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AMU students' union to confer life membership to Sonia

The Aligarh Muslim University Students' Union will confer its honourary life membership on Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Making the announcement on Wednesday, president of the AMUSU Shahzad Alam......

AMU students set world record with peace envelop

Students of the Aligarh Muslim University have entered the Guinness Book of World Records for making the world's largest paper envelop. The 39ft x 27ft envelop was made in a period of ten days last......

CBI interim report says AMU VC committed financial impropriety

The Central Bureau of Investigation is believed to have found that Aligarh Muslim University Vice-Chancellor P K Abdul Azis had committed financial impropriety and knowingly claimed allowances for......

Bihar: Hundreds march to demand land for AMU centre

Hundreds of people staged a dharna and took out a march in Bihar's Kishanganjdistrict on Wednesday, demanding Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's government to immediately allot 250 acres of land for the......

What is the road ahead for the AMU?

Before it plans to show light to others, Aligarh Muslim University has to put its own house in order and be what it always was -- a centre of excellence where tradition and modernity do not collide......

It's time for a 'Look Further East Policy'

India has to catch up with East Asian regional economic integration, says Sanjaya Baru.In China, you dial 10+3 for Asia. But this weekend, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has gathered thinkers......

India's opium export stagnates

India's opium export, like exports of other goods, is showing a downward trend.However, unlike exports of other goods, which have been affected by the economic slowdown, the reason for fall in......

The IIT story: IIESTs, 3 new IITs on way

It is well-known that the following seven engineering colleges were chosen for possible conversion to Indian Institutes of Technology / Institutes of National Importance:Aligarh Muslim University......

New IITs: A report card

The author is a chemical engineering graduate from IT-BHU and an MS from Rutgers University, New Jersey. He has interacted with the HRD ministry, the IIT board, and the IIT Selection Committee at......

The march of the new IITs

Seven select engineering colleges, that are soon to attain the coveted IIT status, are back in the news.The seriousness of their march towards achieving the status of an Indian Institute of......

Shonali Bose, on making Amu

Her first feature film Amu, based on a street playShonali Boseco-wrote on the 1984 Delhi riots --in which some 5,000 Sikhs were killed following the assassination of then Indian prime minister......

Amu set for release in US

Amu, the explosive, nerve touching and yet endearing film by Los Angeles-based filmmaker Shonali Bose is finally scheduled for release across North America with a five theatre release in Toronto on......

Amu rocks Toronto, Ash doesn't

When Shonali Bose set out to make a film with the backdrop of the massacreof Sikhs following then prime minister Indira Gandhi's assassination in 1984, there was no shortage of peopleasking her to......

Amu, Veera-Zara strike chord in Berlin

The Berlin film festival's Golden Bear went to U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, a stunning film from South Africa, directed by Marc Dornford-May. The film sets the popular opera Carmen in the shanty township......

If Fahrenheit 9/11 can, so can Amu

In the age of cellphone-sutra and bellybuttons, it is a difficult to make an enjoyable film which talks about right and wrong, justice and injustice. Debutante director Shonali Bose has achieved......

Dravid, Mary Kom to get Padma Bhushan

Batting great Rahul Dravid and Olympic bronze medallist M C Mary Kom were named for the prestigious Padma Bhushan Awards, the third highest civilian honour, while six other sports persons figured......

Iraq coach appeals to AFC

Iraq national coach Bernd Stange has called for the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to clear his team for 2004 Olympic qualifiers after they were denied the chance to play Vietnam because of the......

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Q. Which is lightest thing in the world ?
Rohit Agarwal: A. more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/which-is-lightest-thing-in-the-world-/25261802/answers/

Q. What is the boiling point for carbon in celsius?
S L: A. With an atomic mass of 1.00794 amu, hydrogen is the lightest element. more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/what-is-the-boiling-point-for-carbon-in-celsius/24465627/answers/25261808

Q. who founded the AMU ?
Azam Khan: A. Name: Carbon Symbol: C Atomic Number: 6 Atomic Mass: 12.0107 amu Melting Point: 3500.0 C (3773.15 K, 6332.0 F) Boiling Point: 4827.0 C (5100.15 K,...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/who-founded-the-amu-/24319743/answers/24465635

Q. The trust, named after Salman Khurshid's maternal grandfather, the late President Dr Zakir Hussain, has been accused of allegedly misappropriating Rs 7.15 million granted to it by the Union ministry of social justice and empowerment to provide aids and appliances to handicapped people in the minister's native Uttar Pradesh..what you think would be the outcome of it?
Dharamender Nebhnani: A. sir sayed ahmed khan more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/the-trust-named-after-salman-khurshids-maternal-grandfather-/24268289/answers/24319825

Web results for Amu

Criminals still residing in AMU hostels, says V-C

Within a month of imposing a ban on motorcycles in boys' hostels from the next academic session, the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU)... ...

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/criminals-still-residing-in-amu-hostels-says-vc/1117672/

AMU to launch drive against unauthorised hostel occupants

Aligarh Muslim University will launch a 15-day drive to weed out unauthorised occupants from all hostels who are "frequently involved in mischief... ...

http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/amu-to-launch-drive-against-unauthorised-hostel-occupants/245582/on

AMU-VC ASKS STUDENTS TO DON SOBER DRESS

Citing the varsity tradition, the Vice Chancellor of the Aligarh Muslim University mandated to don Sherwani or Shalwar Suit/Burqa for boys and... ...

http://www.radianceweekly.com/358/10578/boston-brazil-and-islam-irrational-rhetoric-illegal-wars/2013-05-12/inside-india/story-detail/amu-vc-asks-students-to-don-sober-dress.html

MOTORBIKES BANNED IN AMU HOSTELS

The Vice Chancellor of the Aligarh Muslim University, Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Zameer Uddin Shah, on 27 April, asked the students residing in hostel to use... ...

http://www.radianceweekly.com/358/10580/boston-brazil-and-islam-irrational-rhetoric-illegal-wars/2013-05-12/inside-india/story-detail/motorbikes-banned-in-amu-hostels.html

When a part of you dies

What do 1984 and 1948 have in common? Assassination, of course. But something else as well — the play of the Indian Evidence Act. If ours is a... ...

http://www.hindustantimes.com/editorial-views-on/GopalkrishnaGandhi/When-a-part-of-you-dies/Article1-1061810.aspx

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