NRI Digest

Abu Dhabi, Jul 31: A large number of people took part in the fellowship Iftar party organised by the Sahebaan Business Community (SBC) at the Indian Social Centre here recently. The SBC has been organising annual Iftar parties for the last ten years and has now become a quite familiar and sought after programme among the Muslims of the coastal districts of Karnataka residing in Abu Dhabi. The

Abu Halifa, Jul 31: The Fahaheel and Abu-Halifa units of Indian Muslim Association – Kuwait in cooperation with Islam Presentation Committee organised an interfaith iftar party at Sheikh Bader Ahmed Sabah hall, Abu Halifa. Delivering a lecture on ‘Know your creator’, NRI activist Sharafuddin Soofi, said that belief in the God will have major implication in every aspect of every individual’s life

Dubai, Jul 31: Nama Tuluveru, UAE, joined the ‘Donate Blood save a Life Campaign' its blood donation drive on Sunday, July 28. Due to Ramadan the programme started at 8:30 p.m. at Latifa Hospital (old Al Wasl Hospital) Dubai. Donors came in large numbers voluntarily to participate in the event registered themselves in the counter and donated blood and returned back with a promise of coming back

Jeddah, Jul 31: Indian Engineers Forum, Jeddah chapter, conducted a seminar on stress management along with Iftar party at a restaurant here recently. The programme started with recitation of holy Quran by Treasurer of the Forum Engineer Ubaid Qureshi. A multimedia presentation on stress management, presented by AlAman Ahmad, Chairman Mechanical Sub-Committee, shed some light on, causes, effects

Kuwait City, Jul 28: Ladies wing of Indian Muslim Association-Kuwait, which works towards development of Muslim women in Kuwait, hosted a customary annual Iftar get-together recently at Masjid Yousef Al-Adsani, here. More than 250 women participated in the event. The programme started with recitation of the holy Quran. Umm Younus and Umm Safiyya from IMA ladies wing delivered speeches. First

Dubai, Jul 28: Dubai International Quran Awards presented by Dubai Government had a touch of Karnataka in it with special invitee of the programme, Karnataka Wakf Board President N K Shafi Saadi delivering his talk in Kannada. Abdul Latheef Saadi Payassi delivered his talk on ‘Manukulakke Margadarshi Pravaadi’ and said that in the present day contaminated world, selfishness has taken over all

Dubai, Jul 25: An atmosphere of religious harmony prevailed at the Iftar get-together organised by the Bearys Cultural Forum at Iranian Club, Karama, here, recently wherein Muslim families and the members of different faiths and religious were brought together under one platform. The programme commenced at around 5 p.m. with the recitation of the verses of holy Quran followed by the quiz, talk on

Dubai, Jul 25: Vishawakarma Seva Samiti, which had recently announced a blood donation camp, has postponed the same event to August 6, at Latif Hospital from 7.30 p.m onwards. Since blood donation centre already had some other commitment on the same day and also due to unavoidable circumstances the postpone is being made in a short notice, stated a media release. VKSS has requested all its members

Jeddah, Jul 23: The Jeddah unit of Mangalore based NGO Jamiyyatul Falah hosted a grand Iftar party on Saturday, July 20, at Village Restaurant in Azizia district, here. A large number of members, guests and well wishers of Jamiyyatul Falah took part in the event along with their family members. The event was sponsored by Basem International Shipping & Logistics Co. Ltd Jeddah. Addressing the

Qatar, Jul 22: Niyaz Ahmed from Chikamagalur was unanimously elected as the President of Karnataka Muslim Cultural Association, (KMCA) an affiliated organization to ICC under the aegis of the Embassy of India, for the year 2013 -2014 at the Annual General Body meeting and annual Iftar held at Mazza Restaurant recently. The other members who were elected to the committee are as follows: Vice