Why Islamic Banking In India Is A 'Good Idea'?

By NEWSCOP | INNLIVE

Whatever benefits Islamic banking may or may not have in its favour, public relations is not one of them. The Reserve Bank of India's recent nod to sharia-based non-banking financial houses met with resistance from the usual suspects. Objections to Islamic banking in India range from regulatory inertia and concern about the unknown toIslamophobia. This is made worse by the existence of few rigorous analyses of Islamic finance.

How India’s Philanthropists Are Solving Social Problems?

By M H AHSSAN | INNLIVE

Everything in India, it seems, occurs at scales unimaginable anywhere else in the world. The scales are particularly daunting, unfortunately, when it comes to social issues. Close to 500 million Indians still live in what the World Bank defines as being absolute poverty (less than $1.25 per day), over 2 million Indian children under five years of age die a year, close to a million due to malnutrition alone. . .and the list goes on. Now consider an even more incredible aspect to this story – and that is, relatively speaking, how few resources India has available to address its massive social problems. For example, the Indian national education budget ($11.6 billion in 2010-2011) is a mere 1.2% of the US equivalent ($972 billion)!

Why To Think It Is Time To Re-Think India’s Reservation System?

By M H AHSSAN | INNLIVE

Fifty years ago, India was highly plagued by casteism, as is evident from incidents archived in history. Whether it took the form of Dalits not being allowed inside places of worship, lower castes denied the right to education or Dalit women forced to keep their upper bodies uncovered – casteism was and is a huge blot on the Hindu culture and tradition.

The Reasons Behind Mumbai’s Ever Increasing, Unaffordable Home Prices

By NISHI SAWANT | INNLVE

There are many ways to describe Mumbai. India’s financial capital. Maximum city. The city of dreams. The city of seven islands.

And as most who’ve lived there would surely know: India’s most expensive housing market.

How India’s Cigarette Makers Got Their Butts Kicked For Resisting Graphic Warnings On Packets?

By NEWSCOP | INNLIVE

A heads-up for smokers in India: your cigarette packet will soon be wrapped in a bigger, more graphic, health warning, especially if you are partial to those made by ITC.

After a month of back and forth, India’s largest cigarette maker has fallen in line with a health ministry notification that requires 85% of cigarette packets to be covered with pictorial health warnings. The Indian government is pushing for tighter regulations on sale of tobacco products, which cause over a million deaths in the country every year.

HOW MANY MORE? The Indian Police’s Guide To Royally Screwing Up A Rape Investigation

By M H AHSSAN | INNLIVE

The body of the 29-year-old lies in a pool of blood in a shack-like house. Thirty deep wounds all over. Private parts slashed over 20 times. Stab wounds on the back of her head, on the chest, chin, and cheek. Intestines pulled out by an iron rod thrust into the vagina, chest torn open by stabs.

And it is not 6 pm yet. She lies dead for over two hours before her mom returned after the day’s labour.

Special Story: Can An Indian And Pakistani Be Friends?

By LIKHAVEER | INNLVE

On both sides of steel gates dividing the two nations and amidst chanting crowds, hurling emotions and drumbeating boots, patriots refueled their nationalism.

Unaware, they engraved the hard and bloody line of control further. Tremors of which can frighten their succeeding generations. Living and celebrating different national realities are justified, however only without demeaning the other. What occurred in 1947 was meant for a new beginning, not to create the Indo-Pak conflict, but to prevent it.

THE BIG STORY: Terror As Farce - Malegaon Acquittals Shows How Easy To Charge Muslims With False Terror Cases?

By LIKHAVEER | INNLIVE

In 2006, terror attacked the Muslim-dominated town of Malegaon in Maharashtra. A bomb blast near the town’s Hamidia mosque killed 37 people and severely injured 100.

Investigations by the National Investigative Agency strongly pointed to a Hindu terror angle behind the bombing of the mosque. The shadowy Abhinav Bharat group was seen to have carried out the blasts and was also the prime accused in the bombings that followed in the town two years later, in 2008.