Pune’s Police Kaka off to a Good Start, Reaches out to Harassed 14-Year-Old Girl

Here is the latest positive news from The Better India Is this email not displaying correctly? [View it in your browser](. Don't miss! Our amazing [#BossWomen series]( [Pune’s Police Kaka off to a Good Start, Reaches out to Harassed 14-Year-Old Girl]( Sep 22, 2017 12:35 pm | Deepika Bhardwaj A brainchild of Pune police commissioner, Rashmi Shukla, an initiative called ‘Police Kaka’ was introduced in the city’s schools and colleges on August 7, to help students reach out to the police whenever they need. Each school or college now has a Police Kaka, who is a police officer over 40 years of age. And […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Pune’s Police Kaka off to a Good Start, Reaches out to Harassed 14-Year-Old Girl on Facebook]( [Once He Sold Newspapers, Now This Pune Boy’s Boxing Dreams Are Coming True]( Sep 22, 2017 12:29 pm | Lekshmi Priya S If athletes in the country get half the attention and funding that cricketers are showered with, the story of Indian sports would have been quite different. But with many prolific sportspersons resorting to street vending and petty jobs to make ends meet despite bringing laurels to the country, pursuing sports as a profession continues to […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Once He Sold Newspapers, Now This Pune Boy’s Boxing Dreams Are Coming True on Facebook]( [Good News! India Has Averted a Million Child Deaths since 2005]( Sep 22, 2017 11:34 am | Vidya Raja An international study published in The Lancet, authored by Dr Prabhat Jha, Head, Centre for Global Health Research of St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto and Dr Rajesh Kumar of PGI, Chandigarh reveals that since 2005, India has averted nearly one million deaths of children under five years of age. The improvement is attributed to a […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Good News! India Has Averted a Million Child Deaths since 2005 on Facebook]( [Varanasi to Vadodara & Surat: 10 things you must know about the new Mahanama Express]( Sep 22, 2017 11:27 am | Jovita Aranha The all-new deluxe train, Mahamana Express, will be flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today, as part of his two-day tour visit to the Lok Sabha constituency of Varanasi. It is India’s third Mahamana Express built under the Prime Minister’s Make in India initiative. It will connect Varanasi with Surat and Vadodara in Gujarat. […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Varanasi to Vadodara & Surat: 10 things you must know about the new Mahanama Express on Facebook]( [Trigonometry to Bernoulli’s Principle: Here’s How LMES Is Making Science Fun & Easy]( Sep 22, 2017 09:43 am | Vidya Raja How many of us still feel the jitters when thinking about Trigonometry? Ask any engineer about Fourier transforms, and Laplace transforms, and it is highly probable that you will see a pained look on their face. To change this is the mission of Premanand Sethurajan, Founder-Director of Let’s Make Engineering Simple. By founding this organisation, […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Trigonometry to Bernoulli’s Principle: Here’s How LMES Is Making Science Fun & Easy on Facebook]( [Wetlands Are ‘Wastelands’? Here’s How One Bihar Village Proved Us All Wrong]( Sep 21, 2017 06:47 pm | Village Square Mulki Devi and Satrughan Mahto, both marginal farmers from Mutlupur, no longer worry about their wetlands remaining unused. “I never dreamt that this wetland would turn productive in my lifetime,” gushes Mulki Devi. Satrughan Mahto is happy that his wetland, which was put to no use, is now a part of an integrated farm, earning […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Wetlands Are ‘Wastelands’? Here’s How One Bihar Village Proved Us All Wrong on Facebook]( [How These Goans Decided to Go Organic, and Grew a Mini Forest in Their Backyards!]( Sep 21, 2017 06:38 pm | Guest Contributor As you walk into the kitchen garden of Peter Fernandes and Rosie Harding in Assagao, Goa, you realise that it’s no less than a forest, where the land is covered with mulch and the 700 square meters of area is covered with perennial greens. This 4-year-old kitchen garden is the perfect place to understand how […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like How These Goans Decided to Go Organic, and Grew a Mini Forest in Their Backyards! on Facebook]( [Dantewada’s Tribal Women Will Now Be E-Rickshaw Drivers! Know More]( Sep 21, 2017 06:16 pm | Lekshmi Priya S The town of Dantewada in Chhattisgarh takes its name after goddess Danteshwari, who is the presiding deity of the Danteshwari Temple located in the region. With the same name comes a unique public transport system, Danteshwari Sewa, which will employ tribal