For those who made it into the UPSC exam results, the journey has not been easy.
New Delhi :
For those who made it, the journey has not been easy. “When I told my family members and friends that I wanted to take the exam, I was discouraged at first,” said MohammadNadeemuddin from Karnataka, who secured 656th rank this year but hopes to get into the Indian Police Service as he is an OBC.
“I was told that at the interview level there would be bias at play but I was elated when I found the interview board to be cordial,” the 25-year-old said.
For Nooh Siddiqui of Maharashtra, who has got 326th rank and hopes to get into the Indian Revenue Service, the target is clear. “I want to be able to serve my community in the best way possible and address the concerns they have,” he told The New Sunday Express.
A total of 990 candidates — 750 men and 240 women — were recommended by the UPSC for appointment to various central government services.
Of these candidates, 476 are from the general category, 275 from OBC, 165 from scheduled caste and 74 from scheduled tribes category.
source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Nation / by Sumi Sukanya Dutta / Express News Service / April 29th, 2018
The Vice-President, De. Montfort University Students Union, England and Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress Spokesperson, Syed Saud Hasan met British Member of Parliament, Jonathan Ashworth twice and apprised him the problems facing by Indian Students who are eager to go to England for study.
Syed Saud Hasan, met the British Parliamentarian second time last evening and conveyed him the problems faced by the Indian students, who were either studying in England or eager to go there for study.
Hasan, in his half an hour meeting with Jonathan Ashworth, put with him the visa and stay back problems facing by the Indian students, the parliamentarian heard the above problems seriously and promised to raise the issue in the British Parliament once again.
He said that the MP had already raised the issue in the Parliament earlier as per the first meeting with him few months back. Jon Ashworth promised that he would put pressure on the British government to take a major step in favor of Indian students.
The MP expressed hope that Indian students can get good news soon in the above context. Syed Saud Hasan, Vice President, DMU Student Union said, if this matter is not heard soon, then we will surround the UK government by formulating further strategies. We will fight for the rights of Indian students till it achieved.
source: http://www.centralchronicle.com / Central Chronicle / Home / by Chronicle Reporter – Bhopal / April 25th, 2018
Collector Sarfaraz Ahmad bagged the prestigious Deen Dayal Upadhyay Grameen Kaushal Yojana (DDU-GKY) award presented by the Union Rural Development Ministry for helping unemployed youth secure employment in private sector during the last two years in the district.
Prime minister gave the award to District Collector Sarfaraz Ahmad
Collector Sarfaraz Ahmad bagged the prestigious Deen Dayal Upadhyay Grameen Kaushal Yojana (DDU-GKY) award presented by the Union Rural Development Ministry for helping unemployed youth secure employment in private sector during the last two years in the district.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi would give away the award to the Collector at a function in New Delhi on Saturday . The Karimnagar district topped in State in guiding and providing assistance to youth.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Telangana / by Special Correspondent / Karimnagar – April 21st, 2018
At a condolence meeting jointly organised by All India Educational Movement (AIEM) and Muslim Education Trust (MET), here on 16 January, rich tributes were paid to Saiyid Hamid, the founder-President of AIEM and former Chairman of MET for over a decade. This was one of dozens of such condolence meetings held across India to pay tributes to Saiyid Hamid.
(L to R) Abdul Rashid (speaking), Syyed Mansoor Agha, Dr Syed Farooq, Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, Masoom Muradabadi
Dr Syed Farooq, patron of AIEM and Chairman of Himalaya Drugs Company, Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, Editor of the Milli Gazette and President of AIMMM, Parwaz Rahmani, Editor of Urdu bi-weekly “Dawat”, Masoom Moradabdi, Editor of daily Jadeed Khabar, Syyed Mansoor Agha, Senior Urdu journalist and Vice President of AIEM, Abdul Rashid, former Deputy Secretary to Govt. of India and General Secretary AIEM, Mozaffar Ali, Secretary of MET, Rafiq Ahmad, Secretary of Human Welfare Foundation (HWF) and Maualana Ataur-Rahman Qasmi, Director of Shah Waliullah Institute spoke on the occasion.
Presiding over the meeting, Dr Syed Farooq said that the best tribute to the departed soul will be to continue his mission which is far from complete. He was a visionary and a dedicated person, said Dr Farooq. Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan said, after his retirement from civil services, Saiyid Hamid devoted himself fully for the cause of the community. This is rare as there are hundreds of high-ranking Muslim civil servants who are living their own lives after retirement and show no interest in helping their community. Saiyid Hamid was a person of conviction. He greatly valued the capabilities of others.
Parwaz Rahmani said, some of Saiyid Hamid’s actions as the VC of AMU invited criticism but nobody can deny that whatever he said or did was done with sincerity and in good faith. He had a versatile and attractive personality. Maualana Ataur-Rahman Qasmi said Saiyid Hamid was a man of great stature. He always extended a helping hand but never compromised with his principles to oblige anybody.
