Kuvempu Kalaa Utsava - Vishwa Kannada Sammelana Abu Dhabi-2012 celebrated

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January 29, 2012

Abu Dhabi, January 29: Bangalore based Vishwamanava Rashtrakavi Kuvempu Kalaniketana, in association with Abu Dhabi Karnataka Sangha organised the 'Kuvempu Kalaa Utsava - 2nd Vishwa Kannada Sammelana Abu Dhabi 2012' at Sheikh Zayed Auditorium in Abu Dhabi Indian School, here on Friday, January 27.

A procession with traditional drums and horns led the group of invitees from the main entrance to the hall where the programme is scheduled decorated with beautiful banner.

The programme started with lighting the lamp by the invited guests and prayer song by Divya Sharma and Group from Abu Dhabi followed by regional patriotic song by Rathnamala Prakash and Group of Bangalore who sang "bharatha jananiya thanujathe...jaya he Karnataka maate". It is said to be that the group who sang this song holds a Guinness world record for being played 3600 times in one stage.

Mangala Shetty welcomed the gathering and presented audio/video presentation on the day's programme with details of the legendary great Kannada poet Kuvempu (K.V. Puttappa).

The event was inaugurated by Sri Kumarachandrashekaranatha Swamiji in the presence of Padmashree Dr. B R Shetty, Patron UAE Kannadiga's followed by Guest of Honours, Rajannna, Senior BJP leader, Eliyas Sanctis, D. Prakash Dr. D Javre Gowda, Kannada Poet Dr.Malali Vasantha Kumar, Sarvotham Shetty and Sammelana President Dr. (Mrs) Latha Rajashekar. Other guests include Zafarula Khan Mandya, Dr. Rajashekar, Shivanand Hebbar, Srinivas Srirangam, Sachindranath Shetty and others.


D. Prakash, President of Vishwamanava Rashtrakavi Kuvempu Kalaniketana delivered inaugural address, while Sarvotham Shetty President of Abu Dhabi Karnataka Sangha gave a welcome speech and did the honours to the Sponsors.

Kuvempu Antharashtriya Manava Prashasti were honoured to Zafarulla Khan Mandya, Rajanna, Laxminarayan V.N., Elias Sanctis, Dr. B.R. Shetty and Dr. Chandrakumari B.R. Shetty, Dr. Malali Vasanth Kumar, Sarvotham Shetty, Dr. Prakash, Satish Kumar Hosmani, Shekar B. Shetty, Srinivas Srirangam, Dharmapal Devadiga, Ramesh B.V., Satish Venkataramana, D. Rajaramanna, Rathnamala Prakash, B.G. Mohandas, Shivkumar Mangdi, Shivanand Hebbar, Anil Basagi, Pravin Shetty, Ravish Gowda, Krishnappa Bangalore, N.S. Krishnappa, Roopa & G. Nagaraj. There was a book release on Ex-CM of Karnataka, S.M. Krishna by B.H. Suresh followed by special HMT watch release and 'Parisara' CD of Suresh Babu released during the function.

A janapada nrutya titled 'Jaathre' was beautifully presented followed by semi classical dance "jaya bharata jananiya thanujathe jaya hay karnataka maate" by Sri Vidya & Group excellently presented. Then was 'Kamsale' dance by Rani Abbakka Group of Dubai followed by "Hacchevu Kannadadha Deepa" solo well presented by Kumari Srilakshmi of J.M. Palya Bangalore was widely applauded.

Soon was farmers’ song melodiously rendered by Kikkeri Krishnamoorthy, Sandhya Iyer, B.N. Suresh, Roopa Upadhyaya & Savithri Bidhari Prasad of Adarsha Sugama Sangeetha Academy of Karnataka. Later Harish Sherigar of Acme Building Materials Dubai presented "Noorondu Nenepu Yedeaaladindha" & "Aaseya Bhaava" Kannada filmy songs in his melodious voice.


Film and TV artist Nagaraj Kote took the audience to the laughter world with his humours speach. Nagaraj Kote is being credited with various awards back in India and here on the stage Dr. B.R. Shetty felicitated him with garland & memento. C.R. Jadav, a well-known advocate invitee was also felicitated during the function.

There was a delicious buffet lunch served by Foodlands Hotel, Abu Dhabi with both vegetable and non-vegetable dishes including 'payasa' and 'laddu'.


Soon after the noon-break was "Shamanthaka" Kannada Yakshagana Ballet well presented by Yakshmitraru Dubai. Sri Vidya & Group presented a dance drama titled "Kuvempu Madhura Nritya" followed by another dance drama "Sathya Harishchandra" presented by Anitha Anand Kumar & Group of Sirigandha Mahila Mandali BG.

