Lifetime Achievement Award

 

            Prof. M Saud Alam Qasmi Conferred Lifetime Achievement Award                                                                                             by Jamitul Hidayah, Jaipur 

The Islamic scholar and former Dean, Faculty of Theology, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Professor M Saud Alam Qasmi, has been conferred with the Lifetime Achievement Award by Jamitul Hidayah, Jaipur.

While conferring the award, the Rector of Jamia, Maulana Fazlur Raheem Mujaddidi, praised Professor Qasmi as a distinguished scholar and lauded his books as a "treasury of India." He urged young scholars to draw inspiration from Professor Qasmi's academic legacy.

Editor of Tahzeebul Akhlaq, Professor Qasmi has authored 40 books and 400 articles in English, Urdu, and Arabic. A celebrated orator, he has held several prestigious roles at AMU and is associated with numerous academic institutions and editorial boards.

JMI Schools Admission: Application from 1st February

         

                                JMI Schools Admission Process for 2025-26 Starts: Prospectus Uploaded, Online                                                                               Application from 1^st February

 

The admission prospectus for various schools at Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) for the academic session 2025-26 has been made available on the website of the Controller of Examinations, JMI at http://jmicoe.in.

 

Online application forms for Jamia Senior Secondary School, Syed Abid Husain Senior Secondary School (including the Primary Section) (Self Finance), Jamia Girls Senior Secondary School (Self Finance), and Mushir Fatma Nursery School will be accessible starting from 1^st February 2025. The last date for submitting the online application and a fee of Rs. 500/- is 21^st February 2025. The application form for admission to these schools can be submitted online at the JMI website (https://admission.jmi.ac.in ). For further information, please refer to the University’s websites: 

www.jmi.ac.in  and www.jmicoe.in .

 

The application forms for the Balak Mata Centres of the University will be available from 5^th March 2025, and the last date to submit the application form along with a fee of Rs. 50/- is 15^th April 2025. Hard copies of the application form for admission to the Balak Mata Centres can be obtained at Matia Mahal, Qassabpura and Beriwala, and have to be submitted at the respective Centres.

 

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  Prof Naima Khatoon with Mr Mohd Imran flagging off the MINI MARATHON                                                                 मिनि मैराथन  एएमयू ने 76वें गणतंत्र दिवस समारोह की शुरुआत मिनि मैराथन के साथ की

