NYTimes 2017/08/17 GORAKHPUR, India — It was around 6 a.m. last Friday, said Mohamed Jahid — the father of a very sick little girl being treated at a government hospital — when the oxygen stopped. The situation was desperate, but the parents of children in the intensive care unit did […]
timesofindia.indiatimes.com: India’s ambitious experiment with freedom of religion has failed. Our insipid brand of secularism, based on states’ active engagement amid stated religious neutrality, has led to the appeasement of a few, but empowers none and brings injustice for all. Instead of uniting our society, it has fomented fragmentation and […]
Maulana Mohammed Fayyaz Baqri’s wife is among the many women who impart knowledge about the Quran to fellow Muslim women. http://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/cover-story/in-a-first-yari-road-mosque-opens-door-to-women-ulemas/articleshow/60078262.cms- By Linah Baliga, Mumbai Mirror | Updated: Aug 16, 2017, 01.21 AM IST At a time when Muslim women are breaking into many a male bastion, a mosque on Yari Road has […]
Source: Associated Press By RISHABH R. JAIN AMRITSAR, India (AP) — In the 70 years since India and Pakistan were created from the former British Empire, there has never been […]
Source: BBC An Indian woman in the southern state of Telangana says she is being “socially ostracised” because she supported a farmer from the Dalit (formerly untouchable) community. Sama Indira, […]
Domestic service can extract a family from extreme poverty – but it can also be a path to near-enslavement. Tripti Lahiri investigates the uneasy, and sometimes abusive, relationship between India’s modern-day ‘madams’ and maids A woman returns home after a day’s work as a domestic help in New Delhi. […]
Source: BBC An Indian woman in the southern state of Telangana says she is being “socially ostracised” because she supported a farmer from the Dalit (formerly untouchable) community.Sama Indira, 50, from the upper caste Reddys, says her community association has imposed a fine of 5,000 rupees ($78; £60) on anyone […]
Source: Associated Press By KATHY GANNON PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Radesh Singh’s grandfather was just 11 years old when he left his village in India’s Punjab province to move to […]
Source: Telegraph By Barney Henderson, and agencies 70 years ago, Partition came into effect, dividing British India into two new, independent countries: India and Pakistan. At midnight on August 14 […]
FILE PHOTO: People belonging to Rohingya Muslim community sit outside their makeshift houses on the outskirts of Jammu, May 5, 2017. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta/File photo (reuters_tickers) By Krishna N. Das and Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) – All of an estimated 40,000 Rohingya Muslims living in India are illegal immigrants, even […]
Reuters International THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 15, 2017 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he addresses the nation from the historic Red Fort during Independence Day celebrations in Delhi, India August 15, 2017. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi (reuters_tickers) By Tommy Wilkes and Rahul Bhatia NEW DELHI (Reuters) – […]
Source: CNN Their fight began as early as the late 19th century, when some took to the battlefields and one queen even led an armed rebellion against the British. They also fought a domestic battle against oppressive traditions, such as sati (the burning of a wife on her husband’s funeral […]
Source: Dawn What’s new? Two weeks ago, a terrifying report published in the Indian Express should have scared sensible people into asking hard questions. But no one paid much attention to it — jaded publics on both sides would rather tune in to the hottest political intrigue or celebrity gossip than waste […]
Reuters International AUGUST 12, 2017 Rehana Khursheed Hashmi, 75, migrated from India with her family in 1960 and whose relatives, live in India, speaks with her grandson Zain Hashmi, 19 while looking family photo album at her residence in Karachi, Pakistan August 7, 2017. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (reuters_tickers) By […]
Source: Reuters NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – India’s top judge was urged on Thursday to scrap a civil law that permits Muslim men to divorce their wives by simply […]
Source: Yahoo News BY ASHOK SHARMA NEW DELHI (AP) — A top retiring Indian official on Thursday embarrassed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government by saying Muslims were feeling insecure […]
Source: Reuters By Malini Menon NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India and China will have to resolve their prolonged military standoff in a remote Himalayan region through talks, the Dalai Lama […]
A 30-year-old Indian woman is the youngest female commander of a Boeing 777 aircraft in the world, according to CNN. https://tribune.com.pk/story/1473017/meet-youngest-female-commander-boeing-777/ Anny Divya holds this position with Air India, and a dream to fly high in the skies. “I always wanted to become a pilot, from my childhood,” Divya told CNN Travel. “I […]
Source: Reuters By Mubasher Bukhari ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan has extended by two months the house arrest of Hafiz Saeed, accused by the United States of masterminding 2008 attacks on […]
Source: http://timesofahmad.blogspot.in/2017/08/india-ahmadiyya-delegation-from.html The Ahmadiyya delegation presented Jamaat literature to T. R. Suresh, Commissioner of Police and K M Shantharaju, Deputy Commissioner of Police of Mangalore. It was held on 25th July 2017 at 5pm in Rozario Cultural Hall, Mangalore. Mangalore Police Commissioner Office organized an event to build a public relationship […]