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Keep criminals and EVMs away from 2019 Lok Sabha polls: SDPI

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July 4, 2018

Bengaluru, Jul 4: The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) has asked the Election Commission to take necessary steps to keep Electronic Voting Machines and candidates with criminal background away from the 2019 Lok Sabha polls in India.

Addressing a press meet here today, Elyas Muhammad, the newly elected state president of the organization, said that the country should go back to ballot system to ensure free and fair polls as the EVMs are highly vulnerable and can be manipulated.

He gave the details of the ‘State Representative Council’ meeting held in Mysuru on July 1 and 2 wherein new office bearers and members of state committee were elected.

Following are the resolutions passed by SDPI state representative council:

Those with clean image only should become parliamentarians

Political parties are in look out for candidates for the looming Lok Sabha elections. About 25% of the present public representatives have various criminal cases against them. Supreme Court has warned that criminals shouldn’t become public representatives and that the criminal cases against them be disposed of at the earliest.

Certain politicians are busy raising the issues pertaining to religion, caste, language and border aiming at creating a rift among the citizenry. Politicians are indulged in land mafia, sand mafia, mining mafia and several other corrupt practices. The candidates who would be contesting in the Parliamentary elections should be of clean hands, honest and of good character.

They have looted the taxpayers’ money and have allegations of corruption. Some politicians are seen showing their stand of being communal and spreading hate. No political party should field any such candidates in the upcoming Parliamentary election. Particularly BJP, Congress and JD(S) should keenly consider towards this subject as more number of elected Parliamentarians are from these three political parties.

Those who can safeguard our land’s language, culture, resources and work towards the development of the state and its citizenry irrespective of their religion, caste and language and can bring maximum schemes and grants from the central government to the state should become Parliamentarians.

People should take up the responsibility of creating pressure enabling the candidates to pay importance towards the welfare of the people rather than their parties.

In this regard, SDPI has been holding pro-people struggles for the past 9 years.

Have control over education mafia

Karnataka has earned accolades from across the world in the education field. From Nursery to Higher education fields, students from other states and foreign countries too are carrying out their studies contributing a special share towards the state’s economy.

But the exploitation harassment by private deemed universities, higher educational institutions, convent and English medium schools is increasing day by day. Mysterious and unnatural deaths of students inside campuses and hostels, menace of huge donations, fake certificates, lack of basic amenities, rampant religious/casteist discrimination, educational institutions under the ownership of politicians, violation of departmental rules and with such other issues the education system is very perturbed and is lurching.

The state government should take initiative and restructure and reform the government educational institutions of their shortcomings. All students, including those coming for studies from out of the states and foreign countries should get superior education.

EVMs should not be used in elections in future

Electronic Voting Machines should not be used in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, assembly elections and Karnataka local body elections.

There have been serious allegations against the use of EVM as the machines are highly vulnerable to tampering and that there are several cases against the use of EVMs in different High Courts and the Supreme Court. In the recently concluded assembly elections in Karnataka, a dozen cases have been filed against EVM with the High Court.

We hereby urge the Election Commission and Central Government to return to the traditional Ballot system of voting as the justified and fair election is what our Constitution guarantees us in upholding the democracy.

Government should hold census prior to budget

Social, economic and religion wise data census should be revealed immediately. It should be carried out before the Chief Minister presents the new budget as crores taxpayers’ money is spent for it. There has been pressure from the general public for Census since decades. Accomplishment of Census and its disclosure earlier will ease the release of subsidies and schemes to the benefit of socially, economically and deprived classes and ensure that the facilities and grants would reach state’s all communities equally aiming their overall development. The Census carried out in the state could be an example to the country. SDPI urges for immediate disclosure of the Census and fulfil the demand.

The new government should disclose the caste and economic census carried out by the Karnataka government before the budget is presented.

The socio-economic and educational census of the people of Karnataka has been prepared by spending huge taxpayers’ money and with an investment of a lot of human resources. Then what’s really the purpose of carrying out the said Census?

With the socio-economic and educational survey, this Census would be of help plan and present the budget based on the socio-economic conditions of the people thus ensuring that the people get thee social justice.

The newly elected Karnataka state committee of SDPI is as follows:

President: Elyas Muhammad Thumbe

Vice Presidents: Devanooru Puttananjayya, Abdul Majeed Mysuru

General Secretaries: Abdul Hannan Ramanagar, Mohammad Riyaz Farangipet

Secretaries: Akram Hassan Ullal, Alfonso Franco Belthangady, Afsar Kodlipet, Ashraf Machar

Treasurer: Javed Azam Bengaluru

Members: Abdul Lathif Puttur, Abdul Rahim Patel Gulbarga, Abdul Jaleel Krishnapura, Mujahid Pasha, Adv. Abdul Majeed Khan Puttur, Abrar Ahmad Chamrajnagara, Kumaraswamy Mysuru, Amjad Khan Mysore, Fayaz Ahmad Bangalore, Amin Mohsin Madikeri, Mohammad Samiulla Bengaluru.

