Syed Akbar

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name = Syed Akbar
birth_name = Syed Akbar


caption = Senior Indian Science Journalist
birth_date = 20 September 1965
birth_place = Vijayawada
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known_for = Popular Science Journalism, Secularism & Humanity
occupation = Journalism
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website = http://www.syedakbarindia.blogspot.com
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Syed Akbar (born. 20 September 1965) is a senior Indian science, health and political journalist from Hyderabad. He is a specialist-journalist in science, technology, health, politics, environment, development, wildlife, religion, communities, and consumer affairs.He is one of the few Indian Muslim journalists whose writings are read far and wide and held in high esteem. Most of his articles are of documentary value since they are based on research and indept investigation.He is the one of the well-recognized English science journalists from the Southern Indian State of Andhra Pradesh.Syed Akbar hails from Vijayawada and is a product of St Joseph's.He started writing to newspapers and journals at a very young age. His religion column in The New Indian Express (Andhra editions) and religion and science in Radiance Viewsweekly published from Delhi received rave reviews.

Career

*He has made a mark of his own in specialized reporting on natural calamities like cyclones, flash floods, earthquakes and Tsunami.
*He worked with the Indian Express for 10 years and shifted to Deccan Chronicle in April 2001.
*Syed Akbar’s columns on religion, consumer affairs and environment in The Indian Express are well written and are of documentary value.
*His series of contributions to Deccan Chronicle and The Asian Age during March 2007 on the problems of Andhra illegal migrant workers in UAE forced the Emirates government to introduce labour reforms and grant amnesty to lakhs of such workers. The UAE labour ministry has come out with a special amnesty that ended in October 2007. [http://syedakbarindia.blogspot.com/2007/12/dubai-shattered-dreams-of-andhra.html] The Andhra Pradesh government too tighened rules to prevent cheating of gullible unemployed from rural areas of Telangana region. A special NRI cell was set up and the State government rehabilitated those who returned from the Gulf availing themselves of the amnesty [http://syedakbarindia.blogspot.com/2007/12/impact-uae-govt-wakes-up-to-labour.html] .

Honours

Syed Akbar has received several scholarships including by foreign organisations. The Sri Lanka government, during August 2007, honoured him during the 8th international conference on AIDS in Asia and The Pacific, at Colombo, Sri Lanka. He was selected by a number of organisations to participate in international meetings on health, science and research. He visited a number of countries on scholarships offered by international organisations.

References

* http://syedakbarindia.blogspot.com/2007/12/dubai-shattered-dreams-of-andhra.html
* http://syedakbarindia.blogspot.com/2007/12/impact-uae-govt-wakes-up-to-labour.html

External links

* http://www.syedakbarindia.blogspot.com - Syed Akbar
* [http://www.deccan.com Deccan Chronicle English daily]
* [http://www.asianage.com The Asian Age English daily]