 Hello and welcome to the Daily Roundup. I am Sumedha and I am Prashant and here are the major stories for the day. A three year old has been allegedly raped in Bandipura and massive protests have started in the valley. Thousands have also taken to the streets in Odisha as the government fails to restore essential utilities like electricity and water. A Dalit wedding has come in the line of fire in Gujarat and multiple attacks have taken place in the past week. Civilian groups in Sudan have bridged the differences over plans for how the country will move forward and there are tensions in the Persian Gulf region after alleged sabotage of the Saudi tankers. For our top story of the day we are taking you to Kashmir and the state of Jammu and Kashmir is witnessing turbulence and multiple protests in the valley after a three year old was allegedly raped by a youth in Traigam region of the Bandipura district. There are multiple protests which have started and the police has also arrested the accused after the complaint by the family and we had our correspondent Kamran Yusuf present on the ground giving us all the details of the case and the ongoing protests in the valley. Take a look at his report. As soon as this incident came to our notice I would say that this is a very painful incident and we immediately arrested the accused and we immediately arrested the best medical person. The investigation and the process is underway and we have invoked the actions of the Special Act and the Postco Act. This is a very painful incident. We will not sit back until we get justice for this small girl. Our aim is to put her on the first take and we have a complete trust on the police in Bandipura. We will not take any steps until we get justice and if we get justice then we will cross all the limits and we will sit on Dharna and Bukhardal. A week after Mato Cyclone Fani about 1.5 crore people who are affected in the state are still struggling as the state government is trying its best to restore the kind of electricity and other essential services that are needed by the people. However residents of the parts of states like Bhuvaneshwar and Puri are still struggling for basic services like electricity and members and residents of the districts which were affected by the cyclone have now taken to protests in the state to urge the Odisha government to act swiftly and to restore electricity in the sweltering heat. While the state government claimed to have restored power and drinking water supplies in urban pockets of Kendrapara and Katak districts, people on Saturday blocked roads connecting Pradeep and Katak and the National Highway linking Bhuvaneshwar with Puri. They said that basic amenities had still not been provided and there were reports that Dalits were being discriminated against in the relief distribution. The Batra Patra of the Action 8 who had visited Kana's block on Friday said that about 100 odd Dalit families in the area were not given any relief as upper caste people drove them away. He quoted a nice state that the Dalit families had moved to cyclone shelters but they were made to sit in one corner of the shelter and had food separately. Now that they are being discriminated by food and polythene sheets are being distributed. We're now moving to our third story which is from Gujarat which again focuses on the kind of caste lines that become more evident in the times that we're living in in India. So when we look at Gujarat there have been Dalit processions of weddings and other processions that are being disrupted. So there are multiple reports that are surfacing from different areas of Gujarat and more recently a Dalit wedding procession was also disrupted and this was in the Aravalli region of the state. We had our correspondent Damyanti Dhar present on the ground to understand what is happening and to understand the gravity of the situation. Take a look at her ground report. Four incidents of people of upper caste interrupting and attacking marriage procession of Dalit couples have happened in about a weeks time in North Gujarat. On May 9 Sanjay Rathore a Dalit police constable from Boria village in Sabarkatha faced objection for upper caste while taking out his marriage procession and then had to sought to police protection. On the same day Mehul Parmar of lower village in Mahasana faced objection and then later social boycott for riding a horse in his marriage procession. Later two incidents occurred on May 12 in one case where members of Thakur community objected to groom riding horse and then offering prayers at local temple. Later the marriage procession was taken out under police protection. In another incident on the same day in Kambisar village in Aravalli district members of Patidar or Patel community organized bhajan and yajna on the main road to block Dalit marriage procession and later stone pelted on the family. The local police then had to resort to Lathi charge to control the situation. Several people are reported to be injured in this incident. Moving on to our international section tensions are rising in the Persian Gulf region after the sabotage of two Saudi tankers. To discuss more about this we have Abdul. So Abdul has seen a huge sabotage of Saudi tankers of the UAE coast over the past couple of days. And the US has also been called to release a statement, a vague statement almost saying that Iranian forces might be Iranian, Iranian or proxies might be sabotaging traffic in the Persian Gulf. So how do you see the situation panning out especially with the recent incident and the US forces of course coming to the region. We don't exactly know whether this is a sabotage or an accident. It might be an accident. So we don't know but given the tension in the region primarily the sanctions, post sanctions the Iranian threat to block the state of our movement. And in that context the US is deploying, US is a brand in the region. So given that particular context and given the tension between Iran and the regional players Saudi Arabia. It can be used for different purposes, primarily to target Iran, that Iran is behind it. So it can lead to that. It might not but we don't know exactly how it will turn out. But given the statements which are coming out, primarily after the Lebanese and Iranian TV channels reported it first, basically that is used by the UAE and other people to certainly put the point that Iran is behind. Or Iran or the proxies are behind it. So that is what we don't know how it will turn out. And I think the Iranian government is also expressed concern that this might be the strategy that you deploy military forces and then an accident takes place. Even though their ministers have come out with a statement that there might be misuse of this particular incident. In fact they were the first to raise the concern that this incident can be used. So yeah that is playing in the larger geopolitics game in the region. It can be used. And what do you see as Iran's best solution to this situation right now, considering that it's almost encircled by these kind of forces? The Iranians can only clarify. If there is an attempt to blame them, they can come out with a clear statement that they are ready for all kind of investigations. I think they will be doing that because they do not want to escape the situation in that way. It is not in their interest. In our second story we take you to Sudan where certain drifts among the civilian forces over the future of the country seem to have been resolved. The Declaration of Freedom and Change Forces, the umbrella organization which comprises the Sudanese professional association and many other parties, had developed disagreements over the role of the military in the government. While one section of the DCFC was fine with relatively greater military involvement, the Sudanese professional association and the Sudanese communist party were very clear that the role of the civilians had to be paramount in the new structure. These developments came after the army was forced to step in on April 11th to remove Omar al-Bashir from the role of president. The army was forced to step in after protests that last year began in December and protesters had begun to mobilize in front of the army headquarters in Khartoum demanding a solution. Ever since the stalemate has continued and over the past one week the army actually used force against protesters at various points of time. They also attempted to dismantle many of the barricades that the protesters had set up. But the protesters refused to back down and instead began mobilizing in front of army headquarters in many other cities in addition to Khartoum. It is amidst all this that the disagreements developed within the DCFC. One section of the DCFC led by the Sudanese professional association and the communist party wanted just one council which is dominated by civilians. On the other hand a certain set of parties recommended two councils one of which would be civilian dominated but led by a military general and the other which would be completely dominated by the military. The second council according to this new proposal would have the right to decide on matters of war and peace as well as the army. The Sudanese professional association and the communist party were very unhappy with this proposal as this meant that the army and defence and other matters would remain under the control of the military dispensation. The Sudanese army has an important role to play in the war in Yemen which is led by the United Arab Emirates in Saudi Arabia. Similarly it also cracks down on migration considerably as per instructions issued by the European Union. There have also been a lot of concerns addressed that as long as the military has a dominant role the possibility of negotiating with rebel groups for a final peace in Sudan is impossible. That's all we have in the international section.