India

Indian Muslim Women Rise Against Triple Talaq

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 […]

Sins of colonialism

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 […]

India: Prominent Westerners Who visited Qadian 1912-1937

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. […]

Captain Amarinder faces radical Siks in California

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 […]

India: Impact of Wahabi Islam is growing

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 […]