Immorality of ‘Live-in Relationship’
Vol. LI No. 37
Date: December 15, 2013
Jamaat Calls for Struggle to Reform Society
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind during a press conference in the capital on 7 December urged the people, civil society, judiciary, political parties and custodian of democratic and constitutional values to keep on…
Courts Believe Babri Masjid was Demolished on 6 Dec 1992
There are six appeals moved to the Supreme Court regarding the decree of Allahabad High Court on the title suit of Babri Masjid case and many a secular lawyer hailing…
4,569 Students Awarded Degree on Jamia Convocation
Annual convocation of the Jamia Millia Islamia was held at the university premises on 28 November to confer degrees of the university pass outs of the batch 2011-12. A total…
JNU Students Demand Review of Lyngdoh Recommendations
Around two hundred students from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, on 13 November, gathered near the Supreme Court, demanding withdrawal of Lyngdoh Committee Recommendations (LCRs) as it bounds the universities…
Jamia Student Offered a Package Worth Rs 23 Lakh
Nadeem Khan, a student of M.Sc. Tech. (Industrial Mathematics with Computer Applications) at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi has been offered a package worth Rs 23 Lakh per annum by…
Kishanganj Centre of AMU in Function Now
The Kishanganj Centre of the Aligarh Muslim University has started functioning now. So far, the admission process for the course of Bachelor of Education (BEd) has completed and the classes…
The Final Journey of African Mahatma
Nelson Mandela, a Nobel Peace laureate, who became South Africa’s first black president after spending 27 years as a political prisoner, breathed his last at 8.50 PM on 5 December,…
UN INSPECTORS VISIT IRAN’S ARAK NUCLEAR SITE
U.N. inspectors on 8 December visited an Iranian plant linked to a planned heavy-water reactor that could yield nuclear bomb fuel, taking up an initial offer by Tehran to open…
BALUCHI SUNNI WOMAN ELECTED MAYOR IN IRAN
The election of the first Baluchi woman last week as the mayor of Kalat, a city in the south of Iran, was an unprecedented event in one of the most…
FLA. MUSLIM FILES SUIT AGAINST FEDS AFTER BEING IMPRISONED FOR
The Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-FL) on 5 December announced the filing of a federal complaint against the United States by Irfan Khan, an American Muslim…
TURKEY MARKS HIGHEST EVER MONTHLY EXPORTS
November’s exports reached $13.8 billion, the highest monthly figure ever in the country’s history, Turkish Minister of Economy Zafer Caglayan said at the 4th Young Businessmen’s Congress organised by the…
PALESTINIAN MOSQUE VANDALISED WITH ANTI-ISLAMIC GRAFFITI
A mosque in the northern Israeli Arab village of Baqa al-Gharbiya was vandalised with anti-Islamic graffiti on 8 December. The mosque in the village was covered with graffiti in Hebrew…
ISRAELI POLICE STORM AL-AQSA MOSQUE COMPOUND
Scores of worshippers, including Turkish tourists, suffered gas inhalation on 6 December after Israeli police stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. According to reports, Israeli police surrounded a number of worshippers…
LIBYA RISKS BECOMING ‘LIKE SOMALIA’
Libya risks becoming a failed state like Somalia, Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou said on 6 December, a day after gunmen shot dead an American teacher in the eastern city of…
SUDAN’S RULING PARTY APPROVES NEW CABINET
Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party (NCP) on 8 December endorsed what is being described as “the largest” cabinet reshuffle since President Omar Hassan al-Bashir came to power in 1989. “We…
EGYPTIANS PROTEST COUP ON OPEN BUSES IN NYC
Egyptians in the US on 8 December flashed the Rabia sign, the four-finger salute commemorating the hundreds of anti-coup demonstrators gunned down in mid-August in Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adawiya Square,
BOOK ON UNANI MEDICINES RELEASED
A Book entitled “Plants in Ayurvedic and Unani Medicine” authored by Dr. M.I.H. Farooqi, Retired Deputy Director, NBRI, was released on 30 November at the hands of Dr. Ibrahim Syed,…
