A regressive and strange diktat has ruffled feathers in Uttar Pradesh. Women students in Bijnor have been barred from wearing black clothing and jeans at a function to be presided by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. Reports say women have also been barred from wearing jeans and using mobile phones. ...
07:56 PM, Dec 10, 2012
Kanpur: Haleem Jubilee college in Kanpur has made wearing of burqas and scarves by girl students mandatory besides banning mobile phones. College management said that as cases of molestation had increased so they took these measures to ensure the safety of the girls. According to the management girls wearing scarves and burqas will be more secure. Elaborating on the decision to ban mobile phones, the management said that the use...
04:06 PM, Nov 06, 2012
My first reaction on reading the news that St Aloysius College in Mangalore had restricted the use of burqa was that it was unnecessarily provocative. ...
06:46 PM, Apr 28, 2012
Mangalore: In a decision that may trigger a controversy, a local college has banned girl students from wearing burqa in classes and while writing exams, but allowed them to wear the outfit in its campus. The management of St Aloysius College, an autonomous educational institution, has decided to ban burqa from this academic year. "The wearing of burqa is banned only while attending classes and writing exams. However, students can...
08:22 AM, Apr 28, 2012
Melbourne: Burqa-clad Muslim women in Australia's most populous state will have to remove face veils as part of new tough identity check laws in New South Wales (NSW). The revised laws, which will come into force from April 30, will empower Justice officials with authority to look under religious face-coverings. NSW Attorney General Greg Smith said "Justice of the Peace and lawyers will in future be required to ask anybody...
02:27 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Amsterdam: The Dutch minority government plans to ban Muslim face veils such as burqas and other forms of clothing that cover the face from next year. The ban would make the Netherlands, where 1 million out of 17 million people are Muslim, the second European Union country to ban the burqa after France, and would apply to face-covering veils if they were worn in public. "People should be able to...
09:52 AM, Jan 28, 2012
Riyadh: Women in Saudi Arabia will not need a male guardian's approval to run or vote in municipal elections in 2015, when women will also run for office for the first time, a Saudi official said on Wednesday. The change signifies a step forward in easing the kingdom's restrictions against women, but it falls far short of what some Saudi reformers are calling for. Shura Council member Fahad al-Anzi was...
08:24 AM, Dec 29, 2011
Toronto: New Canadian citizens must remove any face coverings, such as the Islamic niqab or burqa, while they take the oath of citizenship, the country's immigration minister said on Monday. Jason Kenney said most Canadians have misgivings about Islamic face coverings and said new Canadians should take the oath in view of their fellow citizens. He said he has received complaints from lawmakers and citizenship judges who say it's difficult...
08:06 AM, Dec 13, 2011
Suhasini Haidar: Hello and welcome to this week's edition of World View with me Suhasini Haidar. Tonight those protests over Burqa bans, the rise of the right wing anti-Islamist groups, the question we are asking is the clash between Islamism and Islamophobia leading to Europe just losing that battle. With me in the studio tonight is Dr. Shri Ram Cholia, he is a professor and the vice-dean of the Jindal ...
10:16 PM, Oct 29, 2011
Suhasini Haidar: Hello and welcome to this week's edition of World View with me Suhasini Haidar. Tonight those protests over Burqa bans, the rise of the right wing anti-Islamist groups, the question we are asking is the clash between Islamism and Islamophobia leading to Europe just losing that battle. With me in the studio tonight is Dr. Shri Ram Cholia, he is a professor and the vice-dean of the Jindal ...
11:51 AM, Oct 27, 2011
Suhasini Haidar: Hello and welcome to this week's edition of WorldView with me Suhasini Haidar. Tonight Gaddafi's dead but he has left behind some troubling questions we are asking tonight. Did NATO overstep its mandate in Libya and what's next for all of West Asia? We have some special guest tonight, Jason Burke in the studio. Thanks so much for joining us, he is the South Asia correspondent of the ...
11:51 AM, Oct 17, 2011
Geneva: After France, Netherlands and Belgium, Switzerland is now on its way to become the fourth country in Europe to impose a ban on burqa, with lawmakers on Thursday voting for a far-right move to outlaw face veils in public. Swiss parliamentarians turned inwards on the sensitive issue of immigration on Thursday by endorsing a bill authored by a politician of a far-right party, that seeks to ban the wearing...
09:19 AM, Sep 29, 2011
London: Two Muslim women were arrested in Paris Monday for wearing face veils or burqa as France moves to enforce a ban on full face coverings, a media report said. Kenza Drider, 32, travelled to Paris from her home in Provence to force a confrontation with police, and was one of those arrested, The Telegraph reported. There were minor scuffles as officers apprehended her outside Notre Dame Cathedral together with...
01:52 PM, Apr 12, 2011
The police arrested two veiled protesters on the first official day of the ban in France. ...
10:19 AM, Apr 12, 2011
Paris: France's controversial ban on wearing Islamic veils such as burqas and niqabs takes effect on Monday. A silent protest march against the burqa ban is planned for Monday morning in Paris. The ban pertains to the burqa, a full-body covering that includes a mesh over the face, and the niqab, a full-face veil that leaves an opening only for the eyes. The hijab, which covers the hair and neck...
11:41 AM, Apr 11, 2011
Mumbai: The Shiv Sena continues to remain in the limelight for its controversial stands. This time around it has called for a ban on the burqa, calling the Muslim veil a threat to security interests. In an editorial in party mouthpiece 'Saamna', the party said Turkey had once banned the burqa and now France had followed suit. It said criminals were using the burqa to commit crimes. It cited how...
09:32 AM, Oct 20, 2010
Paris: France's top legal authority on Thursday approved a law banning full-face veils in public, the last hurdle for the ban, which aims to protect women's rights but has been criticised as causing the stigma to Muslims. The Constitutional Council, which had previously warned that banning the veil might be unconstitutional, said it approved the version of the bill, which has been passed by both Houses of Parliament, after a...
10:18 AM, Oct 08, 2010
After France and Switzerland, The Netherlands too is planning to ban the burqa in public. This comes as a part of a pact engineered by the newly elected minority coalition government in the country. ...
10:08 AM, Oct 01, 2010
The upper house of French Parliament has passed a controversial bill that outlaws burqa in public places. ...
10:00 PM, Sep 15, 2010
Sydney: An Australian judge refused a Muslim woman the right to wear a full-face veil in court during her testimony as a witness in a fraud trial on Thursday. Perth's District Court Judge Shauna Deane said that in the interest of a fair trial the witness should not be allowed to wear a niqab or burqa. But she said she would speak to counsel about ways to accommodate the witness,...
07:49 PM, Aug 19, 2010
