Mangaluru: Women’s wing of Highland Islamic Forum launched

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February 2, 2016

Mangaluru, Feb 2: Highland Islamic Forum, a city based organization has opened its women’s wing for social service.

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The HIF women’s wing consisting of around 150 members intends to lend a helping hand to the deserved and poor community members in the form of financial aid and other means.

As its debut event, the women’s wing participated in the recent food exhibition organized at Forum Fiza Mall in the city.

During three-day exhibition, the members of the woman activists prepared and exhibited delicious foods, house made masala, juice etc. A cake named ‘Smart city butter cream cake’ was one of the attractions during the food exhibition.

The profit acquired through this food exhibition-cum-sale was given to the women's wing of HIF.

HIF women’s wing president Hafsa Ahmed spoke on the occasion and thanked the activists and well wishers for supporting the organization. Rashmiya Masooda, a member was also present.

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Well Wisher,
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Wednesday, 3 Feb 2016

instead of making new new small small gropus, better to \JOIN & ENCOURAGE\" the existing group (There are somany) at Mangalore itself!"

HAMDAH AL KHOBAR
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Tuesday, 2 Feb 2016

MAA SHAA ALLAH

Ausaf
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Tuesday, 2 Feb 2016

Masha Allah great initiative!
May Allah accept it from them and grant them ability to do more work.
Aameen

Ausaf
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Tuesday, 2 Feb 2016

Masha Allah great initiative!
May Allah accept it from them and grant them ability to do more work. Aameen

Muqsith
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Tuesday, 2 Feb 2016

MashaAllah may Allah reward you

Muqsith
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Tuesday, 2 Feb 2016

Masha Allah.. May Allah reward u.. ameen

suhail
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Tuesday, 2 Feb 2016

Alhamdulillah.
Hazrat Khadija Radiyallahu Anha, Wife of our Beloved Prophet Muhammad(SAW) left behind a legacy of supporting and empowering people through her charity work.
Insha'Allah our sisters of HiF will carry forward the legacy .

Suhail
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Tuesday, 2 Feb 2016

Alhamdulillah, Hazrat Khadija R.Anha wife of beloved Prophet Muhammad SAW left behind a legacy of supporting & empowering people through her charity works.

Insha'Allah our sisters of HIF will carry forward the Legacy.

And matters relating to Non-mahram will be helped by their husbands.

Basith hussain
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Tuesday, 2 Feb 2016

Masha allah good work sisters (HIF womens wing) may allah accept it from you.
Aameen

Basith hussain
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Tuesday, 2 Feb 2016

Masha allah sisters (HIF womens wing) may allah accept it from you, may allah make this wing strong and helpfull in the society may bless and protect our muslim ummah.
Aameen.

Basith hussain
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Tuesday, 2 Feb 2016

Masha allah sisters (HIF womens wing) may allah accept it from you, may allah bless the muslim ummah,
Aameen

rashmina.bk
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Tuesday, 2 Feb 2016

Alhamdulillah. May Allah accept all our good deeds ......ameen

Sajid
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Tuesday, 2 Feb 2016

Masha allah May Allah accept it from you and us

kabir
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Tuesday, 2 Feb 2016

Masha Allah that's a good start. Need lending hands which is the need of the hour. Let make this women wing powerfull so they can face challenges in life.

Jabbar
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Tuesday, 2 Feb 2016

Masha Allah. Good work. Keep it up.

