The District BJP leadership here is in a fix in the wake of the party’s city vice-president Pradeep Aggarwal threatening to convert to Islam over being allegedly ignored by the party.
Bangladesh government has started the renovation work of Museum and Bangladesh Bhavan of Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan, Birbhum.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has announced that Aiman Zaarab, a senior commander of the Islamic Jihad Rafah Brigade, was killed in an airstrike on the southernmost Gazan city of Rafah.
The preliminary probe by police has revealed that the bomb threat emails sent to over 15 schools in Bengaluru have some jihadi content, said sources on Friday.
Islam also urged all the political parties, including the opposition BNP, to take part in the elections.
The main objective of the initiative is to bridge the gap between the rival communities and promote communal harmony.
It does not help matters that the ruling dispensation has a very thin skin. Anyone not supporting the Government is seen as an enemy. The Government cannot countenance anyone holding a view different from their own, a dangerous trend because economists and civil servants are appointed to give unalloyed advice. Of course, the Government is free to reject any advice tendered to it but shooting the messenger delivering unpleasant tidings is not expected of a mature government.
The Abrahamic religions, we have seen, are deductive in their logic. They begin with a premise and work downwards. On the other hand, the Hindu view is inductive in its logic, which moves from facts on the ground upwards till it reaches a conclusion. Hinduism does not have a book as its fountain of belief, there is no premise and therefore no corollaries which a follower can refer to, or a commandment or guidance.
In the highly nuanced political discourse in the Kashmir Valley, one factor that is often overlooked is the rapid indoctrination, radicalisation, Arabisation and Islamisation of a liberal Kashmiri society which had carefully nurtured a syncretic Sufi tradition throughout history and achieved a rare assimilation between Shaivism and Islam, making the society a truly liberal, secular and progressive one.
There were reports that the girl had been sent back to her parents and Pakistan's Punjab province Nankana Sahib police had arrested eight persons in connection with the case.
