Dist admin to collect things for Kerala rehab centres
Udupi, August 17: The district administration in association with Rotary Club Manipal Hills, MIT Rotaract Club and Prasanna School of Public Health Mahe Manipal is collecting the necessary things like food grains, medicines and others to send them to the rehabilitation centres in Kerala. After collection, the collected things would be sent to Kerala through Indian Coast Guard flights next week.
Interested donors could donate their things at Disaster Management Centre at Rotary Hall in Mannapalla of Manipal and KMC office staff room near Tiger Circle at Manipal Bus Stand on August 18 to 20 from 9am to 7pm.
Details of things required
Bed sheets, sleeping mats, blankets, daily use dress materials, children clothes, under wears, school bags, note books, pencils, pens, food items like rusk, biscuits, 20 litre water cans, rice, sugar, salt, tea/coffee powder, lentils, packed provisions, ORS packs, electrolytes, chlorine tablets to purify water, dettols, mosquito creams, nets, antiseptic lotions, antifungal powder, bleaching powder, lime powders, baby diapers, adult diapers, sanitary napkins, tooth paste, tooth brushes, toilet soaps, bath soaps, detergents, candles, match boxes and others. Used things or material or cloths would not be accepted and no cash would be accepted.
Interested could call Prof Maddodi (9448229591), Umesh Salian 99844627000), Rudra (9546783129), Ida D’Souza (7760093803), Lena Ashok (9448984732) Shruthi (9400048735) and Ashish (8197639736).
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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.
