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This 69-Year-Old Tamil Poet Has a Very Special Way of Spending Her Earnings!
69-year-old Saraswathy Amma is no ordinary poet. With one of the poems, titled ‘Oru Prathana’, included in the syllabus of class 3 students in Tamil Nadu, this poet has an exceptional reason for...
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This Indian Soldier Lost His Life, but Lives on in the Six Others He Saved
When 23-year-old Shakti (name changed), a soldier serving in Srinagar, returned home to Tamil Nadu, his parents did not think he would never go back. On September 3, Shakti was travelling on his...
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1.48 Lakh Families of Slum Dwellers in Chennai to Get Houses Within the City
In Tamil Nadu, slum dwellers have been forcefully evicted in the past after being coerced by the government to move into ‘affordable housing’ settlements that are essentially ghettos. With these...
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How to Grow Back an Island? This Team From IIT Madras May Have the Answer!
In 2015, a report published by the Tamil Nadu government red-flagged the drastic ecological changes taking place in Vaan Island, one of the 21 uninhabited islands located between India and Sri Lanka....
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Tamil Nadu Women to Get Free Contraceptive Shots in Govt Hospitals, Med Colleges
Inaccessibility of contraceptive measures and lack of awareness about family planning among underprivileged sections across the country are one of the major reasons for the exponential rise in the...
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Tamil Nadu SSLC Exam: Here’s How You Can Download Your Admit Card
The hall ticket for the Tamil Nadu Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) examination will soon be available for download on the official website of Directorate of Government Examinations (DGE). A...
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Here’s How Officials Will Clear Garbage from Chennai’s Largest Toxic Dumpyard
Kannadapalayam is a dumping site in Tambaram, Chennai, which gets about 300 tonnes of garbage every day from three municipalities. It can hold only 110 tonnes, hence, the rest of the garbage just piles...
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How This Woman Broke Taboos By Transforming Chennai’s Oldest Crematorium
In a discreet corner of Velankadu, the northwest fringe of Chennai, a cemented pathway leads visitors past overgrown burial yards and abandoned buildings into one of the city’s oldest and busiest...
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Thamirabarini Clean Up: 15,000 Turn up to Save Perennial River in Tamil Nadu
The Thamirabarani is a perennial river that flows through districts of Tamil Nadu and into the Gulf of Mannar. It is also the only perennial river of South India and is the only river in the country to...
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Here’s How 6 Govt Schoolkids Built an Organic Pen That Turns Into Manure!
Necessity is the mother of invention. What happens when a certain invention has the power to become a necessity? In their fight against the use of use of use-and-throw plastic pens widely available and...
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Using His Own Money, This Bus Conductor Has Planted One Lakh Trees in 28 Years!
While most of us have a love-hate relationship with bus conductors on usual days when their piercing eyes judge you for not bringing change aboard, here’s a Coimbatore conductor every passenger on bus...
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Want to Go Postal in Chennai? Mobile Vans Set up to Cater to Your Mail Needs
For the localities that receive inadequate service by the Postal Department, the Tamil Nadu Circle of India Post has introduced a Mobile Post Office. This service was inaugurated on October 10 by the...
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UPSC Preparation: Tamil Nadu to Introduce Affordable Coaching Centres in All...
To ease the preparation for civil services aspirants, the Tamil Nadu government has decided to introduce coaching academies all over the state. “To help those appearing for IAS/IPS examinations, the...
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Tamil Nadu University Gets Its First Transgender Student. Here’s Her Story
Born in a poor family in Ambasamudram, Tamil Nadu, Esakki Muthu – as she is now known – was assigned male at birth. By the time she reached class 6, she noticed changes in her, which she discussed with...
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This Library in a Chennai Slum Used to Be a Drinking Club. Now, It Changes...
In the slum area of Mogappair East in Chennai, there is a tiny room stacked with books called Abdul Kalam Arivagam – a library started by Balaji Premkumar and Jagadheeswaran Dhakshinamoorthy. But it...
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In a Madurai Bus Stand, Mothers with Hungry Infants Get Free Milk Thanks to...
Eight years ago, Guna Suresh was travelling to Chennai with his family, when the bus got stuck at Koyambedu bus terminal at noon. His brother had a baby with him, who was crying for milk. They managed...
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Meet the ‘Two Rupee Doctor’ Serving Chennai’s Underprivileged for 40 Years!
In a world where affordable healthcare is a distant dream to many, one 67-year-old doctor in Chennai has been serving patients quietly as a little consultation fee of Re 2 since 1973. Living up to his...
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Transgender Students, Children of Traditional Folk Artists to Get Free...
The Manonmaniam Sundaranar University in Tamil Nadu had earlier announced on Friday that it would waive tuition fee of all its transgender students from this academic year. Now, the university wants to...
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IIT-M Students for Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan, Clean Area Using 45 Robots in 15...
Sweeping it clean figuratively and literally, IIT Madras students may have set an all-new Asian and Indian record for deploying the largest number of robots to clean an area. These young innovators...
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Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple Honoured With UNESCO Award for Heritage Conservation
Tamil Nadu’s historic Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple in Srirangam became a national symbol of conserving cultural heritage after bagging an Award of Merit from UNESCO. It is a matter of pride that out of...
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