North America Konkani Sammelan from June 29

June 17, 2012

Edison, June 17: The North American Konkani Association will be organizing a Konkani Sammelan-2012 in Edison, New Jersey, USA from June 29 to July 1 2012.

This three-day extravaganza is attended by Konkanis from all over the world - predominantly from the North American region and India.

Featured speakers and delegates include T. V. Mohandas Pai (ex-CFO of Infosys and chair of Manipal Universal Learning), Padma Vibhushan Shyam Benegal (famous director and winner of numerous awards), Basti Vaman Shenoy (President, World Konkani Center), Ram Mohan (famous director), Mahalaxmi Shenoy (famous classical singer) and Amrita Rao (famous Bollywood actress). Approximately 1600 delegates are expected to attend this Sammelan; its theme is “Connecting Konkanis, Heart to Heart, Home Away from Home”. For more information please visit the website http://www.konkani2012.org

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The Sammelan will be held at NJ Convention Center 97 Sunfield Avenue Edison, NJ 08837. About 2,000 people from U.S., India, Canada, United Kingdom, and other countries are expected to attend.

Hotel Sheraton will have round-the-clock shuttle service to and from the convention center. We are also making additional arrangements for buses and shuttles from Sheraton and other hotels. There are approximately 1500- 2000 parking spaces in and around the convention center. There are four major airports close to the NJ Convention Center.

Some of the special features of this Sammelan are: Seminars and Workshops, Entertainment, Medical Symposium, Awards, Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy, Natak, Sangeet, Talent, Art & Culture, Khel (games), Bhaas(language), Khan-Jyavan(Food), Activities for Children, Indoor sports and so on.

History of Konkani Sammelans in N A:

The Konkani Sammelan is a flagship event for the Konkanis in North America. This biennial event has attracted Konkanis from all across the United States and Canada. The two-and-half day event highlights sumptuous Konkani food, entertainment, seminars, workshops, and much more. Konkani Sammelans have been a toast of the community.

Initiated in 1996, all these Sammelans have been consistently a grand success. What started out as "Kindling the Konkani Spirit" in New Jersey in 1996 grew up to "Nurture Konkani Culture" in California in 1998. The Millennium Sammelan in 2000 in Chicago boosted the Konkani spirits high by “Promoting Konkani Heritage." The 2002 Konkani Sammelan in Houston made us all "Proud to be Konkanis." The 2004 Konkani Sammelan in Southern California certainly did a marvelous job in “Preserving Our Heritage and Promoting Our Youth.” The 2006 Canadian Sammelan helped us in “Remembering Our Past & Looking To Our Future.” The 2008 Sammelan in Santa Clara helped “Awaken the Konkani in us All,” leading to the upcoming 2012 Sammelan in Edison, which will be 'connecting Konkanis, heart to heart, home away from home.”

These Sammelans have fulfilled the goal of preserving the Konkani heritage and communicating its exclusive ancient values to the younger generation. The Konkani youth have risen to this challenge and host separate youth conventions biennially as well. The bond that has developed through these gatherings is everlasting. It never fails to attract and educate GenY in the culture and ethos of their roots and ascendants. These Sammelans have given Konkanis a rare opportunity to reunite, learn from each other, discuss issues of common interest, and launch out into new friendships and renewed lives for the future of a close knit ancient community.

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Pro-CAA arsonists burn down house of their own pro-CAA BJP leader in Delhi. Reason: He’s a Muslim!

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March 2,2020

New Delhi, Mar 2: The bloodthirsty arsonists allegedly hired by pro-CAA politicians in the capital of India to target Muslims, did not spare even the house of a Muslim leader of BJP.

Akhtar Raza, the BJP’s minority cell vice-president for the Delhi Northeast district, is now not in a position to share his pain with anyone.

Even the police hadn’t come to his rescue, when the mob raising “Jai Sri Ram” slogans burnt down his house at Bhagirathi Vihar Nalla Road in northeast Delhi last week.

“They were chanting slogans. Around 7pm, they started throwing stones at us. I called for police help. But the police asked me to leave. We managed to flee before they burnt my house and destroyed everything,” Raza, who returned today to witness the destruction, told media persons.

“Those who attacked us were not locals. They were outsiders. They managed to identify and burn down all the 19 houses belonging to Muslims in this lane,” Raza said.

Apart from all the belongings in the house of Raza, the arsonists also have burnt down six vehicles belonging to his family.

Raza is sad that no one from BJP contacted him after the violence even though he has been serving the party and promoting its ideology for past five years. “No party leader contacted me. There was no phone call. There was no relief or special treatment or anything,” Raza said.

Interestingly, Raza is still indentifies himself as a BJP leader. “I belonged to BJP. I may continue in the party,” he said.

The locality remained tense on Sunday too. On Monday, several groups distributed relief materials among people who had queued up to collect them. In front of Raza’s house is a lane from which several bodies of innocent Muslims have been recovered.

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He deserves it.

How a Muslim and being a leader can accept ideologies of such a hat mongers.

These people with such a ideolgies can never be the friend of not Muslims and also good secular Hindus.

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Udupi: Class 10 student who killed self in quarantine tests negative for covid

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July 8,2020

Udupi, Jul 8: A 15-year-old boy belonging to Saligrama in Udupi district, who was under home quarantine with his mother, allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself yesterday.

His throat swabs were sent for testing. The report received today and it showed that he did not have coronavirus.

The boy, a class ten student studying in Kota, was quarantined along with his mother at home after a person in a family, where she was working as a maid tested positive for Covid-19.

The boy is suspected to have taken the extreme step out of depression as he was not allowed to go out. The last rites were held today.

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With coronavirus cases rising, Karnataka to upgrade three more labs

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March 10,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 10: With concerns growing by the day, the Karnataka government is readying three more labs to test throat swab samples.

Currently, only two labs in Bengaluru — National Institute of Virology and Virus Research and Diagnostics Laboratory (VRDL) lab attached to Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute — are categorised biosafety level 2+, a requirement for coronavirus tests.

Now, the government is working on upgrading three more labs, one each in the government medical colleges at Hassan, Mysuru and Shivamogga. “The labs will be ready within one week,” the authorities said.

Currently, the labs are testing only throat swab samples of suspected patients and taking 24 hours to give the results. “A patient’s blood sample will be collected only if he or she tests positive for covid-19 infection in the first throat swab sample.

While earlier the state would send all samples of suspected coronavirus cases to NIV, Pune, the two labs were upgraded to biosafety level 2+ in mid-February.

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