By Prashant Sood, New Delhi : The triple talaq bill is a step towards imposing a Uniform Civil Code and the judicial verdict on the practice is a lesson for the Muslim community that matters such as polygamy and nikah halala might similarly end up in court if...
By Mayank Chhaya, Chicago : The baffling and paradoxical life of Dr. Abdus Salam, the first Pakistani and Muslim to win a Nobel Prize for Physics, is a subject of a compelling documentary by New York-based Indian American filmmaker Anand Kamalakar. Salam (1926-1996)...
By Sarwar Kashani, New Delhi : Shashi Tharoor, Congress MP and former Minister of State for External Affairs, says Prime Minister Narendra Modi has brought "dynamism" to India's foreign policy but lacks consistency in the country's neighbourhood strategy. In an...
By Sarwar Kashani, New Delhi : Former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit is not averse to returning to active politics if her party asks her because the time is ripe for the Congress to bounce back as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's credibility has hit "rock bottom"...
By Sarwar Kashani and V.S. Chandrasekar, New Delhi : The BJP government is looking to make a "major assault" on the Constitution if the ruling party gets a majority in both the Houses of Parliament, says Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who feels the attack on various...
By Subhash K. Jha, Mumbai : Veteran actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha, who is a part of the "non-political" platform Rashtra Manch -- aimed at raising issues concerning the Narendra Modi government -- says he feels free now as he felt "stifled" by the stepson like...
By Sayyid Anwer Ibrahim Dr. Javed Jamil, who is currently Head of Chair in Islamic Studies at Yenepoya University, Mangaluru is an internationally renowned thinker, political and economic analyst and the pioneer in the field of Applied Islamics. Author of more than a...
By Saket Suman and Vikas Datta, Jaipur : Terming the Western media propagandist, former Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Friday that India, for whom he had a special message on its 69th Republic Day, should develop its own sources in his country, even as he...
By Aroonim Bhuyan, New Delhi : As New Delhi continues to push for better connectivity with Southeast Asia through the northeast under its Act East Policy, Thailand's Ambassador to India Chutintorn Gongsakdi has said that "soft connectivity" is the key to India-ASEAN...
By Somrita Ghosh, New Delhi : Swati Maliwal, who will complete her term as chairperson of the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) in the next five months, has said that not enough has been done to put an end to rapes in the national capital. "We have done a lot of work...