News Kashmir Magazine

NEW DELHI: India’s financial hub Mumbai has been named among top 15 cities globally in terms of total wealth held, while London topped the list, says a report.

According to New World Wealth, the wealthiest cities in the world are London with USD 2.7 trillion of total wealth, followed by New York City (USD 2.6 trillion) and Tokyo (USD 2.2 trillion) in the second and third place respectively.

Mumbai featured on the 14th place in the list with a total wealth held in the city worth USD 820 billion.

“Home to 45,000 millionaires and 28 billionaires, Mumbai is the economic hub of India. It is also home to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE),” the report said.

The report further noted that among the 15 cities, Beijing, Shanghai, Mumbai and Sydney were the fastest growing in terms of wealth over the past decade (2006-2016).

“Going forward, Mumbai is expected to be the fastest growing city (in terms of wealth growth over the next 10 years),” the report added.

Others in the list include San Francisco Bay area at the fourth place with a total wealth of USD 1.9 trillion; Beijing (5th, USD 1.8 trillion); Shanghai (6th, USD 1.6 trillion); Los Angeles (7th, USD 1.2 trillion); Hong Kong (8th, USD 1.1 trillion); Singapore (9th, USD 870 billion) and Chicago (10th, USD 860 billion).

Sydney at 11th place has a total wealth of USD 850 billion; Toronto (12th, USD 850 billion); Frankfurt (13th, USD 830 billion) and Paris (15th, USD 800 billion).

Meanwhile, total wealth held worldwide amounts to USD 185 trillion (as of June 2016). Globally, there are 13,300,000 millionaires and 1,940 billionaires in total, the report said.

‘Total wealth’ refers to the private wealth held by all individuals in a country.

It includes all their assets (property, cash, equities, business interests) less any liabilities. Government funds are from the figures.

Baramulla, 18 Oct 2016. Another Chinar 9Jawan club was today dedicated to the local youth at Boniyar by the Chinar Corps Commander Lt Gen Satish Dua in the presence of a host of dignitaries of NHPC, Civil Administration, JKP, CAPF from Uri and Baramulla districts. The Chinar 9Jawan Clubs envision constructive engagement of the youth of Kashmir and providing them with an ideal platform to the to interact, relax, rejuvenate, play games and to develop their skills for holistic growth in a stress free environment.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday said the upcoming board exams would be held as per schedule.

“The Government is exploring various options in consultation with the Education Department, the State Board of School Education (BOSE) and other stakeholders to ensure you have more options and your academic year is not lost,” the Chief Minister told the students from different schools of the city who called on her, here today.

In an optimistic news for the Jammu and Kashmir state the Asia’s Largest Youth Conference, the Indian International MUN is going to organize a three day conference at heritage School Jammu from 29 April to MAY 1 2016  .

With the intention to provide a platform to the youth of India to voice their opinions on international relations, geo-political scenario and teach them more about the United Nations, IIMUN has conducted chapters of the main conference in various parts of the country. Committees were simulated in local languages, Hindi and with variations as to ensure that it reached to as many as people possible. IIMUN is proud to have reached a cumulative participation thousands of  students in these chapters. The chapters also enable them  to have a pan India reach all around the year.

In an MUN conference the future of tomorrow are given tremendous exposure as the  students don hats of diplomats and solve a wide range  of issues ranging from Human Rights violations to establishing peace between two countries who are at loggerheads. The solutions passed here are then forwarded to the United Nations for further discussion.

Pertinently, youth of  Jammu  are excited with IIMUN taking now place in their city.

News Kashmir Desk

As political temperatures are rising over clash between local students and non-local students during loss of India to Westindies in cricket world cup, this is the view of eminent youth activists over the issue.

Faizaan Bhat, Writer, activist and Student of NIT writes -“For all those people who says Kashmiri’s are communal let me remind them we are same people who gave yatra food,shelter while our trucks carrying food etc were burned and our people beaten.This Nit issues is all planned by some saffronised people.”

Eminent Youth Activist Muhammad Tauseef writes -“NIT issue nothing but divisive and vitriolic politics at its best. Things are being blown out of proportion. Media and leaders fanning the flame.

Need of the hour is resumption of classes and united stand of both local and non-local students about genuine grievances…

BUT I still believe the entire incident should be looked into deeply from alpha to omega and the culprits should be dealt as strongly as were the innocent students in the Subharti University cricket match row….

Fringe groups very well fed from behind to further foment trouble, worsen the situation and widen the wedge…Kashmiri students being demonised ingenuinely.”

