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- A place for finding and sharing news and information, related to social welfare issues and organizations

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From TBI: Cambridge Analytica Scandal: 3 Steps You Can Take to Protect Your Facebook Data - It’s been a stressful week for Facebook and its users. Recent revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a London-based data mining company, used data sourced from ... https://t.co/MJFOi4Xkp9

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From TBI: Long Before #MeToo, This 19th Century Feminist Challenged Caste and Patriarchy! - Let me ask you something, Gods! You are supposed to be omnipotent and freely accessible to all. You are said to be completely impartial. What does that mean? T... https://t.co/GWTMYdaLUX

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From TBI: This Aged Retired Teacher Is an Organic Farming Icon for Millions of Farmers! - Looks can be deceiving. Especially in the case of Natabar Sarangi. He works for hours in rice fields, despite being well past the age of 80 years. For the last d... https://t.co/EiPRFmCGwk

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From TBI: Hidden in Meghalaya’s Verdant Hills Lies The World’s Longest Sandstone Cave! - There is a natural gem in India which has made its way to the record books, according to this Hindustan Times report. In Meghalaya, adventurers have discovered th... https://t.co/7AquEcSZMU

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From TBI: More Money, Better Options: How Karnataka’s E-Trading Is Changing Farmer Lives - This article is sponsored by the Government of Karnataka. Recent protests by farmers across the country have boiled down to one major issue—lack of remunerative... https://t.co/aHDz75yTTV

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From TBI: How Munnar’s First Female IPS Officer Is Transforming Policing in Telangana - What happens when one woman in uniform goes beyond her call of duty and transforms the existing policing model at every posting? Well, a decrepit village school bu... https://t.co/kwSd8B2kIP

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From TBI: Spotting Ponzi Schemes: Protect Your Hard-Earned Money From Scamsters! - Last week, news reports emerged of a Bengaluru-based company duping major sporting personalities like Rahul Dravid, Saina Nehwal and Prakash Padukone of crores of rupee... https://t.co/4kbM3gJrUr

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From TBI: Indian Firm Gifts Computers to Ghana Teacher Who Used Blackboard to Teach MS Word! - Working in the online sphere, it isn’t hard to fathom the incredible amounts of good that social media offers. Despite all the negativity, social media has ... https://t.co/5gay86PGYg

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From TBI: India Is Not Rubbish: You’ll Be Surprised How It Manages Its Plastic! - India, a country of 1.3 billion people and obvious high use of plastic, is not one among the top ten plastic polluters in the world! According to The Economist, eight ou... https://t.co/9yWAPiK8iq

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From TBI: Indie, Quirky, Breathtaking: Unfactory Is the Place to Find Art Infused Goodness - Jumping off the boat of certainty into the vast unknown, requires courage, but it also demands an extraordinary amount of foresight and strong faith in what y... https://t.co/ZKJQBaYOcA

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From TBI: Neutrino Observatory Project Gets Centre’s Approval: Why Its Huge For India - In a big development for the nation’s scientific community, India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) project has got a new lease of life with the Ministry of Environ... https://t.co/29HiyLwU83

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From TBI: Power of Journalism: How One Story Changed the Lives of a Homeless Mother, Son - Media houses and journalists across the globe often face immense flak from the public for sensationalising stories or harbouring a selective attitude when it co... https://t.co/2cnGlTdm2h

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From TBI: Powered By Lithium Ions, This Start-Up is Lighting Up The Remotest Parts of India! - The Chhattisgarh government is seeking to electrify all 19,000 villages in the next two years. For the residents of Maoist-affected districts in the state, ... https://t.co/K6YjKrlDar

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From TBI: Amazing Mother Creates a Unique Place for Her Down Syndrome Son’s Talents! - The dictionary definition of a ceramist is one who makes ‘works of art’. This is certainly an apt description for Shaurya, a 30-year-old ceramist who runs an art st... https://t.co/uuhcIoiV42

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From TBI: Battling Traffic Congestion, Eco-Sensitive Leh’s New Initiative May Be An Answer - Regular visitors to Leh would have noticed an exponential surge in the volume of vehicles in recent years, leading to chaos and endless traffic jams. With the... https://t.co/rX4CSjMgXP

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From TBI: How IAF Choppers Became Saviours for Trekkers Stranded in Theni Forest Fire - It is the responsibility of the armed forces to come to the nation’s rescue during testing and precarious situations, and trekkers who were distressed and stranded... https://t.co/89hR0PD0yS

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From TBI: ‘Mother of Tibet’: Meet The Unsung Saviour of Thousands of Tibetan Children - On International Women’s Day last week, the Government of India presented its highest civilian honour for women, the Naari Shakti Puraskar. Among the recipients of... https://t.co/rPDD2IA0gE

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From TBI: Wanderlust Goals: This Group is Redefining Budget Travel for Indian Women! - What could be a better embodiment of a constant traveller than the Indian milkweed, which goes along wherever the wind takes it? An ‘appooppanthaadi’ as they call i... https://t.co/VUfNelLi6V

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From TBI: Udupi Ramachandra Rao, The ISRO Legend Behind India’s First Satellite ‘Aryabhata’ - Nearly forty two years ago, on April 19, 1975, a group of 50 Indian scientists and technicians from ISRO gathered at the Soviet satellite launch complex in K... https://t.co/QupuhCYDSo

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From TBI: This Villager’s ‘Gamcha’ Saved Dibrugarh Rajdhani from a Major Disaster - The Dibrugarh bound New Delhi-Guwahati-Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express, would have had a major accident, if it wasn’t for the presence of mind of the residents of a village... https://t.co/JKAqVm3sBL