| Concern over delay in community healthcare Posted: 06 Aug 2011 02:08 AM PDT 
The government programme to provide healthcare at village level has run into trouble because of the delay in recruiting community healthcare providers. State minister for health Mozibur Rahman Fakir on Tuesday expressed concern at the inordinate delay in the recruitment process. Speaking at a workshop in the capital on finalising training manual for healthcare providers, he said "Written exams were conducted two months back, yet no results." The process could be delayed further as it would take a long time to hold viva for such a large number of candidates, he added. Some 13,500 community healthcare providers are to be recruited to run community clinics across the country, one for every 6,000 people. "It's our (ruling Awami League) election pledge, so we should complete the process as soon as possible to ensure healthcare at the rural level," said the junior minister. The last Awami League government had also started setting up community clinics in 1998, but the BNP-led alliance government scrapped the project. Soon after assuming power, the present government revived the initiative under a project titled "Revitalisation of Community Healthcare Initiatives in Bangladesh". Project director Makhduma Nargis said they were trying to complete the process fast, so that healthcare providers received training soon after their recruitment. "Trainings of all community healthcare providers will be completed within three months after their recruitment," she said without mentioning when the results of written exams would be announced. "There is no alternative to making community clinics functional to provide door-to- door healthcare for the common people," health minister AFM Ruhal Haque said at the function. He said community clinics would be a one stop centre for the rural people. "Maternal as well as child health must be prioritised along with emergency care at the community clinics," he said, adding that the handbook will work as a reference book for the healthcare providers. "Civil surgeons will monitor their activities like other health staff in their districts," the minister said, adding that they (civil surgeons) will get transports to carry out the job. Health secretary Humayun Kabir also stressed on training for the healthcare providers. "There is no alternative other than training to offer quality healthcare." Director general for health Khandaker Md Shefayetullah suggested specific and short handbook for the healthcare providers at community clinics. He said community clinics would help to lessen the number of patients at tertiary level hospitals. It would also work as a reference centre, he said. Currently, over 10,000 community clinics are operating across Bangladesh in limited scale. Construction of some 1,200 clinics is in progress while some 1,576 community clinics will be built in 2011-2012, it was learnt. |
| Malaika, Eesha and Shraddha at IIJW 2011 Posted: 06 Aug 2011 02:01 AM PDT 
 International Jewellery Week 2011 has successfully completed four glamorous and glittering days with several Bollywood beauties grace the ramp with their style and poise. On the fourth day of the event, Malaika Arora, Shraddha Kapoor and Eesha Koppikar set the ramp afire with their sensuous looks. While Malaika and Eesha went for red, Shraddha walked in pristine white and orange creation, designed by Manish Malhotra. Malaika Arora was the showstopper for Bridhichand Ghanshyamdas Jewellers and was attired in a red off-shoulder gown accessorized with a kundan necklace with ruby floral centre along with matching cuffs and earrings. Opting for a traditional look in orange and white, Shraddha matched her outfit with a dazzling diamond choker and rows of precious stones clasped with diamond and ruby pendants on either side. Eesha Koppikar opted for a bridal look. |
| All stakeholders to be taken on-board: Gilani India not involved in Karachi situationAll stakeholders to be taken on-board: Gilani India not involved in Karachi situation Posted: 06 Aug 2011 01:58 AM PDT 
Multan—Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani on Friday said that the government would take on board all the stakeholders regarding the issue of new provinces, adding that calls for creating new provinces have been growing louder with politicians and activists demanding provincial status for Bahawalpur, Hazara and Saraiki belt. He said PPP's manifesto committee was deliberating the issue of new provinces. Addressing a press conference in Multan, Prime Minister Gilani said law and order situation in Karachi and Balochistan were essentially different. He expressed hope that peace would be restored in Karachi and said Pakistan's security issues had an inextricable link with the conflict in Afghanistan. He said India was not involved in Karachi situation. Prime Minister Gilani said all economic indicators are positive due to the prudent economic policies of the government .He said the foreign exchange reserves have rose to eighteen point three zero billions dollars and the export volume has reached to twenty six billion dollars. PM Gilani said consultations over Saraiki province were underway and a final decision in this regard would be made by Pakistan People's Party (PPP) advisory Committee |
