11-year-old Puttur boy memorizes Quran in eight months

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April 7, 2012

Mangalore, April 7: An 11-year-old boy from Puttur has completed memorizing Qur'an in just eight months, much to the delight of his parents and the Ustad.

Abdunnasir, joined the newly set up Jalaluddin Maula Bukhari Hifzul Qur'an College last June and through sheer determination and hard work has outclassed his 10 other classmates.

“We have a special method of teaching memorizing skills. But this boy stood out from the rest because of his application and dedication,” says Hafiz Aslam, the Ustad at the college, which has its premises on the Zeenath Baksh Jumma Masjid in Bunder.

11-year-old Abdunnasir is the second of the four children of Ahmed and Maimuna, a couple living in Salmara in Puttur. He has a elder sister who is studying in eighth standard in Salmara school. He has two younger brothers who are nine and four years old.

Ahmed has been working as a Mu'allim at the Madrasa in Syed Male Jumma Masjid in Salmara for the past 14 years. When asked about what inspired him to put his children in the Hifzul Qur'an college, Mr. Ahmed says: “I can't tell you why. It is just for the Mohabbat (love) I have towards Qur'an.” Ashraf is a man of few words and would not like to get into more details about the talent of the boy. “Just pray for him,” he says.

On the other hand, Ustad Aslam is happy that his student has been able to draw the attention of the general public towards the Hifzul Qur'an college.

“Abdunnasir joined us after completing his sixth standard in his hometown. In all we have 11 children studying in our college. We make sure that all children focus on the memorizing tasks without getting distracted by games and fun. Probably, Abdunnasir was more studious than the rest,” he says.

Abdunnasir's feat, however, has not taken Ustad Alam by surprise. “He may have been good at memorizing that his classmates here. But in Calicut Darul Qur'an school, where I used to teach earlier, we have children who have accomplished the task in less than five months. We follow a unique method of teaching to enable them to memorize the surah's,” he says.

About the other students, he said, they are all doing good. “Some have completed 20 parts (Juz) and few others have competed 13 to 14 parts,” he says.

Mangalore Khazi Al-haj Twaqa Ahmed Musliyar and chairman of Zeenath Baksh Jumma Masjid Y. Abdulla Kunhi on Thursday felicitated the boy on his rare achievement.

Haji S.M. Rashid, trustees Haji Syed Ahmed Basha Thangal, Haji Mohammed Haneef, teacher Hafiz Mohammed Aslam, among others, were present.

The college will admit new students for the next academic year which starts in May. The interested can apply by the end of April, Haji S.M. Rashid said in a press release.

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June 30,2020

Washington, Jun 30: Researchers in China have discovered a new type of swine flu that is capable of triggering a pandemic, according to a study published Monday in the US science journal PNAS.

Named G4, it is genetically descended from the H1N1 strain that caused a pandemic in 2009.

It possesses "all the essential hallmarks of being highly adapted to infect humans," say the authors, scientists at Chinese universities and China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

The researchers then carried out various experiments including on ferrets, which are widely used in flu studies because they experience similar symptoms to humans -- principally fever, coughing and sneezing. 

G4 was observed to be highly infectious, replicating in human cells and causing more serious symptoms in ferrets than other viruses.

Tests also showed that any immunity humans gain from exposure to seasonal flu does not provide protection from G4.

According to blood tests which showed up antibodies created by exposure to the virus, 10.4 percent of swine workers had already been infected.

The tests showed that as many as 4.4 percent of the general population also appeared to have been exposed.

The virus has therefore already passed from animals to humans but there is no evidence yet that it can be passed from human to human -- the scientists' main worry.

"It is of concern that human infection of G4 virus will further human adaptation and increase the risk of a human pandemic," the researchers wrote.

The authors called for urgent measures to monitor people working with pigs.

"The work comes as a salutary reminder that we are constantly at risk of new emergence of zoonotic pathogens and that farmed animals, with which humans have greater contact than with wildlife, may act as the source for important pandemic viruses," said James Wood, head of the department of veterinary medicine at Cambridge University.

A zoonotic infection is caused by a pathogen that has jumped from a non-human animal into a human.

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January 6,2020

Bengaluru, Jan 6: Chief minister BS Yediyurappa has plenty on his plate ahead of the 2020-21 state budget to be presented on March 5 what with the economic slowdown and a sizeable shortfall in revenue, but the biggest worry is the uncertainty surrounding Goods and Services Tax (GST) compensation from the Centre.

There is also uncertainty over the state’s share under devolution of funds as per the 14th Finance Commission recommendation.

Finance department officials say that while Rs 3,500 crore is expected as GST compensation for every two months, the devolution of funds would have yielded about Rs 7,000 crore for the current fiscal. But the economic slowdown appears to have hit the Centre’s finances and is likely to impact the state’s share of funds.

“The GST payment for August-September came only in December and we are unsure how much we will get for October-November and December-January,” an official said. Estimates suggest the state’s share under devolution of funds could be reduced by half.

At a meeting of finance department officials last week, Yediyurappa is said to have admitted that unlike those states where non-BJP parties are in power — they have threatened agitations and court cases — the government cannot go “against” Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s regime.

Instead, Yediyurappa has urged senior IAS finance department officials to lobby for funds with their counterparts in New Delhi. On his part, Yediyurappa is said to have already written to Modi and finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman to at least release the state’s share of GST compensation for the current calendar year of 2019. He is planning to personally meet the PM in Delhi to push the state’s case.

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April 25,2020

Mangaluru, Apr 25: The Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) has extended vital assistance to hundreds of migrant workers, destitute and needy families during the COVID-19 crisis through its CSR fund.

The lockdown has left thousands of people including migrant workers and destitute in the district, in the lurch. MRPL, using its corporate social responsibility fund through the Dakshina Kannada district administration, has sponsored 50,000 kg rice for the benefit of these needy citizens, a company release here said.

MRPL also donated grocery kits comprising boiled rice, dal, rava, sugar and tea to the needy families in the district, it said.

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