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Eid celebrations across India
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Eid celebrations across India
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Eid celebrations across India
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Eid celebrations across India
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Eid celebrations across India
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Eid celebrations across India
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Eid celebrations across India
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Eid celebrations across India
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Eid celebrations across India
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Eid celebrations across India
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and film actor Raza Murad celebrate Eid.
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Eid celebrations across India
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan sports a skull cap while greeting the Muslims on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr.
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Eid celebrations across India
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Eid celebrations across India
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Eid celebrations across India
At a prayer at the Gandhi Maidan in Bhopal, the chief minister was given a skull cap which he wore and prayed for prosperity and growth and eradication of poverty in the state.
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Eid celebrations across India
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee celebrates Eid-ul-Fitr.
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Eid celebrations across India
The announcement that Eid will be celebrated on Friday came after a meeting of Qadeem Royat Hilal Committee headed by Maulana Mufti Mohammed Mukkaram, Shahi Imam of Fatehpuri Masjid on Thursday.
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Eid celebrations across India
Ramzan, the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, is observed as a fasting period by Muslims who abstain from food and water from sunrise to sunset and it culminates in Eid-ul-Fitr celebrations.
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Eid celebrations across India
Eid-ul-Fitr, which marks the culmination of the fasting month of Ramzan, was celebrated across the country on Friday.
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