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South Asian Development NewsNov 20, 2008
National Tribunal on Torture

A national project seeks to raise awareness on torture and ultimately influence policies relating to the ...

 
Deworming Improves School Attendance

A study done in Delhi's resettlement colonies in 200 schools shows that deworming programmes can improve ...

Teen Journalists Make Their Own Newspaper

Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi's vision of journalism, they help put together a newspaper called The Yamuna. ...

 
Why Kashmir Chose to Vote

The extraordinarily high turnout of 68.9 per cent in the first phase of the Jammu and ...

Sri Lanka's War Budget Draws Flak

The strife-torn island nation has increased its defence spending to an all time high. ...

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Keeping His Culture Alive - Quietly
or 20 years, the 72-year-old Professor Shiv Nirmohi has wandered across Jammu and Kashmir, risked his life, met militants, slept in forests, published free books, all to quietly keep his culture alive.


Reliable Solar Lighting for Street Vendors
As the sun sets, the street-side stalls in South India’s small town of Hassan turn into a bustling marketplace illuminated by "Mr.Murugesh's solar lights".


In Kurukshetra, a New Victory
The villages of Khanpur Kholiya, in Haryana have received the central government's Nirmal Gram Puruskar for ensuring that no one, not even a child, defecates in the open.


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Name: Ramakrishna Math

Mission: For almost a century now, this center has been serving Nattarampalli and the hundred odd surrounding villages in all spheres, be it flood/ drought-relief, hygiene and health care, family welfare,...

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