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Zee Keralam honours Kerala Home Guards; provides raincoats

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Kochi:  Zee Keralam, the popular entertainment television channel, has honoured the exemplary services of the Kerala Home Guards by providing them with rain coats. The Zee Keralam gesture was an effort to salute and honour the services that the Kerala Home Guards have been rendering to the society. A voluntary force that serves as an auxiliary force to the Kerala Police and Kerala Fire Force, the Kerala Home Guards has, in its force, mostly retired service men. Deployed for traffic control on the city, their services come in handy for…

Northern NJ Community Foundation Awards Fourth Annual Scholarship to Leonia High School Graduate to Study Animation and Fine Arts

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Hackensack, New Jersey: The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation’s (NNJCF) Frank DeLorenzo Memorial Scholarship Fund awarded Pilar Carranza, a graduate of the Leonia High School class of 2022 in Leonia, New Jersey, its fourth annual scholarship.  This fall, Carranza plans to attend Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles and study animation and fine arts. The NNJCF donor advised fund memorializes Leonia High School 1964 classmate Frank DeLorenzo.  A $2,000 scholarship award is given to a student, who demonstrates talent and ambition as an artist, musician, or writer,…

Union Coop Delegation Visits ‘Bustanica’

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Bustanica, which means your garden or orchard in Arabic, has unveiled the 330,000 sq. ft. controlled farm facility making it the world’s largest hydroponic farm. Dubai, UAE: A delegation from Union Coop organized an official visit to the largest vertical hydroponic farm in the world, ‘Bustanica’, which was recently opened by Emirates Flight Catering in Dubai. The visit was in the interest of the cooperative to provide the best and finest types of Agricultural produce from vegetables and fruits to consumers by establishing contracts with various sources and companies outside…

League of Women Voters Installs Board of Directors and Readies to Prepare Voters for General Election in November

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Eastern Bergen County, New Jersey: — The League of Women Voters of Northern Valley (LWVNV) elected and installed its 2022-2022 board of directors and officers at its 76th annual meeting.  The LWVNV outlined its plans to provide voters with information they need to make informed decisions in the General Election in New Jersey on Tuesday, November 8, 2022.  They heard speaker Eric Benson from Clean Water Action discuss how New Jersey could reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030. Board of Directors Installed At the organization’s Annual Meeting,…

Rajisha Vijayan – starrer Keedam to have Zee Keralam premiere on July 31

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Kochi: Keedam, the critically-acclaimed Malayalam movie starring Rajisha Vijayan in the lead, will be premiered on the Zee Keralam channel on July 31. The film has been scheduled to be telecast at 4 PM on Sunday. Starring Rajisha Vijayan in the lead, the film that falls in the cyber crime genre is written and directed by Rahul Riji Nair. The film has Radhika Balan, an expert cyber security professional, who stands firm on the ethics of her profession. Her life turns topsy-turvy when a rich client demands her services to…

Chefs From the Clergy to Compete in Cook-Off for Healthy Eating

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Englewood (New Jersey): Cheer on your favorite local celebrity clergical chef at the Partnership for Healthy Eating’s Neighbors Helping Neighbors Eat Healthy’s ‘Cook-Off for Healthy Eating’.  The competition takes place on Thursday, August 25 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at St. Paul’s Church, located at 113 Engle Street in Englewood, New Jersey.  The cook-off, presented by The Community Chest and Alstede Farms as a project of the Partnership for Healthy Eating, is free and open to the public. Clergy from Englewood — Reverend Preston Thompson from Ebenezer Baptist Church…

Union Coop Signs Agreement with Ferjan Dubai to Support its Community Initiative

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Dubai, UAE: Union Coop signed a memorandum of understanding with Ferjan Dubai, one of the youth initiatives and projects. It provides financial support for its community initiatives, in order to reach members of the community through the accounts of Ferjan Dubai, which is concerned with gathering the residents of the residential neighborhood in one place, and spreading awareness among individuals about the various events held in their residential areas. Dr Suhail Al Bastaki – Director of Happiness & Marketing Dept. and Ms. Alia Al Shamlan, the founder of Ferjan Dubai…

Aegon Life’s Revamped Website Designed by Moonraft Offers 100% Digital Experience to Customers; Setting New Benchmark for the Industry

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Thiruvananthapuram:  Moonraft Innovation Labs, the experience and innovation design arm of UST, and a global experience design and innovation firm, recently revamped the website of Aegon Life, India’s leading digital life insurance company, to further enhance their digital proposition and customer experience.  To keep up with an increasingly growing digitally-savvy customer base, Aegon Life transformed its site to offer all retail products in a completely digital and do-it-yourself way, without requiring any document upload or visit to diagnostic center for medical examination. Moving towards a D2C pull-based distribution model required an intuitive digital experience…

Champakulam Chundan oarsmen visit original snake boat at UST Thiruvananthapuram campus

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Thiruvananthapuram: The original Champakulam Chundan, the most-celebrated among snake boats in Kerala that currently adorns the UST campus in Thiruvananthapuram, had a set of high profile visitors this weekend. The boat, which had been brought to the UST campus after it had retired in 2013, was called on by the Kerala Police team, the oarsmen of the new generation Champakulam Chundan after it won this year’s Champakulam Moolam Boat Race, on July 12. At the Champakulam Moolam Boat Race held on July 12, the Kerala Police Boat Race team won…

Union Coop: AED 4,673 Million spent on community contributions since the beginning of 2022

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Dubai, UAE: Dr Suhail Al Bastaki, Director of Happiness and Marketing Department, Union Coop revealed info on the societal contributions made by the cooperative since the beginning of the current year 2022, which amounted to AED 4,673,113.96, noting that the Cooperative is one of the most supportive private entities for all sectors in the country through its societal contribution that enhances its presence to serve the Emirati community and participate in advancing the curve of growth and development. He pointed out that the cooperative has clear imprints in its societal…