Royston Prabhu is new president of KWAR

[email protected] (Shodhan Prasad)
June 1, 2012

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Riyadh, June 1: As many as 250 took part in the Karavali Koota, the fifth annual general meeting of Karavali Welfare Association, Riyadh (KWAR) was held here recently.

The day-long programme began with versatile Parvez Ali welcoming the members and guests. President Ramesh Shetty spoke about the Association and thanked all his executive members and office-bearers for the great efforts and cooperation extended during the entire year in all KWAR activities.

General Secretary Rajesh Kumar presented a Powerpoint programme highlighting the objectives and achievements of KWAR and spoke in detail of all the activities carried out during the year by way of charity, donations and plans for the future. He also stressed the importance of KWAR motto ‘Unity is our Strength’. Treasurer Jayanth Salian read the financial report of the year giving complete details with transparency.

KWAR's existing committee was dissolved and a new 43-member committee was formed which included several new faces. Fresh elections to the new office-bearers were conducted. Election officials founder president Vijay Rai and Nazeer Ahmed conducted the elections for 2012-13.

The proposal in favour of Royston Prabhu as new president went unopposed and he was unanimously elected president of KWAR for 2012-13. Parvez Ali was elected vice president, also unanimously. He gracefully accepted the decision of the members.

Muzzaffar Ali who has always been a strong supporter and member of KWAR in all its activities became the natural choice for the post of general secretary. Many members voluntarily came forward to offer their time and services to the cause of KWAR.

The association feels encouraged that this understanding among members will take it to greater heights. Bhaskar Salian was chosen sports secretary and Eric D'Sa cultural secretary.

Spot games, tombola and a skit formed part of the programme. The highlight of the day was the ‘Halli Cricket’ tournament which became an instant success with 8 teams participating. The winners were ‘Jolly Cricketers’ and runners-up ‘SCFC’. Trophy was handed over by new president Royston Prabhu.

The women's wing headed by team leaders Ms Jayanth Salian, Ms Suresh Suvarna and Ms Rajesh Rao in their own way kept the children busy with different activities and games. As promised by KWAR, a donation of Saudi Riyals 2000 was handed over to Naushad of ‘India Fraternity Forum’ by former president Ramesh Shetty. IFF is spearheading a legal battle to get released one Ayoub, who has been wrongfully jailed in Jeddah.

Office-bearers who took oath for 2012-13:

President - Royston Prabhu

Vice president - Parvez Ali

Gen secretary - Muzaffar Ali

Joint secretary - Mahesh Hegde

Treasurer - Rajesh Kumar

Joint treasurer - Hriday Jain

Public relations officer - Santosh Shetty

Internal auditor - Nelson Dsouza

Cultural secretary -Eric Dsa / Edmund Lewis

Sports secretary - Bhaskar Salian / Nazeer Ahmed

Coordinators - Suresh Suvarna / Uday Rodrigues

Advisers - Vijai Rai / Ramesh Shetty

Committee members for 2012-13:

Alfred Fernandes, Arun D’Sa, Arun D’Souza, Austin Menezes, Azeez Bankal, Bhasker Karkala, Bhasker P M, Chandran Poojary, Godwin Mendonca, Hameed Nazeer, Abdul Hameed Wenz, Haneef Panambur, Hussain Shafi, Jagannath Kotian, Jayant Salian, Manoj Mascarenas, Prakash Shetty, Prasanna Rao, Rafi Ali, Rajeev Kamath, Rajesh Rao, Samiullah Khan, Sathish Amin, Shaikh G.K, Shashidar Haridas, Staney Cardoza, Victor Menezes and Yathiraj.

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Annual General Body Meeting of KWAR


May 25, 2012, Riyadh: Karavali Welfare Association, Riyadh (KWAR) held its 5th Annual General Body Meeting on Friday the 25th of May 2012 under the theme “Karavali Koota”. It came as a surprise to the organizers to have a gathering of over 250 people.

It was a whole day programme for all members and their families which began at 9am with breakfast followed by lunch and snacks.

The proceedings began with the versatile Mr. Parvez Ali who welcomed all the members and guests. The President, Mr. Ramesh Shetty spoke about the Association and thanked all his executive members and office bearers for the great efforts and cooperation extended during the entire year in all KWAR activities. General Secretary Mr. Rajesh Kumar presented a Power Point programme highlighting the objectives and achievements of KWAR and spoke in detail of all the activities carried out during the year regarding charity, donations and plans for the future. He also stressed the importance of KWAR motto ‘Unity is our Strength’. Mr. Jayanth Salian, Treasurer, read the financial report of the year giving complete details and transparency.

