Melbourne: A state in Australian has introduced a new law which would require Muslim women to remove burqa to prove their identity to the police.
The new law has been incepted in Western Australia fo

The Sri Subrahmanyeshwara First Grade College run by the Sri Kukke Subrahmanya Temple in Karnataka has reintroduced the ban on burqa on its campus disregarding the advice of the Deputy Commissioner ag

A Muslim in France has been jailed after he punched a nurse who tried to remove his wife's veil during childbirth.

Nassim Mimoune, 24, had already been expelled from the delivery room for branding th

Saudi women with attractive eyes may be forced to cover them up under a new law in the country.

The ultra-conservative Islamic state has said it has the right to stop women revealing 'tempting' eyes

A woman in France who defied the ban on wearing burqa on Thursday said she would stand against President Nicolas Sarkozy in the next election.

Kenza Drider, 32, spoke of her candidacy on Thursday aft

Australian police are considering using fingerprints to identify people wearing face-covering veils, after a judge said he could not be sure a burqa-clad woman was who she told police she was.

The ju

French police fined a woman for wearing a full-face Islamic veil, the first reported enforcement of a ban on the garment on the day it came into effect, a police source said on Tuesday.

The young wom

Mumbai: Shiv Sena, which is facing flak over pushing Mumbai University to withdraw Rohinton Mistry's Booker prize-nominated book, today opened a new front by calling for a ban on burqa (veil) worn by

Kasargode, Sept. 18: Ms Rayana R. Khasi, a 23-year-old Muslim girl, an aeronautical engineer who is preparing for the civil services exam, has refused to wear the burqa and often sports jeans despite

A court in Bangladesh, an Islamic Republic, has directed the government to ensure that no woman is forced to wear burqa or religious attires in the educational institutions and offices across the coun