IIT Scientists Have A New Use For Virtual Reality – Helping Stroke Victims!

Here is the latest positive news from The Better India Is this email not displaying correctly? [View it in your browser](. [IIT Scientists Have A New Use For Virtual Reality – Helping Stroke Victims!]( Feb 21, 2018 03:28 pm | Ahmed Sherrif Approximately 1.8 million Indians suffer strokes — the most prevalent cause of chronic adult disability— every year and the new innovation by IIT Gandhinagar scientists hopes to combat this! [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like IIT Scientists Have A New Use For Virtual Reality – Helping Stroke Victims! on Facebook]( [This Female Journo Is Tearing Down Caste Barriers in Rural Uttar Pradesh]( Feb 21, 2018 02:40 pm | Khabar Lahariya On an afternoon in November, the roots of a story reveal itself some kilometres away from Karwi, part of Bundelkhand in Uttar Pradesh. Hailing an auto to a juncture outside the heart of a village in Chitrakoot district, Meera reaches a spot that looks downright dangerous – mangled and damaged wires criss-cross in an ugly […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like This Female Journo Is Tearing Down Caste Barriers in Rural Uttar Pradesh on Facebook]( [From Tagore to Netaji, India’s Oldest Coffee Houses are an Iconic Part of History!]( Feb 21, 2018 02:32 pm | Anakha Arikara The coffee houses of India hold a special place in the hearts of millions of Indians. For decades, a coffee house was the place where people from all walks of life gathered. They discussed politics, gossip, or just caught up over a good, freshly-brewed cuppa. Even now, walking into any of the country’s legendary coffee […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like From Tagore to Netaji, India’s Oldest Coffee Houses are an Iconic Part of History! on Facebook]( [Kerala Nun Gives Stranger the Gift of Life, Donates Kidney]( Feb 21, 2018 01:31 pm | Lekshmi Priya S Sister Rose Anto is already quite renowned for her association with social and charitable activities involving the elderly and poor widows in Irinjalakuda. [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Kerala Nun Gives Stranger the Gift of Life, Donates Kidney on Facebook]( [Let There Be Light: Over a Million Rural Students Benefit From IIT- Bombay’s Solar Lamps!]( Feb 21, 2018 01:23 pm | Tanvi Patel A step towards creating solar eco-systems in rural homes! [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Let There Be Light: Over a Million Rural Students Benefit From IIT- Bombay’s Solar Lamps! on Facebook]( [NDA Cadet Carries Injured Junior On Back To Help Him Finish Crucial Race!]( Feb 21, 2018 01:15 pm | Rayomand Engineer He didn’t want his junior to loose out on the points. So he ensured that they crossed the finish line together! [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like NDA Cadet Carries Injured Junior On Back To Help Him Finish Crucial Race! on Facebook]( [Fire in Toofan Express: Alert Train Driver’s Quick Action Saves Passengers!]( Feb 21, 2018 12:50 pm | Jovita Aranha At 4.10 pm, between Mugma and Thaparnagar stations in Jharkhand, the loco pilot of 13007 Udyan Abha Toofan Express, Bidyut Mondal, smelled something burning. It wasn’t long until he realised that the parcel van of the express that had caught fire. Leaping into action, he immediately stopped the train. Taking complete charge, alongside his co-staffers, […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Fire in Toofan Express: Alert Train Driver’s Quick Action Saves Passengers! on Facebook]( [Unlike Super-Rich Defaulters, This Ex-PM’s Family Honoured Their Loan to PNB!]( Feb 21, 2018 12:21 pm | Rinchen Norbu Wangchuk The former prime minister had taken a Rs 5000 loan in the 1960s for a personal vehicle, since he didn't allow his family to use the official car for private purposes. [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Unlike Super-Rich Defaulters, This Ex-PM’s Family Honoured Their Loan to PNB! on Facebook]( [In a First for Rajasthan, All-Women Staff to Handle Jaipur’s Gandhinagar Station!]