Women of a Delhi Slum Filed 200 RTIs, Made the Law Work for Them, & Drastically Improved Their Lives

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]( [Women of a Delhi Slum Filed 200 RTIs, Made the Law Work for Them, & Drastically Improved Their Lives]( Jul 12, 2017 03:56 pm | Ranjini Sivaswamy From bringing water supply to their community to saving a girl from being raped - see what these legally empowered women are achieving in Delhi’s Savda Ghevra resettlement colony. [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Women of a Delhi Slum Filed 200 RTIs, Made the Law Work for Them, & Drastically Improved Their Lives on Facebook]( [Confused About GST on Your Food Bill? The Government Breaks It Down for You]( Jul 12, 2017 03:40 pm | Deepika Bhardwaj Amid the confusion about the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, which came into effect from July 1, 2017, social media has been flooded with tweets by customers reporting instances where restaurants have levied both VAT and service tax besides GST in their invoice. Some also pointed out instances where GST was levied on both […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Confused About GST on Your Food Bill? The Government Breaks It Down for You on Facebook]( [This Engineer Customises Cars, Wheelchairs & More to Ease Mobility for the Differently-Abled]( Jul 12, 2017 02:52 pm | UMOJA We all know that India is not the most convenient country for persons with disabilities. Due to a severe lack of accessible facilities, persons with disabilities in our country struggle with living an independent and fulfilling life. Going to school, getting a job, going to the doctor, or even getting around one’s own home are tasks […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like This Engineer Customises Cars, Wheelchairs & More to Ease Mobility for the Differently-Abled on Facebook]( [Meet the Mumbai Opera Star Whose Song Has Been Named the Mars Anthem by a Global Body]( Jul 12, 2017 02:38 pm | Jovita Aranha “Rise to Mars! Men and women, Dare to dream! Dare to strive! Build a home for our children, Make this desert come alive!” The baritone voice of Mumbai’s Oscar Castellino resounded in the Dora Stoutzker Hall at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff. If the red planet had an anthem, ‘Rise to […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Meet the Mumbai Opera Star Whose Song Has Been Named the Mars Anthem by a Global Body on Facebook]( [From UK to MP: How a British Man’s Pursuit of Happiness Brought Him to India]( Jul 12, 2017 01:26 pm | Pravah The last picture on my phone before I left for India is of this poorly made picture of my manager as a prawn, which I stuck up in a store cupboard of the cocktail bar where I mix drinks for a living. This prawnography was my proudest achievement of that week. I didn’t realise at the […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like From UK to MP: How a British Man’s Pursuit of Happiness Brought Him to India on Facebook]( [Fat-Shamed, AIB Comedienne Bravely Hits Back at Relentless Trolls on Twitter]( Jul 12, 2017 12:03 pm | Lekshmi Priya S Remember that one classmate in school who was the butt of all jokes just because he/she was on the heavier side? What must have seemed then as harmless joking is in reality fat-shaming and bullying — something that often affects a person for life. The same body shaming and bullying, often even more ruthless, is now on […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Fat-Shamed, AIB Comedienne Bravely Hits Back at Relentless Trolls on Twitter on Facebook]( [How a Bus Driver Showed Immense Courage and Saved 50 Pilgrims During the Amarnath Terror Attacks]( Jul 11, 2017 05:53 pm | Jovita Aranha In the face of terror, only a few dare to think beyond their own safety. And driver, Salim Sheikh was determined to save around 50 passengers aboard his bus when terror attacks struck 61 Amarnath Yatra pilgrims in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday. The open-fire attack near Batengoo in J&K’s Anantnag district claimed seven lives […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like How a Bus Driver Showed Immense Courage and Saved 50 Pilgrims During the Amarnath Terror Attacks on Facebook]( [This Bengaluru Library With Over 2,000 Books Is Creating a Safe Space for Kids of Ragpickers]( Jul 11, 2017 04:25 pm | Jovita Aranha An empty room above an old-age home in Banashankari, Bengaluru, comes alive every week. Not just with stories the elders share, but stories that give wings to the imagination of children of ragpickers, residing in shanties close by. Dozens of children run up and down stairs of the community library set up by Hasirudala. Hasiru […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like This Bengaluru Library With Over 2,000 Books Is Creating a Safe Space for Kids of Ragpickers on Facebook]( [Empowerment & Environment : Slum Women Convert 300 Kg of Flower Waste Into Incense Sticks Each Week]( Jul 11, 2017 03:45 pm | Manabi Katoch Green wave converts almost 300 kg to 400 kg of flowers every week into 100 kg to 150 kg of incense sticks giving livelihood to nearly 50-60 women. [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Empowerment & Environment : Slum Women Convert 300 Kg of Flower Waste Into Incense Sticks Each Week on Facebook]( [How Ahmedabad Became India’s First UNESCO-Recognised World Heritage City]( Jul 11, 2017 02:37 pm | Vidya Raja “Thrilled to announce! Ahmedabad