Helping people who wish to help others in need of help - that was the key idea behind a new application developed by three youths, named Sambal SOS after its function and with a local twist.

One of the developers, Sidharrth Nagappan, said it took his team four days to launch the application as a single platform to crowdsource incident reports - of households in need of help - shared by various people across the country.

He said the application was initially named...