Detailed Election Results to AMU Court

Details of the candidates who contested the Election to the AMU Court
held on 31st January 2010 for 42 candidates in various constituencies.
Election of six (6) persons representing Muslim Colleges of
Oriental Learning in India under Statute 14(1) (xxvi).

1. Maulana Abdullah Mughaisi 59 Elected
2. Maulana Arshad Madani 33
3. Maulana Asrarul Haque Qasmi 60 Elected
4. Maulana Ataur Rehman Qasmi 27
5. Maulana Fazlur Raheem Mujaddedi 58 Elected
6. Maulana M. Aslam Qasmi 47 Elected
7. Maulana M. Rabe Nadvi 75 Elected
8. Maulana M. Wali Rahmani 59 Elected
9. Prof. Qazi Zainus Sajidin Siddiqi 34

Election of four (4) persons from amongst the Chairmen
(Including Presidents) of the Waqf Boards under Statute 14(1)(xxvii).

1. Mrs. Razia Sultan 61 Elected
2. Mr. Ilyas Sait58 Elected
3. Mr. Abdul Khaleque 46 Elected
4. Mr. Kaviko Abdul Rahman 49 Elected
5. Mr. Abdul Khalique 32
6. Mr. Gufran Azam 26
7. Mr. Mohd. Irshad Ullah 21

Election of two (2) persons representing Urdu Language

1. Mr. Javed Akhtar 28
2. Prof. A.M.K. Shahryar 36
3. Prof. Siddiqur Rahman Kidwai 56 Elected
4. Prof. Shamim Hanafi 52 Elected

Election of ten (10) persons representing the Learned
1. Mr. Ahmad Salman 16
2. Prof. Ali Akhtar Khan 40
3. Mr. Arshad Ali Khan 40
4. Mr. Bahar U Barqi 33
5. Prof. Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman 55 Elected
6. Dr. Hamidullah Bhat 40
7. Prof. Humayun Murad 47 Elected
8. Mr. Imtiaz Ahmad 50 Elected
9. Mr. Irshad Mirza 37
10. Mr. Ishrat Azeez 49 Elected
11. Mr. Khawaja Mohammad Shahid 56 Elected
12. Prof. Mohiuddin B. Ahmed 17
13. Mr. Mushtaq Ahmad 49 Elected
14. Hafiz Rashid Ahmed Choudhury 45 Elected
15. Dr. S. Farooq 59 Elected
16. Prof. S. Qaiser Ali Naqvi 46 Elected
17. Mr. Zafayab Jilani 30

Kindly note that in this constituency under statutes 14 (I) (XXII), three
candidates have obtained 40 votes each. The winner shall be decided
after obtaining information on their age; one who is senior in age shall be
declared elected

Election of fifteen (15) persons representing Muslim Culture and Learning,
of whom ten shall be persons residing outside the State of
Uttar Pradesh under Statute 14(1)(xxv)
Outside UP
1. Prof. A.M. Pathan 59 Elected
2. Mr. A.R. Khan 41 Elected
3. Mr. Abu Asim Azmi 22
4. Mr. Ahmad Salman 13
5. Mr. Ameer Ahmad 38 Elected
6. Mr. Ehtashamur Rahim Khan 26
7. Dr. Fasal Ghafoor 11
8. Mr. M.H. Khan 33
9. Mr. Mahmood Madani 44 Elected
10. Mr. Mohd. Adeeb 24
11. Mr. Mohd. Irshad Ahmad 44 Elected
12. Prof. Moinuddin 45 Elected
13. Mr. Najmuzzia Naqvi 15
14. Dr. P.A. Ibrahim 43 Elected
15. Ms Parveen Talha 48 Elected
16. Prof. Syed Khalifatulallah 41 Elected
17. Mr. Wasim Ahmad 40 Elected
18. Mr. Z.K. Faizan 34
19. Ch. Zia-ul-Islam 15

From UP
20. Mr. Azam Mir Khan 20
21. Mr. Khalid Masood 31
22. Mr. Khursheed Ahmad Khan 20
23. Mr. Mohd. Ali Sulaiman 2
24. Mr. Nadeem A. Tareen 47 Elected
25. Mr. Nadeem Ahmad Farooqi 52 Elected
26. Mr. Saleem Peerzada 20
27. Dr. Shahid Jameel 40 Elected
28. Dr. Syed Mohammad Ahmad 17
29. Mr. Syed Waseem Ahmad 21
30. Mr. Zafar Iqbal 52 Elected
31. Prof. Zakia A. Siddiqui 45 Elected

Election of five (5) persons representing Muslim Educational
and Cultural Societies Situated out side the
1. Mr. Asadulla Pasha 25
2. Mr. Asaduddin Owaisi 53 Elected
3. Mr. Maulana Ghulam Mohd. Vostanvi 22
4. Dr. Aftab Alam Khan 25
5. Mr. P.A. Inamdar 56 Elected
6. Dr. Fakhruddin Mohammed 62 Elected
7. Mr. Basheer Tangal 60 Elected
8. Mr. K.M. Hasan 57 Elected
Prof Javaid Akhter
Election Officer

Department of Commerce organized two six-day long workshops on Research Methodology

ALIGARH January 30: The Department of Commerce, Aligarh Muslim University in collaboration with the UGC Academic Staff College organized two six-day long workshops on Research Methodology for research scholars and faculty members of the department.

Welcoming the guests Prof. Badr Alam Iqbal, Chairman, Department of Commerce spelled out the benefits accruing to the faculty from the workshops that were held for the first time in the history of Department of Commerce.

Addressing the programme Director, Academic Staff College and the Chief Guest Prof. A. R. Kidwai urged the participants to develop critical thinking and commitment to their area of interest which will ultimately help them scale the heights of academic excellence. Prof. Kidwai appreciated the participants for their keen interest in attending the workshops.

Prof. Ziauddin Khairoowala, Dean Faculty of Commerce and Guest of Honour emphasized the need for quality research an assured all the help and facilities in their work.

The participants also expressed their views on this occasion. The staff members of the Department of Commerce also attended the programme. On this occasion Prof. Kidwai and Prof. Khairoowala gave away the Certification of Participation to the participants of two workshops.

Aligarh Summer University: Update

Because of a special function being organized to release a book in honor of Professor Irfan Habib, he has to be present in Delhi on the 22nd of February. Hence, his Summer University course on "National movement and current historiography" originally scheduled for February 22nd – 24th will start a day later. The new dates would be Tuesday, February 23rd - Thursday, February 25th.

Mushaira on the occasion of Republic Day

A Mushaira was held in the Library Hall of Ibn Sina Academy on 26th January to mark the Republic Day. Professor Munibur Rahman, renowned scholar from USA was the Chief Guest while Prof. Saghir Ifrahim, Dept of Urdu was the Guest of Honor. Prof. S. Zillur Rahman presided over the function. Mr. Afroz Alam from Kuwait, Prof. Zahida Zaidi, Prof. Mehtab Haider Naqvi, Dr. Siraj Ajmali, Dr. Zoya Zaidi, Mr. Musharraf Mehzar, Mr. Nasir Jalali, Dr. Mujeeb Shahzar, Mr. Shakir Ali Ashar, Mr. Razi Hasnain, Dr. Rizwanur Raza Rizwan, Mr. Ali Imam, Mr. Meraj Lucknawi and a host of other scholars, poets and lovers of Urdu poetry attended the Mushaira.

Ghulam Nabi Azad for Chancellor, NOT AN AMUTA PROPOSAL

It may be a personal opinion of Mr.Jamshed Siddiqui,secretary AMUTA.
No such proposal  has been even discussed in the general body of the Association. In fact
a vast majority of teachers and Muslims in general is aghast at the idea of
polticization of AMU campus ,be it invitation to Mr Rahul Gandhi or any other
pure politician.

Both the pro VC and anti VC groups are trying to appease the ruling party to settle
their political scores at the cost of the institution.

I will suggest Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad to read a very revealing interview by
some British socialactivist working in Kashmir for the past 20 years,published in
Times Of India on 29th January. She has been helping mentally ill people.
Her data based study reveals that in 1989 there was only one Mental Hospital
in the valley and on the average only patient was treated daily,by 1995 the figure
reached 350 patients a day and now 90% population is affeccted by some Mental Disorder.

I will request Mrs Soniya Gandhi to send Mr Azad to Kashmir to heal his brothers
and sisters .It will be far better for the health of her party and the people.

AMUTA to propose Ghulam Nabi Azad as Chancellor

Aligarh: The Aligarh Muslim University Staff (Teachers) Association has decided to propose the name of Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad of the post of Chancellor for the University.

This was stated here today by the Seretary of the AMU Staff Association Jamshed Siddiqui at a function of the Association in honour of Azad.

Siddiqui said Azad could play a key role to help the institution to achieve greater heights in the field of higher education.

