Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the state-run madrasas will either be converted into regular schools or they will be shut down, after teachers are transferred to schools.
Assam Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Tuesday that if the state government is bearing the cost of teaching the Quran in madrassas, then Bible and Bhagavad Gita should also be taught by the government.
A consignment of the Holy Quran weighing 25 tonnes sent from Saudi Arabia six months ago is going to be auctioned at the International Transshipment Container Terminal here after the importer, a College in Malappuram, expressed inability to pay the Rs 8 lakh customs duty, official sources said.
Norwegian flags were burnt in Pakistan's Karachi on Tuesday as protesters gathered in reaction to the burning of the Holy Quran in Norway last week. The protestors chanted slogans against the Norwegian government, demanding an immediate arrest of the person who was responsible for burning the Holy Quran.
Norway police cut short a supervised protest by members of local anti-Islamic organisation after a man burnt the holy Quran. The incident happened in Kristiansand, Norway during a protest by a group named Stop Islamisation of Norway (SIAN).
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