tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90261818097020570402024-03-12T17:07:32.747-07:00NatureramThis blog is all about interesting information and images on various topics.Debopamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04967509738595098541noreply@blogger.comBlogger602125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026181809702057040.post-25815136348975771702019-02-18T00:24:00.001-08:002019-02-18T00:24:45.591-08:00What are the advantages of digital marketing?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It takes money to make money. If you want to expand your brand, increase your sales, and grow your businesses fast, then you have to invest money into your marketing to make it happen. In the present world, you have to invest in digital marketing as your business should be very visible in the online world. Why? The answer is quite simple; the potential clients of your business have shifted online to search for services and products of their needs and choice. </div>
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According to research statistics, 91% of your potential customers use search engine frequently. That is why 94% of companies give priorities to SEO ranking as the leading source of leads and its importance is increasing with every passing day. Can people find your business on search engines? With local searches growing rapidly and close to 80% of local searches made on a smartphone or tablet result in a purchase, digital marketing has become the prime focus of business owners.</div>
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So, if you're still wondering if digital marketing has got the better of the traditional marketing approach in recent times or if you want to know all the benefits of this new mode of communication, this article will help you out with every detail!</div>
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All the reasons to use digital marketing</h3>
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As you have understood by now, for every business better visibility in the market is important and you have to focus on digital marketing today. It is the only way to hook new customers, keep them on your business page, and convert them to sell. There are many benefits of digital marketing and some of the key advantages of digital marketing are as follows: </div>
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A better investment </h4>
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One of the biggest benefits of digital marketing is cost reduction. Indeed, it costs far less than traditional marketing and allows you to use many effective tools such as social media and networks for little expenses. Therefore, it makes much more sense to invest your marketing budget in digital marketing strategies.</div>
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Generates dynamic growth </h4>
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No matter what your marketing goals are, it will be easier for you to reach them in the digital world. In fact, with innovative technologies, their speed of evolution and the dynamics of the entire digital domain, your growth rate can increase exponentially.</div>
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You will be able to work on a larger scale </h4>
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Whether you use SEO or influencers or use social networks wisely, digital marketing allows you to enjoy a much wider audience. There is no definite constraint or boundary in digital marketing. You can tap customers from different countries and regions using the same landing page. The power of digital marketing enables you to capture and attract more customers.</div>
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Better visibility </h4>
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Thanks to digital marketing, you are entitled to greater visibility, whether vis-à-vis customers, investors or suppliers. In addition, a presence on the web proves that the company masters change and manages to modernize and adapt to the digital age. This, in turn, builds a better image of your brand. Customers tend to believe and trust brands with a good digital presence, be it a service or product.</div>
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A confirmed identity </h4>
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By improving its positioning on search engines or simply by creating an identity of its own, the brand manages to differentiate itself from other offers through digital marketing. Indeed, digital marketing tends more towards personalization and accessibility.</div>
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With digital marketing, brands are not only able to respond quickly to demand and its changes but are able to better understand the market. With more efficient tools, it is able to adapt its products more efficiently according to market requirements.</div>
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Digital marketing and customer relationship </h3>
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As you can see, digital marketing has completely revolutionized commercial activity, with a radical change in the customer relationship. It has reduced the barrier between the customer and the product suppliers or service providers. To better understand, it is important to know that thanks to the possibility of creating accounts on social media or product/service websites, it is now possible for customers to communicate with brands at any given time. </div>
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This facilitates behavior analysis as well as market analysis. In addition, thanks to many digital strategies, it becomes easier to convert a potential prospect into a customer.</div>
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But there are just so many things to do in digital marketing that you may feel confused at the beginning. It is not only about creating a responsive website and producing, publishing, and distributing quality content. You have to take your digital marketing a notch higher than what your competitors are already doing. You have to make plans for your marketing budgets carefully and employ the professionals to manage your digital marketing. So you will be able to concentrate on your business growth, maintain your focus, and keep your business ahead.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The majority of us consume it consistently,
yet what amount do we truly think about caffeine? The normally happening
substance with an intense taste empowers the focal sensory system, influencing
you to feel more ready. In moderate dosages, it can really offer medical
advantages, including lifts to memory, focus, and psychological well-being. It
has been related to many benefits for
your body, including a conceivable diminished danger of some cancers and Alzheimer's
disease. However, too much of it can trigger side effects such as insomnia, increased
heart rate, anxiety, and restlessness. Suddenly stopping the intake can cause withdrawal
symptoms, including irritability and migraines.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It begins working in minutes and affects
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<span lang="EN-GB">As indicated by the American Academy of Sleep
Medicine, it takes around 30-60 minutes for caffeine to achieve its pinnacle
level in the blood (one examination discovered expanded readiness can start in
as little as 10 minutes). The body normally takes out a portion of the
medication in three to five hours, and the rest of wait for eight to 14 hours.
