Religion News Desk: It has a 7,000-year-old history, was home to two of Christianity and Islam’s most important figures … and has some of the best hummus you’re likely to eat. Tarsus –... Read more
Opening up the Ratna Bhandar was a major issue during the recently held general election in Odisha. The BJP successfully created a narrative that the BJD government was least concerned about... Read more
International Desk: The death toll from this year’s hajj has exceeded 1,000, an AFP tally said on Thursday, more than half of them unregistered worshippers who performed the pilgrimage... Read more
More than 1.5 million Muslims will pray on Mount Arafat in soaring temperatures on Saturday, in the high-point and most gruelling day of the annual hajj pilgrimage. Worshippers from all over... Read more
Dhaka Office: The moon of the Arabic month of Zilhaj was sighted in the skies of Bangladesh on Friday evening, so Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of the Muslim community,... Read more
Community News Desk: Her Excellency Saida Muna Tasneem, the esteemed High Commissioner of Bangladesh, graced the celebration as the guest of honour. In a historic milestone, the Bangladesh H... Read more
Israeli police have been imposing restrictions on the access of worshippers to Al-Aqsa Mosque to attend weekly Friday prayers for around four months. Tens of thousands of Palestinian Muslims... Read more
The government has extended the deadline for hajj registration till 6 February. The Ministry of Religious Affairs issued a fresh notification in this regard on Friday. Earlier, the deadline... Read more
Bangladesh Railway (BR) will operate seventeen special trains for easy transportation of devotees on the occasion of Biswa Ijtema. Md Kamrul Ahsan, Director General of the BR, said this at a... Read more
All the devotees were seen wearing non-objectionable dresses while entering the shrine for darshan. Even the ban on chewing paan and gutka inside the shrine came into effect on Monday Subhas... Read more
UNB, Dhaka: The government has extended the hajj registration deadline for 2024 until 31 December in a bid to avoid last time hassle. The Ministry of Religious Affairs issued a notice signed... Read more
The registration process for the holy Hajj next year under both government and private management agencies began from today. The registration will be continued till December 10, according to... Read more
Durga Puja festivities in Calcutta are set to remain rain-free until ‘Ashtami’, with the Met office forecasting light drizzle on ‘Navami’ and an increase in intensity... Read more
Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Bangalee Hindu community, will begin tomorrow with Maha Shasthi puja at temples across the country amid festivity and religious fervour. The... Read more
BSS: The country’s Hindu community today celebrated Janmashtami, the holy occasion of birth of Lord Sri Krishna, also known as Janmashtami or Gokulashtami, with due religious fervour a... Read more
Attacks against the Muslim holy book “seek to create division,” a deputy spokeswoman for Germany’s government said on Wednesday, expressing Berlin’s condemnation of s... Read more
Ministry of Religious Affairs will return money beyond spent amount to Hajj pilgrims who performed Hajj under government management this year. Due to decreasing price of food and hajj packag... Read more
AIZAWL: Responding to a call given by two church bodies, various churches of different denominations in Mizoram, offered prayers for restoration of peace in violence-hit Manipur. While membe... Read more
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the burning of a copy of the Quran by an Iraqi refugee in Stockholm, Sweden and underlined the need to take measures to avoid anti-Muslims. In... Read more
Bangladesh has got rid of ‘red list’ of Saudi Arabia with private hajj agencies completing visa processing of 85 percent hajj pilgrims. The country narrowly escaped the red list by meeting t... Read more
