Source: ET It’s a sad little word ‘tawdry’. Dictionaries, my own old-fashioned print variety and the online version all concur — cheap shoddy and tasteless they say. I got 90 minutes of full-on tawdry last Monday morning when I grumped before the TV set with my cereal and the first […]
It was just one year after the second world war ended, which brought death and destruction over Europe, when three young Muslim Missionaries from British India, arriving via England, stopped over in Switzerland on 13th October 1946. The actual destination was Germany, but at that moment the entry was […]
Source: Huffington Post By Craig Considine; Sociologist at Rice University As an advocate of interfaith dialogue, particularly between Christians and Muslims, I’m often faced with the issue of conversion. People […]
Following news item was sent The Muslim Times by Haider Qureshi, a renowned author, poet, and literary critic. Many students have written their masters, doctoral thesis on his work. “The formation of Urdu ghazal: the origins of the genre” is the first attempt by a Russian scholar to analyze the initial […]
“Donald, seriously, you know about sexual predators and things like that, I mean…” Donald Trump’s numerous interviews with Howard Stern over the years appear to be coming back to haunt him. Follow Sid Verma @_SidVerma Here is Donald Trump’s response to suggestions he is a “sexual predator” 1:09 PM – 13 […]
14 Oct 2016 BANGKOK POST Privy Council president Prem Tinsulanonda has been named Regent pro tempore following the passing of His Majesty the King on Thursday, NLA vice-president […]
But RCMP say they have no evidence that the Bashaw fire and the graffiti are linkedThis is a screenshot from a video of the fire that destroyed the Bashaw Motor Inn early Sunday morning. (Facebook/Brian Cabelka) Racist graffiti was found at the scene of a deadly fire that burned a central […]
President Obama Campaign Rally for Hillary Clinton in Cleveland, Ohio (10/14/2016) Incidentally, the chief Editor of the Muslim Times, Zia Hussain Shah, shares the middle name with the President
Source: BBC Israel has frozen co-operation with the UN’s cultural agency, accusing it of denying Judaism’s connections to the religion’s holiest sites. Its education minister said a Unesco draft decision […]
Source: BBC By Melissa Hogenboom 14 October 2016 Astronomers have spotted some ancient stars, known as RR Lyrae. They are at least 10 billion years old and were found hiding […]
Source: BBC By Chris Baraniuk 14 October 2016 Most people think of Apple as a company that makes phones, computers and smart watches – not an energy provider. But in […]
Source: Religion News Service By Emily McFarlan Miller Emily McFarlan Miller is a national reporter for RNS based in Chicago. She covers evangelical and mainline Protestant Christianity. (RNS) In the […]
Source: The Washington Post By Nick Anderson October 13 at 5:22 PM A Catholic University graduate has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that her alma mater was “deliberately indifferent” to […]
Source: The Washington Post By Michael E. Miller Howard County Sheriff James F. Fitzgerald is resigning over allegations that he made racist, sexist and anti-Semitic remarks and bullied those who […]
Source: JTA (JTA) — The U.S. Department of Education gave a $4.9 million grant to a New York-based network of Hebrew-language charter schools. The five-year grant, which was awarded last month, will allow Hebrew Public to expand its schools in Harlem and Brooklyn as well as develop new schools in […]
Source: Religion News Service By Kimberly Winston (RNS) For the first time since the last century, this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature went to an American writer — singer, songwriter, author Bob […]
http://tribune.com.pk/story/1198895/india-clips-spy-pigeons-wings-fears-will-fly-back-pakistan/ Indian police have clipped the wings of a “Pakistani pigeon” they claim to have arrested from Bamial village in Punjab province nearly two weeks ago over suspicion of ‘spying’. “The wings of the pigeon have been clipped to ensure the suspected spy does not fly back to Pakistan,” The Telegraph […]
theguardian: by Alison Flood — DC superhero punching for gender equality to be honoured at her 75th birthday party, attended by Ban Ki-moon and ‘surprise guests’ Heroic role model … a Wonder Woman party plate. Photograph: Handout The United Nations is due to welcome a new honorary ambassador for […]
AUTOMATED PRODUCTION Robots promise cure for Swiss manufacturing blues By Matthew Allen OCT 12, 2016 – 11:00 ABB’s YuMi robot can work, uncaged, alongside humans (AFP) It is hoped that robots can stem, or even reverse creeping deindustrialisation. An automated future is already becoming a reality in Switzerland. Squeezed by […]
BHUMIBOL OBITUARY The late Thai king’s youth in Switzerland By Luigi Jorio OCT 13, 2016 King Bhumibol of Thailand, who reigned for seven decades, died in hospital aged 88(Keystone) Thailand’s […]