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25 ton-Quran to be auctioned at container terminal in Kochi
India | January 10, 2020 19:58 ISTA consignment of the Holy Quran weighing 25 tonnes sent from Saudi Arabia six months ago is going to be auctioned at the International Transshipment Container Terminal here after the importer, a College in Malappuram, expressed inability to pay the Rs 8 lakh customs duty, official sources said.
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Richa Bharti case: Ranchi court drops condition of distributing Quran after public furore
India | July 17, 2019 20:03 IST19-year-old Richa Bharti can now heave a sigh of relief. A Ranchi court, which had asked her to distribute copies of Quran, has now withdrawn the bail condition.
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Unhappy over order, Richa Bharti refuses to follow Ranchi court's Quran directive
India | July 17, 2019 13:29 ISTJudicial Magistrate Manish Singh granted bail to Richa on Monday on the condition that she would have to distribute five copies of the Muslim holy book to five institutions. She has to submit the receipt of distributed copies to the court in 15 days.
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Explained: Why a Ranchi court asked 19-year-old Richa Bharti to distribute copies of Quran
India | July 17, 2019 12:14 IST19-year-old Richa Bharti was recently arrested for sharing an offensive social media post targeting Muslims. On Monday, she was granted bail by a Ranchi court but on a condition 'unheard-of'. Read more to know details.
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Unhappy over court's Quran order, Hindu girl to move HC
India | July 16, 2019 20:51 ISTA 19-year-old woman, who was asked by a court here to distribute copies of the Quran as punishment for a "communal" post on social media, is unhappy over the directive and said she would move the High Court.
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Uttarakhand BJP keeps Quran at party library
India | May 30, 2019 15:17 ISTBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state media head Devendra Bhasin claimed that the move was in line with the party's "philosophy" of treating every religion equally.
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Want Muslims to have Quran in one hand and computer in other: PM Modi
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China denies confiscating copies of Quran in Xinjiang
World | September 28, 2017 22:41 ISTChina on Thursday dismissed as "groundless rumours" the reports that authorities were seizing copies of the Quran and prayer rugs in Xinjiang as part of a crackdown against extremists in the restive province.
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Pak hospital forces non-Muslim staffers to recite Quran verses
World | May 03, 2017 23:32 ISTThe administration of a government- run hospital here forces its non-Muslim staffers to either recite verses from the Holy Quran at morning assembly or be marked absent for the day, a Pakistan media report said today.
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‘No rule on triple talaq in Quran’, says Vice-President’s wife Salma Ansari
India | April 10, 2017 10:18 ISTVice-President Hamid Ansari's wife Salma Ansari has said that uttering 'talaq' thrice does not amount to divorce and asked Muslim women to read the Quran thoroughly instead of relying on clerics.
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Man breaks into US mosque, tears apart copies of Quran: Report
World | March 15, 2017 16:11 ISTAn unidentified man broke into a mosque in Arizona early Monday morning and ripped up copies of the Quran.
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Agra: 14-yr-old Hindu girl imparts Quran lessons to Muslim kids in temple premises
India | September 06, 2016 12:23 ISTMuslim kids in an Agra locality are offered lessons in Quran by a 18-year-old Hindu girl in an open-air classroom held every evening in a temple premises in the city’s Sanjay Nagar colony.
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Setback to Sharif govt, Islamic council rejects proposal to teach Quran in Pak schools
World | August 04, 2016 14:18 ISTIn a major setback to the Nawaz Sharif-led government in Pakistan, the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) today rejected the federal government’s proposal to include teachings of the Quran in school syllabus.
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Now, AAP's Naresh Yadav lands in jail for desecration of Quran
Politics | July 24, 2016 21:50 ISTTrouble seems to be refusing to fade away for the Aam Admi Party (AAP) as hours after the arrest of their Okhla MLA Amanatullah Khan, another MLA of the party has been held. MLA from
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Dhaka attack: 45-year-old woman chooses death over terrorist’s demands
World | July 04, 2016 21:25 ISTDhaka: Amidst the trauma and misfortune of the Dhaka terror attack, a story of commendable courage of a woman who chose death over surrendering to the terrorist’s demands has since then gone viral with hundreds of shares and reactions from people acr
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Bangladesh: Terrorists who killed 20, spared those who could recite Quran, says report
World | July 03, 2016 9:27 ISTThe attackers involved in Bangladesh’s worst hostage crisis had asked their victims to recite from the Quran in order to decide on whom to spare, a leading Bangladeshi daily said today on its website.
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SC can't test validity of Muslim personal law: Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind
India | February 06, 2016 18:22 ISTNew Delhi: In response to the Supreme Court's order to file a separate PIL to consider the rights of Muslim women, Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind (JUH), the powerful Muslim body, has contended that the apex Court cannot
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Women only fit to deliver children, says Kerala Sunni cleric
India | November 29, 2015 7:43 ISTThiruvananthapuram: Kerala Sunni cleric Kanthapuram AP Aboobacker Musliar has said that women can never equal men as 'they are fit only to deliver children'.Describing as 'un-Islamic' the concept of gender equality, he said that women
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No one can claim trademark right on holy books: SC
India | November 26, 2015 7:41 ISTNew Delhi: No one can claim the names of holy books and scriptures like Ramayana or Quran and use them as trademarks for selling goods and services, the Supreme Court has ruled."There are many holy
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How a party girl who never read Koran became Europe's first suicide bomber
World | November 23, 2015 16:22 ISTParis: Hasna Ait Boulahcen became Europe's first female suicide bomber after she blew herself to pieces during last week's anti-terror operation at Saint Denis where she was hiding with her cousin, Adbelhamid Abaaoud the mastermind
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