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After Seeing Mom Suffer, 19-YO Builds Device That Cools PPE Kits From Within...
Thanks to COVID-19, we have all heard of the ordeal of wearing PPE kits and multiple layers of suits, and how difficult it is to spend hours in the attire. Pune-based Nihaal Singh Aadarsh was a...
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Hearing Loss, Gangrene, Clots — Is the COVID Delta Strain More Severe Than...
This article is a part of a series by The Better India to share verified information about COVID-19 care. While several posts on various aspects of fighting COVID-19 are being circulated on social...
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Arunachal IAS Officer’s ‘Free Medical Care via Fines’ Should Inspire Other...
Police in Delhi have collected Rs 11 crore in fines for various rule violations during the COVID-19 lockdown. The collected fine is submitted to the government treasury. However, in East Siang, a...
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Amid Second Wave, How An IPS Officer Ensured 0 Deaths Among 1000 SRPF Personnel
In February 2021, when many parts of the country were returning to some form of normalcy amid COVID-19, the situation in rural parts of Amravati in Maharashtra had started turning grim again. The new...
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Can COVID-19 Cause Joint Pain, Affect Bone Health and Density Once You Recover?
This article is a part of a series by The Better India to share verified information about COVID-19 care. While several posts on various aspects of fighting COVID-19 are being circulated on social...
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Two New Vaccine Candidates: What You Need To Know About Corbevax & Covovax
This article is a part of a series by The Better India to share verified information about COVID-19 care. While several posts on various aspects of fighting COVID-19 are being circulated on social...
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Green Fungus Detected in Person Recovered From COVID-19: All You Need To Know
This article is a part of a series by The Better India to share verified information about COVID-19 care. While several posts on various aspects of fighting COVID-19 are being circulated on social...
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Hero Teacher Single-Handedly Dispels Fake News, Helps Vaccinate 10,000 Others
Residents of Umbarthan village of Surgana district in Maharashtra ran away when health workers knocked on their doors for the COVID-19 vaccination drives organised by the State Government. Like many...
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Meet 6 Amazing Healthcare Heroes Who Risk Their Lives Daily to Fight COVID-19
This article has been published in partnership with Quaker India. I n India, there is a common saying that doctors and healthcare workers are second only to gods on earth. This hyperbolic connection...
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After Losing Her Job, Pune Woman Ferries 60 COVID Patients to Hospital,...
Shell India brings to us the inspiring story of Anita, whose grit and determination is testament to the fact that #GreatThingsHappenWhenWeMove. Article sponsored by Shell. Pune-based Anita Gosavi was...
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Free Ambulance Rides for 80000 Patients: Couple’s Story of 20 Years of...
In March 2015, Twinkle Kalia, a Delhi-based ambulance driver, was heading from Inderlok to Shastri Nagar, carrying her six-month-old daughter along. While she was waiting at a traffic signal, she...
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ASHA Worker Climbed Hills, Trekked for 10 Hours to Protect 5 Villages From...
In July 2020, two villagers from a nomadic tribe in remote Mangaon from the Pune district of Maharashtra were diagnosed with COVID-19. A few days after recovery, they moved away from their location....
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6 Women Help Award-Winning Weavers Across India earn Rs 60 lakh in 2 Months
Majid Ahmad Mir, a 39-year-old master weaver from Srinagar comes from a lineage of master pashmina weavers dating back almost 600 years. (Image above of Majid Ahmad Mir on the left and a Pochampally...
View ArticleCytomegalovirus Cases Detected in Delhi, Kolkata: What You Need to Know
In the latest complication after Black Fungus, reports of another disease called Cytomegalovirus (CMV) have surfaced. Recently, six COVID-recovered patients at Delhi’s Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals...
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Must Listen: The Songs of These 4 Sisters Are One of Nagaland’s Finest Exports
The Tetseo Sisters rank among Nagaland’s greatest cultural exports. Celebrating songs of life, the richness of their natural surroundings, and storytelling through the language of Li or folk singing in...
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87-YO Grandma Lost Her Husband to COVID; Now She Uses Pickles To Raise Money...
For 87-year-old Usha Gupta the second wave of COVID-19 brought with it pain and loss of great magnitude. After having battled COVID-19 for 27 long days at Batra hospital in Delhi, her husband, Raj...
View ArticleOne Man Inspired Cyclists to Risk Their Lives & Deliver Essentials During...
