INDO-SAUDI TIES A Concrete Roadmap for Strategic Partnership

DR. S. AUSAF SAIED VASFI analyses the Riyadh Declaration signed by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and King Abdullah bin Abdul Azeez Al-Saud on March 1, and calls PM’s visit to Saudi Arabia fruitful....

AFGHANISTAN WAR The Agony Grinds on

Washington and its willing mouthpieces in the media have for years been trying to sell us the preposterous war in Afghanistan. While they attempt to convince us that the war is predicated on a faultless military logic and moral wisdom, it remains in ...

AMU Gets 122 Acres Land for Malappuram Centre

By DR. RAHAT ABRAR...

Is One Name More Equal than Others?

Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz–e–kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal)
It is a most glorious and overpowering star–burst of Allah’s beautiful names, in the midst of which I am trying – unsuc...

DRAFT COMMUNAL VIOLENCE BILL, 2009 Inadequate, Counter-productive and Unacceptable Muslim Leaders Call upon Govt. to Revise It

Muslim community leaders representing the various Muslim organisations and institutions of national eminence, on March 1 assembled in Delhi, to consider in depth the draft Communal Violence (Prevention, Control and Rehabilitation of Victims) Bill, 20...

Service to Mankind is Service to God

By MD. AHSANUL ISLAM...

Beggars cannot Be Choosers

After labourers, it is the turn of the beggars to be sent packing – this time from Delhi. The argument is simple: their presence will leave a bad image about India, which is hosting the Commonwealth Games in October 2010. The Delhi chief secret...

Dubai Murder and Israeli Apartheid

Forget the peace process. Only world public opinion can put an end to the Israeli Apartheid, just as it did in South Africa, writes AIJAZ ZAKA SYED....

PROF. A. RAHMAN A Science Policy Scientist

Professor A. Rahman, who breathed his last at his residence in Okhla, New Delhi on November 5, 2009, following a prolonged illness, was a well-known science policy scientist. Before 1947, during his student days, he was a freedom fighter. He was a gr...