An interview with Dr Shariq Nisar, the architect of India’s Shariah Index

By Rehan Ansari, TwoCircles.net, Dr Shariq Nisar, the architect of India’s Shariah Index (i.e. BSE TASIS Shariah 50) has been the man behind the launch of many shariah compliant products in the country such as Taurus Ethical Fund (By Taurus Mutual Fund), Pure Stock Pension Fund (By Bajaj Allianz), Secura India Real Estate Fund (India’s only Shariah compliant SEBI approved real estate venture capital fund). Most recently Dr Shariq has been associated with the launch of Shariah compliant commodities trading by National Spot Exchange Ltd.

For her, New Year’s vow is wildlife conservation

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,

Do Muslims ever follow ‘Imams’ in elections?

By Ashfaque Khan, Self-proclaimed tellers of the imagined Muslim Vote Bank are not going to influence voting behaviour in any significant way.

TDP’s ‘Muslim declaration’ has placed the community on cloud nine

10% quota in job and education; 8% quota in assembly; Rs 2500Cr in annual budget By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net,

क्या भाजपा का राम मंदिर सच में ‘लॉलीपॉप’ है? या कुछ और

सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net लखनऊ : संस्कृति मंत्री महेश शर्मा ने हाल में भी अयोध्या में 'रामायण संग्रहालय' बनाने का प्रस्ताव लाकर लोगों को चकित किया...

Pakistan targets 86% literacy rate by year 2015

By NNN-APP Islamabad : Pakistan's National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) to achieve 86 percent literacy rate in the country by year 2015 through expanding its ‘Literacy Program’ nationwide. This was stated by Dr. Nasim Ashraf, Chairman NCHD while talking to APP. The Commission, he said, has successfully entered its 5th year of operations through expanding its literacy and health programmes from two districts in 2002 to more than 122 districts in 2007.

Pakistan cancels election in Benazir’s constituency

By IRNA Islamabad : The Election Commission of Pakistan has cancelled election in the constituency where former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was contesting election for the Lower House of the Parliament, the Commission said on Friday. Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on December 27 in the city of Rawalpindi after she addressed a huge election public meeting. "The election process was terminated on National Assembly-207 Larkana-cum-Shikarpur in Sindh due to the death of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto," the commission said in a statement.

Four-year-old kidnapped, murdered in Andhra Pradesh

By IANS Hyderabad : In a shocking incident, a four-year-old child was kidnapped and murdered in Himayatsagar near here, police said Tuesday. Kartik, who was kidnapped by his father's friend a week ago, was murdered within hours of the kidnap. Babu, the alleged kidnapper who had demanded a ransom of Rs.5 million, confessed after the police arrested him early Tuesday. After a three-hour effort, police retrieved the victim's body from rocks in Peeramcheru area in Rajendernagar on the outskirts of Hyderabad.

See no reason why Bangladeshis would come to India: Prof. Monirul Hussain

Over four months have passed since violence broke out in the Bodoland Territorial Area District (BTAD) in July 2012. In this special series on...

Hyd top cop’s fallacious claim: No Muslim youth was detained illegally, tortured or harassed

Commissioner, in his reply to the State Human Rights Commission , cleverly tried to skip allegation of false implication in terror cases, and didn’t...

One German hostage still alive: Afghan authorities

By DPA

Kabul : One of the German hostages purportedly held by the Taliban was still alive, but a second hostage had died of a heart attack, the Afghan foreign ministry said Saturday.

In a day of fast-changing developments, a ministry spokesman said that Kabul authorities were working to secure the safe return of the hostage still alive.

"Our security agencies reported to us that one of the German engineers is still alive and the second died of heart attack and heat," ministry spokesman Sultan Ahmad Baheen told DPA.

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