From health to feminism to space exploration â jai ho across the board.
February: NASA announced that they're going to launch a satellite in collaboration with ISRO.
NASA will launch a new water-related satellite in collaboration with ISRO, to acquire information that will help the planet's water-cycle, and improve water resource management.
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March: The World Health Organisation certified India as polio-free.
India was at one point the world’s epicentre of polio, but as of March, 2014, it is one of just six WHO regions to be completely polio free, resulting in 80% of the world's population living free of the disease.
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April: India hit 100 million Facebook users, globally second only to the US.
India now has 164.81 million people who surf the internet, with an increasing number of them doing so on smart phones and tablets.
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April: The Supreme Court recognised transgendered Indians as belonging to a third gender.
The first step for this judgement traces back to 2009, when India's Election Commission allowed transgenders to choose their gender as "other" on ballot forms.
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