Lecturer, Dubai beautician among the new faces in Dakshina Kannada ZP

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February 24, 2016

Mangaluru, Feb 24: Rasheeda Banu, a lecturer at a private degree college in Ullal, is probably the only member in Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat who holds a master degree in political science. This hijab-clad woman managed to defeat her closest rival Poornima Shetty of BJP with a margin of 4,580 votes in Konaje seat in just concluded panchayat polls.

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Seema Melwyn D'Souza and Rasheeda Banu 

A rank holder in post-graduation at Mangalore University, Rasheeda worked as a guest lecturer in Field Marshal Cariappa College in Madikeri for two years and then joined Syed Madani Women's College in Ullal.

Eldest daughter of two-time taluk panchayat member Muhammed Mustafa Malar, she is married to Muhammed Twaha, an engineer and they have a small child. Thanks to the support and encouragement from her father, husband and health minister UT Khader she decided to enter politics to serve the poor through Congress party a few weeks ago.

“I want to develop my constituency using the funds available from the government. My father has been supporting me throughout the election,” she says.

“I know there is a lot of difference between what I have learnt and what I will be practicing now,” Ms. Banu said. She intends to work with legislators, and taluk panchayat and gram panchayat members to carry out development works.

“It is through development alone that harmony can be built in my constituency,” she said.

Wife replaces husband

Another Congress candidate Seema Melwyn D'Souza, who won from Neermarga seat, was beautician at a firm in Dubai till last year. She quit her Dubai job to join her husband, Melwyn D'Souza, a former ZP member. She opened her own beauty parlour in Neermarga later.

She said that it was her husband who had contested from the constituency during the last term. “As the women reservation was announced for the constituency, I contested the election. I will work towards the development of the constituency.”

Ruling out that his wife's candidature was a case of family politics, Mr. D'Souza said that it was proposed by party workers. “She is yet to get a grip of things. I am here to support her,” Mr. D'Souza said.

Comments

Anwar Sadath
 - 
Wednesday, 24 Feb 2016

Congratulation to my high school class mate Rasheeda Banu

Abu Wafa
 - 
Wednesday, 24 Feb 2016

Congrats, ,,,,, very good news

Ahmed Bava
 - 
Wednesday, 24 Feb 2016

Congratulations Rasheeda Banu ( Masha Allah ) and Seema Melwyn all the very best for your political future i hope you will do something good for poor people.

Siraj
 - 
Wednesday, 24 Feb 2016

Congratulations! It's good sign youngsters are jumping into politics. I wish them all the success for their future political life. Yes. There are many corrupt politicians in and around us. We should not be one among those who just blame politicians. The young and clean hands should jump into the political field and wipe out the corrupt. this is the best solution at the moment.

chammi
 - 
Wednesday, 24 Feb 2016

may Allah bless with u all the happiness and health Ameen

Nazeer
 - 
Wednesday, 24 Feb 2016

Masha Allah Good job Keep it up..
Well done..

Priyanka
 - 
Wednesday, 24 Feb 2016

wow wonderful, all the best do well for the society.

Zahir
 - 
Wednesday, 24 Feb 2016

all the best Rasheeda Banu, please solve our water problem in konaje roads are not clear.

Premanatha
 - 
Wednesday, 24 Feb 2016

all the best ladies, do well for your constituency.

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April 28,2020

Mangaluru, Apr 28: Trucks carrying fish loads from Kerala will not be allowed to enter Dakshina Kannada district as the authorities are not being able to control the rush in markets, state Fisheries Minister and district-in-charge Kota Srinivas Poojary said Monday.

The deputy commissioner has been instructed to restrict the entry of fish transport vehicles from outside the district forthwith, in view of the difficulty in maintaining social distancing at the markets identified in the district, the minister told reporters here.

The coastal district has to take more precautionary measures to fight COVID-19 as the number of positive cases have risen in the last couple of days, he said.

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January 16,2020

Bengaluru, Jan 16: It was necessary to revise rates under the ECHS, CGHS and GIPSA schemes for private hospitals to be able to sustain, doctors from private hospitals have opined.

Under the banner of the Association of Healthcare Providers of India (AHPI), doctors from top private hospitals in the city spoke about the dues pending from the union government schemes. They said they could not give a deadline as to when they would stop offering the scheme.

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February 6,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 6: A flower vendor from Channapatna town in Karnataka got a shock of his life when he found a credit of Rs 30 crore in his wife's bank account. This happened when Syed Malik Burhan was struggling to meet expenses for a medical emergency in the family.

According to reports, bank officials knocked on his doors on December 2 asking him to explain how the money came to his account.

"On December 2, they came searching our house. They only said a huge amount has been deposited in my wife's (Rehana) account and then asked me to come to the Bank along with my wife carrying Aadhaar card," Mr Burhan said.

He claimed that the Bank staff sought to exert pressure on him to sign on a document but he refused. Mr Burhan recalled that he had purchased a saree through an online portal following which he received a call seeking his bank details which, he was told, were needed as he had won a car.

"Since then, we are running from pillars to post to find out how the money came to our account. We had only Rs 60 but suddenly such huge money came, which we are unable to understand," said Mr Burhan.

Mr Burhan said he had lodged a complaint with the Income Tax department, which he claimed was not keen on investigating it initially. Based on his complaint, the Channapatna town police in Ramanagara district registered a case of forgery and impersonation under the IPC besides the Information Technology Act for cheating and impersonation on January nine.

According to police, there were many financial transactions, which Mr Burhan may be unaware of. "We are trying to find out what these transactions mean. We will arrest whoever is behind it. We will not spare them," said a police officer in Channapatna.

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