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Posted on 08 February 2010
ஆக்கிரமிக்கப்பட்ட ஜெரூசலம் – கடந்த சனிக்கிழமை (06.02.2010) ஐ.நா.வின் மனிதாபிமானச் செயற்பாட்டு ஒருங்கிணைப்பு அலுவலகம் (OCHA) வெளியிட்டுள்ள அறிக்கையில், இஸ்ரேலிய ஆக்கிரமிப்பு அதிகாரசபை பலஸ்தீன் மக்கள் மீதான பல்வேறு மனித உரிமை மீறல்களைத் தொடர்ந்து மேற்கொண்டு வருவதோடு எத்தகைய நியாயமான காரணங்களுமின்றி அவர்களின் வீடுகளைத் தகர்த்துவருவதாகவும் குற்றஞ்சாட்டியுள்ளது.
கடந்த ஒரு வாரத்தில் மாத்திரம் 16 பலஸ்தீன் பொதுமக்கள் இஸ்ரேலிய ஆக்கிரமிப்புப் படையினரால் தாக்கப்பட்டுக் காயமடைந்துள்ளனர் என்றும், 2010 ஆம் வருட ஆரம்பமுதல் இத்தகைய தனிநபர் தாக்குதல்களின் எண்ணிக்கை 67 [...] Continue Reading...
Democracy is described as the best of the worst forms of government. Democracy does not mean holding elections alone. It means the existence of strong institutions which, like the pillars that hold up a building, strengthen democracy. Such institutions act as checks against abuse of power by elected leaders in whose hands people place a [...] [...more]
RENOWNED Swiss politician Daniel Streich, who rose to fame for his campaign against minarets of mosques, has embraced Islam.
A member of the Swiss People’s Party (SVP) and a well-known politician, Daniel Streich was the first man who had launched a drive for imposition of ban on mosques minarets, and to lock the mosques in Switzerland. [...] [...more]
KABUL (AFP) Afghanistan, one of the world’s poorest countries, is sitting on mineral and petroleum reserves worth an estimated one trillion dollars, President Hamid Karzai said Sunday.
The war-ravaged nation could become one of the richest in the world if helped to tap its geological deposits, Karzai told reporters.
“I have very good news for Afghans,” Karzai [...] [...more]
Little is it known that there was a time when the Sultans of Turkey ruled the hearts of the Musalmans of the far-famed isle of Sarandib.
Sri Lanka is home to a large number of Muslims many of whom comprise the descendants of Arab traders who had settled down here several centuries ago. It would appear [...] [...more]
Times Of India
NEW DELHI: Aggressively pitching for $1 trillion worth of Sharia-compliant funds from the Gulf countries for investments in its infrastructure development, the UPA government has drafted a report on Islamic banking even as RBI and the finance ministry are jointly working on necessary legislative changes to implement the same.
A committee headed by the [...] [...more]
Our real enemies are not those living in a distant land whose names or policies we don’t understand; The real enemy is a system that wages war when it’s profitable, the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it’s profitable, the Insurance Companies who deny us Health care when it’s profitable, the Banks who [...] [...more]