women as ‘e-rickshaw’ drivers. In one of the worst hit Naxal regions of the […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Dantewada’s Tribal Women Will Now Be E-Rickshaw Drivers! Know More on Facebook]( [Need Pet Transport in Bengaluru? Biker Gowtham Will Come to Your Dog’s Aid]( Sep 21, 2017 06:13 pm | Vishaka George No surge pricing. No unreasonable cancellation charges. No twiddling around an app trying to identify where your ride is. Just a simple phone call away is an uber cool service like none other. Gowtham Shravan Kumar is your one-stop shop for canine transport. He is armed with a steel black Bajaj Avenger that has a dog […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Need Pet Transport in Bengaluru? Biker Gowtham Will Come to Your Dog’s Aid on Facebook]( [This Menstruation Warrior’s Efforts Have Helped More Than 10,000 Women]( Sep 21, 2017 05:59 pm | Manabi Katoch Snehal Chaudhary is a 24-year-old software engineer from Mumbai, who has made it her life's mission to eradicate menstrual taboos in India. She is the founder of an NGO called Kshitij Foundation that has helped spread awareness about the myths associated with periods to more than 10,000 women and students across 50 villages. 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When she took over the throne on 10 […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Razia Sultan: The Story of the First, and Last, Female Ruler of the Delhi Sultanate on Facebook]( [26-Year-Old Delhi Girl Wins UN Award for Her Efforts to Help Acid Attack Survivors]( Sep 21, 2017 04:37 pm | Deepika Bhardwaj When Ria Sharma was in the third year of her graduate programme at Leeds College of Arts, UK, she returned to India to make a documentary on acid attack survivors. While filming it, she interacted with a lot of survivors who touched her heart and inspired her to do something about it. One thing led […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like 26-Year-Old Delhi Girl Wins UN Award for Her Efforts to Help Acid Attack Survivors on Facebook]( [“But What Does He Learn at School?” The Parent of an Autistic Child Answers]( Sep 21, 2017 03:44 pm | Action For Autism We often forget that a lot of the fairly simpler tasks that we complete on a daily basis might be a challenge for some. Although this does not make them any less competent than “the rest of us”, small achievements on their part call for pride and celebration. A mother recounts an incident where she […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like “But What Does He Learn at School?” The Parent of an Autistic Child Answers on Facebook]( [Bars No Bar for These Women Waiters in a Small Town Kerala Hotel!]( Sep 21, 2017 02:26 pm | Lekshmi Priya S How often do you see a woman serving cocktails and alcoholic drinks in bars? For those living in metropolitan cities, the question wouldn’t seem too astounding. But for a small town like Thodupuzha in Kerala, it is indeed something unheard of. In fact, it is quite unlikely that one would find women waiters in bars […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Bars No Bar for These Women Waiters in a Small Town Kerala Hotel! on Facebook]( [Waste Weighing As Much As 13 Elephants Cleared From Siachen]( Sep 21, 2017 01:22 pm | Vishaka George In today’s good news for the environment – more than 63 tonnes of garbage has been sent back from the world’s highest battlefield, the Siachen glacier, by military troops posted there to the base since 2014? Let’s put the sheer quantity of trash in perspective – if the average Asian Elephant weighs five tons, then […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Waste Weighing As Much As 13 Elephants Cleared From Siachen on Facebook]( [Indian Doctors Give a New Life to Pakistani Boy with Heart Troubles]( Sep 21, 2017 12:28 pm | Deepika Bhardwaj Idris Ariyan, a 14-year-old boy from Pakistan’s Faisalabad, had a congenital heart problem, which the doctors said had to be treated immediately with surgery or it would cost him his life. However, his mother couldn’t afford to pay for it in the hospitals there. This was when the Rotary Club’s ‘Gift of Life’ plan came […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Indian Doctors Give a New Life to Pakistani Boy with Heart Troubles on Facebook]( [From Kerala’s First Woman IPS Officer to Its First Woman DGP, Meet R. Sreelekha]( Sep 21, 2017 11:39 am | Lekshmi Priya S R. Sreelekha, or more popularly ‘Raid’ Sreelekha is indeed a woman of substance and certainly one to be feared by wrongdoers. Making history by becoming Kerala’s first woman IPS officer in 1987, thirty years later she has reached another milestone — of becoming the state’s first woman Director General of Police, DGP. Currently serving as […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like From Kerala’s First Woman IPS Officer to Its First Woman DGP, Meet R. Sreelekha on Facebook]( [How Three Alert Cops in Bengaluru Prevented a Major Railway Mishap!]