Tunis: (Tunisia): Salma Elloumi Rekik assumed her post as head of the presidential Diwan on Nov. 1. Rekik, a 62-year-old businesswoman, served as minister of tourism and handicrafts for three years. She will be the first woman to head the presidential Diwan, which oversees the work of the president’s advisers, since Tunisia’s independence. Forbes Magazine named…
A resident of downtown, Srinagar, Nazar is a student of literature. Apart from being a student, he is the first and the only male who crochets from Kashmir. By Auqib Javeed At the age of 19, Nazar Nasir decided to share the idea of him knitting and crocheting with his family members. Their reaction was…
Leicester: (United Kingdom): An Indian-origin Councillor, Abdul Razak Osman has become the first Lord Mayor to hold the high office in the multi-cultural town of Leicester, which has a large minority of Indians. Osman was born in Kenya and arrived in the UK in 1971. His late father Yousuf Razak worked on the East African…
Saudi business woman, Lubna Al Olayan will chair a new bank being formed out of a merger between the Saudi British Bank (SABB) and Alawwal Bank. The move comes amid a liberalisation of women’s roles in a traditionally conservative society. Currently the head of a family conglomerate, Ms Olayan is seen as a trailblazer for…
A female journalist in Saudi Arabia made history as she became the first woman news presenter to deliver an evening newscast on state-owned television. Weam Al Dakheel garnered a lot of attention after she was seen co-hosting the news bulletin alongside a male news anchor. Appearing on Saudi TV, alongside anchor Omar Al Nashwan, she…
Dr Saud Ahmed and Dr Basharat Nadeem Two prominent ENT surgeons from Bengaluru, Dr Saud Ahmed and Dr Basharat Nadeem have been selected for an International Microsurgery Workshop of the ear and Lateral skull base in Shanghai, China. They will be spending 15 days at the Eye and ENT Hospital of Fudan University which is…
Althaf Ahmed, headmaster of the Madrasa Mufeed e Aam, a 125-year old primary school in Vaniyambadi, has been declared a ‘Best Teacher’ awardee by the Government of Tamil Nadu. He is one among the 369 teachers selected for the Radha Krishnan Award for the year 2018.
By A Staff Writer Kochi: Majiziya Bhanu, 23, a student of Dental Sciences, was declared the winner of a bodybuilding championship held here on September 9. But sadly enough, the young sportswoman is finding no support to participate in the World Arm Wrestling Championship under 55 kg category in Turkey in October. The event is…
Dr. Sajad A. Loan, Professor at the Department of Electronics and Communication, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) has been awarded a Visiting Professorship by the highly prestigious University of Waterloo (UOW), Canada. The University of Waterloo has invited him for a period of six weeks as Visiting Professor to contribute to the ongoing…
Bengaluru: Mr. Anwar Shariff, former Chairman of the Jumma Masjid Trust, died on September 7. He was ailing for some time. He was 58. As Chairman of the Trust, he implemented several reforms and carried out development activities in Eidgah Quddoos Sahib and Masjid Qadiriya, in the heart of Bengaluru cantonment area. Shariff held the…
