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Apr 30 2019April 30, 2019

3,000-kg garbage collected from Mt Everest in Nepal’s clean-up campaign

1 Comment / ChangeMaker, Information / By SLSV / April 30, 2019 April 30, 2019

A total of 3,000 kilogrammes of solid waste has been collected from Mt Everest since April 14 when Nepal launched an ambitious clean-up campaign aimed at bringing back tonnes of trash from the world’s highest peak, which has lately turned into a “garbage dump”. The 45-day ‘Everest Cleaning Campaign’, led by Solukhumbu district’s Khumbu Pasanglhamu Rural Municipality …

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Apr 29 2019April 29, 2019

Kochi To Kanyakumari, Environmentalists Group Bicycle To ‘Replace Plastic’ And Educate Citizens

Leave a Comment / ChangeMaker, Environment, Information / By SLSV / April 29, 2019 April 29, 2019

Five members of AccelerateSD started from Kochi on Thursday (April 25) and will reach Kanyakumari on April 30, covering 350kms on bike meanwhile educating people about plastic pollution. Plastic pollution is a looming crisis courtesy our reliance on it especially single-use plastics which are slowly killing our environment. According to Science Advances, a scientific journal, …

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Apr 26 2019April 26, 2019

This IIT-grad left Rs. 21LPA job to revolutionize education system

Leave a Comment / ChangeMaker, Education / By SLSV / April 26, 2019 April 26, 2019

Divanshu Kumar, an IIT-Madras student pursuing final-year Mechanical Engineering, has given up an Rs. 21 LPA job offer to revolutionize the Indian education system. He is the founder of Involve Learning Solutions Foundation, a non-profit edu-tech start-up based in Chennai that caters to the development of both academic and non-academic skills of a student in an …

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Apr 25 2019April 25, 2019

From Kashmir to the US, the story of the Valley’s first woman wheelchair basketball player

Leave a Comment / ChangeMaker, DifferentlyAbled / By SLSV / April 25, 2019 April 25, 2019

At the age of 12, Inshah Bashir met with an accident which left her wheelchair-bound. Despite this, she took up wheelchair basketball and competed at the national level in 2017. Now, she is all set to represent India at the Sports Visitor Programme 2019 to be held in the US. There are many Indian athletes …

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Apr 24 2019April 24, 2019

Unable To Move His Body, Bengaluru Teen Takes His Bed To The Exam Hall, Scores 72%!

Leave a Comment / ChangeMaker, DifferentlyAbled / By SLSV / April 24, 2019 April 24, 2019

“Where there is a will, there’s a way” is an old saying. And, there can be no better real-life example of the phrase proved right than a recent case from Bengaluru. Kanhaiya was diagnosed with a rare genetic condition at the age of seven. The disorder caused him progressive weakness and loss of muscle mass …

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