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...

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...

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...

• Cordial Relations with Neighbours Necessary for World Peace: JIH

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...

EGYPT, ARAB LEAGUE RAP ISRAELI ‘ATTACKS’ IN SYRIA

Egypt on 5 May condemned Israeli airstrikes on Syria, with the Arab League also demanding that the UN Security Council act to stop what it called “Israeli attacks” against the war-torn country. The Egyptian presidency said in a statement ...

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...

Communal Violence Bill Dumped Once Again

The much hyped communal violence bill is gradually losing its sheen and pace because once again the government has failed to show the required zeal in getting the bill tabled in the second budget session of the Parliament. The bill in its present for...

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...