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officers go on strike New Delhi, December 16 Thousands of telecom officers today launched a countrywide indefinite stir which was likely to hit telephone services. The strike was “launched against the failure of the government in fulfilling the promises it made at the time of the formation of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL),” Indian Telecom Services Association (ITSA) president A.K. Mittal said. Shakila sings into
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Vijay Divas celebrated New Delhi, December 16 It was on this day in 1971 that Lieut-Gen A.K. Niazi, Commander of the Eastern Command of Pakistan, had signed the instrument of surrender and Lieut-Gen Jagjit Singh Aurora, the GOC-in-C, Eastern Command, accepted the surrender. Mr Fernandes, Chief of the Army Staff Gen S. Padmanabhan, Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal S Krishnaswamy and Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Madhvendra Singh visited the Amar Jawan Jyoti at India Gate and placed wreaths in memory of unknown soldiers. In Kolkata, a defence wing communique said the GOC-in-C, Eastern Command Lieut-General J.S. Varma placed a wreath at Vijay Smarak. At a function in Siliguri, Major- Gen S. Ghose officiating GOC 33 Corps, said the Army, 10 BSF and the state police forces were sharing intelligence and working jointly against the ISI activities. Referring to the position in the western sector he said infiltration had come down to a great extent. In Tripura, the Governor Lieut-Gen K.M. Seth (retd) laid wreaths at a war memorial. Vijay Divas was also marked at the Bangladesh mission in the state. The head of the mission hoisted the Bangladesh national flag at a simple ceremony. At a function in Shillong, a wreath-laying ceremony was held at the war memorial near the Garrison ground. Air Vice-Marshal H.A. Garkal, senior officer in charge of administration, Eastern Air Command, laid a wreath on behalf of the Air Force, while Brig S K Budhwar, Station Commander, Shillong, laid a wreath on behalf of the Army. In Jalandhar, Lieut-Gen K. Nagaraj laid a wreath at Vajra Corps War Memorial. A guard of honour was also presented on the occasion. In Mumbai, senior officers of the Army remembered the contribution of the brave soldiers. It was also marked in Pune, Nagpur, Kolhapur and Nashik. In Bangalore, a wreath-laying ceremony was held at the War Memorial at the Headquarters Training Command, IAF. In Chennai, at a solemn ceremony at the War Memorial, senior officers and ex-servicemen paid homage to the martyrs by placing a wreath at the War Memorial as buglers sounded the last post. Major-Gen A.S. Jamwal announced two new schemes, setting up of medical clinics at ex-servicemen canteen on a non-profit basis and the “serving soldiers separated family welfare scheme’’ for families of soldiers in the border areas. At Dharamsala in Himachal, a function was organised at Saheed Smarak. Transport Minister Kishan Kapoor paid floral tributes to the martyrs of Himachal Pradesh. A two-minute silence was observed. At Gurdaspur, a function was organised at Shaheedi Chowk by the district administration, Army officials and ex-servicemen. Contingents of the NCC lead by a military band saluted the martyrs. |
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Organ donations give life to 12
New Delhi, December 16 Terming it as a “unique feat’’, doctors who coordinated the transplants over the weekend said getting two multiple organ donors on two consecutive days was rare. The Organ Retrieval Bank Organisation (ORBO), which was launched earlier this year at the All- India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to network Delhi hospitals for organ donations, coordinated the transplantation, which were carried out at the AIIMS, Apollo and Army Research and Referral Hospital here. “We got two multiple organ donors on Friday and Saturday. They donated their eyes, heart, liver and kidneys, which helped 12 persons get a new lease of life. Generally, such multiple organ donors become available once a month or two months. It was a rare occurrence that we got two cadavor donors within such a short span of time,’’ said Dr Arti Viz, Assistant Prof, Hospital Administration, assisting eminent cardiologist Prof O. Venugopal in running the ORBO. Two kidneys, two hearts and one liver were transplanted to five patients at the AIIMS while four corneas were transplanted at Rajendra Prasad Eye Centre at the AIIMS. Two kidneys were transplanted at the Army hospital while one liver was transplanted at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, she said, adding that all organ recipients were doing fine. All these transplantations were carried out within three hours of the persons being pronounced brain dead. Both cadaver donors were young healthy individuals who had sustained head injuries in road accidents and were admitted to the neurosurgery department of the AIIMS. “The entire operation was very swift being carried out within three hours. It was the result of cumulative cooperation and coordination between the doctors treating the patients, ORBO officials and hospitals which were members of the network. The neurosurgeons — Dr A.K. Mahpatra and Dr S.S. Kale —who were treating the patients, did the difficult job of not only telling the relatives about the brain death, but also convinced them about the organ donation,’’ Dr Viz said. She said the neurosurgeons immediately informed the ORBO, which maintains a waiting list of patients needing organs, and the latter contacted the respective hospitals about the availability of organs for donation. These hospitals immediately sent their teams for organ retrieval and transplantation was carried out fast without any damage to the organs.
