Nizamabad MP gifts helmet to brother to promote road safety
Teams of doctors and senior officials visit the men regularly who have refused food since July 21. “Their condition is critical since Saturday. Urine output is nil for the past three days, they are suffering muscle cramps,” Kalimpong municipal health officer Dr Sangay Dorjee Zimba said on Monday. Their kidneys had been affected and they needed immediate medical attention, he said. The men were refusing medical help, saying the Centre should first take some concrete steps towards Gorkhaland, a doctor attending on the strikers in Darjeeling said on condition of anonymity.
Dasgupta said doctors had advised them to take medicines.
“I have committed myself to the cause of Gorkhaland and will not take medicine unless the Centre pledges to initiate something positive for Gorkhaland,” said 42-year-old Raju Biswakarma, who is fasting in Kalimpong.
Charity begins at home. And Nizamabad MP Kalvakuntla Kavitha drove home the point on Monday by gifting a helmet to her brother — Telangana Information Technology minister KT Rama Rao on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan.
Kavitha, only daughter of chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, tied rakhi to her brother and gifted him a helmet as part of her online campaign “Gift A Helmet This Rakhi”, which she launched a few days ago to promote road safety. But KTR, as the IT minister is popularly known, doesn’t own a two-wheeler and travels in his official car.
While appreciating the gesture, KTR presented her with a handloom saree as part of his campaign to promote wearing of hand-woven clothes by all sections of people. Incidentally, Monday is being observed as National Handloom Day.
On August 4, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi MP launched a website -- sisters4change.com, which was inaugurated in New Delhi by Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan. Her online campaign #GiftAHelmet launched on July 24 received tremendous response with several Central ministers, her Lok Sabha colleague, badminton stars Jwala Gutta and Saina Nehwal, cricketers Mithali Raj, Virendra Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir, reacting to her message on social media.
of Vidarbha have come up with an innovative way to celebrate Raksha Bandhan this year. The women farmers have prepared environmental friendly ‘rakhis’ called ‘seed bands’, which is made completely out of organic materials.
This is being organised by the Nagpur Bijotsav Group and Gramart consisting of 50 women farmers from different villages of Vidarbha and Chhindwara in Madhya Pradesh.
The rakhi is prepared using natural colours from the thread derived out of native cotton using natural gum. No chemicals are used in the preparation of the rakhi. Only native and organic ingredients are used for the various processes involved in making the rakhi including five different types of seeds.
“The main purpose behind the use of these seeds in the activities is to promote and disseminate organic seeds. On this occasion, the intrinsic relation between a sister and her brother is intended to increase with the seed production and dissemination,” said Tejashree Kamble, owner of the Rakhi stall in Pune. HTC