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TBI Bulletin: Amazing Pilot Averted Air Crash + Amazing TB Cure + Amazing 1-Day Dam + MORE Amazing Indians! (11.06.2012)

Today’s positive stories from around the web show the unbeatable spirit of Indians. From a pilot who prevented an air crash to villagers who built a dam in one day

TBI Bulletin: Amazing Pilot Averted Air Crash + Amazing TB Cure + Amazing 1-Day Dam + MORE Amazing Indians! (11.06.2012)

Today’s positive stories from around the web show the unbeatable spirit of Indians. From a pilot who prevented an air crash to villagers who built a dam in one day to lifting the Thailand Open Badminton Grand Prix Gold title, Indians are showing their mettle everywhere! To share any positive news that you came across lately just write to us at contact[at]thebetterindia.com or tweet @thebetterindia or leave a comment on our facebook page.

1. It was her exemplary presence of mind, talent and dedication that saved 48 human lives! Captain Urmila Yadav hovered one long hour in the sky to think out how to land Air India flight AI-9760 safely after it lost its nose wheel! And she did that.

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2. One single sandbag carried by each villager and a dam was built in just one day to water their fields of green vegetables and other crops!

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3. An Ahmedabad-based pharmaceutical education & research centre has developed a capsule that will cure the deadly TB disease in only three months as compared to the current long six to nine-month treatment.

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4. Artists organize exhibitions and performances for many charity causes but here is a unique cause! Maithri, an NGO, is organizing one such event in Kochi to spread anti-suicide message!

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5. Saina shines once again! She has won the Thailand Open Badminton Grand Prix Gold title!

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6. The late Sabawala Jehangir started exhibiting his paintings in Jahangir Art Gallery (Mumbai) over half a century back. And now his painting titled ‘Vespers I’ has fetched £253,650 at Bonhams annual summer sale of modern and contemporary South Asian art in London on Thursday.

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Compiled by Devdutt.

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