Later Literature Summit was conducted with Dr. D. Javregowda, Latha Rajshekar, Malali Vasanth Kumar, Maayi Gowda & B. H. Suresh.


Kuvempu Vishwa Kannada Ratna International Awards were presented to K. Nagaraj, Prakash Rao Payyar, Mamata, Kikkeri Krishnamoorthy, Arshad Hussain, Ganesh Rai, Arun Muthugadhur, Savitha Naik, K.R. Tantri, Chidanand Poojary, Gopinath Rao, Pratima Shetty, Jayanth Shetty, Mangala Shetty, Vishwanath Shetty, Rajesh Kathar, Anitha Anand, Ramesh, B.H. Suresh, Dr. Shanker, Bhupendra Kumar Shetty, Dr. Anil Kumar, H.N. Ramachandra, Ramanajaanappa, Jyothiba, Choodamani, Girish, Padma, Jagannath Ganiga, Gopalakrishna, D. Prakash, Sarvotham Shetty, Latha Rajshekar, Divya Sharma, Irshad Moodabidri, B.N. Shekar, Malali Vasanth Kumar, Mayi Gowda and Members of Abu Dhabi Karnataka Sanga.


Sri Kumarachandrashekaranatha Swamiji was felicitated and in return he spoke few words highlighting non-resident Kannadigas who have really kept the Karnataka flag flying high up and also on the importance of our traditional values which is one of the richest tradition in the world.


Sammelana President Dr. Latha Rajashekar, a well known poetess herself has to her credit, various poems for the first time written on Lord Budha, Lord Jesus Christ, Basavanna etc gave a formal speech beautifully thanking each and every one for making the 'Sammelana' possible here in Abu Dhabi. Followed were Zafarulla Khan Mandya & the well known poet Dr. Javere Gowda an ardent follower of Kuvempu rendered brief speeches on the great national poet Kuvempu.

Abu Dhabi Karnataka Sangha felicitated Dr. Javre Gowda, Sammelana President Dr. Latha Rajashekar, Dr. Malali Vasanth Kumar & D. Prakash with flower and memento. The proceedings were done by Shekar Shetty, Zafarulla Khan, Sudhir Shetty & Shivanand Hebbar along with Swamiji. Media personalities were called upon and felicitated along with Satish Poojary who was elected as the new president of Sharjah Karnataka Sangha recently.

Choodamani of Dollu Kunitha Thanda Sagara presented the 'dollu kunitha' the first solo done by an elderly woman elsewhere.


Followed was 'hanigavana' chaired by Irshad Moodabidri, Arthur Pereira, Nagaraj Kote, Avanish Bhat and Arshad Hussain humoursly created and presented.

In the concluding stage, Ratnamala Prakash, Kikkeri Krishnamoorthy and group continued with melodious hair raising songs followed by guest artists Smt. Vijaya Satyanaryana from Bahrain and Anil Basagi from Muscat performing golden memories of Kannada Cinema duets titled 'amara madhura geethe'. At the end of the programme a lucky draw was conducted.

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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
March 2,2020

MOGAVEERS ASSOCIATION Affiliated KUWAIT, to Indian embassy Kuwait, the community welfare association of non-resident Mogaveeras, based in Kuwait Fo the fourth time MAK organised, National level Volleybal & Throw Ball Tournament under the title of “MAK Champion Trophy 2020 “on 25th February 2020. The tournament was held at American Internation Schoo Maidan Hawally,Kuwait.

The tournament coincided with the National day of Kuwait celebration The weather was pleasant, the participants & the MAK members were all geared up for the tournament. 

The day long tournament commenced at 7.30 am with a parade of all the participating Teams the MAK Managemen Committee Volunteers & th guests. The grand opening was led by talented committee member Mr.Suresh Salian.On behalf of MAK Management Committee Mrs Poonam Mendon & Mr.Nishanth Salian, the host for the day welcomed the gathering. This was followed by Kuwait & Indian National Anthem.

The chief Guests of the day were Mr.Anant Kapadia who is the chairman o Indian Bussiness & professionl Counil Kuwait & Mr.P.K Venkat De Chief operating Office of Art of livingTheother guest for the day was Mr.Suresh Shyam Raowho is a Freelance Press reporter fo web new portals & print media. The guests were presented with a flore Bouquet Mr.Ramesh Kidiyoor Convenor & Founder President of MAK was honou for his excellent service & contribution towards MAK Mrs Monika Cornelio Co-ordinator of Kuwait Konkan (Throw Ball)& Mr Noel Cutniha Manage of Boubyan Stikers(Volle Ba were honoured for their excellent contribution towards sports in Kuwait & also for their outstanding support for MAK.

