The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, the top child rights protection body in the country, has told the Supreme Court that madrasas are “unsuitable or unfit” places for children to receive “proper education”. “According to the information available the Deoband Madrasa fanned out across South Asia and has also set up seminaries, or madrassas, teaching an austere version …
Maulvi Qari Shahnawaz regularly sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl in Madhubani, Bihar. He would force the girl to stay back after class, stuff cloth in her mouth to muffle her screams, and commit the heinous act. According to media reports, the case pertains to the Khutauna police station area of the Madhubani district where the accused, who is the head …
Published : Apr 20, 2023 11:00 IST - 8 MINS READ In March 2022, MLA Sudama Prasad, Chairperson of the Bihar Vidhan Sabha Library Committee, stated that of the 540 public libraries that existed in Bihar in the 1950s only 51 remain. Like many other personal collections and private libraries, the Ali Khan Library, too, contributed the last remaining lot …
Seventy-seven people have been arrested in connection with the violence that erupted at Bihar Sharif in the State’s Nalanda district during Ram Navami festivities, the police said on Sunday. Library set on fire An armed mob of around 1,000 people vandalised a madrasa in Bihar Sharif’s Murarpur locality and set fire to its library, said Mohammad Siyabuddin, the imam of …
Bihar Police on Wednesday arrested a madrasa teacher from Nawada for allegedly capturing obscene videos of minor students and blackmailing them. The incident came to light after a girl student of the madrasa lodged a complaint at Kawakol police station against the teacher. The family of the girl alleged that the teacher used to blackmail the girl by making obscene …