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 […]
Source: The New York Times DABRA, India — One after the other, the men raped her. They had dragged the girl into a darkened stone shelter at the edge of the fields, eight men, maybe more, reeking of pesticide and cheap whiskey. They assaulted her for nearly three hours. […]
Dawn: NEW DELHI: New Indian foreign minister Salman Khurshid is the latest member of India’s most illustrious Muslim family to be entrusted with one of the highest offices in the […]
Source: BBC News By Narayan Bareth The condition of a month-old Indian baby girl, whose rickshaw-puller father was forced to take her to work when her mother died, is improving, doctors say. Damini has been taken off life-support and she is now stable, Dr JK Mittal of the Fortis hospital […]
Pakistani whirling dervish dancers from Shah Hussains Mazaar perform during the 2012 International Sufi Festival in Amritsar, India on Oct. 21, 2012. Participants from various countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Maldives, […]
Source: TOI There isn’t a formal diktat but it’s the talk of staff rooms after many women teachers noticed students taking pictures of them with mobile cameras. KOCHI: Managements of several private schools in Kerala want women teachers to adopt a dress code to avoid prying eyes of male students. […]
Source: TOI KOLKATA: A West Bengal CPM stalwart is on a pilgrimage to Mecca. Days ahead of embarking on Haj, Abdur Rezzak Mollah, credited for sounding an early warning on the Left Front’s disastrous land acquisition policy, insisted his faith in Karl Marx figured way below his absolute devotion to […]
Source: Live Mint Central bank asked to examine the possibility of making interest-free model part of India’s Rs.75 trillion banking system Reserve Bank of India governor D. Subbarao said last week that the apex bank was holding talks with the government on how existing laws can be restructured or amended […]
Source: Milligazette This is surprising, because everyone thought that website content has been blocked because of Assam violence and exodus of people of North East India from Bangalore and elsewhere. The Milli Gazette Published Online: Oct 02, 2012 Print Issue: 1-15 September 2012 By Kashif-ul-Huda Editor, twocircles.net I woke up […]
Source: Albawaba Business Emirates Islamic Bank (EIB), one of the leading Islamic financial institutions in the region and the Islamic banking arm of Emirates NBD Group, announced today the launch of a three weeks-long “Indian Rupee (INR) Remittance Campaign,” which offers customers the opportunity to remit funds to India at […]
Source: The Hindu Written by Markandey Katju Indians must defeat all those elements that promote and thrive on religious hatred Though many Hindus and Muslims in India are today infected by the virus of communalism, the fact is that before 1857 there was no communal feeling at all in most […]
Wednesday, October, 10 2012 – PUNJAB NEWSLINE QADIAN (GURDASPUR): A high level of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat delegate met Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal in his resident today and demanded […]
Source: Times of India AMRITSAR: With intentions of creating rift between Sikhs and Ahmadiyya Muslims, a person using fake ID on Facebook has attempted to defile Guru Nanak Dev and […]
Source: Punjab Newsline Monday, October, 08 2012 – 19:57 CHANDIGARH: The recent sacrilegious incident attributed to an Ahmadiya youth appears to be rooted in the intra-faith rivalry between the different sects among the Muslims. The sacrilegious post on Facebook allegedly attributed to some youth who claimed himself to be an […]
Source: Punjab Newsline: Monday, October, 08 2012 – 16:51 QADIAN (GURDASPUR): Ahmadiyya Jamaat has demanded strict action against those persons who are responsible for insulting Sikh gurus on facebook post. A delegate of Ahmadiyya Jamaat met SSP Batala along with Baba Sukhdev Singh Bedi, a descendant of Guru Nanak Dev […]
Source: TOI Police on Saturday booked the authorities of a madrassa for allegedly beating up a 12-year-old boy and holding him captive for not showing interest in studying Arabic in Andhra Pradesh’s Medak district. Police said the boy had joined Minhajul Uloom Madrassa two years ago. In his complaint, the […]
Source: TOI Patients must ask their doctor about the pros and cons of the treatment offered before making a decision. NEW DELHI: Here’s a warning from a medical expert you won’t get too often: Do not follow your doctor’s prescriptions blindly and question whether you really need to undergo the […]