A glittering ‘Panorama get-together-2012’ held in Riyadh

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October 19, 2012

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Riyadh, October 19: A vivid and gleaming ‘Panorama get-together-2012’ was held over the last weekend at Al-Rushd Istirah (humorously known as ‘Mangalore Istirah’) in Riyadh, capital city of Saudi Arabia. The gathering comprised of huge throng mostly from Mangalore and other parts of India and foreign countries residing in different corners of the oil-rich Kingdom. Panorama (Padubidrians) Riyadh Unit had organised the gala impressively by giving a colourful and unique touch.

Panorama, a non-profit and voluntary organisation, which is consisted of around sixty young men from Padubidri in Udupi District of Karnataka State, came into existence in the Central Province and Eastern province of Saudi Arabia in 2006 with the objective of building a new school by replacing the old dilapidated (Urdu School) school and also to catering the educational facilities in the premises in order to facilitate the people in the region.

The Urdu primary school has been existing since about a century at Padubidri. Many students, especially from poor class families, gain education in the School. However, the school is on its last legs exposing to a potential risk of collapse at any moment. This alarming situation made the members of Panorama to shoulder a great responsibility of providing a new educational premises by substituting the old one. The first phase of the building was already complete with the generous help of several donors and philanthropists.

The organising committee said that the get-together was a great way to spend good time with the people of different tastes and experiences in one place that they hardly ever see and to make our key project (school building & its other facilities) clearly visible to them to be part of our effort through our campaign-"Roof to Read".

The gala was kicked off with the recitation of Qur’an by Ismail Musliyar Manjanady followed by the kick-off tips to the members (how to handle the huge gathering on the occasion) by Abdul Rahman Hussain, Ex-President and P A Hameed Padubidri, President of Panorama. The get-together was vividly colored with various events like cricket, breaking the pot, tug of war, oral quiz contest etc. for the gents. Gunny bag race, melodic chair game, hitting the pot, quiz competition etc. were conducted exclusively for the children, who had created the waves of fun and frolics on the occasion by their active participation in the various games and plays.

‘Breaking-the-Pot’ was the highly amusing game among both adults and children, who keenly took part in the pastime that really produced the strings of gaiety and hilarity amongst the spectators. It took an hour for many participators (whose eyes were tightly tied with a piece of cloth with zero visibility) to break the pot. The failed attempt by the competitors gave a feast of fun and joys in the midst of audiences. Finally, Mr. Rauf from Jolly boys broke the pot and emerged as the winner of the contest amid a big round of applauses and ovations. Ahmed M.Hussain, Founding President of Panorama Dammam Unit and Abdulsalam M.Hussain took a charge of conducting the game.

The raffle draw, lucky baby and lucky family were some of the special attractions of the event. While the raffle draw were for general audience, the lucky family and lucky baby were exclusively for the ladies. Several funs and games were also conducted for the ladies. They took the lead in organizing a lot of events for ladies. Ms. Ranim Abdul Rahman showed her talents through various events. Ummu Raaef came out to be the winner of lucky family and Abdullah Yasser Mulky turned out to be Lucky Baby on the occasion. Fabulous prizes like Refrigerator, multi-featured Gas cooker etc. were conferred to the winners of the raffle draws. Mr. Nelson D’Souza from McDonalds Riyadh provided five gift vouchers of free happy meals and other free breakfast coupons. The winners of stage quiz competition had been given away with the McDonald gift vouchers.

Panorama Trophies, 8GB USBs, Cups, clocks and other items were also conferred as prizes to the winners of various events.

Younus (Mangalore Kings), Zakaria (Al-Muzain) Jubail, Safa Makkah Polyclinics, Raisco, Real-Tech Jubail, Compass Dammam were the key sponsors and Malabar Gold & Diamonds Riyadh, ARWADA Trading Est., Fashion line, Nesto Hyper Market and others were some of the co-sponsors of the event. Several representatives of the sponsors and co-sponsors were present and enjoyed the programme. AEC Ltd. and Muhaidib Foods (Mustaq Hassan) have provided the free gift items to be presented to the victors of sveral competitions and games. Malabar Gold & Diamonds demonstrated various offers/promotions and distributed its glittering flyers amongst all the gents and ladies present on the occasion. Mr. Shabeer (Malabar Gold) took the lead of this campaign.

