AMPS organises ‘Brain Hunt-World Quiz’ at Jubail

[email protected] (Shameer Ahmed Kudroli)
December 13, 2013
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Jubail, Dec 13: The Association of Malayalee Professionals in Saudi Arabia (AMPS) organised its annual flagship event ‘Brain Hunt-World Quiz’ for students of the International Schools in Saudi Arabia on Friday, November 29, 2013 at a Beach Camp in Jubail.

More than 300 Grade 8 to 12 students from International Indian School-Dammam, International Indian School-Jubail, Al-Khozama International Indian School-Dammam and Al-Yasmeen International School-Riyadh participated in the annual contest called the Brain Hunt World Quiz.

“AMPS have always embarked upon programs that help to kindle creative thinking and reading, with a view to equip students with vital skills required to take on the intense competition at awaits them in future” said Suresh Kumar Kalathil, the President of AMPS..

The AMPS ‘World Quiz Competition’, an annual event that AMPS has been conducting since its inception in 2004, is one of the most sort after events by the student community, parents and Quiz enthusiasts in the Eastern Province. AMPS which consists of members who are all top Indian professionals working at leading multinational companies and Saudi corporations — have won accolades for the event’s emphasis on knowledge enhancement.

The Quizmaster of the popular show was P.G.R. Nair, who is a highly respected Quizmaster among the expatriate community in Jubail. He is a distinguished Toastmaster and staff process engineer at SAFCO. “His reputation as Quiz Master has now transcended the boundaries of Saudi Arabia. He is now being requested by the Indian Community in Oman to conduct a Quiz in Muscat”, said Kalathil with a lot of pride.

“I think Mr.Nair surpassed all known Quizmasters,” said Jubail school Principal Syed Hameed. “The technical excellence and the quality of the Quiz that AMPS brings out year after year continues to amaze me”, he said. The audience acknowledged the efforts of PGR Nair with a round of standing ovation!!

The quiz comprised eight rounds and was a good mix of all things under the universe such as sports, science, current affairs, history and literature. The unanswered questions were passed on to the audience with attractive spot prizes for correct answers.

The “Face the Fire” rapid fire round, adeptly conducted by the Assistant Quizmaster Krishna Kumar Raghupathy, created ripples and excitement among the audience and the participating teams alike. The audience were watching in awe and admiration the swinging fortunes of the teams which changed with each right or wrong answer, in the “Rapid Fire Round”

It was a clean sweep by the International Indian School, Jubail. All the three Winning Teams represented IISJ.

Some of the captivating questions figured in the quiz are: Which city in Saudi Arabia is named after a large Persian drum played in religious ceremonies and stored in Mosques? (Dammam). In November, DELL users complained that its Latitude 6430u business laptop emitted a foul smell which was later found originated from the manufacturing process. What was the smell that the DELL customers complained ? (Cat's Urine). Which car is named after a fast running antelope seen in African Countries? (Impala) . Name the world’s “first decentralized digital currency” launched in 2009 by a mysterious person known only by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto? (Bitcoin)

The following were the Winners of the AMPS World Quiz – Brainhunt 2013

WINNING TEAM:

MUSAIB ALI MIRZA

SUSHIL VANKA

AAZIM KHAN

RUNNER UP:

PRIYANKA YADAV

AMRITA MOHANTY

NANDINI SINGH

IInd Runner Up:

RAHUL AGRAWAL

MILIND SHETH

HAIDER ALI

Earlier in the day, about 85 teams took part in the preliminary written round conducted by Luqman Ummer, during which he posed 40 objective questions to short-list eight finalists.

Mr. Sultan Al-Khurraissi, Director of Royal Commission, Jubail inaugurated the event and addressed the gathering. He praised the organizers for their commitment, innovation and passion to conduct educational events such as the Quiz. He also appreciated the efforts of AMPS for bring out such impactful and educationally stimulating programs.

A highly structured stage set-up and state-of-the-art Quiz Devices were arranged by Krishna Das, V.C. Nair, Safare Mohammed, Seju Davis, Syam Sivashankar, Sudheer Prabhakaran and their team.

Mr. Muralikrishnan, was the Event Manager and Main Coordinator for this educational extravaganza.

A unique quiz template designed by Kamaruddin with an attractive brain-hunt logo looked riveting on the screen. Registration Coordinator Satheesan K.R., Oommen Thomas Sivadas, and their team managed the registration of more than 300 students and community members.

Reena Sudheer presented a Homage to the memory of the Musical legend Manna Dey, who had recently passed away.

