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    2024 Fox Hill Supercross race crash. A car veers off the track during the international Fox Hill Supercross motor race in Diyatalawa, Sri Lanka, and crashes into a group of spectators, killing seven people and injuring 21 others. (BBC News) Politics and elections. 2024 Ecuadorian constitutional referendum.

  3. Manual scavenging - Wikipedia

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    Manual scavenging is a term used mainly in India for "manually cleaning, carrying, disposing of, or otherwise handling, human excreta in an insanitary latrine or in an open drain or sewer or in a septic tank or a pit". [1] [2] Manual scavengers usually use hand tools such as buckets, brooms and shovels. The workers have to move the excreta ...

  4. Chakeri - Wikipedia

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    Chakeri Municipality. Chakeri is a census town in Kanpur metropolitan area, situated about 16 kilometres east of Kanpur city in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is an industrial town with textiles and food products as its major productions. Chakeri Airforce Station, North India's second-largest air force base is situated here.

  5. Silichong Rural Municipality - Wikipedia

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    Website. official website. Silichong ( Nepali: सिलीचोङ गाउँपालिका) is a rural municipality ( gaunpalika) out of five rural municipality located in Sankhuwasabha District of Koshi Province of Nepal. There are a total of 10 municipalities in Sankhuwasabha in which 5 are urban and 5 are rural. According to ...

  6. S. R. Sankaran - Wikipedia

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    S. R. Sankaran (1934–2010) was an Indian civil servant, social worker and the Chief Secretary of the State of Tripura, known for his contributions for the enforcement of Abolition of Bonded Labour Act of 1976 which abolished bonded labor in India. [1] One among the seven civil servants held hostage by the People's War Group in 1987, he was ...

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    Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by American computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were PhD students at Stanford University in California. Together, they own about 14% of its publicly listed shares and control 56% of its stockholder voting power through super-voting stock.

  8. Kakkoos - Wikipedia

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    Kakkoos. Kakkoos is a 2017 Tamil -language documentary directed by activist Divya Bharathi. [1] The film follows the daily lives of people engaged in manual scavenging, [2] a practice officially abolished since 2013 but which is still a common practice. This practice has its roots deeply embedded in the caste system in India.

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    Mad (magazine), an American humor magazine. Mad, a term for insanity used chiefly in British English. Mad, a term for anger used chiefly in US English. Madagascar, IOC country code. Mutual assured destruction, nuclear warfare deterrence concept. Mandibuloacral dysplasia.