Mohammed Saifuddin Sami re-elected President of KNRI Forum-Jeddah

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July 8, 2018

Jeddah: The 11th annual general body meeting of the Karnataka Non Resident Indian (KNRI) Forum, Jeddah was held at The Village Restaurant, Jeddah on the 29th of June 2018.

Dr Firoz Mullah officially announced the start of AGBM and introduced himself to the audience as host of the event and briefed about the KNRI forum, introduced the guests and entertained the audience with his fluent Kannada language.

Program started with the welcome speech by Mohammed Kaleem Cultural Secretary of the forum, he officially welcomed all the executive committee members, life & regular members, sponsors and guests to the meeting & explained basic objectives of the forum while welcoming.

General Secretary Yashwanth Amin highlighted Annual Report of the forum through 3D animated power point presentation which was featured with Aims, Objectives, Mission, Vision and the Achievements for the year 2017-2018.

He presented detailed information in each category, like education, medical, Swachh Bharat (toilets projects) back home. He was excited to inform about the opening of new Bank Account and getting the Forums Pan Card of forum from the government of India, he also said that KNRI has initiated and registered the KNRIs to get the NRK cards with the help of NRI Forum Karnataka who have issued the NRK cards soft copies. During the presentation video clips of last year’s events were shown specially the memorable Kannada Rajyotsava day 2018 celebrated last year in the month of November and it was applauded by the whole members in the hall.

Mr. Aijaz Ahmed Treasurer presented the financial report through power point presentation and highlighted the receipts & payments, Income & Expenditures details for the year 2017-18 as of March 2018. He also informed about the renewal of the Forum’s certificate as per the State Government of Karnataka Society Act.

Outgoing President Mohammed Saifuddin Sami in his speech, thanked all the executive members for tremendous support, he briefed the activities of the KNRI Forum and explained about the great achievements in his tenure, he requested members to introduce more Kannadigas to the forum and strengthen it. He thanked Life members, Sponsors and regular members for their generous support for the forum and he also thanked the KNRI team in India including Vasu Manchegowda, Syed Shakeel and Harsha for their continuous support extended in Forum’s official works back home, President extended his special thanks with standing ovation to the outgoing General Secretary Yashwanth Amin for his dedicated services to the forum all the time.

Ex-President Krish Jangal was felicitated during the event for his services towards the forum and was presented with memento as a token of appreciation, Krish Jangal said in his farewell speech as he is transferred to Riyadh and leaving Jeddah shortly, it was a pleasant journey being connected with KNRI Forum since its inception. He wished new committee to take the forum in higher level under the new president ship.

Dignitaries and sponsors were presented with flower bouquets as a token of appreciation.

Jalal Baig officially delivered the vote of thanks, he thanked outgoing President, distinguished Guests, valued Sponsors, Life members, and he expressed deep sense of appreciation towards the outgoing executive committee for their hard work, he also thanked the presentation team headed by Mohamed Arifulla Shariff for his professional & deck perfect presentation.

New office bearers for 2018-2019

As a second part of the event Shaikh Saoud and Dr. Ashfaque Maniyar conducted the election to elect the new executive committee, explained the bye laws & election procedure. They inducted four new members to the executive committee and two as standby members from different parts of Karnataka namely Movin Rego, Mohammed Faizal, Shadab Desai, Asif Roshan, Lukhman Ali Khan & Shaikh javed.

Mohammed Saifuddin Sami elected unanimously for the second term as President. The new team under him is, vice Presidents Dadapeer Hayath & Mohammed Arifullah Shariff, Peter Mascarenhas General Secretary, Jalal Baig as Joint Secretary, Aijaz Ahmed as Treasurer, Nazeer Ahmed as Joint Treasurer, Altaf Almelker as Meeting Coordinator, Asif Momin as Sports Secretary, Asif Roshan as Joint Sport Secretary, Mohammed Kaleem as Cultural Secretary, Rajesh Suvarna as Joint Cultural Secretary, Mahboob Ali Khan as Press Secretary, Dr. Firoz Mulla, Faizee Razak and Mohammed Faisal as Membership drive Coordinators, Suresh Babu – IT Coordinator.

