Waqf Law Hearing Live: A major constitutional debate unfolds today as the Supreme Court takes up 73 petitions questioning the legality and constitutional standing of the Waqf (Amendment) Act. A total of 73 petitions have been listed for hearing before a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court comprising Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna, Justice…
Union Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju will re-introduce the contentious Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, in the Lok Sabha today, April 2. The Bill amends the Waqf Act,1995 which governs the management of Waqf properties in India. The Bill proposes sweeping changes empowering Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Union government to ‘address’ issues and challenges in regulating…
Union Minister Kiren Rijiju is all set to introduce the reworked Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, in the Lok Sabha today, April 2, amid staunch opposition from the INDIA bloc and prominent Muslim groups, including the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) Both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress, and their allies, have…
Maharashtra News: The Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM is is keen to join hands with the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance in Maharashtra to defeat the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the upcoming elections, party leader Imtiaz Jaleel has said. Jaleel, a former MP of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, said this while speaking with Marathi…
Hyderabad Member of Parliament (MP) Asaduddin Owaisi quoted Pakistani revolutionary poet Habib Jalib on July 29 while speaking on Budget 2024 in the Lok Sabha. Owaisi, the president of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), read lines from Habib Jalibs’s famous Urdu nazm ‘Dastoor’ to criticise the ‘discriminatory’ Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in…