Mushtaq ul Haq Ahmad Sikander Prominent Activist and Researcher writes -“Today I alongwith youth activists, Muhammad Tauseef and Faizaan Bhat visited National Institute of Technology (NIT) to take the stock of situation about the polarisation between local and non local students. We were not allowed inside the campus, but what we could garner by talking to local students in person and non local ones over phone, was that fringe elements are trying to create a divide that will lead to the ruin of this institution. Further these fringe elements try to get sympathy from the Hindutva regime by involving politicians who are ready to communalise any issue. Both the saner elements of the student groups are ready for reconciliation, but the fringe elements are hell bent on escalating the situation. We are trying to mediate and formulate a joint statement of both the groups.”

Over 400 candidates out of more than 2500 got shortlisted by over 100 companies at Aryans 33rd Job Fest

Srinagar 26^th February

Aryans Group of Colleges, Chandigarh today created a new history in the field of placements where more than 100 companies and over 2500 students from different parts of North India came to participate in 33^rd Aryans Job Fest at Aryans Campus.

Honda was the prominent company which pulled maximum crowd towards itself. Heavy rush was also witnessed in the companies like Cogniter Technologies Pvt Ltd, Platinum Infosys, Volkswagen, Indus Bank, Dinker, Hyundai, SEBIZ, ABEERTECH, The perfection, TMC shipping, Indusland, GM Plaza, Genpact, Rayon, Frisklancer, Gurudev, Shaljon, Bani Mil Producer etc. The maximum package offered was upto 9 lacs per annum.

On this occasion Sh. Dharam Pal Gupta, IAS, Director Technical Education, Punjab congratulated team Aryans and said that placement is the backbone of any educational institution without which no campus can satisfy the dreams of its students and hopes of their parents.

The fest witnessed 60% of the jobseekers of fresher level, 25% at mid management and 10% at senior level out of which More than 400 candidates including Engineering, Management, Nursing, Pharmacy, Hotel Management, Commerce etc got shortlisted by the companies.

Dr. Anshu Kataria, Chairman, Aryans Group of Colleges congratulated the candidates and said that apart from providing good quality education it’s the responsibility of the every institution to build and develop job skills in its students so they can be placed in good companies with good packages.

Ms Sheenu Rana, TPO, Aryans Group said thatapart from Chandigarh, students from Chitkara University, LPU, Shri Guru Granth Sahib University, IT Bhadal, Doaba college, GJIMT, ITI Patiala, GZS Bathinda, AS collage khanna, GNIC Hoshiarpur, YSC Barnala, Adesh Group, Indo Global college, Shri Sai college Pathankot, VIT Rohtak, Jind Polytechnic College, Govt Polytechnic Sirsa, West College Rohtak, GRIMT Yamunanagar, IMS Gaziabad, KSVIRA college Bijnor UP participated in this one daylong event.

Recruiters and participants were enthusiastic about the response to the fest. Talking to the team Aryans participants said “This event provides fair opportunities to both experienced candidates and freshers and give us a fair chance to know our abilities. We get to see so many competitors at one place.”

News Kashmir Exclusive

Healthcare as we all know is   the basic sector of every society. Kashmir with its population of more than 6 million has always not had that bright health sector. As it is a known fact that Public Health care has made good strides in our part of the world but yet it has to failed the needs of populace.

Pertinently, the lack of quality Private Hospital too has worsened the problems of Kashmiri people with the result they have to rush outside state  immediately especially to quality Private healthcare facilities in Delhi and Mumbai, but all this comes not only at expensive treatment costs their but also costly travel and staying costs there.

The Indian health system includes public and private hospitals as well as specialized Ayurvedic hospitals. All major cities and medium-sized urban centres have private hospitals that provide an excellent standard of care  but in the Valley of Kashmir we do not have much private hospitals.

Ghulam MUHAMMAD, A commoner states -“We do not have much quality Private hospitals in Kashmir. The existing ones have failed to meet the desires expectations. We need to set a quality Private hospital chain so as to lessen the pain of masses.”

The realities urge on entrepreneurs of Kashmir to divert their financial resources to set a quality hospitals in Kashmir and all the stakeholders should come forward.

News Kashmir Exclusive
With the detection of two cases of H1N1 Influenza in Jammu and Kashmir recently , prompting the government to step up measures in place to tackle the flu the alarm bells have started to ring.
Last year, Swine Flu 109 cases of Swine Flu were detected in the State with 16 deaths till 20 March.

the Jammu and Kashmir Health department collected 43 samples of suspected H1N1 patients on Friday, out of which two turned out to be positive.

