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AMU team win ‘Judges Choice Award’, NASA Space App Challenge

October 20, 2020Education, Science & Technology, World OpinionAbdullah Samdani, Aman Ahmed Khan, AMU, Ayesha Samdani, Faisal Jamil, Faisal Jamil - Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology - Bhopal - Madhya Pradesh, Syed Shadab, Syed Shadab - ISRO Scientist, Tazeen Siddiqui, Tazeen Siddiqui - Lead - NASA Space App Challenge, Umair Shahajhani, Umair Shahajhani - Winner - Judges Choice Award - NASA Space App Challenge, Umair Shahajhani - ZH College of Engineering & Technology, Uzair Mujeeb, Uzair Mujeeb - ISRO Scientistmpositiveone@gmail.com

Aligarh, UTTAR PRADESH :

Aligarh :

‘Team blaze’ comprising Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) students, Umair Shahajhani (Z H College of Engineering and Technology) and Omja (Senior Secondary school Girls) won the ‘Judges Choice Award’ of the international NASA Space App Challenge 2020.

The AMU team had participated in the global hackathon from their home computers to tackle one of the most pressing worldwide issues: The Covid-19 pandemic, said Tazeen Siddiqui, Lead, NASA space App Challenge. The event was judged by two ISRO scientists, Mr Uzair Mujeeb and Syed Shadab.

The ‘Team blaze’ is one of the two teams from AMU to have won the award. The other team, ALTAIR lead by AMU students Ayesha Samdani (MBBS), Mohd Zakir Husain (MBBS), Aman Ahmad Khan (MBBS), Abdullah Samdani (BA LLB) and Faisal Jamil, a BTech student from the Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh also won the ‘Judges Choice Award’ for presenting a solution in response to the NASA’s Challenge ‘A One Health Approach’.

ALTAIR members through their presentation shed light on how improved air quality has been an unintended but welcome consequence of the lockdown to contain the coronavirus. They gave an analysis of the air quality of the pre and post lockdown periods in the Indo Gangetic region of Northern India. Their study gave details about how an improvement in the air quality benefited the health of people.

The team members also coded an Air Quality Index (AQI) Calculator to measure AQI of a certain region, which is helpful in giving health and cautionary statements and providing guidance to common people on pollution related health issues.

source: http://www.amu.ac.in / Aligarh Muslim University / Home> AMU News / by Public Relations Office, AMU / October 09th, 2020

Mughals were leaders of first independence war, says NALSAR University of Law V-C

November 22, 2017Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Community Involvement / Social Issues, Education, Leaders, World Opinion200th Bicentenary Celebration Birth Anniversary Sir Syed Ahmed Khan 2017, Aligarh Muslim University, AMU, AMU Old Boys' Association, Director Muzaffar Ali, Faizan Mustafa, Faizan Mustafa-Vice Chancellor-NALSAR University of Law-Hyderabad, Filmmaker Muzaffar Ali, Muzaffar Ali, Sir Syed, Sir Syed Ahmed Khanmpositiveone@gmail.com

Aligarh, UTTAR PRADESH :

Lucknow :

These are times of aggressive nationalism we are living in, said vice chancellor of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, Faizan Mustafa, where we have started to consider Mughals not part of the country. Mustafa speaking at the grand 200th bicentenary birth anniversary celebrations of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan in Lucknow on Tuesday went ahead to say that Mughals were in fact leaders of the first war of independence of 1857 and were considered so by the likes of Tipu Sultan, Tatya Tope and others.

“Mughals were an integral part of India who could not be fragmented from its soul and now we are here in these times of aggressive nationalism where we are having doubts about them. And this nationalism has not only made us target the Mughals, but also recently there were similar talks about Rabindranath Tagore,” said Mustafa who was the guest of honour at the Sir Syed Day organised by Aligarh Muslim University’s (AMU) Old Boys’ Association. Filmmaker Muzaffar Ali was the chief guest on the day, both of whom being former pupils of the university, recounted their time spent at AMU.

Mustafa also cleared that now when criticising the government is equated to being seditious, it was in 1860 after a fatwa (decree) from clerics at Deoband against the British that the law of sedition as a charge was enacted. Mustafa also exhorted his fellow Aligs (as past pupils of AMU are popularly known) that the dream of Sir Syed has not yet been realised with Muslims lagging in both modern education and securing government jobs.

In his brief speech, Mustafa also touched upon the controversy around AMU’s minority status and said, “People say that the minority status was for the college and with AMU a university, it does not stand now. I researched for this when I had to submit in Allahabad high court as AMU’s stand on the case and I found that when Sir Syed laid the foundation of the madrasa it was the university he had in mind and when he gave his first speech in 1877 when the school was raised to the college level, in front of Lord Lytton he said that one day the college would be a university.

Mustafa also said that blaming Sir Syed for the two nation theory was not just wrong but also absurd. “In several of his recorded speeches, he has identified and defined both Hindus and Muslims as not separate identities but one qaum (community) and one nation. Mustafa considered an authority on law also said that reforms in Muslim personal laws were needed and could only be possible through the ideas of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan.

ON the day, the AMU Old Boys’ Association and its members that had gathered in the city from different parts of the state passed the resolution to raise demand of Bharat Ratna for Sir Syed and to generate funds for a Sir Syed House in Lucknow to carry on his Aligarh movement of education.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News> City News> Lucknow News / by Yusra Hussain / TNN / October 18th, 2017