Remo D'Souza suffers heart attack, admitted to hospital
Mumbai: Filmmaker-choreographer Remo D'Souza has suffered a heart attack on Friday. He is admitted to Mumbai's Kokilaben Hospital and has undergone angioplasty and is now stable.
The 46-year-old director is in the Intensive Care Unit of the Kokilaben hospital, news agency PTI reported.
"He had a heart attack. There was a blockage. For now, doctors have done angiography and he is currently in the ICU," according to sources.
The hospital sources said the "Race 3" director was admitted today afternoon.
"He's stable now and under observation," the report said.
D'Souza is one of the leading choreographers working in Bollywood, after having worked on films such as "Tum Bin", "Kaante", "Dhoom", "Rock On" and "Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani".
He received the award for Best Choreography for Bajirao Mastani's Deewani Mastani at 63rd National Film Awards. He has also judged dance reality shows like Dance Plus, Dance India Dance and Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa.
As a director, he has made movies such as "F.A.L.T.U", "ABCD", "A Flying Jatt", "Race 3" and most recently "Street Dancer".
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
