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Sari Bags & Tea For Tree: This IAS Officer’s Ideas Are Transforming Jaisalmer!
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel had famously described the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) as the “steel frame” upon which the rest of the bureaucracy would rest — a bastion of India’s best and brightest...
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These Sisters Carried Excreta on Their Heads. Then Their Lives Changed Forever!
It is a matter of extreme shame that manual scavenging, a dehumanising practice which has been banned in every other country in the world, still exists in India. What is worse is that every year...
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He Lost His Sight at 22. At 31, He Is Rajasthan’s First Visually-Impaired Judge!
Brahmananda Sharma was only 22 when glaucoma snatched his eyesight. And while the young man may have lost his physical ability to see, it failed to rob him of his vision. One of his life goals was to...
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MeT Warns About Another Dust Storm : Protect Yourself With These 5 Steps!
On Thursday, 3 May 2018, severe dust storms and thunderstorms hit parts of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. Overnight, these winds of over 100 kmph destroyed houses and uprooted trees and poles. More than...
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Fresh Mangoes Three Times a Year? Meet The Farmer Who Created The Unique...
Intimately associated with the history of agriculture and civilisation in India, we have had a love affair with mangoes since long, but it was Hsüan-Tsang, the seventh-century Chinese traveller who...
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Paralysed For 3 Years, Rajasthan Kid Walks Again Thanks to Stem Cell Therapy!
Three years ago, Rohit Gehlot, his parents, elder brother and two other relatives were on their way to a wedding, when their car met with a horrific accident. The incident in Rajasthan left his elder...
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How a 10-Year-Old Elephant Found a Guardian Angel in Rajasthan’s Judiciary
The Hon’ble Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ajmer, on May 28, 2018, directed the Chief Wildlife Warden of Rajasthan to take custody of a young elephant. Suman, a 10-year-old elephant, was being kept...
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Got Old Gadgets You Don’t Use? The Rajasthan Govt. Will Now Buy Your e-Waste!
We all have old gadgets and electronics we refuse to throw away, due to the oddest reasons. An old CRT television, a first-generation smartphone, a desktop computer and anything that is basically...
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Rare Meteorite That Hit Rajasthan Could Hold Clues to Origin of Life: GSI...
The Panspermia hypothesis states that life on earth may have been brought from somewhere else in the universe. It suggests life exists throughout the universe in the form of small “living” particles...
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Rajasthan College Girls Chase down Man Who Snatched Mobile, Rewarded by Cops!
Roadside thugs usually depend on the element of shock in their heists. Be it snatching jewellery from passersby, stealing something from a purse or misbehaving with someone in a dark alley—they know...
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Gayatri Devi: The Rajmata Who Refused to Bow down to the Purdah System
Born into the royal Koch Rajbongshi Hindu family, Gayatri Devi was the daughter of Maharaja Jitendra Narayan of Cooch Behar in West Bengal and Indira Raje of Baroda, Gujarat. Educated in England,...
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This Waste Warrior from Jaipur Weaves ‘Magic’ from World’s 3rd Largest...
Newspapers, flyers, magazines, notebooks and cardboard boxes—there is no shortage of paper and paper-based materials around us, despite the popularity of concepts like a paperless economy and digital...
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Rajasthan First Indian State to Implement Biofuel Policy: 5 Facts You Should...
In a significant development, Rajasthan is now the first state in India to move ahead with the production and use of biofuels on a major scale, implementing the Centre’s national policy on the same....
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Need an Inspirational Teacher? Viral Picture from Rajasthan Will End Your Search
Whether it is 29-year-old teacher Rajinikanth Mendhe who travels 50 km every day to teach his only student, eight-year-old Yuvraj Sangale in the remote village of Chandar in Maharashtra or Professor...
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Starting with Cloth Pads, How 5 School Girls in Rajasthan Led Elders to...
In the tribal village of Sallada in Udaipur, girls often didn’t turn up for classes. They feared that they were “unclean” during the time of their periods, just like they were too “unholy” to enter...
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A New Kind of Tourism: Will Rajasthan Allow Walks in Its Ancient Battlegrounds?
What do you expect when an ‘action-packed’ tour is mentioned? Scenic places, arduous mountainous terrain, adventure sports, even a jungle or desert safari! What if we said that you could watch and...
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780 Toilets in 35 Days: Rajasthan Farmer’s Unwavering Vision Makes His...
What are the qualities of a hero? My answer would be someone who puts the needs of others before their own and works relentlessly to make others’ lives a little better. In that vein, let me introduce...
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India’s Biggest Zika Outbreak: Don’t Panic, Here’s What You Need to Know
Rajasthan recently recorded the biggest outbreak of Zika virus in the history of India. The first outbreak of the virus had occurred in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, in January, February 2017, followed by...
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How an IAS Officer Is Transforming a Community Notorious for a Host of Crimes!
Several IAS officers have been in the news for their phenomenal work, and Nagendra Prasad Singh, Special Secretary, Rural Development Department, Uttar Pradesh, is one of them. Singh was recognised for...
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Jailed By the British, Rajasthan’s First CM Fought For the Rights of The...
Hiralal Shastri, the first chief minister of Rajasthan, was a notable figure of the Indian freedom movement who not only took on the British but also challenged the princely states ruling over vast...
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