Private madrassas in Assam will be reduced by 1000: CM Himanta Biswa SarmaAssam's Chief Minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, has announced plans to reduce the number of private madrassas in the state by 1000. Currently,...
01 Jan, 2024, 09.52 PM IST
Assam govt changes nomenclature of all govt & provincialised Madrassas that were converted to general schoolsThe Assam government has changed the names of 1281 government and provincialized Madrassas that were converted to general schools. The Gauh...
13 Dec, 2023, 08.55 PM IST
2024 Lok Sabha Polls: Mamata Banerjee announces initiatives for development of minority and tribal communitiesThe state government intends to recognize 700 unaided Madrasas and focus on expansion of tribal and Rajbonshi education systems.
31 Jul, 2023, 10.33 PM IST
Appeal in SC against Assam Repealing Act that converted state-funded madrassas to government schoolsThe appeal was filed by Md. Imad Uddin Barbhuiya. The repealing Act of 2020 takes away property coupled with statutory recognition of Madra...
31 May, 2022, 06.04 PM IST
Gauhati High Court upholds Assam law on madrassasUpholding the constitutional validity of the Assam Repealing Act 2020, a division bench comprising Chief Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Justi...
04 Feb, 2022, 09.26 PM IST
Assam assembly passes Bill to abolish state-run madrasas amid walkout by Congress, AIUDFAfter Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma turned down the request of the Congress and the AIUDF members to send The Assam Repealing Bill...
30 Dec, 2020, 06.37 PM IST
Government run madrassa to be converted to regular schoolsThe Assam government on Monday tabled legislation in the state assembly whereby all the provincialized and private Madrassa educational ins...
28 Dec, 2020, 09.40 PM IST
BJP will stop Mamata Banerjee's appeasement politics in Bengal: Amit ShahAlipurduar is a Parliamentary constituency in North Bengal, dominated by the tribal population.
30 Mar, 2019, 07.15 AM IST
Government considering class 10 & 12 equivalence for Vedic certificationsThe Ujjain-based 'Maharshi Sandipani Rashtriya Veda Vidya Pratishthan' —an autonomous body under the HRD ministry—admits students from Clas...
29 Jun, 2018, 08.55 AM IST
Army chief for revamp of education in Jammu and Kashmir; "some" control over mosques, madrasasRawat said the issue of exercising some amount of control over mosques and madrasas to check the flow of disinformation was being looked in...
12 Jan, 2018, 08.08 PM IST
HRD ministry to identify institutes with world class potentialThe HRD Ministry plans to identify central institutions in the next two to three months which it will facilitate to emerge as world class i...
04 Mar, 2016, 09.18 PM IST
Big shift from Hindi to English in Delhi schoolsFive years later, in 2013-14, the picture has flipped completely, with only three districts now having more Hindi medium students than Engl...
08 Oct, 2015, 10.54 AM IST
Budget 2014: Ministry of Minority Affairs gets higher outlayIntroduction of a national Madrasa modernization programme was also one of the poll promises made by the party.
10 Jul, 2014, 08.56 PM IST
Madrasa certificates issued by 5 state boards at par with CBSECertificates issued by 5 state education boards to students of madrasas are equivalent to those issued by the CBSE, according to an RTI que...
11 May, 2014, 04.12 PM IST
Committee favours degree colleges in 90 minority districts"One college may be established in each such district which may offer courses in science, humanities and commerce,"
02 Jun, 2013, 10.24 AM IST
- Modi quotes Sachar report to counter Montek’s charge
The Gujarat government has used the findings of the Sachar Committee to blunt the Planning Commission’s charge that Muslim students were be...
22 May, 2010, 03.07 AM IST
- Govt sets sail on minority course
Moving forward on its ‘minority agenda’, the Centre on Friday laid out the official guidelines for improving the share of Muslims in employ...
01 Sep, 2007, 02.16 AM IST