Taif: Taif University has launched a university chair for rose studies. The cost of the project is to be funded by a businessman who has donated SR 4 million for various research studies such as developing better scientific ways for the profitable manufacture of the Taif variety of the rose flower and rose oil and…
Riyadh: Saudi Aramco’s President and CEO Khalid A. Al-Falih has inaugurated 3.5 megawatt solar energy field in Riyadh on Dec. 25, 2012, according to a report in Gulf Today in its issue dated Jan. 17. The energy field spread over 55,000 square metres, has been installed by King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Centre. It…
Dubai: Ruler of Dubai Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum has appointed crown prince Shaikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum as the head of the council to oversee the development of the Islamic economy in the emirates. The Ruler unveiled plans on January 10, what the Khaleej Times termed as ‘turn Dubai into an Islamic…
Cairo: Egypt has approved a draft law to allow sovereign Islamic bonds, known as sukuk, as a new way to finance an unsustainable budget deficit. Finance minister Al-Mursi Al Sayed Hegazy has told the media that Islamic Development Bank, a multilateral institution, has indicated it could buy around $6 billion of sukuks. Egypt has never…
Chicago: The Iqra International Educational Foundation and Impelsys will run a free download programme for their books currently in the process of digitization from January 24 to February 7, 2013 in celebration of the month of Rabiul Awwal. Several of the e-books can be downloaded by visiting : : IQRA ebooks – http://ebooks.iqra.org/
Pak, Saudi Arabia, Russia further slid on the ratings. There is some good news on corruption front for us, Indians. India is placed at 90th place among the 176 countries ranked in 2012 Corruption Perception Index by Berlin based Transparency International. Last year we were placed on 95th place. Pakistan has slid from 134 to…
Only 36% of Singaporeans report feeling positive or negative emotions on a daily basis, compared to 60% in the Philippines. By Kate Hodal Singapore, where residents work the longest hours in the world, was also found to be the least emotional country. Never mind its temperate 28C weather, low unemployment rate and high per-capita GDP…
Some years ago, I had been to Sumanahalli, the village for leprosy patients at the outskirts of Bangalore. The city’s unwieldy sprawl has pushed it inside the municipal limits and the Government has set its sight on the 100-acre property. The fact is that no one in the bureaucracy then in 1970, was willing to…
Kuala Lumpur: The Kuala Lumpur-based Islamic Book Trust (IBT) announced that it will print the Integrated Encyclopedia of the Qur’an in English and help spread the message of Islam around the world. Haji P.K. Koya Kutty, executive secretary of the non-profit publishing house told Arab News, “This is the first Qur’anic encyclopedia in English in…
Riyadh: Three Russian astronauts who came to visit the Prince Salman Science Oasis (PSSO) told Saudi students that while taking a picture of some beautiful cities from outer space, the brightest and beautiful cities they saw were Makkah and Madinah, specifically the spots in the centers of the two holy cities. These astronauts came as…
