Support for businessman stuck in Yemen

BENGALURU: Amid growing uncertainty over the return of city industrialist T Ravi Kumar from strife-torn Yemen, Peenya industrial units shut down on Thursday to press the Indian authorities to facilitate his early return.
About 8,500 microand smallscale units downed their shutters to protest the lack of serious efforts for his release and express solidarity with the family of the stranded industrialist.

Ravi Kumar, CEO of Trinity NDT Engineers, went to Sana'a city on March 12 at the invitation of a private company there, to provide technical training for its employees. He was to return on March 26, the day war broke out in Yemen.

Peenya Industrial Association president DT Venkatesh, who spoke to the stranded businessman over telephone on Thursday, said Ravi Kumar was starving.Yemen has been facing acute food shortage for more than a week.