अलीगढ़, 19 जनवरीः अलीगढ़ मुस्लिम यूनिवर्सिटी में आज कड़कड़ाती ठंड और कोहरे की धुंध के बीच यूनिवर्सिटी के एथेलेटिक्स मैदान पर आयोजित मिनि मैराथन में बड़ी संख्या में शामिल होकर छात्र छात्राओं ने देश भक्ति और एकता का संदेश देते हुए विश्वविद्यालय में सप्ताह भर के गणतंत्र दिवस समारोह की शुरूआत की जो 26 जनवरी को स्ट्रेची हाल में आयोजित होने वाले एक भव्य समारोह के साथ संपन्न होंगे।
कार्यक्रम का उद्घाटन एएमयू की कुलपति प्रोफेसर नईमा खातून ने किया। उन्होंने एएमयू रजिस्ट्रार मोहम्मद इमरान आईपीएस और अन्य विश्वविद्यालय अधिकारियों के साथ मैराथन को हरी झंडी दिखाई। कुलपति ने छात्र छात्राओं को संबोधित करते हुए एकता और फिटनेस के मूल्यों पर जोर दिया।
उन्होंने कहा, “यह मिनी-मैराथन केवल एक दौड़ नहीं है बल्कि यह उस लचीलेपन और एकता का प्रमाण है जो हमारे राष्ट्र को परिभाषित करता है। उन्होंने कहा कि आइए हम 76वें गणतंत्र दिवस का जश्न मनाते हुए इस भावना को आगे बढ़ाएं। उन्होंने यह भी आश्वस्त कि सभी प्रतिभागियों को प्रशंसा के प्रतीक के रूप में भागीदारी के प्रमाण पत्र प्राप्त होंगे।
मिनी मैराथन में धावकों के रूप में एएमयू रजिस्ट्रार, मोहम्मद इमरान (आईपीएस), और संकाय सदस्य प्रोफेसर पूनम चैहान भी एएमयू छात्रों का मनोबल बढ़ाने के लिए शामिल हुईं। छात्रों की दौड़ एथलेटिक्स ग्राउंड से प्रारंभ होकर डक प्वाइंट सेंटेनरी गेट, शमशाद मार्केट, तस्वीर महल, एके तिब्बिया कालिज अस्पताल, लाल डिग्गी सर्किल और शिक्षा विभाग होती हुई 6 किलोमीटर की दूरी तय करते हुए एथेलेटिक मैदान पर समाप्त हुई। जबकि लड़कियों की 4 किलोमीटर की दौड़ डक प्वाइंट, वाइस-चांसलर लॉज, बाब-ए-सैयद गेट, यूनिवर्सिटी सर्कल और शिक्षा विभाग से होते हुए ऐथेलेटिक्स मैदान पर संपन्न हुई।
मिनि मैराथन के बालक वर्ग में कमर आबिदीन प्रथम, हैदर अब्बास द्वितीय और कृष्णा सिंह तीसरे स्थान पर रहे। बालिका वर्ग में, पूर्णिमा शर्मा ने शीर्ष स्थान हासिल किया जबकि वंशिका राज और सारिका शर्मा ने क्रमशः दूसरा और तीसरा स्थान हासिल किया। विजेताओं को 26 जनवरी को गणतंत्र दिवस समारोह के दौरान पुरस्कार से सम्मानित किया जाएगा।
खेल समिति के सचिव प्रो. एस. अमजद अली रिजवी ने विजेताओं की घोषणा की और मेहमानों का स्वागत किया। कार्यक्रम का संचालन मजहरुल कमर ने किया।
इस अवसर पर प्रो. एम. वसीम अली, प्रो. जकी अनवर सिद्दीकी, प्रो. शकील अहमद, प्रो. मोहम्मद शमीम और प्रो. जी.एस हाशमी डॉ. जमील अहमद अहमद सहित गेम्स कमेटी के उप निदेशक अनीस उर रहमान खान, सहायक निदेशक अरशद महमूद तथा बुशरा गयाज़ सहित एएमयू स्कूलों के एथलेटिक और व्यायाम शिक्षक भी मौजूद रहे।

New Director at RCA

 

 Prof Mohd Hasan, Department of Electronics Engineering, Aligarh Muslim University has been appointed as Director, Residential Coaching Academy (RCA) for two years or till further order, whichever is earlier, with immediate effect.

Prof. Hasan has been engaged in teaching and research for more than 32 years and has served as the Chairman of the Department from 2015 to 2018. He completed his PhD from the University of Edinburgh, UK on a Commonwealth Scholarship in the area of "Low Power Architectures for Signal Processing and Communications", and worked as a Visiting Researcher on the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK-funded project on "Low Power FPGA' in the same University.

He has published more than 180 papers in refereed journals and conferences with 2369 citations, h-index=27 and i10 index=57. This also includes eighteen IEEE Transactions/Journals and 56 Scopus-indexed journal publications.

He received the "Paper of the Year Award" from the Editors of the prestigious International ETRI Journal for his paper, "High-Performance Low Power FFT Cores".

He has two patents to his credit and two filed patents on the design of magnetic RAM (MRAM).

CONGRATULATION TO AMU & AMU OLD BOY BADARUL ISLAM, SYANA

 

AMU Students Sabeera Haris and Zuhair Khan Shine at 67th National Shooting Championship

Aligarh, January 18: Young talents from Aligarh Muslim University have brought glory to the institution with their remarkable performances at the 67th National Shooting Championship, held at Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range, New Delhi, from December 11, 2024, to January 19, 2025.

