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Blue Stars Dammam wins Expertise Cup – 2013

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May 21, 2013

Jubail, May 21: Blue Stars Dammam won by 4 runs against Al Falah Jubail in the finals of Expertise Cup – 2013, a knockout cricket tournament organised by Expertise Contracting Company at Jubail.

Al Falah won the toss and invited Blue Stars to bat first. Blue Stars openers failed to give good start against fine blowing from Al Falah. They lost two vital wickets when the score was 45 in sixth over. At this situation good striker of the ball Majeed joined Imran and both played magnificently and smashed Al Falah bowlers all over the ground. The duo added valuable 44 runs in just 12 balls. At the end Blue Stars were able to have economical total of 89 in allotted 8 over. Majeer remained not out with 28 runs while Imran scored 20.

Chasing a target of 90 runs, Al Falah opener played brilliantly and scored 43 runs in 4 over with one wicket loss. Tauseef, who took the challenge, destroyed Blue Stars bowling.

However, gradually, Al Falah batsmen found it very difficult to score runs against fine bowling performance by Shameem and left hander Haris, as they lost two good wickets in this crucial stage of the game. Al Falah scored 71 runs in sixth over. In the remaining 12 balls Al Falah needed another 19 runs to win the finals. Al Falah middle order batsman tried to score required run but succeeded to score only 15 runs taking the total score of the team to 86 in allotted 8 over. Blue Stars won the match by 4 runs.

Earlier in the first semifinals Blue Stars won the match against Eastern Blues by 4 runs. Batting first, Blue Stars scored 83 and in reply Eastern Blues were able to reach 79. In the second semifinals Nexus made 76 runs and in reply Al Falah easily reached target of 77.

Tauseef, of Al Falah awarded with Best Batsman and Man of the Tournament for his all-round performance throughout the tournament.  Fayaz of Al Falah of Awarded with best bowler of the Tournament.

The organizer awarded the teams and players with winners / runner up and individual trophies.

As many as 16 teams from the Eastern Region took part in this two week-long tournament.

The management and tournament organizing committee of Expertise Contracting Company, thanked all the teams for their participation and support while conducting this tournament.

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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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Media Release
July 6,2020

Doha: Selvam aged 46 son of Subramanian hailing from Panakulam Village, Alangudi, Pudukkottai District in Tamilnadu province who worked as a technician, died in Qatar on April 24.

Due to challenging situation prevailing in both India & Qatar for body repatriation services, especially in Covid-19 atmosphere, Family is unable to progress further for past 2 months. At his stage Family of the deceased met Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), Pudukkottai office bearers and requested to intervene and help out, and also agreed to bury the body in Qatar itself.

Hence, SDPI delegates communicated with well-known Indian Expatriate welfare Organization - Qatar Indian Social Forum (QISF). QISF General Secretary Basheer Ahamed, Secretary Abdullatheef Madikeri and 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 within a short period of time and arranged for a peaceful burial of Mr. Selvam in Dukhan cemetery.

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Media Release
August 9,2020

Kuwait City, Aug 9: Indian social forum organised Blood Donation Camp in association with central blood bank kuwait on Friday, 7th August 2020.

The forum organised camp to support the high demand of blood in the context of COVID-19.

All arrangements to maintain COVID-19 protocol were made in the camp including segregation of donors as branch wise batches along with strict safety measures of participants.

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

Hundreds of people donated blood in the camp. The camp organised in Blood Bank, Jabriya was successfully managed by Dr. Asma Rafat and leaders of Indian social forum Vice President Aslam, Secretory Sayyid Bukhari Thangal, Moideen Koya, Khaleel, Aseem, Mohammed Sha, Shihab, Naushad,
Indian Social Forum expressed their deep appreciation and gratitude to the doctors, staff and management of blood bank, forum’s members and donors.



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