Special Reports

• Yaqub Bhai Zinga: NRI philonthropist

  May 18, 2013

  Ahmedabad: Yaqub Bhai Ibrahim Bhai Zinga, an NRI settled in Preston (Britain), is a trustee of North West Relief Trust which has been spending huge sums for humanitarian causes. It began operating when Gujarat was devastated by an earthquake in...

• 11-Year-Old Farman Knows Five Languages

  May 18, 2013

  Farman Ahmad Khan is an eleven-year-old boy who is learning in standard six now in a local Urdu medium school in Pusad in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra. He is the son of an Urdu, Hindi, Persian and English poet and writer, Khan Hasnain Aaqib...

• Repeal all draconian black laws

  May 18, 2013

  New Delhi: A national convention was organized here by the Welfare Party of India and Association for the Protection of Civil Rights(APCR) on  14 April. It strongly demanded the repeal of all draconian black laws like UAPA, AFSPA, MCOCA et...

• Medical camp in Azamgarh

  May 18, 2013

  Azamgarh: A free medical camp was organised here at Kaonra Gohni village near the town of Saraimir on 28 April. A team of physicians participated in the camp and offered free services to the people of the area. Dr Mohsin Raza of AMU inaugurated...

• Seminar on Shah Waliullah

  May 18, 2013

  New Delhi: A seminar including a book release was organised here on 7 May by Shah Waliullah Institute headed by Mufti Ataur Rahman Qasmi, a well-known scholar and teacher of Islamic sciences. Union Minister of Technology Kapil Sibal graced the ...

• Kerala novelist Punathil Kunjabdulla wins special award from Sahitya Akademy

  May 17, 2013

  Punathil Kunjabdulla, a well known Malayalam novelist and short story writer, was honoured with "Sahitya Akademy Special Membership" and an "Akademy Fellowship" for his contribution to Malayalam literature. Born in Vadakara ...

• Free coaching programme by AMU for Minority/SC/ST (40% for women) candidates

  May 17, 2013

  Prof. Ziauddin Khairoowala, director of AMU’s Residential Coaching Academy said that the Ministry of HRD has honoured to AMU to establish a Residential Coaching Academy (RCA). The RCA will provide coaching to the aspirants of the Civil&nb...

• Islamic Exhibition in Azamgarh

  May 17, 2013

  Azamgarh: Muslim Womens’ Forum Azamgrh organised an Islamic exhibition on 21-22 May 2010 in Shibli National Girls School here. Islamic Educational and Research Organization (IERO) of Allahabad had brought material and staff from Allahabad...

• Shooting of film in Kapurthala Masjid stopped

  May 16, 2013

  Kapurthala: A huge set was installed inside Kapurthala’s Shahi Masjid for shooting of a film called ‘Tannu weds Munnu’ in which a scene of hero and heroine doing shopping in a Muslim locality of Lucknow was to be shot. The fil...

• Aamir Khan is sanitation ambassador

  May 15, 2013

  New Delhi: Bollywood actor Aamir Khan has been appointed as the brand ambassador for the country’s new nationwide campaign on sanitation to promote cleanliness among schoolchildren in the country. Launching the National School Sanitat...

• Conf on widows remarriage in Kashmir

  May 15, 2013

  By Mushtaq Ul Haq Ahmad Sikander Srinagar: Since the inception of armed militancy in the Valley a number of new problems have emerged in our society. The rising alienation with India was exploited by Pakistan which provided material, polit...

• Arabic spreading rapidly in non-Arab nations

  May 13, 2013

  Jeddah: Indian expatriate literary groups here held a reception in honour of Professor Shafiq Ahmed Khan Nadwi, former head of the Arabic department in Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia. Irshad Ahmad, the press and culture consul at the Indian c...

• Book on Syed Shahabuddin released

  May 13, 2013

  New Delhi: In a book release ceremony, attended by the cream of Delhi Muslims and civil society, a book on the life and achievements of diplomat, parliamentarian and Muslim leader Syed Shahabuddin was released by Union ministers Salman Khurshid...

• Educational Awareness

  Apr 27, 2013

  Lucknow: Muslim Political Awareness Forum organised here a seminar on "Educational Problems and our Responsibilities". Speaking in the seminar, Dr. Shakeel Samdani of AMU said that without reservation of seats in jobs and admissions t...

• Rohingyas in the Andamans

  Apr 27, 2013

  By V. Muzafer Ahamed Port Blair (Andamans): “We were in the process of dying in the unihabited island. It was then that crab-holes on the shore caught our eyes. We tried to survive catching crabs, and eating them baked. We couldn&rsq...

• Japanese wrestling legend becomes Muslim

  Apr 15, 2013

  “Hall of Fame” wrestler Antonio Inoki is remembered by many for his physical prowess and his legendary 1976 battle against the great Muhammad Ali. But now, years after retiring from his beloved sport, Inoki is making a new name for ...

• Aljazeera Forum’s 7th conference

  Apr 15, 2013

  By Our Own Correspondent Doha (Qatar): The three-day 7th Aljazeera Forum annual conference was held here during 16-18 March. Over the past eight years, this forum has become an important international meeting place to discuss issues facing...

• Two Murshidabad villages gutted, 214 families homeless, need your urgent help

  Apr 08, 2013

  Murshidabad: Two entire villages in Murshidabad (West Bengal) have been gutted by fire and 981 members of 214 families, all Muslims, living in the two villages have been rendered homeless.

• MJ Akbar on Sir Syed

  Apr 05, 2013

  Aligarh: Noted journalist MJ Akbar here said that India is most likely to become a modern nation because all the four pillars of modernity through Democracy, adult franchise, secularism, gender and economic equality are the driving forces of pr...

• TN Dalit leader felicitated

  Apr 05, 2013

  New Delhi: T.M. Mani is a well-known Dalit leader of Tamil Nadu who has waged in a long war against casteism and caste atrocities and played a vital role in the emancipation of the Dalits of the state. He fought ferociously for 52 years against...