Representation of Muslims in the Karnataka Assembly has marginally increased in this election compared to the last.
As many as nine candidates were declared elected on Saturday, compared to the seven in 2018. That was a steep fall from the 11 Muslim MLAs who were elected in 2013. All of them are from the Congress.
The JD(S) said 23 of its 211 candidates were Muslims, but none won.
BJP did not field any Muslims.
Those elected include:
-Rahim Khan from Bidar
-U.T. Khader from Mangaluru
-Tanveer Sait from Mysuru
-Asif (Raju) Sait from Belagavi north
-Rizwan Arshad from Shivaji Nagar
-B.Z. Zameer Ahmed Khan from Chamarajpet
-Kaneez Fatima from Gulbarga north
-Iqbal Hussein from Ramanagara
-N.A. Haris from Shanti Nagar.
All of them have been re-elected, except Asif (Raju) Sait and Iqbal Hussein, who are entering the Assembly for the first time.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Elections> by The Hindu Bureau (headline edited) / May 13th, 2023
Iram scored 100 percent marks in Mathematics and Physics.
Hyderabad:
The Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education (TSBIE) on Tuesday announced the much-awaited inter 1st and 2nd year results on Tuesday.
Among the toppers of the intermediate exam, Iram Meher Khaja Sahkeeluddin, a student of St. Joseph’s Junior College in Hyderabad’s Tolichowki branch, has made her mark by scoring 992 out of 1000 marks. This incredible achievement has made her one of Telangana’s intermediate toppers.
This is not the first time that Iram has shone in her academic career. Last year too, she became one of the toppers of Telangana’s intermediate exam by scoring 467 out of 470 marks.
Iram scored 100 percent marks in Mathematics IA, IIA, IB, IIB, Physics (first and second year) and Chemistry (first year).
Apart from her, another candidate from the same college, Fatima Zahra, a BiPC student, scored 434 out of 440 marks and became one of the toppers of Telangana’s intermediate first-year exam.
According to the official data released by TSBIE, a total of 948153 students appeared for the examination at 1473 centers. Out of these students, 482675 were of the first year and 465478 were of the second year.
A total of 297741 candidates cleared the first-year exam, whereas 295550 students were successful in the second-year exam.
The incredible achievements of Iram Meher and Fatima Zahra, Telangana’s intermediate toppers, are an inspiration to all students.
An epitome of beauty and style in the 70s and 80s, Zeenat Aman’s magnetic screen presence has arrested the hearts of millions. A pioneering fashion icon and trendsetter who broke away from stereotypes, she was bold enough to go for offbeat roles and carve her own niche in the film industry. The 71-year-old actor began her career as a model and made her debut in Bollywood opposite to Dev Anand in 1970. For the 1970s Bollywood, Zeenat Aman exuded modernity with confidence. With her free-spirited attitude, she ruled the industry and acted in almost seventy movies as the female lead, and has been a part of many hugely popular hit songs. She gained fame in India and around the world, starring in some major films such as Satyam Shivam Sundaram (1978), Yaadon Ki Baraat (1973), Don (1978), and Qurbani (1980).
Recently, Zeenat Aman has been owning her narrative through her Instagram account. Her followers are treated to glimpses of her personal life, with backstories behind every picture to accompany them. With graceful photos that come dipped in a vat of nostalgia and glamour as well as the wisdom of a septuagenarian, her Instagram posts reflect upon what it feels like to be a camera subject back then as she looks back at some of these iconic photos on the internet, almost half a century later.
