A seminar on ‘Understanding Islam’ will be organized by the Centre for Gandhian and Peace Studies, Manipal University, at 3.30pm at Old TAPMI building behind Manipal post office on Saturday.
Prof Varadesh Hiregange, director, Centre for Gandhian and Peace Studies, Manipal University, said the seminar proposes to explore different dimensions of Islam as a religious culture with its own belief systems, philosophy, science, day-to-day practices, festivals, customs, and diversity and reforms movements.
“It is an attempt to understand Islam in its diversity as practised in different regions of the world, much against the image of a ‘stereotype’.
The seminar essentially makes an attempt to clear all the misunderstandings,” he said.
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News Home> City> Mangalore / TNN / April 156th, 2016
Mysuru Zilla Panchayat (ZP) is all set to get first Muslim Woman President, with Mysuru Regional Commissioner A.M. Kunjappa announcing the date for the ZP Presidential Polls.
The election to Presidential posts of Mysuru ZP, which threw up a hung verdict in the Feb. elections, will take place on May 7.
The Mysuru ZP President post has been reserved for BC(A) woman candidate, while the Vice-President’s post has been reserved for General category candidate.
With no party having an absolute majority in Mysuru ZP, the JD(S) and BJP are likely to have a tie up in order to take control of the ZP, with Naeema Sultana of the JD(S), who won from Annur ZP seat in H.D. Kote taluk, likely to become the President. As the JD(S) and BJP, which are likely to forge an alliance to wrest control of the ZP, have no other woman candidate belonging to BC(A), fortune seems to be smiling on the face of Naeema Sultana.
Although the Congress has the largest number of seats (23) in the 49-member Mysuru ZP, it has fallen short of majority. The JD(S) won 18 seats while the BJP 8.
Meanwhile, former PM and JD(S) Supremo, H.D. Deve Gowda, is said to have given nod to the K.R. Nagar JD(S) MLA S.R. Mahesh’s proposal to forge a tie up with the BJP and thus make a Muslim woman as the Mysuru ZP President for the first time.
Although the JD(S) party’s intention is to keep the Congress away from power wherever possible, the party top brass has given powers to local leadership to strike a deal for gaining control of ZPs across the State and accordingly, the JD(S) leadership is learnt to have given nod for forging an alliance with the BJP.
As far as other ZPs are concerned, the election to Presidential polls of Kodagu ZP, where the BJP has an absolute majority, is scheduled to take place on April 29, while that of Chamarajanagar ZP where the Congress has majority will take place on April 30, that of Mandya ZP, where the JD(S) has majority, on May 2 and Hassan ZP, where the JD(S) has absolute majority, on May 5.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / Monday – April 18th, 2016
Huma Qureshi is paired with Mammootty in ‘White’, a movie about a peculiar relationship between the two.
Actor Huma Qureshi, who is all set to debut in South India with her Malayalam film White, says she is glad that her debut in southern cinema is with superstar Mammootty and nobody else.
Talking about Mammootty, Huma told IANS: “I am glad that my south debut was with him and nobody else.”
How was her experience working with the Manglish star?
“Mammootty is a thorough gentleman. I got to learn a lot under him of course he’s an acting legend so it was an intimidating thought but he made it very easy to work with him,” said the 29-year-old.
The Badlapur actor added that Mammootty helped her “with the language and was extremely supportive”.
Directed by Uday Ananthan and produced by Eros International, the film has been shot extensively in London, Mumbai and Kochi.
In the film, Huma plays Roshni Menon, a software engineer who moves to London on an overseas assignment. There, things change unexpectedly when Prakash Roy (Mammootty), a billionaire enters her life. Prakash and Roshni’s peculiar, yet charming relationship is what takes the story of Whiteforward.
Apart from them, the film also stars Shankar Ramakrishnan, Siddique, Sunil Sugadha, Ahmad Siddique, Manjulika, Sona Nair and KPAC Lalita.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Entertainment / IANS / New Delhi – April 06th, 2016
Tabbu Afroz, the daughter of a cycle mechanic based in Ranchi district, has been invited to the Breakthrough Inspiration Awards in New York where she will deliver a speech on child marriage.
This 17-year-old girl from Jharkhand is the only participant from India to be named by the international NGO Breakthrough for the event for her efforts to stop child marriages in her hometown.
