“I do not mix writing with my life,” novelist B.M. Suhara said at the fourth ‘My Writing, My Life’ programme organised by the Calicut Public Library to facilitate interaction of the public with Malayalam writers recently. “Life is enclosed by physical spaces, family and human relationships, but writing is my door to an outside world,”…
Mariam Rauf urges schools to include personal safety education in syllabus. As an impressionable child, Mariam Rauf, a 22-year-old life skills and English language educator from Kottayam, never knew what paedophilia was. It took her many more years to realise that she herself had been one of its victims. Abused on multiple occasions between the…
New Delhi: Research Under Literal Access (RULA) Award has been conferred upon Prof. M. Moshahid A. Rizvi, Head, Department of Biosciences and his team of eight research associates team for outstanding research work in the area of ‘Molecular Oncology’. RULA is an International Award given for scientific innovation and betterment excellence. This award has been…
King Abdullah II of Jordan was recently awarded the 2018 Templeton Prize. He is renowned for his tireless work to promote peace and mutual respect both within Islam and between Islam and other religions.andnbsp; Templeton Foundation President, Heather Templeton Dill presented the Prize. She described the Jordanian king as “a spiritual entrepreneur, a person shaped…
Howrah District: (West Bengal): The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) has allowed a 12-year-old girl, who never enrolled in school, and instead, studied at home, to sit for the Madhyamik Examination 2019 as an external candidate. WBBSE president Kalyanmoy Ganguly said Saifa Khatun qualified the eligibility test conducted by the WBBSE for external…
Israel has recently appointed its first woman ambassador to Cairo since the Egypt-Israel peace treaty was signed in 1979. Amira Oron will be succeeding outgoing ambassador David Govrin, after he finished his mandate nearly two years after taking office. Oron is the second Israeli woman to serve as ambassador to an Arab country after Einat…
Sarah Al-Suhaimi has been the chairwoman of the Saudi Arabian stock exchange (Tadawul) since February 2017, the largest stock market in the Middle East, and she is the first Saudi woman to hold the position. She has also been the chief executive officer and a board director of the National Commercial Bank (NCB Capital) also…
Chicago: Voters in Minnesota and Michigan elected the first two Muslim women to serve in the US Congress recently, a former refugee who fled Somalia’s civil war and a Detroit-born Palestinian-American. The victories by the two Democrats “ Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, came on an election night when members of multiple minority groups had…