Bindu Rajendran anchored the event with panache and professional finnesse. The secretary, Sivasankar Syam, proposed a vote of thanks.

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Agencies
August 8,2020

Dubai, Aug 7: One may call it good luck, but for two Indian expats it was God who prevented them at the last minute from boarding the Air India Express plane that crashed in Kerala, killing at least 18 people on board.

According to India's Civil Aviation Ministry, the Boeing 737 aircraft on a flight from Dubai to Kozhikode overshot the runway at Kozhikode airport on Friday evening. There were 184 passengers including 10 infants, 2 pilots and four cabin crew onboard the aircraft.

Noufal Moin Vetten, an Ajman resident working as an office boy in a Sharjah school, was booked to travel on the flight and had checked in as per schedule.

Recounting his miraculous escape, Vetten, a resident of Malappuram, Thirunavaya, whose visa was cancelled a week ago, told Gulf News: “I was handed my boarding pass, but when I reached immigration, they told me I had to pay a fine of Dh 1,000 (Rs 20,430) for overstay. I had only Dh 500 (Rs10,215) with me.

"I called my school PRO and he told me to come back. He said they would follow protocols and pay the fines before sending me,“ he said.

Vetten was disappointed and called his family to let them know.

“When I heard about the crash, I was saddened for all the passengers. But I'm so relieved I missed it. God has been really merciful,” said Vetten.

Afsal Parrakodan, a resident of Abu Dhabi, had a similar stroke of luck.

“My work visa was cancelled about a week ago. After getting my boarding pass, I was told I had to pay a fine of Dh1,000 at the immigration counter, but I had only Dh500 on me.”

“I was very keen to board the flight and be with my family. So I called a friend who brought me the additional Dh500, but by then, my baggage had been offloaded and the flight's doors were closed,” said Parrakodan.

“I was feeling very sad and called my mother to tell her I had missed the flight. But a few hours later, when I learnt of the crash, I couldn’t help but feel relieved and thankful to God for saving my life,“ said an overwhelmed Parrakodan who plans to fly back next week. 

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Media Release
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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Sushma Bangera
June 4,2020

Kuwait: The Covid-19 pandemic has pushed the whole world into a difficult situation and the situation of Indians in Kuwait is not any different. Many people have lost their jobs, have no salary, are deprived of food and are not able to pay rent. The appalling conditions of labourers, domestic workers, taxi drivers and low waged earners don’t seem to end in Kuwait. 

At this trying situation when many people were even afraid of leaving their houses because of coronavirus, Suresh S. Rao Neramballi, volunteer of the Food Kit Distribution at the ICSG (Indian Community Support Group) has helped many tremendously. He was ready to go around delivering food kits at any time possible by his car. However, after Kuwait imposed a full curfew from 11th May 2020, no one could take out their vehicles unless they had a curfew pass. 

This did not stop Mr. Suresh Neramballi, who then borrowed a bicycle from a friend and ended up going around in the cycle delivering the food kits in curfew break time (4:30pm to 6:30pm) to all those who registered in the ICSG website. This selfless service surely commands appreciation and applause. Mr. Suresh Neramballi has been a light for many families and bachelors in Kuwait and will surely garner the blessings of them who have been able to eat at this time.

He was also the one who could deliver the food kits to many Indian Muslim maids, bachelors, laborers and families previous day and right on the day of EID, as they were not able to go shopping for their groceries for EID, due to the curfew. They blessed him in EID dua. 

Mr. Suresh Neramballi hails from Mangaluru, India and is an Engineer in the Oil sector company in Kuwait. He has been dedicated to social service, achieved 'Aryabhata International Award' for his Kannada Service and Social service, served in many Associations and Distributor of Kannada and Tulu Movies in Kuwait. He wholeheartedly thanks the people and government of Kuwait for his bread and butter.

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Tanveer
 - 
Friday, 5 Jun 2020

May Almighty Allah shower His mescifull blessing on you and your family... Your selfless service will always be remembered,,,

M SHARIEF SULTAN
 - 
Thursday, 4 Jun 2020

God bless you and your family

abdullah
 - 
Thursday, 4 Jun 2020

God bless you brother and keep you healthy plus happy always.   You will be in the prayers of those who receivec your timely regardles they are hindu or muslim or christian.   This is a slap on the face of hate mongers who are always trying to divide the socieity in the name of religion.    Such people are burden to this world and society.   We should clean our society from such dirt and bad people.   Well done brother.  May God bless you.

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