Islamabad: Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC) Chairman, Special Representative to Prime Minister on Religious Harmony and Middle East Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi said Ulema-Mashaykh of different religious schools of thought have given unanimous ‘Fatwa’ that women should be given the right to education and inheritance. “The religious leadership of all the religious sects have also…
Doha: The College of Shariah and Islamic Studies at Qatar University (QU), in collaboration with Qatar National Commission for Education, Culture and Science, organized an international forum entitled “Islamic Culture as a University: Contemporary Challenges and Prospects of Development,” with the participation of leading academic speakers from various Arab and Islamic universities. The forum consisted…
New Delhi: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) General Secretariat has presented its Islamophobia Observatory periodic report to the 48th session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers held in Islamabad on March 22-23. According to the report, India is one of the countries where Islamophobia-related activity is on the rise. It also made special…
NASA has invited the public to send their names to the moon. The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), has invited the public to send their names to their database that will be leaving for the moon as early as May, NASA announced in their blog post. Artemis I will be the first-ever,…
TEHRAN: The 2023 Mustafa (PBUH) Award Ceremony will be held in October 2023, and the winner of the fifth round of the Mustafa (PBUH) Prize has been opened. The Mustafa (PBUH) Prize is awarded in four categories: Information and Communication Science and Technology, Life and Medical Science and Technology, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Basic and…
Jakarta (ANTARA) – The King Abdul Aziz and his Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity (Mawhiba) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO) announced the results of the first edition “Arab Talented” initiative recently. The statement, released by the Union of OIC News Agencies (UNA-OIC) and…
Abu Dhabi: A 20-year-old United Arab Emirates (UAE) based Indian student is the latest recipient to be honoured with a UAE golden visa. Aman Maqbool, BSc information science and technology student Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Dubai, received the golden visa for his exceptional academic performance since his high school days. Aman is a…
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia will build 14,000 km of the railway across the country, its investment minister Khalid al-Falih said recently. “New rail that will crisscross the kingdom and add to the network we already have,” Falih told a mining forum in Riyadh. He also said his ministry was working on a new investment law that…
Jeddah: Presiding over the second meeting of the Bureau of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy (IIFA) on December 30, 2021, Hissein Brahim Taha, Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), praised the Academy’s efforts and work in promoting Islam’s pristine values and principles of tolerance and moderation in the face of today’s fast-paced challenges.…
Egypt’s first nuclear plant, El-Dabaa, with Russia is set to begin in July. Alexey Likhachev, the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation (ROSATOM) CEO, said here recently. In November 2015, the Egyptian government signed an agreement with Russia to build Egypt’s first nuclear power plant in the Dabaa region of Marsa Matrouh, which aims to generate…
