NEW DELHI / TAMIL NADU / TELANGANA / Minnesota – Washington DC, U.S.A. :
For many in the lecture hall during the 9th Annual Marilyn Koering Award ceremony, devoted teacher, research scientist, mentor, and patient advocate Marilyn Koering, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), was an inspiration.
“She had a tremendous impact on my life,” said Koering’s sister, Susan, who travels from Minneapolis Minnesota each year to present the award. “Going to the same college, going into the medical world … she was an inspiration to me.”
The award is presented each year by Koering’s sister to the first-year medical student with the highest overall grade in the anatomical sciences. This year, Danish Imtiaz earned that distinction.
“I feel extremely honored to receive this award in the name of the esteemed Dr. Koering,” Imtiaz said, adding that her legacy will inspire him to continue exploring the anatomical sciences.
“I would like to thank Dr. Koering’s family for the award,” he said. “And also, I would like to thank the anatomy and histology professors at GW SMHS for their excellent instruction. I hope to continue to work hard and learn more about the anatomical sciences from them.”
Kenna Peusner, PhD, professor of anatomy and regenerative biology at SMHS, organized the award and introduced the speakers at the assembly. Peusner said that Marilyn Koering was dedicated to her students, teaching histology to more than 5,000 GW medical and graduate students. For 34 years, Koering taught in the classroom and labs at the SMHS until her retirement in 2003. She passed away in 2008 after a fierce battle against malignant melanoma.
“After Marilyn was diagnosed with melanoma, she fought the cancer for 21 years through essays, appearances on television, addressing cancer support groups, and writing letters to pharmaceutical companies and the federal government to gain support for patients who volunteered for experimental treatments,” Peusner recalled.
Mary Ann Stepp, PhD, professor of anatomy and regenerative biology at SMHS, who knew Koering both as a member of the faculty and as a student, spoke on her remembrances.
“When I came here and entered the Anatomy Department, the Chairman … saw my weaknesses in the anatomical sciences, so I was assigned to learn histology with the first-year medical students,” Stepp explained. “So I sat in the classroom with the medical students, and got to know Marilyn not only as a faculty member, but as a mentor. She was an excellent teacher; she really cared about making sure that the students understood what they were doing and how to do it well.”
During the ceremony, Susan Koering told a story of her 6-year-old grandniece, whom she said Marilyn would have loved. One day, she asked the young girl what she wants to be when she grows up. Her response: “A mommy.”
“I said, ‘Well, OK, but how about a scientist?’ And then about a month later I asked again ‘What are you going to be when you grow up?’ This time she said ‘a scientist,’” Koering said to laughter.
source: http://www.smhs.gnu.edu / GW, George Washington University, School of Medicine & Health Sciences / Home> News / by Katherine Dvorak / April 23rd, 2018
Karim’s had transformed from a local purveyor of aloo gosht into a monument. It was visited by princes and prime ministers, eulogised by journalists, studied by historians, and patronised by tourists.
Haji Zahooruddin (extreme right) with Bollywood star Dilip Kumar.(Image courtesy Zain-al-Abedin,Zaeemuddin Ahmed and family))
When Haji Zahooruddin started working at Karim’s over 70 years ago, the business consisted of a single restaurant run by his father and grandfather. On January 27, when he died at the age of 85, Zahooruddin was the managing director of a small empire, with 26 outlets overseen by around a dozen other family members.
Karim’s had transformed from a local purveyor of aloo gosht into a monument. It was visited by princes and prime ministers, eulogised by journalists, studied by historians, and patronised by tourists.
Much though Karim’s success was the result of adaptation to changing times — with the addition of Punjabi butter chicken to the Mughlai menu, for example, and the establishment of small take-out joints throughout the city — Zahooruddin devoted himself to protecting Karim’s most valuable asset: its heritage.
“This is time-tested Mughlai food and we do it well,” he told an English daily in 2013, “so why should we change?”
Karim’s changed only as much as it had to. Striking this balance enabled Zahooruddin’s “number one contribution”, said Shahid Siddiqui, a regular at the restaurant who has written extensively about Old Delhi. “He introduced the food of the old city to New Delhi and to the public in general.”
