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  • Hijab ban: Supreme Court to listen to pleas towards Karnataka HC ruling after Holi trip

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to listing for listening to after Holi trip the pleas difficult the Karnataka High Court verdict which dismissed the petitions looking for permission to put on hijab contained in the classroom saying it’s not part of the important spiritual observe in Islamic religion.

    A bench comprising Chief Justice NV Ramana took word of the submissions of senior advocate Sanjay Hegde, showing for some college students, that pressing listening to was wanted preserving in thoughts the upcoming examinations.

    “The urgency is that there are many girls who have to appear in examinations,” the senior lawyer advised the bench which additionally comprised Justices AS Bopanna and Hima Kohli. “Others also mentioned, let us see…we will list after the vacations. Give us time,” the CJI mentioned.

    Some petitions have been filed towards the total bench excessive courtroom verdict on the case by which it was held that carrying hijab just isn’t part of important spiritual observe in Islamic religion below Article 25 of the structure.

    The excessive courtroom dismissed the petitions filed by a bit of Muslim college students from the Government Pre-University Girls College in Udupi, looking for permission to put on Hijab contained in the classroom. The prescription of faculty uniform is barely an inexpensive restriction, constitutionally permissible which the scholars can’t object to, the excessive courtroom mentioned.

  • Everybody ought to welcome Karnataka HC’s judgement on hijab: Rajnath

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday mentioned the Karnataka High Court’s judgement backing a ban on sporting of hijabs in academic establishments must be welcomed by everyone.

    In an tackle at an occasion, Singh mentioned no nation or society can develop if it doesn’t respect ladies.

    “I can say very confidently that there cannot be development of a society or a country if there is no respect for women. India’s approach towards women has traditionally been positive and progressive,” he mentioned.

    “Today you have seen that the Karnataka High Court has given a judgement. I think everybody should welcome it,” he mentioned.

    Singh was talking on the occasion organised by the FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO). The defence minister mentioned the gown code of faculties and schools have to be adopted by everybody of each faith.

    Referring to the judgement, he mentioned the courtroom held that India’s daughters could also be from any faith or area, however no restriction on them is suitable.

    “If there is a ‘dress code’ of a school and college, then anyone from irrespective of religion and faith should follow the dress code. And the court has given its judgement corresponding to this,” Singh mentioned.

    The defence minister additionally mentioned that the federal government has taken numerous steps to strengthen the position of ladies within the armed forces. “The armed forces will see a larger participation of women in the coming years due to the recent steps taken by the government,” he mentioned.

    “Today, women are not only working in the Army in every wing, but now we are also giving permanent commission to them. Today, admission is being given to boys as well as girls in every Sainik School. The doors of NDA (National Defence Academy) have also been opened for women,” he mentioned.

    Singh mentioned that about 200,000 ladies took the doorway examination final yr for entry into the NDA with nice enthusiasm. “The percentage of women in the Indian Army will increase significantly in the coming times,” mentioned Singh.

    The defence minister additionally highlighted numerous schemes rolled out by the federal government in the previous couple of years on ability growth, employment era and entrepreneurship. He mentioned these schemes have paved the way in which for the holistic growth of ladies and given them the arrogance to forge a brand new identification.

    Singh made particular point out of 23-year-old Vinita Singh who left a wage bundle of Rs one crore and launched her personal startup, which has now turn out to be a Rs 300 crore firm.

    He mentioned this inspiring story has been made attainable because of the coverage introduced out by the federal government to advertise startups within the nation. “In 2014, only 500 startups were working in the country. By 2022, this count has crossed 60,000,” he added.

    Singh reiterated the federal government’s dedication to selling ladies entrepreneurship in India, saying that in accordance with a research, if obstacles in the way in which of ladies are eliminated, at the least 1.5 crore new companies could be began, creating about 6.4 crore further jobs, in accordance with a defence ministry assertion.

    He added that this ecosystem of ladies entrepreneurship will encourage extra ladies and new companies will emerge. At the occasion, wealthy tributes had been paid to Bharat Ratna Late Lata Mangeshkar. Singh remembered the Nightingale of India, saying that she is going to all the time be alive within the coronary heart of each Indian.

    FLO president Ujjwala Singhania and different members of the organisation had been additionally current.

  • Pakistan summons Indian Charge d’Affaires over hijab controversy

    Pakistan has summoned India’s Charge d’Affaires to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and conveyed the federal government’s grave concern on the ban on Muslim lady college students from sporting hijab in Karnataka.
    The Foreign Office stated in a press release late on Wednesday that the Indian diplomat was conveyed Pakistan’s deep concern over alleged non secular intolerance, damaging stereotyping, stigmatisation and discrimination in opposition to Muslims in India.
    It was emphasised that the Indian authorities should maintain the perpetrators of harassment in opposition to girls in Karnataka to account and take satisfactory measures to make sure the protection, safety and well-being of Muslim girls, the assertion stated.
    The Foreign Office assertion got here after Pakistan’s senior ministers waded into the continued hijab row in Karnataka on Wednesday, with Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi saying that depriving Muslim women of training is a grave violation of elementary human rights.
    Information and Broadcasting Minister Fawad Hussain stated what was happening in India was worrying and emphasised that sporting hijab is a private alternative simply as another costume and residents have to be given free alternative.
    Reacting to the tweets of the Pakistani ministers, Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi stated in New Delhi on Wednesday that some persons are giving “communal colour” to a call on costume code and self-discipline of establishments as a part of their “conspiracy to defame India’s inclusive culture”.
    Naqvi additionally shot again saying Pakistan, which is a “jungle of crime and cruelty” for minorities, is preaching India on tolerance and secularism.
    The actuality is that the socio-educational-religious rights of minorities are being trampled openly in Pakistan, Naqvi informed reporters in New Delhi. Equal rights, dignity and prosperity of the minorities, together with Muslims, is part of India’s dedication to tolerance, concord and inclusivity, he asserted.
    The hijab controversy first erupted in January at a authorities Pre-University College in Udupi, the place six college students who attended lessons sporting headscarves in violation of the stipulated costume code had been requested to go away the campus. It later unfold to different components of the state with Hindu college students too responding by turning up in saffron shawls.