Think about your parents before wheeling and drag racing: DCP Abdul Ahad's advice to youngsters
AWARENESS WORKSHOP ABOUT WHEELING
Bengaluru: Whitefield Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Abdul Ahad on Friday advised bikers to think about their parents before doing wheeling and drag racing on roads with their vehicles. “Think of the mother who has held you in her womb for 9 months without causing any harm to you. If she see you doing wheeling and drag racing on road, her heart will wrench” he said while questioning “Is it right to make your parents lose their son just for your show offs?”.
He was speaking at an Awareness Workshop event against wheeling and drag racing organised by K R Pura Police Station at the Silicon City College. He further added that last year 685 people lost their lives in two-wheeler’s road accidents of which 150 people died during attempting wheeling.
“Youngsters try to pose as heroes by doing wheeling these days. Become a real life hero by joining police, army, NCC and other forces. Yet, if you are interested in becoming a racer, you can join the professional training institutes where they will have proper safety measures” he added.
“Whenever we organise awareness drives against wheeling, we find a majority of such bikers to be Muslims. There is a need to create awareness against this in the society. Members of Masjid committees and other volunteers should come together to create awareness. Earlier, we did a similar drive against drugs which turned out to be successful. We need come up with similar drive once again against wheeling” Abdul Ahad told during his address.
Speaking further Abdul Ahad added ‘We arrest the violators, penalize them and in some cases also send them to jails. But now there is no place in jails. Our jails can accommodate 3000 people but we have 5000 people there already. We need to give counselling to our youngsters, we should convince them to live a respectable life in the society and that is why we are organising these awareness drives”.
Jamiat Ulema Bengaluru City President, Moulana Mufti Muhammad Hussain also addressed the event and stated that Wheeling, drag racing and tobacco are destroying the lives of youngsters. “Youngsters are losing their lives due to these activities. We all should appreciate and support this initiative of creating awareness against wheeling and drag racing led by Whitefield DCP Abdul Ahad” he added.
“Youngsters force their parents to get them bikes worth 2-3 lakh rupees. They start acts like wheeling and drag racing with these vehicles. Islamic teachings tells us that nobody can know when the death angel will come and take us away from this world. It also teaches us to follow law and regulations of land, but Muslim youngsters these days are not bothered about laws, it is the result of our disconnection from the Islamic teachings” Moulana said.
“What we have to understand is such actions of us are also causing inconvenience and problems to the other commuters on the road” he stressed.
Yogaratna awardee Gangadarappa in his address spoke about an incident that took place with the son of one of his friend who injured himself while trying wheeling and is in coma for last one year. “He is still in coma after sustaining serious injuries while trying wheeling. My friend and his family have so far spent 45 lakh rupees but is still struggling to save his son” he said.
“Is it fine to put your life under risk just for a thrill of few seconds? Parents, while fulfilling all their demands of their kids, should also keep a check on their social life and activities” he added.
Child Helpline’s senior counsellor Preeti Baliga also conducted counselling for the youngsters during the event. K R Pura Police Inspector Jayaraj H, welcomed the event. Whitefield Sub-Division ACP, Ravishankar, Silicon City College Principal Jnanesh were also present during the event.
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As Hormuz Burns, US Marines Move Toward the Front
Imagine a narrow water route — just 33 kilometres wide at its tightest point — and picture one-fifth of the entire world's oil passing through it every single day. Tankers carrying fuel for your car, gas for your kitchen, energy for factories — all moving through this one bottleneck. Now imagine that route is nearly shut down. That is exactly what is happening today at the Strait of Hormuz, and the United States is rushing thousands of its most powerful soldiers and weapons to fix it.
The Pentagon — America's defence headquarters — has sent over 2,000 US Marines from San Diego on a warship called USS Boxer, heading straight towards the Middle East. At the same time, another group of 2,200 Marines aboard USS Tripoli is being moved from Okinawa, Japan, to the same region. These are not just ordinary soldiers on ships. Each group carries stealth fighter jets, heavy artillery guns, helicopter gunships, mobile rocket launchers, anti-ship missiles, and special systems to detect and destroy drones. Think of it like a floating army base — ready to fight the moment it arrives.
Why is all this happening? Because Iran has been attacking cargo ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz using drones and missiles. As a result, ship traffic through this crucial route has crashed by 95%. Thousands of cargo vessels are stuck, unable to move. The world's oil supply chain is bleeding. And President Donald Trump is furious.
For the past three weeks, American fighter jets and naval forces have been hammering Iran's missile storage sites, naval bases, and drone launch points. The US military claims it has already destroyed Iran's entire surface fleet of warships, all 11 of its submarines, and 44 boats used for laying sea mines — the kind of explosive devices hidden underwater that can blow up passing ships. That sounds impressive, but the problem is far from over.
Iran's elite military unit, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or IRGC, still has an estimated 5,000 to 6,000 small, fast-attack speedboats. Most of them are hidden deep inside underground tunnels and bunkers along Iran's southern coastline — places that are very difficult to bomb from the air. These small boats can quietly slip out at night, drop mines into the water, and disappear before anyone can stop them. American air attacks, including low-flying jets and Apache attack helicopters firing at these boats, have not been enough to fully stop this threat.
So now the Marines are being brought in for a different kind of mission. Some of them may be placed directly on commercial oil tankers to protect those ships — shooting down drones, jamming signals so drones lose direction, and defending the vessel from speedboat attacks. That idea alone tells you how serious the situation has become.
But there is a bigger and far more dangerous plan being discussed inside the White House — capturing Kharg Island. This small island, just 8 kilometres long and 4 kilometres wide, with a population of about 20,000 to 30,000 people, is Iran's main oil export point. If America takes control of it, Iran loses its biggest source of oil income. Last week, the US already carried out precision airstrikes on more than 90 military targets on the island, including its air defence systems, naval base, and mine-storage facilities.
However, military experts are warning that actually landing Marines on Kharg Island is a completely different — and far riskier — story. The island sits only 25 kilometres from Iran's mainland coast. That means Iranian missiles, drones, and speedboats can reach it within minutes of any US landing. The warships carrying the Marines would themselves be exposed to Iranian anti-ship missiles the moment they enter the area. As one former US defence official bluntly put it — even one missile getting through could cause catastrophic damage.
Protecting Marines on the island would require American fighter jets flying non-stop, day and night, continuously striking Iranian launch sites to prevent counterattacks. It would be an exhausting, costly, and never-ending operation.
The human cost is already visible. So far, 13 American soldiers and airmen have been killed, and more than 200 others have been wounded — most with serious head injuries caused by powerful blasts from Iran's counterattacks in nearby countries.
And what does the American public think? A recent survey found that around 65% of Americans believe Trump might send ground troops into Iran — but only 7% actually support that idea. In other words, most people sense where this is heading, but almost nobody wants a full ground war.
Trump called Iran's option of mining the Strait "a form of suicide" since it would also block Iran's own oil exports. He criticised NATO allies as "cowards" for not helping, then turned around and said America does not need anyone.
The Strait of Hormuz is 33 kilometres wide. The decision America makes next could shake the entire world.
(Girish Linganna is an award-winning science communicator and a Defence, Aerospace & Geopolitical Analyst. He is the Managing Director of ADD Engineering Components India Pvt. Ltd., a subsidiary of ADD Engineering GmbH, Germany.)
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