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K'taka: Udupi College Development Panel Vice President alleges girls invol
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Udupi (Karnataka) [India], February 12 (ANI): Amid the ongoing hijab row in Karnataka, the vice president of the School Development Management Committee (SDMC) in Udupi, Yashpal Suvarna alleged that the girls wearing hijabs are innocent and have been trained by the "Campus front of India" af
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Amid Taliban restrictions, Afghan woman provides literacy, vocational trai
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], February 11 (ANI): After the Taliban prevented the girls from attending school in many areas, an Afghan woman in Kabul is providing literacy and vocational training for nearly six hundred women and girls and that too without any charge.
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Hijab row: All India Bar Association writes to PM Modi, urges him to ensur
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 11 (ANI): All India Bar Association (AIBA) on Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking that the Centre should ensure that all students wear a uniform and prohibit Muslim girls from wearing hijab or niqab at secular schools.
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International Day of Women and Girls in Science: Naga Vara Aparna Akula re
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Bangalore (Karnataka) [India], February 11 (ANI/NewsVoir): Naga Vara Aparna Akula, (Principal Scientist, CSIR-CSIO) was awarded the Young Women Engineer of 2021 by The Institution of Engineering and Technology as part of the first edition of the IET India Awards 2021. She has contributed sig
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Emergence of hijab controversy part of plot, says RSS leader Indresh Kumar
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], February 10 (ANI): Amid the ongoing hijab controversy in the country, RSS leader Indresh Kumar on Thursday condemned the "hidden vote bank politics", and "misuse" of Muskan Khan, a girl whose video of being heckled by a group of miscreants went viral and cau
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K'taka Hijab row: TRS leader Kavitha pens down poem to support girls
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], February 10 (ANI): Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) MLC Kalavakuntla Kavitha on Thursday penned down a poem to lend support to girls participating in the Karnataka Hijab protest.
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Pregnancy weight gain linked to growth patterns in daughters: Study
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Texas [US], February 9 (ANI): People often say obesity is hereditary. But how much of it is true? According to a new study from researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, rapid weight gain in the first and final months of a pregnancy may play a key role in the development of excess fa
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K'taka Hijab row: Priyanka Gandhi lends support to girls, says women have
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New Delhi [India], February 9 (ANI): Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday lent support to Muslim girls amid the 'Hijab row' in Karnataka stating that women have the right to decide what they want to wear.
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Anurag Thakur, elite athletes cheer for state round participants of Fit In
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New Delhi [India], February 8 (ANI): Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Thakur along with elite athletes cheered for the students ahead of the State rounds of the first-ever Fit India Quiz, scheduled for a February 10 start. 360 schools from 189 unique districts across 36 S
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India Cannot have Atmanirbhar Bharat without Atmanirbhar Women and Girls:
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], February 7 (ANI/NewsVoir): "India cannot have an Atmanirbhar bharat without Atmanirbhar girls and women. India represents such a large population, it is the microcosm and the macrocosm of our achieving gender equality in the world.
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Hijab ban will create more problems for girls in getting education, says H
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], February 6 (ANI): Former Karnataka Chief Minister and Janata Dal (Secular) leader HD Kumaraswamy on Saturday slammed the BJP-led government in the state over the hijab ban, saying that it will create more problems for girls in getting education and by bringing
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Iran, Turkey protesting while India is pushing young girls behind hijab: B
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New Delhi [India], February 5 (ANI): Amid Karnataka hijab row, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Malviya on Saturday said that a campaign is being run against hijab in Iran and Turkey while in India we are pushing young Muslim girls behind hijab.
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