Vishwa Tulu Sammelana from Nov 23: Sheikh Nahyan Mubarak Al Nahyan to be chief guest
Dubai: Shaikh Nahyan Mubarak Al Nahyan will be the chief guest for the Vishwa Tulu Sammelan-2018, which is being jointly organised by the Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy and Akhila Bharatha Tulu Okkoota at Al-Nasar Liesureland Ice Rink Indoor Stadium in Dubai from November 23.
Dharmasthala Dharmadhikari Dr. D. Virendra Hegde, NRI Businessman BR Shetty, Bishop Peter Paul Saldana, Mangaluru, Bishop Henri D'Souza Ballary, Shri Sugunendra Teertha Swamiji Ashtamatha, Shri Gurudevananda Swamiji Odiyur Temple, Bollywood actor Sunil Shetty, Chief Editor of Varthabharati Abdussalam Puthige, Businessman Ronaldo Colaso, Alva's Education Foundation Chairman Mohan Alva, Veerappa Moily, Minister Jayamala, Minister UT Khader, Amarnath Kotian, Sunita M Shetty, Businessman Sujat Shetty, UAE Tuluas President Sarvottam Shetty, All India Tulu Federation President Dharmapal Devadiga, AC Bhandari, Shodhan Prasad will grace the occasion. Meanwhile, Tulu Isiri, a memory book, will be released.
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Theft only motive, no gang behind attack on Saif: Minister
Mumbai: No underworld gang is behind the knife attack on Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan, Maharashtra minister of state for home Yogesh Kadam said on Friday.
“A suspect who has been detained in connection with the attack (and released later) is not part of any gang. No gang has carried out this attack,” Kadam told reporters in Pune.
Kadam said theft was the only motive behind the attack on the actor.
Police had picked up a carpenter in connection with the attack as he resembled the intruder and brought him to the Bandra police station for questioning on Friday morning, but released him later. A senior police official clarified the man was not related to the attack on Khan and no one has been arrested so far.
"There has been no intimation from Saif Ali Khan to police till date on whether he faced any threat,” the minister said. “He has not sought any security cover, but if he does so, we will follow due procedure,” he added.
Queried if the actor would be provided security following the incident, Kadam said Khan can put forth a demand if he believes there is a threat to his life.
"The police administration will take appropriate decision after a review (of the demand). There is a police committee which reviews applications seeking security. It is provided on the basis of severity of threat to a person," the minister added.
Khan (54) suffered grievous injuries after an intruder stabbed him with a knife repeatedly at his 12th-floor flat in upscale Bandra in the early hours of Thursday. The actor, who received multiple stab injuries, including in his neck, underwent an emergency surgery at Mumbai's Lilavati Hospital.
He is doing "very well" and expected to be discharged in two to three days, doctors said on Friday.
Asked about possible involvement of a criminal gang in the attack, the minister maintained primary investigations have ruled out any such angle. So far, theft seems to be the only motive behind the incident, he added.
CCTV footage showed the suspected assailant, wearing a red scarf and carrying a backpack, scurrying down the stairs from the sixth floor of the 'Satguru Sharan' building where Khan lives.
