By Aijaz Hussain Srinagar: Along a bustling road set amid a series of new McMansions in Kashmir’s main city, a half-dozen extended families are camped in an open field in shelters of burlap and plastic. To an outsider, they look like refugees. But they’re not. They are nomads whose families …
By R.M. Vijayakar Mumbai: The Information & Broadcasting Ministry specially chose Zaigham Imam’s “Nakkash” (The Craftsman) to represent India’s spirit of communal harmony for the 71st Cannes Film Festival. The film represents a new and different perspective about India in the backdrop of the holy city of Varanasi, which is …
By Coleen L. Geraghty India is on course to become the most populous country in the world within a decade, and possibly to surpass China in GDP growth. Those factors point to a more prominent global role for India as the 21st century unfolds. But beneath the advances, festering anti-Muslim …
The US News Education has also ranked AMU on the 305th rank in the world for studying biology and bio-chemistry and on the 460 rank for studying physics. Aligarh: Students choose the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) for its impeccable teaching and academic ambience. This evidence is in the US News …
IMO News Service Yenepoya University Mangaluru, Karnataka (India) is going to start Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Islamics course from July 1st this year. This course is the first of its kind in the world as its main focus will be on Applied Islamic Studies in addition to the traditional …
By M Ghazali Khan Narendra Modi’s Muslim friend/advisor on Muslim affairs, Zafar Sareshwala, claims that he had almost succeeded in convincing the Prime Minister to remove the clause, that would make triple talaq in one sitting a cognizable and a non bailable offence, from the imminent Ordinance, reportedly to be …
The real reason for attacking the Aligarh Muslim University was not Jinnah’s portrait. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has found another opportunity to encourage hooliganism by Hindutva goons in university campuses. This time, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) is the target. The so-called controversy revolves around a portrait of Muhammad Ali …
With the Haryana chief minister implying that those who disrupted namaz were raising an ‘objection’, their actions could be seen as a legitimate protest instead of breaking of law. By Apoorvanand There is no problem with namaz being performed in open spaces “till no one objects”, Manohar Lal Khattar reportedly …
By Ram Puniyani Recently (May 2018) Hamid Ansari, the ex-Vice President of India, was invited to Aligarh Muslim University to honor him with life membership of AMU Students Union (AMUSU). He had due security with him, still the Hindu Yuva Vahini-ABVP activists could reach near his place of stay. The …
By Mohammad Aleem In every religion, some colours command greater significance. In Hinduism and Buddhism, saffron has that reverence and respect and, among Muslims, it is green, black and white (as we have seen the flag of the most dreaded group at present on earth as it has been projected by …
By Syed Ali Mujtaba Rama Navmi is a Hindu festival that celebrates the birthday of Lord Rama. The festival is a part of the Hindu calendar that typically occurs in the months of March or April every year. The festival is an occasion for moral reflection for many Hindus. Traditionally, …
By Manzar Imam Malopara (Purnea): The sixth branch of Haider’s Conscious Academy was launched in the jubilant presence of academicians, intellectuals, public representatives, members of civil society and hundreds of people from different villages of Malopara, Raiber, Bara Istambrar and other panchayats, at Malopara under Baisa Block on Sunday, 25th …
IMO News Service Aligarh: “Sir Syed was a true modernist in his approach who throughout his life worked for the promotion of inter-faith understanding amongst followers of various faiths”, said Prof Akhtarul Wasey, President, Maulana Azad University, Jodhpur, while addressing the inaugural session of the two-day national seminar on “Sir …
No one in their right mind will support practices like triple talaq or nikah halala. But some people, such as PM Modi, who express great concern for Muslim womens’ rights, have another agenda in mind By Zafar Agha Triple talaq was the issue of choice for decades; it’s nikah halala …
IMO News Service Aligarh: Professor M Mursaleen, Chairman, Department of Mathematics, Aligarh Muslim University, has been conferred with the ‘Most Outstanding Researcher Award’ for his contribution to Mathematics by the Union Minister of Human Resource Development (HRD), Mr Prakash Javadekar. He received the honour during the ‘Careers360 Faculty Research Awards’ …
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