CM Kumaraswamy condoles death of photo journalist Keshava Vittla
Bengaluru, May 28: Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy condoled the death of noted photojournalist Keshava Vittla who passed away on Sunday.
Keshava Vittla had started his career as photojournalist in ‘Mungaru’ Kannada daily published from Mangaluru thirty years ago. Later, he continued his profession Kannada Prabha where he got popularity. ‘Veekshana Chayankana’ of Keshava Vittla, being published in Kannada Prabha was a novel concept and experiment in the Indian media history. The “Veekshana Chayankana” was being published with a paragraph of writing on the pictures which were throwing light mainly on social problems and this was getting good response. After Kannada Prabha, he worked in Udayavani, Roopatara, The Telegraph, Hindustan Times, Washington Post and other newspapers. He had organized four photo exhibitions.
The first photo exhibition “The Insights of Life” conducted during 1988 had expressed the real insights of life. Another photo exhibition “Illusion and Reality” held in 1998 had displayed the wonders between imagination and reality. His another expo was “The Faithfull Karnataka Waterscapes” and another exhibition conducted in 2003 had depicted the present situation of stray dogs in all cities. Another exhibition held in 2008 was centralized on major tanks, attractive sea shores and beaches, and breathtaking waterfalls of the state.
He has also published a book called “Facets of Karnataka: A Pictorial Journey” wherein the special characteristics of forest, and its diversity, hills, stones and boulders, sea shores, waterfalls and other wonders of nature and environment got the place.
Apart from this, Keshava Vittla was also famous for capturing the colour combination. Interesting fact is that Vittla has worked for more than 8 years to prepare for this book and it shows his concern towards the environment.
He has also published a book called “Nose for news, eyes for photography” and has done a good work as an individual. If the book is glanced once, it would give an experience of travelling all the tourist places in the state. Moreover, it would also create curiosity among reader that he should visit those places once in a lifetime, the CM explained in his message.
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Iran's joint military command said on Saturday that “control of the Strait of Hormuz has returned to its previous state ... under strict management and control of the armed forces.” It warned that it would continue to block transit through the strait as long as the US blockade of Iranian ports remained in effect.
The announcement came the morning after US President Donald Trump said that even after Iran announced the strait's reopening on Friday, the American blockade “will remain in full force” until Tehran reaches a deal with the US, including on its nuclear programme.
The conflict over the chokepoint threatened to deepen the energy crisis roiling the global economy after oil prices began to fall again on Friday on hopes the US and Iran were drawing closer to an agreement. Roughly one-fifth of the world's oil passes through the strait, and further limits would squeeze already constrained supply, driving prices higher once again.
Control over the strait has proven to be one of Iran's main points of leverage and prompted the United States to deploy forces and initiate a blockade on Iranian ports as part of an effort to force Iran to accept a Pakistan-brokered ceasefire to end almost seven weeks of war that has raged between Israel, the US and Iran.
Iran said it fully reopened the Strait of Hormuz to commercial vessels after a 10-day truce was announced between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon. But after Trump said the blockade would continue, top Iranian officials said his announcement violated last week's ceasefire agreement between Iran and the US and warned the strait would not stay open if the US blockade remained in effect.
A data firm, Kpler, said movement through the strait remained confined to corridors requiring Iran's approval.
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The State Department said the prohibition applies only to offensive attacks and not to actions taken in self-defence.
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