Bangalore: Noted social worker and writer Hafiz Shamsul Huda was murdered on July 3 by unidentified persons. A sincere and honest person, Shamsul Huda was running the Al-Quds Cooperative Society which helped hundreds of people in Bangalore’s socially blighted area of K. G. Halli and D. J. Halli during the last three decades. He also…
Khursheed Alam Khan, former Karnataka Governor and former Union Minister, died in Delhi on July 20. He was 95. He was ailing for some time. He was father of current external affairs minister Salman Khursheed and son in law of late President of India Dr. Zakir Hussain Khan. Born in Farrukhabad in Uttar Pradesh, Khursheed…
Hassan Ali B. Parpia, noted food scientist and former Director of the Central Food Technology and Research Institute (CFTRI) died at his residence in Hinkal village in the outskirts of Mysore. He was 91. A humanist at heart and Gandhian, Parpia held various positions related to food and agriculture in India as well as abroad.…
Ubaidullah Shariff, editor of Pasban daily from Bangalore was unanimously elected the president of the Dargah Committee at Ajmer which looks after the management of the mausoleum of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishty. Abdul Wadood Faqih was elected vice president of the committee. Other members include Advocate Asrar Ahmed Khan from Rajasthan, Shah Ammar Ahmed Naiyer Miyan…
Mr. Ataur Rahman will take over as the new CEO of the Central Haj Committee at Mumbai. He will succeed Dr. Shakir Hussain who will demit office on June 30 on completion of his 3-year term. Rahman is currently additional commissioner of Customs at Mumbai. He will hold the post for three years.
Dr. H. S. Sadath Ali Khan, former professor of Agricultural Marketing, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwar and hailing from Mysore has been nominated member of the Board of Management of the University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur for three years by Dr. H. R. Bhardwaj who is also the Chancellor of universities in the State.
Prof. Ameer Ahmed Noted academic and author Prof. T. M. Ameer Ahmed died on May 18 in Bangalore. He was 85. Prof. Ahmed took a Master’s degree from the University of Missouri and a doctorate from the Bangalore University. He taught environment engineering in University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE) for nearly three decades and…
Member of Lok Sabha from Bhagalpur in Bihar Syed Shahnawaz Hussain has created a record by raising 600 questions during the current 15th tenure of the lower house of Parliament. He has logged 93% attendance in the Lok Sabha which has nine months to go before being dissolved. He raised questions pertaining to weavers, internal…
Dr. Md. Haneef, Principal of the Ghousia College of Engineering, Ramanagram has been appointed member of academic senate of the Visvesvaraya Technological University for three years beginning from 2013. New Minister in TN: S. Abdur Raheem, MLA from Avadi has been inducted into Tamilnadu’s cabinet by Chief Minister J. Jayalalitha in place of A. Mohammed…
Sri Shankara Cancer Hospital and Research Centre The Sri Shankara Cancer Hospital and Research Centre has come as a ray of hope for the cancer patients. The hospital with its totally humanitarian approach offers awareness, availability, accessibility and affordability to the poor as well as those who are economically well off too. Cancer needs our…
