The leading Islamic seminary Dar-ul-Uloom Deoband has decreed that co-education—boys and girls learning alongside each other—is “unlawful“. In a fatwa posted on its website, the prestigious seminary has said that …
Every year, The Economist, London, publishes the Big Mac Index, a light-hearted computation of how overvalued or not a currency is, based on the price of a McDonald’s hamburger. It’s …
The London and Glasgow terror plots involving Indians is leading to the usual breast-beating and circumspection. Shekhar Gupta in today’s Indian Express lays the blame squarely at the doors of …
Sir Ben Kingsley, the British actor who played Gandhi in Richard Attenborough‘s Oscar-winning epic was on BBC last night, talking to Tom Brook and promoting his new film. He had …