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Underprivileged Children In Jaipur Can Now Sell Their Paintings Online. Thanks To A 17-Year-Old.

Manav Kedia, a 17-year-old resident of Jaipur, has launched a website to sell paintings made by underprivileged children. An aspiring artist, Manav is motivated towards wor...

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Sustainable Development

The Art Of Water Recycling

Imagine that you run a company that sells bottled water. You spend lots of money, and use lots of energy, pumping the water out of the ground, purifying it and transporting...

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Festivals

Three Indian Movies To Travel To Cairo Film Festival

Three Indian movies will be part of the Cairo International Film Festival, running from November 15 to 24. What is most remarkable is that one of them, The Narrow Path (Ott...

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Gender

This 60-YO Peon Celebrated Her Retirement Day In The Presence Of Her IAS, Doctor & Engineer Sons

The day of one’s retirement is always a memorable one. But the farewell ceremony for 60-year-old Sumitra Devi, who worked as a peon at Central Coalfields Limited Town...

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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...

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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 ...

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Gender

Before Heena Sidhu’s Decision, These Haryana Women Were Already Fighting Purdah

Haryana shooter, Heena Sidhu, is not alone in her refusal to don a veil. The ace shooter bowed out of the Asian Airgun Shooting Championship in Iran which required female a...

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Human Rights

Habitat Iii: How India Is Working Towards Building Liveable Cities

Indian urban planners, architects, activists and thinkers are working on interesting, though not widely known, projects in different parts of the country In the UN’s ...

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Sustainable Development

Why CRISPR Never Could Have Come Out Of Silicon Valley

Jennifer Doudna is a creator of the gene editing technology that’s revolutionizing biology and medicine: CRISPR, which is so easy to use it’s often compared to ...

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Human Rights

Special Rapporteur To UN: Bring Labour Rights And Human Rights Together

The state is the only force large enough to defend workers’ rights from big business, so why is it so often batting for the wrong team? Maina Kiai: I think the state ...

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