Yaum-e-Ashura or 10th day of Muharram is being observed across India with utmost respect and grief today. Aashura is considered to be one of the most important and blessed days in the Islamic calendar.

It is commemorated by Muslims as a day of mourning for the martyrdom of Hazarat Imam Husain, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad at the Battle of Karbala along with his 71 staunch followers on this day in 680 AD.

Our Lucknow correspondent reports that numerous Taziahs in the city are being taken out by individual households in the procession to be buried in different Karbalas in Uttar Pradesh.

The main procession of Taziah Julus is being taken out from Imambara of Nazim Sahab and Bada Imambara in Lucknow this afternoon.

Elaborate security arrangements have been put in place by the administration along with diversion of traffic.