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- India
Eminent Urdu scholar Professor Gopi Chand Narang passes away
New Delhi: Leading Urdu scholar Professor Gopi Chand Narang passed away on Wednesday at Charlotte in North Carolina after a brief illness, his son said. He was 91 and is survived by…
- Pakistan
Pakistani philosopher Dr Israr Ahmed’s YouTube channel deleted; outrage follows
The official YouTube channel of late Pakistani Islamic scholar and philosopher, Dr Israr Ahmed with 2.9 million subscribers has been terminated by YouTube for alleged anti-Semitic content. Tanzeem-e-Islami, a movement founded by…
- World
Prominent Uyghur scholar’s niece confirmed dead under detention in Xinjiang: Report
Beijing: Prominent Uyghur scholar and linguist-in-exile Abduweli Ayup’s niece is confirmed to have died last year under detention by state security police in China’s Xinjiang region, informed official sources. Mihray Erkin, a…
- Featured News
Dr Rafiq Zakaria: Scholar & Politician
Mohammed Wajihuddin One evening in the late 1990s, as a cub reporter working for The Asian Age, founded and then edited by eminent journalist M J Akbar, I landed at the iconic…