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November 23, 2016
Mohammad Abdus Salam ( 29 January 1926 – 21 November 1996),was a Pakistani theoretical physicist. A major figure in 20th century theoretical physics, he shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory. He was the first Pakistani and first Muslim to receive a Nobel Prize in science and the second from...
November 22, 2016
Members of the muslim Rohingya minority are fleeing Myanmar after government troops poured into their land since a series of attacks on police border posts last month
Rohingya refugees sit as they wait to enter the Kutupalang Refugee Camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, November 21, 2016REUTERS
Hundreds of Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh after fleeing violence in neighbouring...
November 22, 2016
Rogue military personnel? Or a deliberate policy of abuse? Day 6 of our 7 day openDemocracy's series on alleged abuse by British soldiers in Iraq.
Documents in the military court room in Colchester, Essex, where four soldiers and three ex-soldiers accused of the murder of an Iraqi civilian stood trial back in September 2005. Corporal Scott Evans, 32, Private Billy Nerney, 24,...
November 22, 2016
अमेरिका में एक मुस्लिम अमेरिकी महिला ने स्थानीय चुनाव में जीत दर्ज की है। महिला के माता-पिता भारत और पाकिस्तान से हैं।
महिला ने अमेरिकी राज्य मेरीलैंड में जीत दर्ज की है, जहां प्रवासी-विरोधी और मुस्लिम विरोधी बयानबाजी का बोलबाला था। राहीला अहमद (23 साल) ने लंबे समय से प्रशासन संभाल रहे व्यक्ति को 15 फीसदी वोटों के अंतर से हराते हुए मेरीलैंड के प्रिंस जॉर्ज काउंटी में स्कूल बोर्ड की दौड़ जीत ली...
November 21, 2016
Faraaz Ayaaz Hossain has been honoured with the Mother Teresa Memorial International Award for Social Justice 2016 on Sunday by Harmony Foundation at JW Marriott, Sahar, Mumbai.
Faraaz was recognised by the foundation for his heroic end during the Holey Artisan attack on July 1 this year– when he refused to leave his friends behind and was slain along with them by...
November 19, 2016
Anyone joining the Trump administration would have to leave their personal views behind and implement the vision and ideas of the President-elect, a top transition team member has said.
“Regardless of someone, whether it is a staff member appointed or nominated or intended to be nominated, one of the things that always has to be remembered is that everybody who serves in a Trump...
November 19, 2016
A powerful statement of solidarity between concerned Indians, Hindu and Muslim, South Asian Americans and others against the growing Islamophobia manifest in the United States after the Donald Trump victory has been issued.
The text of the Solidarity Statement:
We issue this statement as concerned Hindus, South Asian Americans, and members of the AMEMSA (Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim,...
November 19, 2016
An influential South-Asian rights group has terminated its ties with a major US airlines alleging that it was carrying out racial and religious profiling of Muslims, Arab and South-Asian passengers on its flights reports PTI.
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"Southwest (Airlines) employees have been racially profiling Muslim, Arab, and South Asian passengers in the last year, including at least...
November 19, 2016
Amid chants of "Allahu akbar", huge and angry crowds gathered outside the Supreme Court in Mauritania on Tuesday demanding the execution of a man who complained about religion being used to justify social discrimination.
Demonstrators outside the Supreme Court. The banner says: ""We demand the execution of Ould Mkhaitir immediately".
In December 2013 engineer...
November 19, 2016
'The presidency is about many things,' groups declare in letter to president-elect. 'Chiefly, it is about setting an example through your leadership.'
President-elect Donald Trump "must repent, take responsibility, and challenge those who have been emboldened by his words, and he must also change the direction of his policies that undermine the cause of justice and civil...