NEW DELHI:The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), formed to discuss the Waqf (Amendment) Bill 2024, has invited suggestions from the public and experts on the Bill. In the first meeting of the JPC ...

The state waqf board claimed legal ownership of a disputed mosque in Shimla before the municipal commissioner's court. The dispute focuses on further construction rather than ownership and has ...

The ASI on Friday presented a list of over 120 monuments, which are officially under its protection but are claimed by different state Waqf boards, before the parliamentary panel examining the ...

And because the area is arid (steppe) with almost no vegetation the two mountain rings are very obvious to have attracted the attention of Bedouins to call them the "Mountain of standing chert" ( In ...

A meeting of the Joint Committee on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024 was held in New Delhi on Friday. Representatives of Archaeological Survey of India, Zakat Foundation of India, and Telangana Waqf ...

The third meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) that has been formed to look into the Waqf Amendment Bill 2024 met in Parliament on Thursday. In the meeting, a presentation was made by ...

Asserting that there is a “sense of insecurity” among the minority communities in Odisha, BJD president Naveen Patnaik on Thursday said his party would “strongly oppose” the Waqf (Amendment) Bill if ...

NEW DELHI: At the third meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill on Thursday, the panel held deliberations with three key ministries on the proposed legislation.

“Waqf” means the permanent dedication of movable or immovable property for the purposes enshrined in Islam as pious, religious, or charitable. The administration of waqf institutions was entrusted to ...