Author: Noc Team

During this month of May, four bright planets will engage in a fascinating dance with each other in the morning sky, Yahoo News reports. Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter will be involved in a series of conjunctions, joined at the end of the month by a very thin, waning crescent moon. We could even refer to this as a “celestial summit meeting,” or more precisely, a series of summit meetings during May 2011. Twice during May three planets will converge to form a “trio”. According to Belgian calculator Jean Meeus, a trio is when three planets fit within a circle with a minimum diameter of 5 degrees. Such a limit was one that Meeus chose more or less arbitrarily, but as he notes, “We have to make a choice.” Today (Wednesday), Mercury, Venus and Jupiter will converge within 2.05-degrees of each other, followed just 10 days later by another trio, this time formed by Mercury, Venus and Mars, which will crowd within a 2.13-degree circle. Then late in the month, on three successive mornings, May 29th, 30th, and 31st, the waning crescent moon will arrive, sweeping past Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury stretched out across the eastern sky from upper right to lower left

As may as eight Pakistani prisoners out of total 11 languishing in Central Jail Sri Ganga Nagar Rajasthan, India, have now been become mentally and physically sick despite completing their imprisonment awarded them by the local Indian judicial court for illegally entering into an Indian territory several years ago.
This was disclosed by Pakistani prisoner Tayyub Tahir, a resident of village Kaanwaan Lit, Daska in his letter to his family in Pakistan. He alleged that the Pakistani prisoners had been living a very miserable life in Indian jail as they were being treated like the animals by Indian jail officials. He said that the jail was presenting a look of filth depot as there was no proper arrangement of cleanliness in this jail and there was a great suffocation. The prisoners are unable to take fresh breath. He said that there was the worst water supply system, due to which the prisoners, especially the Pakistani prisoners were unable to take fresh and clean water.

Tahir further revealed that only three Pakistani prisoners out of total 11 had better physical and mental health. While the mentally and physically sick Pakistani prisoners were being given the improper medicines of depression as the local psychiatrists have already diagnosed this disease as bipolar disorder and this disease requires the life-long regular treatment.

Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) organized a one-day consultation on the subject of “Post Provincial Responsibilities of 18th Amendment and Child Protection” at a local hotel on Tuesday. On the occasion, a number of government officials and civil society representatives including IA Rehman, Justice (R) Nasira Iqbal, Justice (R) Dr Munir Mughal, MPA Semal Kamran, Secretary Human Rights and Minorities Affairs Department Arshad Bin Ahmed shared their views on the issue.

The speakers said that the child rights situation in Punjab was deteriorating day by day as child labor, child abuse and minor age marriages are on rise in the province. They said recently, a child trafficking racket was uncovered that involved handicapped children being trafficked to Iran by gangs and mafias. “According to investigation, 300 people including children had been sent to Iran for forced begging” they added.

Appreciating the decision of revising the pay package for the medics, the Medical Teachers Association’s Punjab body on Tuesday asked the government to give due attention to patient care and provision of quality healthcare facilities. Talking to media on Tuesday, General Secretary MTA Dr Tehseen Riaz said that there was need of increasing health budget from meager 0.5 percent of the GDP to 2 percent of the GDP. Stressing upon the government to revise allocation for health in the budget for the coming fiscal year, he said that the MTA would have no other option except to seek cooperation of all the stakeholders across the country and start long march and stage a sit in outside the parliament house after the budget

The Secretary Education made Deputy District Education Officer of the Gulberg Town, Rubina Miraj, an OSD for “pointing out: illegal activities in City District Government Girls Middle School, Canal Park, Gulberg. The school has become a hub of unlawful activities under the nose of its headmistress and some influential of the area. The school is meant for parking stand and store for the shopkeepers of the market situated adjacent to the school while the washroom of the school has also been rented out by the headmistress who is backed up by some political people of the area.
While seeking direction regarding misuse of school property, Deputy District Education Officer (DDEO) Rubina Miraj had transferred the headmistress for supporting the illegal occupants but the District Officer Education Farkhanda Shaheen on the pressure from an MPA restored the headmistress, for which she was not authorised. While the Secretary Education made the DDEO Rubina Miraj officer on special duty (OSD) as punishment despite her work was praised and appreciated by different quarters.

Two police officers were on Tuesday dismissed for allegedly patronising brothels in the City. The action against Kahna SHO Ghulam Dastgir and Iqbal Town Sub-Inspector Karamat Ali was taken by the acting Capital City Police Officer DIG Rao Safdar.  About 445 brothels, in the guise of hotels and guesthouses, are reportedly being run by various influential persons, including officials in the police and civil departments since a long time. Even local police high-ups are also fully acquainted with the act of supporting prostitutes, official documents have disclosed.

Four other officers – SIs Azhar Ishfaq and Azra Parveen, and constables M Kamran and Amir Hayyat – were also awarded punishment of censure