An Organic Farmer by Chance, This Woman Now Helps Connect Other Farmers Directly to Consumers

Here is the latest positive news from The Better India Is this email not displaying correctly? [View it in your browser](. Hello! Here is today's edition of positive news! [An Organic Farmer by Chance, This Woman Now Helps Connect Other Farmers Directly to Consumers]( Jun 21, 2017 03:45 pm | Manabi Katoch It was one weekend that changed her life and Purvi Vyas, a Masters in Environmental Management from Australia’s Western Sydney University, turned into a full-time organic farmer. She is now preparing the next generation of farmers and youngsters to adopt a sustainable lifestyle. [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like An Organic Farmer by Chance, This Woman Now Helps Connect Other Farmers Directly to Consumers on Facebook]( [After Kumble’s Exit, These 5 Men Are Pitching for the Top Post of India’s Cricket Coach]( Jun 21, 2017 03:36 pm | Jovita Aranha After Anil Kumble’s exit, the names of top five applicants have come to the forefront. Five cricket personalities have been reported to officially apply, to run the race for the title of the Indian Cricket team coach. Five cricket personalities have been reported to officially apply, to run the race for the title of the […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like After Kumble’s Exit, These 5 Men Are Pitching for the Top Post of India’s Cricket Coach on Facebook]( [TBI Blogs: For 60 Years, Healthcare Workers Have Been Helping India’s Villages Battle Mental Health Issues]( Jun 21, 2017 02:40 pm | The MINDS Foundation The mental health scenario in rural India needs specialised and local intervention to effectively tackle issues, and community mental health workers are the vanguard of this movement. [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like TBI Blogs: For 60 Years, Healthcare Workers Have Been Helping India’s Villages Battle Mental Health Issues on Facebook]( [Delhi University Researchers Discover 4 New Frog Species in Western Ghats]( Jun 21, 2017 02:19 pm | Jovita Aranha Sonali Garg, 29, a PhD student from University of Delhi, under the supervision of Professor SD Birju, has discovered four new species of burrowing frogs in the Western Ghats after five years of extensive research on the amphibians. The new species belong to the Indian frog genus or group called Fejerarya, and are considered unique […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Delhi University Researchers Discover 4 New Frog Species in Western Ghats on Facebook]( [Life Through Colours: The Mesmerising Artworks of a Brazilian Duo in Delhi’s Lodhi Art District]( Jun 21, 2017 01:27 pm | Lekshmi Priya S Enter the Lodhi Art District and brace yourself to be mesmerised. A Brazilian design and illustration collective has transformed the walls of India’s first open air art district and given it a whole new identity. Bicicleta Sem Freio, also known as Bicycle Without Brakes comprising two talented artists Douglas Castro and Renato Reno, have taken […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Life Through Colours: The Mesmerising Artworks of a Brazilian Duo in Delhi’s Lodhi Art District on Facebook]( [TBI Blogs: How Waterless Urinals Can Change the Lives of India’s 139.9 Million Government School Students]( Jun 21, 2017 12:35 pm | Reap Benefit Waterless urinals not only help solve India’s sanitation issue, their unique design can also great assist in the country’s quest for water security. [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like TBI Blogs: How Waterless Urinals Can Change the Lives of India’s 139.9 Million Government School Students on Facebook]( [ISRO to Launch an Earth Observation Satellite and 30 Nano Satellites This Friday]( Jun 21, 2017 11:31 am | Lekshmi Priya S Looks like the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is on a roll! The space organisation has announced to launch Cartosat-2 series satellite for earth observation and 30 co-passenger Nano satellites this Friday. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle or PSLV-C38 will be on its 40th flight. It is expected to launch the 712 kg observation satellite […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like ISRO to Launch an Earth Observation Satellite and 30 Nano Satellites This Friday on Facebook]( [How Yoga Helps the World. Paying (H)Ommage to Yoga on International Yoga Day!]( Jun 21, 2017 10:16 am | Lucy Plummer From primary schools, to juvenile detention centres, yoga has inched its way into just about every corner of Western society, and it’s having some incredible impacts. [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like How Yoga Helps the World. Paying (H)Ommage to Yoga on International Yoga Day! on Facebook]( [A Bengaluru Policeman Chose to Let an Ambulance Pass by Over the President’s Convoy!]