Hijab Row

Bengaluru : The Karnataka High Court's special bench on Tuesday dismissed all petitions seeking direction for permission to wear hijab in classrooms.The HC also stated that "wearing of hijab is not an essential part of Islam. Prescription…

Bengaluru : The Karnataka High Court is scheduled to pronounce the judgment on the hijab row on Monday. The special bench constituted to look into the issue will read out the verdict at about 10.30 a.m.As a precautionary measure, security…

Bengaluru : Even as the special Bench of the Karnataka High Court dismissed petitions seeking permission to wear hijab in classrooms, the six petitioner college girls, who started the protest, claimed on Tuesday that to them hijab is as…

Agra : A group of students of the Government Industrial Training Institute (ITI) here created a ruckus after they were asked to remove 'saffron' scarves, which they were wearing in protest against 'burqa-clad' students on the campus.The…

Srinagar : Former Jammu and Kashmir chief ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday called the Karnataka high court's decision upholding ban on entry of girls into government schools wearing hijab, "disappointing"."Very…

Bengaluru : After the landmark judgment by the special Bench of the Karnataka High Court, which dismissed the petitions seeking permission to wear hijab in classrooms, the counsels appearing for students on Tuesday said they will soon…

Hyderabad : AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday said that Karnataka High Court's judgment on Hijab has suspended fundamental rights to freedom of religion, culture, freedom of speech and expression.The Hyderabad MP observed that one…

Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh) : A prominent college in Aligarh issued a notice 'banning' entry of students in the campus without "prescribed uniforms" and refused entry to Muslim girls who were wearing hijab.The Shree Varshney College, on…

Shivamogga (Karnataka) : Tension continued on Wednesday in a college in Karnataka's Shivamogga district, which witnessed protests the previous day seeking action against a girl student for posting the picture of the Pakistan flag in a study…

Dakshina Kannada : The controversy over wearing a hijab resurfaced in Karnataka's Dakshina Kannada district of Mangaluru on Friday.This time two groups of students from P. Dayananda Pai and the P. Satish Pai Government First Grade college…