He is a physician practicing in Upstate New York. He is the Chief Editor of the Muslim Times, which has more than 43,000 followers in Twitter. He is also Chair of Religion and Science for the Muslim Sunrise, the oldest Muslim publication in North America. He has authored more than 400 articles on Islam, Christianity, Secularism and Religion & Science. Follow in Twitter: @The_MuslimTimes
By REUTERS ZURICH: Swatch Group SA will cut supplies of watch movements to competitors to force them to invest in their own production and choke off exports to Asia where they may be used to make fake Swiss products, its Chief Executive Nick Hayek said. His comments are the latest […]
By ARAB NEWS Published: Nov 10, 2011 23:02 Updated: Nov 10, 2011 23:02 JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia hosts the largest market of ultra-high net worth individuals (UHNW) in the Middle East, representing 1,225 people holding a collective wealth of $227 billion, according to a global wealth intelligence report released Thursday. Saudi […]
By SIRAJ WAHAB | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: A prominent Indian leader from Hyderabad who performed this year’s Haj said his party has created the right template for the success of Indian Muslims in democratic India. Speaking at a packed Al-Hayat Continental Hotel on Wednesday, Akbaruddin Owaisi, whose Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen party […]
A South Korean woman is spending her 200th day living at the top of a crane in protest against lay-offs at a major shipping company. Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction announced last year it was cutting 400 jobs from its shipyard in the southern city of Busan. This prompted local […]
Zubair Khan Ex President USA, Mr Bush invited honorable guests in White House for a function. Guest list included PM UK, PM Australia and Chancellor Germnay who happened to be Mr Köhl. These three by chance were travelling together in a car. Due to traffic jam they got late. When car carrying these […]
By Muath Freij JORDAN TIMES AMMAN – Since pre-modern times, coffee has been a symbol of Jordan’s heritage and a centrepiece of traditional Jordanian hospitality, according to Ahmad Abu Rumman. The tribal leader, who identified himself as a sheikh of the Ramamna tribe in the Muqablein neighbourhood, noted that serving […]
By Khetam Malkawi AMMAN – Voting for the Dead Sea to be one of the New Seven Wonders of Nature is a “duty” that all Jordanians should contribute to, members of the public interviewed by The Jordan Times said on Thursday. “I voted for the Dead Sea without even asking […]
PARIS — As the bets that European banks made on United States mortgage investments went bust a few years ago, bankers piled into what they saw as a safe refuge: bonds issued by countries in Europe’s seemingly ironclad monetary union. Now, the political and financial crisis engulfing the Continent has […]
By Taylor Luck AMMAN – Explosions in the Sinai Peninsula severed Egyptian gas supplies to Jordan on Thursday, casting doubt over the security of the Kingdom’s main energy source. The blast, which marks the seventh act of sabotage on the Arab Gas Pipeline this year, took place at dawn on […]
TOKYO — The head of the International Monetary Fund arrived in Tokyo on Friday, where she will meet Japan’s finance minister and the central bank chief for talks likely to be dominated by Europe’s debt crisis. IMF chief Christine Lagarde, on a trip that has also taken her to […]
By APP Published: November 11, 2011 WASHINGTON: Applauding the constructive approach shown by Pakistan and India at a meeting between their prime ministers in Maldives on Thursday, the United States has said cooperation between the two regional powers would be a win-win for the entire region. State Department Deputy Spokesman Mark Toner said Washington backs constructive dialogue between the […]
In the past, innovation leading to bigger markets have allowed the Western societies to keep growing GDP and keep paying the debts at different levels, including individual, County, State and Federal. Unless there are dramatic and big innovations, creating more trade and commerce, it will be downhill from here, in my […]
Peter Thiel, founder of Clarium Capital and The Thiel Foundation, explains why young Americans need to be encouraged to take on more risk to spur innovation and why the cost of a U.S. education is hindering that. http://s.wsj.net/media/swf/VideoPlayerMain.swf
Source/Credit: The Express Tribune: By Mudassir Raja | November 11, 2011: PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE The residents of F block, Satellite Town fear for their safety after a number of banners cropped up, demanding that Ahmadis leave the area and terming the community’s activities “unconstitutional”. The banners are anonymous, though their demands are clear: for […]
Source/Credit: Daily Times | Pakistan: By Afnan Khan | November 10, 2011 LAHORE: First Muslim parliamentarian of Sweden, human rights activist and Social Democrat Malik Nasim urged the Swedish and Western governments to strive for peace across the globe. Talking to Daily Times, the rights activist expressed regret over his country voting […]
Shanghai will issue China’s first ever local government bonds on Tuesday as part of a pilot program coming into effect as the central authorities explore ways to solve local government debt issues. In the past, local governments had been barred from selling bonds and China’s Ministry of Finance auctioned the […]
A Chinese mine where 21 workers were killed on Thursday and 22 more remain trapped was being operated illegally, state media has reported. Read More…
Source: Physics-World The US physicist Norman Ramsey, who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize for Physics, died on 4 November at the age of 96. Ramsey’s work on probing the structure of atoms to high precision was instrumental in the later development of the atomic clock, as well as in medical […]
Source: Physics-World A “four-wheel drive car” less than one billionth the length of an average SUV has been built and operated by researchers in the Netherlands and Switzerland. The molecular machine is about 1 nm long and uses electrons as fuel as it navigates across a copper surface. The tiny device […]
Muslims for Remembrance! (Toronto November 10, 2011): Muslims youth will be standing outside mosques across Canada on Friday November 11th to raise awareness of the sacrifices made by Canadians and to collect money for the Poppy Appeal. The sermons from the pulpit will echo their message of loyalty to country […]