She has been sharing her recollections of the making of some of India’s most iconic movies. In one of her early posts, alongside a photo of her sitting in the comfort of her home, she recounts how the film and fashion industry was absolutely male-dominated in the 70s, and how she would often be the only woman on a set. “A woman’s gaze, though, is different,” she says. As an actor who has expressed her disturbance back then on how “ornamental” women characters were (in an interview given to Keith Adam of Australian Broadcasting Commission on the sets of Qurbani), now, in the process of being the photographic subject, she enjoys not being the spectacle and rather being in her element. Though she is very optimistic about the women working behind and in front of the camera, she is apprehensive of the gender pay gap which hasn’t changed much over time. She writes in her post, “The roles available to women are clearly not just ornamental anymore. What hasn’t changed though is the gender pay gap. In my time, I was lauded as the “highest-paid female actor”, but the disparity in the pay cheque between my male co-stars and myself was so vast it was laughable. The Zeenat you see in this clip was quite certain that half a century would be enough time to even the scales. So it disappoints me that even today women in the film industry don’t have wage parity. Women have consistently put in the work, and I really think that the onus is now on our men – actors, directors, producers – to ensure that their female coworkers (not just stars) are paid fairly. It seems such a simple and obvious thing, and yet it would be revolutionary if any man actually did this.” Zeenat Aman’s comments on gender pay inequality in the film industry highlight a larger issue of gender disparity that women face in various areas. Her call for men to be accountable in ensuring equal pay among their female colleagues is a reminder that gender justice requires collective effort.
Zeenat Aman’s Instagram account serves as both a means of self-expression and a testament to her legacy. In one of her posts, she shares a photograph of herself posing before heading to a birthday party. However, she acknowledges the potential invasion of privacy that public figures often face and responds preemptively to her followers’ curiosity by saying, “I know you may want to ask me which friend, so I will give you an answer about privacy. I think there’s a fine line between a healthy interest in a public figure or a person you admire, and an entitlement or desire to know every detail of their lives.” She continues with a touch of humour, “the world is so spectacularly diverse and rich, I promise you there are more interesting things to learn than which celebrity met whom and where.” In this post, Zeenat Aman addresses the importance of boundaries when it comes to a public figure’s personal life, and encourages her followers to focus on more meaningful things that matter to them. She also expresses gratitude towards her fans who respected her choice of not posing for a photograph with them. She says, “I was sorry to disappoint these lovely fans, but there are boundaries that I find important to draw for myself. I am happy that they respected my response, as it’s not always the case.”
On the yesteryear actor Parveen Babi’s birth anniversary, she penned a heartfelt note which celebrated Parveen for the spirit that she embodied and ruminated on how the actor deserved to be remembered. She complimented her and remembered her as the glamorous and talented actor that she was. She recollected how society tries to pit women against each other: “Back in the 70s, we wore our hair in a similar manner and enjoyed Western fashion. Though neither of us saw it, we were told we had an uncanny resemblance. It must have been true because, as recently as last year, I was approached in Dubai as ‘Parveen ma’am’. Naturally, the media at the time spun tales of competition and rivalry between us, but in reality, we were always warm towards each other.” She writes, “Parveen’s struggle with mental illness came at a time when the country was still so insensitive and ignorant on these matters. After her death, I often ruminated on how she was remembered. The tabloids focused on her romantic relationships and ‘episodes’, but Parveen was much more than who she dated or what she said when she was unwell. I feel she never truly got the chance to say her piece. She was intelligent, hardworking, and creative…She achieved incredible success as an actor, even featuring on the cover of Time magazine.” The words were carefully chosen to convey not only her admiration for Parveen but also a deep human understanding of the issues her colleague faced. She questions the lack of sensitivity with which the tabloids handled the situation and forces us to think if there has been any significant change in recent times.
She is not afraid to call out how most celebrity accounts are “more akin to advertising billboards than blogs.” She emphasizes how it has helped her decide her own approach to the app. She is insistent on the word “purpose”—the purpose of her being on the gram, the purpose of the one reading it, and so on. In another thought-provoking post of hers, she remembers how “we see very few older women in the public eye. It’s not something I thought about when I was young, but now that I myself am silver-haired, I feel their absence.” She is concerned about how the absence of older women in the public eye reinforces negative stereotypes about aging and contributes to the erasure of their experiences and wisdom, reminding us of the power and importance of intergenerational relationships.
She questions how “(as) women, we are told that our social worth lies in youth and physical beauty. If not explicitly, then in a thousand subliminal ways. This is especially true for the entertainment industry… I was initially reluctant to stop dyeing my hair, and was strongly advised against it.” She emphasizes how we have minimal agency when it comes to presenting our bodies to others. She contemplates that “Being young is wonderful, but so is being old. It thrills me to see more and more silver-haired women (of all ages) challenge the status quo.” By celebrating her natural self and thereby refusing to conform to societal norms, she is a testament to the growing number of women who are rejecting the notion that youth equals beauty.