The Association' s stand came ahead of the annual general meeting of the AMU court, the university's highest governing body, here on Sunday.

Under the AMU constitution, the AMU court elects by a simple majority the Chancellor, Pro-Chancellor and Honorary Treasurer.

The decision of the teachers body to propose the name of Azad is understood to have the support of the dissident group in the AMU court.

Senior University officials had earlier claimed that former Chief Justice of India A M Ahmadi, who is also the incumbent Chancellor, would be unanimously elected as the university's Chancellor.

Azad's sudden visit to the AMU has, however, given a new twist to the race for the top post.

Medical test: Azad assures AMU students of 'appropriate action'

ALIGARH: Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Thursday assured medical students of AMU that he would initiate "appropiate action" on their claim of irregularities in the admission tests conducted for post-graduate seats in the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College under the university.

Azad gave this verbal assurance after he was he was accosted by students while he was on a surprise check at the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical college on Thursday.

Azad was visiting the Aligarh Muslim University at the invitation of the university staff association when he suddently decided to pay a "surprise visit" to the JN medical college.

The students got a whiff of his visit and blocked his way while he was coming out of the medical college building.

When contacted a senior official of AMU said a three member inquiry committee had already been instituted into the allegation raised by some students and it was expected to submit its reports within a day or two. He added that action would be taken on the basis of this report.

Meanwhile, during his visit to the medical college, Azad is reported to have expressed his "strong displeasure" at the "pathetic condition" prevailing in different wards of the medical college hospital.

Later, addressing members of the teaching staff of the AMUA at a reception given in his honour, Azad expressed his concern over the absence of "basic facilities" at the hospital of an institution which carries high reputation in India and abroad.

Subject wise workshops to to organised in M.M.Hall

A new initiative is being launched in M.M. Hall through its Career Counseling Cell. Subject wise workshops shall be arranged on bi-weekly basis for the benefit of its residents. The programme is to start on 15th Feb 2010. In the first phase Subject experts from four disciplines namely Economics, Political Science,History and English shall be invitied twice a week to interact with the students of their faculty so that they are informed about their future prospects and various career options available after they complete their graduation. It is aimed to help the students and prepare them for better tomorrow. Students have been asked to register before 12th Feb 2010.for the workshops. It is planned to engage residents of M.M. Hall in such academic activities throughout the session so that they make use of the opportunities available at their doorstep. Teachers of this great institution are always available for their help in such endevours and I personally thank them all. Students of M.M. Hall shall always remain indebted to them.

Sad Demise of Dr. Rana Yasmeen Rizvi

I inform you with profound sorrow about the sudden death of Dr. Rana Yasmeen Rizvi Ph.D. (Biochemistry) student of Prof.Hadi and Research officer in CCRUM,Aligarh. She died of probably a massive heart attack while driving in the morning of 27th Jan 2010. Dr.Rana who was my cousin sister was a well known personality on the campus.Everybody who came to know about her sudden death was shocked. All are requested to pray to Almighty Allah that her soul may rest in peace and give courage to her family members to bear this irrepairable loss(Ameen)

AMU felicitated about 140 eminent teachers, research scholars and students on the occasion of Republic Day

ALIGARH January 27: The Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis felicitated about 140 eminent teachers, research scholars and students who brought laurels to the institution on the occasion of Republic Day celebrations.

Mr. Shazi Shakeel of Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit was given certificate of honour as “Most Active Research Scholar” for his outstanding contributions towards research activities, while Professor Akhtar Haseeb, Chairman, department of Plant Protection in the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences was awarded the certificate of honour as “Most Active Teacher”. Prof. Haseeb has twenty research paper to his credit published during 2009 and has participated in two international and four national conferences.

Professor Mohammad Irfan, Department of Physics was felicitated for securing the largest project fund of Rs. 208.40 Lakhs from DST on ALICE-operation and Utilization and Grid Computing.

Ms. Aysha Mubeen, MBBS (Final) was honoured for receiving Gold Medal highest Gold Medals. The University also felicitated Ms. Manisha Sharma, Ghazal Salahuddin, Sahila Salahuddin and Mr. Abdul Aziz, N.P. for remarkable achievement of 100% attendance in classrooms.

Professor Shamim Jairajpuri, Prof. Athar Siddiqui, Prof. A. M. K. Shahryar, Prof. A. K. Qasmi, Prof. Syed Mohammad Amin, Dr. Asad Ali Khursheed, Prof. M. Shabbir, Prof. Asghar Abbas, Prof. Prabhat Kumar, Dr. Shah Alam, Dr. Riaz Ahmad, Dr. Syed Moeid Ahmad, Dr. Mohd. Kaleemuddin, Dr. Shahab Fazal Dr. Mohd. Ayaz, Dr. Mohd. Hayat and Dr. Asadullah Khan were awarded Certificate of Merit for their outstanding contributions.

Dr. Rahat Abrar, Public Relations Officer was awarded Best Employee of the Year Award in the Non-teaching staff category. Dr. Fatima Shujatullah of Microbiology, Dr. Yasir Hasan Siddiqui, Zoology, Syed Shabih Hasan, Computer Engineering, Dr. Naseem Ahmad, Botany and Dr. Parveen Kumar were honoured with “Young Scientist Award”.

Seven students who were selected in Central Civil Services and 45 boys and girls who were selected in IITs were also felicitated.

About forty students of literary, cultural and sports activities were presented with mementoes in recognition of outstanding contribution to co-curricular activities during 2009.

In his presidential address, AMU Vice Chancellor Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis said that AMU is celebrating Republic Day as a mark of recognizing the talents of students and teachers for their outstanding contribution in their respective field. He appealed to staff and students to gain knowledge because knowledge is a power and knowledge comes from teachers and books. He urged the students to read the books. Prof. Azis said that students need motivation and guidance so they will excel in their fields.

In his welcome address, Prof. V. K. Abdul Jaleel, Registrar of the University said that Merit Evening Award Ceremony to felicitate the teachers, non-teaching employees and students who have brought laurels to the University, was initiated by the Vice Chancellor, Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis two years back for motivating the students for bringing the best out of them for the academic, cultural, literary and sporting excellence. The faculty members are getting large funded projects from various agencies of repute. As a result the AMU rose to the 8th position among Indian universities.

He said the result of this merit evening is more amazing and pronouncing among the students. Last year we had only one student with 100% attendance but the number has increased five times now. The entire credit goes to the Vice Chancellor who has brought this revolutionary change by motivating and promoting University staff and students through introduction of this kind of programmes.

On this occasion, Dr. P. V. Jaganmohan, Commissioner, Aligarh Division, Professor Ziauddin Khairoowala, Dean Faculty of Commerce and Prof. M. Zubair Khan, Dean, Faculty of Science also addressed the Merit Evening Awards ceremony.

Prof. N. A. K. Durrani, Media Advisor and Convener of the Programme announced the list of awardees. Prof. Ainul Haque, Dean Students’ Welfare proposed a vote of thanks and Dr. Shakeel Samdani conducted the programme.

Ross Masood Hall Celebrated the 61st Republic Day

Ross Masood Hall celebrated the 61st Republic Day. Mr Tanweer Alam (MBA -F) Conducted programme. The programme was started with the verses of Holy Quran followed by the flag hoisting by Prof. Nawab Ali Khan (provost R. M. hall) and National Anthem.


On this occassion, Prof. Nawab Ali Khan urged the students to realize the importance of National Anthem and democracy. Residential warden, Dr. Ahsan highlighted the role of democarcy in India and role of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan in freedom struggle. He also said that although we got freedom in 1947, India was not a fully democratic state. It was on 26 Jan,1950 when India became a republic country.


Warden D-Block, Dr. Adnan Hafeez congratulated the students and said that inspite of being independent, we are not free because of ill-built system.


Section Officer, Mr Tarique Javed insisted that we should learn a lesson from the sacrifice of our freedom fighter.

Senior Hall, Mr Rubaid Ashfaq made the students aware of the history of constituion, how it was prepared.Senior student, Mr Ibrahim reminded the sacrifice of martyrs in our country.

On this auspicious occassion, a group of R.M. hall members also presented a patriotic song and an Inter Hostel Knockout Cricket Touranament ''Masood Cup-2010'' was also inaugurated.

After the programme, Provost Sb met the senior members and discussed the greivances prevailing in the hall.

Senior resident members viz. Mr Nayyar Azam, Mr Mohammad Asif, Mr Riyazuddin, Mr Samim, Mr Tauseef, Mr Sikandar, Mr Ishrat,Mr Aadil, Mr Khalid, Mr Sadullah.Mr Akhlaq Ahmad, Mr Mohammad Nasir, Mr Gulwez, Mr Yasif, Mr Auf Ahmad etc. graced the occassion by their presence.

