BENGALURU — While the High Court has banned the wearing of religious symbols by students in the classrooms of any college in Karnataka, the uniform rule for private college students in Mysore has been repealed and Muslim students have been allowed to wear the Hijab, reported the Times of India. The Mysore College has for […]
NEW DELHI — India on Sunday asked all its citizens, including students in Ukraine to leave the country immediately. This was the second advisory in the last five days by the Indian Embassy in Kyiv. The families of Indian Embassy officials, too, were ordered to return to India immediately in view of the growing danger.. […]
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. According to the principal, the college management, development committee tried to […]
BENGALURU — A First Information Report (FIR) has been filed by the principal of a college in Tumakuru, Karnataka against some Muslim students for wearing hijab inside the college. The development comes as the Karnataka High Court Special Bench continues to hear the hijab case on a daily basis, reports claimed. The principal of Empress […]
BENGALURU — An lecturer of a private college in Karnataka’s Tumakuru district has resigned after being asked to remove her hijab by the college management. Chandini Naz, an English lecturer at Jain PU College called the college management’s decision an “assault on her self-respect”. In a letter Naz said, “I am resigning from my position […]
AHMEDABAD — A special court on Friday awarded death sentence to 38 convicts in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts case, which had claimed 56 lives and left over 200 injured. Special court judge A R Patel also sentenced 11 other convicts in the case to life imprisonment till their death. On 8 February, 2022, the […]
NEW DELHI — As many as 150 personnel will be recruited by the government for the Indian Railway Management Service (IRMS) Group ‘A’ through the Civil Services Examination, 2022. The Indian Railways recently notified the creation of the IRMS by merging eight existing services of the national transporter. According to an official addendum, the Department […]
KUSHINAGAR (UP) — Thirteen women and children, all girls, died after falling into a well while performing a marriage ritual in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar district, police said on Thursday. The incident, in which at least 10 people were also injured, took place at Naurangiya Tola village when an iron grille, they were sitting on, broke, […]
NEW DELHI — A man hailing from Bengaluru was apprehended for allegedly trying to enter the residence of National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval on Wednesday, triggering a minor security alarm, officials said. The incident took place around 7:30 AM when a red-colour SUV, being driven by the man, tried to enter through the gate […]
KARNATAKA — Two students in Karnataka’s Shivamogga – one in Class 6 and the other in Class 9 – boycotted preparatory exams on Monday after being denied permission to write them while wearing a hijab. One of them was allegedly threatened with police action for not following the ban on hijabs. A parent of the […]