Worshippers return to Wisconsin gurdwara
August 13th, 2012 - 1:05 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Aug 13 (IANS) A week after a gunman killed six people in a Wisconsin gurdwara, mourners streamed into its prayer hall, bowing before the Holy Book, the Guru ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Dubai’s grand gurdwara brings religion, tradition alive in style (With Images)
July 3rd, 2012 - 3:36 pm ICT by IANS
Dubai, July 3 (IANS) Ornate 24-carat gold canopies for the Guru Granth Sahib religious text of Sikhism, Italian marble on the walls and floor, stunning chandeliers and a five-star kitchen ... Read more...
Posted in World |
A six-decade-old FIR pays homage to Gandhi
November 14th, 2011 - 8:56 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 14 (IANS) It is a reminder of one of the saddest dates of Indian history -- Jan 30, 1948, when Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated. More than sixty ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Fear grows as Nepal church escapes bomb attack
August 29th, 2011 - 4:31 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, Aug 29 (IANS) Two years after a bomb attack on a church in Kathmandu valley killed three people during mass and injured nearly a dozen, Nepal's minority Christian community ... Read more...
Posted in World |
British imam charged with raping minor boy
January 13th, 2011 - 9:46 pm ICT by IANS
London, Jan 13 (IANS) A Muslim religious leader in Britain has been charged with raping a 12-year-old boy while he attended mosque for religious lessons, a media report said.Mohammed Hanif Khan, 42, ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Brit Imam ’serially raped young boy when he attended mosque for religious lessons’
January 13th, 2011 - 6:33 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 13(ANI): An Imam of a mosque in Stoke-on-Trent, England, has been accused of serially raping a young boy during visits to the mosque for religious lessons in 2009.According to the ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Italian Muslims unveil mosque with church model
September 12th, 2010 - 1:55 pm ICT by IANS
Florence (Italy) Sep 12 (IANS/AKI) Muslim leaders in Italy have unveiled the model of a mosque to be constructed in Florence with minarets having resemblance of the cathedral's bell tower designed ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Rains play spoilsport on Eid in Kerala
September 10th, 2010 - 1:22 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 10 (IANS) Rains played spoilsport Friday morning in Kerala as Eid-ul-Fitr prayers were hurriedly shifted indoors from open Eidgahs and grounds across the state. But the showers didn't dampen spirits ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
President to inaugurate Rs.30 crore prayer hall in Kerala
August 7th, 2010 - 3:16 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 7 (IANS) President Pratibha Patil will Friday inaugurate what is believed to be the costliest prayer hall in Kerala and probably one of the fanciest in the country that ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Baha’i choir returns to capital after 24 years (With Images)
June 26th, 2010 - 6:47 pm ICT by IANS
By Madhusree Chatterjee
New Delhi, June 26 (IANS) Twenty-four years after the Baha'i choir performed at the Lotus Temple in the capital, the Baha'i house of worship once again reverberated with the "Voices ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Karachi attack: Double purpose of destabilizing state while making people despondent
December 29th, 2009 - 2:43 pm ICT by ANI
New York, Dec.29 (ANI): Monday's suicide attack on a Muharram procession in Karachi,in which 40 people were killed while over 95 sustained injuries, has added to the Pakistan government's woes, as ... Read more...
Posted in South Asia |
Rousing reception awaits Dalai Lama in Tawang (Lead)
November 7th, 2009 - 3:29 pm ICT by IANS
By Syed Zarir Hussain
Tawang (Arunachal Pradesh), Nov 7 (IANS) The picturesque border town of Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh is all set to welcome the Dalai Lama Sunday on a visit ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Indian, Tibetan flags flutter ahead of Dalai Lama visit
November 7th, 2009 - 12:13 pm ICT by IANS
By Syed Zarir Hussain
Tawang (Arunachal Pradesh), Nov 7 (IANS) Dozens of Indian flags fluttered alongside Tibetan prayer flags Saturday as Buddhist monks braved the winter chill to put up welcome arches ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
Indian pilgrim killed in Nepal religious fair stampede
November 2nd, 2009 - 5:13 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, Nov 2 (IANS) An Indian pilgrim was among the two people killed while nearly two dozen were injured in a stampede in southern Nepal Monday during a Hindu religious festival.
