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  • Governors find common cause in fighting addiction

    Governors find common cause in fighting addiction

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    A bipartisan panel of governors from Maryland, New Hampshire, New Mexico and North Dakota said they agreed on elements of each other’s ideas to address addiction and the fentanyl crisis, speaking Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

    “That is probably going to be the nexus of real bipartisan work,” Democratic New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said to North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, a Republican, after he described treating addiction as a disease. The governors were in Washington, D.C., for the National Governors Association conference, and dealing with fentanyl was one area where they clearly found common cause.

    Burgum said his state is working to make sure the war on fentanyl doesn’t become “a war on people,” contrasting his approach to the hard-line enforcement against drug offenses championed in decades past.

    “If we think that the way we’re going to stop drug consumption is with with longer prison terms, or higher penalties, we’re actually just incarcerating people that have a health issue,” Burgum said.

    U.S. drug overdose deaths surpassed 107,000 in 2021, setting a record and bringing the number of drug overdose deaths to more than 1 million since 2001. The number of deaths from synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, rose over the course of that year. And opioids overall accounted for more than 80,000 of those deaths.

    New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, a Republican, also expressed agreement with the idea of keeping the opioid reversal drug naloxone in schools, after Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, described Maryland’s use of the policy.

    “You need access points to schools,” Sununu said to host Margaret Brennan. “Kids need to know that — that there is help there, what those systems are. Rural access to care is absolutely huge.”

    Maryland, like New Jersey, Rhode Island and Washington, requires public schools to stock naloxone, also known by the brand name Narcan. Lawmakers in California are pushing to not only supply schools with the drug, but also to allow students to carry and administer it.

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    ( With inputs from : www.politico.com )

  • BJY Largely Succeeded In Fighting Narrative Of Hatred In Country: Rahul Gandhi

    BJY Largely Succeeded In Fighting Narrative Of Hatred In Country: Rahul Gandhi

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    SRINAGAR:  Congress leader and Member Parliament Rahul Gandhi Tuesday said that Bharat Jodo Yatra (BJY) has largely succeeded to fight against the narrative of hatred spread across the country and bring the folks together yet again.

    “Let me tell you that we have been able to bring the people across the country together yet again through BJY. There were a lot of lessons for us in the Yatra and we have learnt a lot after meeting people of various shades during our journey,” news agency KNO quoted Rahul as having said.

    He said that there is no scope for hatred in the country as Congress believes in spreading the message of love. “Our endeavour is to open the shops of love across J&K that has been made a scapegoat of politics,” Rahul said. “Through BJY we have largely been able to fight the disastrous narrative of hatred spread by the BJP in the country.”

    He said that primary focus of Congress is to get Statehood and Assembly restored in J&K. Asked if BJY was apolitical, why he was continuously targeting BJP, Rahul said that since Congress is the grand old political party, there will surely be a bit of politics in his speeches during the Yatra. “When KPs, farmers and unemployed youth would meet me during the Yatra and hope that I will definitely rake up their issues, there would obviously be a problem for me if I don’t talk about them,” the Congress leader said. He said there was not even a tinge of hatred for anybody including PM Narendera Modi. “I am not afraid of anybody so why should I have hatred for anyone,” he asid.

    He said J&K youth are suffering from depression and discomfort. “We are here to listen to them and understand their issue,” he said, adding that media too has been suppressed to an extent as if Yatra is not happening at all.

    To a query about Lal Singh, Rahul said that Singh supported Yatra and Congress appreciates that. “As far as Ghulam Nabi Azad, 90 per cent of his supporters and party men were on our stage. I would like to tender my apology if we have hurt Azad or Lal Singh,” Rahul said. On there are reports that crores are being spent for his BJY, Rahul said that to tarnish his image, BJP and RSS spent thousands of crores and yet didn’t succeed. “I want to tell BJP that money can’t burry the truth which has a nasty habit of come out. BJP has started to understand this reality gradually,” he said. Pertinently, Rahul led BJY will enter Srinagar on January 30.

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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  • Fighting Odds, Baramulla Girl Is Finally A JKAS Officer

    Fighting Odds, Baramulla Girl Is Finally A JKAS Officer

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    SRINAGAR: 25 -year-old Nadia Shameem of Adoora Baramulla has proved that no financial crisis, hardship and adversity can stop you from achieving your goal. Nadia, who cleared the prestigious Jammu & Kashmir Combined Competitive Examination, quit regular studies at very young age and took up a lowly-paid government job to support her family financially, but didn’t give up her dream of making it big in life.

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    Nadia said she did her schooling from Kekashan School, Handwara.

    “I have done my initial schooling from Kehkashan School Handwara. After passing my 10th class examination, I got admission in the  Saint Joseph Baramulla for higher secondary education. I secured 3rd position in the entrance examination conducted by the institution for admission,” she said.

    Nadia said she got admission in SKUAST Kashmir, but had to quit her studies after she was selected for a job of in the civil secretariat.

    “I had to quit my studies due to financial constraints. I joined as an orderly in the civil secretariat to support my family,” news agency KNO quoted Nadia as having said.

    Nadia said she continued her studies through distance mode after taking up the job.

    “I completed my B.A (Hons) in Sociology from IGNOU because I wanted Sociology to be my optional,” she said, adding that she simultaneously started preparing for civil services.

    “After getting into service, I got more insights and inspirations to be part of the service,” she added.

    Nadia, who cracked the prestigious civil service examination in her maiden attempt, said her mother and her teachers were an inspiration for her.

    “The motivation behind my journey was my mother, my teachers and my colleagues who had faith in me. Everybody would feel that I have the potential to do the best against all odds.  This thing kept the fire alive in me,” she said.

    She said it was a bit difficult to balance between job and studies, but she managed.

    “I would get up early to study and off days on Saturday and Sunday really helped me in preparation for the examination. I took earned leave right before Prelims, Mains and Interview,” she said.

    Her mother Shameema, a housewife, says her daughter excelled in studies right from childhood.

    “My daughter has been an amazing student. She bagged state-level positions in 10th as well as 12th class. She was loved by all her teachers and relatives for being extraordinary,” she said.

    Shameema says her daughter was adamant to be financially independent.

    “It was her decision to quit studies at SKUAST as she is a very responsible daughter. After taking up the job, she took up another challenge to clear the civil services examination. She qualified the examination. I am proud of my daughter,” she said.

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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  • Pakistanis smile while fighting for flour to keep up the happiness index ranking

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    The acute shortage of wheat has been a cause of the recent crisis in Pakistan. India’s neighbour has been facing one of its worst-ever flour crises amid shortage of wheat. The high demand for wheat flour in the country has also been causing clashes and chaos. Stampedes were reported from several areas in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and Balochistan provinces due to the crisis.

     

    However, despite all this crisis and hunger Pakistan has been ranked above India and many other countries in global Happiness Index and hunger index.

     

    In such tiring times when people are fighting for flour in Pakistan, many Pakistanis were seen smiling and even laughing. Upon asking why are they not pained with the ongoing economic crisis, they said that they are pained and distressed but want to keep up the global happiness ranking of Pakistan.

     

    Many Pakistanis have put covid mask to hide their pain. Sources suggest that many countries are now praying for economic crisis to improve their happiness index. Many Indians have written letter to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to take bad economic policy decisions to improve India’s happiness and hunger index ranking.

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