KWAR committee was dissolved and a 43 member new committee was formed which included several new faces. Fresh elections to the new office bearers were conducted. Election Commissioners, Mr. Vijay Rai, founder President assisted by Mr. Nazeer Ahmed conducted the elections for the current year 2012-13.

The proposal of Mr. Royston Prabhu as new President went unopposed and he was unanimously elected President of KWAR for the year 2012-13. It was the turn to elect the Vice President and the entire gathering with a thunderous applause had only one name that was of Mr. Parvez Ali. He gracefully accepted the decision of the members. Mr. Muzzaffar Ali who has always been a strong supporter and member of KWAR in all its activities became the natural choice as General Secretary. It could be noticed from the gathering the enthusiasm and willingness to participate. Many members voluntarily came forward to offer their time and services to the cause of KWAR. The association feels encouraged that this understanding among members will take it to greater heights. Popular portfolios such as Sports were bagged by Bhaskar Salian, and Eric Dsa was elected as Cultural Secretary.

After Lunch various cultural activities were held such as Spot Games, Housie and a Skit by Mr. Eric Dsa and team. The highlight of the day was the ‘Halli Cricket’ tournament which became an instant success with 8 teams participating. The winners were ‘Jolly Cricketers’ and runners up ‘SCFC’. Trophy was handed over by the newly elected President Mr. Royston Prabhu.


The ladies wing headed by team leaders Mrs. Jayanth Salian, Mrs. Suresh Suvarna, Mrs. Rajesh Rao had in their own way kept the children busy with different activities and games.

As promised by KWAR, a donation of SR 2000/- was handed over to Mr. Naushad of ‘India Fraternity Forum’ by Ex-President Ramesh Shetty. IFF is spearheading a legal battle to release Mr. Ayoub who has been wrongfully jailed in Jeddah.


The newly elected office bearers and committee members were formally inaugurated at a dinner function held at Bharath Restaurant on 29th of May.



Office Bearers who took oath for the year 2012-13


1

President

Royston Prabhu

2

Vice President

Parvez Ali

3

Gen Secretary

Muzaffar Ali

4

Joint Secretary

Mahesh Hegde

5

Treasurer

Rajesh Kumar

6

Joint Treasurer

Hriday Jain

7

Public Relations Officer

Santosh Shetty

8

Internal Auditor

Nelson Dsouza

9

Cultural Secretary

Eric Dsa / Edmund Lewis

10

Sports Secretary

Bhaskar Salian / Nazeer Ahmed

11

Coordinators

Suresh Suvarna / Uday Rodrigues

12

Advisors

Vijai Rai / Ramesh Shetty

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Agencies
August 8,2020

Dubai, Aug 7: One may call it good luck, but for two Indian expats it was God who prevented them at the last minute from boarding the Air India Express plane that crashed in Kerala, killing at least 18 people on board.

According to India's Civil Aviation Ministry, the Boeing 737 aircraft on a flight from Dubai to Kozhikode overshot the runway at Kozhikode airport on Friday evening. There were 184 passengers including 10 infants, 2 pilots and four cabin crew onboard the aircraft.

Noufal Moin Vetten, an Ajman resident working as an office boy in a Sharjah school, was booked to travel on the flight and had checked in as per schedule.

Recounting his miraculous escape, Vetten, a resident of Malappuram, Thirunavaya, whose visa was cancelled a week ago, told Gulf News: “I was handed my boarding pass, but when I reached immigration, they told me I had to pay a fine of Dh 1,000 (Rs 20,430) for overstay. I had only Dh 500 (Rs10,215) with me.

"I called my school PRO and he told me to come back. He said they would follow protocols and pay the fines before sending me,“ he said.

Vetten was disappointed and called his family to let them know.

“When I heard about the crash, I was saddened for all the passengers. But I'm so relieved I missed it. God has been really merciful,” said Vetten.

Afsal Parrakodan, a resident of Abu Dhabi, had a similar stroke of luck.

“My work visa was cancelled about a week ago. After getting my boarding pass, I was told I had to pay a fine of Dh1,000 at the immigration counter, but I had only Dh500 on me.”

