Karnataka allows students to wear faith-based symbols in schools

The Karnataka government has issued orders allowing students to wear limited traditional and faith-based attire such as hijabs and turbans along with their prescribed uniforms in schools and pre-university colleges across the state. The directive revokes a previous order that barred the wearing of hijabs in schools and colleges, stating that educational institutions should promote "scientific temper, rationality, equality, dignity, fraternity, discipline, mutual respect, social harmony, and the responsibilities of our constitutional democracy.