Surathkal tollgate has been canceled: DK MP Nalin Kumar Kateel
Mangaluru: Karnataka BJP President and Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel on Monday said the controversial Surathkal tollgate was canceled by the Union minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Kateel took to his Twitter handle on Monday afternoon and thanked Gadkari and Modi for canceling the tollgate.
“The Union Minister had earlier promised to cancel the toll, but now the technical aspect has been cleared.” Kateel wrote in his tweet.
The controversial tollgate was in place for several years and had faced several protests and backlashes from the people who time and again had demanded its cancellation.
ಮಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಸುರತ್ಕಲ್ ಸಮೀಪದ ಟೋಲ್ ಸಂಗ್ರಹ ಕೇಂದ್ರ ರದ್ದಾಗಿದ್ದು, ನಮ್ಮ ಮನವಿಗೆ ಸೂಕ್ತವಾಗಿ ಸ್ಪಂದಿಸಿದ ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಸಚಿವರಾದ ಶ್ರೀ @nitin_gadkari ಹಾಗೂ ಪ್ರಧಾನಿ ಶ್ರೀ @narendramodi ಅವರಿಗೆ ನಾಗರಿಕರ ಪರವಾಗಿ ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು.
— Nalinkumar Kateel (@nalinkateel) November 14, 2022
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8 dead, dozens wounded in Russian strike on Ukraine's Odesa port
Kyiv (AP): Eight people were killed and 27 wounded in a Russian missile strike on port infrastructure in Odesa, southern Ukraine, late on Friday, Ukraine's Emergency Service said on Saturday morning.
Some of the wounded were on a bus at the epicentre of the overnight strike, the service said in a Telegram post. Trucks caught fire in the parking lot, and cars were also damaged.
The port was struck with ballistic missiles, said Oleh Kiper, the head of the Odesa region.
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Elsewhere, Ukrainian forces hit a Russian warship and other facilities with drones, Ukraine's General Staff said in a statement on Saturday.
The nighttime attack on Friday hit the Russian warship “Okhotnik,” according to the statement posted to the Telegram messaging app.
The ship was patrolling in the Caspian Sea near an oil and gas production platform. The extent of the damage is still being clarified, the statement added.
A drilling platform at the Filanovsky oil and gas field in the Caspian Sea was also hit. The facility is operated by Russian oil giant Lukoil. Ukrainian drones also struck a radar system in the Krasnosilske area of Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
