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Karnataka girl wins prize in Kerala State Festival after switching school due to hijab ban
Afeefa, Muslim girl in Karnataka who was forced to drop out of school after hijab ban in the state bagged A grade in Kannada elocution at the Kerala State School Arts Festival.
South India
PUCL report finds Karnataka hijab ban violated fundamental rights of Muslim women
"The Karnataka Government has a constitutional responsibility to respond to the continuing violations of fundamental rights of young Muslim women," the Karnataka chapter of People’s Union for Civil Liberties...
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India
T.N. Governor skips reference to Ambedkar, Periyar, social justice in Assembly address
Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi, who addressed the year’s first session of State Legislative Assembly on Monday, skipped references to father of the Indian Constitution B. R. Ambedkar, Dravidar Kazhagam founder Periyar, former Chief Ministers K. Kamaraj and C. N. Annadurai, as well as the “Dravidian model” of government, mentioned in the 65th paragraph of the printed copy of his speech.
India
Kerala student barred from taking exam at SRM Chennai dies by suicide
19-year-old student Mohammed Anikh, a Kerala student of the SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, died by suicide at his house in Kerala’s Kozhikode district.
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India
Hijab ban; 50% dip in Muslim students’ count in govt colleges in Udupi: Report
There has been a significant shift of Muslim students from government to private pre-university colleges (PUC) in Karnataka's Udupi district, the epicentre of movement against Hijab ban, according The Indian Express.
India
Colleagues mourn 22-year-old The News Minute journalist’s demise
The News Minute reporter Saradha U died in Chennai, a few days after she tested positive for dengue and typhoid. She was 22.
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India
‘Kerala govt’s Islamophobia’: Muslim bodies decry depiction of Muslims in school festival
An inaugural skit at Kerala State School Art Festival depicting Muslims as terrorists has sparked outrage in Kerala, with Muslim bodies calling out Kerala government’s “blatant Islamophobia.”
India
Kerala State School Arts Festival inaugural skit portrays Muslims as terrorists
Social media users on Tuesday expressed their anger at the way an inaugural skit in Kerala State School Art Festival depicts Muslim, saying they are shocked to see the entire Muslim community being painted as “terrorists” by the organisers of the festival, Kerala left government.
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India
Bengaluru businessman found dead; BJP MLA named in note
A 47-year-old businessman Pradeep S was found dead in his car with a bullet injury on Bengaluru’s outskirts on 1 January. The deceased wrote in a purported suicide note that BJP MLA Aravind Limbavali and five others had cheated him.
Features
“Being a Muslim itself is a crime in present-day India”: Memoir of an NIA raid
“Following the ban of the organisation, I always have this intuition that a raid might soon happen at our house too. Never in my dreams, I thought that today would be the day,” Anvar said.
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India
One lakh people join WPI’s Kerala conference; ‘Defeat Hindutva,’ urge SQR Ilyas, Thirumavalavan MP
Over one lakh people joined the rally in which the party workers sloganeered against Hindutva forces in the country.
India
PFI raids: NIA arrests Muslim lawyer in Kerala under UAPA
The National Investigative Agency (NIA) has arrested an Advocate practicing in the Kerala High Court in the raids conducted by it Thursday across Kerala in the houses of dozens of Muslim leaders and activists allegedly associated with banned outfit Popular Front of India.
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