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Monkeypox

14th Monkeypox Case Reported In India, 9th In Delhi

By LokMarg

India on Monday reported the 14th monkeypox case after a Nigerian national tested positive in Delhi, taking the figure to nine cases in Delhi, said official sources.

The ninth case that tested positive for Monkeypox in Delhi is a case of 30-year-old Nigerian female.
Recently in an interview with ANI, Dr Suresh Kumar, Medical Director, LNJP confirmed eight cases of Nigerian females and the maximum number of cases are of African origin with no travel history and the government is doing contact tracing.

He also said that maximum cases have no significant complications. ” No patient had major complications and most of them had a low-grade fever.”

The study is also underway in Delhi as the maximum cases are of Nigerian or African origin.

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR ) has also analysed the complete genome sequences of Monkeypox cases from Kerala and Delhi from July to August 2022. In genome sequences from India covering 90-99 per cent genome was found to belong to A.2 Lineage of clade IIb.

“Further A.2 lineage is mutating and sequences from affected countries are holding the key for the evolution of Monkeypox. It’s a slow and sharp alert for virologists and epidemiologists,” said Dr Pragya Yadav, Senior Scientist, ICMR-NIV, Pune. (ANI)

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Tughlaqabad Fort: Glorious past with a mourning present

By LokMarg


Despite the legal restriction of not constructing any structure within 100 meter radius of the monument, some houses are constructed which are clearly within this radius. The area is occupied by shop owners, and other small vendors, who have no intention to leave this place. The Supreme Court had also barred in 2003 construction activities around this protected monument.
According to the Arvind Kumar residents have filed a petition in Supreme Court on September 28, 2011 and in October 12 the ASI decided to go ahead with the demolition. However, due to protests, the demolition in this area stopped, but now ASI again sent notices to such violators to demolish their constructions.
When we asked the Director of the monuments, he said that the ASI is following court’s orders. “Issue is under scanner since 1995. ASI got this land after Land Reforms Act, from that time issue is continuing. Last year, when the demolitions were planned, villagers started the protests and went to the High Court and got a stay orders. After that the matter was brought to the Supreme Court’s notice after S N Bhardwaj, a Supreme Court lawyer, filed a Special Leave Petition (SLP). Now we are following court’s orders.”
According to the ASI, in the year 1995, total 2,661 bighas of land around Tughlaqabad Fort was handed over to ASI, of which the authorities found that 351 bigha of land was already encroached. In the year 1997, ASI recovered 50 bigha land from the encroachers, but in year 2000, after a survey conducted by ASI, they found encroachment area had extended upto 928 bighas.
 
Tughlaqabad Fort
Ghiyasu’d-Din Tughluq (1321-25) built the fortified town of Tughluqabad, the third city of Delhi. With its slanting walls on desolate hills, its position gives it a natural advantage, Tughluqabad was raised as a stronghold rather than as an architectural enterprise. It is in two parts, the citadel and palaces along the southern walls forming one unit and the city to the north the other. On plan it is an irregular rectangle with over 6 km. Tughalaq also built Qutub-Badarpur Road, which connected the new city to the Grand Trunk Road. The road is now known as Mehrauli-Badarpur Road.