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NEW DELHI: With over 5.17 lakh property uploads at final count, the UMEED central portal for management of waqf properties closed for the process on Dec 6 night, as per the six-month deadline set out under the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025.Those who failed to upload within the stipulated timeframe will have to now approach the…
Those Left Out Can Approach Waqf Tribunal, Says Minister NEW DELHI: Over 4.6 lakh waqf property uploads had been initiated till Friday evening on the minority affairs ministry’s UMEED central portal. The six-month deadline for uploading details, keeping with the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, will end Saturday, and Union minister Kiren Rijiju made it clear…
SHIMLA: The district court in Shimla on Thursday upheld the municipal commissioner court’s order to demolish the entire structure of the Sanjauli mosque, dismissing petitions filed by the Himachal Pradesh Waqf Board and the Sanjauli Mosque Committee, reported PTI.The Sanjauli Mosque Committee had challenged the May 3 order of the commissioner’s court, which directed the…
PATNA: Opposition’s CM face Tejashwi Prasad Yadav of RJD vowed Sunday to scrap the Waqf (Amendment) Act if INDIA bloc forms govt in Bihar after the Nov assembly polls, triggering sharp reactions from NDA partners BJP and JD(U), which accused him of misleading Muslims and disrespecting Parliament. “If our govt is formed in Bihar, the…
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav with CPI(ML) Liberation General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya, Congress leader Ashok Gehlot and Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) chief Mukesh Sahani during joint press conference of the Mahagathbandhan, in Patna. NEW DELHI: CPI(ML) Liberation general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya on Sunday said that the implementation of the Waqf (Amendment) Act would be blocked in…
NEW DELHI: Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) urged on Saturday Centre and state govts to stay alert against possible violence during nationwide protests announced by All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) and other Muslim bodies against Waqf Amendment Act.VHP said it was “strange” that while challenging the law in court, the organisations were simultaneously launching…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court, in an interim order Monday, refused to stay the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, prima facie finding none of its provisions illegal but suspended implementation of ‘five-year practice of Islam’ for dedicating a property to waqf till the Centre framed rules on it. The court also stayed a section of the amended…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday stayed a few of the key provision of the recently passed Waqf (Amendment) Act, but held the constitutionality of the law.A bench of CJI BR Gavai and justice Augustine George Masih, in its 128-page interim order said, “Presumption is always in favour of constitutionality of a statute and…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday stayed a few of the key provision of the recently passed Waqf (Amendment) Act, but held the constitutionality of the law.A bench of CJI BR Gavai and justice Augustine George Masih, in its 128-page interim order said, “Presumption is always in favour of constitutionality of a statute and…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to put the entire Waqf law on hold, citing the “presumption” of constitutionality in its favour, but suspended the operation of key provisions — including the clause requiring a person to have practised Islam for five years to create a waqf.However, the top court said, “some sections…
