The day lacked usual hustle bustle and festivity as major mosques such as Jama Masjid and Fatehpuri Masjid in old Delhi were closed for the visitors. Police personnel were also deployed outside the mosques to prevent crowding.
Many sports personalities including Virat Kohli and Sania Mizra took to social media to wish everyone Eid Mubarak
Ahead Of Eid, police out with hockey sticks, officials with sticks to maintain order
During a Facebook Live session, Salman Khan said that the movie will be screened theatrically only when the Covid-19 cases come down.
The 94-year-old monarch, who spent her first Christmas in decades without a larger royal family gathering, called for tolerance and mutual respect.
Delhi's Jama Masjid remained closed for special Eid prayers after Shahi Imam, Syed Ahmad Bukahri, appealed Muslims to offer Nimaaz inside their homes.
Amid the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent lockdown, the Shahi Imam appealed to people to offer Eid prayer at their homes.
This Eid offers us an opportunity to be together as a family and turn it into an experience, which will echo throughout our lives.
According to sources, the members of one group were returning to their homes after offering Eid prayers, when assailants from another group attacked them.
The Bihar Chief Minister, who sported a skull cap, also extended good wishes to citizens, especially to those who follow Islam.
Mamata Banerjee, whose Trinamool Congress suffered reverses in the recent Lok Sabha elections, greeted people at Red Road here where a crowd of over 25,000 had gathered to offer 'namaz'.
PETA was trying to create awareness against animal cruelty on the day of the festival but rather ended up embarrassing itself.
Immediately after the Eid prayers, dozens of youths displayed flags of various militant outfits after which they marched on the road.
Eid-ul-Fitr is being celebrated with traditional fervour and gaiety across the country today.
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.