Mr.Chennara MK Senior member of MAK was honoured with a momemto bouquet for his excellent service & contribution towards MAK ,as he was leaving Kuwait for good.

Mr.Rajesh Mendon, President of MAK in his speech welcomed the gathering and stressed the importance of playing with true sportsman spirit and thanked all the teams for their support as this event is done for MAK welfare projects. The guests in their speech encouraged the players & conveyed their best wishes and good luck to the participating teams and organizers.

The president of MAK Mr.Rajesh Mendon ,Convenor Mr.Ramesh Kidiyoor along with the chief guest inaugurated the Volley Ball & Throw Ball tournament by cutting the ribbon .The Medals & trophies of the tournament were unveiled by sports Secretary Mr.Arun Mendon and PRO & Welfare officer Mr.Jaya Kotian.

Mrs Geetha Suvarna Committee member of MAK Along with Mrs Monika Cornelio inaugurated the Throw ball Court & Mr.Sachidananda Suvarna Vice president of MAK along with Guests ianugrated the Volley ball Court by servicing the ball.

The other guests for the day Mr.Wilson Dsouza-Expresident Tulukoota, Mr.Tharendra Shettigar Expresident Tulukoota, Mr.Vijay Wilson Gen Secretary Tulukoota, Mr.Roshan Quadras Sports Secretary Tulukoota ,Mr.Lional Mascarenhas Welfare Officer Tulukoota , Mr.Manoj Bangera-Advisor Billava Sangha, Mrs Sushma Manoj Vice President of Billava Sangha, Mr.Lawrence Pinto,Mr.Ganesh Hegde, Mr.Vakas Khan & Mr.Sudakar Shetty Convenor of Tulukoota. All of them were honoured with a bouquet.

The participating Volley Ball Teams were as below

Bayan Salmiya, Boubyan Strikers, Riggae Volley, Kunjal Friends,Salmiya Spikers, KSAC, MKV stikers

The participating Throw Ball Teams were as below

Canara Eleven, Dragon Sorpions Queens,Warriors, Kuwait Konkans A,Alfa, Kuwait Konkans B & Scorpions

The volleyball inaugural first round match started between Bayan Salmiya & Salmiya Spikers & the first round of throw ball inaugural match was between Canara Eleven & Warriors. The teams played with full enthusiasm and viewers enjoyed and experienced the spectacular show. As the day progressed matches kept rolling one after another.

The Event Sponsors were TVS Travels & Cargo Co. WLL
Gold Sponsor were Oriental Restaurant Kuwait,Silver Sponsor Badar Al Samah Medical center 

Bestwishes from Vision Direct logistics, Mr.Wilson D'Souza & family & Mrs Monika Cornelia 

Printing of Raffle was sponsored By Turmeric Restaurant

The referees for Volley Ball were Mr.Alexander Mathew & Mr.Sajan Samuel

The referees for Throw Ball were Mr.Ivan Dsouza & Mr.Arun Mendon.

The scorers for Throw Ball Team were Mrs.Geetha Suvarna, Mr.Rakshith Suvarna & Mr.Ganesh Hegde

The scorers for Volley ball team were Mr.Kishore Kotian, Mr.Nithin Suvarna & Mr.Santhosh Kunder

The announcements was done by Mr.Girish Mehta & Mr.Kishore Kotian

Sumptuous Breakfast, Lunch & snacks was provided by Bollywood Restaurant

Beautiful moments of the day was captured by the Mr.Rajesh Devadiga

Design of Brochure & Banner by Mr.Sachidanada Suvarna.

Wonderful Back ground Music By DJ Mr.Ronald D'Souza Mulky

Sound System was provided by Anand Sounds

Winners

The Volley Ball ended with a finale of Final matches between MKV Strikers & Team Boubyan Strikers After a tough Battle between the two strong teams, Team Boubyan Strikers bagged the Winners Trophy & Team MKV Strikers were declared the First Runner up.The second runners up trophy was won by Reggai Volley. MAK Player of the tournament for Volley Ball was secured by Mr.Rahul of Team Boubyan Strikers.

On the other hand, throw ball tournament ended with League matches. Team Dragon Scorpion Queens defeated the opponents and became the winners for the Fourth Consecutive year. 1st Runners up was won by Kuwait Konkans A and Team Alfa stood up as the 2nd Runners. MAK Player of the tournament for throw ball was secured by Ms. Hancil Pinto of Team Dragon Scorpion Queens. 

