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Udupi, Feb 17: Around 60 final year students of the government G Shankar memorial women’s first grade degree college in Udupi on Thursday returned home after they were told to take off their hijabs by college authorities. Though the Muslim girl students argued with the authorities saying the chief minister clarified that uniforms are not mandatory in degree colleges, the authorities said it is the

Belagavi, Feb 17: Social activist Seema Inamdar, who had come to the premises of the Government Sardars High School in Belagavi demanding that Muslim girls be allowed to wear hijabs, was allegedly threatened over phone call of dire consequences by an unknown caller. Inamdar had come to the premises of Government Sardars High School on Tuesday morning and taken exception to Muslim girl students

Tensions over Ukraine abruptly ratcheted up Wednesday as Western officials accused Russia of lying about whether it had really begun pulling back troops from the Ukrainian border. After days marked by flickers of hope that the conflict might be resolved peacefully, a senior US official, who refused to be quoted by name, told reporters that far from winding down its deployment, Moscow had added

Mangaluru, Feb 17: Uppinangady first-grade Government College in Dakshina Kannada district has declared an indefinite holiday for students after 10 Muslim girl students refuse to remove the Hijab while attending classes on Thursday. More than 60 Muslim students of Dr G Shankar Government First Grade College, Udupi decided to return home again onThursday as college sticks to its stand of not

A new study on Wednesday again pegged India's Covid-19 mortality at 3.2-3.7 million by November 2021 providing yet another piece of evidence in support of huge under-counting of Covid deaths in India. Christophe Guilmoto, a researcher at Centre de Sciences Humaines, Delhi has estimated India's Covid death toll at almost six to eight times higher than the official toll, months after the ferocious

Mangaluru, Feb 16: The social democratic party of India (SDPI) on Wednesday charged the BJP with 'sponsoring' and 'promoting' the hijab-saffron shawl issue in educational institutions in Karnataka. Addressing reporters here, SDPI state general secretary B R Bhaskar Prasad alleged that the entire issue is a ‘criminal act’ sponsored by the BJP government in the state. Noting that the constitution

Mangaluru, Feb 16: As many as 28 students in two colleges in the city were sent back home on Wednesday for wearing hijab to classes. Mangaluru police commissioner N Shashi Kumar told reporters here that in four other colleges, students who came to classes wearing hijabs were allowed inside classrooms after removing their scarves. Classes went on smoothly in all the colleges, which reopened today

Bengaluru, Feb 16: Amid the hijab crisis, the Karnataka government on Wednesday reopened pre-university, degree and diploma colleges under tight security arrangements. Though the majority of students attended classes as per the guidelines of education institutions, many of them who refused to take off their hijab were sent back. Several Congress workers were taken into custody for encouraging

Dharwad, Feb 16: Senior poet Nadoja Channaveer Kanavi, who had recovered from Covid-19 infection, passed away at a private hospital at Sattur near Dharwad on Wednesday following multi-organ failure. He was 93 and is survived by his daughter and four sons. His wife Shantadevi had passed away last year. Kanavi was admitted to a private hospital on January 14 after he complained of respiratory

Hundreds of students wearing hijabs in colleges across Karnataka staged fresh protest on Wednesday as they were denied entry citing High Court's controversial interim order. On the other hand thousands of Muslim girl students across the state continued to boycott classes on Wednesday protesting against prohibition of hijab on school campuses. However, Karnataka Home Minister Araga Dnyanendra