Category Archives: Education

Firoz Bakht Ahmed Appointed MANUU Chancellor

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Hyderabad, TELANGANA :

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

A blood donors’ directory from MGU

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Kochi, KERALA :

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.

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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

Saman Waheed of Lucknow among 07 ISC 12th 2018 All India Toppers

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Lucknow, UTTAR PRADESH :

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New Delhi:

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 Jaipuria School, 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.

Steps to check ISC Class 12th Results 2018

  1. Click here to go to ISC Class 12 Result Page
  2. Select Course
  3. Enter UID and Index Number
  4. Enter the Captcha code as you see
  5. Click on ‘Show Result’ button
  6. 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

Ilma Afroz, farmer’s daughter, cracks civil service exam

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Moradabad, UTTAR PRADESH :

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Moradabad:

‘Where there is a will, there is a way’, this proverb was proved true by Ilma Afroz, a farmer’s daughter from Moradabad district in Uttar Pradesh. Against all odds, she has bagged 217th rank in Civil Services Examination 2017, whose result was declared on Friday evening.

She is the granddaughter of the former chairman of Kundarki Nagar Panchayat, Qazi Habeeb Ahmed. She was studious right from the childhood. Ilma attributes her success to her mother, Suhaila Parveen and brother Qazi Arfat. Ilma says that after the death of her father, her mother did not allow her to miss his absence. After initial studies in Kundarki, Ilma passed her intermediate studies from the Wilsonia Inter College in Moradabad. She did graduation in Philosophy from St. Stephen’s College in Delhi. She went to France, England and US for further studies.

Ilma bagged the IFMR and the Contemporary South Asian Studies Award. She has been Secretary in the Clinton Foundation of Hillary Clinton, wife of former US President Bill Clinton. Ilma participated in the Civil Services Examination and achieved success in her first attempt.

Ilma wishes to become an IPS officer. She will be the first IPS officer of Kundarki.

source: http://www.siasat.com / The Siasat Daily / Home> India> News> Top Stories / April 30th, 2018

SSLC exam: Girls top in Yadgir district

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Yadgir, KARNATAKA :

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Topper scores 619 marks

Girls have taken the top two slots in the Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) examination results in Yadgir district.

Namira Umama, daughter of Sarfuddin, an employee of the Education Department in Yadgir, has emerged the topper. She has secured 619 marks with 98.72%. Ms. Namira is a student of Saba High School.

Second topper

The second topper is Dhanyashree Nagarajgowda, who has secured 614 marks with 98.24%. She is studying in Srinivasreddy Memorial Kannada and English Medium School, Gurmitkal.

The third topper is Naresh Kumar Sabanna, who has scored 608 marks with 97.38 %. He is a student of Pujya Shantaveeraswami Smriti High School in Gurmitkal.

Ms. Nameera said that she wants to become a doctor and serve poor people in rural areas. She said her mother Ameena Roohi, a teacher in Urdu Medium School, was her biggest support.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> States> Karnataka / by Staff Reporter / Yadgir – May 09th, 2018

Bengaluru girls to represent India at Jr NBA World C’ships in Orlando

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Bengaluru, KARNATAKA :

Bengaluru’s girls basketball team, who will represent India at the Jr. NBA World Championship in Orlando, Florida in August
Bengaluru’s girls basketball team, who will represent India at the Jr. NBA World Championship in Orlando, Florida in August

Bengaluru :

Several weeks of preparation and hard-fought wins over some of the country’s best teams has finally paid off for a bunch of talented young women basketball players from Bengaluru, who will now represent India at the Jr. NBA World Championship to be held near Orlando, Florida, in August.

After a gruelling three-day league phase, the city girls overcame favourites Kerala 47-41 in the semifinals and then sealed a 41-38 comeback win over Chennai in the Reliance Foundation Jr. NBA National Finals at the NBA Academy in Greater Noida on Wednesday. Among the boys, Delhi defeated Kolkata 81-71.

Both Bengaluru and Delhi teams, along with international teams from Africa and West Asia, Europe, Mexico, Canada, Asia Pacific, China and South America will take part in the first-of-a-kind global youth tournament for U-14 cagers which will be held at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex near Orlando from August 7-12.

