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55th National Film Awards announced
KANCHIVARAM (TAMIL)GETS THE AWARDS FOR- BEST FEATURE FILM AND BEST ACTOR
AWARDS ANNOUNCED FOR 31 CATEGORIES IN FEATURE FILMS,
22 CATEGORIES IN NON-FEATURE FILMS AND
2 CATEGORIES OF WRITING ON CINEMA
55th National Film Awards for 2007 were announced today. As per recommendations of the Jury, Kanchivaram (Tamil) was announced the Best Feature Film. Kanchivaram actor Sh.Prakash Raj was declared the Best Feature Film his sensible multi-layered portrayal of a weaver. Chak De India (Hindi) was adjudged the Best Feature Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment. Taare Zameen Par was adjudged the Best Feature Film Family Welfare. Taare Zameen Par also got award for Best Feature Film Singer and for Best Feature Film. Ms. Umashree was declared the Best Feature Film her role in Kannada Film Gulabi Talkies. Gulabi Talkies was also declared the Best Feature Film in Kannada. Master Sharad Goekar was adjudged the Best Feature Film for his role in Marathi Feature Film Tingya. Sh.Adoor Gopalakrishnan won the award for Best Feature Film the Malayalam feature film Naalu Pennungal. The film also won the Best Feature Film for Sh. B.Ajith Kumar. The Children's Film
Hope Dies Last in War was adjudged the Best Feature Film. Sh. Jayaraj will be given the Award for Best Feature Film his Malayalam Non-Feature Film Vellapokathil. The Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata produced Bengali film Lal Juto by Director Shweta Merchant was the Best Feature Film film of a director. Films Division produced Hindi Film Antardhwani by Dr. Jabbar Patel was awarded under the Best Feature Film/Historical Reconstruction/compilation film. Ninety three entries for non-feature film section were viewed by six member jury headed by Sh. Ashoke Vishwanathan.
The Jury on Best Feature Film Cinema headed by Ms. Namita Gokhale viewed 27 entries to declare From Raj To Swaraj : The Non-Fiction Film in
The details of all awards are available on PIB website http://pib.nic.in .
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Health Minister's address at the 27th meeting of South East Asia Region Health Ministers' Forum for 2008-09 at Kathmandu, Nepal
The Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad addressed the 27th meeting of South East Asia Region Health Ministers at Kathmandu
Following is the text of the speech.
"As Chairman of the Health Ministers' Forum for 2008-2009, it gives me great pleasure to welcome you all to this meeting, and I take this opportunity to extend my greetings to all of you on behalf of Government of India.
At the outset, may I, on behalf of all of us, place on record our heartfelt thanks to His Excellency, Mr Madhav Kumar
The address by Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO gave us a global perspective on health and development and encouraged us to move forward.
The address by the Regional Director Dr Samlee Plianbangchang highlighted the health challenges that confront us and the opportunities that are available to overcome them.
It is indeed a pleasure for me to have come to participate in this important gathering. I would like to recall here the gracious offer made by
Public Health is of paramount importance to each and every country in the Region and I would like to thank all of you for an era of co-operation and co-ordination amongst the countries of South East Asia Region, particularly in the year gone by, which saw us speaking with "one voice" on global public health issues with telling effect. Acting collectively in unison, we should be able to significantly contribute to the global public health agenda.
I am happy that we are discussing the New Delhi Declaration on Climate Change which was adopted last year keeping in view the effect of climate change on public health.
While Climate Change is a matter of concern, we need to evaluate the evidence and assess the impacts, both long and short term, of climate change on health in order to better plan and implement adaptation measures.
At the same time, we should be conscious of the challenges of poverty and mal-nutrition facing us and our responsibility to pursue all-round development to overcome them.
In June 2007, our Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh formed a High Level Advisory Group to coordinate national plans on climate change issues called the Prime Minster's Council on Climate Change. The Council consists of several ministers, environmentalists and eminent persons.
The Health Sector is one of the initiatives that have been included under the national action plan in
a. Assessing the increased burden of diseases due to climate change and;
b. Providing enhanced public health care services to address the adverse impacts on human health.
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For instance, conducting studies on the response of disease vectors to climate change, and simultaneously enhancing provision of primary and secondary health care facilities through the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).
We will be happy to cooperate with fellow country members of
In
I am glad to inform this august gathering that we have progressed quite a bit on this front in
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Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) has declined from about 398 per 1,00,000 live–births during 1997-98 to 254 per 1,00,000 live-births in 2004-06.
Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) has declined from 115 per 1,000 live-births in 1990 to 55 per 1,000 live-births in 2007;
Neonatal Mortality Rate (NMR) has declined from 115 per 1,000 live-births in 1990 to 37 per 1,000 live-births in 2007.
We are observing significant reduction in maternal and infant mortality rates and the above mentioned annual reporting exercise, together with our targeted programmes like the Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) and Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illnesses (IMNCI), will help us in continuously refining our strategies and further improving on these indices.
I am delighted to note that the 27th health Ministers' Meeting is going to deliberate and adopt a declaration on a subject of immense public health importance, ie protecting health facilities from emergencies.
We have in the recent past witnessed some traumatic disasters such as the Tsunami which affected many countries in the Region, the Earthquakes in
We express our sympathies with the people of
This only reinforces the fact that the region suffers from tragic loss of life and widespread damage to property, including damage to health facilities, in periodic episodes of natural calamities. Here, I would like to share that I have personally witnessed the effect of a disaster as Chief Minister of the Jammu & Kashmir
We had to transport material from all over the country to provide health care and relief to the people of these areas.
The Secretariat Report, SEA/HMM/Meet.27/4, brings out the fact that during the period 1998-2009, 61.6% of the World's total deaths from disasters occurred in South East Asia Region.
