Hyderabad: Today is the 103rd birth anniversary of Ghazal Queen Begum Akhtar. Akhtari Bai Faizabadi, also known as Begum Akhtar was born on 7 October 1914, in Faizabad. She was a well-known Indian singer of Ghazal, Dadra, and Thumri genres of Hindustani classical music. She received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for vocal music, and was awarded Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan (posthumously) by Govt. of India. She was given the title of Malika-e-Ghazal (Queen of Ghazals). Google today has dedic

Iqbal Ahmad, joined the civil services in 2010. He is now the district magistrate of Champawat district in Uttarakhand. The Kanpur-born Ahmad completed his MBBS from Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore in Karnataka in 2009. He was selected for Indian Administrative Service (IAS), the very next year. However he wanted to give free medical consultancy to the poor. He had to wait for another seven years to get registered with the Uttarakhand medical council. He got the registration on September

New Delhi: Blue Whale Challenge has claimed several lives across the globe. In the name of a challenge, the deadly game urges children to commit suicide. Those who accept the challenge are encouraged to complete a number of given tasks which get more and more sinister and at the end of the game, the player is forced to take their own life in order to win the game. The Blue Whale suicide game goes by many names including ‘A Silent House,’ ‘A Sea of Whales’ and ‘Wake Me Up At 4:20 am.’ It ta

New Delhi: Forty-three out of 100 elderly people in India are victims of psychological problems due to loneliness, and other relationship issues, a new study has said. Based on the feedback from 50,000 older persons across the country during the months of June and July this year, the study by Agewell Foundation revealed almost half of the elderly population were not taken care of by their families. “Forty-three per cent older persons are facing psychological problems due to loneliness, rel

BEIJING: Worshippers quietly passed through metal detectors as they entered the central mosque in China’s far western city of Kashgar under the stern gaze of stone- faced police officers. The increasingly strict curbs imposed on the mostly Muslim Uighur population have stifled life in the tense Xinjiang region, where beards are partially banned and no one is allowed to pray in public. For years, the square outside the mosque in Kashgar was packed with teeming crowds as worshippers jostled

Plants in the genus Pisonia don’t appear to be particularly menacing. The trees lack the thorns of acacia, the poisonous fruit of the manchineel tree and the botanical jaws of Venus flytraps. But Pisonia trees, which are found from Hawaii and New Zealand all the way to India, have a dark secret. Search among their roots and you’re likely to find gardens of tiny, delicate bones. This is because Pisonia, or “birdcatcher trees” as they’re more commonly known, produce sticky seedpods that entrap

News has been received from across the border about the passing away of one of the prominent figures of Urdu literature, distinguished civil servant and a second generation Alig, Mukhtar Masood in Lahore on April 15, aged 90. Mukhtar Masood was born in Aligarh on 7th June 1927. His father, Shaikh Ataullah of the Department of Economics was an expert on Iqbal (during his student days in Lahore, he was quite close to the philosopher-poet). Masood had his entire education in Aligarh, starting with

TCN News | April 17,2017 Aligarh : Professor Faizan Mustafa, Vice-Chancellor of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad today delivered a special talk on the topic, ‘Freedom of Religion and Solidarity’ during the Valedictory Function of All India Sir Syed Memorial Debate, 2017, organised by Aligarh Muslim University Students Union (AMUSU) and University Debating and Literary Club at the Assembly Hall, University Polytechnic (Boys). During the lecture, Mustafa pointed out that a country cannot

Gastritis is becoming more common and ruining everything from happy hour to holiday parties, according to Fix.com. It is essentially inflammation of the stomach lining and causes stomach cramps, nausea and gas - not exactly conducive to social situations. Fix says there are two types of Gastritis. The first is caused by taking nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories like ibuprofen, while the second is an infection caused by the Helicobacter Pylori bacteria. Our stomach lining produces acid and

Uttar Pradesh: A detailed analysis of the UP Assembly election trends shows that BJP won even in the Muslim concentration areas of western UP due to division in Muslim votes. BJP got benefited due to not forging an alliance between BahujanSamaj Party (BSP),Samajwadi Party and Congress. This was proved true especially in Western Uttar Pradesh where the Muslim voters are in large numbers. According to the news published in The Hindu, in more than two dozen constituencies, the split of Muslim

Summary: MEERUT: With BJP sweeping all six seats in Muzaffarnagar and two out of the three in neighbouring Shamli, the 2013 riot victims said the saffron party's landslide win throughout the state felt like a "bad dream". A survey conducted by Afkar India Foundation, an NGO working for the riot victims, revealed that out of 19,000 displaced voters here, 6,650 didn't have voter ID cards. One of the main reasons that BJP came to power is because many riot victims could not even cast their votes be

Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) invites the applications form from the eligible candidates for the recruitment of Civil Services Exam 2017, further details are given below. Name of Organization: Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Recruitment 2017 Civil Services Preliminary Examination-2017 Advertisement No. 06/2017-CSP Date of Advertisement: 22/02/2017 Total Number of Vacancies: 980 Posts Name of the Departments:- Indian Administrative Service. Indian Foreign

By -  Maham Rizwan There are many principles in Islam that you should follow in order to have a life full of happiness and success. Following the Quran and Sunah, here I have made a rundown of those five Islamic principles that you must adopt and have success in the world and there here after: Stay patient with everything in life You must confront every situation with patience and hope. You will find written in the Holy Quran: "With every hardship, there is ease, with every hardship

Bhatkallys News Service | By Shafaat Shahbandari | 12 Jan 2017 [caption id="attachment_72267" align="alignright" width="256"] Shafaat Shabandri[/caption] Nawayaths are a singular race, and a rare gem of India's rich and divergent cultural heritage. While India has many precious jewels hidden in its vast treasures, rarely one would come across a community as striking as the Nawayaths. It's a confluence of majestic rivers flowing through the western ghats, all the way to the Arabian Sea.

It does not take much to brand any suspect as a terrorist. But it can take years to ascertain the veracity of the allegations. The media, as well as society, don’t wait for any trial to pass their verdict. However, there is hardly a whimper if the accused if finally proved innocent after years of judicial struggle. Few can recount the horror of facing false charges of terrorism as well as Irshad Ali. A driver by profession, Irshad is lucky to have survived the ordeal he faced for years. Hi

By Kaleem Kawaja, The Milli Gazette Online | Jan 08, 2017 The basis of an equitable democracy is that various communities, ethnic and religious, get representation in the political decision-making process. In a non-equitable democracy like India, where intimidation and influence peddling on the basis of religious and ethnic origin often happens and is compounded by the fact that there are over a dozen major linguistic and ethnic communities, a multiplicity of castes and over half a dozen r

By Aftab Kola, The Milli Gazette Online Published Online: Dec 26, 2016 [caption id="attachment_101343" align="alignright" width="150"] Aftab Kola[/caption] Bhatkal (26 December 2016): I live in Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, a state on the west coast of India. The district is home to nearly 600 acres of Waqf property but 50 per cent of the property has been encroached upon. This is a sample prevalent in majority of districts of India where rampant encroachment and misuse and

On November 30, the Supreme Court of India ordered all the cinema halls in India to play national anthem to ‘‘instill committed patriotism and nationalism’’. It said, ‘‘all the cinema halls in India shall play the national anthem before the feature film starts and all present in the hall are obliged to stand up to show respect to the national anthem.” The apex court judgment reminded me of a dialogue by Aishwarya Rai Bacchan in the movie Hum Kisi Se Kam Nahi, where she tells the character of Sa