Nobel Peace Prize 2017: All You Need to Know about the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

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]( [Nobel Peace Prize 2017: All You Need to Know about the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons]( Oct 06, 2017 03:31 pm | Vidya Raja International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) has been awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to get nuclear weapons banned from the world. ICAN began in 2007 and is run through 468 partner organisations in 101 countries. Apparently, the nuclear weapons that are currently present on Earth are sufficient to destroy our […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Nobel Peace Prize 2017: All You Need to Know about the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons on Facebook]( [Fragrance of Heritage: The Fascinating History of the Iconic Mysore Sandal Soap]( Oct 06, 2017 03:00 pm | Sanchari Pal A soap that has held a special place in the hearts of Indians for more than a century, Mysore Sandal Soap's legacy is intricately interwoven with Karnataka's history and heritage. [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Fragrance of Heritage: The Fascinating History of the Iconic Mysore Sandal Soap on Facebook]( [Making History: 36 Non-Brahmins & 6 Dalits to Undertake Priestly Jobs in Kerala]( Oct 06, 2017 02:32 pm | Lekshmi Priya S From time immemorial, the temples and sacerdotal jobs in India have always been under the monopoly of upper caste communities and rarely does one come across information when the scenario is otherwise. The caste system in India is among the world’s oldest forms of social stratification, which is practised to this day and finds many […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Making History: 36 Non-Brahmins & 6 Dalits to Undertake Priestly Jobs in Kerala on Facebook]( [Don’t Know How to Correct Your Aadhaar Card Details? Here’s a Step-By-Step Guide!]( Oct 06, 2017 12:58 pm | Jovita Aranha Troubled by an incorrect mobile number and address in your Aadhaar Card? The UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) has come to your rescue. The UIDAI is allowing Aadhaar card holders to place requests to update details including the registered address, name, date of birth, mobile and email address. Here’s a step by step guide […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Don’t Know How to Correct Your Aadhaar Card Details? Here’s a Step-By-Step Guide! on Facebook]( [Maharashtra’s Highway Petrol Pumps to Soon Get Rest Stops with Mandatory Toilets, ATMs, Restaurants]( Oct 06, 2017 12:51 pm | Deepika Bhardwaj Travelling on Indian highways in many states can be a challenging experience, due to the lack of rest stops with well lit, good facilities. Maharashtra plans to address this lack soon, thanks to a new scheme that will install some 100 such rest stops on highways across the state. The long wait to visit the […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Maharashtra’s Highway Petrol Pumps to Soon Get Rest Stops with Mandatory Toilets, ATMs, Restaurants on Facebook]( [Making History Again, India’s First Women Fighter Pilots Will Soon Take up Combat Jets]( Oct 06, 2017 12:14 pm | Lekshmi Priya S When Avani Chaturvedi, Bhawana Kanth and Mohana Singh were commissioned as flying officers in the Indian Air Force, they created history as the first batch of women fighter pilots inducted in the country, a stream that was male-dominated since the dawn of Indian defence aviation. Once again, they’re all set to have their names etched […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Making History Again, India’s First Women Fighter Pilots Will Soon Take up Combat Jets on Facebook]( [This Muslim Community Wants to Cancel Muharram Procession to Save a Hindu. Find out How!]( Oct 06, 2017 11:26 am | Vidya Raja It is news like this that restores the faith we have in the existence of a humanity in us that is deeper than other lines that tend to divide. West Bengal’s Kharagpur is witnessing something rare. Muslims from the area decided to cancel Muharram procession this year. The money usually raised for the procession will […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like This Muslim Community Wants to Cancel Muharram Procession to Save a Hindu. Find out How! on Facebook]( [Organic Milk at Your Door Step Now, Thanks to 9 Techies and a Veterinary Doctor!]( Oct 06, 2017 10:58 am | Manabi Katoch Shashi Kumar was working with Wipro Technologies for nearly 20 years when he decided to quit his job along with eight other colleagues. He went on to become the co-founder of Akshaykalpa in 2010 with Dr G.N.S Reddy,  who was the vice-president of Bharatiya Agro Industries Foundation (BAIF). [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Organic Milk at Your Door Step Now, Thanks to 9 Techies and a Veterinary Doctor! on Facebook]( [How IAS Rohini Became Salem’s 1st Woman District Collector in 170 Years!]( Oct 06, 2017 10:33 am | Jovita Aranha For over 170 years, no woman ever held the post of the district collector at Salem in Tamil Nadu. A record of 170 collectors and none was a woman. It took the daughter of a Maharastra farmer to smash the glass ceiling and pave the way for women in the male dominion. IAS Rohini Bhajibhakare, […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like How IAS Rohini Became Salem’s 1st Woman District Collector in 170 Years! on Facebook]( [U-17 FIFA World Cup 2017: Meet the Indian Squad!]