KEJRIWAL TAKES OATH AS DELHI CM Congress in Catch-22 Position
Vol. LI No. 40
Date: January 5, 2014
Religious Leaders to Launch Nationwide Campaign against Repeal of Sec.
Religious leaders from almost all major faiths in India pledged to launch a nationwide campaign against any attempt to decriminalise homosexuality at a public convention organised by Jamaat-e-Islami Hind at…

AICWETE Moves to Empower Mothers
All India Confederation for Women’s Empowerment Through Education (AICWETE) in collaboration with National Minorities Development & Finance Corporation and National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions organised a national seminar to…

Raise Your Voice for SC Verdict on 377
This refers your Cover Story (Radiance, 22-28 December). The LGBTs are opposing the recent verdict of Supreme Court on homosexuality, which the High Court of Delhi had decriminalised in 2009.

Setting a New Trend of Governance
Kejriwal’s referendum on government formation is one of the first and unique ways to engage the common man in Government formation. With trends like these, the political landscape present in…

Stripping for Search Deplorable
Keeping aside the political or criminal side of Devyani case (an Indian diplomat in the US), the US’ bid to make a man or a woman naked for search, strip-search…

Promote Value-Based Politics
This is apropos of the article ‘Political Significance of Muslim Votes’ (Radiance, 8-14 December). Granted, the Muslim votes can play a decisive role in several constituencies and can change the ‘fate’…

Efforts to Maintain Integrity Not a Crime
This refers to your editorial (Radiance, 22-28 December). The tragic execution of Abdul Quader Mollah at the hands of ruling Awami League in Bangladesh has brought into limelight the worsening…

TURKEY TO BE 12TH LARGEST GLOBAL ECONOMY BY 2028
By 2028, Turkey will become the 12th largest global economy surpassing France, Australia, Italy, Indonesia, Spain, Saudi Arabia and Poland, according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR),…

TURKISH F-16S STAVE OFF SYRIAN PLANE NEAR BORDER
Turkish Army states two F-16 airplanes in air patrolling duty were sent to guard Syrian border when a Syrian SU-24 plane came close to Turkish air zone. In a statement…

TUNISIA SETS JAN. 14 DEADLINE FOR NEW CONSTITUTION
Tunisia’s rival political parties have set themselves a January 14 deadline to adopt a new constitution, the first since the country overthrew a dictator and unleashed revolts around the Arab…

AL RAPS US ‘EXPANSIONIST’ PLAN FOR ISRAEL
The Arab League has rejected the United States’ proposal to allow Israeli troops to be stationed on the eastern border of a future Palestinian state, saying it fulfils Israel’s plan…

ORTHODOX JEWS PROTEST ISRAEL IN NEW YORK
Hundreds of Orthodox Jews protested Israel’s Middle East and domestic policies in New York on December 24. Gathering outside the Israeli Mission to the United Nations in New York, Orthodox…

EGYPT’S COUP KILLED HUMAN RIGHTS, LAW: BELTAGY
Dr. Mohamed Beltagy, member of the Executive Office of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), called upon the National Council for Human Rights and Egypt’s rights organisations to mourn the…

CHRISTIAN MOB DESTROYS THIRD MOSQUE IN BANGUI
An angry mob on Friday destroyed a third mosque near Bangui, the violence-wracked capital of the Central African Republic (CAR). The destroyed mosque had served a modest Muslim community of…

JAPAN TO INSTALL PRAYER ROOMS IN AIRPORTS FOR MUSLIM VISITORS
Due to an increase in Muslim tourists and investors, the Japanese authorities are planning to make facilities more Muslim-friendly, by doing more to provide suitable prayer rooms at airports, as…

AMU 50th AMONG BRICS UNIVERSITIES
In a recent survey conducted by the Times Higher Education BRICS and Emerging Economies Rankings 2014 has placed the Aligarh Muslim University at 50th rank among one hundred universities of the…

RSS WALKS THE CHRISTIAN WAY
The think tanks of RSS are calling on Hindu families for a social cause. Taking a leaf out of the Christian practice followed in families dedicating their children to the…

AMIT SHAH WAS ‘NOT INVOLVED’ IN ISHRAT KILLING: CBI
The Central Bureau of Investigation is all set to file a supplementary charge-sheet on the cold-blooded encounter killing of Ishrat Jahan and others in Gujarat in 2004. Surprisingly, the name…