Kadesiah Medical Center (KMC) Gubeirah, headed by Mr. Santhosh Shetty, conducted the free dental camp. Both gents and ladies utilized the facility. INDOMIE offered free noodles and eatables to the kids. Khader (Khozama) Deerah provided aromatic tea to all the audiences.

All the members of Panorama had showed their vibrant team spirit and vigor and were given a full of appreciations and regards by the people present on the occasion.

P.A. Hameed Padubidri, President; Ahmed M.Hussain, Ex-President of PANORAMA Dammam Unit; Abdul Rahman, Abdul Khader, Ex-Presidents; Abubakar (Raisco) & Niyaz P.K. Ismail- Vice- Presidents; Sarfraz A.H.(Tresurer), Khader Hejamady (Ex-Mr. Mangalore Awardee), Shaban Padubidri (Deerah), Farook Chabu Haji, Mohammed P.K. Mohiddin and others were on the go throughout the event and thanked all for their cooperation and coordination. The delicious dinner was served during this event.

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Media Release
July 6,2020

The Chairman of Intellectual Council Jeddah, Syed Nasir Khurshid, called for a Zoom meeting on 2nd July, 2020 to celebrate the oath taking ceremony of the D K Shiva Kumar who took over as the President of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee. Mr Khurshid opened the meeting with a very enthusiastic and sincere note of congratulations to newly appointed president of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee, Mr. D.K.Shivakumar.

The chief speaker for the evening was Saleem Khaleefa, vice Chairman of the Council, he said, for more than 4 decades, he is monitoring the politics of the Karnataka state very closely and also monitoring the role of crises management DK Shiva Kumar in the last 2 years, whether it is Rajya Sabha election of Mr. Ahmed Patel or managing the MLAs of Madhya Pradesh. He said, he is one of the best leaders of the party and the best leaders use “their brain, their heart, their soul and their guts.” And his leadership is fit in the size of all these characters. Growth is a very powerful word and fundamentally, party growth is the responsibility of the President and he can take a holistic approach to close the gap between and among the party cadres. 

Every effort is to be made to preserve the sense of unity within the party. We need to unite party base while appealing to voters. He should identify on ground challenges and find the mechanism to address them. He further pointed out that a President’s chief responsibility is to bring all the party leaders and office bearers on the same page with a Mission to bring back the congress party into power in the next assembly election. His smart strategies, road map, mechanism, booth management, better connected with the party workers, taking everyone along with him, will be a direction for the presidents of the party in other states to take party into power.

He pronounced his leadership is totally remarkable and has a track record of his very sensible leadership and he also known for his collaborative and crises management leadership style. Engr. Nasir suggested that his first task is to address the formidable challenges faced by the party and bring the Congress members together, on a very single aspect how to win the election. The party backbone and strength is gross-root workers who can play a significant role to take the party in a very strong and popular position in public. He emphasized that unity is the main strategy and ingredient to win the election, because a party divided will hurt, cannot win the election. Planning is everything and a good planning goes a long way, helping to win the election.  

All the members of the Council expressed their views and everyone is very much hopeful that he is the right person to lead the party from top.He has commanded immense respect from party workers, office bearers, all communities, groups, including opposition parties. He is a very experienced, have immense experience and hard-work leader and he is a strategist and knows the art how to motivate the party workers and unite all in a single rope.

Engr. Amjad Ali said, we are very much confident that he will re-structure from bottom to top, panchyat, taluka and district committees will be re-structured and will induct caliber and talented leaders who can understand and realize their responsibilities and accountability as head of the party at their levels with only one point how to win the coming election with thumping majority.

One of key members of the Council, Sajid Shaikh expressed joyfully that every single member of the party have confidence on the leadership of Mr. D.K Shiva Kumar and his appointment to the top position says a lot of nice things about him.  He has shown his great leadership and expert in crises management on many occasion.  The party in Karnataka is in good hands and I am sure he will sort-out all the difference between and among the party leaders and cadres, which has hurt the party in the last election and will bring all on the same page. Congress party and its workers are lucky to have such a passionate and hardworking president who is ready to work day in and day out to bring party in power in 2023 assembly election.

