Every Third Muslim in Urban India is Poor
The Planning Commission of India, in its latest poverty estimates, has claimed that the number of poor Indians “ both in urban and rural areas “ has declined substantially between the periods of 2004-05 to 2009-10, but it has admitted that Muslims still are the leading religious community in urban poverty at the national level,…
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Patience or Anger
America in the Post 9/11 World “A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret….” Hazrat Ali. The tragic events of September 11, 2001 mesmerized the world. Humanity as a whole was outraged over the incident. The United States was presented with a golden opportunity to embrace other cultures…
A Modern Centre for Training of Urdu Teachers
The Centre for Professional Development of Urdu Medium Teachers (CPDUMT) under the Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) here, has so far imparted training in teaching to 3,000 Urdu teachers in five years since its establishment. The Centre came up in 2006 and is funded by the University Grants Commission. According to Prof. Mazharuddin Farooqui,…
No Happy Augury
The outcome of elections in the five states”Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarkhand, Manipur, and Goa”have amply demonstrated that United Progressive Alliance’s second tenure may not qualify it to win a fresh mandate in the Lok Sabha, two years hence. The Manmohan Singh-led Government is virtually being rendered a lame-duck government for the remaining two years in…
Yield Gracefully to the New
So many people teach us life skills. Can someone teach us to happily walk into the sunset when the time comes? Because the ultimate life skill is to know how to face its end. By Ali Khwaja Even the most efficient and productive machine is eventually phased out. A very nutritious crop is harvested, uprooted…
Appeal
ISLAMIC RELIEF AND RESEARCH TRUST (IRRT), KASHMIR Opposite L.D Hospital, Lal Mandi Road, Srinagar, Kashmir, 190001, India. Humanitarian Appeal for Flood Victims of Jammu and Kashmir State Islamic Relief and Research Trust (IRRT), Kashmir is an initiative for just and compassionate society and is a social/charitable enterprise for equitable and sustainable change. IRRT was established…
P. A. College of Engg. Mangalore – BPT, B.Pharm Courses on the Anvil
Mangaluru: The P. A. College of Engineering will be introducing Bachelor of Physiotherapy and Bachelor of Pharmacy, both four-year courses, from the new academic year. Principal Dr. Abdul Shariff informed Islamic Voice that infrastructure for the two courses has been readied and approval for the courses is awaited from the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health…
Jackie Yi-Ru Ying and Omar MwannesYaghi Win Mustafa Prize
Iran has announced the recipients of the inaugural Mustafa Prize. In the field of Nano-biotechnology sciences, it is awarded to Jackie Yi-Ru Ying from Singapore and to Omar MwannesYaghi from Jordan for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. The Mustafa Prize established by Iran is to recognize leading researchers and scientists of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)…