APCR ORGANISES LEGAL WORKSHOP IN DELHI
The Association for Protection of Civil Rights, on 25 December, organised a legal workshop for its para-legal volunteers in the national capital. The volunteers were given guidance on how to…

6 JAWANS COURT MARSHALLED IN FAKE ENCOUNTER OF KASHMIRI YOUTH
The Armed Forces has ordered Court Marshal to 6 military personnel including a colonel for killing 3 innocents at LOC in Baramula district of Jammu & Kashmir in 2010. The…

MALEGAON ACCUSED DENIED BAIL
The Bombay High Court, on 18 December, rejected the bail plea of Parveen Takal who is an accused in 2008 Malegaon blast. The court noted while dismissing his bail application…

HOLD SEPARATE CLASSES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: J&K GOVT
In a bid to check eve-teasing and other immoral activities, the government of Jammu & Kashmir, on 23 December, ordered the owners of private coaching centres in the state to…

MAHARASHTRA TOPS LIST OF CUSTODIAL DEATHS
A recent report of Human Rights Commission reveals that Maharashtra state has highest rate of custodial deaths in last four years, stated RPN Singh, the state minister for home affairs,…

DO NOT HARASS MUSLIM YOUTH: NCM TO BIHAR GOVT
The National Commission for Minorities has written to the Government of Bihar asking it to ensure security and safety of Muslim youth in Seetamarhi district of the state. Notably, the…

Erdoğan, Gulen and the Future of Islamic Politics in Turkey
The self-exiled Turkish scholar and preacher Fetullah Gulen, called Hocaefendi (Respected Master) by his followers, is now in a direct clash with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Supporters of…

HOMOSEXUALITY A Threat to Society
The issue of homosexuality is raising its ugly head once again and this time the mainstream media is going overboard to support it. Arguments against this appalling trend are being…

WOMAN
Woman is a mystery An unsolved chemistry Even if you turn to history You cannot solve this mystery.

2015 the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies
2015 has been at last proclaimed as the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies (IYL 2015). This was done on December 20, during the 71st Plenary Meeting of the…

World’s First HIB Halal Certified Preventive Medicine
Halal India, one of the leading Halal certification body in the world, has certified the World’s first Halal HIB vaccine: KR BIOLOGICAL Pte Ltd (Global Vacc Al-Shifa HIB Vaccine as…

Indian Americans Renew Commitment to Secure Justice for Victims of
Indian American Muslim Council on December 26 called into question a dubious verdict of the lower court in the Narendra Modi Gujarat pogroms case. A Magistrate’s court in Gujarat dismissed…

PAINFUL PATH TO JUSTICE Travails of Zakia Jafri
The metropolitan court on December 26, 2013 exonerated Narendra Modi and 58 others for their complicity in the Gujarat carnage. Fully accepting the report of SIT (Special Investigation Team), the…

Congress must Keep Promises Mere Assurances won’t Do
The outcome of assembly elections has stirred up a hornets’ nest for all political parties and they are trying to engage with the people to regain the lost ground or…

Done Our Best!
This is what UP CM is saying on what he and his government are doing for Muzaffarnagar riot victims! The BJP squarely blames the UP CM for communal riots since…

Shun Doubtful Things
Nu’man b. Bashir reported: I heard Allah’s Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be to him) as having said this (and Nu’man pointed towards his ears with his fingers): What…

Shun Falsehood
Every kind of falsehood, slander and false testimony is forbidden. However, in the present context, these words are specifically aimed at denouncing false beliefs, norms, practices and superstitions rooted in…

Aam Aadmi, A Force to Reckon with
Aam aadmi has always been a force to reckon with. God, the Creator and Sustainer of the universe, has created everything, beneath or on earth and in the space and…

Fall of Common Man Vs Rise of Aam Aadmi
It is December 28, 2013. It is historical. It is unbelievable. It is the dream of Delhi’s aam aadmi that came true. Coincidently, it is the date when Congress had…

KEJRIWAL TAKES OATH AS DELHI CM Congress in Catch-22 Position
DR. S. AUSAF SAIED VASFI comments on the change in the political discourse of the nation with AAP chief taking oath as Chief Minister of Delhi.










