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NEW DELHI: Though the monsoon has just arrived in the Capital, doctors have set alarm bells ringing in view of a steady increase in the number of cholera cases.

Cholera is a notifiable disease and Municipal Health Officer, N. K. Yadav, on Wednesday confirmed that the city has already reported 563 cholera cases since the beginning of this year. ``If we take the average incidence of cholera in the city, we have recorded a rise in the number of cases. With water stagnating in various parts of the city there will be a rise in cases of diseases related to the season. The number of cholera, jaundice and malaria cases will see a rising trend during the monsoon, but the civic body is trying its best to prevent any major outbreak,' he added.

Virender Chauhan, Consultant Gastroenteritis at G.B. Modi Hospital, said: "Each year the monsoon brings along with it a host of diseases and infections which adversely affect the stomach. We are also seeing a rise in hepatitis A and E and various skin diseases."

VHP protests violence

NEW DELHI: A demonstration by Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal activists protesting against the Mumbai serial blasts took a violent turn here on Wednesday when the protesters damaged two DTC buses at Jantar Mantar. The police have registered a case of rioting.

According to the police, the protesters tried to break the security cordon by pulling down the barricades. Even as the police issued a warning, the protesters broke the windowpanes of a couple of DTC buses parked nearby. Subsequently, the police detained more than 60 activists.

Earlier, addressing the activists, State level leaders of VHP and Bajrang Dal called for snapping all transport links and diplomatic ties with Pakistan with immediate effect. They also charged the United Progressive Alliance Government with going soft on terrorists and demanded re-introduction of tough anti-terrorism laws.

Mulayam flayed

NEW DELHI: Expressing unhappiness over the language used by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav against former Prime Minister V.P. Singh, socialist leader and former Member of Parliament Surendra Mohan said on Wednesday that Mr. Yadav should express regret on the violence unleashed on farmers demonstrating peacefully.

In a statement here, Mr. Mohan said the farmers were acted against by the State Government which detained hundreds of them including Mr. V.P. Singh, Udit Raj and suspended Samajwadi Party MP, Raj Babbar.

Mr. Mohan expressed confidence that the farmers would resist all allotments of land to the corporate sector including multi-national corporations wherever it is happening in the country. Peaceful resistance was already going on in Orissa and about to start in Haryana, he said.

Urging the Centre and Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar to ensure no more acquisitions of land were allowed since foodgrain production had started to show persistent decline, he said continued shrinkage of acreage of land under food production was extremely undesirable under the circumstances.

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