Sabtain Ahmed Dar New Delhi’s mysterious press release and framing in media on Soleimani assassination as to that of Osama and Al-Baghdadi is indeed a stab in the back. Indian media has failed to realize that rule of comparison in an analysis is always “like with like”; there is no justification to the notion that...
Sabtain Ahmed Dar New Delhi’s mysterious press release and framing in media on Soleimani assassination as to that of Osama and Al-Baghdadi is indeed a stab in the back. Indian media has failed to realize that rule of comparison in an analysis is always “like with like”; there is no justification to the notion that...
Mohammad Seemab Zaman Today, President Putin and Erdogan has launched the TurkStream gas pipeline from Russia to Turkey. Its length is 910 km and running under Black Sea. It will transfer 31.5 billion cubic meters of gas per year and meet the energy demand of 15 million homes to Ankara and Istanbul. The second pipeline...
A report released by ICIMOD in February 2019 emphasised that air pollution in the Himalayas is on the rise and regional air quality has worsened in the past two decades, with the adjacent Indo-Gangetic Plains now one of the most polluted regions in the world. It noted that in 12 cities (Allahabad, Patna, Dehradun, Delhi,...
The 16th International Natiya Mushaira was conducted under the aegis of the “Al-Noor International”, a religious, cultural and literary organization at Dallas in American state of Texas. This spiritual event has been hosted by renowned personality and poet Dr. Shamsa Qureshi and Dr. Noor Amrohvi very well annually in an orderly fashion. Well known personality...
There was a time when the sun never set on the British Empire. That’s long gone, but the grubby legacy of imperialism remains in Asia, where two seemingly distinct crises—in Hong Kong and Kashmir—share the same legacy. Hong Kong is in its 10th week of demonstrations, as hundreds of thousands of people from all walks...
The United States has the world’s highest rate of children in detention, including more than 100,000 in immigration-related custody that violates international law, the author of a United Nations study said on Monday. Worldwide more than 7 million people under age 18 are held in jails and police custody, including 330,000 in immigration detention centres,...
Oxford Dictionaries has named “climate emergency” as its 2019 Word of the Year, choosing it from an all-environmental shortlist that also included “climate action,” “climate denial,” “eco-anxiety,” “extinction” and “flight shame.” According to the Oxford Dictionary, the term is defined as “a situation in which urgent action is required to reduce or halt climate change...
Khursheed Alam Dawood Qasmi Blessed Birth: Allah’s last and final Messenger, Muhammad (Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Sallam) was born on Monday 12th Rabiu al-Awwal in the year of the Elephant corresponding 20th April 571 AC to Abdullah son of Abdul Muttalib and Aminah daughter of Wahab son of Abdu Manaaf in Makkah, the city where holy...
More than 100,000 people have died as a result of the war in Yemen, according to an explosive new report by an American NGO. Based on data collected from a variety of sources, including the United Nations, the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) said the death toll from the four-year-long war was...