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'Khula Aasmaan' giving wings to Kashi's underprivileged children
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], August 5 (ANI): Kashi, as famous English author Mark Twain describes, is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend and books twice as old as all of them put together. Kashi showers light of knowledge since ages through divinity, physic
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Jon Stewart to be honoured with Mark Twain Prize for American humor
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 20 (ANI): Comedian, talk show host and political influencer Jon Stewart has been named the 23rd recipient of the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, awarded for lifetime achievement in comedy.
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Satyarup Siddhanta becomes first Indian to complete volcanic Seven Summit,
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 19 (ANI/NewsVoir): Renowned American writer Mark Twain had said, "There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it." An Indian mountaineer, Satyarup
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus to be awarded Mark Twain prize
Updated : 8 years ago IST
New York [US], May 24 (ANI): Emmy Award-Winning Julia-Louis Dreyfus has been announced the recipient of this year's Mark Twain Prize for American Humour.
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Meet a 104-year-old woman who sold her goats to build a toilet
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Dhamtari (Chhattisgarh) [India], Sept.15 (ANI): Mark Twain has very aptly said, "Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been." This appositely applies to a 104-year-old lady from a village in Chhattisgarh's Dhamtari district who sold her goats for constructing
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