“We collected 43 samples of suspected H1N1 patients in Jammu and Kashmir yesterday. Of these two are positive and 31 negative and reports of 10 samples are awaited”, a senior officer of the Health department said.
In view of the again surfacing of swine flu cases, Governor N N Vohra on Friday reviewed the preparedness of the Health and Medical Education Department in dealing with the problem.
“The state has geared up to deal with H1N1 flu. The preparedness to tackle H1N1 flu in the State has been reviewed and measures put in place”, Commissioner Secretary Health and Medical Education department, Dr Mandeep Bhandari said.
As per the situation report on H1N1 Flu status provided by the Secretary Health and Medical Education, a total of 32 samples of suspected patients were collected in Jammu division and 11 in Kashmir division, the department officer said.
Pertinently, few months back Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) had sounded Swine flu alert in valley and cautioned public against it.

“In a study published in Cell Host and Microbe, 2014 Indian H1N1 virus has undergone mutation that possibly made the virus more virulent and contagious and might also allow it to elude the existing flu shots that cover 2009 pandemic strain,” Dr Nisar Ul Hasan, President, DAK, said in a press statement and added, “Vaccination is the single best way to protect people from flu and even if the virus has changed, vaccine can still protect people because of cross protection.”

The doctors’ body said that several lives were lost in last flu season in Kashmir as health authorities were caught unaware and they ignored the situation for a long time. It may be noted that infants younger than 6 months are more vulnerable to infection. It has also been advised that adults should get vaccinated before flu season begins.
In an exclusive interview with The News Kashmir Magazine, Doctor Bashir Gaash one of the pioneering, efficient epidemiologists of Kashmir valley talking on the issue had stated –“All the flu viruses that are currently spreading in the world arise from any place with big farms of swine and birds being reared together. In such places the flu viruses living in the throats of the three (pigs, birds & men catering to them) interchange and can give rise to a new virus. People don’t have resistance to such newly produced viruses and get infected immediately. That is the reason behind global epidemics at periodic intervals (3-5 years cycle). Most of the global epidemics (called pandemics) have risen from China or other countries of the East Asia, but this new pandemic, which started in 2009 is from Mexico.
The new virus selects a carrier and method of spread: The Avian Flu (bird flu) can be transmitted by birds to birds as well as to human beings. The rate and intensity of spread is low in bird flu but once human beings get it there are chances that 50% of the patients cmay die. That means in bird flu less people become infected but once infected half of them can die. On the contrary, the main route of spread of ‘swine flu’ virus is man to man, so any person can get infected easily, but only a few will get serious disease. It is easier to curb bird flu (culling of birds and ban on import/export of birds) but difficult to control ‘swine’ flu since we can’t ban travel of human beings from one region to another.”
Dr. Bashir Gaash had added-“Our state has Disease Surveillance & Epidemic Section at the respective Directorates of Health at Jammu as well as Srinagar. The section at Jammu is not as developed as in Srinagar. However that in Srinagar is well-staffed and well-equipped. There are highly qualified epidemiologists. And, in Barzullah, a State-level Public Health Laboratory has been established as early as 2007. A separate virology section was demarcated, and a qualified microbiologist posted for epidemiological and disease surveillance work. One of the epidemiologists has been trained in the Tropical Karolinska Institute of Amsterdam, and the microbiologist got trained in no less an institute than Johns Hopkins, Baltimore. In addition, we have a videoconferencing hall with automatic cameras for immediate videoconferencing with the World Health Collaborating Centre for Southeast Asia (the National Centre for Disease Control, Sham Nath Marg, Delhi) so that daily conferencing could be held between the State and district health officers and the experts at the National Centre.
The public health laboratory and the emergency video-conferencing centre were established in my period as State Surveillance Officer. Both the epidemiologists have worked as my deputies and have proved their worth. However both the centres were rendered functionless after my retirement in 2010. The grave error the previous government committed was to transfer the microbiologist to NRHM which deprived the Public Health Lab of an experienced public health microbiologist which overtime got denigrated to just another district level laboratory.
The primary responsibility of predicting, preventing and controlling outbreaks lies with the Directorate of Health Services and not with SKIMS or the GMC. The tertiary care hospitals are for managing serious patients, but lack the necessary infrastructure as well as doctors qualified in tackling epidemic prone diseases. There are no isolation wards, no dedicated ventilators for infective patients, and no coordination between the institutes.
I can say without fear of being contraindicated that the Directorate of Health services, particularly in Kashmir, has failed in its preventive endeavors.”
Undoubtedly, Swine Flu is sounding once again alarm bells in J&K.