Hijab row

Forty Muslim girl students from Udupi district of Karnataka abstained from appearing for the first pre-university examination on Tuesday as they were apparently hurt by the recent High Court verdict against wearing of hijab inside…

By PTI MUMBAI: Miss Universe 2021 Harnaaz Sandhu has appealed to society to stop targeting girls, including on the issue of hijab, saying "Let them live the way they choose to." A three-judge Bench of the Karnataka…

Muslim religious leaders and Ulemas have called for a peaceful bandh in Karnataka to voice their dissent over the Karnataka High Court judgment declaring that wearing of hijab is not an essential religious practice in Islamic faith.…

BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday dismissed petitions filed by a section of Muslim students from the Government Pre-University Girls College in Udupi, seeking permission to wear Hijab inside the classroom. The prescription of…

Former actor Twinkle Khanna has weighed in on the hijab row that has engulfed the country for the last few weeks. The bestselling author has written in her latest newspaper column about the issue, with her usual pinch of humour. Twinkle…

BENGALURU: The Karnataka government on Tuesday told the High Court that there is no restriction on wearing Hijab in India with reasonable restrictions subject to institutional discipline and dismissed the charge that denial to wear the…

Actor Zaira Wasim is the latest celebrity to speak her piece on the ongoing hijab row in Karnataka. The actor took to Facebook on Saturday to share a long post criticising the ban on hijab in Karnataka schools, calling it unjust.The hijab…

Swara Bhasker, who has been critical of the anti-hijab protests, clapped back at a Twitter user who shared a picture of her wearing a dress and wrote, “That is @ReallySwara, my friends, who is advocating for hijab.”Unfazed by the tweet,…

The Karnataka government on Tuesday asserted that it was committed to implementing the High Court's interim order on the Hijab row. This was in response to the issue raised by Congress MLA and its deputy leader in the legislative assembly,…

Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan on Saturday termed the ongoing hijab row as a "conspiracy" and said it was not a question of choice but whether a person would follow the regulations, dress code of an institution or not. Responding to the…