The Allahabad high court Friday declared the Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education Act, 2004, "unconstitutional" and violative of the principle of secularism, and asked the state government to......
Seeking to make changes in the process of granting recognition to madrassas, Uttar Pradesh Minority Welfare Minister Om Prakash Rajbhar has said that two universities will be opened in the state......
The Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind has demanded the withdrawal of the Uttar Pradesh government's recent order directing that all students in unrecognised madrasas and non-Muslim students studying in......
The State has a vital interest in ensuring quality education, other than religious teachings, at government-aided madrasas so that students live a "decent" life after they pass out, the Supreme......
In a breather to about 17 lakh madrasa students, the Supreme Court on Friday stayed an order of the Allahabad high court that scrapped the Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education Act, 2004 calling......
Targeting a five-fold jump in Indo-US trade to $500 billion, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama on Wednesday pledged to deepen economic cooperation and will set up a joint......
The telecom company, which has a licence to start a payments bank, can leverage its wide distribution network. Access to formal banking remains a pipe dream for a large number of Indians: less than......
Besides reviving investor sentiments, Vasundhara Raje's regime has brought reforms in the social sector. The sixth of an 11-part series looks at the state of affairs in Rajasthan. Part......
Globally, 2.5 billion people do not have access to proper sanitation. Direct intervention in schools by ensuring that children have access to safe, hygienic and regularly maintained toilets will......
The Vibrant Gujarat summit in 2013, under Chief Minister Narendra Modi's watch. With facts and figures, the CAG report has highlighted how Gujarat was far from a role model for states across......
'In a world which is full of categories, hatred and ideologies, there was this basic decency.' IMAGE: Ishaan Khatter and Vishal Jethwa in Homebound. In the summer of 2020, Basharat Peer, who was......
'It took me eight months to do the entire casting for the film.'It was also important that the girls should resemble Aamir Khan and Sakshi Tanwar.''Also, we needed the girls to work with us for......