Udupi, Dakshina Kannada to begin Ramadan fasting from Thursday
Mangaluru: With no confirmed sighting of the crescent moon on Tuesday, Ramadan fasting will commence from Thursday, February 19.
As per the directions of Dakshina Kannada District Qazi Alhaj Twaka Ahmed Musliyar the fasting will start from tomorrow, announced Mangaluru Zeenat Baksh Kendra Juma Masjid and Eidgah Masjid Treasurer S.M. Rashid Haji on Tuesday.
Ullal Qazi A.P. Abubakar Musliyar has also confirmed the start of Ramadan, as stated by Ullal Dargah President B.G. Hanif Haji.
In Udupi, the announcement came from the Joint Qazi of Udupi, Hassan, Chikkamagaluru, and Shivamogga, M Abdul Hameed Musliyar Mani Ustad.
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Rahul Gandhi calls Great Nicobar Island project a ‘major threat’ to environment, tribal heritage
Sri Vijaypuram (Port Blair)/ Nicobar: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi criticised the Centre’s development initiative in Great Nicobar Island on Wednesday, On his maiden visit to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Gandhi alleged that the project will lad to large-scale environmental degradation and displacement of local communities.
The Rae Bareli MP, in a post on X after visiting the island, said the project would lead to extensive deforestation and adversely impact indigenous populations.
“So I will say it plainly, and I will keep saying it: what is being done in Great Nicobar is one of the biggest scams and gravest crimes against this country’s natural and tribal heritage in our lifetime,” Gandhi added.
“The government calls what it is doing here a ‘Project’. What I have seen is not a project. It is millions of trees marked for the axe… It is communities that have been ignored while their homes have been snatched away,” Gandhi said.
Describing the initiative as “destruction dressed in development’s language”, he termed it one of the “biggest scams” against the country’s natural and tribal heritage and called for it to be stopped.
Gandhi also claimed that nearly 160 square kilometres of rainforest could be affected, raising concerns over ecological damage.
