Illegal sand den raided: 8 Lorries, 20 men held
Kundapur: A team led by Kundapur Assistant Commissioner Bhubalan conducted raids on illegal sand dens near Seetanadi in Handadi grama panchayat limits today. Eight Lorries and 28 boats have been seized, and workers held.
"Based on specific information, the team conducted raids on as many as ten illegal sand mines belonging to Grama panchayat members Timmappa Shetty, Karunakar Shetty, Basava, Sadashiv, Sarvutham, Dinesh Salyan, Raviraj, Prasanna, Philips Dsouza, and Sunil Choda. During the raid, Sunil Choda's sand mining licence has been cancelled. Remaining nine dens were operational illegally," said the assistant commissioner.
Grama panchayat members Timmappa Shetty, Karunakar Shetty and other ten people have fled the scene.
Police have successfully arrested remaining 20 people and seized the assets.
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Trump confronts South African president over killing of white farmers
Washington, May 21 (AP): President Donald Trump used a White House meeting to confront South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, accusing his country of failing to address the killing of white farmers.
“People are fleeing South Africa for their own safety," said Trump, who at one point dimmed the lights in the Oval Office to play a video of a communist politician playing a controversial anti-apartheid song that includes lyrics about killing a farmer. "Their land is being confiscated and in many cases they're being killed."
Ramaphosa pushed back against Trump's accusation. The South African leader had sought to use the meeting to set the record straight and salvage his country's relationship with the United States. The bilateral relationship is at its lowest point since South Africa enforced its apartheid system of racial segregation, which ended in 1994.
“We are completely opposed to that,” Ramaphosa said of the behaviour alleged by Trump in their exchange.
Experts in South Africa say there is no evidence of whites being targeted, although farmers of all races are victims of violent home invasions in a country that suffers from a very high crime rate.
