Tag: hijab
Amid continuing tensions over wearing of hijab by a section of students in the state, a single-judge bench of the Karnataka High Court, hearing petitions in the matter, on Wednesday referred the case to a larger bench. ....
A plea was moved in the Supreme Court on Friday challenging the Karnataka High Court's interim order directing students not to insist on wearing religious attire till the matter is decided. ....
Amid the prevailing tension in connection with the hijab row and the case being heard in the high court, schools reopened on Monday for students of Class 9 and 10 across Karnataka. ....
Referring to a plea in the Karnataka High Court to defer hearing on the 'hijab' row till the Assembly polls were over, the BJP has raised questions over the timing of the row and said the row was not a controversy, but a conspiracy against India. ....
Giving clear indications of an early verdict in the hijab row, the Karnataka High Court Special bench, constituted to look into the petitions submitted by students demanding their right to wear hijab in classrooms, on Tuesday directed counsels to complete their arguments by this week. ....
The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to grant an urgent hearing on a plea challenging the Karnataka High Court order, which dismissed all petitions seeking direction for permission to wear hijab in classrooms and held that wearing of hijab by Muslim women does not form a part of essential religious practice in Islamic faith. ....
Despite the Karnataka government issuing a new circular banning hijab as well as saffron shawls in college campuses, the row continued on Monday as students in different cities of the state came wearing the shawls and hijabs, but and were turned out. ....
The burka-clad student Muskaan Khan, who faced the wrath of the crowd raising slogans of "Jai Sri Ram" on a college premises, on Wednesday that she will abide by the court order regarding the wearing of hijab. ....
An English lecturer working as a guest faculty has resigned from her post as she was asked to shun the hijab while teaching in Tumakuru district of Karnataka on Friday. "It is a matter of my self-respect. I can't teach without the hijab," the lecturer Chandini said after quitting. ....
In a move that may spark major controversy, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday announced that he has asked for lifting on the ban on hijab for students and pre-university college students in the state as clothing is a matter of individual choice.....