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Telangana’s first Muslim woman IPS officer Shaik Saleema stands as epitome of woman empowerment

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Komatlagudem Village (Khammam District), TELANGANA :

Apart from being Telangana’s first Muslim woman IPS officer, Saleema is also the first woman from the erstwhile Khammam district to have been appointed to the IPS.

Rachakonda DCP Shaik Saleema
Rachakonda DCP Shaik Saleema (Photo| EPS)

Khammam :

A festive air has gripped Komatlagudem village of Chintakani mandal in Khammam district after Shaik Saleema, who was a non-cadre Superintendents of Police (SP), was appointed to the Indian Police Service (IPS) by the Central government. She is currently posted as a DCP in the Rachakonda commissionerate.

Apart from being Telangana’s first Muslim woman IPS officer, Saleema is also the first woman from erstwhile Khammam district to have been appointed to the IPS.

Hailing from a middle-class family, Saleema’s father Lal Bahadur also served in the Police Department and retired as Sub-Inspector (SI) a few years ago. Her mother Yakubbi was a stay-at-home parent. The couple has three other children – Zareena, Munni and Khasim – and all of them are in good positions now.

After completing her schooling and graduation in Khammam, Saleema joined the Kakatiya University in Warangal for pursuing a postgraduate degree in bio-technology. After cracking the group exams, she was selected as a DSP in 2007 and got her first posting at Kagaznagar in erstwhile Adilabad district.

Later, she worked as the vice-principal of Amberpet Police Training Centre in Hyderabad. She also served as Addl DCP (Admin) in Cyberabad police commissionerate. Saleema’s sister Zareena is currently awaiting her interview after clearing the Andhra Pradesh Group-1 exam.

While her another sister Munni currently works as a vehicle inspector in Khairatabad, Hyderabad, Saleema’s brother Khasim is a doctor at Care Hospital in Hyderabad. The cop’s husband works as a software engineer. 

When The New Indian Express spoke to a couple of villagers, they all expressed their happiness over Saleema’s promotion. Speaking to The New Indian Express, Saleema shared her joy and said that she has always strived to be honest in her job throughout her career.

The officer says: “More and more women should join the force. For this, one has to step out of their comfort zone and come forward. Only then, you would be able to achieve the name and fame that you dream of. I also did the same. Thanks to my family members for supporting me throughout the journey.”

Mentioning that getting a government job had always been her dream, Saleema said after receiving one, she never looked back. “My family supported me the same way they would if I received any other job. They never let me face any difficulties alone. After I got married, my husband Baji Ahmed, who works as project manager, became my spot driver,” chuckles Saleema.

Ahmed looks after both their kids, studying in Classes IX and II, without any complaints. She says her younger child still wonders as to why her picture appears in newspapers once a while. When asked if there was any incident that gave her complete satisfaction, the cop shared one such instance with The New Indian Express.

“We were given complete freedom by CP Mahesh Bhagwat to put an end to two major threats the city was facing in 2018 — sex determination in Uppal and sex trafficking in Yadagirigutta. One of those nights, I received a call with a tipoff and we had to conduct, not a raid but, a decoy operation. I saw many grave things that night. But, after successfully detecting the case and sending the victims to shelter homes, I felt complete satisfaction. Memories of that day still give me immense pleasure,” she said.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> States> Telangana / by B Satyanarayana Reddy and Priya Rathnam / by Express News Service / December 26th, 2021

Moscow Wushu Stars Championship: Gold medalist Sadia Tariq receives a warm welcome in Srinagar

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Moscow Wushu Stars Championship: Gold medalist Sadia Tariq receives warm welcome in Srinagar

Srinagar : (ANI):

Sadia Tariq who won a gold Medal in the Moscow Wushu Stars Championship received a warm welcome from family and friends who reached Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar on Saturday.

Speaking to ANI, Tariq shared her happiness and thanked her family and coach for supporting her.

“My eyes were in tears when I won the gold medal. If this happened today it is only because of my coach and family. I want to thank my coach who was there supporting me all the time,” she said.

Maimoona Tariq, mother of Sadia said her daughter was passionate about this since she was in the third standard, today she made all of us proud.

“I am proud of my daughter, she made us proud. She was always engaged in this game since the third standard. I want other children to participate in the game also and made their parents proud,” she added.

