Youth Affairs

Education is the panacea for Muslims: Moosa Raza’s 11-point programme

Presidential Address of Mr. Moosa Raza at the Regional Conference of National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions at Chennai on 2 Feb 2011

Long ago, there was an apple tree. A little boy used to come and play around it. He used to climb the branches and eat its fruits. He loved the tree and the tree loved to play with him. Time went by. The little boy grew up and no longer played around the tree.

Around one in a hundred deaths worldwide is due to passive smoking, which kills an estimated 600,000 people a year, World Health Organization (WHO) researchers said on Friday. In the first study to assess the global impact of second-hand smoke, WHO experts found that children are more heavily exposed to second-hand smoke than any other age-group, and around 165,000 of them a year die because of it.

Three consecutive summers of unrest in Kashmir may have brought miseries to people of the Valley but they have also given time to some to follow their muse. Such is the case of 21-year-old Roushan Illahi, a business administration student, who has gained popularity as the Valley's first rap  singer.

Srinagar, Nov 08: The Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Monday directed the Administrative Secretaries to move fast on the process of engagement of 45,000 young persons in various departments under the new employment initiative announced by the government.

What happens in Vegas could affect your offspring. How early-life experiences could cause permanent changes in sperm and eggs.

Illustration by Brian Rea

Michael Skinner has just uttered an astounding sentence, but by now he is so used to slaying scientific dogma that his listener has to interrupt and ask if he realizes what he just said. Which was this: “We just published a paper last month confirming epigenetic changes in sperm which are carried forward transgenerationally. This confirms that these changes can become permanently programmed.”