New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) Senior Congress leader Mohsina Kidwai was Wednesday elected chairperson of the Haj Committee of India, a government panel that makes arrangements for the Muslim pilgrimage to the holy cities of Makkah and Medina in Saudi Arabia.
Hasan Ahmed and Aboo Bucker were elected vice chairmen at
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New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) Terming stone pelting as a form of protest un-Islamic, the Grand Mufti of Jammu and Kashmir, Maulana Bashir-ud-Din, Wednesday said such violent practices were against the basic tenets of the religion whose essence is 'peace and brotherhood'.
'Islam strongly prohibits any means of violence. The stone
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Bhopal, March 10 (IANS) Minorities in Madhya Pradesh have criticised plans to introduce the Bhagvad Gita in state-run schools, saying the scriptures of other religions should also be part of the syllabus, even as a section of Muslim leaders sees nothing wrong with it.
The Catholic Church in Madhya Pradesh has
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Dharamsala, March 8 (IANS) Hundreds of Tibetan exiles will assemble in this Himachal hill town to hear their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama's address March 10, on the 51st anniversary of a failed rebellion against Chinese rule, an aide said here Monday.
'His Holiness the Dalai Lama will deliver a special
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New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Monday dismissed a plea by 'godman' Shiv Murat Dwivedi, accused of running a prostitution racket here, that the case against him be transferred to the Delhi Police Crime Branch.
Filing a petition through counsel Joginder Tuli, Dwivedi said he had been falsely
Bangalore, March 8 (IANS) Spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Monday expressed surprise over the 'hue and cry' over painter M.F. Husain's move to give up Indian citizenship and chided him for painting Indian gods in the nude.
'While India has a policy of free expression, one cannot accept blatant insult
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Kathmandu, March 8 (IANS) The last Hindu king of the country, Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah, made news Monday by turning up at a ritual prayer called by a self-styled Hindu godman to seek the restoration of Hinduism as the state religion.
Only 81 days are left for the promulgation of a
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Mangarh, (Pratapgarh), March 7 (IANS) Spiritual guru Kripaluji Maharaj's Bhakti Dham Ashram, where 63 people lost their lives and 64 were injured Thursday in one of the worst stampedes, Sunday doled out a lakh rupees each to the families of the dead and Rs.50,000 to each of the injured.
'We have
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Beijing, March 7 (IANS) The Panchen Lama selected by Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama was 'invalid', an official said here Sunday.
The Panchen Lama is a senior Tibetan spiritual leader.
Padma Choling, chairman of the Tibet autonomous regional government, said the Panchen Lama picked by the Dalai Lama was not valid
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Kuala Lumpur, March 7 (IANS) Malaysian magazine Al-Islam has apologised for 'unintentionally hurting the feelings of Christians, particularly Catholics' in a special report last year.
A three-paragraph apology posted on its website said the report was to investigate allegations of apostasy. It said the actions of its reporters who attended a
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