Her commendable endeavour began when Tabbu was 15. Her elder sister, who was then 17, was forced to quit school to get married.
Tabbu had heard about child marriage being an offence in various programmes organized by NGOs in her school and began convincing her parents and other family members to stop the marriage. When her pleads went unheard, she contacted an NGOs with her teacher’s help and finally was able to save her sister from child marriage.
Since then Tabbu has been working towards spreading awareness.
She has been making people of her locality realize why it is important for girls to study and choose a career, says a report in Times of India .
Tabbu has recently taken admission in a Ranchi college while her elder sister who was to be married away is now 19, and pursuing a course in computers.
Tabbu’s father, Mohammad Ramza is very happy with the success of his daughter and is thankful to her for making him stop the marriage of his elder daughter.
When the chief minister Akhilesh Yadav felicitated eminent persons of different fields with Yash Bharati Award and announced a monthly pension ofRs. 50000 to the recipients in Lucknow on Monday, the kin of 115-year-old member of Subhash Chandra Bose’s Indian National Army (INA) Nizamuddin in Azamgarh district were upset over government’s apathy to recognize contribution of the centenarian war veteran.
“Not to speak of any award or pension, there is not even a ‘cheering smile’ from government side to this living legend of INA,” Nizamuddin’s son Akram Sheikh told to TOI.
“Is the service of my father, who had faced enemy’s bullet on his body to save Netaji’s life in the jungles of Burma (now Myanmar), worthless for the government machinery,” wondered Akram adding that no political leader except Prime Minister Narendra Modi appreciated his father publically. During his Lok Sabha election rally in Varanasi in May 2014 Modi had publicly greeted Nizamuddin and touched his feet.
“My father needs nothing, but only a warm call of ‘Jai Hind’ when the chief minister along with SP supremo Mulayan Singh Yadav will be at Sathiaon in Azamgarh, just about 6km away from our place, on Tuesday to attend a programme,” said Akram. He said that his father used to tell the wartime stories. Once when the INA troop was in the forests of Burma Nizamuddin spotted an enemy soldier targeting Bose. He shielded Bose and faced the bullet on his back. Laxmi Sehgal had removed three bullets from his body.
Nizamuddin, a resident of Dhakwa village in Azamgarh district, claims to be the close aide of Bose. He served as his body guard cum driver during INA tenure.
The only documentary proof to show his association with INA is the repatriation certificate issued in favour of Nizamuddin by one Swami (full name SV Swami), the chairman of Relief and Repatriation Council, Ex. Azad Hind Fauj and Allied Organisation, Rangoon. It is a certificate having information about him and a pledge for the nation with a seal of AH Fauj & Allied Organisation, Burma.
Nizamuddin is not ready to accept that Bose died in air crash in 1945, as he claimed that he had dropped his master on the banks of river Sitangpur near the Burma-Thailand border about three-four months after the said air crash. He strongly believed that Bose lived in Faizabad in the guise of Gumnami Baba, and he also claimed that the German make binocular found in the box of Gumnami Baba belonged to INA.
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News Home> City> Varanasi / by Binay Singh / TNN / March 21st, 2016
“If I die and go to heaven, I’ll put the name of Star Eleven on golden star, So that angels can see, How much Star Eleven means to me,” read a Facebook post from Nayeem Bhat.
He wrote it in 2014. Now, that ‘if’ is a reality. Nayeem is dead. He won’t represent Star Eleven – a cricket club in north Kashmir’s Handwara town – any more. His all-round brilliance is history. A bullet has silenced the face of cricket in Handwara forever.
Nayeem, a 21-year-old allrounder, had a dream. A cricketing one. Make it big in the sport. Play with the best. Play for Jammu & Kashmir. Maybe, someday, play for India. Like many youngsters in this part of the world, his room was dotted with the posters of cricket stars. Virat Kohli and Parveez Rasool, now team-mates at Royal Challengers Bangalore, featured prominently.
Nayeem played the sport with passion, doing everything to improve his game. He didn’t hesitate to travel 60 kilometres to Srinagar, the state’s cricket capital, to rub shoulders with the who’s who of Kashmir cricket. The men that matter acknowledged his talent. Kashmir Gymkhana, one of the premier clubs affiliated with the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association, recruited him to play for them. One small step towards realising his ambition. But his journey had a terrible end. A dream to be weaved with bat and ball was shattered by a bullet – another instance of cricket and conflict being intertwined in Kashmir.
