Two-year-old toddler in Davanagere drowns to death after falling accidentally into bucket of water
Davanagere: In an incident reported from Nibagur Gollarahatti village of Jagaluru taluk, a two-year-old child died after falling into a bucket filled with water on Tuesday.
The deceased toddler is identified as Veda, the third child of Manjunath and Rajeshwari.
On Tuesday morning, Veda was playing with her elder sisters Roja and Rohini in front of their house, while Rajeshwari was inside the house. When she came out of the house some time later, after completing her work, she could not find Veda there. She went searching for her daughter and found Veda in the bathroom, having fallen into a bucket of water.
Manjunath and Rajeshwari immediately took Veda to the Taluk Government Hospital, where the doctors confirmed that the child was dead.
A case has been registered at Jagaluru Police Station, based on Manjunath’s complaint that Veda entered the bathroom situated behind the house while playing. The complainant has affirmed that his daughter drowned and died after slipping and falling into the water-filled bucket in the bathroom.
Local legislator B Devendrappa met the family at the taluk hospital and personally handed an ex-gratia of Rs 25,000. He also asked people, including the staff at the anganawadi centre and primary school in the constituency, to take additional care of children to ensure their safety.
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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.
