Mehfil-e-Hyderabad in Mississauga, Canada

Third Annual Mehfil-e-Hyderabad in Mississauga on June 18th, 2011

MISSISSAUGA, ON—Hyderabad Deccan Foundation of Canada (HDFC) is pleased to announce that the third annual Mehfil-e-Hyderabad, premiere event of all Hyderabadis in Canada & beyond, will be held on June 18, 2011 at the Versailles Convention Centre in Mississauga.

For tickets to the event and more information please contact Rafat Alam at 416-857-9322 or Zaheer Kaiser at 905-712-1900.

See the details here: Charminar Connection

Statues On Tank Bund Demolished

Tankbund road on 12th march in hyd

In a stunning act of vandalism, the "Million March" in Hyderabad resulted in Telangana activists demolishing the statues of Telugu icons on Tank Bund.

Statues On Tank Bund Demolished - Hyderabad News on fullhyd.com,10th Mar, 2011:

The 12 statues damaged were those of of Krishnadevaraya, Sir Arthur Cotton, Tallapaka Annamacharya, Kandukuri Veeresalingam Panthulu, Gurajada Appa Rao, Yerrapragada, Raghupati Venkatratnam Naidu, Siddhendrayogi, Brahma Naidu, Mutnuri Krishna Rao, Tripuraneni Ramaswamy Chaudhari and Bellary Raghava. Other statues desecrated were those of Shalivahana, Nannaya Bhattaraka, Vemana, Kshetrayya, Sri Sri, Jashua and C R Reddy.

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A.P. Assembly adjourned over violence by Telangana supporters

Telangana issue: ‘Million march' cripples city life

Chiru wants to rebuild Tank Bund statues

Tv9 - Statue destruction represents the death of our self-respect - Lagadapati

March 10 ‘dark day' in history

Row over re-installation of demolished statues of Telugu icons

Poets protest statue attacks

Mohammed Abdul Muqeet (alias Arif) Passes Away

Mir Mohsin Ali, Yahind News, January 29, 2011

Riyadh- Mohammed Abdul Muqeet (Arif) son of Mohammed Abdul Khader and Shareefunissa Begum died of brain hamrage at his residence at 10:30 am on 26th Jan 2011. He was nearly 50 years.

According to his brother in law Mohammed Akram Imtiyaz said news came to Riyadh at noon.

Muqeet worked in King Abdulaziz City for science and technology (KACST) for 28 years last two weeks before he left Riyadh on his final exit.

He is survived by wife, 4 sons and a daughter.

The funeral prayer is being offered on 26th Jan after Isha Prayer at Mosque Thaki Jail. He will be buried in the graveyard near Thaki Jail, Chadar Ghat, Hyderabad.

Friends visited his brother in law home in Hai Al-Wazarat to offer their condolences.

For more information contact : Mohammed Akram Imtiyaz : 0501938028.

In Hyderabad his Son Adil : 0091-7799337542.

"Allah. there is no God but He! To Him belong the most Beautiful Names".(Qur'an 20:8) -- al-Muqeet (The Controller of Things ) is a name of Allah

Khuda bakshe bahut si khoobiyan thi marne wale mein
[Daag Dehalvi ] Ameen, Thumma Ameen.

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajiun. Allahumma ajirni fi musibati, wa akhlif li khayran minha

To Allah we belong, and to Him will we return – O Allah, reward me for my affliction and replace it for me with that which is better.
Umm Salamah keeps repeating this dear du’a, with faith as firm as a fist. She doesn’t deny her condition for she does ask “who could be a better husband than Abu Salamah?” continue reading the meaning of this dua

May Allah grant him Jannatul Firdous and give his family and friends sabr. InshAllah Aameen. A great loss to all who knew him; We cannot forget his kind and nice behavior with everyone, with no exceptions he was a very good Muslim.
Massalam, Dua jo and dua go

See also Muqeet's forward:

