NRI Digest

Doha, Feb 26: South Kanara Muslim Welfare Association, Doha, Qatar (SKMWA), an affiliated forum at ICC, with members hailing from coastal Karnataka, held its 20th General Body Meeting in Mazza Restaurant to elect the new committee for 2013. The meeting started with recitation of the verses of Holy Qu'ran by Mr Ayooub Ullal. President Abdualla Monu welcomed the gathering and elaborated on the forum

Riyadh Feb 24: The ‘JF winter Festival 2013’, a unique programme of Riyadh unit of Jamiyyatul Falah attracted a large number of Nonresident Indian families and individuals. The evening programme held at Al Rushd Isthara in Riyadh on Thursday, February 21, also marked the silver jubilee celebration of the award winning Mangalore based philanthropic NGO. JF Riyadh unit president Mohammed Mubeen in

Riyadh, Feb 24: In the wake of Coastaldigest.com’s successful campaign that materialised long pending dream of establishing direct aviation link between Mangalore and Dammam, the Riyadh unit of Jamiyyatul Falah has urged the Mangalore based news portal to continue its struggle for the commencement of Riyadh-Mangalore direct flight. Handing over a feasibility study report prepared by JF Riyadh unit

Dubai, Feb 23: Karnataka Sunni Youth Club, UAE, Gulf Karnataka Sunni Forum, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait Karnataka Sunni Association will be merged into one unit under ‘Karnataka Jamiyyatul Ulema’ named Karnataka Cultural Forum. Udupi district Khazi Ibrahim Musliyar, Bekal, addressing the gathering, after accepting the felicitation by Karnataka Sunni Youth Club in Dubai, appreciated the efforts of

Jeddah, Feb 21: Guidance of Prophet Muhammad is sufficient to resolve the issues like poverty, insecurity, fear and to build the new society with equal rights and justice in the modern world, said Masood Adnadi, President, IFF, Western Province, Saudi Arabia. He was delivering speech on at the valedictory programme of IFF’s month long campaign ‘Pravadi Sandesha 2013’ held at ‘Impala Compound’ in

Al-Khobar, Feb 20: A delegation of Saudi Arabia based West coast NRI Forum led by its President Farooq Sabandari met Air India Manager in Saudi Arabia Rinchen Tshering in his office on Wednesday at Al-Khobar to express their happiness over the commencement of Air India Express direct flight operation between Mangalore and Dammam. Mr.Rinchen welcomed the Forum officials and explained the

Dubai, Feb 20: Emirates India Fraternity Forum (EIFF) conducted a massive campaign among the expatriates in the U.A.E with theme ‘Be loyal to UAE, make use of Amnesty’ recently. The volunteers of EIFF managed to meet more than 20,000 people during the programme and distributed pamphlets in areas like Bur Dubai, Deira, Karama, Al Quoz, Jebel Ali, Satwa, Sonapur, Musaffah, Abu Dhabi city, Al Ain

Qatar, Feb 20: Bunts Qatar finally witnessed its maiden and much awaited sports and recreation day on February 15 at New Family Wakrah Beach where over 150 people came and took part in the fun filled events. The event was started through hoisting of Bunts Qatar Flag by the President Ravi Shetty along with Vice-President Prakash Ajila ,Sports Secretary Uday Shetty,Treasurer Dhananjay Shetty,Ladies

Al-Jubail, Feb 18: Toastmasters’ International (area 63, division E, District 79), Al-Jubail conducted a host of competitions as a part of its annual speech competitions. The competitions were held in four main catagories, viz- evaluation, humour speech, table topic and international speech. Surprisingly one name outdid everyone else thereby emerging as winner in all the categories. Safare

Dubai, Feb 19: The UAE based Bearys Cultural Forum (BCF) recently held its ninth annual general meeting at Hotel Bangalore Umpire Auditorium, Dubai. The evening saw Beary men and women from Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and other parts of UAE participating in large numbers in the programme. A mass recitation of Maulood was held prior to the general meeting under the leadership of M E Moolur. Dr B K