Higher education students of madrassas face uncertain future after SC order; demands to accommodate themThe Supreme Court's decision to declare degrees awarded by the Uttar Pradesh Madrasa Board unconstitutional has left approximately 25,000 s...
10 Nov, 2024, 12.17 PM IST
SC upholds validity of 2004 UP Board of Madrasa Education Act, says it does not violate principle of secularismThe Supreme Court upheld the Uttar Pradesh Board of Madrasa Education Act. The court said the act does not violate the principle of secular...
05 Nov, 2024, 12.49 PM IST
Sanskrit compulsory for students in Madarassas? Uttarakhand board prepares proposalUttarakhand Madrasa Education Board (UMEB) is set to introduce Sanskrit as a mandatory subject in 416 madrassas and is planning to sign an ...
17 Oct, 2024, 11.38 AM IST
NCPCR files affidavit in Supreme Court against plea rejecting 'UP Board of Madarsa Education Act 2004'The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court challenging the Allahabad High C...
11 Sep, 2024, 01.06 PM IST
Madhya Pradesh govt orders officials to check on fraudulent enrolments at state-supported madrasasOfficials in Madhya Pradesh were directed to verify students' credentials in government-aided madrasas after reports of fraudulent registra...
17 Aug, 2024, 03.08 PM IST
UP to open two universities, to affiliate madrassas to them: Minority minister RajbharUttar Pradesh plans to establish two universities to affiliate madrassas for standardized recognition. This would impact approximately 25,0...
11 Aug, 2024, 02.56 PM IST
SC stays HC verdict declaring UP Madrasa Act 'unconstitutional'A bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud observed that the view taken by the HC is "prima facie not correct." The benc...
05 Apr, 2024, 11.30 PM IST
UP Madrasa Teachers Associations to move Supreme Court against HC orderAfter the Allahabad High Court declared the UP Madrasa Education Act "unconstitutional," Madrasa teachers associations plan to challenge th...
24 Mar, 2024, 11.46 PM IST
UP Madrasa board demands recognition for 8,449 seminariesLast year, the UP government conducted a survey of madrasas which had found 8,449 of them to be unrecognised. The survey report was submitt...
16 Nov, 2023, 11.21 PM IST
UP Madrasa Education Board objects to basic education department serving notices on madrasasThe Uttar Pradesh Madrasa Education Board has criticized the basic education department for serving notices on some madrasas in districts l...
25 Oct, 2023, 04.10 PM IST
Madrasa students in UP to get uniforms like 'kurta pajama' and 'salwar-kurta' soon"Efforts are on to provide them the uniform in July this year," said chairman UP state Madrasa Education Board, Dr Iftikhar Ahmed Javed tol...
03 Jul, 2023, 01.00 PM IST
Waqf board to introduce NCERT syllabus, dress code in madrasasThe board has also decided that its madrasas will give religious education to students for just an hour from 6.30 am to 7.30 am and conduct...
24 Nov, 2022, 03.21 PM IST
- Speculation on 'Legal' and 'Illegal' Madrasas has vitiated atmosphere: UP Board Chief
Javed, who is also the national secretary of BJP's minority front, sought to dispel unconfirmed reports that 2,500 madrasas in UP were take...
23 Sep, 2022, 11.30 PM IST
Assam may regulate private madrasasAssam director general of police Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta held a meeting with the groups and the madrasa boards recently. He asked the groups ...
20 Sep, 2022, 11.54 PM IST
UP plans to allow only TET qualified teachers in MadrasasThe step is aimed at improving teaching standards of non-Islamic subjects such as science and social sciences in the madrasas, as well as t...
19 Jul, 2022, 12.15 AM IST
State funding of religious institutions: HC seeks reply of Uttar Pradesh govtThe bench asked the govt to bring in the record the syllabi/courses, conditions and standards of recognition including the requirement for ...
01 Sep, 2021, 03.47 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