Mangaluru: 11 year old girl child killed in Scooter-bus collision
Mangaluru, Aug.12: A girl died and and her mother and brother sustained injuries after a private express bus rammed over the scooter they were travelling. The incident took place in Nanthoor here on Sunday, August 12.
The deceased has been identified as Madiha (11), daughter of Roshan and Noor Jahan, hailing from Shivamogga and residing in Krishnapura 4th cross near Katipalla.
Noor Jahan and her 4 year old son sustained injuries in the incident. Roshan is said to be working in Bengaluru and one daughter of the couple was studying in Bengaluru school. Noor Jahan was staying with her son and daughter in Krishnapura. Only a month back they came to Mangaluru from Shivamogga and rented a house in Krishnapur.
East traffic police have registered a case and investigation is on.
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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.
