President’s Award to senior AMU lecturer Dr Khurshid

Monday May 09, 2011 07:39:22 PM, Special Correspondent

Aligarh: Dr. S. M. Asad Ali Khurshid, Senior Lecturer, Department of Persian, Aligarh Muslim University has been awarded President’s Award for his outstanding contribution in promoting Persian language and literature.
 

President Mrs Pratibha Devi Singh Patil awarded the Young Scholar’s Award, “Badrayan Vyas Samman 2009” to Dr. Khurshid in the special ceremony held at Ashoka Hall of Rashtrapati Bhawan on May 6, 2011.

Dr. Khurshid is the first such young teacher of the Department of Persian who has received the prestigious award

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Vice President Mohd. Hamid Ansari attended the inaugural ceremony of Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary, at Dhaka, Bangladesh on May 06, 2011. Prime Minister of Bangladesh Mrs. Sheikh Hasina, Minister of State for Information and Cultural affairs of Bangladesh Promod Mankin and Secretary of Cultural Affairs of Bangladesh Begum Suraya are also seen.

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