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Arshad Madani’s Jamiat starts ‘Madani-100’ free coaching centre

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NEW DELHI :

Maulana Arshad Madani

New Delhi : 

Arshad Madani, President of Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind, inaugurated a free coaching centre called “Madani-100” for financially weak students in New Delhi on Monday and in which non-Muslim students can get admission too.

Madani said that the purpose of setting up this centre is to prepare intelligent but financially weak students for competitive examinations. For this 10th, 11th and 12th pass students will be selected through a test. This test will be Admission Cum Scholarship, and the students who will be selected will be given scholarship up to 100% and free coaching for competitive exams like IIT, GEE and NET.

Madani clarified that Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind does its work on the basis of humanity irrespective of religion, caste and creed. “Therefore, in keeping with its tradition, coaching will also be provided to non-Muslim students who are financially weak but talented.” he said.

He added that Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind has never opposed secular or modern education. However, from the beginning it has been believing that the children of the nation who want to get education must have religious education so that they can understand what Islam is and what its teachings are.

He added that there is no future for the traditional way of education, and our children who are getting education will lag far behind the children of other nations if they are not prepared for competitive examinations by encouraging their natural abilities.

He said that the kind of religious and ideological confrontation that has now started in our homeland cannot be countered by any other weapon except education, so it is the collective responsibility of all of us to equip our new generation with basic religious and modern higher education so that they, with their intelligence and ability, can reach the milestones of success and prosperity.

Madani said the Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind is working successfully on all fronts. It is setting up schools and madrassas on the one hand, and on the other hand it has now started emphasizing on education that can serve the country and the nation at every level. This means technical and competitive education. The launch of the free coaching centre is a major initiative in this direction. He said that if this initiative is successful, then our long-standing desire is to set up a coaching centre for the civil services.

Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind has been providing scholarships to poor students selected on the basis of merit since 2012. This year, scholarships have been provided to 656 students, including Hindu students.

The amount of scholarship has also been increased from Rs 5 million to Rs 10 million since this year. It is planned to increase this amount further in the coming years. -IANS

source: http://www.muslimmirror.com / Muslim Mirror / Home> Indian Muslims / by IANS / September 20th, 2021

SIO Releases ‘Dictionary Of Mappila Martyrs’, After ICHR’s Removal Of Names

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KERALA :

The 221 pages book released by SIO briefly introduces all the 387 Mappula leaders who fought British and Hindu feudal lords.

Following the Indian Council of Historical Research’s (ICHR) decision to remove the names of Mappila or Moplah leaders from the ‘Dictionary of Martyrs: India’s Freedom Struggle 1857-1947‘, the Students Islamic Organisation of India (SIO) Kerala unit released the ‘Dictionary Of Mappila Martyrs’ compiling the names of all the 387 martyrs.

The book “Dictionary of Mappila Martyrs” was handed over by Amjad Ali E M, State President of SIO Kerala to Alavi Kakkadan, a prominent historian and chairman of Variyamkunnath Kunjahammad Haji Foundation of India. Abdul Hakeem Nadwi, State secretary of Jama’athe Islami Kerala, Rashad V P, State secretary of SIO Kerala, and Sahel Bas Joint Secretary of SIO Malappuram were present at the launch of the event at Press Club Malappuram on Monday.

Amjad Ali EM said that the Malabar Uprising of 1921, which is described by historians as the first mass-scale uprising against the British in southern India, discomforts Hindutva politics and therefore the dictionary released by the governing Sangh Parivar can’t include Malabar martyrs.

A three-member panel, which reviewed the entries in the fifth volume of the Dictionary of Martyrs: India’s Freedom Struggle 1857-1947, brought out by the ICHR, recommended the deletion of the names of Mappila martyrs, saying that the 1921 uprising against the British was never part of the independence struggle but a fundamentalist movement focused on religious conversion.

This came close on the heels after former BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav said the Moplah uprising was one of the “first manifestations of the Taliban mindset in India“.

