From implementing the Uniform Civil Code to cracking down on 'love jihad' and the latest education bill, Uttarakhand is becoming the BJP’s new 'Hindutva laboratory'.
The committee alleged that the state govt is forcibly shutting down unrecognised madrasas saying the decision violates the fundamental right to education.
JUI-F's head Maulana Fazal ur Rehman has refused to accept government ‘interference’. He has threatened to protest if the bill is not made into a law and implemented soon.
UP Madrasa Shiksha Parishad, at a September meeting, found out that 513 madrasas have applied to close, some from as long as 4-5 years ago. Owners cite a lack of govt aid & students.
In April, Yogi Adityanath-led BJP govt revoked licences of all 16,000 madrasas in UP. This had affected thousands of teachers and students in the state.
SC ruled govt-aided or recognised minority educational institutions can't run without competent teachers, in unhealthy surroundings, or not maintain even a fair standard of teaching.
District-level committees will now look into 4,191 unrecognised Islamic elementary schools (maktabs). SIT was formed in 2023 to look into charges of foreign funds' misuse by madrasas.
Child rights' body told top court that Madrasas are an 'unfit' place to receive proper education, and that prescribed curriculum contains 'texts that profess Supremacy of Islam'.
Hafiz of madrasa in Saura village has confessed to sodomising & murdering boy, say police. He & his brother-in-law were arrested 3 July. Family was told that their son was missing.
Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.
With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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