This Kolkata man has devoted his youth to set up three schools to provide English medium education to children from slums. He continues to think of new projects to improve quality of life with unflagging zeal. By Maqbool Ahmed Siraj It was a personal loss for Kolkata’s Mamoon Akhtar that rekindled a pining for offering…
Pakistani linguistic technology expert, Dr. Agha Ali Raza and his team at ITU’s Center for Speech and Language Technologies (CSaLT) laboratory, has released a corpus of Urdu sentences that covers all possible distinct sounds, called phoneme by linguists, used in everyday speech. By Umair Rasheed The possibility of some software application developer coming up with…
Muscat: Engineer Bahiah Al-Shoaibi became the only Arab woman to receive a scholarship from the International Space University, and she’s an Omani. Al Shoaibi received the scholarship from the International Space University (ISU) after competing with a number of international candidates. The course to be held in Australia will last for five weeks. Al Shoaibi, the…
Jeddah: The Arabian Gulf Center for Iranian Studies (AGCIS) has released the first issue of the “Journal for Iranian Studies.” The peer-reviewed publication, in Arabic and English, specializes in Iranian affairs and will appear quarterly. It has an editorial board led by editor-in-chief and head of AGCIS, Mohammed Al-Sulami, with a number of researchers, translators…
Aligarh: The government of India’s Institutional Ethical Committee has given the nod for a Unani medicine aimed at treating diabetes and its clinical trial will begin soon, said an Aligarh Muslim University professor who developed the drug. Prof. Naeem Ahmad Khan of the Department of Ilmul Advia, Ajmal Khan Tibbiya College of the AMU, said…
Srinagar: Bringing laurels to the Valley, a youth from Baramulla district, Amood Gulzar, has been selected for 100 young Leaders Award 2017 by Indian Youth Forum. A social activist and worker, who is currently pursuing masters in commerce from the Aligarh Muslim University, Amood has been working as the member of Aligarh based non-government organisation…
Water is the single most natural environmental factor that is expressed throughout the Quran, and it is mentioned sixty-three times in the Quran. By Tasnim Rahman In this modern day and age when the word global warming is spoken of, you see people instantly blanking out, turning their faces away or you get people like…
Afroze Shah is being recognised for inspiring hundreds of volunteers over the past year, to help rid Mumbai’s Versova Beach of 4,000 tons of plastic, glass and filth that had built up on the sand. Mumbai: Indian lawyer, Afroz Shah has been adjudged the winner of the ‘Champions of the Earth Award by the United Nations.…
Nurul Islam is a simple man, always with a radiating smile on his face. He launched the Al Ameen Mission three decades ago in West Bengal, to serve humanity. By Dr Sadath Khan A man who had a dream to have a mission in the name of the Prophet (Pbuh), got inspired from the Gurus…
The Qur’an defines Allah as the giver of water. Humankind is really powerless in the process of creating water. By Muhammad Shafeeque “Water is life” is not a figurative description. It is a proclamation of reality. God, having created the earth for human existence, has filled three-fourths with water. Commonly, the egotistic minds of humankind…