A few people, especially the individuals who don't frequently take caffeine,
are more susceptible to the effects than others. Rest specialists regularly
prescribe keeping away from caffeine, no less than eight hours previously sleep
time to maintain a strategic distance from alertness around evening time. The
body may process caffeine distinctively in view of sex, race, and even the
conception of prevention utilization. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Coffee contains more caffeine than caffeinated
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<span lang="EN-GB">By definition, one may sensibly surmise
that caffeinated beverages would pack heaps of caffeine. In any case, numerous well-known brands really contain considerably
not as much as some black coffee. An 8.4-ounce serving of Red Bull, for
example, has a moderately humble 76 to 80mg of caffeine, contrasted with the 95
to 200mg of every dose coffee, the Mayo Clinic reports. In any case, these caffeinated
drinks contain huge amounts of sugar and other not so good ingredients, so it's
best to avoid them. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Dark roast coffee contains less caffeine compared
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<span lang="EN-GB">A solid, rich flavor may appear to
demonstrate an additional level of caffeine; however, in reality, the light roast coffee contains more
caffeine than the darker ones.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Caffeine exists in over 60 plants worldwide</span></h3>
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and tea leaves. The stimulant is discovered normally in the leaves, seeds, and
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Debopamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04967509738595098541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026181809702057040.post-70471451124336998282017-09-29T10:03:00.001-07:002017-09-29T10:03:12.559-07:00How a Cup of Tea Can Help You Stay Healthy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB">Regardless of what the season, tea can be a great beverage since it can be served frosted or hot. In any case, its benefits go long ways past refreshment. There are studies explaining that drinking tea can really enhance your well-being. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Tea has antioxidants </span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Antioxidants work to keep the body's form of rust and in this way to help keep us youthful and shield us from harm from contamination. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Tea contains less caffeine compared to coffee </span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Herbal</span><span lang="EN-GB"> mixes have no caffeine, while customary tea has fewer than 50% of what is regularly found in coffee. That implies you can devour it without those annoying consequences for your sensory system. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Tea may decrease your danger of heart attack and stroke </span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-GB">An investigation shared not long ago showed that about 20% and 35% decrease in the danger of heart attack and stroke respectively among the individuals who drank 1 to 3 cups of green tea daily. The individuals who drank 4 or more cups of green tea per day had a 32% decrease in the danger of heart attack and lower LDL cholesterol levels. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Research on this is not conclusive, yet there is evidence that consuming a good amount of tea regularly or in the form of pills can help control your weight. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Tea may aid in securing your bones </span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Information from recent studies conducted on animals has demonstrated that green tea may counteract bone loss. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Studies have indicated tea can tuneup your cells of the immune system so they achieve their objectives better. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Scientific research</span><span lang="EN-GB"> on this is presently giving a mixed result, which implies more research is required. In any case, in the event that you have a strong cancer history in your family, it is better to consider increasing your tea consumption.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Do you know?</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 16px;">Recent research carried out by the scientists from </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 16px;">Tufts University </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 16px;">suggests that green tea can enhance your belly fat burning considerably to speed up weight loss by as much as 77%. A geat news indeed. So what are you waiting for? Have a cup of green tea if you want to be trimmer and slimmer. </span><br />
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<li>Green tea contains an important antioxidant called catechin that helps in boosting your mood as well as fastening weight loss.</li>
<li>Green tea is also an essential source of vitamin C. A standard cup of green tea contains more or less 50% of the recommended daily dose of vitamin C.</li>
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Debopamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04967509738595098541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026181809702057040.post-5446647449759034592017-01-12T01:42:00.001-08:002017-01-12T02:11:44.958-08:00Serein: Exotic Place to Live In Pokhran Road II Thane<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Malabar Hill, as you may know, is a hillock (50 meters above sea level) located in the Southern Mumbai. This is Southern Mumbai's highest point and is famous for being one of the most well-known residential areas of Mumbai. This is notably Mumbai's most unique and posh residential area with many film personalities and business tycoons reside. It is the World's one of the most elite and expensive residential areas which also has the Chief Minister and Governor of Maharashtra's official residences. Malabar Hill houses iconic buildings, including Alankar, Anita, Benhur, Blue Haven, Darshan, El-CID, Everest Apartments, Hanvant Bhavan, Ill Pallazo, Mayfair Gardens, Silver Arch, Sundatta Apartments, and so on.</div>