“The greatness of Variyan Kunnathu and Ali Musliyar lies in not getting into the good list of Sangh Parivar. And history will remember them for getting omitted from Sangh distorted history, therefore, to mention the names of the Mappila martyrs who were cut off by the ICHR is to express a strong stand against the Hindutva regime,” Amjad Ali said. Alavi Kakkadan, Abdul Hakeem Nadwi, Rashad V P, and Sahel Bas also expressed their opinions in the meet.

The 221 pages book released by SIO briefly introduces all the 387 Mappula leaders who fought British and Hindu feudal lords.

Was The Moplah Uprising Part Of Indian Freedom Struggle And Was It Anti-Hindu? / video source: thecognate.com

source: http://www.thecognate.com / The Cognate / Home> News / by The Cognate News Desk / September 14th, 2021

Press Club of India Remembers Maulvi Baqar — India’s ‘First Martyr Journalist’

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DELHI :

Masoom Muradabadi’s book was launched at the Press Club on Thursday by eminent journalists

The event was organised to launch the Hindi translation of journalist Masoom Muradabadi’s book on Maulvi Baqar.

New Delhi :

The Press Club of India on Thursday held a seminar to commemorate the death anniversary of Maulvi Mohammad Baqar, the first journalist who was executed by the British following the rebellion of 1857.

A Hindi translation of the book titled ‘1857 Ki Kranti Aur Urdu Patrkarita’ (The Revolution of 1957 and Urdu Journalism) authored by journalist Masoom Muradabadi was released at the seminar.

It chronicles the life of Baqar as a journalist and freedom fighter. Moreover, two journalists — Swati Mathur, a reporter with The Times of India, and Shams Tabrez Qasmi, the editor of popular news portal Millat Times — were also felicitated with an award named after Baqar.

A number of veteran journalists and writers spoke on the occasion paying tributes to the ‘first martyr journalist’. They described Baqar as an icon of Hindu-Muslim unity whose ideals are increasingly relevant in the present times.”

“Maulvi Muhammad Baqir was one of the great journalists who preferred martyrdom to collaboration with Britishers.” A U Asif, a senior journalist and member of Press Club’s managing committee, said. “He is the ideal and role model for the new generation of journalists.

Satish Jacob, a BBC veteran, said Baqar was a journalist who sacrificed his life for the sake of the nation. He described him a proponent of Hindu-Muslim unity.

Jacob said he is proud of the fact that he hails from old Delhi which gave birth to a person like Baqar. He said that Baqar had started an Imam Barah in the Kashmere gate area which is still functioning. The Imam Barah was built with the expressed goal of communal harmony, he added.

Noted journalist Meem Afzal, who has been a member of Parliament and India’s ambassador in four countries, lashed out at the current government for communal divide and accused it of obliterating the contributions of people like Baqar. He said that Baqar used his pen to fight for the idea of India.

Maroof Raza, another journalist, appealed for steps to find the original source and preserve the archives of ‘Delhi Urdu Akhbar’, the newspaper Baqar used to publish.

Jai Shanakar Gupta, senior journalist and a member of the Press Council of India, urged the government to get copies of the newspaper that Baqar edited from Britain where they are lying in a museum.

SQR Ilyas, journalist and president of the Welfare Party of India, said that the sacrifice of Baqar should inspire the present-day journalists to speak truth to power. He lauded the Press Club for commemorating Baqar.

Similar sentiments were echoed by Syed Aijaz Aslam, editor of Radiance Viewsweekly.

Mathur and Qasmi expressed their gratitude to the Press Club for felicitating them with the award. “This recognition in the form of an award in Maulvi Baqar’s name is a big thing for me, ” said Mathur.

