Thousands of Indian expats from across Saudi throng funeral of Emirate Khader in Jubail

P A Hameed Padubidri, Saudi Arabia
December 12, 2018

Jubail: The tadfeen (funeral rites) of Abdul Khader aka Emirate Khader and his father-in-law, Basrikatte Bawa (S Kodi) was held in the graveyard of Jubail, the industrial city of Saudi Arabia in the presence of huge crowds on Monday night.

The duo died last Thursday (06/12/2018) in a road accident near Goodah on Riyadh-Dammam express highway while returning with family members from Makkah to Jubail after performing Umrah. Other members sustained minor injuries except deceased Khader's younger daughter Asma, whose leg got fractured. She underwent surgery two days after the accident at Dammam central hospital.

After having completed of all formalities in various departments in the KSA and Indian Embassy, the mortal remains, kept in morgue in Urayirah Prince Sultan Hospital (around 200 kms from Jubail) were taken to Jubail by Ambulance at 12.45 pm.

More than two thousand people consisted of relatives, friends and well-wishers gathered at Omar ibn Abdulaziz Mosque to pay a last homage to the departed bodies. The crowd was such that people voluntarily lined up in queue to see the Janaaizah (mortal remains) after the bodies were given Ghusul (bath) & put on Kafan (Shrouds).

Emirate Khader's friends and well-wishers from different parts of the Kingdom like Jeddah, Makkah, Qassim, Riyadh, Al-Hasa, Hafar AlBatin, Dammam-Khobar etc. took part in this rites.

Salathul Janaaizah (prayer for dead bodies) was held in the Masjid soon after Maghrib prayer. Immediately after the prayer, the bodies were taken to nearby cemetery & laid in the grave in front of a large saddened crowd & four sons of Khader. Both graves are positioned adjacently.

After the undertakings, the bereaved sons received commiserations hugely over the sad demise of their father and grandfather.

The funeral rites witnessed a vast crowd. Some senior residents said that they never saw such a huge gathering in their life; this is the first time they are able to see such a big mass.

Emirate Khader was individually known for his humanitarian and social services for the past four decades in the KSA. When there were no social organizations to reach out the compatriots for their issues of any nature, Khader was in the frontline to hear their grievance & to seek solutions to their problems. He was famous for his kindness, friendliness, whole-heartedness & selfless works.

It was really a sad moment when his body was laid in the grave & people threw handful of soils into the grave as a tradition of Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh).

Expertise Company Jubail arranged lighting facility on the site of the burial ground.

Heads and members of various organizations of Mangaluru, Bhatkal and other parts of Karnataka, Sayyed Karnire, Sheikh from Expertise Company, Mumtaz Ali-FIZZA Mall Mangaluru, Basheer Sagar, Ahmed Hussain-HIT, Kassim Ahmed-HF, Muzen Zakariya Jokatte, Ibrahim Hejamady Bahrain, Hassan Bawa-KSF, Mohammad Ali B.K, Naushad Krishnapura-ISF, Hameed Bajpe, Shareef Karkala, Social worker, Dammam, Firoz and Ashraf-ISF, Ashfaq- Plant Solution, among others were present to pay their last homage to the departed souls.

Also Read: 

Emirate Khader Bhai: Loved by everyone; hated by none

Emirate Khader, father-in-law die in ghastly car mishap in Saudi Arabia

Comments

ABDUL REHMAN S…
 - 
Thursday, 13 Dec 2018

May Allah SWT grant both of them highest place in JANNAH

 

Aameen

Azmath
 - 
Thursday, 13 Dec 2018

I personally do not know about "Noble Soul - Mr Emirates Khaderaka"

 

Prayers and hugs to their family and friends. I'm sorry Jubail/ KSA lost such amazing people. I pray for their children to heal and continue their parents compassion and kindness. Love and light will guide this awesome souls to peace. Rest in peace Champions..

 

Regards

 

Azmath

 

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March 28,2020

Mangaluru, Mar 28: After a youth from Dakshina Kannada who tested positive for the deadly Covid-19 revealed that he had travelled by a bus, authorities have requested all his fellow passengers to visit their nearest district hospital. 

