Russian President visits Moscow Mosque
Vol. XLVII No. 18
Date: August 2, 2009
Rights Groups, Muslim Bodies Reject NHRC Report on Batla House
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on July 22 submitted its shocking report awarding clean chit to the accused Delhi police personnel involved in the stage-managed Batla House encounter in…
Can India be Beacon of Human Rights?
The uproar caused by the preventive detention of Feroz Mithiborwals, Kishore Jagtap and Aslam Ghazi should grow louder and focus on India’s deplorable record of human rights violations.
A Mere Pro-power Body
Kindly accept my heartily gratitude for publishing my interview in Radiance Viewsweekly (19-25 Jul 09). I appreciate the 45 minutes interview with me has been covered precisely, comprehensively and magnificently.
Stop CA Flights
India should immediately stop all flights of Continental Airlines to land or fly over Indian territory as a mark of punishment and protest against frisking of our former President Dr…
Best Model of Discipline
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s stand in the frisking episode is most dignified. One has to learn a lot from him. Even in this controversy he has emerged as the best…
Highly Reprehensible
That the former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam was treated as a commoner and frisked by the staff of the American airliner Continental Airlines at Indira Gandhi International Airport…
Let Sec. 377 of IPC Remain Intact
Same sex relationship is unnatural, immoral, and hence condemnable. It is not only against the law of nature but also against the Qur’ān, the Bible and teachings of all other…
The Mission of the Prophet
Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal)
CAPE TOWN MUSLIMS AID FLOOD VICTIMS
South African Muslims have rushed to the aid of thousands of traumatised Cape Town residents after they lost their homes in the severe flood that hit their coastal city recently.
US WAR VETERANS FIND AFGHANISTAN TOUGHER THAN IRAQ
Battling more efficient, resilient resistance, US Iraq veterans are complaining about a tougher Afghanistan mission. “They are two totally different worlds,” Marine Sergeant Jacob Tambunga,
GAZA’S FEMALE LAWYERS ASKED TO WEAR HIJAB
Gaza’s Supreme Court Chief Justice has ordered female lawyers to wear headscarves when they appear in courts.
HIJAB TO BE ALLOWED IN GEORGIA COURTROOMS
Those who walk into any Georgia courtroom will be allowed to wear head coverings, such as scarfs worn by Muslim women. The new policy was adopted at a meeting of…
BRITAIN’S LAWMAKERS URGE HAMAS DIALOGUE
Britain’s lawmakers reiterated calls for their government to engage with the Hamas, warning that the Hamas isolation is part of Western policies which has failed to bring signs of success…
RUSSIA TO MAKE NAVAL BASE IN SYRIA FULLY OPERATIONAL
A high-ranking Russian navy source reported on July 21 that the Soviet-era naval maintenance base near Tartus in Syria is to be expanded and modernised to become “fully operational.
KERALA LEGISLATORS UNITED TO CURB DOWRY
The Kerala assembly on July 24 united to condemn ostentatious weddings and the practice of dowry, prompting Social Welfare Minister P.K. Sreemathy to declare that the government may call an all party meeting…
EX-ARTHUR ROAD PRISON CHIEF, OFFICIALS FACE HC HEAT
In a landmark decision, Mumbai High Court on July 21 directed the State Government to initiate a departmental inquiry against former superintendent of Arthur Road jail Swati Sathe and other…
SRS CHIEF PRAMOD MUTHALIK HELD FOR MYSORE RIOTS
Mysore Police have arrested the Sri Rama Sena chief Pramod Muthalik on charges of delivering an ‘inflammatory’ speech in the aftermath of the group clashes involving two communities in the city…
SIT GETS HC NOD TO QUESTION MODI IN GUJARAT RIOTS
The Gujarat High Court on July 24 dismissed a petition challenging the probe by the special investigation team (SIT) against him and 62 others in connection with the 2002 riots.
35 ITIS FOR MINORITIES
The Maharashtra government has decided to open 35 new ITIs exclusively for minorities. The government will finalise the scheme very soon.
GIVE GREATER REPRESENTATION TO MUSLIMS, SAYS CONG. JOURNAL
Mr. Anil Shastri, Editor Congress party journal Sandesh, in its latest issue, said, “Muslims should be given greater representation in the party and government.
HC REVERSES ORDER ON UP MUSLIMS NOT BEING MINORITIES
The Allahabad High Court on July 24 quashed the judgment delivered by a single judge of the same High Court on April 5, 2007, holding that Muslims in Uttar Pradesh were…
THE REAL TRAGEDY Who Killed Arafat and Why?
Who killed Yasser Arafat? When the Palestinian leader was declared dead in a French hospital on November 11, 2004, there was no way of knowing how questions related to his…
O Tempora, O Mores!
During the second innings of the late Mrs. Indira Gandhi in parliament, a Member of Parliament – you know which party he belonged to – hurled an unprintable word on…
The ‘Reforms’ on the Rampage
Nothing might have comforted Dr. Manmohan Singh so much as the post-elections milieu that allowed him to run the UPA-II government without the Left support.
AMU Team Visits Murshidabad to Discuss Its New Centre Issues
A 5-member team of Aligarh Muslim University led by AMU Vice Chancellor Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis paid a three-day visit to Kolkata and Murshidabad and discussed various issues relating…
When the Jungle Raj will End?
A young mother of two was stripped, beaten and paraded on the busiest street of Patna, the Exhibition Road, for over two hours on July 23 evening by half a…
‘I see some good on education front awaiting us’
SYED ALI, born and brought up in Bihar and then migrated to and settled down in Kolkata (then Calcutta) in 1952 soon after writing his matriculation examination, emerged as an…
BROGLIO Post Justice Liberhan Report
So mercifully at last after 17 years (probably a record) Justice Liberhan has given his report after a gruelling and according to him non co-operative attitude of officials and stays…
Budget and AMU Centres
This year’s budget was historic in the sense that the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee announced allocation of Rs 25 crore each for the two campuses which A.M.U has planned at…
Muslim Leaders Voice Shock over Setting up of Inquiry against
A number of Muslim leaders belonging to the various Muslim organisations have expressed their shock and grave concern over the inquiry ordered by HRD Minister Mr Kapil Sibal in respect…
BATLA HOUSE ENCOUNTER Order CBI or Judicial Enquiry
National Human Rights Commission’s clean chit to Delhi Police regarding Batla House encounter in which two young men Muhammad Sajid (17) and Muhammad Atif Ameen (24) along with Inspector M.C.…
Russian President visits Moscow Mosque Meets Muslim Clergy to Seek
SYYED MANSOOR AGHA hails the importance of recent visit Russian President Dmitry Medvedev paid to the Grand Mosque of Moscow, and laments the mainstream media bid to play down the event.
