With a decree issued by President Žaparov, a law has come into force banning clothes that entirely cover women's bodies and ...

The Supreme Court of Canada has announced that it will hear a challenge to Québec's secularism law, known as Bill 21 . The law, passed in ...

Despite a finding by the Quebec Superior Court that Bill 21 has a cruel and dehumanizing impact on Muslim women the law has ...

In 2015, the Lombardy Region had already adopted a resolution banning the burqa in public places. However, the current motion ...

The bill proposes a ban on wearing in public places clothing "suitable for hiding the face, as in the case of the burqa or niqab". It envisions two-year jail terms and a loss of the right to ...

The rightwing League party on Sunday filed a bill to ban the Islamic veil in public spaces in Italy and set jail terms of up to two years for men forcing their women to wear it. The bill says it aims ...

A senior assistant editor with the Times of India, Mohammed Wajihuddin writes about Muslims, their issues, hopes and aspirations. Committed to upholding inclusiveness, communal amity and freedom ...

A video of four burqa-clad Bangladeshi women holding the fence and allegedly trying to jump into India has gone viral on social media. It records them standing at one end of the wired border while ...

State media reported that the initiative in the Amhara region began on January 13, 2025, at the Burqa Demobilization Center. According to the NRC, the program aims to “verify, register, and ...

Meanwhile, on 9 August, the Supreme Court Bench slammed NG Acharya and DK Marathe College in Mumbai for a ban imposed on students wearing burqa, hijab or niqab on campus, reported Bar and Bench.

Amid Gauri Khan's burqa picture going viral, an old interview of Shah Rukh Khan resurfaces where he said he asked his wife to wear a Burqa and read Namaz soon after their marriage due to this reason.