Mangaluru Hajj pilgrimage to kick start on July 17
Mangaluru: The journey of Hajj pilgrims who have taken Hajj pilgrimage through Mangaluru Hajj Camp from the Karnataka State Hajj Committee for 2019 would be kicked off at a programme to be held at Bajpe Ansar Public School here on July 17 at 10.30 am, said committee general secretary BM Mumtaz Ali Krishnapura.
Speaking at a press conference here on Saturday, he said that state Hajj and Wakf Minister BZ Zameer Ahmed would inaugurate the programme in which District Minister would distribute Passports to first time Hajj pilgrims and state Hajj Committee president Roshan Baig would flag off the vehicle of the first batch. MLA Umanath Kotian would preside over it and state Hajj Committee member KM Abubakar Siddiq Montugoli would deliver keynote address, he said.
MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, MLAs Dr 'Bharat Shetty, Vedavyas Kamath, MLCs Ivan D'SOUZA, BM Farooq, Harish Kumar, state minority commission president GA Bava, Yenepoya University Chancellor Abdul Kunji, former MLAs BA Moidin Bava and KS Mohmmad Masood, Hajj department secretary AB Ibrahim, district Wakf Committee president UK Monu Kalachuri, Mangaluru Airport Authority director VV Rao, state Hajj Committee EO Sarfraz Khan Sardar, Bajpe Ansar School president BM Zakariya would participate, he said.
Registration from July 15
Registration of Hajjis would begin at Ansar Public School ground on July 15 at 9.30 am. Those who leave Mangaluru on July 17 would have to register on July 15, those who leave on July 18 should register on July 16, those who leave on July 19 should register themselves on July 17, he said.
8000 Hajj pilgrims from state
Total 8000 Hajj pilgrims would take pilgrimage from the state for 2019 and so far, rhe Soudi government has issued 2 lakh visas for pilgrims from the country and among them, 1.40 lakh would visit Hajj through government and remaining 60000 would take up the journey through private company. Total 500 flights would take off from 21 Embarkation Points from the country. Majority of the pilgrims have already reached the sacred place Makka and Madina.
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After Hadi, another Bangladesh student leader shot in head
Dhaka (PTI): Unidentified gunmen on Monday shot in the head Motaleb Shikder, a second leader of Bangladesh’s violent student-led 2024 uprising.
The attack took place in southwestern Khulna city, days after the killing of prominent youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi.
"The Khulna Division head of NCP (National Citizen Party) and central coordinator of the party’s workers front, Motaleb Shikder, was shot a few minutes ago," NCP’s joint principal coordinator Mahmuda Mitu said in a Facebook post.
Mitu, a doctor, said Shikder was rushed to Khulna Medical College Hospital in a critical condition.
The Kaler Kantha newspaper, quoting hospital sources, said Shikder was shot on the left side of his head, and he was bleeding profusely when he was brought to the facility, where the doctors started emergency treatment.
The attack came days after Hadi, a prominent leader of the student-led protests last year that led to the ouster of the prime minister Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government, was shot in the head on December 12 by masked gunmen at an election campaign in central Dhaka’s Bijoynagar area.
The 32-year-old Inqilab Mancha spokesperson died while undergoing treatment in Singapore on Thursday. Hadi was a candidate for the scheduled February 12 general elections.
The interim government of Muhammad Yunus staged a nationwide mourning for Hadi’s death on Saturday and said no stone would be left unturned to track down his killers as violence erupted in Dhaka and other major cities afresh over the attack and subsequent death.
Faisal Karim Masud's parents, wife and a female friend of the prime suspect have been arrested by police, but said they were unsure about his current whereabouts.
After Monday’s clandestine attack on Shikder in Khulna city’s Majid Sarani area, police said they were yet at dark about the attack perpetrators or motive but launched an “immediate manhunt” for their arrest.
Local police station chief Animesh Mondal, however, informed reporters that Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) authorities now shifted Shikder to its City Imaging Centre to pinpoint the state of his injury.