“I was very keen to board the flight and be with my family. So I called a friend who brought me the additional Dh500, but by then, my baggage had been offloaded and the flight's doors were closed,” said Parrakodan.

“I was feeling very sad and called my mother to tell her I had missed the flight. But a few hours later, when I learnt of the crash, I couldn’t help but feel relieved and thankful to God for saving my life,“ said an overwhelmed Parrakodan who plans to fly back next week. 

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Media Release
February 7,2020

Global Toastmasters Club conducted Youth Leadership Program (GTC YLP– 2020), which  culminated with an extraordinary show at the Grand Finale in Puli Restaurant, Jubail, Saudi Arabia on Friday, January 31, 2020.

Toastmaster Mohammed Abul Khasim, who hails from Karnataka, Gulbarga was the Chief Coordinator for this Youth leadership program YLP, In this 10 weeks intensively focused program, the young future Leaders in the age group 13 to 15 were given quality coaching on Public Speaking, Listening, Writing, Evaluating and Life Skills, under the able guidance of Chief Coordinator.

The keynote speaker at the event was well-known veteran distinguish Toastmaster Dr R J George who motivated everyone to speak the language of love, removing all boundaries and barriers and invest on spending quality time together.

The performances of Youth Leaders were extraordinary and flawless and it was witness by top prominent figures of Jubail toastmaster fraternity likes of DTM Jamil Akhter,TM Nasiruddin Ansari, DTM Oomen Thomas, MTM Sair Oomen, DTM Hareesh, TM Amitab Serna, DTM Kotesh, MTM Shanti Rekha, DTM Suresh Kumar, TM Imtiyaz Khan, TM Asif Ali khan, MTM Farha Naved,TM Naved Hussain, Madam Sheeba, Dr Saleem Khan,TM Ashik Nazeer and TM Suhail Rais Khan. GTC YLP team thanks the Guest of Honor Mr. Abdul Majeed the Managing Director of Universal Inspection Company for sparing the valuable time as one of the sponsor of the event.

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During the span of 10 weeks, more than 40 senior member of Jubail Toastmasters fraternity contributed to the success of this program as one to one mentors, Workshop Presenters and Assistant Coordinators. DTM Uzma Siddiqui, DTM Aziz Ahmed Siddiqui, DTM Safare Mohammed, DTM N V Arasu and DTM Jeyasankar and DTM Asif Ali Siddiqui, led the team of Toastmasters as overall Program Advisors, MTM Samina Mazher was chief judge for the event.

The grand finale saw four absorbing contests in Table Topics, Evaluation Speech, International Speech and Debate conducted by YL Ayesha Safare, YL Sai Pranav, YL Mohammed Saad and YL Fawaz Kannan respectively and YL Jaweriya conducted the banner parade.
Maliaka Maryam won the first prize in International Speech, while the second and third were earned by Mohammed Saad and Mohammed Umair. The Table topic contest was won by Ahmed Khan, where Jayveer Prajapati and Fawaz Kannan stood second and third respectively.

Sreena Nanda Kumar won evaluation Speech Contest, while Mohammed Sufyan and Sai Pranav stood second and third respectively. In Debate contest the team speaking against the topic represented by Hasib Javid, Muzaffer Shaik and Nabil Bin Tasnim stood first and runner team was represented by Sarah Nasir, Fathima Badruddin and Shanum Rabia . Hasib Javid was declared the best debate speaker.

The first term President Sarah Nasir and second term President Mohammed Ahmed Khan started the program with their presidential addresses after the Surah recitation by Nabil BinTasnim. YL Jumana Jaffer & YL Arman Raiq Siraj hosted the finale as Master of ceremonies. Immedate past Youth leaders and assistance Coordinators and workshop presenters Jaweriya Mariyam and Ayesha Safare conducted the award ceremony, while DTM Safare Mohammed handled contest operations.

Global Toastmasters President DTM Khalid Siddiqui and YLP Chief Coordinator TM Mohammed Abul Khasim thanked all Youth Leaders, Parents Sponsors and Toastmasters for their contribution in making the program successful. 

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April 19,2020

Indian Overseas Congress (IOC) Chaiman Dr Sam Pitroda held video conference with senior IOC office bearers across Middle Eastern countries on 14th April 2020 to review the impact of COVID-19 pandemic among Indians residing in the region. Almost all speakers appreciated the efforts initiated and  implemented by  respective governments to contain spread of the deadly virus as well as measures taken towards welfare of the people affected by the lockdown. 

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