Alban Praveen Menezes elected as President of KCWA

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March 22, 2015

Kuwait: Kuwait Canara Welfare Association (KCWA) held its general body meeting on March 20, at the Indian Community School, Amman Branch, Salmiya, Kuwait. The main agenda of the meeting was the election of the new executive committee for the period 2015 – 2017.

The meeting commenced with the moderator Deepak Andrade welcoming KCWA’s spiritual director Rev. Fr Noel D’Almeida and visiting priest Rev. Fr Sunil Dominic Lobo to the gathering followed by the opening prayer by Mrs Reema D’Souza.

KCWA’s president Mr. Anil Fernandes then welcomed all the members who had gathered for the meeting. The minutes of KCWA’s last general body meeting which was held on February 20, 2015 was then presented by the general secretary Louis D’Costa. A short presentation highlighting the achievements of KCWA and its committee members for the term 2013 – 2015 was given to the audience, which was well received and appreciated by all. Mr. Anil Fernandes thanked the people who provided their continual support to KCWA especially for membership renewal.

Mr. Prashant Lloyd D’Souza, Mr. Salvadore D’Souza, Mr. Wilfred Lobo and Mr. Arun Pinto were honored with a bouquet of flowers by Rev. Fr. Noel D’Almeida and KCWA’s sports committee for their whole hearted support and cooperation with regards to the recently concluded KCWA Cricket Cup 2015.

Rev. Fr. Sunil Dominic Lobo was presented with the cheque amounting to Rs. 12,36,936 for Vimukti by the 2013 - 2015 committee members, which was generated during KCWA’s Kala Sanz 2015. Fr. Lobo then spoke a few words and blessed KCWA to reach even greater heights with social service.

The Election Commission members Mr. Anil Fernandes, Mrs. Ailine Cornelio and Mr. Marian Fernandes then began with the proceedings of electing the new committee, which is as below: Name/Parish in India/ Portfolio.

Albert Praveen Menezes/ Karkala (Town)/ President
Freya Raina Saldanha/ Milagres/ Vice President
Louis Anthony D'Costa/ Piusnagar/ General Secretary
Deepak Andrade / Gurpu/ Asst. General Secretary
Steevan Sebastian Misquith/ Manipal/ Treasurer (General)
Harry Fernandes / Kirem/ Treasurer (Cultural)
Gilbert Mathias/ Pernal/ Auditor
Vijay Alfred D' Souza/ Allipade / Members' Affairs Coordinator
Prashanth Loyd D'Souza/ Rosario/ Sports Secretary
Alban P.F. D'Souza/ Shirva/ Public Relations Officer
Satish John Saldanha / Kateel/ Cultural Secretary
Reema Lolita D'Souza/ Kallianpur/ Education Fund Coordinator
Rajesh Aranha/ Paladka/ Website Administrator

The audience applauded the newly elected committee and Mr. Albert Praveen Menezes, KCWA’s president for the upcoming term thanked and sought everyone’s support and cooperation for a successful tenure.

Mrs. Ailine Cornelio proposed the vote of thanks and expressed gratitude towards the school management for providing the hall, Mr. Walter Saldanha for the projector, Mr. Alban D’Souza for photography, Mr. Anand D’Souza for the sound system, Mr. Steevan Misquith for the PowerPoint presentation and to all those had gathered for coming in such large numbers. Mr. Kiran Gonsalves concluded the meeting with a prayer and sumptuous dinner was served by M&M Confectionary.

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Media Release
June 24,2020

The Overseas Indian Cultural Congress (OICC), Bahrain, has charted aircrafts to repatriate stranded expatriates to India. 

Boby Parayil, General Secretary, OICC National Committee, Bahrain has thanked all those who supported in this cause.

“The aircrafts were not licensed and were in crisis until the last minute. Finally, Mohammed Mansoor, president of Bahrain chapter of Indian Overseas Congress approached IOC Middle East in charge Dr Arathi Krishna, who helped get permission to operate flight to Kozhikode,” he said in a release. 

All mandatory approvals from the Foreign Ministry of Affairs and other government officials were accomplished by Dr Arathi Krishna. OICC has expressed gratitude to her for her timely support, he said. 

OICC is also grateful to former Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy for doing necessary arrangements to get all the approvals for flight landing in Kerala, he added.

