Kodagu : Rain gives respite, rescue operations pick up
Madikeri, August 18: As the rain gave respite on Sunday, Kodagu district is receiving moderate rainfall. Rescue operations picked up. Army and NDRF teams have been toiling to rescue people in the district which was battered in the rains and landslides.
It is believed that more than 175 people, who have climbed up the hills to protect themselves from flood at Makkandur and Muklodu villages are still at large. Rescue teams have been trying to trace the people despite rains.
Meanwhile, KSRTC has resumed bus service from Mysore and Bengaluru to Madikeri from Saturday. Buses are playing from Mysore and Bengaluru to Madikeri via Kushalanagar and Virajpet via Gonikoppa. Still the service to Madikeri from Mangalore is not possible due to landslides on the road.
Rescue team has protected a two months old baby trapped in flood in a critical situation.
Opposition leader BS Yeddyurappa in Sunday visited flooded Kushalnagar and taking stock of the situation. MPs Shobha Karandlaje and Pratap Simha accompanied Yeddyurappa.
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Trump confronts South African president over killing of white farmers
Washington, May 21 (AP): President Donald Trump used a White House meeting to confront South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, accusing his country of failing to address the killing of white farmers.
“People are fleeing South Africa for their own safety," said Trump, who at one point dimmed the lights in the Oval Office to play a video of a communist politician playing a controversial anti-apartheid song that includes lyrics about killing a farmer. "Their land is being confiscated and in many cases they're being killed."
Ramaphosa pushed back against Trump's accusation. The South African leader had sought to use the meeting to set the record straight and salvage his country's relationship with the United States. The bilateral relationship is at its lowest point since South Africa enforced its apartheid system of racial segregation, which ended in 1994.
“We are completely opposed to that,” Ramaphosa said of the behaviour alleged by Trump in their exchange.
Experts in South Africa say there is no evidence of whites being targeted, although farmers of all races are victims of violent home invasions in a country that suffers from a very high crime rate.
