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Auto shopfloors not getting safer
Kavita Charanji, New Delhi
Leading auto manufacturers compete fiercely for a bigger slice of the Indian market, spending on advertising and lobbying for tax ...
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Animal Welfare Board out of control?
SHOULD an advisory board set up under a law be allowed to assume for itself a role bigger than what ...
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In Kashmir a special healing touch
Jehangir Rashid Srinagar
FOUNDED in 1970 by Dr Mir Mohammad Maqbool, a renowned ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialist, the Voluntary Medicare Society ...
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'Muslims can't outnumber Hindus even in 100 years'
Civil Society News, New Delhi
A paper that emanated from the Economic Advisory Council of the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) in May stirred up a storm ...
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Doon's street children find a police parent
Rakesh Agrawal, Dehradun
Neha is a cheerful girl who studies in Class 3. She looks smart in her off-white checked uniform, answering questions ...
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Classroom corner libraries: Fun with books
Rakesh Agrawal, Dehradun
SMALL stacks of books in classroom corners in government schools in Uttarakhand are delighting children and winning the hearts of ...
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Mhadei sharing: Not politics alone, but ecology as well
Derek Almeida, Panaji
The division of the waters of the Mhadei has become a political hot potato with Karnataka planning three dams on tributaries ...
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Dog-feeding is not compassion
Meghna Uniyal
NGOs and feeders, led by the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI), have long held that feeding stray dogs on ...
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Hyperlocal reporters win village panchayat elections
Surmayi Khatana, Mumbai
WHEN Arjun Pawara won the election for the post of sarpanch in the Dhadgaon block of Nandurbar district in Maharashtra ...
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Putting life into a primary school
Kavita Charanji, New Delhi
THREE years ago, 14-year-old Yuvaan M. Bery, a student of the Shri Ram School and a talented artist and musician, ...
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Libraries in prisons are a great escape
Kavita Charanji, New Delhi
WHEN a senior IT professional found himself behind bars in Noida jail for two years, he was in abject despair. ...
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Textbook solution at book bank
Rakesh Agrawal, Dehradun
HOLDING a piece of white paper in her left hand and clutching her 10-year-old daughter’s thin wrist with the other, ...
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Balaknama: The street child’s newspaper
Kavita Charanji, New Delhi
IT was an emotional moment for the editorial team of 32 children who gathered at the Press Club in Delhi ...
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Ugly truth: cars at the cost of missing fingers
Kavita Charanji, New Delhi
Behind the swanky cars that whiz down Gurugram’s roads hides an ugly truth: the exploitation of workers in its booming ...
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‘The oppressed classes don’t know their power’
Civil Society News, Gurugram
FEW people are blessed with R.S. Praveen Kumar’s enormous energy. A tall and lean man with his head shaved, even ...
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A trans kitchen in Chennai with a handful of love
Surmayi Khatana
LIFE is ordinarily rough for transgender people. They tend to be socially ostracized, lack education and find it difficult to ...
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India makes incense the world worships
Civil Society News, New Delhi
India’s agarbatti industry does more than spread fragrance. It employs a huge number of people, mainly women in rural areas. ...
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Helpline, masks, ration kits from Pardada Pardadi
Sidika Sehgal, New Delhi
In less than a week after the lockdown was imposed, the Pardada Pardadi Educational Society (PPES) set up a toll-free helpline ...
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Petpal is a pal to stray dogs during lockdown
Kavita Charanji, New Delhi
After working for eight years at a job many would envy in Google Mountain View in California, Srivatsava Gorthy decided to ...
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LGBTI jobs: Pride Circle has a good thing going
Sidika Sehgal, New Delhi
People with different sexual orientations are finding employment opportunities easier to come by thanks to the Supreme Court striking down ...
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Dog partner? Find one from 30 a month at Friendicoes
Sidika Sehgal, New Delhi
At the Friendicoes shelter in Defence Colony, one abandoned dog shows up every day. That’s 30 dogs a month. On ...
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A home and inner peace for those on the street
Subir Roy, Kolkata
A young man in his mid-thirties stood in the middle of a busy street in Kolkata’s down-market Beniapukur suburb, unmindful ...
