• Radiating The Prince Effect

    To walk around the streets of Abu Dhabi or travel to witness its historical heritage is to meet the whole world compressed into one gloriously diverse and colorful city.

  • A Tale of 7 Emirates

    High up in the glistening perpendicular disc that houses Aldar properties’ headquarters on one edge of Abu Dhabi’s Yas Island resides harmony. UAE is a place so serene that it compels people from all across the world to witness equanimity in both business and recreation.

  • Lions on the move

    Africa is a land of opportunities. It’s quite different from a general image of death and despair or Afro-pessimism portrayed by the media. It’s a large continent, comprising several countries, and mostly the region is growing. There is a need to understand the current growth and developments in the region to nullify the historically governed negative stereotyped perceptions of the continent.

  • Beautiful Blissful Bihar

    Sometimes all it takes is the written word to lift your soul from the humdrum of everyday life. These are the wordsmiths that can take you by the hand and induce the most austere sense of wanderlust, taking you to the edge of the world – and back, evoking the same spell of travelling with the land of sophisticated and creative civilization- BIHAR.

Friday 21 October 2016

Women Entry To be Allowed In Inner Sanctum of Haji Ali

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In a yet another twist to the longstanding issues of allowing entry of women into some of the religious places, the Haji Ali Dargarh’s case of banning women in the inner sanctum of the Dargah is all set to take a step in the direction of a more secular and progressive society.

Recently, the Haji Ali Dargah Management’s senior advocate Gopal Subramanium notified Supreme Court that the Management will begin the entry of women till the mazaar, which has the tomb of Muslim Saint Pir Haji Ali Shah Bukhari.



According to AsiaOne magazine’s research, Subramanium communicated to Chief Justice T S Thakur, that the management is ready to allow the women into the inner sanctum. He said, “The Dargah management will devise the mode and method for allowing women into the inner sanctum”.

In June 2012, the Haji Ali Trust which governs the mosque situated in South Mumbai, banned women’s entry till the mazaar but in Nov 2014, Dr. Noorjehan Safia Niaz and Zakia Soman, co-founders of the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan filed a PIL against the order. Recently on August 26, 2016, Bombay High Court passed the verdict that “Women be permitted to enter the sanctum sanctorum of the Haji Ali Dargah at par with men”. Following some more repartees, the Haji Ali Management has now come to the point of lifting the ban.

Monday 19 September 2016

Digital India: PM Narendra Modi’s Vision

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Digital India Week on July 1, 2015, as a part of Digital India initiative with a vision to empower the Indian population and to render better services to people from all walks of life. The event picked up well on the launch day itself, as the top players in the industry assured investments worth Rs. 4.5 lakh crore in different genres of technology, which will further add to 1.8 million jobs. AsiaOne magazine contributes immensely to several initiatives of Narendra Modi’s government through features and events.


The initiative is a perfect amalgamation of inviting both domestic and foreign companies to invest as well as guarantee to improve working style and system like bureaucracy and red-tape, which will definitely be a push to start-up enterprises.

“I dream of a Digital India where government proactively engages with people through social media … I dream of a Digital India where cyber security becomes an integral part of national security,” Modi said, reminding the audience of the speech given by Martin Luther King.

The PM looks up to this 1.13 lakh crore initiative as a way to create a digital infrastructure as a utility to all the citizens of India. He also aims to take digital literacy to another level. This will benefit the citizens of the country by not only opting for cashless financial transactions, but also to avail the services in real time from online to mobile.

Some of the ongoing projects under Digital India Initiative are as follows:

• Digital locker system
• MyGov.in
• Swachh Bharat Mission
• e-Sign framework
• e-Hospital system
• National Scholarship Portal
• Broadband Highways

Some market players have already acted upon the digitization of the country. The Vedanta Group arm has recently signed an agreement with Ericsson to work together in driving Smart Sustainable City initiatives; and STL is undertaking Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) deployment to enable high-speed broadband connectivity, and is developing several transmission infrastructure projects spanning over 5,000 circuit km across the nation.

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