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In a veiled warning, the US government has asked India to consider its place in “history books” as the Narendra Modi government in New Delhi mulls Russia’s offer for discounted crude oil.
A high court in the southern Indian state of Karnataka has upheld a government order banning Muslim girls from wearing hijab inside schools, saying the headscarf is not “essential” to Islam.
Pakistan on Saturday demanded a joint probe into a missile India said it accidentally fired into its territory, rejecting New Delhi's decision to hold an internal inquiry into the incident and calling on the international community to play a role.
These images show police, grieving relatives and bodies of some of the thirteen people, many of them children, who died falling down a well during wedding celebrations in northern India.
A misconstrued move by a college in the southern Indian state of Karnataka to ban girls (read Muslim) wearing hijab from attending classes has stirred up a controversy that is being politicized by anarchist elements who over the past few decades have created an atmosphere of Islamophobia by infiltrating the administrative and government apparatuses.
Senior schools in India’s state of Karnataka have reopened a week after authorities shut them down in the face of growing protests against the imposition of a ban on the wearing of hijab, a headdress commonly worn by female Muslim students.
A row in India over the wearing of Islamic headscarves at schools and colleges has now reached the country’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh.
Sadiqa, a 12th grade student in New Delhi is outraged. She says it could perhaps be the first time in Indian history that a particular community is being targeted for what they wear.
Demonstrators have rallied in Jaipur city over the hijab ban in the southern state of Karnataka, as the backlash over restrictions on the Muslim head covering in schools intensifies across India.
Police arrested dozens of student activists after protests erupted on Thursday in New Delhi, challenging the government's ban on wearing hijabs in colleges. The All India Students’ Association (AISA) staged a protest outside the Karnataka Bhawan to support Muslim students.