Bag full of ration cards found near highway in Shiroor
Byndoor, June 21: A bag containing more than two thousand ration cards was found near national highway in Shiroor on June 21, Thursday afternoon.
The ration cards that belongs to Bantwal taluk were filled in a cement bag and was abandoned near Green Valley school in Shiroor on national highway here, said Tahsildar.
After receiving information at around 12am we went to the spot and during inquiry we found that these were old cancelled cards, he said.
The bag contained ration cards sanctioned during 2008 to 2015-16. It had Antyodaya cards, BPL, APL and other cards said Byndoor revenue inspector.
Bantwal taluk office has been informed about the incident and we are expecting an answer from them, he said. It is yet to be known who had thrown these cards there, he added.
All the cards were seized in front of Byndoor PSI, tahsildar, and revenue department officers. These cards have been handed over to food inspector of Kundapur taluk office, he said.
DC clarifies
The ration cards that were found in a bag near Green Valley in Shiroor have been examined. There were around 2000 ration cards in the bag. These were returned cards to avail new one and belongs to Bantwal taluk in Dakshina Kannada district.
Dakshina Kannada district food, civil supplies and consumer affair departments have been asked to take these cards and dispose accordingly, said Udupi DC Priyanka Mary Francis in a press meet.
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India has agreed already to drop its tariffs to nothing: President Trump
New York/Washington, May 7 (PTI): US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said India has “agreed” to drop its high tariffs “to nothing”.
“I mean, India as an example, has one of the highest tariffs in the world. We’re not going to put up with that, and they’ve agreed already to drop it. They’ll drop it to nothing. They’ve already agreed. They would have never done that for anybody else but me,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
Trump and visiting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke to reporters as they met in the Oval Office to discuss the US-Canada trade.
“So we’re going to put down some numbers and we’re going to say our country is open for business and they’re going to come in and they’re going to pay for the privilege of being able to shop in the United States of America. It’s very simple. It’s very simple,” he added.
In the past, Trump has called India “tariff king” and a “big abuser”.
Last month, Trump had said that negotiations with India over a bilateral trade deal are “coming along great” and he thinks “we’ll have a deal with India”.
