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Shankaracharya objects to ‘Bhoomi Pujan Mahurat’

July 23, 2020 Ayodhya:  The Jyotishpeethadheeshwar and Dwarka Shardapithadheeshwar, Jagadguru Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati has questioned the “muhurat” of August 5 for laying the foundation stone of the Ram temple. The Shankaracharya said generally good…

Oli’s statement on Lord Ram outrageous: Karan Singh

July 15, 2020 New Delhi:  Veteran Congress leader and the former MP Karan Singh on Wednesday described Nepal Prime Minister K.P Sharma Olis remarks that the birthplace of Lord Ram was in Nepal as “outrageous”…

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‘Only one Ayodhya and it’s in India’: VHP hits back at Oli

July 14, 2020 New Delhi: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Tuesday hit back at Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli for his statement on Ayodhya, saying that there is only one Ayodhya and that…

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Return to Sufism only way to achieve peace in J&K: Rizvi

July 5, 2020 Srinagar: Peoples Justice Front Chairman Aga Syed Abbas Rizvi on Sunday stressed the return to Sufism, humanism and pluralism as the only way to achieve permanent peace in Jammu and Kashmir. Addressing…

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J&K People’s Justice Front to strive for revival of Sufism, tolerance

June 25, 2020 Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Justice Front, a newly formed political party, is presently holding public meetings across Kashmir to revive the centuries old tradition of Sufism and also to seek…

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Bank, Church of England apologise for historic slavery ties

June 19, 2020 London: The UK’s central bank and the Church of England have both apologised for the role that some of their senior figures played in the slave trade. Former Bank of England governors…

By Saeed Naqvi

A delusion that our lives were better during the Cold War?

June 14, 2020 New Delhi: Pictures of unrelieved despair everywhere on TV and, that too, in the course of an extended house arrest (lockdown), does leave one, to use Faiz’s words, with “pain where the…

Ceremony held at Ayodhaya to mark beginning of temple construction

June 10, 2020 Ayodhya:  An elaborate ‘Rudra Abhishek’ ceremony, followed by an ‘aarti’ was held at the Kuber Tila temple in Ayodhya on Wednesday morning to mark the beginning of temple construction. Led by Mahant…

Culture & History

A Lost page from Indian History

May 15, 2020 London: 1921 was a year of great turmoil in the history of the Indian Freedom Movement, coming soon after the British atrocity at Jalianwala Bagh in April 1919.. The British were ruthlessly…

By Saeed Naqvi

The Tablighi mission

By Saeed Naqvi April 5, 2020 New Delhi: In the early 70s, Indian missions in West Asia received a curt directive from South Block: do not issue visas to applicants travelling to attend the international…

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