Mangaluru: Mithun Rai's car damaged in stone pelting by BJP workers
Violence broke out between workers of the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) near the polling station of the Government in the Moodshedde area of Moodbidri constituency, DK district, during the Assembly elections on Wednesday.
Congress candidate Mithun Rai's car was reportedly damaged in the incident after stones were pelted. The Deputy Commissioner of Police, Anshukumar, reached the scene to find the vehicle had been damaged, and two women had been injured.
The incident occurred around 7:40 p.m. when Mithun Rai was reportedly speaking to activists near the polling station of Moodshedde. BJP members allegedly began shouting "Modi Modi," and Congress supporters responded by shouting "Jai Congress." This led to an exchange of words between Congress and BJP workers, which escalated into violence with both parties throwing stones at each other.
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Police were deployed immediately to disperse the crowd, and the Commissioner of Police, Kuldeep Kumar Jain, visited the site and inspected the damage. Additional police have been deployed to the area, and Mithun Rai and Congress workers have demanded the immediate arrest of the BJP workers who were involved in the stone pelting incident. Despite this incident, polling in the DK district was reported to have been peaceful.
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FM Sitharaman launches 'VijAIpatha' labs in govt schools in Karnataka
Hampi (PTI): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday launched Cyient AI Labs (CyAILS) -- 'VijAIpatha', aimed at democratising access to Artificial Intelligence, STEM and Robotics education in government schools here.
In a series of posts on 'X', the minister's office shared pictures of the initiative launched at a girl's government school in Hosapete taluk and said that under the pilot phase, five world-class AI, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and Robotics laboratories are being established in government schools.
Each lab will be equipped with high-performance computers, AI-ready software, robotics kits, IoT devices, sensors and secure broadband connectivity.
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"Aligned with NEP 2020, Digital India and Hon'ble Prime Minister @narendramodi's mission of Viksit Bharat 2047, the programme integrates CBSE's AI curriculum and strengthens technology-enabled learning in public education," it said.
Focusing on rural and semi-urban India, the initiative introduces future technologies at the school level, helping build early digital fluency, computational thinking and innovation capacity among students, the minister's office said.
"Benefiting over 2,000 students and training more than 200 teachers, 'VijAIpatha' is a scalable CSR model fostering innovation, career readiness and grassroots digital empowerment," it added.
According to the office, the initiative has been designed as a scalable, replicable and sustainable model that can be adopted across districts and states in collaboration with government education departments, positioning it as a benchmark CSR model for a national AI education rollout.
