Recently many studies have been published about composition of the world population in 2050. People are fascinated by the changes that will happen in the next few decades. Many of us may not be alive to see these changes. However, it is interesting to know what will be the regional and geographic shift. Europe will see negative growth while Asia a population explosion. Muslims will be one-third of the world population in 2050.
Nasiruddin Haider Khan is in Hindi journalism since 1992 and currently work as Deputy Resident Editor of Dainik Hindustan in Agra. He has been working on gender issues especially Muslim women issues for the last 16 years. Mr. Khan has a diploma in Journalism from Indian Institute of Mass communication and MA in Womens studies from Lucknow University.
Hyderabad: Jamia Nizamia is a 135-year-old religious institution of Hyderabad where students from all over India gain basic Islamic knowledge and memorize the entire holy Quran as well.
It has various sections where different courses are taught such as Hives, Nazira etc., This institute is situated at Shibligunj. However, The Siasat Daily is also one of the leading Urdu newspapers of Hyderabad and its readers are found throughout the globe.
Hyderabad: It is a universal fact that education plays an important role in moulding illiterate to a person of high calibre.
Many educationists are of the opinion that without education, a man is just like a body without soul. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was a great man of literature and hence was made the first Education Minister of independent India.
The premier cricket league of India, IPL, whose games are being watched by millions of cricket fans in India and around the world is now in the news for all wrong reasons. The issue of Tharoor and the Kochi IPL team has snowballed into a major controversy.
IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi’s public spat with Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on the matter turned into a political storm and an income tax nightmare for the IPL. Modi’s tweets on the identity of Kochi stakeholders triggered off the furore.
Working pro bono for Israeli government agencies, the Tel Aviv-based Reut Institute (RI) provides “real-time strategic decision-making” support in areas of national security and socioeconomic policy.
Saying global peace and justice groups threaten Israel’s legitimacy, its recent series of articles, policy papers, and presentations counterattacked – a combination of damage control and rethink despite legitimate criticism showing Israel delegitimizes itself, and no amount of policy paper makeover will change it. Only Israel can do that, but in its 62 year existence never tried.
” I tried hard to be proud of my service, but all I could feel was shame. Racism could no longer mask the reality of the occupation. These were people, these were human beings. I’ve since been plagued by guilt, any time I see an elderly man, like the one who couldn’t walk, who we rolled onto a stretcher, and told the Iraqi police to take him away. I feel guilt any time I see a mother with her childen, like the one who cried hysterically, and screamed that we’re worse than Saddam, as we forced her from her home.
Over the past decade the world has been faced with some of the greatest challenges to remove distrust, misunderstanding and confrontation between religions, civilizations and cultures.
An Arab member of the Israeli parliament is demanding that a newspaper be allowed to publish an investigative report that was suppressed days before Israel attacked Gaza in winter 2008.
The investigation by Uri Blau, who has been in hiding since December to avoid arrest, concerned Israeli preparations for the impending assault on Gaza, known as Operation Cast Lead.
I walked down the street in my long white dress and inch-long, black
hair one afternoon, and truck drivers whistled and shouted obscenities
at me. I felt defeated. I had just stepped out of a hair salon. I had
cut my hair short, telling the hairdresser to trim it as she would a
cut a man’s hair.I sat numbly as my hairdresser skillfully sheared
into my shoulder-length hair with her scissors, asking me with every
inch she cut off if; I was freaking out yet. I wasn’t freaking out,
but I felt self-mutilated.
I WAS OBLITERATING MY FEMININITY
The Israeli government has indicated that it will press ahead with a plan to enlarge the Jewish prayer plaza at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City, despite warnings that the move risks triggering a third intifada.
Israeli officials rejected this week a Jerusalem court’s proposal to shelve the plan after the judge accepted that the plaza’s expansion would violate the “status quo” arrangement covering the Old City’s holy places. Islamic authorities agreed to the arrangement after Israel occupied East Jerusalem in 1967.
(By Jyotirmaya Sharma) The SANIA- SHOAIB drama has gripped the country for the last fortnight. Only a tragedy of the magnitude of Dantewada managed to erase the relentless preoccupation of ordinary people and of the media with the marital fortunes of a mediocre Indian tennis star and a not- somediocre Pakistani cricketer.
