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Fathima, Hadiya, Hisana, Arshad, Sanoobiya among KEAM 2025 Pharmacy Toppers

KERALA :

Office of the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations (CEE) Government of Kerala published on its official website ‘cee.kerala.gov.in’ KEAM 2025 Pharmacy (B Pharm) Rank List and toppers’ name and score.

KEAM 2025 Pharmacy Rank List: 

Office of the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations (CEE) Government of Kerala published on its official website ‘cee.kerala.gov.in’ KEAM 2025 Pharmacy (B Pharm) Rank List and toppers’ name and score.

The Office of the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations (CEE) Government of Kerala released the KEAM 2025 Pharmacy and Engineering Rank List and Toppers details on Tuesday July 01, 2025.

The KEAM Entrance Test for Engineering and Pharmacy was held from April 24 to 28, 2025. It will be followed by entrance exam for Architecture and Medical Courses.

KEAM 2025 Pharmacy Rank List – Top 10

According to the KEAM Pharmacy Rank List published Tuesday, Anakha Anil is the state topper with a score of 290.0000/300.

Hrishikesh Shenoy and Fathimathu Zahra have respectively secured the 2nd and 3rd ranks in KEAM Pharmacy Merit List 2025, both scoring 290.0000/300 marks.

Besides Fathimathu Zahra, the KEAM Pharmacy Merit List 2025, has names of three more Muslims.

Among them is Hadiya Afnan from Palakkad district who scored 282.2757/300 marks and secured the 6th rank.

Hisana P, Mohammed Arshad and Sanoobiya – all from Malappuram district of Kerala have scored 282.2757/300 marks to secure the 7th, 8th and 9th ranks in the KEAM 2025 Pharmacy Merit List.

Fathimathu Zahra, who stood 3rd in the state merit list is also among female toppers.

KEAM 2025 Pharmacy Rank List – Key Highlights

  • According to the KEAM 2025 B Pharm Result Data published on the CEE Kerala website, a total of 33,425 candidates – including 25,257 females and 8,168 males, appeared in the Pharmacy entrance exam. Out of them, 27,841 – including 21,606 females and 6,235 males, qualified and included in the rank list.
  • Thiruvananthapuram is the district topper where a total of 72 candidates are in the first 1000 rank holders followed by Kollam (63 candidates) and Pathanamthitta (17) candidates.
  • Tope 3 districts from where candidates appeared in KEAM 2025 Pharmacy Top 100 List are Malappuram (51), Kozhikode (10) and Palakkad (8).
  • After successfully conducting the KEAM 2025 for Engineering and Pharmacy (B Pharm), the CEE Kerala had released the Provisional Answer Keys on April 29, 2025, and asked candidates to raise objections and challenge answer key before 05:00 PM on May 03, 2025.
  • Saying it has recieved some objections, the CEE Kerala published on May 9, 2025, KEAM 2025 Final Answer Key and Candidates’ Responses (OMR Sheet) on its official website, and is now set to declare the KEAM result.

Candidates should note that KEAM B Pharm Counselling and Seat Allotment will be held based on the rank obtained by the candidates. KEAM Pharmacy Counselling schedule of the year 2025 will be available on the website soon.

The Commissioner for Entrance Examinations (CEE) Government of Kerala also published Tuesday KEAM 2025 Engineering Rank and Toppers List.

source: http://www.ummid.com / Ummid.com / Home> Education & Career / by ummid.com news network / July 03rd, 2025

Maliyekkal Mariyumma, the first Muslim woman in North Kerala to get English education, dies at 95

Thalassery (Kannur District), KERALA :

The Muslim community had frowned upon the girl, who went to school to study English wearing burqa. She had faced the insult from her community but her father O V Abdulla, who was a religious scholar, stood with her and encouraged her to continue English education.

Mariyumma was an avid reader of English and hence local people used to call her English Mariyumma. Wikimedia Commons

THE FIRST Muslim woman in North Kerala to get English education, Maliyekkal Mariyumma, died on Friday in Thalassery, Kannur district. She was 95.

An icon of English education among Muslims in North Kerala, Mariyumma had been an inspiration for generations.

