The online application process for Haj 2019 will start from Thursday, October 17, 2018, while the offline process will begin from October 22, 2018, Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi announced on Wednesday. “Haj 2019 announced today, 2 months before schedule compared to last year’s Haj. It is for the first[Read More…]
Mumbai: Despite the removal of the Haj subsidy from the 2018 pilgrimage season, there was no financial burden on the pilgrims as middlemen were eliminated and a transparent, fully online system was put in place, Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said here on Wednesday. Terming the Haj-2018[Read More…]
Amongst the various significant festivals celebrated across India, Karwa Chauth marks as one of the most important festivals for married Hindu women. The festival falls during the Krishna Paksha Chaturthi in the month of Kartik as per the Hindu calendar. Married women observe a nirjala fast for the safety and longevity of their[Read More…]
Dhaka, Durga Puja, the biggest annual Hindu festival, began on Monday in Bangladesh capital Dhaka and elsewhere in the country with due religious fervour. During the five-day Durga Puja festival, the Goddess Durga is worshipped in her different forms. People organise different programs including dancing, traditional drummer perform to celebrate[Read More…]
Kolkata: With “cotton-ball” clouds floating in the blue sky, the beat of Dhak (drums) mixed with popular melodies filling the air, and frenzied last-minute shopping, Bengal looks set to indulge itself in the state’s biggest festival – Durga Puja – from Monday. It is that time of the year when[Read More…]
It’s that time of the year again! Durga Puja is here. Also known as Sharadotsav, the Hindu festival celebrated in late September or early October marks the triumph of good over evil symbolised by the slaying of demon Mahishasura by Goddess Durga. Durga Puja is the festival that celebrates togetherness.[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear on Friday a plea challenging the West Bengal government’s decision to release Rs 28 crore as a “gift” to the organisers of Durga Puja in the state. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi agreed to hear the plea after it was[Read More…]
Hyderabad: MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday said that judiciary cannot and should not decide what is an essential feature of Islam as it is the job of the religious clergy. The Hyderabad MP Owaisi said it would have been better if the Supreme Court had referred the Babri Masjid[Read More…]
Saudi Arabia announced on Monday that foreign Umrah performers can visit any city in the country with their 30-day Umrah visa, Al Arabiya local news reported. However, 15 days must be spent in visiting the two grand mosques in Mecca and Medina during their 30-day Umrah stay, said Abdulaziz Wazzan,[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said the date for construction of a grand Ram temple will be set by Lord Ram himself. Speaking at a conclave in the state capital, organised by a Hindi newspaper, the monk-turned-politician said what has to happen at a given time will[Read More…]
Congress President Rahul Gandhi will undertake Kailash Mansarovar Yatra from August 31 for four-five days, party sources said here on Wednesday. Gandhi, a devotee of Lord Shiva, had said he would embark on the pilgrimage after the Karnataka Assembly polls. Mount Kailash, located in Tibet Autonomous Region of China, is regarded as the[Read More…]
Saudi Arabia will introduce free sleeping pods during this year’s Haj starting on Sunday. Between 18 and 24 modern hotel capsules will be offered to pilgrims to nap in for free in the coming six days, said the Haji and Mu’tamer’s Gift Charitable Association. These free nap pods — each[Read More…]
According to mythological stories, every year lakhs of saffron clad Hindu pilgrims known as ‘Kanwariya’ were to converge at Haridwar (or at Gomukh, Babadham, Dhar), bathe in the river, pray. They would collect holy water and start their marathon walk back to their local Shiva temple. The fetched water is[Read More…]
March of Kanwariya or the holy yatra by lakhs of saffron clad Hindu pilgrims start during the month of Shravan, the wet season each year in India. A long human chain visits Hindu pilgrimage places of Haridwar, Gaumukh and Gangotri in Uttarakhand, to fetch holy waters of Ganges River. Who are[Read More…]
In a recent ruling on Wednesday, in connection with an inter-caste marriage case of a Hindu-Muslim couple, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has said that officialdom must not be seen “raising eyebrows and laying snares and landmines” in such cases. The procedure for a court marriage, it has said,[Read More…]
The video of Khelo India Khelo players catering to the ministers during an event in Ranchi BJP office is making round on internet, but the officials seem to remain in denial. When asked to comment on the matter, they either declined from having any information on the matter or found[Read More…]
India has faced unforgettable communal riots both before and after its independence. Amid the many communal riots comes a Facebook post originally written by Meghna Athwani who, while iterating her experience of sharing a cab with religiously-different people, slams all the political parties for their continuous efforts to instigate religious[Read More…]
The atheist ruling Communist Party has banned minors under 16 from religious activity or study in Linxia, China. Following the displeasing move, residing Hui Muslim community fear the eradication of Islam from the country. A deeply Islamic region in western China that had offered religious freedom for the ethnic Hui[Read More…]
New Delhi: Dubbing female genital mutilation as violative of bodily integrity of a girl child, the Supreme Court on Monday said that religious practices cannot be cited to justify such mutilation in the Dawoodi Bohra community. The observation came from a bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar[Read More…]
New Delhi: Investigators in the mysterious deaths by hanging of 11 in Delhi’s Burari neighbourhood are convinced that it was a case of mass suicide in a ritual practice by the family suffering from a shared psychological disorder, a police officer said on Thursday. The officer said the final closure[Read More…]
A video of a Muslim teacher, Latifa Abuchakra, speaking at the NEU-NUT Section Annual conference 2018 has gone viral. Latifa takes a compelling stand against OFSTED- UK’s largest teaching union, the chief of which faced immense backlash after she questioned and allegedly pressured schools to ban the Muslim hijab. “Shame[Read More…]
Jharkhand is to call for a series of protests and demonstrations in connection with Muslim welfare. Since many of the required committees for the welfare of the Muslims have not been formed, the economic and social development of the Muslim society seems to be affected adversely. Careless attitude of the[Read More…]
New Delhi: A new shelter home for widows, with capacity for 1,000 people, has been constructed in Uttar Pradesh’s Vrindavan by the Union Women and Child Development Ministry, an official statement said on Tuesday. The ministry signed an MoU on Tuesday with Uttar Pradesh’s Women and Child Development Department, which[Read More…]
Jammu: The annual pilgrimage to the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine remained suspended for a second consecutive day on Thursday following a forest fire, police said. Around 25,000 pilgrims were currently stranded at the Katra base camp for clearance to start the uphill trek to the shrine located in Jammu and[Read More…]
Patna: A Muslim in Bihar chose humanity over religious customs, broke his Ramadan fast to donate blood to an eight-year-old Hindu thalassemic boy and saved his life. Jawed Alam on Tuesday donated blood to Rajesh Kumar in Gopalganj district, a district health official said. The boy was rushed to the[Read More…]
