By ARAB NEWS Published: Jan 25, 2012 01:39 Updated: Jan 25, 2012 01:39 RIYADH: Foreign exchange companies in Saudi Arabia are increasingly trying to lure individual investors by tempting them with credit coverage of up to 400 percent of their targets’ capital. They also promise to expand their financial portfolios, […]
By WALAA HAWARI | ARAB NEWS Published: Jan 25, 2012 01:39 Updated: Jan 25, 2012 01:39 US businessman and pilot calls for efforts to project true image of his new religion RIYADH: Just after spending one month in the Kingdom, where he was treated with kindness in a spiritual atmosphere, […]
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Source: Express Tribune The Pakistan-American businessman, who is one of the central characters of the Memogate scandal, has twice denied coming to Pakistan to record his statement before the commission. ISLAMABAD: The judicial commission probing the Memogate scandal has given Mansoor Ijaz one final chance and has summoned the Pakistan-American businessman […]
Source: Times of India. To those blessed – or perhaps cursed, given the times we live in – with a long memory, Salman Rushdie’s absence from the Jaipur Literature Festival and the parallel and related Congress courtship of the Muslim vote in Uttar Pradesh are an eerie and discomforting throwback […]
Source: Asia Times: By M K Bhadrakumar China and Qatar have been taking virtually opposite positions apropos events in Libya and Syria. Yet, they do not seem to be deterred by this little difference and are bonding in a big way in economic cooperation to mutual benefit. Chinese Prime Minister […]
Leading Indian newspaper ‘The Hindu’ has asked India to make an “unreserved apology” to Bangladesh for Border Security Force’s brutal torture of a Bangladeshi man shown in a recent video. Source: Op Ed, The Hindu. New Delhi needs to make an unreserved apology to Bangladesh for the brutal conduct of […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Web Desk Published: January 24, 2012 ISLAMABAD: Despite assurances on full security from the judicial commission probing the Memogate scandal, Pakistani-American […]
Ynetnews: President puts his concerns in writing in wake of racist acts against Israelis of Ethiopian descent, asks musician Idan Raichel to compose music On the backdrop of recent acts of racism against Israel’s Ethiopian community, President Shimon Peres recently visited the Amit Reshit School in Jerusalem, where children of […]
Huffington Post Ethiopian Israelis marched by the thousands in Jerusalem today in the late afternoon from the Knesset Parliament to the city’s center against a blazing setting sun. In one […]
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 […]