Courtesy: Tribune: LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly has passed a resolution seeking a ban on organising ‘objectionable’ music concerts in private and public academic institutions. The move comes weeks after three students were […]
A Saudi woman who defied a driving ban in the kingdom was injured and her companion killed when their car overturned in the northern Hael province, a police spokesman said on Monday. “One woman was immediately killed and her companion who was driving the car was hospitalised after she suffered […]
Immigration official says the deported violated visa regulations by preaching around the country. Source: Aljazeera. Sri Lanka has ordered a group of 161 foreign Islamic preachers to leave the country, […]
Source: The New York Times JAIPUR, India — At an old Mughal palace accommodating what organizers called “the greatest literary show on earth,” the headliners on Sunday included Oprah Winfrey, Deepak Chopra and Tom Stoppard. But the absence of another star, Salman Rushdie, continued to overshadow the event. A free-speech […]
Source: The New York Times JAIPUR, India — At an old Mughal palace accommodating what organizers called “the greatest literary show on earth,” the headliners on Sunday included Oprah Winfrey, Deepak Chopra and Tom Stoppard. But the absence of another star, Salman Rushdie, continued to overshadow the event. […]
Source: AFP NEW DELHI — India urged Norway on Monday to act quickly to reunite two Indian children with their parents after Norwegian child welfare services put them into foster care eight months ago. Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya lost custody of three-year-old Avigyan and one-year-old Aishwarya after Norwegian officials objected […]
Source: ZeeNews Washington: India has objected to US television host Jay Leno passing off a visual of the Golden Temple in Amritsar as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s vacation home, terming it “quite unfortunate”. Visiting Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi said Sunday he had directed Indian Ambassador to the […]
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc., which is opposing censorship around the world, is funding discussions about dissent as celebrities including Oprah Winfrey and MTV founder Tom Freston attend Asia’s largest literary festival. The five-day DSC Jaipur Literature Festival, in the Indian city known for its […]
“We need a system where diversities are a basis for celebration and not conflict,” Former Indian President Dr. A.P.J.Abdul Kalam said. 2012 was declared as the year for a Trilingual Sri Lanka at the ceremony. The ten-year action plan aims to make Sri Lankans fluent in Sinhala, Tamil and English. […]
Sights and Insights: Jerusalem down under Jerusalem Post: By WAYNE STILES The Western Wall Tunnels allow visitors to explore the full length of the Kotel, seeing first-century Jerusalem. Wayne Stiles […]
Abbott boat plan causes concern in Jakarta A SENIOR Indonesian police official has voiced concerns about Opposition Leader Tony Abbott’s plan to turn back all asylum-seeker boats, warning the policy […]
Photo taken on Jan. 22, 2012 shows the bird’s-eye view of the Olympic Green in Beijing, capital of China, on the eve before Chinese lunar Year of Dragon. [Photo/Xinhua]
Daily Dawn: KARACHI: Farahnaz Ispahani, media adviser to President Asif Ali Zardari and wife of Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States, has said that she had fled to the US for fear […]
Courtesy Philippines Daily Inquirer: MANILA, Philippines–The New York-based Human Rights Group on Monday lamented that President Aquino’s valiant promises to stem the rampant violation of human rights have remained just […]
Source / Courtesy: China Daily A province in south China has approved the first registered private think thank to help advise officials on key issues, the People’s Daily reported. The […]
JAKARTA (AFP) – A community in eastern Indonesia has placed 1,000 pink adenium flowers outside the local parliament, police station and courtroom, not to say thanks, but to send a […]
Maumere – Local officials in eastern Indonesia say a crocodile swallowed a 10-year-old girl while she frolicked in a river. The case is the second on that spot in the last two months. AFP reports that Viktor Mado Waton, a district head in East Nusa Tenggara province, said the incident […]
IBNLive Bangladesh High Commissioner Tareq Karim accused the Bangaldesh Opposition of being involved in the coup attempt against the Sheikh Hasina government.http://ibnlive.com/livetv.
Jews, Christians and Muslims have united in the Holy Land to pray for rain. An unusually dry autumn has left Israel and the Palestinian territories perilously parched. Imams, rabbis and priests […]
Courtesy Daily Dawn: ……….This actually shouldn’t come as a surprise in a country where the state has for long been active in defining what or who a ‘Muslim’ is, and that too in a society brimming with various sects and sub-sects. This has left the sects judging one another, sometimes […]