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- Sarabjit’s Family seeks blessings at Ajmer Sharif
- Hundreds of Pakistani soldiers buried in Siachen avalanche
- Man divorces wife for using Breast Enhancement Gel
- Shami Imam Bukhari asks Mulayam to cancel his Son-in-law’s Ticket
- Is India’s West Coast getting poisonous ?
| Sarabjit’s Family seeks blessings at Ajmer Sharif Posted: 07 Apr 2012 03:05 PM PDT
“Blessings of Khawajaji brings president of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari to the dargah Sharif and I am hopeful and confident that my brother jailed in Pakistan for the last 22 years will also be fortunate to have the same blessings of Khawajaji,” Singh’s sister Dalbir Kaur said. Sarabjit’s daughter Swapandeep was also present on the occasion. Kaur said Benazir Bhutto had visited dargah and prayed for the release of her husband Zardari years ago and then when he was released, they had come here to thank Khawajaji. “Now I also pray from Khawajaji to get my brother released from a Pakistan jail where he is lodged for the last 22 years and I will also come here again with my brother,” Kaur said. Around 2,000 security personnel, including sharpshooters from the elite National Security Guards, will keep a tight vigil on the national capital during Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari’s visit tomorrow. Zardari will land in Delhi tomorrow morning and head to Prime Minister Manohan Singh’s official residence where the two leaders will have a one-on-one meeting followed by lunch. From there, he will leave for Ajmer. A senior police official said elaborate security arrangements have been made and security personnel have been deployed on the route from the airport to the Prime Minister’s residence. Sharpshooters will be deployed on the high-rises on the route, he said. |
| Hundreds of Pakistani soldiers buried in Siachen avalanche Posted: 07 Apr 2012 05:34 AM PDT At least 100 Pakistani soldiers were buried Saturday in an avalanche in Kashmir’s Siachen region, the Pakistani army said. The avalanche hit a military camp near the Siachen glacier in the Karakoram branch of the Himalayas where thousands of Pakistani and Indian troops confront each other. BBC, quoting Pakistan army spokesman Major General Athar Abbas, reported that some bodies had been recovered. But Abbas did not say how many troops survived the avalanche. Expressing his shock over the loss of lives of soldiers of the Pakistan Army, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said the incident in no way would undermine the high morale of soldiers and officers, the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) reported. Gilani was in constant contact with the authorities concerned regarding the rescue operation, the news agency said. Earlier, local media reports in Pakistan said the incident took place at around 6 a.m. Saturday when an avalanche hit an army camp on Siachen Glacier, the second longest glacier in a non-polar area, Xinhua reported. Some reports suggested that as many as 130 soldiers were buried under the avalanche, which struck the base in Gayari district. The troops are from the Northern Light Infantry regiment, BBC reported. The Pakistani military says its “priority is to save lives”, and helicopters, sniffer dogs and troops have been sent to the area to help with the rescue. Maj Gen Abbas said it was too early to say how many of the soldiers had survived the avalanche. According to state-run PTV, the buried include a battalion commander. Weather conditions in the area are said to be good. The Siachen glacier is known as the world’s highest battlefield with soldiers deployed at elevations of up to 6,700 metres. |
| Man divorces wife for using Breast Enhancement Gel Posted: 07 Apr 2012 05:30 AM PDT China: A man in China has divorced his wife for using a breast enhancement gel while blaming her steroid injections for causing their daughter’s cerebral palsy, a disorder that can involve brain and nervous system functions. Zhou Shaoping, 40, from Anhui province, said she spent 5,000 yuan (about $750) having the product Amazingel injected in 2003 at a clinic, reported the China Daily citing Guangzhou Daily. After being divorced by her husband, she said she had thought having bigger breasts could gain her more attention from men. |