While the reflections and musings go in one hand, some serious fun goes on in the other. In one of her posts, she also talks about discovering some of the Zeenat Aman memes on Instagram. She shares them and even calls that version of her ‘Meme-at Aman.’ She also expresses her joy at learning what a ‘thirst trap’ means. In the rapidly changing media landscape, leveraging online platforms to shape and maintain a public persona is quite common among public figures and artists to stay relevant. By artfully curating her online presence, Zeenat Aman crafts and controls the narrative surrounding her career, image, and legacy with great care and self-awareness.
source: http://www.maktoobmedia.com / Maktoob / Home> Film and TV> Latest Opinion / by Ashikha N / March 2023
Green Valley National School and PU College, Shiroor has scored 100% result for the 11th consecutive year in ICSE Grade X Exams with an outstanding performance taking the school performance to a higher level.
Out of 63 students all the students have registered good results 100% pass and first class in all subjects. 20 students have secured High Distinction and 43 students have secured High first Classes.
MARIAM INAYATULLAH is a topper scoring 472 (94.4%). SOHAIL AHAMED ANWAR scored 470 (94%) and come second. MOHAMMED SAOUD secured the third position with 466 (93.2%).
While continuing the tradition of excellence and 100% results, students have secured an all-time record in high first class.
Sheikh Raisha Tabassum from Nazira in Sivasagar district has been appointed as the youngest State Secretary of BJP’s youth wing Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) Delhi Pradesh.
Sivasagar :
Sheikh Raisha Tabassum from Nazira in Sivasagar district has been appointed as the youngest State Secretary of BJP’s youth wing Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) Delhi Pradesh.
A graduate with honours in Political Science honours from Hindu College, University of Delhi, 20-year-old Sheikh Raisha is also the founder of ‘El Jeffa Foundation’ — a national NGO working with the United Nations in various parts of India.
Previously, Sheikh Raisha was also the State Secretary of the ABVP Delhi’s North East Cell, in-charge of the ‘Slum School Project’ under ‘Students For Seva’, ABVP where she focused on educating 300+ Muslim underprivileged children in Delhi.
The BJP has given her the responsibility to work for the welfare of the minority community with focus on the youth of the north-eastern region.
Sheikh Raisha is also a recipient of the prestigious SKOCH Yuva award. She was also nominated for the ‘Karmaveer Chakra Awards’ constituted by confederation of Indian NGOs & UN.
Sheikh Raisha is the daughter of Hamida Rahman, a teacher by profession of Nazira Na-mati.
source: http://www.sentinelassam.com / The Sentinel / Home> NE News> Assam News / by Sentinel Digital Desk / September 06th, 2021
When I met Shabnam and her elder sister Nafisa after a flight of 37 steps of a half-built high-rise building on the Nuh-Tawadu road, I couldn’t gauge the high spirits of these two women, their nine sisters, and late father Niyaz Khan in our brief meeting.
Niyaz Khan, a former revenue officer in the Punjab Waqf Board, has left this world, but he is remembered for bringing about the change in the mindset of Muslims in Nuh through his act of giving a good education to all his 11 daughters.
Not only he educated his daughters but 8 of them became teachers and are carrying on the mission of spreading education in one of the most backward areas of India.
In a conversation with Awaz-The Voice, Shabnam says, “I and my sisters who are teachers make efforts to ensure that girl students in our respective schools do not give up on their studies midway and drop out of school. We also make extra efforts to see that besides retaining the numbers, more girls are enrolled in the school.”
Shabnam says that to retain girl students they call the parents of students to school to make them aware of the importance of education.
Shabnam, who worked in an NGO for a long time before joining the government school, says, “Due to my experience with an NGO, I face lesser difficulties in this job (retaining girl students in school) in comparison to other sisters. My experience of working on child education in an NGO is helping me.”
She says that increasing the number of students helps in upgrading schools. Shabnam is now TGT i.e. Trained Graduate Teacher in Rithoda vuillage. The primary school where she worked earlier has since been converted into a middle school.
Shabnam and Nafisa
Shabnam’s elder sister Nafisa says that many parents come to consult her and all her teacher-siblings. They ask them how to ensure a good future for their daughters. “Many times strangers stop them at the bus stand for paying compliments and telling us that they want their daughters to be like us.”
