Technology

IIT Delhi graduates Ritesh Singh and Akshat Goel have developed an app that creates an amazing communication channel between parents, teachers and students.

This extremely useful app enables you to actively participate in the process of locating missing children. Just click photos of street kids and upload them, or match an existing photo from the police database to that of a kid you see on the street.

Vedant, a Class 6 student, is not like other children his age. He plays with LEDs, diodes and magnets and dreams of making a free power source for the country. As of now, he has successfully developed an LED power source from scratch by recycling a discarded laptop battery.

Over a million young aspirants try to crack the UPSC exam every year. The motivation for many, several of them from poor backgrounds, is to serve the country as IAS, IFS and IPS officers. Their dreams are often exploited by coaching centres that charge in the lakhs and leave families mired in loans. Read about two young men who decided to take this system head on through Unacademy, a free online coaching portal.

TB treatment requires regular medication. Since many poor people fail to follow the regimen, eCompliance takes the medication to their doorsteps. OpAsha has already used this technology to reach out to 9,000 TB patients in 5 countries around the world.

She is no middle-aged matchmaker doing the rounds of homes and arranging marriages. Instead, 22-year-old Kalyani Khona is a matchmaker with a special mission. Her 'Loveability' app will help people with disabilities find their perfect life partners.

Just moved to a new city and want to know how safe it is? Check out its safety score? And wouldn’t it be great if you could choose the safest route to your destination even before you left the house?

Some 5000 techies, tech enthusiasts, students, and professional hackers from all across India participated in the Aadhaar hackathon to come up with brilliant new uses for the Aadhaar card.

For ages, they’ve been fighting a tough battle against a brutal ‘system’. But now, tech-savvy farmers of Maharashtra are sharing best practices, exploring new markets and building infrastructure, all through their phones. What's more, they are also planning to take their community’s voice to the government.

From keeping track of the baby’s first smile and steps to ensuring it is immunized on time, a new app may well revolutionize how you monitor your child’s development.