Mohammad Adeeb is among few leaders who raise Muslim issues in Indian Parliament and other forums. In recent months, he has been making concerted efforts against the illegal arrest of Muslim youth in different parts of India on false charges. He has formed a fact finding committee to look into the issue of illegal detention [...]
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By Soroor Ahmed (NVONews.Com) His arrest sparked off a row last April forcing Saudi Arabia withdraw its ambassador from Cairo. Muslim Brotherhood took strong exception to the Saudi action and there were protest marches too against the monarchy in Egypt. Ahmed El-Gizawi is a lawyer and human rights activist, who went to Saudi Arabia to [...]
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By NVONews.Com Special Correspondent, Bangalore/ New Delhi: Those who deliberately spread the baseless rumours that people of north-east India living in Bangalore and other places in Karnataka would be targeted after Eid-ul-Fitr were well aware of the importance of information technology as well as the negative impact its misuse can cause to the people. This [...]
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After London Olympics 2012 Muslim world vying to host it: No hope for medals
August 14, 2012 No Comment
By Soroor Ahmed The London Olympics 2012 ended on August 12 with the United States, China, Great Britain and Russia occupying the top four positions. This is no big news as it always happens so. The news is that six of the seven countries, which won just one bronze medals are Muslim dominated ones. What [...]
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By Soroor Ahmed The death of so many personalities from the world of entertainment in the last over one year––incidentally all of them male––has once again raised a very pertinent question as to why 1960s and 1970s are still regarded as the golden era of Indian cinema. Why this sobriquet has not been given to [...]
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Rajesh Khanna’s death yesterday came as a shock to millions of his fans. Celebs are dying in quick succession in India Perhaps never before India, or sub-continent, has lost its film personalities and other celebrities in such a quick succession as in the last few months. Bollywood stars Devanand and Rajesh Khanna, wrestler-turned-actor Dara Singh, [...]
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By Syed Ubaidur Rahman (NVONews.Com) From July 20, most likely the first of Ramadhan, the first Egyptian satellite channel completely operated by women wearing the full face veil (niqab) will be launched. Named Mariya, after one of Prophet Mohammad’s wives, who was a Coptic Egyptian freed slave, converted to Islam, it would have a full [...]
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By Shiv Muttoo The growth slowdown is here with us. Usually, slow growth curtails opportunities for employment. Studies have concluded that employment intensity of economic growth is 0.5 – if the economy expands 10 percent, the number of jobs grows five percent. Between the years 2000 and 2005, the Indian economy grew 34 percent while [...]
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Super Mario or Mario Balotelli seems to have eclipsed Spain vs. Italy Euro 2012 Final match. But will he prove Italy’s Mohammad Ali, wonders S Ahmed of NVONews.Com Mario Balotelli might have scored two of the most brilliant goals in Euro 2012 on Thursday but it is still his colour and race that seems to [...]
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New Delhi, Ghazal maestro Mehdi Hassan first mesmerised connoisseurs with his rendition of “Gulon main rang bhare”, step one of a long musical journey that lasted five decades. The death of the artist, who gave voice to ghazals such as “Patta patta boota boota” and “Abke bicchde khwaabon mein mile”, brings the curtains down on [...]
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By Soroor Ahmed (NVONews.Com) First it reduced/partially withdrew its forces from West Asia. Now it plans to do the same from the Central Asian country of Afghanistan. After Iraq and Afghanistan the United States is shifting its attention towards East Asian theatre where the Chinese appears to be going relatively unchecked, specially in South China [...]
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(IANS) Constructed less than seven years ago in literally the middle of nowhere, Myanmar’s new capital -where Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived Sunday on a three-day visit – boasts of extra-wide roads for the sparse traffic, a scattering of shiny new government buildings and round-the-clock electricity in a country that is power-starved. The literal [...]
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Islamabad: Works of noted subcontinental Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, globally recognised as one who believed in social reform and devoted his poetry to the uplift of humanity, has now been translated into German. A bilingual Urdu-German book of Faiz’s poems has been launched by the Goethe Institut in Karachi, Dawn News reported. The poems [...]
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By Raaj Datta (NVONews.Com) Microsoft has quietly launched its own social networking search site So.cl. Pronounced ‘social’, the latest offering from the Redmond giant is a combination of social networking and search, where people can find and share interesting websites – just like students when they work together. The launch was as quiet as possible [...]
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