Swiss Voters Reject $25 Minimum Wage
Swiss voters have turned down a proposal to introduce the highest minimum wage in the world on Sunday in a referendum. According to the plan, the employers were supposed to pay workers a minimum 22 Swiss francs (about $25; £15; 18 euros) an hour. The country’s election authority said that a preliminary tally showed 76% […]
Nigeria Suicide Blast Kills Five
Five people were killed in a bomb blast on Sunday night in northern Nigerian city of Kano , police said. The explosion was caused by a bomb in a car in Gold Coast Street in the Sabon Gari or “foreign quarter” of the North’s biggest city. The street full of pubs and bars is an […]
Camel and the Eye of the Needle
One of the stock metaphors that the three Semitic religions-Judaism, Christianity and Islam- share is a huge animal passing through the eye of needle. In the Quran, the metaphor appears in the 40th verse in the chapter 7, where the Quran describes the arrogant ones as having such a huge size that makes it impossible […]
Maududi said ‘NO’ to Pakistan. Why?
After 1937, Moulana Maududi’s literature started to turn its attention on political analysis; his writing mainly centred on theology thus far. In the election held in 1937, the Indian National Congress won with a whopping majority in the Hindu-majority provinces. Congress leaders thereafter exuded the mood of confidence that the new-found religious majoritarian power, in […]
Modi Wave Engrossing India
As most votes registered in the recently held Parliament election in India have been counted, it is certain that the next Prime Minister of India would be Narendra Modi as has been expected. While this report is being drafted, the BJP-led NDA is leading in 337 seats out of 543 seats, among which the BJP […]
Election Rally
An election rally in Pakistan on May 11, 2013. The country went to polls as early as 8 a.m. Cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan and the charismatic preacher Tahir ul Qadri, held demonstrations in Islamabad. An anti-corruption march was held last year prior to the May 2013 election which saw the country’s first democratic handover of […]
Shah Jahan Masjid
Located in Thatta, Sindh province, Pakistan, the Shah Jahan Masjid was built during the reign of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in 1647, as a gift to the people of Sindh for their hospitality. It has been on the tentative UNESCO World Heritage list since 1993. The mosque is built with red bricks with blue coloured […]
Strike out ‘Data’: EU Court Puts Google in the Soup
The European Court Of Justice on Tuesday ruled that an individual could demand that “irrelevant”, “inadequate “or “outdated” information be removed from the search results of Google. The court backed the “Right to be forgotten” policy asserting that search engine such as Google must be regarded as a “data controller” under the data protection laws […]
Anti Chinese Violence Spreads In Vietnam
In a rampage by violent Vietnamese protestors at a factory in Binh Duong Province, Vietnam, one Chinese worker was killed and dozens injured, the officials said on Thursday. The hatred has been surging up against the Chinese workers and Chinese owned factories triggering violence and exploding to other parts of Vietnam. In Ha Tinh Province, […]
Doyens of Letters No More
For readers of fiction, last few months have been the ones of loss. Here is a belated obituary of Gabriel Marquez, fondly called Gabbo, who created an alternative world, alternative Latin America so to say, which, with its wonderful mix of magic and the real, can give us an alternative to life ravaged by histories; of […]
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