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Bengaluru: After the death of a 26-year-old Bajrang Dal activist in Shivamogga, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday said that police have gathered a few leads in the case, the investigation into which started last night. CM Bommai said, “One Harsha was stabbed to death yesterday. Few leads have been gathered in the incident […]

Bengaluru: At least 58 female students from a college in Karnataka’s Shivamogga district were suspended on Saturday for wearing hijab and also staging an agitation demanding that they should be allowed to attend classes. The students were from Government Pre-University College of Shiralakoppa. Although the college management, development committee tried to explain to the hijab-clad […]

Since three years I am working in Jain PU College as a guest lecturer. In these three years I did not have any problem and I worked normally with ease.

"We have taken a stand that wearing hijab is not an essential religious part of Islam," Advocate General of Karnataka Prabhuling Navadgi told the full bench of the High Court comprising Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice J M Khazi and Justice Krishna M Dixit.

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Amid the ongoing Hijab row in Karnataka, Bharatiya Janata Party MP Sadhvi Pragya on Wednesday said that the people who are “not safe in their houses need to wear hijab” adding that they are not required to wear it at the educational institutions. Addressing an event on the occasion of Ravidas Jayanti […]

Hijab is a matter of choice. The BJP must realise that by barring hijab-wearing girls, it would be driving them deeper into the clutches of the forces of orthodoxy

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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.

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. […]

The RSS Muslim wing -- Muslim Rashtriya Manch -- has backed Bibi Muskan's plea to wear a hijab and condemned the saffron frenzy surrounding her.

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 […]

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 […]

In spite of curfew orders in Shivamogga district, the NSUI members on Wednesday morning entered First Grade Degree College and PG Research Centre.

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.

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 […]

The girls, who have been entering the campus wearing hijab, were asked to remove it at the waiting rooms before attending the classes.