GULF KI ZINDEGI: HYDERABADI KI ZUBAANI

KACST colleagues bids farewell to Kazim Zakir

Indian Community in Riyadh | Facebook

Muqeet @ Linkedin

Andhra seeks help for students stuck in US's Tri-Valley University

India protests trackers, January 30th, 2011 Deccan Chronicle

Radio-tagging 'sham' university students excessive: India to US, NDTV Correspondent, Updated: January 29, 2011


Andhra seeks help for students stuck in US

Hyderabad, Jan 28 (IANS) With many students from Andhra Pradesh facing the possibility of being deported from the United States following the closure of Tri-Valley University, the state government Friday urged the Indian government to take up the issue with the US authorities.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy has requested the ministry of external affairs to pursue the matter with the US government for giving all possible assistance to the students affected by the closure of the SanFrancisco-based university.

Reddy also wrote a letter to External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna to render all possible assistance through the diplomatic missions in Washington and San Francisco in issuing visas to the affected students, who approach them.

The closure of the university has reportedly affected 1,600 Indian students and 500 are from Andhra Pradesh.

On the same shelf:

America's herd mentality, Hindustan Times, January 31, 2011

Are Indian Students Enrolled At Tri-Valley University (TVU) Really Innocent? Shiksha on 3 Feb 2011

Extract:

Defense of Indian Students

Some of the Hyderabad students, who got their I-20 forms from TVU, allege that both the Hyderabad US Consulate and the Chennai US Consulate failed to detect the fraud and processed their F-1 visa forms, giving them no reason to doubt the university.

Others, who have moved from other universities to TVU, say that TVU allowed them to work for 20 to 40 hours per week from Day 1 as Curricular Practical Training, and they thought it was legal.

The Indian student community also says that since the Tri-Valley University has been recognized and accredited for accepting foreign students, Indian students should not be blamed for seeking admission there.

IAEC Consultancy, which has been named as the Tri-valley's representatives for South Asia region in the varsity's website, denies any links with the university and says that it has not sent even a single student to the institution.

What Tri-Valley University Has To Say
Founder and President of the Tri-Valley University, Ms Susan Su, was born in China. Most of the faculty too belongs to Chinese origin. They remain defiant in the face of all the charges and maintain that TVU has not broken any law. Su blames her two staff members of Indian origin for the blatant misuse of I20 forms.
Su insists that Tri-Valley University's growth pace has been so fast that they might have slipped on some protocol issues.

The staff members that have been fired by TVU for the fraud are: Anji Reddy - a student assistant who worked in TVU administrative office, and another TVU student called Ram Krista Karra, who also has a consultant company. The students, duped by these two individuals, paid their tuition fee in the personal account of Ram Krista Karra to get their student I-20 forms and CPT approvals.

Sri Krishna panel gives six options on Telangana statehood - Siasat

Source: Siasat.com

New Delhi, January 06: The Justice Srikrishna committee is understood to have recommended six options to deal with the Telangana statehood demand on which the government may take a call in about six weeks.

See on the same shelf:

Why HYD can be a Union Territory Siasat.com

Dr. Omar Khalidi - Noted scholar from city dies in US

TNN, Nov 30, 2010, 11.40pm IST, The Times of India

HYDERABAD: Noted Indian-American scholar Omar Khalidi was killed in a freak train accident near Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, on Monday, according to reports reaching here.

According to Khalidi's wife Nigar, the writer, who was suffering from diabetics and insomnia, fainted and fell before a train that was approaching at the MIT railway station. The body was shifted to a hospital and the namaz-e-janaja (funeral prayers) is expected to be performed later in the day, Nigar told TOI over phone.

Omar Khalidi, 54, was an expert on India's socio-political affairs. He wrote several books and articles. Born and brought up in Hyderabad, Khalidi finished his MA from the US and PhD from the University of Wales, UK. He worked as an associate professor at the MIT's Aga Khan Porframme for Islamic Architecture.

See the details of his life and contributions:
Dr. Omar Khalidi - A Rare Scholar-Cum-Librarian - Obituary

His other books include 'Khaki and Ethnic Violence in India: Army, Police, and Paramilitary Forces During Communal Riots' and 'Muslims in Indian Economy'. See all the books at Amazon.com