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Iran's hijab enforcer, caught in a dress-code scandal: Leaked video raises questions over daughter's wedding rituals
October 21, 2025 4:17 pm
The bride appears in a low-cut, strapless dress, and the admiral’s wife wears a backless, blue lace evening gown. Other women in the video are not wearing the hijab.
Hijab row in Kerala school, High Court grants police protection
October 14, 2025 5:30 am
A group of people on Friday stormed into the school in Kochi, demanding that a student be allowed to wear the hijab, which the parent-teacher association has said is contrary to the school’s uniform dress code
Class X exam supervisor removed after Gujarat school asks Muslim students to remove hijab
March 15, 2024 7:15 am
The Bharuch District Education Officer (DEO) Swati Raulji had on Wednesday ordered an inquiry into the incident after receiving a complaint from the parents of one of the students whose hijab was removed.
In Rajasthan, BJP MLA stirs up hijab row in school, minister says Muslim 'thinking more towards crime'
January 30, 2024 1:57 pm
On Monday morning, Acharya visited the Government Girls Secondary School in Jaipur’s Gangapol locality. In a video that surfaced afterwards, he can be seen pulling up a school administrator over some students wearing the hijab.
Karnataka hijab ban row raises a question: Why is education not the priority for Muslim girls?
January 18, 2024 3:19 pm
The ban was unwarranted, but favouring religious symbolism over education speaks of an insidious indoctrination
Hijab will be allowed in schools and colleges, says CM Siddaramaiah
December 23, 2023 6:22 pm
Taking it to X he said, “ PM @narendramodi 's sab ka saath-sabka vikas is bogus. @BJP4India is doing the work of dividing people and dividing society on the basis of clothes, dress, caste. I have told (officials) to withdraw the hijab ban.”
Madhya Pradesh school hijab row: HC grants bail to principal, teacher, guard
August 31, 2023 5:22 am
Principal Afsha Sheikh, mathematics teacher Anas Athar, and guard Rustom Ali, were arrested two months ago after a controversy erupted that girl students were being forced to wear hijab by the school authorities.
Tripura school hijab row: CPM, Congress seek strict action against culprits, allege ‘plot to spread communal discord’
August 06, 2023 7:12 pm
In similar statements, the Congress and the Left Front alleged that the BJP was trying to divert people's attention from real issues like unemployment by playing the communal card.
Tension in Tripura school after 'outsiders' assault student objecting their opposition to Hijab
August 04, 2023 11:15 pm
Some students said the issue started when outsiders came and objected to minority girls in hijabs. When 16-year-old student Iliyas Sarkar Suman protested, he was assaulted by the group.
Scarf as part of uniform in Madhya Pradesh private school sparks row, probe ordered
June 01, 2023 7:48 am
Earlier, it was alleged that a poster of Ganga Jamuna Higher Secondary School in Damoh showed girls, including Hindu students, wearing headscarves that looked like hijab.
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