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Saudi in search of benefactor from Bengaluru

December 5, 2018Amazing Feats, Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Community Involvement / Social Issues, Education, Karnataka (under research project), World OpinionRoshan Baig, Roshan Baig - Chairman - Karnataka State Hajj Committee, Roshan Baig - Minister - Karnataka State Government, Saulath Unnissa, Saulath Unnissa - Bangalore, Saulath Unnissa - Bengaluru, Saulath Unnissa - Philanthropistmpositiveone@gmail.com

Bengaluru, KARNATAKA :

Saudi Arabia Ambassador to India Saud Mohammed Al-sati shared this information when he called on Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy, along with Karnataka State Haj Committee Chairman and former Minister Roshan Baig, on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: the hindu

About a 100 years ago, a woman philanthropist from Bengaluru had set up a school for girls in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

On Tuesday, many people in Bengaluru were in for a pleasant surprise when Saudi Arabia Ambassador to India Saud Mohammed Al-sati shared this information during a meeting with Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy. The ambassador informed that they had all the records pertaining to the woman, named Saulath Unnisa, and expressed a desire to honour her family members if they could be located.

Karnataka State Haj Committee Chairman and former Minister Roshan Baig told The Hindu that they would try to trace the family. “These days, we take a five-and-a-half hours flight to Jeddah for Haj or Umra. But back then, pilgrims would have to take a ship from Bombay and sail for a fortnight to reach Mecca. It is a great contribution by the lady at that time,” he said.

Saudi consulate in city

Meanwhile, one of the long-standing demands of pilgrims and the large Kannadiga diaspora in Saudi Arabia for a consulate in Bengaluru could be fructifying shortly.

According to Mr. Baig, around 50,000 pilgrims travel from Karnataka annually for Haj and Umra. This is apart from a large number of people employed in Saudi Arabia.

The ambassador is learnt to have told Mr. Kumaraswamy that work on establishing the consulate is in progress, and it is waiting for approval from the Ministry of External Affairs. The ambassador said that the number of people seeking a visa to Saudi Arabia had doubled, and that it was the reason for opening a consulate. Currently, residents of Karnataka have to travel to Mumbai for the paperwork.

Mr. Kumaraswamy welcomed the move to open a consulate in Bengaluru, and also invited Saudi Arabian businessmen to invest in Bengaluru.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Bengaluru / by Special Correspondent / December 04th, 2018

Karnataka elections 2018: Here is a list of winning Muslim candidates

May 17, 2018Community Involvement / Social Issues, Karnataka (under research project), LeadersAbdul Hameed Mushrif, Aziz Sait, B.Z. Zameer Ahmed Khan, Fairoz Nuruddin Saith, Iqbal Ansari, Iqbal Hussain H.A., Kaneez Fatima, M N Haris, Mohammad Ismail Tamatgar, Mohammed Nalpad Haris, Qamar Ul Islam-Gulbarga, Rahim Khan - Bidar, Rahim Khan - Bidar - Congress, Roshan Baig, Syed Azeempeer Khadri, Syed Yaseen, Tanveer Sait, UT Abdul Khadermpositiveone@gmail.com

KARNATAKA :

Bengaluru :

This election saw the lowest Muslim representation in Karnataka Assembly unlike the 2013 Assembly polls where number had gone up to eleven.

Only seven of the Muslim candidates won their seats and incidentally all are from Congress party. Also, five of them had won the 2013 Assembly polls on the party ticket.

Congress, the ruling party in Karnataka fielded 17 Muslim candidates, JD(S) do have Muslim candidates while the saffron party (BJP) does not have a single Muslim candidate.

Among the winners is Kaneez Fatima, the sole Muslim woman won the Gulbarga Uttar constituency by defeating Chandrakant Patil of Bhartiya Janata Party by 5,940 votes. Her husband late Qamar Ul Islam had won the seat in 2013.

Veteran politician Roshan Baig won his stronghold Shivajinagar constituency by defeating BJP leader Katta Subramanya Naidu with a margin over 15,000 votes.

UT Abdul Khader, minister for food, civil supplies and consumer affairs in the Siddaramaiah cabinet, won Mangalore constituency by 19,739 seats, defeating Santosh Kumar Rai Boliyaru of BJP by 19,737 votes. Khader won 80,813 votes while BJP’s Santosh trailed behind with 61,074.

B.Z. Zameer Ahmed Khan, former JD(S) legislator, who defected to Congress in March this year won the Chamrajpet constituency in Bangalore city by beating M Lakshminarayana of BJP with margin of 33,137 votes.

After Aziz Sait’s death, his son Tanveer Sait proved a winning horse for the party. Tanveer won the Narasimharaja constituency defeating BJP’s Sandesh Swamy by 18,127 votes. Sait is the Primary and Secondary Education Minister in the Siddaramaiah cabinet.

Mohammed Nalapad Haris or NA Haris won from Shantinagar seat with margin of 18,205 votes by defeating K Vasudevamurthy.

Rahim Khan has emerged victorious in Bidar assembly constituency with 73270 votes. The 52-year-old incumbent MLA defeated BJP’s Suryakanth Nagmarpalli who got 63025 votes.

Besides these seven winners, nine other Mulsim candidates finished at No. 2 in this poll.

Of the 222 assembly constituencies which went to polls on May 12, the Congress party has won in 78 seats, while the JD-S has won 37 seats. The BJP emerged as the single-largest party with 104 seats.

Interestingly, the Congress polled more votes this time (38 per cent) than in the 2013 assembly election, when got 36.76 per cent votes.

source: http://www.siasat.com / The Siasat Daily / Home> Bangalore> Breaking News> News> Politics> Real Estate> Top Stories / May 16th, 2018

Award for Frontline journalist

February 28, 2016Arts, Culture & EntertainmentC.M.Ibrahim, Deputy Chairman of State Planning Board, Development and Hajj, Editor, Journalist Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed, Karnataka's Minister for Infrastructure, Nasheman, Nasheman Award in Journalism, Rizwan Asad, Roshan Baig, The Nasheman Weekly, Usman Asad, Vikhar Ahmed Sayeedmpositiveone@gmail.com

Bangalore, KARNATAKA :

Frontline’s reporter in Bengaluru, Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed, has been awarded the Nasheman Award in Journalism for his contribution to journalism.

The award has been instituted in the memory of the late founder of Nasheman, Usman Asad.

The award was given at a special function that marked 55 years of the publication of “The Nasheman Weekly”, an Urdu news weekly published in Bengaluru that has a pan-Indian presence.

The jury for the selection consisted of Rizwan Asad, Editor of “The Nasheman Weekly”, and senior journalists of the newspaper.

The award was given by Karnataka’s Minister for Infrastructure, Development and Hajj, Roshan Baig, and Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Board, C.M. Ibrahim, at a function at the Press Club of Bengaluru on January 27.

source: http://www.frontline.in / Frontline / Home> The Nation> Media / Print editin: March 04th, 2016