Mangaluru : Senior Lawyer Indira Jaising to deliver BV Kakkilaya Inspired Oration on Dec 17
Mangaluru, Dec 03: Senior lawyer at the Supreme Court of India and Former Additional Solicitor General of India Indira Jaising will deliver the BV Kakkilaya Inspired Oration- 2018 on December 17 in Mangaluru.
As a part of the oration, Padma Shree Awardee Indira Jaising will speak on the topic 'Gender Justice in India' at Dr. Shivarama Karanth Sabhabhavana, at University College, Hampankatta in the city, said a release from Dr Srinivas Kakkilaya on behalf of Hosathu, Bengaluru, MS Krishnan Memorial Trust , Bengaluru , Samadarshi Vedike, Mangaluru. The event will be held in association with University College, Mangaluru and University Evening College, Mangaluru.
After completing graduation from Bangalore University and LLM from Bombay University, Indira Jaising pursued a fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London in 1970. She became the first woman to be designated as a senior advocate by the Bombay High Court in 1986 and appointed Additional Solicitor General of India in 2009.
She worked for more than half a century for social justice, human rights and equality for women. In 1980, she founded the Lawyers Collective, which has been doing pioneering work on civil rights, rights of workers, women, and LGBTQ, legislation against domestic violence, sexual harassment at workplace, etc.
In May 2017, she was appointed as the head of the UN mission to investigate alleged atrocities on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. She has successfully argued for triple talaq, women's right to enter the Sabarimala temple, Hadiya's fight to choose her faith, victims of the Bhopal gas leak, sexual harassment at work and many more, a release said.
Jaising was the only lawyer to be named at number 20, in Fortune's '50 Greatest Leaders' of 2018, as the voice of the poorest in India. She has penned several books and has been a visiting scholar at Pen Law University and Columbia University. She was awarded the Padma Shri in 2005.
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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.
