severe or persistent vomiting

4.Sudden dizziness

5.Flu-like symptoms improve but then return with fever and worse cough

6.Confusion

Six more Die of Swine Flu, India Toll Climbs to 17

Pune/Mumbai/New Delhi, Aug 12: India's swine flu toll rose to 17 Wednesday as six people succumbed to the H1N1 virus in quick succession in Maharashtra, forcing authorities to shut down educational institutions and public places in Mumbai for a week.

Wednesday saw the highest number of six deaths for a single day since the first victim, Reeda Sheikh, 14, died in Pune Aug 3.

In New Delhi, the health ministry asked the states to take strict action against those hoarding face masks and illegally selling Tamiflu, an anti-influenza drug.

In Maharashtra, where swine flu has claimed 13 lives, the state government was forced to announce closure of all educational establishments in state capital Mumbai for a week from Thursday and multiplexes for three days.

However, offices and malls will remain open, an official clarified.

While five people died due to swine flu in Pune, called the 'epidemic city', the sixth death was reported from Nashik.

The five who died in Pune were Gautam Shelar, a 48-year-old driver, Nita Meghani, 50, Babu Genu Kuland, a school student, Sanjay Mistry, 35, and Shravani Deshpande, 29, a Maharashtra Swine Flu Control Room official said.

They all died at the Sassoon Hospital, which has been handling very serious cases of swine flu in this second largest city of Maharashtra.

Shelar was admitted to the hospital in a critical condition three-four days ago and died around 4.45 p.m. His death came barely an hour after Meghani died.

Babu died in the same hospital at about 11 a.m. A resident of Pimpri town near here, Babu was hospitalised three days ago in a serious condition, according to Pune Municipal Corporation (Health Department) chief S.R. Pardeshi.

Mistry, another Pimpri resident, died in the wee hours of Wednesday. He was hospitalised Sunday in a critical condition and put on ventilator.

Within hours, Deshpande too died of the A(H1N1) influenza around 3 a.m. She had been hospitalised three days ago with pneumonia and later was found to be suffering from swine flu. She was then put on ventilator.

Around the same time, Rakesh Gargunde, a doctor with the Civil Hospital in Nashik city, also succumbed to swine flu virus, said civil surgeon A.D Bhal Singh.

While Maharashtra accounts for 13 deaths - 10 in Pune, two in Mumbai and one in Nashik - one death each has been reported from Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Chennai and Thiruvananthapuram.

As many as 115 people were found positive Wednesday - 61 in Pune, 24 in Mumbai, 10 in Bangalore, eight in Delhi, four in Ahmedabad, three each in Kolkata and Hyderabad, and one each in Shillong and Goa, the health ministry said.

The new cases take the total number of affected people in the country to 1,193 - 588 of whom are at various stages of recovery, it said.

Maharashtra, the most affected state, was preparing for the next stage of its battle against the flu.

'The government has ordered the closure of all schools, colleges and other educational institutions in the city (Mumbai) from tomorrow till Aug 20,' a Maharashtra government official told IANS. Suburban trains in the western megapolis would, however, function as normal.

Reeling under the growing menace of swine flu, the state government admitted the disease was progressing, necessitating a change in strategy to counter it.

Now, the government plans to change its treatment process. Currently, Tamiflu is given after tests results, but it will be given at the initial stage itself, Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Sharvari Gokhale told mediapersons.

She said that 22 private hospitals in Mumbai and nine in Pune have come forward to offer treatment facilities for swine flu patients since the government hospitals were getting overcrowded.

Many private schools in Maharashtra have already closed down for two days -- Wednesday and Thursday. Thereafter, Friday, Saturday and Sunday are official holidays.

With reports of hoarding of masks and illegal sales of Tamiflu tablets, the union health ministry held a meeting in New Delhi and also issued guidelines for private labs, making it clear that only those that comply with bio-safety facility would be allowed to do the tests.

In New Delhi, Joint Secretary (Health) Vineet Chawdhry said there was no need for all to wear the N95 mask, which is only for those who are either visiting a testing centre or are affected with the influenza A(H1N1) virus.

He also asked the state governments to ensure no one was selling Tamiflu or hoarding masks.

'The state governments have to come with a heavy hand on all those hoarders and black-marketers. This is a public health emergency crisis in the country. Citizens from all walks of life have to cooperate,' he added.

He said that people should avoid crowds or crowded places during the Hindu festival of Janmashtami Aug 14 so as not to catch the virus.

Gearing up to fight the flu, the Delhi government also issued directions to all private hospitals under the Epidemic Act to reserve 10 beds each for the flu patients.