While the streets of our country were deserted amidst the COVID lockdown, communities of cyclists were found zooming past – delivering food, medicines and hope to people. They called themselves the...
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For 20 Years, Banker Performs Tens of Thousands of Funerals With His Savings
“Main roz jeeta hoon aur roz marta hoon. Mujhe life se koi expectation nahi hai.” (I live and die everyday. I have no expectations from life.) Ashish Thakur, a 42-year-old banker from Jabalpur, has...
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Trip to Ladakh? Please be a Responsible Tourist with These 6 Things in Mind
Tourism in the Union Territory (UT) of Ladakh, which accounts for more than half the region’s gross income, has suffered tremendously in the past two years. Events like the abrogation of Article 370,...
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What Happens If You Take a Third Shot of The COVID-19 Vaccine? Doctors Answer
As of now, the official government data on vaccination suggests that 9.6 per cent Indians are fully vaccinated. While the vaccination drive continues in India, other countries where the number of...
View ArticleGiloy’s Genome May Hold a Breakthrough For Diabetes, COVID-19: IISER Scientists
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER)-Bhopal have sequenced the genome of Giloy — a medicinal herb that is extensively used in allopathic pharmaceuticals and...
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Merck’s New COVID-19 Pill: Who Can Take It & When Will It Be Available in India?
India has lost 4.49 lakh individuals to COVID-19 and several others to post-COVID complications. The death toll continues to rise on a daily basis, despite vaccination drives being held across the...
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Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin Gets Emergency Use Nod for Kids; 10 Things to Know
Bharat Biotech had sought an emergency use authorisation to administer the COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin to children aged between 2 to 18. The Subject Expert Committee (SEC) of the drug regulator has...
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Plating Memory: How My Mother’s Food Helped Me Deal With Her Loss
Few things make you realise who you are more than the loss of your mother. With my mother, Putul Pal, it was her food. It has been a few months since the day my Ma slipped away from my life. Her abrupt...
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‘I’ll Go to School Again’: How 6.9 Lakh Girls Beat Patriarchy to Reclaim...
This article has been published in partnership with Childrens’ Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) as part of #PromptHerNow, a campaign through which The Better India, Population Foundation of India and...
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Heart Attacks Among Young People: Why Are So Many Happening in India?
The recent news of celebrities suffering heart attacks, such as Danish footballer Christian Eriksen (29), television actor Sidharth Shukla (41), and the untimely death of actor Puneeth Rajkumar (46),...
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‘Happiness Grows, Grief Diminishes When Shared’: Doc Helps People with Online...
This article has been sponsored by Facebook ”For Shridhar and I, Diwali was always big. It is a time when we reflect on both our Tamilian and Marathi cultures. Shridhar would always be incharge of...
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This Campaign Helped Hundreds of Students In Villages Study on Smartphones...
This article has been published in partnership with Nokia. For 7-year-old Siddharth Subba, “school is where home is”. It is a place where he indulgently dreams, plays football, learns poems, eats his...
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Cerebral Palsy to Speech Issues: Her Portal Helps 17800 With Disabilities...
Hyderabad-based Gujjari Priyanka was born with a locomotor disability to an underprivileged family. Her cerebral palsy worsened when she suffered an epileptic episode when she was nine months old. “I...
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Help Bridge India’s Digital Divide that’s Causing Millions of Kids to Dropout...
This article has been sponsored by Amazon India. I feel like I am extremely fortunate,” says a young boy named Sathwik, based in Warangal, Telangana. He believes that our lives are not defined by our...
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Exclusive: Inside Karnataka’s COVID-19 Genomic Surveillance Committee...
South Africa has detected a new variant of the COVID-19 virus. As per their studies, the numbers of those infected by this new variant overtook the earlier Delta variant in just two weeks. On 26...
View ArticleStranded Due to COVID Emergency, Facebook Community helps Rescue & Support...
This article has been sponsored by Facebook At a time when the world was facing the mega-crisis of COVID-19, India was grappling with the need for adequate resources. The pandemic saw many Indians...
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IAS, IPS, IFS: Meet 12 Officers Who Excelled in Public Service in 2021
While we are quick to criticise and find fault with bureaucrats, we often fail to praise the good work done by them. The last two years have been exceptionally tough with COVID-19 cases surging all...
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Omicron Symptoms Are Different From Delta; Here’s Why You Need a Specific Test
As of 5 January, India has reported a total of 58,097 new COVID-19 in a single day. In the wake of a steady incline in case load, states have started imposing various curfews to curb the spread of the...
