Markazul Ma’arif Education and Research Centre (MMERC) held its 15th convocation programme at Mumbai’s Hajj House in Mumbai last week. Noted Islamic scholar Maulana Sajjad Nomani of Lucknow, chief guest at the programme, while addressing the Convocation, called upon the people to reach the peak of English speaking and writing and then conveyed the universal message of Islam to the English-knowing reading public. However, he cautioned them against getting influenced by the Western ...

The Sri Venkatarama Swamy (SVS) College in Bantwal, Mangalore, has restricted Ayesha Ashmin, a first year B.Com student, from attending the classes till she conforms to the rules and regulations of the college, which is not to display her religious identity, the headscarf.  Ayesha, after objections from saffron-leaning students, was told by the college management not to wear the headscarf, which she started wearing after the college had prevented her from wearing the burqa. ...

In a bid to solve the controversy in Sri Venkatarama Swamy (SVS) College, Bantwal, Mangalore, over the ban on Muslim girls wearing burqa, the management of Uppinangady Govrernment First Grade College took the decision to allow the students to wear headscarf of the college uniform colour. At the betterment committee meeting, chaired by Puttur MLA Mallika Prasad it was resolved to solve the issue by permitting Muslim girl students to wear college uniform coloured headscarf. It was also...

This year 1,20,000 people will go for Haj pilgrimage from India. International passport is necessary for the pilgrimage but those who do not have valid passport need not to worry, all pilgrims will be given special passport by August 31, said Chief Executive of Central Hajj Committee of India Mohammad Owais Ahmad in a press conference on August 16. He said there is no age bar, but Saudi government has requested the old, pregnant, children and patients not to travel for Hajj. He said that the ...