Bantwal: Some students of the Vamadapadavu Government First Grade College arrived at the substitutions wearing saffron shawls on Tuesday, demanding that restrictions be imposed upon students wearing the Hijab.

Some of the male and female students who arrived wearing the saffron shawls stood outside the campus and shouted slogans, it is learned. 

Reportedly, messages had been afloat on social media sites urging students to wear saffron shawls to the college. On Tuesday, some of the students arrived at the college sporting saffron shawls.

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Pune (PTI): A horse was injured and a few vehicles were damaged after a hoarding collapsed due to strong winds in Maharashtra’s Pune city, police said.

The billboard crashed to the ground between 5 pm and 6 pm on Saturday outside a wedding hall near Kavdi Pat toll booth on the Pune-Solapur Highway, an official said.

The incident comes days after a giant illegal billboard in Mumbai’s Ghatkopar area collapsed on a petrol pump due to gusty winds and unseasonal rains, killing 16 persons and injuring 75.

Citing preliminary information about the incident in Pune, the police on Saturday said the hoarding collapsed due to strong winds and it fell on a horse, and a few vehicles, including one brought by a band party, outside the Gulmohar Lawns wedding hall.

The injured horse was rescued and taken for treatment, the official said.