The Karim’s family attributes their culinary lineage to Mohammad Awaiz, a chef in the royal court of the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar. When the British sacked Delhi and expelled the king to Rangoon, Awaiz fled. He settled in Ghaziabad and found other work, but taught his son, Haji Karimuddin, everything he knew about Mughal cuisine. During the coronation of King George V in Delhi in 1911, Karimuddin returned to the imperial city and set up a food stall. In two years, he made enough money to open a restaurant.
Karimuddin’s son, Haji Nooruddin, had four sons of his own, including Zahooruddin, who was born around 1932. He started working at Karim’s at the age of 12. The young boy learned the power of belonging to the Karim’s family when a particularly strict teacher demanded Zahooruddin hand over the food in his tiffin box every day at lunchtime. Zahooruddin may have gone hungry, but he was spared the beatings inflicted on his classmates.
He spent his whole adult life working at the restaurant, learning its traditions zubaani (orally) and mixing spices with his male relatives — the only ones allowed to know Karim’s recipes. In the late 1940s, he married Samar Jahan, also a resident of Old Delhi, and had four children, two of them sons who have spent their careers working at Karim’s. Four of Zahooruddin’s grandchildren now manage branches of the restaurant.
Zahooruddin’s son Zaid-ul-Abedin, his brother Salahuddin, and nephew Zaeemuddin, three of the current directors of Karim’s, say that his focus was always on Karim’s buniyaad, both in terms of values and dishes. (Burhaan Kinu/HT PHOTO)
Clients and business associates found Zahooruddin to be a commanding figure, and heeded his advice. For newlyweds, he recommended nahari; to the sick, thigh meat for its high degree of bone marrow; to one fat customer, Siddiqui remembered Zahooruddin making the suggestion, improbable for a restaurateur, that the man eat a little less. If a customer said something was wrong with their mutton or chicken, Zahooruddin would keep the piece of meat and show it to his butcher in disapproval. “Babu would scold me sometimes,” said Javed Qureshi, whose family has supplied Karim’s with meat for decades, “but he loved me like a son.” Qureshi is one of many people who refer to Zahooruddin as “Babu” (father).
As time went on, Karim’s business grew, and its legend along with it. The family opened a second branch in Nizamuddin in the years before the Emergency. The former Presidents Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed and Zakir Husain became devoted customers, the latter ordering his food to Rashtrapati Bhavan. Indira Gandhi was also fond of Karim’s, but had security guards oversee the meals cooked for her.
The obvious antiquity of Karim’s Jama Masjid alleyway, its family’s claims of royal patronage, their distinctive Old Delhi Urdu, their promotion of old-fashioned dishes such as mutton brains — all this was stimulus for myth-making and myth-debunking. Historians debate whether Karim’s famous ‘istoo’ is authentically Mughal or secretly British. Some trace the family’s origins to a Saudi Arabian soldier who became Babur’s personal cook, but Zaeemuddin Ahmed, Zahooruddin’s nephew, said the family does not know anything about their ancestors prior to Awaiz.
In 1988, when Karim’s registered itself as a company, Zahooruddin was made chairman. When his brother Alimuddin Ahmed died in 2007, Zahooruddin took over from him as managing director. A slim gentleman with a well-trimmed moustache, he became the public face of his venerable restaurant. He attended numerous award ceremonies and made an appearance on the NDTV show Foodistan. At such moments, Zahooruddin smiled with the discomfort of a dignified man in a flamboyant place.
The public image of him as an embodiment of Old Delhi customs was shared by those who knew him personally. When Faiz-ul-Islam, his friend of over 40 years, returned from Haj, Zahooruddin invited 200 of Islam’s friends for a free breakfast at Karim’s, in keeping with his sense of mehmannawazi (hospitality). “He did it without takalluf (hesitation) and without a single line on his forehead,” said Fazl-ul-Islam, Islam’s son.
Zahooruddin performed culinary experiments, sometimes inventing his own dishes, while also sampling the food from different outlets of Karim’s every week to ensure his standards were being upheld. He insisted that the core of the menu — qorma, nahari, mutton burra, kebab — remain untouched.
