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Man has taken many journeys throughout time. But there is one journey that nobody has ever taken-except one.

Educational institutions want to make sure that nothing remains unachievable, as they design unique scholarship programmes for their students. But, students feel that the amount offered under scholarships is often too less than what is actually needed.

Restoration and conservation efforts of Chausath Khamba, a 16th century Mughal-era monument in Nizamuddin here has received a boost in the form of a grant of Rs 96 lakhs by Germany.

German Ambassador to India, Thomas Matussek today signed a memorandum of understanding with Aga Khan Trust for Culture for restoration and urban renewal of Chausath Khamba.

The increasing popularity of cell phones has a negative impact particularly on young boys and girls which is disgraceful for the society.

Some organizations and religious leaders are taking initiative to prevent the society from destruction. The champions of this cause believe that if a ban is imposed on the use of cell phones by young girls it would prove helpful in eliminating evils from the society.

The Increased trend of individual family not only deprives senior citizens from their human rights but they also feel lonely as a result they feel unwell emotionally and physically. This fact has been disclosed by a recent study. The senior citizens face discrimination due to lack of awareness among them about their human rights.

In this regard a study was conducted by Delhi-based NGO Agewell Foundation on the rights of senior citizens and tried to find out as to what sort of welfare schemes are put into practice for senior citizens.

In recent years, a small piece of cloth has managed to cause quite a stir.  The scarf or hijab that Muslim women wear on their heads is making headlines around the world.  Hijab is banned in French public schools and other European countries have adopted, or are drafting similar legislation.  In Australia, a radio presenter triggered both debate and outrage when he called for the face veil (niqab) to be banned from banks and post offices.  Even predominantly Muslim countries such as Turkey and Tunisia ban the hijab in certain government buildings.

Parents and teachers should treat the child as a friend once he/she turns 15. “They should realise that if they shout at children, the children will never listen and will simply rebel,” according to psychologist B. V. Pattabhi Ram.

One might have heard of any number of NGOs serving urban slums, but rarely of their founders who shared the travails of the slum-dwellers. This typical experience renders the social activist and convenor of Campaign for Housing and Tenurial Rights (CHATRI) Varghese Theckanath a class apart. He had stayed for 11 years in Kamalnagar and Musanagar bastis of Chaderghat.

I am a stone pelter, am too, you can arrest me,” “I was not, but now I will be,” are the voices that shout at us in Kupwara in Kashmir. Young, articulate boys who have been in and out of jail, beaten and tortured for doing nothing, now let us know that they have nothing more to lose as they have lost it all. Their lives are ruined, their future is vacant, and they live with harassment and humiliation on a daily basis.

The US has another public-relations nightmare on its hands in Afghanistan. One would think a war lasting over a decade with no plausible end in sight would be enough of a PR disaster.

This month’s issue of Rolling Stone magazine published numerous photos of American soldiers posed with and in the act of mutilating dead bodies. This followed a similar expose in Der Spiegel a week prior.

In addition to the photographs are firsthand accounts of stomach-churning depravity. Not least of the sickening details are that the targets were both quite young and possibly quite innocent.

When it comes to Islam – Western equanimity is almost invariably disturbed by an emotional bias. Is it perhaps, I sometimes wonder, because the values of Islam are close enough to those of the West to constitute a potential challenge to many Western concepts of spiritual and social life?’

Anna Hazare provided the first push. And now the rest of the country is at war — against corruption

I received an email on the morning of April 5. The subject line — From Kiran Bedi and Arvind Kejriwal — immediately caught my attention. The rest of the email, however, opened my eyes.

The first line of the email read: Anna Hazare fasts unto death starting 5th April. I vaguely recalled who Anna Hazare was. I remembered he was in the news for completely changing the face of a village in Maharashtra.

The rest of the email was as follows:

Raising concerns over drug resistance, a new study has revealed that 53 per cent Indians take antibiotics without a doctor’s prescription and up to 48
per cent want to change their physician if not prescribed antibiotics for something as simple as a common cold.

A whopping 63 per cent, however, would not use saved antibiotics for family members later, according to a study conducted by the World Health Organisation.

