Baikampady: Lorry container falls on school building
Students escape unhurt
Mangaluru, November 19: The lorry containers kept adjacent to a school building fell on the building of the Baikampady Angaragundi government school on Monday.
A private company had kept the huge containers of the NMPT bedside the Angaragundi government school at the Baikampady industrial area and doing business. On Monday morning, one side stones of a wall of the school building were collapsed. When checked, the containers fell on the building due to which school building developed cracks and stones of the wall were collapsed. The compound of the school was damaged completely.
Soon after the news spread, Mangaluru north BEO Manjula, Baikampady corporator Purushottam Chitrapur visited the spot and took the company owner to task for not taking precautionary measures. Parents and general public also visited the school and expressed their anger against the company owner for keeping the containers. If the school was opened when the incident occurred, the children would have problem, they said and urged the company owner and school authority to shift the containers immediately from the school premises.
Now the company owner has assured of reconstructing the compound wall and wall of the school. School head mistress Ravikala Shetty lodged a complaint at Panambur police station.
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Lebanon appoints new representative for talks with Israel, rejects linkage to Iran
Beirut: Lebanon’s has moved to underline its independent position in ongoing regional developments, amid attempts to link the country to the broader conflict involving Iran, the United States and Israel.
President Joseph Aoun, while announcing the appointment of former US ambassador Simon Karam as Lebanon’s representative in talks with Israel, made it clear that Karam would be the sole representative for Lebanon and that there would be no substitute.
The move comes in response to what the Lebanese officials see as efforts by Iran to tie Lebanon’s situation to the wider regional conflict. Iran had indicated that there would be no ceasefire involving the US, Israel and Iran unless it also included a ceasefire in Lebanon.
Some groups, including Hezbollah and its supporters, had expressed support for linking the situations, citing concerns that the Lebanese government has limited leverage in negotiations with Israel. Lebanon is not formally a party to the conflict, and its army is considered weak.
However, others, including Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, have opposed this approach. They view Iran’s stance as an attempt to influence Lebanon’s internal affairs and see it as undermining the country’s sovereignty.
Officials backing the government’s position say the move is aimed at reaffirming Lebanon’s sovereignty and ensuring that decisions about peace and ceasefire within the country are not dictated externally.
They also see it as a safeguard, so that any breakdown in talks between the US, Israel and Iran does not automatically lead to renewed conflict in Lebanon.
