This Mumbai Mom’s Poem Will Make You Rethink Society’s Obsession With Fair Skin
India is a country where an obsession with fair skin runs deep. From a booming multi-billion dollar skin lightening industry to classified ads touting the marriageability of an “MBA graduate with fair...
View ArticleVideo: Miss Seeing Sachin in Action? Watch Him Playing Gully Cricket in Mumbai!
Indians still remember the deafening cheers that filled the stadium whenever Sachin Tendulkar came up to bat. From being one of the most beloved captains of the Indian cricket team, to scoring runs...
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This YouTube Video United a Manipuri Man with Family After 40 Long Years!
From little kids to the elderly, a lot of people go missing every year in India and sadly, very few can find their way back home or are successfully traced. However, in today’s date and time, the reach...
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Here’s Why the Railways Is Going to Build a 500-Km Wall Along the...
Human and cattle interference on railway tracks is a problem the Indian Railways has to contend with regularly. Whether it is people deliberately crossing over them or cattle aimlessly wandering around...
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How to Give a Society Better Health? Give the Women Contraception First
Among the slums of M/East Ward in Mumbai, Salma, a field worker of the Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action (SNEHA) came across a woman named Kusum, who was reluctant to use any...
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Not Just Gold: 6 Things You Can Buy This Akshaya Trithi to Make a Difference
Festivals are celebrated with much fervour in India. Today is Akshaya Trithi, a day on which the sun and moon are said to be equally bright. There are various other stories around the celebration of...
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Mumbai, Keep Your Eye on Your Water Bill! BMC to Roll Out Meter Reading...
The current process of billing the residents of Mumbai for their use of water is one that takes days to finish. Staff members of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) go from house to house to...
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Photo Story: 12 Gorgeous Pictures of India’s Most Luxurious Train Journeys
India has always had a love affair with heritage and luxury, and you can now get a taste of the royal life, aboard these luxury trains in India. Fitted with amenities befitting a royal family, these...
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Do you know How And When The Internet Came to India? Come Find Out
Social media went into an uproar after Tripura’s newly-elected CM Biplab Kumar Deb claimed that “internet and satellite communication had existed in the days of Mahabharata” while inaugurating a public...
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Mumbaikars, Want to Get Rid of Your Plastic? BMC Will Collect It From Your Home!
Ever since the Maharashtra Government legislated to ban plastic, efforts have been made by BMC to enforce the rule. They had already set up plastic collection bins and PET bottle crushing machines at...
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Not Just Smart Cards, You Can Now Use Debit/Credit Cards for Local Train...
If you are from Mumbai, you are most likely to be a regular local commuter. Every day, over 2300 train services are carried out in our economic capital. Around 7.5 million people take the trains daily!...
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Ragpicker Spots Purse with Rs 33,000 Cash, Returns It to Owner in Less Than...
It was a usual night in the life of 30-year-old Dipchand Gupta as he sifted through the railway tracks of platform number 5 near the ladies coach at Thane. Meticulous in his search of scraps of...
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Fakir Chand Kohli: First CEO of TCS & Father of India’s Software Industry
With its shares hitting a record high and its quarterly earnings recording a better-than-expected rise on Friday, India’s IT bellwether TCS is set to become India’s first listed company to enjoy a...
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Mumbai Gurudwaras to Provide 550 Beds, Four Meals/Day for Cancer Patients!
The Sikh community is well-known for its Samaritan initiatives among many other virtues. Since 2001, the Sikh Human Development Foundation in the USA provided scholarships to underprivileged students...
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India’s 1st ‘Walk-to-Work’ Industrial City Coming Soon: 5 Things to Know
The Manmohan Singh government had envisioned the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) Project to connect the two megacities of India. Work upon it has been underway for years, but now, the...
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Mumbai To Get World’s Largest Biomining Project, To Free Up 60 Acres of Land!
In a suburb in northeast Mumbai lies a 60-acre dump site in the region of Mulund. The infamous garbage haven contains about 7,000 million tonnes of waste. Packed to the brim, the dump site was closed...
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Meet the Determined Man Fighting to Make Air Travel & Airports in India Safer
On May 22, 2010, one of India’s worst aviation disasters took place. An Air India Express flight from Dubai to Mangalore overshot the runway while landing and plunged into the valley before bursting...
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This 19th Century Mumbai Temple Is Being Restored for a Great Reason!
As a child, I would spend my evenings with my grandmother. She would meet her friends near a temple around 5 pm while I played with mine. At 7 pm, we would both come back home. When I think about those...
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This Muslim Cleric’s Initiative Helped 137 Underprivileged Students Crack JEE
This year, the JEE Main results were yet another raging success for the famous ‘Rahmani 30’, with over 137 of its minority students qualifying for the JEE Advanced exams for admissions to India’s...
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Mumbai Cop Goes Beyond Call of Duty, Breaks Law to Save Senior Citizen’s Life!
In a nail-biting chain of events, a Mumbai cop went all out to help a family, even breaking the law and going beyond protocol. An example of selflessness, to save a senior citizen’s life. 90-year-old...
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