Bearys Cultural Forum hosts educational scholarship meet in Mangalore

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August 26, 2012

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Mangalore, August 26: Bearys Cultural Forum (BCF), UAE, hosted an educational scholarship meet at Loyola Hall, St Aloysius P.U. College, in the city on Sunday.

Approximately Rs 22 lakh was distributed among more than 450 students as scholarship to pursue professional courses and graduation irrespective of their caste and religion.

Dr M Shantharam Shetty, Vice Chancellor of Nitte University, addressing the gathering said that the majority of students studying in colleges were girls. This is clearly a sign of social change, and shows the motivation in those students, he said.

Stressing the importance of educating women for the development of society, he said that providing education to a girl was equivalent to educating an entire family. Commending the work of BCF, he said that people of all communities living abroad should come up with similar kind of scholarship initiatives to assist in the education of economically backward students in the country.

Y Abdullah Kunhi, Vice Chancellor of Yenepoya University, expressed his happiness on the occasion that the Muslim community and especially Bearys had realised the importance of education which opened up an avenue of opportunities for the young minds.

Speaking on the occasion, N Yogish Bhat, Deputy Speaker of Legislative Assembly, said that education was the best gift to the society. It changes the way of life, and helps one to lead a self-reliant one, he said.

Ramanath Rai, MLA from Bantwal, said that it was a good sign that all communities had taken initiative to provide scholarships to deserving students and were giving preference to education.

B.K. Yusuf, President of BCF, said in his presidential speech that promoting education and developing the society by encouraging education was a noble deed. Education was the key to success, he said.

On the occasion, Pravin Shetty, Chairman of UAE-based Fortune Group of Hotels, was felicitated by BCF, along with Sayed Mohammed Beary, Chairman of Beary Educational Trust.

Gulzar Banu, Mayor of Mangalore, also spoke at the programme.

U T Khader, Mangalore MLA, M B Abdul Rahman, former president of Beary Sahitya Academy, Abdussalam Puthige, Editor-in-chief of 'Varthabharathi' Kannada daily, Dr. Kaup Mohammed, General Secretary of BCF and M E Moolur, Chairman of BCF Scholarship Committee, were present. B.M. Mumtaz Ali, Patron of BCF, welcomed the gathering.

A career guidance seminar was held earlier in the day for students at the same venue.

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As per the reports, Mubiena along with two others were travelling to Somavarpet from Bengaluru. Their car collided with a tractor, which was taking a U-turn, they were immediately rushed to the Adichunchanagiri Medical College hospital.

Later, the injured were shifted to a private hospital in Bengaluru for further treatment and Mebina died on the way, while the two are are battling for lives with serious injuries. A case has been filed at Bellur police station.

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Bengaluru, Jul 18: Veteran actor Hulivana Gangadharaiah has passed away due to novel Coronavirus at the age of 70 on Friday night at a private hospital. He has acted in films, plays and serials as well.

He was acting in the romantic serial Premaloka which has Vijay Suriya and Ankitha Navya Gowda in lead roles.

According to reports, after he showed the symptoms of having Coronavirus, he got self-isolated at his farm house. When his health condition deteriorated, he was admitted to the hospital. Gangadhariah has acted in over 100 films, 150 plays and many serials lived his life in a simple way.

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Hubli, Feb 25: A Hubli court in Karnataka has sent to police custody till February 28 three students from Jammu and Kashmir, who were booked under sedition charges for raising pro-Pakistan slogan in a video shared on social media.

A second Joint Magistrate First Class (JMFC) court on Monday sent the three students, identified as Basit Ashik Sophi (19), Talib Majid (19) and Amir Mohiuddin (23), to police custody till February 28 for questioning in the matter.

The court directed the police to make the accused undergo a medical evaluation before the interrogation and produce the medical certificates in the court before the next hearing.

The three students were last week transferred to Belgaum Hindalga jail from Hubli sub-jail and the case, registered in Gokul Road police station, was also transferred to the rural police station because the video was recorded in the college hostel room which is in the latter's jurisdiction.

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