http://www.radianceweekly.com/ http://www.radianceweekly.com/rss.php Radianceweekly News Feed Generator http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5041/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/RIYADH-TO-FINANCE-YEMEN.html Saudi Arabia and Yemen will sign nine agreements during the coordination council meeting that begins in Riyadh. The agreements will include deals to finance water, electricity, health and 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5035/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/Inside-India/Story-Detail/039PREJUDICE-TAKES-THE-DANGEROUS-FORM-OF-EXTERNALISATION039.html “Exclusion is a universal phenomenon. There is nothing extraordinary about it. However, in a stratified and hierarchical society like India, social exclusion based on discrimination and preju 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5029/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/All-for-Agribusiness-Companies.html Once again, the budget has exposed the true colours of the government at the Centre, as being a hostage to crony capitalism.  It is evident that the subsidies and other benefi 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5023/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/Indo-Pak-Relations/Story-Detail/INDO-PAK-TALKS No-Breakthrough-No-Breakdown.html Were the February 25 Foreign Secretary level talks, between India and Pakistan, in New Delhi, an essay in futility? Has something rather-anything been achieved by either party? Have the nuclear h 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5046/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/IMF-LOAN-FOR-IRAQ.html The International Monetary Fund approved a $3.64 billion loan for Iraq. The loan would help plug financing needs of close to $5 billion until the end of 2011.  In addition to the IMF 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5040/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/FIRST-MUSLIM-COLLEGE-IN-USA.html Zaytuna College in California is coming up as America’s first ever Muslim college. It is a brainchild of Sheikh Hamza Yusuf, Imam Shakir and Professor Hatem Bazian. With the application pro 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5034/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/Inside-India/Story-Detail/SIO-DISCUSSES-VARIOUS-ISSUES-WITH-UNION-MINISTERS.html SIO National Secretaries Shahnawaz Ali Raihan and Muhammed Bilal called on the officials of HRD Ministry and pleaded for the restoration and preservation of minority status of Jamia Millia Isl 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5028/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/War-on-Terror/Story-Detail/Re-define-Terrorism.html Recent blast at the German Bakery in Pune has brought terrorism again on centre stage. After the blast, security agencies and media went on conventional lines drawing their judgments swiftly. Unf 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5020/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/From-Darkness-to-Light/Story-Detail/The-Whole-Episode-was-So-Touching.html Coming from a small town in Indiana, my life experiences were limited. After graduating from high school, I got married as many small town girls do, and began working and having a family.  2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5045/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/ISLAMIC-BODY-IN-CRISIS.html The government in the southern African country Zambia may deregister the umbrella Islamic Council of Zambia (ICZ) on continuous leadership struggles and violating its constitution. ICZ was establis 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5047/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/BIASED-IAEA-REPORT.html Iran accused the new head of the U.N. nuclear agency of issuing a misleading and unbalanced report on Iran’s atomic activities, saying he omitted important information. The International Atom 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5039/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/Inside-India/Story-Detail/CABINET-APPROVES-WOMEN039S-RESERVATION-BILL.html The Women’s Reservation Bill, 2008, that seeks 33 per cent reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies has been approved by the Union Cabinet on February 25.  The Bill wa 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5033/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/Inside-India/Story-Detail/JIH-SACM-CONDEMN-SIKH-MURDER-IN-PAK.html Jamaat-e-Islami Hind and South Asian Council for Minorities (SACM) strongly condemned the gruesome murder of a Sikh in Pakistan. JIH State President Engineer Muhammad Saleem said, “The act 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5027/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/West-Asia/Story-Detail/CHALLENGING-HISTORY Why-the-Oppressed-Must-Tell-Their-Own-Story.html When American historian Howard Zinn passed away recently, he left behind a legacy that redefined our relationship to history altogether. Professor Zinn dared to challenge the way his 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5019/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/General-Budget-Helps-Achieve-Inclusive-Growth.html The general budget is one of greatest features of democracy to help India attain inclusive growth. It helps bridging the economic disparities among different communities and sectors. General Budg 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5044/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/CEASEFIRE-DEAL-IN-SUDAN.html The Khartoum government and the largest and most powerful rebel group in restive Darfur have signed a ceasefire agreement and a framework of final peace deal. Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir and 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5049/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/COUP-IN-NIGER.html Life returned to normal in Muslim-majority Niger on February 19, a day after a military coup that ousted President Mamadou Tandja. Troops stormed into the presidential palace during a cabinet meeti 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5038/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/Inside-India/Story-Detail/POST-MASTER-GENERAL-ARRESTED-RED-HANDED.html Anti-Corruption Wing of CBI nabbed Manjeet Singh Bali, the Post Master General (PMG) of Maharashtra-Goa Circle while accepting Rs 2 crore in bribe on February 24. The PMG had demanded 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5032/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Silence-the-Guns.html Last week the Home Minister’s only condition to start the talks with the Maoists was the cessation of violence for 72 hours. Now when the Maoists have offered a halt to the violence for 72 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5026/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/Payaam-e-Maghrib/Story-Detail/Miracles-of-Allah039s-Beautiful-Names.html Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz–e–kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal) For anyone seriously looking for miracles and proofs, 99 of th 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5018/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/BUDGET-2010-11 AN-EXERCISE-IN-CONSERVATISM.html Conservatism is an approach of life whereby one preserves some traditions and abides by certain conventions. Such a conformist may be following any age-old practice or merely following in the foo 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5043/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/BANGLADESH-CRACKDOWN.html A massive government crackdown on activists and supporters of the opposition Islamic parties is fuelling unrest in Bangladesh. Thousands of opposition activists have been arrested in a massive secu 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5037/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/Inside-India/Story-Detail/SAJJAN-STILL-ENJOYS-ZPLUS-COVER-CBI-FAILS-TO-TRACE-HIM.html The Central Bureau of Investigation blurted a trial court that it had not been able to arrest Sajjan Kumar – an accused in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots – because the agency was ‘unabl 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5031/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/MF-Husain039s-Option.html Mr. M.F. Husain had no option but to accept the Qatar citizenship even though he loves his country India from the bottom of his heart which is clear from his well expressed paintings. N 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5025/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/Islamic-Economics/Story-Detail/RIBA-IN-THE-QUR039AN.html The Arabic term for interest is riba which means ‘to grow, to exceed, to increase.’ Technically it means ‘premium’ paid or payable by the borrower to the lender a 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5017/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/Editorial/Story-Detail/A-Grim-Reminder.html The 8.8-magnitude earthquake, followed by more than 90 aftershocks, ranging from 4.9 to 6.9 in magnitude, once again shook the Latin American state of Chile, destroying buildings, highways, and b 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5042/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/MASTERPIECES-ON-AUCTION.html Christie’s will offer 25 masterpieces from the Collection of Dr. Mohammed Said Farsi at the auction of International Modern and Contemporary Art in Dubai on April 27. While serving first as 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5036/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/Inside-India/Story-Detail/COURT-FORBIDS-TO-TELECAST-CCTV-FOOTAGE.html The Anti-Terrorism Squad Court restrained the electronic media from showing any CCTV footage on the German Bakery blast, to protect witnesses. Speaking to journalists, Police Commissioner Satyapal 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5030/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Truly-Hysterical.html The statement of BJP president Nitin Gadkari requesting Muslims to hand over the small stretch of land at Ayodhya was truly hysterical. As a member of my community, I would first ask him to retur 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5024/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/Inter-Faith-Dialogue/Story-Detail/Scope-of-Cooperation-between-Islam-and-Other-Religions.html Islam promotes peaceful coexistence among people following different faiths. So they are taught to live in a pluralistic society. As the Holy Qur’Ä�n teaches us, “In the beginning all 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/194/5048/2010-2011-A-CONSERVATIVE-BUDGET/2010-03-07/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/COUP-PLOT-IN-TURKEY.html Twelve senior Turkish military officers were charged over an alleged plot to topple the government. Turkey’s top military commanders held an emergency meeting and warned in a statement of a & 2010-03-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/5004/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/AFGHAN-CASUALTY-ON-DUTCH.html Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende’s coalition government collapsed when the two largest parties failed to agree on whether to withdraw troops from Afghanistan this year as p 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/4998/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Inside-India/Story-Detail/ANOTHER-SUICIDE-BID-FOR-SEPARATE-TELANGANA.html A supporter for a separate Telangana State tried to ablaze himself outside the Osmania University campus, where hundreds of students started a march towards the state assembly on February 19. The s 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/4992/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Inside-India/Story-Detail/CACHE-OF-EXPLOSIVES-SEIZED-IN-MAHARASHTRA-GUJARAT.html A week after the Pune blast, Maharashtra police seized a huge cache of explosives and detonators and arrested three people in Kolhapur district of the state on February 18. The police raided three 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/4986/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Islamic-Economics/Story-Detail/PRINCIPLES-OF-ISLAMIC-ECONOMICS.html As against the four types of remunerations/rewards to factors of production recognised in contemporary economics namely, wages, rent, interest and profit, Islam recognises three, that is, wages, 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/5015/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Mere-Propaganda-Exercise.html US special envoy Farah Pandith’s meetings with Muslims in Delhi and Mumbai, could not be rated more than a propaganda exercise by Obama to pacify Muslims, who are deeply agitated and distre 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/4980/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Face-to-Face/Story-Detail/039My-pen-has-not-retired039.html Please tell us about your family and education. My native place is Qattalpur in Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh. My father died when I was young. My mother could not afford c 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/5009/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/SLAP-IN-WEST039S-FACE.html A famous Japanese TV said that the success of uranium enrichment to the level of 20 per cent by Iran was a slap in the face of the western states, which tried to prevent the country from pursuing 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/5003/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/EGYPTIAN-JUDGES-REPRIMAND-GOVERNMENT.html Egypt’s eminent judges and law professors called on the ruling regime to change the present Articles of the Egyptian constitution, amend sections of the law governing the Constitutional Cou 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/4997/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Inside-India/Story-Detail/039BJP-LEADERS-GIVE-PATRONAGE-TO-PERPETRATORS-IN-MP039.html Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee spokesman J.P. Dhanopia alleged that BJP leaders are giving patronage to criminals due to which law and order situation in the State has deteriorated. He informed 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/4991/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Report/Story-Detail/Hindus-Muslims-Come-Together-to-Spread-Message-of-Prophet-Muhammad.html In a unique event, Muslims and Hindus came together on February 14 to take part in the birth anniversary celebrations of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be to him) and announced th 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/4985/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Indo-Saudi-Relations/Story-Detail/THE-DELHI-DECLARATION A-Documentary-Analysis.html Saudi Arabia is a unique country at least in three specific details. One, it possesses more than a quarter of the global oil reserves and has been the largest oil producer for over half a century 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/5014/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Indo-Saudi-Relations.html This refers to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Saudi Arabia on February 27. India is the largest democracy in the world and Saudi Arabia occupies an important place in the 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/5008/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/IMPACT-OF-REVOLUTION.html Addressing the meeting at the Iranian diplomatic mission in Berlin, Iran’s Ambassador to Germany Ali-Reza Sheikh Attar said the Islamic revolution meant a “new beginning not o 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/5002/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Inside-India/Story-Detail/Single-national-level-entrance-test-by-2013-Sibal.html Efforts are underway to hold a single national-level entrance test for students to get admission into engineering, medical and commerce courses from 2013, Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said in N 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/4996/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Inside-India/Story-Detail/SHAHID-AZMI039S-FAMILY-BLAMES-POLICE-FOR-MURDER.html Slain advocate Shahid Azmi’s family held Mumbai police responsible for his killing, even as the police are yet to make a breakthrough in his murder. “Since 2007, my brother had b 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/4990/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/West-Asia/Story-Detail/Western-Media-Not-Israeli-Hasbara.html With the dreadful threat of yet another Israeli war in the Middle East looming, Israeli propaganda machine is likely to go into full gear. In fact, trial balloons have already been se 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/4984/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Editorial/Story-Detail/Towards-United-Human-Brotherhood.html The global village we are living in is inhabited by around seven billion souls belonging to various religions and faiths. The Muslims account for one fourth of this vast ocean of humanity. The lo 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/5013/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/SHARK-IN-THE-NET.html Fishermen in Quriyat in Muscat had a field day when they netted an 18-foot long, 500-kilogram shark that reportedly fetched them a fortune at a rare auction the same day. Abdullah, a fisherman, who 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/5007/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/MISFIT-RUSSIAN-WHEAT.html The Prosecutor General’s office in Daqahalia governorate, Egypt, announced its decision to eliminate parts of a Russian wheat shipment which was stored by the Central Administration for See 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/5001/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Inside-India/Story-Detail/HC-REJECTS-SAJJAN039S-BAIL-PLEA.html A city court once again rejected Congress leader Sajjan Kumar’s anticipatory bail plea. Kumar is an accused of 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Two separate chargesheets were filed against him on Janu 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/4995/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Inside-India/Story-Detail/POST-2002-BLAST-ACCUSED-SEEKS-FRESH-PROBE-INTO-THE-CASE.html Saquib Nachan, a post-2002 bomb blast accused, has filed a petition in the Bombay High Court, seeking appointment of a high-powered committee to re-investigate all the post-2002 blast cases in th 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/4989/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Silencing-Reason/Story-Detail/Shahid-Azmi A-Victim-of-Conspiracy.html Silencing the voice of reason is detrimental to peace and law and order in the country. But it unfortunately happens in our great country. The issue has come once again to light when the defence 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/4983/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/BJP-Strategically-Distances-Itself-from-Hindutva.html Can a leopard change its spots? Can the Saffron and its allies give up Hindutva, in which its top leadership envisions Saffron’s survival? Before dealing with the subject, let us focus on w 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/5012/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/DOLLAR-RULES.html Mohammad Al-Jasser, Governor of Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) said that he believed the US dollar will remain the world’s key foreign reserve currency. Participants at the Jeddah Econo 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/5006/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/TRAINING-FOR-IMAMS.html The Department of Islamic Affairs in Dubai has recently concluded an intensive course on the art of preaching and speech-making at its headquarters in Al Mamzar area. The programme, which spanned 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/5000/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Inside-India/Story-Detail/NO-STATE-CONSENT-NEEDED-FOR-CBI-PROBE-SC.html The Supreme Court ruled that courts have powers to order CBI probe without the consent of state governments with a rider that this should be used cautiously and sparingly. In a unanimous verdict, a 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/4994/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Inside-India/Story-Detail/GODHRA-EYEWITNESS-GOES-MISSING.html Ilyas Hussain Mullah, an eyewitness to the Sabarmati Express incident of 2002, has been reported missing by the Godhra police, from their protection. The police, apparently, reported it a day after 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/4988/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Payaam-e-Maghrib/Story-Detail/Rolling-the-Tasbeeh.html Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal) Evidence of the disaster that is overtaken American Muslim youth, while th 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/4982/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Corruption/Story-Detail/Honesty-is-the-Worst-Policy Nitish-Exorcises-His-Excise-Minister-for-Being-Upright.html The product of plus and minus is always minus. In the den of the corrupt and (power)-drunk it is virtually impossible to bring in sanity and honesty. But the sacked minister of excise of Bihar, J 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/5011/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/MALAYSIA-EXPLAINS.html The Malaysian Government through Wisma Putra will explain the “real situation” to the Australian MPs who had called for the sodomy case against Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to be dropped. 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/5005/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/FEMALE-ENTRANTS-IN-SAUDI-COURTS.html Saudi Arabia’s Justice Minister Mohammed Al-Eissa said his department is drafting a law that would allow female lawyers to argue legal cases in courts for the first 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/4999/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Inside-India/Story-Detail/STATES-WOULD-BE-RESPONSIBLE-FOR-COMMUNAL-VIOLENCE.html “Karnataka government’s flexible approach towards communal violence has resulted in the collapse of law and order in the State. A Communal Violence Bill will be introduced shortly holdi 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/4993/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Inside-India/Story-Detail/RESERVATION-MUSLIMS-RIGHT-MJ-AKBAR.html “When other backward and underprivileged sections of the society are being offered reservations, why not the Muslims?” M.J. Akbar, prominent journalist and columnist asked while deliv 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/4987/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Northeast-Newsletter/Story-Detail/Development-Packages-for-Muslims-in-Manipur.html Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs (Independent Charge) Salman Khurshid paid a one-day visit to Manipur on February 9 and laid the foundation stones of an Industrial Training Institute 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/5016/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Difference-between-Rent-and-Interest.html This refers to the letter of Ansari Kalim M Suleman, a CA final student, inviting me to elaborate the principal difference between rent and interest that makes the former permitted and the latter 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/4981/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Central-Banking/Story-Detail/Challenges-to-Central-Banking- in-the-Context-of-Financial-Crisis.html After global financial crisis the central banks around the world are facing unprecedented challenges to provide stability in financial sector along with needs to offset the side effects of bail-o 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/193/5010/BJP-STRATEGICALLY-DISTANCES-ITSELF-FROM-HINDUTVA/2010-02-28/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/PRETENSION-EXPOSED.html A man pretended to go into a sudden convulsive fit when he was caught by religious enforcement officers for khalwat (close proximity) with his partner in a hotel room in Malaysia. But it 2010-02-28 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4962/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/WAR-MISTAKES-ADMITTED.html The Dutch cabinet has admitted that MPs could have been better informed about security service ‘doubts and conjectures’ about Iraq’s supposed weapons of mass destruction in the ru 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4956/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Shiv-Sena-Hooliganism/Story-Detail/RSS-and-Shiv-Sena- 039Maha-rashtrian039-both-but-with-cosmetic-difference.html They both have their origin in Maharashtra. There are many things common between them. Yet, of late, they have developed some cosmetic differences over approach. Shiv Sena and Rashtr 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4950/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Reservation/Story-Detail/NMMR-hails-WB-10-quota-for-Muslims-deplores-AP-HC-decision.html Mr. Syed Shahabuddin, Convener of National Movement for Muslim Reservation (NMMR), in a statement issued on February 9, termed the Andhra Pradesh High Court decision on 4 per cent reservation for 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4944/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Interest-and-Rent.html I am a CA final student. My question is to Dr. Nejatullah Siddiqi / Dr. Waquar Anwar / Dr. Rahmatullah. Principle of economics says that in the business labour gets wages, land gets 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4973/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Inside-India/Story-Detail/ANDHRA-HC-QUASHES-TRS-PROMISES-QUOTA-FOR-MUSLIMS.html A bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court set aside the Act legislated by the State Assembly providing 4 per cent reservation to 15 groups belonging to the Muslim community. The order was passed by 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4967/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/MUSLIM-HERITAGE.html A new exhibition was recently launched at one of England’s most respected centres of learning. It was named “1001 Inventions: Discover the Muslim Heritage in Our World” and will c 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4961/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/SUSPICIOUS-ARABIC-FLASHCARDS.html US Federal agents allegedly handcuffed, detained and interrogated a US student at Philadelphia International Airport because he was carrying Arabic flashcards. The American Civil Liberties Union 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4955/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Editorial/Story-Detail/The-Litmus-Test-of-Our-Democracy.html It is difficult to be a man of conscience and not concerned with the plight of the downtrodden, the have-nots and the marginalised. Even after 62 years of independence, with our sworn commitment 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4949/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Reservation/Story-Detail/Why-Islamic-Banking-and-Finance.html Financial systems are crucial for the efficient allocation of resources in a modern economy. The main role played by financial intermediaries are asset transformation, conduct of orderly payments 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4943/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Media-Accountability.html I take this opportunity to congratulate Mr. Ram Gopal Verma for making movie, Rann. He tried his best to show the real face of today’s electronic media which is more interested in 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4972/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Inside-India/Story-Detail/531-RELIGIOUS-STRUCTURES-AT-PUBLIC-PLACES-FOUND-IN-SOUTH-GOA.html Acting on the direction of the Supreme Court, the district magistrate of South Goa has documented 531 religious structures existing in public places, alongside the roads and in open spaces, in fi 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4966/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/CREAKING-MILITARY.html Relentless fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan have left more than half of the ships, aircraft and ground units of the Armed Forces with “serious or critical weaknesses” in the UK. Britain 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4960/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/ISRAELI-ENVOY-HACKLED-IN-USA.html Shouting “killer and murderer”, hundreds of American students heckled Israeli ambassador Michael Oren during a speech at the University of California over the Gaza War. The American stu 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4954/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION- bring-the-quotweakest-linkquot-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet.html “The speed of the fleet depends upon the speed of its weakest link.” So used to say Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar, President of Indian National Congress in the early 1930s. 