Hijab ban

<!-- -->France's top administrative court upheld a ban on women football players wearing Hijab.Paris: France's top administrative court on Thursday upheld a ban on women football players wearing Islamic hijab headscarves, after the…

France’s top administrative court on Thursday ruled against a collective of Muslim female soccer players in their case against the French Football Federation (FFF), upholding a ban on the Islamic headscarf, or hijab, during games. The…

SC to deliver judgement on Thursday in Karnataka hijab ban matterThe Supreme Court is scheduled to pronounce its verdict on Thursday on a batch of petitions challenging the Karnataka High Court judgement refusing to lift the ban on hijab in…

PARIS: Iran stepped up pressure on celebrities and journalists on Thursday over the wave of women-led protests sparked by outrage over the death of Mahsa Amini after she was arrested by the Islamic republic's morality police. Filmmakers,…

The Karnataka high court has asked the state government to give it details on the role of the Campus Front of India in the protest after ban on hijabs in a school in Udupi. The HC order came after senior counsel SS Naganand, representing…

Ban on hijab in schools was 'creating mass hysteria' and had 'disturbed mental health of poor Muslim girls', neuro-psychiatrist Vinod G Kulkarni, who appeared as a party-in-person for one of the petitioners, pleaded in the Karnataka high…

Sonam Kapoor weighed in on the raging hijab controversy in Karnataka and asked why turbans can be a choice but a hijab cannot. She shared a post on Instagram Stories, featuring a picture collage. On the left was an image of a man in a…

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By AFP PARIS: France's gender equality minister threw her support on Thursday behind Muslim women footballers who are seeking to overturn a ban on players wearing headscarves on the pitch.  Rules set by the French…