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• Social Activist Uzma Naheed honoured with International award

  Mar 30, 2017

  Mumbai (29 March 2017): Uzma Naheed, famous social activist has received a prestigious international award for her exemplary work for women mainly to uplift them economically and socially.  Her programs under her NGO, Iqra Internationa...

• Renowned educationist Prof Dr Abdul Rashid Khan passes away

  Mar 24, 2017

  It  is  the moment  of  great mourning  for  all  of  us  that  our  beloved  father Prof Dr Abdul Rashid Khan has  left  to heavenly  abode  on  24th   o...

• Abdul Gani of Guwahati bags Laadli media award

  Mar 24, 2017

  GUWAHATI, MARCH 24: The prestigious Laadli Media and Advertising Awards for Gender Sensitisation 2015-16 were given to 37 media professionals including Times of India Guwahati reporter Abdul Gani. The 8th edition of the award function was held ...

• Assam’s noted historian and columnist Dr Kamaluddin is no more

  Mar 21, 2017

  Dr Kamaluddin Ahmed, a noted educationist, historian, socio-political leader, columnist and author from Assam breathed his last on Wednesday, February 9, 2017. He was 76 years old. He died after an heart attack. Thousands of people att...

• Last day to register for India’s biggest conference of NGOs in South India

  Mar 15, 2017

    *6th South India NGOs Conference - SINC 2017* Theme : Role of NGOs in Youth Empowerment Date : 18th & 19th March 2017 Venue : Hotel Canopy, M.G. Road, Bangalore Concept & Organized...

• Economist, journalist, writer and poet Saeed Suhrawardy passes away

  Mar 10, 2017

  A leading economist, journalist, writer and poet of Urdu Saeed Suhrawardy, died at his residence in Delhi last evening, March 9.  He was 85 years old. He was a dedicated writer and journalist who has left a mark on Muslim journalism in Ind...

• Dr Khan delivers extension lecture at Jamia on Research Methodology

  Mar 09, 2017

  Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, editor The Milli Gazette, delivered an extension lecture on 8 March at the Jamia Millia Islamia. Organised by the Department of Islamic Studies, the lecture was on the methodology of research in Islamic studies. The well-...

• Nari Shakti Puraskar to Mumtaz Kazi, Anoyara Khatun

  Mar 08, 2017

  The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee presented Nari Shakti Puruskars (Women power awards) for the year 2016 at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhavan today (March 8, 2017) on the occasion of International Women’s Day.   ...

• Moinuddin Ahmad Art Gallery, AMU hosts three-day ‘Calligraphy Exhibition’

  Mar 03, 2017

  Aligarh, March 2, 2017: The Moinuddin Ahmad Art Gallery, Aligarh Muslim University is hosting a three-day ‘Calligraphy Exhibition’, which will display works of Dr Qamar Dagar from New Delhi and Mr Mohd Ahrar Hindi, Deputy Commi...

• What actually happened at Jamia Millia Islamia — Shazia-BJP-RSS Controversy

  Mar 03, 2017

  The BJP-leader and also a pass-out from Jamia Millia Islamia, Shazia Ilmi accused Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University) of dropping her name from the list of speakers that were to speak at an event about ‘Triple Talaq’ on camp...

• English newspaper Milli Gazette Says Goodbye to Readers

  Feb 05, 2017

  We realise that The Milli Gazette was not fully discharging the service needed by the 200 million Muslims of India. Muslims need to have a number of Hindi and English newspapers, FM radio stations and TV channels of their own.

• Housemaid Noor Jehan returns safely from KSA

  Jan 22, 2017

  Hyderabad (20 January 2017): Noor Jehan Begum resident of Asad Baba Nagar, Kishan Bagh who was promised a good job with a salary of 1500 SR in Madina KSA and went on a Khadama visa from Hyderabad on 20th Sep 2016 has now returned safel...

• 159 years later, Waris Ali accepted as freedom fighter

  Jan 08, 2017

  Muzaffarpur (Bihar) administration has accepted Waris Ali as a freedom fighter after 159 years of his execution by the British. Waris Ali was a jamadar of police in Motipur when he led a gherao by 12000 farmers of a jail and helped freedom figh...

• Muslim PL Board’s signature campaign misleading: Muslim women

  By NA Ansari

  Dec 27, 2016

  Lucknow: President of All India Muslim Women Personal Law Board Mrs. Shaistah Amber while describing the signature campaign sponsored by All India Muslim P. L. Board as an attempt to mislead women said that it would have been better if, in the ...

• Committee to look into complaints against Aalia Uni officials

  Dec 27, 2016

  Kolkata: Students of Kolkata’s Aalia University located at Roger Heart Campus are on strike for about two weeks against mismanagement by University authorities, absence of basic facilities like clean drinking water, unhygienic conditions,...

• Govt claim of controlling black money doubtful: JIH

  Dec 27, 2016

  New Delhi: Jamaat-e Islami, expressing doubt over government’s objectives and reasons behind suddenly demonetising Rs. 500 and RS. 1000 curency notes and issuance of new notes, said in a press release on 12 November that only time will te...

• BJP’s 47 Muslim candidates won in Maha municipal elections

  Dec 27, 2016

  Mumbai: After demonetization of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 currency notes by the present central government, local bodies / municipal  elections were held in Gujrat and Maharashtra, in both of which BJP-led governemnts came out, contrary to expe...

• Urmila Mittal Trus’t scholarships to 75 girl students of AMU

  Dec 27, 2016

  Aligarh: Shrimati Urmila Mittal Trust has honoured 75 girl students of AMU with its scholarships at a function held at Zakir Husain Engineering College’s Conference Hall on 29 November when Mrs. Urmila Mittal’s husband, C. D. Mittal...

• Draft of new edu policy worries educationists

  Dec 27, 2016

  New Delhi: An unsigned draft of the proposed new education policy which appeared on HRD ministry’s website is a cause of worry to educationists, intellectuals, social workers etc who have decided to protest against it. They fear that if t...

• Sharia laws safe: Memon

  Dec 27, 2016

  Mumbai: Eminent lawyer and Rajya Sabha MP, Majid Memon, referring to his meeting with Law Commission's Chairman, Justice B. S. Chauhan on 12 November, made an appeal to Muslims not to worry about government’s interference in Muslim pe...