UK David Cameron arrives in Afghanistan on troop visit
David Cameron arrived in Kandahar today to visit troops based in Afghanistan. The Prime Minister was supposed to visit Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, but had to divert south due […]
Chinese, Polish Presidents Hold Talks, Agree to Enhance Bilateral Ties
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday held talks with his Polish counterpart Bronislaw Komorowski, and both agreed to advance bilateral relations to a level of strategic partnership. President Hu hailed the development of Sino-Polish relations since the two states established diplomatic ties in 1949, and especially after their friendly cooperative […]
Protests flare in southern Chinese town of Haimen
Thousands of people have protested in southern China against plans to build a new coal-fired power plant. Protesters say two students died in the unrest in the town of Haimen in Guangdong province. Read More…
Facebook Is Making Us Miserable
Source / Courtesy: Harvard Business Review Blog by Daniel Gulati | Comments (438) When Facebook was founded in 2004, it began with a seemingly innocuous mission: to connect friends. Some seven years and 800 million users later, the social network has taken over most aspects of our personal and professional lives, and […]
A Bad Deed of ‘Goodword Books’: Deleting Sir Zafrulla Khan’s name from Foreword
Here let me share with you a bad deed of Goodword Books in their republication of a book by an Italian Orientalist, Prof. Laura Veccia Vaglieri in 2004. The book an interpretation […]
Two Muslim religious leaders sue airlines for discrimination
Courtesy: CNN Two Muslim religious leaders sue airlines for discrimination – CNN.com By Jim Barnett, CNN 2011-12-19T23:48:40Z CNN.com Two Islamic religious leaders from Tennessee claim a Delta pilot prevented them from flying after they were cleared to board. Washington (CNN) — Two Islamic religious leaders from Tennessee filed a […]
Bhagavad Gita too hot for Russia: Allegory vs. literal understandings
Asia Times Online: Neeta Lal: Close on the heels of India’s liberal intellectual tradition receiving a jolt with the removal of an essay – ”Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translations” – by the late scholar A K Ramanujan from Delhi University’s BA history (honors) syllabus, comes […]
The Pakistanis Have a Point
Source: NY Times. As an American visitor in the power precincts of Pakistan, from the gated enclaves of Islamabad to the manicured lawns of the military garrison in Peshawar, from the luxury fortress of the Serena Hotel to the exclusive apartments of the parliamentary housing blocks, you can expect three […]
Germany’s favourite food
Source: The Local Wintertime may be cold and grey in Germany, but the it’s the perfect season to enjoy some of the country’s notoriously hearty food. The Local has compiled a list of some our favourite German culinary delights. Read more… Click here for The Local List
How Finding Higgs Could Change Physics
Source: Spiegel International Physicists have already discovered 12 of nature’s building blocks. Now, after a 50 year search, the most elusive one may be at hand: the Higgs boson. But […]
Markets Jump in U.S. and Europe on Hopeful Signs
Source: NY Times. Stocks rose on Tuesday in Europe and on Wall Street as a drop in Spain’s borrowing costs and unexpectedly positive data from Germany eased euro zone debt worries. Short-term financing costs for struggling Spain more than halved as banks lapped up debt at an auction, with much […]
Hard times in Eurozone
Source: TOI on line If we take the first rumblings of trouble in the US sub-prime mortgage markets as the starting point, it’s been roughly five years since the global financial crisis began. There have been significant qualitative changes along the way. The US now seems, at least in relative […]
The age of conflict
http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/hub.1324331373.html Source: TOI on Line Call it conflict. Call it confrontation. Or call it simply the dialectic of growth. Whatever you call it, clashes take the world ahead. We may talk endlessly about peace and stability, how crucial continuity is. But what brings about change and opens up new ideas, […]
The Root Cause of Terrorism: An Unholy Thought
This article examines the root cause, regardless of the religious or the political affiliation of the perpetrator. Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times […]
the Taliban per se is not our enemy. That’s critical,”
Source: TOI “the Taliban per se is not our enemy. That’s critical,” US Vice-President Joe Biden said. WASHINGTON: The United States has said that Taliban is not an enemy of America, a move seen as the latest effort of the Obama administration to send an olive branch to the […]
Indonesian Women Awarded for Community Contributions
Yes, They Can: Traditionally, the only roles available to women in Indonesia were “masak, macak dan manak” (cooking, dressing up and bearing children). But today, this is far from the […]
What happens when a Gazan wants to marry a West Bank woman?
Did you know that Israel allows Gaza residents to enter the West Bank to attend their relatives’ weddings but not to get betrothed themselves? By Amira Hass Did you know that Israel allows Gaza residents to enter the West Bank to attend their relatives’ weddings but not to get betrothed […]
Violation of Religious lands
Grave matters: Israel violates Muslim religious lands Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denounced the recent rash of desecration and vandalism of mosques and Muslim cemeteries. But the destruction of […]
Human life is indeed precious: A California teen gets 21 years for killing gay student
Source / Courtesy: CNN Ventura, California (CNN) — A Southern California teen who pleaded guilty to killing a gay classmate was sentenced Monday to 21 years in prison. Brandon McInerney, […]
Cunning Kim confounds to the last
Source: Asiatimes on line. By Sunny Lee BEIJING – While South Koreans are elated over the death of dictator Kim Jong-il, for security analysts who have to consider many different factors in assessing the geopolitical risks of the absence of the Dear Leader, his death came “a bit early”. The […]