Sabeera Haris, a Class XI student of Senior Secondary School (girls), created history by securing four medals—two gold and two silver—in the women’s trap shotgun event. Competing in both junior and senior categories, she scored an impressive 111/125 and reached the top six finals in both. Sabeera clinched silver medals in the individual events and won gold in the mixed team event, representing Uttar Pradesh. She is the first junior girl in Indian shooting history to achieve such a remarkable feat.

Zuhair Khan, a second-year B.Tech student, won two bronze medals in the Junior Trap Shooting (Individual) category and the Trap Shooting Team event, representing Uttar Pradesh. He also qualified for the senior finals, where he finished 4th after entering in 5th position, narrowly missing a medal. Competing against seasoned national and Asian champions, Zuhair showcased exceptional talent and determination. In the junior category, he was just one point shy of the silver medal, further cementing his reputation as a rising star in Indian shotgun shooting.

AMU Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Naima Khatoon, commended Zuhair and Sabeera for their achievements, stating that their performance reflects the university's rich sports heritage and dedication to nurturing talent and excellence.

CONGRATULATION TO AMU & AMU OLD BOY " CHOWDHRTY BADARUL ISLAM"  SYANA DISTRICT BULAND SHAHAR FOR WINNING TWO GOLD AND ONE SILVER BY SABEERA HARIS-----------------------DR. MASOOD AHMAD EDITOR & CEC MEMBER AMU OLD BOY:S ASSOCIATION 

'Soft Skills in Dental Practice'

 

JMI organizes a workshop on 'Soft Skills in Dental Practice' for BDS Interns

New Delhi: The Faculty of Dentistry, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), organised a workshop on ‘Soft Skills in Dental Practice’ on 5^th December 2024, for its fifty BDS Interns of the Batch 2020. The workshop was conducted by Prof. Poonam Sood Loomba, Professor and Head, Microbiology Department, G. B Pant Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, New Delhi. She is a FAIMER Fellow from CMC Ludhiana and is actively involved in medical education. She is also the National Medical Commission Convenor for the Regional Centre, Medical Education Department, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi.

In the inaugural session, Prof. Keya Sircar, Dean, Faculty of Dentistry welcomed the gathering and emphasized on the need of soft skills in dental practice. The organizing chairperson, Prof.  Ashu Bhardwaj, highlighted the origin of the term “soft skills” in the U.S Army in late 1960s, when apart from technical know-how, leadership values and emotional intelligence were considered to be important adjuncts to motivate soldiers. She made the interns aware that over the next few months, they would be stepping into the real world where adhering to soft skills would be a feather in their professional cap.

In her lecture, Prof. Loomba drew the attention of the participants to various aspects of soft skills, such as attitude, ethics and communication. Speaking on the significance of verbal and non-verbal communication, she emphasized on active listening at length, taking informed consent, breaking communication barriers and maintaining ethical standards. 

The workshop was conducted through role plays of clinical case scenarios on convincing a patient about the importance of sterilisation, counselling a HIV reactive patient, taking informed consent regarding placement of implants, explaining treatment, and counselling a patient for compliance to dentures, obtaining cooperation of the mother of an anxious child, breaking bad news, communicating the importance of written records and dealing with an agitated patient.

The interns actively participated in the role plays with dynamic inputs from the resource person and the organising team. The inaugural session concluded with a vote of thanks by the Organising Secretary, Prof. Zeba Jafri.The event was organized by faculty members - Prof. Ashu Bhardwaj, Prof. Anuradha Sharma, Prof. Zeba Jafri, Prof. Nishat Sultan, Prof. Anupriya Wadhwa, Prof. Kirti Chawla and Dr.  Nupur Gupta under the patronship of the Dean, Faculty of Dentistry, JMI, Prof. Keya Sircar.

AMU Alumni Affairs Committee gets new Chairman

 Prof. Sartaj Tabassum, Department of Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University has been appointed as the Chairman, Alumni Affairs Committee for two years or till further orders, whichever is earlier, with immediate effect.

