Mersedeh Shahinkar knows the cost of freedom. The Iranian mother and activist, now living in California, carries the permanent scar of the Islamic Republic’s brutality. She is blind in her right eye, ...

Sanpaku eyes are going viral — again — and the internet can’t stop diagnosing people because of them. The eye trait, which shows extra white either above or below the iris, has sparked everything from ...

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PATNA: A Pakistan-based underworld don has triggered a controversy by objecting to the removal of a woman doctor’s hijab by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar during an official function held in the ...

Bilkis Parveen, a classmate of the Muslim woman doctor whose hijab was removed by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, emphasised that what happened was wrong, stating, "No one has the right to touch ...

"Nitish Kumar has done nothing wrong," Giriraj Singh reiterated today. Union minister Giriraj Singh, who has emerged as the newest champion of Nitish Kumar in the hijab row, today had a message for ...

Until recently, such scenes would have been unthinkable in the Islamic Republic of Iran, whose strict dress code for women has required they wear the hijab in public since shortly after the 1979 ...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar remained at the centre of a controversy for the fourth day on Thursday (December 18, 2025), with a Union Minister defending his act of pulling down a Muslim woman’s ...

A video showing a top minister pulling down the hijab of a Muslim woman during a government event has caused widespread outrage and condemnation across India. Nitish Kumar, chief minister of the ...

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LENOIR CITY, Tenn. (WATE) — A Loudon County woman is suing the sheriff and the county, claiming her religious rights were violated during booking. The lawsuit says deputies forced Hollie Zaki, an ...