11-year-old Puttur boy memorizes Quran in eight months

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April 7, 2012

Mangalore, April 7: An 11-year-old boy from Puttur has completed memorizing Qur'an in just eight months, much to the delight of his parents and the Ustad.

Abdunnasir, joined the newly set up Jalaluddin Maula Bukhari Hifzul Qur'an College last June and through sheer determination and hard work has outclassed his 10 other classmates.

“We have a special method of teaching memorizing skills. But this boy stood out from the rest because of his application and dedication,” says Hafiz Aslam, the Ustad at the college, which has its premises on the Zeenath Baksh Jumma Masjid in Bunder.

11-year-old Abdunnasir is the second of the four children of Ahmed and Maimuna, a couple living in Salmara in Puttur. He has a elder sister who is studying in eighth standard in Salmara school. He has two younger brothers who are nine and four years old.

Ahmed has been working as a Mu'allim at the Madrasa in Syed Male Jumma Masjid in Salmara for the past 14 years. When asked about what inspired him to put his children in the Hifzul Qur'an college, Mr. Ahmed says: “I can't tell you why. It is just for the Mohabbat (love) I have towards Qur'an.” Ashraf is a man of few words and would not like to get into more details about the talent of the boy. “Just pray for him,” he says.

On the other hand, Ustad Aslam is happy that his student has been able to draw the attention of the general public towards the Hifzul Qur'an college.

“Abdunnasir joined us after completing his sixth standard in his hometown. In all we have 11 children studying in our college. We make sure that all children focus on the memorizing tasks without getting distracted by games and fun. Probably, Abdunnasir was more studious than the rest,” he says.

Abdunnasir's feat, however, has not taken Ustad Alam by surprise. “He may have been good at memorizing that his classmates here. But in Calicut Darul Qur'an school, where I used to teach earlier, we have children who have accomplished the task in less than five months. We follow a unique method of teaching to enable them to memorize the surah's,” he says.

About the other students, he said, they are all doing good. “Some have completed 20 parts (Juz) and few others have competed 13 to 14 parts,” he says.

Mangalore Khazi Al-haj Twaqa Ahmed Musliyar and chairman of Zeenath Baksh Jumma Masjid Y. Abdulla Kunhi on Thursday felicitated the boy on his rare achievement.

Haji S.M. Rashid, trustees Haji Syed Ahmed Basha Thangal, Haji Mohammed Haneef, teacher Hafiz Mohammed Aslam, among others, were present.

The college will admit new students for the next academic year which starts in May. The interested can apply by the end of April, Haji S.M. Rashid said in a press release.

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March 16,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 16: Stepping up measures to curb spread of coronavirus in the state, the Karnataka government would start thermal screening of visitors at various places including the vidhana soudha, high court, secretariat, and city civil courts, from Tuesday.

In view of coronavirus scare, screening of visitors has already begun at Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa's residence at Dollar's Colony in the city.

A medical team has been deployed for the purpose, sources close to the CM told PTI. Medical screening of passengers arriving at the Kempegowda International Airport here was underway. So far seven people have been tested positive in the state while one of them died due to COVID-19 in Kalaburagi.

The Department of Health and Family Welfare said the procurement of equipment such as scanners would be completed by Monday.

"The procurement of scanners, other supplies, deputation of staff nurses and trainingshall be held and completed on March 16, Monday itself on war footing basissetting aside other works," Commissioner of Health and Family Welfare department, Pankaj Kumar Pandey said in his order to district level health officers.

The KarnatakaState Drugs Logistics and Warehousing Society (KSDLWS) would procure and give the thermal scanners to the district health and family welfare officers of Bengaluru Urban, Kalaburagi, Dharwad, it said. Sufficient virus filtering N95 masks, handgloves and sanitisers would also be provided to the officers, it added.

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May 19,2020

Mumbai, May 19: Even as banks in United Arab Emirates are trying to trace NMC founder BR Shetty, a prominent bank in India is seeking to recover loans worth Rs19.13 billion from him and his companies. 

A local court has also barred him and his wife from selling or transferring some properties while it hears the case.

In the court filing, the Bank of Baroda said Shetty had an obligation to handover the title deeds of the 16 properties and mortgage the assets with the bank.

The 16 properties in several Indian cities including Bengaluru were among guarantees put up by Shetty and his wife against the Rs19.13 billion ($253 million) loans, according to a May 16 court order seen by Reuters. The court in Bengalaru set the next hearing in the case for June 8.

NMC, the largest private healthcare provider in the UAE, was placed under administration in April after months of turmoil. It disclosed in March it had debts of $6.6 billion, well above earlier estimates of $2.1 billion.

Finablr, in which Shetty has a controlling stake, said in April it may have nearly $1 billion more in debt than previously reported.

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May 3,2020

Dubai, May 3: Over 150,000 Indians in the UAE, who wish to return home amid the coronavirus lockdown, have applied through the online registration process to the Indian missions here, according to media reports.

The Indian missions in the country last week opened online registration for the expatriates who wish to fly back home after getting stuck in the country amidst the lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.

As of 6 pm on Saturday, we received more than 150,000 registrations, Consul General of India in Dubai Vipul told the Gulf News on Saturday.

A quarter of them want to return to their homeland after losing their jobs, he said.

According to a report in the Khaleej Times on Sunday, about 40 per cent of the applicants who have registered are blue-collared workers and 20 per cent are working professionals.

"Roughly 20 per cent have suffered job losses and about 55 per cent of the total applicants are from Kerala," Neeraj Aggarwal, Consul, Press, Information, Culture was quoted as saying in the report.

Aggarwal said that the figures would change as they are expecting registrations from workers from other states, including Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar.

About 10 per cent of the applicants are visit and tourist visa holders who got stranded here due to the ongoing lockdown in India.

India extended the ongoing lockdown by two weeks from May 4 to contain the spread of the coronavirus that has affected nearly 40,000 people in the country.

Aggarwal said that a small number of the applications constitute those from pregnant women and other medical cases.

Since the online registration process was launched, the Consulate's website crashed several times due to the heavy rush of applicants wishing to register to fly back home.

The site has been working fine now though it took a lot of time for it to stabilise in the initial phase due to the heavy traffic, the counsel general said.

He said that the missions here have not yet received any information from the Indian government about the mode of transport of the stranded citizens, the prices of the tickets or how the COVID-19 test results of applicants would be assessed for their journey.

There are high-level discussions going on regarding these things, he said in the report.

Meanwhile, Norka (The Non Resident Keralites Affairs) said it has received a total of 398,000 applications from Keralites across the globe who wish to return home.

"Of which, the highest numbers are from the UAE. At least 175,423 applicants have signed up from the UAE," Norka said in an official statement on Saturday.

It also received 54,305 registrations from Saudi Arabia, 2,437 from the UK, 2,255 from the US, and 1,958 from Ukraine from those who wish to return to India, the Khaleej Times reported.

The coronavirus has infected 13,599 people and claimed 119 lives in the UAE, the Ministry of Health and Prevention said on Saturday.

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