| BNP grass roots want Khaleda’s tour Posted: 05 Aug 2011 11:47 PM PDT 
Grassroots leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party want Chairper- son Khaleda Zia to extensively tour all organisational districts and rural Bangladesh to motivate people to join the party's oust-government movement. They also feel that the main opposition party should revamp its organisational activities, including restructuring of its committees, before launching the impending movement. They conveyed their thoughts and grievances to the central leaders visiting 75 organisational districts of the party recently to mobilise opinions of people and party men in favour of a stronger BNP, party insiders told daily sun. The front-ranking leaders of BNP admitted that the party is yet to fully overcome the hangover of the debacle in 2008 elections following repression of the leaders by the then military- controlled caretaker government. Khaleda, in touch with like- minded political parties during Ramadan through iftar parties, is likely to go for massive agitation after Eid-ul-Fitr. In June and July, a total of 19 subcommittees, headed by a party standing committee member and two vice-chairmen each, visited the 75 organisational districts to mobilise public support against scrapping of the caretaker government system. A key objective of the tours was to reduce the gap between the party central and the grassroots level as well as removing intra-party feuds. Leaders of all tiers expressed frustration regarding the organisational condition of the party and said the party chairperson's tour is necessary to make leaders remove all sorts of constraints. They claimed that the tours were successful although not up to the mark. BNP Standing Committee member Hannan Shah said the tour was not much effective as there are huge differences of opinions in different districts. "I did not see any corrective measure taken yet. We senior leaders went to different districts to remove organisational weaknesses and submitted our reports. But the tour was not up to the mark," Hannan said. Hannan Shah will go to Chittagong on 10 August and Sylhet the next day to resolve organisational crisis there. Abdus Salam, member secretary of the Dhaka unit of BNP, said there was a time constraint for which leaders did not get enough time to address all problems. The financial secretary of the party, Salam said they are trying to finalise the committees for Dhaka city units, announcing committees of different wards almost every day. Nazrul Islam Khan, another standing committee member of the BNP, said their tours were successful but not as per their expectations. "Our organisational capacity is gradually improving. It will take some more time to gain its full strength," he said. Ruhul Quddus Talukder Dulu, a mid-ranking but influential leader of the BNP, also said the district level of the party still has some weaknesses because of a lack of efficient leaders. "People are upset with the government's misdeeds and they are now looking for a change. But to mobilise the grassroots leaders and workers Khaleda Zia's district tour is a must," he said. Dulu said the grassroots leaders complained that ad-hoc committees were formed through party council whereas the same was not followed for making the fully-fledged committees. "Fully-fledged committees should also be formed through council to bring up efficient and tested leaders to lead the upcoming anti-government movement," Dulu added. Abdus Salam, president of Habirbari union unit in Mymensingh, said intra-party feud will always be there as everyone wishes to come to power. "The central leaders' district tours were not that much successful as they failed to resolve the distance between the workers and the district leaders. District leaders still maintain a gap with the grassroots leaders," the grassroots leader said. He also said if party Chairperson Khaleda Zia visits the country and sits with the leaders, the party will regain its full strength. |
| 'China officials seized, sold babies' Posted: 05 Aug 2011 10:32 PM PDT 
LONGHUI COUNTY (China): Many parents and grandparents in this mountainous region of terraced rice and sweet potato fields have long known to grab their babies and find the nearest hiding place whenever family planning officials show up. Too many infants, they say, have been snatched by officials, never to be seen again. But Yuan Xinquan was caught by surprise one December morning in 2005. Then a new father at the age of 19, Mr. Yuan was holding his 52-day-old daughter at a bus stop when a half-dozen men sprang from a white government van and demanded his marriage certificate. He did not have one. Both he and his daughter's mother were below the legal age for marriage. Nor did he have 6,000 renminbi, then about $745, to pay the fine he said they demanded if he wanted to keep his child. He was left with a plastic bag holding her baby clothes and some powdered formula. "They are pirates," he said last month in an interview at his home, a half-hour trek up a narrow mountain path between terraced rice paddies. Nearly six years later, he said, he still hopes to relay a message to his daughter: "Please come home as soon as possible." Mr. Yuan's daughter was among