Malta Peace Symposium 2012
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta organised its annual “Peace Symposium 2012” on Friday 16th March 2012, at the Grand Hotel Excelsior, Floriana, Malta. In this symposium Dr. Simon Busuttil MEP, […]
The Moral of the story is. . .
A man asked his wife what she’d like for her 40th birthday. “I’d love to be six again,” she replied. On the morning of her birthday, he got her up bright and early and off they went to a local theme park. What a day! He put her on every […]
Ex-US Vice-President Dick Cheney has heart transplant
BBC Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney has had a heart transplant and is now recovering in hospital, his office has said. It said the surgery had been carried out on Saturday at the Inova Fairfax Hospital in Virginia. Mr Cheney, 71, has had heart problems for much of his adult […]
10 ways a little bit of writing can solve all your problems:
Source: Barking up the wrong tree Writing has been shown to help people: Feel happier. Lose weight. Get over a break-up. Improve memory and increase learning. Get a job. Speed healing. Strengthen relationships. Follow through with their goals. Get over the past. Reduce worrying and increase performance. Don’t like writing? How about a little more reading? It can: Treat loneliness. Make […]
Anxiety Boosts Sense of Smell
ScienceDaily (Mar. 22, 2012) — Anxious people have a heightened sense of smell when it comes to sniffing out a threat, according to a new study by Elizabeth Krusemark and Wen Li from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US. In animals, the sense of smell is an essential tool to […]
Sleeping Too Much or Too Little Can Be Bad for Your Heart
ScienceDaily (Mar. 26, 2012) — Getting too little sleep — or even too much — appears to spell trouble for the heart. New data reveal that adults who get less than six hours of sleep a night are at significantly greater risk of stroke, heart attack and congestive heart failure. Even […]
Apocalypse 2012: France’s Bugarach Peak Draws Believers Who Await Alien Rescuers
Huff Post Religion Sects of doomsday believers have starteddescending on the tiny French town of Bugarach in the belief that it’s the only place in the world that will survive the apocalypse they expect will occur on December 21, 2012, the BBC reports. Many spiritual groups believe that Bugarach, a farming village […]
Obama and Hu to co-ordinate on North Korea rocket launch
China and the US have agreed to co-ordinate their response to any “potential provocation” if North Korea goes ahead with a planned rocket launch, the White House says. North Korea says the long-range rocket will carry a satellite. The US says any launch would violate UN resolutions and be a […]
UK asks China to probe man’s death in Chongqing
The British government has asked the Chinese authorities to look again into the death of a UK citizen. Neil Heywood died in Chongqing last November, apparently because of the over-consumption of alcohol. Read More…
Mullah Krekar jailed for five years in Norway
Courtesy: BBC Mullah Krekar, the Kurdish founder of radical Islamic group Ansar al-Islam, has been sentenced to five years in jail in Norway for making death threats against officials and others. Mullah Krekar, 55, came to Norway as a refugee in 1991. Krekar, who says he is no longer involved […]
France: wind turbine plan could create 6,000 jobs.
By Rfi French energy giant GDF Suez says its plan to build hundreds of wind turbines off France’s Atlantic coast and in the English Channel would create 6,000 local jobs. The company is leading a consortium of bidders including Areva and Vinci for the contract to install 500 to 600 […]
In Pakistan, Hindus Say Woman’s Conversion to Islam Was Coerced
Source: The New York Times GHOTKI, Pakistan — Banditry is an old scourge in this impoverished district of southern Pakistan, on the plains between the mighty river Indus and a sprawling desert, where roving gangs rob and kidnap with abandon. Lately, though, local passions have stirred with allegations of […]
Atheists, please read my heathen manifesto | Julian Baggini
Sunday 25 March 2012 Source: http://apps.facebook.com/theguardian/commentisfree/2012/mar/25/atheists-please-read-heathen-manifesto Atheists are too often portrayed as bishop-bashing extremists and any meaningful debate with the religious becomes impossible. How can this be remedied? At the Guardian Open Weekend, Julian Baggini presented his 12 rules for heathens In recent years, we atheists have become more confident […]
Israel cuts all ties with UN human rights watchdog over settlement row
Israel is halting all cooperation with the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) following the council’s decision to launch a fact-finding mission into the country’s settlements in the West Bank […]
Switzerland: Swimming lessons also for Muslims
Lausanne, Switzerland. The federal court as expected upheld its decision of 3 years ago that Muslim children should not be given permission to skip the obligatory mixed-gender swimming lessons in […]
Six-Points Programme or Independence? – by Nurul Islam, Research Fellow Emeritus of International Food Policy Research Institute
Source: The Daily Star Nurul Islam It is widely believed by a large number of people of all political persuasions that the Six-Points Programme was a demand for autonomy of East Pakistan in a conventional sense within a federation of two regions of East and West Pakistan. However, the […]
First-hand account of Operation Searchlight; Flashback of the night of March 25, 1971
Source: The Daily Star Monday, March 26, 2012 OP-ED Photo: Arechive Abidur Rahman My heart bleeds when I vividly remember the tragic scenario of the fatal night of March 25, 1971. Destiny goaded me into a stormy orbit of the country’s journalism. After Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was released […]
Bangladesh: Nation salutes Independence heroes
source: The Daily Star Visitors at the National Memorial wave flags to pay tribute to Liberation War heroes. Photo: Palash Khan Star Online Report Hundreds of thousands of people of different generations thronged Liberation War memorials across the country Monday to pay tribute to the brave sons and daughters […]
Ahmadiyya Mosque at Saidabad in Hyderabad attacked by Extremists
By Shahid Pervaiz, Bangalore Ahmadiyya Mosque at Saidabad in Hyderabad was attacked and the worshipers were locked inside for more than 3 hrs, today. Youm e Messiah-e-Moud was being celebrated today (Sunday being a public holiday) at many Mosques and Mission Houses around India. At the Saidabad Mosque “Masjid ul Hamd” the Jalsa had started at 11am and […]
Kenya: Six Months Into Operation Linda Nchi, Time for Soul-Searching
Credit: Allafrica.Com A few weeks from now- April 16th to be precise-Operation Linda Nchi will be entering its sixth month since the launch in mid October last year. It is time for some serious soul-searching and honest appraisal. There are several pertinent questions that ought to be asked of our […]