Karavali Welfare Association Riyadh organizes Karavali food fest and cooking contest

October 19, 2013

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Riyadh, Oct 19: Karavali Welfare Association Riyadh(KWAR), a well Known NRI social Organization, conducted their maiden food festival and cooking competition on October 4, 2013 at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Even though it was KWAR’s maiden show at this level, a total number of 12 teams took part in this completion which was mainly based on Mangalorean traditional dishes and cuisine.

The Grand Show was well managed by KWAR’s Cultural secretary Prakash Shetty, Suresh Suvarna, Jayakar Poojary and ably supported by KWAR executive members.

The show began at 1 p.m. and the four designated judges, experts in food industry began their evaluation based on Taste, Presentation, Hygiene and Variety.

All dishes presented were homemade preparations exclusive to KWAR Members and their families. The judges were amazed by the sheer variety of Mangalorean tongue twitch, finger licking multi cuisine and well prepared sweets. It was a great task for the judges to judge near 100 different varieties and they did their task with great sense of responsibility testing their taste buds.

All the food stalls were bearing traditional names such as Parba, Oorda Ruchi, Kudla Hut, Raj Kamal, Barsa Adpil, Halli Thindi, Oggarane, Murudeshwar specialty, Konkan Ghar, Konkan Ghar family and Pakashala.

The Best category of Homemade Tasty Food(RUCHI) was won by Mrs and Mr. Sathish Amin (Oorda Ruchi), Barsa Adpil, won second and Barsa Halli Thindi won the third prize.

The other winners were ‘Kudla Hut’ of Latha Rajesh, Ritika Kamath and Smita Haridas for Best presentation, best stall and also bagged the highest votes for ‘Viewers’ Choice’ for the Best stall.

Parba group rightly won the Best Prize for the Best in Hygiene. Konkan Group won a Special Prize for the Variety of Food they displayed in their well-managed Stalls. The Crowd of around 300 men/women and children were entertained to the tune of Bollywood Famous Lungi dance by Eric D’sa and his Konkan group.

KWAR Vice President Parvez ALI enthralled the crowds with some spot games with some lovely prizes. All the participants were awarded Special Certificates in recognition of their hard work, dedication and participation.

KWAR president Royston Prabhu thanked all the members for their overwhelming support and invited all those present to be part of KWAR’s 6th Annual day Celebrations which will be held in Riyadh on the 22nd Nov 2013.

The show ended in a cordial note after reciting the national Anthem.

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Karnataka unit of Indian Social Forum holds blood donation camp in Qatar

Media Release

February 4,2020

On the occasion of 71st Republic Day of India, Qatar Indian Social Forum (QISF), Karnataka State organized a blood donation camp in Doha Qatar, in association with Hamad Medical Corporation on 31st January 2020, Friday.

At first, QISF Karnataka State Vice President, Ziaul Huq welcomed the guests, dignitaries and blood donors.

The Blood Donation Camp was inaugurated by ICC President Mr. Manikantan A P who was the Chief guest. In his inaugural speech, he emphasized that, Service to humanity is service to God. By donating the blood, not only we save the lives, but we get blessings also. He also said that punctuality is the key factor in these type of events and should be incorporated by all of us.

QISF Central Committee President, Sayeed Komachi highlighted the necessity and importance of donating the blood and assured QISF a socio cultural organization will always be ready for this noble cause.

Dr. Vishwantha Kini, a well known Radiologist in HMC motivated the donors.

The camp was started at 7.00 A M and ended at 5.30 PM in which 146 people donated the blood out of 185 people registered.

SKMWA President Abdul Majeed and Dr. Haroon from Asian Medical Centre, who were also the Guests in the programme praised the initiative and efforts of QISF.

QISF Central Committee Vice President Salam Kunnamal, General Secretary Basheer Ahmed, Northern States President Fasiuddin, QISF State and Branch Committee members Lathif Madikeri, Zakariya Pandeshwar, Saleem Bangadi, Mujeebulla Khan, Nayeem Belapu, Ibrahim UB, Toufeeq, Anwar Angargundy, Rizwan Kalladka, Asif Bannur, Imtiyaz Karnad, Jaleel Kalladka, Haneef Montepadav, Rafiq Uppinangady and other members were present during the programme.

The program was presided and concluded by QISF Karnataka State President Nazeer Pasha.

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Great job, this will save many lives. Hats off to QISF for this wonderful event on the occasion of Rebulic Day celebration.

Well done qisf...again u did a great work by collecting blood to serve humanity...qosf is a second word for humanity!!

Masha Allah. Good Job done by QISF