Thiruvananthapuram: Muslims in Kerala on Monday began month-long fasting and prayers with the commencement of the holy month of Ramadan of the Islamic calendar. The faithful congregated in mosques across the state for morning prayers marking the beginning of the spiritual season of fasting, prayers and charity. The community leaders had on Sunday evening declared the start of Ramadan in Kerala on sighting of the new moon at Kappad beach...
12:30 PM, Aug 01, 2011
As Vastanvi gets sacked, Sagarika Ghose asks a panel of experts, if Muslim institutions are resistant to change. ...
11:39 PM, Jul 25, 2011
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Digvijaya Singh's nefarious statements are as worrisome as his boss Rahul Gandhi's silence over them. Is Singh executing a script? In 2003, as Madhya ...
12:47 PM, Jul 19, 2011
Jerusalem: The Israeli prime minister's 19-year-old son posted derisive comments about Arabs and Muslims on his Facebook page, drawing a slap on the wrist from his superiors and focusing new attention on the controversial first family. Earlier this year, Yair Netanyahu posted that Muslims "celebrate hate and death," the Haaretz daily newspaper reported on Friday. In the same post, written after Palestinian assailants entered a West Bank settlement and stabbed...
02:23 AM, Jun 25, 2011
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Bihar, in a new, resurgent India, is often presented as a case study of what a positive politics of development and inclusive growth can yield. ...
06:48 PM, Jun 20, 2011
New Delhi: The government must take Muslim organisations into confidence before passing the Waqf Amendment Bill 2010 and should give an assurance to protect over 4 lakh acres of Waqf land across the country, influential Islamic outfit Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind said on Sunday. Maulana Arshad Madni, president of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, also asked the government to abandon its plan of bringing Waqf land under National Minorities Development and Finance Corporation as it...
04:54 PM, May 22, 2011
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama once commented on George Bush by saying, "He brings out the Muslim in me." Put with all the delicacy and ...
06:31 PM, May 20, 2011
Washington: Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, who was shot dead by US commandos in Pakistan, was not a martyr, but a mass murderer who offered nothing but hatred to the world, US President Barack Obama has said. "Bin Laden was no martyr. He was a mass murderer who offered a message of hate, an insistence that Muslims had to take up arms against the West, and that violence against...
01:08 PM, May 20, 2011
Bijnor: Vice-Chancellor of Darool Uloom Deoband seminary Maulana Ghulam Mohammad Vastanvi has said Muslims must embrace modern education as it will solve the problem of poverty faced by the community. Speaking at Shehzadpur Nagal village in Najibabad here, Vastanvi said the government alone could not bring Muslims out of poverty and modern education was the only solution. He said though Muslims comprise over 20 per cent of the population of...
12:21 PM, May 09, 2011
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Since Pakistan has been in the eye of the storm, many books are being published on the future of the state. Not many are objective ...
10:46 AM, May 07, 2011
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If there is one obscure Latin word that the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) campus is quite familiar with, it's 'sine die'. I think it all ...
12:19 PM, May 06, 2011
Dubai: Al Qaeda's North African wing has condemned Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and expressed solidarity with protesters revolting against his rule, the SITE Intelligence Group quoted it as saying on Thursday. Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) accused Gaddafi of hiring African mercenaries and ordering aircraft to fire on protesters, SITE said, citing a jihadist statement issued on Thursday. AQIM urged Muslim scholars, thinkers and journalists to support the...
05:58 PM, Feb 24, 2011
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The Manama I see on TV these days looks nothing like the Manama I visited last year in May and December. I enjoyed the modern, ...
11:54 AM, Feb 18, 2011
Kuala Lumpur: Coca-Cola has no alcohol in it, said the firm's manufacturer in Malaysia as it rubbished reports that the secret of the way it is prepared is out. Coca-Cola Malaysia's public affairs and communications director Kadri Taib said alcohol was not an ingredient and no fermentation took place during the manufacture of the drink. "The precise formulation of the drink is our company's most valuable trade secret. "The ingredients...
01:27 PM, Feb 17, 2011
London: British Muslims are sending their "problem children" to Islamic schools in PoK where they are at risk of being recruited by terror outfit al-Qaeda, according to secret US diplomatic cables leaked by WikiLeaks. In a communique dated July 18, 2008, Laura Hickey, a senior British official, told the Americans that "stabilising Kashmir is also important for UK domestic security reasons," the whistle-blower website said. According to a report in...
07:55 PM, Feb 05, 2011
Srinagar: A village in Jammu and Kashmir poured out in hundreds to grieve and perform the last rites of a Kashmiri Hindu woman who died due to prolonged illness. 40-year-old Daisy's family did not migrate from Kashmir when hundreds of pundits fled en-masse in 1990. Daisy's end came on Thursday night but by morning, people in Kashmir once again reaffirmed their faith in communal harmony keeping intact the centuries old...
08:08 AM, Jan 28, 2011
New Delhi: Ghulam Mohd Wastanvi, the new chief of Dar-ul-Uloom, found himself under fire. Days after Wastanvi was praising gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, Wastanvi has been forced to issue a public aplogy. He now says not only has been been misquoted but no muslim anywhere could forgive Narendra Modi for the riots of 2002. Ghulam Mohd Wastanvi said, "This is all false". Since the Maualana got elected as the...
03:46 PM, Jan 23, 2011
London: The European Commission has brought out more than 3 million copies of a school diary that includes festivities of Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims and Jews but contains no reference to Christmas, angering the Christian community. More than 330,000 copies of the diaries, costing 4.7 million pounds to produce and are accompanied by 51 pages of information about the EU, have been delivered to British schools as a Christmas gift to...
05:42 PM, Dec 17, 2010
Mina, Saudi Arabia: A human tide of pilgrims, put at nearly 2.8 million, descended on Wednesday on the Mina valley carrying bags of pebbles to symbolically stone Satan on the third day of the Haj, as Muslims worldwide marked the Eid festival. Massive crowds of pilgrims, filed along a giant ramp that houses the walls in the Mina valley, pelting them. Some 2.8 million people from around the world, including...
09:39 AM, Nov 17, 2010
New Delhi: US President Barack Obama's rating may go up and down but there are some who met him and cannot forget the aura that the President carried. As India readies to roll out the red carpet for President Obama, there's a sense of anticipation among many educated young Muslims. Some Muslims have a sense of anticipation about getting a close look at a man of who has partly Muslim...
07:23 PM, Nov 05, 2010
