Traditional boat fishermen stag massive protest
Udupi: Thousands of traditional boat fishermen staged a massive protest at DC office in Manipal condemning the non-supply of Kerosene.
As many as 5,000 fishermen participated in the protest which was staged under the aegis of Kundapur Taluk Traditional Fishermen Association.
Addressing the protestors, Naveenchandra, leader of Kundapur Taluk Traditional Fishermen Association, said that there were 4,514 country boats in Udupi, Dakshina Kannada, and Uttara Kannada districts. Together these boats required 1,355 kilolitres (KL) of kerosene every month. But this had not been released for last three months - December, January, and February.
MLA Gopal Pujari, Shrinivas Poojari, Somashekhar Kharvi, Manju Bellad, Madan Kumar, Raghupati Bhat and others were present.
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India, China decide to resume Kailash Mansarovar Yatra
New Delhi, Jan 27 (PTI): India and China on Monday decided to resume the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra as the two sides agreed to take certain people-centric steps to "stabilise and rebuild" ties.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said this following Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri's talks with his Chinese counterpart Sun Weidong in Beijing.
It said the two sides also agreed in principle to resume direct air services between the two countries.
"As agreed between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping at their meeting in Kazan in October, the two sides reviewed the state of India-China bilateral relations comprehensively and agreed to take certain people-centric steps to stabilize and rebuild ties," the MEA said.
"In this context, the two sides decided to resume the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra in the summer of 2025," it said.
The MEA said the two sides also agreed to hold an early meeting of the India-China expert level mechanism to discuss resumption of provision of hydrological data and other cooperation pertaining to trans-border rivers.
It said the two sides agreed to take appropriate measures to further promote and facilitate people-to-people exchanges, including media and think-tank interactions.
"They agreed in principle to resume direct air services between the two countries; the relevant technical authorities on the two sides will meet and negotiate an updated framework for this purpose at an early date," the MEA said.
