Bombay High Court on Tuesday made an "earnest appeal" to religious leaders of different Shia sects to consider not using children of tender age for performing Matam in Moharrum procession on December ...

HYDERABAD: To mourn the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA) and his companions, some people undertake to walk across a red-hot path of fire, while others make a quick dash across it. This ritual of ...

Lucknow: Mourners clad in black attire turned up to show solidarity with the martyrs of the Battle of Karbala on Ashura, the tenth day of Islamic month of Muharram, on Wednesday. It was on the day of ...

Draped in black, thousands thronged the lanes and streets of Hyderabad’s Old City on Sunday, joining the historic Muharram juloos that marks Ashura, the 10th day of the Islamic month of Muharram. It ...

HYDERABAD: Hyderabad, with a rich legacy of observing religious days, Muharram or Eid Miladun Nabi, in an exemplary peaceful and harmonious manner even during 80s and 90s when the city was divided ...

The period may be of mourning but there is much to it that celebrates the city’s golden, glorious nawabi bearings. Muharram culture is in Lucknow’s DNA, by its founder’s deliberate design, which city ...