Chairman of Joint Parliamentary Committee for Waqf Amendment Bill Jagdambika Pal on Monday said that a series of meetings will take place on November 4 and 5 to gather input from a wide range of stakeholders on the issues related to the Waqf Board amendment bill.
According to Pal, the meeting was attended by the Gujarat Home Minister, Gujarat's Waqf board officers, chairman, minority commission officials and Islamic scholars.
Amid the ongoing row over the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, the Muslim Social Workers and Islamic Scholars during the meeting in Delhi expressed their support to the government, emphasising that doubting the government's intentions is not appropriate.
In a significant political development, a conglomeration of Muslim communities involving Islamic scholars, clerics, intellectuals has asked "secular political parties" to clarify their exact stand vis-a-vis the Waqf (Amendment) Bill which has been referred to the Joint Parliamentary Committe
The Islamic religious teachers in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) expressed their concerns on Saturday over the ignorance of their employment issue on the part of the administration.
A Bangladeshi scholar, who is on a visit to India as part of a delegation, has praised New Delhi and Dhaka for jointly working to eliminate extremism and terrorism in the region.
The Supreme Court on Monday allowed Islamic scholar Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui, who was arrested in September 2021 for allegedly running a religious conversion syndicate, to attend the funeral of his brother today at a village in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh.
The Islamic scholars meeting with Niger's military government leader General Abdourahamane Tchiani lasted several hours, Sheikh Abdullahi Bala Lau, who led the delegation, said.
Malaysia honoured the General Secretary of All India Sunni Jamiyyathul Ulama and the current Grand Mufti of India, Kanthapuram Aboobakkar Musliar with its highest civilian honour, the prestigious Hijra Award.
A group of Alems; Islamic scholars in Bangladesh have demanded an end to the persecution of Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang province, The Asian Age reported.
The IIHC report says that "this is the reason that Indonesian Islam, like the one followed in India, believes in syncretism, tolerance and co-existence."