Month-long City Centre Carnival kicks off in Mangaluru, shoppers to win exciting prizes
12th year anniversary of City Centre Mall
Mangaluru: Month-long City Centre Carnival was inaugurated on Thursday at the mall premises to mark the 12th year anniversary celebration of Mangaluru’s City Centre Mall, the fifth largest mall of Karnataka.
Founding member of Mohtisham Complexes Pvt. Ltd. Mohtisham Abdul Bari was present at the event as a Guest and hoped the Carnival will be a huge success. Another guest actor Roopesh Shetty said that the people of Mangalore have an emotional connection with City Center Mall.
“People of Mangaluru were introduced to Mall culture by City Centre Mall. It brought several national and international brands under one building and made the lives of shoppers easier. It also encouraged the development of motion pictures and artists here.” He said.
Actor Vineeth and actress Rachana Rai also wished luck to the Carnival. Several artists, film actors, customers and representatives of organisations attended the inauguration ceremony at the mall. Several art troupes also performed at the event to mark the anniversary celebrations.
Managing Director SM Arshad, Director SM Saud and CEO Dharmaraj welcomed the guests.
Sahil Zahir compered the inauguration ceremony.
The Carnival that was inaugurated on July 14 will continue till August 15 during which the shoppers will win exciting prizes every day. Car, bikes and scooters are among the bumper prizes the shoppers will be able to win during the Carnival.
In the lucky draw that will be held on weekends, shoppers will have the opportunity to win Sofa Set from Home Centre, Holholiday vouchers from Club Mahendra and iPhones. Various art exhibitions will also be held by children and adults during the weekends, a press statement from the mall stated.
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Confident we are going to win Kerala: Shashi Tharoor
New Delhi (PTI): Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday expressed confidence in the victory of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in Kerala, saying the Congress-led alliance will win more than 75 seats out of the total 140 in the state.
Tharoor, who hails from Kerala, said he was not surprised to see the results of the exit polls, most of which predicted a victory for the UDF that has been out of power for 10 years in the state.
"We have been on the ground. I have campaigned in 59 constituencies across 12 districts out of 14. I was very confident we are going to win.
"Everything that I have picked up from not just my party colleagues and workers but also from other observers, media and others have always convinced me that we were going to score a comfortable win of above 75 seats. And all the (exit) polls have confirmed the same thing," he told reporters here.
The Thiruvananthapuram MP said he was not surprised to see the results of the exit polls but in general he was not a big fan of exit polls in India.
"Because ours is not purely a homogenous society. We have to take into account gender issue, caste issue, class issue, regional disparities. You never get a convincingly large enough sample to give an accurate poll and now there is the additional complication that we have heard about in West Bengal this year that many people are unwilling to answer the questions of the pollsters," he said.
The Congress leader said normally, it used to be below 10 per cent that people said that they would not answer.
"Even if you are a reputable exit pollster, in Bengal, one polling company has said 60 per cent of people refused to answer. So, what is the worth of a poll where 60 per cent of your respondents have not answered," he said.
Several exit polls on Wednesday predicted a comeback by the Congress-led UDF in Kerala after 10 years, dethroning the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF).
Polling for the 140-member Kerala assembly was held on April 9. Results of assembly elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Puducherry, besides Kerala, will be announced on May 4.
