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Sheikh Muhammad Younis/Hyderabad   It may sound incredible but the reality is that Ashfaq Ahmed of Hyderabad cohabits with lions, cheetahs, and other big cats that are considered dangerous wild animals. They are like pets to this Hyderabadi man.   It’s no exaggeration to say that Ashfaq Ahmed and his lions, tigers, and cheetahs love each other; they share a bond of love and trust. Since like Dr Dolittle of the famous Hollywood movie series. Ashfaq Ahmed can communicate with wild animals. he lives in Saudi Arabia where he owns many tigers.   He is a trainer of wild animals. From his childhood, he was fond of animals that others consider dangerous. This innate love took a foreign land since in India it’s illegal to keep wild animals as pets.   A bright student, Ashfaq Ahmed is a professional Information technology engineer. His father Muhammad Yousuf retired as an employee of BSNL.     Ashfaq Ahmed training his lion   In his Hyderabad house, he owned horses, high-quality goats, and chick

New Delhi In recent updates, the special court designated for the speedy trial of the 2008 Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts case sentenced 38 of the 49 convicts to death under provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code. The 11 others were sentenced to life in jail till death. While pronouncing the judgement, Special Judge AR Patel awarded a compensation of Rs 1 lakh to those who had died in the blasts. He also awarded a compensation of Rs 50,000 for victims with serious injury and Rs 25,000 for those with minor injury. One accused, Usman Agarbattiwala, the only one convicted under the Arms Act and among those sentenced to death, has been additionally awarded one year of imprisonment for conviction under the Arms Act. Sentences awarded to each of the 49 convicts under each section of the IPC, UAPA, Explosive Substances Act and Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, will run concurrently. Additionally, the court has imposed a

  New Delhi Kenya’s former Prime Minister Raila Odinga and his wife had lost all hopes of seeing their daughter Rosemary get back her vision till they came to Kerala to try its famed Ayurveda therapies. Three weeks into treatment at the Sreedhareeyam Ayurvedic Eye Hospital and Research Centre in Kerala, and Rosemary has started to see again. She had become blind after a stroke in 2017 and had spent two years in total darkness. After her stroke, Rosemary had travelled to several countries seeking treatment. In an interview to NTV Kenya, Odinga had said: “In the beginning, Rosemary spent quite a bit of time in South Africa in rehab. My wife had to take an apartment on hire for three months in Johannesburg just to look after her. On returning, we found that her condition had mot improved much. “We sent her to Israel. However, the facilities there were not good for this kind of treatment. We tried our luck in China and Germany too. We were almost giving up when our friend told us about thi

New Delhi   India’s Arif Mohammad Khan held the tricolour and marched the country into its 11th participation in the winter Olympics even as New Delhi became the 18th country to go for diplomatic boycotted of the glittering opening ceremony of the game at Beijing on Friday. Wearing a Kullu cap and in full winter gear, Arif, who hails from Gulmarg in Kashmir, led the Indian delegation to march at the opening ceremony.   Indian Delegation at Beijing Winter Olympics opening ceremony   Arif is the only Indian athlete to qualify for the Winter Olympics where he is participating in two events – Slalom and the Giant Slalom. Arif has thus become India’s first skier to earn a quota place for the Winter Olympics in the slalom event in alpine skiing.     India’s ambassador to Beijing was instructed at the last minute not to participate in the opening and the closing ceremony after China revealed that one of the PLA officers injured in the Galwan valley skirmishes in July 2000 was the torchbearer

Sabir Hussain/New Delhi Motorcycles had been Ansar Ahamed’s passion since he was a teenager in the 1990s. As a schoolboy, used to hang around a mechanic’s workshop in Chennai to see how a bike is dismantled for service and repair and how it is put back in shape. But the real attraction for apprenticing with the mechanic was the prospect of riding in a motorcycle race. Eventually, he did get to ride on street races. “I learned the nuances of biking and racing from this man and the other mechanics,” Ansar told Awaz-The Voice. But the problem was that there was a lack of riding gear because they were simply too costly to buy. “We were from a lower-middle-class family and a riding suit used to cost almost Rs 50,000 which was out of reach. Those were imported suits and there was no domestic manufacturer those days. We used to wear second-hand suits or jackets that had been damaged and torn and were repaired with multiple patches which meant that they didn’t offer the protection they were su

Chandanjyoti Bora/Nagaon Mozamil Hussain of the Magurmari area of Assam’s Nagaon district is emerging as an international level hockey player from India.  He has played in many tournaments for the Assam hockey team and also in 14 national-level events. Mozamil started playing hockey soon after completing his schooling at Kawoimari Higher Secondary School in Nagaon district in 2009.   Next year, he participated in the KD Singh national invitation meet, and in 2012 he played in Hockey India’s National Sub-Juniors in Assam. In 2014, he played again in national sub-juniors in Jammu and Kashmir, followed by Sub-Juniors in Manipur (2016), Sub-Juniors in Bengaluru (2017), Sub-Juniors in 2018 at Hojai (Assam), Juniors in Madhya Pradesh in 2018, and juniors at Jabalpur in 2019.   At the international level, Mozamil represented Dhaka Bachelor's Sporting Club in the Bangladesh League, and in 2021, he played for General Insurance Corporation in the Bangladesh Green Delta Insurance Premier Divi

Munni Begum/Guwahati The sky is the limit for a determined young woman from Nazira, a small town in eastern Assam, who dreams of walking every ramp of the Indian metro cities and donning the Miss India crown. She is Syeda Ajhara Jannat Sultana, a first-semester student of English literature at Gargaon College. Ajhara, 19, has won titles in various beauty pageants.   Speaking to Awaz-the Voice, Syeda Ajhara Jannat Sultana says, "I am very interested in the fashion world. Watching beauty pageants, the idea of modeling took birth in my brain. But, I never thought that I’ll walk the ramp one day. I was in Class VIII when I first took part in a beauty pageant organized on the occasion of a festival in Nazira. Journalist Pradip Hazarika helped me participate in it. Although I could not win the contest, I gained experience.”   Ajhara has been managing her studies as well as modeling well. She wanted to establish herself as a highly educated young woman as well as a model and actress. &qu

Ehsan Fazili/Srinagar It looks unbelievable that Faisal Ali Dar of Bandipora who has been named for Padam Shri in sports has learned martial art by observing players on the television. A fan of Bruce Lee, he was interested in boxing and wrestling at the time when his peers played cricket and football and with nobody to guide him.   The son of a radio and television mechanic, Faisal helped his father with installing TVs and antennae in the local homes. He ended up watching a lot of sports programmes on the sports on television and picked martial arts like kickboxing, Taekwondo, Wushu, etc through TV channels.   While his peers played cricket, volleyball, football, and other common sports in the schools and the local Sports Stadium, he was attracted to martial arts. At the Eaglet’s Public School, one of the oldest private schools in the town, he dabbled in all sports. However, he was influenced by sports coach Ghulam Nabi Khan, who, till today is regarded as someone who generated “sports