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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CBI arrests Kamlesh Parekh after extradition from UAE in Rs 2,672 cr bank fraud case
New Delhi (PTI): The CBI has arrested Kamlesh Parekh, a fugitive wanted in a 10-year-old Rs 2,672 crore bank fraud case, after his extradition from the UAE, officials said on Saturday.
Parekh, wanted in the bank fraud case filed against Shree Ganesh Jewellery House (I) Ltd, Kolkata, was extradited from the UAE on Friday, they said.
The CBI had registered the case in 2016 against the company and others for allegedly cheating a consortium of 25 banks to the tune of Rs 2,672 crore.
“The agency had chargesheeted Parekh, the promoter of the company who had been absconding since the probe began, on December 31, 2022,” a CBI spokesperson said in a statement.
“An open-ended non-bailable warrant was issued against him in 2019, while a Red Corner Notice was issued through Interpol in 2024. The authorities in the UAE detained him on the basis of the said notice after which he was extradited to India,” the statement said.
