Besieged & Branded: The Burden Of Being A Muslim in India
Source: Anindianmuslim.com By Mahtab Alam “Serial Bomb Blasts in Delhi. Where are you, Are you safe?” read a text message on my Mobile, by Sonali Garg, a friend of mine […]
Israeli companies to help clean holiest river of India ‘Ganges’
Source: Ynetnews Indian engineers, researchers seek Israeli water technologies for river’s rejuvenation; deal estimated at $3 billion India is considering the possibility of integrating Israeli technologies in a national initiative to clean the Ganges River. For this purpose, engineers, researchers and representatives form water technology companies will visit Israelnext week. […]
God-awful pollution of India’s waters
the guardian Do the gods pollute? Scientists in India, worried about the public health consequences of immersing idols in lakes and rivers, have been looking anew at water pollution. They hope, and perhaps in some cases pray, to harmonise their medical concerns with some people’s religious priorities. Most of their research has focused on idols […]
Indian cities with over 2 million population to get metro rail
Source: Ibnlive.com New Delhi, Apr 30 (PTI) Cities with a population of 20 lakh or more are being considered for modern mass rapid metro rail and feasibility studies have been ordered in this regard. “We have already asked the state governments to conduct feasibility studies for metro rail projects in […]
Betrayed by India: The tale of the Pakistani Hindu refugee
Credit: First Post India by Wasim Sroya Pakistani Hindus carry an idol of Ganesha, for immersion at Laxmi Narain Temple in Karachi last year. Pakistani Hindu’s in India are in perpetual hope that the Indian government will offer them permanent refuge. Reuters “Hindus are like a fish out of water […]
Indian teenager annuls her child ‘marriage’
Source: BBC News A young woman has had her child “marriage” legally annulled in northern Rajasthan state, in what is thought to be the first case of its kind in India. Laxmi Sargara, 18, wed Rakesh when she was just one and he was three. She grew up with […]
UN chief Ban laments rich-poor divide on trip to India
Source: BBC News India has made impressive economic progress but there are “serious disparities between rich and poor”, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said. “There are many people who don’t have [access to basic services,” he told reporters in Delhi on the second day of a three-day visit to India. […]
Should religion help conscience of those who rule us? India: a case in point
Written by Muhammad Azimul Haque Gujarat’s encounter specialist and suspended super cop D.G, Vanzara who is in Ahmedabad jail alleged involved in many fake encounters of Muslims including Mumbai based […]
India urges WHO to set up mechanism to curb drinking
Source: Times of India NEW DELHI: India has proposed to the World Health Organization (WHO) to set up a framework for control of alcohol consumption on the lines of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). FCTC was the first international treaty negotiated under the auspices of WHO […]
Global famine if India, Pakistan unleash nukes: study
CHICAGO: More than a billion people around the world would face starvation if India and Pakistan unleash nuclear weapons, even if that war is regionally limited, a study released Tuesday […]
India’s remote sensing satellite Risat-1 set for Thursday launch
The countdown for the Thursday early morning launch of a rocket laden with remote sensing satellite Risat-1 has begun in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, an ISRO official said, a step that will reinforce India’s global leadership position in the field. Remote sensing satellites send back pictures and other data for […]
India Struggles to Deliver Enough Power
Source: The New York Times NELLORE, India — India has long struggled to provide enough electricity to light its homes and power its industry around the clock. In recent years, the government and private sector sought to change that by building scores of new power plants. But that campaign is […]
Deaths put Siachen standoff into sharp relief
Credit: Asia Times By Sudha Ramachandran BANGALORE – An avalanche near the Siachen Glacier, which buried around 140 Pakistani soldiers and civilian contractors a fortnight ago, has triggered debate in India and Pakistan over the huge costs of keeping troops in a stand-off at its icy heights. Pakistan’s army chief […]
Indian State Finds Itself in Tight Grip of Addiction
Source: The New York Times KAZIKOT VILLAGE, India — In this village not far from the Pakistani border, the wheat harvest is only days away. Water buffaloes are resting in the shade. Farmers are preparing their fields. And drug addicts like Pargat Singh are crouched in the shadows, injecting […]
India test-fires ‘China-killer’ missile capable of reaching Beijing, Europe
Source: MSNBC India test-fired a nuclear-capable, long-range missile capable of reaching deep inside China and Europe Thursday, television stations showed, putting the emerging Asian power into an elite club of nations with intercontinental nuclear defense capabilities. A scientist at the launch site said the launch was successful, minutes after television […]
End the violence
Credit: TOI Unsure of just how unwanted girls are in India? Here’s appalling evidence – angry with his wife, a 30-year-old youth in Haryana’s Jhajjar district turned on his three little daughters. The father apparently first tried to hang the children – all between two to seven years – from […]
An Indian Muslim’s response to Pakistan
Pakistan is full of people who still think that they will someday launch a ‘holy war’ or let’s say “Gajwa–e-Hind” on India. They aspire of imposing their colonial rule on India, quite same as America has done in Afghanistan and Iraq. The subjects as it aspires will have a unbreakable […]
India: Religious leaders praise Ahmadiyya community’s efforts to promote peace
Ahmadiyya Times: India; Press Statement : New Delhi: Leaders belonging to different faiths praised Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s effort to promote Peace in society during the one day Peace Symposium held here on Saturday. […]
Osmania University Beef Festival Leads To Violence
Huff Post A beef festival organized by Dalit students at Osmania University in Hyderabad, India on April 15th erupted into violence, the BBC reports. About 100 members of the Hindu right wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarti Parishad (ABVP) protested the festival, leading to five injuries according to The Hindu report. ABVP protested the beef festival on the ground that […]
AMC Delhi Peace symposium Press Release : Religious leaders praise Ahmadiyya community’s efforts to promote Peace
15 April 2012 (New Delhi). Leaders belonging to different faiths praised Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s effort to promote Peace in society during the one day Peace Symposium held here on Saturday. […]