As religion becomes a fiery fault line, in an inspired move, a vast swathe of clerics seek to find the voice that reconciles rather than divides. SHOMA CHAUDHURY boards the peace train to test the mood. Photos by SHAILENDRA PANDEY MARSHAL EVERY stereo type of Muslims loudly proclaimed from public rallies, stereotypes drifting unquestioned in [...]
A two-day UN conference on religious tolerance is going on in which more than a dozen world leaders, including President Bush, Israeli President Shimon Peres and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Saudi King Abdullah U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon hosted the dinner for the leaders attending the conference which is supposed to promote a [...]
Oil Price touched 19-month low on Tuesday. It is trading below the psychologically important $60 level, as china has taken massive economic stimulus plan. In New York exchange the price of Light, sweet crude for December delivery fell $3.08 to settle at $59.33 a barrel. This brings the price to its lowest level since March [...]
More than 1,000 small scale pharmaceutical units employing around a lakh of people have shut down their operations in the last one year as they could not cope with regulatory changes and the current financial crisis, says an industry body. That is at least three units a day on an average. An equal number of [...]
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met Oman ruler King Sultan Qaboos bin Said in Muscat on Sunday. Memorandum of Understating or MoU was signed between India’s largest bank, State Bank of India (SBI) and State General Reserve Fund or SGRF of Sultanate of Oman, to set up the India-Oman Joint Investment Fund. In the first [...]
More than 20 people are reported to be dead after the fire fighting system malfunctioned during sea trials of a nuclear submarine in Russia’s Pacific Fleet. Russia’s Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov reported the reported the details to the President. President Dmitry Medvedev ordered a “full and meticulous” investigation and “all possible aid and support to [...]
In a step towards resolving corrupt roles, A case has been booked again Madhya Pradesh Tourism Minister Tukoji Rao Pawar, who had threatened a woman administrative officer in her own office. BJP’s Pawar threatened the woman officer when she refused to cancel the rival candidates election nomination. He has been booked for becoming hurdle or [...]
Weeks after a tight election victory Slovenia’s Parliament accepted 45 year old Borut Pahor as the country’s new prime minister. Slovenia, a former republic of Yugoslavia had shunned its communist past when it became a member of both the European Union and NATO. Pahor’s party, the Social Democrats won the most votes in a September [...]
In what you call an irresponsible police, Andhra Pradesh government to confirmed that the 21 muslim youth who were arrested and tortured for the Hyderabad blasts probe are all innocent and should be released. This admission comes as a shock after more than 1 year of detaining and torturing of the innocent Muslim youth by [...]
The three-day conference in Rome involving Catholic clergy and professors and Islamic Scholars, ended with Pope Benedict meeting the participants. He said that he had followed the “progress” of the talks closely. The meeting came a year after 138 Muslim leaders wrote a letter to Pope Benedict XVI after he offended Muslims across the world [...]
