Kundapura: Tipper owners protest against sand problem
Protesters take Shobha Karandlaje to task
Kundapura, October 19: The indefinite protest, being conducted by the Taluk Tippers Owners Association in Kundapura, Koteshwara and Hemmadi demanding solution for sand problem, entered the second day on Friday.
The protest started from Thursday morning and tipper owners have parked their tippers and lorries on either side of national highway at Kundapura and Hemmadi demanding the district administration to find solution to the sand problem. “The deputy commissioner has promised them of giving permission to lift sand by October 15. Tipper owners have purchased the vehicles borrowing loans to the tunes of lakhs.
Due to sand problem, the tipper owners have no work. We are staging the protest in order to draw the attention of the government and the district administration. Till the sand problem is solved, the tippers will not come to the roads. If the district administration is not responded to their problem, we would shift our protest to the DC office where we will stage indefinite hunger strike”, warned Association President Rajesh Kaveri.
Association Taluk President Gunakar Shetty, Sharath Kumar Shetty Balikere, Ramesh Kundar, Nityananda, Anand Naik, Sathish Hegde Alur and others were present.
Protesters take Shobha Karandlaje to task!
The protesters took Udupi-Chikmagalur MP Shobha Karandlaje who visited the place where the tipper owners were staging a protest, to task and expressed their ire against the MP. When she tried to speak to agitators, the protesters said that they have been facing this problem for the last many years. Despite having the elected representatives, they have failed to direct the Deputy Commissioner and solve the problem. You people promise the people everything before elections. But later, you will disappear. The tipper owners were finding it difficult even to repay the loans, they said.
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NATO, others turn down US call for help in Hormuz: Trump
Washington (PTI): President Donald Trump on Tuesday said NATO and most of US' other allies have rejected his calls to help secure the Strait of Hormuz as the war with Iran entered the third week.
In a social media post, Trump asserted that Iran’s military has been “decimated” and he no longer felt the need for assistance from NATO countries or anyone else.
Last week, Trump had sought help from European nations and others who depend on oil supplies transiting from the Hormuz Strait to safeguard the critical waterway.
“The United States has been informed by most of our NATO “Allies” that they don’t want to get involved with our Military Operation against the Terrorist Regime of Iran, in the Middle East, this, despite the fact that almost every Country strongly agreed with what we are doing, and that Iran cannot, in any way, shape, or form, be allowed to have a Nuclear Weapon,” the US President said in a post on Truth Social.
Iran's attacks on Gulf nations and its grip on the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's oil is transported, have sparked increasing concerns of a global energy crisis and are unnerving the world economy.
“I am not surprised by their action, however, because I always considered NATO, where we spend Hundreds of Billions of Dollars per year protecting these same Countries, to be a one-way street — We will protect them, but they will do nothing for us, in particular, in a time of need,” Trump said.
He said Australia, Japan and South Korea too have turned down his call for help.
“Fortunately, we have decimated Iran’s Military – Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti-Aircraft and Radar is gone and perhaps, most importantly, their Leaders, at virtually every level, are gone, never to threaten us, our Middle Eastern Allies, or the World, again,” Trump said.
He said that given the scale of recent military successes, the US no longer "need" or desires assistance from NATO countries, adding that it never relied on such support in the first place.
Speaking as President of the United States, the "most powerful" country in the world, "we do not need" help from anyone, Trump said.
The West Asia conflict began on February 28 when the US-Israeli combine conducted airstrikes on Iran.
The Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that connects the Persian Gulf to the open ocean, has effectively been shut following the US and Israel attack on Iran and Tehran's sweeping retaliation.
However, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had said that from Tehran's "perspective", the strait is "open". "It is only closed to Iran's enemies, to those who carried out unjust aggression against our country and to their allies.”
Earlier in the day, a second Indian-flagged LPG tanker, Nanda Devi, reached the country after safely sailing from the war-hit Strait of Hormuz. On Monday, the first ship, Shivalik, reached Mundra port in Gujarat.
As of now, 22 Indian vessels remain on the west side and two on the east side of the strait.
Indian authorities are in constant touch with all the relevant stakeholders in the region to secure the safe passage of the remaining ships, officials said.