“Babu used to say, ‘If we let others own a franchise, will they give the same attention to the quality of spices we use?’” said Zain-ul-Abedin, Zahooruddin’s son. “For example, he would say that cloves are something most people don’t eat: they take it out and put it aside on the plate. So another restaurant owner may think, ‘What is the use of putting in the cloves or buying the best-quality cloves?’ But clove adds to the taste, its juices mix with the food and bring out the smell of meat.”
What he was selling, after all, was not just food. Visit Humayun’s Tomb, and you’ll find a silent testament to the dead. Visit Zahooruddin’s restaurant, and you’ll find traces of the past still alive.
source: http://www.hindustantimes.com / Hindustan Times / Home> Delhi / by Alex Traub and Zehra Kazmi, Hindustan Times / February 01st, 2018
Bhatkal lad Abdul Bais Kadli, secured Best Oral Presentation Award during the International Conference on Desalination (InDACON-2018) on 20th April 2018 at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchinapalli, Tamilnadu.
Abdul presented his paper entitled ‘Optimisation and Modelling Of Desalination Of Water Using Biological Waste By Rsm And ANN’ during the event and secured the award.
The event was organized by National Institute of Technology, Tiruchinapalli, Tamilnadu at their campus on 20th and 21st April 2018.
Abdul Bais is a student of 8th semester chemical engineering at Siddaganga Institute Of Technology, Tumakuru and was representing his college in the event.
He is also a alumni of Anjuman Hami-e-Muslimeen Bhatkal where he completed his high schooling and Pre-University education, he was also a recipient of the prestigious academic award of the institution ‘Viqare Islamia’ in 2012 his teachers and management and Anjuman expressed their happiness over Abdul’s achievement and congratulated him while also wishing him luck for his future endeavors.
(Bhatkallys News Bureau/ Shaikh Zabi)
source: http://www.bhatkallys.com / Bhatkallys.com / Home> Bhatkallys News / by Shaikh Zabi, Bhatkallys News Bureau / April 23rd, 2018
In his quivering voice you could hear the rustle of silk and the muffled sound of a broken heart. Few singers could put the listener in a blue mood like Talat Mahmood, who passed away on May 9 exactly 10 years ago.
And thanks to a website created by his son Khalid that gets about 1,50,000 hits every week from Indians and Pakistanis all over the world – “and a few Israelis”, Khalid adds – his memory is fresh as ever.
“Talat saab came from Lucknow and his Urdu pronunciation was perfect. He could exactly reproduce a song the way a composer had conjured up in his mind. He was an original singer whose distinctive voice was near impossible to duplicate,” recalls masterclass music director Khayyam.
One of the veteran music composer’s memorable compositions – Shaam-e-gham ki kasam (film: Footpath) – was sung by Talat, also known as king of ghazals. Khayyam recalls that in that memorable song he had experimented with the orchestration by not using any rhythm instrument like tabla.
“We used a piano, guitar and solo vox, a basic version of the synthesizer used in those days. Recording the number took plenty of time. But Talat saab ke mathe pe shikan nahi aayee,” he says.
Senior lyricist Naqsh Lyallpuri remembers a recording with the singer. The song was Zindagi kis mod pe laayi mujhe, from the film “Diwali ki Raat”. Snehal Bhatkar was the music director. Says Lyallpuri, “We had only two musicians at the rehearsal. They were playing the tabla and the sitar. But the producer liked his singing so much that he said, there is no need for any other instrument. We recorded the song with just those two instruments.”
Lyallpuri remembers Talat as an extremely soft spoken man. Which Khayyam affirms. “He was a perfect gentleman. With him there was no loose talk. He was always well-dressed: his shoes shining and his trousers perfectly creased.”
To honour his father’s memory, Khalid Mahmood set up a website, talatmahmood.net, just a few months after the singer’s death in 1998 at the age of 74. Apart from the huge number hits every day, he also gets about 200-300 emails every week.
“The choice for me was between doing a book and setting up a website. I settled for the latter because it is more accessible,” says Khalid.
Talat recorded his first track way back in 1941 and sang around 750 songs in 12 languages. He also acted in over a dozen movies such as “Dil-e-Nadaan”, “Lala Rukh” and “Ek Gaon Ki Kahani”.
