Huff Post: Marwan Bishara: I enjoy watching Real Time with Bill Maher whenever I can, and I especially appreciate the wittiness and humor of his New Rules. Alas, whenever the subject of Islam and the Middle East pops, the show turns ugly. To avoid the cynicism that mars Maher show […]
BBC-Urdueملک کے طول و عرض میں الیکشن کی گہماگہمی عروج پر ہے اور آج انتخابی مہم کا آخری دن ہے۔ اسی طرح انتخابات اور اس کے بعد آنے والی حکومت کے بارے میں قیاس آرائیاں اور پیش گوئیاں بھی جاری ہیں جن کی شدت میں اب شاید مزید اضافہ ہو […]
Huff Post: I was a religious kid in a pseudo-religious liberal household — a rare breed. The notion of a wrathful God that was being instilled in my mind and re-affirmed every Friday sermon was steering me away from the path, followed by a deep sense of frustration. As a […]
Source: Science Daily Patients unable to breathe because of acute lung failure or an obstructed airway need another way to get oxygen to their blood — and fast — to avoid cardiac arrest and brain injury. A team led by researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital has designed tiny, gas-filled microparticles […]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Hospitals across the nation — even those located just miles apart — charge wildly different rates for the same medical procedure. A data set released for the first time by the Department of Health and Human Services illustrates just how dramatic the price gaps can be. The […]
Source. UKTIMES. London (A. Haq) In an accident Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf’s Chief Imran Khan has got severe head injuries when he was thrashed down from the lifter. Imran Khan was supposed to deliver address in a public meeting in line with election campaign. According to reports he was being […]
Courtesy: The Daily Star Thursday, May 09, 2013 Savar tragedy, garments industry and Bangladesh Muhammad Yunus Photo: AFP THE Savar tragedy is a symbol of our failure as a nation. The crack in Rana Plaza that caused the collapse of the building has only shown us that if we […]
Tagore’s encounters with contemporary brilliant minds Fahmim Ferdous Courtesy: The Daily Star Quantum mechanics meets literature: Tagore and Einstein in Berlin. While many perceive Rabindranath Tagore as a landlord who wrote most of his masterpieces sitting in his palace-like abode, or on a luxurious boat cruising down a […]
Source: http://www.english.farsnews.com TEHRAN (FNA)- A prominent Iranian scholar strongly condemned the recent desecration of the shrine of a highly revered Shiite figure in Syria by Wahhabi extremists, and said the […]
Source: www.sana.sy DAMASCUS, (SANA)- Mosque imams and preachers on Friday condemned the terrorists’ attacks on houses of worship and shrines of Companions of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), the latest was destroying the shrine of Companion Hujr Bin Oudai in Adra city in Damascus Countryside. In their Friday sermons, the imams and preachers […]
Source: www.tehrantimes.com TEHRAN — Iranian filmmaker Majid Majid was honored at the International Conference of Diplomacy and Soft Power in the Seerah of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (S), which opened on Wednesday […]
Source: www.allafrica.com The head of the visiting volunteers from Humanity First International in UK has lauded Tahir Ahmadiyya Senior School for the high standard of hygiene in the school environment. Razia […]
Source: BD News 24 By Reazul Bashar It was Monday morning, at around 11am, when a stroll at Paltan Intersection towards Comrade Moni Singha Intersection revealed heaps of ashes lying on the footpath to the left. There were rows of bookstalls selling old books there even until Sunday noon. Hifazat-e […]
Source: BD News 24 Kamal Hossain Talukder DHAKA: Hifazat-e Islam had lost control over its Sunday’s rally, Junaid Babu Nagari, Secretary General of the organisation, told detectives during interrogations on the first day of his police remand. When asked who were then controlling the rally, Monirul Islam, Joint Commissioner, Detective Branch, […]
Your comments: Kids are being deliberately kept under-educated. Any spark of critical thinking and wider social awareness is driven out of their young minds at an early age until they […]
“I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experiences in a magnificently consistent order, but is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really […]
SBY ‘Undeserving’ of Award for Tolerance: Rights Group The Jakarta Post: An Indonesian human rights organization has blasted a US-based interfaith group’s decision to recognize President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for […]
“Science is…a powerful way, indeed – to study the natural world. Science is not particularly effective…in making commentary about the supernatural world. Both worlds, for me, are quite real and quite important. They are investigated in different ways. They coexist. They illuminate each other.” Francis Collins (1950-) –American physician-geneticist and […]
By Tarek Fatah The Toronto SUN, May 8, 2013 In 2007, Environics conducted a survey about the attitudes of Canadian Muslims. It showed an astonishing 12% of respondents said, if the men in the so-called “Toronto 18” terror plot had succeeded in carrying out their attacks on Canada, they would […]
Express Tribune: ISLAMABAD: The European Union has provided €300,000 from its Nobel Peace Prize money to Unicef Pakistan to support its educational activities for children affected by a lack of security […]