Nuh remains one of the most backward districts of Haryana, where women are struggling to rise amidst diehard patriarchy, old-fashioned thoughts, rampant illiteracy, and a lack of basic facilities. The dropout rate of girl students is the highest in the state.
Although there are many schools and colleges in Nuh, it has no university and women must go outside for higher education.
Asif Ali Chandaini, General Secretary of Mewat Vikas Manch, says, about 70 to 80 percent of the population of the district survives by doing petty and menial jobs. In such a situation, parents have financial constrains, and safety of daughters as issues in their minds while deciding on educating their daughters. In the end they prefer to keep their girls at home.
Defying such conservative traditions in the decade of nineties, Niyaz Khan decided to send his daughters for higher education.
Nafisa, the eldest of the sisters, who spoke with Awaz-the voice said their father had a transferable job. As long as the family was living outside Mewat, he did not face any problems in educating his daughters. However, after he met with an accident, took voluntary retirement and shifted permanently to Nuh in 1993, he faced stiff opposition to sending his daughters to colleges and universities.
Her father was a resident of Chandaini village, about four kilometers from Nuh. The people there are progressive and clear about the aware of education.
Praising her father and grandfather, Shabnam says, “Both were very great people. Dada (paternal grandfather) never stopped us from going to college and school. In the nineties, when the environment was worse than what you see today, he not only continued to give higher education to his daughters but also sent them out of Nuh for studies.”
Shabnam has also studied law; her husband is a practicing advocate in Sohna.
Despite the regressive environment around them, Niyaz Khan’s eight daughters became teachers. They are employed in government schools. Shabnam says teaching was their choice.
Shabnam has five children. One of her daughters has a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from Banaras. Her other children are also into masters and other higher education courses.
Nafisa’s elder son is pursuing a Ph.D. in Physics.
Shabnam and Nafisa say that they care least about others’ opinions when it comes to their children’s education. “Our children are moving forward by choosing their careers. We are only supporting them,” they said almost in unison.
According to Nafisa, the children of the younger sisters are also pursuing education at different levels.
She tells that things are changing for Mewati Muslims on the education of girls. However, the change is quite slow.
Nafisa says that there is a trend of girls dropping out after fifth or eighth standard and being sitting at home.
Many parents prefer to send their daughters to Maktab, local Madrasa, instead of sending them to school.
Shabnam’s disciple Mohammad Rafiq, who has done his Ph.D. on the topic of Mewat’s female Sarpanch, says that the picture of Mewat can change if the authorities present these eleven sisters as ‘role models’.
The 11 sisters becoming the face of women’s education and empowerment can bring down the dropout rate significantly. However, both the sisters do not agree on this.
They feel the thrust on women’s education has to begin from their homes of Muslims.”Everything cannot be left to the government; the politicians of Mewat have to show willpower,” Shabnam says.
She said once she invited the local politicians to a meeting of Urdu teachers, but none of them came. She also this was the most discouraging since most of them are her relatives.
Despite this, they do not show any special seriousness towards education.
Niyaz Khans’s daughters:
Nafisa: JBT & B.Ed, Govt Teacher
Shabnam: MA, LLB, JBT, government teacher
Afsana: JBT, MA, B.Ed.
Farhana: JBT, MA, B.Ed. government teacher
Shahnaz: JBT, MA, B.Ed teacher in private school
Ishrat: B.A
Nusrat: Lecturer in JBT, MA, MEd and employed in a Polytechnic
Ana: JBT, MA B.Ed, Govt Teacher
Razia: MBA and working in private sector
Nazia: Diploma in Architecture, works in private sector
Bushra: MA, B.Ed
source: http://www.awazthevoice.in / Awaz, The Voice / Home> Stories / by Malick Asghar Hashmi / May 04th, 2023
Hana, (second from left), with her parents (in middle) and siblings
It was on a day in November of 2020; commercial flights were resuming after a long hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic. An octogenarian Sumitra Devi (name changed on request) was on her maiden flight from Gaya to Delhi when out of curiosity she requested the crew to show her the pilot of the aeroplane. The air hostess of aircraft A320 escorted the lady to see the cockpit from the outside
As soon as she had a glimpse of the crew, the lady’s pupils widened and she quipped in a Haryanvi accent: “Oi yahan to chori baithi” (Oh! It’s a girl sitting inside). That girl was Hana Mohsin Khan, a commercial pilot with an Indian airliner.
