A devastating fire at a garment factory and adjacent chemical warehouse in Dhaka, Bangladesh, claimed at least 16 lives and injured several...

Bangladesh's garment industry experienced significant disruptions and $400 million in losses due to student-led unrest, but stability has r...

France's education minister has announced a ban on long robes in classrooms, citing that they are testing secularism in schools. The ban ma...

Nevertheless, there was few instances of Muslim women being barred entry anywhere for wearing the garment. On polling day of the urban loca...

"A prohibition on wearing any visible form of expression of political, philosophical or religious beliefs in the workplace may be justified...

Everything was going smoothly till Nov 8, said Sheikh Samai, who was engaged in cutting and sewing of women fashion garments at a fashion h...

The required payment of the jizyah, a tax historically levied on non-Muslims permanently residing in Muslim lands under Islamic law are now...

After banning burqa in restive Xinjiang province where the Uyghur Muslims have a majority, China has amended its criminal law.

China today banned burqas in public places in the capital of its Muslim-majority Xinjiang region which is often hit by separatist violence.

Six persons arrested from Assam's Barpeta district for their alleged involvement in the Burdwan blast were today sent back to judicial cust...

The six, arrested on October 10, are allegedly part of a module operating under the Jamatul Mujahideen Bangladesh, according to preliminary...

Assam police in a statement stated that preliminary investigation reveals that this is a part of the module operating under patronization o...

Shaikhul had been trained in Jehad in Simulia Madrassa of Burdwan and also in another Madrassa in Murshidabad, the spokesman claimed.

Despite near doubling of wages, if Bangladesh can hold its own in the hypercompetitive garment export industry, it will be a victory for ev...

Burqa is no longer just black, boring and behind the times - it is fast transforming into a global fashion statement and Indian women are k...

Britain must ban the burqa if it wants to win the battle against Islamic extremism, an ally of French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said.

Bangladesh garment manufacturers said they would distribute subsidised rice to thousands of some of the world's lowest-paid workers to help...