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6 NEW ZEALAND Friday, March 12, 2021 The Indian Weekender INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY: Air India’s all-women crew pilot flight Trichy to Dubai and back RIZWAN MOHAMMAD On International Women’s Day, an Air India plane flew with the all-female crew from Trichy in India to Dubai (UAE) and back. Air Indian Express flight AI 1611 departed from Trichy Airport in Kerala on Monday, March 8, landing in Dubai later in the evening and flew back (AI 1612) just before midnight, landing in Trichy early hours of Tuesday, March 9. The all-women crew was led by pilots Sahiba Kanwal Dev and Kanak Sunit Chaturvedi and cabin crew Saranga, Shilpa Katare, Priti Singh and Sushmita Brahma. Air India also operated another all-women crew on its inaugural domestic route between New Delhi and Bareilly on March 8. Flight AI 9I701 flew from New Delhi to Trishul Military Base, Bareilly Airport, Uttar Pradesh, with two pilots and four cabin Indian High Commissioner meets newly promoted Senior Sergeant Mandeep Kaur of NZ Police RIZWAN MOHAMMAD High Commissioner of India in New Zealand Muktesh Pardeshi met the recently promoted Kiwi Indian policewoman, Senior Sergeant Mandeep Kaur Sidhu, at the former’s office in Wellington. Present at the occasion was also National Engagement Manager and Ethnic Inspector Rakesh Naidoo. Mr Pardeshi discussed matters related to policing and community engagement with the duo at the meeting and presented Senior Sergeant Mandeep Kaur with a coffee table book on Shri Guru Nanak Dev on occasion. Mandeep Kaur Sidhu earlier last week was promoted to the rank of Senior Sergeant by Police Commissioner Andrew Coster at a ceremony in Wellington. Mandeep Kaur has come a long way from dreaming about the job in her childhood and then achieving it at 35 in 2004. New Zealand Police noted Mandeep Kaur’s achievement on the occasion of International Women’s Day and spoke to her on its ‘Choose crew members. Last year, on the occasion of International Women’s Day, Air India flew 52 domestic and international flights with its all-women crew. The first all-women to Challenge’ theme about the challenges, overcoming cultural barriers and reaching where she is today. Mandeep’s previous role was as an Ethnic Peoples Community Relations Officer working from Henderson Police Station in Waitemata, attending community meetings, hosting media programmes, visiting family violence victims and attending matters where there is a need for ethnic or cultural advice. With her new role as Senior Sergeant, she has moved to the police headquarters in Wellington. She founded the famed Police bhangra group in Auckland to encourage cultural connectivity (and police fitness!), In March 2019, she featured in Women Kind, a Penguin Random House book profiling 52 New Zealand women who have made a difference in the world and their local communities. Mandeep has represented Police nationally and internationally in radio, television and written media - but most notably within the communities, she has served over the past 17 years. The most visited Indian news website in New Zealand For online advertising options, email at sales@indianweekender.co.nz crew was commissioned in 1985 on flight F27, commanded by Captain Saudami Deshmukh, which was the first such flight in the world on any aircraft RIZWAN MOHAMMAD In a move to adjust to the new normal (different levels of lockdowns), Bharatiya Samaj Charitable Trust has started a new initiative that gets prescribed medicines for the community, especially senior citizens, dropped at their doorsteps. Bhartiya Samaj has collaborated with PillDrop (NZ), which will bring community members a new and modern way to manage their daily medications. “We constantly strive to explore ways of easy and comfortable living for the community, and by collaborating with PillDrop, we endeavour to provide a complete pharmacy experience to the community with a secure and easy way to get prescribed/funded medicines delivered at doorstep free of cost,” a spokesperson from Bhartiya Samaj told The Indian Weekender. All the medicines are packed into personalised sachets, and these sachets are rolled up and packed in a dispenser to ensure that the patient does not have to handle multiple medicine bottles. “All one needs is a smartphone and prescription to order medicines at any time of the day. Once PillDrop receives the order, details of the person including contact and address, it will readily arrange for delivery at the doorstep,” the spokesperson said. This service is entirely among IATA Airlines. India tops in the number of women pilots globally, with Indian carriers employing close to 12.4% women pilots, much higher than the world average of 5.4%. BHARTIYA SAMAJ’S new initiative for the community, medicines delivered at doorstep "With this new initiative, we add another feather on Bhartiya Samaj’s cap, and we add another service that will benefit the community immensely" free for all senior citizens and individuals taking at least four routine medicines. “PillDrop approached us recently to collaborate, and upon much deliberation and discussion within the team, we decided that this venture will be very beneficial for our community members, especially senior citizens, and we finally signed up with them. “With this new initiative, we add another feather on Bhartiya Samaj’s cap, and we add another service that will benefit the community immensely,” Jeet Suchdev, Chairperson of Bhartiya Samaj, told The Indian Weekender. To know more, one can contact Bhartiya Samaj and get more details from the team.
