Ayesha Imtiaz, an Indian Muslim student barred from school for wearing hijab sits for an interview with the Associated Press at a cafe in Udupi, Karnataka state, India, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022.

The issue of wearing the hijab in school has come up before in India. In 2018, a High Court judge in the southernmost state of Kerala decided that a private Christian school had the right to bar ...

The hijab row follows a string of online attacks against Muslim women in India. In early January, the Indian government was investigating a website that purported to offer Muslim women for sale.

Protests erupt over hijab ban in southern India 06:40. New Delhi — The top court in the southern Indian state of Karnataka on Tuesday upheld a ban on hijabs, or Muslim headscarves, in schools ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) recently banned wearing the hijab in classrooms in Karnataka, the only one of India's five southern states it rules.

Another couple of videos also surfaced showing hijab-adorned Muslim students being harassed and cornered by saffron-clothed and saffron-flag-waving individuals. In one of them, the individuals were ...

Now India is caught up in the same debate. Indian courts will soon determine whether government schools have the authority to ban the hijab, the Islamic headscarf.

NEW DELHI, March 15 (Reuters) - An Indian court upheld on Tuesday a ban on wearing of the hijab in classrooms in the southern state of Karnataka, a ruling that could set a precedent for the rest ...

UDUPI, India (AP) — When Aliya Assadi was 12, she wore a hijab while representing her southern Indian state of Karnataka at a karate competition. She won gold. Five years later she tried to wear ...

Ayesha Imtiaz, an Indian Muslim student barred from school for wearing hijab sits for an interview with the Associated Press at a cafe in Udupi, Karnataka state, India, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022.