Ram Naik, Uttar Pradesh Governor and Chancellor Chaudhary Charan Singh University – formerly known as Meerut University, awarded the Gold Medal to Nagma Mansuri at a glittering ceremony held last Monday for scoring maximum marks in Physics subject. (TCN photo) source: ummid.com
Shamli :
Nagma Mansuri, daughter of a vegetable vendor, wins Gold Medal in M.Sc Physics from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, formerly known as Meerut University. She is a student of Rashtriya Kisan Post Graduate.
Last Monday, she received Gold Medal from Ram Naik, Uttar Pradesh Governor and Chancellor of Chaudhary Charan Singh University in a grand ceremony.
Nagma’s Father, had studied till 8th standard and her mother did not even go to school. But the parents are well aware of value of education. Despite economic burden of the family, Nagma’s Father worked hard to afford for education of his children.
Tabassum Mansuri, elder sister of Nagma Mansuri, was also the topper of Meerut University in 2014. Nagma Mansuri’s youger brother is a student of computer science.
“I love teaching and want to join a college as professor”, says Nagma Mansuri.
Shamli witnessed worst kind of communal riots in 2013 when most of the parents stopped sending their girl children to school.
Farzana Mansuri, Nagma’s mother said that “Initially, people were criticizing us for sending our daughters to college. But, after the laurel they brought to the town by their astonishing success, they have become a role model for others. There are many girls in the town who want to become like them and come to our house for guidance.”
source: http://www.siasat.com / The Siasat Daily / Home> India> Top Stories / December 06th, 2017
Sultan Moiuddin Shaukat Ali and Mansi Mayuri with Gold Medals at the 17th Convocation of MUHS Nashik.Photo credit Deshdoot
Nashik :
A Muslim Student, Sultan Moiuddin Shaukat ali from Dr. Vasant Pawar Medical College Nashik topped the Maharashtra MBBS Final Exams and bagged 14 gold medals.
He bagged nine medals in various subjects of final year, while he also got five medals as a consolation prize. This is the pride moment for Dr. Vasant Pawar Medical College as their female student Mansi Mayuri Gujarati also grabbed Seven Gold medals and attained the second position.
Dr. Sultan hails from a small town Palghar adjacent to Mumbai city, he belongs to the middle-class family background. He did his schooling at Rana English High School, where he secured 93 percent marks in SSC (Secondary School Exam) and he passed intermediate from Azam Campus Pune with 94% marks.
Ever since childhood, Dr. Sultan aimed to become a doctor but due to the poor economic condition of his family, it was difficult to achieve the goal. Hence he took admission in an engineering college. But one day he called back to Palghar, where he began to chase his dreams and started the preparation for CET and passed the entrance test scoring 172 marks that pave his way to take admission at Dr. Vasant Pawar College in Nashik.
Recently, he was awarded the medals on the 17th Convocation day of MUHS. The prize was distributed by Maharashtra Medical Education Minister Girish Mahajan who was presiding over the function. And, Dr. Sultan also received a cash price of Rs.10, 000 from Johnson & Johnson Mumbai.
source: http://www.muslimmirror.com / Muslim Mirror / Home> Indian Muslim / by Admin / November 18th, 2017
The Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) on Friday won 30 of the 78 seats it contested in the Uttar Pradesh municipal elections.
The Hyderabad-headquartered party’s candidate Hajjan Hansar was also elected as chairperson of Dasna Municipal Council.
The party headed by Asaduddin Owaisi won 10 seats in Firozabad Municipal Corporation, two in Meerut Municipal Corporation and one each in Kanpur and Allahbad municipal corporations.
According to MIM sources, it bagged Afour seats in Baghpat Municipal Council, three seats in Mahul Azamgarh Municipal Council, two each in Sambhal, Amroha and one each in Sitapur and Banda municipal councils.
MIM finished second in the election for Ferozabad Mayor. Its candidate Mashroom Fathima polled 56,536 votes, pushing the Samajwadi Party to the third place. BJP’s Nutan Rathore won the seat with nearly 99,000 votes.
The party claimed that three independents also want to extend support to it.
Earlier, Owaisi said the party could win the seats due to hard work by the party’s state leaders and members. He thanked the voters for supporting the party.
