Bhopal’s best-kept Eid secret: Superstar goats worth lakhs being unveiled in style

Bhopal’s best-kept Eid secret: Superstar goats worth lakhs being unveiled in style

BHOPAL: Fifteen days before Eid-ul-Azha, Bhopal doesn’t launch cars or debut singers. It unveils goats worth lakhs… in events that look like Super Bowl in scale and razzle-dazzle.They arrive like grooms. Decorated in garlands, mounted on hydraulic platforms once reserved for wedding varmalas, or lowered by crane onto spotlit stages.Hundreds gather, phones raised, to catch…

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‘Quran mandates qurbani’: AJUP chief Humayun Kabir stirs row after Bengal cattle slaughter curb

‘Quran mandates qurbani’: AJUP chief Humayun Kabir stirs row after Bengal cattle slaughter curb

NEW DELHI: “Cow slaughter will also be done,” AJUP chief and West Bengal MLA Humayun Kabir said, triggering a fresh political controversy as he asserted that the Quran mandates qurbani and insisted that ritual sacrifice of animals would continue despite the state government’s recent restrictions on animal slaughter ahead of Eid.Stating that ritual sacrifice “will…

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