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Rasheeda Bhagat
He became a Rotarian in 1989 as a young surgeon at 30, “by accident,” when his father’s patient J P Saxena, who was starting a new Rotary club in Borivali invited him. He was
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Over 3,000 women and girls took part in the Singapenn Marathon in Chennai, to raise awareness about cervical cancer prevention and women’s safety. The event, spearheaded by Nallammai Ramanathan, was organised by RC Madras Central, RID 3234, and Inner Wheel
Rasheeda Bhagat
If I was asked to quickly name a current single ongoing project that explains the essence of what Rotary is, what it believes in, and what it does to change lives in different corners of the world with help often
Jaishree
For Suraj Bhandari, the flash floods in Nepal were not a distant disaster. He is from Chitwan, one of the affected areas, and watched with concern as the Narayani River, a tributary of the Trishuli, swelled and damaged crops and
Jaishree
A visit to Goa by RI President Yinka Babalola, as part of his India tour in August, saw 35 new Rotaract clubs chartered in RID 3170. Addressing Rotaractors at a meet hosted by RC Porvorim, he congratulated the new clubs
Dear Rotarians,
Please encourage your Rotaract clubs to share details of their significant service projects with us to publish in Rotaract News, the quarterly online magazine for Rotaractors.
Rotaract club presidents or secretaries may email a brief note on their project, along with their contact details, to rotarynewsmagazine@gmail.com. Please attach high-resolution action photographs, preferably featuring the beneficiaries, in JPG format. Only individual photographs will be considered; photo collages will not be accepted.
Olayinka Babalola
M Muruganandam
K P Nagesh
Rasheeda Bhagat
Jennifer Jones
A S Venkatesh
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Equipping science labs in schools RC Bikaner, RID 3053, provided science laboratory kits worth over `9 lakh to six government senior secondary schools in Bikaner, enabling students to conduct practicals in physics, chemistry and biology. The initiative targeted schools that had science faculty and laboratories but lacked essential equipment. Promoting
V Muthukumaran
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Subbarao Ravuri
Kiran Zehra
Sixty buses brought 3,234 schoolchildren from schools and institutions across Chennai to the Arignar Anna Zoological Park in Vandalur as part of Magnum Carnival, organised by Rotary District 3234 and RC Madras Magnum (RCMM). The club has been organising this programme annually for the past seven years, taking children from less privileged families each year
V Muthukumaran
Empowering rural women is the prime focus of RID 3212 DG Gandhi Krishnan. Earlier, as DGE, he had declared his intention of distributing over 1,000 sewing machines during PELS (presidents-elect learning seminar) for 120 incoming club leaders in Feb 2026. All the 124 clubs across the seven revenue districts, right
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As part of the Rotary Intercity Synergy Exchange initiative of RID 3191, Rotary Bengaluru Malhar organised the Rotary Raithara Sammelana, an agriculture conference that
