GIRLS BE VERY VERY CAREFUL Beware while using the trial rooms When we visit toilets, bathrooms, hotel rooms, changing rooms, etc. How many of you know for sure that the seemingly ordinary mirror hanging on the wall is a real mirror, or actually a 2-way mirror( i.e., they can see you, but you can’t…
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Wipro close to Rs 1,500-crore IT deal with Etisalat
Etisalat DB Telecom India, in which the UAE-based Etisalat holds a 45 per cent stake, is close to signing a Rs 1,500- crore (Rs 15-billion) outsourcing deal with IT major Wipro [ Get Quote ] Technologies. If the deal goes through, this would be the second largest deal for Wipro in the telecom space. Earlier…
Islamic Banking Convenor meets Salman Khursheed
Islamic Banking Convenor meets Salman Khursheed, discusses feasibility of Interest free Islamic banking in India New Delhi: Mr. H Abdur Raqeeb, Convener of National committee on Islamic Banking met with Mr. Salman Khursheed, Minister of state for Minority & Corporate Affairs today and discussed the feasibility of Interest-free Islamic Banking in India. Mr. Raqeeb, General…
Temporary marriages with Indonesian women on rise in Saudi Arabia
JEDDAH: A large number of Saudis are engaging in temporary marriages with Indonesian women with the intention of divorcing them. “Such marriages are likely to increase if Islamic scholars fail to give a clear ruling prohibiting them,” said Khaled Al-Arrak, director of Saudi affairs at the Saudi Embassy in Jakarta. He said most Saudis were…
”Islam is an important part of promoting peace” Obama
”Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism _ it is an important part of promoting peace,” Obama said in a widely anticipated speech in (Cairo) Egypt one of the world’s largest Muslim countries, an address designed to reframe relations after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the war in Iraq….
NEWS: 200 Mecca mosques ‘face wrong direction’
RIYADH: Muslim worshippers at about 200 old mosques in Mecca have been praying in the wrong direction for decades because the mosques were not built correctly, a Saudi newspaper said on Sunday. The mosques were not built precisely based on the qibla, the official alignment with the holy Kaaba shrine at the centre of Mecca’s…
CIA report : Israel will fall in 20 years
[“There is over 500,000 Israelis with American passports and more than 300,000 living in the area of just California,” International lawyer Franklin Lamb said in an interview with Press TV on Friday, adding that those who do not have American or western passport, have already applied for them.] A study conducted by the Central Intelligence…
Collapse in world trade: IMF
WORLD trade collapsed by nearly 45 per cent in annual terms in the final three months of last year, according to new International Monetary Fund figures that expose the staggering depth of the global financial crisis. And the IMF has predicted dealing with the economic storm will force governments to drive their budgets deep into…
India joins hunt for Tiger chief as Last Tiger bastion falls
Last Tiger bastion falls Colombo: The Sri Lankan military has captured the LTTE’s last bastion, Mullaittivu on the northeast coast, signalling the beginning of the end of Tiger resistance. The Sri Lanka Army commander, Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka, said on state television on Sunday that the troops captured Mullaittivu early Sunday evening. The 25-year-old civil…
Saudis to donate $1b to rebuild Gaza
Kuwait City : The Saudi king said on Monday his country will donate $1 billion to help rebuild the Gaza Strip after the devastating Israeli offensive and told Israel that an Arab initiative offering peace will not remain on the table forever. King Abdullah’s comments at an Arab economic summit in Kuwait City were his…