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Dawoodi Bohra leader wins legal battle: Who challenged Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin's position as 53rd Dai, and why?

April 24, 2024 12:29 am

Decade-long tussle for leadership of small, prosperous community ends; what is the concept of 'nass' at the heart of the dispute?

Project Rise: Dawoodi Bohra community extends helping hand to fight malnutrition in Nandurbar

September 14, 2023 6:19 pm

To overcome challences, including hesitancy and resistance, local residents who can communicate effectively in their native dialects have been roped in. The project will be implemented by on-ground frontline workers, including anganwadi workers.

Dawoodi Bohras and 'family member' Narendra Modi: A mutual friendship

February 18, 2023 2:57 pm

The small community appreciates PM's overtures, including significant posts for them in Gujarat; while for BJP, their support holds huge symbolic value

At Dawoodi Bohra event, PM Modi once again proved his bonhomie with the community

February 13, 2023 2:13 pm

Even as he uses Hindu nationalist rhetoric for his core political base, the PM has also articulated India’s age-old values of tolerance and co-existence. Even if indirectly, he has urged his support base to rebuild trust with Indian Muslims

What is the Aljamea-tus-Saifiyah which PM Narendra Modi inaugurated in Mumbai?

February 11, 2023 10:20 am

An academy for religious and other education for the Dawoodi Bohra community, Aljamea-tus-Saifiyah will soon move to its grand new campus in Mumbai's Marol.

Who are the Dawoodi Bohras, and what is the excommunication petition before Supreme Court?

February 11, 2023 1:50 pm

The long-pending challenge to the practice of excommunication in the Shia sect has been referred to the 9-judge Bench hearing the Sabarimala review petition on essential religious practice.

Excommunication in Dawoodi Bohra community: SC refers plea to nine-judge bench

February 10, 2023 1:39 pm

In 1962, the Supreme Court had upheld the practice in the Sardar Syedna Saifuddin v State of Bombay case and struck down the Bombay Prevention of Excommunication Act, 1949 saying it violated the fundamental right of a religious denomination to manage its own affairs

Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel, BJP leaders greet Dawoodi Bohra leader on his birthday

November 26, 2021 10:55 am

The celebrations also included processions by community groups of Gujarat and Maharashtra, with saifee scouts and a musical treat from around 25 bands.

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Dawoodi Bohra leader to travel to Sri Lanka later this month, says top Lanka official

June 11, 2020 11:37 am

When asked about travel plans of Syedna, the spokesperson said, “As far as we are aware there are no travel plans at the moment.” When asked whether Syedna had approached the Sri Lankan government for permission to travel to that country, the spokesperson refused to comment.

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Plea in Bombay HC on leadership of Dawoodi Bohra sect: American expert examined

November 29, 2019 9:09 pm

In June 2014, Khuzaima Qutubuddin had filed a suit in the High Court, seeking to be declared as the 53rd Da’i-al-Mutlaq of the community.

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18 killed, over 40 injured in stampede, Syedna laid to rest

January 21, 2014 6:45 pm

Thousands of mourners converged to pay their last respects to Syedna Burhanuddin.