| Shami Imam Bukhari asks Mulayam to cancel his Son-in-law’s Ticket Posted: 07 Apr 2012 12:06 AM PDT The Shahi Imam of Delhi’s Jama Masjid, Syed Ahmed Bukhari, Friday asked Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav to revoke the legislative council ticket of his son-in-law Umar Khan. Accusing the Samajwadi Party of not paying enough heed to Muslims, Bukhari, in a one-page letter, also slammed senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan for his “unsavoury remarks”. Pointing out that he had not sought any ticket for his son-in-law, Bukhari asked Mulayam Singh Yadav to “seriously and honestly work for the welfare of Muslims instead”. He also said that he had asked for a Rajya Sabha ticket for Yahya, his brother, but Mulayam Yadav had not paid any heed to the request. Azam Khan and Imam Bukhari have been at daggers drawn for years and the former has always been opposed to mixing religion with politics. After Mulayam Singh gave a ticket to Bukhari’s son-in-law Thursday, Azam Khan had commented: “Religious people should not be rewarded by the party.” Having fallen out a few years back, Bukhari and Mulayam Yadav had patched up in the run up to the state elections. Bukhari appealed to Muslims in Uttar Pradesh to support the Samajwadi Party. |
| Is India’s West Coast getting poisonous ? Posted: 06 Apr 2012 11:53 PM PDT
In the past couple of months alone, over a dozen dead dolphins, usually seen frolicking in the calm blue-green Konkan coast waters, washed up on different virgin beaches in the region. Conservationists suspect chemical or oil poisoning. “All these instances are not natural. There’s something more serious than we are aware of and it needs a detailed probe,” said a visibly disturbed Vishwas (Bhau) Katdare, who is spearheading conservation efforts for turtles, vultures and other animals in the Konkan through the NGO Sahyadri Nisarg Mitra (SNM). At times, a turtle or a huge fish may get entangled in the thousands of fishing nets cast off the coasts, Katdare told IANS. “Most of them are saved as the fishermen disentangle them and release them back into the sea and hardly one or two of the unlucky ones may succumb. We get one or two such instances in a month,” Katdare explained. But the alarm bells rang when in late March, a dozen big and small Olive Ridley turtles were found dead on various Konkan beaches. This was in addition to over five dozen turtles of different varieties being reported dead on Konkan beaches, right from Ratnagiri to Thane, in the past month or so. A shocking incident was reported Friday from Velas in Ratnagiri district by a school teacher and an amateur conservationist, Mohan Upadhye. “I had taken my two pet dogs to the beach for their morning walk. There, out of curiosity, they happened to lick a carcass of a turtle lying on the beach. Around three hours later, they both mysteriously died at my home. I have no clue as to what happened,” Upadhye told IANS. Last month, at least two full-grown cows which had strayed on the beaches in Shriwardhan and Dive-agar had unwittingly licked turtle carcasses and fell dead after a few hours in the village, Upadhye said. Expressing outrage, Himanshu Shah, director, Nature and Adventure Centre of the prestigious Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in Mumbai, said, “This reeks of chemical or oil poisoning. “In the past few years, Mumbai and surrounding coasts have witnessed many sunken ships, oil spills and other forms of assaults by humans on nature. This could be one of the reasons for the large number of sea animal deaths on beaches and a warning that we cannot continue to tamper with the natural surroundings,” Shah said. Katdare said SNM has already informed the authorities about the ongoing developments in the Konkan region and if necessary, he plans to write to the state and central governments on the issue. “The worst aspect is that the scientific autopsies of these dead creatures are not being carried out to ascertain what could have caused so many deaths in such a short period, whether it is pollution or chemical poisoning or some other reasons,” Katdare pointed out. He said it was ironical that just as SNM and Kirat Trust had been successively involved in saving hundreds of turtle hatchlings since December 2011-March 2012, these were now dying on the beaches. “In the past 10 years, we have managed to save over 35,000 turtle eggs from natural and human predators here and released them safely into the Arabian Sea,” Katdare said. The Konkan is one of the biggest nesting grounds for Olive Ridley, sea green and other giant and small turtles in the world, and the annual turtle festivals attract tourists and conservationists from all over the world here. Shah called upon the Ministry of Environment and Forests, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board, the Indian Coast Guard, Marine Police and other agencies as well as the fisherfolk to take immediate steps to ensure that ships sailing in and around the Konkan region do not discharge chemical wastes, hazardous pollutants or leak oils in the Arabian Sea. “Currently, it is these mute and innocent sea animals. The next on the list could be humans,” Shah warned. |
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