Community News

• One year extension for VC of Chishti University

  May 13, 2013

  Dr Anees Ansari, Vice Chancellor of Khwaja Moinudin Chishti Urdu, Arabic and Persian University, whose term as VC was to expire on 23 April but since many important work like appointment of teaching and non-teaching staff are going on and some ...

• Works of Qazi Abdus Sattar being translated

  May 13, 2013

  Aligarh: Literary creations of prominent man of letters Prof Qazi Abdus Sattar are being rendered into Arabic and English from their original Urdu. His famous novels Khalid bin Waleed and Salahuddin Aiyyubi (whom European and English historians...

• Seminar on education at Sikar

  May 13, 2013

  Sikar: BBC and Asian Age journalist Narayan Bareth called upon religious minorities to broad-base their struggle for development by taking together other deprived communities like Dalits of the country. He was addressing a seminar on “Imp...

• New Urdu daily from Delhi

  May 13, 2013

  New Delhi: A new Urdu daily newspaper, “Qaumi Salamti” has been launched here on 17 April. This newspaper was in fact registered in 2006 but has been launched only now. The printer and publisher of this Urdu daily is Siraj Paracha, ...

• JUSTICE CHANDRU

  May 13, 2013

  Justice Chandru created a record of sorts even on his last day as judge of the Madras High Court. He came to the High Court in the morning in his official car to attend his last day of work on 8 April. After reaching the High Court, he handed o...

• JUSTICE SAMDANI

  May 13, 2013

  Pakistan lost one of its great treasures on April 11, 2013. Justice Khwaja Muhammad Ahmad Samdani is no more. He leaves behind a legacy of honesty, dignity and an absolute adherence to principles. He did not merely possess a strong moral compas...

• Obituaries

  May 13, 2013

  HAFIZ ABDUL ALEEM SIDDIQI, who was working as secretary in Indian High Commission at London since 1965 died of heart attack in London on 9 April at the age of 76 years. After retirement he devoted himself to religious work and set up first Isla...

• Men & Women In News

  May 13, 2013

  Dr TARIQ ZAFAR, a retired senior officer of Barkatullah University. Bhopal’s minority cell has been appointed Vice Chancellor of Bhopal’s Bhoj Open University by Madhya Pradesh’s Governor Ram Naresh Yadav, who is also the Chan...

• Right to Education — Yes, Land to School — No

  May 06, 2013

  Jaipur: The Rajasthan Government has refused to part with a piece of land at a prime location in the city which it had allotted to the Muslim community for construction of a school during its previous tenure in June 2003. When the allottees pro...

• Wajahat a trusted man in Delhi, not in J&K

  May 06, 2013

  The government of Jammu and Kashmir has always been in need for a strong and functional JKSIC (Jammu and Kashmir State Information Commission and SHRC (State Human Rights Commission) for reasons known to one and all. But nothing concrete has be...

• Left-Islamist activists making Modi a villain: RSS

  May 06, 2013

  RSS has openly come out in support of Narendra Modi after SIT questioned him for the 2002 Gujarat riot case and accused that a section of media and Left- Islamist activists of portraying him as a villain for their personal interest. In an edito...

• Secular crowd pushes for women reservation sans quota

  May 06, 2013

  New Delhi: “Secular” women, mostly Muslim, hailing from different parts of the country assembled at Delhi, Jantar Mantar grounds on 15 March and urged the government to pass the Women’s Reservation Bill in the current session ...

• Stone pelting is un-Islamic

  May 06, 2013

  Srinagar: Jammu & Kashmir’s Mufti-e Azam, Maulana Bashiruddin said while speaking to mediapersons that whereas peace and the feeling of brotherhood is the spirit of Islam, stone-pelting, which is some times resorted to as a form of pr...

• Campus Front of India releasess Career Guidance Book

  May 06, 2013

  Chennai: Campus Front of India’s Career Guidance Book in Tamil was released by Justice G. M. Akbar Ali at Madurai Campus Front of India on 14 April. The guide has been compiled by the Tamilnadu State committee of Campus Front. It is inten...

• West Bengal: no change in CPIM thinking

  May 06, 2013

  Kolkata: Notwithstanding the promises by the CPIM-led Left Front government of West Bengal for quota for Muslims in the state and better representation, the deprivation of and discrimination against the community continues unabated. A very rece...

• Plea to expedite interest-free Islamic banking

  May 06, 2013

  JAIPUR: A joint delegation of Rajasthan Muslim Forum and the Indian Centre for Islamic Finance met Union Minister of State for Finance Namonarain Meena in New Delhi on Saturday to discuss with him the feasibility of interest-free Islamic bankin...

• J&K rape cases: govt. figures vary from 0 to 53

  May 06, 2013

  Jammu and Kashmir government came out with three different self-contradictory statistics about rapes committed in the last one year in the state. Remarkably all the three versions have been provided on the floor of Legislative Assembly during t...

• Seminar on developing leadership in Islam

  May 06, 2013

  New Delhi: Educational Development Seminar, held by the Students Islamic Trust on the theme of “Developing Community Leadership in Islam” on 23 April at Convention Centre, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, called upon the students to be an ...

• Zakat Foundation’s Haj Fund

  May 06, 2013

  Government’s subsidy for Haj is being used by fundamentalist Hindu organisations as a tool to browbeat and ridicule Muslims for performance of Haj not with their own money but at the cost of tax payers money (though it is not completely t...

• JNU couldn't do a Jamia, hate-monger Tarek Fatah was ABVPs 'guest'!

  Apr 30, 2013

  Posters were up to protest Jawaharlal Nehru University letting a hate-monger use it to spread vemon.