UAE for the first time in what will be a landmark moment for interfaith relations and Catholics in the Gulf. The Vatican announced the visit to the country on February 3-5, 2019. The news follows an official invitation from the UAE that was delivered in person by Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, Minister of Foreign Affairs…
MANUU 7th Convocation Women Graduates Rise with Flying Colours Hyderabad: Women graduates rose with flying colours at the 7th Convocation of Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) held on November 20, 2018, as a total of 65 percent graduates in distance mode and 22.6 percent in regular mode were women. Lauding the achievements of the…
Wide Gap between Promise and Performance Not Even 2.5% Panchayats Have Commercial Broadband Digital India was flaunted as a major promise by Prime Minister Narendra Modi prior to 2014 General Elections. The Union Government began implementing the scheme soon after the PM announced its launch. Project name: BharatNet Nodal Agency: Dept. of Telecommunication (DoT) Target…
New Delhi: The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) has given 11th rank to the medical department of Jamia Hamdard. The Medical Institute of Jamia Hamdard was established 5 years ago in 2012. Just in 5 years, the institute is ranked among the top institutes of the country.
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has overturned the judgment of the trial court in the Hashimpura massacre case. The high court has sentenced 16 former policemen of Uttar Pradesh Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) to life imprisonment for killing 42 people. The mass murder took place 31 years ago at Hashimpura near Meerut. All the…
Istanbul is currently the main hub of journalists, academicians, social and political activists from the entire Middle East who have fled their countries to safeguard their personal freedom to express and organize people around some cause or ideology. By Maqbool Ahmed Siraj The assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on October…
At least half a million people have been killed due to the “war on terror” launched by the United States in the wake of September 11, 2001 attack, according to aandnbsp;studyandnbsp;published recently. The report by theandnbsp;Brown University’sandnbsp;Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs put the death toll between 480,000 and 507,000. But the paper acknowledged…
Dhaka: Professor Farida Adib Khanam, principal of Gonoshasthaya Samaj Vittik Medical College, has been awarded Mother Teresa Gold Medal 2018. She received the award at a function held in Dhaka on November 20 by Bishwa Manabadhikar Foundation for her contribution to education and health services. Graduated from Rajshahi Medical College in 1973, Farida Adib was…
A crowd funding campaign by two Muslim American groups has raised almost $100,000 for the surviving victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting and the relatives of the 11 killed. Theandnbsp;campaign on LaunchGoodandnbsp;reached its initial goal of $25,000 within six hours and its second goal of $50,000 before the 24-hour mark, and is now targeting $125,000.It…
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gifted about one and a half bigha land to a temple in Dhaka on the occasion of Durga Puja , reinforcing her image as a champion of minority rights in the country where Islam is the state religion. She visited Bangladesh’s biggest temple, Dhakeshwari Temple, and announced gifting of adjacent land, valued at nearly 50 crore…
