Bhatkal: The Ajuman Group of Institutions here has opened the Alfitra Islamic Pre-School in the second week of May as an initiative during its centenary year. Apart from basic Islamic teachings, the children will be taught regular subjects like Science, Mathematics etc. The Pre-School has been established in collaboration with Alfitra Islamic Foundation in Calicut,…
Mumbai: A leader of the Catholic Church and a leading Muslim theologian on May 4 proposed to send a high level interfaith delegation to Sri Lanka to explore ways to help the island nation struggling to recover from terrorist attacks.”The most ghastly serial bomb blasts in Sri Lanka’s churches and hotels on Easter Sunday have…
Nobel Prize winner and Chemistry Pioneer Ahmed Zewail (1946-2016) said that “some of the best minds in the world are religious people.” Known as the “Father of Femtochemistry”, “The World’s Fastest Scientist” won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for using ultrafast lasers to reveal chemical reactions.
A ‘L i f e t i m e Achievement Award’ was presented by H y d e r a b a d D e c c a n Connections (Jubail, Saudi Arabia) to Dr. Sadatullah Khan on April 20, 2019, for his dedication, commitment and outstanding contribution to make our society a better place…
A new report says Israel has so far occupied more than 85 percent or some 27,000 square kmsof historical territories of Palestine in an expropriation process which still continues unabated. Ola Awad, the president of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), announced the grim news in a report carried by the Palestinian Ma’an news…
UK Foreign Office minister Mark Field has promised to get to the bottom of “very serious and well sourced” allegations that British special forces have been training child soldiers in the Saudi-led war against Yemen. He was answering an urgent question asked in the Commons recently by the shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, who suggested…
Head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, recently visited Morocco on his latest trip to a predominantly Muslim state. He was welcomed to Morocco by King Mohammed VI. He met migrants and Muslim leaders, and held a Mass for the country’s small Roman Catholic community.Pope Francis called for tolerance and peace at a mass for…
Germany’s coalition government approved nearly ¬400 million in arms exports to Saudi Arabia and its allies involved in the Yemen war, local media reported. Despite a coalition government agreement last March restricting arms exports to countries involved in the Yemeni conflict, Berlin has so far approved 208 arms deals with Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates…
The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has urged for more Muslim women in leadership roles in Muslim-led organisations across the UK, at its inaugural Women’s Conference in London recently under the theme #BalanceForBetter. Keynote speaker, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Sudanese-Australian writer and broadcaster, said, “Our identity as Muslim women has been politicised but it is a religious…
Kazan: Extremist groups are active only in stagnant cultural and social environments, the head of the Muslim World League (MWL), Mohammed bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa, said.In a Friday sermon, delivered at the Grand Mosque in Kazan, Tatarstan, Al-Issa said vigilant Muslims can defeat extremist propaganda.Peace and harmony are the most important guarantors of stability and prosperity,…
