Articles tagged under: Bohras

Five members of Bohra community family in Dahod commit suicide

September 04, 2020
Five members of Bohra community family in Dahod commit suicide

Dahod: A business man committed suicide along with his wife and three daughters by consuming poison in Dahod town of East-Central Gujarat, police said today. In-charge inspector of Dahod town police station H P Karan said that the bodies of Saifi Barjarwala (42), his 35 year old wife and three daughters (a twin aged 16 and the third aged seven years) was found in his residence in Sujaibagh area of the town this morning. 'The possibility of his taking this extreme step...Read More

Gujarat HC permits a Pakistani citizen stuck in Surat to travel back to Karachi

August 24, 2020
Gujarat HC permits a Pakistani citizen stuck in Surat to travel back to Karachi

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court has today granted permission to a 28-years old Pakistani citizen Sajjad Vora, stuck in Surat since 2016 after he was arrested in a fake currency case, to travel back home. Vora who hails from Karachi, was on visit to his relatives in Surat when he was caught by Surat Railway Police with 100 fake notes of Rs 500 denomination which were scrapped during the demonetisation in December 2016. Initially he claimed he was a Mumbai resident, but later confessed that ...Read More

PM Narendra Modi in Houston, America

September 22, 2019

Kashmiri Pandits hail Modi on abrogation of Art 370, Sikhs call him 'tiger' Houston, US: On the first day of his US visit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Indian diaspora on Sunday including two minority groups and one community linked to Jammu and Kashmir - a province that saw actions vis-a-vis bifurcation and abrogation of the special Article 370. "I had a special interaction with Kashmiri Pandits in Houston," Mr Modi tweeted. The Kasmiri Pandit community 'unequivocally supported...Read More

PM Modi attends Ashara Mubaraka function of Dawoodi Bohra community in Indore

September 14, 2018

Indore: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing Ashara Mubaraka function of Dawood Bohra community at Indore in Madhya Pradesh to mark commemoration of the Matrydom of Imam Husain. DeshGujaratRead More

World’s Heaviest Woman, 500 Kg Eman, in Bohra community hospital at Mumbai for treatment

February 11, 2017
World’s Heaviest Woman, 500 Kg Eman, in Bohra community hospital at Mumbai for treatment

MUMBAI: 36-year-old Ms Eman Ahmed from Egypt's Alexandria city who is identified as heaviest women in the world, today landed at Mumbai international airport at around 4 am with her sister Shaimaa Ahmed for weight reduction treatment at a local facility of bariatric surgeon Muffazal Lakdawala. She will be under observation for about a month before she undergoes surgery. Ms Ahmed has not moved out of her house for 25 years. Transporting Eman to Mumbai was a challenging task. To prepare her fo...Read More

More interesting details about Pakistani held at Surat with fake Indian currency

December 15, 2016
More interesting details about Pakistani held at Surat with fake Indian currency

Surat: Pakistani citizen who was held yesterday at Surat railway station in Gujarat by Railway Police(RPF) with 10 fake notes of Rs 500 denomination belongs to Bohra community. Gujarati speaking and Modi supporting Bohra community of Muslim is largely into trade and businesses and spread across the world. Pakistani citizen Burhanuddin Sajjad said he has been in India during 2013-16 for number of times to participate in Dawoodi Bohra community events and also for textile trade, mainly involvi...Read More

PM stops his car on the road to accept welcome by Bohra community people

August 09, 2016
PM stops his car on the road to accept welcome by Bohra community people

Bhabhra (MP): Setting aside the security protocol, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today stopped his cavalcade of vehicles to accept the welcome offered by members of local Bohra community here. When Modi was on his way to the memorial of legendary Chandrashekar Azad, who was born here, a large number of people lined the road to catch a glimpse of the Prime Minister. When some of them waved at him, Modi asked the driver to stop and got down from the car. They offered him a shawl which he r...Read More

Egypt’s Sisi meets India’s Dawoodi Bohra community leader

July 20, 2016
Egypt’s Sisi meets India’s Dawoodi Bohra community leader

From Youssra El-Sharkawy Cairo:Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has met India-based spiritual leader of Dawoodi Bohra community Sultan Muffadal Saifuddin who donated 10 million Egyptian pounds to Long Live Egypt Fund and showed his community's interest in investing in the country. President Sisi yesterday received Saifuddin, his brother and his sons - princes Hassan and Jafaar Al-Sadar - as well Mofdal Hassan, the representative of the Dawoodi Bohra sultan in Egypt, said a statement b...Read More

Bohra community leader who died in US to be buried in India

April 05, 2016

Mumbai Khuzaima Qutbuddin, the claimant for the post of head of Dawoodi Bohra community who passed away in the US last week, will be buried in India, a website dedicate to the spiritual leader said. "As per the wishes of Syedna Qutbuddin, his successor (and son) Syedna Taher Fakhruddin has decided to bring Syedna Qutbuddin's janaza mubaraka to India for janaza prayers and last rites. We are working on completing all the procedures and we will inform Mumineen (believers) of the date and ti...Read More

On Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin’s visit to PM Narendra Modi

February 28, 2016

New Delhi Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin, the Religious Head of the Dawoodi Bohra Community, called on the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, in New Delhi today. He was accompanied by a nine-member delegation. The Prime Minister appreciated the social reform efforts of the Dawoodi Bohra community, and said the Union Government fully supported these initiatives. The Prime Minister also appreciated the progress made by the Dawoodi Bohra community, in the development of the Bhendi Bazaar area o...Read More