Burqa-clad Women

Kompella Madhavi Latha, BJP's firebrand candidate from Hyderabad, is set to face a police case after a video showed her asking burqa-clad Muslim women at a polling booth to reveal their faces so that she can match them with photos on voter ID cards

The Government Railway Police (GRP) has unleashed a special squad of women officers to tackle the problem of thefts and robberies in ladies' bogies on the suburban local trains. The squad, disguised as regular commuters, follow on-record criminals to catch them in the act, and hand them over to the police.

On a day the Shiv Sena called for a ban on burqa, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said women visiting civic hospitals in veils will be checked. The move comes after a burqa-clad woman kidnapped a two-month-old boy from the civic-run VN Desai hospital in Santa Cruz on Friday.The BMC cited a Supreme Court (SC) order issued in January, wh...

Two babies were stolen by burqa-clad women at two ends of the city on Friday. A two-month-old boy was stolen from the civic-run VN Desai hospital in Andheri, while his mother brought him and his twin sister for administration of anti-polio drops. A woman disappeared with the boy after taking the baby from his grandmother, saying that his mother, wh...

On a day when the French Senate passed the bill to ban women from wearing the burqa in public spaces across the country, a woman in Mumbai was allegedly stopped by a security guard at the King Edward Memorial Hospital (KEM) for not removing her veil.The incident occurred when Fatima, her husband and another relative reached the hospital, as her unc...

Kompella Madhavi Latha, BJP's firebrand candidate from Hyderabad, is set to face a police case after a video showed her asking burqa-clad Muslim women at a polling booth to reveal their faces so that she can match them with photos on voter ID cards

The Government Railway Police (GRP) has unleashed a special squad of women officers to tackle the problem of thefts and robberies in ladies' bogies on the suburban local trains. The squad, disguised as regular commuters, follow on-record criminals to catch them in the act, and hand them over to the police.

On a day the Shiv Sena called for a ban on burqa, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said women visiting civic hospitals in veils will be checked. The move comes after a burqa-clad woman kidnapped a two-month-old boy from the civic-run VN Desai hospital in Santa Cruz on Friday.The BMC cited a Supreme Court (SC) order issued in January, wh...

Two babies were stolen by burqa-clad women at two ends of the city on Friday. A two-month-old boy was stolen from the civic-run VN Desai hospital in Andheri, while his mother brought him and his twin sister for administration of anti-polio drops. A woman disappeared with the boy after taking the baby from his grandmother, saying that his mother, wh...

On a day when the French Senate passed the bill to ban women from wearing the burqa in public spaces across the country, a woman in Mumbai was allegedly stopped by a security guard at the King Edward Memorial Hospital (KEM) for not removing her veil.The incident occurred when Fatima, her husband and another relative reached the hospital, as her unc...