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Srinagar, Mar 27: The AMT nursing school, associated with the Government Medical College (GMC) Srinagar, on Tuesday lifted the ban on wearing burka or veil. The school had asked the female students to give an undertaking that they would not cover their faces or wear Abhayas during clinical postings.

Fresh allegations of racist behaviour by Labour councillor Jim Dempster are being investigated by the party. Transport minister Humza Yousaf has again called for the councillor to step down. The Dumfries and Galloway councillor made an Islamophobic comment in relation to Yousaf during a meeting with ...

Earlier in the month Indonesia's Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University in Yogyakarta caused a stir when it announced a ban against the wearing of burka on its premises, adding that 41 students had been identified as burka-wearers and were undergoing 'counseling'. A few days later another state Islamic ...

Let us begin with Guha's concern about the burka. One need not hesitate to posit that if women are dictated a dress code, this certainly should be a matter of concern. Having said this, we need to put this issue in perspective. Women not wearing the burka are no less oppressed than women in burka; what ...

The strongly worded opinion piece in The Indian Express, a rebuttal to the social activist Harsh Mander's article titled "Sonia, Sadly" in The IE, kicks off with a Dalit's advice to Muslims attending their rallies: By all means, come in large numbers to our rallies. But don't come with your skullcaps and burkas.”.

Transport minister Humza Yousaf has branded a Labour councillor's planned visit to a mosque a "tokenistic" photo opportunity after he made an Islamophobic slur. Jim Dempster, who is a councillor in Dumfries and Galloway, told Yousaf's civil servants during a meeting about local road issues that "no one would have seen ...

An Islamic university in Indonesia has faced a backlash after banning female students from wearing the full-face veil on campus. The Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University in Yogyakarta, Java, said that the move had been made as a preventive measure against the spread of radical ideology among ...

TEMPO.CO, Yogyakarta - Rector of State Islamic University (UIN) Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta Yudian Wahyudi mentioned has revoked the prohibition of wearing burka (face veil) for the students at the campus. “It has been revoked, the information is from the head of study, dean and the rector himself," said ...

Meanwhile, head of Nahdalatul Ulama Yogyakarta chapter Nizar Ali countered Azman's argument and said that he has no problem with the burka ban since campus management has the autonomy to do so. The Rector of State Islamic University Sunan Kalijaga prohibited its students to wear burkas during ...

Srinagar:A militant was killed and a policeman sustained injuries on Monday after militants lobbed a grenade at a police station in Tral, police said. According to the official spokesperson of the police ; "Today at 12:30 PM one HM militant namely Mushtaq Chopan who was in custody of Police Station Tral ...

German police say a Muslim woman wearing a veil covering her entire face and body was attacked and verbally abused inside a Berlin store. Police said yesterday a 28-year-old woman insulted the victim and ripped the veil of the burka from her head. The attacker then followed the 54-year-old victim out of ...

CRICKET legend Imran Khan has tied the knot with his burka-clad Islamic spiritual adviser - after marriages to to glamorous British socialites fell through. Former playboy Khan, 65, married Bushra Wattoo last week during a private ceremony in Pakistani capital Lahore. Khan married spiritual adviser Bushra ...

The woman did not want to remove her niqab and complied with Justice Beale's ruling, but the defendant's lawyer indicated she would seek exemptions from the burka ban on religious grounds going forward. The woman's husband, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is an accused terrorist. Last year ...

A high-profile MP with Denmark's governing Liberal party and seven politicians from coalition party Liberal Alliance have said they will not vote for a proposal to ban full-face veils in public. Former minister for food and the environment Eva Kjer Hansen confirmed to Ritzau on Wednesday that she would vote ...

Oslo The Norwegian government has proposed a nationwide ban on the wearing of the niqab and the burka in universities, schools, and nurseries. France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Bulgaria and the German state of Bavaria have all restricted the wearing of full-face veils in public places. If Norway passes ...

Humza Yousaf calls on Labour councillor to resign after burka slur. Scottish Transport Secretary Humza Yousaf. Picture: Michael ... He added: “You don't need diversity training to know not to say to a Muslim you are hiding under a burka.” A Scottish Labour spokesman said: “James Dempster has been ...

A prominent Labour MSP has urged his party to “make a decision” on a councillor who made an Islamophobic comment about the transport minister. Jim Dempster has been suspended from the party pending an investigation into a remark about Humza Yousaf, the transport minister. The Dumfries and ...