The ban on hijab was enforced by way of a February 5 order of the Karnataka authorities, saying that headscarves usually are not a part of uniforms obligatory for instructional establishments. The order was invoked beneath Part 133(2) of the Karnataka Schooling Act, 1983.
On floor, one verdict: Schooling key, lessons, exams trump hijab ban
Within the cut up verdict on the hijab ban in Karnataka’s Pre-College Faculties (Class 11 and 12), Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia stated that whereas deciding the case, the important thing problem for him centered round the truth that a lady faces “a variety of difficulties” in her schooling and by denying her that chance (through the hijab-ban order), “are we making her life any higher”?
Because the controversy performed out within the courts, and on the campuses in Karnataka, the load of Justice Dhulia’s remarks — and the premium that the group locations on the schooling of its ladies — are borne out by two key traits: the growing presence of Muslim ladies in larger schooling and proof that solely a tiny section determined to forgo schooling over the federal government order banning hijab in faculties.
Video exhibits Dalits being requested to serve Karnataka CM solely branded tea
The Congress on Thursday shared a video purportedly exhibiting officers instructing a Dalit household to serve solely branded and packaged tea powder as a substitute of odd tea to Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and BJP chief B S Yediyurappa, amongst others.
Bommai, Yediyurappa, together with Tourism Minister Anand Singh, Water Assets Minister Govind Karjol and different BJP leaders had breakfast in a home at Kamalapura in Vijayanagara district on Wednesday. Later, the Chief Minister’s workplace shared footage and movies of their breakfast.
Immediately, Congress got here up with a video on the Twitter deal with whereby the officers had been purportedly giving directions to the household even earlier than Bommai and his workforce reached there.