104-year-old Umrah pilgrim from Dakshina Kannada dies in Makkah

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April 4, 2018

Mangaluru, Apr 4: A centenarian woman from coastal Karnataka, who had gone to Saudi Arabia two weeks ago to perform Umrah died of heart attack in the holy land of Makkah on Monday, Apr 2, family sources said.

Fathima aka Paathumma (104), a resident of Boluvar village in Puttur taluk of Dakshina Kannada district, had undertaken the pilgrimage through a private travel agency.

The end came when she was getting ready for homeward journey after fulfilling all the rituals of Umrah. She was buried in Madinah, sources said.

Fathima was reportedly suffering from a few age related illness. Dr Satish Kumar of Ashwini Clink at Haradi was treating her freely for several years.

In spite of being a centenarian, Fathima was working for a beedi company. She used to stick labels to beedi packs.

Recently, she had expressed her desire to perform either Hajj or Umrah. Hence, a group of philanthropists from her village and surrounding places including Haradi Abdul Razzak made all arrangements for her Umrah trip. She was also given a farewell by Kallega mosque committee a few days before she boarded the flight.

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Inna Lillahi Wa inna Ilaihi Rajivoon

Innalillahi wa inna ilaihi rajioon......

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'BSY’s hands tied down by the Central leaders'

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January 28,2020

Hubballi, Jan 28: Charting that the Bharatiya Janata party’s Central leaders have not given a free-hand to the Chief minister B S Yediyurappa on the issue of expansion of Cabinet, former Chief minister and the Congress leader Siddaramaiah had opined that 'it has hampered the State’s development'.

Speaking to newsmen here on Tuesday, the Congress leader, alleged that 'by not giving permission to Yediyurappa to expand his ministry, it was evident that there is no any internal democracy in the Saffron Party'.

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Congress will return to power in Karnataka: says DK Shivakumar

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March 21,2020

Bengaluru , Mar 21: Karnataka Congress President DK Shivakumar exuded confidence that the party will return to power in the state and praised former chief minister Siddaramaiah's term.

"I am confident that we will come back to power. Everyone in the past has worked their best to build the party. Siddaramaiah being a full-term chief minister gave the best programs to Karnataka, his government's programs were the best of all time," Shivakumar said at a press conference on Friday.

He further assured his full support to anyone who wanted to work for the betterment of the party.

"Though I have become the state president of the party but I am still the worker of Congress and each of us should work for the party as ground workers. I am ready to give any kind of support to those who want to work for the party. We need to take all caste, communities along for the betterment of the party," he said.

Shivakumar was appointed the state Congress President on March 11, while Eshwar Khandre, Satish Jarkiholi, and Saleem Ahmed have been appointed working presidents of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee.

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First Tell your all MP & MLA s that if they wish to join BJP better join from now later after getting elected from the congress they betray the voter, such hiddnen sangis from congress to be kicked out.

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Putturu: Miscreant booked for posting communal remarks against Muslims on social media

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April 6,2020

Puttur, Apr 6: A person reportedly has been booked for allegedly posting derogatory remarks against minority community on social media platforms.

The accused is reported to be a resident of Belandur village of Puttur Taluk.
The case has been registered at Bellare Police Station.

According to the reports, Kusumadhara had posted derogatory remarks about the faith and minority community. A complaint in this regard was filed by Savanur SDPI member Mohammed Saheer at Bellare Police Station, adding that his remarks in the post would create divide and communal disturbance in the society.

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