Al-Falah-Jubail emerge champions of JF Winter Cup 2017’

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February 1, 2017

Al-Khobar: Excitement, passion and the cricketing excellence of “JF WINTER CUP 2017” a knockout cricket tournament for noble cause got off to an exhilarating annual event of sports at SABSA Cricket Ground in Rakah (Al-Khobar, Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia). The extraordinary Cricket Tournament was organized by Dammam Unit of ‘Jam’iyyatul Falah’ a charitable organization.

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The cold grey morning with wet foggy sky didn’t changed the mood of Cricket Tournament and it took off smoothly with great piece of enthusiasm by all the players of 16 top cricket teams of Eastern Province. All the matches played had shown a marvelous piece of performance and the real sportsman spirit was displayed by all the players during the entire Tournament. The excitement and interest towards the game was beautifully and skillfully exhibited by all the cricket teams despite of 8 over a side match.

Mohammed Sharief Sultan, President of JF Dammam Unit inaugurated the opening ceremony and Mohammad Siraj, the JF sports coordinator had described the rules and regulations on the ground to all the Cricket Teams and the inaugural match of the preliminary round between “CBC” and “Indo Gulf” was started off on-time and followed by all other matches as scheduled. All preliminary and quarter final matches were played in the morning session, the Semi-Finals and Finals were played in the afternoon session and the grand presentation party concluded the tournament with delightful atmosphere.

In the Finals, Al-Falah defeated Khobar United by 21runs. Khobar United won the toss and elected to field first. Raees and Nisar opened the innings for Al-Falah. Nisar got out of second ball of the match for duck. Also, Al-Falah lost their vital wicket of Sajid in the third over. At this moment, Captain Malik Munna joined Raees, both played magnificently by hitting boundaries and sixes, with the support from Thasleem and Ashfaq. At the end Al-Falah were able to reach commendable total of 91 for 8 in allotted 8 over. Raees scored 46runs with 4 sixes and 3 boundaries and Malik Munna scored 12runs. For Khobar United, Khashif took 3/18 and Safdar took 3/22.

Chasing the target of 92 is a big task for Khobar United in allotted 8 over. Khobar United opened the inning with Anis and Thoufeeq, both star batsmen got out in the quick interval when the score was 7. At this crucial moment, Khasif joined Zeeshan and start to build up a good partnership for the 3rd wicket but failed, as Khashif out for duck. Then Safdar and Zeeshan both played steadily by rotating the strikes and added 40runs for 4th wicket. After the fall of Safdar, Khobar United middle-order batsmen found difficult to score runs against fine bowling and fielding performance by Al-Falah bowlers. Khobar United were able to score only 70 for 7 in allotted 8 over. Al-Falah won the match by 21runs. Zeeshan scored 24runs and Safdar scored 20runs. For Al-Falah, Raees took 2/11 and Ashfaq took 2/15.

Raees of Al-Falah was judged “Man of the Match” for his outstanding performance in the Finals.

Prior to the mega Finals, first Semi-Final was played between Al-Falah v/s Amaco. Batted first Amaco scored 71runs in allotted 8 over. Saleem 40runs and Irshan took 3/7. Batted second Al-Falah won the match by 5 wickets (72/5). Sameer 30runs and Mansoor took 2/15.

Second Semi-Finals was played between SASP Jubail v/s Khobar United. Batted first Khobar United 87runs in allotted 8 over. Thoufeeq 30runs and Parvez took 3/21. Batted second SASP managed to score 85runs in allotted 8 over. Deepak 23runs and Safdar took 2/19.

The first half of the Tournament was well executed by all the 16 Cricket Teams. The second half of the Tournament – the post-match presentation and the closing ceremony – was hosted by Junaid Ibn Munaff. The program commenced with Qirath by Master Abdul Rahman. President of JF Dammam Unit, Mohammed Sharief Sultan addressed the audience with his welcome speech and thanked the audience for their kind presence and immediately followed a brief introduction of Jam’iyyatul Falah and its activities by Ex-NRCC Ameer Shahul Hameed.

