Aligarh. The head post offices do not open the gate on the bed and came to take the form of PCS examination in the intense.

Looking at the Post Office to administer crowd control police came to the rescue. After police crowd control was found to interfere.

More crowded due to the old post office building in the form of government has opened two counters for sale. Day bed close to 600 form 400 form of the PCS was sold. Monday to bed listening to the news of the form of sales from 8 am crowd of people gathered at the General Post Office. Post office open at 10 am the crowd had to take form in the thousands.

Post office employees took a little time to form a system of sharing. But they cut that scene. Given the outrageous crowd was calling the police. Interfere with the police after the case was calm and people engaged in the line.

Form of sales was 4.15 in the evening. Senior Postmaster KD Mishra said post office due to the more crowded it was difficult for other customers. This form has shifted the sales counter in the old building. Do not be a problem because the police force has been deployed.

Aligarh. The incidence of sexual harassment in AMU student leader Sorrel Islam Khan led dozens of students - students submitted a memorandum to direct the Vice-Chancellor's Office. In zamia cynical attitude towards the problems of women in the memorandum is regretted.

In April 2011 memo stated that the Registrar had appointed a committee on the direction of the VC. Whose responsibility was to draft in relation to sexual Harassment?


50 students in June 2011 memorandum to this effect. Committee report was to be in a month. But the committee draft is very weak. The memorandum demanded that the issue should be immediately brought to the Executive Council meeting. Set up new rules to be effective. Committee set up for women's harassment cases have been selected by the students and the students are also represented. As well as harassment cases should be within 2 months. If convicted action against him should be within 2 months. Representations on the occasion Adil Hussain, Mohd Shikoh, Mary Shaheen, Saba Nasir, Offira Mary, smelling, Fiza Hussain, Sdia Amber, Salma Javed, Nujht Fatima, etc., were present.

Noted Scientist and Former Dean, Faculty of Life Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Professor Abdul Majid Siddiqui passed away for heavenly abode this morning at New Delhi. He was 79. He is survived by his wife Prof. Jamila Majid Siddiqui, two sons and a daughter. His son Dr. Shahid Jameel is an eminent scientist, New Delhi and Dr. Afashan Hashim is a business development, regulatory affairs and scientific consultant, USA. He will be buried at the University Graveyard today after the Asr prayer.

Born on January 1, 1933. He got his early education from Christian College, Lucknow and obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Chemistry from AMU in 1952 and 1954 respectively. Prof. Siddiqui obtained his Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1962 from School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA.

Prof. Majid Siddiqui held the positions of Consultant in Biochemistry, Khartoum, Sudan (1985-86), Dean Faculty of Life Sciences, AMU (1986-88), Head of the Department of Biochemistry, University of Basrah, Iraq (1977-81), Research Assistant, University of California, USA (1959-62).

Prof. Siddiqui was a brilliant student and was awarded Faculty of Science prize for securing highest marks in B.Sc. I year (1950), Gold Medal in 1952 for securing first position in B.Sc. (1952-53).

Syed Nabeel Mehdi, a student of B. Tech III Year Electrical Engineering department, Zakir Husain College of Engineering and Technology, Aligarh Muslim University has been selected the “Second Best” in the “Present Around the World” presentation competition South-Asia finals, organized by IET-UK in Sri-Lanka.

The competition was held on 21st August, at Hotel Galadari, one of the finest five star hotels in Sri Lanka. Competition was particularly close amongst Mr. Nabeel (from Delhi zone), Miss Ridhima (from Mumbai zone) & Mr. Saad Ali (from Lahore zone).

Mr. Mehdi gave presentation on the topic “Electricity crisis and role of renewable resources in future”. In his paper, he said that about 1.1 billion people in the world, out of which the majority lives in India are compelled to live in dark. Load shedding is very common in South-Asian countries and Sub-African countries. On the one hand Billions of dollars are being spent on searching life on other planets, while Billions of people live on our own planet in utter darkness. The problems like illiteracy, unemployment, backwardness, poor health, over population etc are rising in our part of the world due to electricity crisis. Mr. Mehdi observed that the need of the hour is to employ renewable green technologies for a better future and healthy environment.

He won a cash prize of £250. The first prize went to Mr. Saad Ali from Pakistan. It was a close competition, with selected participants from Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai, Lahore, Columbo and Dhaka.

Mr. Nabeel has previously won first prize in Delhi Finals held at Amity University, NOIDA.

He won a cash prize of £250. The first prize went to Mr. Saad Ali from Pakistan. It was a close competition, with selected participants from Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai, Lahore, Columbo and Dhaka.

Mr. Nabeel has previously won first prize in Delhi Finals held at Amity University, NOIDA.

Aligarh, Jul 29: A trainer pilot was killed and a trainee pilot was critically injured when a two-seater aircraft crashed while landing during a trainee sortee at the Dhanapur airstrip here today.