( Jun 20, 2017 07:06 pm | Lekshmi Priya S How often does one see a policeman stopping the President’s convoy to let an ambulance pass through? Traffic police Sub-Inspector ML Nijalingappa, chose humanity over hierarchy and set an example that all of us should learn from. Posted at Trinity Circle, Nijalingappa discovered that amidst the traffic there was an ambulance that needed to head […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like A Bengaluru Policeman Chose to Let an Ambulance Pass by Over the President’s Convoy! on Facebook]( [Saving 100 Trees in 2 Days: What Hyderabad’s Citizens Are Doing to Make Their Mission Possible]( Jun 20, 2017 06:46 pm | Jovita Aranha ‘100 trees behind the enemy line,’ reads a Facebook post by Vata Foundation’s P. Udaykrishna. “What impact can a line have? In a race, it is winning or losing. In a game of cricket, a boundary. At a traffic light, implementing a rule. But sometimes, the line between life and death. These 100 trees were […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Saving 100 Trees in 2 Days: What Hyderabad’s Citizens Are Doing to Make Their Mission Possible on Facebook]( [This Grocery Store Owner Has Been Teaching over 300 Underprivileged Kids under a Bridge for a Decade]( Jun 20, 2017 06:38 pm | Aditi Patwardhan This Free School under a metro bridge started by a grocery store owner in Delhi is helping hundreds of underprivileged children realise their dreams. [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like This Grocery Store Owner Has Been Teaching over 300 Underprivileged Kids under a Bridge for a Decade on Facebook]( [TBI Blogs: Did You Know India’s First PIL Was Filed 40+ Years Ago? Here Are the 5 Most Iconic PILs Since Then]( Jun 20, 2017 06:29 pm | Lawyered Over the last 40 years, the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been one of the greatest tools available to citizens seeking legal redressal and justice. Here are five of the most iconic PIL cases and judgements from India. [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like TBI Blogs: Did You Know India’s First PIL Was Filed 40+ Years Ago? Here Are the 5 Most Iconic PILs Since Then on Facebook]( [8 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Started Looking for an Internship]( Jun 20, 2017 06:27 pm | Guest Contributor Love your work, else it is not worth doing! Mr Shashank Murali, founder and CEO of Tapchief, suggested this to me when asked for one piece of advice to give to anyone looking for an internship. An internship is one of the most crucial points in the executive life of any budding professional. The race […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like 8 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Started Looking for an Internship on Facebook]( [#WorldRefugeeDay: How Parsi Refugees From Yesterday Became Citizens of Today]( Jun 20, 2017 05:57 pm | Amulya B In the last few years, the world has been grappling with the refugee crisis. The innovations in technology has made the whole experience of witnessing a crisis very visceral and we hadn’t encountered a crisis of this scale since World War II. However, it is undeniable that human history is centred around victories and conquering lands. And the present […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like #WorldRefugeeDay: How Parsi Refugees From Yesterday Became Citizens of Today on Facebook]( [Bidding Goodbye to City Life & Well-Paid Jobs, This Couple Now Takes Care of 3 Retired Elephants]( Jun 20, 2017 05:43 pm | Lekshmi Priya S A life away from mad rush hours and the materialistic entrapment that comes along as baggage in cities! And add to that, three elephants! This is precisely how life is currently defined for Shweta Govind and Govind Gorur, who previously lived in Bengaluru and fell under the regular 9-5 working strata. “Between the both of […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Bidding Goodbye to City Life & Well-Paid Jobs, This Couple Now Takes Care of 3 Retired Elephants on Facebook]( [TBI Blogs: A Self-Help Group in UP Is Helping Break the Cycle of Poverty Through an All-Woman Enterprise]( Jun 20, 2017 05:12 pm | Pardada Pardadi Educational Society Three women from the Anupshahr Tehsil in rural western U.P. joined hands earlier this year to open a dairy, thus throwing the doors open for women from three SHGs to enhance their income. [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like TBI Blogs: A Self-Help Group in UP Is Helping Break the Cycle of Poverty Through an All-Woman Enterprise on Facebook]( [17 Years Later, Garbage Bins Make a Comeback in Bengaluru]( Jun 20, 2017 04:27 pm | Jovita Aranha In 2000, Chief Minister CM SM Krishna declared his wish to make Bengaluru like Singapore by setting up a new garbage collection system. Street dustbins were replaced with a door-to-door garbage collection system, using push-carts and small three-wheeler autos. Dumping garbage on street corners was illegal and violators were subjected to fines. So, people would […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like 17 Years Later, Garbage Bins Make a Comeback in Bengaluru on Facebook]( [Why 3 Bangladeshi Refugees Want to Thank India on World Refugee Day!]