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[Meet the Mysuru Drainage Pipe Cleaner Who Runs a Free Library out of His House!]
Jan 25, 2017 02:58 pm | Aishhwariya Subramanian
Syed Isaq is a 61-year-old illiterate daily-wage worker who has been running a free library for those in his community for several years now.
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[From Cheese Making to Pottery: 10 Learning Holidays in India You Need to Try Now!]
Jan 25, 2017 02:33 pm | Sanchari Pal
If you want to take home something more from a vacation than just a suitcase full of souvenirs and a tan, a learning holiday might just be the thing you are looking for. Hereâs a selection of some of the best learning holidays in India.
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[TBI Blogs: Hereâs How the Young National Bravery Award Winners are Selected Every Year]
Jan 25, 2017 02:21 pm | Factly
The National Bravery awards will be given to 25 children for 2016, four of whom will receive them posthumously. The awards were first introduced in 1957, and are given in five different categories. But what are these awards, and how are the awardees selected? Rakesh Dubbudu from Factly takes a closer look.
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[VIDEO: This IAS Officer from Manipur Built a 100 Km Road as a âChristmas Giftâ]
Jan 25, 2017 02:04 pm | TBI Team
A Naga IAS officerâs efforts led to the construction of a 100km road effectively linking Manipur, Nagaland and Assam, without any financial aid from the government.
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[VIDEO: This Wallflower Of A Settlement In Nagaland Is Indiaâs First Green Village]
Jan 25, 2017 01:59 pm | Aishwarya Bhatkal
Home to a 700-year-old settlement and perfectly terraced fields, Khonoma is a unique, self-sustaining village in Nagaland.
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[How Locals Saved a Govt School from Shutting down in a Punjab Village by Funding It Themselves!]
Jan 25, 2017 01:22 pm | Sohini Dey
After a government school building was demolished in Punjab's Fatehpur Awana village, locals stepped forward to keep it up and running.
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[Little Big Hearts: When Class 2 Students Collected Their Pocket Money to Gift a Wheelchair to a Girl!]
Jan 25, 2017 12:57 pm | Aditi Patwardhan
In a heart-warming gesture, class 2 students of a private school in Rajasthan pooled in money from their piggy banks to buy a wheelchair for a differently abled girl from an underprivileged family.
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[Sushma Swaraj Fires Back at Twitter Troll with a Powerful Lesson in Religious Harmony]
Jan 25, 2017 12:14 pm | Aishhwariya Subramanian
Sushma Swaraj who is known to be active on social media, took to Twitter to fire back at a Twitter troll who had insinuated that she has a bias towards Muslims.
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[TBI Blogs: How I âLivedâ the Indian Constitution for 5 Weeks and Came to Understand It Better!]
Jan 24, 2017 07:29 pm | 5th Space â Making the other four count
Over 400 Jagriks (Jagruk+Nagriks) have undertaken an arduous journey to better understand the Indian Constitution and its tenets and apply them in their lives, under Samvidhan Live: the Jagrik Project. Kanika Sinha talks about how watching these 400 journeys progress helped her better identify with the Constitution and apply its principles in her life.
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[Madhubani Murals On The Walls of These Jharkhand Village Homes Depict the Life & Times of Tribals]
Jan 24, 2017 06:58 pm | Aditi Patwardhan
The walls of houses in Jharkhandâs Chandidih village are proud galleries displaying Madhubani masterpieces woven with everyday stories, thanks to Udbhav, a community art project.
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[Knock Knock! Govt Might Soon Be at Your Doorstep Conducting Free Tests for Cancer & Diabetes]
Jan 24, 2017 06:49 pm | Aishhwariya Subramanian
On World Cancer Day, the government of India will be flagging off a new initiative where officials and members of the medical community will be going door to door to many homes in the country and conducting free cancer screenings.
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[13 Amazing Superheroes Featured in Indiaâs First Amputee Calendar Will Make You Rethink Disability]
Jan 24, 2017 06:47 pm | TBI Team
With the goal of celebrating disability and inspiring people, this calendar has been produced by Mission Smile as a part of their project called #RisingAbove.
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[Acts of Valour: Stories of the 25 Young Lionhearts Who Won the National Bravery Awards]
Jan 24, 2017 05:43 pm | Sanchari Pal
From a 15-year-old who saved his cousin from a leopard attack to a 9-year-old who lost her life while trying to save two of her friends from drowning â these 25 children showed incredible bravery in the face of some very dangerous situations.
