Mangaluru: Dharna demanding waiver of farm loans
Mangaluru, Jan 3: The district Raitha Sangha activists staged a dharna in front of the deputy commissioner’s office here on Thursday, urging the central government to implement the Dr Swaminathan Commission report and waive off the farm loans of all farmers of the country.
Addressing the farmers, Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha and Hasiru Sene state secretary Ravi Kiran Punacha said that following the call from All India Farmers Coordination Committee, all farmers organizations in the district have staged the dharna supporting the all India protest on January 8 and 9.
Last November, dharna was held in New Delhi under the leadership of the Federation of All India Farmers Organisations. Later, the central government has completely neglected the farmers, working class and middle class people of the country, he said.
As per the Dr MS Swaminathan Agriculture Commission report, along with the production cost of the agriculture produces, the government has to give 50 per cent additional amount to ensure stable price permanently.
The central government should convene a special Parliament Session to discuss the farming sector problems. The loans of all farmers should be waived off and check the prices of petroleum products, fertilizers and other daily commodities, he demanded.
Raitha Sangha and Hasiru Sene district organizing secretary Manohar Shetty, Hasiru Sene district secretary Sheik Abdullah, JDS Kisan unit secretary Rama Ganesh, Karnataka Regional Raitha Sangha general secretary K Yadav Shetty, K Krishnappa Salian and others were present.
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Killing of Khamenei cynical violation of human morality, international law: Putin
Moscow (PTI): The killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was a cynical violation of all norms of human morality and international law, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared in his message to his Tehranian counterpart, the Kremlin said Sunday.
Khamenei was killed in an airstrike in Tehran on Saturday during a joint Israel-US attack on Iran.
“Please accept my deepest condolences in connection with the assassination of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Seyyed Ali Khamenei, and members of his family, committed in a cynical violation of all norms of human morality and international law,” Putin said in his condolence message.
Putin's condolence message to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was published on the Kremlin portal.
Earlier on Saturday, Russia condemned the US-Israeli joint strikes on Iran qualifying it as an “unprovoked” aggression against a sovereign state in violation of international law and called for immediate return to diplomacy.
The Russian Foreign Ministry also described the US and Israeli forces' strikes against the Iranian territory as “a pre-planned” act of aggression against an independent UN member state.
Putin also conducted an emergency meeting of the National Security Council online on Saturday to discuss the emerging situation following the US-Israeli strikes and Iran’s retaliation.
Meanwhile, according to reports more than 2,00,000 Russians are stuck in the region due to closure of their airspaces by Iran and Gulf countries.
The situation in the Middle East and the airport closures have affected not only organised tourists from Russia registered with tour operators, but also those travelling on business trips and independently, state-run TASS news agency reported.
“Approximately 2,00,000 people are unable to leave the UAE or return from vacations in the Maldives and other countries,” Alexey Volkov, president of the National Union of Hospitality Industry, told TASS.
UAE and its airports have become a main hub of access to Russia since the Ukraine conflict and closure of EU air space for civilian air traffic under sanction on Moscow.
“The situation remains complex and unpredictable: drone and missile strikes have hit key tourist locations in the UAE, including its most famous hotels.
“And then there are those who aren't counted as tourists at all, but are travelling around the world for business—the Middle East, for example, is currently a major business hub, home to a significant amount of Russian capital, investment, and business,” Volkov said.
