Nazar Hussain

A scientist of medicinal chemistry at the Banaras Hindu University Dr Nazar Hussain has bagged a project of SERB-DST to carry out research on the cost-effective anti-diabetic drugs by new routes.

Perhaps no mosque in Mumbai’s suburbs can match its grandeur. Its blue dome and the solitary minaret, visible from afar, make Jama Masjid Al Shams at Mira Road stand out amidst residential buildings. Now the recent renovation comprising gold leafing works on the pillars and walls, cutting edge sound system for melodious azaan plus soothing lights collectively enhance the mosque’s beauty.

A photograph at the house of Syed Nazar Hussain, founder of Naya Nagar, a Muslim colony in the far-flung suburb of Mira Road, has Bal Thackeray sharing a stage with then Indian Muslim League leader Ghulam Mohammed Banatwala .

Six members of a family, including a one-year-old, died and a three-year-old boy is the lone survivor after their car collided with a truck in Yadgir's Gurmitkal taluk early Friday.

Six members of a family, including a one-year-old, died and a three-year-old boy is the lone survivor when their car collided with a truck in Yadgir district’s Gurmitkal taluk early Friday.

Amid tears of joy, family members welcomed the three pilgrims, who were stranded in Yemen due to ongoing civil war, on their safe arrival to Indore on Sunday

Much before the Shiv Sena and BJP formed an alliance in 1984 to fight the Lok Sabha polls together (they later separated only to form an alliance again in 1989, which has now reached breaking point), the Sena briefly flirted with its arch “enemy”, the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML).

ISLAMABAD: Singer Hariharan has recorded his new fusion album in Lahore in association with Pakistani composers and musicians.

If a BR Chopra were to create a mega serial based on the epic Mahabharat today and choose to shoot it at Mira Road, he would not have to look beyond the Mira Bhayandar (145) constituency for a major character: Draupadi. For, ever since former mayor at Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation and BJP corporator Geeta Bharat Jain was denied a ticket to pave the path for sitting MLA Narendra Mehta, Jain has painted herself as the mythical “victim” Draupadi.

On a recent rain-washed evening, preacher Maulana Zaki Hasan Noori sat on a delightfully decorated mimber (pulpit) while a group of faithful occupied the carpeted floor in the spacious hall. Speaking fluently in Urdu, Noori took the audience down history. When Ummaiyed king Yazid's army martyred Imam Hussain, Prophet Muhammad's grandson, at the Battle of Karbala (Iraq) in 7th century and Hussain's sister Bibi Zainab was humiliated. The speaker, among other things, highlighted Zainab's courage to speak truth to power

At the crammed Al-Shams mosque in Naya Nagar, Maulana Mansoor Ahmed rattles off countless blessings and promises, more hereafter than here...

At the crammed Al-Shams mosque in Naya Nagar, Maulana Mansoor Ahmed rattles off countless blessings and promises, more hereafter than here.