Opinion

Since I came back from watching our vice chancellor play Akbar in a stage play titled “Akbar-Salim-Anarkali” (Don’t be misled by the title, there were more characters in the play.) on Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011, people have been asking me what I thought of it. How did he do? How did our vice chancellor perform as Akbar, is all what ...

What is time? I don’t mean what the clock shows, but how do you define it? Tricky question isn’t it? Me and my friends were dumbstruck when our professor asked us to define time in one of our classes. After a lot of discussion some of us defined time as the “fourth dimension.” Others said it was a passage through ...

Eid Milad-un-Nabi or Barah Wafat is celebrated on the twelfth day of Rabi-ul-Awwal, the the third month of the Islamic calendar. It is celebrated to commemorate the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alihi Wassalam (SAW), peace and blessings be upon him. This day also happens to be the day he died. Muslims on this day celebrate the birth of ...

In today’s time, money is of prime importance for anybody; especially for students. For a student like me who travels 30 odd kilometers every day to reach Jamia, it’s a prime concern. But in Jamia, I find that students don’t have any opportunity to become self-reliant; there is a lot of red-tape here. Because of this, students here don’t get ...

Due to the global economic crisis and failure of the prevailing financial system of the world, economists, financial experts and industrialists around the world are looking at Islamic finance and the economic system with sheer optimism. Islamic financial system has turned a frequent discourse in most of the universities, research centers and debates in various western and European countries. Attractiveness ...

Our university held a convocation on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010, which by the way was for 2009 university graduates; almost two years after the fact. But as they say, better late than never. So if nothing, we have that to be grateful of. To hold the huge crowd expected for the occasion, a stage was especially erected in an open ...