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4948/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Reservation/Story-Detail/Reservation-for-Muslims---A-Mirage.html It is well said that “large kingdoms and small hearts do not go together.” This holds good with India when it comes to reservations for Muslims in Parliament, Assemblies, employment a 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4942/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Repeal-Neo-Liberal-Policies.html The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh’s assurance at the conference of Chief Ministers that ‘food prices will soon be stabilized with good crop prospects’ has few takers. The so 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4971/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Inside-India/Story-Detail/DAMAGED-HOLY-PLACES-IN-2002-RIOTS-TO-BE-REPAIRED.html Gujarat High Court has ordered the state government to repair and reconstruct the religious places that were damaged in Gujarat riots. Acting on a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Islamic 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4965/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/ISLAM-OPEN-TO-SPAIN.html Spanish Muslims are opening mosques and Islamic centres across the European country to non-Muslims to build bridges with the mainstream society and clear misconceptions about their faith. Mosques a 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4959/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/TO-CLARIFY-MISCONCEPTIONS.html Being a victim of stereotypes in Australian society, Mohamad Assoum, a 20-year-old Sydney University student, is using the world’s largest youth leadership forum in London to clear misconcept 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4953/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Policital-Jiggery-Pokery/Story-Detail/Digvijay-a-Statesman-or-a-Politician.html “I have not committed any crime nor have tried to polarise. Nor have I acted irresponsibility to retard the healing process. On the contrary, by our action all those who feel they are being 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4947/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Report/Story-Detail/Jamaat-Holds-a-Massive-Public-Meeting-to-Support-Telangana.html Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) Andhra Pradesh organised a massive public meeting on “Telangana Garjana” at Nizam College Ground, Hyderabad on February 7. The meeting started a 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4975/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Inside-India/Story-Detail/BAN-HINDUTVA-ORGANISATIONS.html The President Kodagu District Congress Committee, Veena Achaiah, has said the State Government of Karnataka should impose a ban on Hindutva organisations for creating anarchy in the State, includin 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4970/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Inside-India/Story-Detail/COURT-ALLOWS-VOICE-SAMPLES-FURTHER-PROBE-FOR-GUJARAT-MASSACRE.html A Special Court in Ahmedabad allowed the Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing afresh some of the post-Godhra riot cases, to take voice samples of three accused in the Naroda Patiya case, who 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4964/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/JUDGE-WITHOUT-RIGHT.html Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s lawyer Karpal Singh told the judge presiding over the sodomy trial that he had ‘forfeited his right’ to hear the case because he had allegedly sh 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4958/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/WITHDRAW-DR-AAFIA039S-CASE.html The UK-based Association of Pakistan Lawyers (APL) has demanded withdrawal of case against Dr Aafia Siddiqui, declaring the conviction unsafe and has called for a public enquiry regarding her treat 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4952/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/BT-Brinjal/Story-Detail/Bt-Brinjal-Moratorium- A-Victory-for-India039s-Food-Sovereignty.html Kirankumar Vissa of AID-India and Dr. G.V. Ramanjaneyulu of Centre for Sustainable Agriculture (CSA), in a joint statement released on February 9, considered the Government’s ban on Bt Brin 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4946/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Northeast-Newsletter/Story-Detail/Jamiat-Rejects-Centre039s-Decision-of-Updating-National-Register-for-Citizens.html Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind Assam and All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) strongly reacted to the Centre’s decision to make 1966 (voters’ list) as the cut-off year for updating the Nati 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4976/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Inside-India/Story-Detail/LAWYER-SHAHID-AZMI-SHOT-DEAD.html Shahid Azmi lawyer of 26/11 accused Fahim Ansari was shot dead at his office in suburban Kurla, Mumbai. Four assailants barged into his office in Taxi Men colony in Kurla and shot two bullets int 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4977/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Inside-India/Story-Detail/DALIT-PANCHAYAT-PRESIDENT-ATTACKED.html A Dalit woman panchayat president of Sivaganga district in Tamil Nadu has alleged that she was attacked with a knife on the Republic Day by a Hindu fanatic with the intention of preventing her fr 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4969/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/ANTIQUE-IN-DAMMAM.html A 7th century village has been unearthed in the Al-Raaka district of Dammam near the shores of the Arabian Gulf. Researchers of Saudi Arabia say the village has been traced back to the early Muslim 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4963/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/TURKISH-PUBLIC-OPINION.html Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoðan’s wife, Emine, was refused entry to the Gülhane Military Academy of Medicine (GATA) due to her headscarf in 2007. She had gone there to visit an a 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4957/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Haldiram-Conviction/Story-Detail/HALDIRAM039S-PRODUCTS-TASTY-OWNER-NASTY.html Prabhu Shankar Agarwal, owner of Prabhuji brand of namkin and other popular products was convicted for an attempt to murder. His present address is Room No. 6 of Cell No. 14 in Alipore Central Ja 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4951/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Face-to-Face/Story-Detail/Female-Foeticide 039This-is-Not-a-Problem-among-the-Muslim-Community039.html Girls Islamic Organisation (GIO) Goa, running under the patronage of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, organised a campaign on ‘Female Foeticide – a curse for the society’ from Janu 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4945/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Modi039s-Stained-Hands.html It is difficult to understand why an actor like Amitabh Bachchan and hordes of top industrialists are bent upon giving credibility to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, when the Supreme Court 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4974/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Inside-India/Story-Detail/WEST-BENGAL-NOD-TO-RESERVATION-FOR-MUSLIMS.html The West Bengal government has declared 10 per cent reservation in employment for the Muslims who are educationally, socially and economically backward in the state. “We have decided 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/192/4968/MUSLIMS-DEMAND-10-RESERVATION-bring-the-039weakest-link039-at-par-with-other-links-of-the-fleet/2010-02-21/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/SEIZURES-IRK.html Female jail wardens were brought into a girls’ school in Makkah after students went on a rampage in protest over the confiscation of their mobile phones. The students also attacked the school 2010-02-21 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4917/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/ELEPHANTS-RUN-AMOK.html Dozens of wild elephants rampaged through a village in Indonesia’s Riau province, terrifying residents and damaging houses and crops. The rampage occurred over the course of three days. The r 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4911/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/DOUBLE-TALK-TRUE-COLOURS.html US President Barack Obama said he would never waver from support for Israel’s security but insisted that Washington must also pay attention to the plight of the Palestinians. We are working t 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4905/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Middle-East/Story-Detail/From-Gaza-to-Lebanon Beware-the-Iron-Wall-the-Coming-War.html The Israeli military may be much less effective in winning wars than it was in the past, thanks to the stiffness of Arab resistance. But its military strategists are as shrewd and unpredictable a 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4934/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/TOWARDS-RESOLUTION-OF-TODAY039S-PROBLEMS- In-the-Context-of-Prophetic-Message.html Human life has always been associated with questions and problems, however human beings tend to view the problems of their particular time and age as somehow unique and unprecedented. They appear 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4899/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Face-to-Face/Story-Detail/Man-should-Understand-His-Value-and-Worth.html MAULANA MUHAMMAD FAROOQUE KHAN is an Islamic scholar of great eminence having deep insight into Qur’Ä�n and HadÄ«th literature, translator of the Holy Qur’Ä�n 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4928/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/ISLAM-AND-THE-PROPHET-saw.html Allah bestowed Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be to him) with the great honour of being His Last Messenger to propagate Islam and to teach people the right way of life, the differ 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4922/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Inside-India/Story-Detail/COURT-RAPS-CBI-FOR-MISSING-BABRI-FILES.html The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) submitted the final report on the probe to trace the 23 missing files of Babri Masjid before the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court, which rapped th 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4916/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/EVIDENCE-NOT-PROVIDED.html Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim lost his final appeal for access to the government’s evidence. Anwar’s lawyers were seeking access to basic evidence including DNA samples, med 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4910/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/NEW-AFGHAN-POLICY-IN-CASH.html Foreign ministers attending a one-day international conference in London have evolved a new Afghan policy whereby security of all provinces would be under Afghanistan leadership within five years 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4904/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Report/Story-Detail/Hypocrisy-in-Haiti.html Israeli hypocrisy would be comical, if its consequences weren’t so tragic. These days, Israeli media and Israel’s powerful friends in the US media have been tomtomming about the 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4933/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/MUHAMMAD-saw He-Who-Enlightened-Humanity.html Prophet Muhammad (may Allah bless and greet him) was the embodiment of truth, purity and righteousness. He was the fountain of eternal light that illuminated the minds and souls of human beings a 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4896/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Editorial/Story-Detail/The-Most-Perfect-Model- for-All-People-of-All-Times.html Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be to him) was the last and the greatest Messenger of Allah. He was the most perfect model for all human beings in all places and in all times. The 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4927/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/Teacher-of-All-Mankind.html A man, whoever he is and whatever he does, may regard his own occupation as more important, more necessary, more beneficial to social life and more difficult than others. However, although every 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4921/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Inside-India/Story-Detail/AZAMGARH-YOUTH-KIDNAPPED-DIGVIJAY-GREETED-WITH-BLACK-FLAGS.html Once again a Muslim youth, Shahzad Ahmad (21) was taken into custody from Azamgarh district of eastern Uttar Pradesh by armed plainclothes for his alleged ‘involvement’ in Batla House f 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4915/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/UAE-CHAIRS-ISLAMIC-UNION.html Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair, Speaker of the Federal National Council said the UAE will give its best in the next presidency of the Council of the Islamic Parliamentary Union during its 13th round. &nbs 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4909/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Height-of-Absurdity.html With people tired of soaring prices, tiny state of Meghalaya is now burdened with perks, pay and privileges of not one but four Chief Ministers by virtue of India witnessing worst of democratic f 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4903/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Report/Story-Detail/ESTABLISH-THE-DEEN-AND-NOT-BE-DIVIDED.html  “From time to time Allah sent Prophets (peace and blessings of Allah be to them) to the people to mend their ways and follow the right path. At last, a Divine book and complete guidan 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4932/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/DON039T-READ-SEERAHacirc€brvbar.html Blink your eyes! Why are you staring straight into the headline? There is no mistake, carry on! It’s just that I set upon to perform a novel survey and some of the findings are as follows: 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4937/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/HUMANITY-NEEDS-TRUSWORTHY-CHARACTER- ON-THE-PATTERN-RASULULLAH-saw-MADE.html Human society has reached to the state of complete moral bankruptcy, especially after great global economic disaster of 2008-09. It needs men of character in every field of life to set its house 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4926/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw Contribution-to-Personality-Development.html Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be to him), the last and final Prophet in the chain of Prophets starting from Adam, was sent to the world to complete human character. The Holy Qur& 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4920/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/BURQA-BAN-FEVER.html German politicians are proposing a full ban on burqa, the face-veil. Many German states have already banned hijab in schools. Lawmakers from both Social Democratic Party and Chr 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4914/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/WOMEN-DRIVEN-TAXIS-PLY.html Seventy new taxis for women driven by women drivers will begin running on Abu Dhabi roads by the end of March in its first phase, TransAD announced. Abdulla Sultan Al Sabbagh, General manager of Tr 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4908/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Contain-the-Nefarious-Designs.html The cover story on the need for implementation of Ranganath Report recommendations (Radiance Viwsweekly, 3-9 January 2010) is indeed timely and a befitting reply to the latest issue of 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4938/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/The-Prophet039s-Austere-Lifestyle.html The one most important aspect of Prophet Muhammad’s (peace and blessings of Allah be to him) life, which ironically is most discussed yet less practised even by the Muslims, is simplicity a 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4902/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Report/Story-Detail/SIO-Holds-Competition-on-quotMuhammad-PBUH-for-allquot.html As part of the state-level campaign of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Maharashtra, Students Islamic Organisation of India (SIO) Mumbra-Kausa Unit successfully organised an inter-school speech and essay com 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4931/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/MUHAMMAD-saw- The-Protector-of-Life.html Alphonse de LaMartaine in Historie de la Turquie said, “If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dar 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4939/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/MUHAMMAD-saw The-Perfect-Model-for-Humankind.html Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be to him) presented to the world a perfect model of brotherhood among human beings. During a short period of 23 years of his prophethood, he changed the co 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4925/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/MUHAMMAD-saw His-Character-and-Features.html The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be to him) had become an orphan before he was born, and he began his life in hardship and difficulties. But when he departed from the world, he had the w 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4919/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/BASIC-HUMAN-RIGHTS.html Human Rights Watch has blasted France’s efforts to ban burqa for violating rights of Muslim women, warning the move could stigmatise the whole Muslim minority in the country. “ 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4913/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/ROLE-MODEL-OF-TOLERANCE.html A Swiss official has urged European countries to adopt the UAE’s exemplary model in dealing with a diverse mix of nationalities living on its land. Hasni Abidi, Director of the Study and Re 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4907/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Sena-Vandalism.html The stance taken by the Shiv Sena against Shahrukh Khan has all the portents of a law and order situation which the Maharashtra Government has been proved time and again to be totally inefficient 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4936/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/The-Mercy-to-Mankind.html Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.” (St. Luke, 11:28) “We hear and we obey.” (Qur’Ä�n, 2:285) 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4901/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Payaam-e-Maghrib/Story-Detail/Allah-Is-the-Beginning-and-the-End.html Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal) For everything in creation, there is only one beginning and only one end. 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4930/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD Saviour-of-Womankind.html The Holy Qur’Ä�n says that God created both sexes from a single source. There is no difference between them in terms of qualification of humanity. The important thing is not being a man or 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4924/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Inside-India/Story-Detail/CONG-ACCUSES-GUJARAT-COPS-FOR-TAMPERING-WITH-EVIDENCE.html Congress leader Arjun Modhvadia charged the Gujarat police officials for tampering with the evidence and mounting pressure on the probing police officers in the investigation of Sohrabuddin fake 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4918/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/VEIL-AND-REPUBLIC.html Why the French obsession with the burqa? After all, as the French government itself has conceded, only about 1,900 women wear the full-body covering. So why are over half of the respondent 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4912/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/BISWA-IJTEMA-IN-BANGLADESH.html Over a million Muslims raised their hands seeking forgiveness and blessings for mankind and the Muslim Ummah as the three-day Biswa Ijtema (International gathering) concluded. Maulana Jobayeru 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4906/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Let-SC-Take-suo-motu-Action-on-Mumbai-Ruckus.html One wonders – why the Apex Court is not taking cognizance of the ruckus over ‘Mumbai for Mumbaikars’ – which is irrefutably an outlandish attack on the fundamental right o 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4935/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/Greatest-Benefactor-of-Mankind.html Today we find the world to be topsy-turvy with all systems having become faulty and unable to serve the purpose they were intended to. Today our economic, political, social, cultural, ethical, go 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4900/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Book-Review/Story-Detail/An-Assortment-of-Bigotry-Deception-and-Twisted-Logic.html MUHAMMAD IS NOT THE FATHER OF ANY OF YOUR MEN The Making of the Last Prophet By David S. Powers   2009 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4929/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/4-Ws-and-1H-of-Prophethood.html Especially because of the Indian context, it seems appropriate to first focus attention on the proverbial 4 Ws and 1 H – why, what, where, when and how – of Prophethood. 