( Oct 06, 2017 10:11 am | Lekshmi Priya S With India hosting the Under-17 FIFA World Cup, every football fanatic in the country is eagerly awaiting the tournament. More so, because this is the first time that an Indian team will be part of a coveted international football World Cup. From a street vendor’s son to a youngster from a household of tailors, the […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like U-17 FIFA World Cup 2017: Meet the Indian Squad! on Facebook]( [Reaching 1600 students already, this start-up is slowly altering how we teach & learn]( Oct 05, 2017 07:13 pm | Teach For India Madhi is the Tamil word for ‘knowledge’. In 2015, Merlia Shaukath started a non-profit in Chennai, naming it ‘Madhi Foundation’. Currently, Madhi focuses on training teachers and student learning outcomes in classrooms- mobilised with the help of technology, with an acute awareness of all the constraints that exist in under-resourced schools. “I think the inspiration […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Reaching 1600 students already, this start-up is slowly altering how we teach & learn on Facebook]( [How 4 Girls Are Working to Make the World Wonderful for 50 Underprivileged Kids in Hyderabad!]( Oct 05, 2017 07:07 pm | Jovita Aranha To say you desire a world where everybody lives in harmony, unity and cooperation may seem like a utopian idea. But 19-year-old Meghana Dabbara is already laying the foundation for this utopian world in Medchal on the periphery of Hyderabad. The dwellers of this world are 50 children from underprivileged sections who are imbibing values […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like How 4 Girls Are Working to Make the World Wonderful for 50 Underprivileged Kids in Hyderabad! on Facebook]( [Diwali Special: This Man Wants to Light up Bengaluru’s Streets for 100 Women Street Vendors]( Oct 05, 2017 07:04 pm | Deepika Bhardwaj Manjula Devi is a roadside vendor, who sits in Jayanagar, 9th block, in Bengaluru, every day. This is where she was born and brought up. Starting her day at 3 am, Manjula starts vending by 7 am. Her work goes on till 10 in the night. Her struggle starts when it gets dark. The dysfunctional […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Diwali Special: This Man Wants to Light up Bengaluru’s Streets for 100 Women Street Vendors on Facebook]( [This IIT Professor Led the Indian Scientists Who Detected Einstein’s Gravitation Waves]( Oct 05, 2017 06:24 pm | Deepika Bhardwaj In 1916, by his theory of general relativity, Albert Einstein predicted gravitational waves that transport energy as gravitational radiation. These were detected for the first time on September 14, 2015, announced by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo interferometer. Three American physicists played a key role in the experiment and have recently […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like This IIT Professor Led the Indian Scientists Who Detected Einstein’s Gravitation Waves on Facebook]( [How This U.P. Village Got Rid of Loudspeakers and Brought Peace between Communities]( Oct 05, 2017 05:33 pm | Vidya Raja In the recent past, so much has been said about loudspeakers being used during festivals and daily prayers. Various well-known personalities came forward to make their point about the use of loudspeakers. Some of them received flak, while others were trolled on social media platforms. With all this noise in the background, a village in […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like How This U.P. Village Got Rid of Loudspeakers and Brought Peace between Communities on Facebook]( [This Valmiki Jayanti, Here Are 6 Books That Retell the Ramayana Through Unique Perspectives]( Oct 05, 2017 04:01 pm | Lekshmi Priya S Sage Valmiki’s name is probably the one of the very few that has stood the test of time, in respect to the ancient Indian literature. The author of the Ramayana, one of the greatest epics ever written on Indian soil, Valmiki is revered as the Adi Kavi, or the first poet in Hinduism. Consisting of […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like This Valmiki Jayanti, Here Are 6 Books That Retell the Ramayana Through Unique Perspectives on Facebook]( [MBA Students to Actors: How Everyone Is Benefiting From a Change in Tech and Education]( Oct 05, 2017 02:41 pm | British Council India myEnglish teachers at the British Council, India are guiding adult learners to achieve success through interactive online English courses. Using live online classrooms and guided online activities they are changing the traditional model and bringing the British Council classroom to their students across India. Huma, Avinash, Purbani, Rajul and Ellora work in cities across India […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like MBA Students to Actors: How Everyone Is Benefiting From a Change in Tech and Education on Facebook]( [Meet Dr Soumya Swaminathan, the First Indian to Hold WHO’s Second Highest Rank!]( Oct 05, 2017 01:54 pm | Jovita Aranha Marking India’s milestone in the global health sector, renowned paediatrician and a clinical scientist, Dr Soumya Swaminathan was appointed the deputy director general of programmes (DDP) of the World Health Organisation (WHO). Deemed the second highest position at the UN agency, she will be working under Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. She is the first Indian […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Meet Dr Soumya Swaminathan, the First Indian to Hold WHO’s Second Highest Rank! on Facebook]( [From Dumping Ground to Playground: How Delhi Police Transformed a Filthy Slum Area!]