Police sources said here that the aircraft of a private aviation school crash landed killing pilot Rakesh Grover(50), hailing from Nagpur, on the spot. The injured trainee pilot I T T Reddy, from Andhra Pradesh, was rushed to hospital.

According to sources, the plane was air-borne for few minutes after take off but had to land due to some technical snag. The nearby villagers took out the injured from the plane and informed the authorities.


The exact reason behind the crash landing could not be ascertained immediately. Further details were awaited, sources said.

ALIGARH, July 26: The Ministry of Human Resource Development has set in motion the process to select the new AMU Vice Chancellor. The Ministry has requested the University to initiate the process of selection of the Vice Chancellor so that he can assume the office when the present Vice Chancellor demits the office. Prof. P.K. Abdul Azis will be retiring on January 17, 2012 after attainment of the age of 65 years.

The Vice Chancellor has instructed the Registrar to complete the process in time. He has also instructed that all the vacancies in the Executive Council and the University Court to be filled up as part of the process. He has asked the Registrar to start the process of selection of teachers’ representatives to Executive Council and conduct the election for the Membership of AMU Court under Donor’s category.

The University Court will also elect Chancellor, Pro Chancellor, Honorary Treasurer and six members to the Executive Council.

Prof. Azis urged one and all to focus on selecting the new Vice Chancellor and work in unison so that the University gets the best talent to lead the destiny of the University in the next five years.

The issue needs immediate attention as the process of selection of AMU Vice Chancellor takes five to six months’ time. After completing the process of selection of new Vice Chancellor MHRD will submit the proposal to the President of India for approval in her capacity as the Visitor of the University.

ALIGARH, July 26: The Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, Prof. P.K. Abdul Azis has reconstituted Complaint Committee to combat sexual harassment and violence against women at the work place.

Prof. Zulfia Khan of the Department of Community Medicine has been appointed its Chairperson. The other members of the Committee are – Prof. Zakia A. Siddiqui, representing Female Education Association, Prof. Bilquis Naseem A. Waris, Principal, Women’s College, Dr. Nikhat Taj, Women’s College, Prof. Saleem Akhtar, Department of Law, Prof. Sunita Sharma, Department of Education and Prof. Naima Khatoon, Department of Psychology as its Counselor.

The Proctor and Registrar will be the ex-officio member while the Registrar will be the convener of the Committee.

AMU Court Election:

he received a total of 118 nomination applications to elect 25

representatives to the Aligarh Muslim University Court from AMU old boys’

category.

Scrutiny of nomination applications was carried out on July 11, 2011 in the

presence of several candidates and their supporters. None of the nominations

was found to be valid as per rules and hence were rejected.

He said that a fresh election schedule will be notified later so that

elections are held as soon as possible.

The Chief Election Officer thanked the candidates and their supporters for

their cooperation rendered during the scrutiny process. He said that the

scrutiny process was assisted by Prof. Najam Khaleeq and Dr. Moinuddin.

LUCKNOW: An FIR has been lodged against five professors of Aligarh Muslim University's department of wildlife sciences for restraining a black buck on the university campus with " criminal intent". On Monday, wildlife activists also lodged an online petition, demanding the government to take stringent action against the accused.

Earlier, in his FIR lodged on July 9, Naresh Kadyan, master trainer at Animal Welfare Board of India, has alleged that five persons – chairman of department of wildlife sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Prof Jamal Ahmed Khan; readers, Dr Afifullah Khan and Dr Satish Kumar; and other faculty members, Prof H S A Yahya, and Dr Orus Ilyas – kept a black buck in captivity. Presently, the accused have been charged with sections related to cruelty towards an animal and keeping it captive. However, the wildlife activists are demanding that the professors be charged under the more stringent Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. According to Kadyan, the animal was kept in a specially-installed cage and the professors put the Schedule I animal on display, thus flouting various sections of the Wildlife Protection Act.

ALIGARH July 7: The Centre for Distance Education, Aligarh Muslim University has established five Study Centres in different parts of the country.

The Director, Distance Education Centre, Dr. Mohd. Rizwan Khan said that the AMU Vice Chancellor, Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis has granted approval for the establishment of these centres at Makhdoom Abdul Qasim Educational and Welfare Society, Saharsa, New Horizon School, Bhagalpur and Al-Aziz Educational Foundation Trust, Muzaffarpur in Bihar while the remaining two centres will be established at Asim Siddiqui Memorial Degree College, Badaun and Madrasa Serajul Uloom, Sambhal, Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh.

Dr. Khan said that the approval has been given without any financial commitment on the part of the University and that these centres will function under the purview of the Centre for Distance Education. The Distance Education Centre will offer graduate and undergraduate courses at these Centres.