Free Access to Taylor and Francis Mathematics /Statistics Journals-regarding

M/s Taylor & Francis are offering Free Online Access to all their current & back Mathematics & Statistics Journals databases up to 31st January’2010. It comprises of the following contents:

I. Mathematics and Statistics Collection
this collection provides Online Access to current content plus back files up to 1997 and have the following benefits:

a. Focus on Subject specific journals

b. Keeps the user up to date with cutting edge research in their fields of interest.

c. Provides quick & convenient access to users

II. Mathematical and Statistics Online Archive

The Archive provides users with Online Access to back file journal contents from 1996 back to very first volume of each journal.
The Scholars and Faculty members of the respective Departments are requested to utilize the facility by typing www.tandf.co. uk/journals/ JanMathMadness/ in web browser.

Dr. G. G. H. A. Shadab and Dr. Yasir Hasan Siddique have been awarded

ALIGARH January 23: Dr. G. G. H. A. Shadab and Dr. Yasir Hasan Siddique of Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University have been awarded with the Environmental Scientist of the Year Award-2009 and Scientist of the Year Award-2009 for their significant contribution in the fields of environmental science and toxicology respectively.

Earlier Dr. Shadab has received the Young Scientist Fellowship in 2005. He completed his research on cytogenic and clinical studies of certain steroids on human chromosomes and contributed significantly in the field of human genetics and genetic toxicology. He has more than fifteen research papers to his name published in reputed national and international journals.

Antioxidant values and other nutritional components of the North Indian vegetables

ALIGARH, January 24: Dr M. Masroor A. Khan, Reader, Department of Botany, AMU, Aligarh was awarded with a research project sponsored by the Council of Science & Technology, UP, Lucknow last year. The project aimed at studying the antioxidant values and other nutritional components of the North Indian vegetables. Antioxidants protect us against diseases and ageing, therefore are important tools in gaining and preserving health. The work of the project is underway with the help of a Research Assistant, Mr. Tariq Aftab and the results obtained so far are very promising. The results indicate that the vegetables evaluated may provide a potential source of dietary antioxidant and therefore their consumption should be encouraged. The antioxidant values are high in vegetables such as beetroot (chukandar), spinach (paalak), cabbage (Phoolgobhi) , ripe tomatoes (tamatar) and gradually decrease on boiling or cooking. But surprisingly, on boiling or cooking tomatoes, the antioxidant property of them rose up to a particular extent.

Cooking of food is an important factor that has impact on antioxidant capacity. Some vegetables are commonly eaten cooked (potato, pea, cabbage, brinjal etc.) while others are consumed raw or cooked (onion, carrot, radish, tomato etc.). Therefore, it is the need of the hour to develop the methods which can provide the protection of antioxidant values of the vegetables from heating. According to Dr. Khan the research is in progress in the same line.

Dr. Masroor A. Khan is also carrying another interesting research project on increasing the medicinal values of some essential oil-­bearing medicinal plants through a safe technique of gamma radiation. This project is sponsored by Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai.

Hiking and Mountaineering Club organized National Integration Marathon Race

AMU Proctor Flagging off the Marathon Race

ALIGARH January 24: The Hiking and Mountaineering Club of the University Games Committee, Aligarh Muslim University today organized National Integration Marathon Race as part of the Republic Day Celebrations – 2010. About six hundred students of various schools and colleges of Aligarh District participated in the race.

AMU Registrar Prof. V. K. Abdul Jaleel was the Chief Guest and distributed the prizes to the winners.

Prof. Ainul Haq, Dean, Students’ Welfare and Prof. M. Zubair Khan, Proctor of the University graced the prize distribution function.

Dr. Shadab Khurshid, President, Hiking & Mountaineering Club said that for the first time more than six hundred boys and girls from different educational institutions of Aligarh District participated in the four kilometer and eight kilometer race starting from Willingdon Cricket Pavilion.

Mohd. Hasan, Captain of the Club proposed a vote of thanks. A large number of students and staff witnessed the prize distribution ceremony at Football Ground of the University.

Prof. M.U.Rabbani presided over a session at Indo-European Coronary Revascularization Meet

ALIGARH January 24: Prof.M.U.Rabbani, Director, Centre of Cardiology, J. N. Medical College of Aligarh Muslim University presided over a session at Indo-European Coronary Revascularization Meet held at Delhi.


The Meet was attended by a large number of renowned cardiologists from Europe and South East Asia including Dr.Alain Cribier, Pioneer in percutaneous aortic valve replacement. The highlights of the conference were live satellite transmission of Balloon mitral volvotomy, left main coronary artery stenting and complex coronary angioplasties from Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore Hospitals.

Dr. Rabbani was also invited to deliver a talk on heart failure in the Annual Conference of Cardiological Society of India held at Cochin.

SEMINAR ON THE ROLE OF MUSLIM WOMAN - AMUOBA RIYADH

It is our pleasure to announce that A.M.U.Old Boys Association Riyadh is organizing a talk on the topic Role & Responsibilities of Muslim Woman in the World on Wednesday 27th January, 2010 at 8.00 PM in CoCopalm restaurant, beside Hara Panda. The talk will be followed by dinner.

The keynote speaker will be Dr. Asma Zohra Tayyeba, who is on visit to Saudi Arabia.

This programme has been organized mainly for the benefit of ladies, however a separate arrangement has also been made for gents also to hear the talk.

Those who are interested may confirm their participation by contacting any of the following office bearers of AMUBA, Riyadh on their cell given below.

Mohammad Zaigham Khan - President - 0506418937
Suhail Ahmed - Vice President- 050214-2795
Taqiuddin Mir General secretary - 055341-7578
Humanyun Hashmi Joint Secretary - 051512-3236
Shahnawaz Akhtar Treasurer - 055107-2101

Aligarh Summer University 2010: Update

Registrations for Summer University 2010 are now closed. We regret that we can not accept more students owing to space limitations, but there is still room in courses on 'Petroleum Exploration' and 'Climate Change'.

The final figures for registration are as follows:

Transposable Genetic Elements. (February 4-6): 60
Cancer Pathobiology. (February 8-10): 58
Wireless Standards. (February 15-17): 23
Viruses and Viral Diseases. (February 18-20): 59
National Movement. (February 22-24): 25
Digital Entrepreunership. (February 25-27): 35
Immune System. (March 1-3): 56
Petroleum Exploration. (March 5-6): 10
Climate Change. (March 8-10): 9

The course on 'Symmetry in Modern Physics' has been cancelled.
We would encourage students who could not get in this year to apply early next year.

Republic Day Celebrations at Ibn Sina Academy

On the occasion of Republic Day, Aazar Harf, a literary and cultural society, is organising a literary evening at Ibn Sina Academy on 26th January 2010. According to Janab Musharraf Hussain Mahzar (Secretary), a large number of poets are expected to participate in this programme including Prof. Munibur Rahman from USA and Janab Afroz Alam from Kuwait. Prof. Saghir Afrahim (Urdu Department, AMU, Aligarh) is invited as chief guest, while Prof. Syed Zillur Rahman (President, Ibn Sina Academy) is requested to preside over the function.

UGC Academic Staff College, AMU, Organized Four Courses

ALIGARH, January 20: The UGC Academic Staff College, Aligarh Muslim University has organized four courses – Interdisciplinary SRC in Women’s Studies (Course Coordinator Prof. Shireen Mosavi, Director, Women’s Studies Center). Interdisciplinary SRC in Business Studies (Course Coordinator Prof. Pervaiz Talib, Department of Business Administration) , Interdisciplinary SRC in Basic Sciences (Dr. A.H. Khan, Chairman, Department of Statistics) and orientation programme (Course Coordinator, Prof. A.R. Kidwai). Teachers of more than 170 universities and colleges from all parts of country have been enrolled in these courses.

Addressing the joint inaugural session of the courses, Prof. A.R. Kidwai welcomed the participants of courses and highlighted Sir Syed’s contribution to the spread of modern education among Indians in general and Muslims in particular. He brought out also the aims and objectives of subject refresher courses and orientation programmes organized by the Academic Staff College that will help in their professional developments.

The courses shall conclude on 11th February while oriental programme will end on 19th February 2010: The distinguished teachers from relevant fields have been invited to act as resource persons. The course participants will also visit concerned departments of studies to gain first-hand knowledge about the latest trends and skills and their respective subjects.

Shahrukh Khan's Visit Postponed

ALIGARH January 21:The Aligarh Muslim University has decided to postpone the visit of cine-star Shahrukh Khan scheduled for January 23, 2010 due to inclement cold and fog and the predictions of very bad weather in the next two days.

A fresh date of the Khan’s visit to AMU will be announced later.

(Dr. Rahat Abrar)

TCS Selected 101 AMU Students

ALIGARH, January 20: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has selected one hundred one students of Engineering and MCA 2010 batch of the Aligarh Muslim University.

A team of twenty executives from Tata Consultancy Services visited Zakir Husain College of Engineering & Technology from 6-8, January for campus recruitment programme for 2010 batch.

