A translated short story from Bengali to English.‘Mahamaya.’ Rabindranath Tagore. Translated from the Bengali by Mohammad A. Quayum Transnational Literature Vol. 3 no. 1, November 2010. http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/transnational/home.html Mahamaya Rabindranath Tagore Translated from the Bengali by Mohammad A. Quayum Mahamaya and Rajeevlochan met

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Nowadays, most Higher Education Institutions(HEI) rely on Information and Communication Technology(ICT) for all aspects of their activities such as administration, teaching, learning and research services. Even though the adoption of ICT in higher education has been extensive since mid 1990s, it has failed to produce the radical changes in learning

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Classical jurists have rigorously studied siyar (the foreign policy of the Islamic state) describing the nature of the principles and norms that influenced the formulation of siyar. On the basis of these principles and norms, the jurists formulated rulings to describe the nature of the relationship of the Islamic state with others. This study exami

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