Udupi: As they have been doing for weeks now, five students of a women’s Pre-University (PU) college in Karnataka’s Udupi district arrived at the institution’s gates Monday morning, their heads covered with a hijab (headscarf). With the institute banning entry to students wearing hijab since December last year, the five...
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New Delhi: “I began to hear the chilling screams of a woman next door”, wrote Moazzem Begg in his memoirs of his time in Afghanistan’s Bagram prison, on terrorism charges that were later dropped. “For two days and nights I heard the sound of the screaming. I felt my mind...
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Bulli Bai App Case: Mumbai cyber police have arrested Mayank Rawal (21) and Shweta Singh (19) from Uttarakhand, and Vishal Kumar Jha (21) from Bengaluru. Singh is alleged to be the main culprit.
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Last week, Muslim women targeted by an app called ‘Bulli Bai’ took to social media to raise their voices against what had happened. They said that photographs of hundreds of Muslim women had been uploaded on the app on open-source platform GitHub. The group behind the app collected photos of...
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For Khalida Parveen, a 67-year-old Muslim woman and activist from Hyderabad, Bulli Bai app featuring her name, Twitter handle, and photograph did not come as a surprise. “They targeted vocal Muslim women. It is not a coincidence that my name figured in the list a day after I campaigned on...
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