Qasmi credited his whole team of Millat Times for the work that earned him the award.

source: http://www.clarionindia.net / Clarion / Home> Editor’ Pick / by Zafar Aafaq, Clarion India / September 16th, 2021

Indian-origin neurosurgeon helps save Israeli twins conjoined at head

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Jammu & Kashmir, INDIA / London, UNITED KINGDOM (UK):

A Kashmir-born Muslim doctor scrubbed up alongside an Israeli team to help a Jewish family was a reminder of the universal nature of medicine: Dr. Noor Ul Owase Jeelani.

Indian-origin neurosurgeon helps save Israeli twins conjoined at head

Jerusalem: 

A world-renowned Indian-origin pediatric neurosurgeon in the UK has helped a group of Israeli doctors to successfully operate on a pair of twins conjoined at the head, with the babies now likely to lead normal lives, a media report here said.

This is for the first time that Dr. Noor Ul Owase Jeelani, who was born in Kashmir and works at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital, agreed to carry out such a surgery outside the UK when contacted by doctors at Israel’s Soroka hospital, according to a report in The Times of Israel (TOI).

He and his colleague, Professor David Dunway, are globally seen as experts on such cases.

Jeelani said, “from a doctor’s point of view, we’re all one” and that medicine transcends all divisions.

“He said that the fact that a Kashmir-born Muslim doctor scrubbed up alongside an Israeli team to help a Jewish family was a reminder of the universal nature of medicine,” the report quoted him as saying.

“It was a fantastic family that we helped,” Jeelani said, adding, as I’ve said all my life, all children are the same, whatever colour or religion”.

“The distinctions are man-made. A child is a child. From a doctor’s point of view, we’re all one,” he emphasised.

The doctor found the family’s delight at the success of the operation “deeply moving”.

“There was this very special moment when the parents were just over the moon. I have never in my life seen a person smile, cry, be happy, and be relieved at the same time. The mother simply couldn’t believe it, we had to pull up a chair to help her to calm down,” Jeelani told the news portal.

Jeelani is said to have also worked for months on the surgery of the Israeli twins.

“We’ve been involved right from the start, talking to the team in Israel and planning it with them over a period of six months,” he said.

“This latest surgery fulfills a key objective of our charity, namely, to empower local teams abroad to undertake this complex work, successfully utilising our experience, knowledge, and skills gained over the past 15 years with our previous four sets of twins,” the neurosurgeon stressed.

It is also a major achievement for the medical team at Israel’s Soroka hospital that managed this complex operation despite having never performed such a surgery.

It involved complicated on-the-spot decisions regarding which blood vessel to give to which twin, and assessing in real-time the impact that immediate decisions were having on the functioning of the brains, the report said.

Jeelani has performed four other such surgeries on twins who were conjoined at the head with fused skulls, intertwined brains, and shared blood vessels.

His involvement with conjoined twins started in 2017 when a neurosurgeon from Peshawar, Pakistan, asked him to operate on identical conjoined twins, Safa and Marwa, born three months earlier to a woman from rural northern Pakistan.

He raised the money for the surgery from a Pakistani oil trader called Murtaza Lakhani and, with Dunaway, successfully performed the operation after hundreds of hours of preparation.

Following the success, he went on to establish Gemini Untwined, a nonprofit organisation, to plan and perform such operations, the report said.

source: http://www.freepressjournal.in / The Free Press Journal / Home> World / by PTI / September 13th, 2021

Kerala nurses win National Florence Nightingale Award for their selfless service

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KERALA / ALL INDIA :

President Ram Nath Kovind presented the National Florence Nightingale Award 2020 to 51 nurses across the country.

For representational purposes (Photo | Prasant Madugula, EPS)

Thiruvananthapuram :

President Ram Nath Kovind presented the National Florence Nightingale Award 2020 to 51 nurses across the country. Adhering to Covid protocols, the presentation of the awards was held as a virtual ceremony. 

Two nurses from Kerala, nursing superintendent at Thiruvananthapuram Medical College Hospital P Geetha and nursing officer at Community Health Centre at Androth Island in Lakshadweep – Muhammed Asif, were honoured with the meritorious services award for nursing professionals in the country.

