Many of Bangladesh`s well-off families are utilising the Eid-ul-Fitr festival this year to take a holiday abroad, moving away from the grime and jostling crowds at home as reported in Dhaka.
The mosque project two blocks from the World Trade Center is too close for comfort for some who will attend Saturday`s memorials for those killed in the Sep 11, 2001, Islamist terrorist attacks against the city as report ...
"24" star Kiefer Sutherland wants to visit India for charity work, says Anil Kapoor, who rubs shoulders with the actor in the popular American action series.
The Bhagvad Gita - containing Lord Krishna`s teachings and regarded as the essence of the Hindu religion and philosophy - is one of the most influential books in the world, but not much is known about its sequel, the Anu ...
Malaysia’s Muslim religious leaders today supported the government’s proposal to get converts to Islam to publicly announce their religious status, saying this would avoid future family disputes as reported in Kuala ...
A special bench of the Allahabad High Court yesterday concluded the hearing related to ownership of a disputed land in Ayodhya to which Hindus and Muslims have made rival claims for over a century. The decision is likely ...
The annual Shrikhand Mahadev pilgrimage, more arduous than the Amarnath Yatra in Jammu and Kashmir, took off today morning in Himachal Pradesh`s Shimla district with 2,000 devotees beginning the trek to pay obeisance to ...
Lakhs of devotees and tourists thronged this temple town today for the annual Rath Yatra (chariot festival) of the Hindu god Jagannath, his brother Balabhadra and sister Subhadra.
Security has been increased in Orissa`s Puri city ahead of the annual nine-day chariot festival of Lord Jagannath beginning tomorrow that is expected to draw nearly a million devotees.
Amid tension and violence in the Kashmir Valley, the number of Hindu pilgrims who have reached the Amarnath shrine in the Himalayas has crossed the 100,000 mark.
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