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How One Staunch Gandhian Helped A Tribal Village In Maharashtra Achieve Self-Rule

Born on the December 31, 1949, Mohan Hirabai Hiralal is a staunch Gandhian who actively participated in Jayaprakash Narayan’s Chhatra Yuva Sangharsh Wahini. The Gandh...

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Food Will Not Be Wasted Anymore: NIT Trichy To Set Up A Biogas Plant, Utilise Food Waste As Feed

In a laudable initiative, The National Institute of Technology, Trichy (NIT-T), has decided to set up a biogas plant in collaboration with Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BA...

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Hollywood

Steven Tyler To Auction Supercar For Charity

Barrett-Jackson, The World’s Greatest Collector Car Auctions, will auction a Hennessey Venom GT Spyder owned by rock and roll legend Steven Tyler at its 46th Annual S...

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Eight Erode Villages Have Not Burst Crackers For The Past 17 Years. For A Very Special Reason

Diwali is a particularly difficult time for animals in urban areas in India. The sound of firecrackers going off agitates them, making them cower in fear behind any protect...

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Gender

Gutsy Women Sarpanchs & Teachers In Haryana Come Together To Lift The Veil On Regressive Practices

In Haryana, which has the worst sex ratio in the country and where khap panchayats often flout the laws of the land, women remain underrepresented in al...

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Meet The 23-Year-Old Who Has Trained More Than 300 Rural Children In Using The Personal Computer

Kainat Ansari first learnt to operate a PC when she was in Class 6. Now, in less than two years, she has introduced the PC to more than 300 children in rural India, enablin...

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Sustainable Development

Rajasthan: Villagers Convert 52 Hectares Of Barren Land Into A Lake

The residents of Ramsar village worked very hard for five months and converted a barren land in their village into a lake to conserve water. The 52 hectare barren land near...

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Festivals

Kannada Film Thithi Wins Top Award In Shanghai Film Festival

Kannada film "Thithi" on Saturday won Asia New Talent Awards for best film and best script writer during the on-going 19th Shanghai International Film Festival in China. Th...

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Human Rights

A First For The Country, Maharashtra Bans Social Boycott Ordered By The Khaps

Maharashtra has become the first state in the country to ban village councils from imposing social boycotts. In the majority of cases, it is women and people from lower cla...

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Human Rights

The Brutal Ways In Which Some Clan Councils In South Asia Punish Women

In India and other parts of South Asia, clan councils have long worked outside the legal system as enforcers of centuries-old social codes and traditions. Experts say these...

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