Thinking of that experience makes Hana laughs loudly even today. Hana’s post on Twitter on this went viral and made her famous. Hana is one of the 34 Muslims among 3500 women pilots in India. As such India has the largest proportion of women pilots in comparison with the rest of the world and yet the representation of Muslims is also one in 100.
Hana flying her aircraft
Hana’s rise too wasn’t easy; she reached this position after pursuing journalism and running an event management company. Growing up as a Muslim woman brings its own set of challenges for girls with evolved minds and higher ambitions. Hana also faced this.
She did her schooling in Saudi Arabia and after passing her 10th standard, she returned to Meerut City, Uttar Pradesh. While in Saudi, she lived in a society where women were not treated on par with men, back home, in her Muslim milieu, she was labeled as a “fast girl”. After she shifted to Delhi for her graduation, she was labeled as a “prim and proper’ woman, a euphemism for a docile woman in an urban environment.
Hana says these labels impacted her and became a reason that made her take long to find her true calling. Today, after being a celebrity, she says she is “still eager to gain knowledge.” She says, “Don’t be surprised if some 10 years down the line you see me having mastered in some other field.”
Speaking with Awaz-the Voice she recalls meeting a group of pilots attending a wedding in 2014 in Trivandrum. They invited her over for a cup of tea, “Facebook used to have check-in where people would flaunt their status while flying. I realized I was the only non-flying person in that group.” This was the moment for Hana to realize her calling. She decided to become a pilot.
Hana said, “I started preparing for the qualifying examinations in the off-wedding season, I used to study 18 hours a day; it wasn’t easy as I should have appeared in the examination at least 15 years back.” Hana cleared her written exams with flying colours and was finally selected after clearing three flying tests before she received her commercial flying license. She later went to Florida, USA, for her flight training and then to Greece to specialise in Airbus aircraft.
Hana (in middle) during her training days
However. the real battle lay ahead, as she hadn’t yet broken the news to her parents. “It was like a movie scene, I sat my parents down and told them, “I am about to break an important decision to you, but you cannot say anything negative, at least not in front of me.”
Hana recalls how her parent felt anxious when she broke the news. However, they never said no to her. It was only after she got a job with a major airline that her mother exclaimed, “Everyone said she was making a mistake, there aren’t jobs available in this field and so on…”
Her father Mohsin Khan comes from Shahjahanpur, Meerut while her mother hails from Pabli. The couple had big dreams for their children. The family shifted to Saudi Arabia when she was a toddler. “Growing up, I never felt lesser than anyone, it is now that I realize that maybe we women are not as strong as men but that doesn’t make us less equals and I thank my father for it.”
Hana, the eldest of her four siblings, is born a leader and had supportive parents but in the school, she struggled for equality. “Growing up in Saudi Arabia I never saw women driving, I didn’t see women doing a lot of things that I thought they should be doing, though now it’s changed, I think that is why I became a rebel more than anything else.”
“In my school in Saudi, the smaller building was for the girls while the bigger one was allotted to boys, though we went to the boys’ building for attending functions; the very idea of bifurcation based on gender disparaged me.”
She shared an incident from her 10th standard. “At a summer camp where teachers of the girls’ and boys’ school were swapped; a male teacher started teaching the chapter on engines to a class fo girls. The teacher wrote the name of the chapter on the board and said: “Arey engine hain (oh! Its engines), I know most of the girls won’t be interested”, and started laughing.”
Hana with her pet babies Cessna and Chewy
The 13-year-old Hana found it offensive. She asked her father to teach her everything about engines. “I went through encyclopedia videos and made my father open our car bonnet and tell me what it was. It was in the 55-degree Celsius temperature but hats off to my father who didn’t stop me from asking the questions and taught me all about the engines.”
The next day she surprised her teacher with her knowledge of engines.
When Hana returned to Meerut City for pursuing her studies after 10th, she was ostracized for being so vocal for her rights, “I was questioned on the way of dressing up, riding a Scooty, and being friends with the boys.”