Dr. Fareed Mehdi, Training & Placement Officer of the Zakir Husain College of Engineering & Technology, AMU said that 281 students of M.Tech./B.Tech. /BE, MCA and M.Sc. (Mathematics, Physics & Statistics) were appeared in the online test out of which 151 qualified.

Ms. Vandana Chaudhary, Regional Head – HR for Tata Consultancy services Limited informed the TPO that one hundred one students were selected after interviews.

Aligarh Summer University 2010: Update

I am pleased to inform you that registration in the Summer University courses is proceeding at an accelerated rate. In most of the courses, registration is reaching the maximum capacity (40 students) of the Zoology Seminar Room - which is the preferred venue. Registration in individual courses may have to be stopped if the number exceeds this limit significantly.

Kindly note the following changes to the SU 2010 program:

1. The course "Symmetry and development of modern Physics" by Professor Faqir C. Khanna, scheduled for March 8 - 10 has been cancelled. This is because of a special need that Professor Khanna has for his accommodation and none could be found in Aligarh. I am grateful to him that he had agreed to come to Aligarh for the course even though he is not an Aligarh alumnus.

2. The dates for the course "National movement and current historiography" by Professor Irfan Habib, originally scheduled for February 11-13, has been changed to February 22 - 24. This is due to an unfortunate mix-up in
e-mail communication.

3. All other courses are on schedule as announced.

We look forward to a successful program and hope the students will find it to be a rewarding experience. We are indebted to the Vice Chancellor Professor P.K. Abdul Azis and Professor Absar M. Khan for their interest and for making local arrangements.

Shahrukh Khan to visit AMU

After Azim Premji, former President Kalam, Oscar winner A.R. Rahman and Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, the next VIP visitor to the Historic Aligarh Muslim University is going to be none other than Bollywood's global superstar, Shah Rukh Khan.

As per the exclusive details made available to us by the university's PRO, Rahat Abrar, Shah Rukh Khan, accompanied by writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar and his wife actress Shabana Azmi, will be visiting the university, popularly known as AMU, on Saturday, the 23rd of January 2010.

During his visit King Khan will stay in the campus for about one and a half hours and address and interact directly with the students at the university's auditorium, Kennedy Hall.

Prof. Irfan Habib delivered Lecture at M.M. Hall

Sunday morning, when the weather was very severe in Aligarh due to biting cold, at exactly 11.30AM Prof Irfan Habib, Prof. Emeritus reached the venue i.e. Common Room of M.M.Hall to deliver the lecture as part of Motivational Lecture series. Residents of M.M. Hall welcomed him and introduced themselves so that he could get a feel of the audience as to which faculty they mainly belonged. Programm started with the recitation from the holy Quran. I had the privilege to formally welcome and introduce the learned legendary figure for the benefit of freshers amongst the residents. Prof. Habib then started speaking and within few minutes when the venue was full to capacity he mesmerized the students with his words of wisdom. His full concentration was on how to prepare for various competitive examinations. He deliberated upon all the three aspects, Objective type, Subjective type of questions and the most important aspect i.e. Interview. Giving various examples he explained in a very lucid manner all the things. It was rare opportunity for the residents to interact with an authority of his subject. Students asked number of questions from the learned speaker. After the lecture an interactive session was also arranged. Residents were so excited that they wanted to continue the session for a longer period even after 2 hours. Vote of thanks was proposed by Mr.Tasdeeq Ahmad, Senior Hall. Mr.Shahnawaz conducted the proceedings. Such lectures really appear to be the need of the hour and should be arranged periodically. It was with this intention that this series has been started and shall continue till the end of the session in M.M.hall. I am sure the residents will continue to be involved in such activities which ultimately benefit them in their careers.

Vice Chancellor Laid the Foundation Stones of Extention Buildings

ALIGARH, January 18: The Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, Professor P.K. Abdul Azis, today laid the foundation stone of the construction of classrooms and extension of library building at the Department of Islamic Studies with a cost of rupees 74.70 lakhs. The construction work includes one library hall, two classrooms and two toilets.

The Vice Chancellor, Professor P.K. Abdul Azis today also laid the foundation stone of the extension of Faculty of Social Sciences building with an initial cost of rupees 200 lakhs. The construction work will be completed in the month of November 2010.

The construction work of the Faculty of Social Sciences included one committee room, one hall, one seminar hall, one chairman room, five tutorial rooms and one office.

The building is single storeyed RCC framed structure with structural provision to construct three additional storyes in future.

Addressing the foundation stone ceremony, AMU VC Prof. P.K. Abdul Azis said that for the first time in the history of the University, UGC has sanctioned Rs. 184 crore under the General Development Grant for XI Plan. He said that AMU stands for learning and research and urged the students and faculty members to maintain tranquility and peace at every cost.

Prof. Azis said that new special centers at Mallapuram and Murshidabad will be established very soon and Bihar Government has also allotted 250 acres of land for AMU Special Centre at Kishanganj. He disclosed that Assam Chief Minister has also urged the AMU to establish a new campus.

AMU Registrar, Prof. V.K. Abdul Jaleel, Controller, Prof. Pervaiz Mustajab, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Prof. CPS Chauhan, Dean, Faculty of Arts, Prof. Maria Bilquis also addressed the foundation stone ceremony.

Earlier, Prof. P.K. Abdul Azis also laid the foundation stone of the University students Canteen with a cost of Rs. 149.06 lakhs. This project will be completed by May 2010.

Induction Training Programme of Epidemiologists

Written by AMU Correspondent
Tuesday, 05 January 2010
The Department of Community Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University organized an "Induction Training Programme of Epidemiologists” recruited under “Integrated Disease Surveillance Project" (IDSP) from January 4-16, 2010. The IDSP has been sanctioned to the Department of Community Medicine by the Government of India.

The inaugural function of the training programme was held in the Committee Room of Dean's Office. Participants from 27 districts of U. P. are attending the programme while resource persons from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India and different medical colleges of U. P. are participating in the programme to deliver lectures and conduct demonstrations in the field.

In her welcome address Prof. Zulfia Khan, Academic Coordinator of the Programme discussed the early warning signals of outbreak of an epidemic and suggested preventive measures to be adopted to control such communicable and non-communicable diseases.

Prof. S. Abrar Hasan, Dean Faculty of Medicine congratulated the staff of the department of community medicine for being selected as one of the two IDSP training centres in UP. Prof. M. Ashraf Malik, Principal & CMS, JNMC discussed the role of epidemiologists in decreasing the mortality indicators.

Prof. Najam Khalique, Medical Superintendent enlightened the participants on future strategy of the IDSP programme.

Integrated Disease Surveillance Project is a state based surveillance programme. With the help of this programme, any outbreak or epidemic may be anticipated early and subsequently appropriate measures will be taken in time to control it.

The programme will run to identify the communicable and non-communicable diseases such as Malaria, Acute Diarrhoeal Disease (Cholera), Typhoid, Tuberculosis, Measles, Poliomyelitis, Road Traffic Accidents) and to assess the magnitude of the problem, trend and distribution of the problem in the country in terms of time, place and person affected. Other main objective of this project is to find out measures for prevention and control of the problem.

Dr. A. R. Siddiqui and Dr. Ali Amir are trained nodal persons for the training programme. Dr. Iqbal M. Khan, Mr. Salman Khalil, Dr. Suboohi Afzal, Dr. Anees Ahmad, Dr. Saira Mehnaz, Dr. Uzma Eram, Dr. M. Salman Shah, Dr. M. Asif Khan, Junior Residents and the staff of the department of community medicine helped in the conduct of training programme.

Dr. Sakina Mushfiq conducted the programme while Dr. M. Athar Ansari, Chairman, Department of Community Medicine presented vote of thanks.

Fellowship of Indian Council of Medical Research at AMU

Written by AMU Correspondent
Thursday, 14 January 2010
Mr. Mohd Sajjad Ahmad Khan, Research Scholar, Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Aligarh Muslim University has been awarded with Senior Research Fellowship of Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi.

Mr. Sajjad will work on certain plants essential oils for their in vitro efficacy against drug resistant human pathogenic fungi in combination with antifungal drugs. Mr. Sajjad will work under the guidance of Dr. Iqbal Ahmad, Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Microbiology. Dr. Ahmad's lab is well recognized for determination of biological activities of natural products against drug resistant microbial pathogens and developing novel strategies combating infections. Mr. Sajjad has published five research papers in reputed science journal and presented ten papers in National and International conferences with Dr. Iqbal Ahmad. He is also a recipient of Post Graduate Gold Medal (AMU) and has previously worked with Prof Javed Musarrat, Department of Agricultural Microbiology, AMU and Prof Moon Gyo Kim, Inha University, Korea.

