11-Year-Old Iranian Girl gets highest Mensa IQ Score, beating Einstein and Hawking An 11-year-old Iranian high school student in the United Kingdom is making headlines for getting a remarkable result on her Mensa IQ test that even surpasses those of great thinkers such as Albert Einstein and the late Professor Stephen Hawking. Tara Sharifi, a…
In perhaps the largest protest against lynching, over 5,000 people gathered in Dumri in Jharkhand on May 31. The immediate trigger was the lynching on April 10, 2019 of a 50-year-old Adivasi man, Prakash Lakra, a resident of Jurmu village in Dumri block of Gumla who was beaten to death by a group of people…
A Twitter thread about an Ola cab driver, Asif Iqbal Abdul Gaffar Pathan, went viral after a passenger tweeted about how the man had gone out of his way to return a missing wallet. Twitter user @DarthSierra tweeted about this incident to highlight and change prejudices against cab drivers. In the thread, the passenger narrated…
Nayib Bukele, 37, a man of Palestinian ancestry, has been elected President of El Salvador, a central American country. He was sworn in on June 1. Born in 1981, Bekele was born in San Salvadore to Palestinian migrant father Ormando Ahmed Bukela Qattan, who set up a textile mill and a mosque in Salvador. His…
Mohammed Shujatullah, a student of Pharm D from Sultan ul-Uloom College of Pharmacy, Hyderabad, began serving free breakfast to the needy three years ago and is continuing to do so till date without the break of a single day! Mohammed Shujatullah, a student of Pharm D from Sultan ul-Uloom College of Pharmacy, Hyderabad, began serving free…
The students of Rahmani Program of Excellence, also known as Rahmani 30, have demonstrated their success at the JEE Main 2019 examination, the Patna based centre said.”131 out of the total 142 who appeared have succeeded in JEE Main April 2019 exam. This is a success percentage of 92%”, the centre said. “Amazingly, all but…
Appointed as Deputy Defence Minister of Afghanistan Munera Yousufuza, who was until recently serving as director of programs coordination on cultural, political and social affairs in the Office of the Chief of Staff of the President of Afghanistan, has been appointed as Afghanistan’s deputy defence minister. She has previously served as deputy governor of Kabul,…
Dubai: The first two Emirati women doctors to have graduated from the Arab Board of Health Specialisations Dr Fayeza Ahmad Yousuf and Dr Aisha Al Shiba were honoured by Dr Mohammad Salim Al Olama, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health and Prevention, recently. The two doctors, who specialise in ear, nose, throat, head and neck…
Muhammad Dilshad Bihar migrant boy is board exam star, in Malayalam medium By Vishnu Varma Bhutto Sajid, 41, is an ‘angoothachaap’ (illiterate). Born into a poor peasant family in Bihar’s Darbhanga, Sajid’s family didn’t have the financial means to send him to school. Doing odd jobs, first in his village and then later in Delhi,…
The Quran Memoriser with One Lung Listening to his full Quran recitation will leave you spell-bound. And when you come to know that the 21-year-old has only one lung, it will cement your belief that ‘God manifests Himself in miracles’. Nader Mahmoud Kouja from Lebanon, knows the Quran completely by heart and recites it with…
