In yet another important partnership, Rotary and the Aster DM Group, a healthcare major, have come together to build homes for the flood-affected victims of Kerala. In December, an MoU was signed between the Aster Group Chairman Dr Azad Moopen and District Governors A Venkatachalapathy (3201), Dr
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RIPE Mark Maloney and Gay shared some nostalgic memories when they visited Surat in Gujarat, after spending two days in Mumbai. “It is so good to be back. We were here in 2004 on a vacation. Himanshu (PDG Himanshu Thacker) and Aruna insisted that we lay the
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RIPE Mark Maloney, a member of RC Decatur, Alabama, USA, unveiled the 2019–20 presidential theme, Rotary Connects the World, to incoming district governors at the International Assembly in San Diego, California, USA. “The first emphasis is to
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RIPE Mark Maloney and Gay, on their recent visit to Surat, Gujarat, had a look at various
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Race for Humanity Over
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It is a hospital atmosphere alright; monitors are beeping and the beds are filled with tiny children recuperating after heart surgery, evident from the heavy bandaging around their little chests, rising up and down to get in that much-required oxygen. Like 6-month-old little Rushda, a tiny bundle
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Responding to the felicitations on his nomination as RI President 2020–21 in Kolkata, RIPN Sushil Gupta said he had many precious bonds with Kolkata; “my first meeting as a Director was done here by PRID Shekhar Mehta, and I have so many friends here. But so many
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At the Chennai Institute, RC Bangalore Orchards President, D Ravi Shankar, who recently donated Rs.100 crore to The Rotary Foundation, was the cynosure of all eyes. As most of the RI officers congratulated him and made a beeline to pose with him for pictures, Ravi Shankar brushed off the accolades and insisted he was no hero. What struck me the most was that during a nearly an hour-long chat, he mentioned the figure of Rs.100 crore only once, and that too in passing. In a chat with D 3190 DG Suresh Hari and Anita, Ravi Shankar and Paola regaled the audience with their answers.
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At a felicitation meet for RIPN Sushil Gupta and Vinita hosted at Mumbai by Districts 3030, 3131, 3132, 3141, 3142 and 3170, Convener and RIDE Bharat Pandya and Madhavi greeted the couple
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New initiatives undertaken by Zones 4, 5 and 6A, during the last 15 months of his tenure as Director, including comprehensive training programmes, stricter norms on holding them, a quantum jump in the reporting of Rotaractors in our zones and new publications brought out by the Rotary
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Kalyan Banerjee Congratulating Sushil Gupta for his nomination as RI President for 2020–21, Past RI President Kalyan Banerjee said at the Delhi event, “Today is certainly one of the happiest days of my Rotary life as we gather here to celebrate the rise to the top of one
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