Jamia Millia Islamia officially launched its International Summer School programme (www.issnewdelhi.in) on April 22 at an event hosted by the Vice Chancellor, Najeeb Jung. The six-week programme aims at promoting international goodwill and cultural understanding among tomorrow’s leaders as they learn about India and its role in the twenty first century. It will run from [...]
The Discover Yourself Workshop was held in Hyderabad on April 12, 13 and 14, 2013. It was organised by Meswak (Muslim Educational & Social Welfare Association of Karimnagar). Some of the participants share their experiences after the workshop: I started to control my inner voice mainly in the Salah. *It opened my eyes and shown [...]
Sunni Khan Parents, Son 30 years 5’6” M.Com M.B.A., C.A. fair seek alliance from a respectable religious family from Bangalore. Contact: 9886851881 Sunni Muslim parents seek alliance for their only son 31 yrs,5’11’’, M,B.B.S. M.S, persuing Mch (UROLOGY),from educated, respectable & affluent families. girl should be very fair, tall(5’4’’ & above) beautiful, observing hijab with [...]
The Ghousia Industrial Technical Institute’s entry ‘Flumanoid Robot’ was adjudged the best presentation in the Inter-ITI Technical Exhibition. The Robot was devised by students Kiran Kumar and Madhukar Shetty of the Electronic-Mechanical Trade.
By Zaidul Haque Kolkata: 78,000 cheques given as pre-matric scholarships to minority students in West Bengal have either been deemed invalid or bounced. West Bengal Minorities Development and Finance Corporation (WBMDFC) have disbursed the pre-matric scholarshipS for the year 2012-13 to nearly 12 lakh minority students. However, several thousand cheques are reported to have ‘bounced’ [...]
Chinese is spoken by almost 90 corer people. It is mother tongue of the largest number of people, if one could use this yardstick for deciding the greatest language on the earth. But outside China not many people know this. Though English is spoken in England, the United States, Canada and Australia, it is mother [...]
Can we extract oils from plants that can work as fuel in automobiles in place of petrol or diesel. Answer is, Yes. Juices of several plants, seeds and pods can be turned into fuels. For instance, sugarcane juice can be turned into alcohol by fermentation. The same sugarcane can also make alcohol of a lesser [...]
SM Parents seeking alliance for their daughter 24 yrs, BA, Bed, (MA) wheatish 5’2”. Boy should be religious, qualified (graduate), well settled in Karnataka. contact. 9945520475 Email: shoibulla_khan@rediffmail.com PARENTS from respectable, affluent, well educated family seeks alliance for their daughter, working as Doctor in Australia, aged 29, fair, beautiful height 5’6”. The boy should be [...]
We face dangers, accidents, losses and sickness in the course of our work and even in normal conduct of day to day affairs. Though nobody can guarantee life and safety of individual from accidents and calamities except Allah, the Insurance companies promise to pay our dependants and descendants a substantial amount as compensation if we [...]
By Yoginder Sikand The thing that Romi remembered most fondly about his childhood years was growing up surrounded by lots of little creatures. He was a shy boy, and he didn’t like interacting much with boys his age. He couldn’t see why his father continuously pestered him to play cricket and football with the neighbourhood [...]
Anti-tobacco advocates in Indonesia plan to file a class action lawsuit this month using cases of child addicts in the hope of forcing tougher regulations on a society where one in three people smokes. The suit against tobacco companies and the Indonesian government argues that feeble regulation has left children dangerously exposed to the risks of smoking. Indonesia is something of a paradise for both smokers [...]
The 107-storey-tall Princess Tower in Dubai has been recognised by Guinness World Records as the world’s tallest residential building. Measuring 414 metres from base to tip, the tower comprises six basement floors, a ground floor and 100 above-ground residential levels. The tower occupies an area of 37,410 square feet and houses 763 luxury apartments. Dubai already has a Guinness Record in its name for the tallest building in the [...]
Thirty women were recruited as privates at the Passport Department’s offices at border crossings like King Fahd Causeway and Salwa border point in the east of the Saudi Kingdom. A recent study of Naif University for Security Sciences’ Studies and Research Center showed that Saudi women have been embarking on security work as volunteers. The study “Women Police in Arab Countries” indicated a real potential for an effective [...]