at least 16 children who were seized by family planning officials between 1999 and late 2006 in Longhui County, an impoverished rural area in Hunan, a southern Chinese province, parents, grandparents and other residents said in interviews last month. The abduction of children is a continuing problem in China, where a lingering preference for boys coupled with strict controls on the number of births have helped create a lucrative black market in children. Just last week, the police announced that they had rescued 89 babies from child traffickers, and the deputy director of the Public Security Ministry assailed what he called the practice of "buying and selling children in this country." But parents in Longhui say that in their case, it was local government officials who treated babies as a source of revenue, routinely imposing fines of $1,000 or more — five times as much as an average local family's yearly income. If parents could not pay the fines, the babies were illegally taken from their families and often put up for adoption by foreigners, another big source of revenue. The practice in Longhui came to an end in 2006, parents said, only after an 8-month-old boy fell from the second-floor balcony of a local family planning office as officials tried to pluck him from his mother's arms. Despite a few news reports outside the Chinese mainland about government-sanctioned kidnappings in Longhui and other regions, China's state-controlled media ignored or suppressed the news until this May, when Caixin, an intrepid Chinese magazine well known for unusually bold investigations, reported the abductions and prompted an official inquiry. Zeng Dingbao, who leads the Inspection Bureau in Shaoyang, the city that administers Longhui County, has promised a diligent investigation. But signs point to a whitewash. In June, he told People's Daily Online, the Web version of the Communist Party's official newspaper, that the situation "really isn't the way the media reported it to be, with infants being bought and sold." Rather than helping trace and recover seized children, parents say, the authorities are punishing those who speak out. Two of the most vocal fathers were detained for 15 days in Shaoyang on charges of soliciting prostitutes at a brothel. Released last month, the two men, Yang Libing, 47, and Zhou Yinghe, 34, said they had been entrapped. Mr. Yang said he was constantly followed by government minders. Mr. Zhou said the village party secretary had warned him to stop talking to reporters about the abduction of his 3-month-old daughter in March 2003 or face more punishment. "They are like organized criminals," Mr. Zhou said. China's family planning policies, while among the strictest in the world, ban the confiscation of children from parents who exceed birth quotas, and abuses on the scale of those in Shaoyang are far less common today than they once were. Even so, critics say the powers handed to local officials under national family planning regulations remain excessive and ripe for exploitation. "The larger issue is that the one-child policy is so extreme that it emboldened local officials to act so inhumanely," said Wang Feng, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who directs the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy in Beijing. The scandal also has renewed questions about whether Americans and other foreigners have adopted Chinese children who were falsely depicted as abandoned or orphaned. At least one American adoption agency organized adoptions from the government-run Shaoyang orphanage. Lillian Zhang, the director of China Adoption With Love, based in Boston, said by telephone last month that the agency had found adoptive parents in 2006 for six Shaoyang children — all girls, all renamed Shao, after the city. The Chinese authorities certified in each case that the child was eligible for adoption, she said, and her agency cannot now independently investigate their backgrounds without a specific request backed by evidence. "I'm an adoption agency, not a policeman," Ms. Zhang said. The Shaoyang welfare agency's orphanage is required to post a notice of each newly received child for 60 days in Hunan Daily, a newspaper delivered only to subscribers in Longhui County. Unclaimed children are renamed with the surname Shao and approved for adoption. Foreign parents who adopt must donate about $5,400 to the orphanage. Reports that family planning officials stole children, beat parents, forcibly sterilized mothers and destroyed families' homes sowed a quiet terror through parts of Longhui County in the first half of the past decade. The casualties of that terror remain suffused with heartbreak and rage years later. Yang Libing, one of the two fathers accused of soliciting prostitutes, said he was a migrant worker in the southern city of Shenzhen when his firstborn, Yang Ling, was stolen from his parents' home in May 2005 when she was 9 months old. Family planning officials apparently spotted Yang Ling's clothes hung to dry outside the family's mud-brick home. Her grandmother tried to hide her in a pigsty, but the grandfather, Yang Qinzheng, a Communist Party member and a former soldier, bade her to come out. "I don't disobey," he said last month. "I do what the officials