( Sep 21, 2017 11:19 am | Jovita Aranha Railway Protection officials in Bengaluru are on their guard at all times! Thanks to three Bengaluru railway police personnel, a major railway mishap was successfully averted at the South Western Railways (SWR) division on Tuesday. Railway Protection Special force officials – including head constable Thirumalesha, constables RS Sundo and Chandramani – were on their usual […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like How Three Alert Cops in Bengaluru Prevented a Major Railway Mishap! on Facebook]( [How a Mobile Rice Mill Transformed the Life of Tribal Villagers in Maharashtra]( Sep 21, 2017 09:58 am | Vidya Raja Khandbara is a village in the Nandurbar district of Maharashtra, close to the Maharashtra – Gujarat border. An agrarian village, the primary product of the village is paddy, and for years, the villagers were selling unprocessed paddy to traders and millers. This was because there was no rice mill in the Khandbara village. The residents […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like How a Mobile Rice Mill Transformed the Life of Tribal Villagers in Maharashtra on Facebook]( [Singing Sea Giants to Forest Spirits: Check out This Goa Based Artist’s Mesmerising World]( Sep 20, 2017 07:33 pm | Lekshmi Priya S From surrealism to daily objects, it’s amazing what inspires a creator to conjure up a mystical world within his or her artworks. Just as amazing are the illustrations of Svabhu Kohli, a visual artist based in a tiny village in Goa. With the natural world playing as his inspiration, the 26-year-old artist remains fascinated with […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Singing Sea Giants to Forest Spirits: Check out This Goa Based Artist’s Mesmerising World on Facebook]( [Amazing! With No Govt Help, Maharashtra Village Builds Own Water Pipeline]( Sep 20, 2017 07:09 pm | Surekha Kadapa-Bose “Ask not what the country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” – John F Kennedy. Kennedy probably didn’t realise that 40 years later a small Indian village called Poi in Maharashtra would take on the challenge. At the beginning of the century, 825 people from 180 households in Poi decided […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Amazing! With No Govt Help, Maharashtra Village Builds Own Water Pipeline on Facebook]( [Surrogacy Regulation Bill: We Must Look Beyond Marital Status, Residence and Sexuality]( Sep 20, 2017 07:03 pm | Maadhyam The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare had an arduous task before it – reviewing the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill. Arduous because the Bill took a strong position on many aspects of surrogacy including calling for only altruistic surrogacy to be undertaken by married women who were ‘close relatives’ of commissioning parents. The Committee […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Surrogacy Regulation Bill: We Must Look Beyond Marital Status, Residence and Sexuality on Facebook]( [Parents-To-Be: Here Are 9 Things That Will Help You Adopt a Child]( Sep 20, 2017 06:49 pm | Guest Contributor Adoption conjures a mix of emotions. For some, it may seem as a quick remedy to bring a child into the house, and for others, an act of nobility. Some think of adoption as ‘Plan B’ while others view it as an opportunity to complete the family without getting into the travails of pregnancy yet […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Parents-To-Be: Here Are 9 Things That Will Help You Adopt a Child on Facebook]( [Central Govt Employees Can Soon Monitor Pensions on Their Mobiles. Here’s How]( Sep 20, 2017 05:20 pm | Lekshmi Priya S Making pension settlement monitoring well within one’s hand’s reach, the government of India will soon launch a mobile application for soon-to-retire central government employees. Not just superannuating officials, even retired employees will able to avail this service. According to an official release by the Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Ministry, one can assess his or […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Central Govt Employees Can Soon Monitor Pensions on Their Mobiles. Here’s How on Facebook]( [This Delhi Start-Up Is Helping Our Jawans Bathe Without Using a Drop of Water!]( Sep 20, 2017 05:08 pm | Jovita Aranha For over eight years, as part of his work, Dr Puneet Gupta worked in association with the Defence Forces. He witnessed the challenges officers and jawans deployed, especially in areas like Dras, Kargil and the Siachen glacier faced, where temperatures drop to a drastic -45 degrees. 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