Students from this Indian city share their lunch boxes with over 3,000 needy people
‘Maa ki Rasoi’ is an initiative undertaken by Maninder Pal Singh and his NGO ‘Ray of Positivity’ under which home-cooked food is served to the patients and attendants of three hospitals in the city of Ludhiana, Punjab : Dayanand Medical College and Hospital (DMCH), Shri Krishna Charitable Hospital and Civil Hospital. This food is brought in by 4,100 students and 160 teachers from R S Model School...
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Why are elephants increasingly being born tuskless?
Nature has come up with a unique way to protect elephants from ivory poachers – it is turning them tuskless! Bizarre as it may sound, this is actually what is happening to the young female elephants of Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park. While tusklessness is not unheard of in female African elephants, normally it would only happen in about 2-4% of them. The tuskless crew in question here is amongst the...
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These might be world’s most sustainable sneakers
Veja is a French fashion brand that claims to manufacture sneakers that could possibly be the world’s most sustainable ones. The company sources raw materials from organic farming and ecological agriculture. Co-founders Sébastien Kopp and François-Ghislain Morillion say they purchase organic cotton directly from farmer associations in Brazil and Peru at a pre-set price, all while respecting fair trade...
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Since the last 44 years, this doctor has been treating patients for free on Sundays
For the past four and a half decades, Dr Ramana Rao from the city of Bangalore, India, has been treating patients at his clinic for free on Sundays. Since opening in 1974, Dr. Rao and his team of 35 people – which consists of his wife and two sons (who are also doctors), ten dentists, six nurses, and one skin specialist – have attended to more than 2 million patients, free of cost. When he started,...
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Ozone layer might be completely repaired by 2060
Finally here is some environmental news that isn’t alarming! Rather, it is something to celebrate and gives us hope for a better future – the Ozone layer is healing, and the huge hole above Antarctica is expected to completely vanish by the 2060s. According to a UN report, the upper layer of ozone over the northern hemisphere will be repaired by 2030, and the damage over the southern hemisphere will...
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The dustbins that helped Mumbai Airport save 12 million rupees annually
Gaurav Dewan is the COO and business head of Travel Food Services, a food and beverages firm operating the GVK lounge at the Mumbai International airport. Last year, he noticed a dustbin in the lounge that was overflowing with mostly food remnants. Since Gaurav was waiting for his flight that had been delayed, he decided to rummage through the contents of that bin to figure out why it was overflowing. After a...
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Nearly one-third of Britons has cut down on meat
The annual survey conducted by British supermarket chain Waitrose has revealed that the Britons have not just reduced their plastic usage after watching ‘Blue Planet II’, nearly one-third of Britons today are either vegetarians/vegans or have turned ‘flexitarian’ – which means they have consciously reduced the amount of meat they consume. Reasons cited were animal welfare concerns...
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This vending machine in Indiana provides clothes, blankets to homeless for free
Now here’s a vending machine that doesn’t spew sodas or junk food. Instead, it dispenses items of warm clothing and blankets for homeless people, that too for free! The pilot program aims to help provide warm clothing for anyone in need in Muncie, Indiana, all they have to do is register for help at Bridges Community Services. The vending machines don’t take money, just tokens provided to those...
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Meet the man who saved hundreds of stray dogs, even when he couldn’t afford it
When Takis Proestakis, a resident of Crete, Greece, visited a garbage dump one day, it changed his life forever. The man noticed some puppies that had been living in the garbage, probably abandoned by people who couldn’t afford to keep them, a dog with a broken leg, and many more strays living in pitiable conditions. He ended up rescuing nearly 50 dogs that day. For the next year, Takis would visit the...
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Scientists discover a new drug that could prevent ovarian cancer relapse for years
Ovarian cancer is one of the most common cancer among women around the world. Since it does not usually have any symptoms in the early stages, it often goes undetected. And even after undergoing chemotherapy and surgery, 70% of ovarian cancer patients suffer relapses within three years of treatment. However, now an exciting new treatment has been developed by scientists that could help extend the lifespans of...
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