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TopicEid

Topic: Eid

Clinging to memories & awaiting closure, 2 families wait for bodies of loved ones lost in Air India crash

UK citizens Syed Javed Ali, his wife & 2 kids had come to India to celebrate Eid. Portuguese nationals Devji Lacmane & Vanita Cana were visiting to attend Kumbh & for medical treatment.

Akeel came home to surprise his family on Eid. Now his father waits for DNA test to identify his body

At DNA collection centre set up in Ahmedabad's B.J. Medical College, kin of Air India plane crash victims rush in and out. Now and then, amid anxious whispers, someone breaks down.

Bakrid needs a makeover. India’s poor need laptops & AC, not gift of meat

Now that people don’t really look forward to a gift of meat from a wealthy neighbour, does the purported rationale of feeding the poor still validate animal sacrifice?

TV news went looking for violence during Eid. They found pyaar, mohabbat

The usual sensational headlines accompanied the build up to the Waqf Bill debate in the Lok Sabha—with ‘war’ being the most common description for the stand-off.

Jains in Old Delhi pose as Muslims to buy goats, ‘rescue’ them from Bakrid sacrifice

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Protest outside Swedish embassy in Baghdad after Quran burning incident in Sweden

The protest comes after a man burned a Quran outside a mosque in Stockholm Wednesday. Following the incident, the Iraq Foreign Ministry summoned Sweden's ambassador.

Pakistan’s ‘devout’ Muslims had a new purpose on Eid: forget ‘qasais’, become ‘chowkidars’

For Pakistan's State-declared non-Muslims, Eid is not theirs to celebrate. Blasphemy has become the go-to weapon of the ‘devout’.

11 hrs before Hindu-Muslim clash, police met Jodhpur peace panel for ‘maintaining harmony’

Police officers say meeting with peace committee took place around 12 noon. Dispute at the Jalori Gate roundabout, epicentre of Hindu-Muslim violence, began around 11 pm.

Jodhpur’s anxiety after Eid violence: ‘Scared Hindu-Muslim relations will sour, afraid for life’

Doubts and concerns echo through neighbourhoods affected by violence on 2-3 May. Jodhpur’s roads are quiet and barricaded, and markets remain closed.

‘Message from Pakistan to incite people’: Why Srinagar’s Jamia Masjid was closed on Eid morning

Police probe reveals men who shouted slogans in the mosque on 9 April were acting under instructions from Pakistani handlers. It was also closed for Shab-e-Qadr & Jumat-ul-Vida.

On Camera

How West Asia crisis can play out for PM Modi and BJP in Assembly polls

While the Russia-Ukraine war saw the BJP projecting PM Modi as a ‘vishwaguru’ who could end international conflicts, the party has made a nuanced shift in its electoral strategy vis-à-vis the West Asia war.

Foreign investors dump record $12 bn India stocks in March on war

Soaring energy costs have hurt oil-importing Asian peers, but the scale of outflows from India points to already bearish global sentiment.

India developing lethal autonomous weapon systems, database of citizens’ crime risk—House Panel report

Report on impact of AI emergence—drawing upon depositions from several ministries—confirms that the developments come in the absence of AI laws or considerations over them.

Gulf war exposed India’s fragilities. It’s time for navel-gazing, in the national interest

It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.