THE TROUBLE WITH STUDENT LOANS High rate of defaults symptomatic of a bigger malaise
Vol. LX No. 40
Date: January 8, 2023
Respect Everyone
Abdullah bin Amr bin Al-A’s is reported to have said: Verily a person asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺwho among the Muslims was better. Upon this (the Holy Messenger) remarked:…
Come Out of Heedlessness
“But people later cut up their religion into bits, each group rejoicing in what they have. So leave them immersed in their heedlessness till an appointed time.” (Al-Qur’ān – 23:53-54)
India – Past, Present and a Peep into Future
In 1700, when Emperor Aurangzeb was ruling over India in full Mughal Glory (he died in 1707), India accounted for 27% GDP of the world. In 1800, when centre had…
READERS PULSE 14-Jan-2023
According to a media report, film star Shah Rukh Khan (SRK) visited Vaishno Devi temple performed Puja and sought the blessings ahead of the release of his song “Besharam Rang”…
Whatever We Have is a Trust of God with Us
Allah is the Creator of man, all other beings and things, animate or inanimate, in fact the entire universe. But what is the distinction between the creation of man and…
NEW YEAR
What novelty you contain tell me O’new year Why so much fuss, brouhaha everywhere
Palestine in 2023
The speech of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, during the vote of confidence for his new government on December 29, 2022, must be taken seriously, not only by the…
MUSLIM WORLD 14-Jan-2023
Turkey has upped the estimate of its natural gas reserves in the Black Sea by nearly a third, putting its total deposits at 710 billion cubic metres (bcm) in a…
Palestinians Hail UN Vote Asking ICJ to Give Opinion on
Palestinian officials on December 31, 2022 welcomed a vote by the United Nations General Assembly approving a request for an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on…
Maharashtra CM Announces 10 % Reservation for Unani Doctors
While thanking Unani physicians for their services during the deadly Covid epidemic, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde promised that 10% reservation quota will be fixed in the state’s public hospitals…
Prof. Hala al-Banna, daughter of Hasan al-Banna, Dies at the
Prof. Hala Hasan al-Banna, daughter of Founder of Muslim Brotherhood Hasan al-Banna, passed away at a hospital in Istanbul at the age of 76 on December 25. She was a…
JIH Former Ameer-e-Halqua Bihar Qamrul Huda is No More
Former Ameer-e-Halqua Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Bihar, Qamrul Huda breathed his last at Medanta Hospital, Patna at 3:15 am on December 31. On December 21, he got one of the legs fractured…
The Price of Betraying Palestine Moroccans Challenge Normalisation with Israel
The self-serving and limited gains of normalisation are likely to turn into a political liability in coming years. It is time for Morocco and others to reconsider their ties with…
Heterosexual Marriages Discouraged, Homosexual Marriages Encouraged What an incredible inverse
Dr. Javed Jamil painstakingly studies the corporate conspiracy against health, whereinforces of globalisation commercialise every human weakness irrespective of its disastrous effects on health in the name of Freedom of…
Hosting Global Meets doesn’tYield Political Dividend
As India is going to host the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meet in the summer of 2023, to be followed by the Summit of State Leaders of Group of 20 in…
How can One Song of Allama Iqbal Be Patriotic and
Observing that the seed of intolerance and hatred against the Muslim community in particular and minorities in general is growing fast and it is being used to polarise the sentiments…
CAG Flags Serious Irregularities in Assam NRC Update Process Warns
Abdul Bari Masoud comments on the recent report by the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India (CAG) on the update of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, and brings…
In Chhattisgarh, Christians Forced to Convert to Hinduism Around 1,000
A fact-finding team led by Irfan Engineer, Director, Centre for Study of Society and Secularism, after visiting some villages in the Narayanpur and Kondagaon districts in Chhattisgarh during December 22-24,…
THE TROUBLE WITH STUDENT LOANS High rate of defaults symptomatic
Arshad Shaikh studies the trend of many students defaulting on their education loans taken to complete higher studies. Merely sympathising with the students is not enough; we need to understand…