The presence of prominent guests and audience had built a pleasant environment of joy and happiness on the ground and their presence was appreciated by the Host. The Main Sponsors for the Cricket Tournament “IDEALINK”, “JAFCO”, “UIPS”, “NMC” “FEMCO” “AZMEEL” and “UNICOIL” were presented with memento. The main sponsors and distinguished guests had shared and invited on the dais including Chief Guest Sudeer Punathil (MD, Idealink), Sadashiv Poojary (President, MASA), Naveen Bandari (Vice-President, MASA), Ashok Patel (President, DCA), Ehtessam (Treasurer, DCA), Iqbal Bhai (Ground-in-Charge, Zamil) and Dildar (Captain, Khobar United).

The host took the opportunity on behalf of JF Dammam Unit and tribute all the wonderful moments of “JF Winter Cup 2017” to all the players of 16 Cricket Teams for showing the great sportsmen spirit throughout the Tournament and received a huge applaud from the great audience. He thanked all the 16 Cricket Teams and encouraged them as a WINNER of ‘JF Winter Cup 2017’, because they all played for the Noble Cause, for which JF Dammam Unit always thankful for their charitable contribution.

NRCC Ameer Mansour Ali Ahmed remembered and extended heartfelt condolence to Late Mahmood Saad (Ex-President of JF Dammam Unit) and dedicated the “JF Winter Cup 2017” on his memory.

Committee Members of JF Dammam Unit presented the memento to all the Main Sponsors, Co-Sponsors and Well Wishers of Jam’iyyatul Falah.

Subsequently, the prize distribution ceremony was hosted by Javed Sayed and he announced the winners of ‘Man of the Match’ awardees for their performance in the Preliminary, Quarter Final, Semi-Final and Finals. Individual awards were presented to different players in various categories.

Best Batsman awarded to Zeeshan of Khobar United.
Best Bowler awarded to Safdar of Khobar United.
Best Wicket Keeper awarded to Nainar of Al-Falah.
Best Fielder awarded to Sajid of Al-Falah.

Raees of Al-Falah judged “Player of the Tournament” for his remarkable bowling and batting performance throughout the tournament. He also won the Return Air-Ticket sponsored by Arjaa Travel & Tourism. The best batsman Zeeshan received a Bat as a complimentary gift sponsored by Almajdouie Cricket Club.

Malik Munna, the Captain of “Al-Falah” Cricket Team collected the Winner’s Trophy from Chief Guest Sudeer Punathil of IDEALINK and at the same time, each winning players had collected their individual trophies. Dildar, the Captain of “Khobar United” Cricket Team collected the Runners-up trophy and the players were distributed with their individual trophies. Vote of thanks was proposed by Mohammad Sharief Sultan, President of JF Dammam Unit.

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Abu Safwan
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Wednesday, 1 Feb 2017

Mashah Allah... Great good job.

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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
May 14,2020

Dubai: A non-profitable social organization, KSCC is delivering a great service to the community during this pandemic situation.

Karnataka Sports and Cultural Club is a civil organization registered under Community Development Authority (CDA) involved in implementing various UAE government initiatives, blood donation drives, health campaigns, sport events, charity works, awareness programs and much more.

KSCC is currently actively liaising with Dubai government authorities in discharging the needs and requirements of the people in these challenging covid-19 pandemic times. It is also involved the activities such as logistics, coordinating stores, mobilizing isolation centers, equipping quarantine facilities and volunteering services.

During these testing times, KSCC is also facilitating the Guidance to the general public, follow-up up to 122 covid positive cases, counselling the affected, assisting the references and providing the ever-necessary emotional support by setting up a team of 24 reserved persons for call center helplines.

