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Amritakeerti Puraskar 2013 to Manoj Das and Turavoor Viswambharan
In conjunction with the 60th birthday celebrations of Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, the 2013 Amritakeerti Puraskar National Award will be bestowed upon renowned English and Oriya writer Prof. Manoj Das. The Kerala State Level award will be bestowed upon eminent writer, scholar and orator Prof. Thuravoor Viswambharan. Manoj Das The announcement was made on 17th
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Amrita Spandanam: a real-time monitoring of cardiac patients
In order to help people with cardiac conditions avail of real-time, ECG-monitoring without hospitalization, Amrita WNA has designed a prototype for a low-cost, low-power, wearable ECG-monitoring device called Amrita Spandanam. Amrita Spandanam will allow postoperative cardiac patients as well as people with cardiac conditions to avoid hospitalization for the sake of continuous vital-parameter monitoring. Amrita
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Rath Yatra in Michigan
16 Sep 2013, Michigan As part of Amma’s 60th birthday celebrations, satsang members from the Amma Center of Michigan conducted a Rath Yatra through the Southside and Northside neighborhoods of Ann Arbor. Satsang members enthusiastically donned their Amritavarsham 60 Tshirts and mingled with residents, providing them with information on Amma’s various charitable projects worldwide and
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Michigan legislators present special tribute Amma
13 Sep 2013, Michigan, USA Michigan State representative Diane Slavens visited the Amma Center of Michigan in Ann Arbor to present a Proclamation on behalf of the State of Michigan to Amma commemorating Amma’s 60th birthday. Representative Slavens fondly remembers the heart-warming darshan and thanks Amma for the love and joy she has been giving
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500 times more efficient solar cell powered tablets for rural education
Amrita has developed a unique tablet-based multimedia learning programme for the education in villages. “It takes into account the learning needs of multi-grade rural students and is exclusively designed for the tablet format, taking into considering its screen size and low processing power” explained Raghu Raman, the director of Amrita University’s Centre for Research in
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MAM to adopt 101 villages throughout India
10 Sep 2013, New Delhi The Mata Amritanandamayi Math (MAM) to adopt 101 villages throughout India, which is being called the Amrita Self-Reliant Village Programme (Amrita Swasraya Gramam). Announcing this in a press meet in New Delhi, Vice Chairman Swami Amrita Swarupananda said that this would amount to the most massive humanitarian programme ever undertaken
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50-Crore relief and rehabilitation package for Uttarakhand
10 Sept 2013, New Delhi Mata Amritanandamayi Math announced two massive charitable projects: a 50-crore relief-and-rehabilitation project in the flood-ravaged state of Uttarakhand and a programme to adopt 101 villages throughout India. “In Uttarakhand, MAM will build approximately 500 houses destroyed by the disaster,” said MAM’s vice-chairman Swami Amritaswarupananda in a press conference in New
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Amrita is the best hospital in the country
2 Sep 2013, New Delhi Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre was awarded the best hospital in the country for “betterment of health care” by the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industries (FICCI) based on an exhaustive review and presentation process. In a glittering function in New Delhi on the 2nd