Hassan Abbas elected KSA Dammam-Khobar unit president

May 15, 2015

Dammam: It was a moment of enthusiasm for the members of the Karnataka Salafi Association (KSA), Dammam-Khobar Unit May 8. The hall in the restaurant was packed with old and new members from Karnataka residing in Dammam area in Saudi Arabia.

The 16th annual general body meeting of the Association was called and presided over by the outgoing president Mohammed Ismail Babbukatte. Shaik Sameer Ahmed, Bengaluru, who is also the chairman of Peace and Education Research Center, Bengalaluru, compered.

Meeting started with the recitation of Quran and translation of the same by Sheikh Sadiq Salafi.

Ismail Babbukatte spoke about the activities of Association for the past 16 years and the achievement statistics to the members. He also produced the financial report for the year 2014/2015.

Karnataka Salafi Association has been working for the welfare of Muslims in Saudi Arabia by setting up two English Medium Madrassas in Khobar and Dammam, which are first of its kind in Saudi Arabia. Members have participated in relief and rehabilitation work in India too and also actively participated in setting up an Islamic TV channel in India in the name of I plus TV.

Weekly classes are being conducted in Alkhobar in Byari, Kannada, Urdu languages for several years with the participation of entire families connected with the association. Annual Umrah and Ramadhan Iftar party for the families are regular events. Publication and Printing of knowledge based books is also one of the works accomplished by the association.

Later the existing committee was dissolved by the outgoing president and Mohammed Liyaqhat was chosen Returning Officer to conduct the election for the new committee members. As many as 31 members were elected and the new executive committee was formed.

Outgoing president has signed the transfer formalities of the Association to the new committee under the supervision of returning officer Mohammed Liyaqhat.

All the members were briefed about their duties and responsibilities. Accordingly a meeting was scheduled for the committee on the next day. The new members have shown great amount of enthusiasm to work for the Association and given commitments to uphold the methodology of pious predecessors in understanding and following the true spirit of Islam.

Advocate Abdul Hameed Padubidri, Sheikh Burhan Nadwi, senior NRI Sibghatullah Saheb, Ahmed Hussain Padubidri were present in the meeting.

New executive committee meeting

The first meeting of new executive committee was held on May 9, in Apsara Restaurant, Al Khobar at 9 p.m. All the 31 members were present.

Meeting was presided over by Sheikh Sadiq Salafi. Sheikh Burhan Nadwi and Br.Mohammed Liyaqhat were present in the dais. Sheikh Sadiq Salafi gave 10 minutes speech on importance of upholding Quran, sunnah and manhaj of Salaf, and to work unitedly for the pleasure of Allah. Election to the new office bearers post was done and the following were chosen for the posts as office bearers.

Name/Designation
Sheik Sadiq Salafi/ Sharia Advisor
Ismail Babbukatte/ Senior Advisor
Gouse Khan/ Advisor
Hassan Abbas/ President
Mohammed Liyaqhat/ Vice President
Sibgatulla Abdul Kareem/ Vice President
Abdul Hameed M H/ General Secretary
Shaikh Sameer Ahmed/ Joint Secretary
Ehthesham Shimogga/ Joint Secretary
Mustafa Patla/ Treasurer
Basheer Sagar/ Joint Treasurer
Althaf Hussain/ Joint Treasurer
P.M Sharief/ Dawah Committee Secretary
Khalifa Mustafa/ Media Committee Secretary
Adil Hassan Abbas/ Executve Committee Members
Karkala Arif/ Executve Committee Members
Haneef Abbas Saheb/ Executve Committee Members
Khalid Sharief/ Executve Committee Members
Ashraf Sowkoor Kashim/ Executve Committee Members
Mohammed Hanif K/ Executve Committee Members
Zameer Ahmed/ Executve Committee Members
Mohammed Ayub/ Executve Committee Members
Fayaz Ahmed/ Executve Committee Members
Ibrahim Hussain/ Executve Committee Members
Muzammil/ Executve Committee Members
Sheik Abbas/ Executve Committee Members
Mudassir/ Executve Committee Members
Abdul Rahim/ Executve Committee Members
Kudur Hassan Bilal/ Executve Committee Members
Ashfaq/ Executve Committee Members
Aatif Hameed/ Executve Committee Members
Syed Thousif / Executve Committee Members

Few independent sub committees were formed. They are: Madrassa Committee Dammam, Madrassa Committee Khobar, Dawah Committee, and Media and Communication Committee. Hassan Abbas, Basheer Sagar, Mustafa Patla, Sharief Yennehole, Abdul Hameed M H and Shaik Sameer Ahmed were chosen as the members of all the sub committees.

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Suresh Neramballi - an unsung Mangalurean hero in Kuwait

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

God bless you and your family

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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AIE plane crash: Two NRIs in UAE thank God for missing flight at last moment

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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Charter flight to Kerala: OICC Bahrain thanks Dr Arathi Krishna, Oommen Chandy

Media Release

June 24,2020

The Overseas Indian Cultural Congress (OICC), Bahrain, has charted aircrafts to repatriate stranded expatriates to India.

Boby Parayil, General Secretary, OICC National Committee, Bahrain has thanked all those who supported in this cause.

“The aircrafts were not licensed and were in crisis until the last minute. Finally, Mohammed Mansoor, president of Bahrain chapter of Indian Overseas Congress approached IOC Middle East in charge Dr Arathi Krishna, who helped get permission to operate flight to Kozhikode,” he said in a release.

All mandatory approvals from the Foreign Ministry of Affairs and other government officials were accomplished by Dr Arathi Krishna. OICC has expressed gratitude to her for her timely support, he said.

OICC is also grateful to former Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy for doing necessary arrangements to get all the approvals for flight landing in Kerala, he added.