The Indian government is pressing ahead with modifications to a decades-old law governing Muslim-owned properties donated for religious and charitable purposes, a move that critics say may further erode minority rights in the country.

India’s parliament has passed a controversial bill moved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government to amend laws governing Muslim land endowments

Indian lawmakers are debating a controversial bill that seeks to change how properties worth billions of dollars donated by Indian Muslims over centuries are governed. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has presented the Waqf (Amendment) Bill,