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The luxury of Malabar Hill is beyond the reach of most of us. However, Thane has established itself as the new residential centre of Mumbai. Pokhran road 2, in particular, has emerged as the new Malabar Hills of Thane with high end social as well as physical infrastructure. It also offers different residential options as per lifestyles and has come up as the new centre of attraction in Thane. It has great greeneries flanking the roadsides and high-rises making Pokhran Road 2 one of the most exciting places to reside. Residing in Pokhran road 2 will give you the sense of affluence and pride in the home address that can make a legacy.</div>
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The new project "Serein" from Tata Housing in Pokhran road 2 Thane will exactly offer the above-mentioned attributes at an affordable rate. You can feel the same luxury of in Thane (Pokhran road 2, Thane). The two locations have a lot of similarities and the posh Pokhran road 2, Thane, also has a unique similarity in the zip code (Malabar hill - 400006 & Pokhran road, Thane - 400610). It is now the new centre of luxury. Tata Housing crafted the first of its kind project where a Wellness theme is employed with exclusively designed outdoor living spaces that will make the users indulge themselves in the elements of nature.</div>
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The landscape possesses different activity spaces for diverse people and has the perfect combination of colours. The placement of the apartments is made in a way to provide natural ventilation and ample sunlight.</div>
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Serein is the first Wellness project for housing in India with the required amenities such as forest boardwalk, lotus pond, nature trail, organic farm, outdoor convenience store, outdoor dining, park, Pet Park, sand pit, skating area etc.</div>
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The apartments have unique wellness facilities like living rooms with an air purifier, EMF shield, the windows having high performance, low VOC paint, kitchen fitted with RO filter, vitamin c infused shower etc. All the facilities are made to make your living a special one with high standard.</div>
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<b><a href="https://tatahousing.in/serein/">Serein</a></b> offers you a combination of nature, greenery, birds chirping and view of hills. All these facilities are available with the legacy of security and safety. Serein indeed provides you with the ultimate Wellness and affluent living at affordable expenses.</div>
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Debopamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04967509738595098541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026181809702057040.post-17128959230975745382016-12-23T00:21:00.002-08:002016-12-23T00:21:51.176-08:00Book Review: Colorful Notions: The Roadtrippers 1.0 by Mohit Goyal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This book is primarily focused in the minds of the current young generation, who got adopted by the fast paced world. They give less time to think before jumping into any conclusion. They tend to decide anything without properly assessing the consequences and risks involved. The younger generation goes to extreme whenever they are opposed by their parents or teachers regarding their unrealistic dreams or adventures. </div>
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Younger generations, however, love to take risks and do daring adventures as they are not held back by fear. The author Mohit Goyal told about the journey of Abhay and Shashank, both 25-year-old representing the current generation.</div>
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Abhay has a disturbed home life as his parents get separated. His financial status is also quite gloomy. He stays alone as he could not stand his step-mom. He wants clarification from his mother regarding why she left him, could not receive a proper answer. His mother tried to convince him by saying that his father is rich and can support him better than her. </div>
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By contrast, Shashank came from a joint family, thus has a protected upbringing. Abhay befriended Shashank due to his protected background, which he missed in his own life. Initially, he was jealous of Shashank as he got everything in life from a protected family with a loving relationship with a beautiful girl.</div>
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Abhay at one point decided to quit his secure job in an advertising company to create a movie by visiting important places across India. He asked for Shashank’s company in this exciting adventure. Initially, Shashank’s family opposed the idea, but they eventually agreed once convinced by Shashank’s uncle, who is a traveler as well. Next, they have to get permission from Unnati’s (Shashank’s girlfriend) parents as she will also accompany them.</div>
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Here, it is somehow not clear why these two agreed to accompany Abhay to pursue his dream. Whether they also quit their jobs are not mentioned and how Unnati’s parents agreed to their proposal, especially keeping in mind Unnati will be accompanied by two males whom they came to know only recently (it is mentioned in the book that Unnati’s father is not at all open minded).</div>
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But, if you ignore these small loopholes and detailing overall this is the first book I came across having details of an adventurous road trip. I dearly wanted to read such a narration from my childhood days and really happy to have one at last.</div>
