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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
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Topic: mosques

Delhi mosques say women are welcome. Worship, wuzu and washrooms

Allah has permitted women to go everywhere, so why not the mosque,’ said 51-year-old Ameena Bano at the women’s section of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Markaz.

Mosques covered with tarpaulins in UP’s Aligarh ahead of Holi celebrations

Authorities say they have taken this step to ensure that colours or any festival-related activities do not affect religious places.

Months after demolitions, Fatehpur’s Lalauli still living with debris, despair. ‘Set us back a few yrs’

In Lalauli, owners of homes & shops were forced to raze their properties in August for highway expansion. Now, demolition of part of Noori Jama Masjid has renewed their agony.

Masjids, migrants, mobility. Himachal is becoming a new anti-mosque hotspot

‘This is a class issue that has been turned into a religious issue by Hindu organisations.’

Muslim bodies split over Shimla mosque demolition order. A look at 14-yr-old row & how it escalated

Sanjauli Mosque Committee has accepted court's order to demolish 3 'illegally built' stories of mosque, while All Himachal Muslim’s Organisation plans to challenge it, take fight to SC.

Islamic State claims responsibility for attack on Shi’ite mosque in Oman

Islamic State said in a statement that three of its 'suicide attackers' fired on worshippers at the mosque Monday evening and exchanged gunfire with Omani security forces until morning.

Should Imams get State salary? The curious case of Kejriwal government and CIC

The Supreme Court must do a rethink on its 1993 order directing the Delhi govt to pay salaries to Imams serving in the city's mosques.

Uddhav govt puts ball in Centre’s court on mosque-loudspeaker issue after all-party meet

Meeting comes amid a raging controversy in Maharashtra over the loudspeaker issue. BJP boycotts meeting saying ‘law and order in state is all over the place’.

How India’s coastal Muslims helped it become wealthy, successful economy in medieval era

Muslims were crucial to India’s global trade because their familial ties allowed them to relate information and capital from West Asian markets to Indian buyers and craftspeople.

Letter claiming Karnataka DGP ordered removal of speakers from mosques is fake, say police

A fact-check by Karnataka Police revealed that the letter was fake and was 'issued mischievously' without proper authorisation.

On Camera

India-Pakistan marriage breakdown that British can’t stop crying about

Ever since the Love Is Blind: UK episode dropped, there has been a collective meltdown online over the separation of Pakistan-origin Kal Pasha and Indian-origin Sarover Kaur Aujla.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.