Thieves make away with Gold worth lakhs of rupees from Jewellery shop in Mangaluru
Mangaluru: In an incident reported from Bhavanthi Street in Car Street locality of the city, thieves made away with more than one kilogram of gold and other ornaments worth lakhs of rupees after they broke into a jewellery shop by drilling hole into the shop’s wall.
The incident came to light on Tuesday but since the shop was closed since Saturday evening it is not yet ascertained as when the incident took place.
The shop, identified as Aruna Jewellers belongs to Anil Shet, and is located at Bhavanthi Street here and was closed since Saturday. The thieves drilled a hole into the shop’s wall from the backend of the shop and entered the store to rob it. Jewellery boxes were found dumped near the hole drilled on the wall and at various places inside the shop.
Bunder Police officials reached the spot and registered a case and further investigations are underway. The police teams have recovered fingerprints from the crime scene and are also examining CCTV footages.
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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.