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rebuffs India New Delhi, December 16 The political and diplomatic fallout of the Bangladeshi move is immense because Begum Zia’s government’s rebuff to India comes at a time when top functionaries of the Vajpayee government, including Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani and External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha, have openly expressed concern about Bangladesh becoming a hub of the activities of Islamic fundamentalists, Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and even Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaida. While the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) chose to remain tightlipped on Dhaka deferring the December 20-23 CII Made-in-India exhibition, Head of CII (International), Mr Piyush Bahl, told The Tribune today that the Bangladesh Government had formally conveyed its unilateral decision of postponing the event without giving any fresh dates. Mr Bahl said the Ministry of Commerce of Bangladesh had written to the Indian High Commission in Dhaka, saying the government was postponing the event in view of “security considerations”. As many as 125 Indian companies, a large number of them from Punjab, were to participate in the event. |
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Telecom officers go on strike New Delhi, December 16 The strike was “launched against the failure of the government in fulfilling the promises it made at the time of the formation of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL),” Indian Telecom Services Association (ITSA) president A.K. Mittal said. He said after two years, no financial package had been worked out although the BSNL continued to incur heavy losses by investing in loss-making rural and semi-urban telephone lines. Mr Mittal said this agitation programme initially would be confined to the state capitals and Delhi. However, ITSA had decided that its members would work for two hours extra in the evening after normal office hours. During formation of the BSNL, the issue of corporatisation was sorted out with Cabinet intervention and assurances were given that a suitable financial package to the BSNL would be granted to compensate for the socially desirable projects and on various other issues of financial viability. “Two years down the line, even navratna status and accompanying autonomy is elusive,” Mr Mittal said.
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Shakila
sings into eternity Mumbai, December 16 Shakila, who brought fame to her home town Bhopal, had been brought to the hospital 10 days ago in a state of coma and had been suffering from low calcium, low sugar and frequent discharge of blood, the sources said. Shakila had earlier undergone treatment for a couple of months at the hospital. For Shakila, who fought the veiled barrier and barged into a predominantly male bastion to wrest the title of the Queen of Qawali, the journey to fame was by no means an easy one. Born on June 27, 1942, in Bhopal, Shakila earned fame as a singer by performing all over the world and had last performed in 1998 in Shimla and Dharamsala. She performed in countries, including the USA, the UK, Canada and the UAE. Shakila, who has composed her collection of poems called “Ek Ghazal Aur”, had sung in more than 80 Hindi movies. ‘Milte hi nazar tumse, hum ho gayey deewane’ “Ustadon ke Ustad” and ‘Peeney waley meri aankhon se piya karte hain’ “Gunda” were among her famous qawalis. Several songs such as ‘Reshmi salwar kurta jaali ka,’ ‘Aaj ki taaza khabar’ and ‘yamma yamma yeh khubsurat samaan’ became chart busters only after Shakila sung them on stage. Shakila, a spinster, is survived by her brother and one sister. It was Shakila who transformed the face of qawali singing. From a musical performance where a lone singer accompanied by two musicians and two others to clap their hands in rhythm, Shakila made it a glamorous affair by roping in a team of musicians, using flamboyant mannerisms, dances and ostentatious hall decorations. It was her chaste Urdu, her flamboyant mannerism coupled with her singing that drew people to her qawali functions. At one time, people would wait with bated breath for her favourite song “Sehar ka waqt hai aur jaam mai sharaab nahi”, when she would break a glass on stage with style and elan.
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