‘KM Arifuddin Memorial Award’ presented to journalist Zubair

Metro India News | Hyderabad 

Madina Education and Welfare Society awarded the ‘KM Arifuddin Memorial Award’ in the field of Social Service to Mohammed Zubair, Journalist, Founder Alt News, Bangalore. The portal focuses on debunking fake news, misinformation, and hate speech on Indian social media and mainstream media. 

The society is running educational institutions since 1982 onwards. It runs minority schools as well as non-minority institutions which are open for all communities. For the past 34 years it has been awarding gold medals to those students who got university and state ranks in respective branches of education.

These awards have been intended to motivate Muslim students of A.P. & Telangana to compete with others on equal terms. It has also conduced the ‘35th Madina Gold Medal Award Function’ on Thursday for outstanding academics. Tariq Ansari, Chairman, Telangana State Minorities Commission attended the event as Chief Guest. This year 125 gold medals were awarded to Ph.Ds, top rankers in universities, etc.