Fire breaks out in Faridabad's Mujesar Industrial Area, no causalities
Faridabad (PTI): A massive fire broke out at a thermocol factory in the Mujesar Industrial Area here, officials said on Sunday.
No casualties were reported in the fire that broke out on Saturday night.
Eighteen fire brigade vehicles were sent to the scene, and after four hours of effort, the blaze was brought under control and all workers were safely evacuated.
According to the police, the fire broke out at the Kiran Packaging Industry. A series of explosions within the factory triggered panic in the area.
Soon after, the flames also engulfed the nearby Omega Bright Steel Industry and Envosafe Aqua Solutions.
"The cause of the fire is currently unknown. The matter is under investigation and the cause will be revealed only after the investigation is complete", inspector Puran Singh, Station House Officer of Mujesar Police Station, said.
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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.
