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Delhi Startup’s AI-Powered Exoskeleton Can Help The Specially-Abled Walk Again
When John Ignatius Kujur was working on his final year engineering project in 2013, he found out that his senior from college was unable to find a job because of his locomotor disability. Displeased,...
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UP IAS Officer Creates Top-Quality PPE Kits At Half The Market Price!
With the exponential rise in COVID-19 cases in India, the health infrastructure of the country faces an imminent challenge, and one of the most crucial accessories for frontline health workers to...
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Pens Before Guns: Braving Threats, Manipur Man Guides 5K Youth Away from...
With The Positive Collective, The Better India’s COVID-19 coverage is available to regional language publications for free. Write to editorial@thebetterindia.com for more details. In the first week of...
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Lifesavers of Kargil, Doctor-Couple Has Healed During War and Far Beyond
Sitting in his Bengaluru home amid a pandemic, the retired army doctor Maj Gen N K Manchanda (Retd.) recalls fascinating anecdotes from his illustrious career. Together with his wife, Maj Gen (Mrs)...
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Atal Tunnel at Rohtang: Meet The Kerala Engineer Behind the Engineering Marvel
Earlier this month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the world’s longest highway tunnel (above 10,000 feet)—Atal Tunnel—situated at an altitude of 3,000 metres from the mean sea level (MSL) in...
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Exclusive: This ‘Untrained’ Ladakhi Mason Helped The Indian Air Force Defend...
(This is the first of a two-part series chronicling the remarkable life of Mistry Hassan, a mason, whose contributions to India and Nubra shouldn’t ever be forgotten. Without the ingenuity of Ghulam...
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Remembering The 19-Year-Old Civilian Who Took 14 Bullets To Save Kashmir in 1947
On 26 October 1947, Maharaja Hari Singh, the ruler of the erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kashmir signed the Instrument of Accession with the Government of India. Despite the official accession,...
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Meet The Award-Winning Ladakhi Porter Who Saved Jawan Lives in Siachen
Since 1984, when the Indian Army took control of the Siachen Glacier, residents of the surrounding villages in the picturesque Nubra Valley have been employed as porters. Their work involves carrying...
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How A Pak Army Colonel Fled To India & Won Freedom For Bangladesh in ’71
Lt Colonel Quazi Sajjad Zahir (Retd), a hero of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, was earlier this week honoured with the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian award in the Republic of India. His...
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Why This Soldier Still Serves Manipur Village 27 Years After He Saved Lives...
In the wee hours of 25 January 1994, Captain DPK Pillay, an Adjutant to the 8th Guards battalion of the Indian Army, was leading a patrol into Longdi Pabram, a very remote village in the...
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Exclusive: Inside Sonam Wangchuk’s ‘Viral’ Solar-Heated Tent for the Indian Army
Ladakhi engineer, education reformer and innovator, Sonam Wangchuk, is at it once again. In an announcement made on Twitter last night, Sonam revealed that his team at the Himalayan Institute of...
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Meet the Chennai Students Building Unmanned EVs for the Indian Army
Chennai-based startup Torus Robotics is developing Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) for the Indian Army. These vehicles can be operated like robots and can be used from a safe distance. “The...
View ArticleWho is Indian Army Officer Jyoti Nainwal & Why Is Her Story Going Viral
On 11 April 2018, officer Deepak Nainwal lost his life in a terrorist encounter in Jammu & Kashmir as part of Operation Rakshak. For his wife Jyoti Nainwal, life came to a standstill. But three...
View ArticleRIP, Sir: Col Prithipal Singh Gill, Only Indian To Serve In All 3 Defence...
Colonel Prithipal Singh Gill (retd), who served in all three services, was all over the news last year this time when he became a centenarian. But, on 5 December 2021, a week before turning 101, he...
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Waste Weighing As Much As 13 Elephants Cleared From Siachen
In today’s good news for the environment – more than 63 tonnes of garbage has been sent back from the world’s highest battlefield, the Siachen glacier, by military troops posted there to the base since...
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Remembering Param Vir Subedar Joginder Singh and His Extraordinary Tale of...
“The sentinel hills that round us stand bear witness that we loved our land. Amidst shattered rocks and flaming pine we fought and died on Namti Plain. O Lohit gently by us glide pale stars above us...
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Cadet 001: The Story of the First Woman Cadet to Join the Indian Army, Priya...
It wasn’t until 1992 that the Indian Army had seen a woman cadet train at its academy. All it took for a gutsy Priya Jhingan to upend the norm was a letter to the then Chief of Army Staff, General...
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These Army Battalions Have Been Greening Once-Barren Landscapes For Over a...
Centuries ago, the worldly-wise Chanakya had told the Emperor of Magadh: “The Mauryan soldier is the very basis, the silent and barely visible cornerstone, of our fame, culture, physical well-being...
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From the Army to Aligarh: Meet India’s ‘Academic Soldier’, Lt. General Zameer...
At Tedx Hyderabad 2017, he was introduced as the Academic Soldier, and the label fits Lt. General Zameer Uddin Shah like a glove. Born on 15 August 1948 in Bahraich District of Uttar Pradesh, India, he...
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ICICI Bank Supports Armed Forces With Rs. 10 Crore
This article is powered by ICICI Bank Fighting dust, storms and extreme weather conditions, the Indian armed forces trudge on every single day in adverse conditions. Leaving their families behind,...
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