Quote of the day by Marie Curie: “I was taught that the way of progress was…” – why real progress is never as fast as we expect |

Two people can start the same ambitious project and expect completely different timelines for it to pay off. One assumes real progress should be visible within weeks, gets discouraged when it isn’t, and quietly abandons the work. The other accepts from the outset that meaningful results might take years, and keeps going long after the…

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Gujarat launches Samras Vidya Setu campaign to bring 80,000 school dropouts back to classrooms

Gujarat’s new education campaign aims to bring every school dropout child back to learning AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat government on Wednesday launched a statewide campaign to bring more than 80,000 school dropout children back into classrooms, with Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel saying the initiative is aimed at achieving “zero dropout” and ensuring that no child is…

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Colombia planted 880,000 trees across the streets of one city to tackle rising temperatures, and the plantation delivered localised cooling of up to 5°C in shaded areas |

As heatwaves become more frequent and intense, cities around the world are searching for ways to stay cooler without relying solely on energy-intensive air conditioning. Medellín, Colombia, has emerged as one of the world’s most celebrated examples of nature-based urban cooling. Through its Green Corridors programme, the city planted around 880,000 trees and more than…

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‘Not deterred’: Injured protesters return to stand with students | Delhi News

Protestors at Jantar Mantar NEW DELHI: Twenty-year-old Aaheli Bhattacharjee from Asansol sat near the stage at Jantar Mantar, the one dismantled Monday, her arms and legs wrapped in bandages. Barely able to make out the figures approaching her after losing her spectacles during the July 20 police action, she nevertheless returned to encourage fellow students.“My…

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The smouldering generation

Political judgements on which civil protests are real and which ones synthetic, are always difficult to make. So, when an upstart social media phenomenon called Cockroach Janta Party surfaced soon after paper leaks in NEET exam were reported in May, there may have been a tendency in GOI to dismiss it as a short-term phenomenon,…

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Quote of the day by Che Guevara: ‘The life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on Earth’ and how modern economic systems treat people like numbers on a spreadsheet

‘The life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth’ When a single human life is weighed against material wealth, the right choice seems clear. Yet everyday real-world systems constantly do the math in reverse. Car companies weigh the cost of fixing…

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