Valuable addition to Seerh literature

The book clears much of the confusion surrounding Islam’s position on the etiquette of loving the Prophet (S.A.W)

Muhammad Maroof Shah

Book: Hubbi Rasool Kay Amli TakazaeAuthor: Nabeel Hamid alMaad-al MisriTranslator: Dr Badruddin BhatPublishers: Qari Publications, New Delhi (2012)Pp: 270Islam is characteristically a religion of sobriety and not of intoxication. Its guarded view of music or More

Here is the biography of Derrida

Marc Farrant

There is something inherently strange, peculiar even, about the 'auto' in 'autobiography'. On the one hand, it implies the automatisation of the self, that one would act autonomously, as oneself, in the writing of oneself (from the Greek autos, 'self'). On the other hand, this action or acting-out More

Afghanistan: The Battleground

Dalrymple balances pace with detail

Abdul Majid Zargar

Afghanistan is said to be a graveyard of many empires but a divine gift to scores of  writers. Stunning and tragic, victim of violence and conspiracies,  hotly debated and often ignored, Afghanistan is the place everyone chronicles and no one seems fully to understand. And when noted historian More

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Book: On Warne Author: Gideon HaighPublisher: Hamish Hamilton (2012)Price: Rs.374About the Book:Love him or hate him, Shane Warne was the greatest cricketer of our time, and remains a cultural phenomenon. His record on the field is astonishing More

  • Kashmir

Sopore Custodial Killing

SHRC awaits Chief Minister’s action into ‘this grave human rights violation’

Asks DGP to initiate departmental probe against senior police officers

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Feb 6: Reminding Chief Minister Omar Abdullah of his promise to bring the accused in custodial killing of a Sopore youth in 2011 to justice, the Jammu and Kashmir Human Rights Commission on Wednesday More



  • Srinagar City

Maintain quality, transparency in execution of development works: Jora

Reviews functioning of SMC, visits various areas of city

Srinagar, Feb 6: Minister for Urban Development and Urban Local Bodies, Nawang Rigzin Jora on Wednesday reviewed progress and functioning of the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC).     More




  • Jammu

JK constitutes panel to ‘study’ Verma Committee report

To Recommend Amendments In Existing Laws On Crime Against Women

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Feb 6: The Government Wednesday constituted a high-powered committee to recommend amendments to make the existing laws dealing with the offences against women more stringent.An official spokesman More



  • GKeducation&Careers

Training journalists of the future

Ill-equipped departments, obsolete syllabus and inexperienced faculty worries journalism students

TEACHING JOURNALISM

IMRAN MUZAFFAR

Um Roommana Sulaiman, 23, wants to become a successful television broadcaster like Mishal Husain of the BBC. A 4th semester student of journalism at the Islamic University of Science and Technology Awantipora More



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