Website profile

The Better India

World’s largest positive & solutions-based content driven impact platform for stories of change, inspiration, hope, resilience & more.

  • 176articles · 30d
  • 2+ hour agolatest article
  • Aug 14, 2026earliest in window
  • 97%with images
  • 319avg words
articles per day
Categories
  • Science & Nature 56
  • Environment 53
  • People & Society 33
  • Pets & Animals 24
  • Arts, Culture, Entertainment & Media 21
  • Food & Drink 19
  • Education 18
  • Education & Jobs 16

Please confirm you are human

This browser or connection looks automated. Press and continuously hold the control for 3 seconds to enable Google-hosted web results and, when separately allowed, AI-assisted answers.

A successful check enables 100 search requests. Interactive access does not authorize scraping, systematic collection, or reuse of search output.

Hold with a pointer, or hold Space or Enter.

News

The Better India
thebetterindia.com > videos > ifs-officer-rescues-5-baby-orangutans-in-odisha-forest-12523316

IFS Officer Rescues 5 Baby Orangutans in Odisha Forest

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (135+ words) Five baby orangutans were found abandoned in a forest in Odisha — nearly 4,000 km from their natural home. 🦧❤️ At 5:35 AM, IFS Officer Pratik Indalkar’s team received the call. Within 10 minutes,... IFS Officer Rescues 5 Baby Orangutans in Odisha Forest Five baby orangutans…...

The Better India
thebetterindia.com > civil-service > lt-shivani-jha-indian-army-officer-inspiring-story-12511594

Her Mother Said, ‘My Daughter Will Become an Officer.’ After Years of Setbacks, Shivani Did

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1093+ words) A corporate job, repeated setbacks, and a fractured spine couldn't stop her from becoming a Lieutenant in the Indian Army. From a corporate job to the Indian Army, Lt Shivani Jha refused to let repeated setbacks define her journey. In…...

The Better India
thebetterindia.com > sustainability > carbon-removal-india-equilibrium-biochar-farmers-carbon-credits-12479077

This Bengaluru VC Left Investing To Help 27000 Farmers Earn From Restoring Their Land

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1684+ words) The carbon market is full of demand and short on trust. Equilibrium is working with over 27,000 farmers to prove that credits can mean something real: surviving trees, restored soil and money that reaches the field. This article has been published…...

The Better India
thebetterindia.com > changemakers > pilgrims-trekkers-clean-himachal-himalayan-trails-12491694

500+ Tonnes of Waste Removed: How These Volunteers Clean Himachal’s Himalayan Trails

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1310+ words) At Shrikhand Mahadev, Kinnaur Kailash and other high-altitude routes, the Himalayn Tribe Foundation is turning trekkers, pilgrims and local communities into active custodians of the mountains. cleaning Himalayan trails in Himachal Pradesh Every year, as pilgrims and trekkers visit Himachal…...

The Better India
thebetterindia.com > changemakers > pothole-dada-mumbai-dadarao-bilhore-son-shovel-civic-movement-story-12484628

After Losing His Son in a Pothole Crash, This Mumbai Dad Filled 1,450+ Potholes by Hand

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1179+ words) In 2015, Dadarao Bilhore lost his 16-year-old son Prakash to a water-filled pothole in Mumbai. A month later, he picked up a shovel and began a mission that would earn him the name ‘Pothole Dada’. Somewhere on the Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road,…...

The Better India
thebetterindia.com > web-stories > civil-servants > anna-rajam-malhotra-first-woman-ias-officer-india-12459155

Told to Choose a ‘Safer’ Service, Anna Rajam George Became India’s First Woman IAS Officer

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (317+ words) Born in 1927 in Niranam, near Thiruvalla in present day Pathanamthitta district, Kerala, Anna Rajam George studied in Calicut and earned a masters in English literature from Madras University in 1949, then cleared India's civil services exam in 1950. In 1951, a four member…...

The Better India
thebetterindia.com > farming > from-rotting-fruit-to-export-crates-jharkhand-women-farmers-change-their-harvests-destiny-12443997

‘My Mangoes Would Go to Waste’: Jharkhand Woman Farmer’s Income Triples as Her Fruit Reaches England

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1627+ words) For years, Jiwanti Bara sold her Amrapali mangoes to whichever local trader turned up, and watched the rest rot. Now, with women-led producer companies behind her, that same fruit is reaching England, Italy and the UAE. “Earlier, if we couldn’t…...

The Better India
thebetterindia.com > governance > armstrong-pame-100-km-peoples-road-manipur-12440553

This IAS Officer Raised Rs 40 Lakh on Facebook to Build a 100-km Road for Manipur Villages

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (758+ words) In 2012, IAS officer Armstrong Pame saw patients carried on bamboo stretchers in remote Manipur. He refused to let another road promise end there. Within months, his effort became the People’s Road. In Tousem, a cluster of hamlets tucked into Manipur's…...

The Better India
thebetterindia.com > web-stories > innovation > karnataka-farmer-abdul-nadakattin-farm-machine-innovation-india-12432379

A Karnataka Farmer With No Engineering Degree Built 6 Machines to Make Farming Easier

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (451+ words) At 14, Abdul Khader Nadakattin had a problem: he couldn’t wake up early. So he tied an alarm to a water bottle that tipped water onto his face. That quirky school-day hack was only the beginning. The Karnataka farmer went on…...

The Better India
thebetterindia.com > travel > sharanya-iyer-solo-woman-traveller-afghanistan-checkpoints-hospitality-interview-12/42/8740 > amp

From Chai to Checkpoints: What an Indian Woman Saw Travelling Solo Across Afghanistan

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1363+ words) Her series, including what she called the "Kabul Express", moves through Kabul's markets, roadside tea stalls and busy neighbourhoods, stopping to notice people whose lives and crafts rarely make it into headlines. "I want people to know about Afghanistan," Sharanya…...