11 year old braveheart jumped thrice into Brahmaputra to save mother, aunt
GUWAHATI, Sept 06: Eleven-year-old Kamal Kishore Das braved the strong current of a swollen Brahmaputra river and put his life in danger by jumping into it thrice within 20 minutes even after safely reaching the bank, to save his mother and aunt.
His only regret—he could not save a woman and her child even after pulling them to safety. "I had just pulled out my mother and my aunt when I saw a woman with burka and a child in her arms struggling to stay afloat. I jumped again into the water and pulled both of them to the concrete slabs of the pillars of a water reservoir on the river. Unfortunately, the child slipped into the water from the woman’s hands and was swiftly swept away by the river. The woman too jumped into the river and I saw her being swept away into the river before I could take another jump," Kamal told TOI.
Kamal, a class VI student of St Anthony’s School at North Guwahati, was returning home along with his mother and aunt after dropping his grandmother at her home in Guwahati when the ill-fated country boat they were riding capsized and sank in the Brahmaputra river, which is in spate.
“When the boat hit the pillars of the water reservoir and started sinking, my mother asked me to take off my shoes and swim to the bank. I did and reached the bank. I then realized that my mother and my aunt were not with me. I jumped back into the river and started swimming in the place where the accident happened. I saw my mother. She does not know swimming and was struggling in the water. I caught her by her hair and thought the hairs would come off and immediately held her by her hand and pulled her towards the pillars,” Kamal said.
Along with Kamal and his mother, there were many other survivors who had managed to swim to the pillar and cling on to it for life. “Suddenly I saw a woman at a distance who looked like my aunt and she too was struggling to stay afloat. I took another jump and pulled her to the pillar.
Courtesy: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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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”.
