By Zubair Khan On Tuesday, 30th of October-2012 at about 10.00, I entered the gate of Ahmadiyya Mohellah Qadian. Script in very bold letters, “Love for all Hatred for None” on this gate was was glittering under briskly sunshine. It was my first ever visit to Qadian Darul Amaan in […]
Written by Written by Ram Puniyani Caste is a phenomenon deeply entrenched in Indian society and the struggle against it began in the late 19th century. Despite the social movements, initiated around the ideas of Phule, Ambedkar, Periyar and many such legendary figures, it continues to pervade in the Indian […]
Source: The Hindu A bilingual publication that promotes communal harmony — ‘Aap ki Taaqat’ – was targeted by mobs during the recent Faizabad riots The recent Faizabad communal riot witnessed the usual religious symbols and shops being targeted in an attempt to disturb the communal amity of the city, which […]
Source: The New York Times NEW DELHI — An epidemic of dengue fever in India is fostering a growing sense of alarm even as government officials here have publicly refused to acknowledge the scope of a problem that experts say is threatening hundreds of millions of people, not just in India but around the […]
Source: Ummid Mumbai: V.S. Naipaul has come in forstinging criticism from noted playwright Girish Karnad for his views on Muslims in India, with the latter saying the Nobel laureate has no idea of the community’s contribution to the country’s history. “Naipaul has no idea of how Muslims contributed to Indian […]
New Delhi, Nov.6 (ANI): The ban on the entry of women into the sanctum sanctorum of the Haji Ali shrine in Mumbai drew mixed reactions from activists on Tuesday. As per the orders of the shrine management, women will not be allowed to enter the sanctum sanctorum that houses the […]
Lost tribe’s immigration to resume after five years The Times of Israel: The government has quietly decided to approve, after a five-year hiatus, continued immigration of the Bnei Menashe, a […]
Shifting Economic power from G7 to developing world After successfully introducing the acronym BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China, or BRICS including South Africa) in 2001, Jim O’Neill, chairman of Goldman […]
Source: Open Faizabad saw a brazen attack on Muslims on 24 October. From what led to this carnage, it is clear that it was not spontaneous but orchestrated COMMUNALISM CALCULATED ATTACK: Chowk area of Faizabad where shops of Muslims were targeted by arsonists on 24 October (Photos: RAUL IRANI) The […]
Written by Ram Puniyani Pakistan has been facing innumerable troubles, not entirely due to its own faults. The whole politics of oil, the designs of Empire and the subservience of Mullah-Military complex to the US designs have brought in lot of misery in the region. Currently one is painfully witnessing […]
Kerala, India: ‘Divya Smrithi’ – A Public Meeting on World Religious Figures was conducted as part of Kozhikode Zonal Conference 2012 in Kerala, India on Saturday the 3rd of November. By the grace of God, the event was a grand success. It highlighted the noble characters of world religious leaders: Prophet […]
Source: Radiance Weekly India may be closer to allowing Islamic banking than ever before with the central bank and the finance ministry discussing ways in which rules need to be changed to allow the interest-free practice that’s compatible with Shariah law. Demands by Muslim groups over the past few decades […]
Source: Indian Express Lucknow’s Hindu-Muslim father-son duo, Aiku Lal Sandil and Akbar, will be honoured at Delhi’s Phoolwalon ki Sair, which celebrates communal harmony, on Saturday. Akbar, a Muslim by birth, was adopted by Aiku Lal, a Hindu, in 2003 when Akbar landed in Lucknow after he got separated from […]
Source: Times of India BEIJING: China today rolled out a red carpet to “Missile man” and ex-President APJ Abdul Kalam on his first visit to the country, proposing a joint […]
SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir high court has held that a Muslim man’s power to divorce (Talaq) his wife is not “unrestricted or unqualified”. Justice Hasnain Masoodi in his 23-page judgment extensively went into details of the Shariah law and Quranic injunctions to hold that a “husband cannot have unrestricted […]
Source: Yahoo Finance and CNBC By Ansuya Harjani | CNBC – 1 hour 9 minutes ago The average age of employees at India’s top software services exporter — Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), one of the country’s largest private sector employers — is 28. Students attend class at the Bansal Classes in Kota, […]
Srinagar, Daily News & Analysis The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has held that a Muslim man’s power to divorce his wife is not “unrestricted or unqualified”. Justice Hasnain Masoodi in his 23-page judgment extensively went into details of the Shariah law and Quranic injunctions to hold that a “husband […]
Source: Hindustan Times An easy option to escape from hackles of rising power bills is in the offing. The Union government will provide 30% subsidy for installing home solar power generation systems. The ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) will be soon ready with a new national scheme that will […]
Source: Financial Chronicle Putting an end to the speculation on allowing Islamic banking in the country, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor, D Subbarao on Tuesday said the current Banking Regulation Act does not permit Islamic banking and that the government will have to bring in a new law […]
Source: The New York Times MANDUR, India — Outside Bangalore’s last official landfill, the garbage trucks regularly lined up here for hours, their burdens putrefying in the afternoon sun. A stinking mountain of trash, the landfill has been poisoning local waters and sickening nearby villagers. Another dump site was […]