Educational institutions in Kerala's Kozhikode resume classes as no new Nipah case since Sep 16
Kozhikode (Ker) (PTI): Educational institutions here commenced regular classes from Monday as no new cases of Nipah virus were reported since September 16.
All the institutions in the district had been closed since September 14 and online classes were being held after the virus outbreak was declared in the state on September 12.
The district administration advised students to wear masks and carry hand sanitizers when going to their respective educational institutions.
School authorities said online classes were being held for those in areas which were still declared as containment zones.
The children in the classes said they were happy and relieved that the situation was improving and that they were able to go to school.
A total of six people were confirmed to have been infected by the virus till date and of them two died.
Of the two deaths, the first person who died on August 30 was found to be the index case or patient zero from whom others caught the infection.
As of September 24, the number of people under observation were 915, but none of them were in the high risk category, the district administration said.
The number of samples tested till then was 377 and the number of negative results was 363, District Collector A Geetha said in a Facebook post.
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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.
