Rafiq Nariyar is the new president of Jamiyyatul Falah Dammam Unit

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September 29, 2019

Dammam: The Dammam unit of Jam’iyyatul Falah, a Karnataka state award winning NGO, conducted its 31st Annual General Body Meeting (AGBM) at Royal Zaika Restaurant in Dammam.

The master of the ceremony Mohammad Siraj opened the meeting with Islamic Greetings and invited the Chief Guest Mr. Mohammad Imran (Chairman of IISD Managing Committee), Mr. Abdul Waris (Ex-Chairman of IISD), Dr. Zaheer Baig (Scientist at KFUPM), and distinguished guest Mr. Abdul Basheer (Ex-President of JF Riyadh Unit) including President, Treasurer and Secretary of Dammam Unit on the dais.

The meeting commenced with the recitation of Holy Quran by Mohammad Ishaq and he enlightened the importance of Charity in Islam and emphasized the audience to come forward and help the needy in the community for its betterment and gain rewards from Allah (SWT). Mohammad Iqbal Shaikh welcomed all the members and guests in his welcome speech.

In his presidential speech, Nizamuddin Shaikh had thanked the committee for giving him the opportunity to lead JF Dammam Unit for the term 2018-2019 successfully. With all the good wishes and support from the Committee, was able to justify the role as President for given 2nd term. He expressed his appreciation and also thanked all the committee members for their enormous support which had strengthened Dammam Unit to lead in the direction of prosperity.

The annual report for the term 2018-2019 was read by the General Secretary Mohammad Azeem Alam. First he briefed about Jam’iyyatul Falah to the audience, which literally represents an association meant for the welfare of less privileged brothers & sisters of the society, which came into existence in 1988. The first and foremost priority of Jam’iyyatul Falah is contributed to EDUCATION, spreading literacy and all round development for the less privileged families in the community. JF also provides scholarships under different schemes for the needy students in twin districts. JF frequently organize the Medical camps, awareness of healthcare, health camps, eye camps and special medical check-up (including ladies by lady doctors) in Mangalore & Udupi. JF also provides Dialysis medical treatment for poor Kidney patients. JF also provide free education in their PU College at Derlakatte for poor girls’ student.

Treasurer Sajid Hussain presented the annual financial reports of Dammam Unit for the Year 2018-2019. This mainly highlighted the financial support given to various programs and activities conducted in Mangalore.

The Trophies of appreciation were awarded to the members appreciating for their enormous support rendered to JF Dammam Unit during the term 2018-2019.

1)      Best Ramadan Activities Accomplish was awarded to Mohammad Afaq.

2)      Most Promising Member was awarded to Mohammad Azeem Alam.

3)      Very Special Honor was awarded to Ahmed Kabeer.

4)      Best Sports Management was awarded to Mohammad Siraj.

5)      Best Support to Dammam Unit was awarded to Mohammad Sharief Karkala.

6)      Special Appreciation was awarded to Nizamuddin Shaikh.

Very special thanks were given to the ExCom members for their support in sponsoring the monthly meetings.

Mohammad Afaq dissolved the present committee and the Election Officer Mohammad Ishaq took the dais to conduct the Election. The New Committee of 47 members was formed for the Term 2019-2020. The Office Bearers were unanimously elected by the managing committee.

The Office Bearers for the Term 2019-2020.

1) Rafiq Nariyar            :  President

2) Ahmed Kabeer                   :  Vice President

3) Mohammad Siraj              :  Vice President

4) Sajid Hussain Kasargod     :  General Secretary

5) Mohammad Fouzan         :  Joint Secretary

6) Imtiaz Ahmed          :  Treasurer

7) Nazim Ahmed          :  Joint Treasurer

8) Mohammad Afaq              :  Organizing Secretary

9) Mohammed Iqbal Shaikh :  Event Coordinator-1

10) Imran Mysore                  :  Event Coordinator-2

11) Javed Sayeed                   :  Sports Coordinator-1

12) Mohammed Ilyas            :  Sports Coordinator-2

13) Shaikh Nizamuddin        :  Advisor-1

14) Mohammed Hussain      :  Advisor-2

15) Abdul Munaf U.S            :  Advisor-3

16) Shahul Hameed               :  NRCC Representative-1

17) Mohamed Wahid            :  NRCC Representative-2

18) Mansour Ali Ahmed        :  NRCC Representative-3

19) Abdul Rashid Vardara     :  Auditor

The newly elected young and dynamic President, Rafiq Nariyar had addressed the new committee and thanked all the members for showing confidence in him to serve the Unit during the elected term 2019-2020. Taking into consideration the support from the new and the outgoing committee, he assured to exhibit his role as President with better productivity with the ‘Vision of Success and Achievement’.

The senior-most member of Jam’iyyatul Falah Mohammed Wahid took the opportunity to encourage the New Committee to work with commitment, devotion, hard-work and determination. Jam’iyyatul Falah is growing day by day and new members should join hands to build a better community back home, he said.

Vote of thanks was proposed by Naushad Saad and on behalf of JF Dammam Unit; he expressed the gratitude to all the members and guests for their kind presence and congratulated the New Committee for their success in accomplishing all the future assignments of Jam’iyyatul Falah.

The Annual General Body Meeting was dispersed with the Dua and the moderator of the meeting Ahmed Kabeer asked to conduct the photo session of New Committee Members.

