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  RSS Muslim body to oraganise flag hoisting at Madrassas around the country

  India | August 10, 2016 11:23 IST

  RSS backed Rashtriya Muslim Manch has planned to hoist flags at some madrassas across the country. "Flag hoisting will be held all over the country. At some places the national song Vande Matram may also

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  Is Hindu College turning into a ‘madrassa’, asks Subramanian Swamy

  Politics | July 12, 2016 15:40 IST

  In the midst of protests over the abrupt hike in the fees of the women’s hostel in Delhi’s Hindu College, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Tuesday asked if the institution was turning into a “madrassa”

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  RSS launches campaign to convince Madrassas to hoist flag on R-Day

  India | January 10, 2016 22:34 IST

  Lucknow: Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM), the minority wing of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has launched a nationwide campaign to convince madrassas across the country to hoist the tricolour in their campus on republic day.The flag hositing

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  Madrasa headmaster thrashed for teaching his students national anthem

  India | January 04, 2016 20:11 IST

  New Delhi: In a rare incident of the sort, the headmaster of a Madrasa in Kolkata was allegedly beaten up by maulanas for teaching his students India's national anthem. The headmaster, Kazi Masum Akhtar, has

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  Madrasas join hands to create awareness against ISIS

  India | November 20, 2015 10:59 IST

  New Delhi: Two prominent Islamic seminaries ---Darul Uloom Deoband and the Bareilly-based Dargah-e-Aala-Hazrat have condemned last week's Paris terror attack calling it a “murder of humanity”.The Dargah-e-Aala Hazrat, the Bareilly-based headquarters of the Barelvi sect,

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  170 pushups, ruthless beating of 10-yr-old, on failing to read 'Quran'

  India | March 22, 2015 13:53 IST

  New Delhi: A 10-year-old boy was made to do 170 push ups by a maulvi in a local ‘madarsa' in city of Bareilly because the child was unable to recite a chapter of ‘Quran', the

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  HRD ministry laying special emphasis on modernisation of madrasas: Smriti Irani

  India | February 02, 2015 23:03 IST

  New Delhi: HRD Minister Smriti Irani today said that the government was giving special emphasis on modernisation and strengthening of madrasas in the country.  The HRD Ministry has taken all the necessary steps towards modernization

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  Govt's job to see If Madrasas do unlawful activities: Tripathi

  India | October 14, 2014 9:42 IST

  Kolkata: West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi tonight said that it was the job of the government to ensure that no unlawful activities take place in madrasas in the state.When asked about allegations that certain

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  14 people killed in bomb blast outside madarsa in Quetta

  World | June 07, 2012 22:32 IST

  Islamabad, Jun 7: At least 14 people, including three children, were killed and more than 35 others injured today when a powerful bomb went off outside a seminary in the troubled Quetta city of southwestern