Tamil Nadu Minorities Minister A M Shahjahan announced full undergraduate tuition fee support for Muslim women, a new minority women's college in Chennai, expanded school scholarships for Classes 9 and 10, Rs 100 crore in interest-free institutional loans, and skill training for 10,000 minority youth over four years on August 28.
Read Full ArticleSupreme Court declines a fresh PIL seeking regulation and monitoring of religious and secular educational institutions, directing Ashwini Upadhyay to pursue contempt proceedings.
The FCRA Amendment Bill 2026, listed for passage in Parliament's Monsoon Session, proposes a Designated Authority to seize and dispose of assets of NGOs whose licences lapse, bans proselytisation from FCRA-eligible activities, reduces penalty from 5 to 1 year, and has triggered opposition from Kerala, Meghalaya, Christian institutions, and Amnesty International over what critics call state overreach.
The Telangana High Court set aside directions requiring minority schools to provide free education to journalists' children, holding the RTE Act inapplicable to such institutions.
Supreme Court rules minority institutions can be established by statute without minority administration, sending AMU’s minority status for further review.
The Senior Citizen Rights Handbook is a comprehensive guide designed to empower elderly citizens with clear and accessible knowledge of their legal and social rights in India.
