Blast the Lax Security Time the Manmohan Administration Woke Up
Vol. XLV No. 20
Date: December 2, 2007
Education should Produce Responsible Citizens: Syed Jalaluddin Umari
“Education should produce socially responsible citizens beneficial for society,” opined Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari, Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami Hind. He was delivering the inaugural address of the students conference organised by Students…
It’s Her Own Making 3
It is of course unfortunate that a lady, the controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, has to suffer so much. But we must understand that it is her own making. Actually…
It’s Her Own Making 1
West Bengal was already under serious problems due to Nandigram violence. Where was the necessity for the Centre to extend visa to the controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen to continue…
Farmers’ Suicide
The farmers’ suicide has emerged as an issue which keeps multiplying with the passage of time. According to a new report by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), which has…
VATICAN TO ACCEPT MUSLIM DIALOGUE CALL
Two months after a galaxy of Muslim scholars and luminaries sent a letter to all Christian religious leaders worldwide, Roman Catholic cardinals say the Vatican will have a positive response…
US CHURCH BUSINESSES FOR PROSELYTISING
Depending on vast financial resources and creditworthiness, American giant churches are offering local communities a wide array of services ranging from residential compounds and sports villages to limousine services, not…
SHILHAVY’S 90TH BIRTHDAY TURNS A NEW PAGE IN CZECH MUSLIMS’
Another glorious page of Islam’s history in the Czech Republic has been turned with the 90th birthday of one of the bedrocks of the Muslim faith in the central European…
TRUE ISLAM IMAGE IN LONDON CONF.
Bringing 50,000 Muslims from around the world, the third Global Unity and Peace (GUP) conference opened in the British capital London on November 24, with a focus on correcting stereotypes…
HC TAKES GOVT. TO TASK IN KHWAJA YUNUS CASE
The Bombay High Court on November 21 took the Government of Maharashtra to task for not filing a report even though the investigation into the disappearance of Ghatkopar blast accused…
SIDBI TO PROVIDE LOANS TO MUSLIMS FOR BUSINESSES
Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) has pledged to provide Muslims with capital for small businesses that involve starting a new or expanding an existing business. Information to this…
HASHIMPURA CASE SPP REMOVED, TRIAL NOW ON FEB. 1
The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Mayawati removed Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) Surinder Adlakha attending to the Hashimpura case, replacing him with S. Banerjee. The Chief Minister’s order came on…
MUSLIMS MOST AFFECTED IN NANDIGRAM
The Nandigram violence is the worst example of brutality and barbarism by the CPI(M)-led government in West Bengal. A majority of those targeted by the CPI(M) cadres are Muslims.
VICE PRESIDENT CONDEMNS U.S. FOREIGN POLICIES
Criticising U.S. policies in the war torn country Iraq, Hamid Ansari, Vice President of India, said that the United States has lost its global political image, following its invasion on…
Gujarat and West Bengal Stand Poles Apart
Comparing Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi with his West Bengal counterpart Buddhadeb Bhattacharya has become a favourite pastime of many media commentators. While the former earned notoriety by re-phrasing Newton’s…
Pluralism: God’s Desire or Will?
Professor Tahir Mahmood, in his article, “Pluralism and unity in Islam” (Hindustan Times, November 13), has based his arguments on a seemingly beautiful slogan of “pluralism”. He contends that God…
Karnataka is Stagnant: BJP’s Fortunes Dip
The curtains finally came down on the first ever government in Karnataka led by BJP’s B.S. Yeddyurappa barely after a week of its swearing in on November 12. The high…
Take Up the Cause of Justice: APCR
Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) organised a two-day Training Programme for paralegal social workers at Lucknow on November 10 and11. Around 40 human rights activists from different parts…
No place for Taslima if she meddles with religion: UNPA
In an express warning to controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, the United Nationalist Progress Alliance (UNPA), a confederation of regional parties, on November 24 said she should desist from attacking…
Let the Dogs Bark
Everyone has the right to free speech and writing. So has everyone the right to express his/her view in the public. But no constitution in the world has granted its…
Why Do We Need to Change the Way We Look?
Not so long ago, it was easy to discern between Arab and non-Arab women when walking down the street. That is no longer the case. I, personally, find it hard…
The Paradox of Global Development
After World War II, the world discovered a new god, the god of development. This god has been exultantly worshipped by all developed countries of the west as well as…
Cyclone Sidr Hits Bangladesh
A terrible cyclone hit the southern coast of Bangladesh on November 15, 2007. Strong winds at a speed of 240 km/h (150 mph) created 6-metre-high (20-foot) tidal waves that crashed…
Taslima Nasreen Controversy
The polarisation the controversial Bangladeshi writer is able to produce is amazing. One renowned English daily has gone to the extent of pleading for grant of Indian citizenship to her.…
US, British Muslims denounce UP blasts, appeal for peace and
Indian Muslim Council – USA, an advocacy group dedicated towards safeguarding India’s pluralist and tolerant ethos, has condemned the bomb blasts in Uttar Pradesh. IMC-USA has appealed for peace and…
Blast the Lax Security Time the Manmohan Administration Woke Up
SYED TAUSIEF AUSAF comments on the UP serial blasts and criticises the lax security around courthouses. The deadly six blasts in the courthouses of three cities of Uttar Pradesh, which…
Jamaat voices concern on UP serial blasts
Acting Secretary-General Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Syed Ghulam Akber has expressed his deep sense of grief and grave concern on the serial blasts near the courthouses of Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad and…
