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"Signal Shala": Mumbai flyover school offers big lifeline to street childrenA unique school operating from shipping containers in Mumbai provides education to children from marginalised communities. Many of these ch...- Norwegian man, who was abandoned by parents in India and grew up in Mumbai slum, reveals the number one lesson he learned: ‘I will never say no…’A Norwegian man named Lasse Lund recounts his childhood spent homeless on the streets of Mumbai. He details surviving as a tourist guide wi...
- Housemaid's daughter who learnt in parking-lot classroom now teaches children there after passing Class 10Every afternoon near Lal Qila, 18-year-old Sakshi teaches young children in the same parking lot where she once sat struggling to learn bas...
- 'People called her too dark': This teenager 'Slum Princess' from Dharavi is now the face of international fashion campaignMaleesha Kharwa, an 18-year-old from Mumbai's Dharavi slum, has become an international modelling sensation. Spotting her potential, a prod...
- Watch: Lucknow slum kids’ Sabyasachi-inspired bridal viral video wins over internet; designer reactsA group of underprivileged children from a Lucknow slum recreated a bridal campaign inspired by Sabyasachi Mukherjee’s ‘Heritage Bridal’ co...
- SC stays proposed demolition of slums in Delhi's Sarojini Nagar till May 2"You say that you have to vacate the land. Now these are people who have come from all over the country. They cannot afford housing elsewhe...
- 9 ways tech made the world a better placeThe AgriPredict app forecasts the probability of pest invasions, including the voracious fall armyworm, which eats crops and has wreaked ha...
- How 5 IIT graduates are changing the way slum kids playTheir first project was on their college campus, the Disha Seema Care Center, a school for children from villages around the IIT-Kharagpur ...
- Random Hacks of Kindness: Kids turn hackers and makers; use technology to solve real-world problemsRandom Hacks of Kindness (RHoK), the global community of hackers and makers that build socially-conscious technology, is working with child...
- Jewellery maker Ria Joseph trains poor kids in art and craftThe jewellery designer and manufacturer uses her creative knowledge to teach art and craft to slum kids living in Bengaluru's Cantonment ar...
- Jewellery maker Ria Joseph trains underprivileged children in art and craftBeing a yoga practitioner, Joseph also gets the children to practice the fitness form for an hour every fortnight.
- Millionaire NRI Robin Raina plans to build 6,000 homes for the homeless in IndiaRaina, who runs a highly successful billion dollar American software company and recently won a multi-million dollar deal with London Stock...
- Amitabh Bachchan back on Twitter after hackMegastar Amitabh Bachchan is back on micro-blogging site Twitter after it was hacked and adult sites were planted on it.
- Home of 'Slumdog' star torn downCity workers demolishing part of a Mumbai slum on Thursday bulldozed the home of a ``Slumdog Millionaire'' child star.
- Rousing reception for Slumdog teamThe Oscar-winning team of Slumdog Millionaire was greeted with tears of joy, garlands and champagne at the airport here on its return from ...
- Another Nithari? 22 slum kids go missingIs another Nithari unfolding at New Sanjay Amar colony in east Delhi? This slum cluster behind the Karkardooma courts has seen at least 22 ...
- Another Nithari? 22 slum kids go missingIs another Nithari unfolding at New Sanjay Amar colony in east Delhi? This slum cluster behind the Karkardooma courts has seen at least 22 ...
- Slumdog Millionaire: Movie ReviewConsidering that over 250 mn in India still live below poverty line, the film gives a shots of urban Indian slum life, especially appealing...
- Slum kids get international schooling in Chandigarh!As 'Sikhya: the school of learning' goes into its second academic session after being launched in March last year, its popularity among und...
- Organised retailing in slums! Biyani makes it possibleKishore Biyani, whose Future Group changed the country's retail landscape, is exploring possibilities of tapping the potential of urban slu...
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