The National Finals featured the country’s top eight boys and girls’ teams from Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Kolkata, Kerala, Mumbai and Punjab, based on their performance during the Reliance Foundation Jr. NBA Programme held in January. The programme consisted of several individual skills contests and 5v5 competitions and following the city finals in March, each city picked its 10-member All-Star teams (boys & girls) for the National Final.

“The competition was tough, we were facing some of the best in the country. But the girls were confident. We had a good preparatory camp in the run-up to the tournament,” coach Prasanna Venkatesh told TOI on Wednesday. “In the league phase, we finished second behind Chennai and therefore faced Kerala in the semifinals. Kerala, with their tall players, were tough but we still beat them in the end by six points.”

In the final, however, facing old nemesis Chennai was not going to be easy. “There were some nerves because we had lost to them earlier in the league phase and at the 2017 Sub-Junior Nationals,” Sunishka Kartik, one of the team’s top performers, said.

Trailing 2-17 after the first quarter, the Bengaluru girls never lost hope and pushed hard to surge ahead at the break and then defend the lead for the win. “Seven of us have played together before for Karnataka so we rallied together as a team, fought hard and defended well. It was a victory to cherish forever,” said the Baldwin Girls’ High School student.

Asked if they had received any cash award for their achievement, Sunishka quipped, “It doesn’t matter. There is no award bigger than representing India.”

Winning squad: Sunishka Kartik, Diya J Kothari (Baldwin Girls’ HS), Smriti Vemula, Vedaa Anand (Greenwood High), Hamsa R, Meghana M (Carmel Convent), Shreya Ashok (Bishop Cotton), Shreya Bose (NPS HSR Layout), Moumita Mishra (Vibgyor High), Nuha Asif Masood (JSS PS). Coaches: Prasanna Venkatesh, Palani M, Jyothi Rao S.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> Sports News> Others / by Maxin Mathew / TNN / May 03rd, 2018

Primary school teacher, Seerat Fatima cracks UPSC exam

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Allahabad, UTTAR PRADESH :

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Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh):

A Primary school teacher and daughter of an accountant, Seerat Fatima is one among UPSC achievers in 2017 exam whose result was declared on Friday.

Seerat’s father Abdul Gani Siddiqui being an accountant in a government office was hurt by the way bureaucrats treated their subordinates, and it is when he decided that his eldest daughter would become an IAS officer. “All power resides only with officers, I used to think. This is why I wanted Seerat to become an IAS officer”, Siddiqui said to local media as per a report by Ummid News.

Despite less salary even to run the household properly, Siddiqui made sure that he gets his daughter study at St. Mary’s Convent School in Ghoorpur, which is around some 15 km from Allahabad.

After completing her graduation and B.ed from Allahabad Central University, Seerat joined a school. “I started working as a teacher because it was becoming difficult day by day to sustain on my father’s salary”, she says.

Seerat on her return from school every day would prepare till late in the night for Civil Services examination. Meanwhile, Seerat started becoming discouraged and almost decided to quit. “It was during this distressing period I watched Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s Manjhi. The film rejuvenated me and the result is in front of you all”, she says.

source: nyooz up

Seerat Fatima has cracked the 2017 UPSC Civil Services exam in her 4th attempt, with a rank of 810th from the list of 990 candidates. However, she now wants to better her rank and plans to reappear in the examination.

source: http://www.siasat.com / The Daily Siasat / Home> India> News> Top Stories / April 30th, 2018

Irshad Kamil presents scholarships in his mother’s name

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Malerkotla (Sanjrur District), PUNJAB  /  Mumbai, MAHARASHTRA :

Irshad Kamil at Panjab University's Hindi department
Irshad Kamil at Panjab University’s Hindi department

Department of Hindi, Panjab University organized ‘Rukhsat 2018’ the farewell ceremony for M.A fourth semester students on Wednesday.

The students of the department presented a cultural program and brought together the folk dances like Gidda, Himachali Naati and Rajasthani folk dance.

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The chief guest for the event was celebrated Bollywood lyricist Dr Irshad Kamil.