Workshop on Reseacrh Methodology for Ph.D. students of Department of Commerce, AMU organized by the Department of Commerce under the aegis of the UGC

ALIGARH January 16: A Workshop on Reseacrh Methodology for the Ph.D. students of Department of Commerce, AMU organized by the Department of Commerce under the aegis of the UGC Academic Staff College, AMU commenced today.

Addressing the inaugural function Prof. Badar Alam Iqbal, Course Coordinator and Chairman of the Department of Commerce welcomed the research scholars who will receive the training and gain new skills during the worklshop held from January 16-28, 2010 in two batches.

Prof. M. Saleemuddin as Chief Guest of the function, highlighted the importance of research methodology in research. He urged the participants to produce original research work and to embark upon their study only after a thorough study of the available literature.

Prof. A.R. Kidwai, Director, UGC Academic Staff College felicitated the participants of the Workshop and said that it would help in bringing about academic excellence on the AMU campus. He appealed to follow role models of academic excellence and commitment. The faculty members of the Department of Commerce were also present in the inaugural function.

Dr. Mohd. Naeem Conferred Junior Scientist Award - 2009

*ALIGARH January 13:* Dr. Mohd. Naeem, Lecturer at Department of Botany,
Aligarh Muslim University has been conferred upon the Junior Scientist Award
– 2009 by the National Environmental Science Academy (NESA), New Delhi. The
Academy confers ten junior scientist awards every year to selected people
for their contribution in the field of Environmental Sciences. Earlier Dr.
Naeem has also been awarded with the Young Scientist Award under the SERC
Fast Track swcheme of Department of Science and Technology, Government of
India and the Rasearch Associateship by the Council of Scientific and
Industrial Research (CSIR).

Dr. Naeem has worked as Senior Research Fellow in a project funded by the
Department of AYUSH, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. He was awarded
with a certificate of Outstanding Merit as a young scientist by the Aligarh
Muslim University for bringing laurels to the University.

Dr. Naeem has been conducting research on medicinal plants and his several
research papers have been published in national and international journals
of repute. He has also read papers on medicinal plants in national and
international conferences and seminars.

Bahadur Shah Zafar award to Sajida Zaidi and Zahida Zaidi

Awards for Sajida Zaidi, Zahida Zaidi and Muzaffar Hanafi

Posted on January 7, 2010. Filed under: Urdu Literary Awards |

Renowned Urdu poet Muzaffar Hanafi has been selected for Pandit Brijmohan Dattatreya Award while senior poets Sajida Zaidi and Zahida Zaidi jointly get Bahadur Shah Zafar award of Delhi Urdu Academy that were announced today.

The Bahadur Shah Zafar award that comprises Rs 1.11 lakh cash and citation would be shared by the two Aligarh-based scholars and poets–Prof Sajida Zaidi and Prof Zahida Zaidi.

Hanafi gets the award of Rs 51,000. Bhagwan Das Ejaz, Ibn Kanwal, Zafar Moradabadi, Riyaz Qidwai, Zafar Agha, Ashhar Qadeer, Mohd Zakir, Yunus Jafri and Syeda Kishwar are amongst other awardees.

The names mentioned above include those selected for awards under the category of best teacher, journalist, translator, poet, fiction writer, science writing et al.

The awards for the year 2008 where finalised sometime back. Late Qamar Raees was alive then. Chief Minister Sheila Dixit okayed the list and the awards would be presented at a function soon.

UGC Academic Staff College organizes a Short Course on Data Analysis (R& SPSS) for AMU faculty and research scholars

ALIGARH, January 11: The Department of Statististics and Operations Research, Aligarh Muslim University has organized a Short Course on Data Analysis (R & SPSS) under the aegis of UGC Academic Staff College, AMU. The short term Course is part of the UGC Academic Staff College initiative for the professional development of AMU faculty and research scholars. The course has received a massive response from the teachers and research scholars and about 200 applicants have already been enrolled for the course. The first batch consisting of 31 participants including Professors, Readers and Lecturers of various departments has started from January 11 with 36 sessions of 19 minutes each.

Addressing the inaugural session Prof. A.R. Kidwai felicitated the participants especially the AMU faculty members for their desire to upgrade their skill. Presiding over the inaugural programme AMU Controller of Examinations Prof. Pervaiz Mustajab highlighted the usefulness of such courses and congratulated both the Department of Statistics and the Academic Staff College for this laudable academic achievement.

Prof. Qazi Mazhar Ali, Department of Statistics and Operations Research spelled out the aims and objectives of the course besides highlighting the scope and range of R & SPSS. Prof. A.H. Khan, Chairman, Department of Statistics and Operations Research welcomed the participants and assured them of all the help and cooperation. Prof. M.Z. Khan, Dean, Faculty of Sciences appreciated the initiative and expressed his best wishes for the success of the programme.

Senior Dean and Acting VC Prof. Ziauddin Khairoowala honoured M. Sadique

R. M. Hall Organized a hostel function Cognizance-2010 in which Chief Guest Prof. Khairoowala, Dean faculty of Commerce and Acting VC gave the tips on personality development to the students.
In the above function Prof. Khairoowala gave the Outstanding Award to Mohammad Sadique a student of Geology department, who has qualified GSI (Geological Survey of India) Examination with 3rd and 4th all India rank for the posts of Hydrogeologist and Geologist respectively. Senior House Mohammad Mubbashir presented the Hostel report and told that Sadique has also got Dr. H. S. Pareek Gold Medal and University Medal for standing first at B.Sc. He also selected in many companies like ESSAR, Integrity Geosciences, Geoservices (France) etc.
Provost Prof. Nawab Ali Khan and warden, Dr. Khalid welcomed the guests and thanked to the organizing committee. Mr. Kumar Ranvijay Singh, C.O. City Aligarh, Guest of honour motivate the students and gave the tips to qualify the UPSC Exam.
Mr Nayyar Azam conduct the programme, Akhlaq Ahmad and Ibrahim told the traditions to the juniors and in the last Mohammad Sadique proposed the vote of thanks.

TCS selects 18 MCA Students

TCS visited AMU for conducting Campus Recruitment Programme during 6-8 January’ 2010. Total 34 students of MCA from Deptt. of Computer Science appeared in the written test, out of which 25 cleared the written test and appeared in Technical/HR Interview round. Finally 18 MCA students were selected by TCS.

Earlier 3 MCA students were selected by JK Technosoft, 2 MCA students by SoftPro India P. Ltd. Wipro has already visited AMU for selecting B.Sc. (Computer/Physics/ Math/Stats) students for its prestigious WASE programme. Online tests and Interview rounds have been conducted. Final results of Wipro are awaited.

Regards

Prof. Wasim Ahmad felicitated by the Zoological Society of India

*ALIGARH, January 9:* Prof. Wasim Ahmad of the Department of Zoology,
Aligarh Muslim University was recently felicitated by the Zoological Society
of India for his commendable research activities and outstanding
contribution in the field of Zoology at the 20th All India Congress of
Zoology, held at Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai recently.
The Zoology Congress was jointly organized by the Zoological Society of
India, the Helminthological Society of India and the Indian Fisheries
Association.

Prof. Ahmad is an internationally acknowledged expert on the taxonomy of
soil inhabiting nematodes of the Orders Dorylaimida, Mononchida and
Tylenchida. He has not only described several hundred new taxa of nematodes
from around the world but has also given new definition and classification
of higher taxonomic groups based on his morphological, ultra structural and
molecular studies. His recent studies on phylogenetic relationship of
mononchs using 18s rDNA sequence has given a new insight into the
classification of this group. He has also contributed significantly to the
functional diversity and food web diagnostics of soil inhabiting nematodes
in natural forests. The major part of his work has been published in top
nematology journals of the world, such as Nematologica/ Nematology from The
Netherlands; Revue de Nematologie/ Fundamentals and Applied Nematology from
France; International Journal of Nematology from UK; Journal of Nematode
Morphology and Systematics from Spain Nematologea Mediterranea from Italy
and Journal of Natural History, UK His monumental book entitled "Dorylaimida;
Free-living, predaceous and plant parasitic nematodes" published by RJ
Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands is a unique world-wide reference for study of
dorylaim nematodes. A similar treatise by him on Mononchida has just been
published by EJ Brill, The Netherlands. He has visited a large number of
countries of the world as an expert for the study of dorylaim and mononchid
nematodes and is recipient of prestigious visiting fellowships from Royal
Society (London). DFG (Germany), TWAS (Italy), JSPS (Japan), Erasmus Mundus
(European Union), CAS (China), KOSEF (Korea), RMBR (Singapore), and many
others. He is on the editorial board of several prestigious journals
published from India and abroad and is reviewer of papers published in most
of the Nematology Journals of the world. Prof. Ahmad is a Fellow of the
National Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the Linnaean Society of
London.