Few know that the singer-actor aroused mass hysteria when he arrived in Trinidad in West Indies on a concert tour in 1968. Fans thronged the roads from the airport to the city. The local group, West Indies Steel Band, composed a Calypso track in his honour. They sang, “Talat Mahmood we are proud and glad, to have a personality like you here in Trinidad.”
Talat is long gone. But as long as the human heart knows how to fall in love and emerge with ache, his velvet voice will live on.
(avijit.ghosh@timesgroup.com)
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News> India News / May 09th, 2008
Mr. Firoz Bakht Ahmed is grandnephew of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, first Education Minister of India.
Hyderabad :
Firoz Bakht Ahmed, educationist, noted social activist and columnist has been nominated as the Chancellor of Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) for a period of 3 years, said a statement from the varsity.
According to a notification released by the registrar, MANUU today, President of India in his capacity as Visitor of the University has appointed Mr. Firoz Bakht as the fifth Chancellor of the University.
Mr. Firoz Bakht succeeds Mr. Zafar Sareshwala.
Mr. Firoz Bakht is grandnephew of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, first Education Minister of India. The University is named after Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, a scholar par excellence, a prolific writer, an inimitable orator, a gallant freedom fighter, a visionary of the post independent Indian education system and an architect of technical and scientific education in Independent India.
He is a prolific writer and authored many books in Urdu and Hindi, especially on Children’s Literature.
He is also a freelance journalist and columnist. His columns and articles appear regularly in various widely circulated newspapers across India.
Mr. Firoz Bakht was also associated with Madrassa modernisation and Urdu medium schools upliftment.
He was appointed by the courts in various committees/enquiry committees assisting the judicial procedures for prompt justice.
He was also associated with MANUU before its inception in 1997 as foundation panel member.
Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU)
Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) is a Central University, established by an Act of Parliament with all India jurisdiction in 1998. The headquarters and main campus of MANUU is in Gachibowli, Hyderabad. It is spread over 200 acres. MANUU is recognized as a major higher education service provider across the remote areas of the country for marginalized and first generation learners of Urdu medium through its regular and distance mode programs.
MANUU commenced with distance education programs in 1998 and consolidated its academic and research base in Urdu medium regular programs in 2004.
Presently, MANUU is in the process of consolidating the existing institutions, while expanding it to reach the unreached through various intervention measures. Further, to meet the rising aspirations of its youth in general and Urdu speaking community in specific, the University is making considerable progress in all fronts of academics, research and governance with specific vision, mission and objectives.
source: http://www.ndtv.com / NDTV / Home> Education> by NDTV Education Team / May 17th, 2018
Could the Tiger’s position — now behind a glass case, its crank handle inaccessible to the public — be an apology for the disrespect permitted in East India House?
The artefact sitting in V&A was iconic, identifiable and far away from home
The day I saw Tipu’s Tiger behind its glass case at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London was a day of significance. That morning, after months of being cooped up in Oxford, some friends and I took the train to Marylebone and found the absence of dreaming spires refreshing to say the least. At noon, a friend from India was waiting for me on the other side of the busy Camden High Street. As we hugged amidst the crush of gliding Londoners, her muffled exclamation might have been: ‘It’s so crazy we’re meeting here of all places, so far from home.’
That phrase would be borrowed by me on two separate occasions during the day. In the evening, I stood before Julian Barnes at the Royal Institution and told him how I had read ‘A Short History of Hairdressing’ over and over again to teach myself the ‘architecture’ of a short story. I felt a potent urge then to parrot my friend. It was ‘crazy’ to see and hear Barnes in the flesh, so far from my bedroom in Kolkata, the only other place he had seemed real and, dare I say, attainable through his prose and through the material object, that is, his books in my hands, the only feasible rendezvous with the man.
I had never thought then it would happen: to have someone I studied so minutely sit before me and confess he didn’t think as highly of his short prose as I did.
Iconic meeting
The second occasion I was inclined to echo her words that day was when I stood in the South Asia section of the V&A before Tipu’s Tiger, which had always been relegated to the Did You Know section of our history books. It was not exactly like meeting an old friend or a revered author, but it bore all the characteristics of such a meeting. Like Barnes and my Kolkata friend, it was instantly iconic, identifiable from a distance, and a ready reminder of my distance from India. In fact, standing before the wooden automaton, slightly disconcerted, I addressed it and thought: ‘You are so far away from home.’