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/191/4923/PROPHET-MUHAMMAD-saw-His-Message-to-Humanity/2010-02-14/Inside-India/Story-Detail/MINORITY-INSTITUTIONS-ATTACKED-IN-MANGALORE.html Some miscreants attacked minority institutions belonging to Muslims and Christians in Mangalore. Two mosques and an orphanage run by the Muslim community and a Catholic cultural centre are the late 2010-02-14 http://www.radianceweekly.com/190/4874/DEFANGING-THE-TALIBAN-can-economic-bribes-alter-the-course-of-the-insurgents/2010-02-07/Analysis/Story-Detail/OBAMA-CAIRO-SPEECH Coverage-in-the-English-Media-in-Muslim-Nations.html President Barack Obama’s speech at Cairo on June 5, 2009 to the Muslim world evoked a mixed response in the English-language media across the Middle East which nevertheless demanded he turn 2010-02-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/190/4866/DEFANGING-THE-TALIBAN-can-economic-bribes-alter-the-course-of-the-insurgents/2010-02-07/Haiti-Crisis/Story-Detail/US-Muslims-Join-Haiti-Relief-Effort.html Everyone is appalled at the extent of devastation from the 7.1 Magnitude earthquakes that struck Port-au-Prince area on January 12, 2010. So far more than 200,000 people have been buried and thre 2010-02-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/190/4891/DEFANGING-THE-TALIBAN-can-economic-bribes-alter-the-course-of-the-insurgents/2010-02-07/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/ARABIC-WEB-ADDRESS.html Egypt, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the first countries to win preliminary approval for Internet addresses written entirely in their native scripts. Since their creation 2010-02-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/190/4885/DEFANGING-THE-TALIBAN-can-economic-bribes-alter-the-course-of-the-insurgents/2010-02-07/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/TURKEY-BELONGS-TO-EUROPE.html European Union president Spain declared that Turkey belonged to Europe. “Turkey is a part of the European family of peoples,” Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said. He 2010-02-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/190/4879/DEFANGING-THE-TALIBAN-can-economic-bribes-alter-the-course-of-the-insurgents/2010-02-07/Islamic-Economics/Story-Detail/Contemporary-Economics-and-Islamic-Economics.html The classification of economic activities into the four areas namely production, exchange, distribution and consumption has been done in a broad manner in order to keep the scope of discussion fr 2010-02-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/190/4873/DEFANGING-THE-TALIBAN-can-economic-bribes-alter-the-course-of-the-insurgents/2010-02-07/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Yet-Another-26-January.html We all celebrated 26 January – 60th anniversary of our being a republic. Fireworks – salutes to the tiranga – distribution of awards – parades – display of 2010-02-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/190/4893/DEFANGING-THE-TALIBAN-can-economic-bribes-alter-the-course-of-the-insurgents/2010-02-07/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/CANNOT-PLEASE-ALL.html MCDONALD’S apologised and then backtracked to Singapore. McDonald’s this month started selling cartoon character miniatures depicting the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac calenda 2010-02-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/190/4890/DEFANGING-THE-TALIBAN-can-economic-bribes-alter-the-course-of-the-insurgents/2010-02-07/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/MAKKAH039S-DEVELOPMENT.html An independent 10-member company has been set up under the name “Board for Capital Investment to Develop Islamic Capital Makkah” for the development of unplanned districts in the holy 2010-02-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/190/4884/DEFANGING-THE-TALIBAN-can-economic-bribes-alter-the-course-of-the-insurgents/2010-02-07/Inside-India/Story-Detail/MUSLIM-STUDENTS-GET-HWF-SCHOLARSHIPS.html In a scholarships distribution programme held recently in the Capital by Human Welfare Foundation (HWF) as many as 46 students were given scholarships. The students were awarded with an amount of 2010-02-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/190/4878/DEFANGING-THE-TALIBAN-can-economic-bribes-alter-the-course-of-the-insurgents/2010-02-07/Report/Story-Detail/1st-Women-Conf-of-JIH-Kerala Turn-Back-to-Religious-Values-and-Teachings.html Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Kerala added a feather to its cap on January 24 when its women’s wing organised its first ever one-day conference on “Women Empowerment for social Revolution&rdqu 2010-02-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/190/4872/DEFANGING-THE-TALIBAN-can-economic-bribes-alter-the-course-of-the-insurgents/2010-02-07/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Freedom-and-Restrictions.html Your editorial (Radiance, 17-23 January, 2010) on on the Bombay High Court verdict with regard to Mr Bashim’s book on Islam is highly commendable. You have rightly pleaded for a ba 2010-02-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/190/4895/DEFANGING-THE-TALIBAN-can-economic-bribes-alter-the-course-of-the-insurgents/2010-02-07/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/EDUCATION-FOR-ALL.html Malaysia is expected to propose that Asean countries make education accessible to everyone. Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, who leads the Malaysian delegation to the 45th South-Ea 2010-02-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/190/4889/DEFANGING-THE-TALIBAN-can-economic-bribes-alter-the-course-of-the-insurgents/2010-02-07/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/AFGHANISTAN-POLLS-DELAY.html Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission has postponed parliamentary elections, pushing them back from the scheduled May 22 to September 18. Fazil Manawi, a senior election commis 2010-02-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/190/4883/DEFANGING-THE-TALIBAN-can-economic-bribes-alter-the-course-of-the-insurgents/2010-02-07/Inside-India/Story-Detail/ONLINE-PETITION-SEEKS-ACTION-ON-POLICE-ATROCITY-AGAINST-WOMEN-IN-GODHRA.html An Online Petition has demanded immediate action against the rogue policemen of Godhra B Division Police Station, who allegedly violently assaulted and sexually molested the women of Hathila plot 2010-02-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/190/4877/DEFANGING-THE-TALIBAN-can-economic-bribes-alter-the-course-of-the-insurgents/2010-02-07/Payaam-e-Maghrib/Story-Detail/Heaven-on-Earth.html Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal) Working to create a piece of paradise, right here on earth, that is what t 2010-02-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/190/4871/DEFANGING-THE-TALIBAN-can-economic-bribes-alter-the-course-of-the-insurgents/2010-02-07/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/A-Whiff-of-Fresh-Air.html The Supreme Court’s criticism that the courts are apathetic to the plight of workers being sacked under the cover of globalisation is commendable.  The observation by Justice G.S. Sing 2010-02-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/190/4888/DEFANGING-THE-TALIBAN-can-economic-bribes-alter-the-course-of-the-insurgents/2010-02-07/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/GAME-OF-CHANGING-GUARD.html The last US Marines operating in Iraq withdrew from the country following a ceremony in Ramadi, 100 km west of Baghdad, according to US military sources in Iraq. The departing forces of the 2nd M 2010-02-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/190/4882/DEFANGING-THE-TALIBAN-can-economic-bribes-alter-the-course-of-the-insurgents/2010-02-07/Inside-India/Story-Detail/MUSLIM-GROUPS-FLAY-HIRSI-ALI039S-039OFFENSIVE039-REMARKS.html Muslim groups in Rajasthan have taken strong exception to “offensive and provocative” remarks about Islamic faith, culture and values made publicly by certain authors invited to the J 2010-02-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/190/4876/DEFANGING-THE-TALIBAN-can-economic-bribes-alter-the-course-of-the-insurgents/2010-02-07/Budget/Story-Detail/Are-We-Serious-about-National-Budget.html The targets for 11th five-year plan have not been achieved so far nor is it possible to attend in coming days. Do the Planning Commission officials have any moral responsibility in failure of the 2010-02-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/190/4870/DEFANGING-THE-TALIBAN-can-economic-bribes-alter-the-course-of-the-insurgents/2010-02-07/Editorial/Story-Detail/Ensure-Decriminalisation-of-Electoral-Process.html That criminalisation of politics is eating into the very vitals of our democratic polity is nothing new. What sounds alarming to the peace- and justice-loving citizens is the ever-increasing numb 2010-02-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/190/4894/DEFANGING-THE-TALIBAN-can-economic-bribes-alter-the-course-of-the-insurgents/2010-02-07/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/DEFENSIVE-MAHATHIR.html Mahathir Mohamad, former Prime Minister of Malaysia, has denied claims that he is trying to stir up anti-Christian sentiments by saying that the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centre in New York 2010-02-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/190/4887/DEFANGING-THE-TALIBAN-can-economic-bribes-alter-the-course-of-the-insurgents/2010-02-07/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/LEGITIMACY-AND-HOLOCAUST.html A British Catholic bishop was summoned to trial for denying the Holocaust. His crime is that in the video on a French site said, “Lots of people think that Israel is a legitimate state. Tha 2010-02-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/190/4881/DEFANGING-THE-TALIBAN-can-economic-bribes-alter-the-course-of-the-insurgents/2010-02-07/Inside-India/Story-Detail/039SERVICE-RULES-CANNOT-UNDERMINE-CONSTITUTIONAL-PROVISIONS039.html  “With due respect to the Supreme Court, the highest body of the country responsible to ensure justice to all citizens of the country, we would like to say that this decision is shocki 2010-02-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/190/4875/DEFANGING-THE-TALIBAN-can-economic-bribes-alter-the-course-of-the-insurgents/2010-02-07/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/DEFANGING-THE-TALIBAN Can-economic-bribes-alter-the-course-of-the-insurgents.html Can the Taliban be defanged? Can its teeth and claws be pulled out? Can mental as well as the economic bribes alter its course? Before dealing with these questions, let us delve deep into the min 2010-02-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/190/4869/DEFANGING-THE-TALIBAN-can-economic-bribes-alter-the-course-of-the-insurgents/2010-02-07/Face-to-Face/Story-Detail/039There-should-be-No-Discrimination-on-Gender-Basis039.html The Women’s Wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Kerala organised its first ever conference on January 24. At the end of the conference SHAFAQUE ALAM talke 2010-02-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/190/4892/DEFANGING-THE-TALIBAN-can-economic-bribes-alter-the-course-of-the-insurgents/2010-02-07/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/ADVERTISING-CURBS.html Dubai’s main roads will be stripped off advertisement hoardings larger than 10x30 metres, according to new standards for outdoor advertising being framed by Dubai Municipality. Billboards, 2010-02-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/190/4886/DEFANGING-THE-TALIBAN-can-economic-bribes-alter-the-course-of-the-insurgents/2010-02-07/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/BIAS-AGAINST-MUSLIMS-IN-US.html Although nearly two-thirds of Americans say they have little or no knowledge of Islam, still, a majority dislike the faith! The analysis is from the Gallup World Religion Survey. However, 43 per 2010-02-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/190/4880/DEFANGING-THE-TALIBAN-can-economic-bribes-alter-the-course-of-the-insurgents/2010-02-07/Middle-East/Story-Detail/It039s-Not-a-New-Turkey-It039s-The-Right-Time.html Uri Avnery’s assessment of the recent Israeli-Turkish diplomatic and political row – that “the relationship between Turkey and Israel will probably return to normal, if not to i 2010-02-07 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4843/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Inside-India/Story-Detail/039GODSE-WAS-INSPIRED-BY-BJP-IDEOLOGY039.html Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee president Kaul Singh, while addressing a political rally at Indora on January 17, said the BJP is a communal party. Turning the pages of history, he alleged th 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4837/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Inside-India/Story-Detail/QADIYANI-BOYCOTT-MOVEMENT-LAUNCHED.html The Chennai based Shariath Protection Council on January 22 launched a Qadiyani Boycott movement. After the Friday congregational prayers, they distributed handbills appealing to socially boycott 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4831/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Editorial/Story-Detail/Justice-will-Prevail.html “Injustice has run full circle, good days are ahead,” this was the remark of people when 50-year-old Syed Mubarak Husain was acquitted of sedition charges by Mr. Vinay Khare, Sessions 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4862/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/WOMEN-VENTURE-INTO-BUSINESS.html Saudi women are showing interest in business venture. A young woman and her mother have taken the initiative to start their own business, with the help of the government. Razan is a young Saudi e 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4856/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/MAHATHI--911-WAS-STAGED.html There is strong evidence that the Sept 11 attacks on the United States that killed nearly 3,000 could have been “staged” as an excuse to mount attacks on the Muslim world, said Tun Dr 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4850/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Nehruvian-Policy/Story-Detail/Nehruvian-Foreign-Policy-Misplaced-Criticisms.html Shashi Tharoor, while speaking at a meeting organised by Indian Council of Foreign Affairs on January 9, endorsed the views of Lord Bhiku Parekh on Nehru’s foreign policy. Lord Parekh had d 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4842/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Inside-India/Story-Detail/GOVT-TOLD-TO-SUPPLY-COPIES-OF-MODIacirc€™S-HATE-SPEECHES-TO-SIT.html Eight years after the planned, state-sponsored, anti-Muslim genocide in Gujarat, the probe by a Supreme Court-constituted Special Investigation Team (SIT) into nine most gruesome riot cases appea 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4836/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Inside-India/Story-Detail/URDU-SUFISM-AND-MADRASAS-ENRICHED-INDIAN-CULTURE.html Governor of Karnataka H.R. Bhardwaj on January 17 said Muslims had made a distinctive contribution to the country’s composite culture and heritage with “Urdu, Sufism and madrasas&rdqu 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4830/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/Accountability-of-Intelligence-Agencies.html Has what the Vice President of India said in New Delhi on January 19 been heard in the corridors of power? Before proceeding further, let us ask ourselves what provoked or compelled Mr. M. Hamid 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4861/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/STUDY-OF-OCEANS039-SECRETS.html Scientists on board the Tara, a sailboat that has set out on a three-year scientific expedition across the oceans to study the secrets of the earth’s climate and marine environment, have said 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4855/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/TURK-ISRAELI-HIDE-AND-SEEK-GAME.html It appears that a game of hide and seek is being played by Turkey and Israel. The bone of contention is a TV drama being relayed in Turkey depicting brutality of Israeli security forces. Deputy F 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4849/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Muslim-Affairs/Story-Detail/Why-the-Muslim-World-Badly-Needs-a-Leader-like-Nelson-Mandela.html One was hopelessly young and green when Nelson Mandela marked his 25th year in captivity on the now legendary Robben Island in South Africa.  The idea of someone spending quarter of a c 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4841/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Inside-India/Story-Detail/ENSURE-SOCIAL-AND-MORAL-VALUES-IN-EDUCATIONAL-INSTITUTIONS.html The 45th anniversary celebrations of the Jamia Nadviyya institutions run by the Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen began at Edavanna, near Manjeri, Malappuram on January 21, making a clarion call to the M 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4835/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Gates039-Entrapment.html US Defence Secretary, Robert Gates’ words – ‘India might lose ‘patience’ with repeat attack’ – are like putting words into our PM’s mouth. India is 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4863/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/DO-NOT-KILL-CAMELS.html The Australian government has announced plans to use helicopters and marksmen to kill 6,000 feral camels in a small northern town. The Saudis have called on wealthy camel-loving citizens to come 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4860/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/BADEI-NEW--IKHWAN-LEADER.html Mohamed Badei has been chosen by the Shura Council of Egypt’s Ikhwanul Muslemeen (Muslim Brotherhood) as its new leader. He is 67 years old and a veterinary professor at Beni Sueif University 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4854/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Payaam-e-Maghrib/Story-Detail/Share-It-with-the-World.html Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal) This way, we would share with the world a fuller awareness of the wonderfu 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4846/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Face-to-Face/Story-Detail/First-Muslim-Chartered-Accountant-from-Kashmir-to-Kanpur.html MAQSOOD ALAM passed Intermediate from Islamia College, Gorakhpur, in 1954, did his graduation in Commerce from Lucknow and then completed Chartered Accountancy, and emerg 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4840/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Inside-India/Story-Detail/DISCRIMINATION-ON-RELIGIOUS-GROUNDS-TOTALLY-UNJUST.html The Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) has said that the discrimination in giving reservations on religious grounds is totally unjust though Dalit Christian reservation is a human rights 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4834/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Concern-for-the-Farmer.html Much has changed in India in the last two decades. One is the way concern for the farmer seems to have fallen off the political agenda, and the pages of newspapers. Go through a week of a major n 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4865/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/USE-OIL-FOR-BETTER-PURPOSES.html A prominent expert in the field of renewable energy technology has called on Saudi Arabia to invest heavily in solar technology. Professor Ali Sayigh, director general of the UK-based World Renewab 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4859/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/MISTAKES-OF-DEVELOPMENT.html World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, the first international meeting on the subject since Copenhagen, representatives of various countries said it was necessary to continue to bring down emissi 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4853/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Report/Story-Detail/NHRC-Interns-to-Promote-Human-Rights.html The one-month long 10th winter internship programme on human rights organised by National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) concluded in New Delhi January 15. Addressing the participant 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4845/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Dalit-Salvation/Story-Detail/Ambedkar039s-Advice Conversion-Vital-for-Emancipation.html The personality of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar needs no introduction. He was an intellectual par excellence with a law degree and multiple doctorates for his research in Law, Economics and Political S 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4839/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Inside-India/Story-Detail/SC-ISSUES-NOTICES-TO-CBI-FOR-PANDHER039S-ACQUITTAL.html The Supreme Court on January 18 issued notices to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as well as Moninder Singh Pandher on a petition challenging the latter’s acquittal in the Rimpa H 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4833/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Burqa-No-Hurdle.html Muslim leaders including ulema have been motivating Muslim voters – men and women – to exercise their franchise in elections stressing the significance of mandate in the light of the 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4858/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/ANWAR-AGAIN-ON-TRIAL.html A Malaysian court postponed the start of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy trial to next month amid unresolved technicalities. Anwar was charged in August 2008 with allegedly sodomis 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4852/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Northeast-Newsletter/Story-Detail/Renowned-Litterateur-Syed-Abdul-Malik-Remembered.html The 9th anniversary of the passing away of Syed Abdul Malik, one of the most widely known and popular writers of the Assamese literature, was observed at his native place Golaghat , Assam by the 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4844/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Iran-USA-Conflict/Story-Detail/Iran-and-Latin-America The-Media-States-Its-Case.html Should the United States be concerned about Iran’s determined efforts to reach out to Latin America? Or, as was suggestively described in the Economist, by the Ayatollahs’ st 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4838/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Inside-India/Story-Detail/039AUTOMATIC-INCLUSION039-OF-MUSLIMS-IN-BPL-PROPOSED.html The Union Rural Development Ministry has proposed “automatic inclusion” of Muslims in the Below Poverty Line (BPL) list of families along with Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tri 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4832/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Make-Intelligence-Agencies-Accountable.html This refers to Vice President M. Hamid Ansari’s January 19 proposed move to make Intelligence apparatus accountable to a Standing Committee of Parliament. This is high time to make Intellig 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4864/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/CAMEL-BONE-ART.html The ancient Omani art of camel-bone carving has got a boost with the opening of a craft centre in the southern Dhofar region. Artisans at the Dhahboon Craft Centre create a wide range of pendants, 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4857/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/GREEN-ISLAMIC-SCHOOLS.html There are some 14,000 Islamic schools in Indonesia in which more than three million students are registered. Lendo, 45, established the first out-door Islamic school with the concept of educating 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/189/4851/ACCOUNTABILITY-OF-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCIES/2010-01-31/Sports/Story-Detail/From-Feudalism-to-Capitalism Cricket-Has-Come-Full-Circle.html The days of great bowlers are almost over. The leggies, Shane Warne and Anil Kumble, have retired. The two-some of Waquar Yunus and Wasim Akram have gone sometimes back, so is the Glenn McGrath & 2010-01-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4802/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Health-Care/Story-Detail/Some-Indigenous-Medicines Their-Uses-as-Spices-and-Effects-on-Seasonal-Diseases.html In this era of modern traditional indigenous medicine refers to “the health practices, approaches, knowledge and beliefs incorporating plants, animal and mineral-based medicines, spiritual 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4794/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Creation-of-Smaller-States.html Demand for the creation of new states has been a chronic feature of the Indian polity since the inception of the republic. Such agitations are typically based on claims of neglect or discriminati 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4825/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/ISRAEL-APOLOGISES-TO-TURKEY.html Israel caved in to demands from Turkey and apologised over an insult to its ambassador. Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon had summoned the Turkish ambassador to complain about a 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4819/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/TALLEST-BUILDING-HIGHEST-MOSQUE.html The world’s tallest building Burj Khalifa took five years to build, is more than 160 floors high and has comfortably surpassed the previous record holder in Taiwan, the Taipei 101. More tha 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4813/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Inside-India/Story-Detail/BJP-MLA-BOOKED-FOR-ABETMENT-TO-SUICIDE.html Asha Rani, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA in Madhya Pradesh, has been booked for abetting to suicide of her domestic help Tijji Bai in 2007, while a case has also been registered against her 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4807/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Republic-Day/Story-Detail/JANUARY-26 A-Day-to-Pledge-for-a-Better-India.html January 26 has been scribed on the pages of Indian history with golden words as the auspicious day when our Constitution came into force, letting India feel a truly sovereign nation. 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4801/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/From-Darkness-to-Light/Story-Detail/An-American-Millionaire-Reverts-to-Islam.html An American Millionaire Who Was Also Michael Jackson's Lawyer Becomes Muslim An American millionaire, Mark Shaffer declared his Islam in Saudi Arabia on October 17, 2009. Mark was a 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4793/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Welcome-Suggestion-from-CJI.html The Union Government should carefully study the welcome suggestion from Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan for setting up an exclusive TV channel to cover court-proceedings on important mat 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4824/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/CHINA-FOR-PALESTINIAN-STATE.html China endorsed efforts to create an independent Palestinian State. “China will continue its support for the Palestinian effort to establish an independent state,” the Chinese Foreign 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4818/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Inside-India/Story-Detail/039START-ANOTHER-REVOLUTION-FOR-NATIONAL-PEACE039.html “The time has come for Indian youth to start another revolution for national peace and better international relations. Also they should play a major role to reduce violence in society and e 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4812/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Inside-India/Story-Detail/SC-ORDERS-CBI-PROBE-INTO-SOHRABUDDIN-FAKE-ENCOUNTER.html The Narendra Modi-led Gujarat government suffered a major setback when the Supreme Court directed it to hand over the fake encounter case of Sohrabuddin Sheikh to CBI. The Court came down heavily 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4806/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Middle-East/Story-Detail/An-Odyssey-for-Justice.html The recent actions of people from around the world in support of the Palestinian people in Gaza have arguably represented the closest manifestation of international solidarity since the Internati 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4800/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Book-Review/Story-Detail/A-Useful-Handbook-on-Islamic-Finance-and-Banking.html ISLAMIC FINANCE By Suhail Zubairi Markazi Maktaba Islami Publishers, D-307 Abul Fazl Enclave, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi – 110 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4792/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Ban-Female-Foeticide.html I appreciate your views expressed in the editorial “A Gift of Mankind”(Radiance 27 Dec. 2009 – 2 Jan. 2010). Do not kill your children for fear of want. It is noteworth 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4823/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/BURQA-BAN-DEBATE-IN-FRANCE.html A French parliamentary commission’s proposal to ban full Islamic veils such as the burqa and the niqab from public places has roused heated debate, and efforts to hammer o 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4817/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Inside-India/Story-Detail/CBI-NAMES-OFFICERS-FOR-RECRUITMENT-IRREGULARITIES.html The CBI investigation into the CRPF recruitment scam has revealed that some officers involved in the recruitment of constables had collected more than Rs 225 crore from the aspirants. The team sa 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4811/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Inside-India/Story-Detail/HAJ-HOUSE-IMAM-ACQUITTED-OF-TERROR-CHARGES.html Maulana Mohammed Ghulam Yahya, the Imam of Haj House, who was arrested and charged with indulging in terror activities, was acquitted on January 16 by a Mumbai court, his lawyer D.U. Mirajkar sai 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4805/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Islamic-Economics/Story-Detail/Islam-and-Economics.html At the outset it should be understood that Islam has not provided any detailed set of rules that can be clubbed as Islamic Economics and applied for all human beings of all times and all places. 