Executive Committee Members elected were, Yashwanth Amin, Mohammed Mansour, Syed Kowsain Pasha, Syed Nasir Khursheed, Mohammed Saleem Khalifa, Mohammed Ilyas Momin, Ashfaque Maniyar, Shaikh Saoud, Mukarram Khan, Mohammed Saheb, Habeeb Rahaman, Manzour Ahmed, Movin Rego, Shadab Desai, Mohammed Faizal & Asif Roshan.

Mr. Mohammed Saifuddin Sami expressed his happiness and gratitude in his speech after elected as President, he thanked all the members for showing confidence in him once again and he will continue to put all his efforts with the dedicated support from the new team to take the KNRI Forum, Jeddah to further higher levels.

The newly elected General Secretary Peter Mascarenhas while speaking thanked all the executive committee for giving chance to work as Gen Secretary, he said he will do his best to support the team as a Gen secretary.

Syed Nasir Khursheed the outgoing Vice President congratulated the President & the new team.

Dadapeer Hayat & Mohammed Arifulla Shariff thanked all members for electing them as Vice Presidents, while speaking Dada Peer said our team has enough talent and they are passionate towards social works.

Newly inducted Executive members expressed their happiness to be part of KNRI family, they said for the past 1-2 years they were watching the community activities of the Forum which inspired them to join the forum to extend their support for the benefit of the community through KNRI and they said we feel overwhelmed due to warm welcome from the senior members of the Forum.

As a part of entertainment segment Mohammed Kaleem, Altaf Almelkar and Mohammed Saifuddin Sami sung all-time favorite Kannada patriotic songs, melodious Kannada and Hindi Songs. Program concluded with delicious dinner served by The Village Restaurant followed by photos session.

Mukkaram Khan delivered the vote of thanks in which he expressed deep sense of appreciation towards all the members for attending this event and making it successful and thanked everyone separately, also thanked those who helped the forum directly or indirectly.

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Dear Sir,

A serious attention is needed to fix the website. People are not able register online.

http://www.nriforumkarnataka.org/registration2/register_new_2.0.php

It shows name of states/regions while selecting the country. I had earlier sent an email to key contacts mentioned in the website, but unfortunately mail was returned.

Very funny part is Saudi Arabia's name is not listed & many spelling mistakes, very unprofessional website. I think it was created by those who does not know anything about the world.

A serious attention is required NRI officials from Saudi Arabia

Congratulations KNRI FORUM JEDDAH..

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Dakshina Kannada records record spike of 183 covid cases, 2 deaths

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July 8,2020

Mangaluru, July 8: Dakshina Kannada on Wednesday recorded its highest single-day spike in Covid-19 cases with 183 cases reported in the district, while Udupi reported 31 new cases.

DK also recorded two more fatalities – both patients with co-morbid conditions — taking the total death toll in the district to 28. Udupi has recorded three Covid-19 deaths.

The fresh spike saw total positive cases in DK shoot up to 1,542 and active cases to 819. As many as 12 patients were discharged from hospital on Wednesday. The positivity rate in the district now stands at 0.07 %. Health authorities as on date have received 22,181 samples and 20,153 out of 21,695 samples tested have turned out negative.

MLA’s gunman tests positive

The gunman assigned to former minister U T Khader tested positive on Wednesday and three others who were with him in the escort vehicle have been quarantined, said city police commissioner Vikash Kumar Vikash. A section of police commissioner’s office was shut for sanitisation as per protocol after staff working there were treated as primary contacts. The office per se has not been sealed contrary to ‘reports’ doing rounds in social media, he said.