She had scored 99 percent marks in science and 100 in math in her 10th standard back in Saudi, thus in Meerut she decided to pursue the science stream, she was asked “tum toh musalman ladki ho (you are a Muslim girl), why are you making this tough for yourself.
Such remarks made her feel uneasy, “I no longer had an interest in science”, she adds. Soon she shifted to Delhi to pursue a bachelor’s in mass communications, “Here I was labeled a small-town girl who didn’t go out after 9, followed the rules, and so on.”
All this fueled her ambition even more and she started interning from the very first semester of her graduation, “I used to go to college, to work in the evening. My first job was with Vinod Dua (the late journalist). He was my first boss, and I got 5000 rupee as my first salary when I was 17 years old.”
She says, “My father grew up in a village and was one of the first few people to study and leave the city, marry outside the family and he wanted the best for his children, so he worked very hard on us.”
She says, “My mother and I dream alike, she has these innovative ideas and wants the best in everything”. She reminiscens having finished her flying and landing a job when someone in her family fell sick, she jokingly said to her mother, “Amma we need a Doctor in the family”, her mother innocently quipped, ““why don’t you become one”. Hana says, her mother was serious, “She somehow feels that I can be a doctor; when you have such driving forces backing you up, it is hard to fail.”
Today while talking to Awaz-the Voice Hana says, “You know though I have no regrets about my decisions but somewhere it took me a long time to find my true calling and pursuing a technical field.”
Hana took note of mentioning her maternal grandmother who was a school principle and was responsible for educating an entire generation, “My Nani came to the city and made sure that all her kids got good education, I’ve always looked up to her for inspiration.”
She says, “I could have been a NASA scientist or an engineer, you never know but I would end up hearing extraordinary stories about myself which weren’t true and it made me question myself, and unfortunately it was a new experience for my parents as well thus they couldn’t help me out either, sadly my community people didn’t want me to grow.”
Hana with Rana Safvi
In 2020, Hana flew her first commercial flight. “I was praying for a good landing and it was a good landing, I felt so thankful to the universe and to the world for giving me this opportunity, I thought that even if I were to die today, I’d have no regrets.”
Talking to Awaz the Voice, Hana went down memory lane. “So many years have passed yet it still feels fresh in my memory, the only difference being, today I can laugh out loud and feel happy, sad, angry at the same time.”
Hana says if she could then she would go back to her younger self and tell her and women like her to never doubt their worth and fight for their rights even if that means turning their backs on society, “Being happy with what you are doing, being satisfied is more important than anything.”
She feels women should help out one another, “We need all the help we can get, all the women need, all the help after so much we all have gone through, all women in India at least. We hear things about ourselves which are untrue, we get cat-called, harassed on the road yet we fight, we learn how to fight.”
According to her, retaliation is a many-step process that starts with being scared which slowly leads to anger and later on becomes action, “Imagine the strength that we have, imagine not being crazy, staying fine, working, behaving like normal human beings, being emphatic, taking care of our families and communities…”
Hana says, “I mustn’t be judged for wearing a short skirt or for covering myself from head to toe, either of these choices cannot be forced on me.” She says, “My not wearing a hijab doesn’t make me less of a Muslim. We already have it hard as women. And then we are further categorized as Muslim women, and then we have external factors that are making it harder to be Muslim. So it’s so much, so many intersectionalities.”
She narrates an interesting incident of how gender discrimination is rampant, Hana was once performing her ablutions in Jama Masjid when a man came up to her and said that she was doing it the wrong way as the water didn’t touch the tip of her elbow. She retorted “Your abulition is null and void as you were busy watching me while doing it”.
She feels airports and airplanes make beautiful humane stories. “The other day I saw this man who was video calling his wife and showing him the insides of the aircraft, I was walking beside him and saw how happy they were.”
Kochi airport
One day a CISF lady officer complimented Hana, “Madam uniform suits you.” Hana replied, “Yours looks perfect on you too, uniform suits all women .’ Narrating her favourite moment she tells Awaz the Voice how once a 5-year-old girl on seeing Hana in uniform asked her Mother can girls also be pilots, “Her mother looked at me and said, of course, they can, while I told her “Sweetheart if I can then you can too”.