The issue of disaster preparedness and response is, therefore, of great importance in our Region and the resilience of health facilities is a crucial component of such preparedness.
Learning from our experiences of dealing with these situations and to effectively mount and manage responses,
Another important item being discussed by us is the impact of the global financial crisis on health.
There has been a slowing down of growth and worsening of economic situation all over the world, and economic recovery is expected to be slow when it predictably starts sometime next year. Despite the economic slow-down across the Globe, we in
In fact, under the leadership of our Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, the Government of India has, since 2005, given top priority to the social sector, in particular Health, Education and Women & Child Development. Just as priority was given to economic reforms and infrastructure in the nineties, we have now turned our attention to help realize the full potential of our remarkable human resource wealth.
In the five years of the 11th Plan period (2007-2012), Rs. 1,40,135 crores (App US $ 31.14 billion) have been allocated to the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare as against Rs. 36,378 crores (App US $ 7.42 billion) in the five years of the 10th Plan period (2002-2007).
The allocation of Rs. 24,253 crores (App US $ 5.39 billion) in the current year (2009-2010) is substantially higher than the allocated amount of Rs. 20,045 crores (App US $ 4.45 billion) last year. This demonstrates the priority being given by Government of India to health sector despite the difficult global economic situation.
I hope the deliberations on this topic will encourage countries in the Region to not only protect but also enhance the budgetary support to the health sector.
Speaking of Influenza-A (H1N1), an evolving global pandemic,
We focused on contact tracing of suspect patients, early diagnosis and treatment through enhancing our Lab testing capacity and constituting rapid response teams consisting of Doctors drawn from various streams at National, State and District levels. The number of labs equipped to test for the influenza-A (H1N1) disease was increased from 2 to 41 in the public and private sectors within a short span of time. Doctors and paramedical staff were trained across the country to build diagnosis and treatment capacity.
Another most important issue facing us is that of population growth. All our efforts face a huge obstacle in the form of our growing populations. Despite huge investments in the public sphere, we seem to be continuously struggling to provide quality health care to our people. A sustained interest and long term vision in the area of population stabilization is the need of the hour.
In the end, I would like to stress that the challenges of public health are daunting. Concerted efforts are required to reach out to every citizen in order to provide better healthcare. Many important issues are going to be discussed by this august gathering over the next four days and I would like to take this opportunity to wish the 27th Health Ministers' Meeting and the 62nd Regional Committee Session of the WHO South-East Asia Region all the best for productive and successful deliberations to meet the objectives of health and prosperity of our communities for which we are all striving together.
Before I conclude I would like to thank Hon'ble Health Ministers of South East Asia region for taking part in this meeting.
I am particularly thankful to Dr. Margaret Chan, Director General WHO for having come here all the way. We look forward for her continued support and guidance.
I would also like to thank Dr. Samlee, Regional Director WHO for his co-operation in health related challenges that confront us from time to time in this region.
My special thanks to Government of Nepal and Hon'ble Health Minister of
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Celebration of National Nutrition Week
The Ministry of Women & Child Development has organized spot health check-up and advise by nutritional experts at specially organized camp as a part of 'Celebration of National Nutrition Week'. More than 5000 women and children and old persons were provided routine health check-up at a camp at Rajiv Gandhi Stadium, Bawana,
Inaugurating the exhibition, the Minister said that the Government would involve NGOs, public representatives and different agencies to create awareness about nutritional requirements of women and children. Number of schemes including ICDS are being run by the Government to provide nutritional support to the children and women. Desired result to remove mal-nutrition will be achieved only when people have keen awareness about nutrition, she said.
The Ministry has also planned more such exhibitions and camps in rural areas of
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Statement of the President of the
I am very happy to be here in
President Rahmon and I have had extremely useful and wide-ranging discussions. We have discussed issues of bilateral, regional and international importance.
My visit to
Our region is today beset by the menace of terrorism. Terrorism, extremism and fundamentalism are posing a serious threat to the peace and security in our region, be it
We consider ourselves to be partners in
I value my interactions with the Tajik leadership. I look forward to my interaction with the Tajik Parliamentarians. I have invited President Rahmon to visit
I also take this opportunity to convey greetings from the people of
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President of India congratulates Pankaj Advani on becoming World Billiards Champion
The President of India, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil has congratulated Pankaj Advani for becoming the World Billiards Champion. The President who is currently in the capital of
The President has said, that the achievement is an occasion for great happiness not only because Pankaj Advani has become the World Champion, but also because he is only the second Indian to win this title.
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74 Medium Regiment Celebrates 45th Raising Day
74 Medium Regiment, also known as 'LUCKY FOUR' celebrated its 45th Raising Day today at Dehradun. The Regiment was raised in
The Regiment has the rare distinction of having produced two Chief of the Army Staff, Gen Padmanabhan and General Deepak Kapoor. The present Chief of the Army Staff General Deepak Kapoor had commanded the Regiment from Sep 1987 to Dec 1989. ,
The 'LUCKY FOUREANS' celebrated their 45th Raising Day with great zeal and enthusiasm. The Raising Day was attended by the Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor and a large number of ex-Commanding Officers, retired offrs, JCOs and ex-Servicemen of the unit.
Army Chief addressed all ranks in the Special Sainik Sammelan and complimented the unit for maintaining the good standards and stressed to strive for excellence to meet future challenges. Address by General Kapoor was a great source of motivation and inspiration for the Regiment. Mrs Kirti Kapoor, President Welfare closely interacted with the ladies of All Ranks during Family Welfare Function and with her pleasant demeanour charmed and inspired them.
On the solemn occasion of Raising Day, All Ranks of 74 Medium Regiment pledged to rededicate themselves to the honour, pride and glory of the Regiment.
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