Survivors given Farewell at SCS Hospital

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May 25, 2010

Mangalore May 25: The mourning of death of 158 people in the tragic air crash gave way to celebrations at SCS Hospital, Mangalore on the occasion of the thanksgiving ceremony and farewell programme for the 3 survivors who were being treated in the Hospital on Tuesday, May 25.

The three survivors Mayan Kutty, Krishnan, and Pradeep, were given a farewell. Others are still being treated in other hospitals.

Vinaya Kumar Sorake, Ex- Member of parliament, Rajani Dugganna, Mayor, MCC, Yogish Bhat, MLA, Dr Jeevraj Sorake of SCS hospital, and the three survivors were present on the dais.

Speaking on the occasion Mayan Kutty said (Lakh Lakh Shukriya, Nayi Zindagi mili hai) many thanks as I have got a new life. It is sad that 158 people have died. We will pray for them and their families. He thanked the SCS doctors, Nurses, Staff, Air India as well.

Krishnan thanked the Amighty and everyone for the new life. He also thanked the localities, hospital staff, Air India and District administration.

Pradeep said that I am standing in front of you just because of God's and parents' blessings. I will pray to God that such an incident does not occur anywhere in the world. Further, he thanked the locals who rescued, the hospital staff and the Air India.

Addressing the gathering Yogish Bhat, MLA, said that the survivors have truly got a new life. It was a great escape from death. Their instant decision making and action saved their life. He also appreciated the good treatment rendered by doctors, timely help by the localities, district administration, fire service, home guards and all others who helped and worked.

He thanked the Almighty for blessing the survivors with a new life and prayed that He gives peace to the souls of the deceased. The incident is a national tragedy that took place in our district. The survivors are it's witnesses which has brought pain and sorrow to 158 families.

Rajani Dugganna, Mayor, said that it will take time for the survivors to forget what happened and get back to normal. We pray to god such incident not to occur anywhere in the world. Their good deeds in life may have saved them, she said.

Dr Jeevraj Sorake, expressing his thoughts said 'When I saw these heroes I couldn't believe that they jumped from the opening 15 feet down. It seems an impossible task to act so soon. It's just God's grace which has saved their life'.

Rama Sorake proposed the vote of thanks in which she specially thanked the Duty doctors and nursing staff and AI officials who rendered their services on all the days after the crash.

Dr Jeevraj Sorake and Dr Deepak Hegde were the main doctors who treated the three survivors. U K Khalid, Administrative officer of the nursing college compered the programme.


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August 7,2020

Bengaluru, Aug 7: The results of Karnataka Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) examinations will be announced on Monday, August 10.

Primary Education Minister S Suresh Kumar said, "The results will be announced at about 3 pm on August 10."

This year, over 8.50 lakh students appeared for the exams amidst the Covid-19 pandemic fear across the state.

The department conducted the exams successfully despite resistance from various quarters and pressure to postpone the exams.

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June 2,2020

Kasaragod, June 2: As Kerala commenced fresh academic year with online classes from Monday, a ninth-standard student at Malappuram district in North Kerala ended life allegedly owing to lack of online study facilities like television connection and a smartphone at her house.

Devika, daughter of Balakrishnan, hailing from a Dalit community at Valancherry, about 25 kilometres from Malappuram town, ended her life.

Balakrishnan told the media that he could not recharge the television connection owing to financial crunches. He was working as a daily wage worker and owing to COVID-19 and lockdown, he was not having much work these days. 

The family also did not have a smartphone or computer. The family members alleged that Devika was quite upset as she could not attend the virtual class that began on Monday. She was a student of a nearby government school.

Local police said that Devika, who was the eldest among four children of Balakrishnan, was suspected to have self-immolated using kerosene at a premise close to her house on Monday evening. The cause and provocations were still being probed only. No suicide notes were recovered yet.

