Provide more medical aid to Amarnath pilgrims, centre told |  |
- Provide more medical aid to Amarnath pilgrims, centre told
- Noida village bans tobacco sale, use
- Uddhav Thackeray to leave hospital Monday
- Woman gives birth to girl on Metro train
| Provide more medical aid to Amarnath pilgrims, centre told Posted: 23 Jul 2012 02:09 PM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) New Delhi, July 23 - The Supreme Court Monday expressed shock over the death of ten people in past three days during their pilgrimage to the cave shrine of Amarnath and directed the central government to provide immediate medical aid to the Jammu and Kashmir government. It is a very sad thing. Within three days, the toll has gone up from 87 to 97. We are worried that more people should not die, the court observed. The apex court bench of Justice V.S. Chauhan and Justice Swatanter Kumar said that the medical facilities at Baltal should be augmented and made three times of what was available at present. Expressing concern over high mortality rates, the court said: At least in this session no more deaths should take place. The court directed the Jammu and Kashmir government to take help from other states, including Chandigarh, to increase medical facilities for pilgrims. The court said that the high-power committee that was set up July 20, will visit the shrine when the yatra is on. The Supreme Court Friday set up a high-powered committee, headed by the Jammu and Kashmir governor, to study reasons for the growing number of deaths of pilgrims during the annual Amarnath Yatra. Taking suo motu cognisance of reports of the deaths of pilgrims who make the trek to the high-altitude cave shrine dedicated to Lord Shiva, Justice B.S. Chauhan and Justice Swatanter Kumar had said that the panel would visit the place to have a first hand account of the situation. The court asked Solicitor General Rohinton Nariman to assist it in the matter. Every day we hear someone dies. The high rate of mortality is undisputed, the court had said. According to the latest count, 86 people have died since the pilgrimage started June 25. Reiterating that it was a delicate matter, the court said that lakhs undertake the pilgrimage every year and there was a tremendous increase in deaths. The court noticed that the approach path leading to the shrine,... http://www.rxpgnews.com |
| Noida village bans tobacco sale, use Posted: 23 Jul 2012 12:18 AM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Noida, July 22 - In a first of its kind, a village council in this Uttar Pradesh district Sunday decided to ban sale of tobacco products in the village and fine those caught consuming them. A similar ban on alcohol is also being mulled. The panchayat in Sarfabad has asked the village residents to abstain from selling or use of tobacco. Initiated by the wrestlers of the village, the move is aimed at urging the state government to impose a blanket ban on the pattern of some other states. Over 30 shopkeepers brought their tobacco products and burnt them in a bonfire to express support for the move. Anybody found selling tobacco or its products would have to shell out Rs.1,000 as fine. Whoever is found using tobacco will be fined of Rs. 500. And we have decided to reward any person who informs us about anyone selling or using tobacco with Rs. 100. The fines will be realized by the panchayat itself, said Sukhbir Pehalwan, a wrestling coach.. The members of the panchayat would Monday hand over a memorandum to District Magistrate M.K.S. Sundaram, addressed to the state government urging it to impose the ban at the earliest. We have thought to make Sarfabad as a model village in eradicating the use of tobacco in the state. We would soon begin awareness programme in the other villages too. If government does not do anything on it, we would turn this campaign into a movement, said Subodh Yadav, an international wrestler. Though the panchayat has started the ban with tobacco, it shall soon include alcohol to prevent younger generations of the village from falling into wrong practices and worsening their health, panchayat members said. http://www.rxpgnews.com |
| Uddhav Thackeray to leave hospital Monday Posted: 22 Jul 2012 07:04 PM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Mumbai, July 22 - Two days after Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray underwent an angioplasty to remove blockages in his artery, a party leader said that his hospital stay had been extended by a day till Monday. Yes, Uddhavji will be discharged now on Monday. But we do not know the reason he is being kept in the hospital for one more day, a party official told IANS Sunday. Uddhav Thackeray's cousin and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena - chief Raj Thackeray accompanied him along with other family members. Doctors attending on Uddhav Thackeray, 51, remained tight-lipped as to why his discharge from hospital was delayed by a day. His angioplasty procedure was undertaken Friday and all three blockages in his artery were successfully removed after a surgery. He was admitted to hospital July 16 after chest pain. Sources in the MNS said that Raj Thackeray would not be able to accompany his older cousin on his way home after his discharge Monday. Raj Thackeray, who drove the Shiv Sena executive president home in his car from hospital July 16, was himself suffering from severe back pain and advised complete rest, they claimed. But MNS leaders refused to confirm or deny this. With Raj and Uddhav coming close almost six years after the younger Thackeray left the Shiv Sena to float the MNS, political analysts here have been discussing the possibilities of new permutations and combinations emerging. However, both the Shiv Sena and the MNS have dismissed any political fall-out of the two cousins coming together, insisting that it was purely out of family relations. http://www.rxpgnews.com |
| Woman gives birth to girl on Metro train Posted: 22 Jul 2012 06:36 PM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) New Delhi, July 22 - A 27-year-old woman gave birth to a baby girl on a Delhi Metro train Sunday morning. This was the first such incident on the Delhi Metro, an official said. Juli Devi, 27, was later taken to hospital by Metro officials, who said both the mother and the baby were doing well. The Faridabad woman gave birth at 7.28 a.m. as the train was approaching the Central Secretariat station. She was on her way to Safdarjung Hospital. Juli Devi, who boarded the train in Badarpur was travelling with her husband Sanjit Singh. She gave birth to a baby girl in the moving train, as it was approaching Central Secretariat station, a Metro official told IANS. The woman was in a general compartment. But being an Sunday, the compartment was virtually empty. As the incident occurred at early Sunday morning, there were only about six people in the particular coach, a metro official told IANS. As the other passengers heard Juli Devi's cries becoming more intense, they informed the driver near the Khan Market Metro station, a stop before Central Secretariat, the official said. The Metro driver informed the operation control centre - in Metro Bhawan, the headquarters of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation - on Barakhmaba Road, over phone, and they immediately arranged an ambulance and a team at the Central Secretariat Metro station within three minutes. As the train reached the station, the team rushed the mother and the new-born to Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, which was the nearest, the official said. Metro authorities also took care of all the other necessary formalities at the hospital. According to Delhi Metro, services were not affected due to the incident. The line was not halted, as the incident happened when the train reached Central Secretariat and it was the last station. The train after a halt of three to five minutes goes back to Badarpur, the official said. The official said that it was the first birth on the Delhi Metro... http://www.rxpgnews.com |
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