say." Yang Ling's parents had not registered their marriage. To keep the baby, the officials said, the elder Mr. Yang would have to pay nearly $1,000, on the spot. Otherwise, they said, he would have to sign away the girl with a false affidavit stating that he was not her biological grandfather. "I was totally outraged," he said, but "I did not have the courage to resist. They do not play by the rules." He signed the document. Yang Libing discovered the loss of his daughter during his monthly telephone call home from a pay phone on a Shenzhen street. "Is she behaving?" he asked cheerily. The answer, he said, made him physically sick. After racing home, he said, he begged family planning officials to let him pay the fine. They said it was too late. When he protested, he said, a group of more than 10 men beat him. Afterward, the office director offered a compromise: although their daughter was gone forever, the Yangs would be allowed to conceive two more children. "I can't even describe my hatred of those family planning officials," Mr. Yang said. "I hate them to my bones. I wonder if they are parents, too. Why don't they treat us as humans?" Asked whether he was still searching for his daughter, he replied: "Of course! This is not a chicken. This is not a dog. This is my child." Hu Shelian, 46, another anguished victim, gave birth to a second daughter in 1998. Even though family planning specialists said couples in her area were allowed a second child if the first was a girl, she said family planning officials broke her windows and took her television as punishment. After she had a third daughter the following year, they levied a whopping fine of nearly $5,000. When she pleaded poverty, she said, four officials snatched her newborn from her arms, muscled her into a car and drove her to the county hospital for a forced tubal ligation. Her baby disappeared into the bowels of the Shaoyang orphanage. Xiong Chao escaped that fate. Villagers say he was the last baby that officials tried to snatch, and one of the few returned home. Now, six years later, his 63- year-old grandmother, Dai Yulin, patiently scrawls blue and white chalk numerals on her concrete wall hoping — in vain — that Chao will learn them. "He has been to primary school for a whole year," she said, "and he still cannot recognize one and two." Nearby is the tiny, dark room where, she said, she tried and failed in September 2006 to hide Chao from family planning officials. He was 8 months old, her son's second child. Officials demanded nearly $1,000, then took him away when she could not pay. His mother, Du Chunhua, rushed to the family planning office to protest. There, as she struggled with two officials on the second-floor balcony, she said, the baby slipped from her grasp and fell more than 10 feet, to the pavement below. Later, she said, as the baby lay in a coma in the hospital, his forehead permanently misshapen, officials offered a deal: they would forget about the fine as long as the family covered the medical bills for Chao. Also, they said, the Xiongs could keep him. Edy Yin, Shao Heng and Shi Da contributed research from Beijing. |
| Ajay Devgn, Salman Khan, Aamir Khan: The Billion- Dollar club Posted: 05 Aug 2011 10:29 PM PDT 
Ajay, Sallu, Aamir: Billion-Dollar club Aamir Khan, Salman Khan and Ajay Devgn are the only Bollywood actors in the exclusive billion-dollar club. Their films 3 Idiots, Ghajini, Ready, Dabangg and Golmaal 3 are the only ones to have done business of over Rs 100 crore in the domestic market. In fact, Aamir's 3 Idiots is the highest Bollywood earner of all time. Salman's Dabangg and Ready are in the number 2 and 3 slot respectively. Ajay is next with Golmaal 3, and his Singham continues to roar, showing signs of setting second and third week records. Another trade analyst Vajir Singh says, "Going by the extraordinary opening at single screens and a good opening at multiplexes, Singham will cross the 100-crore mark soon." Says Devgn, "It feels great to have two films on the list of the biggest earners in Hindi cinema...that too through Golmaal 3 and Singham! It's unreal — much more than what we had hoped for. The flipside is that with great success comes a lot of pressure about your next film. Also, the success quotient changes every Friday. Today, it is my day; tomorrow it will be somebody else's. After 20 years of success and failure, it doesn't change or excite me much. Now I just try and make the audience happy. I am sure Salman and Aamir feel the same way." Aamir, who has two superhit films (Ghajini and 3 Idiots), adds, "While I am very happy with the monetary success of both films, I have to confess that merely monetary success does not excite me. I think that films like Taare Zameen Par, Lagaan, Rang De Basanti, Dhobi Ghat, etc., enrich our emotions, and have the ability to create a very positive, inspirational, happy and moving impact on us. What excites me is to be part of this life-changing experience for people and society. I thank my directors and writers for that." Dabangg producer Arbaaz Khan says, "Salman enjoyed doing the films and the right music, action, characters and script worked for the films. But the business module is changing today along with a growing number of prints, theatres and multiplexes. What is a benchmark today will change with the economics of the business." SRK to produce a reality show |