Nayeem’s death has left the cricketing community in Kashmir in a state of mourning, for his team-mates and coaches believed he had all the ingredients to be a ‘perfect allrounder’. Nayeem, his coaches said, had a repeatable action and his height gave him lift off the deck at pace decent enough to trouble the batsmen. He was also good enough as a batsman to play in the middle order for the teams he represented during his short career.
Nayeem’s cricketing journey coincided with that of Akeel Ahmad, his childhood friend and an Under-19 player for J&K. For Akeel, Nayeem was a rival on the cricket field, but best buddy off it. The duo was on a mission: to make otherwise neglected Handwara part of the cricketing landscape.
Nayeem and Akeel were together just half an hour before they were separated forever. Before the fateful moment, they were busy doing what they often did when not playing cricket: photography. Done with their session, Akeel said, they went to the market. Suddenly, an assembly of protesters caught their attention.
Nayeem was called by his brother, a journalist, asking for a camera. “I left the spot and after sometime got to know Nayeem was hit by a bullet,” said Akeel. “I couldn’t believe it.”
Akeel told Wisden India that he was in awe of Nayeem’s work ethic and passion. “Nayeem would play for Star Eleven, and I played for Handwara Cricket Club. We used to play against each other very often. Nayeem was someone I have known closely. He was my fiercest rival on the field, but we were buddies off it,” he said.
“We would discuss cricket more often than not. He wanted to improve all the time. He had his eyes on top-flight cricket. He was very keen on his fitness, and would train hard. I am shattered by his death. I don’t know how to cope with his loss. This is a huge loss to cricket, and Handwara town in particular. He was trying his best to give our town a cricketing name.”
Nayeem’s coaches remember him as someone who didn’t hesitate to ask questions about his game. Manzoor Ahmad Dar, coach of Kashmir Gymkhana Club, was impressed with what he saw of his young charge. “Nayeem was a very humble and down-to-earth cricketer and he took his game seriously,” Dar told a daily. “Nayeem was a dedicated cricketer and would come all the way to Srinagar from Handwara to practice and train. He had skill and the temperament to improve all the time. We are in complete shock over his death.”
Nayeem’s death has social networking sites abuzz, with Kashmiris expressing their sorrow and sadness.
The young allrounder had a brush with franchise-based Twenty20 cricket, playing two seasons for Srinagar’s Pride Riders in the Downtown Champions League. Mubashir Hassan, a coach licensed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, is a mentor of the team. Hassan is understandably devastated by the death of his talented ward, who called him often for tips. Nayeem wouldn’t mind calling him on his phone for tips, remembered Hassan.
“Nayeem had a bright future and promising career ahead,” he told Wisden India. “He was a keen learner and I had high hopes of him. He had that hunger and passion that impressed one and all. This will have a huge impact on the players who have played with and against Nayeem. They will be mentally scarred, and it will take them some time to come out of it.”
His parents used to call him Gavaskar, while some of his friends compared him to Martin Guptill, the New Zealand opener. On Tuesday (April 12), a bullet claimed Star Eleven’s brightest star. Hopefully, the angels will realise what his local side and the game of cricket meant to Nayeem.
Waheed Mirza is a journalist in Srinagar. He tweets @mirzawaheedz.
source: http://www.wisdenindia.com / Wisden India / Home / by Waheed Mirza / April 15th, 2016
Career Enhancement:Calicut University Vice Chancellor K. Mohammed Basheer inaugurating a residential camp under the banner of the Programme on Education and Career Enhancement (PEACE) at Sullamussalam Science College, Areekode, on Thrusday.
Malappuram, Kerala :
Ithihadu Shubbanil Mujahideen launches residential camp for students
The Ithihadu Shubbanil Mujahideen (ISM) launched a creative learning camp for students at Sullamussalam Science College, Areekode, on Thursday.
Calicut University Vice Chancellor K. Mohammed Basheer inaugurated the residential camp held under the banner of the Programme on Education and Career Enhancement (PEACE).
Dr. Basheer called upon the students to proceed to their objective with determination and enthusiasm. ISM State vice president Labeed Areekode presided over the function.