The possible inspiration for the mechanical figure seems fitting to some. Hector Munro Jr, whose father defeated Tipu’s father Hyder Ali in the Second Anglo-Mysore War in 1781, was mauled by a royal Bengal tiger at Saugor Island in 1792 and died from the injuries. This must have seemed like divine intervention to Tipu, a wrong set right. The carved and painted, almost life-size, wooden musical automaton was created for the Sultan, whose personal emblem was a tiger and whose hatred of the British was well-known.
The last laugh
With the fall, however, of Seringapatam and the execution of Tipu in the Fourth Mysore War of 1799, the Tiger travelled from the music room of Tipu’s summer palace to the Company’s East India House at Leadenhall Street in London, where the public was given access to view and play with it.
Its wooden body with a keyboard embedded in the flank was thrown open to the English masses who came in and played ‘God Save the King’ and ‘Rule, Brittania!’ upon it. If Tipu thought he had been mocking the Englishmen with the Tiger, they were now having the last laugh.
I deal with issues of empire and post-colonial anxiety almost on a daily basis, especially in a place like Oxford, especially on a course called World Literatures in English. Of course, when I first saw it, I silently demanded a restoration of the tiger to its previous owner, to its previous nation. My anger at seeing the Tiger in an English museum, so far away from home, was justifiable. The Tiger was not borrowed. Nor was it touring, as it had to New York’s MoMA in the 50s. Instead, it was a ‘permanent’ acquisition at the V&A.
Of collaborations
For every Indian schoolchild, the Tiger, just an artefact but nonetheless awe-inspiring, was not an affordable train or flight away, like Fatehpur Sikri or Sher Shah’s tomb.
For me, the Tiger’s distance from my home was a reiteration of the national and racial distinctions not only of the Anglo-Mysore variety, but also of the Jadavpur-Oxford type that I faced every day. Besides dodging questions like ‘If you’re from India, how’s your English so good?’ for the past few months, I had had to clarify to a white friend who subsisted on the chic-ideal of Zadie Smith that India has Bengalis too, and no, I did not have relatives in Brick Lane, not that I knew of anyway.
Seeing Tipu’s Tiger that day catalysed a recollection of an afternoon in 2016 in the Victoria Memorial Hall with Thomas Daniell and his nephew William. Their tranquil scenes of India, while in stark contrast to the ferocity of the Tiger, do something interesting.
The English hands of the Daniells reproduce the Indian hands of the architects behind the buildings and locations they sketch. Their canvas becomes a surface of Anglo-Indian collaboration, similar to how it is conjectured that the mechanics of the Tiger have an Indo-French history.
This recollection, and the subsequent contemplation on collaboration, made me think of several works of restoration that the V&A carried out upon the Tiger, especially after the bombing of London in World War II. Could this act of restoration be seen as an act of reparation? Could the Tiger’s position — now behind a glass case, its crank handle inaccessible to the public — be an apology for the disrespect permitted in East India House?
The Tiger, so far from home, is an icon that reminds me of a past based on plunder and pillage by the nation it sits in. Yet, its 18th century splendour has weathered war and wear so well. Do present acts of safekeeping obliterate the violent history of its, for want of a better word, theft?
I am persuaded to wonder if the Tiger is now a collaboration between Tipu’s Mysore craftsmen and its modern conservationists in England and if I should be thankful for the restoration. Are the acquisition and conservation of an Indian object in a British museum and the works of British painters displayed in a Calcutta museum an instance of transnational collaboration and exchange? But in the case of Tipu’s Tiger, this then also begs the question: how long is too long before we forget that what is ‘acquired’ is what was once ‘removed’ from its home?
The writer, a Felix Scholar, is studying World Literatures in English at Oxford
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Society> History & Culture / by Rohit Chakraborty / May 05th, 2018
Syeda Falak with the trophy won at 4th International Karate Championship held in Kathmandu, Nepal.By Arrangement
Syeda Falak of Hyderabad won gold in the fourth International Karate Championship in the senior female category in Kathmandu (Nepal).
