Madrasa
- Hyderabad
HC protects Vikarabad mosque, madrasa from forest officials
Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court has directed Forest Department officials not to interfere with the peaceful possession, administration and management of a mosque, madrasa and old-age home at Ananthagiri Hills in Vikarabad district…
- Hate Crime
UP: Madrasa razed, management held after being declared illegal
Muzaffarnagar: A madrasa was demolished by a bulldozer in Phulat village of Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district on Sunday, August 23, after it was declared illegal by the district administration, a police official…
- India
UP madrasa student assaulted on train for refusing alcohol offer
Uttar Pradesh: A Muslim young man was allegedly assaulted by an inebriated group while travelling in a train from Meerut to Deoband. Muntazir, a madrasa student, was heading towards Darul Uloom Deoband,…
- News
Six bulldozers deployed to raze a 59-year-old madrasa in UP
Lucknow: A madrasa was demolished early Tuesday, August 18, in Uttar Pradesh’s Siddharthnagar district after allegations surfaced that it was built on government land. According to local media, the Sub-Divisional Magistrate, along…
- Hyderabad
Madhavi Latha backs ‘madrasas are terrorist factories’ remark
Hyderabad: Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and social activist Madhavi Latha has called for teaching English and compulsory singing of “Vande Mataram” and “Jana Gana Mana” in madrasas. She told IANS…
- Hate Crime
Madrasa education develops terrorist-like mindset: UP Deputy CM Maurya
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya sparked controversy on Tuesday, August 4, when he claimed that individuals who receive education in madrasas “develop a terrorist-like mindset.” Speaking to reporters…
- Hate Crime
BMC begins school demolition after BJP claims ‘school jihad’
Mumbai: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kirit Somaiya and his supporters, along with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), had started demolishing a school in Mumbai, Maharashtra, after the politician claimed the school…
- Hate Crime
Jaisalmer: ‘Illegal’ mosques, madrasa razed near Indo-Pak border
Jaisalmer: Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer district administration has carried out an anti-encroachment drive in border areas adjoining the India-Pakistan international boundary and demolished six alleged illegal mosques and madrasa buildings constructed on government land,…
- Bangalore
Chilli powder water used to fend off school vandals in Bengaluru
Bengaluru: Tension prevailed in Thanisandra after a group of people allegedly barged into Samar International School at Narayanapura and vandalised the premises over a long-pending land dispute involving a madrasa. According to…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad madrasa teacher jailed 20 years for sodomising minor
Hyderabad: A madrasa teacher was sentenced to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment on Thursday, July 2, for sodomising an 11-year-old boy in 2022. The incident came to light when the victim’s father…
- India
Uttarakhand abolishes Madrasa Board, sets common authority
Dehradun: The Uttarakhand government on Wednesday, July 1, officially replaced the state’s Madrasa Board with the Uttarakhand State Minority Education Authority, bringing educational institutions belonging to all six notified minority communities under…
- Hate Crime
Bengal’s minorities dealing with budget cuts, violence under BJP
Kolkata: The West Bengal as India knew it has drastically changed in the one month since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the state Assembly elections. With a newly presented budget that…
- Kerala
Madrasa teacher held for sexually harassing students in Kerala
Malappuram: A Madrasa teacher, who went into hiding after being booked for allegedly sexually abusing over a dozen students of an institution here, has been arrested in Bihar, police said on Thursday,…
- Kolkata
Bengal’s BJP govt cuts funds for minority affairs, madrasas
Kolkata: The newly elected West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government on Monday, June 22, announced a significant budget cut of over 50 per cent for the Minority Affairs and Madrasa Education…
- Kerala
Kerala HC denies bail to imam accused of sexually assaulting minor
Kochi: The Kerala High Court denied bail to a 63-year-old imam accused of sexually assaulting his eight-year-old girl student in a madrasa, saying that it appeared to be a “premeditated criminal act”.…