Prize distribution ceremony

Mr.Firoz Manager of TVS Cargo & Travels Co,Mr.Sathischandra Shetty Owner of Oriental restaurant, Mr.Chandrahas Shetty- PRO & Expresident Tulukoota Graced the prize distribution ceremony As a token of respect they were presented with a floret Bouquet

President Mr.Rajesh Mendon, Convenor Mr. Ramesh Kidiyoor along with the guest awarded the trophies and medals to winners, whereas the MAK members gave away the trophies & medals to runners up team & the individual achievers. 

A Raffle Draw was conducted by MAK & the winners are as below

1st Prize : Mr.Muruganathan
2nd Prize : Mrs.Lancy Fernandes
3rd Prize : Mr.Ganesh Kotian 

The 10 consolation prize winners were Yadav Reggai, Athaulla, Imtiyaz, Irin Dsouza, Arif, Prakash Poojary, Pranavi Laksh, Ajith Kumar & Sudesh

In her vote of Thanks Mrs.Poonam Mendon thanked each and everyone who were responsible for the success of the tournament, Participants,sponsor's, organisers, MAK Vounteers, MAK management Committee & Executive Committee. Finally a special thanks was given to the Management & Staff of American International School Maidan Hawally for the awesome venue. 

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Media Release
July 30,2020

Jeddah: The first chartered flight for repatriation passengers from Jeddah to Bengaluru organized by Karnataka NRI Forum Jeddah – Saudi Arabia was successfully landed at Bengaluru airport by 01.00 am on 19th July 2020.

Spice Jet (SG9884) departed from King Abdul Aziz International Airport Jeddah by 05.00 pm local time with 177 stranded passengers which includes 12 Pregnant Woman, 3 infants, 44 Short term visa holders, 3 medical emergency patients and 115 migrate workers and labours from various districts of Karnataka state.

Karnataka NRI Forum Jeddah, a registered charitable organization under Government of Karnataka & Indian Consulate Jeddah - Saudi Arabia, helping the Kannadigas overseas & in Karnataka State as well, has initiated major role for helping stranded Kannadigas to travel back to home. During Pandemic hundreds of stranded Kannadigas were approached to the forum and requested to arrange special chartered flight to Bengaluru from Jeddah.

Initiating from collecting the data of passengers, the forum’s special panel including its President Mr. Mohammed Mansoor, Secretary Mr. Peter Mascarenes, Vice Presidents Mr. Nasir Khurshid, Dr.Ashfaque Maniyar, Chief Coordinator Mr. Shaikh Saoud, Cultural Secretaries Mr. Arifulla Shariff and Mr. Rajesh Suvarna, Treasurer Mr. Habib Rahman and Press Secretary Mr. Baig, the forum’s members have worked very hard to conclude this task very successful. 

The forum provided food packets as refreshment, complementary PPE kitsto each passenger as precaution against the spread of any infections while travelling and also guided all passengers by supporting them in Awdha portal (Saudi Passport Department) and Seva Sindhu portal registration of Government of Karnataka.

The official travel partner ITL Travel Management Company has rendered remarkable service to the passengers not only in ticketing but also supported with top priority in confirming the aircraft from SPICE JET and availed good service from ground staff at Jeddah Airport. 

All passengers have reached safely to their homes after completing the 7 days institutional quarantine at Bengaluru. 100% passengers had NEGETIVE report on Covid-19 test made on arrival as well as after institutional quarantine. 

In the press release published from the President, Mr. Mohammed Mansoor has expressed his prodigious gratitude to the Ambassador of India to Saudi Arabia H. E. Dr. Ausaf Sayeed, Deputy Consul General of India - Jeddah Mr. Y Saber and Chief Minister of Karnataka State Shri B. S. Yediyurappafor providing necessary approvals and NOC for the chartered flight operation. He also conveyed his boundless appreciationto Shri B. Y. Raghavendra, Member of Parliament Shimoga District (Karnataka) for his swift support extended to the forum and as well to Dr. Aarathi Krishna, Ex-Deputy Chairperson – NRI Forum of Karnataka – Government of Karnataka for her significant guidance and support on completing this mission.

The forum has thanked all the officers in King Abdul Aziz International Airport Jeddah and Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru for the facilities provided to the passengers. The Forum has thanked all passengers travelled for their calmness and also thanked to all other members of the forum, Staff of ITL Travels and SPICE JET for their tremendous support extended throughout the mission accomplishment.

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