In collaboration with govt & non-profit, project aims to build trust, improve nutrition. It has shown measurable success in Nandurbar district, now under implementation in Chandrapur.
The film starts with a couple defending ‘Khatna’ or female genital mutilation against the narrator’s arguments. By the end, they’re asking for the latest research on the practice.
Al-Hakim mosque in Cairo was restored by Egyptian government in collaboration with the Dawoodi Bohra community, a loyal vote base of BJP in India. It was reopened to public in February.
PM was speaking at inauguration of the Mumbai campus of Aljamea-tus-Saifiyah, community's premier educational institute, where he shared stage with Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin.
In a letter, Taher Fakhruddin also raised concerns about another practice, khafz, that's carried out on young Bohra girls in 'unhygienic, unsanitary and unsafe conditions'.
Pasmandas make up 80-85% of India's Muslim population and have long been wooed by political parties. The more affluent Bohras, largely from Gujarat, are traditionally BJP supporters.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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