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Topic: Naqab

‘Students must have freedom of choice’ — SC stays Mumbai college ban on ‘hijab, burqa, cap, naqab’

Issuing notice to Chembur Trombay Education Society, which runs N G Acharya and D K Marathe College, bench asked why it didn't ban ’tilak, bindi’ if matter was about religious markers.

We are all niqabis now: Covid masks reveal hypocrisy of Canada, France face-covering bans

Both coronavirus masks and niqabs are garments worn for a specific purpose, in a specific place and for a specific time only. It is not worn 24/7.

How a Muslim doctor in Kerala is fighting against the ‘un-Islamic’ face veil

Dr Fazal Gafoor, chairman of Kerala's Muslim Education Society, says Quran doesn't mention the use of face veils and the trend has come to India from Arab countries.

On Camera

SIR drive isn’t NRC-CAA—it can exclude millions of genuine voters, not just Muslims

India is a country where access to documents and digital systems is still uneven. Election Commission's SIR must not turn into a hostile exercise.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.