The MIM failed to open an account in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections in March. It had contested 35 seats.
-IANS
source: http://www.siasat.com / The Siasat Daily / Home> Politics> Top Stories / IANS / December 02nd, 2017
Basant Village(Nalhati Block) Birbhum District, WEST BENGAL :
Samima Khatun with her medals in her home.
It is a well-known fact in India that compared to cricketers, sportspersons belonging to every other discipline have to struggle to make their name and earn a livelihood. The situation gets worse with athletes, and more so when they are physically handicapped. But as we showed last week, even among such struggles, there are enough shining lights like Bodruddoja Saikh. And among the many students that he has trained, Samima Khatun would surely rank among the top: with more than 15 medals in National Paralympic games in the past four years including four this year, Khatun should have been hailed as a role model for millions of physically handicapped citizens of this country. Instead, despite all the laurels that she has brought to West Bengal, she is still struggling to ensure that she and her family’s future is slightly better than it is now.
In fact, the news of her amazing achievements barely made it to national media and except for a small news item in The Telegraph, Khatun’s name did not even make it to the news portals.
Khatun, who is 16, won four medals at the National Championships held in Udaipur this year. Samima was among the three participants to the said Championship who participated from Bengal who won two gold, one silver, and one bronze. The other two are Reshmita Maal from Gobindapur village, a graduation first-year student in a nearby college situated in Nalhati, and Saina Khatun, an eighth-grade student of Koitha village. Reshmita secured two silvers and one bronze and Saina one bronze.
Samima with her parents in her home.
Samima hails from Basanta village of Nalhati block of the Birbhum district and is the daughter of Maijuddin Mondol, who works as a daily wage labourer and earns about Rs 200 per day. Samima completed her Matriculation from a nearby Madrasa, Nalhati High Madrasa School and is currently enrolled in the eleventh-grade (Science) for her Higher Secondary from Nalhati High School for Girls.
According to her parents, she is a patient of Genu Varum, or bandy-leg, an irredeemable deformity in the legs, mostly from the knees to the ankles which she got at the time of her birth. “Even if it is remediable, we are unable to spend the money needed for the operation. It is very hard for me to run a family of six members with an income of Rs 200 rupees per day and we can only dream of spending so much money for her treatment”, her father said.
Resmita, Saina and Samima are being felicitated in their locality with their Coach
After securing her position in the State-level Swimming Championship in 2013 held in Kolkata’s Kumartuli, Samima set out her journey into the National level championships under the guidance of Bodruddoja Saikh. Since then, she has succeeded to retain her position in the National Championships for the last four years held in four different cities of India. In 2014, she won two gold, two silver that was held in Indore, Madhya Pradesh; two gold, two silver, and one bronze in Belgaon, Karnataka for 2015 and two silver and two gold for 2016 in Rajasthan’s Jaipur.
In her early days, she used to practice swimming in her village pond. “When I was in my eighth standard, one day I was swimming in the nearby pond of my village. There my present Coach (Saikh) saw me and asked me whether I would like to swim under his guidance as a part of the competition. After that, whatever I have achieved now only for his insistence and influences,” she said. She started practising swimming in a lonely pond near Nalhati, quite far away from her village.
Bodruddoja Saikh spoke to TwoCircles.net about the tribulations that they faced at the start. “It was very tough for me to train her in the village pond as many adults would stand with their mobiles to capture her photos. Even locals would rebuff me for doing these sorts of things with a Muslim girl.” He added, “But when Samima won some competitions and news about it came out in papers, people left rebuking me. Since then, I started taking my students to a pond quite far from the villages near Nalhati to train them.”
Samima with her Coach, Bodruddoja Saikh.
When she was asked whether there was any problem with her parents to allow her swimming, she said, “We are very poor. So my parents allowed me to do what I am doing so that I can help them financially in order to get rid of poverty.”
But the bitter truth is that even after bringing laurels to West Bengal at the national level competitions, the Bengal government did not pay any attention to the girl or to her family. Though local administration did facilitate the winners this year after their return, no financial help was assured to them and the students are way too poor to afford training in the reputed clubs. Though other states have sanctioned some money for the winners at the national level, Bengal government is yet to think over that. Saikh lamented, “The Haryana sanctioned Rs 3 lakh for gold winners, Rs 2 lakh for silver winners and Rs 1 lakh for bronze winners. Recently, even the Bihar government implemented the same. But our government has done nothing like this. If the government does so, then lakhs of physically deformed children may get enthusiasm to devote themselves to these sorts of sports.”
