Jun 11, 2024, at 06:39 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: A teacher of a Kolkata law college resigned after she was allegedly asked to refrain from wearing hijab while taking classes, prompting the educational institution to issue a clarification, media reports said.
Hijab demand by medicos: Operation theatre is a secular place, says Dr Naresh Purohit
Jul 01, 2023, at 11:38 pm
Thiruvananthapuram: The demand by women medicos of Thiruvananthapuram Medical College, seeking permission to wear surgical hoods and long-sleeve scrubs inside the operation theatre as a substitute for their ‘hijab’, is absurd and should not be considered at all as patient safety and sterile protocols in operation theatres (OT) cannot be compromised, according to Dr Naresh Purohit, Executive Member Federation of Hospital Administrators, here on Saturday.
Students made to wear hijab in Madhya Pradesh school, 11 members of management arrested
Jun 08, 2023, at 06:45 am
Bhopal/IBNS: A police case has been registered against 11 members of the management committee of a school in Madhya Pradesh for allegedly forcing students to wear hijab while attending classes.
Hijab controversy in Madhya Pradesh
Jun 02, 2023, at 02:22 pm
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has directed the Collector, Damoh, to conduct an inquiry into female Hindu pupils allegedly being made to wear hijabs at a school; it was officially learnt on Thursday.
Hijab row: Schools have right to decide on uniform, says Kerala Guv
May 26, 2023, at 07:52 pm
Bengaluru/UNI: Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan on Friday said the schools have the right to decide on uniforms and dismissed it as a curb on individual liberty.
Dec 17, 2022, at 05:31 pm
Kolkata/New Delhi/IBNS: Actor-MP Nussrat Jahan has slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders for objecting to the bikini worn by Bollywood actor Deepika Padukone in a sequence of a song from upcoming Hindi film Pathaan, which also stars Shah Rukh Khan in the lead.
Nov 25, 2022, at 02:57 am
New Delhi: Mahsa Amini was not killed, political deputy of Iran's foreign ministry Ali Baqeri claimed, defending his government against the allegations that the 22-year-old was tortured to death in custody for not properly wearing her headscarf.
Hijab ban row: Supreme Court issues notice to Karnataka govt over pleas challenging HC order
Aug 29, 2022, at 05:21 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: The Supreme Court Monday issued a notice to the Karnataka government over pleas challenging the High Court order that had upheld the ban on hijab in educational institutions, media reports said.
Apr 27, 2022, at 12:13 am
Srinagar: A school for specially abled kids in Kashmir has instructed the staff to avoid Hijab during the school hours.
Hijab-insisting teachers in Karnataka exempted from exam duty
Apr 05, 2022, at 01:11 am
Bengaluru/UNI: Karnataka Education Minister BC Nagesh on Monday said some educational management has decided not to force hijab-insisting teachers to take up exam duty.
Supreme Court says no to urgent hearing on hijab
Mar 24, 2022, at 08:22 pm
New Delhi/UNI: The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to give an urgent hearing to a plea by a lawyer challenging the Karnataka High Court move to uphold the ban on the hijab in educational institutions of Karnataka.
Muslim leaders slam Karnataka HC ruling on hijab issue
Mar 15, 2022, at 07:02 pm
New Delhi: AIMIM supremo Asaduddin Owaisi and Kashmiri leaders Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah on Tuesday denounced the Karnataka High Court ruling which upheld the ban on wearing of hijabs in schools calling the head scarfs not essential in practising religion.
Hijab not essential for religious practice, rules Karnataka HC in a blow to protesting students
Mar 15, 2022, at 05:27 pm
Bengaluru/IBNS: The Muslim students protesting against a ban on wearing hijab or head scarfs inside classrooms in schools and colleges on Tuesday received a blow by the Karnataka High Court, which ruled out the necessity of any such piece of cloth to practice the Islamic religion, media reports said.
Feb 13, 2022, at 11:20 pm
Locals vandalised a school in West Bengal's Muslim-majority Murshidabad district on Saturday when the principal of the institution allegedly forbade girl students from wearing a hijab and burqa in the classroom.
Hijab issue being dragged unnecessarily: BJP leader Sanjay Jaiswal
Feb 11, 2022, at 11:37 pm
Patna/UNI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Bihar unit President Sanjay Jaiswal said on Friday that some vested interest people have unnecessarily dragged and complicated the Karnataka Hijab issue.
Karnataka hijab row: No urgent hearing, says Supreme Court
Feb 11, 2022, at 06:11 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to urgently hear a Muslim girl's plea challenging the Karnataka High Court's order of allowing educational institutions to open but without religious clothing on campus until its final judgement, amid the row over ban on hijab in schools and colleges in the southern state.
Avoid hijab till case is decided: Karnataka HC
Feb 10, 2022, at 11:39 pm
Bengaluru/UNI: A three-judge bench of the Karnataka High Court on Thursday refused to grant interim relief to petitioners seeking admission into classrooms wearing hijab in colleges and adjourned hearing on the hijab row to Monday.
Karnataka HC refers Hijab matter to larger bench
Feb 09, 2022, at 10:47 pm
Bengaluru/UNI: The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday refused to pass any interim orders over a raging row over the hijab that has closed down schools and colleges across the state and referred the matter to a larger bench.
Hijab row takes violent turn in Karnataka
Feb 08, 2022, at 08:39 pm
Bengaluru/UNI: Stone pelting was reported in Bagalkot on Tuesday during a student protest against a ban on hijab and saffron scarves in Karnataka's college campuses.
'Ma Saraswati doesn't differentiate': Rahul Gandhi on Karnataka hijab row
Feb 05, 2022, at 08:15 pm
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Saturday alluded to goddess Saraswati to indirectly attack the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Karnataka over a new college diktat not allowing hijab in classrooms.