Amid chants of Ganpati bappa moraya, thousands of devotees are taking the Lord Ganesha idol home as the 10-day festival begins on Saturday on Ganesh Chaturthi. While the enthusiasm is intact... Read more
Three people have died in the Indian city of Bangalore after police fired on crowds protesting against an allegedly blasphemous Facebook post. Crowds gathered outside the house of a local po... Read more
The Hindu community of the country will celebrate Janmashtami, marking the birth of Lord Krishna, on Tuesday with due religious fervour. According to Hindu religion, Lord Vishnu incarnated i... Read more
Muslim pilgrims circled Islam’s holiest site along socially distanced paths Sunday in the final ritual of the hajj, the smallest in modern history as Saudi authorities sought to prevent a co... Read more
Six Eid-ul-Azha congregations will be held at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque from 7 am on the Eid day. This year there will be six jamaats on the Eid day at the National Mosque, said a... Read more
About 1,000 pilgrims arrived on the Mina Valley outside Makkah on Wednesday to participate in this year’s hajj amid the coronavirus pandemic. This time, the Saudi government has imposed rest... Read more
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday begins hosting the annual hajj pilgrimage, dramatically downscaled due to the coronavirus pandemic that has barred millions of international pilgrims for the first... Read more
The government on Monday issued some directives asking people to offer Eid prayer at their nearest mosques instead of Eidgah and open spaces maintaining recommended health guidelines amid th... Read more
Eid-ul-Azha, the second biggest religious festival of the Muslims, is just around the corner but the coronavirus pandemic and floods have tightened the grip leaving thousands of people stran... Read more
Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court said on Monday the Day of Arafat will be on July 30 (Thursday) and July 31 (Friday) will be the first day of Eid-ul-Azha. The court said that July 21 (Tuesday) i... Read more
The centuries old Ker puja began in Tripura capital Agartala from Tuesday. Ker puja is the most peculiar festival of Tripura. On Tuesday the traditional Ker Puja is being held at the premise... Read more
While India was just heaving a sigh of relief over de-escalation of tension between India and China and disengagement of troops from both countries along Line of Actual Control (LAC) in East... Read more
Pope Francis has said he’s “pained” by Turkey’s decision to convert Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia back into a mosque. Speaking at a service in the Vatican, the Roman... Read more
The government on Sunday urged Muslim devotees to offer Eid prayer in the nearest mosques instead of Eidgah and open spaces maintaining recommended health advice amid coronavirus pandemic. T... Read more
The world-famous Hagia Sophia museum in Istanbul – originally founded as a cathedral – has been turned back into a mosque. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced... Read more
AFP: Saudi Arabia on Monday opened hajj registration for foreign residents in the kingdom, saying they will make up 70 percent of the pilgrims after it scaled-back the annual ritual due to c... Read more
UNB: The pilgrims who paid for the registration of Hajj this year will be able to take back their money if necessary, said the Ministry of Religious Affairs on Tuesday. Ministry secretary Nu... Read more
Muslims expressed disappointment Tuesday at Saudi Arabia’s decision to scale back this year’s hajj pilgrimage, but many accepted it was necessary as the kingdom battles a major c... Read more
In a major development, Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has confirmed that honouring the decision of the Saudi Arabia Government because of serious challenges of Covid-19... Read more
A servitor of Puri Jagannath Temple has tested positive for coronavirus, said Puri District Collector Balwant Singh on Tuesday. The news came amid a curtailed Rath Yatra underway in Puri aft... Read more