Samima’s father also urged the same. “If benevolent persons come forward to help my daughter to achieve her ultimate successes, then we would be grateful to all of them,” he added.
PS: If TwoCircles.net readers would like to help Samima and her family, the bank details of the family are as follows:
Name: SAMIMA KHATUN
A/C NO— 35188578498 (STATE BANK OF INDIA)
NALHATI BRANCH, BIRBHUM.
IFSC CODE—SBIN0008540.
source: http://www.twocircles.net / Two Circles.net / Home> Indian Muslim> Lead Story> TCN Positive / by Mirza Mosaraf Hossain, TwoCircles.net / November 24th, 2017
Mairaj emerged victorious after edging out youngster Angad Vir Singh Bajwa of Punjab 26-25 in a marathon shoot-off.
Mairaj Ahmad Khan via Facebook
India’s top Skeet shooter, Mairaj Ahmad Khan, was on Saturday crowned national champion after a marathon final at New Delhi’s Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range on the concluding day of the 61st National Shooting Championship Competitions for Shotgun events.
In a battle between India’s present and future of Men’s Skeet shooting, Mairaj, representing Uttar Pradesh (UP) and youngster Angad Vir Singh Bajwa of Punjab, were engaged in a grueling battle for top honours as both recorded 57 out of 60 hits in the final and then went through a marathon shoot-off before Mairaj came through 26-25 to clinch gold. Man Singh of Haryana won the Bronze with a score of 46 in the finals.
Earlier in qualification, Angad topped the field with a high score of 123 out of 125 while Mairaj was third among six to qualify with a score of 122. Angad however won the Team gold in the event, combining with Amarinder Cheema and Sukhbir Singh Harika for a total of 356, ahead of Haryana’s 351.
Mairaj and his UP team won Bronze with a combined total of 348.
There was another shoot-off to determine the winner of the gold medal in the Junior Men’s Skeet, where Chattisgarh’s Mohammad Hamza Sheikh prevailed over Punjab’s Gurnihal Singh Garcha 7-6 after both were tied on 53 hits.
Ayush Rudraraju of Tripura won Bronze recording 38 hits in the final.
Just like Angad in Men’s Skeet, Gurnihal did manage to win the Junior Team Gold with his Punjab teammates Abinash Pratap Singh Sidhu and Indereshwar Singh Sekhon recording a combined total of 336, ahead of second placed Rajasthan with 326 and third placed Madhya Pradesh with 285.
A doctor at the hospital said they performed the operation in four hours without removing the patient’s ovaries or uterus. The previous record was held by an Egyptian woman, who had 186 tumours removed from her body last December.
Mediapersons interview the medical team that conducted the surgical procedure. (HT Photo)
As many as 191 benign tumours were removed from the uterus of an Omani woman at a private hospital in Kozhikode, north Kerala, on Saturday.
Doctors at the city’s Starcare Hospital claimed this was a new world record. They said the previous one was held by an Egyptian woman, who had 186 tumours removed from her body last December.
Dr Abdul Rashid, the hospital’s chief gynaecologist, told Hindustan Times they performed the operation in four hours without removing the patient’s ovaries or uterus. “We blended keyhole and traditional mechanisms to do it. We were expecting 80-odd tumours, not so many,” he said, adding that the woman was now recuperating from the procedure.
The existing record in the country is 84 tumours.
Dr Rashid said the hospital will soon update Guinness World Records authorities on the development. “We did not operate on the 34-year-old woman to break any record. We had initially considered laparoscopic surgery, but decided against it when we realised that the tumour was really big,” he added.
A team of three doctors had performed the surgery.
The chief gynaecologist said a leading medical body has already confirmed that this was a unique case. “The woman seemed to be in an advanced stage of pregnancy when she first came here, but we were keen on protecting her ovaries and uterus. She can now lead a normal life, and even conceive after a couple of years,” he added.
