Clothing stores in Kochi are bringing new burqa styles ... Office-going women and students prefer the “executive” overcoat design that comes in different colours and even blue denim.

Inspired by the true stories of Mexico’s first female police force, Women In Blue looks genuinely thrilling. There’s little we love more than snuggling up in front of the telly to watch a comp ...

sung from under blue burkas, just as the first song was. One was a famous poem by the late Nadia Anjuman, who wrote it in protest against the first Taliban takeover in 1996. Women protested ...

Former foreign secretary Boris Johnson has been criticised for saying Muslim women wearing burkas "look like letter boxes" and for comparing them to "bank robbers" - prompting calls for him to ...

A woman wearing a burqa sits on the side of a road in Kabul, Afghanistan October 21, 2021. (photo credit: JORGE SILVA / REUTERS) A contentious Swiss prohibition on facial coverings in public ...

Women in burkas receiving food aid in Kandahar last month Afghan women will have to wear the Islamic face veil for the first time in decades under a decree passed by the country's ruling Taliban ...

It’s not really about the burqa, says Mariam Khan. Ever since Boris Johnson’s boorish comments last week, the entire conversation around Muslim women and burqas has spiralled. I’ve watched ...

A woman walks behind a campaign poster of the far-right Swiss People's Party depicting a woman wearing a burqa against the background of the Swiss flag. Source: AFP Members of Australia's Muslim ...