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By Arun Sinha The BJP’s top leadership needs to review whether the way their Karnataka leaders have handled the hijab row is working in or against the party interest. At first glance, it seems the party has lost some of the goodwill it had earned among Muslim women by passing the Muslim Women (Protection of […]
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Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao’s clarion call for an united fight against the communal and divisive politics of the BJP, is gaining momentum with leaders from various political parties extending their support. Former Prime Minister and JD (S) national president HD Deve Gowda is the latest leader to join the bandwagon and extend his […]
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Hyderabad: Weekend birding has turned sour for two persons from Hyderabad, after they were relieved of their expensive cameras, money and a mobile phone at knife point on Saturday last near Air Force Station in Chidri area of Bidar in Karnataka. The father-son duo of photographers were forced to part with their camera equipment, money […]
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Bengaluru: A full bench of the Karnataka High Court comprising Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice Krishna S. Dixit and Justice Khaji Jaibunnesa Mohiyuddin on Monday resumed hearing of petitions seeking directions to the ruling BJP government to allow wearing of hijab in classrooms. The bench had given an interim order last week that no […]
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Yadadri: Calling the BJP Government an ‘utter flop’ government, Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao said the sooner the nation gets rid of the BJP government, the better it would be for the country. In a blistering attack on the Central Government, particularly Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister said in the last 8 years […]
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Taking to Instagram, Sonam shared a picture of a man in a turban and a woman in a hijab, and it questions why can a turban be a choice but a hijab can't.
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Ten-year-old Rachel Prisha, while going to school on bike with her father was fatally injured after a dry branch of a tree suddenly fell on her head on March 11, 2020.
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Hyderabad: Approximately 100 English language teachers and teacher trainers participated in the launch of the TESOL Core Certificate Program (TCCP) offered by the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi in partnership with TESOL International, a leading organisation in the field of English-language teaching. The teachers are employed by the Telangana, Karnataka and West Bengal State governments. […]
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The RSS Muslim wing -- Muslim Rashtriya Manch -- has backed Bibi Muskan's plea to wear a hijab and condemned the saffron frenzy surrounding her.
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Celebration of diversity and plurality defines the soul of India. Any attempt to alter this fundamental identity will damage the country’s social fabric. If backed by a political agenda, such attempts can lead to disastrous consequences. Invoking the xenophobic narratives to rake up the communal divide has been a familiar electoral strategy of the BJP […]
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Hyderabad: Demonstrations and rallies were held in the city in support of the ‘hijab’ on Wednesday. The programmes were conducted under a strict vigil of the police. More than a hundred students of Government Nizamia Tibbi College and Hospital at Charminar took out a rally on the campus in the afternoon. The girl students wearing […]
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In spite of curfew orders in Shivamogga district, the NSUI members on Wednesday morning entered First Grade Degree College and PG Research Centre.
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Owaisi was referring to the controversy that began in January this year at a government college in Karnataka's Udupi when six girls wearing headscarves were asked to leave campus.
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Bengaluru: As protests for and against the ‘hijab’ intensified in different parts of Karnataka, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday declared a holiday to high schools and colleges in the state for the next three days. Bommai has also appealed for peace. “I appeal to all the students, teachers and management of schools and colleges […]
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The girls, who have been entering the campus wearing hijab, were asked to remove it at the waiting rooms before attending the classes.
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Warangal: As a part of their crackdown against the sale of the banned tobacco products, the Commissionerate Task Force sleuths led by Inspectors Ch Srinivas Ji and R Santosh raided a house of one Gullapally Ramesh, situated at Shanthinagar of Narsampet town in the district on Monday and seized tobacco products from his possession. On […]
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Minister for Education B.C. Nagesh stated that schools in Bengaluru from Class 1 to 9 which had been closed in the backdrop of Covid third wave, will reopen from Monday.
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Bengaluru: Dr Soundarya (30), the granddaughter of former Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, had left her nine-month-old baby in the other room of the flat before committing suicide on Friday. Meanwhile, High Ground police have lodged a case of unnatural death following the complaint by her husband Dr Neeraj. The police are awaiting the statements […]
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Hassan: An Associate Professor attached to the Hassan Institute of Medical Sciences (HIMS) was on Tuesday suspended after a junior doctor accused him of sexual harassment in Karnataka’s Hassan district. The victim junior doctor has been under training after completion of the MBBS course. She has alleged in her complaint to HIMS that while going […]
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Adilabad: A man was arrested for allegedly smuggling and storing banned gutka products in a warehouse on the premises of a government school, run in a private building, at Chandat (T) village in Adilabad Rural mandal on Friday. He was produced before pressmen on Saturday. Prohibited gutka products worth Rs 11.17 lakh were recovered from […]