Muharram 2021: Significance of the day of Ashura, difference between Sunnis and Shias observance of the day
Shia Muslims mourn the killing of Prophet Mohammed's grandson Hazrat Imam Hussain by the cruel army of Yazid I in the Battle of Karbala during Muharram.
Aug 19, 2021, 12:01 PM IST
Subramanian Swamy: Ayodhya disputed land is of the government and can be lent to the saints
Subramanian Swamy once again has spoken about the Ayodhya land dispute. He said that according to paragraph 300A the Ayodhya disputed land is of the government and can be lent to the saints for building the temple.
Feb 02, 2019, 10:06 AM IST
Muharram 2018: Date, Time and all you need to know
Shia Muslims mourn the demise of Imam Hussein and his family.
Sep 11, 2018, 17:52 PM IST
Shia Waqf offers 10 silver arrows for Ayodhya's proposed giant Ram statue
The arrows symbolise India's fight with terrorism, just the way Ram annihilated monsters with his arrows, said the Shia Waqf Board chairman
Oct 17, 2017, 07:46 AM IST
'Talaq to be part of cirriculum in madrassas'
To educate Muslims about the practice of 'talaq' after recent Supreme Court ruling on the matter, a leading Dargah of the Sunni sect has decided to include it in the curriculum of madrassas.
Aug 29, 2017, 17:23 PM IST
Rex Tillerson raps some US allies for religious freedom violations, slams IS
U.S. allies including Saudi Arabia and Bahrain did not uphold principles of religious freedom in 2016, while Islamic State has carried out "genocide" against religious minorities, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday.
Aug 16, 2017, 12:04 PM IST
Rocket attack kills Saudi policeman in Qatif: Ministry
Qatif has seen a string of assaults on security forces in recent weeks.
Jul 31, 2017, 07:40 AM IST
Sectarian group claims Pakistan bombs; death toll rises to 50
A faction of Pakistan-based sectarian militants Lashkar-e-Jhangvi on Saturday claimed responsibility for twin bombs that hit a market in the northwestern town of Parachinar, killing at least 50 people ahead of the holiday marking the end of Ramadan.
Jun 24, 2017, 16:03 PM IST
Twin blasts at Pakistan's Parachinar: Blasts death toll rises to 25, over 100 injured so far
The explosions targeted people shopping in the area and those heading out of the city ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, local political administration officials said.
Jun 23, 2017, 22:41 PM IST
Germany warns Turkey against meddling in religious affairs
Interior ministry spokesman Tobias Plate added that comments that "endanger domestic peace in Germany is something that cannot be accepted."
Germany opens its first liberal mosque in Berlin
A female imam from the United States, Ani Zonneveld, called for prayer as the faithful kneeled behind her in rows, all turned in the direction of Mecca.
Jun 16, 2017, 23:12 PM IST
UP govt recommends CBI probe into alleged Waqf board scam
Scam worth crores has come to the fore in a probe by the Waqf Council of India: Mohsin Raza
Bahrain cuts opposition chief's jail term: Judicial source
Bahrain's top court on Monday reduced the jail sentence of Shiite opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman, who has been in prison since 2014, a judicial source said.
Apr 03, 2017, 14:55 PM IST
Gunmen kill two Saudi police in Shiite majority city
Unidentified gunmen killed two Saudi policemen in the mainly Shiite eastern city of Dammam early on Tuesday, authorities in the region said.
Oct 25, 2016, 16:24 PM IST
Top Sunni Muslim body urges unity to defeat `terrorism` after Nice
Sunni Islam`s leading seat of learning Al-Azhar on Friday condemned a deadly truck attack in Nice on France`s national holiday.
Jul 15, 2016, 15:31 PM IST
Islamic State car bomb attack kills seven north of Baghdad
A suicide bomber killed at least seven people north of Baghdad on Wednesday, security and medical sources said, in the second bombing claimed by Islamic State in the district in as many days.
Jul 13, 2016, 16:07 PM IST
Amnesty urges probe over ‘mass burials’ of Shias by Nigerian Army
Claims by a Kaduna state official that Nigeria's military secretly buried 347 people after clashes with members of a minority Shia Muslim sect should be investigated and anyone suspected of wrongdoing put on trial, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.
Apr 13, 2016, 10:37 AM IST
`Jinnah wanted Hindus, Muslims in Pakistan to be like Roman Catholics, Protestants in Great Britain`
Farhanaz Ispahani, in `Purifying the Land of the Pure: Pakistan`s Religious Minorities`, writes that Pakistan's rulers moved away from Jinnah`s pluralist vision.
Jan 23, 2016, 18:50 PM IST
Kerala's Sunni religious leader calls gender equality ‘un-Islamic’
Islamic leader of Kerala, AP Aboobacker Musalyar has controversially declaed women as inferior to men.
Nov 29, 2015, 17:55 PM IST
