Karnataka NRI Forum shares joy of Eid, Ganesha Chathurti with special children

September 3, 2011

Mangalore, September 3: Karnataka NRI Forum Jeddah organised a programme on Friday at Asha Nilaya Special Children's school, Udupi to share the joy of Eid-ul-Fitr and Ganesha Chathurti festivals with special children.

Rev Goldin Bangera, Area Chairman and Presbyter Incharge, CSI Jubilee Church inaugurated the celebration by feeding sweets and dates to the students, and praised the organizers for celebrating festivals in a unique manner.

After distributing uniforms to the students, Ln Jayakar Shetty Indrali, Lions Dist. Governor Dist. 324D 4, called upon the people to spend time with special children to understand values of life.

Chief guest Abdul Rauf Puttige, Managing Director Vishwas Bawa Builders Mangalore, appreciated NRI members of Jeddah for their desire to serve the home land.

He urged them to take some valuable project in Karnataka which will benefit the under privileged of the society.

On behalf of Hassan Asif, Member, Special Olympic medal winning Indian football team and National Body Building Champion in special children category who also a guest, his father Mr Basheer, spoke about the ways to deal with special children and urged the parents of such children to love their children instead of cursing them and identify their interest and encourage them.

Presiding over the function, Mohammad Mansoor President of Karnataka NRI Forum, called upon the people to respect each other and help the people who live below poverty line and less privileged.

SM Jaffer Treasurer Karnataka NRI forum briefed about the motto of the organisation after welcoming the gathering.

Nafeesathul Misriya, Teacher MET Public School compered the programme. More than 85 students received uniform on the occasion. Members of various organisation and prominent people from Udupi participated in the function.

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July 19,2020

Mangaluru, Jul 19: Palakkad Division of Southern Railway that has jurisdiction over Mangaluru Railway region has established a business development unit (BDU) to cater to the transportation of various sectors, including non-bulk goods traffic, namely, white goods, finished products, manufactured products, agricultural produce and raw material.

In a statement issued here on Sunday said that the BDU’s mandate was to facilitate seamless interaction between the Railways on the one hand and industry, trade representatives and rail freight customers on the other at appropriate zonal or divisional levels. The unit was also expected to help expeditious clearance of their proposals for freight movement.

Palakkad Divisional Railway Manager Pratap Singh Shami established the BDU in line with the similar unit at the zonal level with other divisions of SR too setting up similar units. Palakkad BDU would work under the supervision of Additional DRM-II CT Sakkeer Hussain while Senior Divisional Operations Manager PL Ashok Kumar was its convener with Senior Divisional Commercial Manager Jerin G Anand, Senior Divisional Mechanical Engineer KV Sundaresan and Senior Divisional Finance Manager AP Sivachandrar were its members.

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May 20,2020

Udupi, May 20: All the six fishermen were rescued from a deep-sea fishing boat, which capsized after hitting a rock near Malpe here yesterday. 

The boat was owned by Reshma Kharvi. The incident occurred while the boat was returning after fishing to Malpe harbor. 

The helmsman lost control over the boat after steering got damaged and hit the rock and damaged. 

The crew of another boat which was near to the sinking boat immediately rushed and rescued six fishermen.

Attempts to rescue the sinking boat using the yet another boat could not materialise. 

The loss is said to be about Rs 80 lakh, including Rs. 5 lakh worth items, including fish, net, and other accessories. The boat ventured from Malpe port on May 14.

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February 14,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 14: In order to bring down the accident rates, Karnataka government is planning to increase the penalty for road offences, state Transport Minister Laxman Savadi announced here on Thursday.

Addressing media persons here, he said, ''The Centre had brought an amendment to increase the penalty amount. We too have a similar proposal, which we will discuss, post the budget session.

''Before bringing in the amendment, we will create awareness among the road users. By increasing the penalty amount, the number of offences and accidents will come down,'' Mr Savadi added.

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