By Abukar Arman
Category: Feature
For teacher, a learning experience
By Lindsey Blest
Arctic Muslims risk health during Ramadan
The Local: Swedish Muslims north of the Arctic circle have long waited for and feared this summer. When the sun never sets, they have pondered how to observe Ramadan, when devout Muslims fast from sun up to sun down for…
Snowden remains at Moscow airport, exit date pending
Speculation that fugitive U.S. intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden had been granted approval to leave Sheremetyevo airport’s transit zone was quashed by his lawyer Wednesday.
Morsi supporters denounce army-planned rallies
Egypt’s army called for nationwide rallies to protest the ongoing violence, as several attacks in Egypt killed three on Wednesday, sparking outrage from Islamists, who called the rallies an “announcement of civil war” and announced counter-demonstrations.
Suspected ‘vampire’ burial site found in Poland
The discovery of a suspected “vampire” burial site in Poland is not a first and is unlikely to be the last, according to researchers.
‘Greater policy, budgetary support urged for child equity’
Progress in attaining equity is uneven in Bangladesh despite impressive trends observed in reaching gender parity in education, school enrollment, and youth literacy, a study revealed on Wednesday.
WHO warns against complacency in fight against leprosy
The fight against leprosy has made a marked progress in the past two decades but complacency may now be threatening the last push towards a world free of this debilitating disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on the opening…
How to reverse Buddhism’s radical turn In Southeast Asia?
IRIN/ Dana MacLean
Cameron declines to condemn bomb attacks of mosques
Prime Minister David Cameron has declined to condemn recent terrorist attacks targeted at three mosques in West Midlands.
Italy seeks justice for alleged CIA abuses
By Jim Kouri
Litvinenko: Massive media fraud uncovered
William Dunkerley
Buddhism in Burma is not that old
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui
Arab Spring quickly turning into Arab nightmare
By Zaher Mahruqi
Last days Of Adnan Latif, who died in Guantánamo last year
Andy Worthington His article, published simultaneously here and on the “Close Guantánamo” website, contains exclusive information from the unclassified notes of a visit to Abdelhadi Faraj — a Syrian prisoner, and one of 86 men cleared for release from Guantánamo…
Unarmed protesters killed in Kashmir
The Indian government should appoint an independent commission to promptly and transparently investigate the killing of four protesters by Border Security Force (BSF) troops in Jammu and Kashmir state, Human Rights Watch said today.
Lucid Bangla rendering of holy Quran published
Four compilations of lucid bangla rendering of the holy Quran by Moulana Abdus Shahid Nasim, published by the Bangladesh Quran Sikkha Society were published at the grand ball room of the Sonargaon Hotel on Friday with a call for participatory…
Indonesia’s cautious confidence
Dewi Fortuna Anwar
Story of Urinating in Space
“Do it in the suit.” According to Tom Wolfe’s book “The Right Stuff,” that’s what mission control said to Alan Shepard during Mercury-Redstone 3, when the astronaut said he needed to urinate. Shepard did as he was told. The first…
Why did Muslim Brotherhood fail?
It seems as though the Muslim Brotherhood is still living in the 1960s.
Russia, others should treat Snowden’s asylum claim fairly: HRW
After meeting with Edward Snowden on July 12, 2013, Human Rights Watch reiterated its call for his asylum claims to receive fair treatment.
Halt arbitrary action against brotherhood, media: HRW
New York – Egypt’s military-installed government should end its arbitrary acts against the Muslim Brotherhood and the news media, Human Rights Watch said today.
Student blinded in attack continues her recovery
VANCOUVER—Rumana Monzur can picture a towering mountain or the blue sky on a sunny day. She remembers what the ocean looks like and can still conjure an image of water stretching out to the horizon.
The progress in global fight against tobacco
A new report released in Panama City by The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday shows that one-third of the world’s population – 2.3 billion people – are now covered by at least one life-saving policy measure to curb tobacco…
Mango trading helps Rajshahi economy
The huge trading of mangoes in Rajshahi district is on the way of waning as all quality mangoes except Fazli and Ashina are nearly out of market and those are still at the last leg are exorbitant in price.
Osama Bin Laden raid as seen by terror leader’s family
Osama bin Laden was well aware American forces had come for him the night he heard the commotion outside his Abbottabad compound in Pakistan on May 1, 2011, and the terror leader went for his gun to fight back, according…
Predict earthquake with your Smartphone
Living in an earthquake zone adds a certain spice to life. A team from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has created an app that uses the accelerometer in your smartphone, and turns it into a simple seismometer (device that…
How Muslims are changing English football culture
By Rob Cowling
Leaked report reveals Pakistan failures on Bin Laden
Incompetence and negligence allowed Osama Bin Laden to live in Pakistan undetected for almost a decade, a leaked government report suggests.