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Thursday, November 13, 2025
TopicMinistry of Minority Affairs

Topic: Ministry of Minority Affairs

Centre asks IIT Delhi to draw up roadmap to effectively manage waqf properties, boards in 22 states

The govt found it necessary to assess the functioning of WAMSI portal as several states are unable to provide accurate information about waqf properties, it is learnt.

Last emails, long tea breaks, garden strolls—a day in the Maulana Azad Education Foundation

The minority affairs ministry and the Central Waqf Council want to pull the plug on the Maulana Azad Education Foundation, but it won’t accept the ‘obsolete’ label.

Promises made in Modi govt’s first Budget still pending, says Urdu Press

ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took.

Pasmandas are the real minorities deprived of welfare. Muslims aren’t homogenous

Taking India's largest ‘minority’ as homogenous is inappropriate. Muslims face many problems that need to be understood and resolved.

Only 35% minority students in minority engineering colleges, govt reveals in Rajya Sabha

Minority affairs ministry says in the 83 engineering institutions declared as minority, there are only 6,046 minority enrolments out of the total 17,212 students.

India ready to send Haj pilgrims after vaccinating them, but no word from Saudi govt yet

India has finalised 58,000 applications for Haj, but needs Saudi govt to give the sanctioned quota of the final number of people. The pilgrimage is scheduled from 17-22 July. 

BJP’s Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is actually a Kapil Mishra, but with Allah on his lips

Leaders like Manjinder Sirsa are unapologetic about supporting their communities. But Naqvi plays invisible for minorities, unless it's to defend BJP or praise Modi.

Modi govt slashes by half free UPSC coaching budget for minorities

Overall budget for minority affairs ministry up but allocation for ‘Free Coaching & Allied schemes for Minorities’ also slashed from Rs 75 cr to Rs 50 cr.

Modi govt reaches out to Muslim clerics to appeal for peace as India protests citizenship law

Minority commission & minority affairs ministry have asked clerics to tell the community the law is not anti-Muslim & there’s nothing to worry about.

More Muslims got govt scholarships under Modi govt than during Congress-led UPA-2

There were 2.37 crore Muslim beneficiaries of govt scholarships during Modi's first term, while the figure under Manmohan's second was 2.33 crore.

On Camera

The math is clear — buying Russian oil is now a losing deal for India

India’s Russian oil purchases have effectively meant a transfer of gains from millions of workers in labour-intensive sectors to a few large refiners.

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

Doctor-led terror module behind Delhi blast was in phase 2 of ops, planned serial bombings in December

While main elements behind terror module have been nabbed, more arrests will take place, including some professors & academicians who were part of the ring, it is learnt.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.