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BCF felicitates Mohiuddin Bava, Dr Devi Prasad, Zafarullah, Sheikabba

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November 26, 2015

Dubai: The Bearys Cultural Forum (BCF) arranged a special felicitation function at the Suba Banquet Hall in Dubai for Mohiuddin Bava, Mangaluru North MLA, Dr Devi Prasad Shetty, District President of Union of Udupi District Gramma Panchayaths, Zafarullah Khan, Chief Advisor, BCF and Managing Director, Zain International Group of Hotels and K.S. Sheikkaba, Founder General Secretary, BCF.

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Dr Kaup Mohamed welcomed all the guests. Dr. B.K. Yusuf, President of BCF presided over the function. Dr. Yusuf thanked Mr. Zafarullah Khan for his valuable support to BCF. He praised the magnanimity of Mr. Zafarullah khan’s contribution in serving the society. He thanked him for his pledge to continue with BCF. He explained about the forthcoming BCF World Kannadiga Convention, his plan and strategy to make it most successful event and he expressed his hope that all the Leaders and the Committee members of BCF will join their hands together to make that program a thundering success. He also thanked Mr.Devi Prasad Shetty and Mr. K.S. Sheikkabba for attending the program this function.

Mr. Zafarullah Khan was nominated as the Chairman of the World Kannadiga Convention for Arts and Culture 2016 scheduled to be held in April 2016. Mr. Zafarullah Khan expressed his pride to be with BCF and in its course of Social Service, he promised his continuing support to BCF at all points of time. He also praised the leadership of BCF and commitments of its committee members. He pledged his full support to the forth coming BCF event namely World Kannadiga Convention for Arts and Culture 2016 and also stated that he will invite renowned personalities of the State of Karnataka to attend this function.

Mr. Moideen Bawa, MLA expressed his pleasure to be associated with BCF since several years. He promised to provide full support to BCF for cultural programs and scholarship activities.

Dr.Deviprasada Shetty stated that he was highly delighted to attend the function and thanked BCF for its kind hospitality. He also stated that with the support of all community members, he succeeded in making Belapu an ideal Village and is planning to make further rural development by Establishing Colleges, Professional Training centres etc.

Mr. K S Shekabba thanked the BCF for honouring him. He elaborated how few NRI Beary brothers in UAE initiated the Idea of forming an association and subsequently under the leadership of Dr. Yusuf the BCF was founded. He expressed his pleasure to see that today BCF has grown substantially to become one of the most dynamic association.

The felicitation function was attended by all the managing committee members including Vice presidents, ladies wing members and several other guests. Industrialist Mr. Chandrahas and Mr. Anantaram were given a bouquet as a mark of respect. Similarly, Mrs. Zafarullah Khan and Mrs. Seikkabba were also given a bouquet. Mr. Niyaz Ahmed from Coastal digest and Mr. Rafique Kolpe from VK news were also given a bouquet and where nominated as the media coordinator for the forthcoming BCF event. Buffet dinner was hosted by the BCF. Mr. Abdul Lathif Mulky proposed vote of thanks.

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June 17,2020

Doha: Qatar Indian Social Forum (QISF) once again set an example that no caste, creed, language and religion comes as hurdle for their humanitarian services and helped to perform last rites of Ramesh who committed suicide in Doha-Qatar.

45-year-old Ramesh son of K. Nagan hailing from Panikulam, Thrissur district in Kerala, who was working as a tailor committed suicide in his house at Ruwias in Qatar on 30th May 2020.

On hearing this news, some of his friends in Kearla informed Mr. Shihab who is also from Thrissur and a member of QISF and the same was brought to the notice of QISF humanitarian team head Mr. Abdul Latheef Madikeri and Basheer Ahmed of Tamil Nadu.

Immediately, the QISF team intervened and contacted the family members of the deceased in India and discussed the matter and consequences of sending the body back home to India in this pandemic COVID 19 situation.

Considering the prevailing situation, the family members gave the consent to bury the body in Qatar itself.

QISF team collected the required documents from the family of the deceased and managed to clear all the necessary formalities from the police department, Health Department, Embassy of India and Hamad Medical Corporation.

Finally, the body of the deceased was buried in Qatar on 7th June 2020 and the copies of all the relevant documents have been handed over to the family members.

The family members of the deceased thanked and applauded the leaders and all the members of QISF for their effective and on time humanitarian service rendered even in this pandemic crisis and having no bias.

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Media Release
July 25,2020

In a humanitarian gesture to help fellow citizens in distress, the first in the series of chartered 
flights arranged by Thumbay Group, UAE and the Bearys Cultural Forum (BCF) Trust, 
Mangalore to repatriate stranded Kannadigas in the UAE took off from Ras Al Khaimah 
International Airport in the wee hours of 21st July 2020. The flight was fully occupied, with 186 passengers, all of them desperate to fly back to India for various reasons.