Masoom Moradabadi said, the character of leadership Saiyid Hamid provided is in contrast to others. He did not rely upon complaining. Instead, he struggled using self-strength and managed to carve a way-out and helped the community. He advised the community to realise their inherent capabilities, mobilise their available resources and stand on their own two feet. Syyed Mansoor Agha said, Hamid Saheb was an education activist and a great admirer of Sir Syed’s vision of education. He believed in an inclusive approach and stressed upon educating the community. He drew our attention towards the importance of health and hygiene and the dire need of social reforms. He was a big votary for promotion of communal harmony. He was a person of knowledge and action and a rare humanist of our times. Underlining Saiyid Hamid’s deep interest in people’s welfare activities, Rafiq Ahmad said, even during his serious illness, he took keen interest in the affairs of HWF and always obliged us with guidance and granted us audience whenever we approached him. Saiyid Hamid was the founder-Chairman of HWF and served in that capacity until his last breath. The HWF is running several charitable institutions including Al-Shifa Hospital and a chain of Scholar Schools including one at AbulFazl Enclave in Delhi.
Concluding the meeting, Mozaffar Ali said, a the first chairman of MET, Saiyid Hamid shaped the mission which is successfully helping thousands of students to receive higher education in spite of financial constraints. The meeting ended after passing a condolence resolution which said Saiyid Hamid was “a visionary who guided Indian Muslims like a beacon for decades to improve their lot, is no more among us.”
source: http://www.milligazette.com / The Milli Gazette / Home> Online News> Special Report / Online February 13th, 2015 / Print issue : 1-15 February 2015
Islamic scholar Abdul Salam Sullami, 67, died in Sharjah on Wednesday.
His body will be brought to his home at Edavanna, near Manjeri, on Friday. The funeral will take place at the Edavanna Juma Masjid at 4.30 p.m. on Friday.
A leading Mujahid scholar, Sullami wrote several books on Shariat, Koran, and Hadith.
His books on comparative religious study and Madhabs are popular. His commentary on Sahih-ul-Bukhari and translation of Riyad-u-Swaliheen earned him much fame in Kerala .
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> States> Kerala / by Staff Reporter / Malappuram – February 01st, 2018
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) NationalSecretary and Spokesperson, Syed Zafar Islam, will be felicitated with Jamia UrduAligarh’s (JUA) highest award, the “Daktoor-e-Adab”, on the occasion of its Foundation Day on April 16.
The Vice-Chancellorof the institution, Musaid Kidwai, invited Islam as the Chief Guest of the ceremony commemorating the 79th anniversary of JUA’s Foundation Day, wherein he will be bestowed upon with the award, whose previous recipients include high-profile names like Indira Gandhi, VP Singh, Dilip Kumar, Dr Zakir Husain, Mahesh Bhatt, etc.
JUA is the first distance educationinstitution in the country which provides educationto the deprived classes through Urdumedium since 1939. It has around 1100 centres across the country. The institution is also engaged in modernising the madarsa educationin the country.
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source: http://www.business-standard.com / Business-Standard / Home> News-ANI> National / by ANI / Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh) / April 15th, 2018
Bengaluru-based calligrapher Muqtar Ahmed is on a mission to revive the art of Arabic calligraphy in India. At the Indo-Islamic Art and Culture (IIIAC) in Bengaluru, he has trained 500 youngsters so far.
Muqtar Ahmed believes that there is no script as beautiful as Arabic in the world. (Facebook)
Arabic calligraphy is worship for Muqtar Ahmed, an Indian calligrapher who has made a mark for himself at a global level. Hailing from a remote village in Telangana, and currently based in Bengaluru, Muqtar is on a mission to revive this dying art in India.
As beautiful as pearls, his works attract attention even if one is not familiar with Arabic. According to him, the aesthetics and refinement are the specialities of Islamic art. “Writing the Quranic verses and Hadith (sayings of the Prophet Mohammad) is worship. These works are sawab-e-jaria (continuous reward),” says the calligrapher, who believes that there is no script as beautiful in the world.
Muqtar believes his efforts have started yielding results as his disciples are carving a niche for themselves at a global level. The only Indian to obtain an “Ijazah” (Master’s diploma) from the Istanbul-based Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture (IRCICA) of the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Muqtar is grooming young talent at the Institute of Indo-Islamic Art and Culture (IIIAC) in Bengaluru.
Institute of Indo-Islamic Art & Culture about 11 months ago
He has so far trained 500 youngsters, including students and professionals coming from varied backgrounds at the institute. A Japanese girl is among the three foreigners who learnt Arabic calligraphy under him. Muqtar, whose calligraphic works adorn mosques and even private jets abroad, is happy that the institute is getting global recognition for the high standards set by it in Arabic calligraphy.
Three of his students bagged top prizes at a national-level calligraphy competition organised in New Delhi last year by Yayasan Restu, a Malaysian organisation. Ameerul Islam and Abdul Sattar of Hyderabad won the top honours and were selected for an 18-month training programme in Malaysia.
About 400 people from calligraphy institutes across the country participated in the competition. “For the first time, people in India saw what real Arabic calligraphy is,” said Muqtar, who has participated in many exhibitions in different parts of the world.
