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Origin of Romani traced to India

Ancient roots of modern day European gypsies traced back to India. According to the analysis, the Romani likely came from what is now the Punjab state in northwestern India. Romani, also known as Roma or Gypsies, are an ethnic group numbering 11 million people, They are distributed widely within Europe including the Balkans and Scandinavia where they are still shunned and victimized. During the Holocaust, somewhere between 200,000 and 1.5 million Romani were killed by Hitler’s Nazis. After World War …

Ahmadis travel to India for the annual convention

Thousands of Ahmadis from Pakistan are making their way to India to take part in the 120th annual convention of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Qadian (Punjab, India). The three day convention which will take place from 26th to 28th December 2011 will be attended by tens of thousands of Ahmadi delegates from India as well as from neighbouring countries like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. To make the journey easy for the delegates a major transport operation is underway. Over …

Hadhrat Khalifa‐tul Masih V Arrives in India

The Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad arrived in India on 23 November 2008 just after 4.40am. His Holiness had departed from London Heathrow in the early evening of 22nd November boarding a British Airways flight to Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi. His Holiness was met at the plane by various officials of Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya India including the Chief Executive, Muhammad Inam Ghori, the Chairman, Dr Saleh Muhammad Aladdin and Nasim Khan the Secretary …