U.K. award for Indian NGO

• An Indian NGO, Manav Seva Sansthan (MSS), was on Thursday given a $100,000 award for its work among disadvantaged communities.
• The prize, given by the UK-based international charity the STARS Foundation, specifically recognised the MSS campaign against child trafficking along the India-Nepal border. It said the MSS was at the "forefront of the fight against child-trafficking in south Asia".
• Rakesh Nair, a senior official of the Gorakhpur-based MSS, said that in the past eight years it had rescued 7,000 children and women from the "clutches of human traffickers". The MSS, he said, also ran a campaign for women's empowerment and Dalit rights.