Meet PM Murugesan. The man is a school dropout who hails from the village of Melakkal in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. But the innovation he has achieved is now a thriving business. Murugesan discovered a way to make banana waste into ropes for bags and baskets. According to The Better India, Murugesan set up MS Ropes …
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While many states are passing anti-conversion or “love jihad” laws, the Supreme Court made a progressive observation in a case asserting that adults have the right to choose their life partner while saying that it was high time “society learns to accept inter-caste and inter-faith marriages”. The apex court made this observation while hearing a case of an inter-caste marriage …
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Social media giant, Twitter has said that it has taken action against some 1,178 accounts that the government had asked the microblogging platform to block. Responding to the ”legal requests” from the Central government, Twitter on Wednesday informed that it has taken multiple enforcement actions — including permanent suspension of over 500 accounts for clear violations of Twitter’s rules. Reuters …
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Your Facebook news feed might get a little less political soon, as the social network tests a different approach. It’s temporarily reducing the distribution of political content for some users, it said Wednesday, a move that CEO Mark Zuckerberg hinted at in last month’s earnings call. The test will run in Canada, Brazil and Indonesia this week, with the US …
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US Vice President Kamala Harris’ niece, Meenakshi “Meena” Harris’ tweet has drawn international attention to the arrest and alleged sexual assault of a young Indian activist and trade unionist who was protesting the unstable wage payment in an industrial cluster near Delhi. Navdeep Kaur, also known as Nodeep Kaur, is a 23-year-old Dalit activist and was arrested on January 12 …
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3 instances of cyber crooks targeting pensioners have been reported from Western UP. The frauds have been reported from the districts of Ghaziabad and Meerut. The fraudsters have cheated pensioners of Rs 30 lakh in these cases. Meerut police’s cyber crime cell is now handling the case as per a report in Hindi daily Hindustan. In one case, police officials …
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Chandan Maity is the headmaster of Krishnachandrapur High School in South 24 Parganas’ Mathurapur. But he is also fighting a battle against a major evil. Yes, we are talking of human trafficking. Since 2003, Maity has been going to villages in the delta region of South 24-Parganas as per a report in The New Indian Express. He goes to the …
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Sasmita Lanka, a forest officer from Odisha, has been felicitated with United Nation’s Asia Environmental Enforcement Award. Lanka, who is a divisional forest officer in Athgarh, Cuttack, received the award under the ‘Gender Leadership and Impact’ category for her work in helping in busting pangolin smuggling rackets in the state. Happy to share the achievement of Sasmita Lenka, a lady …
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A massive flood has been reported from Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district where water level rose suddenly after a part of Nandadevi glacier broke off. The incident has been reported from Raini village in Tapovan area of the Chamoli district. Prayers in the face of nature’s fury. Today at Chamoli disaster situation after Nandadevi glacier broke down. Status of dam. For disaster …
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Nearly 6 months after a rare face and hands transplant, Joe DiMeo is learning again how to smile, blink, pinch and squeeze. The 22-year-old from New Jersey had the operation in August 2020. This was 2 years after being badly burned in a car accident, as per a report in AP. “I knew it would be baby steps all the …
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