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February 20,2020

India ranked 77th on a sustainability index that takes into account per capita carbon emissions and ability of children in a nation to live healthy lives and secures 131st spot on a flourishing ranking that measures the best chance at survival and well-being for children, according to a UN-backed report.

The report was released on Wednesday by a commission of over 40 child and adolescent health experts from around the world. It was commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO), UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and The Lancet medical journal.

In the report assessing the capacity of 180 countries to ensure that their youngsters can survive and thrive, India ranks 77th on the Sustainability Index and 131 on the Flourishing Index, it said.

Flourishing is the geometric mean of Surviving and Thriving. For Surviving, the authors selected maternal survival, survival in children younger than 5 years old, suicide, access to maternal and child health services, basic hygiene and sanitation, and lack of extreme poverty.

For Thriving, the domains were educational achievement, growth and nutrition, reproductive freedom, and protection from violence.

Under the Sustainability Index, the authors noted that promoting today's national conditions for children to survive and thrive must not come at the cost of eroding future global conditions for children's ability to flourish.

The Sustainability Index ranks countries on excess carbon emissions compared with the 2030 target. This provides a convenient and available proxy for a country's contribution to sustainability in future.

The report noted that under realistic assumptions about possible trajectories towards sustainable greenhouse gas emissions, models predict that global carbon emissions need to be reduced from 39·7 giga­ tonnes to 22·8 gigatonnes per year by 2030 to maintain even a 66 per cent chance of keeping global warming below 1·5°C.

It said that the world's survival depended on children being able to flourish, but no country is doing enough to give them a sustainable future.

"No country in the world is currently providing the conditions we need to support every child to grow up and have a healthy future," said Anthony Costello, Professor of Global Health and Sustainability at University College London, one of the lead authors of the report.

"Especially, they're under immediate threat from climate change and from commercial marketing, which has grown hugely in the last decade," said Costello – former WHO Director of Mother, Child and Adolescent health.

Norway leads the table for survival, health, education and nutrition rates - followed by South Korea and the Netherlands. Central African Republic, Chad and Somalia come at the bottom.

However, when taking into account per capita CO2 emissions, these top countries trail behind, with Norway 156th, the Republic of Korea 166th and the Netherlands 160th.

Each of the three emits 210 per cent more CO2 per capita than their 2030 target, the data shows, while the US, Australia, and Saudi Arabia are among the 10 worst emitters. The lowest emitters are Burundi, Chad and Somalia.

According to the report, the only countries on track to beat CO2 emission per capita targets by 2030, while also performing fairly – within the top 70 – on child flourishing measures are: Albania, Armenia, Grenada, Jordan, Moldova, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Uruguay and Vietnam.

"More than 2 billion people live in countries where development is hampered by humanitarian crises, conflicts, and natural disasters, problems increasingly linked with climate change," said Minister Awa Coll-Seck from Senegal, Co-Chair of the commission.

The report also highlights the distinct threat posed to children from harmful marketing.

Evidence suggests that children in some countries see as many as 30,000 advertisements on television alone in a single year, while youth exposure to vaping (e-cigarettes) advertisements increased by more than 250 per cent in the US over two years, reaching more than 24 million young people.

Studies in Australia, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand and the US – among many others – have shown that self-regulation has not hampered commercial ability to advertise to children.

Children's exposure to commercial marketing of junk food and sugary beverages is associated with purchase of unhealthy foods and overweight and obesity, linking predatory marketing to the alarming rise in childhood obesity, it said.

The number of obese children and adolescents increased from 11 million in 1975 to 124 million in 2016 – an 11-fold increase, with dire individual and societal costs, the report said.

To protect children, the authors call for a new global movement driven by and for children.

Specific recommendations include stopping CO2 emissions with the utmost urgency, to ensure children have a future on this planet; placing children and adolescents at the centre of global efforts to achieve sustainable development, the report said.

New policies and investment in all sectors to work towards child health and rights; incorporating children's voices into policy decisions and tightening national regulation of harmful commercial marketing, supported by a new Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, it said.

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