As per the request from DHA (Dubai Health Authority) KSCC has successfully organized the blood donation drive and donated upto 141 units of blood with the help of KSCC members & supporters.

Apart from above, KSCC is also engaged in serving needy by distributing the food provisional kit (Yestahloon) from the very 1st day of lockdown till day by their special task force team under guidelines of CDA, and also taking into consideration the month of Ramadan, team is successfully distributing Iftar food & provision kit with the help of donors.

In the 1st Phase, KSCC covered 2421 beneficiaries by providing 440 provisional food kits, 435 food pack and 529 Iftar kits.

As per the CDA guidelines, club is also engaged in following up the health condition of senior citizens living in UAE.

KSCC special team is also engaged in clearing documentation and formalities related to dead body repatriation until its final procedures and handing over to relatives with help of UAE governments authorities. Total 5 dead bodies are repatriated in their 1st phase of service.

KSCC is also having a center controlled special task team to assist all above activities during the covid-19 pandemic to continue the services to general public.

KSCC thanks all Government authorities, Members in different task team, supporters and Sponsors company MAERSK, MALABAR GOLD & DIAMOND and TAMIL ENTREPRENEUR for their support and also request extend their support to consolidate the above demanding service and deliver our best possible assistance not only because it is the month of Ramadan, but also our responsibility to reach out to the poor and needy, during this fight against Covid-19.

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January 28,2020

Riyadh, Jan 28: The celebration of the 71st Republic Day was held on January 26th by the Central Committee of the Indian Social Forum Riyadh at the Ramada Hotel Auditorium in Riyadh. People from different Indian states and different religious backgrounds were present during the event.

The program was inaugurated with the unity song, Saleem Moulavi– Regional committee member India Fraternity Forum/Riyadh inaugurated the program.

Social Forum Central Committee president Janab Harris Mangaluru chaired the program and welcomed the guests. In his presidential speech he described and uncovered stories of freedom struggle and participants of Indian Muslims for the freedom fight. He urged everyone to fight against unconstitutional Citizenship Amendment Bill which passed by Centre government. He said that the We will continue its agitation against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the NRC and would not relent unless the Union government withdrew the Act.

Indian Social Forum Karnataka State Committee member Janab Mohammed Naveed delivered the Republic Day message. He said India was formed based on concept of ‘unity in diversity’ and it becomes every Indians’ responsibility to safeguard it. He expressed concern over CAA, NRC and NPR. Across India, students at other universities are against the Citizenship Amendment Act passed by Centre government.  The law offers amnesty to undocumented migrants from three neighboring Muslim-majority countries but only if they are non-Muslim. Critics say that by excluding Muslims, the law establishes a religious test for Indian citizenship, in violation of the secularism enshrined in India's constitution. The Indians, irrespective of caste, creed, religion and region have firmly resolved to oppose the draconian laws and fascist moves to debar the poor. Constitution granted to every person and citizen of India who are not ready to put them on a test of ideology of RSS and programs of BJP to implement the Brahmanist mind-set. He said that the police atrocities against CAA/NRC/NPR protesters had increased only in BJP-ruled States and  there were several loose ends in the police story about the incidents leading to the firing.

Eng Shahul Hameed – Coordinator of Tamil Nadu Islamic Federation, Dr. Jahangeer Ahmed - Assistant professor/King Saud university, Mohammed Rafi – Gen Secretary of India Fraternity Forum Regional Committee, Mr. Abdul jaleel– Vice President of Indian Islahi Center, Mr. Basha –Member of IFT Executive Council , Mr. Ajmal Hussain – Member of Pravasi Forum central Committee, Younus Wallan – President Humanity Forum Riyadh. All delivered the message on the eve.

Basheer Karandur, General Secretary of Social Forum Central Committee, welcomed the gathering and Social Forum Riyadh Tamilnadu State Committee President Jabir presented the vote of thanks. Abdul Basheer was master of ceremony.

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