Mangaluru: Sakeena Nasser, Head of Department of Economics at Sri Venkataramana Swamy College, Bantwal completed her Ph.D. from Mangalore University.

She completed her Ph.D. under the guidance of Prof. Vishwanatha, Department of Post Graduate Studies and Research in Economics, Mangalore University.

Dr. Sakeena Nasser researched on the topic “Discrimination and Exclusion: A study on access to Education and Employment of Muslim Women in Karnataka”.

Dr. Sakeena hails from a Kukkadi family and is a daughter-in-law of Nadoja Sara Aboobacker. Her daughter M Fathima Natalia, B.E., M.S (University of Southern California, USA) works for Advanced Micro Devices, Sunny Vale, USA.

Sakeena Nasser’s eldest brother Abdul Khader Kukkady is a 1972 graduate of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras. He is the first person from the Beary Community to get an IIT degree. Her other siblings are doctors, engineers, and scientists.

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Chandigarh (PTI): The Congress on Thursday announced candidates for eight of the nine Lok Sabha seats it is contesting in Haryana, fielding former Union minister Kumari Selja, Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Hooda and youth leader Divyanshu Budhiraja, besides two sitting MLAs.

The party has also fielded former MP Jai Prakash and leaders Satpal Brahmachari and Mahendra Pratap, according to the list released late Thursday evening.

The Congress is contesting nine of the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana. It has not yet announced its candidate for the Gurugram constituency.

The Aam Aadmi Party, a constituent of the opposition INDIA bloc, will contest the Kurukshetra seat.

Congress general secretary and former Union minister Selja will contest from the Sirsa (reserved) seat and sitting MLAs Varun Choudhary and Rao Dan Singh from the Ambala (reserved) and the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh Lok Sabha seats, respectively.

Deepender Hooda, son of former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, will enter the fray from Rohtak. He has represented the Rohtak parliamentary constituency three times in the past.

Jai Prakash has been fielded from Hisar, the Congress' Haryana youth wing president Divanshu Budhiraja from Karnal, Satpal Brahmachari from Sonipat and Mahendra Pratap from Faridabad.