NEW YORK(TIP): A teenaged Indian girl has received the “Changemaker” award here by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for her fight against child marriage in her village in Rajasthan. Payal Jangid received the award on Tuesday, September 24 night here during the Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards hosted by the Foundation. “The award recognizes her campaign to end child labor and child marriage,” the foundation said in a tweet.
(Source: PTI)
MANGOLIA (TIP): A Buddhist academic has said a 200-year-old mummified monk discovered in Mongolia may not be dead but in a “very deep meditation”. The preserved body was discovered in the lotus position, covered […]
NEW YORK: Soumitra Dutta, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, will become the dean of the prestigious Cornell University’s new College of Business to be established during the 2016-17 academic year as a […]
ALBANY, NY (TIP): Another commissioner has quit New York’s ethics board after it hired an executive director with ties to Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, according to a legislative official, says The Associated Press. In July […]
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