Veteran film director KP Shashi passes away
Thrissur: Film and documentary director and cartoonist KP Shashi (64) passed away on Sunday.
He passed away in a private hospital in Thrissur.
His film ‘Ila Yum Mullum’, which deals with the lives of Malayali women who are vulnerable to social and psychological violence, has won a National Award. Other notable films are Resisting Coastal Invasion, America America, Living in Fear and Development at Gunpoint. The 2013 documentary Fabricated was a big talk.
He started as a cartoonist in the 70s while a student at JNU. He worked as a cartoonist in the Free Press Journal in Mumbai. He is one of the founders of Vibgyor Film Festival.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