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4799/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/SC-Kindles-Hope-of-Justice-for-the-Encountered.html A post-doctoral thesis needs to be written on how the Supreme Court of India has, umpteen times, saved the honour of plural Bharat, in addition to restoring popular confidence, particularly that 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4827/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/FAISAL-PRIZE-FOR-ERDOGAN.html Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan won the 2010 King Faisal International Prize (KFIP) for Service to Islam. Prize in science (mathematics and medicine) was also declared. “The awa 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4822/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/ILLEGITIMATE-IRAQ-INVASION.html The 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq lacked legitimacy under international law, an independent commission probing Dutch political support for the still controversial action said. “There was ins 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4816/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Inside-India/Story-Detail/CHILD-MARRIAGES-STILL-IN-VOGUE.html Awareness programmes and actions against the perpetrators of child marriage have not been able to put an end to child marriage in Kodakarai, a village situated on a hill in Denkanikottai Taluk in 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4810/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Inside-India/Story-Detail/GULBERG-RIOTS-TRIAL-COURT-PREJUDICED-EYEWITNESSES.html Seven victims and eyewitnesses of the Gulberg Society Massacre case expressed their disappointment with the special trial court and alleged that the court is adopting a biased approach. The victi 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4804/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Islamic-Finance/Story-Detail/Challenges-for-Islamic-Banking-in-India.html Avoidance of interest in banking transactions i.e. mobilisation of deposits and lending may be termed as interest-free banking. Islamic financial system on the other hand is a broader concept tha 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4798/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Editorial/Story-Detail/Restore-Jamia-Millia039s-Minority-Character.html Jamia Millia Islamia was established in 1920 during the hay day of freedom struggle to promote education among the youth of Muslim minority to enable them to learn the contemporary sciences, and 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4828/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/SAUDI-CHINA-TRADE-BOOST.html China and Saudi Arabia expect to boost trade volume by 50 per cent to $60 billion by 2015 and to amicably solve disputes over some issues such as dumping. Trade volume between the two countries e 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4829/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/IRANIAN-SCIENTIST-KILLED.html A leading Iranian nuclear scientist was murdered in Tehran in a rare bomb attack that the government quickly blamed on “mercenaries” in the pay of United States and Israel. Massoud Al 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4821/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/RAPIST-EXECUTED-IN-MADINAH.html A Saudi man was beheaded in Madinah for raping and robbing four women after offering to give them a ride in his pickup truck. Salah ibn Rihaidan ibn Hailan Al-Johani lured the women into his pick 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4815/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Inside-India/Story-Detail/PAID-INR-10000-TO-SAVE-INFANT-GIRL.html An interesting case of two mothers came into light when Manjit Kaur, a mother of two sons, paid Rs 10,000 to a Ludhiana-based woman who gave birth to a girl child to make sure that the parents of 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4809/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Payaam-e-Maghrib/Story-Detail/The-Pride-the-Joy-the-Exuberance.html Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal) Let us ask ourselves: For how long have we been rushing around in the Engl 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4803/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Islamic-Finance/Story-Detail/How-to-March-towards-Inclusive-Growth.html The Kerala High Court’s stay on the proceedings of the newly-formed company based on Islamic banking principles by Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC), on a writ petitio 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4795/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Each-Death-is-Its-Own-Event.html In the course of four days, eight Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip by Israeli forces. This, in comparison to last year’s death toll of over 1,400 during Israel’s Operat 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4826/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/TURKEY-OIC-DISCUSS-ISSUES.html Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmet Davutoglu and Secretary General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu discussed various regional issues at their meeti 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4820/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/IMMORAL-KHALWAT-IN-MALAYSIA.html Fifty-two unmarried Muslim couples face charges of sexual misconduct and possible jail terms after being caught alone in hotel rooms by Malaysia’s Islamic morality police during a New Year& 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4814/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Inside-India/Story-Detail/SAJJAN-OTHERS-CHARGED-FOR-SIKH-RIOTS.html The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed two chargesheets against former MP Sajjan Kumar and several others in three cases registered after the anti-Sikhs riots 1984. The cases were regist 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/188/4808/SC-KINDLES-HOPE-OF-JUSTICE-FOR-THE-ENCOUNTERED/2010-01-24/Tamilnadu-Newsletter/Story-Detail/REGISTRATION-OF-MARRIAGES-ACT-2009- A-High-Power-Joint-Ulema-Meet-Disapproves-It.html A large number of Muslim Ulema, Muthawallis and social activists, in a joint meeting held at Vellore on January 14, rejected the newly enacted Registration of Marriages Act 2009 of Tamil Nadu. 2010-01-24 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4755/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Admirable-Move.html UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi should be admired for her initiative with Union Highways Minister to direct National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) for not using her photographs on billboards to 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4786/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/History-Speaks/Story-Detail/History-and-the-Historian.html The famous historian E.H. Carr, in his book What is History?, comes up with the question ‘what is a historical fact?’. He says by quoting the Housman, the philosopher of hist 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4778/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/SWED-SENTENCED-IN-TURKEY.html The Swedish citizen Ramazan Kizil, who was tried by a Turkish court on Christmas Eve for spreading propaganda in Kurdish on behalf of a prohibited political party at a political rally in Turkey, 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4772/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/ADDITIONAL-US-SECURITY-FOR-HIJAB.html Nadia Hassan, a Maryland Muslim, in the USA was singled out for additional airport security check after refusing to take off her hijab, raising fears that the Muslim obligatory dress cod 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4766/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Inside-India/Story-Detail/RATHORE039S-BAIL-PLEA-REJECTED.html A Panchkula Court, in Harayana dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of former state police chief SPS Rathore, who molested Ruchika Girhotra, 19 years ago, leaving it open for the state police to ar 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4760/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/From-Darkness-to-Light/Story-Detail/God-is-the-Same-God.html My name is Gabriel Eckerson. I am American and I’ve always enjoyed doing things the way I think is right, even when the mainstream of like-minded, same faith individuals practise otherwise. 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4754/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Where-is-Amitabh-Heading-to.html Amitabh Bachchan’s recent visit to Gujarat and praising the state Chief Minister Narendra Modi is both surprising and dismaying. One can understand his interest in doing so, since his movie 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4783/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Report/Story-Detail/S-M-Mushrif The-New-Iron-Man.html To speak the truth in front of a tyrant ruler is the biggest crusade in the sight of Lord. And perhaps, this saying sounds so true to Mr. S M Mushrif (retired IAS officer – former IGP Mahar 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4777/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/CHINA-TO-EXECUTE-FIVE-MORE.html Five more people have been sentenced to death over ethnic violence in July in China’s Xinjiang region. The sentences bring to 22 the number of people condemned to die or executed over the u 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4771/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Maoist-Menace/Story-Detail/Tribal-Unrest-From-Gods-to-Godlessness.html The present unrest in the tribal region in the heartland of India is a significant departure from the past uprisings by them. While earlier revolts were generally led by spiritual-cum-social lead 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4765/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Inside-India/Story-Detail/039SUFFICIENT-EVIDENCE-AGAINST-ENCOUNTER-SPECIALIST039.html Maharashtra Police have revealed that they have sufficient evidence against the encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma and five others for allegedly killing a man in fake encounter who was believed to 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4759/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Democracy/Story-Detail/NONE-OF-THE-ABOVE-VOTING- An-Urgent-Democratic-Need.html The recent legislation by Gujarat Government to make voting compulsory at Local Election Level has elicited mixed response. There is no doubt that there are weighty reasons against making voting 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4782/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Payaam-e-Maghrib/Story-Detail/That-is-Tauhid.html Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal) That is what Qur’Ä�n calls Tauhid. That mans how everything 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4789/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/MORALITY Put-It-into-the-Basic-Structure.html A division bench of the Supreme Court, comprising Mr. Justice J.M. Panchal and Mr. Justice Deepak Verma said on January 5: The Courts can have faith on the word of “any girl or woman in the 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4776/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/UIGHURS-DEPORTED-TO-CHINA.html Cambodia deported 20 ethnic Uighurs. China praised it for this action and said the deportees will be treated as illegal immigrants. The comments came as a top Chinese official began a visit to Ph 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4770/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Islamic-Economics/Story-Detail/Economy-of-the-Prophet-and-His-Household.html The economy of Prophet Muhammad (may Allah bless and greet him) and his household may be studied in two distinct periods: one before the declaration of his prophet-hood at the age of 40 and the o 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4764/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Inside-India/Story-Detail/CBI-HAS-CLUES-AGAINST-SANATAN-SANSTHA-CM.html Goa Chief Minister Digamber Kamat said the CBI had found some clues indicating right-wing organisation Sanatan Sanstha’s involvement in the Margao blasts. “The CBI has found some clue 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4758/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Editorial/Story-Detail/Strike-a-Balance- between-Freedom-and-Restrictions.html Freedom of expression is one of the basic and human rights of every individual citizen in a free country. We, as citizens of independent India, too, have this right under Article 19 (1)(a) of the 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4790/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Imperialism/Story-Detail/Media-Vultures-are-Coming Freedom-of-Expression-at-Risk.html As you flip through a range of channels on your TV or browse through a stack of newspapers and magazines at a newsstand, you may feel lucky about living in a world where such a plethora of viewpo 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4781/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/TRADE-BETWEEN-JAPAN-AND-MALAYSIA.html The Japanese business community is eager to know full details of Malaysia’s New Economic Model and the progress made in the various economic corridors, especially Sarawak Corridor of Renewa 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4791/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Inside-India/Story-Detail/APCR-holds-workshop-in-Guwahati.html A two-day workshop of socio-legal workers was held at Hotel Monsoon Palace, Guwahati, under the banner of Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR), Assam Chapter on December 26 and 27 la 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4775/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/US-MUSLIMS-NOT-EXTREMISTS.html Fears of growing home-grown terrorism among the American Muslim community are highly exaggerated, a new academic study has concluded. The “Anti-Terror Lessons of Muslim American Communities 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4769/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Inside-India/Story-Detail/SP-MUSLIM-LEADERS-SEEK-AMAR039S-EXPULSION.html A group of Muslim leaders of the Samajwadi Party demanded expulsion of senior leader Amar Singh from the party, accusing him of damaging the interests of the organisation. “Mulayam Sin 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4763/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Inside-India/Story-Detail/ASSAULT-VICTIMS-SEEK-SUO-MOTU-ACTION-AGAINST-GUILTY.html A group of Muslim women from Godhra has written to the Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court, requesting him to initiate suo motu action on the alleged physical and sexual assault on them by 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4757/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/US-Unjust-Policies.html The U.S. diktat to subject the citizens of as many as 13 Muslim nations to ‘full-body’ physical inspection is a clear attempt to paint the whole Islamic world in black. It is true tha 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4788/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Comment/Story-Detail/Fog-Comes-to-Mamata039s-Rescue.html Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee is a lucky lady. All the three mishaps in Uttar Pradesh on January 2 took place on a foggy day when the trains, as per instruction, were travelling at a ver 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4780/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/BRITISH-BUSINESS-GAIN-FROM-IRAQ-WAR.html British companies have benefited from the award of oil contracts in Iraq because of the decision to help overthrow Saddam Hussein’s regime, according to Prime Minister Gordon Brown& 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4774/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/US-JUDICIARY-DISAPPOINTS-IRAQ.html The Iraqi government said it regretted the decision by a U.S. judge to dismiss the charges against five Blackwater security guards who allegedly killed innocent Iraqi civilians in 2007. &ldq 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4768/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Inside-India/Story-Detail/CBI-FINALISES-CHARGESHEET-AGAINST-SAJJAN-KUMAR.html The CBI has finalised its chargesheet against senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar for 1984 anti-Sikh riots case and is likely to submit it to the designated court soon. The chargesheet was finali 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4762/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Inside-India/Story-Detail/AFMI-DELEGATION-MEETS-PRESIDENT.html A delegation of members of American Federation of Muslims of Indian Origin (AFMI) on January 4 called on President Pratibha Patil to apprise her of the issues facing Indian Muslims. The President 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4756/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Raj039s-Goon-Culture.html Raj Thackeray is known for all wrong reasons. Sometime he objects the word ‘Bombay’ in the film Wake up Sid, and calls Karan Johar, asks the industry to give things in writte 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4787/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Babri-Masjid-Imbroglio/Story-Detail/Muslim-Leader-Sceptical-about-Justice-in-Babri-Case.html Muslims do not expect any action against those behind the Babri Masjid demolition but are hopeful of a favourable judgment in the suit for the land over which the mosque was built in Ayodhya, abo 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4779/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/COFFINS-MARCH-IN-UK.html A British group called Islam4UK, led by Anjem Choudary, has announced plans to march through the northern town of Wootton Bassett to press for British troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. The march 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4773/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/US-EMBASSY-IN-YEMEN-CLOSED.html Citing threats by al-Qaeda in Yemen, the United States closed its embassy in the country. “The U.S. Embassy in Sanaa is closed today, Jan. 3, 2010, in response to ongoing threats by al-Qaed 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4767/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Inside-India/Story-Detail/PUNJAB-WAQF-BOARD-TO-OPEN-A-SCHOOL-IN-LUDHIANA.html Punjab Waqf Board will open a convent school in Ludhiana. This was disclosed by Izhar Alam, Chairman, Punjab Waqf Board, and former ADGP, Punjab, who visited the city along with other members of Wa 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/187/4761/MORALITY-Put-it-into-the-Basic-Structure/2010-01-17/Inside-India/Story-Detail/NRIs-CAN-VOTE-BY-NEXT-ELECTION.html Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh invited non-resident Indians (NRIs) to join politics and public life in their country of origin while inaugurating the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas. Singh said, &ldqu 2010-01-17 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4726/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Islamic-Economics/Story-Detail/ECONOMY-IN-EARLY-ISLAMIC-PERIOD.html In a bid to assess Islamically permitted economic activity it is useful to study the sources of income and nature of expenses that were existing during the early Islamic period, particularly thos 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4718/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/A-Very-Sad-Day-for-039Secular039-India.html The Indian Express (December 29, 2009) on its front page carries a story that exposes the depth of ingrained communal feelings against Muslims in India. It narrates how in Modi’s G 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4749/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Inside-India/Story-Detail/CBI-TO-PROSECUTE-SAJJAN-KUMAR-FOR-1984-RIOTS.html Lieutenant-Governor of Delhi Tejendra Khanna has set the ball rolling to begin judicial proceedings against Congress leader Sajjan Kumar. Khanna is understood to have accorded sanction for prosec 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4743/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/NATO-SHOT-DEAD-TEENS.html Afghan government investigators found that foreign troops dragged 10 civilians, including eight children, from their homes and shot them dead. The investigation team was shown documents from the 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4737/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/WOMAN-IN-BURQA-TURNED-AWAY.html A 23-year-old Muslim Dutch woman from Utrecht who says she was not allowed into a first aid clinic on Christmas Day with her three-month old baby because she was wearing a burqa has submit 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4731/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Report/Story-Detail/18th-AFMI-Annual-Conf-and-Gala-Award Education-is-an-Obligation-from-Cradle-to-Grave.html Poverty is no excuse for allowing your kids to drop out or, worse, to go illiterate. If you are diabetic or are suffering from blood pressure, it is most likely that your children will inherit th 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4725/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/From-Darkness-to-Light/Story-Detail/It-Felt-So-Strong-and-So-Natural-to-Me.html I always found myself to be a person who liked to question things. As a little girl, I was always asking questions as children do and as I moved into my teenage years I found myself interested in 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4717/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Stop-Misleading-the-Nation.html After seeing the tamasha in the Parliament, in the name of debate over the Liberhan Commission report, the whole nation understands that all of those who were indicted in the B 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4748/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Inside-India/Story-Detail/NEW-LAW-COMING-ON-SEX-OFFENCES.html In order to prevent sex offences in the future, Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily is now ready with a draft Bill to set up special courts to hear cases of sexual offences. The Sexual Offences (Sp 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4742/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/SAUDIacirc€“MALAYSIA-TIES.html Malaysia and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have pledged to boost cooperation ahead of an official visit by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak on January 15. Saudi Arabia regards Malaysia as a 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4736/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/TORONTO-MUSLIMS-CONVENTION.html An estimated 17,000 Muslims from across Canada and the U.S. will attend the three-day event in downtown Toronto to hear scholars, including Yusuf Islam, formerly known as singer Cat Stevens, disc 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4730/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Policital-Jiggery-Pokery/Story-Detail/Nitish-Kumar A-Veritable-Political-Footballer-of-the-Decade.html In the game of football, teams often draw different strategies to overcome the rival. If the opponent team is so-so, but has one player of extraordinary calibre, efforts are made to mark that ind 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4724/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Ethical-Value/Story-Detail/A-High-Drama-in-Hyderabad.html December 26 witnessed a high drama in Hyderabad when political parties and women’s organisations raised voices against the heinous crime reportedly made by then Governor of Andhra Pradesh N 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4753/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Inside-India/Story-Detail/JUSTICE-DELAYED-IN-18-NITHARI-CASES.html Three years after the gory Nithari killings rocked the country causing widespread outrage over the cannibalistic and necrophiliac traits of convict Surinder Koli, 18 out of 19 cases continue to l 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4747/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Inside-India/Story-Detail/BAN-RSS-BAJRANG-DAL-PASWAN.html Lok Janshakti Party President Ramvilas Paswan charged the RSS and Bajrang Dal with disturbing communal harmony across the country and demanded ban on them. He charged the Chief Minister of Bihar, 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4741/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/CIA-AGENTS-KILLED-IN-AFGHANISTAN.html It is reported that a suicide bomber penetrated a foreign army base in Afghanistan and killed eight CIA employees, one of the U.S. agency’s largest death tolls, while four Canadian troops a 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4735/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/WEBSITE-TO-BOOST-EDUCATION.html Prince Sultan bin Salman, president and chairman of the board of directors of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA), launched the first ever MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) mirror 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4729/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Payaam-e-Maghrib/Story-Detail/Who-but-Him.html Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal) Things intervene, one