Tag: Madrasa

Adding a new dimension to the ongoing teachers' recruitment scams in West Bengal, charges of irregularities in recruitments of madrasa teachers have surfaced now, prompting the Calcutta High Court to order a probe into the matter.

Bhubaneswar:  Overall 81% students emerged successful in matric to post graduation PG level exams conducted by the Odisha Madrasa Board, the results of which were announced today. Of the 1,171 students who cleared the exams 124 secured first class ranks, 263 second class and 631 were placed in third class. In the Moulvi (matriculation exam) […]

Jajpur: The district Child Welfare Committee (CWC) on Friday served a closure notice on a madrasa, which was running without registration, at Ahemadnagar near Byasanagart. Acting on the directive of the district collector, the members of the CWC on Thursday raided the madrasa. They handed over the 17 minor boys studying at the madrasa to […]

Cuttack: The Special Task Force (STF) of Odisha Crime Branch has sought 15 days’ remand of arrested suspected Al-Qaeda operative Abdur rehman. According to special DG of Crime Branch BK Sharma, the STF has applied before the Patiala House court in New Delhi to take the suspected terrorist on a 15-day remand. A three-member team […]

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court on Friday ordered the arrest of two District Education Officers (DEOs) for violating its order in connection with the transfer case of a Madrasa teacher. Hearing the petition filed by one Khaleduz Jama Rehman, the HC directed the State government to arrest Kapilendra Mishra and Prakash Joshi, DEOs of Jajpur […]

Dhaka: Sixteen people including the head of a madrasa were sentenced to death by a Bangladeshi court on Thursday for burning alive a teenage girl student for refusing to withdraw a sexual harassment complaint against him. The gruesome murder took place in April when a gang of killers poured kerosene over 18-year-old Nusrat Jahan Rafi […]