Doha: Spectacular ceremony marks the end of KMCA Tipu Sultan Cup

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May 28, 2015

Doha: Karnataka Muslim Cultural Association (KMCA), an ICC affiliate organization, unveiled their best so far of the extravagant display of well-planned ceremonies witnessed by a full house crowd on May 21 amidst fantastic finals match between the SKMWA XI vs Tulu Koota XI.

Keeping with the theme of the tournament, to rekindle the memories of one of the valiant sons of Mother India, the Mysore Tiger, Tipu Sultan, KMCA brought to life the glamour of the evening. Tipu along with his marchers led a caravan of eight Land Cruisers escorting the guests.

The Indian hockey legend Padmashree Zafar Iqbal acompanied by Munawwar Haziq was the guests of honor. Girish Kumar, President of ICC & K M Varghese, President of IBPN were the chief guests. The caravan made it through the ground and onto the pitch and the Guests were greeted by the KMCA President and the Executive Committee with the Two finalist teams lined up along the length of the Pitch. The Guest of Honor was led through the pitch, greeted by the players and onto the Red Carpet lined with Karnataka Flag Bearers on either sides. He briefly met with the ICC affiliated organization heads and dignitaries before being escorted to the stage to witness the second innings of the Finals. Tipu marched with his escorts to the designated darbar set up befitting his stature.

A spectacular final unfolded as the SKMWA XI chased a respectable score of 113 runs set by the TuluKoota XI in 12 overs, who won the toss and elected to bat first. The match saw some towering sixers by either sides and SKMWA XI completed their successful chase in 9.4 overs with a final six to the cheer of the 500 odd crowd. A complete 360 entertainment for the sports enthusiasts packed into one evening at the Old Ideal Indian School Grounds.

The stage program of the closing ceremony commenced with the Recitation of the Noble Qur'an by Master Ahmed, s/o; Shakir Ahmed followed by a brief introduction to KMCA and its activities presented by the Master of the ceremony Mr. Ahmed Saeed Assadi. The Guests were formally greeted with Qatari dates presented by children of KMCA members. The KMCA Vice President, Mr. Saquib Raza Khan presented the welcome address to the dignitaries on the stage, the Chief Guests, Guests of Honor, The Sponsors, Mr. Hameed of AlFardan Exchange & Mr. Satish of QDC, the dignitaries off the stage and the spectators.

A felicitation of Padmashree Zafar Iqbal was undertaken by the KMCA Executive committee followed by a speech by the Guest of Honor where he appreciated the camaraderie of the Indians residing outside of India and in this instance he was overwhelmed by the honor bestowed upon him by the Indian residents in Qatar of Karnataka origin. He brought forth some of his memory from his playing days and how hardwork and dedication brought him to the national team. He had last visited Doha in 1984 and remembers playing at the Khalifa Stadium and has fond memories of that instance of his visit to Qatar. He congratulated the Winning team and the runners-up and the organisers, KMCA for creating the opportunity for the players to shine at the same time creating a stage for varied sporting personalities to be recognized.

The Chief guests Mr. Girish Kumar, President of ICC addressed the gathering next and commended KMCA for the extraordinary show and a successful 2nd Edition of Tipu Sultan Cup. He specially emphasized that ICC Affiliated organizations of Karnataka Origin are the most active in community engagement. Mr. K M Varghese, President of IBPN, congratulated KMCA and was delighted to be part of the well-organized function and promised continued support to such initiatives.

As a first, the Vote of Thanks was presented by the KMCA President, Mr. Niyaz Ahmed as he expressed that he was overwhelmed by the response and support he had received during the planning of the Tournament and felt the need to formally thank each and everyone himself. President Niyaz thanked the Chief Guests, the Guests of Honor for their earnest acceptance of invitation for the closing ceremony, the ICC affiliated organizations for participating with their teams in the tournament, Community leaders of different organizations - Ravi Shetty, Deepak Shetty, Abdul Majeed, Norbert Corda, V S Mannangi, Arun Kumar, Milan Arun, Ibrahim Byri, Prabhakar, Abdulla Monu, Seetharam Shetty, Ramchandra Shetty, Asmat Ali, Dr Sanjay Kudri, Alexis Catelino and community activist Iqbal Manna - were present on the occasion. He thanked the sponsors of the event:
M/s Alfardan Exchange
M/s SaadAlkaabi Steel & Aluminum Co Wll
M/s ALM Infrastructure Solution
M/s SBMK
M/s STS Group
M/s Diplomat Fire Systems
M/s Golden Trading
M/s Qatar Design Consortium
M/s Texas Technical Services
M/s Euro Parts
M/s Gibca Furniture UAE
M/s Stream Acoustic & Thermal
M/s Apollo Enterprises
M/s Hempel Paints – Qatar
M/s New Tradelinks LLC
and the Executive committee of KMCA, the HBK team and the Tipu Himself for his two years running in a row.

