
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Uroos festival at the Beemapally Dargah Sherief will commence on April 23 and conclude on May 3. Beemapally Imam Abdul Khadar Anwari will lead the Duaa prayer at 8 am on Monday. A procession starting from the Dargah Sherief premises will go around the town and return to the premises by 10.30 am.Beemapally Juma Masjid chief imam K M Hassan Asharaf Ali Bakhavi will lead the Duaa prayer....

11:22 AM, Apr 20, 2012

Washington: Describing Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's India visit as a trip "heavy on symbolism if not on substance", the US media on Monday said his pilgrimage to the shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer sent a message against Islamist extremism. "No breakthroughs were announced, but both sides hailed the meeting as a sign of easing tensions along one of the world's most dangerous borders," The Los Angeles Times...

10:53 AM, Apr 09, 2012

Jaipur: Sister of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian on death row in Pakistan following his conviction for alleged involvement in bomb attacks, on Friday said she will appeal to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari during his Rajasthan visit to release his brother on humanitarian ground. Dalbir Kaur said she will try to meet Zardari during his private visit to Ajmer dargah on April 8. "Mercy petition of my brother is pending...

09:12 AM, Apr 07, 2012

New Delhi: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is headed to India this weekend on a personal visit. Zardari to be accompanied by Interior Minister Rehman Malik and Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and will hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The US though maintains the Hafiz Saeed move should not strain ties between India and Pakistan and called Zardari's scheduled visit 'very constructive'. Zardari will be in India on...

11:59 AM, Apr 06, 2012

Mumbai: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi would lose the Shiv Sena's support if he pressed for the relaxation of visa procedures for Pakistanis wanting to visit the Ajmer dargah in Rajasthan, party chief Bal Thackeray said on Thursday. "If he (Modi) errs, we shall not support him. I will not allow my country and Hindutva to be sullied by this," Thackeray said, referring to the Bharatiya Janata Party leader's demand....

10:56 AM, Oct 20, 2011

Jaipur: A CBI court on Saturday extended the judicial remand of Swami Aseemanand and three other accused in the 2007 Ajmer Dargah blast case till May 27. Besides right-wing activist Aseemanand, who is also allegedly involved in several terror cases, the other three accused in the Ajmer blast are Bharati Bhai, Harshad Solanki and Mukesh Vasaani. The CBI court extended the judicial remand of all the four accused to May...

07:43 PM, May 14, 2011

Jaipur: A CBI court on Saturday rejected the bail application of Swami Aseemanand in the 2007 Ajmer Dargah blast case. The court also extended his custody till the next date of hearing which has been fixed for May 14. Aseemanand had moved the bail application on the grounds that he had been kept in custody for more then 90 days and that probe agencies had failed to file a charge...

12:36 PM, May 07, 2011

Ajmer: A local court here remanded the Ajmer dargah bomb blast accused Aseemanand in judicial custody till February 15 following which he was sent to Ajmer central jail. The state ATS produced Aseemanand (59), a right-wing Hindu group Abhinav Bharat member, and another accused Bharat Bhai to the court of Ajmer Judicial Magistrate which sent Aseemand to jail and extended Bharat's judicial custody till February 18. The ATS said that...

01:49 PM, Feb 12, 2011

Ajmer: Rajasthan Anti Terrorist Squared (ATS) has arrested one more person from Gujarat in connection with the 2007 Ajmer dargah blast case following interrogation of Swami Aseemanand whose custody was on Saturday extended till February 11. In a related development, the CBI on Saturday sought custody of Lokesh Sharma and Devendra Gupta, both accused in the dargah blast case, to quiz them in connection with the Samjhauta Express blast. The...

08:27 PM, Feb 05, 2011

Jaipur: The Rajasthan Anti-Terrorism Squad has submitted a proposal to the state home department to declare a cash reward of Rs 5 lakh each for information of three suspects of Ajmer Dargah bomb blast case. "We recently submitted the proposal to the state home department and awaiting response. We have proposed to declare cash rewards of 5 lakh each for the arrest of Jayanti Bhai, Ramesh Gohil and Mafat Bhai...

03:35 PM, Jan 03, 2011

Ajmer: In a shocking case of superstition taking its toll on families, three persons of a family died at the Dargah in Ajmer after they had been fasting for 39 days to ward off an evil spell. Nine persons of the same family are now undergoing treatment at JLN Hospital in Ajmer. The family from Allahabad has been living in Ajmer for a year-and-a-half. The police are now looking into...

08:15 AM, Oct 12, 2010

On Sunday Tharoor and his fiance visited the Holy Shrine of Khwaja Gharib Nawaaz in Ajmer, where they offered
chaadar and roses. ...

05:17 PM, Aug 08, 2010

But that was not enough to hide Shetty's identity at the dargah ...

08:53 AM, Apr 11, 2010