Masood Rather, Joint Secretary of Srinagar Wushu Association said “we all are very proud of Sadia. She performed very well in Wushu Stars Championship. Sadia already won two gold in national, it is her third gold medal.”

“As far as talking about Wushu, it is very popular in Jammu and Kashmir,” he further added.

Earlier in the last week of February, Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Sadia Tariq on winning a gold medal in the Moscow Wushu Stars Championship, which is being held from February 22 to 28.

Sadia won the gold medal in Wushu Championship in Moscow by defeating a local player. Moscow Wushu Stars Championship is the approved event in the Annual Calendar Training and Competition of the Sports Authority of India. (ANI)

This report is auto-generated from ANI news service. ThePrint holds no responsibility for its content.

source: http://www.theprint.in / The Print / Home> India / by ANI / March 06th, 2022

These Muslim artisans in Jaipur are preserving traditional art-form of Gulal Gota for celebrating Holi

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Jaipur, RAJASTHAN :

‘Gulal Gota’ is made with unique craftsmanship and compliments the festival of colours. | Picture by Tabeenah Anjum

Dozens of Muslim artisans in Jaipur have kept the 400-year-old traditional art form of Gulal Gota alive.

Jaipur :

The narrow lanes of Jaipur’s walled city are abuzz with festive fervour ahead of Holi, the festival of colours to be celebrated on March 17. Twenty-eight-year-old Amjad Khan, a seventh-generation lac bangle maker is busy selling Gulal Gotas (lac balls filled with colours) at his shop situated in the Maniharon-Ka-Raasta inside the Tripolia Bazar in the walled city of Jaipur.

Every year, two months ahead of the Holi, Amjad along with his eight siblings starts making the lac balls and fills them with colours before packing them in boxes. Amjad is not alone. Dozens of artisans in Jaipur have kept this traditional art form alive, which is as old as 400 years. 

Gulal Gota is made with unique craftsmanship and compliments the festival of colours. After completing his basic education, Amjad learnt this art from his father late Babbu Khan. The family does not earn much from the sale of Gulal Gota but they don’t want to give up on this traditional art form that they have inherited from their forefathers.

‘Gulal Gota’ is made with unique craftsmanship and compliments the festival of colours. | Picture by Tabeenah Anjum

“In the last two decades and especially from the last two years because of the pandemic, the demand for Gulal Gota has come down a bit but for the love of this art form, we want to keep it alive and pass this to our next generation irrespective of gender. My siblings, mother and late father used to participate. It brings families together,” Amjad shared.

“Every year for two months our entire family gets busy making Gulal Gotas. It is an art to add colours in the lac containers. It is again re-heated and then, with the help of a steel rod and the air is blown into the small balls. We fill it later with organic colours. We are not even earning 50 per cent of what we are spending to make these balls but we are only doing to make the Holi special,” Amjad said. 

Each ball weighs from 10 to 20 grams and costs anywhere between Rs 100 to 150. 

The Gulal Gotas are still popular with traditional families and are used at the famous Govind Dev Ji temple in Jaipur. According to the popular view of historians, Sawai Jai Singh II brought the artists from Amber to the walled city and developed the unique art of Gulal Gota. Even today during the annual Holi celebration at the city palace, revellers throw these balls at each other and get smeared with colours without hurting anyone.

Boxes of Gulal Gotas being prepared for sale. | Picture by Tabeenah Anjum

Apart from states such as Madhya Pradesh, national capital New Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, it is shipped to other parts of the world including Canada, Britain, Australia, Spain, France and Nepal. However, packaging the balls needs careful handling to avoid the risk of the balls bursting in their wrapping. The balls are sold in packs of 6 or 8.

Those involved in the production of these balls belong to the Muslim community. Awaz Mohammed, a national award-winning artist who has been in this field for seven generations said, “This is a beautiful gesture and brings two communities together. The only sad part is that for an artist the sale from Gulal Gotas is not enough to sustain their livelihood.”

Awaz’s daughter Gulrukh Sultana who is a trained lac artist not only learnt the art from her father but is also sharing the skill at national institutes across India such as NIID, JJ School of Arts, Pearl Academy etc.

“Making lac artifacts is an intricate and unsafe job, but I want to share this art and skill with the future generation. It is the passing of tradition and heritage Jaipur is proud of. Lac is delicate and it needs proper handling. I have trained so many artists in different cities and also given demonstrations internationally,” said 35-year-old Sultana, a recipient of the state award in 2009 and a UNESCO award in 2013.

