-The Telegraph The dole of ghee, salt, gram and cash is likely to work with some segments of voters Bareilly: One-kilo packets of ghee, salt and black gram along with the 5kg rice or wheat provided free against ration cards. Mixed with a generous portion of the karnataka hijab controversy. That’s the cocktail the BJP is serving in Uttar Pradesh to arrest the dent in its vote bank. “The Yogi Adityanath government has added...

-Hindustan Times The ministry of external affairs said that the issues in India are considered and resolved through its constitutional framework and mechanism. After the United States and Pakistan waded in the karnataka hijab row, the ministry of external affairs on Saturday said that “motivated comments” on India's internal issues are not welcome. The ministry said in a statement that the matter regarding dress code is under judicial examination and the issues...

-NDTV.com Rashad Hussain, the Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, or IRF, tweeted "hijab bans in schools violate religious freedom" New Delhi: A US government body that monitors and reports on religious freedom abroad has criticised karnataka amid the row over Muslim students' demand for wearing hijab on campus. Rashad Hussain, the Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, or IRF, tweeted "hijab bans in schools violate religious freedom", referring to the...

-TheWire.in This marks the first time in the recent past when the number of deaths by suicide among unemployed people has crossed the 3,000 mark. New Delhi: In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, February 9, Union minister of state for home affairs Nityanand Rai, citing data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), said that 3,548 people died by suicide due to unemployment in 2020. The figure, observed in...

-NDTV.com "Refusing to let girls go to school in their hijabs is horrifying," Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai tweeted New Delhi: Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has weighed in on the controversy over Muslim students alleging that they were not allowed to enter campuses and classrooms wearing the hijab in karnataka. The girls' education activist tweeted that "refusing to let girls go to school in their hijabs is horrifying." The hijab protests began last month...