Shrinking Space of Mainstream Media
Vol. XLVI No. 38
Date: January 4, 2009
K.K. Suhail is the new SIO Chief
Mr. K.K. Suhail has been declared elected the National President of Students Islamic Organisation of India. More than hundred representatives of SIO from all states took part in three day…
JIH condemns Israeli aggression in Gaza
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind strongly condemned the recent Israeli aggression against Palestinians in Gaza Strip that left more than 290 people including women and children dead and hundreds injured.
India must keep all options open except military action
RAJINDER PURI opines that in the atmosphere of Indo-Pak jingoistic talk India should categorically state that all options except military action will be considered.
Jamia Millia Islamia Constitutionally a Minority Institution
As per the Indian Constitution minorities in India are entitled to establish their own educational institutions. Article 30(1) of our constitution specifically mentions, “All minorities, whether based on religion or…
Maulana Aamir Rashadi’s Son Picked up by ATS Police Refuse
Renowned Islamic Scholar Maulana Aamir Rashadi’s son has been picked up by the ATS at Nagpur Railway station. The 22 year old Financial Analyst at Wipro has been charged under…
Challenge of Sexual Anarchy
In our country there are 3.5 crores victims of venereal diseases including AIDS. Immorality and sexual anarchy are generally its main causes. When moral and spiritual health of a society…
India needs independent foreign policy
Mr. MK Bhadrakumar’s suggestions in the Hindu dated 25/12 are worth consideration. Our fight against terrorism is limited to Pakistan and its terrorist organizations.
Murder Most Foul
The brutal murder of the PWD executive engineer M.K.Gupta at Auraiya in Uttar Pradesh, purportedly on his refusing to donate for Mayawati’s birthday celebrations is shocking. Instead of openly siding…
Indo-Pak Jingoism
It is agonising that the leaders of both India and Pakistan are talking in terms of war, and threatening each other.
Greatest Anomaly in Human History
Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal)
Urdu Scholar Ralph Russell A Bartanvi Baba-i-Urdu
Prof. Ralph Russell, who died in London on September 14, was a remarkable person. He was an unrepentant communist, an aficionado of Urdu and a man of subaltern tastes. He…
GCC denounces massacre
Leaders of the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) began their two-day summit conference denouncing Israel’s brutal military aggression against Palestinians in Gaza and calling for a united stand on the…
Israel Targets Gaza Mosques
Mosques across the Gaza Strip have become the latest target of the Israeli military juggernaut, unleashed against the impoverished coastal enclave. Two people were killed and scores wounded when Israeli…
MAHATMA SERVED IN THE BRITISH ARMY
Sainik Samachar, a journal brought out by the Ministry of Defence, has whipped up a controversy by claiming that Mahatma Gandhi donned a British military uniform during the Second Boer…
AUSTRALIA NOT TO APOLOGISE TO HANEEF OVER ’WRONG DETENTION’
Australia’s government and opposition refused to apologise to an Indian doctor wrongly charged over a British terrorist plot,
CRIME AGAINST WOMEN ON THE RISE
Every three minutes a woman becomes victim of a crime somewhere in India. The highest number becomes targets of their husbands and in-laws. A total of 185,312 incidents of crime…
MUMBAI ATTACKS JEOPARDISED OPERATIONS AGAINST TALIBAN: US
Washington: The Mumbai terror attacks jeopardised operations against the Taliban in the remote parts of Pakistan, according to the US Defense Chief. The attacks were a tactical operation that had…
ISRAELIS TO REBUILD DAMAGED NARIMAN HOUSE
Israelis at the Nariman House have decided not to leave Mumbai and also rebuild the damaged building on their own.
RSS MAN LINKED TO BOMB CAMP
Pune based senior RSS leader, Dr Sharad Kunte, is believed to be under the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) scanner for the second time.
PASWAN DEMANDS JUDICIAL PROBE INTO KILLING OF PWD ENGINEER
Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on 24 December demanded a judicial inquiry into the killing of an Uttar Pradesh PWD Executive Engineer M K Gupta allegedly by a sitting BSP…
ABHINAV BINDRA TO SET UP 50 SCHOOLS IN 5 YEARS
Beijing Olympics Gold Medalist Abhinav Bindra is planning to set up 50 schools across India within next five years.
THACKERAY FAVOURS HINDU TERRORISTS
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray has reportedly favoured the rise of Hindu terrorists. In the second part of an interview to Saamna Executive Editor of Sanjay Raut,
CONSENSUS OF SPOUSES
In the same lighter vein it may be said that politicians like Nehru, Indira and Rajiv were too good looking to be actors. Looks apart, nowadays the line of demarcation…
How to prevent the next Wall Street crisis
JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ, Nobel Prizewinner in Economics in 200, was recently in India. His lecture on the current global crisis has been widely reported in the Indian press. We are…
Madrasa History and Its Problem
Talking about madrasa reform is fashionable today among the elite. The whole debate is being conducted from a wrong premise. It is focused on what “appears” and not why it…
Concerns on Anti-terror Bills
Several organizations in a joint press release have said that the Government of India and political society as such have been increasingly using military language to emphasise the urgency of…
ARAB CARTOONS
Arabs are, at least, very good in making caricatures in the form of cartoons of high quality, both in sketches and punches. As a proof of our opinion we are…
After Flood Comes Threat From Sangh Parivar
Just as the flood water of river Kosi in Bihar receded the political temperature in the entire region, as well as the neighbouring states, went up. When people, cutting across…
Muslim World Almanac 2008
With the publication of “Muslim World Almanac 2008,” a group of individuals based in Makkah and Jeddah has done a remarkable job. Dr. Abdullah Omar Naseef has rightly said in…
Time Never Stops, We Too Should Not!
National Physical Laboratory (NPL), Delhi is entrusted with the task of keeping Indian Standard Time (IST) accurate to the minutest possible fraction of a second. It uses cesium atomic clock…
Shrinking Space of Mainstream Media
SOROOR AHMED discusses the new dimensions of modern tools of information available to ever expanding circle of creative readers and viewers and offers a word or two of advice for mainstream…
