Ballary,May 1: For the fourth consecutive year, Kottur, in Ballari district, shines on the education map in the State.

Students of Indu Independent PU College, who have been consistently bagging the top spots in Arts in Pre-university (PU) exams, have aced in Arts stream in this year’s II PU results too.

Swathi S., Ramesh S.V., and Kavyashri are the three toppers in the State from the college, this year. In addition, 16 other students from the same college have also performed well in the stream.  A notable feature has been that almost all who topped hail from rural and economically weaker backgrounds.

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Srinagar (PTI): Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday criticised his Bihar counterpart over the niqab incident and said that Nitish Kumar might be slowly revealing his true nature.

"Nitish Kumar, who was once considered a secular leader, may be slowly showing his true colours," Abdullah told reporters here on the sidelines of a function.

Abdullah said Kumar removing the face veil of a Muslim woman doctor was wrong and cannot be justified by any means.

"We have seen this kind of incident here several years ago. Have you forgotten how Mehbooba Mufti removed the burqa of a legitimate voter inside a polling station? That act was wrong, and this act (of Kumar) is also wrong.

"If the (Bihar) chief minister did not want to hand over the order to her (Muslim woman), they could have kept her aside. However, to humiliate her like this is totally wrong," the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said.

Kumar stirred a huge controversy after he removed the face veil of a Muslim woman at a function earlier this week.