The prize distribution followed by conferring awards for the tournament officials. Umpires - Dr. Sanjay Kudri& Mr. Imthiyaz were awarded by Mr. Ravi Shetty, President of TuluKoota Qatar. The Scorers - Mr. Amjad& Mr. AnandBalu given away by Mr. Abdul Majeed, President of SKMWA, The Commentators - Mr. Habibunnabi, Mr. Ejaz Ahmed & Mr. Naveen were awarded by Mr. Nazeer Pasha, President of QISF and The Audio Technician cum DJs, the Father and Son Team of Mr. Anil Bolur& Master Krish who were given the awards by Mr. Deepak Shetty, President of KSQ.

The Next set of prizes were the individual trophies along with a cash voucher for the Runners-Up team and the Winning Team members.

The Man of the Match for the Finals Match was awarded to Imran from SKMWA XI for his unbeaten 50 runs, 1 wicket & a Catch.

The Man of the Tournament was bestowed with the BAT of the Tournament. KMCA, continuing the practice of introducing unique ideas, had a ceremonial bat signed by the guests of honour during the opening ceremony, Mr. Farman Basha& Ms. Sakina Khatun, the Paralympic power-lifters, and then passed on to all the players and later fixed on a podium. the bat was brought to Tipu Sultan by the senapathi and Tipu handed the bat to the KMCA Sports Secretary Mr. Zia-ul-Haq as a ceremonial guesture of the honor it holds. The Bat was then signed by the Guest of Honor Padmashree Zafar Iqbal and presented to Namsheed from SKMWA XI who was ranked the all round best performer of the tournament by the match officials.

A Special recognition was bestowed by Zafar Iqbal upon Ms. Milan Arun for her ardent support to KMCA events, her mentoring of the KMCA Ladies Wing and especially for her detailed programming of the opening & closing ceremonies of the Tipu Sultan Cup.

The day ended with the giving away of the Runners-UP Team Trophy to TuluKoota XI, received by the Team Captain Mr. Ashmath Ali along with the TuluKoota President Mr. Ravi Shetty.

The Winners Team Trophy, the Tipu Sultan Cup was presented to the SKMWA XI Team Captain Mr. Kader along with SKMWA President Mr. Abdul Majeed.

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August 9,2020

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Forum also had donated blood to many patients during the lockdown period. 

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June 17,2020

Doha: Qatar Indian Social Forum (QISF) once again set an example that no caste, creed, language and religion comes as hurdle for their humanitarian services and helped to perform last rites of Ramesh who committed suicide in Doha-Qatar.

45-year-old Ramesh son of K. Nagan hailing from Panikulam, Thrissur district in Kerala, who was working as a tailor committed suicide in his house at Ruwias in Qatar on 30th May 2020.

On hearing this news, some of his friends in Kearla informed Mr. Shihab who is also from Thrissur and a member of QISF and the same was brought to the notice of QISF humanitarian team head Mr. Abdul Latheef Madikeri and Basheer Ahmed of Tamil Nadu.

Immediately, the QISF team intervened and contacted the family members of the deceased in India and discussed the matter and consequences of sending the body back home to India in this pandemic COVID 19 situation.

Considering the prevailing situation, the family members gave the consent to bury the body in Qatar itself.

QISF team collected the required documents from the family of the deceased and managed to clear all the necessary formalities from the police department, Health Department, Embassy of India and Hamad Medical Corporation.

Finally, the body of the deceased was buried in Qatar on 7th June 2020 and the copies of all the relevant documents have been handed over to the family members.

The family members of the deceased thanked and applauded the leaders and all the members of QISF for their effective and on time humanitarian service rendered even in this pandemic crisis and having no bias.

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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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