Technician dies at Oppo's Greater Noida facility after night shift
Noida (PTI): A 35-year-old technician working at Chinese phone-maker Oppo's facility in Greater Noida died on Tuesday under mysterious circumstances, police said.
Vijay Kumar, who was from the Ghazipur district in Uttar Pradesh, collapsed suddenly around 8:30 am after his night shift and was declared dead when taken to a nearby private hospital, the police said.
While a local police official said the postmortem report was pending, Oppo India said it was deeply saddened by the loss of one of its employees due to "natural causes".
"Our condolences go out to the employees family and friends during this difficult time," Oppo India said in a brief statement to PTI.
A police spokesperson said Kumar was found in an unconscious condition in the morning after the night shift. "His colleagues rushed him to the Yatharth Hospital where the doctors declared him dead."
An official of the local Ecotech 1 police station said Kumar had arrived for work around 8:30 pm on Monday and was incharge of a compressor room located within the facility.
After working through the night, he went for a morning tea around 8 am and soon the workers of the morning shift arrived but found him collapsed, he said.
The postmortem report in the case is pending and further legal proceedings a being carried out, the official added.
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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.
