Shivamogga: Boy dies in wall collapse
District administration gives Rs 5 lakh compensation
Shivamogga, August 16: A four-year-old boy died when the wall of a house collapsed on him at Konandur KEB road in Thirthahalli taluk on Thursday morning.
The deceased boy is identified as Masood, son of labourer Ayub. MLA Araga Jnanendra, Deputy Commissioner Dayanand, SP Abhinav Khare and other senior officers visited the spot and reviewed the situation.
Within a few hours of the incident, the district administration has disbursed a cheque of Rs 5 lakh as compensation to the family of the boy. Deputy Commissioner Dayanand gave away the cheque to the family members and promised of sanctioning all facilities being given by the government.
Konandur and surrounding places are receiving heavy rains. As a result, the wall of Ayub’s house was drenched in the water. While drinking tea in the morning, the wall suddenly collapsed on the body killing him on the spot. The family members were shocked due to sudden incident.
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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.
