Following the High Court order last month upholding the state government's decision not to allow hijabs in classrooms, Aliya Assadi, who wa...

The Karnataka High Court on March 15 had dismissed petitions seeking permission to wear hijab inside the classroom, saying the headscarf is...

The court, among other things, is seized of the question as to whether wearing of hijab forms an essential religious practice in Islam and ...

On Friday it asked contending parties to make written submissions if they had more arguments. The petitioners had moved the court after the...

The Chief Justice of the High Court Ritu Raj Awasthi, who is part of the three-judge bench, told the counsels that that the arguments shoul...

"The right to wear Hijab falls under Article 19(1)(A) and not Article 25. If one wishes to wear Hijab, then there is no restriction 'subjec...

"This is our stand that Hijab is not an essential religious practice. There was a statement by Dr B R Ambedkar in the Constituent Assembly ...

Colleges and schools where girl students came wearing Hijab were asked to remove it in order to be allowed entry. However, they did not bud...

The High Court, in its interim order pending consideration of all petitions related to the hijab row, last week restrained all the students...

The Court, in its interim order pending consideration of all petitions related to the hijab row, last week restrained the students from wea...

The Karnataka High Court, in its interim order pending consideration of all petitions related to the Hijab row, had earlier requested the s...

The government has already ordered closure of the degree and diploma colleges till February 16. In its circular, the government said the de...

Two colleges in Karnataka declared a holiday on Monday to avoid communal trouble while another allowed students wearing a hijab to sit in s...

Hindu boy students of Kundapur junior college and R N Shetty college who staged the protest, said they will continue to wear the shawls if ...

The Karnataka government had on Friday asked educational institutions to follow existing uniform related rules, until the High Court comes ...

"This obduracy has the mindset of taking them (students) to the level of a terrorist. Now they say Hijab, next they will ask for Burqa (vei...

Wondering what prompted the Muslim women to sport hijab inside the classroom, Nagesh said in a video message, "Now as a reaction, some of t...