Source: ET An Indian ruling party politician has been left red-faced after a video of him urinating in public went viral on World Toilet Day, despite government efforts to stop people relieving themselves in the open. Ram Shinde, a minister for water conservation in the western state of Maharashtra, was filmed […]
Source: ET Members of parliament have introduced a third amendment into the Elections Act 2017 that was adopted last month. The fresh clause – simply known by the moniker 48-A – borrows a bit too heavily from clause 7B and 7C of the Conduct of General Elections Order, 2002 and […]
Source: Dawn An Israeli cabinet minister said on Sunday that Israel had covert ties with “many” Arab and Muslim states but was obliged not to name them at the other sides’ request.A rare interview given by the head of Israel’s armed forces to a Saudi-owned news site was published on […]
Source: Dawn WHEN you watch a spoiled brat whose parents have never stopped it from doing anything walk into a curio shop, you know it’s just a matter of time before disaster strikes. And sure enough, even when he didn’t wield the kind of power he does now, Prince Mohammed […]
Source: Dawn THE State Department recently missed its legal deadline for designating ‘Countries of Particular Concern’, a list of nations that violate religious freedom in a “systematic, ongoing, and egregious” manner. The US Commission on International Religious Freedom, the body that recommends which countries should be designated, criticised the State Department […]
Nov 19,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh The resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri two weeks ago is an indicator of a potential local escalation with Hizbollah and regional escalation with Iran. The expectation of an imminent escalation with Hizbollah has been there for months, as the […]
Source: Independent By Tom Batchelor Atheists in Malaysia should be “hunted down” as they violate the constitution, a government minister in the increasingly fundamentalist Muslim-majority nation has said. Shahidan Kassim, who serves in […]
Source: CNN If Saudis are indeed behind the machinations, they may find they have waded a bit too deep into Lebanese politics this time. There’s an old saying about this country, that it’s easy to swallow, but hard to digest. Saudi Arabia, led by impetuous 32-year-old Crown Prince Mohammed Bin […]
Source: ET Belated it may be, but the Islamabad High Court’s direction to the local administration to evict protesters from Faizabad Interchange needs to be applauded. Despite the court orders, the stalemate, however, continues by the time this article goes into print. The sit-in by two religious groups begs some […]
By : Dames Alexander Sinaga | on 1:33 PM November 18, 2017 Category : News, Religion Bogor. At least 8,000 people attended the start of the 2017 Special […]
Worshippers in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, are set to go green with a new initiative that aims to establish 1,000 eco-mosques by 2020. (Antara Photo/Rahmad) By : […]
by Asad Hashim 17 Nov 2017 The Islamabad protest has been ordered to clear out by courts [Al Jazeera/Asad Hashim] Islamabad, Pakistan – A Pakistani court has ordered authorities to clear […]
Updated: Nov 17, 2017 | File image Washington: The US Congress Friday passed a nearly USD 700 billion defence budget for 2018 which imposes tougher conditions on Pakistan for military […]
Nov 18,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Dunford The Rohingya refugee camp in the Bangladeshi port city of Cox’s Bazar is a sea of metal roofs as far as the […]
15/11/2017 – by Alphonce Shiundu In depth © picture-alliance/Grigoriy Sisoev/Sputnik His Highness the Aga Khan IV. The list of countries where Aga Khan institutions operate features countries where life […]
Source: Reuters BY Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani authorities issued a final warning on Friday to members of an Islamist party blocking a main road into the capital, raising […]
Source: National Catholic Register By Patti Armstrong, who is an award-winning author and was the managing editor and co-author of Ascension Press’ bestselling Amazing Grace series. How are so many […]
By Anand Chandrasekhar This content was published on November 17, 2017 Switzerland has been drawn into tensions between Baloch activists and Pakistan (swissinfo.ch) Swiss authorities have confirmed that an […]
The only way we can prevent global consequences from a regional conflict between Riyadh and Tehran is if we begin treating their countries the same Paddy Ashdown There used to saying in the Middle East: “If a dog barks in the Middle East, British intelligence is behind it.” Replace the word […]
Source: Reuters By Rupam Jain 3 MIN READ NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian police have arrested two Hindu farmers in connection with the killing of a Muslim man suspected of […]