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Hijab Row Highlights: Three-judge Karnataka HC bench to hear petitions tomorrow

Hearing the hijab matter, Karnataka High Court said it needs the attention of a larger bench, while lawyers representing the petitioners asked the court to pass an interim order allowing students to attend classes. Karnataka Home Minister Araga Janendra said that his government would probe the role of organisations that instigated protests across the state. Meanwhile, schools and colleges in Karnataka remain shut as CM Basavaraj Bommai sought to control what has now become a law and order issue. Stay tuned to DH for more updates...
Last Updated : 09 February 2022, 17:25 IST

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Three-judge Karnataka HC bench to hear petitions in hijab row matter tomorrow

19:3809 Feb 2022

University students take out rally in Kolkata against hijab ban in Karnataka

Nearly 500 students of Kolkata’s Aliah University on Wednesday took out a rally in Park Circus area, with many women wearing hijab, amid a row over sporting the headscarf in Karnataka.

The participants, carrying the national flag, travelled around Entally and Park Circus before returning to their campus.

"As citizens of India, we have the right to decide what we wear and the right to follow our own religious practises,” read placards in Bengali, English and Hindi held by the students, referring to the controversial developments in the southern state over wearing hijab.

“Down with right-wing forces that want us to go back to the medieval ages," texts on some other posters read.

Incidents of stone-pelting and use of force by police were reported in Karnataka on Tuesday, as the hijab ban row escalated and protests by students spread to more colleges, prompting the state government to declare a three-day holiday for all educational institutions.

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'Saffron flag could replace tricolour in future': K S Eshwarappa courts controversy

Rural Development and Panchayat Raj minister K S Eshwarappa on Wednesday courted controversy by saying that the saffron flag (Bhagwa) could replace the tricolour as the national flag in the future.

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18:0009 Feb 2022

It is ‘hijab jihad,’ claims VHP leader

The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) claims that the controversy surrounding hijab that began in Karnataka's Udupi, is a "ploy" and an agenda to spread "Jihadi anarchy".

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17:4709 Feb 2022

Protest in Hyderabad in support of Hijab

Students from Nizamia Unani Tibbi College and Anwarul Uloom College in Hyderabad on Wednesday staged a protest in solidarity with the students opposing ban on Hijab in educational institutions in Karnataka.

The girl students at the Unani medical college near historic Charminar staged silent protest expressing their solidarity with those in Karnataka fighting for the right to wear Hijab.

Holding national flag and placards, the burka-clad protesters condemned the attempts to target girl students in the neighbouring state.

Published 08 February 2022, 23:54 IST

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