Hijab ban
- India
Karnataka: As election year nears, state sees deepening of communal divide
Bengaluru: Karnataka is witnessing unprecedented communal polarization before the next Assembly elections scheduled for May 2023. Analysts have raised concerns that it is the first time in the 75 years of the post-independence…
- India
Hijab ban: Another challenge for Karnataka Education department as exams near
Bengaluru: Karnataka education department, which successfully conducted board exams during the Covid pandemic in the last two years, is now facing the challenge of hijab issue. Against the backdrop of verdict by the…
- India
Indian hijabi woman becomes student union president in UK university
Sabahat Khan, a hijab-clad woman from Aurangabad, has been elected the student union president of Sheffield Hallam University in the United Kingdom. Khan’s presidency comes at a time when India is engulfed…
- India
Hijab ban: Students, CFI activists hold protest at Jamia Milia
Activists of the Campus Front of India (CFI) and students of the Jamia Milia Islamia University and held an impromptu protest within the premises of the varsity, on Thursday, against the Karnataka…
- India
Maharashtra college principal alleges harassment over hijab, resigns
A hijab-wearing Muslim woman, the principal of a law college in Maharashtra resigned from her post following harassment for wearing a hijab on the campus. Dr Battull Hammid a hijab-wearing Dawoodi Bohra…
- India
‘They didn’t come as humans’: Karnataka play insults hijabi women
Udupi: Characters in a Yakshagana play during the Karkala Utsav in Karnataka’s Udupi passed derogatory comments on Muslim women who wear hijabs. In a video that surfaced on Twitter, a character can…
- India
Karnataka: Y-category security for HC judges who gave hijab verdict
Bengaluru: The Karnataka government has decided to beef up security for the High Court Judges who are part of the Special Bench that ruled against the plea for allowing Muslim girl students…
- Bangalore
Death threats to Karnataka judges over hijab verdict; 2 arrested
Bengaluru: Two people have been arrested in connection with issuing death threats to the Special Bench judges of the Karnataka High Court who dismissed the petitions seeking permission to wear hijab inside the…
- India
Hijab ban: Karnataka govt to consider re-exams for some Muslim girls
The Karnataka government may reconsider allowing a few Muslim students to appear for practical and pre-final exams as they were barred from classes after the government imposed a statewide ban on hijab…
- India
Hijab ban: Karate champion Aliya Assadi says ‘not treated with dignity’
One among the six Muslim students, Aliya Assadi, whose petition demanding headscarves to be allowed in educational institutions, was dismissed by the Karnataka high court on Tuesday, stated that the Hijabi Muslims…
- Opinions
Opinion: The Karnataka HC’s Hijab ruling shows a larger design
By Maleeha Fatima Hyderabad: It is indeed tempting to label the Karnataka high court’s ruling that favored a ban on the Hijab, imposed by colleges in Karnataka, as an unlawful act or…
- India
Hijab ban: US House Foreign Affairs Committee chairperson calls Karnataka HC’s verdict disappointing
Washington: The US House Foreign Affairs Committee chairperson Gregory Meeks on Thursday expressed his disappointment over the Karnataka High Court’s verdict on wearing Hijab in educational institutions saying that the decision will…
- India
‘Hijab is our dignity’ graffiti surfaces in Karnataka, removed by officials
Ballari: A day after the Karnataka High Court dismissed a batch of petitions from some Muslim girls seeking permission to wear hijab inside classrooms, graffiti surfaced in a few government education institutions…
- India
Hijab ban: Muslims shut shops, girls protest against Karnataka HC judgment
Following the verdict of the Karnataka high court over the hijab row, a number of protests by Muslims have broken out across the state against the “unconstitutional” judgment. The HC on Tuesday…
- India
Karnataka HC’s verdict to uphold hijab ban is deplorable: IAMC
The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), an advocacy group dedicated to safeguarding India’s pluralist and tolerant ethos, today strongly and unequivocally condemned the Karnataka High Court’s verdict to uphold the discriminatory ban…