Institute of Indo-Islamic Art & Culture about a year ago
According to him, the art in India has been in continuous decline after the end of Mughal rule. He pointed out that the calligraphy work in India was never recognised globally, as it was nowhere near the international standard.
Ameerul Islam and Abdul Sattar are now teaching calligraphy at the institute’s Hyderabad branch, which was opened recently. The talented youth, who have participated in competitions in various countries, are training more than 20 students.
Muqtar, who plans to open another branch of the institute in Lucknow, believes that with more youngsters evincing interest in Arabic calligraphy, the art has bright future in the country. The “ijazah” obtained by Muqtar in 2013 may have fetched him a good job in the Arab world, where Islamic art is greatly valued. But he stayed back to revive the art in India, where it once enjoyed royal patronage.
One of his works was purchased by the then governor of Madina in 2011 when he participated in the international exhibition in the holy city in Saudi Arabia.
Interested in calligraphy from his school days, Muqtar migrated from his village in Medak district to Hyderabad to learn the art. He them moved to Bengaluru where he started working for a Urdu daily. Rendered jobless after the newspaper replaced calligraphy with computers in the early 1990s, Muqtar started writing wedding cards to make a living. “It was not my goal. I wanted to go deep into the art,” recalled the artist, who improved his art under renowned international calligraphers Mamoun Luthfi Sakkal and Mohammed Zakariya of the US, and refined it further under the guidance of Turkey’s Hassan Chalabi and Dawood Biktash.
Muqtar, who uses special, handmade pens for his writings, said he achieved precision with perseverance. “Even a small piece of calligraphy takes several hours. You have to write a letter hundreds of times to achieve accuracy,” he said.
source: http://www.hindustantimes.com / Hindustan Times / Home> Lifestyle> Art and Culture / by Indo Asian News Service / April 08th, 2018
Celebrating works of female photographers, an exhibition was mounted in New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts
You would be familiar with the ‘male gaze’, a term coined by feminist critic Laura Mulvey, which states that the point of view of almost all cinema or photograph is masculine. But if one pays attention to the recent trend in photography, women are actually taking back the gaze. Female gaze can be ascribed to anything photographed by a woman and in that process frees females from the “male-constructed” photographs that have developed an image of femininity in our minds throughout the history of image making.
Similar themes were central to Prof. Farhat Basir Khan’s recently concluded exhibition Feminography at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, which was the result of his observations and curated work of female photographers which includes media practitioners, teachers, scholars, writers, mothers and daughters.
On the rationale of holding an exhibition based on women’s perspective of the world, Prof. Khan, who also teaches photography at MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, said: “Feminography celebrates the work of women in India and their journey of both being and becoming a woman. It is a narrative of the people, places and spaces, and the relation women shares within it, which is shot through the lens.”
Prof. Khan is happy that more and more women are now asserting their position through social media platforms like Instagram and the broader perspective on the way we look at the woman is changing through it. It is also reflected in the shifting of many institutional magazine’s portrayals of women, which are now showing them as a character in a visual narrative, not as an object of desire.
Transcending barriers
Nitisha Malick takes inspiration from urban eccentricities and captures the connection with the wilderness in her picture Maids Of Gurgaon. “I wanted to show the emotions of those women who live in the shadows of modern cities but their life is still very far from development,” said Mallick, while explaining her work. In an another picture, she explored the contentment of a girl despite all hardships and challenges in her life. All images shown were powerful stories of cities andspaces that women photographers inhabit and the barriers that they transcend.
FROM HER PRISM Saumya Khandelwal’s “Child Bride in Shravasti”
Some were independent memories shot with a half smile; others with grit and determination, still others with a gentle non-abrasive press of a shutter. Saumya Khandelwal’s “Child Bride in Shravasti”, questions the life of young married girls yet reflects the happiness that they have built for themselves. “The subjects in the works includes forms and textures – the mundane and the ordinary which is transcending them into works of art to frame, admire and cherish,” concluded Prof. Khan.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Entertainment> Art / by Atif Khan / January 04th, 2017
(L to R) Farhat Basir Khan, Prof. S.P. Singh at the exhibition of Aditya Havelia (BCCL / Vishnu Jaiswal)
Lucknow, UTTAR PRADESH :
Lucknowites witnessed an underwater photography exhibition titled Into the Blue, by Aditya Havelia at an art gallery in Aliganj.
Giving the social message of saving our water from pollution, the eight-day exhibition attracted a lot of photography enthusiasts.
The exhibition, which had 54 pictures clicked by the photographer from the year 2010, was inaugurated by Prof SP Singh, vice-chancellor, Lucknow University. Singh said, “I really enjoyed seeing the underwater life.
Aditya’s initiative to promote the cause of water pollution was also worth appreciating.” Curated by the academician, Farhat Basir Khan, the photos displayed Aditya’s work from Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Netrani Island, Malaysia and Mauritius.
Telling us about the hard work put in to get the perfect clicks, Aditya said, “We usually don’t get a perfect guide for underwater photography, which made it a bit of a challenge for me to click these photographs.”
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> News> City News> Lucknow News> Events / by Adnaan Rizvi / TNN / April 05th, 2018
