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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April 23,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 22: Former Chief Minister and the Opposition Leader in the Karnataka Assembly Siddaramaiah appealed the state government not to discriminate the poor on political lines while distributing relief package to the COVID-19 affected people in the state.

He was speaking to newsmen after attending a grocery kits distribution programme, organised in Jayanagar Assembly constituency, which was represented by the Congress MLA and former minister Ramalinga Reddy.

Charging that there are complaints about the state government in discriminating the Congress MLAs represented constituencies in providing relief kits to distribute among the poorer sections in the society, he said that “there should not be no room for politics, while fighting the COVID-19 disease”.

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August 7,2020

Bengaluru, Aug 7: Amid the rising number of COVID-19 cases in Karnataka, the state's health department issued fresh guidelines for the disposal of bodies of COVID patients.

"Although an increased risk of COVID infection from a dead body to health workers or family members who follow standard precautions while handling the body is unlikely, the lack of scientific data requires the utmost care to avoid the inadvertent spread of COVID-19 during these times," the statement from the health department's press release read, emphasising on the dignity of the dead and the religious and cultural tradition.

The 23-page press release elaborated on guidelines regarding testing, handling of dead bodies and other specificities in relation to the management of COVID-19 bodies.

"Testing should not be insisted in every case of death, but only when they have a recorded history of influenza-like symptoms. The body should be handed over to the family members/ relatives in a dignified manner immediately after swab collection and hospitals should provide handouts with a list of dos and don'ts in English and Kannada laying down relevant information," the statement said.

It added, "At the mortuary, health care workers, mortuary staff and the family of the deceased body shall not come in direct contact with the dead body and must wear full personal protective equipment (PPE). If the family or relative are for any reason unable to cremate or bury the body, the local health authority shall arrange for the dignified last rites as per the religious traditions of the family."

Regarding autopsies (post mortem) on COVID-19 bodies, the state department said that they should be avoided, except in necessary circumstances.

The statement also gave detailed guidelines regarding the appropriate recording of COVID-19 deaths in line with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) guidelines.

Additionally, the health department made a statement about the admission procedure for COVID positive patients referred by other district administrations saying, "It is now mandatory for all the referrals from the BBMP admission and discharge of COVID positive patients to be done through the online COVID Hospital Bed Management System (CHBMS)."

The state's count of coronavirus cases was 1,51,449 in the past 24 hours.

So far, a total of 2,804 people have died due to COVID-19 in the state, while the average recovery rate in Karnataka is 49.3 per cent.

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May 23,2020

Bengaluru, May 23: SSLC and PUC students residing in containment zones will not be able to write the exams scheduled to be held in June and July, respectively, but will be given opportunity to write the supplementary examination and treated as fresh candidates.

Primary and Secondary Education Minister S. Suresh Kumar announced this at a press conference on Friday.

In turn, officials in the Department of Primary and Secondary Education will start collecting the list of students in containment zones. However, they are worried since the list of containment zones is dynamic and a particular locality can be declared a containment zone even the night before the examination.

“If any examination centre is located in the containment zone, then we can change the centre and move it to a non-containment zone. However, if a student resides in a zone that is declared containment zone just before the exam, there is no option but for the person to skip the exam,” an official said.

Officials of the department are worried about another scenario as well. “There is a chance that midway through the examination, an area is becomes a containment zone. Then some students may write a few papers and give the rest a miss. Implementation at the district- and block-levels will be a challenge,” said an official.

Sources said that the department is working out several situations that may arise and trying to work on providing practical solutions to the students.

Around 5.98 lakh students have registered for the second pre-university English examination that is scheduled to be held on June 18. As many as 8.48 lakh students have registered for the SSLC examination scheduled to be held between June 25 and 4 July. Currently, there are 261 containment zones in Karnataka that have 5.49 lakh people residing in these zones.

Meanwhile, the Karnataka Secondary Education and Examination Board has decided to ensure that only 18 students are seated in a classroom to write the SSLC examination. This is to ensure that social distancing is maintained in the exam hall.

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