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[TBI Blogs: 10 Things All Indian Children Should Be Taught about Gender, for an Equitable Society]
Jan 24, 2017 05:42 pm | CARE India
Despite sustained efforts, India continues to have one of the most skewed ratios for equal opportunities between genders. This National Girl Child Day, it is important to realise that a huge part of improving this scenario is educating future generations about the need for gender equality. Hereâs how parents and institutions can contribute.
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[Chennai Folks, If You Have Any Fresh Food Going Waste, This Man Can Feed It to the Homeless]
Jan 24, 2017 05:15 pm | Aishhwariya Subramanian
G Padmanaban is the 23-year-old who has started a new project called No Food Waste in Chennai. He will be taking fresh yet wasted food in the city and will then use it to feed the needy and homeless population
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[The T in LGBT: Transgender Voices Are Being Heard More Often in India, and Thatâs a Good Thing!]
Jan 24, 2017 05:07 pm | Tamara Mathias
How India is finding new ways to tell transgender stories.
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[From Cats to Monkeys â This Bareilly Resident Has 46 Animals Living in Her Two-Bedroom Flat]
Jan 24, 2017 04:26 pm | Tanaya Singh
Meet Shalini Agarwal, an animal-lover who has dedicated her life to taking care of injured animals in her city. She lives with 46 animals in her flat and has no plans of stopping anytime soon. This is her story.
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[How Bangaloreâs Popular Avarekai Mela Began in a Condiments Store & Changed the Lives of Farmers]
Jan 24, 2017 04:10 pm | Sohini Dey
Aiming to support farmers growing avarekai beans in and around Bangalore, this food festival attracts hundreds of locals thanks to their lip-smacking recipes. Avarekai pani puri, anyone?
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[Bangaloreans, Click a Pothole, Send It to BBMP via an App, and Get Paid If They Donât Fix It â SOON!]
Jan 24, 2017 01:21 pm | Aishhwariya Subramanian
Bangalore's civic body, BBMP has announced that it will be launching an app that will help citizens upload pictures of potholes. If the pothole is not fixed in 48 hours, then the citizen will get Rs. 100
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[TBI Blogs: How a Resolute Teenager Is Ending Child Marriage in Her Community in Bihar]
Jan 24, 2017 12:54 pm | Plan India
At 17, Nisha has become the face of a revolution by taking a difficult, even dangerous, stand against child marriage in her community. Hereâs how it happened.
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[How Vigilant Villagers Averted a Major Train Mishap in West Bengal]
Jan 24, 2017 12:25 pm | Aditi Patwardhan
Alertness and presence of mind of the locals of Cooch Behar district in West Bengal averted a major train derailment incident on January 23.
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[Marching Ahead: 14 Incredibly Brave Women in Indian Armed Forces Who Broke the Glass Ceiling]
Jan 24, 2017 12:10 pm | Sanchari Pal
On National Girl Child Day, here are the inspiring stories of 14 of India's most respected female soldiers. With their impressive records, they have established new frontiers for women in combat!
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[TBI Blogs: When a Young Man Experienced Christianity, Sikhism, Islam, and Hinduism â All in Three Days!]
Jan 23, 2017 08:03 pm | 5th Space â Making the other four count
Exploring religion can be a deeply moving experience, especially when one decides to overcome his/her own prejudices and explore other religions with an open mind. Jagrik (Jagruk+Nagrik) Priyanshu from Ahmedabad, Gujarat narrates his experience exploring different religions as part of a task for Samvidhan LIVE: The Jagrik Project.
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[Breaking New Ground: Meet Atri Kar, First Transgender from WB to Appear for the Civil Services Exam]
Jan 23, 2017 06:07 pm | Sohini Dey
Overcoming a host of legal hurdles, 27-year-old Atri Kar has become the first transgender from West Bengal to appear for the civil services examinations in India.
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[TBI Blogs: Simplifying the ConstitutionâHow over 400 People Are Educating Others about Their Rights & Duties]
Jan 23, 2017 06:05 pm | 5th Space â Making the other four count
The Constitution of India is one of the most important documents in the country, yet for many people, it is little more than a dusty memory from their school Civics classes. However, a group of individuals from around the country are undertaking an initiative to educate themselves and others about the significance of this cornerstone of India and its contents. Meet the Jagriks of Samvidhan LIVE.
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