Milad-un-Nabi celebrated with gaiety in Hyderabad and other cities
Hyderabad, Jan 4
Meetings, processions, feeding of the poor, blood donation camps and 'mahafil-e-milads' or special gatherings in praise of the Prophet were held to mark the occasion.
The old city of Hyderabad was decked up for the occasion with green flags and huge banners tied on roads. Processions were taken out in several localities, which joined the central procession which started from the historic Makkah Masjid.
Holding green flags, a large number of people participated in the central procession, which culminated in a public meeting at Moghalpura Ground. Youngsters took out processions on motorbikes. Holding flags and raising slogans, they passed through different parts of the city.
Several localities were illuminated and spruced up for the Milad. Addressing the meetings, religious scholars and community leaders exhorted Muslims to strictly follow the "seerat-e-tayyaba" or the holy life of the Prophet for success in this world and hereafter.
Hundreds of people attended the annual meeting organized by Majlis-e-Tameer-e-Millat at Nizam College grounds. President of Majlis, Moulana Mohammed Abdur Raheem Qureshi, who presided over the meeting, said the message of Islam is for the entire humanity.
Police made elaborate security arrangements, especially in the old city, to maintain law and order. Security personnel were deployed around the places of worship and public places. Over 8,000 policemen were deployed and 500 CCTV cameras were installed as part of the security arrangements.
At a mammoth public meeting organized by Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) Saturday night, party president Asaduddin Owaisi advised youth to desist from un-Islamic practices during Milad celebrations.
The MP said the processions should not cause inconvenience people and the organizers should not deviate from the routes given to them by police. He decried use of colour and DJs during the celebrations.
Jamia Nizamia, a leading Islamic seminary, has issued a 'fatwa' asking Muslims to desist from un-Islamic practices like playing music, singing and dancing during Milad.
Priyanka Chopra to step into Ajay Devgn's shoes for 'Gangaajal' sequel!
Mumbai: Looking at the poster of sequel to
Gangaajal, released on November 1, 2014, we had a clue that this time a
lady inspector would play the main lead in the film and now the
speculations have got more relevance after recent surfaced reports have
suggested that Bollywood’s dusky beauty Priyanka Chopra will replace
Ajay Devgn in it.As per reports, Piggy Chops might step in Ajay Devgn's shoes for 'Gangaajal' sequel. Earlier, Ajay played the role of cop in the original.
Sources said that director's script demands a female protagonist this time and hence they are planning to rope in Piggy Chops.
Film makers are really impressed with PC’s performance in Mary Kom.
Gangaajal released in 2003 and was helmed by Prakash Jha.
Well, let’s see how true these reports prove to be in near future?
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Homeless, hungry and cold on the streets of Delhi: In pics
For a game of football, the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium seats
60,254. If all the homeless people in Delhi used the stadium for a
gathering, several thousand of them would have to stand outside.
According to conservative estimates, Delhi's homeless population is
nearly twice the stadium's capacity. More people in the city lack homes
today. Under the flyovers, near railway stations, road dividers,
pavements - they are everywhere. We pass them by uncaringly. Daily. But
they are not simply winter statistics.
Are night shelters the solution? It's a temporary one. Government
agencies claim to have organised more than 220 temporary and permanent
shelters when there are thousands out on the streets. Overcrowding, lack
of basic amenities, security and overall hygiene also drive many
homeless citizens away from these places. Facilities for women and
children are further ignored while constructing these night shelters.
In the backdrop of rural impoverishment, thousands reach the
capital in search of a better future. The man guarding the door of a
mall, or playing a drum as part of a wedding band this winter, may have
been a farmer once. This is a migrant who will always be part of the
city's underbelly, vulnerable and invisible. Migration isn't, however,
the only 'problem'. Internal displacement in the city due to slum
demolitions, land grabs and forced evictions, say NGOs, is Delhi's
reality.
When it gets too cold, the poor huddle up around wood fires. Some bury themselves under ragged blankets. Some turn to drugs to survive the chill. Homelessness is a kind of internal exile. As we leave or look out of our homes, there are people constantly on the move in search of shelter.
More than a lakh are out on the streets of Delhi alone. They are homeless, hungry and cold. And they are not just winter statistics. Below, HT photographer Subrata Biswas documents their lives in the Indian capital. Text by Furquan Ameen Siddiqui. For more pics click: Homeless, hungry and cold in the capital
A family that migrated from Jaipur, Rajasthan, huddle around a fire on a cold winter night under a flyover near Rithala in north west Delhi.
Sanjana, 11, plays with a puppy on the railway tracks near Okhla station in south Delhi. “It is very hard to sleep during winter nights as we don’t have enough warm clothes. My sisters and I hold each other tight at night when we feel too cold,” she said.
Eighty year-old Bilal came from Pakistan to India 25 years ago. He is now a regular in one of the rain baseras (night shelters) near Nizamuddin. His eldest son, he says, is professor in a college in Lahore. He claims that he has been trying to go back to Pakistan for years.
Aarti, 45, a rag picker with her daughter-in-law Kanika, 20, in their makeshift home next to the railway tracks near the Okhla station. She migrated with her family from Akbarpur, Uttar Pradesh, to Delhi around 25 years ago.
A homeless man in a critical condition near Yamuna Pushta, central Delhi, waiting for an ambulance as people look on.
Forty-year-old
Guddi lives with her husband and three daughters in Delhi. Her husband
works as a daily-wage labour. Migrated from Kanpur to Delhi five years
ago, the family still struggles to find a decent shelter in the city.
According to the Centre for Holistic Development, which assumes
that 80% of unidentified dead bodies are homeless, 279 people died last
month, the highest toll in a December since 2011. November 2014
witnessed 225 deaths. June and July, in fact, were worse, recording 485
and 364 deaths. So just as much as winter, Delhi, it seems, kills as
well.
When it gets too cold, the poor huddle up around wood fires. Some bury themselves under ragged blankets. Some turn to drugs to survive the chill. Homelessness is a kind of internal exile. As we leave or look out of our homes, there are people constantly on the move in search of shelter.
More than a lakh are out on the streets of Delhi alone. They are homeless, hungry and cold. And they are not just winter statistics. Below, HT photographer Subrata Biswas documents their lives in the Indian capital. Text by Furquan Ameen Siddiqui. For more pics click: Homeless, hungry and cold in the capital
A family that migrated from Jaipur, Rajasthan, huddle around a fire on a cold winter night under a flyover near Rithala in north west Delhi.
Sanjana, 11, plays with a puppy on the railway tracks near Okhla station in south Delhi. “It is very hard to sleep during winter nights as we don’t have enough warm clothes. My sisters and I hold each other tight at night when we feel too cold,” she said.
Eighty year-old Bilal came from Pakistan to India 25 years ago. He is now a regular in one of the rain baseras (night shelters) near Nizamuddin. His eldest son, he says, is professor in a college in Lahore. He claims that he has been trying to go back to Pakistan for years.
Aarti, 45, a rag picker with her daughter-in-law Kanika, 20, in their makeshift home next to the railway tracks near the Okhla station. She migrated with her family from Akbarpur, Uttar Pradesh, to Delhi around 25 years ago.
A homeless man in a critical condition near Yamuna Pushta, central Delhi, waiting for an ambulance as people look on.
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