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These Ingenious IIT Students Are Using Scrap Tyres To Build A Library And Playground For Needy Kids

How an architecture company founded by IITians is using scrap tyres as construction material to build playgrounds and a library for underprivileged children in Bangalore. In u...

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Gender

This UP Girl’s Hard Work And Dedication Catapulted Her From Being A Newspaper Vendor To An IIT Graduate

Anand Kumar’s highly successful initiative Super 30 coaches children from disadvantaged backgrounds for the IIT-JEE examination. Many inspiring stories of hardworking ch...

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Health

Why 10 Million Indian Women Secretly Undergo Abortions Every Year

Millions of women become pregnant because they lack access to contraceptive devices to limit or space their families, or are ignorant about them. In 2008, Arti Chauhan (name c...

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Human Rights

Cry To Protect Child Rights In Tea Gardens

Eight-year-old Tilti from the tea-producing district of Sivasagar, loves mathematics but she is not going to school any more. "I stay at home to look after my two-year-old bro...

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Sustainable Development

NASA And FEMA Practiced Emergency Operations For An Asteroid Impact

The year is 2020 and Los Angeles is about to be wiped off the face of the planet. You’ve known this day was coming since the fall of 2016, when the asteroid that is on a...

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Environment

Every Breath Is An Effort': Delhi Residents Suffer Amid Smog Crisis

Article Residents and visitors to Delhi are struggling to cope with severe levels of toxic air pollution that have prompted authorities to declare an “emergency situatio...

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Festivals

22nd Kolkata International Film Festival To Focus On China

China will feature as the focus country in the 22nd edition of the Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF), organisers said on Thursday, emphasising cinema’s reach be...

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Alternative Entertainment

Flash Mob Enthralls Visitors At Gateway Of India On Rashtriya Ekta Diwas

Visitors to one of India’s most iconic monuments, Gateway of India in Mumbai, were in for a treat on Monday when the site became the backdrop for a flash mob on the occa...

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Bollywood

'Parched' Director Leena Yadav To Make Her International Debut

Indian filmmaker will make her international directorial debut with a tragic love story 'Secret Sky' set in Iran. The 45-year-old filmmaker, who has made Hindi films like 'Par...

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Hollywood

Roger Daltrey To Perform At Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation Dinner

The Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation will host its 19th Annual Benefit Dinner & Auction, honoring footwear industry icon Vince Camuto and featuring a musical perfo...

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FESTIVALS: IT’S WORLD HERB DAY ON 6TH MAY

The Prophet remarked that eating lentils fills the heart with sympathy, brings tears to ...

May 4 2024

THOUGHT FACTORY: DEPICTION OF CHILD ABUSE IN CINEMA

Courageous storytellers daringly illuminate the darkness of child abuse, igniting conver...

May 3 2024

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: 50 YEARS OF GARM HAWA

On Balraj Sahni’s birth anniversary, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri looks at the lasting l...

May 1 2024