The initiative was conceived and implemented under the leadership of Dr. Thumbay Moideen - Founder President of Thumbay Group & Founder Patron of BCF and Dr. B K Yusuf, the 
President of BCF. The flight was organized on a purely charitable basis, with all necessary 
steps and precautions in place to ensure the safety and comfort of passengers. Thumbay Group assigned its fleet of buses to transport the passengers free of charge from their residences in Dubai, Sharjah and Ajman to the airport. The organizers also provided free meals and refreshments to the passengers, in addition to PPE kits and face-shields distributed free of 
charges.

The passengers on the first flight included many elderly individuals, people with serious 
illnesses like heart-related health issues and diabetes, pregnant ladies and little children as well as people who had lost their jobs and those with expired visas. Dr. B K Yusuf – BCF President, Dr. Kaup Mohammed - BCF General Secretary, other office bearers of BCF, as well as Thumbay Group’s representatives Mr. Farhad C – Director of the Hospitality Division of 
Thumbay Group and Engr. Farwaz P. C. – COO of the Construction Division were present at 
the airport to see off the first group of passengers.

Commenting on the initiative, Dr. Thumbay Moideen said, “This joint initiative of Thumbay 
Group and BCF is to support our fellow Kannadigas desperate to fly back home. We are happy that we have been able to reach out to many of them, to help them fly home to their families. We thank the Governments of the UAE and India, and the Indian Consulate, Dubai, for their support in making this happen. In the coming days, many more stranded Kannadigas would be repatriated under this joint initiative.”
Dr. B K Yusuf thanked Dr. Thumbay Moideen and the office-bearers and members of BCF for 
their efforts to make the initiative a success.

“We are proud that this initiative has brought relief to many Kannadigas and their families today. BCF is grateful to Thumbay Group for its support and partnership for all our humanitarian programs for the support of the needy.”

Dr. Kaup Mohammed said that it was a matter of pride that the much-awaited Thumbay-BCF 
repatriation flight had been carried out successfully. “Measures have been taken to ensure the safety of the flight and its passengers throughout the journey,” he said. He also thanked all the social organizations including Bhatkal Jamath, BCCI, BWF, KCF, DKSC, Kodagu Kannadigas, 
Kannadiga Help Line, Dubai Konkans and KSS, for their support. He specially thanked Mr. 
Syed Hassan Razeen, the owner of ARISTOCRAT Travels for his support in the ticketing, 
boarding and related processes. On behalf of Milano Optics Group and Maxcare, free gift 
hampers were distributed to selected passengers.

The passengers were received at Mangalore airport under the leadership of Mr. Mumtaz Ali - patron of BCF and other distinguished personalities of Mangalore including Mr. Moidin Bava - former MLA, Mr U. T. Ifthikhar, Mr. S. M. R Rashid - President of BCCI central committee and many others. The passengers were transferred to the hotels where they had registered for the mandatory quarantine.

The second flight under this joint initiative is scheduled to take-off from Ras Al Khaimah airport to Mangalore on 24th July 2020. A few more similar repatriation flights are to soon follow, in the coming weeks.

 

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Agencies
August 8,2020

Dubai, Aug 7: One may call it good luck, but for two Indian expats it was God who prevented them at the last minute from boarding the Air India Express plane that crashed in Kerala, killing at least 18 people on board.

According to India's Civil Aviation Ministry, the Boeing 737 aircraft on a flight from Dubai to Kozhikode overshot the runway at Kozhikode airport on Friday evening. There were 184 passengers including 10 infants, 2 pilots and four cabin crew onboard the aircraft.

Noufal Moin Vetten, an Ajman resident working as an office boy in a Sharjah school, was booked to travel on the flight and had checked in as per schedule.

Recounting his miraculous escape, Vetten, a resident of Malappuram, Thirunavaya, whose visa was cancelled a week ago, told Gulf News: “I was handed my boarding pass, but when I reached immigration, they told me I had to pay a fine of Dh 1,000 (Rs 20,430) for overstay. I had only Dh 500 (Rs10,215) with me.

"I called my school PRO and he told me to come back. He said they would follow protocols and pay the fines before sending me,“ he said.

Vetten was disappointed and called his family to let them know.

“When I heard about the crash, I was saddened for all the passengers. But I'm so relieved I missed it. God has been really merciful,” said Vetten.

Afsal Parrakodan, a resident of Abu Dhabi, had a similar stroke of luck.

“My work visa was cancelled about a week ago. After getting my boarding pass, I was told I had to pay a fine of Dh1,000 at the immigration counter, but I had only Dh500 on me.”

“I was very keen to board the flight and be with my family. So I called a friend who brought me the additional Dh500, but by then, my baggage had been offloaded and the flight's doors were closed,” said Parrakodan.

“I was feeling very sad and called my mother to tell her I had missed the flight. But a few hours later, when I learnt of the crash, I couldn’t help but feel relieved and thankful to God for saving my life,“ said an overwhelmed Parrakodan who plans to fly back next week. 

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