Karnataka Bengaluru News Live: Hijab wearing students stopped from entering Udupi college; HC to hear matter on Tuesday

Bangalore Active Covid-19 Cases Live, Bengaluru, Karnataka Omicron News Updates, Bangalore Curfew Today News, Bengaluru, Karnataka Lockdown Updates, Bangalore School, College Reopening News, 3 February: The hijab row at the  college continued to gather eyeballs.

The Karnataka High Court posted the writ petition over the hijab row at the  Pre-University College in  Two days ago, a student ha moved a petition at Karnataka High Court seeking the right to wear headscarves inside the classroom. Meanwhile, the hijab row at the college continued on Thursday as the college principal, in person, stopped hijab-wearing students from entering the premises.

Karnataka on Wednesday registered a jump in daily infections, with the state seeing 20,505 new cases of Covid-19 as compared to 14,366 fresh infections on Tuesday. Of the new cases, 8,850 were from Bengaluru Urban, followed by 1,209 cases from and 1,060 cases from 1,060.

As many as 81 deaths were noted as well on Wednesday, taking the state-wide total tally to 38,44,338 and death toll to 39,137.  While the positivity rate for the day stood at 12.55 per cent, the case fatality rate was 0.39 per cent.

Every year 78,381 new cases of cancers are being diagnosed, as per population-based cancer registries in Karnataka, the state health department said. Among these, 34,742 cases are reported in males and 43,639 cases in females.  The cancer prevalence in the state in the year 2020 is 2,11,630.

In males, the leading sites for cancer are lung (10.1%) stomach (6.9%), and prostate (6.4%) and in females, it is breast (27.9%), cervix (12%), and ovary 6.4%

After a Bengaluru traffic police personnel physically and verbally assaulted a  woman, Karnataka Home Minister decided to suspend the towing of vehicles from no-parking zones in the city until it comes up with a revised policy.

The writ petition, filed on behalf of the student  Farooq, said the students’ right to wear a hijab is a fundamental right guaranteed under Article 14 and 25 of the Constitution and is an essential practice of Islam. The state of Karnataka is among the respondents named in the petition

Karnataka Home Minister Jnanendra and Bengaluru police chief Kamal Pant took to Twitter to congratulate Constable Kallur for stepping in with a helping hand when an ambulance carrying a brain tumor patient suffered a flat tire. 

Pant said that the Constable helped the ambulance driver change the tire and the patient was able to reach the hospital in the nick of time. "His presence of mind and devotion to duty is praiseworthy. Well done!" wrote the police chief on Twitter. The Minister too appreciated the police constable's action.

A division bench of the high court cleared the filing of the final report of the investigations by a SIT before a   leaving the question of the legality of constitution of the SIT open for arguments

After a Bengaluru traffic police official physically and verbally assaulted a  woman, Karnataka home minister  conducted a meeting with traffic police officials and decided to suspend the towing of vehicles from no-parking zones in Bengaluru until it comes up with a revised policy

 

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B.com. 13.12.2001