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Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed by US Navy Seals in a covert raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan in May 2011. (Photo: AFP)

Of false premises & false promises

The Quran says martyrs going to heaven will get hur , and the word was taken by early commentators to mean virgins ,...

7 July 2018 12:16 AM IST

A person reading the Holy Quran.

Mystic Mantra - Quran: The common denominator of Muslims

The Quran, literally "the recitation", also transliterated as Qur'an, Koran, or Al-Qur'an, is the central religious text...

16 Oct 2019 1:33 AM IST

Pramod Sawant already has his personal account on both social media platforms while the official Facebook and Twitter accounts (Image: ANI)

Goa CM reading Quran in Hindi, says 'curious' to know what's in it

Sawant said that he is also in the process of reading the Holy Bible which has been gifted to him.

11 Nov 2019 12:13 PM IST

Pluralism, education and intellectual competition: These were once Muslim values, and they could be so again.

Muslims in time warp: Into enlightenment from blind following

Instead of the dominant blind, unquestioning obedience to religious dogma, we should teach critical thinking to our...

6 Jan 2019 8:23 AM IST

Malik ibn Deenar devoted his life to God and made a living as a calligrapher of the Quran.

After PM asks to take care of minorities, U'khand BJP keeps Quran at...

The Uttarakhand BJP has kept a copy of the Quran at the party library to help its cadre learn about the holy book.

30 May 2019 2:43 PM IST

An Indian Muslim father holds the hands of his daughter in his palms and prays before breaking fast on the first day of holy month Ramadan at the Jama Mosque in New Delhi, India. (Photo: AP)

Celebrating Ramadan: The holy month of fasting

Here's all you need to know about Islam's holiest month and how it's observed all over the world.

6 May 2019 9:36 PM IST

Azam Khan made statement after BJPs Bhopal candidate Pragya Singh Thakur courted a controversy by calling killer of the Mahatma Gandhi a patriot. (Photo: ANI)

Muslim's personal issue, nothing acceptable outside Quran: Azam Khan...

Khan said politics divides communities who otherwise have fraternal bonds.

25 Jun 2019 9:07 AM IST

McEver said that she made the crystallised book in 2014 and that the artwork has no religious meaning. (Photo: Screenshot of McEvers blog)

A Bible? A Quran?: Reality check of viral post shows different story

Posts claiming the book was a Bible or Quran found underwater hail the supposed discovery as miraculous.

19 Jun 2019 2:30 PM IST

The opposition accused the government of hypocrisy over Muslim reservation.

Mystic Mantra - Zakat: A vision of the big society'

The idea of Zakat is based on the direct, legitimate claim of the poor on the wealth of the rich.

12 Jun 2019 1:03 AM IST

The school conducts classes for the students of Cass I to VIII and is run in two shifts where these students are taught lessons in Urdu and the Quran in the morning followed by Sanskrit shlokas in the afternoon. (Photo: ANI)

Rajasthan school teaches Sanskrit 'shlokas' and Quranic verses to...

Over 400 minority students are studying in this govt school, who are well-versed in reciting Sanskrit 'shlokas' and...

20 July 2019 9:25 PM IST

Richa Bharati, the girl who was asked by a court to distribute copies of Quran as a bail condition, said on Wednesday that she would take action against the people who filed a complaint against her for allegedly posting communal comments on social media. (Photo: ANI)

They threatened, abused me: Ranchi girl vows to act against those...

She also alleged that the complainants shared her morphed images on social media and threatened to do bad things to her.

18 July 2019 9:02 AM IST

The Bombay High Courts recent decision directing tax authorities to release tax deducted at source (TDS) in the Everstone Capital-Indostar Capital deal comes as a major relief for companies operating from jurisdictions like Mauritius and Singapore.

Ranchi: Court grants bail to student, directs her to distribute copies...

She would distribute four texts of the Quran to various libraries through the local police station.

16 July 2019 5:45 PM IST