# Hijab ban

• The Karnataka government on Tuesday argued that its February 5 order asking educational institutions to enforce prescribed uniforms was secular as it banned all additional religious clothings by students irrespective of their religious affiliation, be it hijab or saffron shawl.
• The state has statutory powers to ask the Schools to enforce the uniform dress code decided by them to promote unity and equality. It is an irreligious and secular order.
• Educational institutions are not vedshalas Or Madarsas where students are required to wear religious identity specific clothes.
• Justice Dhulia said the Karnataka high court could have avoided getting into testing the essentiality of hijab and that too based on commentaries and interpretations of Quran and not the original verses of Quran.

# G20 meetings

• All set to assume the G-20 presidency from December 1,2022 to November next year.
• India will host a total of 215 G20 meetings across 55 locations next year, four of which will be focused on promoting the tourism sector.
• Three of the four tourism related meetings of the tourism working group under G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant will be held at Gujarat’s Rann of Kutchch, West Bengal’s Siliguri and Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir.

# UNGA

• India, France and UAE held their first trilateral ministerial meeting in the US on the sidelines of the ongoing United Nations General Assembly session and discussed a new and more contemporary ways of doing diplomacy.
• The there countries discussed cooperation in the Indo Pacific, where India sees France as an indispensable partner, with focus on maritime security, regional connectivity and food security and supply chain resilience.
• Jaishankar arrived in New York on Sunday to participate in the high level 77th session of the UN General Assembly.

# Delhi government

• From principals to teachers, government schools in Delhi are facing an acute shortage of manpower, according to Directorate of Education data.
• Of a total of 950 sanctioned posts for principals only 154 have been filled while 84% are vacant.