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This is a must-read for any of you representing the younger generation (that does not mean the older generation should not read it or will not love it). This book may act as the perfect mind booster to freshen up your mind and give the much-needed relief from the routine daily life. Today, somehow the younger generation became over dependent on Sundays for the general activities of life. They hardly get any time other than having some sleep and do the routines in office days. They have to enjoy whatever possible on Sundays and also complete other necessary household problems and duties at the same time.</div>
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So, I think the younger generation can easily connect with the lead character of this book, Abhay. This book may make them stronger mentally and enable them to face the challenges of life with a more open mind.</div>
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Overall, I will strongly recommend this book to every youngster as it has everything from adventure, fun, entertainment, family problems/values, romance, suspense and all. Even teenagers will find this book interesting. The price of the book is reasonable too. Thank you, Mohit.</div>
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Devi Murthy (29), an electrical engineer from Drexel University (USA), uses technology to reduce the struggles of small farmers in India. With co-founding Kamal Kisan, Devi has set out to help Indian farmers through her cool, new startup ideas.</div>
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Kamal Kisan is a for-profit social enterprise that manufactures farming equipment using low-cost mechanisms. It was founded in November 2012 at the IIT Madras’ incubation cell that recognised Devi Murthy’s ideas as innovative and provided a seed fund of Rs 5 lakh.</div>
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Murthy with her innovative start-up is aiding farmers in rural areas of Karnataka, particularly in Suttur and HD Kote areas. Murthy and her team go to the village fields to tests the performance of their newly designed and developed equipment and whether they will be useful in the real situation.</div>
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Devi has one strong dream – ‘to see a day in the future when mechanization services become a lifestyle choice for a farmer.’</div>
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The new centres will have facilities to provide equipment support and service to about 7,000 farmers. Devi’s dream Kamal Kisan got the Push the Boundary Award in 2013 under Women Entrepreneur Quest.</div>
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Devi’s team is developing solutions for existing farm practices rather than having farmers adapt new ones to suit high-cost equipment. Devi and her team are aiming to lower the Indian farmer’s dependency on labour and fuel – both of which come at a high cost. Devi’s equipment will help the Indian farmers to increase farm productivity and go on to make mechanization a lifestyle choice for every farmer.</div>
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Debopamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04967509738595098541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026181809702057040.post-41949809702581334042016-11-19T09:07:00.000-08:002016-11-19T09:07:05.967-08:00Shubhendu Left Toyota And Now Delivers Urban Jungle To The World<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Engineer Shubhendu Sharma (30) nurtures the dream of growing trees in the heart of the ever-expanding cities in India. He started his journey of producing small forests within the busy Indian cities in 2011 after he cultivated his very own small forest on a land he owned in Kashipur, Uttarakhand.</div>
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Shubhendu made a business out of planting trees across India and inspired hundreds of others to follow his footsteps.</div>
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A few months after he grew his own 270-tree forest, Sharma launched a business to create small forests in urban areas. He formed his own company Afforestt which has till date has created over 75 forests, some of which are outside India. Afforestt has also planted forests in Singapore, Pakistan, the Netherlands and the United States.</div>
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Anyone can grow their own forest in merely two years using Sharma’s method. This is a significant idea in a place like India where about 45 percent of the land has been degraded by deforestation, unsustainable farming methods and excessive groundwater extraction. Thankfully, India still has about 68 million hectares of forested land, which makes it the 10<span style="background: transparent; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> most forested country in the world.</div>
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He learned the forestation technique in 2008 when he was an engineer with Toyota. The company had invited Akira Miyawaki, a Japanese botanist specialised in plant ecology, to conduct a workshop teaching forestation methods. Shubhendu was very impressed with the talk and decided to work in the similar field.</div>
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With his guidance, for over a six-month period, 300 volunteers together planted over 30,000 trees on a land owned by Toyota. Within two years, the forest flourished sprouting ambitions in Sharma. In November 2010, he started planting trees at his own house and then for others, too.</div>
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Shubhendu and his team will start a new project in Val de Loire region in France, in November 2016. In Europe, they charge 40 euros per square metre whereas in India, they only charge 10 euros per square metre.</div>
