HUMAN RIGHTS IN BANGLADESH Forced Disappearances, Arbitrary Arrests, Detentions, Custodial Deaths Order of the Day

SK. ENAMUL HOQUE, in the light of the US Report on human rights in Bangladesh, paints a graphic picture of the human rights condition in the country.
The United States has identified forced disappearances, discrimination against marginalised groups...

Kill Merchants of Sex before Killing Rapists Media has become the brigadier of immorality

In the wake of Delhi gang rape case, I had written several articles stressing the need of uprooting the real cause of increase in all sex related threats including dangers to health and security of human beings. But such is the hold of the ...

With Rise of MNCs Israeli Influence is Increasing: Seminar

With the growth of multinational companies in our country the Israeli influence is increasing day by day; they are influencing national policies as well. These views were expressed by Maulana Khalid Rashid Farangi Mahli, Imam Idgah, Lucknow while add...

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Is the Quest for God Impossible?

Shri Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudevji, a prominent Hindu writer states: “This is the only culture on the planet which is a godless culture in the sense that there is no concretised idea of God in this culture. You can worship a rock, a cow, your mother...

New Scheme of Cost Collection on Interest-Free Microfinance Proposed

A new scheme for absorption of administrative overhead of interest-free cash loan arrangement was presented by Dr. Waquar Anwar, who is basically a Cost Accountant and renders his services as Finance Advisor at headquarters Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, at a...

Akhilesh Steps Forward to Fulfil Promise to Muslims

In a significant move, the Akhilesh government in Uttar Pradesh has withdrawn terror charges against Tariq Qasmi, who was arrested in connection with the serial blast at Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad in November 2007, which killed 15 people and inju...

‘Ethnic Cleansing’ in Myanmar: HRW

Human Rights Watch (HRW), a leading international rights group, on 22 April, accused authorities in Myanmar, including Buddhist monks, of fomenting an organised campaign of ethnic cleansing against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority that ki...

Ever Wondered?

Ever wondered as to why
Lightning strikes, goes fleeting by
And the age old nursery rhyme
Forms a chatter time to time
A star shines, above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky...
Ever wondered as to how
Place to place these rivers flo...