Prof. Tabassum has been engaged in teaching and research in Chemistry for over 35 years and during this period he has published 181 papers in peer-reviewed journals of repute, having a high impact factor. He has 4840 citations to his credit with an h-index of 38.

Three patents, including one in India and 2 from the US, have been granted to him on potent metallo-drug anticancer candidates.

The research areas of his interest include Medicinal inorganic chemistry and ‘the design and synthesis of tailored metallo-drug entities for cancer chemotherapy’.

He has successfully completed several research projects including those granted by TWAS (Italy), CSIR, DBT, Government of India.

He has been honoured with the ‘Overseas Associateship Award in 2005 by DBT, Government of India and ‘Prof. W. U. Malik Memorial Award’ in 2022 by the Indian Council of Chemists (ICC).

He has signed several MoUs and joint research collaborations with the University of Camerino, Italy, USM Malaysia, and USTC, Hefei, China, and completed the Leadership Academicians Programme (LeAP) in 2019 with the Ohio State University, USA.

He is also presently serving as the Dean, Faculty of Science.

Tributes to founder of JMI Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari

 

          कुलपति प्रो. मजहर आसिफ ने जामिया मिल्लिया इस्लामिया के संस्थापक 

                          डॉ. मुख्तार अहमद अंसारी को श्रद्धांजलि दी

 

जामिया के कुलपति प्रो. मजहर आसिफ ने जामिया मिल्लिया इस्लामिया के संस्थापक सदस्य डॉ. मुख्तार अहमद अंसारी की जयंती पर विश्वविद्यालय परिसर में स्थित उनकी समाधि पर पुष्पांजलि अर्पित की।

 

डॉ. मुख्तार अहमद अंसारी (25 दिसंबर 1880 - 10 मई 1936) जामिया मिल्लिया इस्लामिया के संस्थापकों में से एक संस्थापक थे और उन्होंने विश्वविद्यालय के कुलाधिपति के रूप में भी कार्य किया।

 

वे एक प्रसिद्ध चिकित्सक और सम्मानित राष्ट्रवादी नेता थे। वे लंबे समय तक कांग्रेस से जुड़े रहे, इसके अध्यक्ष(1927) के रूप में, कई वर्षों तक इसके सचिव और आजीवन कांग्रेस कार्यसमिति के सदस्य के रूप में।

 

उन्होंने तुर्की में मेडिकल मिशन का नेतृत्व किया (1912) और इंग्लैंड में खिलाफत प्रतिनिधिमंडल का भी नेतृत्व किया (1920)। उन्होंने पूरे भारत का भ्रमण किया,  जामिया के महत्व को समझाया और जामिया के अस्तित्व के लिए जरूरी धन राशि को एकत्रित किया। उन्होंने जर्मनी में श्री अब्दुल मजीद ख्वाजा के साथ, डॉ. जाकिर हुसैन, डॉ. आबिद हुसैन एवं डॉ. मोहम्मद मुजीब को जामिया की सेवा करने के लिए प्रेरित किया।

 

डॉ. एम.ए. अंसारी अपने अटूट आशावाद एवं समर्पण के लिए जाने जाते हैं। यह उनकी निस्वार्थ सेवा ही थी जिसके कारण जामिया मिल्लिया इस्लामिया जैसे शैक्षणिक संस्थानों की स्थापना हुई।

 

कुलपति के विशेष कार्याधिकारी डॉ. सत्य प्रकाश प्रसाद; संकाय सदस्य और कर्मचारी भी जामिया  मिल्लिया इस्लामिया के संस्थापक डॉ. एम.ए. अंसारी को श्रद्धांजलि देने में शामिल हुए।

VC Prof. Mazhar Asif pays tributes to founder of JMI Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari  

Vice-Chancellor JMI, Prof. Mazhar Asif paid floral tributes to JMI’s founding member Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari on his birth anniversary at his mausoleum on the university campus.

Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari (25 December 1880 – 10 May 1936) was one of the founders of Jamia Millia Islamia and also served as the Chancellor of the University.