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Jobs get a boost at Abilympics
Aranya Sawhney Malik, New Delhi
The job market for people with disability is slowly opening up with more companies keen to offer employment. At the ...
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Model Langar: Healthy, by volunteers and eco-friendly
Sidika Sehgal, New Delhi
In 2015, Gurvinder Singh “Bicky” Dhingra, a Delhi-based businessman, was dining at a high-end restaurant with his family. When the ...
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Love your village? Here is how you can give back
Subir Roy, Patna
Riaz Ahmed is a master weaver in Jamalhata village in Bihar’s Siwan district. His life revolves around his workshop-cum-home, contained ...
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Aruna Roy: ‘MGNREGA is being sidelined by govt’
Civil Society News, New Delhi
When farmers make no money, the rural economy comes to a standstill. Incomes shrink. Wages of agricultural labour have declined ...
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For the aged, a home of their own in Delhi
Kavita Charanji, New Delhi
Sixty-seven-year-old Rukmani, a widow, was the picture of misery when she first entered the gates of Mann Ka Tilak old ...
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Goa village digs in, grows paddy to stop builders
Derek Almeida, Panaji
When residents of the island village of St Estevam found that they were going to lose their land to a ...
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India’s Dog Father has saved close to 8000 dogs
Samita Rathor, Bengaluru
Rakesh Shukla is founder and CEO of The Writer’s Block, a telecom content company with clients like Intel, IBM, ...
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At Ashabari the destitute find a home and hope
Subir Roy, Kolkata
Sarita is around three, sweet-looking and healthy. But she was not so when she and her mother, Guria, first came ...
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Visiting Kobad in jail as he goes from case to case
Gautam Vohra, New Delhi
Kobad Ghandy is moving towards window number four with the help of a walking stick. When he sees us he smiles ...
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Kharai camel is sinking as mangrove belt shrinks
Tanushree Gangopadhyay, Ahmedabad
Go to the Gulf of Kutch and see the famed Kharai camel before it’s too late. There are just 2,000 ...
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Elder abuse rising, says Helpage survey in cities
Civil Society News, New Delhi
With worrisome regularity, news stories have been appearing of the elderly being subjected to harassment and abuse. Apart from the ...
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Open prisons are cheaper, better, says study
Amit Sengupta , New Delhi
Rajasthan's open prisons may become the model for prison reforms in the rest of the country because they have been ...
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How peace-loving Kasganj went up in flames
Amit Sengupta ,Kasganj
Kasganj is a quiet and laidback moffusil city in Uttar Pradesh. It is close to Aligarh and about 220 km ...
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Democracy Fellows take stock in Rajasthan
Bharat Dogra, Bhim (Rajasthan)
About 50 Democracy Fellows of the Loktantrashala, who have completed the first year of a three-year fellowship, gathered recently to ...
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SOS India has been reaching out with success
Kavita Charanji, Faridabad
In SOS Children’s Villages, homeless children and single mothers are brought together to live as families in a home environment. ...
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Friends of rivers find recognition in Delhi
Civil Society News , New Delhi
The fourth Bhagirath Prayas Samman (BPS) awards in 2017 and the inaugural Anupam Mishra Medal for exemplary media work on ...
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Doctors For You in Bangla Rohingya camp
Civil Society News, New Delhi
As people of the Rohingya community continue to flee persecution in Myanmar, a major health emergency is unfolding in refugee ...
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‘We are facing a backlash for fighting corruption'
Civil Society News, New Delhi
It’s an open secret that corruption flourishes at the grassroots. As money gets siphoned off development plans suffer and villages ...
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Mamoon’s English medium, co-ed slum school
Subir Roy, Kolkata
Innumerable NGOs are helping the needy across the country in different ways. What makes the Samaritan Help Mission in Howrah, ...
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The many stories of Saahas from all over India
Kavita Charanji, New Delhi
Annu Kumari was just three years old when she was married off by her family. The daughter of a Dalit ...
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No job? MLA provides a range of options
Shree Padre Taliparamba
Where do you begin if you want to start your own enterprise? Most young people don’t know. They search for ...
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