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The India Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has revealed that they are going to actively use social networks such as Twitter and Facebook to reduce the amount of traffic accidents. They aim to create awareness by uploading videos on YouTube and posting information on Facebook and Twitter so that Indian citizens will be cautious while driving. Their goal is to use social media optimization to reduce traffic accidents by 50% in the next three years. There are far too many fatal accidents on the roads and highways of India …
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Leprosy is a chronic granulomatous infection . It is a major health problem in India which has 1/3 of total leprosy patients in the world. It is more prevalent among the lowest socio-economic strata. World Health Assembly in 1991 passed a resolution to eliminate leprosy as a public health problem by the year 2000. Elimination of leprosy as a public health problem is defined as a prevalence rate of less than one case per 10 000 persons; The target was achieved on time. The widespread use of MDT by WHO …
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“….the idea is that no society is ever complete, neither are its needs exactly the same as those of other societies.” -Idries Shah, The Way of the Sufi
Varun (or Victor for work purposes) declares: ‘An air-conditioned sweat shop is still a sweatshop. In fact, it is worse because nobody sees the sweat. Nobody sees your brain getting rammed.’
-Chetan Bhagat, One Night @ The Call Centre
Unless we recognize the present low state of our society as contrasted with our ancient progressive civilization, and unless we soon introduce such reforms into our …
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Nirmala Deshpande is a name, which does not require any introduction. A widely acclaimed social activist Nirmala is one of the flagbearers of non-violence in our country. Born in 1929, she joined Acharya Vinoba Bhave’s Bhoodan Padyatra in 1952, and covered more than 40 thousand miles touching all nooks and corners of India. She has been the president of Harijan Sevak Sangh, founded by Mahatma Gandhi. In 2005 Nirmala was nominated for Nobel Peace Prize and in 2006 she was awarded with Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award. She has been …