after another. Some good, from our point of view. So 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4723/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat A-Study-in-Discrimination-against-Minorities.html Is discrimination in the genes of Bharat? Is the feeling of high and low in the blood of our nation? Have we two yardsticks to judge the citizens of the multi-religious country? And, finally what 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4752/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Inside-India/Story-Detail/31-TAINTED-MLAs-IN-JHARKHAND-COALITION.html The new five-party coalition in Jharkhand has 31 MLAs with criminal cases against them. The coalition, headed by JMM, has 44 MLAs in the 81-member Assembly. Leading the pack is Shibu Soren 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4746/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Inside-India/Story-Detail/WOMEN-ASSAULTED-IN-GODHRA.html Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), has alleged police atrocities on women belonging to a particular community in Gujarat’s Godhra town. The Godhra Judicial Magistrate has asked senior po 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4740/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/WELFARE-AID-IN-MALAYSIA.html The disbursement of welfare aid to recipients nationwide will be made on the first of every month beginning January, said Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abd 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4734/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/PROTESTS-OVER-GAZA-BLOCKADE.html Hundreds of Arab Palestinians, left-wing Israelis and international activists rallied at the Erez crossing to protest against the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. Talab El-Sani, an Arab member 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4728/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Mosques-in-Europe/Story-Detail/Mosque-A-Symbol-of-Islam-in-the-West.html Muslims have become a permanent feature of European society, especially as a new community with development of Western culture and identity more in terms of religion rather than ethnicity. They h 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4720/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Editorial/Story-Detail/Towards-Making- A-Morally-Healthy-Society.html Sex, like hunger and thirst, is a natural urge inherent in living beings. The distinction of man, being the best of creations of God, lies in keeping it in perfect restraint. This is what the Lor 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4751/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Inside-India/Story-Detail/COMMUNAL-CLASHES-IN-3-DISTRICTS-OF-RAJASTHAN.html Tension prevailed in three districts of Rajasthan, including Rajsamand, Bhilwara and Pali following sporadic incidents of communal violence. The police, however, pacified the mob and controlled t 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4745/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Inside-India/Story-Detail/HAPLESS-MUSLIM-TOOK-HINDU-NAME-FOR-JOB.html Mehboob Pathan, 50, changed his name to Jayenti Bhatti to get a job in Surat’s diamond unit. This hapless story was revealed when the poor person was killed. Having a Muslim name, he felt i 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4739/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/SAME-SEX-SCHOOLS-IN-IRAQ.html The Iraqi government is planning to separate boys and girls in schools, a decision that is generating debate about how far it can help in the country’s development. The Ministry of Educatio 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4733/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/EGYPT-REFUSES-AID-ENTRY.html The Egyptian government has denied entry to the Viva Palestina aid convoy carrying medical and humanitarian aid to Gaza. Hundreds of tonnes of aid, including specialised medical equipment and pow 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4727/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Mosques-in-Europe/Story-Detail/UK-Muslims-the-Most-Patriotic-in-Europe.html The Muslim Council of Britain has welcomed and commended the excellent work carried out by the Open Society Institute in producing their report, Muslims in Europe: A Report on 11 EU Cities. The r 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4719/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Electoral-Reforms.html Invariably every political party is corrupt, there is no choice for the electorate but to choose the lesser evil and the electorate has to choose between the Devil and the Deep Sea. Bofors case i 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4750/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Inside-India/Story-Detail/AP-LOSES-OVER-Rs-250-CR-ON-TELANGANA-ISSUE.html As Andhra Pradesh boils over the Telangana issue, public and private properties worth over Rs 250 crore were destroyed by protesters in all the three regions of the state so far. Of the tota 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4744/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/FUND-TO-STIMULATE.html A RM200mil fund to help stimulate the creative industry has taken off the ground in Malaysia. Information Communication and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim said the credit facility of b 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4738/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/SATELLITE-TV-FOR-QURAN.html Saudi Arabia has launched two satellite TV channels to spread the messages of the Holy Qur’Ä�n and the Sunnah (life and teachings) of the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be w 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/186/4732/Ruchika-Bilquis-and-Ishrat/2010-01-10/West-Asia/Story-Detail/Palestine--Israel A-Single-State-with-Liberty-and-Justice-for-All.html Prior to the establishment of Israel, Palestine had been multi-religious and multi-cultural. Christians, Muslims and Jews, Armenians, Greek Orthodox, to name a few, all had a place there; and all 2010-01-10 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4682/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/No-039Scapegoat039-Please.html 26/11 has become the 9/11 of India. Like the real 9/11, various conspiracy theories are coming up, explaining the unexplainable regarding our desi version of 9/11. Right from the occurrence of th 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4713/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/MP-GUNNED-DOWN-BY-POLICE.html  Such things happen in Afghanistan! A member of the Afghan parliament was ‘mistakenly’ killed in an early morning shootout between his bodyguards and police officers. Mohammad Yu 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4707/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/EU-MUSLIMS-LAUNCH-RIGHTS-COUNCIL.html Muslim activists from 26 European countries have come together to launch the first rights council to enlighten European Muslims about their rights, monitor rising Islamophobia and defend Muslim r 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4701/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Poem/Story-Detail/Plea-of-a-Female-Foetus-to-Her-Mother.html My Mom! I will die, my Mom! The darkness is deepening, The smoke is widespread, I feel choked, my Mom. Pain is piercing each and every 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4695/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Report/Story-Detail/A-Look-at-US-Troop-Surge-in-Afghanistan.html Napoleon Bonaparte once said that “God is on the side of the heavy artillery”. However, the heavy artillery helped him naught in the decisive battle of the Waterloo. The war history, 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4689/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Policital-Jiggery-Pokery/Story-Detail/Liberhan-Report-Consigned-to-Telangana-Fire Was-It-Planned.html In democracies the ruling party and the opposition sometimes conspire to distract the attention of the citizens if they both find themselves caught on the wrong foot. It cannot be said with suret 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4714/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/ARTEFACTS-RETRIEVED.html Saudi Arabia has retrieved more than 10,000 of its artefacts from other countries, Prince Sultan bin Salman, chairman of Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA). “Retrieving ant 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4712/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/DANISH-ISLAMIC-PARTY-IN-MAKING.html Danish Muslims cautiously welcomed plans to establish an Islamic party to speak in the name of the sizable minority and vulnerable groups in the Scandinavian country. The Interior and Social Affa 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4706/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Inside-India/Story-Detail/SIX-CONVICTED-IN-KANDHAMAL-RIOT-CASE.html A fast track court in Orissa on December 23 sentenced six people to three years imprisonment for torching the house of a villager in Kandhamal last year. “Six people have been convicted in 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4700/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Payaam-e-Maghrib/Story-Detail/Wasn039t-Ar-Ramaan-Enough.html Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal) I ask myself, wasn’t one of these two glorious attributes of God eno 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4694/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Report/Story-Detail/O-Girl-For-What-Sin-Were-You-Killed.html “When news is brought to one of them (the birth of) of a female (child), his face darkens, and he is filled with inward grief”! (16:58) In pre-Islamic period when the fath 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4688/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota.html Sitting pretty over it for two-and-a-half years, the 188-page Ranganath Misra Commission Report, recommending quota for Muslims and Dalits, was ultimately tabled in Parliament on December 18. 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4716/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/GCC-WASTE-MANAGEMENT.html As GCC countries work towards the implementation of next generation waste management practices to address challenges of global warming, the waste management market is set to enter an exciting pha 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4711/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/NEW-EXECUTIVE-BODY-OF-IKHWAN.html Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood elected on December 21 a new executive body. “Thank God, the elections were conducted in an appropriate way despite our circumstances,” Brotherhood le 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4705/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Inside-India/Story-Detail/INDIAN-AMERICAN-MUSLIM-GROUP-CALLS-ON-HM-TO-CLARIFY-HIS-REMARKS-ON-JIHAD.html Indian Muslim Council-USA, an advocacy group dedicated towards safeguarding India’s pluralist and tolerant ethos, on December 24 called on Union Home Minister Chidambaram to clarify his rem 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4699/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Microfinance/Story-Detail/Establish-Interest-Free-Societies.html The two-day workshop on interest-free microfinance of West Bengal was held at Raigachi in Kolkata on December 6-7. The workshop, first of its kind in the State, was jointly organised by Human Wel 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4693/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Report/Story-Detail/Sanatan-Sanstha-Men-Had-Links-with-Sadhvi-Purohit.html The Goa police on December 21 said they have found links between the Sanatan Sanstha members blamed for the blast and the Hindu extremists of Abhinav Bharat accused in the September 2008 Malegaon 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4685/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Editorial/Story-Detail/Fix-the-Systemic-Rot.html Shame is perhaps a small word having no force to knock at the conscience of the society that has fallen knee deep rather neck deep into the abyss of moral impoverishment. But to the concerned sec 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4710/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/US-MUSLIMS-AND-MEDIA.html The Muslim community remains poles apart from the media industry in post-9/11 America, where a severely negative image about Islam and Muslims is being projected by many media outlets in the abse 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4704/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Inside-India/Story-Detail/039INCLUDE-TOP-COP-AS-ACCUSED-IN-GULBERG-MASSACRE-CASE039.html In a significant development in the 2002 Gulberg Society massacre case, the prosecution on December 24 moved an application to name eight people – including the then Joint Commissioner of A 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4698/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Book-Review/Story-Detail/An-Anthology-of-Hamd-and-Naat.html ROSHAN ROSHAN HARF Author and Publisher: Qamar Sambhali, 5572 Nai Sadak, Delhi – 110 006 Year: 2008 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4692/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Northeast-Newsletter/Story-Detail/Minorities-Rights-Day-Observed-in-Manipur.html Manipur State Minorities Commission (MSMC) organised a daylong programme at the historic Gandhi Memorial Hall in the heart of Imphal city, to mark Minorities Rights Day, on December 18. P.C Lawmk 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4684/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Ban-Kingfisher-Calendar.html TV news channels and newspapers and magazines are nowadays busy in increasing their viewership/readership by highlighting shooting of Kingfisher calendar 2009 being published now for seventh year 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4709/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/NIQAB-BAN-PROPOSAL.html France’s ruling party says it plans to present a bill to parliament next month, which would ban the wearing of full Islamic veils in all public places. The party says the move should be see 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4703/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Inside-India/Story-Detail/PROSECUTE-VAJPAYEE-OTHERS-INDICTED-BY-LIBERHAN-AIMPLB.html The All-India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on December 20 demanded that former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee along with others indicted by Justice Liberhan Commission should be prosecut 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4697/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Book-Review/Story-Detail/Save-Democracy-Save-Sovereignty.html LISTENING TO GRASSHOPPERS: FOOTNOTES ON DEMOCRACY Arundhati Roy Penguin Publishers Pages: 304 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4691/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Muslim-Education/Story-Detail/Central-Madrasa-Board Why-This-Imposition.html There could be nothing more arbitrary than the attempt of the Government to impose Central Madrasa Board on the Indian Muslim Community despite the opposition of all credible Muslim religious org 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4683/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Reopen-Ruchika-Case.html It is a matter of satisfaction that Rajya Sabha members cutting across party-lines supported CPM leader Brinda Karat for her bold initiative to have a dig on leniency shown by the CBI court in Ch 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4715/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/NORTH-AMERICAN-MUSLIMS-MEET.html A galaxy of Muslim scholars, intellectuals, professors and community leaders from across the world will address thousands of Muslims from North America expected to show up for the annual Reviving 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4708/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/ISLAMOPHOBIC-ATTACKS-IGNORED.html Islamophobic attacks in Britain will continue to rise until there is a wholesale change in attitudes, including new legislation against religious hatred, according to the editor of The Muslim 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4702/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Inside-India/Story-Detail/MUSLIM-MPS-MEET-PM-TO-SOLVE-MUSLIM-PROBLEMS.html A 12-member delegation of Muslim Members of Parliament cutting across party lines, except one from the BJP, on December 23 called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with a charter of demands which 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4696/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/Muslims-Must-Not-Pay-Price-for-Europe039s-Identity-Crisis.html It seems that the targeting of Muslims and Islam has become a kind of national theatre in France. Unlike theatre, however, the disturbing trend can, and will turn ugly – in fact to a degree 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/185/4690/RANGANATH-PANEL-REPORT-Make-Merit-Not-Saffron-Reaction-Basis-for-Quota/2010-01-03/Smaller-States/Story-Detail/Bifurcating-Hindi-and-Non-Hindi-States.html While the demand for Telangana evoked sharp polarisation leading to the mass resignation by elected representatives, suicides and violent protests forcing the Centre to change its stand a fortnig 2010-01-03 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4664/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Payaam-e-Maghrib/Story-Detail/The-Real-Miracle.html Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal) For anyone with eyes to see, these are miracles upon miracles, each more c 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4658/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/Women-Power-in-Society.html By acquiring three first positions including ten in top twenty-five for Civil Services Examinations conducted by UPSC, Indian women have exhibited that they are not less than men in any respect. 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4652/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/Statistics-Related-to-Abortion.html Here are some of the statistics related to abortions:        One in five pregnancies worldwide and one in three pregnancies in Europe ends in abortion, a 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4646/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/Islam-and-Abortion Killing-of-Unborn-Babies-through-Abortion-is-Prohibited-in-Islam.html All human life is sacred in the eyes of Islam, from conception to natural death. Only God (Allah), the Creator of all, can create life or ordain that it be taken away. The moment of death has bee 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4675/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Inside-India/Story-Detail/YOUTH-RENOVATE-A-MOSQUE-IN-PUNJAB.html Belonging to different religions, youths of Ajitwal village in Moga district of Punjab renovated a mosque that was being used as a halt for commuters and traders, who passed through the National 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4640/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/FEMALE-FOETICIDE- A-Disgrace-of-Our-Society.html As one grows through the difficult experiences of teenage, enjoying the liberty of education, exploring the joys of womanhood, it is nauseating to know that someone will never feel the thrill of 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4669/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Bhopal/Story-Detail/25-Years-of-Injustice.html I used to be human once. So, I am told. I don’t remember it myself, but people who know me when I was small say I walked on two feet just like a human being…I was born a few days bef 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4632/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Media-Makes-Messy-Situation-in-AP.html The electronic media is responsible for creating the messy situation in Andhra Pradesh.  With the sole objective of catching more and more eyeballs to increase their TRP ratings, the 24 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4663/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Nalapat-Speaks/Story-Detail/Greenland-the-World039s-Biggest-Slave-State.html It is a symptom of the lack of equity in the present world order that the 2009 Climate Summit has been held in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. People across the world are aware of this countr 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4657/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/Abortion-Meets-21st-Century-Ijtihad.html We originated Humanity from a product of mud.  Afterward, We placed him/her as a seed in safe lodging.  Next, We fashioned the seed into a mass of blood, 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4651/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/The-Superior-Rights-of-the-Unborn-Child-in-Islam.html Today, unfortunately, the unborn child (called janin in the Holy Qur’Ä�n) is not recognised as a human being and has no legal rights! In Britain about 600 innocent livi 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4645/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/Gender-Crisis-in-India.html Policy planners and public both have been aware of the steep decline in sex ratio (Census of India 2001 figures). Women have respected status in almost every religious text. In India, among Hindu 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4674/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Inside-India/Story-Detail/AVERAGE-5-CUSTODIAL-DEATHS-EVERY-DAY-IN-LAST-4-YRS.html Uttar Pradesh has achieved the dubious distinction of reporting maximum number of custody deaths this year as 232 people have died in the police stations of the state. In the last four years, the 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4639/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/For-What-Offence-was-She-Killed.html Have you ever heard that a person getting another one killed is awarded compensation? You haven’t, might be. But, like many odd things, this also happens in India. According to a report ( 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4668/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Telangana-Cauldron/Story-Detail/Telangana-and-Muslims.html As the Telangana cauldron boils over moves are already afoot to paint the dispute in communal colours and make the region’s Muslims the proverbial sacrificial lamb.  The mainstream med 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4631/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Expedite-Babri-Masjid-Suits.html Mr. P. Chidambaram must be appreciated for presenting himself throughout the commotion, indicting the communal leaders and at the same time holding guilty for the lapse committed by then prime Mi 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4662/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/From-Darkness-to-Light/Story-Detail/Its-Safer-Worshipping-God.html My name is Tarik Preston. I embraced the religion of Islam in 1988 at the age of 19. The story of how I came to embrace Islam is not very long, and in many respects, I think that the story of how 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4656/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/FEMALE-FOETICIDE A-Social-Menace.html Women have been the subject of deprivation, discrimination, intimidation, and unjust treatment in society throughout history. The difference is only in the forms that differ from time to time and 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4650/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/Physical-Sequelae-of-Abortion.html Abortion causes a number of physical and mental ailments. Some of them, culled from the various sources, are mentioned here in brief: (1) Death: The leading causes of 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4680/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/SUDAN-RIVALS-AGREE-SOUTH-REFERENDUM.html In a major move to end a simmering crisis that threatened to torpedo their peace deal, Sudan’s political rivals on December 13 announced an agreement on terms of a referendum on the indepen 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4644/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/The-Curse-of-Foeticide.html Whenever any of them is given the joyful news of the birth of a girl, his face darkens and he is filled with suppressed anger, avoiding people …debating [in his heart]: Shall he keep this 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4673/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Inside-India/Story-Detail/IMC-USA-LAUNCHES-WEBSITE-ON-BABRI-MASJID.html On the 17th anniversary of the demolition of the historic Babri Masjid, Indian Muslim Council-USA launched a new website to archive the history of the Babri Masjid and to document 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4638/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/The-Curse-of-Foeticide.html Whenever any of them is given the joyful news of the birth of a girl, his face darkens and he is filled with suppressed anger, avoiding people …debating [in his heart]: Shall he keep this 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4667/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Socio-Economic-Justice/Story-Detail/Reserve-Bank-of-India-and-Financial-Exclusion-of-Muslims.html While we applaud Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for paying due attention over strategic plans for financial inclusion, we are sorry to observe that it has yet to recognise the acute financial exclus 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4679/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/EGYPT-DEMOLISHES-MUSLIM-BROTHERHOOD-HOSPITAL.html Egypt has begun the demolition of a new hospital built by Muslim Brotherhood for the poor in the capital over what it called the building’s ‘unsafe’ edifice. The decisions to te 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4661/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Face-to-Face/Story-Detail/039People-Need-to-Change-Their-Mindset039.html DR. (MRS.) INTEZAR KHAN is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work in Jamia Millia Islamia. She did her Ph.D on Social Work Interventions for Rehabilitat 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4655/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/Divine-Care-and-Welfare-of-the-Unborn-Child.html It was reported that Allah said: “Son of Adam, I provided for you in the belly of your mother a place of rest;  I covered your face with a membrane 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4649/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/Physical-Sequelae-of-Abortion.html Abortion causes a number of physical and mental ailments. Some of them, culled from the various sources, are mentioned here in brief: (1) Death: The leading causes of 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4678/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/OBAMA-CREATING-TORTURE-IMPUNITY----ACLU.html US President Barack Obama is facing accusation of creating impunity framework for former officials implicated in authorising torture. “The (former president George W.) Bush administration c 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4643/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/Child-Sex-Ratio-Declines-at-039Alarming-Rate039-in-Chhattisgarh Brisk-business-and-non-deterrent-PNDT-Act-facilitates-039latent039-female-foeticide.html The Chhattisgarh state may lose a superior position in the country regarding its general sex ratio status, if the state fails to check ‘alarming’ decline in the Child Sex Ratio (CSR) 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4672/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Inside-India/Story-Detail/PUNISH-THOSE-INDICTED-IN-LIBERHAN-REPORT-PROF-KA-SIDDIQUE-HASAN.html If creative measures are not taken on the Liberhan Commission Report, it will affect the secular democratic future of the country, said Prof KA Siddique Hasan, national vice-president of the Jama 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4637/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/The-Girl-Child The-Apple-of-One039s-Eye.html In the enduring relationship between man and myth, it is the image of the woman that has got tarnished. Pandora brought her box full of life’s perennial problems. Satan, it is believed 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4666/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Report/Story-Detail/Mushawarat-Deliberates-on-National-and-Int039l-Issues.html The Central Committee (Markazi Majlis) of the All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat, the umbrella body of Indian Muslim organisations, in its meeting held in the Capital on December 12, u 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4681/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/QARADAWI-WINS-MALAYSIA039S-HIJRA-AWARD.html Prominent Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, the president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), has won Malaysia’s prestigious “Hijra of the Prophet” awar 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4660/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Face-to-Face/Story-Detail/039It039s-an-Organised-Crime-against-Women039.html Ms. BIJAYALAXMI NANDA is an Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Miranda House Delhi University. She has been actively involved in different campaigns to 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4654/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/Join-Hands-to-Wipe-out-This-Malady.html The menace of foeticide, particularly female foeticide is rampant in Indian societies at large. It should not surprise anyone that over 5 lakh foetuses are killed at various stages of viability. 