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A bunch of young girls from a Mysuru village are using technology to steer social change

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Kanwariyas on pilgrimage to Haridwar now have enroute guidance through an app



Govt officers are taking selfies to mark their attendance at weekly grievance meetings in UP’s Hardoi district

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Meet this Chhattisgarh cop who’s taken his real-life law enforcer’s role to the reel

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This petrol pump on the Assam-Nagaland border used solar energy to power up its business

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A smart diaper that tells you when your baby is going to pee. Goodbye, nappy rash!

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A Bitcoin robbery in small-town UP? It really happened

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UP police makes friends with social media influencers to check rumours, connect with people

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WhatsApp groups are giving cattle-rearers a leg up in managing their animals better

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This GPS tracker is helping police nab criminals, and can also track truant kids

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Why do you need to climb up to the roof to get your ration in this village? Hint: Aadhaar

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Unable to verify fingerprints, leprosy patients denied ration in Haryana CM’s constituency

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This startup has figured out a way to produce water out of thin air — possibly at scale

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An IAS officer has found a solution to India’s pendency problem — court summons via SMS

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Meet the sarpanch who upgraded this UP hamlet to a smart village, all for ₹15 lakh

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These Haryana students want Siachen jawans to keep warm in their self-heating jacket

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Rohtak’s WhatsApp report-a-cop drive has 100 policemen challaned

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This Assam engineer’s microlight hydro turbine may challenge the very idea of big dams

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Internet, social media ban hits bottomlines of ecommerce businesses in Jammu & Kashmir

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This Haryana teacher’s ‘jugaad’ has made learning super fun for her students

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Four students from UP have made a smart glove to give voice to the speech impaired

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How being a camgirl is changing this young single mother’s life

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No theatres? No problem. Aaideo Talkies is taking movies to where the people are in Assam

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This mechanic’s smart streetlight sensor is saving a UP municipality both power and money

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Have clothes to spare? Reach out to this do-gooder on Facebook — he’ll pass them on to the needy

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For farmers in India’s villages, WhatsApp is often literally a life-saver

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How 17-year-old ‘Gopalji’ is using bananas stems to electrify homes in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district

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How Nitasha Sihag from Haryana’s Sirsa district is using social media to empower women

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Durg’s notorious motorists are falling in line with traffic cops. Here’s why

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A WhatsApp group is playing good samaritan in the lives of people in Assam

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Public payphone redux: You may soon be able to drop a coin and charge your mobile

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This YouTube channel offers life hacks for Indian students in Germany

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How a Facebook post helped a girl reunite with her parents after 18 years

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This Assam boy’s ‘Umbrella Helper Box’ is helping people ride easy on country roads

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Elderly women in Haryana’s Bibipur village are ditching farm tools for the mouse

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Four engineers from Bengaluru are bringing ecommerce to the fingertips of the visually impaired

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Internet wisdom is helping flood-ravaged people in Assam rebuild their lives

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Mini dangal: How riots made way for celebration of Haryana’s soft power

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This trio’s free Urdu Whatsapp bulletin is changing the way Jammu and Kashmir listens to news

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This Haryana teacher’s free YouTube classes have helped 13,000 job aspirants crack competitive exams

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BJP’s social media campaign in Manipur was a hit — and it has similar plans for other NE states

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An app is keeping the doctor away, and helping fight malnutrition among kids in north Karnataka

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How Google is priming its Next Billion ambition in India — and the backstory of why the search giant is in such a tough place

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Congress social media makeover bets on 3 lakh WhatsApp groups, data analytics, story engines

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Solar-powered boat clinics in flood-ravaged Assam deliver essential healthcare

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A Bengaluru startup aims to take the pain out of pre-delivery monitoring of mothers-to-be

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Farmer’s son from Mathura is a real-life Rancho, and a maker at heart

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Bogged down by fever? This jacket can bring down the heat in just 20 minutes

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Now, drone sprayers to save farmers in Haryana from pesticide poisoning

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Rashtrapati Bhavan reads our story on Haryana village women learning computers, wants model replicated in 100 villages

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Mahesh Murthy in new sexual misconduct charges; Seedfund says had heard other rumours

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This 23-year-old foodpreneur in Assam is changing lives with his startup

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These women are not down anymore. They’re making low-cost sanitary pads to take charge of their lives

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Assam youth’s Facebook campaign saves girl from child marriage, puts her back in school

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This village is using CCTV cameras to curb open defecation. And no one wants to be caught pants down

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These singers from small-town India are on song, and they’ve got YouTube to thank for it



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Digital is disrupting Chhattisgarh’s rural schools, and the students are loving it

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Meet Asha, a 70-year-old tea-shop owner from a UP village who’s gone cashless

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Ahead of elections, news apps made on shoestring budgets flood UP

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What’ll India look like in 2047? Here’s Ian McDonald’s scenario, and it’s one hell of a story!

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Silk, India’s oldest general-interest mailing list, has been its Geek Central for 18 years

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Dear India, it’s time to have a conversation about broadband data caps

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