Articles tagged under: Bohras

Dawoodi Bohra delegation thanks PM for Waqf Amendment Act which was their long-pending demand

April 17, 2025

New Delhi: Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi interacted with a Delegation of Dawoodi Bohra Community members at his residence at Lok Kalyan Marg earlier today. The Delegation included business leaders, professionals, doctors, educators and various prominent representatives of the Dawoodi Bohra community. They narrated their struggles and shared stories of how properties belonging to members of their community were wrongfully claimed by Waqf. They thanked the Prime Minister for bringing about ...Read More

Bohra community rallies protesting increasing menace of stray cattle and stray dogs

December 02, 2024

Dahod: Large number of people from Bohra community marched in a rally in Dahod town protesting the increasing menace of stray cattle and stray dogs in the town. The march was supported by opposition Congress party. The march was named as 'Adhikar rally'. Large number of Bohra community women also participated in this march. The march was in response to an incident in which a Bohra community member hit by a stray cattle died. The silent rally started at Chhab Talav and concluded at the Chief Offi...Read More

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