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Friday, Day of Endless Blessings!

Prayer (Salah) is one of the five pillars of Islam, mandated on every Muslim, to ensure the remembrance of Allah in the best way...

‘Deliberate Ambiguity’: Israel’s Nuclear Weapons Pose Greatest Threat to Middle East

As western countries are floating the theory that Russia could escalate its conflict with Ukraine to a nuclear war, many western governments continue to...

China’s leadership bristles at White Paper

It’s unusual for the Chinese to protest against the despotic regime of the Communist Party. Such incidents are immediately suppressed under draconian laws and...

What makes FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 different

On the 2nd of December 2010, it was announced that Qatar will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. After beating United States and Australia...

Remembering Dr BR Ambedkar on Mahaparinirvan Diwas

Parinirvan is the prime principle of Buddhism. It means ‘someone who has acquired nirvana or freedom’ in his death. Mahaparinirvan Diwas is celebrated across...

On World Soil Day: Soil test-based nutrient management vital to sustainable agriculture

The 5th of December is celebrated as World Soil Day. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, World Soil Day...

Xi vs Trudeau: How China is Rewriting History with the Colonial West

Though brief, the exchange between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Indonesia...

Remembering those who left us on purpose

A reminder that we are all suffering in our own ways. Everyone is going through dreadful things and we all are pretending to be...

The Tamil boy who married Science

Only one of his friends, TN Sheshan, used to call him by his full name: Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam. Later he acquired the...

Lessons from Sun Tzu’s ‘The Art of War’

By its name, the book sounds like a war strategy book, but it is not so. Anything that brings chaos or causes problems is...

Digital Addiction: An ignored malady

Spending too much time on internet or a smart phone leads to a loss of concentration, which in turn leads to a weakened memory It...

Internet: The Silk Road of the 21st Century

“We think of globalisation as a uniquely modern phenomenon; yet 2,000 years ago, too, it was a fact of life, one that presented opportunities,...

Lesson of Humanity: Unity in Diversity

Unity prevents oppression, and the nation which has unity will never ever be under the feet of oppressors. However, people keep judging each other...

Symbolic but Significant: The US investigation into Palestinian-American journalist Abu Akleh’s murder

The recent decision by the United States Department of Justice to open an investigation into the killing, last May, of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu...

The death of my mamu

We all belong to Allah, and truly, we shall return to him, but the way you left us, mamu, I was not in a...

The Blessing that are Parents

Life is like a journey in which we enjoy ourselves but at the same time we lack the comfort that we are accustomed to...

A new assistive device for the visually impaired

This AI-based system offers a simple electronic guidance embedded vision system which is configurable and efficient The human eye is a marvel of biological engineering....

Liberating Africa from Poverty Requires Changing Power Relations with the West

Soon after arriving in Oslo, my taxi zigzagged through the city's well-organized streets and state-of-the-art infrastructure. Large billboards advertised the world's leading brands in...

Conventional Bypass Vs Natural Bypass

Non-invasive Natural Bypass technique can treat various heart conditions Due to changing lifestyle, people often miss out on taking care of their health, as a...

The Fall of the Apple (Industry)

The elasticity of demand has led to problems of price instability in agriculture, whenever either supply or demand shifts in the short-term. Taking instance...

Kathua Case: How the Supreme Court exorcised the ghost of juvenility

The Supreme Court of India has delivered a decisive verdict on the juvenility of one of the accused in the appalling Kathua rape-murder case....

Centuries-old Manuscripts and Published Books in My Ancestral Library

These are evidently valuable for our history, but the Allama Iqbal Library of University of Kashmir has not even prepared a catalogue for them It...

The recent Rohingya resolution adopted by the UN offers a glimmer of hope

Since the overwhelming exodus of Rohingya refugees to Bangladesh in 2017, the Rohingya problem has gained worldwide attention. To continue housing more than 1.1...

Palestinians are Native Americans: Time to Correct the Language of History

At a recent Istanbul conference that brought many Palestinian scholars and activists together to discuss the search for a common narrative on Palestine, a...

J&K economy is demanding change and innovation; is the government ready?

“Different constraints are decisive for different situations, but the most decisive constraint is limited time.” This quote by Gray Becker has come to be...

Women’s welfare is a collective concern

We need to uphold the dignity of every woman Woman – a term very common, name-wise and role-wise, but not much valued. While every Hindu...

Book Review: Patriarchy’s cruel force in Kahlil Gibran’s The Broken Wings

Just as a flower cannot develop without sunlight, so a human being cannot survive without love. Even if a person’s emotions are subject to...

Islamic Stance on ‘Pluralism’

Numerous Quranic verses, as interpreted by many modern scholars, advocate tolerance, coexistence and pluralism Pluralism, in this age of globalisation, has become one of the...

How Lula’s Victory can be Opportunity for Palestine

Palestinians and their supporters are justified in celebrating the election victory of the leftist presidential candidate, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, in Brazil’s runoff...

Inspiring life Lessons from Helen Keller’s The Story of My Life

Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880--June 1, 1968) was an American author and educator. She is rightly described as "one of the twentieth century’s...

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