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India's Haj Quota Rises To 1.75 Lakh In 2025, Highest In A Decade
The Minority Affairs Ministry on Tuesday said that India's Haj quota for the year 2025 is 1,75,025, a rise from 1,36,020 in 2014- the same year when Prime Minister Narendra Modi first took charge.
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CBI Files Case Over Alleged Minority Scholarship "Scam"
A case has been filed in connection with the alleged minority scholarship scam, in which 830 "fake" institutions were benefitting, causing a loss of about Rs 144 crore to the Ministry of Minority Affairs during 2017-22, officials said on Tuesday.
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4,314 Indian Women To Perform Hajj Without Male Companions This Year
As many as 4,314 Indian women are set to perform Hajj without 'Mehram (male companion)' this year, the largest since the reform in 2018 which did away with the compulsion of a male companion with women on the pilgrimage, officials said.
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Minority Affairs Ministry Allocated Over Rs 4,810 Crore In Budget
The Minority Affairs Ministry was allocated Rs 4,810.77 crore in the 2021-22 Union Budget on Monday which is Rs 805.77 crore more than than the revised figures of the previous fiscal.
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"Reform, Transform, Perform": Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi On Mantra Last Year
The Minority Affairs Ministry successfully implemented the government's mantra of "development without discrimination and empowerment without appeasement" in 2018, Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has said, asserting that a sense of confidence has been created among minorities.
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On Gandhi Jayanti, A Message Of Brotherhood At Mushairas Across Country
The Minority Affairs Ministry will organise 'mushairas' (social gatherings at which Urdu poetry is read) across the country as part of the 150th birth anniversary celebrations of Mahatma Gandhi, the government announced on Sunday.
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Panel Unhappy Over Funds Underutilisation By Minority Affairs Ministry
A parliamentary panel has expressed its frustration over the perennial problem of underutilisation of budgetary allocations by the Union minority affairs ministry and said it would not make any more suggestion to the ministry on the matter.
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Education, Jobs Top On Minority Affairs Ministry List In 2017
Empowering minorities by providing them education and employment opportunities will top the 2017 priority list of Union Minority Affairs Ministry which said bringing socio-economic schemes "out of papers and computers" and taking them to ground were its biggest achievement this year.
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Minority Affairs Ministry's New Hindi Website Launched
Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs (Independent Charge) Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Wednesday launched new Hindi website and updated and revamped English portal of the Ministry.
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Have Changed Perception Of Modi Government Being Anti-Minority, Says Najma Heptulla
Union Minister Najma Heptulla on Saturday claimed her Minority Affairs Ministry has succeeded in changing the "intentionally created" perception that the Modi government would be anti-minority by launching various schemes for the upliftment of the communities in its two-year rule.
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Nearly 9 Per Cent People Recruited by Central Government from Minorities
11,218 persons or 8.79 per cent people recruited by central government departments belonged to minorities during 2014-15, the Minority Affairs Ministry today said.
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No Separate Funds for PM Modi's 15-Point Programme for Minorities: RTI
The Centre has not earmarked separate funds for 'Prime Minister's New 15 Point Programme for the Welfare of Minorities', an RTI query has revealed.
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UPA government tries to reach out to minorities
Learn and earn. The Minority Affairs Ministry has launched an ambitious self-employment programme to target 70,000 youth from financially weak sections of minority communities.
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India's Haj Quota Rises To 1.75 Lakh In 2025, Highest In A Decade
The Minority Affairs Ministry on Tuesday said that India's Haj quota for the year 2025 is 1,75,025, a rise from 1,36,020 in 2014- the same year when Prime Minister Narendra Modi first took charge.
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CBI Files Case Over Alleged Minority Scholarship "Scam"
A case has been filed in connection with the alleged minority scholarship scam, in which 830 "fake" institutions were benefitting, causing a loss of about Rs 144 crore to the Ministry of Minority Affairs during 2017-22, officials said on Tuesday.
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4,314 Indian Women To Perform Hajj Without Male Companions This Year
As many as 4,314 Indian women are set to perform Hajj without 'Mehram (male companion)' this year, the largest since the reform in 2018 which did away with the compulsion of a male companion with women on the pilgrimage, officials said.
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Minority Affairs Ministry Allocated Over Rs 4,810 Crore In Budget
The Minority Affairs Ministry was allocated Rs 4,810.77 crore in the 2021-22 Union Budget on Monday which is Rs 805.77 crore more than than the revised figures of the previous fiscal.
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"Reform, Transform, Perform": Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi On Mantra Last Year
The Minority Affairs Ministry successfully implemented the government's mantra of "development without discrimination and empowerment without appeasement" in 2018, Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has said, asserting that a sense of confidence has been created among minorities.
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On Gandhi Jayanti, A Message Of Brotherhood At Mushairas Across Country
The Minority Affairs Ministry will organise 'mushairas' (social gatherings at which Urdu poetry is read) across the country as part of the 150th birth anniversary celebrations of Mahatma Gandhi, the government announced on Sunday.
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Panel Unhappy Over Funds Underutilisation By Minority Affairs Ministry
A parliamentary panel has expressed its frustration over the perennial problem of underutilisation of budgetary allocations by the Union minority affairs ministry and said it would not make any more suggestion to the ministry on the matter.
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Education, Jobs Top On Minority Affairs Ministry List In 2017
Empowering minorities by providing them education and employment opportunities will top the 2017 priority list of Union Minority Affairs Ministry which said bringing socio-economic schemes "out of papers and computers" and taking them to ground were its biggest achievement this year.
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Minority Affairs Ministry's New Hindi Website Launched
Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs (Independent Charge) Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Wednesday launched new Hindi website and updated and revamped English portal of the Ministry.
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Have Changed Perception Of Modi Government Being Anti-Minority, Says Najma Heptulla
Union Minister Najma Heptulla on Saturday claimed her Minority Affairs Ministry has succeeded in changing the "intentionally created" perception that the Modi government would be anti-minority by launching various schemes for the upliftment of the communities in its two-year rule.
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Nearly 9 Per Cent People Recruited by Central Government from Minorities
11,218 persons or 8.79 per cent people recruited by central government departments belonged to minorities during 2014-15, the Minority Affairs Ministry today said.
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No Separate Funds for PM Modi's 15-Point Programme for Minorities: RTI
The Centre has not earmarked separate funds for 'Prime Minister's New 15 Point Programme for the Welfare of Minorities', an RTI query has revealed.
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UPA government tries to reach out to minorities
Learn and earn. The Minority Affairs Ministry has launched an ambitious self-employment programme to target 70,000 youth from financially weak sections of minority communities.
