London, UK – The winners of the influential 17th annual Asian Achievers Awards were celebrated amid a ray of Bollywood stars, glittering celebrities and high profile dignitaries on Friday September 22nd at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane. Winners include, Bollywood star Farhan Akhtar for International Personality of the Year (Male); Playwright Tanika Gupta […]
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Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has issued a decree allowing women to drive for the first time in Saudi Arabia. Government ministries are to prepare reports within 30 days and the order will be implemented by June 2018, the Saudi Press Agency reported. Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world to forbid women from […]
There are three local markets worth seeing in Kusadasi. Every Tuesday and Friday for vegetables and fruits, every Wednesday just for clothes. Tuesday Market Here is where you can find fresh and tasty season vegetables and fruits if you’ve booked your self catering holiday to Kusadasi. Villagers from and around Kusadasi hold this market for […]
The day of Ashura is marked by Muslims as a whole, but for Shia Muslims it is a major religious commemoration of the martyrdom at Karbala of Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h). It falls on the 10th of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic lunar calendar. (Friday 29th September – Saturday […]
The new moon signals the beginning of the month of Muharram. The Hijri New Year is the name given to the first day of the month. Muharram marks the anniversary of the battle of Karbala, when the grandson of Muhammad (P.B.U.H), Imam Hussein ibn Ali, was killed, and is widely commemorated by the Shia Muslim […]