The annual award was instituted by the Union Health ministry in 1973. 

The winners were awarded Rs 50,000 as cash prize, a certificate, a citation and a medal.

The ceremony was organised at the Thiruvananthapuram National Informatics Centre in the city.

Nursing Council Registrar Dr Saleena Shah and Dr P S Sona, who is the state coordinator of the award committee, attended the event.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Good News / by Express News Service / September 17th, 2021

Young women lead churn within Muslim League

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KERALA :

The young women leaders are talking about the “politics of honourable existence”, which is beyond the comprehension of the present IUML leadership.

Image of IUML supporters used for representational purpose (File Photo | A Sanesh, EPS)

The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), a constituent of the opposition UDF in Kerala, is currently engaged in fighting a fire triggered by some of its young women leaders.

Haritha, a girls’ collective part of IUML’s student wing MSF, chose to speak out against the sexist approach and remarks of the MSF’s male-dominated leadership and complained to the women’s commission when the party refused to take any action.

The offended IUML leadership asked the girls to withdraw the complaint and, when found that they were unrelenting, disbanded the entire Haritha committee. It then removed MSF national vice-president Fathima Thahliya and state vice-president P P Shyjal, who supported the Haritha leaders.

The developments underline the churn within and are seen as the outcome of the knowledge revolution among Kerala’s Muslim community that has pushed the girls onto the centre stage. They have gate-crashed into spaces that were the prerogative of the males till now. This leap is clearly visible in academia, social life and even in politics.

The young women leaders are talking about the “politics of honourable existence”, which is beyond the comprehension of the present IUML leadership.

What we see now is the conflict between the emerging politics that is sensitive to the rights of the marginalised, including women, and the conventional politics that sees only power.

The IUML leadership first tried to ignore the issues of self-respect raised by the girls. Then they tried to stifle the voice when it became louder. Now, the issue has become too hot to handle. As a political party that apparently stands for minorities and the marginalised, the IUML cannot turn a blind eye to the issues raised by women leaders. As the Haritha leaders said, the IUML has to regain its democratic structure at every level of the party. It is high time it changed its priorities and policies.

Unlike in the past, where the party enjoyed a monopoly over the Muslim community, there are other players in the field now. And they are more sensible and sensitive to the dreams of the new generation. The party should see the writing on the wall and transform itself to accommodate new perspectives.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Opinion> Editorials / September 17th, 2021

Kasargod’s Nagma Mallick appointed as new Indian Ambassador to Republic of Poland

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Kasargod, KERALA :

New Delhi: 

Nagma Mohammed Mallick an IFS officer of the 1991 batch has been appointed as the next Indian Ambassador to the Republic of Poland.

A native of Kasargod Nagma completed her education at St Stephen’s College & Delhi School of Economics. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English Literature and a master’s degree in Economics.

She has earlier served as High Commissioner of India to Brunei, India’s Ambassador to Tunisia before this posting.

She was born in New Delhi to Keralite parents from Kasaragod Mohammad Habibullah and Sulu Bhanu.

She joined the Foreign Service in 1991 as a career diplomat. She was the first Muslim woman in the Indian Foreign Service. Her first posting was in Paris where she served in the Indian Mission to UNESCO. Thereafter, in New Delhi, she served in various capacities in the Ministry of External Affairs, including on the Western Europe desk. She served as a staff officer to Prime Minister I.K. Gujral. She then served as the first woman Deputy Chief of Protocol (Ceremonial).

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Twitter

Ministry of Foreign Affairs @PolandMFADep.

FM @marcin_przydacz met today with Nagma Mohamed Mallick, Ambassador-designate of #India to . Minister pointed out a good condition of political relations between Poland & India. During the meeting, a range of economic issues of mutual interest were discussed.


