PIL filed in HC against 60 media houses for videographing, harassing Hijab wearing students, teacher
Bengaluru: A public interest litigation (PIL) petition has been filed by Abdul Mansoor, Mohammed Khalil, and Asif Ahmed before the Karnataka High Court Against more than 60 media houses seeking orders to restrain media from chasing and video graphing Hijab-wearing students and teachers who are on their way to schools and colleges.
The plea stated that media establishments provoked by some vested interests are subjecting students to humiliation and disgrace by criminalizing their faith, belief, identity, culture, etc.
"Repeated attempts are being made to polarize, divide, and to communalize the student community by injecting the venom of hate, disrespect, and vengeance which ultimately culminates into violent actions and reactions,"
"Since one month, the cameramen and reporters are seen assembling in and around premises of government colleges and schools wherever the female children and teachers are proceeding to attend their classes, they were being chased, abusing, screaming, sloganeering, targeting, demeaning, compelling to uncloth themselves which are being photographed, videographed, and being printed and telecasted around 24/7 hours with the sole intention of belittling the democratic values and cherished principles of unity in diversity," the PIL stated.
Apart from the media houses, the plea has mentioned social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, messaging app WhatsApp, along with search engines Google, Yahoo, and Video posting platform YouTube as respondents.
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Karnataka: Forest Minister Eshwar Khandre unveils plan for scientific disposal of plastic bottles
Bengaluru: In a bid to address the mounting plastic waste problem, Eshwar B. Khandre, Minister for Forests, Ecology, and Environment, has directed the additional chief secretary of the department to formulate regulations that will require packaged water bottle manufacturers to take responsibility for the scientific disposal of plastic bottles.
As part of the proposed plan, Khandre has suggested introducing a minimum price for each water bottle, which would be refunded when the bottle is returned to any establishment selling packaged water, as reported by Deccan Herald on Monday.
Under this initiative, when a person buys a new water bottle, the minimum price for each returned bottle would be discounted from the bill for the new one.
The goal is to ensure that empty bottles are returned to the shops where they were purchased, preventing them from being discarded in public spaces or ending up in the environment. Under the plan, these establishments would then return the empty bottles to manufacturers, who would be responsible for the scientific disposal of the plastic.
Khandre emphasised that the proposed regulations are aimed at tackling plastic pollution more effectively. Although the central government has already banned the manufacture, storage, sale, and use of certain single-use plastics, and the state government has enacted similar regulations, plastic waste continues to be a significant environmental challenge.
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