‘LITERATURE FOR PEACE’ CAMPAIGN CONCLUDES
Month-long State-level campaign of publishing house ‘Shanthi Prakashana’ with the name ‘Literature for Peace’ culminated on 1 December. Addressing the concluding programme of the campaign, Mohammed Kunhi, manager Shanthi Prakashana,…
SOME NGOS BACKING CONVERSION IN KASHMIR AGAINST CASH
In a meeting called by Majlis-e-Tahafuz-e-Iman (MTI) on 26 November in the valley, the Muslim scholars in Kashmir noted that some NGOs are promoting Christianity against some monetary benefits. Talking…
LOK ADALAT ASKS MAN TO SPEND EQUAL TIME WITH WIFE,
In a very funny and yet immature decision, a Lok Adalat in Khandwa village of Madhya Pradesh ordered a man, on 30 November, to spend equal times with both his…
MUSLIMS VERY LOW ON LITERACY: REPORT
A recent report of the standing committee constituted by the National Commission for Minority Education reveals that the number of Muslims is surprisingly low especially in the field of higher…
AMU LAWYERS TEAM VISITS MUZAFFARNAGAR
The Aligarh Muslim University Lawyers Forum, on 1 December, visited the riot hit area of Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh and assured the victims of fighting for them a legal battle…
ACCUSED OFFICIALS DREAMT BIG WITH THE KILLING OF ISHRAT, OTHERS
A team of the Central Bureau of Investigation probing the cold blooded staged encounter killing of Ishrat Jahan and others at the outskirt of Ahmedabad in Gujarat on 15 June…
ISMAIL ACQUITTED OF GODHRA TRAIN BURNING, TOTAL 63 SO FAR
The Special Court of Ahmedabad has acquitted one more person of Godhra Train burning case in 2002. The Sessions Judge, Punam Singh, pronounced the judgement recently holding Ismail Chanang not…
Indian Secularism: Harsh Realities
Radiance Viewsweekly, in its history spanning over half-a-century, has initiated various fruitful dialogues. Taking a cue from this glorious history, today I am going to share my thoughts on some…
BASIX Initiated the Pilot of Bai Salam in Mewat
BASIX Social Enterprise Group launched a most authentic Islamic Finance product called Bai Salam terming it as Forward Sale under Participatory Micro Finance. Considerably, Bai Salam has been referred to…
SYMBOLISM OF MORSI in Egypt’s Democratic Struggle
Since the bloody coup that ousted the first democratically elected president in Egypt, Dr. Mohamed Morsi last July, a growing movement against the coup has evolved and progressed in the…
Babri Masjid Demolition-III
In city after city, paramilitary and police troops fired aging single-bore rifles and sub machine guns into unarmed crowd. In some cases, police personnel joined or at least stood during…
AAP Scripts Political Discourse of 2014 Polls
AAP has emerged as an alternative to Congress and BJP in Delhi and has the capability to replicate it elsewhere in due course of time. The electoral verdict shows the…
CLOSURE OF TANNERIES IN VELLORE DISTRICT
A big confusion and tension prevailed in Ambur and its surrounding places on 25 and 26 November 2013 when directions were issued by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board for…
Cordiality a Great Virtue
Iyaz bin Himar relates that the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be to him) said: “Allah, the Most Exalted, has revealed to me that you should show…
Prostration before Allah
Have you not seen that all those who are in the heavens and all those who are in the earth prostrate themselves before Allah; and so do the sun and…
People’s Verdict Lesson for Political Parties
These are the ups and downs of time which We go on changing among people.” (Al Quran 3:140) Assembly poll verdicts have indicated new political trends which will have bearings…
Ban Promiscuity, Outlaw Extramarital Sex, Illegitimise Consensual Sex
Is the ambiance of plural Bharat – the basic question is – salubrious for the efflorescence of virtue and de-efflorescence of vice? Have we an atmosphere where the honest and…
Immorality of ‘Live-in Relationship’ Polygamy is the Answer for ‘Heterosexuality’
“Live-in relationship” is a newly coined term for an old age practice of intimate relationship between man and woman, without valid marriage. A free woman, kept by a man without…