Condolence Meeting for Prof. Mohammad Mahmoodur Rahman Khan Afridi

*ALIGARH January 9:* A condolence meeting was held at the Department of
Botany, Aligarh Muslim University to express profound sense of grief and
sorrow on sad demise of Prof. Mohammad Mahmoodur Rahman Khan Afridi who
served the department and the University with distinction for more than
three decades.

Prof. Afridi was born on 07.05.1931 in Farrukhabad district of UP. He did
his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from AMU, Aligarh and obtained Ph.D. degree in 1960 from
UK. His works on nitrate reductase is widely acclaimed and cited even today.
He joined as lecturer in 1951 in the Department of Botany. Earlier he also
served as Science teacher at Tibbiya College AMU. He became Reader in 1961,
Professor in 1978 and retired from University services on 31.05.1991.

Prof. Afridi's field of specialization was Plant Physiology. He was a
distinguished scientist in this field and established a plant nutrition
laboratory at AMU to study the macro nutrients. He got more that 100
research papers published in National and International journals of repute
and attended several national and International conferences.

Prof. Afridi supervised 8 Ph.D. and several M.Phil. students. He was
President of Indian Society for Plant Physiology. He was a dedicated
teacher, a very devoted researcher, supervisor and a committed person who
was always ready to help students. His contribution to corporate life of the
University shall not be forgotten.

Prof. Afridi also served as Dean Faculty of Life Sciences, Head of the
Botany Department, Manager, Abdullah Nursery School, Convener, Professional
Courses, President, Gymkhana Club and Member of Several Committees of AMU.
He was also founder member of Sultan Jahan Coaching Centre.

Prof. Mohammad Mahmoodur Rahman Khan Afridi is survived by a son and two
daughters.

Environmental Engineering Research group attended International Conference at Chenna

The faculty members and research scholars of environmental engineering section of the department of civil engineering, AMU attended an ASCE sponsored international conference on India 2010 - 3rd International Perspective on Current & Future State of Water Resources & the Environment held at I.I.T. Chennai from January 5-7, 2010.

Among the faculty members Prof. M.M. Ashhar, Dr. Izharul Haq Farooqi (Associate prof.) Mr. Arshad Hussain ( Associate Prof.) attended and presented research papers. Mr. Ramakant Ram (A.E. Nagar Nigam Aligarh, Mr. Farrukh Basheer, JRF and Ph.D student and Mr. Devendra Singh, Reserach fellow in a UPCST project also attended the conference.

A large number of international and national delegates were present in the conference.

Prof Kahiroowala shall discharge the duties of the VC of AMU

ALIGARH,Jan 8-The Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, Prof
P.K.Abdul Azis is visiting Kerala to inaugurate the educational confernce at
Jamia Nooriya Arabic College Faizabad P.O. Papallikard in Malapurpuram
distict and to attend the meeting of the executive council of Central
University of Kerala on January 11,2010 ,the senior most dean Prof Ziauddin
Khairoowala, Dean faculty of Commernce shall discharge the routine duties of
the Vice Chancellor during his absence.

Dr. Rahat Abrar
PRO

Prof. P.K. Abdul Azis writes to UGC chairman to put AMU on the list of universities that get Sci Finder

A demonstration was organized in the cultural hall of M.A. Library regarding the subscription of Sci-Finder and Inform Packages. Mr. Sandeep Sharma from Informetics India, Ltd. Bangalore, gives a presentation of ABI Inform, while Mr. Anand Singh from Sci-Edge Information, Pune presented a demo of Sci-Finder. It was attended by a large number of research scholars and faculty members. Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor, Prof. P.K. Abdul Azis also joined the demonstration for about 25 minutes.







1. ABI Informa; a database from INDEST Consortium







“Indian National Digital Library in Engineering Sciences and Technology (INDEST) Consortium” was established in 2003 by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) on the recommendation of an Expert Group. About 45 centrally-funded Government institutions including IITs, IISc Bangalore, NITs and few other institutions are core members of the INDEST Consortium.



Out of a number of packages available through INDEST, ABI Informa contains approximately 4000 journals costing Rs. 3,83,960/-. The list includes 24 print journals worth Rs.3,52,652 being subscribed by the library for various departments.







2. Sci-Finder : Since 1907, Chemical Abstracts Service has indexed and summarized chemistry-related articles from more than 40,000 scientific journals, in addition to patents from 51 authorities and 10,000 journals, conference proceedings and other documents pertinent to chemistry, life sciences and related fields. Since 1995 Chemical Abstract Services started online service called SciFinder ( now available at the cost of Rs 20 lacs.)







Maulana Azad Library had been subscribing ‘Chemical Abstracts’ since 1965. From 2010, the service will be available online through SciFinder, which is a leading research tool providing access to 5,649 online journals in addition to Chemical Abstracts



It is, however, an important research tool which helps in accessing the World’s largest collection of Chemical, Biochemical, Biotechnological and chemical engineering and other related information.







INFLIBNET, under the aegis of UGC, provides free access to Sci Finder to select Universities in India. Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor has written a letter to the UGC Chairman to put AMU on the list of universities that get Sci Finder free through UGC-Infonet.

Prof. Mehmoodur Rahman Khan Afridi is no more with us

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Assalaam Alaikum

I am sorry to inform you about the sad demise of Prof. Mehmoodur Rahman Khan Afridi yesterday evening in Aligarh, who was Head Department of Botany and Dean, Faculty of Sciences at A.M.U.

He was an academician who was a great philanthropist. Nobody could miss his enthusiasm or fail to notice his gracefulness. He had been an excellent guide to many of us when he shared his expertise in his subject, education and society per se which he had acquired during his formative years at Oxford while doing his PhD and later as an renowned scientist in Plant Physiology. Firm believer of the saying “teach to fish, rather than provide a fish everyday”

Many of us must have known him as Founding Member of Duty Society and through his active association with Sports as a Badminton Player during his University days and later as member of University Sports Committee.

He always had the inherent desire to help people, and do as much as possible for the needy. A loss to the family, his students, well wishers and for the society as a whole.

In this moment of great sorrow let us join together and sent our condolences to his son Masood Afridi (famously known as Mamoo), based in Dubai.

afridimasood@hotmail.com
meemalif@hotmail.com

"I begin in the name of Allah, Most Kind, Most Merciful. From Muhammad, Allah's Messenger to Mu'az- Ibn-Jabal. May the peace of Allah be on you. I praise Allah before you, the One besides whom there is none worthy of worship.

After praising and glorifying Allah, (I say the following.) May Allah give you great reward and may He guide you to exercise patient endurance and may He (also) guide us and you to be grateful to Him

Surely, our souls, wealth and families are wonderful gifts from Allah Azza Wajalla which He has loaned to us so that we may take benefit from them for a set period; and he takes them away after the termination of that period Thus, gratitude becomes binding on us when He gives, and patience becomes obligatory when He takes away.

Your father was also from among the wonderful gifts (of Allah) and a loan (from Him) AIlah enabled you to enjoy him in away that was both enviable (to others) and pleasing (to you); and now, in return for great reward, mercy and forgiveness providing you exercise patience- he has taken him away from you.

So do exercise patience and do not let your bewailing and complaining destroy your reward, for you will be sorry (if this happens) Know that bewailing and complaining does not help bring back anything nor does it repel grief and sorrow. And whatever is to happen is set to happen.

"May you be in peace. Amen"

He leaves behind his son and two daughters married and based in Aligarh.

Demand for Muslim reservation genuine: Justice Ahmadi

R-L: Dr Manzoor Alam, Chairman, IOS, Justice A M Ahmadi, Justice V N Khare, Syed Shahabuddin, Z M Khan, Secretary General, IOS


By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,

New Delhi: For fifty years after Independence, Muslims had not demanded reservation. But after 1980 India’s largest minority community started slipping from the level of other minorities. Now that they have realized it, they are demanding reservation to come at least to the level of 1980 status, and so their demand is genuine, said former Chief Justice of India and presently Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, Justice A M Ahmadi.

He was delivering presidential speech at the book launch program for “Readings on Minorities: Perspectives and Documents, Vol. IV (Freedom of Religion), edited by late M Iqbal Ansari. The book and its earlier three volumes have been brought out by Institute of Objective Studies. The program that featured stalwarts of the legal fraternity – besides Ahmadi, Justice V N Khare, former CJI, Justice Rajendra Sachar, former Chief Justice, Delhi High Court, and others – was organized by IOS at Constitution Club in New Delhi on January 6. The book was released by Justice V N Khare.

Justice A M Ahmadi urged the government to go beyond the measures of tokenism and take some affirmative action to uplift the minority community.

Earlier, K Rahman Khan, Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha, in his speech called upon the society to seriously think about remove misgivings and misconceptions about freedom of religion – the theme of Ansari’s book.

“Minorities are suffering discrimination in India. When minorities are discriminated on the basis of religion, we should find its resolution not only in the Constitution but also outside through dialogues. Society, human rights activists and social activists should come to remove misgivings and misconceptions about freedom of religion,” Khan said.