( Oct 05, 2017 01:44 pm | Deepika Bhardwaj If you visited the slum cluster in New Delhi’s Todapur some time ago, you would see a plot of land in the area filled with garbage, full of stench. Not only were the lives of the slum dwellers miserable, one could see their children playing in the garbage as well. But now, through the efforts […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like From Dumping Ground to Playground: How Delhi Police Transformed a Filthy Slum Area! on Facebook]( [Railways Ramp Up Safety Measures – To Ban Staff from Using Whatsapp, YouTube on Mobiles]( Oct 05, 2017 12:03 pm | Vishaka George In the wake of a spate of accidents that claimed more than 300 lives in 2017, the railway ministry has started to roll out stern measures to mitigate such tragedies in the future. The latest being – banning railway staff from using Whatsapp and YouTube during working hours, IndiaToday reported. Railway officials said the messaging […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Railways Ramp Up Safety Measures – To Ban Staff from Using Whatsapp, YouTube on Mobiles on Facebook]( [The Maestro of Music Is Celebrating 25 Years of Creating Magic – Will You Be There?]( Oct 05, 2017 10:37 am | Vidya Raja Twenty-five years ago, a young musician in then Madras was given the opportunity to create music for Mani Ratnam’s movie Roja. The young boy went on to create some everlasting magic. This young boy is none other than the maestro himself – A.R. Rahman. Having created quite a stir in the south, he ventured into […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like The Maestro of Music Is Celebrating 25 Years of Creating Magic – Will You Be There? on Facebook]( [This Levelfield School’s Unconventional Methods Are Changing the Concept of Education]( Oct 05, 2017 10:36 am | Guest Contributor He was all of 33 when his friends, acquaintances, colleagues and the wider circle of people around him thought he’d taken leave of his senses.  And who really could blame them ? The year was 2009. An IIT Kharagpur engineer and IIM, Ahmedabad MBA Arghya Banerjee lived in Chennai with his wife and four year […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like This Levelfield School’s Unconventional Methods Are Changing the Concept of Education on Facebook]( [Using Just Bath and Kitchen Waste Water, This Chennai Man Nurtures Around 300 Trees!]( Oct 04, 2017 07:07 pm | Lekshmi Priya S India is not a water deficient country, but the amount of water that goes wasted or untreated every day, the country has a bleak future ahead in the cards. From every dripping tap that can be fixed to a heavy downpour of rain from which water can be harvested, there are myriad possibilities that can […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Using Just Bath and Kitchen Waste Water, This Chennai Man Nurtures Around 300 Trees! on Facebook]( [How Virtual Healthcare Vans Are Taking High-Quality Medical Technology to Rural Areas]( Oct 04, 2017 06:59 pm | Guest Contributor India has a dismal doctor-to-patient ratio – around 1:1,900, against the UN-prescribed 1:1,000. The disparity is especially high in rural areas, with about 70 per cent of the country’s population living there. The situation is especially worrisome as bad infrastructure and lack of facilities hold back doctors from taking on assignments in these areas. What’s […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like How Virtual Healthcare Vans Are Taking High-Quality Medical Technology to Rural Areas on Facebook]( [Art in Braille: How This 27-Year Old Is Making Beauty Accessible to Those With Disabilities]( Oct 04, 2017 06:53 pm | Amulya B At DAG Modern in Mumbai’s Kala Godha, if you’re lucky enough, occasionally you can hear discussions on art that are unique. Often, the voices you hear are not of students of art or its connoisseurs, but of children from a blind school who regularly visit the gallery under a programme called ‘Abhas’, a tactile art […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Art in Braille: How This 27-Year Old Is Making Beauty Accessible to Those With Disabilities on Facebook]( [From 22 Official Languages to 1652 Dialects, This Script by IIT-M Researchers Can Read It All!]( Oct 04, 2017 06:33 pm | Lekshmi Priya S A script that can read every Indian language? According to a group of IIT-Madras researchers, a single, unified script called Bharati is underway, which once developed will help read every Indian language. From 22 official languages to 1652 dialects in the country, the team aims to reduce script barriers. The idea was envisioned by V. […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like From 22 Official Languages to 1652 Dialects, This Script by IIT-M Researchers Can Read It All! on Facebook]( [How This App Helps 50,000 Farmers With Timely and Factual Agricultural Info]( Oct 04, 2017 05:59 pm | Guest Contributor Farmers contribute tremendously to the Indian economy, but sadly are some of the poorest individuals in the country. A farmer in my village killed himself because he was cheated with adulterated cotton seeds. He had no option to recover the loss or repay the cost incurred for the crop. I was shocked to learn that […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like How This App Helps 50,000 Farmers With Timely and Factual Agricultural Info on Facebook]( [Here’s How This Pune Woman Grew Her Own Food Organically and Fed Her Family of 14]( Oct 04, 2017 05:23 pm | Guest Contributor An organic wave is sweeping through Pune, as people increasingly buy food grown without the use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides. However, Sujata Naphade is far ahead of this wave – she grows enough organic vegetables and fruits to feed her family of 14, sells what they can’t consume and connects farmers who grow crops […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Here’s How This Pune Woman Grew Her Own Food Organically and Fed Her Family of 14 on Facebook]( Recent Stories You May Have Missed: [Why Shouldn’t the Deaf Learn Martial Arts? 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