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NEW DELHI: “Cow slaughter will also be done,” AJUP chief and West Bengal MLA Humayun Kabir said, triggering a fresh political controversy as he asserted that the Quran mandates qurbani and insisted that ritual sacrifice of animals would continue despite the state government’s recent restrictions on animal slaughter ahead of Eid.Stating that ritual sacrifice “will…
The fiend behind Sunday’s bloodbath at a packed Austin bar was an ex-New York City resident wearing a “Property of Allah” hoodie, and he was possibly out for vengeance over the US attack on Iran, law-enforcement sources told The Post.Texas shooter Ndiaga Diagne, 53, had a Quran in his car and was possibly also wearing…
From the 9th Century to Today: The Blue Quran Finds a Home in Mecca Museum In a landmark cultural moment for Islamic arts and history, the Holy Quran Museum in Mecca’s Hira Cultural District has opened a special display featuring a folio from the legendary ‘Blue Quran’ (Al-Muṣḥaf al-Azraq), which is one of the rarest…
AR Rahman has been in the news due to his comments in a recent interview. The composer said that he’s getting less work in Bollywood since the last eight years and it perhaps could be because of the industry growing communal. He had clarified though that he personally hasn’t really faced it but has heard…
TOI correspondent from Washington: At the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Day 2026, New York turned a page in its long, turbulent chronicle. In a decommissioned subway station beneath the city it once ferried to power and possibility, Zohran Mamdani took the oath of office on the Quran, becoming the 112th mayor of the…
As Zohran Mamdani took the oath as the New York City mayor on two Qurans, MAGA activists rejected the oath and condemned how NYC forgot 9/11. “Disgusting. We are an occupied country!” right-wing commentator Laura Loomer wrote while Steve Bannon accused the New York Times of ‘gushing’ about the move. The New York Times, in…
Zohran Mamdani taking oath Indian-origin Zohran Mamdani made history on Thursday as the New York City’s first South Asian and Muslim mayor after being sworn in during a private midnight ceremony in an old subway station on a Quran. 34- year old Mamdani becoming the second-youngest mayor in NYC history.The intimate swearing-in ceremony took place…
KOLKATA: Security has been stepped up in Murshidabad district, West Bengal, ahead of a controversial foundation-laying event of ‘Babri Mosque’ planned by suspended Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir.On Saturday, Kabir told reporters, “All is well. Wait until it’s 12 noon; the reading of the Quran will begin then. After that, the foundation stone will be…
