Palestinian writer Reem Kassis offers an iftar-special dish in her terrific new book
4 min read11 Apr 2021A suicide bomber blew himself up near the Grand Mosque at Mecca as Saudi Arabia police disrupted a plot to target the holiest site in Islam just as the fasting month of Ramadan ends
3 min read24 Jun 2017Bombing at a bank in Afghanistan’s Lashkar Gah city leaves at least 20 people dead and 50 wounded; no group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far
1 min read22 Jun 2017There are around 14,000 registered Rohingya refugees in India
20 Jun 2017In an apparent hate crime, a 17-year-old American Muslim girl was abducted and beaten after leaving a mosque in Virginia and she was later found dead
2 min read19 Jun 2017A van ploughed into worshippers leaving a London mosque, killing at least one person and injuring 10 others in what witnesses said was a deliberate attack on Muslims
4 min read19 Jun 2017Pakistan’s benchmark KSE100 Index declined 3.8% at the close in Karachi, the most among 96 primary indexes tracked by Bloomberg
1 min read12 Jun 2017The reassuring routines of the annual Ramadan fast have been interrupted in Qatari capital Doha, by an incomprehensible shock from its Gulf neighbours
4 min read9 Jun 2017The Islamic State (IS) militant group detonates explosives inside a parked car outside a popular ice cream shop in central Baghdad, killing 13 people and wounding 24
1 min read30 May 2017At least 18 people, mostly civilians, were killed on Saturday when a suicide car bomber targeted a convoy of provincial security forces in eastern Afghanistan
1 min read27 May 2017The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared