By Shuriah Niazi, New Delhi: Muslims in Indian city of Agra would no longer be able to offer prayers at the mosque situated on the premises of landmark Taj Mahal except on Fridays. According to the directives issued by the ...
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By Sidhartha Dutta, New Delhi : As Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s funeral procession wound its way through Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, a man wearing a skull cap and sporting a flowing beard, led a group of madrassa students chanting in praise ...
Read More »Want to build Ram Mandir lawfully; no mosque: VHP
New Delhi : The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Monday said it will wait for the Supreme Court’s order to build the Ram Mandir at the disputed site in Ayodhya “lawfully” but expressed its opposition to a mosque next to ...
Read More »Despite tragic history, mosque and gurdwara stand tall in harmony
By Jaideep Sarin, Fatehgarh Sahib (Punjab) : This town of sacred pilgrimage in Punjab has been witness to one of the most tragic, painful and violent chapters of Sikh-Mughal history going back three centuries. Despite that, a 350-year-old mosque not ...
Read More »Setting an example: Temple, mosque, gurdwara join hands in this small UP town
By Kushagra Dixit, Maholi (Uttar Pradesh) : With inter-community violence reported from many parts of India in a society increasingly polarised on religious and caste lines, a small town in Uttar Pradesh is setting an extraordinary example where a temple, ...
Read More »Once a mosque, always a mosque, SC told
New Delhi : The Supreme Court was on Friday told that a mosque will remain a place of worship even after it has been desecrated and destroyed through a “barbaric act.” “A mosque will remain a place of worship even ...
Read More »Perhaps Rahul should visit mosques and churches as well
By Amulya Ganguli, There will probably be a mixed reaction in the secular camp to Rahul Gandhi’s temple-hopping in Gujarat. To some, it may seem to be a negation of the Congress’s vaunted secular credentials and that, too, by the ...
Read More »Erdogan to open USA’s largest mosque on Saturday
Washington, (IINA) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will inaugurate the United States’ largest mosque on Saturday, Anadolu Agency reported. The Diyanet Center of America in Maryland, just 21 kilometers from Washington DC, features classical Ottoman architecture. The land was ...
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