Laxman Shah ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Nepal expresses sorrow at church collapse deaths (Second Lead)
September 30th, 2009 - 2:59 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, Sep 30 (IANS) Reacting quickly to the death of 23 Christians in a church collapse in eastern Nepal Wednesday, Nepal's Communist-led government expressed sorrow over the incident and wished for the ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Indian among 23 killed in Nepal church collapse (Lead)
September 30th, 2009 - 11:49 am ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, Sep 30 (IANS) A get-together during the festive season in Nepal turned to stark tragedy early Wednesday when 23 Christians, including an Indian, were crushed to death in a church instituted ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Indian among 23 Christians killed in Nepal church collapse
September 30th, 2009 - 11:16 am ICT by IANS
Subject:Indian among 23 Christians killed in Nepal church collapse
1sud30Nepal-Religion/SocietyIndian among 23 Christians killed in Nepal church collapseKathmandu, Sept 30 (IANS) A get-together during the festive season in Nepal turned into a ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Jaipur-based firm in Guinness World Records
September 9th, 2009 - 8:43 pm ICT by IANS
Jaipur, Sep 9 (IANS) The city-based firm N.M. Roof Designers (NMRD) Ltd has figured in the Guinness Book of World Records for designing and constructing a "satsang hall" (prayer hall) in Jaipur, ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Nepal church blast mastermind caught
September 6th, 2009 - 2:39 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, Sep 6 (IANS) More than three months after a bomb went off during mass at one of Nepal's oldest churches, killing three women -- two of them Indians, police Sunday arrested ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Woman arrested for Nepal church blast
June 2nd, 2009 - 7:37 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, June 2 (IANS) Nepal police Tuesday said they had made a breakthrough in investigating the deadly blast that ripped through the prayer hall of one of the oldest Catholic churches in ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Indian Sikh guru dies in Austrian gurdwara attack, six arrested (Second Lead)
May 25th, 2009 - 1:50 pm ICT by IANS
By Mehru Jaffer
Vienna, May 25 (IANS) An Indian Sikh guru died in the Austrian capital Monday following an armed attack at a gurdwara the previous day. Six people have been arrested for ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Indian Sikh guru dies in Austrian gurdwara clash, six held (Lead)
May 25th, 2009 - 12:16 pm ICT by IANS
By Mehru Jaffer
Vienna, May 25 (IANS) An Indian Sikh guru died in the Austrian capital Monday following an armed attack between rival Sikh groups at a gurdwara the previous day. Six people ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Dhaka’s Mughal-era prayer hall at risk from unplanned construction
January 26th, 2009 - 12:02 pm ICT by IANS
Dhaka, Jan 26 (IANS) The oldest surviving Mughal-era Eidgah here faces a threat from unplanned construction of a six-storeyed mosque on its premises, a media report said.Dhanmondi Eidgah mosque committee is constructing ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Taj Hotel hostages rescued, gun fight with terrorists still on
November 27th, 2008 - 5:03 pm ICT by ANI
Mumbai, Nov.27 (ANI): Maharashtra Director-General of Police A.N. Roy on Thursday said that all surviving hostages held inside the Taj hotel by terrorists here have been rescued.
He said that some hostages ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Christian families in Orissa being forced to abandon their faith
October 13th, 2008 - 6:35 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Oct.13 (ANI): India, the worlds most populous democracy and officially a secular nation, is today haunted by a stark assault on one of its fundamental freedoms.
In Orissa, which ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Uproar over Islamic cemetery in Australian town
September 25th, 2008 - 3:25 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Sep 25 (IANS) A proposed Islamic cemetery, to be built on an historic Anglican graveyard, has stirred a storm in the Australian town of Camden, where the issue of racism was ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Life gets back to normal in violence-hit Mangalore
September 17th, 2008 - 2:47 pm ICT by IANS
Mangalore, Sep 17 (IANS) Educational institutions and shops were open and public transport was back on the roads Wednesday in this Karnataka city, which was hit by three days of violence following ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Mangalore shut as Christians protest attack on prayer halls
September 15th, 2008 - 1:35 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Sep 15 (IANS) Schools and shops remained shut and vehicles kept off the roads in the coastal Karnataka city of Mangalore Monday, following group clashes and demonstrations by Christian groups to ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Dera chief at Mysore ashram under tight security
June 23rd, 2008 - 12:08 am ICT by IANS
Mysore, June 22 (IANS) Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, facing a threat to life, was staying in his sect's newly built ashram at Siddhalingapura on the outskirts of Mysore ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Islamic school imbroglio takes new turn in Australia (Lead)
May 29th, 2008 - 5:48 pm ICT by admin
By Neena Bhandari
Sydney, May 29 (IANS) A new dimension has been added to the ongoing furore over the rejection of a plan to build an Islamic school on Sydney's south-western fringes by ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Proposed Islamic school at centre of controvery in Australia
May 29th, 2008 - 4:19 pm ICT by admin
By Neena Bhandari
Sydney, May 29 (IANS) The furore over the rejection of a plan to build an Islamic school on Sydney's south-western fringes has taken another dimension with some muslims warning it ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Largest Sikh gathering in Asia honours a saint in Malaysia
May 26th, 2008 - 11:00 pm ICT by admin
Malacca, May 26 (ANI): About 45,000 Sikhs from Europe, Australia, United States and elsewhere made the pilgrimage to Gurdwara Sahib Malacca in Jalan Temenggong here to commemorate the 36th death anniversary ... Read more...
Posted in World |
China shifts Tibet Buddhist shrines to crematorium
May 8th, 2008 - 8:31 pm ICT by admin
Dharamsala, May 8 (IANS) At least 11 Buddhist stupas have been moved to a crematorium to make way for a picnic spot in Tibet, said a spokesman of the Tibetan government-in-exile Thursday. ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Tribal art, Mughal architecture in Jharkhand church
April 16th, 2008 - 11:12 am ICT by admin
By Soudhriti Bhabani
Dumka (Jharkhand), April 16 (IANS) Bright fibreglass windows, arches shaped like onion domes and a statue of Jesus Christ bearing resemblance to tribal art are some of the unique features ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Rally denied, Tibetans pray for lives lost in unrest
April 11th, 2008 - 6:42 pm ICT by admin
Kolkata, April 11 (IANS) After the West Bengal government prohibited an anti-China rally by the Tibetan Solidarity Committee, the outfit Friday organised a an indoor prayer meeting here. "We didn't have any ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |