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India's First Sailing Lit Fest which will kick off in Mumbai tomorrow, January 29, 2019

Acclaimed filmmaker, actress and activist Nandita Das joined for a special session with Former First Lady of Britain Cherie Blair opened the fest and bat for India's widows on behalf of the Loomba Foundation. The revenue generated at this festival was donated to the widows of the country. The Irrawaddy Literary Festival takes place in a Buddhist Stupa that houses the world’s largest book written in gold. The Shanghai International Literary Festival uses one of the world’s most photographed backdrops – its sky scrapers.  The Mountain Echoes Lit Fest is held in one of the world’s cleanest landscapes of Bhutan. The Ubud Writers and Readers Festival takes place in the 14 ethereal villages immersed among lush green paddy fields. And now Mumbai is all set to have a Lit Fest that uses its most famous citizen as its venue – The Arabian Sea.  India’s Maximum City hosted India’s first ever Lit Fest on the sea – The Queensline Lit Fest - three days of inc

Slum Women come together for Economic & Social Empowerment

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• Annapurna Pariwar celebrated its 26th Annual Rally at Pandit Farms, Karve Nagar, Pune on 25th January • More than 8,000 women attended the Annual Rally of Annapurna. • On this occasion 21 women were felicitated for their entrepreneurship while 8 women were felicitated for their contribution to social change & 21 women were honored as Ideal Mothers.    Starting a small work of wafers packaging at home with the loan of seven thousands rupees from Annapurna Pariwar, Ms. Subhadra Suryawanshi from Pune is now running a successful business in wafers packaging along with other food products. Now, she is doing business with loan of INR 98,000/- annually and providing employment to 8-10 other womens from the slum. Similarly, Ms. Rekha Kamble, another women entrepreneur from slum. Who had started flowers business 10 years ago with the loan of ‘Ten Thousand’ has flourished in such a way, there are 7 other womens working with Ms. Kamble and running flowers business in Khadki.

CEEAMATECH-2019 Mega event For Electrical engineering. Exhibition kick starts from 8th February

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Organized by Consulting Electrical Engineers Association Of Maharashtra. (CEEAMA) Event managed by: FAIRACT CEEAMATECH-2019 will be held at Auto Cluster, Chinchwad,   from 8 th  to 10 th  February 2019 between 10.00 AM to 6.00 PM. Mega event for electrical engineering fraternity Creating pool between consulting electrical engineers, Contractors, suppliers, product manufactures Manifesto for devolvement of Statutory procedures to ensure Electrical safety. Engineering students contribution in event for encouraging them to become future entrepreneur CEEAMA was formed in 2004 with an aim to create a platform for consulting electrical engineers fraternity. Consulting Electrical Engineers Association of Maharashtra (CEEAMA) is registered under companies Act 1956, under section 25 as amended. Current focus areas decided by CEEAMA are: Electrical Safety Energy Conservation Solar Power CEEAMA conducts training programs for members and other electrical e

2 kg Baby born with ‘Transposition of the great arteries’ congenital heart disease, successfully operated at Jupiter Hospital

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A serious & rare open heart surgery performed on 6 days old baby boy with the aid of donation from Mukul Madhav Foundation, Jupiter Foundation and Have a heart Foundation. The surgery was performed by Dr. Abhijeet Naik, Paediatric Cardiac Surgeon, Dr. Rahul Saraf Paediatric Cardiologist, and managed in a dedicated paediatric ICU under the guidance of Dr. Shrinivas Tambe, Consultant Neonatalogist and Paediatric Intensivist.  A 6 days old baby born with congenital heart disease underwent an open heart surgery. The baby born with the condition ‘Transposition of the great arteries’ at a government hospital and then was shifted to Jupiter Hospital as an emergency case. The surgery (Arterial switch) was performed on 8th December under ‘Hruday Sparsh’, an initiative by Jupiter Hospital. Transposition of the great arteries is serious and rare heart defect present at birth due to abnormal development of fetal heart.  In condition of ‘Transposition of the great arteries’, the aorta

SHEIN Celebrates Sunburn in Style!

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~SHEIN hosts meet & greet for winners at Sunburn 2018 with International Artists Alan Walker and Krewella~ Pune, 09th January 2019: SHEIN as the official fashion partner of Sunburn, biggest electronic dance festival in South Asia, organized “Meet SHEIN” event for SHEIN lovers and fashion trend followers of the city. The response received was enormous. It was a once in lifetime experience enabled by SHEIN meeting international artists Alan Walker and Krewella at Sunburn 2018. The event was hosted to show appreciation to loyal SHEIN lovers of Pune. SHEIN X Sunburn collection at the Shop chic centre garnered a lot of attention and praise. The collection was sold out even before the night was over. The collection was loved by both artists and music lovers of Sunburn festival. A few artists were even seen sporting items from the SHEIN x Sunburn Collection during their performances. The contest being hosted on Facebook as well as Instagram had a huge participation culminating int

Annapurna awarded the NCDC Regional Award for Cooperative Excellence 2018

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The State Level Selection Committee under the Chairmanship of Commissioner for Cooperation and Registrar of Cooperative Societies, Govt. of Maharashtra selected Annapurna Mahila Coop Credit Society Ltd, Warje, Pune for Cooperative Excellence Award – first prize in Women Cooperative category. The award ceremony was held on 4th January 2019 at NCDC Pune premises and the award was presented to Annapurna by Mr.Satish Soni, the State Commissioner for Cooperation.   The award comprised of a cheque for Rs.25,000, citation and a certificate.   On this occasion Ms.Ujwala Waghole, Annapurna’s Microfinance Head spoke about the various initiatives taken up by Annapurna for women empowerment like loans, savings, insurance, pension and chain of day care centers for slum children during the last 25 years.   She also drew attention to the fact that Annapurna has successfully inculcated financial discipline into its members and these poor women have never defaulted on loan repayments.