He awarded 26 meritorious students with various scholarships. He also presented the special scholarship as a tribute to his mother Begum Iqbal to two meritorious students, Divya and Manjinder.

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The Department presented Kamil with his portrait as a souvenir.

Chairperson of Hindi dept, Dr Gurmeet Singh said that the highlight of the program was participation from a number of alumni of the department.

The judges panel comprised choreographer Preeti Arora, budding actor Satish Yadav and transgenderr activist Dhananjay.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News> City News> Chandigarh News / TNN / May 02nd, 2018

UPSC results: ‘Want to tell society madrasas in Kerala can contribute civil servants’

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Thiruvallur Village (Kozhikode District) , KERALA  :

The civil services exam, Shahid said, was a way to tell the society that madrasas are not a breeding ground of terrorism. “There may be stray issues or controversies, but madrasas in Kerala can contribute civil servants also,’’ he said.

T Shahid, a former madrasa teacher from Kerala, cracked the UPSC examination in his sixth attempt and ranked 693.
T Shahid, a former madrasa teacher from Kerala, cracked the UPSC examination in his sixth attempt and ranked 693.

Having never had the opportunity to attend a mainstream school, let alone college, after primary school education, T Shahid, a former madrasa teacher from Kerala, has proved that tenacity eventually triumphs. The 28-year-old native of Thiruvallur village, in Kozhikode district, has cracked the UPSC examination in his sixth attempt, ranked 693.

Son of madrasa teacher Abdul Rahman Musaliyar and homemaker Sulekha, Shahid said he was forced to opt for a Muslim religious educational institution, run by an orphanage at Kappad in Kozhikode, at age 10 given financial crisis at home.

After 12 years of religious education and leading a secluded life at the Islamic seminary, Shahid bagged the religious ‘hasni’ degree, a course which equipped him to become a madrasa teacher. While studying for hasni, he completed Class X and Class XII, and finally got a degree in English — all through distance courses.

“From 2010 to 2012, I worked as a madrassa teacher in Kannur for Rs 6,000,” Shahid said.

After the degree in English in 2012, for a brief he worked at the Malayalam daily Chandrika, managed by the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML). And that’s when, Shahid said, his perspective towards life changed — “I started reading about general issues. The 12-year life at the Islamic institute had made my perspective narrow. But working as a journalist made me look at the world outside.”

This was also the time he felt he should try to have a career other than becoming a religious scholar.

Shahid, who had Malayalam literature as optional subject in UPSC, said the coaching classes in Delhi, sponsored by IUML’s students’ wing MSF, helped broaden his mind further. “Those coaching days gave me a lot of exposure, which the madrasa teacher in me never got,’’ he said.

But Shahid has not forgotten his roots. The civil services exam, he said, was a way to tell the society that madrasas are not a breeding ground of terrorism. “There may be stray issues or controversies, but madrasas in Kerala can contribute civil servants also,’’ he said.

source: http://www.indianexpress.com / The Indian Express / Home> Education / by Shaju Philip / Thiruvananthapuram – May 01st, 2018

Meet Hyderabad’s Jameel Fathima Zeba who cleared Civil Services Exam

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Hyderabad , TELANGANA :

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Hyderabad:

Ms. Jameel Fathima Zeba who secured 62nd rank in Civil Services Examination conducted by UPSC thanked Commissioner of Rachakonda Police, Mr. Mahesh Murlidhar Bhagwat for providing guidance to Civil Service aspirants.

She mentioned that after passing MBA from St. Francis College, she had started preparations for Civil Service Examination. She had opted for Sociology as an optional subject.

She further told that Mr. Bhagwat had guided her for facing the interview session. His WhatsApp helped her a lot. She also said that questions on Israel, Palestine, formation of Telangana and participation of film stars in UP politics were asked in the interview.

She is the granddaughter of Prof. Suleman Athar Javeed, former Head of the Dept. of Urdu, SV University, Tirupathi. Her father, Mr. Habeebullah Khan is a geologist working at NMDC, Masab Tank, Hyderabad.

source: http://www.siasat.com / The Siasat Daily / Home> Hyderabad> Top Stories / by Siasat News / May 01st, 2018