Daily briefing: Supreme Court’s split verdict on Hijab row; Kharge on importance of Gandhis in Congress


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Good morning, Big Story 🔴 More than eight months after the Karnataka government banned the wearing of the hijab in state pre-university colleges, triggering a row and spawning debates across the country, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court delivered a split verdict. While Justice Hemant Gupta upheld the Karnataka High Court order validating the ban, Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia, underlining that all that matters is the education of the girl child, set aside the state and High Court orders. 🔴 As the controversy played out in the courts, and on the campuses in Karnataka, the weight of Justice Dhulia’s remarks...