ZMZ Events to hold ‘Women Expo’ as platform for women-related products, services
Mangaluru: ZMZ Events is launching Women Expo (WE), a series of exhibition and conference, with an intention of making Mangaluru a hub for business networks and exhibition.
The event is being organized following the grand success of Big Show India, ZMZ Events has said, in a press release.
The organizers have called the event a first-of-its-kind, adding that it is being held across the country, including places like Mangaluru, Kozhikode and Bengaluru, ‘to create a platform for products and services related to women under one roof featuring beauty, fashion, health and entrepreneurship’.
Rakshita Shetty, project manager of ZMZ Events, has said, “There is an increase in awareness among women in the country regarding health, beauty and fashion. Women Expo, with its theme ‘WE for Women – Reinvigorate Yourself’ would be an ideal one-stop platform to observe the trends in women’s beauty products, the latest skincare technology, fitness and fashion news from across the world.”
The exhibition will include a display of hundreds of brands, services and technology covering a vast range of products, related to colour cosmetics, skin, nail and hair care, make-up, perfumery, fragrance, personal care and toiletry. The latest equipment and machines used in not just beauty and hair salons but also medical, aesthetic, dermatology, spa and wellness centres would be displayed, said Shetty.
She added, “The expo will also focus on the modern and trending needs for the well-being of women, entrepreneurship, child, maternity and parenting.”
The project manager said that WE Talks conferences will be held in Kozhikode and Bengaluru, simultaneous to the expo, to get women achievers of various generations and at local, regional and international levels, to share their experiences and lessons in life. “It would be an inspiration for participants to understand the challenges faced by the speakers. It would also enhance and empower them to become advocates of change in their own lives and the lives of women everywhere,” said Shetty.
Mohammed Hussain, chairperson of ZMZ Events, said that women comprised 80 per cent of the company staff. “We strive to empower every member of ZMZ Events to take the initiative and lead in enhancing the portfolio of the company. It would also mould their career, opening future opportunities for them,” he explained.
The dates and venues of the expo, as mentioned in the press release of ZMZ Events, are as follows:
Mangaluru: TMA Pai Convention Centre – January 20-22, 2023
Kozhikode: August 19-20, 2023
Bengaluru: February 2024
For further information on the event, people are requested to log on to the website www.womenexpo.in or call on mobile phone number: +91 9148247561
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Israel launches first airstrike on Lebanon since ceasefire, accusing Hezbollah of breaching truce
Beirut, Nov 28: The Israeli military on Thursday said its warplanes fired on southern Lebanon after detecting Hezbollah activity at a rocket storage facility, the first Israeli airstrike a day after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah took hold.
There was no immediate word on casualties from Israel's aerial attack, which came hours after the Israeli military said it fired on people trying to return to certain areas in southern Lebanon. Israel said they were violating the ceasefire agreement, without providing details. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said two people were wounded.
The back-to-back incidents stirred unease about the agreement, brokered by the United States and France, which includes an initial two-month ceasefire in which Hezbollah members are to withdraw north of the Litani River and Israeli forces are to return to their side of the border. The buffer zone would be patrolled by Lebanese troops and UN peacekeepers.
On Thursday, the second day of a ceasefire after more than a year of bloody conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, Lebanon's state news agency reported that Israeli fire targeted civilians in Markaba, close to the border, without providing further details. Israel said it fired artillery in three other locations near the border. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
An Associated Press reporter in northern Israel near the border heard Israeli drones buzzing overhead and the sound of artillery strikes from the Lebanese side.
The Israeli military said in a statement that “several suspects were identified arriving with vehicles to a number of areas in southern Lebanon, breaching the conditions of the ceasefire.” It said troops “opened fire toward them” and would “actively enforce violations of the ceasefire agreement.”
Israeli officials have said forces will be withdrawn gradually as it ensures that the agreement is being enforced. Israel has warned people not to return to areas where troops are deployed, and says it reserves the right to strike Hezbollah if it violates the terms of the truce.
A Lebanese military official said Lebanese troops would gradually deploy in the south as Israeli troops withdraw. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief media.
The ceasefire agreement announced late Tuesday ended 14 months of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah that began a day after Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023 attack out of Gaza, when the Lebanese Hezbollah group began firing rockets, drones and missiles in solidarity.
Israel retaliated with airstrikes, and the conflict steadily intensified for nearly a year before boiling over into all-out war in mid-September. The war in Gaza is still raging with no end in sight.
More than 3,760 people were killed by Israeli fire in Lebanon during the conflict, many of them civilians, according to Lebanese health officials. The fighting killed more than 70 people in Israel — over half of them civilians — as well as dozens of Israeli soldiers fighting in southern Lebanon.
Some 1.2 million people were displaced in Lebanon, and thousands began streaming back to their homes on Wednesday despite warnings from the Lebanese military and the Israeli army to stay out of certain areas. Some 50,000 people were displaced on the Israeli side, but few have returned and the communities near the northern border are still largely deserted.
In Menara, an Israeli community on the border with views into Lebanon, around three quarters of homes are damaged, some with collapsed roofs and burnt-out interiors. A few residents could be seen gathering their belongings on Thursday before leaving again.
