Photos Platinum Jubilee Celebration – Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Sent by Mubarak Ahmed, Zonal Qaid – North Zone Tamilnadu
Majlis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya Pune (India) – Platinum Jubilee celebrations
Reported by Aleem Qureishi, General Secretory, Majlis Khuddam-Ul-Ahmadiyya, Pune The Pune Majlis organized its Platinum Jubilee celebrations on Feb 3rd and 4th 2013. The event began with Tahajjud prayers held […]
Ahmadiyya Convention in Bangladesh begins.
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Bangladesh began its three-day annual convention on Friday in Dhaka with a call to spread the messages of the holy Quran and Prophet Hazrat Muhammad. This year’s convention marked its centenary celebrations that kicked off on Thursday amid attacks by their Muslim rivals. Around 700,000 people including […]
French more honest taxpayers than Germans
Source: The Local. French workers are more honest taxpayers than their German counterparts, according to a new study. More:
Who is Who in 1971 War Crime Trial
Source: The Daily Star. The following infographics is courtesy of Daily Star.
Cyprus upgrades Palestinian mission to embassy
The Times of Israel: Cyprus’s foreign minister said the Palestinian diplomatic mission to her country has been upgraded to embassy status. Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis said after talks with Palestinian Foreign Minister […]
American guns and Indonesian intolerance
The Jakarta Post: Nathanael Gratias Sumaktoyo It would be a rough comparison and some people might object to it, but it is interesting to match the gun control debate in […]
Are female converts to Islam part of a new wave of feminism?
“Being Muslim keeps me from wanting to impress others and gives me more personal confidence” “I felt Chantelle had more freedom than I did by covering herself, instead of letting […]
Dhaka: Shahbagh grand rally demands ban on Jamaat
Source: The Daily Star Protesters from the Shahbagh grand rally on Friday afternoon demanded death penalty for all war criminals including Abdul Quader Mollah and a ban on the politics of Jamaat-e-Islami and Shibir. Lakhs of protesters demand death penalty to all war criminals including Jamaat leader Quader Mollah at […]
Hewlett Directs Its Suppliers in China to Limit Student Labor
HONG KONG — Hewlett-Packard, one of the world’s largest makers of computers and other electronics, is imposing new limits on the employment of students and temporary agency workers at factories across China. The move, following recent efforts by Apple to increase scrutiny of student workers, reflects a significant shift in […]
Toronto Sun website blocked in Pakistan
Pakistan generals, we’re still here by Tarek Fatah I am flattered. Pakistan’s infamous military Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has taken exception to my columns in this newspaper and ordered the blocking of the Toronto Sun website in Pakistan. In a recent column, I had written about reports that the Pakistan army […]
Live Streaming – Annual Convention (Jalsa Salana) Bangladesh
Source: Ahmad Tabshir Choudhury: In-charge, Muslim Television Ahmadiyya Int’l (MTA) Bangladesh & National Secretary, Audio-Visual 2013 is a significant year for Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (Jama’at), Bangladesh. 100 years ago in 1913 the Jama’at […]
Odd News: Baby makes mess of New York thief’s getaway
AFP | Feb 07, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES NEW YORK — A New York car thief drove off in an SUV, only to discover there was a witness to the crime: a baby in the backseat. Maybe he had a conscience, or just didn’t want to have to change diapers, […]
An American jihadist in Somalia with few friends left
By AFP NAIROBI Once his reputation was of a feared fighter, an American-born extremist who left small town of Alabama to wage war alongside Al-Qaeda-linked Somali Islamists and who called […]
Secular Europe’s Islamic spiritual fix
Louvre Museum in Paris that recently added a wing about Muslims Source: WorldMag.com By Angela Lu Islam has been growing in European countries—especially the urban areas of France, the U.K., and Spain—through […]
Desperate for work – Jobless Europeans flock to Switzerland
Swissinfo.ch: An emergency shelter especially for European migrants is being reopened this weekend to accommodate people who would otherwise be forced to sleep rough. EU citizens from states in crisis […]
World record robot car park at DIFC (Dubai)
Robots park your car for Dh5 an hour at world’s biggest automated parking facility which has made it to the Guinness World Records By Jay B. Hilotin, Chief Reporter, Gulf […]
54 countries aided CIA in renditions
Report highlights extent of global programme in US war on terror By Mick O’Reilly Senior Associate Editor GULF NEWS Dubai: Some were picked up as they travelled through airports, others […]
Muslim nations praise Jordan’s support for Syrians, Jerusalem
CAIRO — Leaders of Muslim nations on Thursday praised Jordan’s continuous efforts in safeguarding Jerusalem’s identity and hosting Syrian refugees, according to the closing statement of an Islamic summit held […]
The murder of Shokri Belaid is a sign that Tunisia’s ‘Jasmine Revolution’ is turning dark
by Robert Fisk, The Independent Blood spattered on Tunisia’s supposedly gentle “Jasmine Revolution” yesterday when Shokri Belaid became its most important martyr, shot down outside his home in Tunis and […]