BOSTON, BRAZIL AND ISLAM Irrational Rhetoric, Illegal Wars

During his talk sponsored by the New American Foundation in March 2008, author Parag Khanna addressed the rising challenges facing the US’s global hegemony. According to Khanna, China and the European Union are the new contenders with the battl...

USCIRF’s Recommendation to Continue Ban on Modi’s US Visa Hailed

The Indian American Muslim Council, an advocacy group dedicated to safeguarding India’s pluralist and tolerant ethos, lauded the United States Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), for calling on the Obama administration to m...

Abused Indian Culture and the West

Recently two major events of rape and supposed murder of a college student and a five-year old girl have shaken the nation’s collective conscience. People from all walks of life showed their anger in the streets. The Union Home Minister tried t...

Zionism and the United States Congress

The ideology, or political project, of Zionism which underlies the creation of the State of Israel had, in fact, a Christian origin rather than a Jewish one, as writings can be found dating from the 1500’s, written by Christian clergymen in Eng...

US Worried over Forced Disappearances, Arbitrary Arrests, Detention and Custodial Deaths - II

The law provides for the right to a fair trial, but the judiciary could not always protect this right due to corruption and weak human and institutional capacities. Prosecutors and judges were underpaid, and their low monthly retainer of 3,000 taka (...

Students Turn Junk into light at Solar Lamp Design Contest

Using junk material such as coconut shells, discarded telephone instruments, and wooden boxes students of engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu have shown how it is possible to make solar lamps for just around Rs 300. As many as 65 teams from 20 institu...

Cordial Relations with Neighbours Necessary for World Peace: JIH

By OUR STAFF REPORTER
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind has stressed on the need to maintain cordial and peaceful relations with the neighbouring countries which is essential for world peace.  The JIH leaders were addressing a press conference at its headqu...

UN Official Asks India to Lift Draconian Act

UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women Rashida Manjoo on 1 May urged the government to repeal the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from Kashmir and India’s troubled Northeast, local media reported.
“The Act violates inter...

Special Enthusiasm Needed for Dawah, Dr. Subhani

By OUR STAFF REPORTER
To win the trust and reliance of a community is the first principle of Islamic Dawah before presenting it to the community members. Even the prophets had followed the same rule and their society had relied upon them totally in ...