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Dr. Vivek Nagarajan is a professor at the University of Technology in Coimbatore, in southern India. He and his students used Shubhendu Sharma’s method to plant a forest. In a single day, around 300 student volunteers planted over 7,000 trees around the University.</div>
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The amount of water which is contaminated during dyeing process only one t-shirt is enormous. The textile industry has heavily polluted our fresh water sources but thanks to one couple, our water sources can breathe a sigh of relief. They are using natural colors on textile and saving you from environmental guilt.</div>
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Sonal and Arun formed Aura Herbal Textiles in Ahmedabad, Gujarat in 2000 where they dye clothes and fabrics with natural colors for customers across the globe. Their products are receiving a huge response in India, Europe, Australia and Japan. They even supplied their garments to Bollywood. The couple has opened their own retail store. Hope their venture will spread across every Indian city and our best wishes for their green venture.</div>
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<li style="background: transparent; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">1% revenue is shared for social cause</li>
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As contrary to what you may think, 35,000 slums in India do not have access to electricity. Stunned, are you? Despite contributing to our economy, sweating it out in the urban workforce, their lives after 6 pm drown in darkness. Six young Australians are working towards changing this disgusting state.</div>
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Monique Alfrif, Emma Colenbrander, Katarina Kammorley, Ben Merven, Alexi Seller and Jamie Chivers have taken some decisive steps benefitting the urban slum communities devoid of electricity. They are producing affordable lighting products for the urban slums in India and looking to create sanitation products as well as cooking products in the near future.</div>
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When airlines are looking for more ways to save operational costs and fill the plane to its maximum capacity, using bulky oxygen tanks on board is really impractical. So what do the airlines do? You will be surprised to know that these oxygen masks can create their own oxygen! No magic. Pure science.</div>
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When sodium chlorate/ potassium perchlorate/ barium oxide is heated a little they quickly give off its oxygen atoms, thus allowing you to have the air to breathe. This is the reason the flight attendants give instruction to you to tug on the side flaps of the mask, which creates a small explosion to generate the required heat to make the chemical release its oxygen.</div>
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Typically, the chemical reaction lasts only for 20 minutes maximum. But this time is usually enough to descend the plane to an altitude where safe breathing is possible.</div>
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“What you are doing for your girls, you will see one day that it will bring you great happiness. So keep doing it, don’t be scared, face your difficulties like you face opponents, and be deaf to the criticism.” This is what Mahavir Singh Phogat‘s coach Padma Shri Chandgi Ram told him which gave him the strength to create world-class wrestlers out of his daughters.</div>
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A powerful Dangal trailer is out and has crossed 20 million views in five days. All because super daddy Mahavir Singh Phogat nurtured his four daughters and two daughters of his brother to fight against regressive societal norms set for women in Haryana. He pushed them to prove that medals and accolades follow sweat, blood and hard work, and not genders.</div>
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He is a real life hero who believed that it is not necessary to raise your daughter like a princess. Instead, he made them tough, brave and confident to face the battles of life in and outside the wrestling ring. All the six Phogat sisters are trained in wrestling by Mahavir Singh Phogat. While Geeta, Babita, and Vinesh are international players, Ritu has won the gold medal at the national championship and Priyanka and Sangita have won medals at an age-level international championship.</div>
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Mahavir was born in a remote Haryana village named Balali and was a renowned wrestler of his times. He defeated his opponents one after other and does not remember losing any fight. Despite passionate wrestler but failed at the top level of the game. However, he made sure his daughters bring the glory he could not achieve. People used to make fun of them as till then wrestling was only considered as a men’s sport.</div>
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“If we lost to them in a race or fell weak before them, father would hit us,” Geeta said in the Satyamev Jayate episode. “He would scold us too. We often think that if we had a coach like our father we would have never gone back. We would have come home.”</div>
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Mahavir made his daughter run on the fields and work as hard as the male wrestlers. When he could not find girls to practice with his daughters, Phogat got wrestler boys – a move which made the villagers furious as it was unimaginable to make girls compete with the opposite sex. Their struggle was by no means easy in a region that rages over gender roles and sexuality.</div>
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In 2000, when weightlifter Karnam Malleshwari won Olympics bronze for India, it inspired Mahavir to train his daughters to become world champions in wrestling. He believed that his daughters are equally capable of victory and took his daughters to Sports Authority of India centre in Sonipat for further training.</div>
