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Himachal launches policy to buy-back non recyclable, single-use plastic wa
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 1 (ANI): Himachal Pradesh government on Tuesday launched a policy to promote buy-back of the non-recyclable and single-use plastic waste from the rag pickers and households. The new policy will be effective from October 2.
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Modi segregates plastic with women rag pickers in Mathura
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Mathura (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Sep 11 (ANI): Days afters advocating a complete ban on single-use plastic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday stepped into the shoes of rag pickers, who segregate plastic from the garbage on daily basis.
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Rag picker's son battles hardship, gets MBBS admission in AIIMS
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Dewas (Madhya Pradesh) [India], July 20 (ANI): A ragpicker's son, Asharam Choudhary, has got admission for MBBS at the All India Institute for Medical Sciences in Jodhpur.
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NHRC sends notice to Gujarat govt after Dalit beaten to death
Updated : 8 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 22 (ANI): National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report claiming that a 40-year-old Dalit rag picker in Rajkot district's Shapar village has been flogged to death over collecting scraps in a village.
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Mulund gang-rape: 2 sentenced life imprisonment, 7 get 20 years jail term
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Mulund (Maharashtra) [India], Feb 23 (ANI): The Mumbai session's court has ordered lifetime imprisonment to two accused and 20 years' jail term to seven others, for assaulting and raping a rag-picker, in September 2013.
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'Chaiwala' Modi will run away with nation's money like a &#
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 5(ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had come as a chaiwala (tea seller) and would run away with the nation's money like a 'feriwala' (rag picker).
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