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Saturday 19 September 2009

Bihar to give 100 acres of land for AMU centre

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said that 100 acres of land would be alloted to Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) for establishment of an education centre in Bihar's Kishanganj district.

"We have decided to give 100 acres of land, free of cost, to AMU for opening its centre in Kishanganj district," Kumar said in a letter faxed to the university's vice-chancellor P K Abdul Azis.

"The AMU centre will be very helpful in imparting quality education to the student of minority community and will improve the educational atmosphere of the state," he said adding that the district is Muslim dominated with poor literacy figures.link

Monday 27 April 2009

AMU electrical engineer declared CAT topper from Bihar

An electrical engineer from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and belonging to Bihar, Syed Kashif Hassan has been the Common Admission Test (CAT) topper among candidates who appeared from Bihar. He has secured 99.99 percentile.

Those close to him said that his 99.99 percentile could have also been fetched by candidates from other states, but Kashif has been the topper among the Bihari candidates and he has also set the all-time record for the state till now.

He has been invited by all the six premier Indian Institute of Management (IIM) centres for group discussion, and final selection in the IIM concerned. Born at Hanuman Nagar, Patna, he has his ancestral roots at Bhagalpur's Mohibalichak locality. His father Dr S Q Hassan, an eye-specialist, and mother Eakhshimda groomed him, but his inspiration was his "nana (maternal grandfather) late Dr H A Usmani, a child specialist.

He did his schooling from Don Bosco and college studies from Science College (Patna) before moving to AMU for the five-year course (2005-09) in electrical trade. He has interest in music, and recently produced an album `Ummeed: A Tryst with Hope' in the company of his friends.link