A high court in the southern Indian state of Karnataka has upheld a government order banning Muslim girls from wearing hijab inside schools,

Indian actor and activist Chetan Kumar Ahimsa has been arrested in India allegedly for posting a tweet criticizing one of the judges hearing pleas against the ban on hijab in schools.

Senior schools in India’s state of Karnataka have reopened a week after authorities shut them down in the face of growing protests against the imposition of a ban on the wearing of hijab, a headdress commonly worn by female Muslim students.

Demonstrators have rallied in Jaipur over the hijab ban in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.

Police arrested dozens of student activists after protests erupted in New Delhi, challenging the government's ban on wearing hijabs in colleges.

Authorities in India's southern Karnataka State have ordered schools and colleges to shut as protests intensified over a ban on Islamic headscarves that has outraged Muslim students.