Mangaluru girl Beulah Ruth Pinto is UAE’s Best Young Singer

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December 13, 2018

Dubai, Dec 13: Beulah Ruth Pinto, a Mangaluru girl, has emerged winner of the 'Best of the Best 2018' - Best child singer in United Arab Emirates. The 15-year-old is the daughter of Rita Pinto and Canute Pinto, a Konkani lyricist, musician and singer.

GEMS Education, the world’s leading provider of quality education, budding young singers across the UAE to take part in its eighth edition of the Best of the Best singing competition. The event was organised on 9th December 2018 by Kevin Oliver in Dubai. 

GEMS Education named Beulah Ruth Pinto as the UAE’s ‘Best Young Singer’  in senior category and winner of the ‘Best of the Best 2018’ – a talent hunt aimed to discover young gifted singers in the country.

Over 300 contestants in second round of audition across UAE, contestants filtered to 30 finalists, 15 contestants from each junior and senior category between 9 to 12 and 13 to 17 of age. Eight judges tackling the finest talented English singers to bring down the title to the one. 16 years old Beulah Ruth Pinto's stunning performance, dominance over the stage and power of singing enthralled the audience and stole the judges’ hearts. Now holding the title for the Best young singer in United Arab Emirates, she has also received a cash prize of AED 10,000. One of the judges said "she is born for the stage" and another complimented "She is not a contestant but a performer". The competition, which was started by GEMS in 2004, has unearthed thousands of amazing voices through the years.

On September 21, 2018 Beulah Pinto bagged the UAE’s 2nd most talented child award in a talent contest ‘BurJuman’s Rising Stars’ hosted by Burjuman Centre, Dubai, UAE. UAE is home for more than two hundred nationalities. Beulah took part in the 4-16 years age category open for all languages, all nationalities, and any talent and got past the mega-audition among 500 participants across UAE. Beulah was called "Queen of the stage" by the judges. 

Beulah Pinto holds musical grades of Trinity Guildhall Music College. London. She is also the first and the only Indian to be part of Al Jalila Cultural Centre, a Dubai government organisation. She was a lead singer for Metilda, the musical play organised by GEMS group directed by Kevin Oliver (GEMS cultural director). Beulah sang at Global Teachers Award in 2015 and 2016, an International event where America’s former president Bill Clinton, dignitaries from around the world and Dubai ruler HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid were present. Beulah also sang  for Sheikha Fatima Award in UAE where HH Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nayan  crown prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of He's armed forces was the chief guest of the event. Beulah Pinto won the judges favourite award in Dubai Festival City  "Kids Stars" talent competition in 2015. 

Beulah Pinto performed in Mariamma Varkey Award ceremony on 11th October 2018. She was one of the lead singer at the eve of International day of tolerance on 15th November 2018 where dignaterians from many nations were present including royal family and His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahyan- Minister of Tolerance UAE (International day of tolerance at Union House). Religious leaders from all faith were part of the event.

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Thursday, 13 Dec 2018

Well Done Beulah.  Congratulations.  

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May 4,2020

Mangaluru, May 4: In line with the directive of the Deputy Commissioner against opening textile shops even after the relaxation of lockdown, it has been decided to continue the closure of all textile shops in Hampankatta area of Mangaluru until the end of the blessed Ramadan, President of KTA Youth Forum said on Monday.

Pointing out that several rumours were doing the rounds in social media on the opening of textile shops in the wake of Eid, the owners of textile shops met on Monday morning and unanimously decided against opening the shops. The association said the local MLA has also been consulted on the issue.

KTA Youth Forum is an organisation of owners of shops at Kunil Centre in Tokyo Market and Akbar Complex here, mostly comprising of Muslims.

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July 28,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 28: Several state Congress leaders, including its President D K Shivakumar, among others, were detained by police as they tried to march towards Raj Bhavan here against the alleged attempts by BJP to topple the party's government in Rajasthan.