While negating that there is any big clash between majority and minority, Justice Rajendra Sachar, former Chief Justice, Delhi High Court, said a civilized society is where the rights of minorities are safe.

Committee for the establishment of Special Centre of AMU visited the Malappurram's Campus site

ALIGARH January 8: The Committee constituted by AMU Vice Chancellor Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis to prepare a detailed “Action Plan” for the establishment of Special Centre of AMU at Murshidabad (West Bengal) and Malappuram (Kerala) visited the Malappurram's proposed campus site and held wide ranging consultations with State Government functionaries and citizens of the area today at Perinthalmanna, Kerala.

Mr. V. Sasikumar, Member, Kerala Legislative Assembly from Perinthalmanna who accompanied the visiting team to the site said that the state government and the local people both will extend all possible support to AMU and its special centre. He said that 123 acres of land has already been acquired on fast track basis and that too in a short span of time bears testimony to the significance the people attached to the AMU Special centre in Malappuram.

Mr. Mohan Dut, District Collector of Perinthalmanna while briefing the visiting team said that the process of demarcation was completed and the Kerala Land Information Mission surveyed the land to demarcate 123.69 acres to be acquired in the first phase including the land required for the Main Road (100 feet road) to the campus. The Government constituted District Level Purchase Committee has negotiated with the land owners and fixed the rates ranging from Rs. 8,750 to Rs. 47,000 (for Forty Sq. Meters) according to the type of land. This decision has been forwarded to the government for approval, he said.

While the AMU Committee was holding consultations, the District Collector informed that the State Level Purchase Committee has approved the first phase acquisition rates involving an expenditure of Rs. 13 Crore. The Revenue Minister who was on the phone spoke to Prof. V. K., Abdul Jaleel, AMU Registrar and Leader of the Visiting Team and informed that the Kerala Government will hand over the acquired 123 acres of fist phase land in a Public Function within two weeks.

The State officials also informed that the process of demarcation and land acquisition of balance land out of the total 393 acres is in progress and the special land acquisition staff will complete the task assigned to them in time.

The AMU Visiting Committee comprising Prof. V. K. Abdul Jaleel (Convener), Prof. Pervez Mustajab, Controller of Examinations and Admissions, Prof. Ekram Husain, Prof. Javed Akhtar and Prof. N. A. K. Durrani participated in the review meeting with the officials of various government departments including Revenue, Electricity, Public Works, Land Acquisition, Water Works and CPWD. The team insisted on the time line ad succeeded in evolving a broad consensus that includes handing over of first phase 123 acres land to the University within three weeks of Government notification, fencing of the acquired land including that of the approaching road will be done by the State Government by the end of March 2010. The 10-20 MVA substation will be made ready within six months, portable water supply will be ready within one year and for construction work alternative water arrangement will be made within 3 months. The officials also agreed to provide the list of all tall trees along with the survey map to facilitate holistic planning. They also informed that stone quarry activity was totally stopped in the area earmarked for the setting up of the AMU Centre.

The team also inspected and identified a temporary alternative site for formally launching the AMU Centre in the next academic session in the nearby vicinity.
The State Government officials who were present in the meeting include Dr. K. Vijaykumar, Special Officer, Mr. P. Abdur Rahiman, RDO, Perithalmanna, Mr. P. V. Ramadas, Special Tehsildar (Land Acquisition) , Mr. V. Gopinathan, Deputy Director of Collegiate Education, Calicut, Mr. P. Mohanan, Geologist, Mr. Mohammed Ali K., Executive Engineer & Mr. Jud K. Raphell, Executive Engineer, Kerala Electricity Board, Mr. M. Christtrados, AEE, PWD/Roads, Mr. E. V. Rajgopalan, AEE, Water Works Department, Perinthalmanna and Mr. N. N. S. S. Rao, Superintendent Engineer, CPWD, Calicut also participated in the meeting.

Prof. PK Abdul Azis today inaugurated the Visitor’s Lounge and Guest Room at RM Hall

V-C Inaugrating the Visitor's Lounge

ALIGARH January 8: The Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University Prof. P K Abdul Azis today inaugurated the Visitor’s Lounge and Guest Room at the Sir Ross Masood hall. This is the first of its kind facility to the parents of the resident of Ross Masood Hall.

Prof. Nawab Ali Khan, Provost Sir Ross Masood Hall, Wardens and Senior Hall Mr. Rubaid Ashfaq welcomed the University officials.

On this occasion, Mrs. Yasmeen Jalal beg, Finance Officer, Prof. Ainul Haq Khan, Dean Students’ Welfare, Prof. Ziauddin Khairoowala, Dean, Faculty of Commerce, Prof. M. Zubair Khan, proctor and Provosts of other Halls of Residence also grace the inaugural ceremony. AMU Vice Chancellor appreciated the efforts of the Provost, RM Hall and hoped that other Halls of residence would also provide such type of facilities for the parents of the students.

22% of Aligarh adult population suffers from cataract: Study

22% of Aligarh adult population suffers from cataract: Study

By TCN News,

Aligarh: A study of the optical health of the Aligarh population found that a significant population of Aligarh suffers from preventable and treatable eye diseases.

In a study conducted by the research team of Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College of Aligarh Muslim University and published in July 2009 issue of the Indian Journal of Community Medicine found that cataract was prevalence in as much as 21.7% of the population of Aligarh. 13% of the population suffer from visual impairment (6/18 reading of the ‘E’ chart), 7.8 with low vision, and 5.3% can be called blind.

Myopia, hypermetropia, and astigmatism was 11.5, 9.8, and 3.7% of the study sample, respectively.

Study done with a sample size of 700 included both urban and rural residents of Aligarh district. 43% of the study subjects were Musilms, 52% Hindus, and 2% Christians.

The research study conducted between September 2005 to August 2006, found that cataract was significantly associated with age, education, and fuel use. 82% of subjects aged 70 years and above had cataract. It was also highest in illiterates and the prevalence decreased with increasing level of education. People using firewood, coal, and cow dung as a source of fuel had higher prevalence of cataract.

The research team recommended improving the quality of eye care services with short-term emphasis on cataract and refractive errors and long-term emphasis on glaucoma and corneal diseases.

Inaamul Haq, Zulfia Khan, Najam Khalique, Ali Amir, Fatima A Jilani, Meena Zaidi are the members of the research team that conduced this study.

AMU's Farha Ahmad to witness the Republic Day Parade from the PM’s Box

ALIGARH January 6: Ms. Farha Ahmad of MA (Previous) in Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University has been selected to witness the Republic Day Parade 2010 from the Prime Minister’s Box at Rajghat.

Ms. Farah Ahmad, daughter of Prof. Noman Ahmad, Department of Economics, AMU is among the 100 meritorious students selected from all over India to witness the Parade from Prime Minister’s Box. Ms. Ahmad has been Faculty Topper in BA. She also topped in XII Class examination of the University.

N. Jamal Ansari of AMU Gave a Presentation at AFMI Convention

ALIGARH: 5.01.2010

American Federation of Muslims of Indian Origin, USA held
two days 18th International Education Convention on 2nd and 3rd
January, 2010 at Indore (M.P), Staff member of Aligarh Muslim
University, Aligarh and freelance columnist, N.Jamal Ansari presented
a "Paper" in the Convention entitled "What ails our higher education
institutions? " He pointed out that internal politics is one of the
major factor behind downfall of Muslim institutions. He cited example
of AMU which is facing many problems due to internal politics and
called upon the community to isolate such vested interest groups. He
appealed to the Convention to pass a resolution in support of proposed
AMU centre at Bhopal (M.P) so that Madhya Pradesh Government initiate
proceedings of land allotment and the centre may be established to
realise dreams of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan. His observations have been
widely hailed by educationists and intellectuals of America and Canada
attending the Convention.

Muhammad Ali Jauhar Award to Jaswant Singh

Maulana Mohamed Ali ˜Jauhar* *The Academy of Third World Studies, Jamia
Millia Islamia, New Delhi *awarded Maulana Muhammad Ali award to the
distinguished people in their respective field.

See the attached report.

To know more about *Maulana Mohamed Ali ˜Jauhar* *The Academy of Third
World Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, *please visit;

http://www.jmi. nic.in/atws/ profile_atws. htm*
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AMU organises induction training program under IDSP

ALIGARH January 5: The Department of Community Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University organized an "Induction Training Programme of Epidemiologists” recruited under “Integrated Disease Surveillance Project" (IDSP) from January 4-16, 2010. The IDSP has been sanctioned to the Department of Community Medicine by the Government of India.

The inaugural function of the training programme was held in the Committee Room of Dean's Office. Participants from 27 districts of U. P. are attending the programme while resource persons from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India and different medical colleges of U. P. are participating in the programme to deliver lectures and conduct demonstrations in the field.

