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Joy Pillai January 11, 2026 4:06 PM IST
An intense verbal spat broke out between AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi and Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma over Owaisi's remark on 'Hijab-Clad PM' remark row.
Tahir Qureshi January 4, 2026 12:04 AM IST
Imtiaz's statement comes after the incident of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar removing a woman's hijab.
Joy Pillai December 15, 2025 10:08 PM IST
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar triggered a political row after a video surfaced on the internet featuring him pulling down the hijab of a woman doctor.
Tahir Qureshi October 22, 2025 6:33 PM IST
The video shows the father carrying his daughter onto the stage, a Western tradition.
Gazi Abbas Shahid October 9, 2025 10:02 PM IST
Giorgia Meloni's ruling Brothers of Italy party, has asserted that the Italy hijab ban is aimed to curb the surge in Islamic extremism.
Gazi Abbas Shahid July 1, 2025 5:17 PM IST
The Kazakhstan hijab ban law stems from the country's efforts to curb religious fundamentalism and promote secular values.
Sumaila Zaman February 21, 2025 12:21 PM IST
Tajikistan announced on Wednesday that it will publish a new book outlining updated dress "guidelines" for women, further reinforcing the secular state's control over women's attire.
Vikas Mehta December 19, 2024 4:35 PM IST
However, these laws were stayed after chaos erupted over them. Amid the controversy, Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei made shocking remarks. He likened women to 'delicate flowers,' saying they should not be treated as 'housemaids.'
Vikas Mehta November 15, 2024 4:09 PM IST
The country's intention to establish the 'facility centre' is to enforce the hijab regulations, while women's organizations view it as an escalation of the government's crackdown, with some even calling it a 'prison'.
Victor Dasgupta November 3, 2024 12:58 PM IST
In 2022, near-nationwide protests broke out in Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian Kurdish woman arrested for allegedly violating hijab rules.
Tahir Qureshi August 9, 2024 10:18 PM IST
The advocate representing the college said that it does not want the religion of students to be revealed.
India.com News Desk July 3, 2024 12:09 PM IST
A notice from the NG Acharya and DK Marathe College stated that students should wear formal and decent dress while on campus.
PTI March 14, 2024 8:08 PM IST
A private school in Gujarat reportedly compelled Muslim girl students to remove their hijabs ahead of a Class 10 exam, triggering outrage from parents and prompting the state's education department to remove the school's principal as the administrator of the examination.
Ishaan Srivastava January 29, 2024 7:23 PM IST
Muslim girl students from a government senior secondary school staged a protest outside the Subhash Chowk police station against BJP MLA Balmukund Acharya for questioning the girls wearing hijab during a school event.
India.com News Desk December 23, 2023 4:26 PM IST
Siddaramaiah said a decision on revoking the contentious Hijab ban in Karnataka schools will be taken after discussions at government level.
Victor Dasgupta December 22, 2023 9:06 PM IST
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday announced that government will lift the ban on hijab in the educational institutions.
India.com News Desk December 18, 2023 9:18 AM IST
The UN in November this year warned that Iran was carrying out executions at an alarming rate as 419 people have been executed in the first seven months of the year.
India.com News Desk December 2, 2023 10:45 PM IST
A Muslim woman claimed that on the intervening night of November 5-6, police officials barged into her house, held an illegal search, paraded her without her purdah/veil to the police station and detained her for 13 hours.
Gazi Abbas Shahid November 22, 2023 8:36 PM IST
A beef shop owner claimed that his daughter was harrassed, abused and forced to clean shoes with her hijab by her teachers at a school in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu.
ANI October 23, 2023 3:22 PM IST
Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah and State Education Minister MC Sudhakar have decided that students will be allowed to wear a Hijab while writing exams.
India.com Education Desk October 23, 2023 2:16 PM IST
The Hijab controversy flared up in January 2022 when six girls wearing the hijab were purportedly prevented from entering the Government PU College in Udupi.
Joy Pillai October 16, 2023 11:04 AM IST
Hundreds of hijab-clad women staged a protest in Puducherry in support of the Palestine after Israel army called for an evacuation of Palestinians living in Gaza amid the ongoing war with Hamas militants.
Joy Pillai August 19, 2023 3:37 PM IST
Fearlessly, the woman executed her stunt on a stage, surrounded by hundreds of spectators who watched her intently.
PTI July 18, 2023 6:48 PM IST
The death of 21-year-old Amini last September sparked massive protests almost in all major cities and towns in Iran that went on for months, while thousands of women refused to wear the compulsory hijab.
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