( Feb 21, 2018 11:29 am | Vidya Raja The Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel posted at this busy station too are all women! [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like In a First for Rajasthan, All-Women Staff to Handle Jaipur’s Gandhinagar Station! on Facebook]( [Studies Got You Stressed Out? Here Are 14 Tips to Help You Cope!]( Feb 21, 2018 11:03 am | The MINDS Foundation School education is an essential part of an individual’s life as academic performance plays a crucial role in shaping our future careers. However, excess academic stress during this stage can result in adverse effects that are far-reaching. In today’s highly competitive world, students face various academic problems – including exam stress, disinterestedness in attending classes […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Studies Got You Stressed Out? Here Are 14 Tips to Help You Cope! on Facebook]( [Kashmiri Journalist-Turned-Ecowarrior’s Amazing Plan Involves 1 Crore Trees!]( Feb 20, 2018 07:22 pm | Qazi Wasif Rifat Abdullah is part of the campaign ‘Save Environment Save Kashmir'. [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Kashmiri Journalist-Turned-Ecowarrior’s Amazing Plan Involves 1 Crore Trees! on Facebook]( [5 Times Ordinary Citizens Took Extraordinary Steps for a Greener Future!]( Feb 20, 2018 06:52 pm | Rayomand Engineer Socially responsible and sustainable, these amazing initiatives will inspire you to start your own! [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like 5 Times Ordinary Citizens Took Extraordinary Steps for a Greener Future! on Facebook]( [India’s New ‘National Strategic Plan’ Aims To Eradicate TB By 2025]( Feb 20, 2018 06:40 pm | Rinchen Norbu Wangchuk More than 4 lakh Indians die every year because of Tuberculosis (TB). [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like India’s New ‘National Strategic Plan’ Aims To Eradicate TB By 2025 on Facebook]( [BESCOM’s New Plan? LiDAR Choppers to Map Bengaluru’s Solar Potential]( Feb 20, 2018 05:53 pm | Rayomand Engineer Interestingly, the same technology helped archaeologists discover an ancient Mayan city under the jungles of Guatemala! [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like BESCOM’s New Plan? LiDAR Choppers to Map Bengaluru’s Solar Potential on Facebook]( [80-Year-Old Retired Headmistress Donates Land Worth 4 Crore to Govt. School!]( Feb 20, 2018 05:38 pm | Jovita Aranha 80-year-old retired headmistress Ponmanidevi, a resident of Nallagoundampalayam village in the Erode district of Tamil Nadu, donated an acre of land costing over Rs 4 crore to construct government school buildings. Don’t be amazed, because it isn’t the first time the octogenarian has gone out of her way to be a part of a selfless […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like 80-Year-Old Retired Headmistress Donates Land Worth 4 Crore to Govt. School! on Facebook]( [Saving Our Beaches: Kerala To Fight Coastal Erosion With These Giant Tubes]( Feb 20, 2018 05:32 pm | Lekshmi Priya S Kerala has a coastline of 590 km and only 46.3 km is stable. This method could play a major role in the state's coastal conservation project! [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Saving Our Beaches: Kerala To Fight Coastal Erosion With These Giant Tubes on Facebook]( [Delhi to Meerut in an Hour: High-Speed Rail to Help Metro, Save Rs 6300 Crore!]( Feb 20, 2018 05:18 pm | Jovita Aranha Travelling between Delhi to Meerut will soon take you less than 60 minutes once the Delhi-Meerut high-speed rail becomes a reality. The Railways’ new ambitious plan is to make double use of a high-speed rail corridor from Delhi to run local metro services to Meerut with the same. Originally, Corridor 1 of the Meerut metro […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Delhi to Meerut in an Hour: High-Speed Rail to Help Metro, Save Rs 6300 Crore! on Facebook]( [Indian-Origin UK Top Cop In The Running To Become Scotland Yard Anti-Terror Chief]( Feb 20, 2018 05:14 pm | Sanchari Pal Like Wall Street and Westminster, Scotland Yard is a name that summons up a host of associations. The name of the headquarters of London’s Metropolitan Police (one of the oldest modern police forces in the world), these two words exist as much in fiction — in novels and on the screen — as they do in […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Indian-Origin UK Top Cop In The Running To Become Scotland Yard Anti-Terror Chief on Facebook]( [Mumbai Gets Second Airport: 5 Things To Know About This Much-Awaited Project!]