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Doctor Converts Car Into Mobile Clinic, Treats Over 1.2 Lakh Patients For Free
In 2010, Dr Sunil Kumar Hebbi a resident of Malleshwaram in Bengaluru experienced a gradual but sudden change in his life. It was just another busy day for Dr Sunil as he was travelling via the...
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Booster Shot: Everything on How & When to Take Your 3rd Vaccine Dose
As on 10 January 2022, India started administering COVID-19 vaccine booster for healthcare workers and those aged above 60 with comorbidities. Here’s all the things you should know about it: If...
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New COVID Test Kit By AIIMS Detects More Cases; May Cost Less Than Rs 12
Since the time SARS-CoV-2 was first discovered in a 55-year-old resident of Hubei province, China, on 17 November 2019, medical researchers have been working round the clock to find vaccines,...
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Duo Makes Eco-Friendly, Durable Scrubs For Doctors; Supplies To 500 Medical...
Earlier this month, KNYA Med, a Mumbai-based medical apparel venture, launched their line of EcoFlex scrub suits. These are suits made of recycled polyester for medical professionals. Speaking to The...
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App Helps Over 250 Tailors in Bengaluru & Delhi Find Work During The Pandemic
Kurshid Alam’s tailoring business was heavily hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. His small factory in Bengaluru, which he had set up with some success in 2019, had to shut down temporarily due to the...
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How I Brought Cellular Connectivity to My Mountain Village for 1st Time:...
On 19 January 2022, Tejasvi Chauhan, a Prime Minister’s Research Fellow studying water resource engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-Bombay), shared his first video call with...
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India’s 1st Nasal Spray to Treat COVID-19 Gets Green Signal; Check Price Details
Two years after the first COVID-19 case was found in India, Glenmark and its Canada based partner SaNotize Research and Development Corp have launched a nasal spray named FabiSpray — a Nitric Oxide...
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Ambulance in 8 Mins? Meet The Man Bringing Emergency Care to Your Door ASAP
If business entities in India can deliver groceries in 10 minutes, shouldn’t they be able to deliver the same for medical emergencies? Prabhdeep Singh, CEO and co-founder of StanPlus, which calls...
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Love for Sarees Inspires Sisters to Build Rs 50 Crore Brand; Empower 16,000...
Sujata and Taniya Biswas gave up their cushy corporate careers on 1 April 2016 and dedicated themselves entirely to building a brand called Suta (meaning ‘thread’). Set on positively impacting weaver...
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Modak Aamti, Ber Salad? Couple Launches Maharashtra’s Superfood With...
“This is the millennial generation whose palates are so used to eating pizzas and burgers. My attempt with the launch of Hema’s Veg Rasoi is to showcase how delectable our traditional foods are,” says...
View Article88-YO Dadi Sells Pickles To Raise Funds For The Poor, Feeds 65000 Hungry People
During the second wave of COVID-19, Delhi-based couple Usha Gupta and Raj Kumar tested positive and were admitted to the hospital together. After a three-week-long battle, her companion of 63 years...
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When Data Impacted 40 Million Lives & Helped India Plan Amid the Pandemic.
This article has been sponsored by SAS. Long and winding queues in front of hospitals, overflowing intensive care units, multiple patients sharing the same hospital bed at a time and files after files...
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Inspired by Her Grief, Woman Turns Memories Into Quilts & Upcycles 1 Lakh Kg...
Processing loss is a very personal affair. While some may choose to internalise the pain and deal with it, others write, talk and paint to express themselves. Farah Ahmad, a Bengaluru resident, found a...
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Armed With UK Degree, Bhopal Boy Aims to Power an Avocado Farming Revolution
While pursuing a Bachelors in Business Administration (BBA) from England’s Bath University, an important part of Harshit Godha’s day was eating avocado. As a fitness enthusiast, he made it a point to...
View ArticleA New COVID-19 Wave Coming? Should We Travel? Doctor Clarifies FAQs in Viral...
Feature Image Courtesy Twitter China is seeing an alarming rise in COVID cases — reports suggest that infections may have already peaked in Beijing. As per a report in the South China Morning Post,...
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Teacher’s Incredible Journey of Building an English-Medium School in Remote...
“It took me so many years, but I did not give up on my dream,” says Satarupa Majumder, a 47-year-old teacher from Kolkata. Her dream was to take education to one of the remotest areas of the...
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