MUSLIM DEMAND FOR POLITICAL EMPOWERMENT Reservation in Legislatures or Proportional Electoral System

My purpose of this article is not to scratch the countless wounds, received since independence. Nor to recite old grievances but basically to make a fresh endeavour to achieve social justice in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and t...

• CHALLENGES BEFORE MUSLIM YOUTH

Islamic Emergence in W-Asia & N-Africa

Are Islam and secularism incompatible? Equally important is the question how the West, particularly the US and European Union would and should react to the development? Do both pose a fatal threat to each other? Before dealing with these questions le...

ABDUR-RAHMAN IBN AUF (May Allah be pleased with Him)

By KAMRAN SHAHID ANSARI...

DO NOT DENY TAX BENEFIT TO RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS

A major departure of the proposed draft of the Direct Taxes Code from that of the Income TaxAct, 1961, is with regard to religious institution. The existing Income Tax Act describes both charitable and religious purposes as two mutually exclusive obj...

THE SUBLIME SYSTEM OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS

Pick up a leaf and look at it closely. Although it appears quite ordinary, what you cannot see are the wide-ranging and magnificent chemical processes that enable it to carry out photosynthesis. Its countless factories, which are invisible to the nak...

Some Not So Public Facts

The recently declassified documents of 1971 war between India and Pakistan have without any doubt established the fact of absolute tilt of then US President Nixon and Kissinger against India.
This hostile aggressive stand taken by Nixon was sought t...

ARRESTS AND ACQUITTALS IN TERROR CASES Glaring Holes in Investigations

Unperturbed by a series of acquittals of innocent persons falsely implicated in ‘terror’ cases, the sleuths of Delhi Police (DP) made fresh claims of arresting 7 (6+1) alleged terror operatives from various places in the country. Police s...