In her welcome address Prof. Zulfia Khan, Academic Coordinator of the Programme discussed the early warning signals of outbreak of an epidemic and suggested preventive measures to be adopted to control such communicable and non-communicable diseases.

Prof. S. Abrar Hasan, Dean Faculty of Medicine congratulated the staff of the department of community medicine for being selected as one of the two IDSP training centres in UP. Prof. M. Ashraf Malik, Principal & CMS, JNMC discussed the role of epidemiologists in decreasing the mortality indicators.

Prof. Najam Khalique, Medical Superintendent enlightened the participants on future strategy of the IDSP programme.

Integrated Disease Surveillance Project is a state based surveillance programme. With the help of this programme, any outbreak or epidemic may be anticipated early and subsequently appropriate measures will be taken in time to control it.

The programme will run to identify the communicable and non-communicable diseases such as Malaria, Acute Diarrhoeal Disease (Cholera), Typhoid, Tuberculosis, Measles, Poliomyelitis, Road Traffic Accidents) and to assess the magnitude of the problem, trend and distribution of the problem in the country in terms of time, place and person affected. Other main objective of this project is to find out measures for prevention and control of the problem.

Dr. A. R. Siddiqui and Dr. Ali Amir are trained nodal persons for the training programme. Dr. Iqbal M. Khan, Mr. Salman Khalil, Dr. Suboohi Afzal, Dr. Anees Ahmad, Dr. Saira Mehnaz, Dr. Uzma Eram, Dr. M. Salman Shah, Dr. M. Asif Khan, Junior Residents and the staff of the department of community medicine helped in the conduct of training programme.

Dr. Sakina Mushfiq conducted the programme while Dr. M. Athar Ansari, Chairman, Department of Community Medicine presented vote of thanks.

Two dozen students of different Universities of United States visited the Aligarh Muslim University and met the Vice Chancellor, Prof. P. K. Abdul Azi

Students at Strachy Hall



At V-C Lodge

ALIGARH January 4: Two dozen students of different Universities of United States visited the Aligarh Muslim University and met the Vice Chancellor, Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis at Vice Cahncellor’s lodge.

The American students visited the heritage buildings of the University and paid tribute to the founder Sir Syed Ahmad Khan. The visiting team also interacted with the students and staff of the Department of Urdu and English at Arts Faculty lounge.

In his preseidential remarks in the interactive meet Prof. A. R. Kidwai, Director of Academic Staff College said that AMU is not a dgree awarding institution but a centre of socio-cultural advancement of Muslims of India.

On this occasion Prof. Khursheed Ahmad, Chairman, Department of Urdu and Professor Abul Kalam Qasmi, former Dean, Faculty of Arts also addressed the function.

Felicitate and honour Prof. K.K. Ghauri, and Mr. Fishanur Rehman in Department of Geology

ALIGARH January 4: The Department of Geology, Aligarh Muslim University organized a programme to felicitate and honour Prof. K.K. Ghauri, former faculty member and Mr. Fishanur Rehman, an alumnus of the University, currently based in France. On this occasion, recipients of the merit scholarships, CSIR-UGC/NET- JRF qualified students and the students who have been selected in Geologist examination conducted by UPSC were also honoured. The function was presided over by the Registrar, Prof. V.K. Abdul Jaleel. The DSW, Prof. Ainul Haq.

It was the first visit of the Registrar to the department, who in his address lauded the achievements of the students in various all India Examinations. He also expressed his pleasure that alumni of the department have come forward to offer scholarship to the students. Prof. Abdul Jaleel expressed happiness over the progressed that the Department of Geology had made in the last few years.

The Dean, Students Welfare, Prof. Ainul Haq addressing the students urged the students to take maximum advantage of the facilities available in the department to achieve their goals.

Earlier, the Chairman, Dr. Shadab Khurshid welcomed the guests and reiterated that such types of functions will be organized in future. The donors of the scholarship Prof. K.K. Ghauri and Mr. Fishanur Rehman also spoke on this occasion. The programme was conducted by Dr. Akram Javed, who presented a detailed report of the recipients of the scholarship and student achievers in various All India Examinations. The vote of thanks was proposed by Dr. Syed Ahmad Ali.

Dr. Syed Ziaur Rahman joins University of Western Sydney, Sydney (Australia)

ALIGARH January 4:* Dr. Syed Ziaur Rahman, Assistant Professor, Department
of Pharmacology, JN Medical College has proceeded to the School of Medicine,
University of Western Sydney, Sydney (Australia) to pursue PhD course.

Earlier, the University of Western Sydney has offered Dr. Rahman the
prestigious ‘International Endeavour Award’ for his research work. He will
work under the guidance of Prof. Gerald Muench, a renowned medical scientist
in the field of Alzheimer’s Disease, on a project entitled, “Identification
of anti-inflammatory and neuro-protective agents from the Food and plant
libraries”.

Prof. Mohibullah participated in International Advanced Technology Congress at Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC) Kuala Lampur, Malaysia

ALIGARH, January 4: Prof. Mohibullah, Chairman, Department of Electrical Engineering, Zakir Husain College of Engineering and Technology, AMU Aligarh, participated in International Advanced Technology Congress at Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC) Kuala Lampur, Malysia and presented his paper on “Wind Energy Generation and Pollution Control”.

India has highest Wind Energy Potentials among other renewable sources and stands fifth in the World. Pollution can be controlled which will contribute to climate change by tapping all its wind energy Potentials in the country and carbon credits can be earned. Several other academic programmes were also discussed in the congress relating to the advanced Technology at length.

Prof. Mohibullah also worked at School of Electrical Engineering for better utilization of coal in MHD process and reduction in pollution. He was awarded Sydney University Post Graduate Award from 1980-1983. He worked as Associat3e Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at UPM, Serdang, Malysia and also was on teaching assignment at the Military College, Al-Fateh Univesity, Tripoli, Libya. Dr Mohibullah has attended International Conferences in Austrailia, Malaysia, Libya, China and Japan and chaied technical sessions. He has published more than 70 papers in leading journals of national and international repute.

Professor Mohibullah has been the receipient of visiting Fellowship award of Indian National Science Academy, India.

Fourth Ibn Sina Memorial Lecture

The Fourth Ibn Sina Memorial Lecture 2009 will be held on 11th January 2010 at Library Hall of Ibn Sina Academy, Aligarh. This year Prof. Irfan Habib, an eminent historian, will deliver this lecture on a topic entitled "Civilization & Science in Medieval India". Prof. Jamal Khwaja, Former Dean Faculty of Social Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, has very kindly agreed to preside over the function.

Earlier, speakers of this series were Saiyid Hamid (2006), Syed Mushirul Hasan (2007) and Syed Shahid Mehdi (2008). National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL), Department of Education, Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India, sponsors this memorial lecture.

All are cordially invited.

AMU Felicitated Professor Abul Kalam Qasmi

ALIGARH January 2: The Aligarh Muslim University felicitated one of the illustrious faculty members, Professor Abul Kalam Qasmi, Department of Urdu for awarding India’s top most literary recognition “Sahitya Academy Award” for his Urdu book “Maasir Tanqueedi Rawaiyye”.

Profesor Qasmi has authored a dozen book and 125 research papers so far. He has ben honored with UP and Bihar Urdu Academy Awards, UP Governor’s Literary Award and Iftikhar-e-Meer Award.

The Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis in his presidential remarks expressed deep sense of appreciation of the literary accomplishments of Prof. Abul Kalam Qasmi. He urged the faculty members to devote their time with a specific purpose and new wave of enthusiasm be created in AMU for academic excellence and new year will bring a large number of laurels to the University.

ON this occasion, Prof. V. K. Abdul Jaleel, Registrar, Professor Khurshid Ahmad, hairman, Department of Urdu, Prof. Masudul Hasan, former Dean, Faculty of Arts also addressed the felicitation functfion.

Accepting the honour Prof. Abul Kalam Qasmi thaked the Vice Chancellor, Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis for feslicitating him on behalf of the University community. Prof. Parvez Mustajab, Controller of Exams proposed the vote of thanks.

Admissions to M.Phil./Ph.D

A consultative meeting taken by the Vice Chancellor with the Registrar, Controller of Examinations, Dean, Students' Welfare, Dean, Faculty of Commerce and Chairman, Department of Economics, at 2.00 p.m. on 30.12.2009 and considered the request made by students of various Faculties to take a lenient and liberal view regarding their admission to Ph.D.

After considering all aspects, it was decided that the list of candidates recommended initially by the respective Board of Studies for admissions to M.Phil./Ph.D. 2009-10, be submitted to the Chairman, CASR for further consideration.

The Chairmen of BOS may send the list and ensure that the list prepared shall be strictly on the basis of merit and Ph.D. admission procedure.

The cases of those candidates who figured in the merit list but were not recommended for one reason or the other also be reviewed by BOS following the procedure set for admission.

The meeting of the CASR will be held as early as possible