has just been declared India’s first World Heritage city by UNESCO,” tweeted Ruchira Kamboj, India’s permanent representative to the United Nations cultural agency, United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). On July 8, 2017, Ahmedabad became the first Indian city to be declared as a World Heritage City. Fifteenth century poet, […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like How Ahmedabad Became India’s First UNESCO-Recognised World Heritage City on Facebook]( [A Tribute to the Brave IAF Officer Who Lost His Life Saving 169 People in Arunachal]( Jul 11, 2017 01:41 pm | Lekshmi Priya S Amidst a flood rescue operation in Arunachal Pradesh, an Air Warrior lost his life, but not before rescuing 169 stranded individuals. Wing Commander Mandeep Singh Dhillon, who was the commanding officer of 115 Helicopter Unit, Tezpur, had been part of the team that had already finished five sorties of rescue operations despite adverse weather and […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like A Tribute to the Brave IAF Officer Who Lost His Life Saving 169 People in Arunachal on Facebook]( [An Indian-American Professor’s Invention Can Help Women Self-Screen Cervical Cancer, Minus the Pain]( Jul 11, 2017 11:42 am | Jovita Aranha Cervical cancer is the fourth-most common form of cancer in women, with more than 500,000 new cases annually worldwide. India reports approximately one-fourth of the world’s cases of cervical cancer each year. In an attempt to raise awareness and break misconceptions about cervical cancer, an Indian-American professor and her team have developed a new handheld, […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like An Indian-American Professor’s Invention Can Help Women Self-Screen Cervical Cancer, Minus the Pain on Facebook]( [Mini-Satellites From Beer Cans? This Bengaluru Boy’s Innovation Is Redefining Rocket Science!]( Jul 11, 2017 11:31 am | Lekshmi Priya S A mini-satellite from empty beer cans? One boy from Bengaluru has just achieved the unthinkable. And it’s not rocket science! Converting soda cans, beer cans and other beverage cans into mini-satellites, 22-year-old Suraj Kumar Jana has been running the project for the past two years under the name CanSat Development Programme, with an intention of […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Mini-Satellites From Beer Cans? This Bengaluru Boy’s Innovation Is Redefining Rocket Science! on Facebook]( [Meet the Man Behind Sisak, India’s First Silent Short Film on the LGBT Community]( Jul 10, 2017 06:46 pm | Lekshmi Priya S Does every film need to have a staple combination of colossal sets, flamboyant costumes and wordy lyrics to emote love? Unlike the plots in films where the protagonist always finds his true love or leaves it to the universe to conspire in making sure that he does, real life doesn’t necessarily always offer such respite. […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Meet the Man Behind Sisak, India’s First Silent Short Film on the LGBT Community on Facebook]( [From Mehendi Tutorials to Job Searches, How the Internet Is Changing Rural Women’s Lives in MP]( Jul 10, 2017 06:43 pm | Digital Empowerment Foundation Through a ripple effect, more and more rural women in Madhya Pradesh are learning to use the mobile phone and access the Internet — a sign that women are keen to become self-reliant and well informed. [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like From Mehendi Tutorials to Job Searches, How the Internet Is Changing Rural Women’s Lives in MP on Facebook]( [5 Children Disappear Every Hour in India – A Chennai Man Has Developed an App to Find Them]( Jul 10, 2017 05:56 pm | Deepika Bhardwaj The last time S Krishnan saw his 10-year-old brother was on an afternoon in February 1988, when they ventured out to play a game of hide and seek. Twenty eight years later, Krishnan still seeks his little brother, who vanished during the game they played in their East Tambaram neighbourhood in Chennai. Despite relentlessly sharing […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like 5 Children Disappear Every Hour in India – A Chennai Man Has Developed an App to Find Them on Facebook]( [Father Figures: Understanding the Laws for Single Men Looking to Adopt a Child]( Jul 10, 2017 04:53 pm | LawRato Adoption is a beautiful gift for couples who are unable to have children biologically. In current times many couples, single men, and single women have come forward to adopt children irrespective of whether they have children or not. Here we elucidate the process of adoption for a single father. The process of adoption in India […] [Read This Story]( [share on Twitter]( [Like Father Figures: Understanding the Laws for Single Men Looking to Adopt a Child on Facebook]( Recent Stories You May Have Missed: [Rejected by 40 Firms, This Engineer Is Now Saving the Environment, 1 Book at a Time]( [Govt Doubles Allowance for Brave Jawans in Siachen & Other Troops Under the 7th Pay Commission]( [22-Year-Old From a Small Kerala Village Bags Gold at Asian Championships & Will Now Go to London]( [Not by Accident but by (Intelligent) Design: Reducing Fatalities on NH 4 in Kolhapur]( [From Being Forced to Beg to a WB Court’s National Lok Adalat Bench – Story of a Transgender Activist]( FOLLOW US: [FACEBOOK]( | [TWITTER]( | [GOOGLE+]( | [YOUTUBE]( Copyright © 2017 The Better India, All rights reserved. [unsubscribe from this list]( | [update subscription preferences](