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A guest lecturer at Tumkuru’s Jain PU College in Karnataka has quit amid the controversy over restrictions on wearing a hijab (headscarf) at educational institutions that has triggered a massive debate. Even as the Karnataka High Court hears a slew of petitions against the government order, students and teachers in the southern state have been told […]
Even as the Karnataka High Court hears arguments on whether to allow or not allow religious clothes in educational institutions, another government college in the state has now turned into a site of protest for sending away students who insisted on wearing the hijab in the classroom. The Government PU college at Vijayapura in north […]
The universities belonging to the department of Higher Education and colleges under the Department of Collegiate and Technical Education, in the wake of the hijab row, will now be shut till February 16, the Karnataka government said Friday. “Examinations, however, will be held as scheduled and it has been directed to conduct online classes,” state […]