Discussions about whether the media had the right to peep into the lives of celebrities were beamed from every channel, and the arguments were predictable.
A man’s life is normally divided into five main stages namely infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. In each of these stages an individual has to find himself in different situations and face different problems. The old age is not without problems. In old age physical strength deteriorates, mental stability diminishes; money power becomes bleak coupled with negligence from the younger generation. There are 81million older people in India-11 lakh in Delhi itself.
A group of Jews and Arabs are fighting in the Israeli courts to be recognised as ‘Israelis’, a nationality currently denied them, in a case that officials fear may threaten the country’s self-declared status as a Jewish state.
The Shoaib Malik-Ayesha Siddiqui imbroglio may have been resolved, but it seems to have left a bitter taste in the Muslim community. Hyderabadi Muslims, in particular, feel the principal characters of the melodrama, could have settled the row without bringing disrepute to Islam through their war in the media.
Since last one week, electronic and print media is full of stories related to Shoaib Malik’s marriage with Ayesha Siddiqi, her demand for divorce and then again Shoaib’s second marriage with Sania Mirza.
This drama has reached to a point where intervention of Muslim Ulemas had become inevitable and they did solve this controversy with élan. However, the other side of this story is more pathetic as it has not only tarnished the image of the main characters of the drama but also defamed the Muslim community, which is an irreparable loss.
•Did you know that non-Jewish Israelis cannot buy or lease land in the Zionist entity?
•Did you know that Palestinian license plates in Zionist entity are color coded to distinguish jews from non-jews?
•Did you know that Israel allots 85% of the water resources for jews and the remaining 15% is divided among all Palestinians in the territories? For example in Hebron, 85% of the water is given to about 400 settlers, while 15% must be divided among Hebron’s 120,000 Palestinians?
•Did you know the United States awards the israel $5 billion in aid each year?
Move over, Tiger Woods. India has its own sports-star scandal, and yes, it involves the repeated use of phones. Unlike Tiger, though, the role of the phone has been considerably more chaste in the Shoaib-Sania-Ayesha controversy. In the golfer’s case, cellphones and SMSes may have served to initiate – or remind – his Tigresses of their close encounters of a third kind. In Shoaib Malik’s case, if the cricketer is to be believed, the phone was the nearest he got to a woman he married.
Israeli officials and politicians sharply criticized the intention of the UK government to expel an ‘unnamed’ Israeli ‘diplomat’ in response to its passports being used in the Dubai assassination of Hamas Freedom Fighter Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.
MK Aryeh Eldad (Israel National Union) doesn’t show much respect to the Brits whom he compares to dogs: “I think [the] British are behaving hypocritically and I don’t want to offend dogs on this issue, since some dogs are utterly loyal,” Eldad told Sky News.
This year hundred twenty fifth anniversary of its founding is being celebrated. All people of India, irrespective of their religious persuasion richly contributed to the freedom movement through the Indian National Congress. However, due to majoritarian attitude of our leaders and narrow outlook of those who devise our educational curriculum, minorities’ contribution has been totally forgotten.
Advice and opinion are pouring in from all quarters after Sania Mirza publicly acknowledged her relationship with former Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik. Greater interest now revolves around the country the tennis star will represent after her marriage to the cricketer later this month.
Saffron is suddenly a dominant colour in Hyderabad. Over the past week, much of the city has been adorned with flags of the colour in the run up to Hanuman Jayanthi festivities as the BJP and its affiliates went the extra distance to make the festival a grand success.
Reviving the 1989 nightmare that sent parts of Hyderabad near the river Musi back into the stone age, the communal riots that erupted on Saturday night continued for the third day running on Monday, forcing police to impose curfew in the entire Old City.
I don’t believe in ghosts. I think they are the folly of a fearful mind. But yet I find ghosts to be funny characters. They hound you at the most awkward of hours and at the most awkward of places. Having said this, some ghosts are not funny, they can make life miserable. Ask Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Gujarat.
By Syeda Hameed) I PICK UP my pen to write on a subject that has, once again, brought the glare of politics and media on Muslim women.