What happened: On Jan 4, a government college for women in Karnataka’s Udupi district, India prohibited six Muslim students from attending classes because they didn’t follow the ‘uniform’ dress code as they were covering their heads with hijab. Details: In order to maintain “uniformity,” Rudra Gowda, the principle of the institute, asserted that while students were permitted to wear hijabs in university premises, they were not permitted to do so in the classroom. He informed local media that the school had “no regulations to have hijab as the uniform.” The students reported that school officials called the Muslim girls’ parents to discuss the situation, but they were stalled for four hours, only for Gowda refusing to speak with them in the end. Another girl stated that there was no such problem before they began wearing hijabs in their classrooms. What else: Aside from the attire code, the students stated that they were not allowed to speak in Urdu, Arabic, or Beary either. Due to these restrictions, students began protesting outside their classrooms and plan on continuing with it until the matter is resolved.