Source: The New York Times KAZIKOT VILLAGE, India — In this village not far from the Pakistani border, the wheat harvest is only days away. Water buffaloes are resting in the shade. Farmers are preparing their fields. And drug addicts like Pargat Singh are crouched in the shadows, injecting […]
Source: MSNBC India test-fired a nuclear-capable, long-range missile capable of reaching deep inside China and Europe Thursday, television stations showed, putting the emerging Asian power into an elite club of nations with intercontinental nuclear defense capabilities. A scientist at the launch site said the launch was successful, minutes after television […]
Northumberland TODAY: PORT HOPE — In 14 months, the Ahmadiyya Muslin Youth Association of Canada has visited 200 communities in Canada, its 2,649 volunteers helping them reach 1.3-million people in a bid to promote peace, condemn terrorism and dispel myths about Islam. On Saturday, they will make a stop at […]
SJ-R.com: Religion is the cause of wars and division, according to critics such as Richard Dawkins and the late Christopher Hitchens. But what if religion itself is not to blame, but the personality of the believer? Oddly enough, the issue of sexual compatibility sparked my insight. Stay with me, and […]
The Israel National News: The Israeli volunteer organization Eye from Zion is providing free cataract surgery to thousands of patients in Ethiopia, according to a press release issue by the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday. When the delegation of volunteers first arrived in Ethiopia in February, they were […]
The Jakarta Globe: AN eight-year-old Indonesian boy who smoked more than a pack a day from age four has kicked the habit, a child-welfare commission said today. The boy, Ilham, […]
An average male spends during his entire life around 3100 hours shaving. It’s true! Most people shed between 50 to 100 hairs every day. The question is, where do they go? Squirrels forget where 50% of the nuts they’ve hidden are. Useless, Hahaha. Did you know the first bullet proof […]
Lankaweb An objection that is raised is that why Ahmadi Muslims do not go for Hajj? Instead they go to their holy place in Qadian (the birth-place of their Founder Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Punjab, India)? Hajj is a pillar of Islam which they disrespect and they show more love for […]
Writing for Forbes Magazine, climate change alarmist Steve Zwick calls for skeptics of man-made global warming to be tracked, hunted down and have their homes burned to the ground, yet another shocking illustration of how eco-fascism is rife within the environmentalist lobby. “We know who the active denialists are – […]
By Morton and Eden on April 3, 2012 10:51 AM 1,400-year-old dinar is believed to be first made with gold from ‘Mine of Commander of the Faithful’ A unique and […]
Russian TV: A top Russian Orthodox cleric has said that the Church supports a strong Russian state, but only if it exists in unity with the people and with all […]
Source: huffingtonpost by Nake M. Kamrany, Jessica Stauffer and Faiyaz Azim Posted: 04/18/2012 6:03 pm Bangladesh is poised to follow China and India’s recent growth pattern of rising per capita income as the recent distribution of economic growth has shifted in favor of low and middle income countries. […]
Queen Beatrix has praised Turkey’s “great past” and the important role Turkey has played in the region and in the world. “Your country is a stable factor in a turbulent region in which existing powers and relations are constantly being challenged,” the queen told President Abdullah Gül. “To many your […]
Dawn: KARACHI: Murtaza Razvi, a senior assistant editor and head of magazines at Dawn, was murdered in the early hours of Thursday, in Karachi. According to police, Razvi’s body was found […]
She first appeared on my radar after starring in Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Judd played her Tennessee Williams-type role with an elegant, uniquely Southern neurosis. Throughout the film, human frailty seeped from every pore. I gained even more respect for her after reading her biography. Getting knocked around in […]
The anti-Islam Freedom Party (PVV) in the southern province of Limburg has slammed its own provincial representatives Antoine Janssen and Theo Krebber because they have agreed to attend a lunch with Turkish President Abdullah Gül, who is currently on a visit to the Netherlands. The two provincial councillors will be […]
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands will be paying a state visit to Turkey from 13 to 15 June, a spokesperson has announced. The trip is part of celebrations marking 400 years of diplomatic ties between the Netherlands and Turkey. The Queen will visit Ankara and Istanbul, and attend a performance […]
Credit: Asia Times: By Dilip Hiro The following ingredients should go a long way to produce a political thriller. Mr M, a jihadi in an Asian state, has emerged as the mastermind of a terrorist attack in a neighboring country, which killed six Americans. After sifting through a vast cache […]
Credit: TOI Unsure of just how unwanted girls are in India? Here’s appalling evidence – angry with his wife, a 30-year-old youth in Haryana’s Jhajjar district turned on his three little daughters. The father apparently first tried to hang the children – all between two to seven years – from […]