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New Delhi: The dengue menace continues in the city with Jamia Nagar still being the worst hit, with sources saying around 4000 cases have been reported in Jamia and Okhla.

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has finally confirmed a dengue outbreak in south Delhi's Jamia Nagar. Almost every house in this area has reported at least one case of dengue. The MCD has now started using 5 de-fogging machines in Jamia Nagar to tackle the issue of mosquito breeding. Awareness programmes have been started to increase the general consciousness among the people. Disinfectants are being sprayed on the roads and waterlogged manholes are cleaned up to prevent mosquito breeding.

However, residents complain that the anti-dengue drive ends right at the main road. There are hundreds of side lanes which are left out from the cleaning drive. This has made the residents completely enraged and vulnerable.

CNN IBN had earlier reported about the Ansari family who had lost their 25-year-old daughter Shabana to dengue. Now two more children in their family have been confirmed to have dengue.

Ansari complained that fogging to ward off mosquitoes was only done once or twice and after that it was stopped. He also said there are no doctors to attend to the patients.

Meanwhile, the MCD blames the construction sites in Jamia Nagar for the rampant spread of dengue. MCD officials said it is impossible for corporation inspectors to look into each and every construction site. The ounus should remain with the owner as well.

However, at the midst of the danger, the health officials have reported that this situation is just the beginning of Delhi’s dengue season and the worst is still yet to come.

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dengue is carried by aegis egypty, a low flying, black and white-spotted mosquito. When it bites you, the virus it carries will travel your bloodstream causing you to have dengue.



Dengue fever is a benign acute febrile syndrome occurring in tropical regions, which is the most important mosquito (Aedes aegypti), transmitted viral disease. The virus causes Dengue shock syndrome in 20-30% of infected cases. There are four types (known as "serotypes") of dengue.
Infection and recovery from one type of dengue does not protect a person from another type. Dengue Hemorrhagic Shock Syndrome (DHSS) is a dangerous implication in which fever is followed by the collapse with shock, decreased blood pressure and signs of hemorrhage. The shock increases the production of the hormone adrenaline, which in turn increases the heartbeat. Blood is pumped faster resulting in more hemorrhage and the heart becomes overworked. Dengue infection weakens the wall of the blood vessels resulting in plasma leakage; disease suppresses the production of platelets that help in the clotting of blood. If the process continues unchecked, the volume of blood decreases due to leakage, the blood pressure drops and the platelet count reduces. Bleeding occurs in patients with severe shock syndrome. "The fever lasts about seven days and the patient has severe body ache. It's in fact known as a bone-breaking fever. But dengue hemorrhagic fever is a far more serious condition, which generally occurs in patients who have already experienced dengue," explains Dr Pradeep Seth,

Commonwealth Games 2010 - India's Fame or India's Shame?

Commonwealth Games 2010 - India's Fame or India's Shame?

Commonwealth Games preparations don't seem going as per plan on deadlines as well quality; every now n then new scams getting unearthed showing again even when Nations pride is at stake Indian bureaucrats politicians n contractors hardly care for anything but making money n media publicity for them. So if game fails nation may get shamed; these set of people would walk away with millions of dollars worth ill money in bank accounts.

Reminds of this quote from writer Khushwant Singh's 1994 piece of work; "Indian commoners are among the stupidest in the world; they re-elect thieves" Hasn't this quote stood times n becoming very norm of misuse of public funds at large?

With such hurdles how long India can really keep growing? Specially when most Infrastructure projects are missing deadlines n budgets almost all over nation.

So called educated n OK doing majority of country is not caring to VOTE on election day is biggest culprit n responsible for this mess far more than Politicians or Bureaucrats themselves?

And finally whats your take on

Commonwealth Games 2010 - India's Fame or India's Shame?

Thanking in Advance

regds-
Vijay

# BTW weren't Commonwealth Games started as games of BritishEmpire for Empire and its Slave nations? As British Empire of queen has crumbled post WWI & II isn't it high time world sport federations stop this games in future; since no ones Master and Slave in today's free world?

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CHENNAI, India — India's Commonwealth Games, which are set to roll in New Delhi from Oct. 3, have turned into the nation's biggest shame. At a cost of $7.5 billion — excluding improvements and additions to city infrastructure — these will be the most expensive Commonwealth Games ever.

The cost — all laid to Indian taxpayers — has sky-rocketed because of terrible mismanagement and hugely inflated bills. Overnight, men in charge of the games have become stinking rich, and the event has helped to convert common wealth into personal wealth.

Scandalous reports of financial corruption, nepotism and incompetence have already tarnished India's image to a degree that appears beyond redemption. Sports stadiums are not yet ready, or if they are, there are growing fears of substandard materials having been used.

The roof of the weightlifting stadium, part of the main venue, began leaking hours after its inauguration.

The ceiling of the SP Mukherjee Swimming Complex came crashing down and a swimmer was injured.

Before that, a roof at the Yamuna Sports Complex collapsed.

The games village is not ready, nor are the living quarters for the hundreds of players due to descend on New Delhi.

The blame for all these rests squarely on the shoulders of Suresh Kalmadi, head of the Organizing Committee of the Commonwealth Games. He also happens to be a Congress member of Parliament, the party that heads India's coalition government.

Mihir Bose, a former BBC sports editor and a London-based writer and broadcaster, has been quoted as having said: "I do not understand how Kalmadi has come to acquire this position of influence in the Indian Commonwealth Games. He has no sporting credentials and he makes no international impression. The question is who is Kalmadi? Had it not been for the Commonwealth Games, would we have ever heard of him?"

The moot point is, why are Indians obsessed with politicians and have men like Kalmadi governing Indian sports? The answer is easy: Who governs has to do with class bias.

To quote Bose again: "In India, players tend to come from the lower classes, with the possible exception of cricket. They are not considered intelligent enough to run sports, never put in a position of power and always exploited by the babus and politicians. The politicians ride on the back of the athletes and use their success to acquire power and run sports in India."

The Congress party feels that Kalmadi must be seen as head of the games, not as a party representative. Worried about the stigma to the brand, the chief of the Commonwealth Games Federation, Mike Fennel, has asked for an inquiry into the allegations.

What is even more condemnable is the abdication of responsibility by Kalmadi and the government. Both have begun passing the buck: For now, it stops at a British firm that made the queen of England furious, as well as a couple of Australian firms. Last year the organizing committee hired a British firm to perform a games-related service for a hugely inflated sum of money. Kalmadi claimed that the firm was hired on the explicit advice of the Indian High Commissioner in London. It now appears that the e-mail shown as proof of such advice may have been forged.

The queen will not attend the sporting event — though for reasons other than corruption — and this will be the first time in the history of the games that she, the symbolic head of the Commonwealth, will be absent. Also, some star sportsmen will not participate.

Included in this scam of scams is vulgar spending. Over $200 was spent on every single roll of toilet paper bought for the games. Approximately, $13,000 was used to hire each thread-mill for two months, while seven or eight of the gadgets could have been purchased outright with this amount.

Over $130 was spent to hire an umbrella for the duration. An official justified this by saying it was of a special kind that withstands winds of very high velocity. But New Delhi is not on the Pacific Coast. Nor is it in a region frequented by cyclones. Where are the winds blowing from?

All this spending in a country where 76 percent of the 1.3 billion population live in abject poverty, with less than 40 cents a day to spend. Does the nation need the Commonwealth Games at all?

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