UAE: Prof UT Iftikar Ali honored with international award at 'Thumbay Conference'
Mangaluru, September 10: Mangaluru-based physiotherapist and social activist Prof UT Iftikar Ali was awarded an international award for his contributions to the field of physiotherapy, at an international conference held at Ajman at United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday.
Dubai Health Authority chairman and Director General Humaid Al Qutami presented the award to Prof Iftikar. Physiotherapists from across the globe participated in the conference and received the awards. Prof Iftikar is the only physiotherapist from India who received the award.
Thumbay Group Founder President Dr Thumbay Moidin presided over the conference organized by the Thumbay Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Hospital at Thumbay Medicity inAjman. Indian Ambassador to UAE Navadeep Singh Suri, Ambassador of Italy Liborio Stellino , Italian Consul General Ms. ValentinaSetta , ICC Chief Executive Dave Richardson and Pakistan former cricketer Wasim Akram were the chief guests on the occasion.
Prof UT Iftikar Ali, brother of Urban Development and Housing Minister UT Khader, has carved a niche for himself in health, social and educational fields. He is the Dean at the MV Shetty Physiotherapy College in Mangaluru and also worked as the Senate Member of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences .
Currently, he is the Executive committee member of the National Physiotherapists Association and State Physiotherapy Teachers Association Chairman. He is also the president of the UT Fareed Foundation. He is in close association with prestigious hospitals and medical institutions in Mangaluru, Bengaluru, New Delhi and other countries and involved in various educational and charity activities.
His wife Dr Anjum Iftikar studying in the final year at AIMS,Cochin is the first woman from Mangaluru to do higher studies in Gynaecology (Onco).
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BS Yediyurappa appeals to MLA Yatnal's group to work unitedly to strengthen party
Bengaluru, Nov 26: With a group of Karnataka BJP leaders led by Bijapur MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal holding a parallel agitation over the waqf issue, veteran party leader B S Yediyurappa on Tuesday accused them of doing it because of their "self-conceit", and appealed them to work unitedly to strengthen the party.
The former Karnataka chief minister also said that everyone should take the responsibility for the party's defeat in the Assembly bypolls for three segments, even as the BJP's performance is being seen as a "setback" for his son and state president B Y Vijayendra.
"State president B Y Vijayendra has appealed to Basangouda Patil Yatnal and others to stop protesting separately, and work with us unitedly. Despite this, because of their self-conceit, they are doing such things. It is not right on their part," Yediyurappa said.
Speaking to reporters here, he said, "I appeal to them at least now to come forward and cooperate to strengthen the party together."
When told that they are not willing to work unitedly with the state's current leadership of the party and whether he will bring it to the notice of the high command, Yediyurappa said, "We will do our duty. The rest is left to them and central leadership...high command knows everything. Let's see what they will do."
Yatnal-led group include BJP MLAs Ramesh Jarkiholi, B P Harish, and former lawmakers Aravind Limbavali, Kumar Bangarappa and G M Siddeshwara and others.
The leaders, who had stayed away from the protest recently held by the party on the Waqf issue, on Monday held a parallel agitation over the issue in Bidar. Today, they are in Kalaburagi district.
Yatnal and Jarkiholi have been openly critical of Vijayendra, accusing him of indulging in "adjustment politics" with the ruling Congress, and trying to keep the party in his clutches along with his father Yediyurappa.
Noting that the party had faced a setback in the bypolls for Sandur, Shiggaon and Channapatna, Yediyurappa said, "We accept that. What shortcomings were being discussed in the party. It should be ensured that such things don't repeat."
To a question whether the bypoll loss is being seen as a setback to his son Vijayendra, he said, "It is not a question of Vijayendra or Yediyurappa. The loss in all the three seats is a setback for us (party). Everyone should take the responsibility and see to it that such things don't repeat."
