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Delhi, India:  Days ahead of President Francois Hollande’s visit to India; France has indicated that it is not going to overturn the ban on Sikh turban in its public or government schools. Clarifying that the ban on religious symbols in ...

Delhi, India: India is reconciled to France’s stand of not revisiting the ban on government-funded school students from wearing conspicuous religious symbols, which include the turban. However, some civil society organisations have threatened to demonstrate during French President Francoise Hollande’s ...

Chandigarh, Punjab: The Union ministry of external affairs (MEA) is likely to take up the issue of turbans with French President Francois Hollande when he visits India on Thursday. Sources in the MEA said the ministry is likely to recommend ...

Chandigarh: Gurdial Singh, Iqbal Bhatti, Gurinder Singh Mann, Narinder Singh and Sher Singh are on a mission. These French citizens, “humiliated” for wearing turbans, have come to India to raise a voice of protest during President Francois Hollande’s visit on ...