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Mangaluru woman Razeena among over 200 killed in Sri Lanka terror attacks

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April 21, 2019

Mangaluru, Apr 21: A 58-year-old Mangalurean woman is among the 207 people killed in the eight blasts that rocked Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo on Easter Sunday. 

The victim has been identified as Razeena, wife of Abdul Khader Kukkady, a native of Mangaluru who works as an executive in a firm in Dubai. Razeena was a Keralite before her marriage.  

According to reports, the couple had been to Sri Lanka a week ago on a vacation to meet Razeena’s brother and her other relatives who are in Colombo. The couple were staying in the Shangri-La Hotel in Colombo.

Sources said that Ms. Razeena stayed back in the hotel while Mr. Kukkady left to the airport on Sunday morning to catch a flight to Dubai. He landed in Dubai only to hear the news of the bomb blasts. Immediately he boarded a flight back to Colombo.

Mr. Kukkady is from the Kukkady family that runs the popular Kukkady Stores in Baikampady in Mangaluru. The family had also started Kukkady school, which is now known as the Bertrand Russell School.

Mr. Kukkady settled in Dubai with his wife. They have two children, who are in the U.S.

Steps for flying down the body of Razeena who was killed in a blast at a hotel in Sri Lanka to the State are progressing, the Chief Minister’s office has informed.

In a press communique, the CMO said that the Department of Non-Resident Keralites Affairs is in touch with the relatives of Razeena as well as the Indian High Commissioner’s office in Sri Lanka. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan condoled the death of Razeena.

Mr. Vijayan said that the blasts that occurred on an Easter day point to the communal elements and also underlines the need for freeing countries from the clutch of such elements who nurture intolerance. He condemned the incident and declared solidarity with those involved in a fight against intolerance and communalism.

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Ahmed A.Kulai
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Monday, 22 Apr 2019

Inna Lillahi Wa Inna Ilaihi Rajihoon

 

SR
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Monday, 22 Apr 2019

Inna lillahi wa inna ilahi rajioon "We belong to Allah and to Allah we shall return."

 

 

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February 9,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 9: Senior JD(S) leader and former prime minister H D Deve Gowda has called upon all the regional parties and secular parties to join hands with the Congress and work in tandem to take on the BJP.

Noting that mere speeches would not help, he said the regional and secular parties should enhance their strength politically in the country.

"We all need to join together with Congress and work in tandem with the available strength only then will we be able to stop them (the BJP)," the JD(S) supremo said at a public meeting organised by the party in Hassan district on Saturday.

Gowda cautioned the regional and secular parties against sitting idle watching the developments in the country.

"If the small and regional parties do not exercise the powers given by Dr B R Ambedkar to the country, they (BJP) are going to the extent of finishing them up," he said. Interestingly, the JD(S) patriarch, had in the run-up to the December bypolls to Karnataka assembly said he would not align with the Congress and dubbed it as "not trustworthy."

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January 12,2020

Hubballi, Jan 11: Karnataka Industries Minister Jagadeesh Shatter's mother Basvennamma Shivappa Shetter passed away here on Friday evening.

She was 86. She is survived by three sons and a daughter.

The final rituals was held on Saturday, family sources said.

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July 8,2020

Kasaragod, Jul 8: The meeting of Kasaragod district-level corona control core committee has resolved to make pass mandatory for vehicles to bring vegetables and fruits to Kasaragod from Dakshina Kannada and other parts of Karnataka.

Pass will be issued by RTO. Employees, including the driver of the vehicle, must visit the nearest primary health facility once in seven days and undergo a health check and submit a medical officer's certificate.

District Collector Dr D Sajith Babu, who presided over the meeting, said that only those vegetable and fruit vehicles that produce medical officer's certificate and RTO's passes will be allowed to cross the border.

Meeting, the RTO has decided to convene an emergency meeting of vegetable and fruit merchants.

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