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4648/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/Abortion-is-Predictor-of-Breast-Cancer.html The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons published a study entitled, “The Breast Cancer Epidemic” on October 3, 2007. The study showed that, among seven risk factors, 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4677/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/PALESTINIAN-CHRISTIANS-URGE-ISRAEL-ISOLATION.html Christian religious and community leaders in occupied Palestine have launched an ecumenical campaign aimed at enlisting Christians around the world to help end the Israeli military occupation. &l 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4642/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/Killing-the-Foetus- A-Third-Class-Mentality.html Human behaviour in the case of his progeny is very dubious. He thinks and plans how many children he should have as if he is the master of the situation. The ever-increasing Western mania towards 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4671/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Inside-India/Story-Detail/USING-RELIGIOUS-TEXTS-CHILDREN-CAMPAIGN-AGAINST-FEMALE-FOETICIDE.html To check the cases of female foeticide, the district health department of Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh decided to rely on the religious books like the Qur’Ä�n and the Vedas. For the purpose, 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4634/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Editorial/Story-Detail/A-Gift-of-Materialism.html All was well with our world as long as we were close to nature and followed the golden rule of contentment. But greed of modern times seeped into our lives and we became victims of various ills. 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4665/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Report/Story-Detail/039Save-the-Nation-from-slavery-and-poverty039 JIH-Launches-Nationwide-Campaign-against-Anti-Capitalist-Imperialism.html Jamaat-e-Islami Hind launched a nationwide campaign against Anti-Capitalist Imperialism from December 11-20. The campaign with an impressive slogan “Save the country from Slavery and Povert 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4659/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Democracy/Story-Detail/The-Hypocrisy-of-Al-Demoqratia.html So this is how democracy works? In 2004, France banned headscarves and school principals chased after young “defiant” Muslim girls who continued to cover their heads in school. Now, f 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4653/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/Killing-Own-Children-for-Your-quotRightsquot.html I have started feeling appalled why Islamic organisations and periodicals recurrently fall in the trap of the ideologues of the modern world, using their “concerns”, their “conc 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4647/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/Women039s-Mental-Health-in-Relation-to-Induced-Abortion.html In the (UK) Government Response to the Report from the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee on the Scientific Developments Relating to the Abortion Act 1967, the following request wa 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4676/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Inside-India/Story-Detail/NATIONWIDE-DEBATE-ON-PHILOSOPHY-OF-EDUCATION-NEED-OF-THE-HOUR----SIO.html Nationwide debate on philosophy of education is need of the hour and SIO has initiated it in Indian student community, Said Suhail K.K, National President, SIO of India while addressing a press c 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4641/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/Strike-a-Balance-between-Body-and-Soul.html Since time immemorial, women have been looked down upon and treated inferior in principle and practice. While one religion considers woman as an instrument of the devil, the other holds the birth 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4670/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Book-Review/Story-Detail/A-Wide-Ranging-Book- on-Gender-Selective-Mass-Killing.html GENDERCIDE AND GENOCIDE Ed. by Adam Jones Vanderbilt University Press 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/184/4633/FEMALE-FOETICIDE-A-Curse-of-Society/2009-12-27/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Bank-Strike.html One-day strike by bank-employees on December 16 opposing merger of State Bank of Indore with State Bank of India is not proper. Rather a smart beginning should be made by merging all subsidiaries 2009-12-27 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4603/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Obama-Factor/Story-Detail/Malignant-Manoeuvres.html President Obama finally appeared in his ruthless American mantle. Even some Americans were saddened to hear him. President Obama has called for a prolonged war to crush the Islamic i 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4597/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/Liberhan-Commission-Report- Painful-Wait-for-Justice.html The Liberhan Commission submitted its four-volume report to the Government on June 30, 2009. It might have been the longest time taken by any commission. Liberhan’s claim that the report go 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4626/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/SCANDAL-OF-BAILOUT.html Din Syamsuddin, chairman of Indonesia’s second largest Muslim organisation Muhammadiyah, has asked the public to keep monitoring the controversial Bank Century bailout scandal investigation 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4628/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/MINARETS-BAN-CONDEMNED.html Muslim scholars have criticised a blanket Swiss ban on the building of mosque minarets as a serious violation of the Muslim minority’s rights and a precedent that may undermine interfaith d 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4620/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/IRAN-CAN-PRODUCE-20-PC-FUEL.html President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that thank God Iran is capable to produce 20 per cent fuel for Tehran medical research reactor. On the November 27th anti-Iran resolution of the International A 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4614/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Inside-India/Story-Detail/PROSECUTION-MOCKED-ME-KAZMI.html Abbas Kazmi spoke out the day after the 26/11 trial court sacked him as Ajmal Kasab’s lawyer, accusing the prosecution of having mocked him. Judge M.L Tahaliyani removed Kazmi on December 1 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4608/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Imperialism/Story-Detail/Corporate-Media.html Before attempting to analyse the subject briefly, let us, for the sake of up-to-date-ness and clarity, refurbish our memory as to what exactly today’s corporate media is; what its backgroun 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4602/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Obama-Factor/Story-Detail/US-Sends-30000-More-Troops-to-Afghanistan How-Noble-is-Nobel-Laureate-Obama.html U.S President Barack Obama’s speech at West Point Military Academy in which he announced to deploy 30,000 troops in Afghanistan to fight the Taliban and to bring peace and stability to the 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4596/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/Whom-are-You-Hoodwinking-Congressmen.html By the time these lines appear in print, yet another excruciating anniversary of the well-planned demolition of the Babri Masjid, on December 6, 1992, would have, hopefully passed off, without an 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4625/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/WORLD039S-LARGEST-FLAG.html A UAE flag of the size of four football grounds that has gained entry into the Guinness Book of World Records for being the largest will be part of the National Day celebrations. The flag was mad 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4630/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/MALAYSIA-BANS-SMALL-CIGARETTE-PACKETS.html The sale of cigarettes in packets of less than 20 sticks will be prohibited in Malaysia from June 1, 2010. Malaysian Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai said in a statement that cigarette companies we 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4619/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/WAR-ON-TERROR-HAS-FAILED.html A new study from Oxford Research Group (ORG) pointed to multiple failures in the military response to the 9/11 atrocities, including over 100,000 civilian deaths, 120,000 refugees and continuing 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4613/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Inside-India/Story-Detail/MADHU-KODA-ARRESTED.html The State Vigilance Commission arrested Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, on November 29, nearly two months after a case was registered against him in a multi-crore hawala scam 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4607/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Analysis/Story-Detail/Downbeat-US-Rating-Home-and-Abroad.html A survey conducted in the USA by Pew Research Centre for the People and the Press shows that a survey of the United States is playing a less important role globally. The object of this survey on 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4601/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Payaam-e-Maghrib/Story-Detail/Islam-Some-Core-Concepts.html Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal) If you have wondered why there is so much confusion and frustration among 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4593/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Editorial/Story-Detail/Babri-Masjid-Calls-for-Justice.html It was one of the darkest moments in the otherwise bright history of independent, democratic and secular India when on December 6, 1992 one of the venerated houses of God, 400-year old Babri Masj 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4624/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/JAPAN-JOINS-PEACE-TALKS.html Japan has formally joined a body that will help facilitate peace talks between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), according to a letter sent by the Japanese government t 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4618/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Inside-India/Story-Detail/NO-BIAS-AGAINST-DALITS-IN-CHATESHWAR-TEMPLE.html The Chateshwar temple in Cuttack district of Orissa shed its prejudice by opening its doors for Dalits on December 2. Led by veteran Gandhian Subba Rao, hundreds of Dalits, including sweepers, cl 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4612/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Inside-India/Story-Detail/GOVT-ASHAMED-OF-SIKH-RIOTS.html Twenty-five years after the Sikh riots that followed the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the Central Government on December 1 said it was ashamed that the riots took place, an 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4606/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Islamic-Economics/Story-Detail/Islam-and-Economics.html Islam is proactive about worldly resources for mankind. This approach can be understood by the following verse: And We have given you (mankind) power in the earth, and appointed for y 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4600/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Report/Story-Detail/Punish-the-Guilty----Social-and-Rights-Bodies.html A number of Social and Human Rights organisations organised a candle march from Jantar Mantar to Parliament Street on December 5 marking the 17th anniversary of the demolition of historic Babri M 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4592/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/A-Sycophant039s-Insanity.html This refers to your cover stories captioned “Wasn’t Ford Hood Shooting Another Case of Mass Shooting That is on Rise in America?”  by Dr. Javed Jamil and “Fort Hood S 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4623/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/CIVIL-DEFENCE-IN-LEBANON.html Hizbullah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah stressed the continued need for the resistance’s, given the absence of a strong Lebanese state. He said that the major problem facing Lebanon&rs 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4617/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Inside-India/Story-Detail/OPERATION-GREEN-HUNT-AGAINST-MAOISTS.html India has launched a major offensive codenamed Operation Green Hunt against Maoist rebels in Chhattisgarh on December 3. Officials said there was least resistance from some of the Maois 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4611/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Inside-India/Story-Detail/CHIDAMBARAM-FACES-FURY-FOR-039HINDU-TERRORIST039-REMARK.html Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram had to face criticism by the opposition for using the word “Hindu Terrorism” while speaking on internal security in Rajya Sabha on December 1. While 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4605/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Islamic-Economics/Story-Detail/Seminar-on-Muamalat-in-Malaysia.html A seminar on Muamalat as prescription to Global economic crisis was organised recently by the Shariah Department in collaboration with the Islamic Economics and Finance Research Group (EKONIS) an 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4599/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/Why-Not-Remember-December-6-Like-November-26.html A nation has every right to remember the victims of 26/11 on its first anniversary. We can contest the way it should be observed: whether special prayers should mark the occasion or there should 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4629/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/MINARETS-OPPOSED-IN-NETHERLANDS-TOO.html The head of the Netherlands far-right Freedom Party, Geert Wilders, called for his government to allow a Swiss-style referendum to ban building of minarets. “Congratulations to Switzerland 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4591/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Whither-Obama.html The U.S. President Barack Obama’s decision to continue the war in Afghanistan by sending 30,000 additional troops in Afghanistan has dismayed all those who believed that he would deliver hi 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4622/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/TABUNG-HAJI-ABSORBS-COST.html Tabung Haji will absorb the extra cost incurred for the longer stay of Hajj pilgrims due to a delay in their return flight home after a reschedule in flight services by the Saudi authorities. Min 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4616/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Inside-India/Story-Detail/NEW-BILL-TO-CHECK-JUDICIAL-CORRUPTION.html “India has drafted a new bill to check corruption and increase accountability in the judiciary,” said Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily at a seminar on Judicial and Legal Reforms or 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4610/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Inside-India/Story-Detail/KARWAN-E-AMAN-TO-PROMOTE-PEACE-ON-DECEMBER-6.html Several Hindu and Muslim groups in Lucknow took out a march Karwan-e-Aman from Ayodhya to Ajmer, marking the 17th anniversary of demolition of Babri Masjid on December 6, to promote peac 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4604/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Islamic-Economics/Story-Detail/Bai-Bithamin-Ajil-Deferred-payment-sale.html Bai Bithamil Ajil (BBA) is in news in Malaysia and it has generated a good amount of debate on the methodology and morality of deferred payment in Islamic finance as practised in the country. BBA 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4598/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/British-Indian-Muslims-Urge-UK-to-Declare-the-68-Terrorists-persona-non-grata.html British Indian Muslims have urged British Government to declare the 68 people persona non grata found guilty by the Justice Liberhan Commission for the demolition of 16th centaury Babri Mosque. 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4627/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/EGG-ON-TORY-FACE.html A Tory peer was pelted with eggs for “not being a proper Muslim”. Baroness Warsi was attacked by a group of protesters while campaigning. Recently named Britain’s most powerful 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4590/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Congress-and-the-Babri-Dispute.html Answering a question on the promise of Narasimha Rao’s government to rebuild the Babri Mosque, party spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi said the party “did not want the remedy to be wors 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4621/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/WEARING-FULL-SLEEVES-IN-SWEDEN.html A Muslim woman from Kista north of Stockholm, who was denied a job as a dentist after refusing to wear short-sleeved work clothes for religious reasons, has lost her discrimination case against t 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4615/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Inside-India/Story-Detail/MAHRASHTRA-GOVT-GAGS-POLICE-OFFICIALS.html Maharashtra Home Department is planning to issue a gag order to police officials prohibiting them from speaking to media. “We are planning to issue an order prohibiting police official to s 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/183/4609/WHOM-ARE-YOU-HOODWINKING-CONGRESSMEN/2009-12-13/Inside-India/Story-Detail/PROSECUTE-THOSE-NAMED-BY-LIBERHAN-RJD.html Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Shakeel Ahmed Khan, demanded legal proceedings against all the persons named in the Liberhan Commission findings that dealt with the Babri Masjid demolition and 2009-12-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4562/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/Take-Urgent-Legal-Action-against-Those-Indicted-in-the-Liberhan-Report-ANHAD.html ANHAD (Act Now for Harmony and Democracy), a New Delhi based NGO working for communal harmony and democracy in India, in a statement issued on November 25, urged the Government to urgent legal ac 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4554/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Political-Parties039-Goondaism.html If anybody is to be made accountable for Shiv Sena’s attack on IBN-Offices in Mumbai and Pune, it should be none other than Maharashtra’s Chief Minister Ashok Chavan and his Home Mini 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4585/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Inside-India/Story-Detail/17-SENA-ACTIVISTS-HELD-FOR-ATTACK-ON-IBN-LOKMAT.html Seventeen Shiv Sena activists have been arrested in Mumbai and six in Pune for attacking journalists and damaging property at offices of Marathi news channel IBN Lokmat in Vikhroli and Pune. They 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4579/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/IRAQI-ELECTION-LAW.html Iraqi lawmakers approved an amended version of the election law that would govern the country’s national elections slated for January. The lawmakers changed the system for distributing seat 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4573/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/MINARET-BAN-IN-SWITZERLAND.html The Swiss through a referendum imposed a national ban on the construction of minarets. The referendum, which passed with a clear majority of 57.5 per cent of the voters and in 22 of Switzerland&r 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4567/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/From-Darkness-to-Light/Story-Detail/The-Lesson-That-I-Learned-from-Life.html My name is Viviana Espin. I am 21 years old from Ecuador. Life always has good and bad moments, so mine has not been the exception. Sometimes when I think about the past I feel a deep hole of pai 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4561/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/LIBERHAN039S-CONTRIBUTION-TO-HISTORY Not-by-Design-But-by-Default.html In history something often comes out by default and not by design. So without wasting any more 17 long years on discussing the intention of the Congress Party or even Justice Liberhan one can saf 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4553/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Say-No-to-Resorting-to-Article-356.html Despite Home Minister P. Chidambaram’s affirmation that the sending of Central team to West Bengal need not be seen through the prism of Article 356, the intent of the Congress-TMC combine 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4584/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Inside-India/Story-Detail/BHAGALPUR-RIOT-VICTIMS-GET-RELIEF.html Twenty years after Bhagalpur riots, 844 families are finally going to get compensation. A total of Rs 29.54 crore, Rs 3.5 lakh for each victim will be distributed among hundreds of families affec 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4578/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/LEGALITY-OF-IRAQ-WAR-QUESTIONABLE.html Britain’s former ambassador to the UN, who was at the centre of failed attempts to obtain a Security Council mandate for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, admitted that the legitimacy of the war w 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4572/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/HAJJ-UNITES-ROMANIA-MUSLIMS.html Romania’s two biggest Muslim organisations, Taiba Foundation and Ifta’ House, and have joined hands for the first time to co-organise the annual Hajj journey, a move seen as an import 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4566/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Deomography/Story-Detail/Composition-of-Population-Demographic-in-2050.html Recently many studies have been published about composition of the world population in 2050.  