He was a known physician and a respected nationalist leader. He had a long association with the Congress, as its president (1927), its secretary for several years, and as a member of the Congress Working Committee throughout his life.

He led the Medical Mission to Turkey (1912) and also led the Khilafat delegation to England (1920). He went around India, explaining the importance of Jamia and collecting funds that were crucial for Jamia’s survival. In Germany, along with Mr. Abdul Majid Khwaja, he influenced Dr. Zakir Husain, Dr. Abid Husain and Dr. Mohammad Mujeeb to come to serve Jamia.

Dr. M.A. Ansari is well known for his undying optimism and dedication. It was his selfless service which led to the establishment of educational institutions like JMI.

Dr. Satya Prakash Prasad, OSD to VC; faculty members and staff also joined in paying their homage to JMI’s founder Dr. M.A. Ansari.

 

 

Standing Beside a Legend: My Visit to Mother Teresa's Wax Figure in Kolkata

Dr. Masood Ahmad Visits Mother Teresa’s Wax Statue in Kolkata Museum

I had the privilege of visiting the wax museum in Kolkata, where I stood beside the lifelike wax figure of Mother Teresa. The exhibit beautifully captures her legacy of compassion and selfless service to the poor and needy. Seeing her story brought to life was a deeply moving experience and a reminder of the remarkable impact she had on the world.

Mother Teressa arrived in India on January 6, 1929, and spent her life helping those in need. From caring for the injured and disabled to supporting orphans, widows, and the poor, her work touched countless lives. Born on August 26, 1910, in Macedonia, Europe, she passed away on September 5, 1997, in Kolkata, leaving behind a legacy of compassion and service.

Dr. Tanveer Ahmad, an Assistant Professor

 

GOI Patent for JMI faculty’s pioneering research on AI and Digital Pathology for 

Oral Cancer Diagnosis

 

In a landmark achievement, the Government of India has recently awarded Patent No. 556810 to Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) scholars Dr. Tanveer Ahmad, an Assistant Professor, and his PhD student, Miss Nisha Chaudhary, from the Multidisciplinary Centre for Advanced Research & Studies (MCARS) at JMI. The patent granted on December 24, 2024, recognises their pioneering invention titled "A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENOMIC MARKERS AND DIGITAL PATHOLOGY IMAGE-BASED PREDICTION OF ORAL MALIGNANT DISORDERS." Their innovative methodology, developed in collaboration with partners, leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and digital pathology to enhance the diagnosis and prediction of oral cancer.

 

This advanced system can study tissue images to identify if they are linked to oral submucous fibrosis (OSMF), oral leukoplakia (OLL), oral lichen planus (OLP), or oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). For OSCC, it can also determine how severe the cancer is—well-differentiated, moderately differentiated, or poorly differentiated—using AI technology. The system predicts the chances of OSMF or OLP/OLL developing into OSCC, giving doctors helpful information about risks. By using genetic markers and digital tools, it provides clear treatment insights and lowers diagnostic costs compared to traditional methods. This invention is set to transform oral cancer detection by making it more affordable and accurate.

 

In addition to the patent, the research team has recently achieved another significant milestone with their publication in Scientific Data, a high impact factor (9.8) journal from the Nature Publishing Group. Their paper, "High-resolution AI image dataset for diagnosing oral submucous fibrosis and squamous cell carcinoma," highlights the dataset underpinning their innovation, offering a valuable resource for researchers worldwide.

 

This accomplishment is shared with distinguished collaborators, including Dr. Akhilanand Chaurasia, Dr. Arpita Rai, Dr. Deepika Mishra, and Dr. Charbel Darido, whose contributions have been pivotal.

 

Together, these achievements have significant implications for medical treatment, underscoring the transformative potential of AI-driven solutions in digital pathology and oral cancer research, marking a significant leap toward improved diagnostic and prognostic outcomes.

 

Professor Mohammad Husain, Director of MCARS at JMI, congratulated all who were part of the study and expressed pride in the achievement.