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  Head of Kerala education group receives death threat over ban on face veils

  India | May 04, 2019 16:15 IST

  The Kozhikode-based Muslim Education Society (MES), which runs several educational institutions and is among the country's largest, had issued a circular that banned its students from attend classes wearing any face-covering attire.

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  Australia's Parliament house lifts face veil ban

  World | October 20, 2014 8:59 IST

  Canberra: Australia's Parliament House on Monday lifted a short-lived ban on facial coverings including burqas and niqabs after intervention from the prime minister.The government department that runs Parliament House announced on Oct. 2 that "persons