People are fascinated by the changes that will happen in the next few decades. Many of us may no 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4560/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/JIH-Seeks-Legal-Action-against-the-Indicted-in-Liberhan-Report.html Mr. Nusrat Ali, General Secretary Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, while expressing his resentment on the tabling of Liberhan Commission Report in Parliament has sought the government to take legal action aga 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4587/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Inside-India/Story-Detail/AMU-STUDENTS-CALL-OFF-THEIR-DHARNA.html The agitating students of Aligarh Muslim University on November 26 called off their dharna at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi and decided to withdraw their month-long agitation. They were protesting ove 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4583/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Inside-India/Story-Detail/BHOPAL-GAS-TRAGEDY-VICTIMS-SEEK-MORE-COMPENSATION.html Stating that the Bhopal gas tragedy victims have not been paid adequate compensation even after 25 years of the world’s worst industrial disaster, Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udhyog Sangathan 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4577/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/IMMIGRANTS-IN-GERMANY.html Germany plans to have immigrants sign “integration contracts” that would oblige foreigners seeking to live in the country to avow certain values, such as freedom of speech and equal r 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4571/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/BAN-BLASPHEMY.html Four years after cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be with him) set off violent protests across the Muslim world, Islamic nations are mounting a campaign for an inter 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4565/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Eid-Al-Adha-Special/Story-Detail/Qurbani-Stories-from-Mumbai.html In the city of Mumbai, where Muslims number about 3 million, in a total metropolitan population of 13.6 million, the difficulties that Muslims face in carrying on their religious duties, is somet 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4559/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/The-No-Action-Taken-Report A-Travesty-of-Justice.html Is the over 1000-page Justice Liberhan Commission of Inquiry Report, tabled in Parliament on November 24, going to prove a 5-day wonder? Is it an eloquent essay in obfuscation? Was the costly pro 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4589/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Inside-India/Story-Detail/NO-COMMUNAL-ELEMENTS-IF-WE-HAD-COMMUNAL-VIOLENCE-LEGISLATION.html Justice Manmohan Singh Liberhan’s 17-year mission hasn’t burdened the Congress much with administrative dilemmas like punitive action against Sangh parivar rivals, but has given it en 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4582/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Inside-India/Story-Detail/VINITA-KAMTE-PENS-A-BOOK-IN-SEARCH-OF-TRUTH.html Vinita Kamte, wife of 26/11 martyr Additional Commissioner of Police Ashok Kamte, in search of truth about her husband’s death has penned a book. She has registered her findings in the book 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4576/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/PHILIPPINE-PEACE-PROCESS.html The Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front have invited Japan, Turkey, the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia to form part of the International Contact Group (ICG) that will gua 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4570/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Report/Story-Detail/Constitute-a-National-Judicial-Commission-to-Investigate-2611.html Bharat Bachao Andolan, a National Movement against Imperialism, Zionism and Brahmanism, in coordination with various other organisations held a conference on “Mumbai 26/11 Terror: Exposing 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4564/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Mission-Of-Abdul-Wahab/Story-Detail/JIH-Voices-Concern-on-Jethmalani039s-Remarks.html Mr. Nusrat Ali, General Secretary Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, has said that the allegation levelled by Senior Advocate Ram Jethmalani against Muhammad bin Abdul Wahab and Saudi Arabia is unnecessary an 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4556/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Misuse-of-Wakf-Properties.html Apropos, “Misuse of Wakf Properties…” by Syed Sultan Mohiddin (Radiance Viewsweekly, 1–7 November). Statically the facts and figures pointed by the writer about the misus 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4588/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Inside-India/Story-Detail/PROF-HASEEB-BAGS-DR-B-VASANTHARAJ-DAVID-AWARD.html Prof. Akhtar Haseeb, Chairman, Department of Plant Protection, and former Dean, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh has been conferred with the “Dr. B. 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4581/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/CAIR-BANQUET.html Some 2,000 people turned out for the 13th annual banquet of the Greater Los Angeles Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA). The event helped raise $432,000 to support 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4575/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/OHIO-MUSLIM-YOUTH-CONFERENCE.html The Cleveland chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Cleveland) hosted its first annual Building Muslim Youth Leadership Conference.  The conference attracted over 170 at 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4569/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Islamic-Economics/Story-Detail/Intention-Matters.html Before I go further in responding to the issues raised by Mansoor Durrani, I would like to give a generate note on the Islamic banking and finance industry, why the conventional bankers or those 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4563/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Mission-Of-Abdul-Wahab/Story-Detail/MUHAMMAD-BIN-ABDUL-WAHAB- A-Victim-of-Ill-informed-Criticism.html It was a shocking moment when eminent jurist and former Law Minister Ram Jethmalani branded Muhammad Bin Abdul Wahab an “evil man” during an international conference of jurists-2009 i 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4555/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Mere-Proper-Staffing-won039t-Do.html Mansoor Durrani has called seniors in the field as Uncles of Islamic banking. I consider him to be at least a Cousin of the profession! He has highlighted some basic fallacies of the Islamic fina 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4586/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Inside-India/Story-Detail/DEMAND-FOR-TABLING-RANGANATH-MISRA-PANEL-REPORT.html After forcing the government to table the Liberhan Commission report in Parliament, political parties on November 24 demanded tabling of the Ranganath Misra panel report, which went into the soci 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4580/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/EUROPEAN-TROOPS-FOR-AFGHANISTAN.html NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen called on European countries to send additional soldiers to Afghanistan. “It is of utmost importance that an American announcement of increased 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4574/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/CHINESE-MUSLIMS-TOURING-MALAYSIA.html Malaysia will step up the promotion of Muslim tour packages, including Ramadan attractions, for the Chinese market, said Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen. “The number of Chinese Mu 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/182/4568/NO-ACTION-TAKEN-REPORT-A-Travesty-of-Justice/2009-12-06/APEC-2009/Story-Detail/A-Paradigm-Shift-in-Singapore Yet-Apec-Offers-No-Clear-Answers.html Like scores of journalists, I attentively listened as Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong delivering his closing remarks, and for the last time answering journalists’ questions. It was 2009-12-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4518/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Is-It-Patriotism-or-Nationalism.html India’s national anthem is Jana Gana Mana and not Vande Mataram. The writer of Vande Mataram, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, was not a nationalist. He was a staunch British loyali 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4549/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/UK-MUSLIM-SCHOOLS-FACE-CLOSURE.html The global economic downturn is pushing almost all British Muslim schools towards closure. “The economic crisis has put them under enormous pressure and they are getting through each day with 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4543/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/KURDS-TO-BOYCOTT-ELECTIONS.html The Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq decided to boycott the country’s January national elections, protesting the process of the parliamentary seats allocation for the provin 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4537/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Inside-India/Story-Detail/THREE-WOMEN-IDENTIFIED-FOR-HELPING-GUJARAT-RIOTERS.html Shabbirmiyan Sindhi, key witness in the Deepda Darwaza case of the 2002 Gujarat riots has identified three women for having supplied kerosene and petrol to the mob to burn those killed in Mehsana&r 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4531/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Zamzam-water/Story-Detail/The-More-You-Explore-the-More-Wonders-Surface.html We are in the 21st century, when the advancement of science has carved a niche, shaping one’s thought and determining the course of life. On the path of discovery and rediscovery, science h 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4525/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/Mockery-of-Democracy.html India is a country which claims to be the largest democracy of the world, but the recent deplorable incident, occurred in the Mumbai Assembly with the SP MLA, Abu Asim Azmi, a member of the Mumba 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4517/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Wrath-of-Sugarcane-Growers.html The UPA government’s ordinance for a uniform pricing system ‘Fair and Remunerative Price’ (FRP) for the sugarcane growers has naturally invited the wrath of the farmers in Uttar 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4548/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/OVERSTAYERS-STAY-FIRM.html Stranded Sri Lankan workers who are roughing it under the Kandarah bridge in Jeddah refused an offer of accommodation from the Sri Lankan Consulate in Jeddah. They claim staying there will facilita 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4542/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/CYCLONE-SIDR-SURVIVORS-SUFFERING.html Two years after Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh hit the southern coastal districts of Bangladesh on November 15, 2007, many of the survivors are still homeless and at severe risk from further disaster 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4536/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Inside-India/Story-Detail/SIM-CARD-OF-2611-ATTACK-TRACED-TO-SUNIL-TIWARI-OF-DELHI.html The SIM card of a mobile phone used by 26/11 terrorists has been traced to a Delhi resident Suresh Prasad whose whereabouts are still not known, a witness informed the trial court on November 19. 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4530/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Islamic-Finance/Story-Detail/Let-Uncles-of-Islamic-Banking-Concentrate-on-Basics.html In the beginning of 6th century C.E, Arabian Peninsula was lying in the deep valleys of darkness. Attacking and robbing neighbouring tribes was a norm; burying daughters alive was a tradition; ca 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4524/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/LATITUDE-TO-HOOLIGANS- Unanswered-Questions.html Are the two Thackerays of Mumbai not a security risk? Do they not pose a challenge to national stability and solidarity? Have they not been given a too-long rope by the State Government and the N 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4550/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/UNHOLY-GOVERNOR-EVANGELIST-TIE.html Even before taking the oath of office, Virginia Governor-elect Bob McDonnell is already troubling Muslims because of his close links to controversial evangelist Pat Robertson, who is infamous for 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4547/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/STOLEN-ARTEFACTS-RETURNED.html The Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA) handed over a number of Iraqi cultural artefacts smuggled to the Kingdom by an Arab expatriate recently. The returned artefacts include statu 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4541/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/US-VOWS-TO-PROTECT-MUSLIMS039-RIGHTS.html Amid growing concerns over anti-Muslim backlash, the Obama administration has vowed to protect rights of American Muslims while battling security threats. “We are committed to protecting th 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4535/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Inside-India/Story-Detail/HINDUTVA-GOONS-TERRORISE-MUSLIMS-IN-MALEGAON.html On the eve of Eid al-Adha, Hindutva goons stepped up their efforts to terrorise the Muslims of Malegaon. Disguised as Gao Sewa Samiti volunteers, Subhash Malu and his associates freely created mi 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4529/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Globalisation/Story-Detail/Globalisation-Unchecked How-Alien-Media-is-Suffocating-Real-Culture.html A Muslim family sits across of me in café, in a largely Muslim Asia country. An older woman shyly hunches over and desperately trying to avoid eye contact with the giant plasma screen TV, 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4521/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Editorial/Story-Detail/Eid-al-Adha---Time-to-Renovate-Our-Pledge.html Eid al-Adha, the festival commemorating the supreme sacrifice of Prophet Ibraheem and promoting the spirit of living and dying for love of God, is once again at our doorsteps. Synchronised with i 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4552/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Inside-India/Story-Detail/First-Audio-CD-of-Japanese-translation-of-Juz-30-and-Surah-Al-Fatihah-released.html Islamic Audio and Video department of Islamic Circle of Japan has released the 30th Juz of the Holy Qur’Ä�n with audio translation into the Japanese language. The project was completed with 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4546/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/PAK-REJECTS-CHARGE.html Pakistan rejected a US newspaper report that China provided it with weapons grade uranium for two bombs in 1982. A spokesman for Pakistan’s foreign ministry rejected the allegations in a 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4540/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Inside-India/Story-Detail/HC-ACCUSES-GOVT-OF-FAVOURING-MANU-SHARMA.html In a strong indictment to the Delhi government, the Delhi High Court on November 20 said Manu Sharma, who is serving life sentence for the murder of model Jessica Lal, got parole because he was inf 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4534/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/From-Darkness-to-Light/Story-Detail/The-Trinity-Led-Me-to-Islam.html My name is Roger Hadden, and I am originally from Dungannon in Northern Ireland. I have lived in Northern Ireland and Scotland, and I am a dentist currently working in England. I was raised 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4528/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/US-China-Relation/Story-Detail/China-as-South-Asia039s-Monitor Does-It-Amount-To-US039-Weakness.html Diplomacy is the best weapon for the weak. And sometimes the weakness gets exposed. The last President of the then Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, adopted this policy, but could not save his cou 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4520/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/India-on-Honesty-Index.html India has ‘strong’ reason to feel satisfied by ‘improving’ its position in global honesty, ranking from 85th last year to 84th this year – that too much better than 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4545/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/EGYPTIAN-MUEZZIN-ON-STAGE.html Four Cairo Muezzins (callers for Salat) bring their lives to the stage for a piece of documentary theatre in Germany. Cairo, with over 30,000 mosques, is known as the city of a thousand mosques. Ea 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4539/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Inside-India/Story-Detail/SP-REVIVES-BABRI-ISSUE-MUSLIMS-ACCUSE-IT-OF-OPPORTUNISM.html After snapping ties with Kalyan Singh, the Samajwadi Party has decided to revive the issue of Babri Masjid once again. On December 6, at the 17th anniversary of the demolition, SP will launch a c 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4533/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Health-Care/Story-Detail/Hype-in-the-Media-on-H1N1-is-Out-of-Proportion.html The Hype created in the media about the H1N1 is unrealistic and caused fewer fatalities whereas causalities due to other diseases like Tuber clauses, Malaria are much more as compared to this. Bu 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4527/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Report/Story-Detail/Varkkala-Murder-statement-from-the-DGP-is-uncalled-for-Ajit-Sahi.html Ajit Sahi, the editor at charge of Tehelka, strongly slammed the statement of Kerala DGP that Dalit groups are connected with the Varkkala murder. Making irresponsible comments like this 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4519/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Attack-of-Nikhil-Wagle.html We strongly condemn the attack on the senior journalist Nikhil Wagle, editor IBN Lokmat as undemocratic, and demand strict action against the culprits and their mentor. We also support t 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4551/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/SAUDI-STUDENTS-IN-UAE.html The number of Saudi students in institutions across the UAE has grown more than 10-fold over the past seven years, said a Saudi diplomat in Dubai. The new Saudi Cultural Attaché in Dubai, 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4544/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/TURKEY-WILLING-TO-MEDIATE.html While Iran has not publicly responded to a UN suggestion that it temporarily store some of its uranium abroad, Turkey’s willingness to cooperate is a positive sign for the West. Turkey’ 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4538/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Inside-India/Story-Detail/KAVITA-KARKARE-QUESTIONS-SECURITY-OF-AAM-ADMI.html “It is an irony that the ATS chief is not safe and can be killed like this, how can common people feel safe in this country?” said Kavita Karkare, wife of slain ATS chief of Maharasht 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4532/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Health-Care/Story-Detail/OBESITY A-Growing-Epidemic.html CNN has described it as “Fat nation,” while others have called it an epidemic. Whichever way you want to describe it, it is a nightmare which has no end in sight. The impact of obesit 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/181/4526/LATITUDE-TO-SHIV-SENA-MNS-Unanswered-Questions/2009-11-29/Dalit-Muslims/Story-Detail/Re-thinking-the-Dalit-Muslim-Political-Unity.html During the Round Table conference in London, BR Ambedkar and Gandhiji fought a battle over the question as to who represented the untouchables. Within India, there is intense debate on who mirror 2009-11-29 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4484/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/MNS-Hooliganism.html The thrashing of Azmi and the hooliganism by the MNS members over his oath in Hindi was indeed one of the worst acts that could have been committed and for such a stupid reason. Hindi is the firs 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4509/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/VISIT-OF-CHINESE-MUSLIM-LEADER.html Exiled Chinese Muslim leader Rebiya Kadeer will travel to Palau to visit six fellow Uighurs released from Guantanamo Bay. The six detainees arrived in Palau as part of US President Barack Obama&r 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4503/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Inside-India/Story-Detail/MAN-SENTENCED-TO-LIFE-FOR-BHAGALPUR-RIOTS.html Kameshwar Yadav, felicitated by the then RJD government in 2004 for maintaining communal harmony, was on November 9 sentenced to life for the second time for inciting violence during the Bhagalpur 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4497/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Payaam-e-Maghrib/Story-Detail/Eid-Mubarak.html Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal) Eid Mubarak to all. It is Eid season – today, tomo 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4491/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Mushawarat/Story-Detail/Mushawarat-Deliberates-on-National-and-International-Issues.html The Working Committee (Majlis-e Amla) of All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat, the umbrella body of Indian Muslim organisations on November 14 debated a number of organisational, mil 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4483/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/MNS-Hooliganism.html The hooliganism indulged in by four Raj Thackeray’s MNS legislators assaulting the Samajwadi party member Mr. Abu Asim Azmi for taking oath in the first official language Hindi is highly co 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4515/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Editorial/Story-Detail/Aligarh-How-Long-will-You-Bleed Dislodge-the-Devils-before-They-Destroy-the-University.html We wrote in September 2007 that Indian educational scene is steadily improving and in most of the 300 plus universities peace prevails and concrete strides are being made to achieve academic exce 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4508/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/MOSQUE-IN-GERMANY.html After years of controversy, the Muslim community in Cologne in the western Germany has taken the first concrete step towards building a grand mosque. Members of the Turkish Islamic organization, 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4502/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Inside-India/Story-Detail/SIT-SUMMONS-19-COPS-FOR-ISHRAT-CASE.html The Special Investigation Team (SIT) appointed by the Gujarat High Court to probe the Ishrat Jahan encounter case has issued summons to 19 police officials on November 6. These officials include 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4496/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/From-Darkness-to-Light/Story-Detail/A-Faith-I-had-Never-Considered.html I have not always been a Muslim. There have been times in my life that I have been the very opposite of what that means to be; yet, in some way, I feel like my whole life has led me to it.&n 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4490/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Indian-Polity/Story-Detail/How-Long-the-Common-Man-will-Suffer.html What are the popular expectations from the people’s representatives? Are our elected persons coming up to the expectations of the electorate? Does their behaviour, in and out of State Legis 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4482/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Political-Opportunism.html It is a blessing in disguise that political opportunism among now-distanced Kalyan Singh and Mulayam Singh Yadav has been exposed, which will badly harm both the former short-lived friends. Kalya 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4513/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/WEBSITE-FOR-MUSLIM-TRAVELLERS.html A website recently set up for Muslim travellers rates hotels by how far they go to meet their needs. Nine hotels in four countries have so far been assessed by Crescentrating (www.crescentrating.co 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4507/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/PERSONA-NON-GRATA-FROM-INDIA.html In a 4-page memorandum sent to OIC Head office, Jeddah, Turkish Foreign Ministry, Indonesian Foreign Ministry, Indonesian Embassy in London and New Delhi, Council of Indian Muslims UK (CIM) has u 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4501/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Inside-India/Story-Detail/KODA039S-EMPIRE-SET-TO-CRUMBLE.html With each passing day things have got worse for former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is reportedly set to file charges against Koda and his former colleagues 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4495/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Inflation/Story-Detail/Interest-Inflation-and-Money-Value.html The approach of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to use ‘interest rate’ as a tool to keep inflation under control should be reviewed because interest has not only helped regulating liquidi 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4489/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism.html After all Maha-rashtra is bigger than rashtra (nation). Therefore, its language, Marathi, is certainly ‘superior’ to other languages of the rashtra – not necessarily an 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4514/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Report/Story-Detail/Salaam-Centre-Stall-at-Bangalore-Book-Fair.html Disseminating the message of the Qur’Ä�n is a Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad (may Allah bless and greet him), said Maulana Riyaz-ul-Rahman Rashadi while inaugurating the Salaam Centre stall at 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4512/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/PAS-TO-CONTINUE-ITS-ALLIANCE.html Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang, president of PAS, the Islamic party of Malaysia, told its supporters that they will remain in Pakatan Rakyat (PR) as it has gained more with the opposition pact than 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4506/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/NATO-OPERATION-AGAINST-AFGHAN-RED-CRESCENT.html The Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) has denounced a NATO-led military operation at its office in Qalat, capital of the southern province of Zabul, on November 7. In a press statement NATO said 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4500/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Inside-India/Story-Detail/CASE-OF-TREASON-FILED-AGAINST-MNS-CHIEF.html Following a ruckus in the Maharashtra Assembly, a case of insult to Hindi and treason has been filed against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) Chief Raj Thackeray with the CJM court in Jamshedpur 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4494/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Global-Warming/Story-Detail/The-Looming-Peril.html Shylock: Most learned judge, a sentence! Come prepare! Portia: Tarry a little, there is something else. This bond 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4488/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/Bihar-Leaders-Condemn-Raj-Thackeray-Effigies-Burnt.html Angered by the criminal behaviour of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) legislators in Maharashtra Assembly, leaders in Bihar cutting across the party line, condemned the incident calling for the a 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4516/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Inside-India/Story-Detail/HWF-felicitated-750-Meritorious-Muslim-students-of-UP.html Human Welfare Foundation felicitated 750 meritorious Muslim students of Uttar Pradesh, who scored 60% and above marks in their board examination for the academic session 2008-09 in an award givin 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4511/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/ISLAMIC-FASHION-AND-MALAYSIA.html That modesty can be beautiful is the message that organisers of the Islamic fashion festival in Kuala Lumpur want to send to Muslims and non-Muslims alike. The Islamic fashion festival is part of 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4505/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/LIFE-SENTENCE-IN-quotVEIL-MARTYRquot-CASE.html A 28-year-old German man of Russian descent was jailed for life for the murder of an Egyptian woman in a Dresden courtroom last July, after stabbing her 16 times with a kitchen knife. The defenda 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4499/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Inside-India/Story-Detail/GOA-TERRORISTS-TRIED-TO-LEAVE-MUSLIM-IMPRINT.html Investigators believe that the Sanatan Sanstha activists who were killed while allegedly planting bombs in Goa during Diwali celebrations last month were plotting to fan communal tensions by misl 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4493/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/West-Asia/Story-Detail/How-Israel-Won-the-Settlement-Battle-Again.html When British Foreign Secretary David Miliband uttered a few words regarding the illegality of the Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, many wanted to believe that London was taking a sh 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4485/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Islamophobia.html When a Christian or a Jew, commits a crime, the media refers to him as a criminal and questions his act. When, however, the criminal happens to be a Muslim, the media refers to him as a Muslim an 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4510/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/MUSLIM-BROTHERHOOD-CONDEMN-039SEX-PARTY039.html R and B singer Beyonce, has brought her world tour to Egypt where she faced the ire of Islamists. Hamdi Hassan, a lawmaker from the Muslim Brotherhood, has written to the speaker of the house and 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4504/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Inside-India/Story-Detail/MEDIA-SHOULD-CORRECT-MISTAKES-ON-LOVE-JIHAD-JIH-KERALA-AMIR.html The media which spread wrong information about the matter should be ready to correct their mistakes as the DGP has again stated in the High Court that there was no organisation or movement in the n 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4498/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Inside-India/Story-Detail/RUPA-MODY-SAYS-MODI-IGNORED-JAFRI039S-PLEA-FOR-HELP.html Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi had not responded to the pleas for help from the then Congress MP Ehsan Jafri before the massacre at Gulberg Society in 2002, Rupa Mody, who lost her son i 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/180/4492/IMPOSING-MAHA-RASHTRA-LANGUAGE-Brazen-Display-of-Sub-Nationalism-or-Super-Nationalism/2009-11-22/Super-Power/Story-Detail/The-End-of-Empire-Myth-and-Reality.html After the 9/11 mayhem, it has become fashionable to write off the United States as the world’s sole global power. Unfailingly newspapers carry articles penned by self-acclaimed political pu 2009-11-22 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4480/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Inside-India/Story-Detail/HARI-MASJID-VICTIM-STILL-AN-ACCUSED-FOR-STATE.html In spite of his acquittal in February after a 16-year-long legal battle, the victim in the Hari Masjid firing case Farook Mapkar continues to be branded as an accused by the state government. In 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4481/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Inside-India/Story-Detail/ISLAM-NOT-AN-ALIEN-FAITH-CHIDAMBARAM.html Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram, speaking at the 30th general session of the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind in Uttar Pradesh on November 02, said India cannot view Islam as an alien faith. He said &ldquo 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4473/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/KA039BAH-DOOR-MAKER-PASSES-AWAY.html Sheikh Ahmad bin Ibrahim Badr, the chief artist who recast the golden door of the Ka’bah, has died at the age of 89 in Makkah. Ahmad made the Ka’bah’s door using 300 kg of 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4467/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/911-THEORY-QUESTIONED.html Almost one in five Swedes aged under 30 think that George W Bush’s US government lay behind the attacks on September 11th 2001, according to a new survey by Novus Opinion. The Novus poll in 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4461/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Report/Story-Detail/Let-Religion-Play-Its-Role-in-Society.html What is the purpose of man on earth? What is his role in society? How should he behave with his fellow beings? What should be the relationship between man and woman? These are some of the fundame 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4455/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Arab-Crisis/Story-Detail/No-Emergency-Summits-for-Arab-Human-Development-Crisis.html When the first Arab Human Development Report (AHDR) was published in 2002, a star glistened in a vast, gloomy sky. The fact that a UN-sponsored report, authored by independent Arab scholars, woul 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4447/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Welcome-Advice-from-Delhi-CM.html It refers to Chief Minister of Delhi Shiela Dixit rightly asking his ministers to avoid attending mega-budgeted marriage-ceremonies. Earlier Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee had also ind 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4478/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Inside-India/Story-Detail/MUSLIMS-URGED-TO-DEFEAT-LOVE-JIHAD-PROPAGANDA.html The stories being spread by the Sangh Parivar and certain media in the name of the imaginary organisation called ‘Love Jihad’ will affect the social atmosphere of the state, said a jo 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4472/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/IRANIAN-MPS-REJECT-UN-PROPOSAL.html Senior Iranian lawmakers rejected any possibility of Tehran shipping uranium abroad for further enrichment, intensifying pressures on the government to reject the UN-backed plan altogether. Promi 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4466/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/TURKEY-SHIFTING-FROM-WEST.html The Western media and establishment are raising the question whether Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is giving up on the West. The Turkish prime minister adopted a tougher stance on I 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4460/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Islamic-Finance/Story-Detail/ICIF-Submits-Memo-on-Feasibility-of-Interest-Free-Islamic-Banking-to-FM.html To discuss the feasibility of Interest-Free Islamic Banking in India, a delegation headed by H Abdur Raqeeb, General Secretary New Delhi based Indian Centre for Islamic Finance (ICIF) met Union F 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4454/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/AMU/Story-Detail/What-Ails-AMU.html As AMU was preparing to welcome Governor of Uttar Pradesh B.L. Joshi for the inauguration of Centre of Excellence in Material Sciences and a hostel for Academic Staff College, there were moves to 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4446/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Hajj-Quota.html If the Maharashtrian Muslims had certain complaints against the Hajj committee regarding quota, they should have formed an independent forum and channelled their grievances, rather than becoming 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4477/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Inside-India/Story-Detail/ONE-CONVICTED-FOR-1989-BHAGALPUR-RIOTS.html A court in Bihar convicted Kameshwar Yadav, on November 07, an accused of killing a Muslim teenager during the 1989 communal riots in Bhagalpur. Additional District and Sessions Judge Arvind Madh 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4471/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/SAUDI-FORCES-WREST-CONTROL.html The Saudi Armed Forces are in “complete control” of the Mount Dokhan region and have “purged the mountains inside the Kingdom” of the Yemeni guerrillas, said Prince Khaled 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4465/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/AFGAN-VULNERABILITY.html The average per capita monthly expenditure of nine million Afghans is less than 66 US cents a day, and millions of other Afghans spend about $42 a month, according to a summary of Afghanistan&rsq 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4459/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Islamic-Finance/Story-Detail/Space-and-Scope-for-Islamic-Banking.html To introduce Islamic Finance and Banking in India, we have to: (1)  Undertake regulatory changes in the Indian Banking Acts, and (2) Create awareness among Muslims and Indians as a whole.&nb 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4453/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/AMU/Story-Detail/Re-open-AMU-with-Immediate-Effect-SIO.html Students Islamic Organisation of India (SIO) expressed deep condolences over the murder of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) student Shahnawaz Alam and expressed concern over the increasing unrest 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4445/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Vande-Mataram-Settled-in-1937.html With an apparent relief the Union Home Minister Chidambaram has stated that he was not present when Jamiat-e-Ulama Hind passed the resolution endorsing earlier fatwa declaring the national s 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4476/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Inside-India/Story-Detail/SANATAN-ACTIVISTS-PLANNED-FOUR-BOMBS-IN-GOA-COPS.html The Sanatan Sanstha activists, two of whom succumbed to their injuries in the October 16 blast in Goa, had planned to plant four improvised explosive devices (IEDs) at different locations in Goa 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4470/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/GUANTANAMO-ATROCITIES-HEARINGS.html A British Muslim detained for three years at the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison manned by the United States, revealed that the youngest detainee he knew of was a nine-year-old boy who was also 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4464/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/BLASPHEMY-LAW-TO-BE-REPEALED.html Opposition MPs of the Netherlands submitted draft legislation to the Council of State advisory body to repeal the ban on blasphemy. The ruling Labour party has already said it supports the change 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4458/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/IOC-Jaipur-Depot-Fire/Story-Detail/Indian-Oil-Corporation-Jaipur-Depot-Fire JIH-Launches-Relief-Camp.html Panic gripped the city of Jaipur at about 7:37 pm on October 29, when the oil tanks of the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) terminal at Sitapura Industrial area began to blow one after another. Massi 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4452/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/Wasn039t-Ford-Hood-Shooting-Another-Case-of-Mass-Shooting-That-is-on-Rise-in-America.html The shootings at Fort Hood in Texas by Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a psychiatrist and practising Muslim, are shocking and condemnable; and the perpetrator should be punished according to the law 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4444/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Catch-the-Kodas.html The UPA government’s decision to disinvest 10 per cent of the stakes in all listed Public Sector Undertakings has signified that it did not learn a lesson from the recent financial tsunami. 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4475/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Inside-India/Story-Detail/PUNISH-1984-SIKH-RIOTS-ACCUSED-HRW.html An international human rights group has asked New Delhi to prosecute those involved in 1984 Sikh riots, following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. “The victims of the 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4469/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/ISLAMIC-FINANCIAL-REVISITED.html While Malaysia is doing a great job in promoting Islamic finance, the adaptation process to some of its products will need a deeper look or “a second visit”, according to a renowned M 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4463/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Payaam-e-Maghrib/Story-Detail/Whither-American-Muslims.html Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal) Below are some of my views on American Muslims’ relationship with Am 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4457/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Health-Care/Story-Detail/Vitamin-D-Deficiency-can-be-Dangerous-to-Health.html Recently there had been a lot of news about Vitamin D (VD), whether it is network news, medical magazine or Readers’ Digest, they are all talking about VD and its deficiency. The i 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4451/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Cover-Story/Story-Detail/FORT-HOOD-SHOOTOUT The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War.html Killing fellow soldiers is not a phenomenon which first occurred on November 5, 2009 at Fort Hood military base in Texas in the United States. It is happening all over the world with increasing f 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4479/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Inside-India/Story-Detail/SANGH-PARIVAR-MEMBERS-BEHIND-THE-ARSON.html A commission probing the killing of Laxamananda Saraswati and the violence in Kandhamal, on November 5 exposed that RSS, VHP and Bajrang Dal activists were allegedly involved in setting afire a p 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4474/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Inside-India/Story-Detail/MODI-ABUSED-JAFRI-WHEN-ASKED-FOR-HELP.html Imtiyaz Saeedkhan Pathan, a key witness in the Gulbarg massacre case, has told a Special Court that chief minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi abused former MP Ehsan Jafri when he had called hi 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4468/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/DRESS-CODE-IN-INDONESIA.html Muslim women would be banned from wearing tight pants in a devoutly Islamic district of Indonesia’s Aceh province under proposed regulations to take effect January 1. It is the latest effor 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4462/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Report/Story-Detail/Islam-the-Complete-Way-of-Life-Sheikh-Muhammed-Karakunnu.html Islam is the complete way of life and its bases are the Qur’Ä�n and the saying as well as deeds of the Prophet, said Sheikh Muhammed Karakunnu, director Dialogue Centre, Kerala. He was inau 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4456/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Book-Review/Story-Detail/Thriller-Sensational-Spine-Tingling--But-Truth.html WHO KILLED KARKARE? THE REAL FACE OF TERRORISM IN INDIA  SM Mushrif  Pharos Media (www.pharosmedia.com), New Delhi Pages: 319&nbs 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/179/4448/FORT-HOOD-SHOOT-OUT-The-Price-US-is-Paying-for-Global-War/2009-11-15/Editorial/Story-Detail/Vande-Mataram-Controversy-Again.html One hundred twenty crore strong Indian population would be a lot happier if unnecessary controversies like compulsion to sing Vande Mataram are not kicked up frequently. India is a country of div 2009-11-15 http://www.radianceweekly.com/178/4436/THE-ROLE-OF-MEDIA-in-Congress-Victory-by-Default/2009-11-08/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/YOU-TOO-KARZAI.html Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai questioned the reliability of the United States as a partner, as he faced criticism of his government’s legitimacy following fraud-marred election 2009-11-08 http://www.radianceweekly.com/178/4430/THE-ROLE-OF-MEDIA-in-Congress-Victory-by-Default/2009-11-08/Inside-India/Story-Detail/MINORITY-PANEL-SUMMONS-DEFENCE-OFFICIALS-OVER-MOSQUE.html The Minority Commission of Uttar Pradesh has summoned defence authorities of Kanpur on November 13 in connection with the restriction to offer Salat at Bhajjapurwa Mosque. Commission’s Chairm 2009-11-08 http://www.radianceweekly.com/178/4424/THE-ROLE-OF-MEDIA-in-Congress-Victory-by-Default/2009-11-08/Islamic-Economics/Story-Detail/Islamic-Banking-in-Non-Muslim-Countries.html In this write up we shall be critical in our approach here. We shall classify the non-Muslim countries for the purpose in hand and see what is making Islamic Banking popular and shall try to unde 2009-11-08 http://www.radianceweekly.com/178/4418/THE-ROLE-OF-MEDIA-in-Congress-Victory-by-Default/2009-11-08/Encounter/Story-Detail/Innocent-Muslims-were-framed-in-wake-of-the-Batla-House-encounter-Digvijay-Singh.html The newly formed Anti-Communal Front, a wing of Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC), held its first conference at Lucknow at Gandhi Bhavan on October 28. The focus was on ‘Uttar Pradesh 2009-11-08 http://www.radianceweekly.com/178/4410/THE-ROLE-OF-MEDIA-in-Congress-Victory-by-Default/2009-11-08/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/It039s-Unfathomable.html It is unfathomable that the recurrent unrests in and around the Aqsa Mosque Compound are individual spats of violence unrelated to any larger picture. Anyone even slightly versed in this entangle 2009-11-08 http://www.radianceweekly.com/178/4442/THE-ROLE-OF-MEDIA-in-Congress-Victory-by-Default/2009-11-08/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/COMPULSORY-RELIGIOUS-STUDIES.html The government of Malaysia has agreed to expand the Jawi, al-Qur’Ä�n, Arab and Fardu Ain (j-QAF) programme at schools and make Kelas Agama and Fardhu Ain (KAFA) programme as part of the life- 2009-11-08 http://www.radianceweekly.com/178/4435/THE-ROLE-OF-MEDIA-in-Congress-Victory-by-Default/2009-11-08/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/THE-QURAN-DESECRETED-AFGHANS-ANGRY.html The Afghans torched an effigy of US President Barack Obama and hurled stones at police during a mass protest over allegations that Western troops set fire to a copy of the Holy Qur’Ä�n. Aro 2009-11-08 http://www.radianceweekly.com/178/4429/THE-ROLE-OF-MEDIA-in-Congress-Victory-by-Default/2009-11-08/Inside-India/Story-Detail/1984-RIOT-ACCUSED-YET-TO-BE-CHARGE-SHEETED.html Notwithstanding the fact that two Commissions of Inquiry and eight government-appointed committees have till date been constituted into the 1984 riots, many of the prime accused were either not cha 2009-11-08 http://www.radianceweekly.com/178/4423/THE-ROLE-OF-MEDIA-in-Congress-Victory-by-Default/2009-11-08/Pak-Scenario/Story-Detail/PAKISTAN The-Battleground-of-History.html That Pakistan is in turmoil does not make big news now as it has often been so in history. The region, which forms the present-day Pakistan, especially its northern half, has always worked as the 2009-11-08 http://www.radianceweekly.com/178/4417/THE-ROLE-OF-MEDIA-in-Congress-Victory-by-Default/2009-11-08/Prabodhanam-Celebrations/Story-Detail/Grand-Celebrations-Mark-60th-Anniversary-of-Prabodhanam.html The celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of Malayalam weekly Prabodhanam, the mouthpiece of Jamaat-e-Islami, Kerala, were kick-started with an emotive note at a significant function 2009-11-08 http://www.radianceweekly.com/178/4409/THE-ROLE-OF-MEDIA-in-Congress-Victory-by-Default/2009-11-08/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/Increasing-Funds-for-MPLADs.html It refers to a Parliamentary Panel now recommending increasing annual allocation to rupees 10 crore per Parliamentarian toward MP Local Area Development (MPLAD) Scheme thus to burden exchequer wi 2009-11-08 http://www.radianceweekly.com/178/4440/THE-ROLE-OF-MEDIA-in-Congress-Victory-by-Default/2009-11-08/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/POLYGAMY-CLUB.html Plans to open branches of a Malaysian “Polygamy Club” in Indonesia have upset women’s groups and religious leaders in the world’s most populous Muslim nation, who say the se 2009-11-08 http://www.radianceweekly.com/178/4434/THE-ROLE-OF-MEDIA-in-Congress-Victory-by-Default/2009-11-08/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/CARTER-VISITS-SAUDI-ARABIA.html Former US President Jimmy Carter visited Jeddah to share his vision of the future of cross cultural and interfaith relations and peace in the Middle East with an invited audience. Sami Angawi, wh 2009-11-08 http://www.radianceweekly.com/178/4428/THE-ROLE-OF-MEDIA-in-Congress-Victory-by-Default/2009-11-08/Inside-India/Story-Detail/POLICE-HINDUTVA-GROUP-NEXUS-IN-BLAST-ALLEGED.html Goa’s Law Commission Chairman Ramakant Khalap has made a sensational claim, pointing to a nexus between the police, top bureaucrats and even some state MLAs with the Hindu right wing group 2009-11-08 http://www.radianceweekly.com/178/4422/THE-ROLE-OF-MEDIA-in-Congress-Victory-by-Default/2009-11-08/Report/Story-Detail/AMU-closes-sine-die-following-agitation-on-killing-of-a-student.html The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) was  closed sine die on October 30 till further notice. The AMU hostlers were also told to vacate hostels within the next 48 hours to avoid criminal proce 2009-11-08 http://www.radianceweekly.com/178/4416/THE-ROLE-OF-MEDIA-in-Congress-Victory-by-Default/2009-11-08/Madarsa-Education/Story-Detail/Central-Madrasa-Board-Act-Becomes-Controversial.html Traditional Islamic seminaries imparting religious education have been, for one reason or another, a subject of debate and controversies for a few years across the globe, especially after the eme 2009-11-08 http://www.radianceweekly.com/178/4408/THE-ROLE-OF-MEDIA-in-Congress-Victory-by-Default/2009-11-08/Readers-Pulse/Story-Detail/MF-Husain039s-ghar-wapasi.html There seems to be a sort of movement among the tolerant and the broad-minded to bring home “Husainsaab”, that is, the celebrated M.F. Husain. The intellectuals who find it unbearable 2009-11-08 http://www.radianceweekly.com/178/4439/THE-ROLE-OF-MEDIA-in-Congress-Victory-by-Default/2009-11-08/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/ACCESS-TO-WATER-DENIED.html Amnesty International on October 27 accused Israel of denying Palestinians adequate access to water while allowing Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank almost unlimited supplies. Israel, the 2009-11-08 http://www.radianceweekly.com/178/4433/THE-ROLE-OF-MEDIA-in-Congress-Victory-by-Default/2009-11-08/Inside-India/Story-Detail/DALITS-MAKE-HISTORY-ENTERING-TN-TEMPLE.html For the first time in 100 years, Dalits of Chettipulam village, in Tamil Nadu stepped inside the local Shiva temple on October 27, in a historic moment brought about by government and politi 2009-11-08 http://www.radianceweekly.com/178/4427/THE-ROLE-OF-MEDIA-in-Congress-Victory-by-Default/2009-11-08/Inside-India/Story-Detail/BJP-MLA-DISTRIBUTED-TRISHULS-BEFORE-GODHRA-INCIDENT.html In a significant development, Sabirmiya Akumiya, a witness in the Sardarpura massacre has told the Special Court hearing Sardarpura riot case of Mehsana district of Gujarat that some BJP leaders&nb 2009-11-08 http://www.radianceweekly.com/178/4421/THE-ROLE-OF-MEDIA-in-Congress-Victory-by-Default/2009-11-08/Report/Story-Detail/Make-Minorities-Scholarship-scheme-more-outreaching-and-hassle-free-SIO-to-Ministry-of-Minority-Affairs.html A delegation of Students Islamic Organisation of India (SIO) headed by SIO National Secretary Shahnawaz Ali Raihan on October 27 visited the Ministry of Minority Affairs offic 2009-11-08 http://www.radianceweekly.com/178/4415/THE-ROLE-OF-MEDIA-in-Congress-Victory-by-Default/2009-11-08/Operation-Green-Hunt/Story-Detail/Failure-of-Democracy-in-India Say-No-to-Use-of-Army-and-Air-Force-against-Our-Own-People.html On various platforms, both national and international, our Prime Minister and Home Minister have been telling the world how Naxalism is the biggest internal threat to the Indian nation. Corporate 2009-11-08 http://www.radianceweekly.com/178/4441/THE-ROLE-OF-MEDIA-in-Congress-Victory-by-Default/2009-11-08/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/FORMULATION-OF-HALAL-ACT-IN-MALAYSIA.html The Muslim Consumers Association welcomed the government’s decision to formulate the Halal Act as a move to further advance the halal industry in Malaysia. Its president Datuk Dr Maamor Osm 2009-11-08 http://www.radianceweekly.com/178/4438/THE-ROLE-OF-MEDIA-in-Congress-Victory-by-Default/2009-11-08/Muslim-World/Story-Detail/SOLDIERS039-GRAVES-DESECRATED.html Local officials say eight graves of Muslim soldiers who died for France in World War II have been desecrated in a village cemetery. Maurice Duhamel, mayor of Montjoie-Saint-Martin, says he is fil 2009-11-08 http://www.radianceweekly.com/178/4432/THE-ROLE-OF-MEDIA-in-Congress-Victory-by-Default/2009-11-08/Inside-India/Story-Detail/HWF-TO-HONOUR-MINORITY-STUDENTS.html The Human Welfare Foundation (HWF) is going to organise “U.P Award Function for Minority Students” to honour minority students for their good performance in their respective exam 2009-11-08 http://www.radianceweekly.com/178/4426/THE-ROLE-OF-MEDIA-in-Congress-Victory-by-Default/2009-11-08/Afghanistan-Today/Story-Detail/Brother-of-Hamid-Karzai-is-on-CIA-Payroll.html Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 2009-11-08