Woman dies after crane hits her while crossing NH-66 near Udupi
Kapu: A 45-year-old woman died after being hit by a crane while attempting to cross National Highway-66 near Hotel Lalith in Udyavara village on Thursday evening.
The deceased has been identified as Divya S. Raikar, wife of Sunil Ramachandra Raikar from Karwar.
According to reports, Divya was travelling in a car along with a driver and her daughter after leaving a hospital in Mangaluru. They had stopped near the hotel in Udyavara on the way.
She had gone towards the other side of the highway to purchase a bat for her son from a roadside vendor. While she was standing to cross the road, a crane travelling from Udupi towards Mangaluru reportedly hit her.
Due to the impact, she got trapped under the front wheel of the crane and sustained serious injuries. She was immediately rushed to a private hospital in Udupi, but is said to have died on the way.
A case has been registered at Kapu Police Station.
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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.
