Wake the Lake: How This Campaign Helped Revive 16 Lakes in Bengaluru

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]( [Wake the Lake: How This Campaign Helped Revive 16 Lakes in Bengaluru]( Sep 28, 2017 07:17 pm | Deepika Bhardwaj Urbanisation has had severe adverse effects on Bengaluru’s lakes, so much so that only 17 lakes now exist in the heart of the city as opposed to 51 in 1985. Even these are in a state of deterioration, thanks to encroachment and construction activity for urban infrastructure expansion. According to a study, the water bodies […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Wake the Lake: How This Campaign Helped Revive 16 Lakes in Bengaluru on Facebook]( [Hitchhiking to Cycling, This 74-year old Farmer Will Give You Some Serious Travel Goals!]( Sep 28, 2017 06:55 pm | Guest Contributor “If you are passionate about something, money will never be an obstacle,” says 74-year-old Rajaram Patil proudly. Patil swears to travel as much as he can, and if money is an issue, his solution is to work more. A farmer from Sajani in the Kolhapur district of Maharashtra, Rajaram has always been passionate about exploring […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Hitchhiking to Cycling, This 74-year old Farmer Will Give You Some Serious Travel Goals! on Facebook]( [How Homemaker Premlata Agrawal Became the Oldest Indian Woman to Scale Mount Everest!]( Sep 28, 2017 06:36 pm | Jovita Aranha Just an hour before she was to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 2011, Premalata lost one of her gloves. The weather conditions were extreme, so she was told to turn back. Going ahead would make her a victim of deadly frostbite. Distraught at having to go back, she was just about to descend, […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like How Homemaker Premlata Agrawal Became the Oldest Indian Woman to Scale Mount Everest! on Facebook]( [Set in a Difficult Terrain, This Radio Station Spreads Cheer to Two Lakh Listeners!]( Sep 28, 2017 05:23 pm | Guest Contributor It’s their confidence you first notice when you walk into the office. In an office in Tara Gram, 20 kilometres away from Jhansi, Gauri, Kaushalaya, Matadeen and Gujrup are constantly multitasking. They are the team responsible for Radio Bundelkhand. Reaching out to 150 villages in the hilly region of Bundelkhand for over eight years now, […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Set in a Difficult Terrain, This Radio Station Spreads Cheer to Two Lakh Listeners! on Facebook]( [After Struggling to Find Jobs, Acid Attack Survivors and Transgender Hired by Delhi HC]( Sep 28, 2017 03:33 pm | Deepika Bhardwaj In a first-of-its-kind decision, the Delhi High Court hired five acid attack survivors and a transgender person on Wednesday. All of them had faced discrimination and were struggling with finding jobs. According to The Hindu, the story of their struggle was brought to the notice of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal, after which the six […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like After Struggling to Find Jobs, Acid Attack Survivors and Transgender Hired by Delhi HC on Facebook]( [Yusuf Meherally, The Forgotten Freedom Fighter For Whom Bombay Once Stood Still]( Sep 28, 2017 01:27 pm | Sanchari Pal Both "Quit India" and "Simon Go Back" slogans were coined by a lesser-known hero of India's struggle for freedom, Yusuf Meherally. Here's his untold story. [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Yusuf Meherally, The Forgotten Freedom Fighter For Whom Bombay Once Stood Still on Facebook]( [Asia’s First Successful Double Hand Transplant Restores Hands Girl Lost at 19!]( Sep 28, 2017 01:11 pm | Lekshmi Priya S For the first time in Asia, an upper arm double hand transplant surgery was successfully conducted on a young girl at the Amrita Institute of Medical Science (AIMS), Kochi. 19-year-old Shreya Siddanagowda, who became the first recipient of the rare transplant surgery, had lost both of her hands following a road accident last year. A […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Asia’s First Successful Double Hand Transplant Restores Hands Girl Lost at 19! on Facebook]( [He Didn’t Buy Any Land, but Now This CA Is Earning Far More Through Farming]( Sep 28, 2017 12:06 pm | Manabi Katoch We have heard about engineers-turned-farmers, bankers-turned-farmers or even chartered accountants-turned farmers. But have you heard about a part-time CA and full-time farmer? That’s Rajeev Bittu from Ranchi, Bihar. And according to him, he earns more from farming than his chartered accountancy firm. [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like He Didn’t Buy Any Land, but Now This CA Is Earning Far More Through Farming on Facebook]( [Opinion: Feeble, Shaky, Nervous or Otherwise, a ‘No’ Is a ‘No’ When It Comes to Consent]( Sep 28, 2017 11:59 am | Deepika Bhardwaj Peepli Live co-director Mahmood Farooqui was sentenced to seven years of rigorous imprisonment for the rape of a 35-year-old American scholar at his house in 2015. However, in October last year, Farooqui moved the Delhi High Court, challenging his conviction and sentence. The statements of the witness were examined, all material evidence was presented, and […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Opinion: Feeble, Shaky, Nervous or Otherwise, a ‘No’ Is a ‘No’ When It Comes to Consent on Facebook]( [Amazing! This 7-Year-Old Boy From Gujarat Rescued His Friend From a Leopard Attack]( Sep 28, 2017 11:54 am | Jovita Aranha What would you do if you saw a leopard attacking your friend? While flight would be the natural reaction of most people, one 7-year-old boy became a local hero after rescuing his friend from a vicious leopard attack in the village of Arathiya in the Gir-Somnath district of Gujarat. It was a usual Tuesday evening, […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Amazing! This 7-Year-Old Boy From Gujarat Rescued His Friend From a Leopard Attack on Facebook]( [Meet Taruna, Who Left Her Bank Job to Feed and Educate Ghaziabad’s Struggling Children]( Sep 28, 2017 10:15 am | Vidya Raja “During my days in school and college, I saw first hand what the lack of funds and resources could do to a family. From being a family that had had enough and more, overnight we became one that had to scrape even the last morsel off our plate to feed our hunger. It was only […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Meet Taruna, Who Left Her Bank Job to Feed and Educate Ghaziabad’s Struggling Children on Facebook]( [True Hero: How a Costumed Man in Udupi Raised ₹14 Lakh to Save 16 Children!]( Sep 27, 2017 08:12 pm | Lekshmi Priya S The virtue of compassion exists within us all. While most remain guarded about whom to bestow it with, often it comes along a person with a heart so large that he or she won’t even think twice before lending a helping hand to someone in need. While philanthropy is a term that rhymes better with […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like True Hero: How a Costumed Man in Udupi Raised ₹14 Lakh to Save 16 Children! on Facebook]( [Remembering Param Vir Subedar Joginder Singh and His Extraordinary Tale of Bravery]( Sep 27, 2017 07:45 pm | Sanchari Pal Posthumously awarded India's highest military award, the Param Vir Chakra, Subedar Joginder Singh's actions on the battlefield transcended heroism. 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