Bangalore: The Al-Ameen College of Pharmacy will start 3-year diploma course, Pharma.D and 4-semester PG Baccalaureate in Pharmacy course form this year. The college has tied up with St. Martha’s Hospital and St. Philomena’s Hospital for clinical training. According to Dr. Abdul Aziz of Al-Ameen Educational Society, the Al-Ameen Institute of Management has tied up with Reliance Industries for training of the MBA students. The Al- Ameen College…
Jeddah: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is organizing, in cooperation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), an international conference on “Refugees in the Muslim World” to promote and create conditions for sustainable voluntary repatriation and reintegration of refugees in their country of origin. The conference will take place in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, on May 10-11, 2012, at the ministerial level with the participation of over 500 representatives…
New Delhi: Jamia Millia Islamia held a ‘Special C o n v o c a – tion’ on April 27, 2012, to confer the degree of ‘Doctor of Letters’ on Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary General to United Nations. Ban Ki- Moon is the eighth and current Secretary-General of the United Nations. He has been a career diplomat. His first posting was to New Delhi. In 2011, Ban Ki-Moon ran unopposed for a second term…
Libreville, Republic of Gabon: The 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has announced its plan to establish a satellite channel and promote investment in the media to fight Islamophobia and enhance exchange of information among the member states. “We have a number of important proposals to strengthen Islamic media activities. They including the launch of an OIC satellite channel,” OIC Secretary- General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu stated at a conference of the…
Chennai: The Measi Academy of Architecture will start the new programme Master in Architecture (M.Arch) from the new academic session. Principal Prof. Althaf Ahmed informed Islamic Voice that it will have an intake of 20 students. The Academy already conducts a Master in Real Estate Programme for the last three years. More information can be had from the college. The Academy is run by the Muslim Educational Association of South India (MEASI).…
Berlin: A significant minority of Muslims in Germany i.e., 48 % are skeptical about integration. 52% of non-German Muslims favoured integration. Those who expressed skepticism, preferred to live in separation from the German mainstream. These figures change slightly when taking into account German Muslims: While, then, 78% of Muslim favour integration, 22% prefer a more separatist approach. Overall, about 24% of non-German Muslims reject integration, question Western values, and tend to…
The Congress has regained Muslim votes in four of the five municipal corporations. By A Staff Writer Mumbai: After emerging as the leading party in four of the five municipal corporations that went to polls recently, the Congress has made a resounding comeback as far as Muslim votes is concerned. In fact, the party bagged 149 of the total 371 seats in…
Amsterdam: A research project by members of the University of Amsterdam has concluded that religious organizations provide a source of de-escalation in tensions around Islam in the Netherlands. Commissioned by the justice ministry’s Scientific Research and Documentation Centre (WODC), the project studied five cases of criticism of Islam in western countries, including the Swiss minaret ban (2009), the anti-Islam film Fitna (2008),…
We have not created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them in mere idle play. We created them all for nothing other than a true purpose, but most of them do not understand. The Day of Decision is the time appointed for all of them. It is a day when no friend shall…
Philadelphia (USA): A recent wave of bank hold-ups and a homicide committed by men dressed as Muslim women has prompted the Philadelphia-area Muslim community to offer a $20,000 reward for tips that lead to the arrest and conviction of the suspects. The Majlis- e- Shura, an organisation representing the membership of 71 mosques and congregations in the Philadelphia area held a press conference on this last fortnight. “Philadelphia is a unique city…