According to Dr Rashid, there has been a significant rise in middle-eastern patients visiting super-specialty hospitals in the state lately. “Our facilities are economical when compared to hospitals in the West, while keeping with similar standards. Kerala has always been a leading tourist destination, but it may soon become a medical hub too,” he said.
source: http://www.hindustantimes.com / Hindustan Times / Home> India / by Ramesh Babu – Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram / November 19th, 2017
Jhunjhunu’s Nuan village can easily be dubbed nursery of civil servants. This village of Kayamkhani Muslims has three IAS, one IPS and five RAS from a single family. Former union minister and an army officer Captain Ayyub Khan also belongs to this village.
Recently, this tiny village got an IAS officer in Zakir Hussain whose elder brother, Ashfaq Hussain is already an IAS officer. Their elder brother Liaqat Ali Khan is retired IPS officer. The villagers erupted with joy when they got the news of Zakir’s success who is 10th civil servant in the family. He was officer of accounts service who has now been promoted to IAS. His wife Wasim Bano who had come to her parents home said, she was very happy after her husband’s promotion. Her father engineer, Akhtar Hussain said that everyone was happy and proud of his son- in- law.
This is perhaps the first instance in the state’s bureaucracy that two brothers are serving as IAS at the same time. Zakir’s brother, Ashfaq is also IAS and posted in the education department.
The extraordinary of this family begin with Hayat Muhammed Khan who served in the army. He ensured that his children get education and create a niche for themselves.
Three of his five sons are IAS and one is IPS. One is retired from the education department. Farah Khan, his granddaughter and daughter of IAS Ashfaq Hussain is officer of Indian Revenue Service (IRS); she recently got married to IAS Qamar-ul Zaman Choudhary, while Shaheen Ali Khan, the grandson of Hayat Khan and son of retired IG Liaqat Ali Khan is, RAS. Shaheen’s wife Monika is Dy. SP in the jail department.
Children of Hayat Khan’s daughter Salim and his wife are both RAS. Hayat Khan’s younger brother Abdul Samad’s son Zaki Ahmed Khan was colonel in the army and his children Shaqib and Ishrat are also colonel in the army.
Liaqat Ali Khan, retired IPS. He was also chairman of the Waqf board.
Ashfaq Hussain, promoted from RAS to IAS. He was Dausa collector and currently posted in education department.
Zakir Hussain, joint secretary in the accounts service promoted to IAS.
Farah Khan, IRS, daughter of IAS Ashfaq Khan
Shaheen Ali Khan RAS currently posted in EGS (NREGA) as additional director. He is son of retired IPS Liaqat Ali Khan. His wife Monika is Dy SP in jail department.
Salim Khan, RAS is secretary in Madrasa Board. He is son of Liaqat Ali’s sister Akhtar Bano. His wife Sana Siddiqi is assistant settlement officer in the secretariat.
Qamar Ul Zaman IAS is married to daughter of IAS Ashfaq Khan and his wife Farah is IRS.
Javed RAS belongs to Nuan and currently posted in Alwar and married to daughter of Liaqat Ali’s sister.
FEAT ACHIEVED
The extraordinary feat of this family began with Hayat Muhammed Khan who served in the army. He ensured that his children get education and create a niche for themselves. Three of his five sons are IAS and one is IPS. One is retired from education department.
source: http://www.dnaindia.com / DNA – Daily News & Analysis / Home> India News> Jaipur News / by Sandip Khedia / November 14th, 2017
The youngest headmaster Babar Ali will take part in a session, organised to mark Children’s Day by city-based Learners PU College in association with All India Corporate Council for Skill Development (AICCSD), at Kalamandira on November 14 at 5 pm.
Babar Ali, who was born in 1993, started his teaching career when he was nine-year-old and became headmaster in a school in West Bengal when he was 16. The biography of Ali has been included in the pre-university English textbook, published by Karnataka state government.
English teachers, students of class X and PUC can attend the event. Interested people can register by sending SMS along with the name to 99169 33202 or 99163 97939 or email to learnerspuc@gmail.com.
source: http://www.deccanherald.com / Deccan Herald / Home> District / DH News Service / Mysuru / November 11th, 2017
Kolkata man aces rice bucket challenge with a record 39,000-kg contribution
Giving joy Kolkata rises to the challenge/ Usha Rai
Since 2014, a social initiative called ‘rice bucket challenge’ has given new meaning to philanthropy in India, and involves collecting and distributing this staple grain to the poor and needy.