Shivakumar, along with Leader of the Opposition Siddaramaiah, state Congress Working President Eshwar Khandre, Salim Ahmed among others were stopped by the police midway as they marched from KPCC office towards Raj Bhavan.

Congress leaders then staged a dharna at the place where they were stopped. Addressing the gathering, Shivakumar accused the BJP of trying to "murder" democracy by destabilizing and removing elected governments.

"We wanted to protest against it and submit a memorandum to the President through the Governor," but the Karnataka government by using police was not letting them proceed towards Raj Bhavan, he said. "Despite our being a peaceful protest, the police stopped us," he said.

Siddaramaiah, echoing similar views, said peaceful protests against injustice was the right of every citizen. Alleging that the BJP was attempting to destabilise and remove the elected government in Rajasthan as it did in Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, he said the Governor's office there (Rajasthan) was being 'misused'.

The Governor was working like an agent of the central government, he charged. He said, despite repeated appeals by the Rajasthan cabinet, the Governor there had not convened the assembly session, for the floor test to take place and for Congress to prove its majority. Police subsequently detained Shivakumar and some other Congress leaders and took them to a nearby police station.

They were later released. Meanwhile, as the Congress' protest amid Covid19 pandemic did not follow social distancing norms, Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar hit out at that party's leaders. In a tweet Sudhakar said, for Congress leaders getting publicity was more important than social concerns.

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May 17,2020

Bengaluru, May 17: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and Transport Minister Laxman Savadi on Sunday wrote to Union Minister Nitin Gadkari requesting to issue new lockdown guidelines including permission to operate public transport and said the lockdown has caused a financial loss of Rs 16,00 crore to all four Karnataka Transport Undertakings.

In view of these problems, the state Transport Minister requested Gadkari to permit the deployment of Non-AC buses on scheduled routes to ensure the adequacy of services.

The four State Transport Undertakings (STUs) in Karnataka which are providing bus-based public transport services within the state and to the neighbouring states are Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC), North West Karnataka Road Transport Corporation (NWKRTC), North Eastern Karnataka Road Transport Corporation (NEKRTC) and Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC).

"KSRTC, NWKRTC and NEKRTC operate buses for mofussil services i.e. Interdistrict, intradistrict and interstate, whereas BMTC operates only in urban and suburban areas in the city of Bengaluru. The four STUs put together hold a fleet of about 24,900 buses including 1,520 air-conditioned buses and operate about 71.00 lakh km. per day and carries about 98.00 lakh passengers every single day," Savadi outlined in the letter.

The Minister said due to the COVID-19 outbreak and the lockdown that ensued have brought regular bus operations and functioning to a grinding halt.

"This has caused a devastating impact on the operations of all the four STUs due to the combination of lack of revenue and continuing fixed costs such as salaries and pensions to staff, payables against existing loans etc. It has been estimated that the lockdown has caused a financial loss of INR 1,600/- crore to these four STUs," he added.

Savadi said even after post-COVID lockdown, operations and revenues won't reach its previous demand& supply patterns in the next six to eight months due to reduced economic activity and users' perceived risk of contacting COVID in public transport.

In addition to that, "occupancy should be allowed up to seating capacity (without standees). This is essential to meet minimal demand," he said in the letter.

"The crew should wear facemask and hand gloves. The crew with health issues should not be deployed. The face masks should be made mandatory for all the passengers. Only asymptomatic persons should be allowed to travel in public transport. The Government of India may consider staggering working hours for various sectors to reduce peak hour traffic demand," the minister listed out these recommendations in the letter.

Savadi said that with social distancing norm of reduced seating capacity in public transport, it will not be possible to provide transport facility to all the daily passengers. This will create demand for more buses, which cannot be met.

"Restrictions on public transport will lead to passenger commute by overcrowding in smaller vehicles like cars, maxi cabs, goods tempos etc. which will adversely affect preventive measures," he added.

Therefore, Savadi requested Union Minister to look into the above matter and issue fresh guidelines to all the states / UT's.

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