Looking at the market and interest of the younger generation, Sultana is apprehensive about whether this art could be saved. “Since there is not much earning, it is less attractive for youngsters to learn this skill but at the same time the government should come up with lucrative initiatives and ensure the art is kept alive”, she added.

Tabeenah Anjum is a journalist based in Rajasthan reporting on politics, gender, human rights, and issues impacting marginalized communities. She tweets at @TabeenahAnjum

source: http://www.twocircles.net / TwoCircles.net / Home> Lead Story / by Tabeenah Anjum, TwoCircles.net / March 16th, 2022

Mother of India’s hockey sensation Mumtaz Khan says her daughter equal to 100 sons

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Lucknow, UTTAR PRADESH :

Mother of India's hockey sensation Mumtaz Khan says her daughter equal to 100 sons
Mumtaz Khan of India Women’s team in action against Wales during Junior Hockey WC (Image: HI)

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) April 4 (ANI):

India stunned Germany in the Junior World Cup Hockey pool match after doughty Mumtaz Khan’s powerful drag-flick sent the ball crashing into the nets to send the girls in blue in frenzied celebrations while joys of her mother, Qaiser Jahan, who sells vegetables in Lucknow, knew no bounds.

Mumtaz Khan, 19, is now India’s new hockey sensation, taking her team to the top league while her dribble and powerplay with her stick awing the opponents.

Lucknow, the city of Nawabs and also hockey-lovers, is showering love and appreciation on Mumtaz’s family, which ekes out a livelihood as vegetable vendor.

With the hockey stick, Mumtaz Khan is not only shattering India’s powerful opponents, but also the age-old patriarchal taboos. Her mother is jubilant that Mumtaz Khan, one of her six daughters, has given a resounding slap to all those who taunted her in the past for having only daughters.

“People often made remarks that I only have daughters. Mumtaz has made us proud, and broke the social stigmas,” said Qaiser Jahan, while speaking to ANI at her vegetable shop in Lucknow.

My daughter is equal to 100 sons, said Qaiser Jahan.

While Qaiser Jahan managers to earn Rs 300 daily, she went beyond her means to support Mumtaz Khan pursue her dreams to wear the blue jersey and represent India on astroturf.

The financial strain proved insufficient for Mumtaz Khan to fly with the girls in blue to South Africa to play for the country.


Mumtaz Khan along with other under-19 Indian girls in blue is taking the team to newer heights, with a quarter-final berth sealed. Besides beating the formidable Germany by converting the penalty shoot, Mumtaz Khan had also taken India to an unassailable lead with a 3-1 scoreline with a brilliant field goal in the 41st minute against Wales in the FIH Women’s Junior World Cup at Potchefstroom in South Africa. India finally won the match 5-1.

Her father Hafiz Khan, a vegetable vendor, has all been supportive of Mumtaz Khan’s passion for hockey.

Mumtaz Khan’s journey as a hockey player began when she went to Agra to participate in a race and was spotted by Neelam Siddiqui who trained her at KD Singh Babu Stadium’s Sports Hostel.

“I feel very proud that my daughter is playing for the country. We are getting a lot of respect because of her,” said Mumtaz’s mother.

“I feel proud that my sister is an international hockey player. Despite poverty, our parents have raised us to make us capable to do something for ourselves,” said Farha Khan, Mumtaz’s sister. (ANI)

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source: http://www.theprint.in / The Print / Home> India / by ANI / April 04th, 2022

6,000 Km In 110 Days: Delhi Woman Sufiya Khan Breaks World Record For Golden Quadrilateral Run

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NEW DELHI :

Sufiya Khan began her run from the national capital on December 16, 2020

6,000 Km In 110 Days: Delhi Woman Breaks World Record For Golden Quadrilateral Run
Sufiya Khan travelled the golden quadrilateral by foot.

Sufiya Khan has set a Guinness World Record for the shortest time taken to travel the ‘golden quadrilateral’ – a network of national highways connecting Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai – by foot. The ultra runner from Delhi completed a journey of 6,002 km in just 110 days, 23 hours and 24 minutes. 

Sufiya began her run from the national capital on December 16, 2020. By April 6, 2021, she has completed the golden quadrilateral circuit. A gruelling journey, to be sure, but the 35-year-old athlete was determined to see it through.