The idea of the challenge is to get people to compete with one another in giving. Early this year, Mohammed Tauseef Rahman of Kolkata created a new record by distributing about 39,000 kg in five hours at the Ladies Park in Park Circus.
Started as an online social initiative by journalist Manju Latha Kalanidhi in Hyderabad, the challenge began with ‘Likes’ and shares on Facebook. Tauseef took part in the first challenge in Kolkata in December 2014.
Last year he again distributed 19,000 kg of rice in association with the Kolkata-based NGO Tiljala Shed.
This year’s donation, his third so far, was the biggest, with online retailer Big Basket and seven to eight other local people contributing rice. Even as the distribution started, the contributions of rice kept coming in till the last minute. The queue of recipients seemed endless and there were hiccups like the polythene carry bags tearing under the weight of the rice — 5 kg a person. The recipients had been identified earlier and given a slip of paper each, which they produced on the day of distribution.
The rice bucket challenge was inspired by the Ice Bucket Challenge started abroad by an association for people with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), to create awareness about the ailment and raise funds for further research. It involved pouring a bucket of ice cold water on a person’s head.
Rather than waste precious water, Kalanidhi turned the concept on its head by making the challenge all about raising donations of rice for the poor and hungry.
The Facebook page was launched on August 23, 2014, and received 7,000 likes within a day. The Twitter hashtag #ricebucketchallenge followed and, within a month, it had been tweeted 11,000 times.
The challenge also received extensive coverage in the mainstream media.
Kalanidhi says that as long as the concept reminds people to share, it serves its primary purpose.
Today, the Facebook page has over 65,000 followers and it recently helped raise more than 800 kg of rice for the Maa Illu Orphanage in Hyderabad.
In Kolkata, Tauseef handled the entire event and plans an even bigger one next year.
The writer is a senior journalist based in Delhi
source: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com / Business Line / Home> Specials> India Interionrs / by Usha Rai / November 03rd, 2017
The stone and lime mortar tomb has been painted white in violation of conservation rules.(Pic: Syed Omar)
Hyderabad :
Hazrat Syed Khaja Hussain Shah Wali. The very mention of this revered name evokes spirituality and science. The saintengineer of the early Qutub Shahi period was responsible for the picturesque Hussainsagar that once irrigated vast stretches of green belts and quenched the thirst of thousands of people in the Hyderabad of yore. He also designed the Purana Pul, Hyderabad’s first bridge across the Musi. With the unique distinction of witnessing the reign of three Qutub Shahi kings, Hussain Shah Wali also oversaw the execution of the world’s first food-for work programme.
Sadly, large parcels of prime land attached to the grand mausoleum, where his mortal remains are buried, have fallen prey to land sharks.The mausoleum once had about 2,000 acres, but today only a small portion is free of illegal occupation. Encroachments have come up all around the mausoleum in utter disregard to the city’s spiritual and engineering heritage. Even the road leading to the dargah (tomb) is not free of encroachments. As if this was not enough, those manning the dargah have whitewashed the tomb built of stone and lime mortar, thus robbing it of its original beauty. Earlier, the managing committee had painted the tomb green. This is in clear violation of conservation rules. Neither the state Waqf Board nor the archaeology department has taken cognizance of this blatant violation.
“Heritage sites built of stone and mortar are not to be whitewashed or painted. Cement is never used for restoration as it is like cancer to mortar. The tomb was built during the reign of Abdullah Qutub Shah VII. Bad and unscientific upkeep has made the structure weak,” said city historian Dr Mohammad Safiullah, demanding that the tomb be restored by the government on the lines of the Qutub Shahi tombs where experts from the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) are working.
Hussain Shah Wali was the son-in-law of Ibrahim Qutub Shah IV. He was the head of all civil works in the kingdom. He built Hussainsagar in 1562. The saint-engineer died in 1620 and the tomb was constructed later by Abdullah Qutub Shah VII.
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News> City News> Hyderabad News / by Syed Akbar / TNN / October 29th, 2017
