Muhammad (PBUH)-The last messenger of Allah
Mohammad Hussain Khan On all sides there was darkness, affliction and aversion to what is right and humane when Muhammad (SAW) was born in the Arab land. Muhammad (SAW) brought the message of truth, took up the colossal challenges and washed the cruel and fallacious hands of the Arabian which even the best of perfumes […]
Gossip and the real experience
N J Ravi Chander During my long stint in a public sector bank, I discovered employees being in dread whenever called upon to visit the offices of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Stories of bank officials subjected to ridicule by the premier investigating agency did the rounds. I got the chance to bump into […]
News reporting a challengeable job
Er. Prabhat Kishore A journalist believes that the news frame should be such as to provide to readers all different and varied aspects of a given subject. There should not be any ‘beating around the bush’ as the proverb goes, but to hit at the bull’s eye directly. This should include all the background and […]
Physical disability and employment problems in India
Fahid Fayaz Darangay According to census, 2011, conducted by Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India under Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, India is having 26,810,557 total disabled persons out of which 14,986,202(2.41%) are males and 11,824,355(2.01%) are females. This contributes 2.21 % of the total Indian population. This means a […]
The moral degrade
Sheikh Aatif With all the unexpected things happening in 2020 since the outbreak of corona virus the lives of people were at stake all over the world but corona was not the only cause of death for few people in Kashmir. In our valley we witnessed a number of cases where human lives were taken […]
Engagement is life, stagnation is death
Rajan Kapoor My mother-in-law is driven by a very simple philosophy. She always remains busy and gets herself engaged in a positive activity. She does so to keep a check on her thoughts, which she believes can go berserk anytime. And to keep her thoughts off the wrong track, she spends her time in executing […]
Decoding New Education Policy 2020
Mushtaq Ahmad Butt New Education Policy, 2020 has been formulated by an expert committee widely known as Kasturirangan Committee. It has replaced last Education Policy of 1992 which was modified by Narsimaha Rao government. The new education policy has in its ambit wide scope for student community ranging from pre-school phase to school education and […]
In letter and spirit
Syed Mustafa Ahmad A common question haunts many Muslims like me. If Islam is the complete way of life then why its principles are being not followed the world over. Why is it confined to the holy books? Why rhetoric is found everywhere? Why is there no practical system on the ground? If the so-called […]
Asifa is ours, so is Nirbhaya
Rayees Ahmad Kumar During the very first month of 2018, a catastrophic incident happened in Kathua district of Jammu Kashmir when an innocent eight years old girl Asifa was molested sexually by eight beast natured humans. Belonging to Gujjar Bakarwal community, the fragrance of this little flower was wiped out for all times to come. […]
An honest reply
K S S Pillai Till now I was under the impression that a large chunk of our population was illiterate or semi-literate, who would look lost at the mention of the word ‘online’. But the dread of a virus has changed everything suddenly, and a ‘new normal’ has come into existence. The Bacchus worshippers now […]