( Feb 20, 2018 05:00 pm | Rinchen Norbu Wangchuk In a significant development, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday laid the foundation stone for the construction of the massive Navi Mumbai Airport (NMA). At a time when the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) is struggling to keep up with the footfall into India’s financial capital, the Navi Mumbai Airport is expected to take away […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Mumbai Gets Second Airport: 5 Things To Know About This Much-Awaited Project! on Facebook]( [Nirav Modi-PNB Fraud: The 7 Agencies Probing India’s Biggest Banking Scam!]( Feb 20, 2018 04:39 pm | Rinchen Norbu Wangchuk Despite the efforts of our investigating agencies, it seems like they are closing the stable door after the horse has bolted. [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Nirav Modi-PNB Fraud: The 7 Agencies Probing India’s Biggest Banking Scam! on Facebook]( [Plugging Leaks: GPS-Enabled Vehicles to Carry Question Papers in Bengaluru!]( Feb 20, 2018 03:06 pm | Rayomand Engineer Biometric attendance of examiners and CCTV monitoring is also in the pipeline! [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Plugging Leaks: GPS-Enabled Vehicles to Carry Question Papers in Bengaluru! on Facebook]( [Mumbai’s 200-Year-old British Era Milestones To Get a Makeover!]( Feb 20, 2018 02:54 pm | Tanvi Patel With Roman numerals engraved on their basalt bodies, these age-old stones are relics of Mumbai's fascinating past! [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Mumbai’s 200-Year-old British Era Milestones To Get a Makeover! on Facebook]( [Management Grad Gives Up High-Paying Job To Help Poor Weavers of Thar Desert!]( Feb 20, 2018 02:36 pm | Lekshmi Priya S The inspiring student consciously chose the road not taken to make a difference at the grassroots level! [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Management Grad Gives Up High-Paying Job To Help Poor Weavers of Thar Desert! on Facebook]( [Living in Rented House, Odisha Man Donates 2.3 Acres to Landless Poor!]( Feb 20, 2018 01:18 pm | Tanvi Patel For 60-year-old Muguda Suryanarayan Achary, a promise is a promise, no matter when it was made, and what it will cost him. In 1997, Muguda was doing well financially and decided to build a temple dedicated to ‘Veerabhadra,’ a form of the Hindu God, Shiva. The priest of that temple, at that time, had told […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Living in Rented House, Odisha Man Donates 2.3 Acres to Landless Poor! on Facebook]( [This Low-Cost Solar Invention Can Literally Light up Dreams in Indian Slums!]( Feb 20, 2018 01:18 pm | Rayomand Engineer Despite being geographically close to power grids, nearly 28% of India’s urban population still lives in energy poverty. This innovation is a step towards changing this. [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like This Low-Cost Solar Invention Can Literally Light up Dreams in Indian Slums! on Facebook]( [Hostility & Heartbreak to Integration: The Saga of Indian Immigration to Canada]( Feb 20, 2018 12:54 pm | Sanchari Pal Few people know the fascinating, if chequered, story of Indian immigration to Canada — a tale of hostility and heartache, of tenacity through ups and downs and, finally, of finding a place to call home. [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Hostility & Heartbreak to Integration: The Saga of Indian Immigration to Canada on Facebook]( [One Man’s Surprising Will Gives a Second Life to 135-Year-Old Animal Hospital]( Feb 20, 2018 10:29 am | Vidya Raja Built in 1883, some wards have not been repaired even once since then! [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like One Man’s Surprising Will Gives a Second Life to 135-Year-Old Animal Hospital on Facebook]( [This Cab Driver