Udupi: Cong candidate Jayaprakash Hedge denies criticizing language knowledge of poll rival Kota
Udupi: Congress candidate from the Udupi-Chikmagaluru constituency K Jayaprakash Hegde has clarified that, contrary to the allegation made against him in certain media reports recently, he had not made derogatory statements on his BJP rival Kota Srinivas Poojary's knowledge of language.
"While addressing an event in Brahmavar recently, I had stated that knowledge of English and Hindi helps an MP communicate easily with government officials. In the Lok Sabha, as there are translators, an MP can speak in Kannada too. My statement, however, was tweaked by some media houses in their reports, making it sound derogatory," Hegde said.
Pointing out that he had named no one while speaking about language facilities and knowledge, Hegde urged the people to put a halt to the problem of altering a speaker's statements in a manner that it creates chaos in society.
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He added that, having been a Parliamentarian earlier too, he had only made the statement with knowledge of his experience and not with an intention to hurt anyone's sentiments. "I have always respected my opponents and have never spoken ill or made defamatory statements about anyone as I do not believe they will yield result. On the contrary, I have believed that working for the people as their representative to be the greatest force in our favour during elections," he insisted.
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A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake shakes Indonesia's Java Island, felt in Jakarta
Jakarta, Apr 27: A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake shook the southern part of Indonesia's main island of Java on Saturday, but there were no immediate reports of injury or significant property damage.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake struck 102 kilometers (63 miles) south of Banjar city at a depth of 68.3 kilometers (42.4 miles). There was no tsunami warning.
High-rises in the capital Jakarta swayed for around a minute and two-story homes shook strongly in the West Java provincial capital of Bandung and in Jakarta's satellite cities of Depok, Tangerang, Bogor and Bekasi. The quake was also felt in other cities in West Java, Yogyakarta and East Java province, according to Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysical Agency.
The agency warned of possible aftershocks.
Earthquakes are frequent across the sprawling archipelago nation, but they are rarely felt in Jakarta.
Indonesia, a seismically active archipelago of 270 million people, is prone to seismic upheaval because of its location on major geological faults known as the Pacific “Ring of Fire.”
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake in 2022 killed at least 602 people in West Java's Cianjur city. It was the deadliest in Indonesia since a 2018 quake and tsunami in Sulawesi killed more than 4,300 people.
In 2004, an extremely powerful Indian Ocean quake set off a tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people in a dozen countries, most of them in Indonesia's Aceh province.