The 21-year-old man hailing from Belthangady taluk had flown from Dubai to Bengaluru on March 21 and on the same day travelled to Mangaluru by the KSRTC bus bearing registration number KA 19, F3329

As he was suffering from fever and cough he was admitted to Puttur government hospital on March 24. He was tested positive for the novel coronavirus on March 27.   

It is not yet know how many passengers were there on board the above mentioned bus which had departed Bengaluru at 4:30 p.m. on March 21. It is believed that most of the passengers who travelled by this bus are residents of Dakshina Kannada. 

Hence, the KSRTC authorities today requested all the passengers who travelled by this bus to visit their nearest district hospital for necessary checkup. The passengers also were urged to quarantine themselves for next couple of weeks.

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May 22,2020
Bengaluru, May 22: Evacuation planes from Male in Maldives and Doha in Qatar landed in Bengaluru with returnees from Karnataka after they were stranded for two months due to suspension of international flights since March 23 and the extended lockdown, an official said on Friday.
 
"An Air-India flight (#0266) with 152 passengers from Male and its subsidiary Express flight (IX-0822) with 177 returnees and 5 infants from Doha landed here safely at 6.50 pm. and 9.05 pm respectively," an airline official told media persons in Bengaluru.
 
Both the flights are first from their respective countries to Bengaluru, bringing in returnees to the southern state in the second phase of the Vande Bharat mission, being carried out to evacuate Indians stranded the world over.
 
"As per the standard operating procedure and guidelines of the state health department, all the passengers were screened with thermal device and tested to ensure they were asymptomatic before leaving the airport," a nodal officer said.
 
The returnees were given a spare mask to wear all the time and a sanitiser to wash their hands.
 
"The luggage of all passengers was screened and disinfected before handing over to them after they completed formalities such as filling the self-declaration form and downloading of the Quarantine App for contact tracing later,” said the official.
 
The passengers were ferried from the airport in state-run buses in batches for 14-day institutional quarantine in hotels and resorts across the city.
 
The flights were the 6th and 7th flights to Karnataka, of the national carrier and its Express arm, which are operating the service to repatriate thousands of Indians, including distressed workers, migrants, students, senior citizens and tourists, stranded overseas.
 
Five flights have flown about 650 returnees till date from May 18-21 under the mission's second phase to Bengaluru and Mangaluru on the west coast. The passengers have been brought from Dubai in the UAE, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, Muscat in Oman, Dammam in Saudi Arabia and San Francisco in the US.
 
The remaining flights to Karnataka will land in Bengaluru and Mangaluru over the next 12 days till June 3 from 9-10 more destinations the world over.
 
In the first phase of the mission from May 7-17, the airline and its arm flew 6 flights to the state from May 11-15, bringing in 800 passengers, including 623 to Bengaluru and 177 to Mangaluru from London, Singapore, San Francisco and Dubai.

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April 5,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 5: The COVID-19 related lockdown has substantially improved the air quality of Bengaluru, taking it from satisfactory level to good, a senior state pollution control board offcial said here on Sunday.

"During the course of the lockdown 19 problem, we reached good position from satisfactory.

It is between zero to 50 AQI (Air Quality Index) now. We have good quality air," the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board member secretary Basavaraj Patil told PTI.

He said the indicator for knowing the air quality in

"If the AQI is zero to 50 then it is good. If it is 50 to 100 then it is satisfactory. 101 to 150 is moderate and if it is 151 to 200, then it is poor, he explained.

Patil said as per available recrods, there has been a 60 to 65 per cent reduction in pollution during the lockdown.

The city railway station and Peenya industrial area, which used to be among the areas with highest AQI, has seen pollution levels come down significantly, he said.

Another major contributor of pollution was construction activities, which too had ground to a halt due to the lockdown, resulting in zero dust emission.

Patil opined that the improved air quality would boost the immune system of the people.

"It will improve the immune system of people, including those who have breathing problems like asthma," he said.

He asked the public to learn lessons from the lockdown and later switch to sustainable means of transport such as public transport, walking and cycling,.

"We can still reduce the pollution load even after the lockdown is over," Patil said.

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