( Jun 20, 2017 04:06 pm | Manabi Katoch Dr.Sankhari and Gurupada Bacher were just two among the thousands of families that migrated to India after the 1964 riots. [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Why 3 Bangladeshi Refugees Want to Thank India on World Refugee Day! on Facebook]( [Challenged to Survive Only 180 Days, ISRO’s Mangalyaan Celebrates 1000 Earth Days in Orbit]( Jun 20, 2017 01:57 pm | Jovita Aranha The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) first interplanetary mission, popularly known as Mangalyaan or Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), celebrated 1,000 earth days in its orbit on Monday, surpassing its designed mission life of six months. Mangalyaan made India the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in the world to do […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Challenged to Survive Only 180 Days, ISRO’s Mangalyaan Celebrates 1000 Earth Days in Orbit on Facebook]( [TBI Blogs: This Team Collected over ₹50,000 in Just 10 Days for a Museum Walk for Underprivileged Delhi Girls]( Jun 20, 2017 01:52 pm | Sahapedia One of the best ways of ensuring the preservation of India’s heritage is involving the youth in understanding and recognising its worth. A unique Museum Walk in New Delhi did just that for 55 girls from the Salaam Baalak Trust. [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like TBI Blogs: This Team Collected over ₹50,000 in Just 10 Days for a Museum Walk for Underprivileged Delhi Girls on Facebook]( [Green Crematoriums Are Set to Come up Along the Ganga – What Are They and Why Are They Needed?]( Jun 20, 2017 12:35 pm | Lekshmi Priya S A greener initiative to curb the surging pollution owing to crematory processes will soon see effective enactment in the villages by the shores of the Ganga. According to TOI, these villages have been christened as Ganga Grams under the Namami Gange project, where plans of installing ‘green’ crematoriums are being considered. With ‘ecologically-responsible’ crematory processes […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Green Crematoriums Are Set to Come up Along the Ganga – What Are They and Why Are They Needed? on Facebook]( [Watch: Kochi Metro’s Transgender Recruits Have an Important Message & You Can’t Miss It]( Jun 20, 2017 10:49 am | Lekshmi Priya S The Kochi metro project has been showing the right way since its inception and has been taking up pioneering employment initiatives. Starting from having staffed 80 per cent of workforce with women and being the first government in the country to employ transgenders as the ground staff, the state’s metro project is setting the benchmark […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Watch: Kochi Metro’s Transgender Recruits Have an Important Message & You Can’t Miss It on Facebook]( [TBI Blogs: Rural Bihar’s Children Are Getting Learning Support, Thanks to This Couple & an International NGO]( Jun 19, 2017 07:29 pm | Empower India Initiative Bihar’s rural areas face great challenges in the education sector, with low attendance and poor quality schools rampant. A husband-wife duo hope to rectify this, with a little help. [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like TBI Blogs: Rural Bihar’s Children Are Getting Learning Support, Thanks to This Couple & an International NGO on Facebook]( [Former CJI Bhagwati, Pioneer of PIL, Made Justice More Accessible to the Common Man]( Jun 19, 2017 07:07 pm | Amulya B There are many ways one can choose to remember Justice PN Bhagwati, who passed away at the age of 95 last week. Some may associate him with the infamous judgment in ADM Jabalpur v. Shivkant Shukla case (popularly known as Habeus Corpus) case, while some may always remember him as the man who gave voice to the […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Former CJI Bhagwati, Pioneer of PIL, Made Justice More Accessible to the Common Man on Facebook]( [Triple Talaq Debate: 16-Year-Old Utters the Word Thrice to Fight for Her Right to Be Educated]( Jun 19, 2017 06:55 pm | Jovita Aranha “I have to get on with life and carve my path just like Malala did. We have to each fight our own battles,” said 16-year-old Mampi Khatoon in an interview with The Times of India. The teenager sparked a debate after she uttered the word ‘talaq’ thrice and divorced her husband when he opposed her […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Triple Talaq Debate: 16-Year-Old Utters the Word Thrice to Fight for Her Right to Be Educated on Facebook]( [The Other Gandhi: 10 Things You Need to Know About Probable Presidential Pick Gopalkrishna Gandhi]( Jun 19, 2017 05:26 pm | Jovita Aranha As the time to pick Presidential candidates grows closer, the Opposition Party has its name set on a certain Gandhi. A Gandhi who held prestigious administrative political positions in the past. One who was criticised for his stance against the Nandigram violence in West Bengal in 2007, where 14 people lost their lives due to […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like The Other Gandhi: 10 Things You Need to Know About Probable Presidential Pick Gopalkrishna Gandhi on Facebook]( Recent Stories You May Have Missed: [This 16-Year-Old Bengaluru Boy Grows His Own Veggies & Teaches Organic Farming on YouTube!]( [TBI Blogs: While Selecting a School for Your Child, Did You Pay Attention to These 3 Important Factors?]( [Pakistan, Thanks for Defeating Us! An Open Letter by an Indian Cricket Fan.]( [TBI Blogs: I Worked with Dr. Kalam for over 20 Years & Have Fond Memories of Our Morning Walk Conversations]( [Not All Fathers Are Bound by Blood, This Man Proved So After Stepping in to Donate Kidney to Daughter-In-Law]( FOLLOW US: [FACEBOOK]( | [TWITTER]( | [GOOGLE+]( | [YOUTUBE]( Copyright © 2017 The Better India, All rights reserved. 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