The Indian Weekender Friday, March 12, 2021 NEW ZEALAND 7 ‘When Haka Meet Bhangra’: A documentary in the making on Indian sport Kabaddi and Maori connection RIZWAN MOHAMMAD NZ on Air has approved funding a documentary project exhibiting the involvement of Maori culture in the traditional Indian sport of Kabaddi. On Tuesday, March 9, a media release confirmed that New Zealand on Air would fund the projects that speak to the diversity of experiences of Pan-Asian peoples in Aotearoa. The project named ‘When Haka Meets Bhangra’ will be made by Nomadz Unlimited for Maori Television and will get funding up to $370,000. The documentary on the making tracks the alliance between a group of Māori and Pasifika wāhine and their Sikh coach/mentor who take up the sport, which has been described as a cross between bullrush and wrestling. Speaking to the Indian Weekender, president of New Zealand Kabaddi Council, Tara Singh Bains, said he was confirmed to be spoken to about the documentary on the links and popularity of Kabaddi in the Maori community in New Zealand. Mr Bains has been associated with Kabaddi sports promoting it within the local community since 1990 and got the national team created in 2013. New Zealand Kabaddi team played their maiden match against India in their home country at the Kabaddi World Cup and were smashed by the home team. It was a steep learning curve for the guests who worked hard mastering the tricks of the game and gave a tough competition to the Indian team at the finals in 2013. Although the team lost the finals to India, it was a stepping stone to their THE ALBERTON MT ALBERT’S LATEST URBAN VILLAGE 65% PRESOLD newfound strength in the Kabaddi game, and they ranked second again in the 2014 World Cup and third in 2016. “Besides representing New Zealand in the world cup, our team has also competed at two international indoor tournaments in Malaysia in 2018 and 2019, at WAWO Women’s Kabaddi League in 2018 in India,” Mr Bains said. Mr Bains adds that on a national level, NZ Kabaddi has two teams, Hamilton and Auckland, who often play against each other and other domestic clubs and teams from all around New Zealand. “In the first NZ Sikh Games in 2019, the NZ Kabaddi team also played against the Indian Kabaddi team who flew from India for the Sikh Games,” Mr Bains said. Mr Bains added that the women’s team had come a long way from not knowing the sports to becoming one of the most formidable teams in the world in Kabaddi. “We have a strong bond with the Maori community and share nuances of the sport, Kabaddi, with their form of martial arts and wrestling. “This is what the makers will showcase in detail and amplify the deep-rooted connection of the Indian sports with Maori culture in the documentary that will soon start filming in New Zealand,” Mr Bains added. 5TH WEEK FREEHOLD STRATA TITLE RESIDENCES 2 BEDROOM RESIDENCES Priced From $1,035,000 3 BEDROOM RESIDENCES Priced From $1,085,000 We are currently selling 2 Residences per day. PRICED FROM $1,035,000 ARTIST IMPRESSION We highly recommend you visit our display suite asap as we anticipate being sold out by the March 15th. 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