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Bittu Tabahi, who single-handedly cleaned trash-filled river, gets job offer from Dutch CEO

A young man from central India who spent months hauling plastic waste, algae, and debris out of a polluted river by himself has been…

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10-year convict in Dhaka drug case arrested in Ctg

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How a 20-yr-old single-handedly cleaned a Madhya Pradesh river despite no funding, serious health risks

Bdbusinessdaily.com – India’s rivers carry a staggering pollution burden. Decades of untreated industrial discharge, open defecation, agricultural runoff, and casual littering have turned waterways across the country into open sewages. Government clean-up programmes, when they exist at all, tend to arrive late, under-resourced, and politically conditional. Into that gap of institutional inaction stepped a young man with no budget, no training, and no guarantee of survival beyond the next few weeks of immersion in toxic water.

Surendra Singh Chaudhary, a 20-year-old BSc student enrolled at a college in Biaora, Rajgarh district, Madhya Pradesh, spent more than two months wading through a heavily polluted stretch of the Ajnar River, pulling out waste by hand. He went online under the handle “Bittu Tabahi,” and his story exploded across Indian social media in early 2025 after a single tweet from industrialist Anand Mahindra put the cleanup in front of millions of viewers.…

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Potato exports halve as Mideast war drives up shipping costs

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US bomb likely missed target, hit home hosting wedding in southern Iran: Washington Post

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Andhar: Raihan Rafi unveils teaser for Bangladesh’s boldest horror gamble

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Vin Diesel shares new updates on Fast Forever

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The special one, replayed

There is a moment near the end of Mourinho , Netflix's three-part study of the most divisive manager of his generation, when José Mourinho stops the whole

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Uttam Kumar birth centenary: West Bengal plans new film centre, heritage walks

पश्चिम बंगाल सरकार ने स्क्रीन लेजेंड उत्तम कुमार के जन्म शताब्दी वर्ष को मनाने के लिए कई विशेष कार्यक्रमों की योजना बनाई है। इनमें एक विशेष स्मारक डाक टिकट

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