Supreme Court declines a fresh PIL seeking regulation and monitoring of religious and secular educational institutions, directing Ashwini Upadhyay to pursue contempt proceedings.
Read Full ArticleThe 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.
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