Woman raped in Karnataka's Koppal district, six held
Koppal (Karnataka) (PTI): A 21-year-old woman was allegedly raped, and her husband was beaten up by six men in Gangavati area in this district, police said on Monday.
All the accused have been arrested in connection with the incident that occurred on intervening night of February 8 and 9, they said.
According to the police, the woman and her husband were waiting at the bus stop to head home. The couple engaged in a quarrel over a domestic dispute. As the argument intensified, a group of six men intervened and started quarrelling with the man. Thereafter, they started thrashing the victim's husband.
In her complaint on February 9, the woman alleged that they dragged her and thrashed her husband. One of the accused allegedly raped her. They also harassed her, a senior police officer said.
"We have registered a case based on the statement of the victim and arrested all the six men involved in the incident on February 9 itself," he said.
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Bengaluru: Maharashtra to appoint 135 Kannada teachers in border schools
Bengaluru: The Maharashtra government has issued a notification to appoint 135 Kannada teachers in Kannada-medium schools located in border areas, following intervention by the Karnataka Border Area Development Authority (KBADA).
According to The New Indian Express, speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, KBADA president Somanna Bevinamarad said the authority had visited several Kannada and Urdu medium schools in Solapur and Sangli districts of Maharashtra.
“While communicating with the Kannada community and students there, we understood that Marathi-speaking teachers who did not know Kannada were appointed in government Kannada schools. This has created a barrier in communication between teachers and children,” TNIE quoted him as saying.
Subsequently, the authority wrote to the Maharashtra government and the education commissioner requesting that Marathi-speaking teachers should not be appointed to teach Kannada. After sustained follow-up through the Karnataka government, Maharashtra has now agreed to appoint Kannada teachers.
“They have made necessary changes in the Pavitra portal which is used to appoint teachers in schools in Maharashtra. In future, the appointment of teachers would be done as per the required medium of instruction,” Bevinamarad said.
He said that if Kannada teacher posts remain vacant, the Maharashtra government will advertise the positions instead of appointing Marathi or other language teachers to teach Kannada.
