GENEVA: UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday called for an immediate two-week humanitarian pause in Yemen to mark Ramadan as talks got underway in Geneva to try and resolve the bloody conflict...
“Ramadan begins in two days,” he said, stressing that the holy Muslim month should be a period for “harmony, peace and reconciliation”...
South Asia’s debate between Ramadan and Ramazan would reflect a similar unequal contest of receding and upwardly mobile cultures, had it not been usurped by its pervasive religious revivalism...
Given the mushrooming clusters of orthodox believers we face today, the chances are that those who prefer the Arabic Ramadan would be found to be the more assertive Muslims against the conventional lot who have stayed with Ramazan to describe...
RENNES: A man with known psychiatric problems stabbed a 19-year-old girl three times in western France on Tuesday, telling police he had heard voices ordering him to make a “sacrifice” for Ramazan, the Rennes prosecutor said...
The attack came a day after a militant killed a French police couple in a small town near Paris, in a stabbing inspired by the militant Islamic State (IS) group
KUWAIT CITY: From Dubai to Tunis, Euro 2016 football fever is sweeping the Arab world, filling cafes and restaurants and overshadowing the nightly television soap operas that normally dominate Ramadan viewing...
But this year, Ramadan coincides with the Euros which are another massive draw...
PARIS: The Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, who is being held in France over rape allegations by three women, has lost his bid for early release ahead of trial, his lawyer told AFP...
Judges had already refused bail for the 55-year-old Ramadan, who is being treated behind bars for multiple sclerosis, as well as a request for release on health grounds...
A federal judge granted a restraining order on Thursday forcing prison guards in Alaska to stop giving Muslim inmates pork as they break their fasts during Ramazan, rights campaigners said...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) filed a lawsuit on Tuesday claiming Anchorage Correctional Complex had violated constitutional prohibitions against "cruel and unusual punishment"
Prosecutors in Geneva have opened a rape and sexual misconduct investigation against Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, who has been detained in France since February on separate rape charges, Swiss media reported on Sunday...
The Tribune de Geneve newspaper quoted Geneva's prosecutor's office spokesman Henri Della Casa as saying that authorities had decided to open a formal criminal inquiry into allegations that Ramadan raped a woman in...
PARIS: Leading Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, charged with raping two women in France, claimed on Monday that he had consensual sex with both of them after previously denying any physical contact...
Ramadan, a well-known TV commentator, has strongly denied accusations that he raped the women in hotel rooms as an attempted smear by his opponents...
Two Ramadan television dramas on a Saudi-controlled network have stirred controversy as they test public perceptions of quietly warming relations between the Gulf kingdom and Israel...
MBC said its shows were among the most popular during Ramadan, garnering top ratings...
GENEVA: The Swiss Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan went on trial at a Geneva criminal court on Monday charged with “rape and sexual coercion”, allegations which the former Oxford University professor denies...
Ramadan arrived at the Geneva courthouse, where security had been visibly boosted as members of the public streamed in to watch the highly anticipated trial...
GENEVA: A Swiss court on Wednesday found Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan not guilty of rape and sexual coercion in a Geneva hotel 15 years ago, with his accuser immediately indicating she would appeal...
“Tariq Ramadan must be acquitted...
LAHORE: The applicants who turned up at the Garden Town passport office on Thursday had to face a great deal of inconvenience at the hands of processing staff who kept them on tenterhooks for several hours because of “slow online data processing and their lethargic attitude”...
“I had reached the office at 11am, got a token in regular queue and was able to pass through the second step of bio-metric data capture counter till 3:30pm... ...
KARACHI: The long queues inside the passport office in Saddar are a common sight, but on Monday a horde of impatient men flocked around the data entry booth as early as 8am; nudging, falling, desperately trying to reach the manager who single-handedly tried to control the restless crowd...
Syed Abbas Jafri had reached the passport office before its opening time on Friday hoping to get his application processed swiftly, only to find...
MANSEHRA: Federal Minister for Haj and Interfaith Harmony Sardar Mohammad Yousuf on Saturday inaugurated a passport office here...
“Establishment of a passport office in the district is a first step towards realising the promises made by the PML-N prior to the 2013 general elections,” the minister said while speaking at a function on the occasion...
SHEIKHUPURA: Four PML-N legislators along with their supporters on Saturday made a scene at the inauguration ceremony of the regional passport office...
Reports said Federal Minister Rana Tanvir Husain of PML-N was invited to open the passport office...