“No, I did not think of giving up in the entire attempt,” she was quoted as saying by Guinness World Records. “Though there were very many injuries that happened during the run my full focus was on completing this attempt in minimum time.”

Sufiya was supported on her run by her husband, who drove the support car, took care of her nutrition and physiotherapy and managed her schedule. Besides this, local runners and cyclists joined her at various stretches of her journey.

“Almost all the cities where I was running through, runners and cyclists were joining and supporting us,” Sufiya said. “Most of the time in cities and small-town people were hosting me at their home for a night stay and dinner. Many times during the attempt we took hotels and couple of nights we had to sleep on roadside shelters.”

On Saturday, she was certified as the “fastest female to run along The Indian Golden Quadrilatrel Road.”

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Sufiya describes ultra-distance running as her passion. Ultra running is any footrace longer than the traditional marathon distance of 42.195 kilometres. 

“Ultra-distance running is my passion and I have left my aviation job for it so I always have time for such a journey. I train myself for long runs. This was my third expedition of long-distance running in-country,” she said.

She already holds a Guinness World Record for the fastest woman to run from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. 

source: http://www.ndtv.com / NDTV / Home> OffBeat / by Sanya Jain / March 30th, 2022 (headline edited)

Real and unruly: Saikat Majumdar reviews Of Dry Tongues and Brave Hearts

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Agra, UTTAR PRADESH / NEW DELHI :

The women’s writings and paintings collected here pose fundamental questions about the relation between art and marginality

When tongues run dry but hearts remain fearless — can there be a plight direr than this tearing apart of body and mind? The drought on the tongue is the silence of fear, hiding a heart that rails against terror, pledging to shatter the quiet. Reema Ahmad and Semeen Ali have come up with a dream title for their edited collection of poetry, prose and painting by women, many of them newer voices, some unheard before, published by a daring and often-experimental publisher of poetry, Red River.

This jagged collection poses fundamental questions about the relation between art, passion, marginality, and the vagaries of everyday life. With close to 150 contributions combining verse, narrative, reflections and images, the heart of this book is filled with courage, and tongues remain dry no more — they spill rivulets of passion, anger, love, protest, and triumphant celebrations of the quotidian.

Hope is a lie

The sheer range reimagines the relation between creativity and passionate selfhood through a spectrum where the accomplishments of craft are uneven. But the honesty never is, and since in the end, honesty occupies the true heart of artistic craft, it also invites us to broaden our understanding of technical finesse beyond the usual and the expected.

Early in the collection, Debolina Dey confesses that “These poets have taught me/ to be a ruthless hunter of metaphors/ as if your body/ could be something else.” The body returns in its quotidian oppression in Sukla Singha’s story, ‘That ‘90’s Show: Blood, Shit and Other Things’, chronicling the daily humiliation, of body and labour, of a mother, experienced and narrated by a young daughter, but ending with the strange billowing of the heart: “A storm of jet-black hair in the air. A Meitei woman’s boisterous laughter. Nobody had the guts to ruin that magic.”

The vernacular is not only the name of reality here, but also of synergy between languages. Namita Bhatia’s Hindi poem, ‘Cactus’, opening with the eloquent grunt, “Mai cactus hun — cactus”, ends, in Reema Ahmad’s translation, with the “chaste hope” “That if my skin be peeled off/ I may bleed only milk”. But in her engrossing short story, ‘An Obscure Life’, Ketaki Datta reminds us that often hope is a lie — that her friend Swapna who claimed to a hotel singer had died without ever becoming one, after a life of prostitution known only to her mother.

In this dry-tongued world, poetry, as Sneha Roy knows, is a forever transgression: “Like a pillar of ‘shameless poetry’ standing tall/ in Plato’s failed and banished world.” Poetry lies in the humble and the mundane, not in flamboyance, as in Aratrika Das’s dream that her son grows up to cook in a kitchen of daily, soiled labour, not in the TV kitchen with glamorous aprons and hi-tech gadgets.

Haunted by sensation

Bodies are real and unruly in this collection. In her poem, ‘On Carving a Watermelon’, Yashasvi Vachhani voices a woman whose lover tells her: “you have a pretty face, if only you lost some of it/ some of the meat that calls your bones home”. As that “piece of art inedible”, she watches as “you hand me a knife/ and say begin”. Zehra Naqvi, in a poem of visual experimentation, reclaims the female body away from male desire and maternal nourishment: “Because our breasts belong to us. Not to the men who desire us. Not to the children who feed on us.” Dipali Taneja writes about the ageing body haunted by memories of sensation: “You hear that your uterus is senile!/ It may well be, but your skin is not.”

