Pilikula zoo to open for public from Sunday
Mangaluru: The Pilikula biological park here will be open for the public from August 16 and visitors will be allowed as per strict Covid-19 guidelines, the zoo director H J Bhadary said on Friday.
The visiting hours will be from 10 am to 5 pm. The zoo will remain closed on Mondays for maintenance work, he said in a release.
Visitors have to follow the instructions issued by the district administration to protect themselves from COVID- 19. All visitors should wear masks and maintain social distancing inside the park. Thermal screening of visitors will be done at the entrance.
A total of 76 closed-circuit cameras are installed in the zoo. Visitors are requested to cooperate with the authorities by following the Covid-19 guidelines, the release said.
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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.