Camp director Mansoor Othayi, Social Security Mission liaison officer P.V. Ahmed Saju, Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen vice president N.V. Abdurahman, PEACE chief executive officer Fukkar Ali, ISM leaders Ismail Kariyad, Shakkir Babu Kuniyil, Naseer Cheruvadi, Afsal Madavur, and Yunus Chengara spoke.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Kerala / by Staff Reporter / Malappuram – April 16th, 2016
Actor Rajinikanth flanked by Bollywood actor Priyanka Chopra and Tennis player Sania Mirza, who were the recipients of the Padma Vibhushan, Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan Awards respectively during the Civil Investiture Ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on April 12,2016. Photo : R. V. Moorthy
56 eminent persons were honoured with Padma awards on Tuesday.
Superstar Rajinikanth, tennis icon Sania Mirza, former U.S. Ambassador Robert D Blackwill and actor Priyanka Chopra were among the 56 eminent persons who were honoured with Padma awards on Tuesday.
Former DRDO chief V K Aatre, chief editor of Telugu daily Eenadu Ramoji Rao, philanthropist and educationist Indu Jain, chairman of Maruti Suzuki India R C Bhargava, singer Udit Narayan, eminent lawyer Ujjwal Nikam were also honoured with the Padma awards by President Pranab Mukherjee at the Civil Investiture Ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Rajinikanth, Aatre, Rao, renowned vocalist Girija Devi, chairperson of Cancer Institute, Chennai V Shanta were given Padma Vibhushan. Looking dapper in a beige churidar kurta teamed with a grey Nehru jacket, Rajinikanth was accompanied by his wife Latha Rajinikanth.
New Delhi, 12/04/2016: President Pranab Mukherjee presenting the Padma Vibhushan Award to South Indian Film Actor Rajinikanth during the Civil Investiture Ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on April 12,2016. Photo : R. V. Moorthy
Priyanka Chopra, who was awarded the Padma Shri, especially flew down to India from her “Baywatch” shoot in Los Angeles to receive the honour.
“This is the best award I have ever received. Thank you so much. I am grateful,” she told reporters here.
The “Jai Gangajaal” star looked elegant in a lemon yellow saree as she received the honour.
New Delhi, 12/04/2016: President Pranab Mukherjee presenting the Padma Shri Award to Film Actress Priyanka Chopra during the Civil Investiture Ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on April 12,2016. Photo : R. V. Moorth
Sania Mirza, who was awarded the Padma Bhushan, is the fourth Indian tennis player to receive the Padma Bhushan. Vijay Amritraj, Ramanathan Krishnan and doubles legend Leander Paes had earlier been honoured with both Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan. Sania was conferred with Padma Shri in 2006.
New Delhi, 12/04/2016: President Pranab Mukherjee presenting the Padma Bhushan Award to Tennis Player Sania Mirza during the Civil Investiture Ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on April 12,2016. Photo : R. V. Moorthy
“Humbled. Honoured. And truly thankful .. #PadmaBhushan,” Sania tweeted later.
Bhargava, Jain, Blackwill, Narayan, Manipuri playwright Heisnam Kanhailal, noted Telugu and Hindi litterateur Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad, teacher of Vedanta Dayananda Saraswati (posthumous), leading sculptor Ram Vanji Sutar, Indologist N S Ramanuja Tatacharya and International head of Chinmaya Mission Swami Tejomayananda were honoured with Padma Bhushan.
New Delhi, 12/04/2016: President Pranab Mukherjee presenting the Padma Bhushan Award to Playback Singer Udit Narayan Jha during the Civil Investiture Ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on April 12,2016. Photo : R. V. Moorthy
Nikam, former President of Editors Guild of India Dhirendra Nath Bezboruah, renowned novelist from Karnataka S L Bhyrappa, Puducherry-based social worker Madeleine Herman de Blic, president of Bodo Sahitya Sabha Kameswar Brahma were among the 40 eminent persons who were given the Padma Shri.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> PTI – IANS / New Delhi – April 12th, 2016
For the rest of Vizag, Mubarak Colony in Yendada can be easily reckoned as a model colony. The highly prosperous residents belonging to the Dawoodi Bohra community did not wait for the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Colony (GVMC) to provide them with pucca roads and proper drainage system, but did it themselves by spending lakhs of rupees. Every house has a green area or kitchen garden as well as rainwater harvesting facility. They have strictly implemented Swachh Bharat, education for girl children and ensure that there is no wastage of food.
