Prof. Iqbal Thonse Hawaldar, a Professor hailing from Udupi with an teaching experience of over 22 years in Finance has received two prestigious international awards that include ‘Most Dedicated Professor Award’ and ‘Fabulous Global Education Leader’ that he received during World Education Congress held at Taj Rand End Hotel in Mumbai.

Prof. Iqbal has also been conferred with Distinguished Scientist in Finance Award in the Venus Advanced Research & Design Meet held at Chennai.

Prof. Iqbal who is the former Dean of College of Business Administration is now serving as the Director of Accreditation and Quality Assurance Centre at Kingdom University Bahrain. He has also published more than 45 research papers in the Web of Science, SCOPUS, ABDC and other noted index journals.

One of his book titled “Efficiency of Stock Market:  A Study of Stock Price Responses to Earnings Announcements” was published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Company, Germany.

As a resource person he conducted more than 35 workshops on quality assurance, programme reviews, internal audit, research methodology, employability skill and learning and teaching strategies. He is also active on ResearchGate and has more than 1, 00,000 reads.

Apart from this Iqbal is also associate editor, advisory board member and reviewer for several reputable indexed refereed Journals including journals publishing by Springer, Emerald and Inderscience.

His other noted awards and achievements include Best Research Paper Award, Kingdom University President's Award for Excellence in Research Publications, Outstanding Academic Staff of the Year award and Best teacher of the year award.

Hailing from a village called Hoode in Udupi Taluk Prof. Iqbal is an alumni of Government Urdu School, Hoode, Hindu Higher Primary School, Kemmannu, Government High School, Kemmannu, Milagres College, Kallianpur and Mangalore University.

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Bengaluru: The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) President DK Shivakumar has passed an order suspending Member of the Legislative Council Abdul Jabbar from the primary membership of the party.

Shivakumar, who is also Deputy Chief Minister, has stated in his order that the MLC is to be suspended with immediate effect.

Jabbar is said to have been suspended for his alleged anti-party activities during the by-election to the Davanagere South Assembly constituency.