Deputy commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh said the district reported two deaths — one late on Tuesday and the other during the day. The victims are a 57-year-old man and 32-year-old youth. Two of the 183 cases were secondary contacts, 25 were cases of influenza like illness, four cases of SARI, one a case of inter district travel, two with interstate travel, five with international travel history, 22 random samples and five pre-surgery samples.

Udupi district recorded 31 new cases taking the total positive cases recorded as on date to 1,421. Discharge of 1,189 patients meant that Udupi has 229 active cases.

Meanwhile, Kota Shrinivas Poojari, minister for fisheries on Wednesday inaugurated the Covid-19 lab at district hospital in Udupi. Karkala MLA Sunil Kumar inaugurated ambulance monitoring system to ensure expeditious transfer of infected patients to designated treatment centres.

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PE firms, IT Dept get clean chit in CCD founder Siddhartha's suicide case

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July 25,2020

New Delhi, Jul 25: Nearly a year after Cafe Coffee Day founder V.G. Siddhartha's death, the probe committee appointed by the Board of Coffee Day Enterprises Ltd (CDEL) has given a virtual clean chit to private equity investors and the Income Tax Department who were named in his last letter.
The investigation report noted that Siddhartha may have felt "aversive behavioural stimulus" due to persistent reminders from the PE investors and other lenders.

"However, such reminders and follow-ups by the PE investors and lenders are not something which are beyond normal industry practices and we believe that PE investors were acting as per accepted legal and business norms," said that report.

It further said that the investigators were not provided with any documentary evidence to show any "advertent or inadvertent harassment" from the Income Tax Department.

It however, said that the financial records suggest a serious liquidity crunch which may have arisen due to the attachment of Mindtree shares by the IT Department.

Further, the probe revealed that MACEL, a private firm of Siddhartha, owes Rs 2,693 crore to Coffee Day Enterprises, which the report says, "needs to be addressed".

The Cafe Coffee Day founder's body was fished out of the Netravathi river in Karnataka by a group of fishermen on July 31 last year, a day after he went missing.

His last note raised several questions about the role of investors, and tax officials.

He had written: "Tremendous pressure from other lenders lead to me succumbing to the situation. There was a lot of harassment from the previous DG Income Tax in the form of attaching our shares on two separate occasions to block our Mindtree deal and then taking possession of our Coffee Day shares, although the revised returns have been filed by us. This was very unfair and has led to a serious liquidity crunch."

The massive shock to the industry and the country also led the government to assure that tax officials would not harass businessmen and the situation would improve.

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VBM repatriation flight from Dammam lands in Mangaluru

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June 21,2020

Mangaluru, June 21: The first ever repatriation flight from Saudi Arabia’s Dammam Karnataka’s Mangaluru under Vande Bharat Mission (VBM) today brought home around 165 stranded passengers.

The IndiGo flight took off from Dammam International Airport at 11 a.m. (Saudi time) and landed at Mangaluru International Airport at 6:30 p.m.

The stranded passengers included pregnant women, senior citizens and those who are in need of emergency medical treatment are on board.

The passengers were screened at the Airport before being despatched for institutional quarantine in special buses.

Even though a few charter flights arranged by a couple of NRI entrepreneurs have already repatriated hundreds of stranded people from Dammam to Mangaluru, the government of India had not operated any repatriation flight under VBM on this sector so far.

Saudi Kannadigas Humanity Forum (SKHF), an NGO which came into existence to help the stranded Kannadigas in Saudi Arabia during covid-19 lockdown had been successful in persuading the government of India operate a flight on Dammam-Mangaluru sector under VBM.

SKHF has also set up an online portal for those who were in need of emergency repatriation. In today’s flight around 100 passengers have obtained seats through SKHF.

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Sir i also want to travel india lucknow from saudi arabia dammam and i already issued exit visa by my company but my company tell me you buy tickets and go after that i ask to someone travel agents for booking but they says currently not open booking after that i told my company's about that all situations but they didn't take any action so please sir give me authentic information how to book a flight ticket thank you.