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Power-lifting championships 2003:
Sujatha D'Souza awarded the 'Karavali Baladye'
Mangalore, January 7: Sujatha D`Souza, young Konkani girl from Mangalore won the prestigious 'Karavali Baladye' award for her outstanding performance in 67.5 Kgs Power Lifting competition.
The South Kanara and Udupi districts power lifting championships
were held at Koolur here on Sunday. Jaganath Kahrvi won in 90 KG Class,
Ananth Achar won the 82.5 KG Class, Vijeth Suvarna won 100 KG Class, Suhan
Karkera won 110 KG Class, and Devi Daya Shetty won 125 KG Class,
respectively.
In women's category, Kusuma - 48 KG, 52 KG - Keerthi, 56 KG - Soujanya, 60
KG Sujatha D'Souza, 67.5 KG - Ashwini, and 75 KG Hemalatha respectively.
Ramachandra Ganiga was awarded the Karavali Baladya and Sujatha D'Souza
was awarded the Karavali Baladye.
Tests to protect
children from pollution
Mangalore, January 7:
Air pollution caused by vehicular emissions is being taken as a serious
health hazard for children in South Kanara. Towards reducing the risk, the
district administration has organised tests for determining the lead
content in the bloodstream of 100 schoolchildren. The Deputy Commissioner,
A K Monnappa, disclosed this here on Monday while presiding over the
inaugural ceremony of the Road Safety Week organised by the Regional
Transport Office and the district police.
He said the district administration, in association with St. John's
Medical College, Bangalore, and the Karnataka State Pollution Control
Board, would conduct the tests on an experimental basis in the city
corporation Limits. This would determine if the ambient air quality in the
city was healthy. The RTO and the police had been directed to train its
officials in detecting air pollution with experiential inputs from the
board.
Monnappa said owing to the high vehicle density, the roads and
traffic-related infrastructure in the city were being found inadequate.
Pedestrian safety had been severely affected. To overcome the problem,
funds were being received for road improvement from the Government. He
appealed to corporates and social organisations to take up development
work.
The Superintendent of Police, Seemanth Kumar Singh, expressed concern over
the worsening traffic conditions in the city. He sought public cooperation
for proper traffic management. Police were planning to hold traffic
awareness programmes with participation from transport trade organisations,
social service clubs, and other organisations. Singh commended the
initiative taken by the mofussil bus operators for voluntary time keeping.
This had brought down the number of accidents.
Family Doctors
Assn inaugurated
The association will work for the mutual benefit of the doctors and the patients. On this occasion a guest lecture on 'Management of Cardiac Emergencies in General Practice' was delivered by Dr. K. Mukund, as part of the Continuing Medical Education Programme of the Association. Some eminent doctors from the city were present at the occasion.
Programme on
foreign currencies
Humps on roads
illegal, says Dr. Acharya
Inaugurating the function, the Deputy Commissioner, S. R. Umashankar, said the district administration had taken steps to prevent accidents. Mush more needed to be done. Over confidence of drivers was responsible for many accidents, he said.
N. Murari Ballal, environmentalist, said speed had become a part of people's mentality in Udupi and South Kanara Districts. The behavior of bus drivers and conductors in private buses left to lot to be desired. Tape recorders and shrill horns were being used in the private bus inspite of police claims to the contrary. The honorary president of Canara Bus Operators Association, P. R. Nayak, sai
Coast Guard
centre at Gangoli soon
Anti-cholesterol
drugs may help in multiple sclerosis
New Delhi, January 7:
Certain anti-cholesterol drugs may be useful in the treatment of multiple
sclerosis, a disabling disease of the nervous system, following
indications of its benefits in tackling similar disorder in mice models,
according to a report in a science journal. Worldwide as many as one
million people are affected by multiple sclerosis, in which the body's
immune cells start attacking the covering around the nerve cells, the
myelin sheath. This damages the underlying neurons (nerve cells) in both
the brain and the spinal chord, leading to an impaired transmission of
nerve impulses and progressive physical disability.
There are no effective treatments for multiple sclerosis although some can
slow its progression. Two drugs used in the disease are very expensive.
They only reduce the number of clinical relapses and the damage to the
central nervous system, a report in the science journal 'Nature' said.
Besides, they must be administered frequently through injection with a
risk of side-effects, the report said adding there is a need for new
therapies that can be given orally and have greater effect on the disease.
The report by Hartmut Wekerle from the Max-Planck Institute of
Neurobiology, Germany, said that scientists discovered atorvastatin, a
commonly used drug to treat atherosclerosis and coronary disease, to be
useful against an experimentally induced autoimmune disease in mice called
experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) that is widely used as a
model for human multiple sclerosis.