Nizamuddin Clerics

A year after Tabligh-e-Jamaat's Markaz in Nizamuddin West came under criticism for holding a religious congregation amid the COVID-19 outbreak, its cleric Maulana Saad Kandhalvi against whom a case was registered in connection with the incident is yet to join the probe despite several notices by Delhi Police.

A South African Muslim cleric, who recently returned from India after attending the Nizamuddin congregation, has died after contracting the novel coronavirus, according to his family members.

After a religious gathering in Delhi at the headquarters of the Tablighi Jamaat sect has emerged as one of the country's top coronavirus hotspots, its chief cleric Maulana Saad and six others have been charged by the police.

Assam is in a state of high alert after the first coronavirus positive case in the state emerged on Tuesday. A 52-year-old cleric, who runs a madrassa in Karimganj district, 300 kilometres from Guwahati, had recently travelled to Delhi where he visited Jama Masjid and Nizamuddin area, where a large religious gathering has emerged as a coronavirus h...

Delhi police on Tuesday booked the cleric, who led a huge religious congregation in Nizamuddin West earlier this month, for violating government orders on not organising public gatherings and maintaining social distance to contain the COVID-19 outbreak, an official said.

Six people who attended a congregation at a mosque in Delhi's Nizamuddin have died in Telangana after testing positive for coronavirus. A cleric at the event had died after in Srinagar last week.

Back home on Monday, the two Indian clerics who had gone missing in Pakistan met Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj to thank her for intervening with Islamabad to ensure they get back to Delhi safe. Their family has alleged Pakistan's security agencies had taken in the two clerics - Syed Asif Ali Nizami, the 80-year-old head priest of New Delhi's Nizam...

The two Indian clerics, including the head priest of Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah, who went missing in Pakistan last week, returned to New Delhi this morning. Syed Asif Nizami and his nephew Nazim Ali Nizami were welcomed at the airport by their family members and a group of well-wishers.

Union minister Sushma Swaraj yesterday tweeted that the two Indian clerics who went missing in Pakistan, are safe and well and will be back in Delhi today. The clerics are Syed Asif Ali Nizami, the head priest of New Delhi's Nizamuddin Dargah, and his nephew Nazim Ali Nizami. The two had gone on a visit to Pakistan on March 8 and were said to have ...

Two Indian clerics, Syed Asif Ali Nizami, the head priest of New Delhi's Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah, and his nephew Nazim Nizami, who had gone missing in Pakistan have been "traced and (the two) have reached Karachi", Pakistan foreign office told India today. They will leave for India on March 20. "The Pakistan Foreign Office has confirmed that the t...

On a day when India formally asked Pakistan to help locate two Muslim clerics of Delhi's Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia Dargah, who have been missing in the neighbouring country since Thursday, the clerics' family told NDTV that they were probably in the custody of Pakistan's intelligence agencies.

Two Indian clerics, including Syed Asif Ali Nizami the top cleric of New Delhi's Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah, are missing in Pakistan. The government has taken the matter up with Islamabad, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said this morning.

Terming United States President Barack Obama's statement over religious tolerance as an "eye opener" for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP, Muslim clerics and scholars today said he should control elements who were hurting his development agenda.

A year after Tabligh-e-Jamaat's Markaz in Nizamuddin West came under criticism for holding a religious congregation amid the COVID-19 outbreak, its cleric Maulana Saad Kandhalvi against whom a case was registered in connection with the incident is yet to join the probe despite several notices by Delhi Police.

A South African Muslim cleric, who recently returned from India after attending the Nizamuddin congregation, has died after contracting the novel coronavirus, according to his family members.

After a religious gathering in Delhi at the headquarters of the Tablighi Jamaat sect has emerged as one of the country's top coronavirus hotspots, its chief cleric Maulana Saad and six others have been charged by the police.

Assam is in a state of high alert after the first coronavirus positive case in the state emerged on Tuesday. A 52-year-old cleric, who runs a madrassa in Karimganj district, 300 kilometres from Guwahati, had recently travelled to Delhi where he visited Jama Masjid and Nizamuddin area, where a large religious gathering has emerged as a coronavirus h...

Delhi police on Tuesday booked the cleric, who led a huge religious congregation in Nizamuddin West earlier this month, for violating government orders on not organising public gatherings and maintaining social distance to contain the COVID-19 outbreak, an official said.

Six people who attended a congregation at a mosque in Delhi's Nizamuddin have died in Telangana after testing positive for coronavirus. A cleric at the event had died after in Srinagar last week.

Back home on Monday, the two Indian clerics who had gone missing in Pakistan met Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj to thank her for intervening with Islamabad to ensure they get back to Delhi safe. Their family has alleged Pakistan's security agencies had taken in the two clerics - Syed Asif Ali Nizami, the 80-year-old head priest of New Delhi's Nizam...

The two Indian clerics, including the head priest of Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah, who went missing in Pakistan last week, returned to New Delhi this morning. Syed Asif Nizami and his nephew Nazim Ali Nizami were welcomed at the airport by their family members and a group of well-wishers.

Union minister Sushma Swaraj yesterday tweeted that the two Indian clerics who went missing in Pakistan, are safe and well and will be back in Delhi today. The clerics are Syed Asif Ali Nizami, the head priest of New Delhi's Nizamuddin Dargah, and his nephew Nazim Ali Nizami. The two had gone on a visit to Pakistan on March 8 and were said to have ...

Two Indian clerics, Syed Asif Ali Nizami, the head priest of New Delhi's Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah, and his nephew Nazim Nizami, who had gone missing in Pakistan have been "traced and (the two) have reached Karachi", Pakistan foreign office told India today. They will leave for India on March 20. "The Pakistan Foreign Office has confirmed that the t...

On a day when India formally asked Pakistan to help locate two Muslim clerics of Delhi's Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia Dargah, who have been missing in the neighbouring country since Thursday, the clerics' family told NDTV that they were probably in the custody of Pakistan's intelligence agencies.

Two Indian clerics, including Syed Asif Ali Nizami the top cleric of New Delhi's Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah, are missing in Pakistan. The government has taken the matter up with Islamabad, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said this morning.

Terming United States President Barack Obama's statement over religious tolerance as an "eye opener" for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP, Muslim clerics and scholars today said he should control elements who were hurting his development agenda.