Condoling the death of Mariyumma, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said, “We have lost a person who had left her indelible footprints along with the history of Thalassery. Braving the barriers of conservatism, she learned English and thus became a guiding light for others. She fought for the educational rights of Muslim girls. Always a progressive face, she had also been an icon of religious harmony. Her death plunges a generation and a region into grief.”

Born in 1927, Mariyumma belonged to one of the prominent Muslim families in Thalassery. After completing lower primary education, she joined Sacred Heart Convent School in Thalassery for further studies. She was the only Muslim girl among 200-odd students at the school established in 1886. She studied the English alphabet in class 5.

Later, she recalled that as she did not understand English, her father consoled and encouraged her to continue studies. At noon, she used to go to a relative’s house for namaz. Realising this, the nuns arranged a facility for her namaz at the school. She recalled how nuns created a love for the English language in her mind.

The Muslim community had frowned upon the girl, who went to school to study English wearing burqa. She had faced the insult from her community but her father O V Abdulla, who was a religious scholar, stood with her and encouraged her to continue English education.

Abdulla had studied only up to class 2, but he used to read and write in English. Mariyumma continued her convent education till 1943, the year she was married off after she completed fifth forum (class 10).

After marriage, she associated herself with Muslim Mahila Samajam to continue her social work. Later, she focused on activities aimed at empowering women.

Mariyumma was an avid reader of English and hence local people used to call her English Mariyumma. The image of Mariymma reading English daily had inspired hundreds of Muslim girls to pursue education.

source: http://www.indianexpress.com / The Indian Express / Home> Cities> Thiruvananthapuram / by Shaju Philip / August 06th, 2022

Kerala: League of Islamic Universities ‘Climate Summit’ concludes on positive notes

Kozhikode, KERALA:

League of Islamic Universities launches climate action on campuses
Dr. Osama Al-Abed, secretary-general of the League of Islamic Universities, signs the Malabar Declaration on climate action in Kozhikode, India, on Oct. 20. (Photo courtesy: LIU)

On October 27, the ‘Malaibar Declaration for Climate Action’ held by the League of Islamic Universities based in Cairo and Jamia Markaz Kozhikode in Markaz Knowledge City concluded.

Members including 200 universities from 60 countries, were present at Jamia Markaz, an Islamic university in Kozhikode, Kerala, for the International Climate Action Summit which was held between October 17-20.

Dr. Osama Al-Abed, secretary general of the league, opened the event by urging global stakeholders to use fresh approaches to combat climate change because the globe is currently “facing challenges that are structurally different from the past.”

As a consequence of talks on many facets of the main issue, Dr. Al Abdu and Muhammed Abdul Hakim Azhari, the rector of Jamia Markaz, jointly made the following declaration: The Partnership of University Leadership in Mitigating the Climate Change.

The declaration includes a request for environmental science to be taught in member universities’ curricula, for financial and human resources to be set aside for research into tackling climate challenges, as well as for new technology to be developed for the same.

“We thought that the real community who has to work on climate change is students. In every country, if the universities go for some course on climate then the future generation would be working on climate change,” Jamia Markaz rector Dr. Abdul Hakeem Al-Kandi told reporters.

“Students, who are the future leaders, when they are getting aware of climate change, (they) will impact the whole world.” he said.

Al-Kandi stated that the league would create an environmental studies centre in Calicut, India.

The goal of the university league’s activity, according to environmentalist and Markaz Law College principal Dr. C. Abdul Samad, who organised the summit, was to engage community members in various societies and make them stakeholders in saving the environment.

“Introducing environmental science courses in universities is important as the young leaders need to be educated to think about nature and climate change, and its impact,” he said.

“It is the new generation that can preserve the diversity of nature and respect the environment. The whole idea is to save the planet for the future,” he further stated.

At the summit, 63 research papers on diverse facets of the main issue were presented. A hundred trees were planted on the Knowledge City Campus by university leaders as part of Jamia Markaz’s afforestation programme and in support of the summit.

source: http://www.muslimmirror.com / Muslim Mirror / Home> Environment> Indian Muslim> Positive Story / by Muslim Mirror Staff / October 27th, 2022