Special Reports

  • Award for IGNOU VC

    Feb 14, 2012

    + Pic IGNOU Vice-Chancellor M Aslam receiving the “Best teaching practices Award” fromnoted film director Prakash Jha at the India Today Aspire Education Summit 2012, in New Delhi on 27 Jan 2012. Also seen in the picture is ...

  • Gujarat Bohras court Modi

    Feb 14, 2012

    + Pix The wounds of 2002 state-sponsored pogrom and subsequent anti-Muslim policies of the BJP regime headed by Narendra Modi are well known to the whole world and the Muslims of Gujarat are still fighting for justice. Yet Gujarat Bohra...

  • The ruined haveli of Zeenat Mahal

    Feb 14, 2012

    By Firoz Bakht Ahmed + Pix  Delhi: Few would believe that amidst the squalor and maddening traffic of Bazar Lal Kuan in the walled city of Shahjahanabad or Old Delhi, there stands the haveli (mansion) of Begum Zeenat Mahal,...

  • Rahul Gandhi in Darul Musannifin

    Jan 27, 2012

    + Pic Rahul Gandhi, during his Azamgarh visit, paid a vist to Darul Musannifin Shibli Academy on 11 January. He took a stroll of the campus and saw the places connectd to the institution’s services to the freedom struggle. In part...

  • AMUCC bids adieu to AMU VC Prof Azis

    Jan 27, 2012

    New Delhi: On January 16, 2012, the Delhi-based Aligarh Muslim University Coordination Committee (AMUCC), bid a warm farewell to the outgoing AMU Vice Chancellor Prof. Abdul Azis at India International Centre here. AMUCC was born two and a half...

  • Insan School: Jaago aur Jagao

    Jan 27, 2012

    + Pic It was 47 years ago. After returning from America, Dr. Syed Hasan arrived at Kishanganj to start an educational and humanitarian mission. He had been in Kishanganj 15 years earlier, before going to the US. He was deeply affected b...

  • Prof Jairajpuri honoured

    Jan 14, 2012

    + Pic Aligarh: Professor M. Shamim Jairajpuri, INSA Scientist in the Zoology Department, Aligarh Muslim University, has been felicitated with the Life-time Achievement Award in Helminthology in his 50th year of research (1961-2011) for ...

  • Book on life science released

    Jan 14, 2012

    + Pix  Bhatkal: A new book, Learning and Beyond by Shazia Saif was released here 24 December. The ceremony was presided over by Dr S A Khan, former scientist, DRDO, and released by Syed Khalil. The ceremony was held at Bhatkal Rabi...

  • Maulana Zeeshan Hidayati remembered

    Jan 14, 2012

    + Pix New Delhi: All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat held a special condolence meeting chaired by Mushawarat’s President Syed Shahabuddin in its central office here on 27 December to condole the death of Maulana Syed Zeeshan Hida...

  • AFMI Convention at Ranchi

    By Nilofar Suhrawardy
    Dec 30, 2011

    + Pic Ranchi (Jharkhand): The 20th International Educational Convention and Gala Award Ceremony hosted by American Federation of Muslims of Indian Origin (AFMI) was held here on 24-25 December. The chief guest at AFMI’s Ranchi-con...

  • Muslim media conference in Jakarta

    Dec 30, 2011

    By Our Own Correspondent   + Pix Jakarta: The second international Islamic media conference was held here during 12-15 December after a long gap. The first such conference was also held in Jakarta  33 years ago. The...

  • Award for medical researcher

    Dec 15, 2011

    + Pic Global Accolades for Shiraz in medical studies Bangalore: Dr. Shiraz Ahamed Sharief, a post-graduate Student in Surgery at Georgia was the only Indian among over 2000 doctors to have been selected to attend the International Medic...

  • TMMK demonstrates on Babri demolition day

    Dec 15, 2011

    + Pic Chennai: Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam (TMMK) conducted demonstrations at Chennai as well as in all state headquarters in Tamilnadu on December 6, the 19th anniversary of the demolition of Babri Masjid. Thousands of men and ...

  • Sitaron Se Aagey released in Kolhapur

    Dec 15, 2011

    + Pix Kolhapur: The book Sitaron Se Aagey by Naseema Hurzuk and translated into Urdu by Dr Anees Ahmad Khan, was released here at the 52nd International Day of Disabilities programme on 4 December 2011. It is an annual programme about t...

  • Milli Council condoles Rashadi and Mauji Khan

    Nov 29, 2011

    + Pic   Delhi: All India Milli Council condoled the sad demise of Mauji Khan and Maulana Reyazul Rahman Rashadi during a condolence meeting held at Institute of  Objective Studies conference hall on 20 Nov 2011. Rashadi wa...

  • India reaches out to Palestine

    Nov 29, 2011

    + Pix E. Ahamed, Minister of State for External Affairs and HRD, paid a two-day official visit to Palestine during 18-19 Nov. in connection with the inauguration of projects under IBSA (India-Brazil-South Africa) Joint Venture. Aham...

  • Hyderabad Muslim youths attacked

    Nov 14, 2011

    Hyderabad: At around 11:30 pm on  8 November, two different incidents of attacks on Muslim youths took place in this city in which three Muslim youths were seriously injured. The victims were returning after meeting relatives during Eid fe...

  • Ulama and Mashaikh Maha Panchayat

    Nov 14, 2011

    + Pic Moradabad: All India Ulama and Mashaikh Board (AIUMB) held a mammoth conference, Maha Panchayat, here on 16 October. The Board gave a call to “Sunni Muslims” across India to reject and rebuff hardline Wahabism so that ...

  • Indian Haj goodwill delegation

    Nov 14, 2011

    New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 1 Nov. urged the Indian Haj delegation led by Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman K. Rehman Khan to convey the good wishes of the 120 crore Indians to the people of Saudi Arabia. Meeting the goodwill delegati...

  • Toppers of AMU hall honoured

    Oct 29, 2011

    + Pic Aligarh: Aligarh Muslim University’s Mohsinul Mulk Hall organized a grand function on 12 October to felicitate toppers of different faculties residing in the Hall. On this occasion Er. Afzal Usmani, Coordinator of the US-bas...