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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Bondi Beach shooting suspect conducted firearms training with his father, Australian police say
Melbourne (AP): A man accused of killing 15 people at Sydney's Bondi Beach conducted firearms training in an area of New South Wales state outside of Sydney with his father, Australian police documents released on Monday allege.
The men recorded a video about their justification for the meticulously planned attack, according to a police statement of facts that was made public following Naveed Akram's video court appearance Monday from a Sydney hospital where he has been treated for an abdominal injury.
Officers wounded Akram at the scene of the Dec. 14 shooting and killed his father, 50-year-old Sajid Akram.
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The New South Wales state government confirmed Naveed Akram was transferred on Monday from a hospital to a prison. Neither facility was identified by authorities.
The statement alleges the 24-year-old and his father began their attack by throwing four improvised explosive devices toward a crowd celebrating an annual Jewish event at Bondi Beach, but the devices failed to explode.
Police described the devices as three aluminium pipe bombs and a tennis ball bomb containing an explosive, black powder and steel ball bearings. None detonated, but police described them as “viable” IEDs.
Authorities have charged Akram with 59 offences, including 15 counts of murder, 40 counts of causing harm with intent to murder in relation to the wounded survivors and one count of committing a terrorist act.
The antisemitic attack at the start of the eight-day Hanukkah celebration was Australia's worst mass shooting since a lone gunman killed 35 people in Tasmania state in 1996.
The New South Wales government introduced draft laws to Parliament on Monday that Premier Chris Minns said would become the toughest in Australia.
The new restrictions would include making Australian citizenship a condition of qualifying for a firearms license. That would have excluded Sajid Akram, who was an Indian citizen with a permanent resident visa.
Sajid Akram also legally owned six rifles and shotguns. A new legal limit for recreational shooters would be a maximum of four guns.
Police said a video found on Naveed Akram's phone shows him with his father "reciting their political and religious views and appear to summarise their justification for the Bondi terrorist attack.”
The men are seen in the video “condemning the acts of Zionists” while they also “adhere to a religiously motivated ideology linked to the Islamic State,” police said.
Video shot in October shows them “firing shotguns and moving in a tactical manner” on grassland surrounded by trees, police said.
“There is evidence that the Accused and his father meticulously planned this terrorist attack for many months,” police allege.
