Over 5,000 people convert to Islam through mobile hotline

November 3rd, 2009 more images more imagesA massive T-Mobile outage has left T-Mobile USA customers across the country unable to make calls or get data on their cellular phones on Tuesday. T-Mobile said that it is working to get its service back up and running: "T-Mobile customers may be experiencing service disruptions impacting voice and data," T-Mobile  said in a statement.

October 19th, 2009 LONDON - Anjem Choudary, a Muslim fundamentalist preacher and leader of the Islamist organization al-Muhajiroun, has sparked fury after he asked the Queen to convert to Islam and become a Muslim. According to reports, Choudary said that Queen, who is the head of the Church of England, and senior members of the U.K Government should convert to ensure their place in paradise.

September 24th, 2009 CHICAGO - An American convert to Islam was Thursday charged with a plot to blow up the court building in Springfield, Illinois and trigger mass murder. Michael Finton, who converted to Islam in jail some time ago to become Talib Islam, was arrested Wednesday after an undercover operation which began in 2007.

September 24th, 2009 CHICAGO - An American convert to Islam was Thursday charged with a plot to blow up the court building in Springfield in Illinois state and trigger mass murder. Michael Finton, who converted to Islam in jail some time ago to become Talib Islam, was arrested Wednesday after an undercover operation which began in 2007.

September 14th, 2009 LONDON - Britons keep almost 90 million unused phone handsets at home after they upgrade to new models, according to a countrywide survey. The research revealed that 52 per cent keep unused phones at home in case a current handset is stolen, lost or broken.

September 9th, 2009 CHICAGO - C-Sam, a technology company founded by Sam Pitroda, and Germany-based Giesecke and Devrient, have signed an agreement to integrate and leverage their respective expertise in the area of transactions over mobile phones. The pact allows them to offer customers a comprehensive secure transaction platform for mobile payments and other value added services such as mobile banking, money-transfers, ticketing, bill and premium payments and advertising.

August 22nd, 2009 TAIPEI - China Mobile Ltd, the world's largest mobile phone carrier, has decided to pick Taiwan's electronics giant Hon Hai Group as its supplier of electronic readers, a top company official said Saturday. "We have picked Hong Hai Group to make electronic readers for us and we believe the electronic reader market will be huge," said Wang Jianzhou, chairman of China Mobile, on the second day of his nine-day visit to Taiwan.

August 12th, 2009 Orlando (Florida, US), - An Ohio Muslim teenager has said that she ran away from her home to Florida because her family threatened to kill her for converting from Islam to Christianity. Rifqa Bary, 17, testified earlier this week at a custody hearing in Orlando that she'd recently changed religions and is worried her relatives will do something drastic, according to WFTV in Orlando and Central Florida News 13.

July 22nd, 2009 When everyone is trying hard to save their back from being spanked in this recession, 5000 gentlemen have thought otherwise and left TCS by their own. Well, it might sould awefully surprising for you but the truth is even internally TCS has confirmed the news.

July 7th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - The row over Malaysian art director Mohan Singh's religion following his death has led to a judge observing that there is "inadequacy" in the law over non-Muslims converting to Islam. Judge Rosnaini Saub made this observation Monday while giving the ruling that Mohan Singh was a Muslim when he died and should be buried as per the Islamic custom.

June 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - China's procuratorates have opened a unitary 24-hour hotline for informants on the eve of the 11th publicity week for seeking information from the public, which has been sponsored by the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP). The hotline will start on Monday, the first day of the weeklong campaign to increase the awareness about ways and importance of giving tips to prosecutors to expose job-related crimes and corruption among government officials.

June 17th, 2009 LONDON - Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia that anyone can edit, has been turned into a book 5000 pages long and 1ft 7ins thick. Rob Matthews turned the encyclopaedia, written by volunteers, into a book containing 437-featured articles from the popular Internet resource, and it comes up to his knee when it is made to stand on the floor.

June 14th, 2009 ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON - Family members of a young Christian man have claimed that he was raped and brutally murdered in Pakistan because he refused to convert to Islam. According to a Fox News report, the victim's brother said police found 28-year-old Tariq "Litto" Mashi Ghauri, a university student in Sargodha, Pakistan, lying dead in a canal outside a village in Punjab Province on May 15.

June 12th, 2009 IPOH - A Malaysian expert of Islamic studies has said Islam should not be forced upon a child or a minor because a call to Islam is a conscious submission. Addressing a discussion titled, "Crisis in Religious Thinking", Institute of Islamic Understanding Malaysia (Ikim) director-general Dr Syed Ali Tawfik Al-Attas said the ability to think is a major factor for a non-Muslim to decide whether to become a Muslim.

May 4th, 2009 TOKYO - A mobile phone has been launched in Japan that will help the country's citizens locate the nearest public toilet in double quick time. According to The Telegraph, users of the mobile lavatory locator are able to upload the free software from the Check A Toilet website.