Source: News.yahoo.com

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

जोया : इस महिला के खून के प्यासे हैं आतंकी

तालिबान और अलकायदा आतंकी अफगानिस्तान की सबसे युवा सांसद रहीं मलालई जोया के खून के प्यासे हैं। वह कट्टरपंथियों के भी निशाने पर हैं। उन पर पांच बार जानलेवा हमले हो चुके हैं। महिला अधिकारों की बात करने और उन्हें समान कानूनी अधिकार दिए जाने की मांग उठाने के कारण वह आतंकियों के निशाने पर हैं। इसी के चलते 5 मई, 2006 को उन पर संसद में जानलेवा हमला भी किया गया।

फिर 21 जून, 2007 को जोया को संसद से बर्खास्त कर दिया गया। लेकिन इतना कुछ होने के बावजूद जोया के फौलादी इरादों में कोई कमी नहीं आई है। उनका कहना है कि महिलाओं को अधिकार दिलाए बगैर उन्हें चैन नहीं है। वह संसद से सड़क तक संघर्ष जारी रखेंगी। 05 में अफगान की युवा सांसद के रूप में चुनी गई जोया ने संसद में अपराधी रहे लोगो की सांसद के रूप में मौजूदगी पर सवाल उठाया।

उनका कहना था कि अफगानिस्तान में लोकतंत्र मात्र एक दिखावा है। उनकी इस टिप्पणी पर न केवल उनकी पिटाई की गई बल्कि उन्हें संसद से बर्खास्त भी कर दिया गया। संसद से बर्खास्त करने की घटना ने उन्हें अंतरराष्ट्रीय स्तर पर खासा लोकप्रिय बना दिया। कनाडा, अमेरिका, जर्मनी, ब्रिटेन, इटली तथा स्पेन के सांसदों का समर्थन भी उन्हें हासिल हुआ।

Source: bhaskar.com

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

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Thursday, July 16, 2009

Beautiful Temples of the World! Part-2


Wat Rong Khun

Wat Rong Khun is a contemporary unconventional Buddhist temple in Chiang Rai, Thailand. It was designed by Chalermchai Kositpipat. Construction began in 1998 and is expected to end in 2008.
Wat Rong Khun is different from any other temple in Thailand, as its ubosot (Pali: uposatha; consecrated assembly hall) is designed in white color with some use of white glass. The white color stands for Lord Buddha’s purity; the white glass stands for Lord Buddha’s wisdom that "shines brightly all over the Earth and the Universe."

Prambanan

Prambanan is the largest Hindu temple compound in Central Java in Indonesia, located approximately 18 km east of Yogyakarta.

The temple is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is one of the largest Hindu temples in south-east Asia. It is characterised by its tall and pointed architecture, typical of Hindu temple architecture, and by the 47m high central building inside a large complex of individual temples.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Beautiful Temples of the World!

Here is a listing of some of the beautiful temples of the World! Includes the Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar, Taktshang in Bhutan, Wat Rong Khun in Thailand, Prambanan in Indonesia, Shwedagon Pagoda in Burma, Temple of Heaven in Beijing, Chion-in in Japan, Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple in Tamil Nadu & the Angkor Wat in Cambodia.

Taktshang

Taktshang is the most famous of monasteries in Bhutan. It hangs on a cliff at 3,120 metres (10,200 feet), some 700 meters (2,300 feet) above the bottom of Paro valley, some 10 km from the district town of Paro. Famous visitors include Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal in the 17th century and Milarepa.The name means "Tiger's nest", the legend being that Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) flew there on the back of a tiger.

The monastery includes seven temples which can all be visited. The monastery suffered several blazes and is a recent restoration. Climbing to the monastery is on foot or mule.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Hazrat Maulana Syed Abdullah Bukhari passes away

Hazrat Maulana Syed Abdullah Bukhari had become the XIIth Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid in the capital. On Wednesday, 36 years later on the same date, he passed away after a prolonged illness at AIIMS. He was 87.

Born in Sambhar district of Rajasthan and educated in Delhi, Syed Abdullah Bukhari became the Naib Shahi Imam in 1946, a year before India became independent. He came into prominence in 1975, two years after being appointed Shahi Imam of the famous mosque. This was the year Emergency was declared and he opposed the then Congress government, particularly the sterilisation drive in parts of Old Delhi.

Politicians used to approach him regularly to seek his support in every election, giving him a clout which some felt he didn't command. A controversial figure, he later made up with the Congress.

Political observers recollect that he used to be in full flow during any election. He would make catchy statements, hold press conferences and even issue fatwas to make it to the headlines and prove his hold over the community. He played an active role in the Babri Masjid stir but later his appeal started to wane.

On Wednesday, several prominent personalities, including Farooq Abdullah, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Subodh Kant Sahay, cricketer-turned-MP Azharuddin and Sheila Dikshit paid tributes to him.

Sources: timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Muslim priests at Shiva temple in Kashmir


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A Lord Shiva temple situated on the banks of the icy Lidder river, a 900-year old Shiva temple is the only Hindu shrine in Kashmir valley which has Muslim priests. After the migration of Kashmiri Pandits from a nearby village, two Muslim priests - Mohmmad Abdullah and Ghulam Hassan kept the doors of the Mamalaka temple open and bells continued to toll.

"We not only took care of temple but also held ''aartis'' everyday," Ghulam Hasan told a visiting PTI correspondent here. Besides ensuring the safety of the 3-feet-long black stone "shivaling", Abdullah and Hassan have ensured no devotee goes without prasad even for a single day.

Built by Raja Jai Suria, the temple was once a must stop over for pilgrims going to the Amarnath cave shrine in South Kashmir Himalayas.

Source: in.news.yahoo.com

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