Abu Dhabi: Haneef Puttur wins ‘Dear Big Ticket’ contest
UAE, December 2: Mohammed Haneef, son of Balleri Abbas Haji of Aryapu village near Puttur brought laurels to the coastal district by winning ‘Dear Big Ticket’ contest organized by the Abu Dhabi Duty Free and Asianet.
Haneef Puttur is working as a software engineer at the Muhammad bin Rashid Space Centre Lab of the Dubai University and UAE zonal head of the Mangaluru M Friends.
Dear Big Ticket company has organized a contest ‘Will Fulfill Your Dream’ in last September and Haneef has applied for the contest expressing his desire to start mobile computer bus for the poor students in rural areas. According to his proposal, each mobile bus would cost Rs 2 crore as it would have highly advanced technology and take them to the schools in rural areas and teach computer.
More than 8000 persons from different countries, but settled in UAE, participated in the contest. Among them, the Dear Big Ticket company has selected only 20 persons who have big dreams and project and uploaded their names in its website and invited voting. Among top 20
contestants, Haneef also got the place. Total 1,30,000 persons have voted through online and among them top 5 contestants were selected and assured of fulfilling their dreams. Interestingly, Haneef Puttur is one among five winners.
Haneef has got highest online votes and his project was liked by the company. One of the Dear Big Ticket company directors Richard announced the result of Haneef. But it was not disclosed how much amount the company would give for the project. It is expected that the result would be disclosed within a week.
Along with Haneef, Alan Rexy Portus of Philippines, Suvarna Sanal Kumar of India, Raul Garcia of Philippines and Sara Khalid of Kenya who is in Sharjah selected in the contest.
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Kolkata, Apr 26: Authorities at the Kolkata airport on Friday received an email claiming bombs were planted at various places on its premises, triggering a frantic search across the facility, officials said.
However, the mail, which threatened that the bombs will explode at 12.55 pm, turned out to be a hoax, they said.
Security agencies at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport (NSCBIA) conducted a thorough search operation following the email, said Aishwariya Sagar, the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Airport Division of Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate.
“After carrying out an extensive search operation, the security personnel concluded that the threat was a hoax,” she said.
Airport authorities, the CISF and the Bidhannagar Police are jointly carrying out an investigation to determine the origin and sender of the email, the officials said.
“We are in the process of tracking the origin of the email,” Sagar said.
