Heavy rain: Schools, Colleges to remain closed for Saturday in Udupi and Uttara Kannada Districts
Udupi/Karwar: Udupi Deputy Commissioner, G Jagadeesh on Friday evening declared holidays to all colleges and schools in the District for Saturday October 26 owing to heavy rain that is expected to continue on Friday due to which the three coastal Districts of Karnataka have been put on red-alert by the authorities.
Earlier on Friday Jagadeesh had declared holidays to all colleges and schools in the District for Friday. With the latest order Saturday is set to be the second consecutive day in the District when all educational institutions have been asked to declare holiday.
Similarly, Uttara Kannada Deputy Commissioner, Dr. Harish Kumar also declared holidays all schools, colleges and anganwadis across five Coastal Taluks of the District (Karwar, Ankola, Kumta, Honnavar and Bhatkal) on Saturday.
DDPI of Uttara Kannada has also issued notices to all the BEOs of the District to postpone the exams that were scheduled for Saturday.
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Madhya Pradesh: BJP leader assaults blind woman in Church
Jabalpur: Anju Bhargava, vice-president of BJP's Jabalpur city unit, has come under sharp scrutiny, creating the ripples of political controvery in Madhya Pradesh, after a video surfaced online showing her physically assaulting a visually impaired woman inside a church.
The New Indian Express has reported that the said incident reportedly took place on Saturday (20 Dec) at a church in the Hawa Bagh area, which comes under the limits of Gorakhpur police station.
The video footage that has circulated widely on Monday shows Anju Bhargava, assaulting the blind woman in the presence of a police officer. In the video, Bhargava is seen shouting at the woman, twisting her arm and forcibly grabbing her face. The victim can be heard pleading to Bhargava to speak to her rather than resorting to physical violence. Also, we can hear Bhargava screaming, “will be blind in her next birth too”
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According to The Indian Express reports, Bhargava entered the church, with members of several Hindutva affiliated organisations, alleging that the visually impaired children were being forced into religious conversion; But, the students present at the church have flatly denied all the allegations.
An unnamed police officer cited in media reports states that there was no evidence to support claims of forced religious conversion. The incident has since intensified political debate in the state, with opposition parties demanding accountability and action against those involved.
