Congratulations to Hasnath Jaria and Mazharul Uloom schools

It gives us great pleasure to know that the Hasnath Jaria Girls Higher Secondary School and Mazharul Uloom Higher Secondary School, Ambur continue to produce good results in the Vellore district.

Hasnath Jaria Girls Higher Secondary School deserves special kudos for achieving 100% results. Even in the 12^th public exam it has been getting cent percent result continuously since the past 4 years.

These schools are managed by Ambur Muslim Educational Society, Ambur.(President Janab N.M. Zackeria saheb and General Secretary Janab N. Mohamed Sayeed saheb)

We congratulate the Management, Principals of the schools, teachers and particularly the students for their excellent performance. We wish them all the best in all their future endeavours.

SSLC Results 2015

SCHOOL	Appeared	Passed	% of pass
HJGHSS	315	315	100
MUHSS	234	221	94.44
TOTAL:	549	536	97.63

Hasnath Jaria Centums

Maths : 7 students, Science : 24 students and Social Science 43 students

Hasnath Jaria Toppers

Name	Total	Urdu	Eng.	Maths	Science	Social Science	Rank
Asma Firdaus KR	487	96	93	98	100	100	First Rank
Rakia Sadaf P	487	98	95	100	97	97	First Rank
Sabeela Thahseen K	487	93	96	99	99	100	First Rank
Aneeqa Narmeen M	485	98	95	94	99	99	Second Rank
Saguftha Kousar K	485	97	95	93	100	100	Second Rank
Thaqia Anjum	481	97	95	91	98	100	Third Rank

Mazharul Uloom Toppers

Name	Total	Urdu	English	Maths	Science	Social Science	Rank
T.Md. Faiz	486	95	95	100	99	97	First Rank
V.L. Ashfaq Ahmed	473	94	95	91	97	96	Second Rank
A.S. Afnan Ahmed	465	89	88	99	96	93	Third Rank

We thank Janab Firdaus Ahmed K saheb for providing the details of the marks.

It is heartening to know that more girls are getting education now-a-days and coming out with flying colours. If they are encouraged and given opportunities, they will bring laurels to the community and country to a great extent.

We have been demanding an arts and science college for women in Ambur since long. Let the Muslim community of Ambur think about it and do the needful for achieving it without any further loss of time. Women should be educated and empowered. 
                                                                                  - V.M. Khaleelur Rahman

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Congratulations to HJHSS, Ambur

 In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful

CONGRATULATIONS TO 

HASANATH JARIA HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, AMBUR 

It gives us great pleasure to know that this school managed by Ambur Muslim Educational Society, Ambur (President:  Janab N. M. Zackeria saheb and Hon.Secretary: Janab N. Mohammed Sayeed saheb) is creating a sort of history in getting 100% results in Plus Two examination since the last four years.

Janab Chowdhry Nisar Ahmed saheb, a well known social activist and Urdu lover, has informed us by e-mail that this year all the 305 girls who appeared in the 2015 Plus Two examination for which result was announced on 7^th May 2015 came out successful. It is really a great achievement. We congratulate the students, Principal, teachers, and the Management for this great feat. 

Madam, Principal Janaba Muthahira Begum sahiba, we salaam you and express our thanks to you. 

Out of the above 305 successful students, 4 students have secured marks between 1136 and 1150 and 105 students between 1000 and 1100.. 

The following is the list of the top four successful students:

          1.    School Topper : Safiya Salma       d/o K. Naveed Ahmed               1147

          2.    Nazmeena Falak                          d/o V. Rafeeque Ahmed            1139

          3.    Afra Nameen                               d/o M. Naveed Ahmed               1136

          4.    Rafeefa Zainab                             d/o K. Asmath Ali                     1136

It is also learnt that Rafia Fathima has secured 197 second highest mark in Urdu on state level (Tamil Nadu). Congratulations to her and Urdu Munshi Janaba Rayees Banu sahiba for achieving this laudable high success. 

