Source: times of India These balanced eating rules will help your body defy the effects of time Growing older is inevitable, but looking your age is not – and slashing years off your aging body starts with eating the right foods. A healthy diet loaded with lean protein and whole […]
Source; Times of India NEW YORK: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has signed into law a bill initiated by the Sikh Coalition to significantly enhance religion-based protections for employees working in the metropolis. “Today’s law is a major step forward in ensuring Sikhs and other religious minorities are not […]
Source: Times of India As a parent have you frowned or watched in disgust as your kids stuff a handful of mud into their mouths while playing? Well you can relax, the next time this happens. For research suggests that eating mud or clay could actually be good for the […]
By Major ® Zubair Khalil Khan Due to 1947 partition, Hindu population of Karachi/Hyderabad of Pakistan migrated, thus creating a huge vacuum which was filled in by Urdu speaking Muslim population coming from neighboring country. Influx of these immigrants from India turned the local Sindhi urban population in to minority. […]
Source: Tribune.com Given the state of science in the Muslim world today, one could be forgiven for imagining that Muslim scientists have made no contributions to the accumulated knowledge of the world. Nothing could be further from the truth. Ibn-e-Sina COUNTRY: Iran INTEREST: Medicine, Astronomy, Chemistry, Geology, Psychology, Theology, Logic, Mathematics and […]
Source/Credit: The Express Tribune : By Owais Raza | September 4, 2011 LODHRAN: The municipal administration has razed to the ground an under-construction Ahmadi place of worship in Jannat Wala, a village on the outskirts of Lodhran, after clerics staged protests. Construction was suspended after labourers working at the site received death threats […]
By ARAB NEWS MAKKAH: The acting director of a branch of the Ministry of Islamic Affairs Endowments,Call and Guidance in Makkah province, Bakr bin Hamid Mir, has criticized the prolonging of prayer in Makkah mosques and said the imams have been advised not to do so. In a statement published […]
By IBRAHIM NAFFEE | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: The situation in Syria could take a turn for the worse if the government continued to disregard calls for reconciliation and reforms, Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu warned Saturday. “We were promised by top Syrian officials that the security […]
LONDON (AFP) (Jordan Times) – Sheikh Maymun Zarzur, a Lebanese imam, was killed after leading prayers at the Muslim Welfare House in London, the Islamic centre said Saturday. Zarzour was found dead on Friday after leading the early morning Fajr prayers at the Islamic community centre, Muslim Welfare House said. […]
AMMAN (Jordan Times) – Around 1.7 million students from across the Kingdom will head to schools today, including 500,000 in private and UNRWA schools. The Ministry of Education has completed preparations for the 2011-2012 scholastic year, including opening 35 new schools, in addition to renovating 60 schools. With around 16,000 […]
When comparing the reaction of President Assad of Syria and King Abdullah of Jordan to the present ‘demand for change’ in both countries one small big thing has to my knowledge not (yet) been reported. Both leaders are of course reluctant to give up any of their powers. But how […]
Source / Courtesy: YNN As the 10th anniversary of the attacks on September 11th nears, people across the world are preparing to remember. As part of a nationwide effort, Rochester’s Muslim community honored victims of the tragedy by hosting a blood drive. “In the Koran it says if you save […]
By Rami G. Khouri, The Daily Star, Beirut, Lebanon Two major Middle East-related events will take place this month with their epicenter in New York City: the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks in the United States, and the expected Palestinian bid for the United Nations General […]
source:Dailytimes-Pakistan Two despicable terrorist attacks targeting the Shiites in Pakistan should ring alarm bells but it seems that the Pakistani state is oblivious to any such warnings. On Eid day, 11 people lost their lives while more than a dozen others were injured when a suicide bomber targeted a Shia […]
Source: Times of India WASHINGTON: A US-based Sikh community advocacy group has sought UN intervention to persuade India to pass a law for separate registration of Sikh marriages. Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) Wednesday submitted a memorandum to UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief Heiner Bielefeldt seeking UN […]
source. TOI on Line Just as the witticism in American politics today is that the intellectually challenged Tea Party activists are pitted against the snobbish Coffee House elites, a witticism for the current Indian situation is that ‘Anna’ Hazare is taking on what we might call the ‘Rupaiah’ politicians and […]
By: Uri Avnery SOURCE: (READ MORE: http://www.amin.org/articles.php?t=ENews&id=3701) Such terrifying dogs have not been seen since the Hound of the Baskervilles. They have been bred by an ardent admirer of the late “Rabbi” Meir Kahane, who was branded by the Israeli Supreme Court as a fascist. Their task is to protect […]
by Samuel Jaberg in Madagascar, swissinfo.ch Each year, 200,000 hectares of forest vanish in Madagascar as trees are cut down to provide wood for heating and charcoal for cooking. One Swiss organisation is trying to turn the tide, backing the production of solar cookers as a more eco-friendly alternative to […]
telegraph.co.uk British forces have hit more than 900 targets in the campaign to protect Libyan civilians from the Gaddafi regime, the Ministry of Defence has disclosed. At least 910 targets, including secret police headquarters and command bunkers, have been damaged or destroyed since Libya air strikes began in March, officials […]
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The National Command Post for Idul Fitri reported that hundreds of people died in road accidents related to the annual homecoming exodus. “According to data from the police traffic corps, 433 people died in road accidents,” National Command Post head Hotma Simanjuntak said as quoted by […]