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Wednesday, June 4, 2025
TopicHijab ban

Topic: Hijab ban

Staying Mumbai college hijab ban, SC trashes ‘revealing identity’ argument — ‘won’t name show religion?’

Supreme Court bench also asks whether 'a Hindu wearing a tilak' would be allowed by the college, questions how a dress code stipulation can empower female students.

Fawad Khan returns to Indian screens after 8 yrs with Barzakh. Pakistanis declare ‘King is back’

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Muslim-majority Tajikistan bans hijab as part of years-long campaign against public religiosity

The new law bans the hijab and all other forms of foreign clothing, as well as children's festivities on Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.

Santa’s political party & ‘Gandhi-mukt’ Congress

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Siddaramaiah’s remark on lifting hijab ban sparks political row — ‘conspiracy to implement Sharia law’

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's remark about revoking the hijab ban in educational institutions has triggered a political row, with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...

India–’Mother of democracy’ & ‘first step towards decolonisation’

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Congress govt in Karnataka to ‘review’ BJP’s anti-conversion, hijab ban laws to ensure ‘social equality’

Congress’s statements come after Amnesty (India) sought ‘priority actions’ from newly-elected govt on anti-conversion, anti-cattle slaughter and Hijab ban laws brought in under Bommai.

More Muslim women are wearing hijab as selfcare in India’s shrinking public spaces

Edited by PK Yasser Arafath and G. Arunima, 'The Hijab: Islam, Women and the Politics of Clothing' is a collection of essays which complicates the relationship between Muslim women and the hijab.

Hijab has bench in a tangle & why aloo paratha fans are fretting over GST

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Social conduct, right to choose — why SC ignored essential religious practices rider in Hijab case

Justices Hemant Gupta and Sudhanshu Dhulia wrote separate divergent opinions on the hijab ban, but both did not elaborate on whether hijab wearing is an essential religious practice in Islam.

On Camera

Lashkar’s renewed blossoming shows war hasn’t coerced Pakistan Army into giving up on Kashmir

Islamabad knows it cannot take Kashmir by force, and yet it persists in waging a war without an end. To give up the conflict would mean giving up the idea on which the project of Pakistan rests.

Global financial system is reaching a major turning point. Why interoperability is important

While digital assets are speeding ahead, the tech and regulatory frameworks behind them aren’t keeping up. Each blockchain still operates with its own governance, standards andcompliance assumptions.

Losses are not important, outcomes are—CDS General Anil Chauhan on Operation Sindoor ‘setbacks’

Pakistan wanted to get India to its knees in 48 hours but instead folded up in about 8 hours, he asserts. 'India is not going to live under shadow of terror & nuclear blackmail.'

Asim Munir just stole his 5th star & has nothing to show for it. It’ll make him desperate, dangerous

Asim Munir locked up Imran Khan, had his handmaiden parliament give himself an extended tenure. But the additional jingle of that fifth star will not change facts on the ground.