Mangaluru International Airport gets hoax bomb threat call; investigation on
Mangaluru: A hoax call threatening about a bomb at the Mangaluru International Airport caused panic for some time on Wednesday afternoon.
The call reportedly was received by a retired director of the airport on Wednesday afternoon on his mobile phone. An extensive search operation was carried out by the CISF personnel at the airport premises after the call.
The searching team after completing the search concluded that nothing suspicious was found during the operation and confirmed that the call was a hoax threat call.
The investigating police team traced the call to be made from a radius of a tower in Karkala and is further investigating the matter.
Speaking to Vartha Bharati, Mangaluru Police Commissioner, Vikash Kumar added that the police team is working to nab the miscreant who made the call.
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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.