533pm – Sept 15, 2021

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source: http://www.english.varthabharati.in / Vartha Bharati / Home> Vartha Bharati / September 17th, 2021

Doha: Voice of World – Season 1 winners declared

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Doha, QATAR :

The most awaited trending and entertaining Doha Music Lovers ‘Voice of World’ Online singing competition ended on September 10, 2021 by finding its three winners of both Hindi and Telugu languages simultaneously.

The show has gained huge popularity among fans and viewers because the show brought new concepts for all the viewers. The first episode of the show appeared on June 13, 2021 on Channel 5 and after three months, the grand finale happened at ICC’s Ashoka Hall, Doha, Qatar under 75 years Azadika Amrit Mahotsav in coordination with ICC. The show was produced by Doha Music Lovers Group in association with Telangana Praja Samithi Qatar.

The three winners announced in Hindi were Tejaswi from California, USA, Jyotisha Santosh from Doha, Qatar and Shruthi Prabhala from Bilaspur, India.

For Telugu the three winners were Medha Anantuni from Texas, USA, Geeta Lakshmi from Pennsylvania, USA and Mavuru Sravani from Vishakhapatnam, India. Many contestants are left in the show to entertain the viewers.


More than 650 singers participated in this ‘Voice of World’ online singing competition out of which 30 singers were shortlisted in Hindi and 30 in Telugu, it took three months to reach the finals with 10 rounds of competition in between.

The eminent dignitaries who were present at the Grand Finale are Babu Rajan ICC President was the chief guest, Krishna Kumar, general secretary of ICC, K S Prasad ICC advisory committee board chairman, Ziyad Usman, ICBF president, Vinod Nair, ICBF vice-president, Azim Abbas, IBPC immediate president, Gadde Srinivas, president of Telangana Praja Samithi Qatar, Nandini Abbagoni president of Telangana Jagruthi Qatar, Satyanarayana president of Andhra Kala Vedika, Khaja Nizamuddin, president of Telangana Welfare Association and Syed Rafi chairman of Channel 5 and director and producer of Voice of World and last but not the least Jai Prakash Singh of North Central India Group.

Talking to media Syed Rafi said that it was very difficult to decide the winners as everyone sang very well, but as it is a competition and we have to take some hard decisions, the winners were decided based on Judges votes, committee votes, elite members votes and public votes. It is one of the longest season and ended with a bang, marking a new era in online singing contest said K S Prasad of ICC advisory committee chairman.

The winners will be given cash prize of Rs 50,000; Rs 30,000 and Rs 20,000 for first, second and third positions in each language. Voice of World online singing competition was sponsored by Dana World Contracting Co Wll, Telangana Food Suncons, H P Industries, Jai Prakash Singh and by Indian Hyderabadi Spices Restaurant.

The Grand Finale witnessed spectacular performances by Doha Music Lovers Group and this program was live on youtube wherein thousands of people watched it online from various countries.

Arif Rayees, Priti Vikramnath from Qatar and Srilatha Mula and Dr Vishwanatha Sridevi from India were the judges of this competition.

Mohinder Jalandhary, Preeti Trivedi, Venkappa Bhagavatula and Harika were the anchors for this singing competition. The show has completed 10 rounds before the grand finale.

Speaking on the occasion Gadde Srinivas president of TPS said that they are proud to provide this kind of platform to budding artist and he thanked Syed Rafi for taking this initiative and said that he and his group will be ready to support him all the time. Sophia Bukhari appreciated the efforts taken by Syed Rafi to provide a unique platform to budding artist on an international level and said that HP Industries would be proud to be associated with these kind of programs.

Jai Prakash Singh said that its not an easy task to conduct such kind of program with so much ease and professionalism, and he said kudos to Syed Rafi and his team for surpassing all the expectations. Praveen Buyyani of Telangana Food Suncons said that he was closely watching Voice of World from the first round and he observed how the program changed from the day 1 to present with lot of technicalities, background changes, lighting effects and change of stages, he said that he never expected that these many changes can be done in any program with limited resources, he concluded saying that it was an excellent program which surpassed all the expectations.

