Source:TOI Police said after having lost his all money at the share markets, the man put up his wife as a stake in IPL betting and lost her too.”The wife said the husband would beat her up every now and then and once he even urged her to bring Rs […]
Indian Muslim Women Rise Against Triple Talaq Moushumi Das Gupta, Hindustan Times, New Delhi | May 29, 2016 In April, Shayara Bano grabbed headlines when she went to the Supreme Court seeking a ban on triple Talaq (instantaneous unilateral divorce) given by her husband through a letter. The 35-year-old from […]
Source: BBC A city in India’s Rajasthan state has broken the country’s temperature records after registering 51C, the highest since records began, the weather office says. The new record in […]
SAssociate shot dead Ranjit Singh Dhadrianwale’s cavalcade was on its way to Isewal village when it was attacked near Ludhiana by 15 assailants, most of them baptised Sikhs. Dhadrianwale ducked for cover as his driver sped away. His associate was shot dead. The police said at least 50 shots were […]
‘No words can erase the pain and suffering they experienced,’ Trudeau says of victims Source: CBC Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has formally apologized in the House of Commons for the […]
Source: BBC By Rowena Henley The Dibrugarh-Kanyakumari Vivek Express train number 15906 crosses India from the northeastern state of Assam to the southernmost town of Kanyakumari. The 85-hour journey along […]
Source: BBC By Navin Singh Khadka Environment reporter, BBC World Service India is set to divert water from its rivers to deal with a severe drought, a senior minister has […]
Credits: National Geographic Author Becky Harlan Photographer Caleb Cain Marcus began his 1,500-mile pilgrimage along the the Ganges River amid the snow-capped peaks of Gangotri, India, a Hindu pilgrim town […]
Source: BBC A journalist in India is facing charges over a report he wrote saying Muslims were banned from being yoga teachers under government policy. Pushp Sharma’s report appeared in […]
Source: BBC BY Justin Rowlatt Can the sacred but toxic River Ganges be cleaned up? Justin Rowlatt travelled its length, from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal, to see […]
Source: BBC Untouchability is worse than slavery, said Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, one of India’s greatest statesmen and the undisputed leader of the country’s Dalits. Dalits (formerly known as untouchables) are […]
India: Eminent Aligrah Professor Asloob Ahmad Ansari passed away Aligarh 4th May –Zakaria Virk Eminent teacher of English Literature, famous critic and expert on Allam Iqbal, a long time professor at Aligarh Muslim University, Asloob Ahmad Ansari passed away in Aligarh. He was 91. He was born in Delhi, educated […]
Shashi Tharoor | Published — Saturday 7 May 2016 www.arabnews.com Shashi-Tharoor India’s Solicitor-General Ranjit Kumar recently declared that India would not seek the return of the Kohinoor diamond — one of the world’s oldest and most valuable — from the British, to whom India had “gifted” it. The […]
By Ghulam Misbah Baloch, AMJ Missionary, Jamia Ahmadiyya Canada- Translated & updated by Zakaria Virk, Toronto 30-4-2016 Original article was published in Urdu in al-Fazl Int. London 18-24 March 2016. A shorter version was published in Ahmadiyya Gazette Canada. http://www.ahmadiyyagazette.ca/Articles/some-eminent-christian-scholars-in-qdin.html People visit places for various reasons i.e. education, pleasure, or business. […]
Video: Amarinder faces pro-Khalistan slogans by protesters in California ANI and HTC, Fresno (California), Updated: May 04, 2016 17:53 IST Hindustantimes.com Punjab Congress president and former chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh faced protest by radical Sikhs and pro-Khalistan separatists after a gathering of non-resident Indians (NRIs) in Fresno, California, on […]
Source: Crux By Nirmala Carvalho Crux Contributor MUMBAI – Police in India on Monday arrested 14 people for the kidnapping and beating of a Catholic bishop on April 25, including […]
Source: Yahoo News New Delhi (AFP) – A group of hardline Hindu activists and police stormed a church in central India and stopped a wedding midway after accusing the pastor […]
THE PHENOMENON of Islamist terrorism has received considerable attention in recent times. Pointing to a trend of increasing radicalisation of Indian Muslims, Indian intelligence has expressed concern that it is becoming a paramount national security issue. However, in looking at Islamist fundamentalism as one of the causes for communal polarisation […]
Source: Associated Press By NIRMALA GEORGE NEW DELHI (AP) — The bank executive, the book publisher and the social worker had one thing in common: Their hectic lives in the […]
Apr 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MARK LEONARD We have entered the age of migration. If all the people who live outside the country of their birth united to form their own — a republic of the rootless — it would be the fifth-largest country in the world, with a […]