Muslims do have money, no doubt, there are many poor too. Those who have money may have set up institutions, educational, business, in healthcare, media, banks or other welfare NGOs which are contributing to the good of the community. Big glass towers, decorative office spaces, schools, colleges, hospitals, NGOs can be seen scattered across different [...]
As if arrest of innocent Muslim youth and their long incarceration was not enough, there are increasing evidences that Police across the country attempt to present the victims in distinctly Muslim attire and insist on their carrying the markers of identity. It seems they are acting to the script of a drama designed well in [...]
Islam teaches that Muslims too have a responsibility to protect the environment, as stewards of the Earth that God created. Several Muslim organisations worldwide are taking that responsibility to an active level, dedicating themselves to environmental protection. But unfortunately, Muslims in India are yet to wake up to this reality. With the exception of very [...]
New Delhi: Muslim scholars from different parts of India gathered in the University of Delhi to deliberate methods of inter-faith dialogue in Shariah. The three-day conference from April 22-24, in the University of Delhi campus, was jointly organised by the Islamic Fiqh Academy, Dept of Arabic of Delhi University, and Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural [...]
New Delhi: Revelations by the Qaumi Salamati’s media team about embezzlement in Delhi Waqf Board (WB) and the use of WB’s driver by Delhi Government Minister Yusuf Haroon has stunned everyone. This criminal act has been widely condemned and Qaumi Salamati has received several calls in this regard. Sources say that Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit [...]
Mumbra (Thane): The Maharashtra government on March 27 announced establishment of an Islamic Cultural Centre of International standard at Mumbra – a town in the Thane district some 40 km north east of Mumbai on the western coast. “The government has decided to establish a world class Islamic Cultural Centre at Mumbra for which the [...]
Living Planet Index Report 2012 We are just past yet another Earth Day on April 22. We need to question if we are concerned at the deteriorating conditions of our environment that threatens the existence of man, animals and the vegetative cover. In this context the Living Planet Index is a vital indicator of the [...]
Scientific Research and Development # Muslims constitute around 23% of the world population and number around 1.7 billion. * Jews are merely 14 million. Thus for every single Jew, there are more than 100 Muslims. # Muslims have produced only two Nobel Laureates in Physics, Chemistry and Medicine. Both received their Nobel prize after moving [...]
Globally 30 to 50 per cent of total food produced around the world is wasted. It is estimated that 12.2 billion tons of the total food produced on the Planet Earth, i.e., 30 to 50 per cent, is wasted before reaching the human stomach. It is revealed in a report titled Global Food: Waste Not, [...]
From the Azaan, flows wisdom which waters spiritually parched souls. It was the month of Ramadan and when the the Azaan came through, I felt like I was in a fairy land. By Indira Satyanarayan During the fasting month of Ramadan, my friend Zaheer Memon ( NCP National secretary- Advocate Majid Memon’s son) gave me the book, ‘’Muhammad- A Biography of the [...]
Q: These days, Muslims look down upon each other. Each considers the other as inferior and many groups go to the extent of denouncing each other. Then what is all this talk of Brotherhood? Is it all only in books? Please explain. “Do not hate each other and do not envy one another, and do not turn your back on each [...]
We have not created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them in mere idle play. We created them all for nothing other than a true purpose, but most of them do not understand. The Day of Decision is the time appointed for all of them. It is a day when no friend shall [...]
Setting up a university could be a fanciful idea in the current context of mega ventures, but ground realities suggest that Muslims suffer more due to absence of good quality education at the lower level. By Maqbool Ahmed Siraj The proposal to set up a university named Tipu Sultan at his erstwhile capital Srirangapatna has [...]
How much success the police across the country had in getting those it accused and arrested for committing terrorism? Almost nil. Nearly two dozen people were arraigned before the various courts in Delhi since 1992 in 16 different incidents. Almost all of them were acquitted by the courts except a few who are still facing [...]
Meher Tabassum is a Scientist working at the Division of Remote Handling and Robotics, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India. She is a Government of India employee, with an official status of Class I Gazetted Officer. In an interview with TwoCircles.Net, she shares her aspirations and the importance of education for young Muslims today. “I was born in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, to a highly educated Sunni Muslim family. Since my [...]
Jamia Millia Islamia officially launched its International Summer School programme (www.issnewdelhi.in) on April 22 at an event hosted by the Vice Chancellor, Najeeb Jung. The six-week programme aims at promoting international goodwill and cultural understanding among tomorrow’s leaders as they learn about India and its role in the twenty first century. It will run from [...]