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May 22,2020

Mangaluru, May 22: An elderly cardiac patient from Dakshina Kannada, who was stranded in Saudi Arabia due to covid-19 lock-down, has finally reached his homeland thanks to the timely intervention by Humanity Forum Jubail and Indian Social Forum.

The elderly man hailing from Kadaba area of Dakshina Kannada was admitted to a hospital in Madinah. However, his condition continued to worsen due to lack of proper treatment. The efforts by his family members to bring him back home had not yielded results.

Meanwhile, one of the relatives of the patient, Ansari Suratkal, who happens to be a DKSC activist, brought the issue to the notice of the Karnataka unit of the Indian Social Forum in Dammam. ISF contacted Humanity Forum president Zakariya Jokatte, who helped the patient to speak directly union minister D V Sadananda Gowda in a video conference organised by coastaldigest.com.

Humanity Forum also persuaded the Indian Embassy to allow the stranded cardiac patient to fly back to India through Dammam-Bengaluru repatriation flight on May 20. 

However, it was not easy for the patient to travel from Madinah to Dammam International Airport due to lock-down and curfew. ISF not only obtained travel permission for him but also arranged vehicle. Jeddah and Riyadh units of ISF helped in obtaining permission letter in their respective places in spite of travel ban imposed by the police. Madinah unit of ISF arranged vehicle for transportation. Zakariya Jokatte bore the air ticket and other expenses of the patient.

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Media Release
February 27,2020

Riyadh: Cricket Lovers are all geared up for the newly launched franchise based tournament - Kingdom Premier League (KPL) 2020 under the banner of Mangaluru Cricket Association (MCA) Riyadh.

SAQCO –SAAD AL QAHTANI CONTRACTING is the Mega Sponsor for the event and PARAMOUNT is the CO Sponsor.

The 6-team tournament is being played at MCA Grounds on Exit 18 in Riyadh beginning from 14 Feb and shall end on 20 March.

The Opening ceremony took place on AL-Mas Restaurant in Riyadh. The trophy launching as well as Jersey launching took place at the same event. Guests from various companies including SAQCO were present.

All teams will play at least one league Match against every other team. Top 4 teams in the table will qualify to play for the Qualifier 1 and Eliminator. The Winner of Qualifier 1 will be heading towards the final and the 2nd finalist will be the winner Qualifier 2 (Played between loser of Qualifier 1 and Winner of Eliminator). The Finals will be played on 20th March.

Below 6 Team names with their franchise owners and respective icon players.

BANCAA WARRIORS – RANJITH (TEAM WARRIORS RIYADH) – RAJESH AND SHAFI

YAQOOB FIGHTERS – SHAHID & YAQOOB (YAQOOB CC) – SAMEER KARNAD AND MOHSIN

GROUND STAR PHOENIX – RIZWAN & SIDDIK – AYAZ & SALEEM SHIRUR

PARAMOUNT HEROES – NASIR GM – SARFARAZ AK & MUSTAFA HASAN

AL-AMAL AFRAH PANTHERS – SHAHIM & AHNAF – DAWOOD KODI & ANIS

NAJD CHALLENGERS – AFROZ NAKWA – SHADAB KARNAD & SULTHAN

Each Team gets to pick 2 icon players of their choice on a mutual understanding whereas the remaining 13 players for each squad to be picked randomly based on their rankings and ratings in bidding style from 3 categories – A, B & C. The Franchise Ownership amount stands at Sr 2,000 for Each Team. The Winner of the Tournament gets a Cash Reward of Sr 5,000. The Runner Up Gets a Cash Reward of 3,000. Many Attractive Individual prizes will be handed over at the end of the event such as below

Winners squad 16 players - Gifts

Highest Run Getter – Orange Cap – Special Gift

Highest Wicket Taker – Purple Cap – Special Gift

Player of the Series – Special Gift

Hat-trick Wicket taker – Special Gift

KPL Kamal Catch – Special Gift

Best Wicket Keeper – Special Gift

Best over in KPL – Special Gift

Fastest 50 in KPL – Special Gift

Fair Play Award – Special Gift

Performer of the Week (Every Week) – Special Gift

Century – Special Gift

Maiden Over – Special Gift

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