Mangaluru: Toddy tapper falls to death
Mangaluru (PTI): A 58-year-old toddy tapper died after he slipped and fell from a coconut tree in Dakshina Kannada district on Tuesday morning, police said.
The deceased has been identified as Vishwambaran, hailing from Dharmasthala.
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He was a former director of the Konaje Toppy Tappers' Society here.
Sources said Vishwambaran had climbed the coconut tree near a house at Somanatha Uliya in Ullal taluk for tapping when he slipped and fell. Ullal police have registered a case.
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Niqab incident: Nitish Kumar perhaps revealing his true colours, says J-K CM
Srinagar (PTI): Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday criticised his Bihar counterpart over the niqab incident and said that Nitish Kumar might be slowly revealing his true nature.
"Nitish Kumar, who was once considered a secular leader, may be slowly showing his true colours," Abdullah told reporters here on the sidelines of a function.
Abdullah said Kumar removing the face veil of a Muslim woman doctor was wrong and cannot be justified by any means.
"We have seen this kind of incident here several years ago. Have you forgotten how Mehbooba Mufti removed the burqa of a legitimate voter inside a polling station? That act was wrong, and this act (of Kumar) is also wrong.
"If the (Bihar) chief minister did not want to hand over the order to her (Muslim woman), they could have kept her aside. However, to humiliate her like this is totally wrong," the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said.
Kumar stirred a huge controversy after he removed the face veil of a Muslim woman at a function earlier this week.
