Bhatkal: Fishing boats sink in deep sea
Fishermen rescue video goes viral
Udupi, August 12: The fishing boats left from Malpe shore for fishing sunk in the deep sea at Bhatkal- Gangolli on Sunday due to turmoil in the deep sea.
While returning, two boats capsized in the deep sea and it is said that 16 fishermen were rescued from the sinking boats.
On Saturday, a boat named Shiva Ganesh left for fishing from Malpe with eight fishermen. As the sea gets disturbed due to heavy rains and wind, the boat developed holes in it and started to sink. Later, fishermen gave distress call to Malpe and appealed for rescue. Another boat which also went for fishing from Malpe came to their rescue and saved all the eight fishermen from the sinking boat and brought them to Malpe.
Another boat Padmadas which was returning to Malpe after finishing also capsized near Gangolli. The fishermen trapped in that boat were also rescued. Now, the video of the rescuing activity has gone viral in the social media.
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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.
