Mangaluru Traffic Police fines bus driver using mobile while driving after watching viral video
Mangaluru: Mangaluru City Police taking a note of a video recorded by the passenger of a private bus that shows the bus driver was speaking on mobile phone while driving has fined the driver for violating traffic laws.
The police fined driver Sandesh Naik Rs. 1,100 for using mobile phone while driving.
According to the details, the incident dates back to August 17 evening when Sandesh was driving bus from Karkala towards Mangaluru city. When the passengers questioned his act of using cell phone while driving Sandesh reportedly replied negligently. A passenger who shot the video of driver speaking on call even during a sharp curve, circulated the video on social media platforms.
The Mangaluru Traffic Police took note of the video on Tuesday and immediately booked the driver for violating the traffic law and using mobile phone.
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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.