Talking about the importance of social media in reaching out to the masses she says, “It was during the Delhi riots that I realized Twitter was a serious space, along with Rana Aapa (Rana Safvi), Tarique, Yuman Aapa, Safa and others we were able to raise funds and rehabilitate 44 families of Mustafabad, we gave them ration and three months rent.”
Hana uses her social media to help aspiring aviators. In one of her stories on Instagram, she answered some 1000 questions about flying and an aviation career.
Apart from flying she is a voracious reader, a food enthusiast, a pet-mom and a part-time writer, she feels, “Age is just a number, if you really want to do something then trust me just go with it and things would fall into place.”
source: http://www.awazthevoice.in / Awaz, The Voice / Home> Story / by Shaista Fatima / May 01st, 2023
Mishkat Noor said she studied for five-six hours while preparing for UPMSP matric exams 2023. Photo Credit: TV9
Mishkat Noor is a student of Canossa Convent Girls Inter College, Ayodhya. Thanking god, she gave credit for her success to her parents. Her father is a teacher at a madrasa.
New Delhi:
The UP Board today declared UPMSP Class 10 and 12 results 2023 and also released list of toppers for both the classes. Priyanshi Soni has topped UPMSP matric exam 2023 with a score of 590 out of 600 marks. Two students have secured the second position with 587 marks. Their percentage comes out to be 97.83 per cent. The name of those two students are Kushagra Pandey and Mishkat Noor.
Mishkat Noor is a student of Canossa Convent Girls Inter College, Ayodhya. Thanking god, she gave credit for her success to her parents. Her father is a teacher at a madrasa.
She said she studied for five-six hours while preparing for UPMSP matric exams 2023. However, even after attaining such good marks, Mishkat is not satisfied with her result. She said she could have scored more marks had she not made a mistake which cost her two marks. Talking to media, Mishkat said she wanted to become a doctor.
The toppers of UP Board will be awarded cash prize and a laptop. They will receive a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh, as per reports. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath congratulated students on clearing the board exams and wished them luck for their better future.
Top 10 toppers at state level and district level will be honoured at the district level, the chief minister said in his tweet.
This year, more than 31 lakh students sat for UPMSP matric exam 2023. The overall pass percentage for Class 10 stands at 89.78 per cent and that recorded among girls is 93.34 per cent.
Students who are not satisfied with their UP Board result 2023 can apply for scrutiny on the official website of the UPMSP at upmsp.edu.in. The UPMSP will re-evaluate sheets of those who apply for scrutiny and check if any question remained unchecked.
Those who have failed in or two subjects will be able to apply for compartment exam to pass Class 10 or 12 in which they studied. They will be issued revised marksheet if they clear their compartment exam.
source: http://www.news9live.com / News9Live.com/ Home> by Education & Career / by Nikhal Jha / April 25th, 2023
Just an 11-year-old girl astonishes the world with her extraordinary development skills. She recently created an AI Application that uses advanced models to determine eye diseases or serious conditions such as Melanoma, Cataracts, etc. Read below about this creative Kerala-origin girl.
An 11-year-old Dubai-based girl called Leena Rafeeq has designed a modernistic application integrated with Artificial Intelligence (AI). This young girl from Kerala proclaimed that this smart app can locate common eye disorders and symptoms. Moreover, this can be determined through a unique scanning method built into the app and only the iPhone supports this advanced model so far.
iPhone users will be able to check their eye-related problems and conditions with 70 per cent accuracy. The intelligent app that has been going viral for a couple of days has been named ‘Ogler EyeScan’ by Ms Leena Rafeeq. She was just 10 when she built it and now after so much research at the age of 11, she exuberantly launched it.
Self-taught Techie
On a social media platform called LinkedIn, she vividly presented the model. She further expounded the workings of her self-made in an online video that she posted online after which several viewers are impressed with her knowledge and skill set.
She asserted that this AI-based application has the capability to evaluate various parameters. The specifications include light and colour intensity, distance and look-up points in order to track down the eyes.
It scans the human eyes within the available range of the frame and this is possible through the “advanced computer vision and machine learning” used in this model’s design.
Features of ‘Ogler EyeScan App’
Leena Rafeeq explains her exceptional achievement and said that the Ogler EyeScan App can also identify any light burst issues. Additionally, this app will first check the eye positioning inside the scanner frame and after that through advanced technological scanning procedures, it can identify some of the common eye problems.