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| Obama talks to European leaders on eurozone crisis Posted: 05 Aug 2011 02:54 PM PDT 
WASHINGTON: The White House says President Barack Obama has spoken separately by phone with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel about developments in Europe's economic crisis. In the calls, Obama welcomed the continued leadership of Sarkozy and Merkel in addressing the challenges facing countries in Europe that use the euro as a common currency. The calls came after Italy promised to push for a constitutional amendment requiring the government to balance its budget as Rome sought to assure investors its finances are sound. Worries are spreading across the Eurozone that Italy may follow Greece, Ireland and Portugal in seeking financial help. The White House says Obama also discussed violence in Syria with Merkel and Sarkozy. |
| Papia, two other lawyers arrestedPapia, two other lawyers arrested Posted: 05 Aug 2011 10:26 AM PDT 
Three pro-BNP lawyers, including lawmaker Syeda Asifa Ashrafi Papia, were arrested on Thursday for obstructing the work of police at the High Court during a hearing of a contempt petition on Tuesday. Papia, Towhidul Islam and barrister Abu Bakar Siddique were arrested after the High Court felt embarrassed to hear bail petitions filed by 13 pro-BNP lawyers who had been sued following the courtroom incident. Papia and Towhid are accused in the case. The pro-BNP lawyers caused chaos and engaged in violence in courtroom during Tuesday's hearing against Fazlul Haque Amini, chief of a faction of Islami Oikya Jote, for making a derogatory statement on the constitution. A joint force of Shahbagh police and the Detective Branch held the three around 3:00pm from Bangladesh Bar Council area in Shahbagh. On Tuesday, lawyers supporting BNP resorted to violent protest inside courtroom, hurling abuses and objects at judges, as the HC said the statements of Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia and Amini on the constitution are tantamount to sedition. BNP lawmaker Papia allegedly threw an object at the judges. The pro-BNP lawyers also allegedly assaulted a few policemen near the courtroom. Shahbagh police filed the case against 14 lawyers and some 15 unidentified others on Tuesday night. The accused in the case are Asifa Ashrafi Papia, Gazi Kamrul Islam Sajal, Shahiduzzaman, Mirza Al Mahmud, Sharif Uddin Ahmed, Abdullah Al Mahmud, Enamul Hossain Gaffar, MU Ahmed, Mohammad Ali, Md Ashrafuzzaman Khan, Towhidul Islam, Golam Nobi, Mahamudul Arefin Swapan and Rezwan Ahmed. On Wednesday, the High Court issued a rule as to why the certificates of 13 lawyers will not be cancelled for their involvement in creating chaos inside courtroom. The Bar Council of Bangladesh and the accused lawyers have been asked to respond to the ruling within 14 August. According to the HC order, the lawyers concerned will not be able to practise law in any court of Bangladesh until the rule is disposed of. On Thursday, all the accused lawyers, except Rezwan Ahmed, appeared before the court and moved a petition for anticipatory bail. |
| Kareena and Priyanka to come together for SRK Posted: 05 Aug 2011 09:10 AM PDT 
 SRK has once again managed to do something which only he can do. Yes, he is bringing together arch rivals Kareena Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra on stage to perform with him at an Eid event in Dubai. Together would be music maestros Hariharan and Shankar Mahadevan. This five day long event in Dubai will have everything for entertainment right from adventure sports, shopping to leisure activities. Priyanka Chopra and Kareena Kapoor are known for their ugly spats and catfights. In fact, the two actresses never share formal greetings with each other at award functions or other events. However, they have agreed to come together this time as both of them are awaiting the release of their mega projects- Kareena Kapoor in Ra.One and Priyanka Chopra in Don 2. Further, when it comes to King Khan, not many can dare to refuse him!! Bangla HTML learning book free download |
| Malaika, Eesha and Shraddha at IIJW 2011 Posted: 05 Aug 2011 08:24 AM PDT 
 International Jewellery Week 2011 has successfully completed four glamorous and glittering days with several Bollywood beauties grace the ramp with their style and poise. On the fourth day of the event, Malaika Arora, Shraddha Kapoor and Eesha Koppikar set the ramp afire with their sensuous looks. While Malaika and Eesha went for red, Shraddha walked in pristine white and orange creation, designed by Manish Malhotra. Malaika Arora was the showstopper for Bridhichand Ghanshyamdas Jewellers and was attired in a red off-shoulder gown accessorized with a kundan necklace with ruby floral centre along with matching cuffs and earrings. Opting for a traditional look in orange and white, Shraddha matched her outfit with a dazzling diamond choker and rows of precious stones clasped with diamond and ruby pendants on either side. Eesha Koppikar opted for a bridal look. Check out the gorgeous ladies on ramp for IIJW……. |
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