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Sikh youth removes turban, saves four from drowning
30-Sep-2015
Sangrur (Punjab), Sep 29, 2015 (PTI) A 24-year-old Sikh set aside religious code by removing his turban to save four youth from drowning in a canal here. Four youths, aged between 18-25 years, of Sarafa Bazaar Market had gone to a canal to immerse Ganesha idol on Friday last when a gush of water made…
On Eid, a Village in Kashmir Mourns the Death of a Pandit
30-Sep-2015
All India | Written by Nazir Masoodi | Updated: September 30, 2015 08:38 IST Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir: Eid was a day of mourning, not celebration, at a village in Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Muslims were mourning the death of a Hindu neighbour, Ramchand Koul, a Kashmiri Pandit who had refused to leave the Valley during…
Sikh youth removes turban, saves four from drowning
29-Sep-2015
Sangrur (Punjab), Sep 29, 2015 (PTI) A 24-year-old Sikh set aside religious code by removing his turban to save four youth from drowning in a canal here. Four youths, aged between 18-25 years, of Sarafa Bazaar Market had gone to a canal to immerse Ganesha idol on Friday last when a gush of water made…
Eid, Ganpati come together at Kopar Khairane pandal
26-Sep-2015
htmetro@hindustantimes.com NAVI MUMBAI: Setting an example of communal harmony, a Kopar Khairane Ganpati mandal made room for the Muslims residents of the area got space to offer namaaz on Eid. This year, the Muslim community decided not to offer namaaz on the road, following the curbs on the dahi handi mandals and Ganeshotsav celebrations on…
In a first, Shia-Sunni joint namaz this Eid
24-Sep-2015
Sep 24 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Isha Jain & Ali Rizvi Lucknow: On Eid ul-Zuha this Friday , the 168-year-old Imambara Sibtainabad here will host an event that has no precedent in the city’s history: Shias and Sunnis jointly offering namaz in a symbolic gesture that seeks to purge their history of…
Muslim man performs last rites of Hindu friend
23-Sep-2015
Bhopal, Sep 22, 2015, (IANS): Rising above religious boundaries, a Mulsim man has performed last rites of his Hindu friend Santosh Singh Thakur in Madhya Pradesh’s Baitul district. After arranging all the necessary items required for the last rites, Abdul Razzak cremated Santosh’s body in accordance with the Hindu rituals. Santosh collapsed in a hospital…
Temple town Ayodhya relaxes year-round meat ban for Eid
23-Sep-2015
Sep 23 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Arshad Afzal Khan Ayodhya: TNN While Muslims of Musahra village in Uttar Pradesh’s Sant Kabir Nagar are struggling for their right to offer qurbani (sacrifice) on Eid ul-Zuha (See P 14), next-door Ayodhya presents a contrast. There is a total ban on slaughter and sale of…
Muslims come out on Eid to help drought-affected people
23-Sep-2015
Thursday, September 24, 2015 By A Staff Reporter Coinciding with the festivities of Bakri-Eid, the Muslim community on Wednesday came out to support the drought-affected people of Marathwada region of Maharashtra. Clergymen and intellectuals from the community too have joined NGOs and volunteers to help the scarcity-hit people. The Social Education and Welfare Association (SEWA)…
Muslim man performs last rites of Hindu friend
22-Sep-2015
Bhopal, Sep 22, 2015, (IANS): Rising above religious boundaries, a Mulsim man has performed last rites of his Hindu friend Santosh Singh Thakur in Madhya Pradesh’s Baitul district. After arranging all the necessary items required for the last rites, Abdul Razzak cremated Santosh’s body in accordance with the Hindu rituals. Santosh collapsed in a hospital…
Muslims construct house of lone Pandit family in Srinagar
07-Sep-2015
Srinagar: For those who spread hatred, this should serve as an eye opener. Forgetting their own pain and misery, Muslims came to the rescue of the only Kashmiri pandit family in Mandir Bagh locality and reconstructed his house that was devastated in the last year’s floods. Moti Lal Dhar, 68, a retired college lecturer, was…