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Vaihshnavi Ballal wins 'Spell Bee - India Spells 2013' Season 5, Shazma Sharief runner up

January 13, 2013

Mangalore, Jan 13: Vaishnavi Ballal, Class IX student from Sharada Vidyalaya and Shazma Sharief from St Ann's High School won 'Spell Bee - India Spells 2013' Season 5.

While Vaishnavi, a class IX student emerged the champion in the city finale of Radio Mirchi and HDFC Life's 'Spell Bee - India Spells 2013' Season 5, Shazma finished the first runner-up with both earning the right to represent this coastal city in the semifinals with 68 other contestants from across India.vaishnavi

HDFC Life Spell Bee India Spells 2013 is the Indian counterpart of the highly acclaimed Scripps National Spelling Bee, USA. Mangalore is one of the 35 cities in which such city finales are happening over the month as part of the initial rounds of the event. The top two spellers from each city will compete with each other in the next round and 16 top scorers across India will battle it out in the grand finale in Mumbai next month.

More than 300 spelling enthusiasts from across the city participated in the 5th edition of HDFC Life Spell Bee, a remarkable surge in the number of participants. This reiterates the popularity of Spell Bee not only among school students, but parents as well.

RJ Arpith hosted the city final that was graced by Vidya Dinkar, joint secretary of Indian Social Action Forum as the chief guest for the competition and distributed prizes to winners.

In the initial phase, an on-ground exercise was conducted across 20 schools in the city where children were given spelling tests. Top 20 scorers from each school then competed in the city finals round. The culmination of Spell Bee 2013 will see grueling competition between top 16 scorers to win the title of India's spelling champion. The winner will receive Rs 2 lakh and trip to Washington DC along with a parent to witness Scripps National Spelling Bee live.

Vaishnavi, first runner-up last year, who topped the written round, received immunity and direct passage to the final round outshone the remaining nine city finalists. Sahitya, Shazma and Adarsh Shetty joined Vaishnavi in the top four. While Vaishnavi got her final round spelling right in the first go, the remaining three misspelt words given to them three times in a tense final before Shazma got her word right the third time to join Vaishnavi as the first runner up in the semi finals.

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June 27,2020

New Delhi, Jun 27: Wasim Akhtar, a journalist and founder of an online news portal, is helping the poor and needy people in the ongoing lockdown.

Not only is he helping them financially but also providing emotional support and setting the right example of humanity.

"I was very disturbed during the first 14 days of lockdown especially after seeing such sad videos about needy and poor people. But then I decided to move out of my house and help these poor people despite the fear of COVID-19 coronavirus. We supply ration to around 200 people every day so that their families won't sleep hungry," narrated Wasim Akhtar.

Waseem Akhtar and his team are contacting daily wagers and other needy people who have been locked jobless in their houses for the past 70 days. They are the people who will not beg for food to anybody, rather choose to sleep hungry. They are making sure to help the people in the remotest places by directly transferring the money in the accounts of needy people.

They have been feeding many migrants at Kurla and VT stations. "At VT station, there was a group of Tamilian migrants among which there were six women and two men, who didn't know Hindi or English language, who were helpless and nowhere to go to, we send them back to their natives," said Wasim when asked about it.

The Giving Care Foundation also funded the funeral of a 65-year old man at the Worli crematorium. They took care of the expenses of the delivery of a Kolkata-based woman whose husband was stuck in Mumbai. Along with this, they arranged everything for the funeral of a young girl who died after her prolonged illness amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Being a Muslim myself, I urge all the fellow Muslims that limit your expenses and help the poor and needy in such times," concluded Wasim Akhtar.

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July 24,2020

Madikeri, Jul 24: Water from river Cauvery, which is deemed as holy, and mud from Kodagu, the birth district of river Cauvery was collected and will be sent to Ayodhya for use during groundbreaking (Bhoomi Pooja) ceremony for the construction of Ram Mandir on August 5.

Workers of Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishat and Hindu Jagarana Vedike collected the soil and water from River Cauvery at Talacauvery Kshetra, the birthplace of river Cauvery.

Special pooja was offered at Talacauvery, praying for the timely completion of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.

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