In a championship featuring competitors from Nepal, India, Srilanka, Bhutan, Nigeria, Pakistan and Bangladesh, the girl from Old City cleared the first three rounds with ease and got the better of the rival from the host’s nation in the finals. Falak was also awarded the ‘Best Female Fighter’ too. “This is a huge morale-booster as I prepare for the major championships ahead,” says the 23-year-old Hyderabadi.
Some of her earlier major achievements include gold medal in the International Open Championship in Kolkata late last year, besides finishing third in the WKF Series in Istanbul, Turkey, and being three-time gold medallist in the nationals in 68-plus category (kumite).
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Telangana / by V.V. Subrahmanyam / Hyderabad – May 14th, 2018
The initiative involving students is part of its social outreach programme
As part of its social outreach initiative, Mahatma Gandhi University (MGU) will soon come up with an online blood donors’ directory involving its students.
The Blood Donors’ Forum will be part of the portal — nss.mgu.ac.in — being developed by the internal IT cell of the varsity. “The project forms part of the social commitment and civic engagement that the varsity would like to take forward. The public can access the directory by clicking the Blood Donors’ Forum link on the portal,” said K. Sherafudeen, Syndicate member and convener of its finance committee.
Students of various affiliated colleges and varsity departments can submit their blood groups to the programme officer of the National Service Scheme (NSS) unit in each institution. The officer will be responsible for including the names of students on the portal. Mr. Sherafudeen said the names of students would not be revealed, but those requiring blood could contact the programme officer. The public could check the list of students in each blood group category online. The contact number of the officer will be available on the website. The NSS official in each college will be responsible for bringing together students willing to donate blood.
The portal will have facilities to include details on the functioning of NSS units, which will be linked online. Principals can log in and appoint programme officers, who can enter the portal by typing password and username.
The portal will have NSS camp details, monthly attendance report, fund details, and the audit report. The notice board on the website will update the developments in NSS units.
The NSS department in the varsity can verify details on a real-time basis. It will have facilities to manage the NSS department fund and generate NSS certificates. The online facility will help in speeding up the process of awarding grace marks to students enrolling in NSS.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> States> Kerala / by G. Krishnakumar / Kochi – May 12th, 2018
This election saw the lowest Muslim representation in Karnataka Assembly unlike the 2013 Assembly polls where number had gone up to eleven.
Only seven of the Muslim candidates won their seats and incidentally all are from Congress party. Also, five of them had won the 2013 Assembly polls on the party ticket.
Congress, the ruling party in Karnataka fielded 17 Muslim candidates, JD(S) do have Muslim candidates while the saffron party (BJP) does not have a single Muslim candidate.
Among the winners is Kaneez Fatima, the sole Muslim woman won the Gulbarga Uttar constituency by defeating Chandrakant Patil of Bhartiya Janata Party by 5,940 votes. Her husband late Qamar Ul Islam had won the seat in 2013.
Veteran politician Roshan Baig won his stronghold Shivajinagar constituency by defeating BJP leader Katta Subramanya Naidu with a margin over 15,000 votes.
UT Abdul Khader, minister for food, civil supplies and consumer affairs in the Siddaramaiah cabinet, won Mangalore constituency by 19,739 seats, defeating Santosh Kumar Rai Boliyaru of BJP by 19,737 votes. Khader won 80,813 votes while BJP’s Santosh trailed behind with 61,074.
B.Z. Zameer Ahmed Khan, former JD(S) legislator, who defected to Congress in March this year won the Chamrajpet constituency in Bangalore city by beating M Lakshminarayana of BJP with margin of 33,137 votes.
After Aziz Sait’s death, his son Tanveer Sait proved a winning horse for the party. Tanveer won the Narasimharaja constituency defeating BJP’s Sandesh Swamy by 18,127 votes. Sait is the Primary and Secondary Education Minister in the Siddaramaiah cabinet.
Mohammed Nalapad Haris or NA Haris won from Shantinagar seat with margin of 18,205 votes by defeating K Vasudevamurthy.
Rahim Khan has emerged victorious in Bidar assembly constituency with 73270 votes. The 52-year-old incumbent MLA defeated BJP’s Suryakanth Nagmarpalli who got 63025 votes.
Besides these seven winners, nine other Mulsim candidates finished at No. 2 in this poll.
