A student caught up in the attack on a school bus in Milan, Italy has been hailed a hero for saving his fellow classmates and teachers. What should have been a 10-minute bus ride turned into a nightmare, when 51 students and their two teachers were taken hostage on their school bus. The hijacker took…
Selected for Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Mohammad Adnan, who completed his schooling from Azamgarh, finished his B.Sc from Aligarh Muslim University and topped the M.Sc. examination in 2015. Mohammad Adnan, a research scholar in the Department of Physics at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, has been selected to attend a high-profile annual gathering of Nobel…
A Letter from Prof. Jamal Khwaja (A.M.U.), elder son of Begum Khursheed Khwaja Our mother, Begum Khursheed Khwaja’s ancestors hailed from the old nobility of Delhi and Hyderabad. For her six daughters and three sons, however, she was a doting mother, just like most Indian women. What distinguished her was the great dignity and grace…
Over 250 students and peace loving citizens gifted Red Roses to each other with the pledge of love across religion, caste, sex, class, gender and point of view to demand peace in India at the Kolkata press club recently. They all wore stickers saying ‘soldiers, students and all people from Kashmir to Kanyakumari are equally…
A Prayer Meet for the Lives Lost in Pulwama A prayer meeting was held for Pulwama Martyrs after the Friday prayers at the Masjid Haji Langa, Gurgaon on 22nd February 2019. As the worshippers entered the mosque, the children of Madarsa Taleemul Qur’an greeted them with salutations of Salaam along with Jai Hind and pinned…
Around 2,230 rare books and manuscripts – including a 13th-century book by popular scientist of the time Abu Ali Sina, 18th century translated versions of the Mahabharata and Padmavat in Persian and Urdu and a copy of 17th-century Persian book on human anatomy-will soon be available online at Jamia Millia Islamia’s central library. The university…
The courage of otherness is the heart of dialogue, which is based on sincerity of intentions. Dialogue is indeed compromised by pretence, which increases distance and suspicion: we cannot proclaim fraternity and then act in the opposite way. According to a modern author, “The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie…
Bengaluru: The Department of Minority Welfare has called for applications for recruitment of teachers in the newly set up Govt. Maulana Azad English Model Schools from eligible candidates. Of the total, 80 vacancies exist for headmaster while 79 teachers will be recruited for teaching of Kannada, English, Urdu language teaching, Mathematics, Science and Social Sciences.…
Assadullah Asad has translated Guru Nanak’s ‘Japji Sahib’ into Kashmiri. By Majid Maqbool Srinagar: Assadullah Asad, 65, a resident of Borwah village in central Kashmir’s Budgam district, started writing and translating Persian poetry soon after he retired from a ‘boring’ job in the planning and statistics department in 2008. He wanted to make some Persian literature accessible…
Kolkata: A peace rally was organized on 5th September 2018 at Kolkata to honour Mother Teresa’s 21st death anniversary, by the Indian Karate Association. The rally was attended not only by leaders from different religious faiths, but also by the common citizens of Kolkata. The peace rally began from Avila Church, Moula Ali to Mother House where…
