Knowledge-sharing WhatsApp groups across rural Indian are helping cattle rearers manage their cattle’s health and improve cultivation.
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This GPS tracker is helping police nab criminals, and can also track truant kids
Ashwani Sihag, an agriculturalist from Haryana, has designed a mini GPS tracker that uninterruptedly tracks any person or object it is attached to.
Why do you need to climb up to the roof to get your ration in this village? Hint: Aadhaar
In Haryana’s Kapadwas village, bad internet is forcing people seeking ration to climb up to the rooftop of the ration depot to verify their fingerprints.
Unable to verify fingerprints, leprosy patients denied ration in Haryana CM’s constituency
Sixty-five families with leprosy patients in Indira Chakravarti on the outskirts of Karnal in Haryana haven’t received ration since last month.
These Haryana students want Siachen jawans to keep warm in their self-heating jacket
Eight students from TIT&S Bhiwani have developed a lightweight jacket to keep Indian Army jawans warm even in Siachen’s sub-zero temperatures.
Rohtak’s WhatsApp report-a-cop drive has 100 policemen challaned
The tables have turned in Rohtak. City residents are reporting policemen breaking the law by sending in photographs and videos via WhatsApp.
Now, drone sprayers to save farmers in Haryana from pesticide poisoning
A couple of days ago, FactorDaily published a story about a professor of IISc who is piloting a seed-bombing …
This Haryana teacher’s ‘jugaad’ has made learning super fun for her students
Teacher Pooja Singh of Government Primary Girls’ School in Dobh village of Haryana’s Rohtak district has introduced an audiovisual teaching model and shows students educational YouTube videos on her smartphone.
Rashtrapati Bhavan reads our story on Haryana village women learning computers, wants model replicated in 100 villages
A FactorDaily-101Reporters story has resulted in a women-led development model from Haryana’s Bibipur village being replicated in 100 other villages in the state.
How Nitasha Sihag from Haryana’s Sirsa district is using social media to empower women
Jyoti Rani, 36, from Rori village in Sirsa district, has panchayat samiti member Nitasha Sihag to thank for taking the …
This YouTube channel offers life hacks for Indian students in Germany
When 22-year-old Bharat Chaudhary arrived in Hamburg, Germany, to pursue his masters degree in August 2016, he was left …
Elderly women in Haryana’s Bibipur village are ditching farm tools for the mouse
15 women aged over 50 are learning how to use computers in Bibipur village of Haryana under a project by NGO Lado Swabhiman Utsav.
Facebook’s suicide prevention feature is not stopping people from taking their lives on camera
Facebook is using AI to scan for posts and comments that could be early warning signs of suicidal ideation or intent, so it can take preemptive action.
Mini dangal: How riots made way for celebration of Haryana’s soft power
Australia-based founders started the page to counter the narrative of Haryana as a violence-prone, socially conservative state
This Haryana teacher’s free YouTube classes have helped 13,000 job aspirants crack competitive exams
The Dinesh Miglani Tutorials channel has 1,55,800 subscribers with 1.4 crore views and is helping students and others get jobs in the government.