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Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad inspecting pace of progress on upcoming legislature complex at Srinagar on Sunday.
Two Civilians, Photo-Journalist Among Seven Killed in Kashmir Gunfights
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Srinagar May 11: Two civilians, three militants and a photo-journalist of a local English newspaper are among 7 persons killed in two separate gunfights in Kashmir.
In the first gunfight, police said that some heavily armed militants infiltrated into this side of Kashmir in the Samba sector and barged into the house of a pro-Indian leader at village, Kehli Mandi about 220 kms from Srinagar. Police said that the militants shot dead the pro-Indian leader identified as Hoshiyar Singh and his wife Sheshi Balla.
Police said that army came to know about the infiltration of militants and sealed the house where the militants were holed-up. The militants were asked to surrender. They, however, turned down the offer and fired from sophisticated weapons towards the soldiers. The fire was returned and the fierce exchange of fire between the militants and the Indian army personnel was going on,..
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'Improve relations, trade, but don't forget Kashmir'
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Islamabad May 11: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani has said that Pakistan want to have good relations with India and it want to have even better trade relations with India, but at the same time India and Pakistan should think about the point of view of the people of Kashmir.
In a special two-part interview with Karan Thapar on Devil’s Advocate. Gillani also discussed about the long-standing issue of prickly Indo-Pak relations.
Karan Thapar: Prime Minister, over the last four years, under Pervez Musharraf and Manmohan Singh, the two countries believe they have, perhaps, the best four years. How can you, as a new civilian prime minister, ensure that that momentum is continued and, in fact, relations improve? |
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"We moved ahead with both"
Political parties in past failed to maintain a balance between developmental work and resolution of Kashmir issue: Ms Mehbooba Mufti
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- Sopore May 11: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President, Ms Mehbooba Mufti today said that the day her party took over reigns of power in Jammu and Kashmir, it achieved success vis-à-vis economic progress and political stability, which people of this conflict ridden state had never witnessed during past regimes. Addressing a public meeting at Sopore, She remarked that past regimes in the State have failed to maintain a balance between the two imperatives. Ms Mufti said that there were tough challenges before her party since it came into power as the State was in financial ruins and a decade old insurgency had destroyed much of Kashmir's economy but now PDP has emerged a dominant force in Kashmiri's political spectrum.
She said that PDP played a vital role in breaking the ice over the resolution of Kashmir issue changing the status quo without challenging the sovereignty of India and Pakistan. Ms Mufti said that PDP heralded unforeseen amendments to the existing political climate of Kashmir initiataing a new era of bonhomie and a cessation to hostilities.
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No move to build road from Baltal to Cave: SASB
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Srinagar May 11: Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board today described as totally baseless a report appearing in a section of the Press that it was planning to build a road from Baltal to the Himalayan Cave Shrine of Shri Amarnathji.
'It is neither practicable nor has it ever been planned', Director Public Relations of the Board said and termed it as a figment of imagination to mislead the people. He wished that a clarification from the Board had been sought before publishing such false report.
Reacting to yet another canard reported in the Press that the Board is trying to put up a township at the Holy Cave called Amarnathnagar and the Board is also trying to change the demography of the Valley by bringing millions of pilgrims, the DPR said that the absurdity of the report about putting up a township at the Holy Cave is so obvious that it hardly calls for contradiction. As for changing the demography of the Valley, neither normal tourism nor pilgrim tourism can do so. They can only give a boost to the economy of the Valley, he added. |
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Mufti asks people to strengthen PDP for overall development and peace in the state
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Jammu May 11: Former Chief Minister and Chief Patron of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mufti Mohammed Sayeed today reiterated that the bullet for bullet was no answer for complete return of the peace and normalcy in the militancy hit state of the Jammu and Kashmir adding "in the democratic set up like our country normalcy demands dialogues"
Addressing a huge public rally held at Roop Nagar, JDA colony to welcome eminent social and political leader, Dr. Roop Lal Sharma in the party-fold, Mufti Mohd. Sayeed said that it was due to his personal perceptions and implementation of the common minimum programme of his party that truce ushered on the border and people are living peaceful life for the last three years in the state.
He said that PDP had promised with the people for initiation of the peace process with Pakistan to promote bonds of the mutual love and fraternity in both the countries, return of the task force to barracks, ending the scenario of the harassment of the innocent people and to work for the elimination of the draconian POTA Rule in the Jammu and Kashmir. All these promises made with people have almost been fulfilled by our coalition government during the last three years; he said and added that he is in the habit of calling a spade and spade. |
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NC call for peaceful Jammu Bandh.
Strongly condemned the unfortunate incident.
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Jammu May 11: In an emergent meeting held today at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhawan, Jammu under the chairmanship of Ajay Sadhtora, Provincial President Jammu province has strongly condemned the killing of four innocent civilians including Ashok Sodi, Senior Photo-journalist , Hoshiyar Singh Chairman IDP his family members and two security personnel by the militants in an encounter at Samba, besides injuring six police personnel.
The meeting resolved that National Conference identifies itself with the sentiments of the people of Jammu at this time of grief and sorrow. The meeting expresses condolences with the bereaved families and also expressed its solidarity with the press fraternity. The meeting demanded that every kith and kin of the deceased should be given Rs. 5.00 lac each and injured persons be given best possible treatment. |
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| Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (RNTCP),
Implementation and Success in Kashmir Division. |
A Report
Tuberculosis has remained worldwide public health problem and has been among the top causes of deaths in low socio- economic and lower middle income group population, these deaths can be avoided by promotion of effective interventions which exists to treat TB.
India is the second largest country in the world as per the population. Where 29% population live below the national poverty line. About 40% in the adult population of the country is estimated to be already infected with mycobacterium Tuberculosis. Recent nationwide survey showed that the annual risk of becoming infected with TB 1.5 %.once infected an individual has on an average a 10% life time risk of developing TB disease. Two of every five Indians are infected with the TB bacillus everyday and about 5000 people develop the disease and around 1000 die, about two for every three minutes, nearly 1.8 million new TB cases occur in the country out of which nearly 8 lacs are infective.
Patients with infectious pulmonary TB disease can infect 10-15 persons in a year. Poorly treated patients can develop drug resistant and potentially incurably forms of TB.
In India TB kills more adults in the most productive age group, (15-54 years) than any other infectious disease, almost 370000 die every year. Tb is estimated to take an annual economic toll from the income of poor communities. A patient of TB takes an average for 3-4 months to recuperate loosing the much income. More women in India die of TB than any other infectious disease and even more than from all other causes of women’s deaths put together. Children of parents with TB often dropout of schools to supplement the family income.
The burden of TB in India in the year 2000 was 8.5 million of which 3.8 million was bacillary pulmonary cases 3.9 million pulmonary negative and 3.8 million extra pulmonary. |
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