Built an Affordable Hospital in His Village! Here’s the Incredible Tale]( Feb 19, 2018 07:30 pm | Jovita Aranha Taxi driver Saidul Laskar’s sister was only 17 when she died of a chest infection. Just because he couldn’t afford her treatment. Her death in 2004 left a major impact on the now 55-year-old man, who vowed that he wouldn’t let anybody else in his village die like his sister – simply because they couldn’t […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like This Cab Driver Built an Affordable Hospital in His Village! Here’s the Incredible Tale on Facebook]( [Dear States, End Your Cruel Apathy And Give The Disabled Their Legal Due!]( Feb 19, 2018 07:27 pm | Rinchen Norbu Wangchuk Certain states have failed to bring the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, into force. Why? [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Dear States, End Your Cruel Apathy And Give The Disabled Their Legal Due! on Facebook]( [Saved by a Maharaja During WW2, Polish Kids to Return to India After Decades!]( Feb 19, 2018 06:42 pm | Rayomand Engineer 80 years ago, Jamsaheb of Nawanagar had provided a school, shelter and food for 1,000 of these persecuted children in Camp Balachadi! [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Saved by a Maharaja During WW2, Polish Kids to Return to India After Decades! on Facebook]( [Video: The Story of Kaveri, the River Who Gave Her Life to the Land]( Feb 19, 2018 06:20 pm | Anakha Arikara “Water, water, everywhere, nor a drop to drink!” Samuel Taylor Coleridge According to Hindu mythology, the river Kaveri was born when Sage Agastya’s kamandalu (pot) tipped, and thus flowed through the land. The river was a symbol of motherhood, of spirit, and of the nurturer. It is the same mother that we fight over today. […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Video: The Story of Kaveri, the River Who Gave Her Life to the Land on Facebook]( [In a First, Bank Gives Life-Changing Loans to Nomadic Tribes Based Just on Trust!]( Feb 19, 2018 05:56 pm | Lekshmi Priya S A determined woman and her relentless efforts have been the catalyst of change in the lives of these stateless communities! [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like In a First, Bank Gives Life-Changing Loans to Nomadic Tribes Based Just on Trust! on Facebook]( [Thane May Get Driverless ‘Metrino’ Pods to Connect Metro Stations]( Feb 19, 2018 05:54 pm | Tanvi Patel These futuristic vehicles can accommodate 2-6 people and can move at a speed of 80-130 km per hour along a fixed track. [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Thane May Get Driverless ‘Metrino’ Pods to Connect Metro Stations on Facebook]( [This Vizag Man’s Free Makeovers Are Making Orphans And Disabled Kids Smile!]( Feb 19, 2018 05:17 pm | Rinchen Norbu Wangchuk "This is a happiness that money cannot buy!", says Charan anna, the man behind this heartwarming initiative. [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like This Vizag Man’s Free Makeovers Are Making Orphans And Disabled Kids Smile! on Facebook]( [The Forgotten Barber Who Saved Shivaji’s Life During the Escape From Panhalgad!]( Feb 19, 2018 04:56 pm | Jovita Aranha India celebrates the birth anniversary of one of our most notable warrior kings – Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj – today. His vision for Swarajya as a self-governing nation of people, without foreign military and political influences, continues to be an inspiration. But, this vision of Shivaji’s Swaraj would have been long lost in 1660, when General […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like The Forgotten Barber Who Saved Shivaji’s Life During the Escape From Panhalgad! on Facebook]( [Home to 95000 Strays, Mumbai To Get Low-Cost BMC Pet Clinics & Crematoriums!]( Feb 19, 2018 04:56 pm | Tanvi Patel Thanks to the city's civic body, every stray will now have its day! [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Home to 95000 Strays, Mumbai To Get Low-Cost BMC Pet Clinics & Crematoriums! on Facebook]( Recent Stories You May Have Missed: [How Does One End Drug Abuse? 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