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Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, or Clean India Mission is a country-wide campaign initiated by the Government of India on 2 October 2014 to eliminate open defecation and improve solid waste management and to create Open Defecation Free (ODF) villages.
Statue of Tukdoji Maharaj at Nagpur. Tukdoji Maharaj (30 April 1909 – 11 October 1968) was a spiritual saint from India. He was a disciple of Aadkoji Maharaj. [1] Tukdoji Maharaj was involved in social reforms in the rural regions of Maharashtra, including construction of roads.
The principles of seva underpin many Sikh values - such is the importance given to seva in Sikhism. The Guru emphasizes this concept numerous times in the Guru Granth Sahib . The holy scripture focuses on the state of mind when practicing seva , the spiritual benefits of doing seva, and how one should perform it.
Bazaar-e-Husn (Urdu: بازارِ حُسن) or Seva Sadan (Hindi: सेवासदन, lit. 'The House of service') is a Hindustani novel by Munshi Premchand. It was originally written in Urdu under the title Bazaar-e-Husn ("Market of Beauty" or Red-light district) but was first published in Hindi from Calcutta as Seva Sadan ("The House of Service"), in 1919.
After the Partition of India, she wrote about Islam for the government, and those essays were eventually published as Beyond the Veil (1953). [1] Her autobiography, From Purdah to Parliament (1963), is her best-known writing; she translated it into Urdu to make it more accessible.
Seva Bharati also adopted 57 children (38 Muslims and 19 Hindus) from militancy affected areas of Jammu and Kashmir to provide them education at least up to Higher Secondary level. [219] [220] They also took care of victims of the Kargil War of 1999. [221]
The Urdu Wikipedia (Urdu: اردو ویکیپیڈیا), started in January 2004, is the Standard Urdu-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. [1] [2] As of 19 January 2025, it has 216,693 articles, 189,456 registered users and 7,469 files, and it is the 54th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 20th in terms of depth among Wikipedias with over ...
According to a major Pakistani English-language newspaper, Altaf Hussain Hali and Maulana Shibli Nomani played key roles in rescuing Urdu language poetry in the 19th century, "Hali and Shibli rescued Urdu poetry. They re-conceived Urdu poetry and took it towards a transformation that was the need of the hour."