Kanye West has been barred from performing at the Grammys due to his ‘concerning online behaviour’. Kanye, who now goes by the name Ye, is up for five Grammy awards. The incident that led to the rapper’s Grammy disbarment, and 24-hour suspension from Instagram, was a racial slur against Daily Show host Trevor Noah who had expressed […]
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The Karnataka High Court has upheld the state government’s ban on the wearing of hijab (head-scarf) by students in school. The three-judge bench pronounced judgment on a petition filed by some Muslim girl students seeking protection of their right to wear a head scarf in educational institutes. The girls have now approached the Supreme Court to challenge the high
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If a mere headscarf can disrupt public order, then who is responsible: The student who wears it or the law enforcement agencies responsible for maintaining the peace? A hijab-wearing student walks past a worker painting a wall to conceal a pro-hijab slogan, Hospet, March 16, 2022 (PTI) Two days before the Karnataka high court (HC)
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The BJP’s return to power in Uttar Pradesh, making Yogi Adityanath the first chief minister in 37 years to return for a second consecutive term despite price rise, unemployment and the farmer agitation is being attributed in significant part to the woman voter. There is no data yet on how women actually voted, but an
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If the promise to set up committees to look into complaints of sexual harassment in the Malayalam film industry holds true, it will be a historic first that comes nine years after India’s law on workplace sexual harassment was passed in 2013. At a recently concluded workshop, various film bodies in Kerala pledged to set
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A boy is dead apparently because he did not fit social ideas of what is “normal”. His mother is fighting for justice. No parent should have to ever go through this again. The unpalatable truth is that bullying remains the most common form of violence across schools. (airborne) In the note he wrote before he jumped
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