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Cordel church gear up for centenary celebrations

February 16, 2012

Mangalore, February 16: Holy Cross Church in Kulshekar, one of the oldest churches in Mangalore diocese, will be celebrating centenary celebrations of its consecration on February 18 at Cordel Church Centenary Memorial Ground in the church premises.

Giving details on the same to media persons here on Thursday, Parish Priest Rev Fr Valerian Pinto said Mangalore Diocesan Bishop Rev Dr Aloysius Paul D'Souza will preside over the celebrations while Shimoga Diocese Bishop Rev Dr Gerald Isaac Lobo, High Court Judge Justice B V Pinto, Deputy Speaker N Yogish Bhat and IGP (Western Range) Pratap Reddy will be the chief guests.

As a part of the celebrations, the foundation stone for 'Holy Rosary Park' will be laid and a book on the history of church titled 'Frad Saib and the church of Cordel,' authored by Rev Fr Devadutta Kamath will be released.

'Shathamanik Zalak,' a brief history of Cordel church in sound and light will also be part of the programme.

Though the foundation for Cordel church was laid by Rev Fr Alexander Dubois, a native of Rouen in France, who arrived at Mangalore in 1865 and served in the Milagres parish, he could not complete the work on the church as he passed away due to Cholera on December 11, 1877.

However, the then Bishop Rev Ambudius Cavadini established the church on May 31, 1904 after obtaining the decree and the then Bishop Rev Paul Perini consecrated the church on January 30, 1912. In the last 100 years, 13 parish priests (including the present parish priest Rev Fr Valerian Pinto) and 45 assistant parish priests have served the church. On the other hand, as many as 35 parishioners have become priests and 70 have become nuns from the parish.

From 250 families in Cordel parish 100 years ago, to the present 1,540 families, the church continues to be one of the biggest parishes in Mangalore diocese.

Meanwhile, two parishes were formed in Shakthinagar (Mariagiri in 2003) as well as Paldane (Mother Theresa in 2006) to cater to the needs of the people living in those areas. Prior to the formation of these parishes, they belonged to Cordel itself.

In the last 100 years, several projects have been taken up in the church premises. They include new building for Kannada medium school, huge playground, formation of English medium school (registerd 100 pc results for the last 9 consecutive years), huge hall, Dubois complex and a garden of Gethsemane (established in memory of the birth bi-centenary of Founder Fr Alexander Dubois in 2009).

The foundation for 'Holy Rosary Park' will be laid on February 18. “The Park, to be established on the lines '20 mysteries of Rosary' at Vellar Padom Mathe church at Verampalli diocese in Ernakulam, will be unique and when completed, the church will be the one and the only church to have a Holy Rosary Park in the Mangalore diocese, which has 161 churches under its ambit,” said Fr Pinto.

“The Holy Rosary Park will have pictorial depiction of 20 life-size mysteries (structures) that would give theological as well as actual meaning of the mysteries,” he added.Church Vice President Praveen Patrao, Centenary Celebrations Convener Susheel Noronha and Assistant Parish Priests Fr John Moras and Fr Melwyn Noronha were present.

To a query on why there were frequent protests against the church by the members of United Christian Association, Fr Pinto, quoting the recent judgement copy (in which the church won the case), said that “jealousy against the development works in the church is the main reason for such acts.”

To another query on allegations against the church that the priest had collected a blank cheque from Irene D'Souza, a parishioner, seeking help to complete her house, the priest said that he has not collected any cheque from anybody. On the other hand, the church and diocese had donated a sum of Rs 1 lakh (in addition to Rs 15,000 donated by SVP, CODP and Milagres church) besides tiles for the roof.

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February 28,2020

Feb 28: The Supreme Court on Friday granted more time to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to file a counter affidavit on a petition filed by Karnataka BJP leader and mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy seeking permanent relaxation on his bail condition to allow him to visit Karnataka's Bellari and Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh.

A bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Indira Banerjee listed the matter for further hearing on March 16 after the CBI sought more time to do file the counter affidavit.

Earlier, the apex court had issued a notice to the CBI and sought its response on the plea.

Last year, the Court had allowed Reddy to visit the Ballari district for a period of two weeks to meet his father-in-law, who the petitioner claimed had suffered a stroke and also allowed him to move a bail modification application seeking permanent relaxation of his bail condition.

In January 2015, the Supreme Court had granted bail to Reddy in an illegal mining case involving Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) on the condition that he will not visit any of the mining zones in Karnataka or Andhra Pradesh.

By the time he was granted bail, Reddy had already spent over three years in prison.

Reddy and his brother-in-law BV Srinivas Reddy, who was the Managing Director of OMC, were arrested by the CBI on September 5, 2011.

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June 16,2020

University of Oxford researchers have claimed that a cheap and widely available drug called dexamethasone can help save the lives of patients who are seriously ill with coronavirus.

Scientists working on the Recovery Trial found the drug could help patients on ventilators and oxygen, but had no effect on those who did not need help breathing.

“Based on these results, one death would be prevented by treatment of around eight ventilated patients or around 25 patients requiring oxygen alone,” researchers said in a statement.

Matt Hancock, the health secretary, tweeted: “This global first exemplifies the power of science.”

“I’m absolutely delighted that today we can announce the first successful clinical trial for a treatment for Covid-19,” Mr Hancock said.

Recovery Trial experts said a randomised group of 2,104 patients was given 6mg of dexamethasone per day for 10 days, while another group of 4,321 were given normal treatment.

