Mangaluru: The Rashtriya Dharma Sansad-2018 program is scheduled to be held on September 3 at Sri Ram Kshetra in Nithyananda city of Dharmasthala district. While Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy will inaugurate the programme, Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar will grace the occasion, said MP Nalin Kumar Kateel.

Speaking at a press conference here, he said that the Dharmadhikari of Dharmasthala temple Dr. D Veerendra Heggade would preside over the programme. Union minister DV Sadananda Gowda, former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa, Rajya Sabha member BK Hariprasad, MPs and MLAs of D.K, Chikkamagaluru will attend the function.

More than 2000 Sadhu saints who will arrive from different parts of the country on September 2 will reach in the form of a procession from Janardhan temple to Nithyananda. Special bus arrangements have been made from Mangaluru to Kanyadi. Around 1,000 volunteers and 400 supervisors have been appointed, Nalin Kumar explained.

MLA Bharat Shetty, Dharma Sansad Committee chairman K Chittaranjan, Secretary Vasant Poojary, Naveen Suvarna, Krishnappa Poojary and Kiran Kumar were present.

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Budapest/Washington: US Vice President J D Vance has said that Lebanon was never included in the ceasefire understanding with Iran, describing the confusion as a “legitimate misunderstanding”.

Speaking to reporters before departing from Hungary, Vance said, “I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon and it just didn’t. We never made that promise.”

He stressed that the United States had not included Lebanon in the scope of the ceasefire at any stage.

His remarks come amid continued Israeli strikes in Lebanon, where more than 200 people were reported killed, even as ceasefire talks between Iran and the US move forward.

Vance said Israel had “offered … to check themselves a little bit in Lebanon because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful”.

He warned that if Iran allows the situation in Lebanon to affect the negotiations, it could derail the talks.

“If Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart in a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them and which the United States never once said was part of the ceasefire, that’s ultimately their choice,” he said.