Alice Colaco, mother of prominent NRI Philanthropist Ronald Colaco passes away
Bengaluru: Alice Colaco, mother of prominent NRI Philanthropist Ronald Colaco passed, passed away aged 97 on Saturday, 29 November 2025. She was the daughter of the late Santhan Pereira and the late Assis Pereira, and the wife of the late Fabian B. L. Colaco.
She is survived by her children Fredrick and Angela, Ronald and Jean, the late Jacintha and Alphonse, Joe and Asha, and Laveena and Thomas. She was the grandmother of Sharon, Petula, Nigel and Nikita, Randal and Renisha, Swapnil, Nikita and Aman, Nihal, Kenneth, Jennifer, and Leon and Bhavini. She is also remembered by her great-granddaughter, Amelia.
The viewing of the mortal remains will be held at St. Patrick Church, Bengaluru, at 10.00 am on Tuesday, 2 December 2025, followed by the Mass at 11 am. Her burial will be held burial at St Patrick’s Church Cemetery (Gate No. 6), Langford Town, Shantinagar, Bengaluru.
Karnataka Assembly Speaker U. T. Khader visited the grieving family and offered condolences while State Allied and Healthcare Council Chairman U. T. Ifthikar Ali, and Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao also expressed their condolences, remembering her as a respected member of the community.
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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.
