Karavali Parba-2016 brings Tulu Nadu culture alive in Saudi capital

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May 20, 2016

Riyadh, May 20: Once again the culture and heritage of the coastal Karnataka came alive at the ‘Karavali Parba 2016’ organised by the Karavali Welfare Association Riyadh in the capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia last week.

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The function was inaugurated by lighting lamp by the KWAR president Rajesh Kumar, vice president Santhosh Shetty, general secretary Nelson Dsouza, former-president Ramesh Shetty, cultural secretary PM Bhasker, treasurer Shashidhar Haridas, G K Sheikh, Iqbal Thanzimee and other prominent executive committee members.

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In his inaugural speech, Rajesh Kumar stressed on the need for unity among all the members and said that he felt proud to head an organization which is the only one in the Kingdom with variety and diversity of cultures and communities but united for a cause. Nelson Dsouza read out KWARs achievements and listed the good works done by the organization for the last eight years.

Crowds were at their feet when kids performed a mesmerising ‘swagatha’ dance with KWAR theme. As a start of the cultural event Miss Megha Riya who had learnt her dancing steps from the famed Mani Group performed with an Indian traditional Kuchupudi dance.

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Then there were other nonstop dance performances from KWAR group under the direction of Vishnu Sir and Brothers group which made the audience glued to their chairs.

Ashwini Prasanna Rao, KWAR’s nightingale enthralled the crowd with her melodious voice. Her Tulu duet song with PM Bhasker was a hit and another duo Rahmatullah Khan and Mrs Sarita enthralled crowd with Hindi classics.

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The most attractive event was the Tulunadu favorite “Pili Vesha” with their standout performance made the audience dance on the beats.

PM Bhasker and team performed a wonderful comedy skit “Gulf TV – Korike”. Special performance such as Robotic dance and Solo Karate show by Muzaffer left the audience stunned. All the participants were awarded with certificates and medals and main sponsors were honored with mementos, shawls and flower bouquets. Co-sponsors were felicitated with mementoes and flower bouquet.

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KWAR chose this occasion to honour and felicitate Mrs Soumya Stanley, one of the senior Kannada teachers of Karavali origin in Indian International School Riyadh. Dr. Vanishree Santhosh & Mrs. Latha Rajesh did the honor of felicitating.

Lucky draw was conducted on regular intervals sponsored by Air India, Jet Airways & Al-Kabeer. Air India Reservation Manager Kinsley Fernandes gave away the Air India Air tickets to the winners. There were 3 special prizes in the draw and the first prize LCD TV was won by lucky winner Jayaram Shetty of Kanoo Group. Other 2 prizes were won by Suresh Raj and Chethan Kaivar. Mr. Kundan Lal of Air India Gave away a Special Prize, a Travel Bag which was ably awarded to Ganesh Hejamadi for his dedication and service to KWAR and for his social service activities.

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The program started after the delicious dinner served to all the guests which were well coordinated by Prasanna Rao, Yathiraj Malpe, Iqbal Thanzimee, Jayakar Poojary , G K Sheikh, Salman Noor, Hussain Shafi and Jagannath Kotian. The gates were at the able hands of Victor Menezes, Ashwath Rai , Rafi Ali, as always they managed it very well to handle all the Guests. The Cultural team was well managed by P.M.Bhaskar, Suresh Suvarna, Mahesh Hegde, Dlilp Kumar and Rajesh Rao. Soon after the dinner the MC duo Umesh Shetty Nitin Rai took over the stage, enthralled the hugely gathered audience with their wit and humor.

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Dignitaries present during the event included Air India Manager Kundan Lal, BARSA President Santhosh K. Shetty, Aangan Konkanache President Roshan Lobo along with Ex-President Arun D'Souza, Jamiattul Fallah President Mr. Muzaffar Ali, CEO of Top Taste Company Abdullah Al Qahtani. Al-Kabeer, Gulf Gate Company exhibited their stalls at the venue. Islamic book stall was arranged by Mr.B.K.Majeed, Mr.Mahfouz, Mr.S.M.Salih and Mr.Mohammed Ilyas with the support of Darusalam and distributed free translation of English and Kannada translated holy Quran and Hadith. Suncity Polyclinic organized a free Medical Check-up camp at the venue.

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The sponsors included Gulfwest Company Ltd, Darbar Restaurant, Power Electronics, Suncity Polyclinic and Top Taste Company. Support Sponsors were Universal Spare Parts, C2K Suspension, Trans Arabia Contracting, Tajmahal Restaurant, Soft Touch, AXA Insurance Company, McDonald’s, Al Kabeer, Magnum, Al Shadaif Company, Kadesiah Medical Center, Lamah Est County Club and Cityflower. Individual sponsors include Abdul Khader Binzagar, Yathiraj Malpe, Ajay Kumar, Ashwin Shetty, Mohammed Yunus, Ramesh Shetty, Suresh Suvarna, Hameed Wenz, Abdul Basheer Beary, Usman Khader, Khader Qurayath, Rafiq M.S Hanif Fakruddin, Nawaz Deera, Shareef Deera, Khader Khozama, Mehfooz, Shareef Hejamady and Iqbal Thanzeemi.

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Mohd Rizwan
 - 
Monday, 23 May 2016

Karavali Welfare Association is the best example for people of Karavali to follow. They are doing a wonderful job as they are unifying people of all faith, they make no difference while helping people. I'm proud member of Karavali. You are the BEST!!

S.M.Salih
 - 
Monday, 23 May 2016

Well organised event under the leadership of Mr.Rajesh Kumar and
Mr. Santhosh Shetty.

Indian,
 - 
Saturday, 21 May 2016

Fresh from UAE to KSA

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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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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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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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