Thiruvananthapuram: Nearly a year after Supreme Court ‘freed’ her from confinement in her own home and restored her marriage which was annulled by the Kerala high court in 2017, Hadiya Asokan has successfully completed her homeopathic medicine course. Hadiya was at the centre of a major controversy following her conversion to Islam and marriage to…
Iran enjoys a brilliant performance for women’s presence in developing knowledge-based economy. According to the latest report released by World Economic Forum on gender gaps, Iranian women enjoy equal level of high education in different levels with men, the official added. The annual income of knowledge-based companies in Iran is 4 trillion rials (nearly $95…
Bhubaneswar: Urdu poet and critic, Suhail Akhtar based in Bhubaneswar died due to renal failure on March 12. He was 57. Originally hailing from Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh, he had composed several poems, and also translated poems from English and Hindi. Akhtar was an alumni of IIT-Kanpur and was a civil engineer, holding the Deputy…
By Maqbool Ahmed Siraj The state of Karnataka has lost one of the most senior politicians in the death of Mr. Challakere Kareem Jaffer Sharief, who breathed his last in Bengaluru on November 25 afternoon after a brief illness. A veteran Congressman, Jaffer Sharief was elected to the Lok Sabha for a record eight times…
Bengaluru: Justice A. M. Farookh, retired judge of the Karnataka High Court died on November 21 after a short illness. He was 74. He leaves behind his wife, two sons and two daughters. His son-in law Justice Mohammad Nawaz is currently judge of the Karnataka High Court.Farookh had registered himself as a lawyer with Bar…
Noted American Islamic scholar and seasoned academician Dr. Sulayman S. Nyang died on November 12 after prolonged illness. He was 74. Nyang was the former chairman of the African Studies Department at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He was a co-director of Muslims in the American Public Square (MAPS), a research project funded by The…
