Centuries-old festival takes Tripura on spiritual journeyAGARTALA - A centuries-old tradition comes alive in Tripura as the idols of 14 Hindu deities, kept locked in a room throughout the year, are brought out for worshipping during the tribal Kharchi festival from Monday - a spectacle witnessed by hundreds of thousands of devotees from India as well as Bangladesh. Leisure time in Gaza takes latest of many hits as Hamas bars women from smoking water pipes
Some Gaza women smolder over Hamas’ water-pipe ban Flydubai to reimburse travel costs during RamadanDubai, July 18 (IANS/WAM) Dubai’s low cost airline flydubai Sunday announced the full reimbursement - minus taxes - of the travel costs of its passengers during the holy month of Ramadan between Aug 15 and Sep 6. President of Ramkrishna Mission stableKOLKATA - Ramakrishna Mutt and Ramakrishna Mission president Swami Atwasthananda, admitted to a private hospital following stomach pain and urine infection, is now better and he is responding to treatment, a mission official said. Spanish parliament set to debate restricting burqas in public, opposition party says
Spanish parliament to debate ban on public burqas British minister terms burqa ban un-BritishLONDON - Banning the burqa, the Islamic full-body veil for women, will be “un-British” and contrary to a “tolerant and mutually respectful society”, Britain’s Immigration Minister Damian Green has said. Gaza’s Hamas police ban women from smoking water pipes in cafes, claim it leads to divorce
Hamas bans women from smoking water pipes in cafes Spanish parliament set to debate restricting use of burqas in public
Spain to consider banning burqas in public Israel’s Netanyahu says he will oppose conversion bill, fearing rift in Jewish world
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