From a distance one will mistake him to be a pizza boy. The huge boxes in the rear and front of the scooter give that impression. But, up close, the impression goes for a toss. No, the boxes don’t hold hot yummy pizzas but contain equally sizzling stuff — data about scores of wannabe brides and grooms.

Mohd. Shahid Farooqui is a match-maker on the move. His two-wheeler is eagerly awaited by people in the Old City as it is a harbinger of good tidings. Mr. Farooqui carries in it dozens of files containing the photos and bio-data of young boys and girls.

Even as the science and technology have developed by leaps and bounds, some women are still the victim of false notions and fallacies consequently they tend towards superstition. They approach strangers for remedies neglecting Islamic principles and beliefs. Constant rise in the incidents of black magic, practicing spell etc is a matter of concern.

A recent survey by a global consultancy, dubbing the real estate sector in India as most corrupt, has come as a shocker for industry captains struggling to improve the tainted image of the sector. Even Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said black money in realty was an unfortunate reality.

The KPMG survey established that the sector was the most prone to graft because the property business in India is capital-intensive, involving complex multi-level processes of approvals, coupled with government and political interventions.

In the Islamic worldview, justice denotes placing things in their rightful place.  It also means giving others equal treatment.  In Islam, justice is also a moral virtue and an attribute of human personality, as it is in the Western tradition.  Justice is close to equality in the sense that it creates a state of equilibrium in the distribution of rights and duties, but they are not identical.  Sometimes, justice is achieved through inequality, like in unequal distribution of wealth.

The Prophet of Islam declared:

Library of Congress Papers Show Tolerance and acceptance for Muslim Faith

With more than 55 million items, the Library’s Manuscript Division contains the papers of 23 presidents, from George Washington to Calvin Coolidge. In this article, Manuscript Division Chief James Hutson draws upon the papers of Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other primary documents to discuss the relationship of Islam to the new nation.

erming the decline in child sex ratio (0-6 years) as an ’emergency’, civil rights workers say there is lack of political will to address the issue which requires a national policy from the government before the situation goes out of hand.

Census 2011 results show that among children up to the age of six, the number of girls per 1,000 boys has reduced to 914, a from 927 in 2001. As per the figures, this is lowest since the country’s independence in 1947.

Being mom and dad to a teenager can be a challenging role; but even though it’s a tough call, the rewards can more than make up for the pain

Imran looked as if he had swallowed a bee when his friend, Rasheed, clinched the deal. He picked up three Nokia mobile phones after parting with just Rs.200. But Rasheed was none-too-pleased and felt he could have got them for Rs.50 apiece.

It is almost a steal, sure. But that’s the way things are up for grabs in the old city’s Sunday bazaar. It is open to the sky and vies with the best of malls. Stretching from Gulzar Houz to Patherghatti in the heart of old city, the Sunday bazaar is a popular shopping destination.

I had to meet Pandit Prabhakar Vivedi. Though it was 10 pm but the work was so much important that it was crucial for me to go to Prabhakar Vivedi’s house, but the problem was I didn’t know his address. However when I asked one of his friends Prof. Ghosh he, as if solving a philosophical problem said, ‘go to Karol Bagh, there you will find a bank on your left, take the road opposite to the bank, this road will lead you to a hospital, Prabhakar Vivedi’s house is right in front of the hospital.’

The Missing Dimension in Educational Methods: The Sentimental Education
The sentimental education pertains to the person’s feelings, which form all sides of the integrated human personality.
Sentiment is a word given to any sense of pleasure or pain, as well as to certain psychological states within the sphere of pleasure and pain, vis-à-vis other states within the sphere of mental perception and knowledge.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s decision to invite his counterpart in Pakistan, Yousuf Raza Gilani, to watch the India-Pakistan cricket match in the World Cup semifinal in Chandigarh may prove to be a successful initiative for more than one reason.

A resolution passed by the Mahmood Madani faction of the Jamiat-e-Ulama-e-Hind (JUH) at a meeting of its managing committee held in New Delhi on March 7 says that “Muslims should be convinced for regular practice of namaz and keeping fasts during the month of Ramadan. Youths should be persuaded to practise salam, don their Islamic identity and create a religious atmosphere at home.” The Jamiat also proposed the setting up social reform committees in villages and towns to ensure that Muslim residents live by “Islamic rules and social values.”