Two boys drown in Malaprabha River during Yallamma fair visit in Belagavi
Belagavi: Two teenage boys from Gadag drowned in the Malaprabha River near Saundatti on Thursday while attending the annual Yallamma fair with their families.
The victims, identified as 13-year-old Veeresh Kattimani and 14-year-old Sachin, had accompanied their relatives on a visit to the Navilu Teertha dam when the tragedy occurred.
According to police reports, the boys entered the river for a bath but accidentally slipped into deeper waters. Neither of them knew how to swim, which led to the drowning. Upon being alerted, the Saundatti Police reached the spot and initiated a search operation. While Sachin’s body was recovered, efforts are ongoing to locate Veeresh.
A case has been registered, and further investigations are underway.
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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.