Prominent members of the Council, Engr. Azher Parvaiz, Engr. Abdul Wahid, Hazrat Qadri, Engr. Abdul Ameed, Saleem Khan, and Rafiuddin Kharadi commented, we looking forward his dynamic and result oriented leadership in organizing and re-shaping the party in the state, he will hold all congressmen together with a noble purpose, motivate every party worker to work with dedication so that congress can come back to power with absolute majority and he can count on our absolute support in booth management as well  suggest a few points to be included in the manifestos, running a high  successful voltage campaign highlighting the failure of the BJP government at the Center and at the state, between and among in the NRIs community across the Gulf Countries, including Europe and America. Council will do the value-based politics and will present the image of the Congress party, as the rational political party, with secular and inclusive, where people of all religions, caste, race and gender, feel wanted in the party, as its main ideology.

Syed Nasir Khurshid thanked entire team for attending the meeting he expressed his gratitude towards Vice Chairman of the council Saleem Khaleefa for speaking as chief speaker and giving updates, he said, team members are excited to meet in person with Mr. D.K. Shiva Kumar, when members visit India during their vacation.

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Media Release
August 9,2020

Kuwait City, Aug 9: Indian social forum organised Blood Donation Camp in association with central blood bank kuwait on Friday, 7th August 2020.

The forum organised camp to support the high demand of blood in the context of COVID-19.

All arrangements to maintain COVID-19 protocol were made in the camp including segregation of donors as branch wise batches along with strict safety measures of participants.

Forum also had donated blood to many patients during the lockdown period. 

Hundreds of people donated blood in the camp. The camp organised in Blood Bank, Jabriya was successfully managed by Dr. Asma Rafat and leaders of Indian social forum Vice President Aslam, Secretory Sayyid Bukhari Thangal, Moideen Koya, Khaleel, Aseem, Mohammed Sha, Shihab, Naushad,
Indian Social Forum expressed their deep appreciation and gratitude to the doctors, staff and management of blood bank, forum’s members and donors.



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Media Release
May 2,2020

Dubai: In response to UAE health authorities encourage blood donation campaign Anivasai Kannadigara Okkuta - U.A.E, conducted blood donation camps on April 22 at Abu Dhabi Blood Bank Khaldiya and on 23/04/2020 at Blood Transfusion and Research Centre, Sharjah.

The Abu Dhabi camp was inaugurated by Head of Department of Abu Dhabi Blood Bank, On this occasion she gave brief inputs of the benefits and features of blood donation, urged the participants to spread greater awareness about the importance of blood donation and congratulated the AKO members for their selfless social service and wished all the best for their future endeavours.

Abdul Rasheed, President of AKO presided over the function and Anivasai Kannadigara Okkuta Vice President Mr. Mohammad Nasir appreciated the effort for organizing this camp and gathering youths to be a part of this noble cause as life is precious on this earth. "Each drop of blood counts much, so kindly take it as personal compassion to help unknown who requires blood with no relatives to help him/her.

In Abu Dhabi 41 and in Sharjah 49 donors participated in this event and donated their blood. It was nice to see cheerful smiling donors doing a great community work.
Blood bank staff and AKO Organizing team enthusiastically arranged the campaign which was witnessed by many members and leaders of various community organization of Karnataka.

Anivasai Kannadigara Okkuta President briefed the participates about the ongoing social work of AKO in this current COVID-19 pandemic grim situation AKO is working on following fields: AKO Members have stepped up to support needy community during the Covid-19 pandemic have gone out of their way to comfort those struggling to deal with the challenging situation.

While thousands of people continue to #StayHome, many are in quarantine, there are those on visit visa and stuck here, others have lost jobs or face salary cuts. AKO in coordination with UAE Embassy and other social organization have been able to ensure basic necessities are fulfilled with food provisions and medical assistance to needy.

Providing counselling to bachelors and families those are on quarantine and isolation.

The organizers thanked everybody especially, UAE Health Authority, Abu Dhabi Blood Bank Khaldiya and Blood Transfusion and Research Centre, Sharjah, Management and staff as well as donors for their time and support for the good cause.

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