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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February 7,2020

Global Toastmasters Club conducted Youth Leadership Program (GTC YLP– 2020), which  culminated with an extraordinary show at the Grand Finale in Puli Restaurant, Jubail, Saudi Arabia on Friday, January 31, 2020.

Toastmaster Mohammed Abul Khasim, who hails from Karnataka, Gulbarga was the Chief Coordinator for this Youth leadership program YLP, In this 10 weeks intensively focused program, the young future Leaders in the age group 13 to 15 were given quality coaching on Public Speaking, Listening, Writing, Evaluating and Life Skills, under the able guidance of Chief Coordinator.

The keynote speaker at the event was well-known veteran distinguish Toastmaster Dr R J George who motivated everyone to speak the language of love, removing all boundaries and barriers and invest on spending quality time together.

The performances of Youth Leaders were extraordinary and flawless and it was witness by top prominent figures of Jubail toastmaster fraternity likes of DTM Jamil Akhter,TM Nasiruddin Ansari, DTM Oomen Thomas, MTM Sair Oomen, DTM Hareesh, TM Amitab Serna, DTM Kotesh, MTM Shanti Rekha, DTM Suresh Kumar, TM Imtiyaz Khan, TM Asif Ali khan, MTM Farha Naved,TM Naved Hussain, Madam Sheeba, Dr Saleem Khan,TM Ashik Nazeer and TM Suhail Rais Khan. GTC YLP team thanks the Guest of Honor Mr. Abdul Majeed the Managing Director of Universal Inspection Company for sparing the valuable time as one of the sponsor of the event.

The Chief Guest at the Finale was Toastmasters District 79 Club Growth Director DTM Rami Jawad, laud the efforts of GTC for community service and urged all students to take full advantage of such chances as they present life changing opportunities, Division Direct ‘L” DTM Sadagopan address the audience and District PQD DTM Madhusha Grace the occasion. 

During the span of 10 weeks, more than 40 senior member of Jubail Toastmasters fraternity contributed to the success of this program as one to one mentors, Workshop Presenters and Assistant Coordinators. DTM Uzma Siddiqui, DTM Aziz Ahmed Siddiqui, DTM Safare Mohammed, DTM N V Arasu and DTM Jeyasankar and DTM Asif Ali Siddiqui, led the team of Toastmasters as overall Program Advisors, MTM Samina Mazher was chief judge for the event.

The grand finale saw four absorbing contests in Table Topics, Evaluation Speech, International Speech and Debate conducted by YL Ayesha Safare, YL Sai Pranav, YL Mohammed Saad and YL Fawaz Kannan respectively and YL Jaweriya conducted the banner parade.
Maliaka Maryam won the first prize in International Speech, while the second and third were earned by Mohammed Saad and Mohammed Umair. The Table topic contest was won by Ahmed Khan, where Jayveer Prajapati and Fawaz Kannan stood second and third respectively.

Sreena Nanda Kumar won evaluation Speech Contest, while Mohammed Sufyan and Sai Pranav stood second and third respectively. In Debate contest the team speaking against the topic represented by Hasib Javid, Muzaffer Shaik and Nabil Bin Tasnim stood first and runner team was represented by Sarah Nasir, Fathima Badruddin and Shanum Rabia . Hasib Javid was declared the best debate speaker.

The first term President Sarah Nasir and second term President Mohammed Ahmed Khan started the program with their presidential addresses after the Surah recitation by Nabil BinTasnim. YL Jumana Jaffer & YL Arman Raiq Siraj hosted the finale as Master of ceremonies. Immedate past Youth leaders and assistance Coordinators and workshop presenters Jaweriya Mariyam and Ayesha Safare conducted the award ceremony, while DTM Safare Mohammed handled contest operations.

Global Toastmasters President DTM Khalid Siddiqui and YLP Chief Coordinator TM Mohammed Abul Khasim thanked all Youth Leaders, Parents Sponsors and Toastmasters for their contribution in making the program successful. 

Past President of Global TMC, past Area63 Governor and first ever Joint Division E & L conference chairman Mangalorean DTM Shameer Ahmed Kudroli congratulated the Chief Coordinator Mohammed Abul Khasim for the effort and dedication to make the event a grand success and his journey to accomplish the DTM title soon.

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January 28,2020

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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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Alva, who hailed from Mangaluru, was the director of Federal Insurance Brokers LLC, Dubai and was residing in Dubai for around four decades. He was reportedly suffering from health problems for last few months. 

He was a patron of Tulu and Kannada language and culture in United Arab Emirates. He was a member of various NRI organizations including UAE Tulu Koota and UAE Bunts

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