Courtesy: Carvan Daily
Of the 222 assembly constituencies which went to polls on May 12, the Congress party has won in 78 seats, while the JD-S has won 37 seats. The BJP emerged as the single-largest party with 104 seats.
Interestingly, the Congress polled more votes this time (38 per cent) than in the 2013 assembly election, when got 36.76 per cent votes.
source: http://www.siasat.com / The Siasat Daily / Home> Bangalore> Breaking News> News> Politics> Real Estate> Top Stories / May 16th, 2018
Saman Waheed of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh is among 07 All India Toppers of the Indian School Certificate (ISC) Class XII (Class 12th ) 2018 exams result of which was declared by Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) today afternoon.
The 07 ISC 2018 toppers are 04 from Lucknow, 02 from Mumbai and 01 from Panihati, according to the ISC 12th result 2018 declared by CISCE Monday.
The seven students who topped the ISC 12th 2018 exams are – Saman Waheed, Radhika Chandra, Sakshi Pradunan. Lipika Agarwal – all four from Lucknow, Abhijanan Chakrobarty and Tansa Kartik Shah from Mumbai and Koushiki Dasgupta Chaudhary from Panihati. They all scored 99.5% marks.
As many as 17 student have scored 99.25% marks and shared the second position in the 2018 ISC exams.
They are S Aditya Krishna of Kuriakose Elias English Medium School, Kottayam, Kushagra Agarwal of Seth Anandram Jaipuria School, Kanpur, Sanjeevani Hajra of CMS Lucknow, Meenakshi of St Joseph’s School, Bhagalpur, Aakanksha Rai of Gems Modern Academy, Dubai, Nidhi Priya of Lucknow Public College, Sahara States, Jankipuram, Lucknow, Jaydeep Basu of Modern English Academy, Barrackpore, Antra Kapoor of The Shri Ram School, Gurugram, Mansi Acharya of CMS Gomti Nagar, Lucknow, Rishav Jalan of Don Bosco School, Liluah, Howrah, Abhishek Agarwal of Loyola School, Jamshedpur, Priya Khajanchi of Smt Lilavatibai Podar High School, Mumbai, Fiza Khan of Seth MR JaipuriaSchool, Lucknow, Rakshita K Deshmukh of Smt Lilavatibai Podar High School, Mumbai, Ritisha Gupta of The Bishop’s School, Pune, Tamanna Dahiya of Welham Girls’ School, Dehradun and Asmita Sarkar of Modern High School for Girls, Kolkata.
Regionwise, the Southern Region has the best pass percentage i.e. 98.38%, followed by Western Region (97.22%), Northern Region (95.97%) and Eastern Region (95.85%). Abroad, ISC has achieved pass percentage of 99.36%
The Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has declared online the results of the Indian School Certificate (ISC) Class XII (Class 12th ) 2018 exams on its official website today on Monday May 14, 2018.
A total of 80,880 students from Indian and abroad had appeared for the ISC 2018 examination. Of them 96.21% cleared the examination successfully.
The results of ISC Class XII year 2018 has been declared on Monday May 14, 2018 at 03:00 pm on the CISCE official website as well as via SMSM on mobile phone.
The results of Class 12th ISC 2018 will be available through Careers Portal of the Council, on the website of the council and also through SMS, the statement added.
Take a print out of the scorecard for future reference
The results will also be available via SMS. To receive the Indian School Certificate (ISC) Class 12 results by SMS, the candidate will require to type ISC followed by their seven digit unique ID code and send the message to 09248082883.
This year, the ISC 2018 exams began from February 7 and ended on April 2. The 2018 ISC Examination has been conducted in 48 written subjects of which 14 are Indian languages, 5 are foreign languages and 3 are classical languages.
The council said ISC students will have to score 35% marks instead of 40% to be declared successful. The change in the passing marks for ISC Class 12th exam will be effective from this year and not from 2019 as communicated by the board earlier.
In 2017, the ISC pass percentage was 96.47%. A total of 1,76,327 students had registered for the exam in 2017. The 2017 ISC result was declared on May 29. The overall pass percentage in 2016 for ISC was 96.56%.
source: http://www.ummid.com / Ummid.com / Home> Education& Career / by ummid.com News Network / May 14th, 2018