We once again congratulate all the successful students and wish them all success in their future studies in college. No doubt, they are all gems of our community. They have brought laurels not only to themselves, but also to the school, management and community.

It is said in Surat Ar-Ra’d “Indeed, Allah will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves.”

Let the students have positive thinking in their approach for future achievements.   

CHENNAI LEATHER MARKET - MAY 2015

CHENNAI LEATHER MARKET

V.M. Khaleelur Rahman

Activities in the Chennai leather market continue to be slow and prices are downward for all items of leather. Many tanners are having tanned and wet blue goat and sheep skins for disposal. Only some selected items such as tanned goat A/B/C linings are on the move.at around Rs.47/46/45 per sq. ft. respectively. Tanners are finding it difficult to sell higher selections. Only a small volume of business seems to have taken place in Run and Fifth selections at around Rs.85 and 75 per sq. ft. Regular buyers have slowed down their purchases due to lack of orders and uncertain market conditions. Nobody is able to say the reasons for this state of affairs and none is in a position to predict the future trends. The leather market is as unpredictable as the Share market. 

As far as raw hides and skins are concerned, tanners are choosy in operations even though prices have come down considerably. This seems to be the case in almost all raw skin centres in the country. There is also considerable fall in imports of wet blue hides and skins.

There seems to be considerable fall even in exports of leather and leather products. Leather exporters say that “fresh business is difficult” even at reduced prices. According to reliable sources, the international leather market is in a tight corner. 

Payments are delayed beyond expectations both at home and abroad in some cases. It is learnt that many overseas importers have requested their customers in India to give them further time for honouring their export bills. 

Apart from unfavourable overseas market, effluent problem, strict norms for identification of finished leather and financial squeeze due to restricted activity are the hurdles exporters are facing at present in the market. 

Quotations of tanners are as follows:

E.I. Tanned Goat Skins

4/7 sq. ft. Run Rs.95, Fifth Rs.75, Inf. Fifth Rs.65 and LIF Rs.55 per sq. ft.

4/7 sq. ft. ABC Suede Rs.50 and All Suede Rs.45 per sq. ft.

4/7 sq. ft. A Lining Rs.48, B Lining Rs.46 and C Lining Rs.44 per sq. ft.

5/9 sq. ft. A Lining Rs.49, B Lining Rs.47 and C Lining Rs.45 per sq. ft.

Local Rejection Rs.30 and Langda Rs.25 per sq. ft. 

Offers of exporters are at around the following prices: 

                                S/C OR F/C GOAT LEATHERS

Material	Size/sq. ft.	Substance	Selection	Price US$ per sq. ft. C&F
Goat upper leather	3/5 / 4/7	0.6/0.8 mm	ABC	2.40
Goat milled leather	4/7	0.6/0.8 mm	D/E	1.75
Goat suede leather	4/7	0.6/0.8 mm	All Suede	2.30
Goat lining leather	3/5 or 4/7	0.5/0.7 mm	TR-1/2/3	1.50
	6/9	0.6/0.8 mm	TR-1/2/3	1.60

                                             

                                                     F/C SHEEP LEATHERS

Material	Size/sq.ft.	Substance	Selection	Price US$ per sq. ft. C&F
Sheep upper leather	4/7	0.6/0.8 mm	ABC	2.50
Sheep Upper leather	6/9	0.8/1.00 mm	ABC	2.70
Sheep lining leather	4/7	0.5/0.7 mm	TR-1	1.65
Sheep lining leather	5/8	0.6/0.8 mm	TR-1	1.75

Japanese customers are also almost keeping quiet. The interest shown by one or two of them is for Rejection. Higher selections are not moving.  Exporters are quoting at around the following prices: 

F/C sheep suede leather

All Suede 6/8 sq. ft. JY240, 5 sq. ft. and up JY230 and 4/7 sq. ft. JY220 per sq. ft. C&F 

F/C sheep lining leather 

TR-Lining 4/7 sq. ft. JY145 and 5/8 sq. ft. JY155 per sq. ft. C&F

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In Nepal, it was more than violent geology

 In Nepal, it was more than violent geology 

 Shaheen Chughtai

 

Kathmandu was ever a disaster-in-waiting. The densely populated capital of one of the world’s poorest countries clings to the slopes of the seismically unstable Himalayas. The city was nearly levelled and 8,500 killed in its last great earthquake 81 years before. It had history. On Saturday the long-feared calamity struck.

