Hijab-saffron controversy erupts again in Karnataka's collegeTensions flare at CG Bellad Government First Grade College in Karnataka. Students arrived in classrooms wearing hijabs and saffron shawls. ...
05 Dec, 2025, 12.29 PM IST
SC partly stays Mumbai college's order banning hijab, burqa inside college campusThe Supreme Court partially stayed a Mumbai college's ban on 'hijab, burqa, cap, and naqab,' requesting a response from the educational soc...
09 Aug, 2024, 03.42 PM IST
Karnataka Hijab ban row: SC to consider setting up 3-judge benchA bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandarchud, and Justices V Ramasubramanian and JB Pardiwala, took note of the submissions of senior ad...
23 Jan, 2023, 11.47 PM IST
Asking girls to take off hijab invasion of privacy, attack on dignity: Justice DhuliaJustice Dhulia said: "By asking the girls to take off their hijab before they enter the school gates, is first an invasion of their privacy...
14 Oct, 2022, 01.19 PM IST
Hijab ban to continue in Karnataka schools and colleges till SC verdict: Education Minister"The Karnataka High Court order will remain valid. Hence, in all our schools and colleges Karnataka education act and rule, there will be n...
13 Oct, 2022, 09.39 PM IST
Expected unanimous decision from SC on hijab issue, say Asaduddin OwaisiWhile Justice Hemant Gupta dismissed the appeals challenging the March 15 judgment of the Karnataka High Court, which had refused to lift t...
13 Oct, 2022, 08.34 PM IST
Will always support uniforms in schools; no hijab or other dresses: BJPSoon after the Supreme Court gave a split verdict on the ban on hijabs in Karnataka educational institutions, BJP national general secretar...
13 Oct, 2022, 04.59 PM IST
- Karnataka Hijab ban: SC asks about authentic figure on dropout of students
"Do you have those authentic figures that because of this Hijab ban and the subsequent judgement of the high court, 20, 30, 40 or 50 studen...
14 Sep, 2022, 07.48 PM IST
SC agrees to list pleas against hijab ban in educational institutionsOne of the appeals in the top court has alleged "step-motherly behaviour of government authorities which has prevented students from practi...
26 Apr, 2022, 01.10 PM IST
7 teachers suspended for allowing hijab-clad girls to write SSLC examThe action was taken as it was against the Karnataka High Court order, which dismissed a set of petitions by Muslim girls from Udupi Govern...
31 Mar, 2022, 05.57 PM IST
Hijab row: Plea moved in Supreme Court challenging Karnataka HC orderThe plea has been moved against Karnataka HC's order dismissing various pleas challenging the ban on Hijab in educational institutes.
15 Mar, 2022, 11.29 PM IST
BJP's Sakshi Maharaj demands law against hijabKarnataka High Court will continue hearing on Friday various petitions challenging the ban on headscarves in educational institutes.
23 Feb, 2022, 01.17 PM IST
Hijab ban in schools is creating hysteria, psychiatrist tells High CourtNeuro-psychiatrist Vinod G Kulkarni pleaded that the court permit girls to wear hijab with the uniform as it was 'not against public order ...
18 Feb, 2022, 01.02 PM IST
Hijab row: Schools in Karnataka reopen amid more controversiesIn Shivamogga, 13 girls refused to write an examination paper at a government school after they were told that they were not allowed to wea...
15 Feb, 2022, 12.36 PM IST
Motivated comments on India's internal issues not welcome: MEA on Hijab row"Our constitutional framework and mechanisms, as well as our democratic ethos and polity, are the context in which issues are considered an...
12 Feb, 2022, 12.05 PM IST
Act against students' 'intimidation' for Attire: 5 IIMB faculty to NCWFive faculty members of IIMB urged the National Commission for Women to take suo moto cognisance of reports of intimidation of Muslim women...
11 Feb, 2022, 11.22 PM IST
No proposal to ban hijab in MP: govt; school education minister backtracks on 'dress code' remarkThe BJP government in Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday said that no proposal to ban 'hijab' in educational institutions in the state is under it...
09 Feb, 2022, 03.19 PM IST