Bengaluru: Director General of Police (DGP), Dr. P Ravindranath on Tuesday resigned from the Indian Police Services (IPS) citing harassment from the Government of Karnataka.

Ravindranath has expressed displeasure over his recent transfer to the training wing of the Karnataka State Police and called it harassment for taking legal action against people involved in the fake caste certificate issue.

In his resignation letter, Ravindranath wrote, "I am pained to observe the opacity shown by Karnataka Chief Secretary, Ravikumar when I requested him to issue government order to set up protection cell as per rules of SC & ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Rules 1995."

Further, he wrote, "I am prematurely transferred without any public interest just to harass me, since I have taken legal action against people involved in fake caste certificate issue."

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Budapest/Washington: US Vice President J D Vance has said that Lebanon was never included in the ceasefire understanding with Iran, describing the confusion as a “legitimate misunderstanding”.

Speaking to reporters before departing from Hungary, Vance said, “I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon and it just didn’t. We never made that promise.”

He stressed that the United States had not included Lebanon in the scope of the ceasefire at any stage.

His remarks come amid continued Israeli strikes in Lebanon, where more than 200 people were reported killed, even as ceasefire talks between Iran and the US move forward.

Vance said Israel had “offered … to check themselves a little bit in Lebanon because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful”.

He warned that if Iran allows the situation in Lebanon to affect the negotiations, it could derail the talks.

“If Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart in a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them and which the United States never once said was part of the ceasefire, that’s ultimately their choice,” he said.