The lines face Teena Gill’s painting, Dancing Woman, and the meditative trance on her face strangely intensifies the bodily sensation in Taneja’s poem. Ikilily of Pink Lips, in Neha Chaturvedi’s ominous fairy tale of that name, nurses a curse — she can have sex, but if “so much as a thought of love entered her mind about the man or the woman she was with, the person would die.”

The myth contrasts sharply with the sculpted realism of Shamayita Sen’s poem, ‘Consent’, which states: “The birdcage in your chest/ will have to ask for consent/ for mine to respond.” Till the very end, the ineluctable violence of desire shapes the paradox of Khushk Zubaan, Bebaak Jigar.

Of Dry Tongues and Brave Hearts; Edited by Reema Ahmad & Semeen Ali, Red River,₹599

The reviewer’s most recent book is The Middle Finger, a campus novel about poetry, performance, and mentorship.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Books> Mixed Collection / by Saikar Majumdar / April 02nd, 2022

How a Messi fan in Kerala village became a football journalist in Spain

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Mangattuparambu Village, KERALA / Vigo, SPAIN :

Jushna Shahin’s passion for the sport made her achieve the unthinkable.

Jushna at the conference room Spain. | Picture by arrangement

Kerala :

Jushna Shahin’s earliest memories are of watching football matches on TV with her family in Kerala’s Mangattuparamb village.

As a die-hard Lionel Messi fan, Shahin got her chance to do her bit for the game in 2009 when she was selected as one among the 70 students in JNU for the language assistant program in Spain by the Ministry of Education, Spain. “In our village, girls rarely went outside of their homes, other than going to school etc,” Shahin, a teaching assistant and football reporter in Spain, told TwoCircles.net. “Girls going out to play was out of the question, and that put an end to my dream of playing the sport.”

The Kendriya Vidyalaya high school where she studied encouraged sports, but Shahin was not comfortable with the usual sports uniform of shorts and t-shirt. 

This did not keep the girl away from football. “I  spent my time learning about the sport, and its laws and rules,” she said. 

Love for Spanish and Messi
Shahin said she wanted to study Spanish when she was in 10th grade so that she could talk to Messi.“I don’t know if it will materialize or not but I will make efforts,” she said. 

In 2019 when she got her first salary working in Spain, Shain bought tickets for the UEFA Champions League in Barcelona to see her sports hero play live. “It was unreal and amazing,” she said. 

The following day, she went over to the Barcelona club’s office and handed over a hand- letter meant for Messi, hoping that he would reply one day. 

Jushna Shahin on a visit to a Vine Cathedral with her students at the IES Santa Isabel de Hungria, Spain. | Picture by arrangement

Last year when Messi moved to the Paris Saint Germain (PSJ) football club in France, Shahin flew to Paris and witnessed the team getting trained. “My heart-throbbing moment was when I watched Messi getting trained,” she said.

While in 11th grade, Shahin attended a camp organized by students of central universities to help those interested to pursue studies outside Kerala. Contacts she made from the camp helped her  for the entrance exams. “Even after I  cleared the exams, my  parents were not  convinced about pursuing Spanish as a graduation course. However, they gave in to my wishes,” she said. 

In September 2019, Shahin traveled to Spain on her first international trip. 

After landing in Spain she found that the Spanish she had learned from textbooks was not the same as spoken by people in Spain. “It was a challenge. Also, the other Indian student’s who had been selected were all placed in different cities of Spain. To travel to a new country was exciting but I felt tense and insecure initially,” she said.

Love for sports writing
In 2014, when Shahin was at JNU, she started writing journalistic pieces for the Companion magazine. She would  write short reports about the matches she watched. Her interest in sports writing led her to report for The Footy Times , which is an online magazine devoted to publishing football journalism. She started reporting for the magazine during the 2018 FIFA World Cup and has been writing for it since. She has also reported for Malayalam news channel MediaOne and online news website MaktoobMedia.

