Alert Driver Saves 20 Passengers Before Bus Catches Fire in Bengaluru
Bengaluru, August 15: A Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) bus caught fire on Wednesday morning but the alert driver ensured there was no casualty.
Around 5am, the driver noticed smoke coming from the bus’ engine and he immediately stopped it on the KR Puram hanging bridge in Bengaluru.
He rushed to wake up the 20 passengers in the bus and made sure each of them disembarks within a minute and gets as far away from it as possible.
Soon after the last passenger got down, the bus caught fire and half of it got destroyed within seconds. All the passengers were unhurt but their baggage got destroyed in the blaze.
The driver then informed firemen who reached the spot and doused the blaze. Traffic was affected on the flyover till the officials doused the fire. KR Puram traffic police confirmed that there were no causalities in the incident. The police also said that no complaint was registered.
Courtesy: www.news18.com
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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.