Dexamethasone reduced deaths by one-fifth in patients on oxygen feeds and by one-third in those who needed a ventilator to breathe, preliminary results showed.

Mr Hancock added: “This is a huge step forward and it’s because we’ve backed the science.”

Martin Landray, professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, and one of the trial’s chief investigators, said in a statement: “These preliminary results from the Recovery Trial are very clear – dexamethasone reduces the risk of death among patients with severe respiratory complications.

“Covid-19 is a global disease – it is fantastic that the first treatment demonstrated to reduce mortality is one that is instantly available and affordable worldwide.”

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kushal kumar
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Thursday, 18 Jun 2020

Trials  of  drug  dexamethasone   in  Covid-19  cases   have  brought  success  in  saving  lives  ,  claim  Oxford  University  scientists  on  16 June  2020. 

              According  to  news  reports  on  16 June  , 2020  ,   Oxford  University  Scientists  have  conducted  trials  on  anti-inflammatory  steroid  Dexamethasone   in  Covid-19  cases.  Results  released  by  the   Oxford  University    on  16  June  2020  say  that  the   low-cost  and  easily  available  drug  saves  the  people  seriously  infected  by   Coronavirus  ,  cuts  the  death  risk  by  a  third  for  those  on  ventilators  and  by  a  fifth  for  those  on  oxygen.  The  commentary   on  the  drug   reads  like  this  :-

“  This  is  a  tremendous  news  today  from  the  recovery  trial  showing  that  dexamethasone   is  the  first  drug  to  reduce  mortality  from  Covid-19.  It  is  particularly  exciting  as  this  is  an  inexpensive  widely  available  medicine.  This  is  a  ground  breaking  development  in  our  fight  against  the  disease  and  the  speed  at  which  researchers  have  progressed  finding  an  effective  treatment  ,  is  truly  remarkable.  It  shows  importance  of  doing  high  quality  clinical  trials  and  basing  decisions  as  the  results  of  those  trials”. 

               Covid-19  has  taken  into  its  grip   the  entire  world  during  first  half  of  the  year  2020  ,  infecting   lacs  and  killing  also  lacs  of   its  patients.  In  the  absence  of  an  effective  drug  or  vaccine  ,  people  had  no  choice  other  than   to   look   up   to  the  heavens  or   scientists  to  come  with  some  cure.  And  the  drug  described  here  is  the  first  one  to  respond  to  the  prayer   of  the  global  community  ,  it  seems.     As  regards  a  vaccine  ,   only  few  are  claiming  that  it  can  come  by  the  end  of  the  present  year  2020.  Rather   ,  some  are  of  the  view  that  it  may  take  a  larger  part  of  the  year  2021  and   could   even  go    to  mid-2022.   Whatever  that  scenario  about  prospect  of  arrival  of  vaccine  to  treat  Covid-19  may  be   ,  the  news  that  was  broken   on  16  June  2020   by   the  Oxford  University   scientists   in  relation  to   drug  dexamethasone   would  have  sent  a  wave  of   strength  and  hope   among   people  world-wide.  And  this  Vedic  astrology  writer  was  spirited  for  another  reason  as   well   -  a  prediction  of   when  some  relief   by  way  of  drug  to  fight  Covid-19   may  appear  ,   having  come  accurate  in   the   claim  announced  by  Oxford  University   on  16 June  2020.  This  writer  had  ,   based   on  interpretation  and  application   of  Vedic  astrology  ,   contributed  in  early  April  ,  2020   an  opinion  piece     - “  Some  searchlight  on  way  out  of  Covid-19  presently  tormenting  mankind” -   to  a  number  of   newspapers.  It  was  also  contributed  on  11  April  ,  2020   using  the  ‘ comments’   column  of  article  -‘ Heard  Charles  took   Ayurveda  treatment-based  Ayush  drugs  for   Covid-19’  -   at   theprint.in/india/looking-at-evidence-based-ayush-medicines-to-treat-covid-19-minister-shripad-naik/393407/.   The  text  in  the  opinion  piece  related  to  the  claim  of  success  announced  by  Oxford  University  scientists  on  16 June  ,  2020  ,  reads  like  this  :- 

“  So  reading  in  between  the  lines  ,  it  can  be  said  that  some  effective  drug   or  remedy  can  arrive  by   mid   or  towards   the  last  week  of  June  2020   to   provide  some  relief  during  July  to  September  2020 ,  to  some  good  extent”.

The  point  this  writer  wants  to  share  with  readers  world-wide  is  that   yes  ,  a  drug   envisaged  in  the  aforesaid  prediction  has  appeared  on  the  horizon  in  the  claim  announcement  of  Oxord  University  scientists  on  16  June ,  2020. 

Bio  :-

 

Kushal  kumar  ,

202-GH28  ,  Mansarovar   Apartments  ,

Sector  20  ,  Panchkula-134116  ,  Haryana,

India.

Note  :-  This  writer’s    significant  predictive  work  covering   2020   about   the  U.S.  and  Italy

 

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February 23,2020

Chmarajanagara, Feb 23: In order to control and keep a tab on the activities within the forest area and after the bitter experiences with frequent forest fires, like the one in Bandipur Tiger Reserve last year Karnataka Forest Department officials have decided to use drones to prevent the occurrences of such wildfires, and to use drones to nab trouble makers and take timely action to put out or prevent forest fires, especially during the summer season.

The department of forest has been working on using drones and setting up a centre in Mysuru or Chamarajanagar to monitor three crucial tiger reserves — Bandipur, Nagarhole, and BRT.

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