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March 28,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 28: Sun Tsu, in 'The Art of War' speaks of a skilful general who can subdue his enemy without any fighting. This constitutes the ultimate triumph which is referred to as stratagem. Today, we would need one such when we are faced with the '21-day corona challenge' for India.
Nearly four weeks back, Dr Jyothsna Rao, Dr Gururaj Rao and I sat across the OPD in the afternoon at HCG Bengaluru discussing our ongoing cancer immunology research. While on this topic, we drifted into the discussion on the coronavirus. During this engaging discussion, we wondered the similarity of the enigma between the virus and cancer. I paused to ask Dr Jyothsna and Dr Guru - how we wish we could do something against this virus.
Dr Jyothsna is a PhD from NCBS and had worked under Dr Ralph Steinman, physician and researcher from Rockefeller University, who won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity in 2011. Dr Gururaj is a molecular and cell biologist who did his PhD at the Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina and is the Director of iCrest.
Jyothsna while hearing our perplexing conversation on the covid intervened, "Yes, surely. I think we should take a break from cancer and focus on the innate and adaptive immunity role in COVID-19."
Thus began this sincere attempt to relook the human immune system from the eyes of the COVID-19.
We have 10 types of immune cells at the least which are widely dispersed in millions across the body. When our body is invaded by a foreign organism (bacteria, fungi or virus), these cells work with each other to destroy the invader.
Now, the question is - how do the immune cells talk to each other? They use small-molecule substances called cytokines (cyto means cells; kine means movement). There are many cytokines that are involved in work on the immune system. The most relevant for viruses are interferons.
Interferons (IFN) as the name reflects have an ability to interfere with the viral activity and stop their multiplication. These specialised signal proteins are released by our cells in response to a viral attack to forewarn other cells. They help build the antiviral proteins within the cells to kill the virus as it tries to invade the new cells.
Historically, interferons are a group of cytokines known to be potent antiviral agents against viruses and a hallmark cytokine induced by the host upon viral infections. Interferons possess unique immunoregulatory activities and are signature cytokines released by (TH1) T immune cells, which are crucial in viral infections.
As the outbreak of COVID-19 grapples us, an urgent need for finding strategies to combat the virus is growing. Coronaviruses (CoVs) are a group of RNA viruses. In patients infected with coronavirus, it was indicated that the activation of the IFN does not occur until 48 hours post-infection. Thus the delayed IFN-related antiviral response by the healthy cells leads to coronavirus evade the immune response.
Numerous studies have presented the success in defeating CoVs by the direct administration of IFNs. In a combination as a concoction, it was shown to synergistically inhibit the virus replication in vitro.
Moreover, it is understood that the earlier induction of IFNs in children although they have a less developed immune system could be the reason behind the children being least affected.
The key to success in reducing the disease fatality might be the stimulation of the immune responses to trigger IFN production at the very early stages of the disease, which might be done through the administration of IFN. Despite the evidence for the efficacy of IFNs in treating CoV-induced infections, the proper dosing and ideal timing for such interventions needs to be verified in clinical trials.
For the later stages of the diseases in advance stages where patients are on ventilator and have developed respiratory distress, we propose to utilise the mesenchymal cells derived from donor bone marrow that have been known to treat acute respiratory syndrome. Mesenchymal cells are known to possess anti-inflammatory activity and thus used often in autoimmune diseases.
With this scientific background, we have activated T cells from healthy donors, in a cGMP facility at iCrest - HCG hospital with an enriched cocktail of cytokines rich in Interferons. Injections of this cocktail we believe will result in a surge of cytokines in the body of the infected person and will boost his ability to fight the virus in the early phases. We are in the initial phases of this study and hope to be ready in the coming weeks with meaningful data on its potential utility.
Currently, it awaits government approvals (Union and state) and we have applied to central drugs authority for their initial evaluation and further directions.
As my Guru often expounded the philosophy of 'Seva' - the goal of education is knowledge, the end goal of knowledge is service. In this attempt to serve our fellow humans at this brink of unprecedented crisis, medical fraternity stands with you and promises to do our best for your safety.
We assure to exhaust every bit of our spirit in this fight against coronavirus. We have lost the sight of shores and travelled thus far, but that is the mandatory first step to cross the ocean. Are we going to succeed in this battle, is something only time will answer. 

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June 22,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 22: Areas having three to four COVID-19 cases being termed as clusters will be totally sealed and maximum testing will be conducted there, moreover only critical cases will be shifted to COVID hospitals in Bengaluru, said Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai.

Speaking to media persons, Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai said, "It has been decided that clusters (areas having 3-4 #COVID19 cases) will be totally sealed and maximum testing will be done there. Only critical cases will be shifted to Covid hospitals. I demanded that police personnel are tested on priority."

"A lot of issues were discussed about the spike in COVID-19 cases. As far as hospitals are concerned there are two types of patients, asymptomatic and symptomatic, moderate and critical. Moderate and normal cases can be shifted to COVID centres," he added.

Bommai further added that beds in hospitals need to be reserved for corona warriors as well.

"There has to be a coordination between BBPM who brings the patient and the hospital, the moment a positive case is reported to avoid the waiting period. Even in hospitals, some beds have to be reserved for corona warriors. Community transmission is not yet there but we have to be prepared," he added.

Earlier today, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa had called an emergency meeting of concerned officials and departments to discuss measures to control rising COVID19 cases in Bengaluru.

As the numbers of COVID-19 cases are increasing in Bengaluru at an alarming rate, the Chief Minister opined that this can be contained only if preventive measures were implemented strictly.

He directed the officials to implement lockdown strictly in the clusters, which reported more number of cases, especially KR Market and surrounding areas such as Siddapura, VV Puram, Kalasipalya. It was decided to seal the adjoining streets, where the cases are reported.

He said that stringent action would be taken against those who violate quarantine and FIR would be filed if necessary.

Officers were directed to fix rates for treatment of COVID patients in private hospitals to make coronavirus treatment accessible to all.

Yediyurappa further instructed officials to set up fever clinics in all wards and maintain hygiene and provide other basic amenities to the people who were quarantined in social welfare hostels and other government institutions.

"COVID-19 should be contained without affecting the economic activities in Bengaluru, which resumed recently," he said.

"COVID War Room shall have real-time information on the availability of beds in various COVID hospitals and shall facilitate the infected person to avail treatment without losing any time," added Yediyurappa.

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May 5,2020

Bengaluru, May 5: Karnataka Education Minister, S Suresh Kumar on Monday announced that the SSLC exams will be held as soon as possible, the officials have been asked to be prepared.

The guidelines have been given by the Primary Education Minister to all Deputy Directors of Education departments.

"Sanitisers, masks, screening, and all guidelines will be followed at exam halls," said Kumar in a statement.

Meanwhile, Karnataka has reported 651 COVID-19 positive cases so far, said State Health Department said on Monday.

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