Udupi: Several students injured in bee attack at Valakadu school
Udupi: Several students belonging to Valakadu school were injured following a bee attack here on Tuesday at 3:30 PM.
As per reports, at least 41 students were injured in the attack. District Surgeon Dr. Ashok Kumar confirmed that the injured students received immediate medical attention at the Udupi District Hospital. Among them, three children have been admitted as inpatients at the city's Mother and Child Hospital, while one parent is being treated as an inpatient at the District Hospital. The remaining students were treated as outpatients and discharged.
It is being suspected that one of the students who were playing in the school premises threw a stone at the beehive in the building, prompting the bees to attack the children in the school premises. The teachers and parents immediately took the injured children to the hospital.
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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.