Shahin  recalled two events as the most exciting during her work as a football reporter. In 2021 when the stadiums were closed to the public amid a global pandemic, she was one of the few media persons with accreditation pass reporting the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey in Spain. “I was seven months pregnant at the time,” she said 

In February 2022, she got accreditation from the Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) Football Club to report the UEFA Champions League round 16 in Paris. She also attended a press conference at the home stadium of PSG club where hers was one among the ten questions asked to Karim Benzema (Real Madrid captain). “Now that stadiums are open for the public, I don’t think I will get the chance to go in with the media persons alone to watch a match in a closed stadium. That makes my reporting during the last year very special,” Shahin said.

Jushna with her husband Awad and daughter Eva. | Picture by arrangement

Having been called crazy for her dreams and passion, Shahin shrugs it off and said, “What’s important and special for you might be very silly for the other person. It’s better not to see and look at your dreams in other people’s frameworks. Create your own dream and respect it, and be confident. Instead of just dreaming it, try to work on it. The only thing that matters is whether you are happy with it or not,” she added.   

Shahin’s parents had seen her love for football only as a childhood interest and never knew she would pursue a career related to the game.

“More than her craze for football through Messi, I am happy that she is in the field of football journalism,” said her father CKA Jabbar, veteran journalist and associate editor of Malayalam news portal kvartha.com. “Love for football and writing have been in her since childhood, and she worked hard to follow her dream,” said her mother, Nazila CH, working in the Animal Husbandry Department under the Government of Kerala in Thiruvananthapuram.

Shahin now lives with her husband, Awad Ahmad, and eight 8-months-old daughter in the city of Vigo in north-western Spain. 

Najiya O is a freelance journalist based in Calicut, Kerala. She tweets at  @najiyao

source: http://www.twocircles.net / TwoCircles.net / Home> Lead Story / by Najiya O, TwoCircles.net / March 26th, 2022

NEET 2021: Muslims “State Topper” in 5 states

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INDIA (BIHAR, LADAKH, LAKSHWADEEP, MIZORAM, +):

In an impressive academic performance once again Muslims have emerged as “NEET State Topper” in 5 states for the year 2021.

NEET 2021 Toppers: 

In an impressive academic performance once again Muslims have emerged as “NEET State Topper” in 5 states, including one abroad and overseas.

According to NEET 2021 Toppers’ List released Tuesday . Mohammad Zeya Belal, Zarina Batool, Farzina Yasmin Laskar, Shafeek Ahamed AM and Arsalan Mosaddiq are National Eligibility cum Entrance Test State Toppers (NEET UG 2021 Topper)in 5 states.

According to the NEET 2021 State Toppers List of 38 States and Union Territories, Zeya Belal, who also figured in the list of NEET 2021 Top 20, secured the first rank in Bihar. Zeya Belal has bagged 715 out of the total 720 marks in NEET 2021.

Other NEET Toppers 2021 who are Muslims include Zarina Batool who secured 596 marks and topped Ladakh, Farzina Yasmin Laskar who bagged 573 marks and topped Mizoram, whereas Shafeek Ahamed AM got a total of 489 and secured the first position in Lakshadweep,

The 5th Muslim topper is Arsalan Mosaddiq. Arsalan bagged 690 marks and topped NEET overseas centres.

The NTA did not disclose at which centre Arsalan appeared for NEET 2021. It was however announced that besides various exam centres in India, NEET was also held this year in Dubai and Kuwait .

In 2020, a total of 06 Muslim students had found their place in the list of NEET toppers. Among them was Shoyeb Aftab from Assam who had secured AIR 1 in 2020. Aftab is currently studying at AIIMS, New Delhi.

The NEET exams were conducted on September 12 at over 3,800 centres across 202 cities in India.

Around 16 lakh students from all over the country and abroad had applied to appear for the exam.

The NTA declared the NEET result Monday evening. In a first, the NTA sent the NEET score to the candidates on their registered e-mail addresses before publishing it on the official website.

Three students – Mrinal Kutteri from Hyderabad in Telangana, Tanmay Gupta from Delhi (NCR) and Karthika G Nair from Maharashtra have bagged 720 out of the total 720 marks in NEET UG 2021 and secured AIR 1, AIR 2 and AIR 3 ranks.

source: http://www.ummid.com / Ummid.com / Home> Education &Career / by ummid.com news network / November 03rd, 2021

ET Businesswoman of the Year 2021: Samina Hamied – The woman who carries forward a storied legacy, seeking profit, but never at the cost of values

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Mumbai, MAHARASHTRA :

Hamied has successfully steered Cipla on an accelerated growth path with a focus on boosting margins, without diluting the core values it stood for.

