Pacific Venture Dubai crowned ‘Gulf Champions-2016’

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February 22, 2016

Sharjah: The Gulf Sports International Limited (GSIL) has created new revolution in tennis cricket history by organizing a successful hard tennis ball tournament ‘Gulf Champions League-2016’ (GCL-2016) presented by ETG gulf stream on February 18 and 19 at Sharjah Cricket Stadium, UAE.

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The relentless efforts by the GCL committee members to unify diverse cultures and build strong teams of people engaging themselves in sports activities through a sport event were showcased on the days of the event.

GSIL was founded by like-minded cricket lovers who wanted to unite all the communities through sports and hence organized GCL-2016. For the very first time in tennis cricket history, a total cash price of AED 90,000 was awarded to the teams that entered the final.

The tournament was kick-started on Feb 18 at the Sevens Ground in Dubai. A total of 24 League matches took place on the same day. Some interesting games were played between well known teams from India, Kuwait, Saudi, Qatar and the UAE.

The tournament was played on basis of League / Knockout with maximum of 8 overs per innings. The tournament witnessed talent from all over India who displayed amazing batting and bowling skills. As many as 16 teams took part. After fine display of batting and bowling from the teams, the stage was all set for an enticing finale between Pacific Venture Dubai and Hanan Cricket Club Qatar, with crowds backing up their local teams.

Pacific Venture won the toss and elected to field as they were confident about their bowling ability. The decision seem to have gone in Pacific Venture’s side as Hanan lost wickets at regular intervals and were only able to put up a fighting score of 50/10 runs in 7.2 overs. Multi-talented Imran from Hanan Cricket Club also failed to score runs and was dismissed with clever bowling and field placement by Pacific Venture captain Yogesh Penkar.

Pacific Venture opening partnership was 30 runs in the first 2 overs with Krishna Satpute scored a quick 30 runs before walking to dugout after a mistimed shot. Captain cool Yogesh Penkar managed to achieved the target.

The concluding ceremony was held at 11.30 p.m. Shabeer conducted the prize distribution ceremony. The medallions for runner up team were presented by Asmath Ali Golden Trading Qatar and the runner up trophy was presented by Sharan Noronha to Hanan Cricket Club Qatar. The medallions for the winning team were presented by Khader Qatar and the trophy was presented by Mr.Don Dsouza.

The outstanding performance of individual cricket players was recognized in the entire tournament. Winners are as follows:

Champions: Pacific Venture Dubai (Cash Prize AED 60,000 + Trophy)
Runners Up: Hanan CC Qatar (Cash Prize AED 30,000 + Trophy)
Man of the Match (Finals): Jignesh from Pacific Ventures
Best Batsman: Kishna Satpute from Pacific Ventures
Best Bowler: Tukaram (Maharaj) from Pacific Ventures
Man of the Series: Imran Koteshwar from Hanan Cricket Club

GSIL office bearers for the year 2015-2016 are Sadhiq Kaup (President), Nasir Manjeshwar (Vice President), Mohammed Sami (Vice President), Don D’Souza (Gen. Secretary), Mohammed Irshad (Treasurer), Kadar (Public Relation Officer), Sharan Noronha (IT, Media – Head), Mohammed Niyaz KH (Digital Marketing).

Sponsors of the tournament are: GCL 2016 Tittle Sponsor Mohammed Suhem Kazi, Executive Director and Controller GCC, Gulf Stream Garments. Ajeet Life Pharmacy, Afhan from Udupi Friends Restaurant and Abusali, chairman, Nafis Group.

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Media Release
June 24,2020

The Overseas Indian Cultural Congress (OICC), Bahrain, has charted aircrafts to repatriate stranded expatriates to India. 

Boby Parayil, General Secretary, OICC National Committee, Bahrain has thanked all those who supported in this cause.

“The aircrafts were not licensed and were in crisis until the last minute. Finally, Mohammed Mansoor, president of Bahrain chapter of Indian Overseas Congress approached IOC Middle East in charge Dr Arathi Krishna, who helped get permission to operate flight to Kozhikode,” he said in a release. 

All mandatory approvals from the Foreign Ministry of Affairs and other government officials were accomplished by Dr Arathi Krishna. OICC has expressed gratitude to her for her timely support, he said. 

OICC is also grateful to former Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy for doing necessary arrangements to get all the approvals for flight landing in Kerala, he added.

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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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