A Political Watershed
The BJP's victory in the just concluded Lok Sabha elections must be seen as a vote for stability. It ends the era of coalition politics which witnesse [...]
How Representative is the Lok Sabha?
Ours is a Westminster style Parliamentary system in which one who gets more votes than all others in the fray, gets elected. For instance, if 50,000 p [...]
National Trends in Voting
Mandate-2014
The 2014 Lok Sabha Election is a major watershed in electoral history of India in that it has delivered a decisive mandate for a single [...]
Law aims to Boost Halal, Kosher Food for Poor
Detroit: For the first time, the United States federal government is required to purchase and provide food banks with emergency supplies of kosher or [...]
Afghanistan’s ‘Forgotten’ Poor
Kabul: For all the billions of dollars in foreign aid that has poured into Afghanistan over the past 12 years, Sajeda, her head-to-toe burqa covered [...]
Chelsea Muslim Footballer builds Mosque
London: Senegal national team and Chelsea Muslim striker Demba Ba has offered money to fund the construction of a mosque in his parents' hometown in [...]
Chinese and Swiss Professor, among winners of King Abdullah Translation Prizes
Riyadh: The winners of the 7th King Abdullah International Prize for Translation were announced at a function held at the headquarters of King Abdul [...]
78% Students Can’t Converse in Arabic, No Teaching of Maths, Kannada
Survey of Madrassas by SIO
By A Staff Writer
Bangalore: Seventy eight per cent of the students who have graduated from Madrassas, the Islamic theolo [...]
Marwar Education Society Appeals for Assistance
Maulana Azad University at Jodhpur
By A Staff Writer
Bangalore: The newly established Maulana Azad University in Jodhpur has appealed for financia [...]
UPA Took No Measures’
Minority Girls Education
By Abdul Bari Masoud
New Delhi: The central government did not implement a single recommendation of the "Report and Recomm [...]