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From barren to bountiful! Residents of Chennai & @careearthtrust revived Vengathur Lake, turning 300 acres into a rich groundwater hub. Now feeding farms, families & 68 bird species, proof that citizen power restores nature thehindu.com/news/cities/ch… #LakeRevival #ChennaiVolunteers

#WATCH | Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu: Special voting arrangements have been made in the Srirangam Assembly constituency for the visually impaired voters. The voting machines are equipped with Braille features to enable independent voting. Visually impaired voters are allowed to bring an assistant to help them cast their vote.

A dream costs nothing to have, but everything to chase. ♟️🇮🇳 #Groupe4, founded by @vishy64theking and @SatyaPrabhaka17 , has raised ₹2.3Cr to support 20 chess prodigies like Gukesh and Vaishali. chessbase.in/news/group-e4 #Chess #India #SportsImpact #philanthropy

If political parties were serious about women’s representation, they’d give out tickets today instead of waiting for a law. The debate is just a smokescreen. The bottom line? Men in power don't want to give it up. Period. #WomensReservation #IndianPolitics

SHREYAS IYER, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!! 🤯 🎥 One of the best catches you would see in the #TATAIPL history 🔥🔥 Updates ▶️ bit.ly/TATAIPL-2026-24 #KhelBindaas | #MIvPBKS | @PunjabKingsIPL

When I started competing, I had a small dream - to one day compete alongside the able-bodied and win medals ♥️ I didn’t make it at first, but I kept going, learning from every setback. Now, that dream is one step closer. 🌟 In the Asia Cup trials, I secured Rank 3 and will now represent India in the Asia Cup - in the able-bodied category. 🇮🇳 Dreams take time. Work. Believe. Repeat. 💫

Despite making up only about 14% of the US population, immigrants accounted for 23% of US patents from 1990 to 2016, 38% of US Nobel Prizes in chemistry, medicine, and physics from 2000 to 2023, and more than half of the billion-dollar US start-ups in the last twenty years.

Air pollution is not a problem of using too much energy or pursuing too much growth. It is a problem of using dirty energy because you do not have the money or the technology to grow another way. - Abundance: How we build a better by Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

Viewed from these lenses, India’s health system seems to be a confused one—articulated on egalitarian ideals but practised along libertarian principles in" - Do We Care?: India’s Health System by K. Sujatha Rao (2/2)

"The European systems are rooted in egalitarian traditions and social solidarity, the US system is based on libertarian traditions that have constrained the country from achieving an equitable and fair health system despite being able to afford one. (1/2)

#WATCH | Chennai, Tamil Nadu | On his house being ransacked, YouTuber Savukku Shankar says, "I broke a scam in the distribution of vehicles fitted with jet-routing machines to Dalit entrepreneurs. The scheme is sponsored by both the central and the state governments...This scheme is meant for people below the poverty line and poor scavengers...When the government scheme is for poor Dalits, who are below the poverty line as entrepreneurs, most of the beneficiaries, around 130 beneficiaries in the scheme, are above the poverty line...After I broke this scam, the Chennai City police registered an FIR...After they failed in their effort to book me for exposing this scam, they adopted this method...I directly charge TNCC President K. Selvaperunthagai as the person who has organised this attack..."

Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks … It’s only by making the fundamentals of life easier that you can create the mental space needed for free thinking and creativity. —James Clear, author of Atomic Habits

Great orgs build almost cult-like cultures, where those who do not share the values find themselves ejected like a virus. “How do we get people to share our core values?”, you don’t. You hire people who already have a predisposition to your core values, and hang on to them.

The signature of the truly great is the ability to come back from setbacks, stronger than before. Great institutions can fall and recover. And great individuals can fall and recover. As long as you never get entirely knocked out of the game, there remains always hope.

Here is a remarkable thought: Among the world’s children starting grade school this year, 65 percent will end up doing jobs that haven’t even been invented yet. This projection, while impossible to prove, comes from a Cathy N. Davidson, a Duke University professor

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. —HENRY FORD

Human nature being what it is, those who prosper under a given system tend to become supporters of that system. Thus the powerful tend to have a bias toward the status quo; our educational customs tend to perpetuate themselves - @salkhanacademy in The One World Schoolhouse

FY 25-26 CSR budget is expected to be 26,000 crores #IFRC

Fundraising is a gentle art of teaching others the joy of giving - Hank Rosso #IFRC2025

"It's a global rule, to raise money you need to spend money" @papadimitrioukk #IFRC2025