Baburajan president of ICC said that they are ready to support this kind of programs and said that they would love people to come forward which such kind of new initiatives and he congratulated Syed Rafi for conducting such a wonderful program. The show was concluded with vote of thanks by Venkat general secretary of Telangana Praja Samithi Qatar.

source: http://www.daijiworld.com / Daijiworld.com / Home> Middle East / by Media Release / September 13th, 2021

Uttar Pradesh government nominates members to Muslim bodies

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UTTAR PRADESH :

UP Shia Central Waqf Board has received four nominations from the state government — Maulana Raza Husain, S. Hasan Qausar, Mohammad Jaryab Jamal Rizvi, and Shabahat Husain.

(Mohsin Raza Minister of State (Uttar Pradesh); Image Source: Twitter/@Mohsinrazabjpup)

The Uttar Pradesh government has announced names of committee members of five minority organisations of the states, including the UP Shia Central Waqf Board and the State Haj Committee.

The announcements come as part of the government’s nomination to these committees including those of the UP Urdu Academy, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmad Memorial Committee, and the UP Board of Madrasa Education.

State Minister for Haj and Waqf, Mohsin Raza’s name features in the list of 14 members of the State Haj Committee.

Others nominated from Lucknow include Faisal Ali Khan and S. Kalbe Husain.

UP Shia Central Waqf Board has received four nominations from the state government — Maulana Raza Husain, S. Hasan Qausar, Mohammad Jaryab Jamal Rizvi, and Shabahat Husain.

The government has nominated Chaudhary Kaiful Wara of Gorakhpur as President of the UP Urdu Academy.

Last year, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had visited Wara’s shop in Gorakhpur during the CAA awareness campaign and presented him with a booklet related to it.

The Chief Minister had then appealed to people to read the reality of the Act instead of believing in rumours.

Adityanath has also nominated Mohd Iftikhar Hussain as a member of the Haj Committee.

source: http://www.thestatesman.com / The Statesman / Home> Uttar Pradesh / by IANS, Lucknow / September 10th, 2021

Mumbai: Association of Muslim Professionals announces scholarships for 100 ‘Covid-19 orphans’

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Mumbai, MAHARASHTRA :

Association of Muslim Professionals President Aamir Edresy.

Mumbai:

City-based NGO Association of Muslim Professionals ( AMP) has announced scholarships of Rs 10,000 to each of the ‘100 Covid-19 orphans’ in the country.

AMP president Aamir Edresy said that the help is part of their “Basic School Education Assistance Programme” launched a couple of months ago.

“The pandemic claimed breadwinners in many families, leaving school-going children anchorless. Some of the families are so desperately poor that, if financial help is not provided to them, their children will drop out from schools. We are stepping in with help initially for 100 children,” said Edresy.

He added that AMP’s wide network across the country would help it verify the applicants and reach out to them with help.

The AMP is also using IndiaZakat.com, India’s first zakat-based crowdfunding platform, to collect funds to support more orphaned children.

“To ensure that more students can be helped, we have started a fundraiser to collect more funds on our Crowd Funding Platform IndiaZakat.com to support many more students,” said Javed Syed who heads AMP’s Zakat Fund section.

Founded in 2008, AMP has its presence now in 150 cities and  towns across the country. So far, it has helped 30,000 youths get jobs and provided financial support to over 3000 families.

It has also reached out to many through its mentorship programmes.

Iftekhar Bidkar, the core member of AMP and IndiaZakat.com, appealed to people to make this campaign a success by giving their support. He requested people to come forward and support this cause on the crowdfunding platform Indiazakat.com

AMP is a platform for professionals and volunteers to share their knowledge, intellect, experience, and skills for the overall development of not just the community but also the society at large. It aimed at empowering the underprivileged educationally, socially, politically and financially.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> News> City News> Mumbai News / by Mohammed Wajihuddin, TNN / September 01st, 2021