Ambedkar Parinibbana Diwas in Bengaluru on Dec 12, 13: Mavalli Shankar
Mangaluru, December 2: The Karnataka Dalit Sangharsh Samiti (DSS) has organized the 62nd Ambedkar Parinibbana Day(Death anniversary) and the general body meeting of the Samiti at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Bhavan at Devanahalli in Bengaluru on December 12 and 13.
Speaking to reporters here on Sunday, DSS state general convener Mavalli Shankar said that former minister H. Anjaneya would inaugurate the programme and he would preside over it. Justice Nagamohan Das would be the chief guest and senior journalist Dinesh Amin Mattu, Indira Krishnappa, Rudrappa Hanagavadi of Samiti Mahila Okkuta and economist Prof. Keshav would be present, he said.
The Parinirvan procession would start from Tippu birthplace at 11 am, reach the Mini Vidhana Soudha premises where Ambedkar statue would be garlanded and converge at the Ambedkar Bhavan, he said.
The communalists have been wielding the swords as they have decided to change the Constitution. Many incidents happening in the country were justifying that the future of the country was at stake now than before. Efforts were being held to oppress the dalits who have been trying to live with self esteem. Manu mentality has been engulfing the entire society, he said.
The central government has been weakening the constitutional agencies like RBI, CBI, Election Commission, CVC and others. Upper caste forces have been opposing the reservation facilities entitled to the backward and dalit communities in the Constitution. There was a need to organize a strategic movement against the anti-people policies of the central government, he said.
Progressive writers, Scholar, Social activists, Singers, Artistes and others would participate in the convention. More than 1,500 workers of Dalit Sangharsh Samiti across the state would participate and more than 250 workers would participate from Udupi district, he said.
DSS general convener B.K. Vasanth, Divisional organizing convener Chandu R, District convener Jagadeesh Pandeshwar, Sadashiva and others were present at the press conference.
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3 US troops killed, 5 seriously wounded during Iran attacks, military says
Washington (AP): Three American service members have been killed and five others seriously wounded during the US attacks on Iran, the military said Sunday, marking the first American casualties in a major offensive that has sparked retaliation from the Islamic Republic.
US Central Command, which oversees the Middle East, announced the deaths in a post on X but did not say when and where they occurred. The statement said “several others sustained minor shrapnel injuries and concussions” and were going to return to duty.
Central Command described the situation “as fluid” and said it would withhold the identities of the service members who were killed for 24 hours after their families were notified.
The US military also denied Iranian claims that the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier was struck with ballistic missiles, saying on X that the “missiles launched didn't even come close.”
President Donald Trump had warned that American troops could be killed or injured in the operation.
“The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties,” the Republican president said in a video address released early Saturday. “That often happens in war. But we're doing this not for now. We're doing this for the future.”
Following the US-Israeli strikes that killed Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and other leaders, Iran's counterattacks have struck US bases in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has threatened to launch its “most intense offensive operation” ever targeting Israeli and American military installations.
Before the strikes, Trump had built up the largest US military presence in the Middle East in decades. The arrival of the Lincoln and three accompanying guided-missile destroyers at the end of January bolstered the number of warships in the region.
The world's largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, and four accompanying destroyers later were dispatched from the Caribbean Sea to head to the Middle East.
The Ford was part of the US raid in Venezuela that captured leader Nicolás Maduro, who was brought to New York to face drug trafficking charges. The operation in January claimed no American lives but left seven US troops with gunshot wounds and shrapnel-related injuries.
One of those injured received the Medal of Honor during Trump's State of the Union address last week. Trump said Army Chief Warrant Officer 5 Eric Slover piloted the lead CH-47 Chinook helicopter that descended on the “heavily protected military fortress” where Maduro was staying.
Trump has launched several military operations during his second term, including strikes on members of the Islamic State group in Syria in retaliation for an ambush attack that killed two US troops and an American civilian interpreter in December.
The US military has also struck IS forces in Nigeria, after Trump accused the West African country's government of failing to rein in the targeting of Christians.
