Category: NATIONAL

This year, Eid ul-Fitr in India will be celebrated across the country, except Kerala, on June 16, Saturday. The celebration of Eid al-Fitr marks the conclusion of the Muslim month of Ramadan, a 30-day period that requires those practicing to abstain from eating and drinking from sunrise to sunset. Eid al-Fitr is one of the most festive periods in the religion’s calendar. Eid is often commemorated with large feasts and family time, as well as charitable acts and donations. People observe roza (fast) during the holy month of Ramadan and…

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By: Kauser Khan, Associate Editor-ICN  Eid is one of the two biggest festivals celebrated by Muslims worldwide. Muslims offer a special prayer in open areas like fields, community centres, etc. or at mosques.Eid Mubarak to all. The crescent of the moon is not sighted in India today. Hence, Eid ul-Fitr will not be celebrated on June 15 in India but people all across India will ring into the festival on June 16 . The auspicious festival of Eid-ul-Fitr or Eid-Al-Fitr is widely celebrated by Muslims around the globe. The date of Eid al-Fitr…

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Veteran journalist and Rising Kashmir editor Shujaat Bukhari and his PSO were shot dead by unidentified gunmen outside the newspaper’s office in Srinagar. SRINAGAR: Senior journalist and Editor of English daily “Rising Kashmir” Shujat Bhukhari was on Thursday shot dead by militants outside his office here, police said. Bukhari, who was in his 50s, was leaving his office in Press Enclave in the city centre Lal Chowk for an iftar party when he was shot, officials said. No group has claimed the killings but police say militants are suspected to have carried…

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Founded in 2001, the SCO currently comprises eight member states, India, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan. PM Modi has reached Qingdao in China to attend the two-day Shanghai Cooperation Organisation or SCO summit. Leaders of the eight Shanghai Cooperation Organisation members and four observer nations will attend the summit. The SCO has two sub-divisions, including Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) and SCO Secretariat.The four pillars of the SCO Summit are: political, security (terrorism), economic, cultural. This is the first time India will be participating in the summit as a…

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The rankings, by British higher education analysts QS, feature the 500 top universities in the world, based on a QS survey. NEW DELHI: The QS World University Rankings report released on Wednesday night has brought good news for the Indian academia. At 162, IIT Bombay has moved up 17 places since last year’s rankings.Last year’s top-ranked Indian institute – IIT Delhi, remained at the same position of 172nd. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, is at second after IIT Bombay, at ranking 170. IIT Delhi which led the list of Indian…

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NAGPUR: Former President Pranab Mukherjee addressed the closing ceremony of the ‘Tritiya Varsha Sangh Shiksha Varg’, an Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) event to mark the conclusion of a three-year training camp for swayamsevaks in Nagpur. Former President Pranab Mukherjee described Keshav Baliram Hedgewar as a “great son of Mother India’ as he visited the birthplace of the RSS founding Sarsanghachalak. “Today I came here to pay my respect and homage to a great son of Mother India,” Mukherjee wrote in a visitor’s book at Hedgewar’s birthplace ahead of his much-anticipated…

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NAGPUR: Former President Pranab Mukherjee is slated to address the valedictory function of the RSS’s third-year officers’ training camp at its headquarters in Reshimbagh on Thursday. According to sources, he will stay for two nights at the governor house before leaving for the national capital on Friday noon. This isn’t the first time the former president will meet with the RSS head Mohan Bhagwat; they have met on a few occasions since Mukherjee’s retirement.’ Mukherjee, who has been critical of the RSS as a Congress leader, will address its activists…

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