Burkhas

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  Bombay High Court Dismisses Students' Petition Against College's Hijab Ban

  The Bombay High Court on Wednesday dismissed the plea filed by women students challenging the ban on wearing hijab, niqab, burkha, stole, cap, etc., on campus by a Mumbai college.

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  Burkha Row At NEET Exam: Principal Says Girls Could Have Asked For Permission

  The Muslim candidates who were asked to remove their burkha and hijab at a National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) centre in Maharashtra's Washim could have taken prior permission to wear them, the college principal said on Tuesday.

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  Best Drama Movies on Amazon Prime Video in India [May 2022]

  The best drama movies on Amazon Prime Video in India include Anand, Chak De! India, C/o Kancharapalem, Fight Club, Gladiator, Gully Boy, Iruvar, Whiplash, The Fallout, The Great Indian Kitchen, Minari, and The Revenant.

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  Woman Tried To Smuggle Gold Concealed In Burkha, Arrested At Mangaluru Airport

  Customs officials at Mangaluru International Airport in the city confiscated gold worth Rs 5.34 lakh that was being illegally transported by concealing it in the buttons of a burkha, sources said on Saturday.

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  Maharashtra Man Asks Woman, Her Daughter To Not Wear Burqa; Arrested

  Amid the hijab row in Karnataka and some other parts of the country, a 60-year-old man was held in Akola in Maharashtra for allegedly threatening a woman and her daughter to not wear burkhas, police said on Saturday.

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  Karnataka Students With Hijab Turned Away, Court's Interim Order Cited

  Hijab Row: Dramatic visuals from the college show some students who had entered the classroom in hijabs and burkhas arguing with the teacher and the Principal of the school requesting them to follow the court order.

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  Madhya Pradesh Students In Burkha Heckled With 'Jai Shri Ram' Chants

  The Madhya Pradesh government has ordered an inquiry after a video showed a group of people raising "Jai Shriram" slogans on seeing two girls clad in burqa and hijab entering a government college in Datia town.

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  "Riding With A Non-Muslim?": 2 Arrested In Bengaluru For Moral Policing

  The video of the incident was shared widely on social media and messaging platforms with a watermark of "National Defence Force" written in Kannada. Their grouse was against a "non-Muslim" man having a "woman in burkha" ride pillion on his motorbike.

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  Women’s Day: Best Women-Led Movies and Female Directors

  International Women’s Day 2021: the best movies from female directors, and women-led movies from India and internationally. Gunjan Saxena, Neerja, Wonder Woman, Thappad, Zoya Akhtar, Meghna Gulzar, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire are part of our list.

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  The Best Hindi Movies on Amazon Prime Video in India [April 2020]

  Our list of best Hindi movies to watch on Amazon Prime Video in India in 2020 feature the likes of Lipstick Under My Burkha, Naya Daur, Gangs of Wasseypur, Anand, Chak De! India, A Death in the Gunj, and Dum Laga Ke Haisha.

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  Lipstick Under My Burkha Writer Says She's 'Okay With Transwoman Tag'

  "My gender cannot be my only identity when I am writing a story because a story has no gender," said Gazal Dhaliwal

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  Aahana Kumra Clarifies That She Was 'Uncomfortable' With Prakash Jha's Remark On A Scene

  Aahana Kumra says she was "uncomfortable" with a remark made by filmmaker Prakash Jha during the shooting of Lipstick Under My Burkha

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  Aahana Kumra Says That She 'Doesn't Have To Beg For Work Anymore'

  "The best part about what's happening right now, for actors like me, is that we have a great platform like the internet," said Aahana

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  Man Booked For Wearing Burqa, Entering Women's Toilet In Goa

  A 35-year-old Goa government employee was arrested for dressing up as a Muslim woman in a burqa, and entering a women's toilet at the central bus stand in the coastal state on Saturday.

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  Konkona Sen Sharma Wraps Shooting For Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare

  The duo have earlier worked together in the 2017 film Lipstick Under My Burkha