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India to Get National Database on Disasters by 2020: Here’s Why It Matters
Natural and human-made disasters make news quite often in India. Be it the disastrous floods in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh or the droughts in Maharashtra, these disasters have taken hundreds of...
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3 Indian Entrepreneurs Win Grand Prize At Global Innovation Showcase!
The American Society Of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) conducts an annual global competition, the Innovation showcase (ISHOW), for hardware led ventures, across various regions in Africa, India and the...
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Meet The Maharashtra Team Behind World’s First Self-Driving Electric Tractor!
There’s a lot of automation that can happen that isn’t a replacement of humans but of mind-numbing behaviour. -Stewart Butterfield Canadian entrepreneur and businessman, Co-Founder of Flickr...
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IIT Kharagpur Is Connecting The Dots Between Ancient India And Modern Science!
Did you know that, in the 5th century BC, Aryabhatta worked on the approximation of Pi and came to a conclusion that the decimal of Pi was immeasurable, meaning it is irrational? It was only in 1761...
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Meet The Biotech Making Pest Control With No Harmful Pesticides
The first recorded use of chemical insecticides was about 4,500 years ago by the Sumerians, who used sulphur compounds to control insects and mites, while about 3,200 years ago the Chinese were using...
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Sukumar Sen: The Civil Servant Who Set Up India’s Extraordinary Electoral System
The first few years after Independence was a fascinating time for India. On the one hand, there was the general euphoria that the followed the birth of a new nation. As Prime Minister Nehru had aptly...
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Adopt a Military Dog & Take Home a National Hero! This Woman Tells You How
With their incredible sense of smell, exceptional hunting instincts (especially when it comes to drugs, explosives and missing humans) and an ability to follow commands to the T, military dogs have...
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Interview: Meet the Foundation All Set to Back India’s Next Big Idea in...
Through our new series ‘Make an Impact,’ we at The Better India, aim to explore the multiple facets and nuances of the social impact sector from varied perspectives—the entrepreneurs, the investors and...
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Cop by Day, Teacher by Night: How This Jharkhand Cop Is Bringing Some...
Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Pramod Paswan walks into a classroom at the Madhya Vidyalaya, Hatiapada, with books in his hand. He is currently serving at the East Singhbhum Gudabanda Police Station in...
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Actor Ajith Teams Up With Chennai MIT Students For Global Drone Challenge!
Madras Institute of Technology’s Team Dhaksha will be participating in the UAV Challenge – Medical Express 2018, to be held in Queensland, Australia, this September. Joining the team is actor Ajith...
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ISRO To Make Its Own Atomic Clock! Here’s Why This Is A Game Changer
In 2016, India launched its first navigation satellite, the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS-1A). It was soon found that there was a problem in one of the rubidium atomic clocks on...
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In a Big Breakthrough, IIT Roorkee Finds Molecule That Can Kill Chikungunya...
Chikungunya is an infection caused by a virus of the same name. Discovered in 1955, after an outbreak in 1952 in Africa, the disease spread to South Asia, and Southeast Asia very quickly. In a 2006...
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This IAS Officer Left High-Paying Bank Job, Returned to India to Serve the...
The UPSC 2017 results are out and with it have come celebrations and heartbreaks. For 27-year-old Abhishek Surana, a resident of Bhilwara in Rajasthan, the results have brought in some much-needed...
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Punekars, Akashvani is Giving You a Chance To Share Your Story On-Air!
“See no one ever thinks about the cabbie. It’s like you’re invisible. Just the back of a head.” Even though that particular line was said by a serial killer in Sherlock Holmes, the fictional mystery...
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Winds of Change: Kerala Transsexual Couple Gets Married, Create History!
Ihe LGBTQI—Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, and Intersex—people in India continue to face legal and social difficulties on a daily basis. Sexual activity between people of the...
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Buying a Car For The First Time? 14 Smart Tips to Save Big on Your Ride
Buying your first car always seems like a milestone. The sense of excitement, the curtailing of impulsive behaviour, the data-mining and research and the eventual decision, all build up to the that you...
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Smart Water ATMs & Self-Driving Tractors: 5 Amazing Made-In-India Tech...
Eperation Shakti (Pokhran-II) was initiated on 11 May 1998, and the first of the five nuclear tests were carried out. To commemorate the day, 11th May is officially recognised as National Technology...
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IN Pics: 6 Iconic Indian Automobiles That Will Take You down the Memory Lane!
Back in the day, before the economy opened up and India got ‘modernised,’ there were very few automobiles on Indian roads. Cars and bikes were luxuries, and only a lucky few had the privilege of owning...
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CBSE Result 2018 To Be Declared on Google: Here’s How To Check Your Marks...
Every year, the website of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) sees a tremendous amount of traffic on the day that the results are announced, thanks to the eager students who wait with...
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Exclusive: Haryana’s Anu Kumari, Mother of a 4-Year-Old & UPSC 2nd Rank Holder!
Cracking the UPSC examination is no mean feat. Over the last month, The Better India has been writing about various aspirants who have cleared the examination. Their journeys are inspiring and leave...
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