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Goats on sale ahead of Eid-ul-Azha at a market in Patna on Wednesday. (Photo: PTI)

Mystic Mantra: The true meaning of qurbani

Acts that strengthen fraternity, brotherhood and charity are greatly valued on the day of Id-ul-Adha.

22 Aug 2018 1:49 AM IST

Predominantly Muslim Malaysia sends some 27,000 pilgrims to perform the hajj every year. (Photo: AP)

Over 2 million Muslims begin annual hajj pilgrimage

The five-day pilgrimage represents one of the five pillars of Islam and is required of all able-bodied Muslims once in...

19 Aug 2018 10:42 AM IST

Cheriyan said he decided to build the mosque after he saw workers taking taxis to go to the nearest mosque.(Photo: AFPâ€‰)

SIO raises Rs 1.5Lakh from 50 mosques as relief funds

According to the organisation, they started the relief work after conducting a survey of the affected sites along with...

19 Aug 2018 4:33 AM IST

Bengal’s politics and turbulent times

Bengal’s politics and turbulent times

She wields the pen at her own sweet will. Both as an imaginative author as well as an opinionated columnist.

23 Nov 2011 9:46 AM IST

A five-judge bench of the apex court further observed that it would not hear polygamy issue along with the triple talaq case. (Representational Image)

SC to pronounce verdict on constitutional validity of triple talaq...

The five-judge Supreme Court bench will adjudicate whether the court can tinker with the Muslim personal law.

21 Aug 2017 6:44 PM IST

Students develop obstacle detecting device for blind

Students develop obstacle detecting device for blind

The white and red cane used by the blind could soon become a thing of the past, if a blind navigation device that...

29 Aug 2013 12:32 AM IST

Poor facilities for Bengaluru clash

Poor facilities for Bengaluru clash

Lee Chong Wei’s title hopes at the World Badminton Championship earlier this month evaporated in the heat at the...

23 Aug 2013 10:36 PM IST

The move comes as Egypt struggles to combat rising militant attacks, most of them claimed by an Islamic State affiliate. (Photo: AP)

Egypt: Clerics offering religious advice in Cairo metro station stir...

The idea is to give Muslim worshippers a way to plug in fast to Islamic teachings and correct misconceptions of...

1 Aug 2017 1:55 PM IST

An untold number of people -- some estimates say up two million -- died in the savage violence that followed (Photo: AP)

Hindus killed Muslims, they are to be blamed for 1947 partition:...

August marks 70 years since the subcontinent was divided into two independent states -- Hindu-majority India and...

4 Aug 2017 3:46 PM IST

In this Aug. 12, 2017, workers stand around a giant saw installation that is cutting through a brick wall at the Partition Museum that is set to open later this week in Amritsar, India, 32 kilometres from border with Pakistan. (Photo: AP)

India opens first Partition museum 70 years after bloody event

A new museum on the Partition of the Indian subcontinent will soon open its doors.

15 Aug 2017 2:17 PM IST

where the Lahore lunatic Bishan Singh stands in no mans land between India and Pakistan, confused as to what to call home, is not so far from the truth.

Tales of parting from the midnight hour

Seventy years from Indian Independence, we speak to those who experienced the first taste of freedom and upheavals of...

15 Aug 2017 12:00 AM IST

US President-elect Donald Trump (Photo: AP)

Bangladeshi Hindus seek Trump's intervention to save non-Muslims

A memorandum was sent to the Trump team which details minority persecution including the recent Brahmanbaria and Santal...

28 Nov 2016 11:06 AM IST