What’s more, they have a unique hygienic centralised kitchen in their mosque that delivers food to every household six days a week. This arrangement is mainly to eliminate inequality between the rich and the not-so-rich and to promote women empowerment, so that women get adequate time for their creative pursuits rather than staying confined to the kitchen. The women are also allowed inside the mosque to offer namaz.
On two-acre land in Yendada, around 115 Shia families comprising a population of about 400 have been residing since almost a decade. Apart from these, in various other parts of the city, another 65-70 families are spread out but the majority dwells in Mubarak Colony. This business community had migrated to the Port City from Gujarat in the late 1970s and speak Lisan-ud Dawat, a language somewhat similar to Gujarati. “In whichever country we reside, we consider it our responsibility to support the government in the economic progress and overall advancement of the nation. We don’t have a single unemployed member in our community. Rather we provide employment opportunities to others. In Vizag, most of us deal with hardware and industrial supply,” said Adnan Sabuwala, president of JCI Visakha Valley and a member of the community.
“Though GVMC sanitary staff clears the garbage, all the members have taken care to clean our colony once a month and ensure that it’s kept clean and green with plants and gardens around. Although we lack a proper approach road, we had laid the roads of our colony by spending Rs 5 lakh when our spiritual leader had visited us. We have an active anjuman-e-badri or committee organisation that looks into the accounts and logistics and most members are connected through WhatsApp,” added Md Fakhruddin, a member of the Mubarak Colony Welfare Society.
Explaining the concept of the centralised well-maintained kitchen, Abbasbhai Sabuwala, said, “Under this scheme, lunch is daily cooked in the mosque kitchen and supplied at 12 noon in tiffin carriers meant for every Bohra family in the colony as well as in the city. There’s also an App which can be utilised by the families to inform before hand if they are going outside and wouldn’t require lunch, thus food wastage is prevented. This kitchen also caters to the families during Eid or other festivals and occasions like marriage and birthdays. Usually once a year, the members financially contribute towards the daily kitchen expenses. The concept is to ensure economic and gender equality and give the women time for their creative pursuits.”
Though they have a hi-tech madrassa adjacent to the Mohammadi Masjid, almost all children commute to the top English medium schools in the city by school bus or private cars. Needless to say, every house in the colony are like picture-postcard bungalows and has lawns and gardens as well as well-decorated rooms.
“A couple of posh multi-storied apartments have also sprung up in the colony, equipped with swimming pool, gymnasium and a tiny pond for ducks to add to the beauty. Credit for the interior decoration goes to the women in the families, who also display their creativity in other areas such as mehendi designs, cookery, embroidery and all sorts of needlework and art works, making designer rida (the traditional garment wore by the women) and topis (caps) for men and musical programmes like madeh,” said Yusuf Nandarbarwala, a resident of the colony.
“Even though we have respite from cooking six days a week due to our centralised kitchen concept, we still like to experiment with cuisines and on Sundays we usually prepare something at home. We also participate in cookery competitions. Karri chawal, dal chawal palidu, kharak ka halwa (dry dates halwa), biryani and walnut desserts are some of the special dishes of our community,” said Tasneen Yusuf, a winner of various competitions.
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News Home> City> Visakhapatnam / Sulogna Mehta / TNN / April 15th, 2016
The World Consumer Day was celebrated recently in Madikeri under the joint auspices of Kodagu district administration, Food and Civil Supplies Department and Kodagu District Consumer Forum.
MirAnisAhmed, DCofKodagu, inaugurated and V.A. Patil, President, Kodagu District Consumer Forum, presided over the programme which was attended by more than 150 people.
C.V. Nagaraj, retired Senior Chemist, Regional Agmark Laboratory, Bengaluru, demonstrated simple tests to detect adulteration in various food items. He also spoke about the harmful effects of various types of adulteration and on the laws that exist in India against food adulteration.
Associations interested in arranging such lecture-demos can contact C.V. Nagaraj ( 2521640, 9945651990).
CULTURAL FEST
The Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Pooja Bhagavat Memorial Mahajana Education Centre, has organised an inter-collegiate cultural festival on April 12 and 13. For registration contact festival convener Paul Iruthayaraj on 9739824423, Faculty coordinators Gunarekha B.S. on 9480438394 or Priyadarshan Bhat on 8867204780.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Karnataka / Mysuru – April 11th, 2016