Synopsis

“I am humbled and honoured to receive the ET’s Businesswoman of the Year Award. This recognition belongs to each and every one of our 25,000 employees who stand with Cipla, putting patients’ interests before their own and upholding our purpose of Caring for Life,” Hamied, executive vice-chairperson, Cipla, told ET.

Samina Hamied represents a rich legacy. Her grandfather, KA Hamied, a freedom fighter and nationalist, founded Cipla in 1935, making it one of India’s oldest pharmaceutical companies. Her uncle Yusuf Hamied is the doyen of Indian pharma known globally for making affordable generic AIDS drugs accessible to millions of patients in Africa and other low- and middle-income countries.

“I am humbled and honoured to receive the ET’s Businesswoman of the Year Award. This recognition belongs to each and every one of our 25,000 employees who stand with Cipla, putting patients’ interests before their own and upholding our purpose of Caring for Life,” Hamied, executive vice-chairperson, Cipla, told ET.

Hamied has successfully steered Cipla on an accelerated growth path with a focus on boosting margins, without diluting the core values it stood for.

Both as executive director from July 2015 and as executive vice-chairperson from September 2016, Hamied has been instrumental in driving the company’s transformation from a traditional low-cost drug manufacturer to one with a young professional management and an aggressive approach towards inorganic expansion. Under her, Cipla also restructured its business and has also initiated cost-optimisation measures.

She spearheaded Cipla’s entry into the US market with strategic acquisitions of two generic companies, InvaGen Pharma and Exelan Pharma, for $550 million in 2015.

From FY15 to FY21, Cipla’s US revenue grew close to five times. US business contributed one-fifth of the total revenue in FY21.

Cipla’s revenue from operations grew at a compounded annual growth rate of 7% in the last 5 years to Rs 19,160 crore in FY21. Ebitda margin and net profit rose 12% CAGR in the last 5 years to 22.5% and Rs 2,405 crore, respectively, in FY21.

During Covid, Cipla launched antivirals, antibody cocktails, testing kits, masks and sanitizers. Cipla’s India business grew 15% year-on-year to Rs 7,736 crore.

Hamied focuses on board and governance issues, furthering Cipla’s global partnerships, shaping its corporate culture and hiring the right talent.

source: http://www.economictimes.indiatimes.com / The Economic Times / Home> English edition> Business News> Industry> Healthcare-Biotech> Healthcare / by ET Bureau / March 28th, 2022

Justice Syed Mahmood: An Icon of Judicial Resistance to British Colonialism

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Appointed to the High Court at the remarkably young age of 32, Justice Syed Mahmood displayed during a tenure of just six years that law without conscience was merely a facade for the perpetration of injustice

New Delhi: 

In the late 19th century, Justice Syed Mahmood, son of the great social reformer Sir Syed Ahmad Khan , and the first Indian judge of the Allahabad High Court, became an icon of judicial resistance to British colonialism at the apex of British power across the world.

Appointed to the High Court at the remarkably young age of 32, he displayed during a tenure of just six years that law without conscience was merely a facade for the perpetration of injustice.

A number of his dissenting judgments became a template for reference by future generations, Mohammad Nasir and Samreen Ahmed write in “Syed Mahmood: Colonial India’s Dissenting Judge” (Bloomsbury).

Outside of law, his largely invisible but wide-ranging intellectual corpus engages with questions related to colonial transformation of education and its reconciliation with Muslim identity, national integration and religious tolerance.

His role in the making of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), presently celebrating its centenary, was notable, but survives only as a footnote in history.

This book chronicles the triumphs and tragedies of Syed Mahmood’s life, and his contribution to shaping the consciousness of modern India. It succeeds in exhuming a seminal figure from the dust of history and demonstrates how the past continues to speak in the present.

Mohammad Nasir is Assistant Professor in the Department of Law, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). He has written on legal and socio-political issues for Hindustan Times, Indian Express, The Wire and OPEN. He co-edited the Special Centenary Issue of the Aligarh Institute Gazette, a periodical started by AMU founder Sir Syed in 1866.

Samreen Ahmed is a legal researcher and writer based at the Aligarh Muslim University. Her academic writings have been published in the Economic & Political Weekly.

source: http://www.ummid.com / Ummid.com / Home> India / by IANS / March 29th, 2022