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Why Supreme Court wants to revisit Right to Education exemption for minority schools
September 02, 2025 6:17 pm
Enacted in 2009, the Right to Education introduced several norms, like a quota in schools for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. However, it allowed some exemptions.
On non-minority seats in Maharashtra: Minority institutions body to move court against state decision to apply quota
June 09, 2025 11:41 pm
The association had earlier written a letter to Maharashtra School Education Minister Dada Bhuse, urging him to withdraw the decision
Shrinking Representation: Fewer Christians, Muslims, Jains in Maharashtra Govt Workforce
February 20, 2025 4:49 pm
Employee base fell from 5.71 lakh in 2015 to 4.78 lakh in 2023 as the state struggles with high wage costs
UN experts slam Pakistan on its lack of protection of Hindu, Christian women
April 12, 2024 11:07 pm
“Christian and Hindu girls remain particularly vulnerable to forced religious conversion, abduction, trafficking, child, early and forced marriage, domestic servitude and sexual violence,” the experts said.
BJP MP demands rollback of scholarships for minority communities
December 16, 2022 9:11 am
The Maulana Azad Fellowship for minority students pursuing higher education has been scrapped while the government's pre-matric scholarship for them will no longer apply to students from Class 1 to Class 8.
Maharashtra: State govt doubles scholarship for minority communities students
September 29, 2022 9:18 am
In 2011, the scholarship for students from minority communities pursuing higher education was Rs 25,000. In 2018, the amount remained the same, but the cap on annual income of parents seeking benefit of the scholarship scheme for their children was increased from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 8 lakh.
Express Investigation — Part 2: Key deletions on caste, minorities in revised school textbooks
February 16, 2023 3:38 pm
Removed: ‘women, shudras not allowed to study Vedas’; impact of numerical majority winning political power
Jharkhand expands study-abroad scholarships to SC, OBC and minority candidates
June 06, 2022 11:18 pm
The scholarship is named after Marang Gomke Jaipal Singh Munda, a tribal boy who tended to cattle but went on to become an Imperial Civil Service officer and, later, captain of the Indian hockey team that won gold in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games.
Rs 6,300 crore alloted for benefit of minorities under MSDP: RTI
February 22, 2015 3:38 pm
Saleem Baig had sent the RTI query on the welfare programmes being undertaken for the benefit of minority communities.
‘Will act as a bridge between BJP, minorities’
January 18, 2015 12:07 am
Mohammed Hussein Khan says he will act as a bridge between the BJP and the minority community.
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