I first arrived in Kathmandu in 2007 to begin a new job with Oxfam. I’d been with the charity two years earlier as part of the international aid effort following the Kashmir earthquake. I saw towns there razed by the shifting tectonic plates that lie beneath that mountain range. More than 75,000 people were killed then, 85,000 were injured, and more than 3 million were made homeless.

With the Kashmir tragedy fresh in my mind, I remember looking at the thousands of flimsy shacks and hovels lining Kathmandu’s dusty slums and the sturdier, but still precarious, multi-tiered family homes, the cheaply built apartment blocks and ornate temples that collectively give the city its colourful, distinctive appearance. We all understood and feared what a big earthquake would surely do there.

But it’s not just its violent geology that made Kathmandu fundamentally flawed. More than a million people are crammed inside it. Even before this latest earthquake, half of Nepal’s 28 million population didn’t have access to improved sanitation and lived below the poverty line, around one in three of them in severe poverty. Their ability to cope with a major disaster is crippled by the lack of economic and social infrastructure that people in richer nations take for granted. 

Nepal has long been desperate for a huge, sustained investment to strengthen its physical infrastructure and keep its people safer, and to develop its economy and services so that local communities and the state have enough assets to fall back on. The challenge now will be to invest the outpouring of international aid into a rescue, recovery and reconstruction effort that will do just that.

Such an effort will be extremely challenging. As I write, many of my Oxfam colleagues in Kathmandu are preparing to bed down with the rest of the city’s inhabitants for their second night in the cold, under the stars. Terrifying aftershocks that continue to shake the city mean that it’s too risky to sleep with a solid roof over your head. We are trying to talk to our staff and friends, but the digital services are weak and in many cases broken. A few old friends with electricity generators have managed to keep in touch via Facebook, telling of the previous sleepless night amid the aftershocks.

Communications are vital for workers to coordinate relief and aid, so the ability of medical and engineering staff to work easily is likely to be severely hampered. We have staff on standby in India and around the world — and tonnes of relief supplies now readied in our warehouses — prepared to fly in to provide more capacity to our country team and aid for the people. 

But the airport was closed, roads and bridges damaged, and tonnes of rubble are blocking the streets and alleys of Kathmandu. Water supply pipes, electricity generating substations, bridges, treatment plants — all these things will be affected, and food, water, fuel and medicines will be immediately in short supply. From today people will start skipping meals and relying on friends and relatives for support. Some will be moving to areas they consider more safe. Others will choose to stay close to their belongings and shattered homes, perhaps waiting for missing relatives. They will start selling assets in “distress sales”. They will use what food, cash and property they have just to get by. They will start borrowing. Many poor Nepalese will already be in debt.

All these contingencies and actions are described in Oxfam’s programme plans for exactly this kind of eventuality. It has invested a lot of time, effort and resources over the years in working with partner groups in Nepal on what we call “disaster risk reduction” programmes. All of this work will be severely tested over the coming days and weeks and months. 

But in the first night since the earthquake struck, of course, all these same men and women, and their children too, have been sleeping out in the open. The challenge of mounting a coordinated aid effort led and directed by local officials and organisations will be huge.

Nepal will benefit from much international goodwill. The interest of governments and citizens from donor countries who want to help will be substantial. In the meantime, however, local people — medical staff, local officials, local aid workers and affected communities — will be striving to help each other while trying to make sense of the chaos and destruction. 

— © Guardian Newspapers Limited, 2015 

(Courtesy: The Hindu dated 1st May 2015)