Riyadh: Karavali Bulls win Karavali Kabaddi championship-2018

Media Release
January 27, 2018

Riyadh: Karavali Welfare Association Riyadh Saudi Arabia conducted tis maiden national level Kabaddi championship at Riyadh on January 19 at H.F.Stadium, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

KWAR president Santhosh Shetty welcomed the guests and sponsors as well as all the Kabaddi enthusiasts gathered in the stadium. Generous contributions from KWARs well-wishers’ Universal Spare parts Abdul Latif, Taj Restaurant’s Kevin Nazareth, Hi Chef restaurants Shameer Rahiman, Sallap Shetty Udupi, Bhaskar K C. Jagadish Shetty, Prasanna Rao, Yathiraj Malpe, Nelson Dsouza, Mahesh Hegde, Rajesh Kumar, Hamid Nazir, Usman Gulvadi, Irfan Abubaker, Ramesh Shetty, Iqbal Tanzeem, Prakash Shetty, Hussain Shaafi, Dilip Kumar, G.K. Sheik, Santhosh Shetty Ardi, were able to make this Championship A DREAM COME TRUE. All the Sponsors were felicitated with flower bouquet.  Vice president Muzaffar Ali,  General Secretary Nelson Dsouza, Treasurer Mahesh Hegde, Former President Rajesh Kumar, Former President of MASA Dammam Narendra Shetty & Gopal Shetty were at the dais.

A total number of 9 teams Participated in this Premium event, who came from as far as Jeddah, Jubail, Alhasa and Dammam. The following teams participated in the championship: 1. Karavali Bulls 2. Sultan Attackers 3. Karavali Super Riders 4. Jubail Friends 5. Bhatkal Community Jeddah 6. Classic Friends Puttur 7. Universal Riyadh Indians 8. ISF AlHasa 9. Arab Traders.

The tourney began at 4 p.m., after the event was inaugurated by Abu Abdullah, the owner of H.F. Sports Stadium along with our Major sponsors and after the players were given oath of spirit of sportsmanship by KWARS former President Rajesh Kumar. The game was wide open and it was a surprise treat for the huge numbers of Kabaddi loving spectators gathered in the stadium, irrespective of a Chilly Fridayevening. After the League Matches among the 9 teams with 3 groups, 6 teams were qualified and divided in to 2 groups and 2 each from these groups were qualified to play semifinals of the mega Kabaddi championship. Karavali Bulls, Bhatkal Community Jeddah, ISF Alhasa and Classic Friends Puttur Qualified and reached the semi-finals, with mesmerizing Kabaddi play which enthralled the Huge crowd who were at their toes.  It was a history day for Karavali Welfare Association Riyadh, the organization with a “Unity is Our Strength” slogan stepping in to their 10th Glorious Years in service of needy Indians.

The first semi-final payed between Bhatkal community Jeddah and Classic Friends Puttur saw some wonderful see-saw battle between both the teams but All-round play by Bhatkal Community Team won the place in first ever FINALS of Karavali Kabaddi Championship 2018.  The second Semifinal played between the Multi-Talented Karavali Bulls and ISF Alhasa team.  ISF Alhasa fought valiantly to surrender to the much stronger Karavali bulls who reached the Finals to play for championship match against Bhatkal Community Jeddah. 

The final match was a match between two top Kabaddi teams of Saudi Arabia. As expected the huge crowd did not miss the thrilling entertainment these two top teams provided to the gathered who were there to watch the final at the wee hours of midnight defying a cold and breezy weather to cheer up their respective teams. After a few early hiccups, Star studded Karavali Bulls Lead by captain cool Suraj Shetty deservingly won the championship-2018 with final score of 27-10.  The crowd and supporters of Karavali Bulls were ecstatic and the history was created in this first ever national level Kabaddi championship, well organized by Karavali Welfare Association Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The scorers were Murali, Jaykar Poojary and Ashwat Rai did a commendable job. Abbas Mani, Dilip Kumar, Bhaskar Salian and Siraj ably supported Chief Referee Mr. Sandip Shetty to conduct all the matches in a free and fair manner.

