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HC adjourns hijab case hearing

The Gauhati high court on Monday heard the case of one Fathima Beevi, a three-year-old girl who was asked not to come to her nursery school wearing the hijab (head scarf) at Bokakhat in Golaghat district. Citing the matter as a sensitive one that ... Times of India, 4 weeks ago

Daunted by dark water

Fathima Beevi sits outside her home at Karimadom Colony and watches the rice shes cooking come to a slow boil. As she absently ladles the contents of the frothing pot, she jerks her head in the d...

The Hindu, 2 months ago

School refuses to relax dress code for Muslim girl in Assam

The mother of a four-year-old Muslim girl has moved the Gauhati High Court after the authorities of a Catholic Mission-run school, Kristo Jyoti School, near Bokakhat in upper Assam's Golaghat district refused to allow her daughter Fathima Beevi to ...

The Hindu, 1 month ago