Mosque
-
Sunni Board to build mosque, hospital on 5-acre Ayodhya site
India | Feb 24, 2020, 03:59 PM ISTUttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board on Monday said it will build a mosque as well as an Indo-Islamic research centre, a hospital and a library on the five-acre plot allotted to it following the Supreme Court’s Ayodhya verdict.
-
5-acre land offer for mosque in Ayodhya is wrong, illegal: Lawyer Zafaryab Jilani
News | Feb 06, 2020, 04:47 PM ISTSenior lawyer Zafaryab Jilani said that the offer of 5 acres of land for mosque in Ayodhya is wrong and illegal.
-
AIMPLB to SC: Women, men can pray together in mosques
India | Jan 29, 2020, 08:42 PM ISTThe All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) in an affidavit in the Supreme Court on Wednesday said the entry of women into mosques is permitted, and that there is no restriction on men and women praying together.
-
Muslims store lethal weapons in mosques, claims Karnataka BJP MLA, party distances from remark
India | Jan 22, 2020, 03:16 PM ISTIn a shocker, Karnataka BJP MLA MP Renucharya has said that instead of offering prayers (namaz), Muslims are storing weapons in mosques and their priests (khazis) are giving fatwas instead of sermons.
-
Mosque turns venue for Hindu wedding, netizens shower praise
India | Jan 20, 2020, 11:46 PM ISTAn unusual story of a wedding is doing the rounds on internet in which a couple tied the knot at a mosque in Alappuzha district in Kerala on Sunday as per Hindu rituals.
-
Jammu & Kashmir: Muslims agree to demolition of 40-year-old mosque for long-awaited Jhelum bridge
India | Dec 22, 2019, 06:15 PM ISTMuslim community in Rampora graciously agreed for the demolition of a 40-year-old mosque in order to enable completion of a bridge over Jhelum river.
-
Tension prevails in UP's Sambhal as 'illegal' mosque construction stopped by police
India | Nov 15, 2019, 09:37 AM ISTTension has prevailed in UP's Sambhal district after the police stopped the construction of a mosque which was being built 'illegally'. Additional police troops have been deployed in the area.
-
Sunni Waqf Board should not accept 5-acre plot for mosque: Jamiat chief
India | Nov 15, 2019, 07:01 AM IST"The SC said it was mosque and not made by destructing a temple. For us, accordiong to religion, it is still a mosque," head of Muslim body Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind (JUEH) Maulana Arshad Madani said.
-
Cleric arrested for explosion at UP mosque
India | Nov 13, 2019, 11:55 AM ISTDuring interrogation, the cleric admitted that he and some other youths had kept the explosives in the mosque.
-
Plea for entry of women into mosques, SC asks Centre to reply by Nov 5
India | Oct 25, 2019, 06:30 PM ISTThe Supreme Court on Friday sought the Centre's response by November 5 on a plea seeking entry of Muslim women in mosques across the country and claiming that such restriction was "unconstitutional" and violative of fundamental rights to life, equality and gender justice.
-
Sabka Malik Ek: Hindus offer namaaz in Bihar's 200-year-old mosque
India | Sep 08, 2019, 01:10 PM ISTDuring a time when religious fanaticism and daily instances of communal conflicts are consistently flaring up in the country, a village in the Nalanda district presents a 'too good to be true' example of religious harmony.
-
Ravidas temple: Muslim groups support Dalit community demand, joint protest on Sept 15
India | Sep 02, 2019, 06:43 PM ISTAt a press conference here, Mulana Fazlul Manan Shahi, the Imam of Teele Wali Masjid in Lucknow, said, "We feel the pain caused by the temple's demolition as we have gone through a similar experience. We share the grief of our Dalit brothers. We will be there to rebuild the temple."
-
Kerala mosque offers prayer hall for autopsy of landslide victims
India | Aug 15, 2019, 04:42 PM ISTThe mosque is located few kilometres away from Kavalappara, a remote hamlet in the district where a large number of people and children were killed following the landslide last Thursday. Search operations are still on to trace the bodies of the people, who have gone missing and are feared to have been buried alive.
-
BJP MP Parvesh Sahib Singh accused of spreading lies about mosques on public land
India | Aug 01, 2019, 11:41 PM ISTThe report rejected the MP's claims and stated that there were sufficient grounds for registering an FIR against him as he "targeted a particular community and (for) creating communal disharmony in Delhi".
-
Illegal mosques, graveyards on 500 Delhi government lands: BJP MP
India | Jul 31, 2019, 08:21 PM IST"There are over 500 government lands where illegal mosques and graveyards are built. I object to such constructions on government land even if it is a mosque, temple or a gurdwara. But in the last five years I did not come to know about any such government land where an illegal temple or gurdwara is constructed," BJP MP Pravesh Verma said
-
Supreme Court rejects plea seeking women's entry into mosques
India | Jul 08, 2019, 04:11 PM ISTA bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said: "Let a Muslim woman come and challenge it. Then we will consider."
-
Man accused in New Zealand mosque killings pleads not guilty
World | Jun 14, 2019, 06:57 AM ISTIn the March 15 attacks, 42 worshippers were killed at the Al Noor mosque and seven were killed at the Linwood mosque during Friday prayers. Two more people died later at the Christchurch Hospital.
-
Pakistan official: Bomb at Quetta mosque kills 2, wounds 28
World | May 25, 2019, 07:40 AM ISTThe blast took place at the mosque in the city's Pashtoonabad neighborhood during Friday prayers, according to Abdul Razzak Cheema, deputy inspector of police.
-
4 policemen killed, 11 injured in blast in Pakistan
World | May 14, 2019, 11:37 AM ISTThe explosion occurred on Monday night when people were assembling for prayers near the mosque in the provincial capital Quetta's Satellite Town area. The attack took place shortly after a police van arrived at the site to provide security to the people offering prayers at the mosque.
-
SC issues notice to Centre on plea seeking entry of Muslim women into mosques to offer prayers
India | Apr 16, 2019, 04:03 PM ISTA bench headed by Justice S A Bobde issued notice to the Centre and asked it to respond to the plea filed by a Pune-based couple.