This championship wouldn’t have been successful without the special efforts from Our executive members, and KWAR members specially Rajesh Kumar Prasanna Rao Mahesh Hegde,  Irfan Abubaker, Nelson Dsouza, Anoop Shetty Subhash Shetty, Jagannath Kotian, Gopinath, Bhaskar Salian , Murali, Suraj Shetty, Umesh Shetty, Arjun Murthy, Sudhir Shetty  Salman Nour, Yathiraj Malpe, Hussain Shafi,  Varun Shetty, Sunil Hegde, Bhaskar P. M. Shrikant Hejamadi, Nazeer Ahmad, G.k.Sheikh, Iqbal Tanzeem, Jayakar Poojary, Ashwath Rai, Dilip Kumar and Nitin Rai Kukkuvalli.

KARAVALI BULLS were represented by Captain Suraj Shetty. Arjun Murthy, Mohd Fakruddin, Sudhir Shetty, Rashid Badsha, Mohd Farooq, Varun Shetty, Mohd Razak, Raja and Manager Prasanna Rao. Kabaddi Fans are reminded that KARAVALI BULLS were the Reigning CHAMPIONS of KABADDI Tournament conducted by NRI Sports Federation at Jeddah in March last year.

The following were the winners of Kabaddi Championship 2018:

1.    The Champions         : KARAVALI BULLS RIYADH

2.    Runners Up               : BHATKAL COMMUNITY JEDDAH

3.    Best Disciplined Team    : JUBAIL FRIENDS

4.    Best Rider                : MOHD.FAKRUDDIN, KARAVALI BULLS

5.    Best Catcher           : RASHID BADSHA, KARAVALI BULLS

6.    Man of the Tournament: MOHD. HAMAD SIDDIQA, BHATKAL COMMUNITY JEDDAH

All the winners were presented with Medals and Champions and Runners up were Presented with Trophies and Cash prizes. Referee Sandeep Shetty who came specially from Dammam to supervise the Kabaddi matches was felicitated by KWAR President Santhosh Shetty. Mr. Santhosh Shetty Thanked all Executive committee members, members of KWAR, Sponsors, and all guests as well as All the Kabaddi Fans gathered in the stadium. He specially thanked national Kabaddi player Sukesh Hegde who sent his best wishes to KWAR management for the success of Kabaddi championship. KWAR President urged everyone to join hands with KWAR cause.   event ended with a recitation of the National Anthem.

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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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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
April 16,2020

Dammam: President of Indian Social Forum, Eastern Province Mr.Wasim Rabbani urged immediate intervention of Indian government to help Non Residential Indians who are in trouble due to corona pandemic in Saudi Arabia.

He said in a press rease that expatriate Indians are in concern  as number of corona infected people and  deaths are increasing in danger level.

Hea said, "the Saudi health minister's statement a few days ago indicates that the situation in Saudi needs to be taken more seriously with precautionary methods. There are concerns among expatriates because the number of people infected with the coronavirus and the number of deaths reported in various provinces are increasing at an alarming rate."

"Saudi Government and Health Ministry are taking excellent precautionary measures, however, in the coming days expect to see the number of cases to increase in Saudi Arabia. The Indian government needs to take diplomatic and immediate intervention to ensure the treatment of Indian expatriates considering the number of effected people increasing", He said.

He also urged that the Embassy and the Government of India should ensure qaurantiane faculty for Indian expatriates and arrange special low cost flights to bring back expatriates who would like to return home country.

" Government of India and Indian embassy need to intervene immediately to ensure that the quarantine system is in place for Indian expatriates as the facilities in the rooms where the residents are staying together are very limited. There should also be a mechanism to organize low-cost flight services for expatriates who are ready to go home. The government system should also be able to accommodate the expatriates in special quarantine areas in hometown as soon they arrive in India", he urged.

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