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• Senior advocate Salar Khan is no more

  Apr 10, 2018

  New Delhi: Senior advocate Salar Muhammad Khan died here on Saturday, 8 April. He was 52 years old. He is survived by wife, daughter and son. He basically belonged to Jaipur in Rajasthan but had made Delhi his home where he practiced law for th...

• A Tribute to Uncle Dr. Irfan Ahmad Khan: A legendary scholar of the Quran

  Apr 05, 2018

  He was over 85, unable to walk properly, living on medicine more than the food, yet, until the last conscious minute of his life he was inviting people to the Quran.

• Glimpses of good Hindu-Muslim relations despite avalanche of hate

  Dec 02, 2017

  Gujarat mosque becomes functional with Hindu help Ahmedabad: A mosque abandoned for the last 30 years has become functional once again with the help of Hindu residents of the area. This hundred-year-old mosque is situated in a Hindu lo...

• AMU's Prof Samdani receives ‘Legal Expert Award’

  Nov 22, 2017

  Aligarh, November 22, 2017: Professor Shakeel Samdani (Department of Law, Aligarh Muslim University—AMU) has been conferred with the ‘Legal Expert Award’ by a leading Urdu daily in a special function held at the Kala Mandir Au...

• Mumbai's Ghulam Muhammed Siddiqui Saheb is no more

  Nov 18, 2017

  Ghulam Muhammed Siddiqui (better known as G.M. Siddiqui), a writer of copious letters to the editor on all issues concerning the Muslims of India, is no more. He simply wrote his name as Ghulam Muhammed without attaching Siddiqui to it. ...

• Veteran Assamese director Abdul Majid passed away

  Sep 27, 2017

  Guwahati (27 September 2017): Veteran Assamese director Abdul Majid passed away on 24 September in a city based hospital. Popular for his amiable nature among everyone in Assam, the progressive octogenarian actor and playwright was lately admit...

• Delhi — Teasing and harassment of girl students in Okhla, Jamia Nagar

  Jul 17, 2017

  The Memorandum reads as under:   To   The Deputy Commissioner of Police (Southeast Delhi) Sarita Vihar New Delhi   Sub: Memorandum regarding increasing acts of teasing of school going girls in...

• Striving Against Casteism, Students' Islamic Org holds iftar with Chakliyar community

  Jun 22, 2017

  Calicut: The state council of Students Islamic Organization conducted iftar meet at Muthalamada Ambedkar colony in solidarity with the Chakliyar community, where casteism is practised against the lower castes in every nuance of daily lives. Rup...

• Ruckus at Jamia, Iftar by RSS, protest by students, who is to benefit?

  Jun 07, 2017

  The RSS-backed outfit ‘Muslim Rashtriya Manch’ a few days ago on Monday, June 5, 2017 threw an Iftar party at the Jamia Millia Islamia campus with the prime invitee being the RSS leader Indresh Kumar.  In his speech at the said...

• AMU completes Jama Masjid Restoration Project

  May 11, 2017

  A request has been made to the Jama Masjid Committee to provide a praying space for women in the mosque. He further said that Jama Masjid is unique as different sects of the Muslim community pray in the mosque.

• Muslim women lambaste Modi’s anti-Shariah tirade

  May 03, 2017

  MALAPPURAM — The women’s wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) in Kerala has lambasted Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ruling BJP party for shedding crocodile tears for a few Muslim women suffered by Muthalaq (pronouncement o...

• Jasim of Aligarh wanted ban on BJP, now gives scholarship in Modi's name

  Apr 22, 2017

  On 14 April 2017 we received a press release which read "Forum for Muslim Studies & Analysis (FMSA) presented Narendra Modi Scholarship for Muslim Students to the beneficiaries amid a discussion held on Education: A Tool of Development...

• President Mukherjee Lays Foundation Stone of Haj House in Ranchi, says Haj is a life time dream for Muslims

  Apr 12, 2017

  The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee laid the foundation stone of Rabindra Bhawan and Haj House on April 2, 2017 in Ranchi, Jharkhand.  Speaking on the occasion, the President said that he was happy to be present in Ranch...

• Condolence meeting in memory of Syed Shahabuddin held in Patna

  Apr 11, 2017

  Patna (10 April 2017): A condolence meeting was organised here to pay tribute to Syed Shahabuddin, former diplomat, former Member of Parliament, former President of All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat at Conference Hall, Bihar Urdu Academy, Pa...

• Dr Javed Jamil appointed as head of Islamic Studies & Research at Yenepoya University, Mangalore

  Apr 10, 2017

  In order to enrich the academic resources of the university system for a deeper reflection on critical issues and to promote and facilitate insightful thinking on all issues connected with focus on knowledge generation with an inter-disciplinar...

• Non-bailable arrest warrant against Madhu Kishwar, she cries foul

  Apr 10, 2017

  A senior Muslim journalist of Ahmedabad had reported Madhu Kishwar using filthy language against Muslims. Though MG had received this story at the time, we did not carry it though it was carried by another media orgnisation

• Prof Obaidullah Fahad joins AMU as Chairperson, Dept of Islamic Studies

  Apr 05, 2017

  Aligarh, April 1, 2017: Professor Obaidullah Fahad has recently been appointed as the Chairperson of the Department of Islamic Studies, Aligarh Muslim University. Prof Fahad, who was the AMU Gold Medallist of M A in 1986, completed his PhD in t...

• Dr. Kauser Usman receives Highest medical fellowship globally

  Apr 05, 2017

  Dr Kausar Usmanof Lucknow received Fellowship Award FACP (Fellow of American College of Physicians) at San Diego, California. Fellowship and Mastership in American College of Physicians (ACP) are the organization's way of noting outstanding...

• Noted journalist Saeed Naqvi delivers talk on ‘Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair’ at AMU

  Apr 04, 2017

  Aligarh, April 4, 2017: Noted journalist, author and commentator, Mr Saeed Naqvi today delivered a global talk on the topic ‘Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair’ at the Cultural Hall of the Maulana Azad Library on the invitation of t...

• 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...