The Udupi video recording incident took a communal turn on social media after some claims emerged that the videos of Hindu women were circulated among Muslim men. Multiple media reports quoting police sources said that...
While the rest of the Karnataka supported Congress and gave the party a thumping majority, the coastal Karnataka region, where the Sangh Parivar unabashedly pushed hardline Hindutwa, refused to follow the trend.
On International Women’s Day, many Muslim students are awaiting a decision by the Supreme Court in response to a plea seeking permission to sit for exams that are beginning on March 9 (from tomorrow), while wearing...
Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge on Wednesday said the orders and legislations enforced under the previous BJP regime like school textbook revision and anti-conversion laws, which are against the state's interest, would be...
Over the past few years, women in India and across the world have fought for their rights -- be it regarding the right over her body, their right to enter a temple, gender justice, reproductive rights etc.
Earlier today, the Supreme Court said that it will set up a three-judge bench to hear a plea of Muslim girl students to sit for examinations in Karnataka government schools while wearing hijab
Kaneez Fatima of Congress had said they were 'ready to go to any extent to protect our rights to wear our traditional attire' during last year's hijab protests.
Previously, on January 23, the CJI had agreed to consider the request for urgent listing, after Senior Advocate Meenakshi Arora mentioned the urgency of the situation considering the upcoming examinations
Outlook spoke to women’s rights activist Zakia Soman, one of the founding members of Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan, about how the hijab ban impacts Muslim...
In early February Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that Hijab is a non-issue in his state. The recent incident however portrays a different picture.
Contrary to women’s assertion of their right to hold on to the veil in India, recent uprisings in the Islamic Republic of Iran present a distinct narrative....
During the hearing of petitions against the Karnataka hijab ban in classes, the state said every religious activity is not essential practice.
A senior advocate told the Supreme Court on Monday that the hijab is the 'identity'' of Muslims, saying the Karnataka authorities had marginalised the minority...
This was stated in the admission guidelines for the 2022-23 academic year which cited the order pronounced by the High Court upholding the government order on...
The former Chief Minister of erstwhile J&K state Mehbooba Mufti hit out at BJP, saying: ‘our girls will not give up their rights to choose’.
Karnataka Hijab controversy: The two female students—Aliya Assadi and Resham had collected their hall tickets and turned up donning burqas to take the exams...
Al-Qaeda chief Ayman Al-Zawahiri, in a video also showered praises on Karnataka college student Muskan Khan for confronting a group of students opposing hijab...
Hindu activists have organised a campaign to boycott halal meat in parts of Karnataka where they have urged people to buy groceries and meat only from...
The Minister's comment came as a section of Muslims had called for a statewide bandh against the Karnataka High Court verdict on hijab.
The Karnataka High Court on March 15 had dismissed petitions seeking permission to wear hijab inside the classroom, saying the headscarf is not a part of the...
Those who want to attend college have to abide by the uniform dress code, the Minister said. He said the rule must be strictly followed.
He appealed to every section of the Muslim community will have to participate in the bandh.
The petition has been filed in the apex court by a Muslim student against the high court judgement.
Earlier in the day, the high court dismissed the petitions filed by a section of Muslim students from the Government Pre-University Girls College in Udupi,...
Pronouncing its verdict, the Karnataka High Court noted that the prescription of school uniform is only a reasonable restriction, constitutionally permissible...