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sharief Mangalore
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Wednesday, 4 Jul 2018

Mkae balance with all communities,  Get some Dalit Hindus and Christians.

 

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March 6,2020

Ballari, Mar 6: Ballari Deputy Commissioner S S Nakul on Friday said that two persons who had shown symptoms of COVID-19 had been admitted to the district government hospital here.

Informing this to the presspersons here, Mr Nakul said that the cases were reported from Jindal village of K R Hospital taluk and another one from Hospet town in Ballari taluk.

He said a suspect returned from Dubai to Hospet last week and showed symptoms of COVID-19. Both suspected patients were admitted to special isolated ward in Ballari government hospital and their throat swab tests taken on Thursday had been sent to lab in Bangalore to check for COVID-19.

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May 8,2020

Washington D.C., May 8: The prime time for brain development in a child's life is the first year, where the infant spends most of the time asleep. It is the time when neural connections form and sensory memories are encoded.

However, when sleep is disrupted, as occurs more often among children with autism, brain development may be affected, too.

New research led by the University of Washington finds that sleep problems in a baby's first 12 months may not only precede an autism diagnosis but also may be associated with altered growth trajectory in a key part of the brain, the hippocampus.

The study, which was published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, researchers report that in a sample of more than 400 taken of 6- to 12-month-old infants, those who were later diagnosed with autism were more likely to have had difficulty falling asleep.

It also states that this sleep difficulty was associated with altered growth trajectories in the hippocampus.

"The hippocampus is critical for learning and memory, and changes in the size of the hippocampus have been associated with poor sleep in adults and older children.

As many as 80 per cent of the children with autism spectrum disorder have sleep problems," said Annette Estes, director of the UW Autism Center and senior author of the study.

"In our clinical experience, parents have a lot of concerns about their children's sleep, and in our work on early autism intervention, we observed that sleep problems were holding children and families back," added Estes, who is also a UW professor of speech and hearing sciences.

"It could be that altered sleep is part-and-parcel of autism for some children. One clue is that behavioural interventions to improve sleep don't work for all children with autism, even when their parents are doing everything just right. This suggests that there may be a biological component to sleep problems for some children with autism," said Estes.

To consider links among sleep, brain development, and autism, researchers at the IBIS Network looked at MRI scans of 432 infants, surveyed parents about sleep patterns, and measured cognitive functioning using a standardized assessment.

At the outset of the study, infants were classified according to their risk for developing autism: Those who were at higher risk of developing autism -- about two-thirds of the study sample -- had an older sibling who had already been diagnosed.

Infant siblings of children with autism have a 20 per cent chance of developing autism spectrum disorder -- a much higher risk than children in the general population.

In the current study, 127 of the 432 infants were identified as "low risk" at the time the MRI scans were taken because they had no family history of autism.

They later evaluated all the participants at 24 months of age to determine whether they had developed autism. Of the roughly 300 children originally considered "high familial risk," 71 were diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder at that age.

Problems with sleep were more common among the infants later diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, as were larger hippocampi. No other subcortical brain structures were affected, including the amygdala, which is responsible for certain emotions and aspects of memory, or the thalamus, a signal transmitter from the spinal cord to the cerebral cortex.

The authors note that while parents reported more sleep difficulties among infants who developed autism compared to those who did not, the differences were very subtle and only observed when looking at group averages across hundreds of infants.

Sleep patterns in the first years of life change rapidly as infants transition from sleeping around the clock to a more adult-like sleep/wake cycle. Until further research is completed, Estes said, it is not possible to interpret challenges with sleep as an early sign of increased risk for autism.

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July 2,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 2: Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said that the "RSS needs to be defeated to save the country" and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah are "destroying the nation".

Kharge was speaking at a KPCC program where DK Shivakumar took charge as state Congress president.

He said that the Prime Minister and the Home Minister are not ready to take accountability for any issues including China, and are instead blaming Rajiv Gandhi Foundation of getting funds from China.

"Rajiv Gandhi foundation utilized funds for the development of the nation and for the betterment of the downtrodden people," Kharge said.

"Prime Minister Modi and Shah both are destroying the economy of the nation, and their policies and plans are the reason for increasing COVID-19 situation in India," he said.

"Prime Minister and Amit Shah never listen to Opposition parties, instead they plan something and their policies are the reason for MSME losses and job losses in the country," he added.

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