Chennai: Telugu actor-comedian Ali, who will be conferred with a doctorate by the Academy of Universal Peace, is thrilled about the honour and dedicates it to his father.
"I'm extremely thrilled to have got this honour and can't wait to attach the (doctor) tag to my name," said Ali, who will receive the honour May 25 in Coimbatore.
The Academy of Universal Global Peace works towards the empowerment of deprived citizens through community services across the globe.
"It is because of my father (Mohammad Basha) that I got actively involved in charity and service to society. He always told me that it is one's responsibility to give something back to society and, therefore, I started an NGO in his name and have been contributing to society for the last five years," Ali told IANS....
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01:59 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: Although inspired from Ritwik Ghatak's life, Kamaleswar Mukherjee's 'Meghe Dhaka Tara' is not a biopic on Ritwik Ghatak. ...
10:24 AM, May 18, 2013
Mumbai: Maharashtra government will set up vigilance committees in four cities of the state, including Mumbai, to check female foeticide. Speaking at a Pre Conception and Pre Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) (PCPNDT) review meeting, Health Minister Suresh Shetty said the vigilance committees will be headed by the municipal commissioners. The committees in Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune and Aurangabad will report to the government every month. Similarly, he also...
02:07 AM, May 04, 2013
Patna: Literacy among women in Bihar has leapfrogged to over 53 per cent from 33 per cent 12 years ago due to sustained efforts of the government, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Sunday. "Due to the hard labour of our government the female literacy rate in Bihar which was 33 per cent in 2001 leapfrogged to over 53 per cent in 2011," Nitish told a seminar. The central government...
08:09 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Nashik: In-laws of a 20-year-old pregnant woman in Nashik have been charged with murdering an unborn girl child after they allegedly stomped on her stomach and beat her, killing the two-month-old foetus, the police said on Tuesday. The incident took place in the Mhasrul locality where victim Suvarna Gaikwad was being harassed mentally and physically for dowry since her marriage to Khanderao Gaikwad in June 2012, they said. The young...
02:12 PM, Apr 16, 2013
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11:29 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Pragya Thakur, sadhvi to some, but the face of multiple terror attacks for others was hospitalised after suffering a paralytic stroke. Pragya is struggling but the national investigative agency is all set to chargesheet her in yet another case of terror attack. Sources told CNN-IBN that Pragya could be named in the Malegaon blast in 2008. ...
11:00 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Pragya Thakur, sadhvi to some, but the face of multiple terror attacks for others was hospitalised after suffering a paralytic stroke. Pragya is struggling but the national investigative agency is all set to chargesheet her in yet another case of terror attack. Sources told CNN-IBN that Pragya could be named in the Malegaon blast in 2008. ...
10:17 PM, Apr 12, 2013
New Delhi: Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, the chief accused in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case has been admitted to hospital after she suffered a paralytic attack. Earlier this year, the NIA had opposed granting Thakur bail for health reasons. Sadhvi Pragya is an accused in the September 2008 blast that killed six people and injured several in Malegaon. Earlier in September 2011, the Supreme Court had rejected her bail plea. She...
06:40 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Two terrific performers of the year stars Shivarajakumar and Mallu who were the screen stealers in emotional roles are cynosure of all eyes in 'Andar Bahar'. However, the Kannada film will be releasing all over Karnataka in over 100 theaters. Parvathi proving her mettle in some of the brilliant in Kannada films like 'Milana', 'Prithvi', 'Male Barali Manjoo Irali' is always picking high profile roles. She had acted with power...
07:58 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday reached out to women, saying they are ahead of men today while addressing the FICCI Ladies Organisation in New Delhi. Calling for the need to integrate and financially empower women to achieve growth and make India a developed country, Modi said that they constitute 50 per cent of the country's population and India could become a developed nation only if the...
02:38 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday reached out to the women of the country saying women and mothers are supreme and are held in the highest regard in the country. Addressing the FICCI Ladies Organisation, Modi said, "A mother's place is supreme in our culture and values. We call river Ganga our mother, India is also mother India. A mother's place and a woman's place in our...
12:57 PM, Apr 08, 2013
In a major relief for former President Mohamed Nasheed, the Maldivian High Court on Monday stayed temporarily the trial against him in an abuse of power case till it decides legitimacy of the bench of the lower court. The temporary injunction was granted after Nasheed's counsel challenged the legitimacy of the bench, asking the High Court to declare the composition of the Hulhumale Court bench unlawful. ...
07:05 PM, Apr 01, 2013
The World No.2 Indian, in 2012, won two Super Series Premier titles, two Grand Prix Gold titles and bronze at the London Olympics. ...
06:27 PM, Mar 27, 2013
A day after India voted in favour of the UN resolution on war crimes in Sri Lanka, sources said diplomatic ties between the two neighbouring countries are beginning to crackdown. On Thursday, Sri Lanka announced plans to partially take over an oil storage depot from the Indian Oil Company's Sri Lankan arm. ...
07:29 AM, Mar 22, 2013
Britain has advised its female tourists to be cautious while travelling in India in the wake of the rape of a Swiss tourist in Madhya Pradesh last week. "Our travel advice states that women should use caution if travelling alone in India. Reported cases of sexual assault against women and young girls are increasing; recent sexual attacks against female visitors in tourist areas and cities show that foreign women are...
09:59 PM, Mar 18, 2013
This Malayalam flick is directed by G Prem. ...
09:44 PM, Mar 10, 2013
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Friday urged the women of Haryana to fight against social evils like female infanticide and other crimes against them. ...
01:57 AM, Mar 09, 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed concern over the political instability in Maldives and hoped that it will have "free, fair and credible" elections in September, which India would support. With Maldives witnessing a tussle between the Waheed government and former President Mohamed Nasheed, Singh said India wants all stakeholders in the island nation to resolve the issues "through dialogue". ...
08:00 PM, Mar 06, 2013
Punjab, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana have been ranked at the top of the Well Being Index (WBI), while southern states, Gujarat and most of the north-eastern states emerged as the most secure ones for women in the Female Security Index (FSI). ...
12:20 PM, Mar 06, 2013