Built with Machine Learning Algorithms and Computer Vision Systems, eye conditions like Arcus, Melanoma, Pterygium and Cataracts can be checked however 70% accurate results have been recognized till now.
How AI App is developed?
Ms Rafeeq told that this smart technology app was developed natively with high-level programming developer ‘SwiftUI’ without the involvement of any third-party libraries or packages. She also reveals that she dedicated herself for almost six months to conducting research and development to come up with this initiative.
Along with this, she continued her learning about different eye conditions, computer vision, algorithms, machine learning models and other advanced levels of Apple iOS development which involves sensors data, AR, CreateML, CoreML and many such tools.
It is notable that the Ogler EyeScan is supported solely in iPhone 10 or Apple phones with iOS above 16. The app is under review on the App Store and this young girl hopes that her model gets listed soon.
Appraisal of her Project
This young Kerala girl leaves many flabbergasted by the invention of such a little girl. People congratulated her as she attains this level at this age. A user commented that this is a pretty good example of how AI can be effectively used in the health sector.
Another goes on to say that this is such an amazing creation and wished her good luck with her future endeavours. They all wished her positive reviews on her app. Ms Rafeeq responded that the model accuracy is “almost 70 per cent”.
However, she is handling some difficulties with the presence of glare and burst from lights caused by the distance required for capturing scans through the phone device. She has implemented metrics and detection for light-related issues so that the users will be able to re-scan. Her current focus is on training more elegant models. As soon as Ogler is accepted by the Appstore, she will be releasing an update in the software.
source: http://www.jagranjosh.com / Jagran Josh / Home> Current Affairs> Science – Technology Current Affairs / (headline edited) April 2023
The results of the 2nd PU exams in Karnataka were announced on April 21.
Tabassum Sheikh, 2nd year PU arts topper with her parents Abdul Khaum Sheikh and Parveen Modi, after the results of 2nd PU exams in Karnataka were announced, in Bengaluru on April 21, 2023. Tabassum is a student of NMKRV PU College for Women, Jayanagar. | Photo Credit: Murali Kumar K
The results of the 2nd PU exams in Karnataka were announced on April 21 by Ritish Kumar Singh, Principal Secretary in the Department of School Education and Literacy, and Ramachandran, Chairman of Karnataka School Examination and Assessment Board.
M. Mohan Alva, chairman, Alva’s Education Foundation, Moodbidri offering sweets to Ananya K.A., who topped the commerce stream in the second PU exams in Karnataka. The results were announced on April 21, 2023.
Ananya K.A. , commerce student, Alva’s PU college, Moodabidri is the topper in Karnataka scoring 600 marks out of 600. She hails from Kushalnagar in Kodagu district. She joined Alva’s PU College under the institution’s scholarship scheme
In the arts steam, Tabassum Sheikh, NMKRV PU College, Bengaluru is the topper with 593/600 marks.
S.M. Koushik from Gangothri PU college, Srinivaspura, Kolar district, and Surabhi S. from R.V. PU college, NMKRV campus, Bengaluru are the toppers in the science stream with 596 marks for 600.
How PU students performed as compared to last year
At 74.67%, the pass percentage in the II PU exams shot up by 12% from the previous year.
Of the 7,02,067 students who appeared for the exams, 5,24,209 have cleared them. A total of 4,79,746 (78.97%) regular students, 33,833 (48.42%) repeaters and 10,630 (43.02%) private candidates passed.
The pass percentage in the arts stream (1,34,876 students) was 61.22%, in commerce (1,82,246 students) was 75.89%, and in science (2,07,087 students) was 85.71%.
This year too, the pass percentage of girls is higher than boys — 2,82,602 girls (80.25%) passed against 2,41,607 (69.05%) boys. The performance of rural students was better than those in the urban areas — 1,19,860 (74.79%) rural students passed against 4,04,349 (74.63%) urban.
A total of 1,09,509 students got distinction (above 85%), 2,47,315 students got first class (60% to 85%), 90,014 students got second class (50% to 60%) and 77,371 students secured more than the minimum marks to pass (35% to 50%).
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> India> Karnataka / by The Hindu Bureau (headline edited) / April 21st, 2023
