We are all helpless about Vishnuvardhan's memorial: Minister Jayamala
Udupi: All of us, including the chief minister, are helpless about the Vishnuvardhan Memorial. Wherever we are going to make the memorial, a dispute is arising there. We too have a pain that even after passing these many years, the Vishnuvardhan's memorial was not built. Hence, all of us are standing by Bharathi, stated Women and child development, Kannada culture, and district in-charge Minister Jayamala.
Speaking to media persons in Udupi, Bharathi's disappointment over the Vishnuvardhan's memorial is natural. I respect Bharathi's family. Bharathi says that Vishnuvardhan's memorial should be built in Mysuru. Vishnuvardhan, who was born and died in Mysuru, loved Mysuru throughout his life. His family knows what Vishnu wanted. So we have to respect Bharati's words.
Chief Minister Kumaraswamy is also from theater. So there are no differences in this matter. There is a small dispute over Bharati's land. Yesterday, Munirathna and Manju have discussed the issue. They have given their views to Bharati in writing.
Toll Problem: Delegation to the Center
All of us, including the State Public Works Minister, have decided to go to Delhi and request Union Minister Gadkari to address the issue of Tollgate in the district. The minister would be requested to exclude local vehicles from paying toll until the service road gets complete, Minister Jayamala said.
I cannot take any action regarding the tollgate. All these questions have to be answered by Gadkari himself. We have no other way than that. The company has assured to make the service road ready within March, Minister Jayamala added.
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Our relationship with both India and Pakistan is 'good': US
New York/Washington (PTI): America’s relationship with both India and Pakistan is “good”, the US State Department has said, asserting that the diplomats are "committed to both nations".
Speaking at a briefing on Tuesday, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said that the US working with both nations is good news for the region and the world, and will promote a beneficial future.
“I would say that our relationship with both nations is as it has been, which is good. And that is the benefit of having a President who knows everyone, talks to everyone, and that is how we can bring differences together in this case. So it's clear that the diplomats here are committed to both nations,” Bruce said.
She was responding to a question on the possibility of increased US assistance to Islamabad in terms of arms sales following Pakistan Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir’s meeting with Trump, and whether this was coming at the cost of Trump's relationship with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Referring to the May conflict between India and Pakistan, Bruce added, “Obviously, we had an experience with Pakistan and India when there was a conflict, one that could have developed into something quite horrible.”
She said that there was "immediate concern and immediate movement" with Vice President J D Vance, President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in “addressing the nature of what was happening….we described the nature of the phone calls, the work that we did to stop the attacks and to then bring the parties together so we could have something that was enduring."
She also claimed that top leaders in the US were involved in “stopping that potential catastrophe.”
New Delhi has been maintaining that India and Pakistan halted their military actions following direct talks between their militaries without any mediation by the US.
Bruce added that the recent peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan “follows negotiated peace arrangements between Cambodia and Thailand, Israel and Iran, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, India and Pakistan, Egypt and Ethiopia and Serbia and Kosovo.”
Meanwhile, in an interview on Tuesday, Rubio said that “credit goes to” Trump for helping bring several conflicts around the world to an end.
Trump says he wants “to be the President of peace. And so any time we see a conflict where we think we can make a difference, we get involved, and we’ve had good success in that regard. India-Pakistan, Thailand-Cambodia, the peace deal with Azerbaijan and Armenia, just a few days ago,” he said in an interview with ‘Sid and Friends in the Morning’.
