Even as the Delhi government is adopting various measures to provide relief to the citizens from severe heat in the national capital, the Old Delhi district administration on Saturday set up a cooling zone near the Jama Masjid under its “Heat-wave Action Plan”.
The chief cleric of Kashmir, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, on Saturday announced that he has been detained at home, while Srinagar's Jama Masjid has been locked down for worshippers for seven straight years for Eid prayers.
One year after the violence that erupted during the Jama Masjid survey in Sambhal on November 24, 2024, the city is calm and peaceful.
A 38-year-old person was held for making threat calls to two iconic monuments, the Red Fort and Jama Masjid in the Old Delhi area, Police said on Thursday.
Two of the iconic monuments of Delhi, Red Fort and Jama Masjid, on Thursday, received a bomb threat which turned out to be a hoax, the police said.
Raj Niwas said Saxena spoke to Imam Bukhari and requested him to rescind the order.
Taking suo moto cognizance of media reports on the restriction on entry of women in the mosque, the Delhi Commission for Women has sought an action taken report (ATR) by 28 November from Shahi Imam.
The announcement says that in order for women to gain access to Jama Masjid complex, they need to be accompanied by a male member.
Every year, the date changes as it's based on the Islamic lunar calendar, which is about 11 days shorter than the Western 365-day Gregorian calendar.
The MCD team had on Thursday reached out to take action against an illegal room being built in the park of the mosque complex -- for which it also had court orders, but instead of demolishing the room, the bulldozer deployed at the site razed a different wall.
