Category: National News and Affairs

Bazme Niswan Scholarships

Bazme Niswan Charitable Trust has invited application for financial assistance for Muslims girls pursuing higher studies after and who have secured a minimum of 50% marks in SSLC. Students pursuing PUC, degree and those  securing free seats in MBBS, BDS, BE through CET are eligible for scholarship. Application forms can be had  from Bazm’s office at 37- Muniswam y Lane, Tasker Town, (near Modi Masjid) Bangalore-51. Last date for receipt…

Non-Urdu Teaching Staff Rules the Roost

TRS Chief takes up the cause of Urdu and writes to Sibal Known as a sole Telugu politician with great command over Urdu language, Telangana Rashtriya Samithi supremo K. Chandrashekar Rao has jumped into the ongoing battle of Urdu and non-Urdu speakers in Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU). In a letter to Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal Rao has urged probe into the alleged irregularities…

Panels to Monitor Welfare Schemes

The Union Government has constituted five regional subcommittees to monitor development and supervise the implementation of the Minority related welfare and development schemes. The committees will tour the 90 district covered under the Multi-Sectoral  development Programme (MsDP) of the Ministry of Minority Affairs and assess the progress of the development programmes for which the Union G o v e r n m e n t has allocated huge amount of funds under the 11th Five-year…

Three Doctors Receive Honours

by Indira Satyanarayan Mumbai: April 14 was a memorable day in the history of elegant Saifee Hospital when hree of its leading doctors were feted with honours. Dr. H. R. Undre, Head of the Department of Surgery, was honoured for receiving the Scroll of Honour by the National Board of Examination, New Delhi under the Ministry of Health. The young Achievers Award was presented to Dr. Aijaz Ashai,…

Safar-e-Insaf-o-Bhaichara Caravan concludes in Hyderabad

By Mohd. Ismail Khant Hyderabad: The 5000-km long, ten-day yatra that began from Batla House in Delhi on 12th April with an aim to create awareness  regarding illegal arrests of Muslims, ended at Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad on April 21. The caravan named “Safar-e-Insaf-o-Bhaichara” was organised jointly by Khudai Khidmatgar, National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM), Mission Bhartiyam, Act Now for Harmony and Democracy (ANHAD), National Confederation of Human Rights Organisations, and…

Seminar on Dr. Hameedullah

Hyderabad: The Academy of Research, Translation and Islamic Dawah here will organize a 3-day international seminar on the life, works and mission of renowned Islamic researcher Dr. Hameedullah, a citizen of former Nizam State who later migrated to Paris and continued his writing career spanning over nearly five decades. The seminar will be held on September 21-23, 2012 in Hyderabad and will highlight his multifarious contribution to literature on Quran,…

Jamia Millia confers degree of ‘Doctor of Letters’ on Ban Ki-Moon

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…

New Programme in M. Arch

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).…