Dubai: Mangalurean Shabana Faizal receives NRI entrepreneur award

March 25, 2016

Dubai, Mar 25: Recognizing her commitment to responsible business in the UAE and India, Kairali TV has conferred the NRI Woman Entrepreneur Award to Shabana Faizal, Chief Corporate Officer (CCO) and Vice-Chairperson of KEF Holdings at their first-ever business excellence awards. KEF Holdings is a UAE-based multinational diversified group that specializes in innovative offsite construction technology.

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Hailing from the city of Mangalore ,Shabana started her entrepreneurial career in 1995, when she set up Sophiya's World - luxury and special items studio - in Calicut, following her marriage to Faizal E Kottikollon, Chairman of KEF Holdings and the Faizal and Shabana Foundation.

In her dual role at KEF Holdings, Shabana oversees the corporate functions at KEF Holdings including the HR & Administration, Corporate Communications, IT and Legal functions; she is keenly involved in strategizing KEF's foray across infrastructure, healthcare, and education domains in India and the UAE. Shabana also holds the position of Co-Founder & Vice-Chairperson of the company's corporate social responsibility (CSR) arm - the Faizal and Shabana Foundation.

The Kairali TV NRI Entrepreneur Awards ceremony, which was held at the Indian Consulate Hall, Dubai, was headlined by prominent non-resident Indians. The Awards were chaired and juried by Ashraf Ali, Issac John, Senior Business Correspondent at Khaleej Times and Mr. C.K. Menon, Chairman and CEO of Behzad Corporation.

Shabana has a driving passion to make a difference in the lives of the underprivileged, which led to the setting up the Faizal and Shabana Foundation, which serves as the core of KEF's Corporate Philosophy. The Foundation carries out campaigns to improve education, healthcare, sustainable livelihood, humanitarian assistance, youth development and housing in India and the UAE. Her most recent passion project wasthe revamp and enhancement of the GVHSS in Nadakkavu, Kerala which has empowered more than 2400 young girls to believe in themselves and their dreams, and impacted the lives of more than 69,000 students across 65 schools in Kerala.

In 2015, KEF Holdings also completed a residential complex for staff and students of Yenepoya University in Mangalore in a short nine months. This facility was India's first wholly offsite manufactured building complex, a project that Shabana was closely involved with.

Accepting the award, Shabana Faizal said: “I am extremely honored to receive the NRI Entrepreneur Award from Malayalam Communications Ltd and Kairali TV. As Steve Jobs once said, half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. That is one quality that has defined me and my work over the last few years. I have had an adventurous entrepreneurial journey over the last 20 years, and I am very proud of the good work that we have been able to do over this time.”

She added, “Our philosophy at KEF Holdings can be defined through our commitment to make a difference that counts, and this is what is at the core of all our initiatives. I am grateful for this recognition for my work, and I will continue to move forward on the same path.”

Shabana Faizal is the daughter of prominent Mangaluru businessman, B Ahmed Hajee Mohiudeen Thumbey, Founder and Chairman of B A Group and is a psychology graduate of St Agnes College, Mangaluru.

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congratulations Mrs.Faizal

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RSS holds closed door meeting with 70 columnists

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February 18,2020

New Delhi, Feb 18: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is holding a daylong meeting with 70 columnists from across India on Tuesday in an effort to clear misconceptions about the organisation, sources said.

RSS chief Bhagwat, who last year met representatives of international media organisations posted in India, is expected to deliver a keynote address that will be followed by a free-flowing conversation, they said.

The 70 columnists attending Tuesday's meeting write in different languages.

The meeting, in Chhattarpur in New Delhi, is a closed-door meeting and the proceedings are "strictly confidential", the sources said

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You do whatever circus, false will never be truth.

First of all know what is your VEDA and set as example by following.

No need to do any false circus.

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345 journalists in Bengaluru test negative for coronavirus

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April 27,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 27: As many as 345 Bengaluru-based journalists tested negative for coronavirus on Monday after undergoing a medical check-up got up for them at a hospital here, a top official said.

They had undergone the tests at the Sir C V Raman General Hospital here on April 25 and the results came out negative on Monday. They were among a total of 1,170 journalists who took the tests at the four-day medical check-up camp at the Hospital here from April 23.

"The medical check-up was done in four slots at the Hospital here from Thursday and concluded on Monday. A total of 1,170 journalists undertook the tests, 480 of them on Monday alone, the joint director of the Department of Information and Public Relation D P Muralidhar said.

The test reports of the 480 journalists may come out on Wednesday, he said. Only one journalist tested positive so far and has been admitted to the designated COVID-19 hospital, he said, adding 36 of his primary and secondary contacts have been quarantined.

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Places of public gatherings shut down in Karnataka amid coronavirus scare

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March 14,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 14: Amid coronavirus threat, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa has ordered shutting down for a week of all places/activities where people gather in large number including swimming pools, shopping malls, schools, colleges, cinema halls etc, state Health Minister B Sriramulu said.

This comes after Yediyurappa chaired an emergency meeting with ministers and senior officials on Friday to discuss the situation.

Earlier, schools in the state had announced early summer vacation for their students this academic year as a precautionary measure. Other public places have been shut down in the state amid the Covid-19 scare.

The shut down in Karnataka comes after various other state governments ordered similar steps. Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Jammu and Kashmir etc. are some of the states where governments have ordered shut down as a precautionary measure to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus.

The central government has also taken several steps to contain the virus, including suspension of all visas to India till April 15. Till date, India has reported two deaths and 82 confirmed cases of the deadly coronavirus.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. The virus, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan last year has spread to more than 100 countries worldwide, infecting over 1,30,000 people.

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