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Topic: Mosque

Masjid dome that collapsed in Old Delhi part of 200-yr-old mosque commissioned by a woman

The Masjid, built in 1823, is situated in the centre of Hauz Qazi Chowk in Old Delhi and was built by a dancing girl from Pune Mubarak Begum.

Erdogan’s Turkey is on Pakistan-Indonesia track. Mixing military greed and radical Islam

By changing Hagia Sophia into a mosque, Recep Erdogan is overturning the brute modernity imposed under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's rule.

If the Supreme Court of India was deciding on Hagia Sophia, this is what it would have said

The Babri Masjid-Ram Janambhoomi case provides a template to imagine how the Supreme Court of India would have probably decided on the status of Turkey’s Hagia Sophia.

Turkish President Erdogan reconverts 16th century Hagia Sophia cathedral into a mosque

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared the mosque open for worshiping Friday, hours after a high court annulled a 1934 decision that had turned it into a museum.

Ahmadi mosque destroyed in Pakistan even as Imran Khan lectures India on minorities

The incident took place in Punjab’s Bahawalpur, where terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) is headquartered.

Restrictions return to Srinagar ahead of Friday prayers, barricades spring up across city

Media has been barred from areas of Srinagar where mainstream politicians have been detained while Jama Masjid unlikely to hold Friday prayers.

Delhi Minorities Commission wants legal action against BJP MP for ‘illegal mosques’ list

Parvesh Verma wanted probe into over 50 mosques and graveyards, claiming they were built on encroached land. Commission says he’s spreading disharmony.

Man being thrashed in viral video a UP madrasa teacher, not Dalit as claimed

The video was actually shot in Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, in which a Muslim youth was being thrashed by a group of people on suspicion of stealing mobile phones.

SC admits plea to lift ‘ban’ on Muslim women in mosques. But Islam doesn’t bar them at all

Islam doesn't restrict women's entry into any mosque in the world. The only limitation is that women have to stand in a separate row, some distance behind men.

New Zealand mosque shooter had a gun licence, country now moves to change gun laws

PM Jacinda Ardern said she will change the country's gun laws after a 28-year-old Australian right-wing extremist carried out the country's worst mass shooting since 1943.

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New labour codes make India’s workforce competitive with China—and build Viksit Bharat

By consolidating 29 laws into four codes, compliance is streamlined and regulations are simplified, improving “ease of doing business”. This is bound to improve investor confidence.

Vehicles, TVs, mobile phones—PM EAC report shows rural India is catching up with urban consumers

Rural ownership of motor vehicles jumped from 19 percent in 2011-2012 to 59 percent in 2023-2024, while urban rose from 40 percent to 68 percent during the same time period, study by two members of PM-EAC says.

General secrets from frozen peaks: A Kargil veteran reveals what politically correct writers left out

At the Jindal Literature Festival, Maj Gen (Retd) Lakhwinder Singh reveals secrets from 25 years ago, speaking about the decision that outwitted Musharraf and changed the course of the war. 

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.