Solemnity, mourning and prayers marked 10th day of Muharram, the first month of Islamic calendar, in the city on Saturday. Thousands of mourners joined the traditional Muharram procession through ...

Islam, the Religion of Peace, Truth, Justice and Freedom came to a place and time where oppression was the rule, slavery was a tool to humiliate the weak, killings a way to solve problems. On the 10th ...

Marking the culmination of 10 days of mourning, Ashura is observed across the country with solemnity every year to pay homage to Imam Hussain and other martyrs of Karbala. Processions with elaborate ...

Mourners clad in black clothes took part in the procession as they performed ‘seenazani’ (chest beating) and listened to groups reciting ‘soz’, ‘salaam’, and ‘noha’ (lamentations depicting the ...

Indian Shia Muslim beat their chests during a religious procession on the sixth day of the mourning period of Muharram, which marks the day of Ashura (photo/AFP) Kanpur: To avoid the possibility of ...

Mumbai: City witnessed solemn processions on Saturday as Shias observed Ashura, the 10th day of Muharram, to mourn the martyrdom of Imam Hussain and his companions in Karbala nearly 1,400 years ago.

Lucknow: ‘Mehndi Ka Juloos’, a procession to mark the martyrdom of Hazrat Qasim, son of Imam Hasan and nephew of Imam Hussain, was taken out from Bada Imambara to Chhota Imambara on Sunday. The ...

The month of Muharram marks the beginning of the new year according to the Islamic lunar calendar. This year, the Islamic new year began on July 31 in India. Muharram, a time of mourning, is one of ...

Muharram is the first month of the year, as per the Islamic calendar. It is one of the four most sacred months in Islam and holds great significance among Muslims. Muharram literally translates to ...

The serenity is momentarily broken by a chant of Labaik Ya Hussain (I am at your service Ya Hussain) from a new group of pilgrims who have entered the mausoleum in Karbala in Iraq — they are probably ...