Rag Pickers
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Notes everywhere! Pune ragpicker finds sack full of Rs 1000 notes in garbage
Nov 10, 2016, 06:52 PM ISTIn the first such incident following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise announcement of scrapping Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currency notes on Tuesday, a rag picker in Pune today found a sack full of Rs.
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Rags to riches: Street beggar from Chennai is now a Cambridge student. Know his story!
India | Sep 16, 2016, 07:13 PM ISTIn a mark of extraordinary achievement, a 22-years-old boy who was once a beggar has got a chance to study advanced automobile engineering at the prestigious Cambridge University. During the eighties, Jayavel's family migrated from
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Dog days no more: Saket strays find mother figure in rag-picker
India | Jun 29, 2015, 11:27 AM ISTNew Delhi: Adjacent to the PVR Anupam miltiplex in south Delhi's Saket neighbourhood stands a tin shack on wooden slabs and decorated with a few torn rugs. In and around this shanty, stray dogs can
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ITC to use rag-pickers to clean-up Bangalore
India | Jun 29, 2013, 09:28 PM ISTBangalore, June 29: FMCG (fast moving consumer goods) major ITC Ltd Saturday extended its 'wealth out of waste' programme to Bangalore by roping in rag-pickers and civic workers to make the city greener by cleaning