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SADIQ
 - 
Tuesday, 1 Oct 2019

Blessed to Have such a young and dynamic president and office bearurs for new term to take JF to new heights,

Sharief Karkala
 - 
Monday, 30 Sep 2019

Masha Allah...May Allah take JF a great height of success to render service to our poor, less fortunate and needy brothers & sisters.and may allah bless us to take our organization to great height under the leadership of our new President. Aameen

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March 28,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 28: Sun Tsu, in 'The Art of War' speaks of a skilful general who can subdue his enemy without any fighting. This constitutes the ultimate triumph which is referred to as stratagem. Today, we would need one such when we are faced with the '21-day corona challenge' for India.
Nearly four weeks back, Dr Jyothsna Rao, Dr Gururaj Rao and I sat across the OPD in the afternoon at HCG Bengaluru discussing our ongoing cancer immunology research. While on this topic, we drifted into the discussion on the coronavirus. During this engaging discussion, we wondered the similarity of the enigma between the virus and cancer. I paused to ask Dr Jyothsna and Dr Guru - how we wish we could do something against this virus.
Dr Jyothsna is a PhD from NCBS and had worked under Dr Ralph Steinman, physician and researcher from Rockefeller University, who won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity in 2011. Dr Gururaj is a molecular and cell biologist who did his PhD at the Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina and is the Director of iCrest.
Jyothsna while hearing our perplexing conversation on the covid intervened, "Yes, surely. I think we should take a break from cancer and focus on the innate and adaptive immunity role in COVID-19."
Thus began this sincere attempt to relook the human immune system from the eyes of the COVID-19.
We have 10 types of immune cells at the least which are widely dispersed in millions across the body. When our body is invaded by a foreign organism (bacteria, fungi or virus), these cells work with each other to destroy the invader.
Now, the question is - how do the immune cells talk to each other? They use small-molecule substances called cytokines (cyto means cells; kine means movement). There are many cytokines that are involved in work on the immune system. The most relevant for viruses are interferons.
Interferons (IFN) as the name reflects have an ability to interfere with the viral activity and stop their multiplication. These specialised signal proteins are released by our cells in response to a viral attack to forewarn other cells. They help build the antiviral proteins within the cells to kill the virus as it tries to invade the new cells.
Historically, interferons are a group of cytokines known to be potent antiviral agents against viruses and a hallmark cytokine induced by the host upon viral infections. Interferons possess unique immunoregulatory activities and are signature cytokines released by (TH1) T immune cells, which are crucial in viral infections.
As the outbreak of COVID-19 grapples us, an urgent need for finding strategies to combat the virus is growing. Coronaviruses (CoVs) are a group of RNA viruses. In patients infected with coronavirus, it was indicated that the activation of the IFN does not occur until 48 hours post-infection. Thus the delayed IFN-related antiviral response by the healthy cells leads to coronavirus evade the immune response.
Numerous studies have presented the success in defeating CoVs by the direct administration of IFNs. In a combination as a concoction, it was shown to synergistically inhibit the virus replication in vitro.
Moreover, it is understood that the earlier induction of IFNs in children although they have a less developed immune system could be the reason behind the children being least affected.
The key to success in reducing the disease fatality might be the stimulation of the immune responses to trigger IFN production at the very early stages of the disease, which might be done through the administration of IFN. Despite the evidence for the efficacy of IFNs in treating CoV-induced infections, the proper dosing and ideal timing for such interventions needs to be verified in clinical trials.
For the later stages of the diseases in advance stages where patients are on ventilator and have developed respiratory distress, we propose to utilise the mesenchymal cells derived from donor bone marrow that have been known to treat acute respiratory syndrome. Mesenchymal cells are known to possess anti-inflammatory activity and thus used often in autoimmune diseases.
With this scientific background, we have activated T cells from healthy donors, in a cGMP facility at iCrest - HCG hospital with an enriched cocktail of cytokines rich in Interferons. Injections of this cocktail we believe will result in a surge of cytokines in the body of the infected person and will boost his ability to fight the virus in the early phases. We are in the initial phases of this study and hope to be ready in the coming weeks with meaningful data on its potential utility.
Currently, it awaits government approvals (Union and state) and we have applied to central drugs authority for their initial evaluation and further directions.
As my Guru often expounded the philosophy of 'Seva' - the goal of education is knowledge, the end goal of knowledge is service. In this attempt to serve our fellow humans at this brink of unprecedented crisis, medical fraternity stands with you and promises to do our best for your safety.
We assure to exhaust every bit of our spirit in this fight against coronavirus. We have lost the sight of shores and travelled thus far, but that is the mandatory first step to cross the ocean. Are we going to succeed in this battle, is something only time will answer. 

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April 25,2020

Mysuru, Apr 25: Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) has converted one of its buses into a clinic in Mysuru to treat COVID-19 patients.

The mobile fever clinic has a bed for the patient and a cabin for doctor.

There is also a seating facility, medicine box, washing basin, sanitizer, soap oil, a separate water facility and fans.
According to the KSRTC, the cost of this clinic construction on a bus is Rs 50,000.

Meanwhile, 15 new positive cases were reported in the state. So far, 489 COVID-19 positive cases have been confirmed, including 18 deaths and 153 discharges in the state.

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January 18,2020

Mangaluru, Jan 18: The Dakshina Kannada District Karavali Utsava Samiti has chosen senior Journalist and Assistant Editor on Udayavani Daily Manohar Prasad for the Karavali Gaurava Prashasti 2019-20.

The award will be presented to Manohar Prasad in recognition of his contribution in the field of Journalism.

He will be given the award during the valedictory of the Karavali Utsav at Panambur beach on January 19.

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