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India is a land of celebrations where people rejoice with lights, colors; and delicious food – much of which is wasted after the party is over. Twenty-five-year-old Ankit Kawatra has been redistributing the left-over food to the poor and needy for which he has been selected by the United Nations for the inaugural class of Young Leaders for Sustainable Development.</div>
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“I worked in a global business advisory firm for two years. One day, I went to a celebrity wedding where there were around 10,000 people invited and more than 35 cuisines were laid for them. I decided to stay back to see what happened with the food. To my shock and despair, heaps of leftover food was thrown straight into the bin which could have fed 5,000 people just that single night,” Ankit says.</div>
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This led him to set up Feeding India, an NGO which claims to have fed 1 million meals with a network of 2,000 volunteers across 28 cities of India. The NGO was established in 2014 and the volunteers are known as hunger heroes. They work towards eradicating hunger and malnutrition in India by redistributing excess food from weddings, corporate, canteens, banquets, and households.</div>
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As part of the initiative, Ankit has undertaken several projects in the past two years, including an innovative idea of ‘The Magic Truck’, which is a 24X7 refrigerated vehicle moving around the city collecting and donating excess food.</div>
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The NGO has adopted many donation centers across the city as well as many self-run schools and shelter homes for children, elderly and specially-abled. They provide them with nutritious and well-balanced meals for free. You can also donate your excess food and provide monetary support to help Ankit in his Feeding India mission.</div>
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Debopamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04967509738595098541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026181809702057040.post-44788518276201106712016-10-27T21:05:00.001-07:002016-10-27T21:05:58.943-07:00Patna’s Rahman Carves Out IAS-IPS Officers For Rs 11 Gurudakshina<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Good teachers are the reason why ordinary students dream to do extraordinary things, like how Acharya Chanakya taught an ordinary boy from Bihar and created the great emperor Chandragupta Maurya out of him. Here’s another man from the same land who is carving out civil servants in his Gurukul against gurudakshina of Rs 11, 21 or 51.</div>
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Dedicating his life towards teaching, Rahman (49) has founded Adamya Aditi Gurukul in Patna and has given dozens of administrative and police officers to the country. Unlike the institutes that charge lakhs of rupees as fee, Rahman asks for a meagre gurudakshina. Over the years, many students taught in the Gurukul have successfully passed the top competitive examinations of the country and have become doctors, engineers and administrative officers against a gratitude amount.</div>
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Armed with triple Master of Arts degrees, Rahman founded Adamya Aditi Gurukul in January 1994 and his students made history in the very first year. That year the state government of Bihar required to appoint 4,000 police inspectors and 1,100 students from the gurukul made the cut and were appointed for the service.</div>
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Not just Bihar, but aspirants from Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh come to the gurukul to seek Rahman’s guidance. There is not even one competitive examination in the country where the students of Adamya Aditi Gurukul haven’t left their mark.</div>
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Rahman was born into a poverty-stricken family and is filled with strong desire to uplift students who come from a weak financial background. He says poverty is not a state of helplessness instead it is a symbol of success that will be. With dedication, hard work, and passion everything can be achieved, he says.</div>
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Are you wondering how Rahman manages his operations on such meager amounts? Well, he has created several success stories in the gurukul and his ex-students donate money boosting the next batches.</div>
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Debopamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04967509738595098541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026181809702057040.post-57762057406820966942016-10-20T01:40:00.000-07:002016-10-20T01:40:07.384-07:00Meet Our Desi Superhero… Here Comes a Flying Jatt!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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India’s first flying superhero – A Flying Jatt saves the day in the coolest way. Bestowed not only with this incredible superpower our man can also display some jaw-dropping martial art moves.</div>
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Most of the superheroes that we know pledge to save the world and have lost their parents in an accident. But this superhero has a supermom who constantly reminds him of his duties. A typical Indian mother, she scolds him every time he's reluctant to use his superpowers. She definitely is a Supermom!</div>
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You might be Superman or Batman, but one thing our flying Jatt wins at is killer dance moves. Saving the world and burning the dance floor all in one - WOW! Now that is what they call a superhero. Let’s shake our booty on the beat with this superhero. </div>
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Our very own superhero was not born with these powers but became a superhero by accident. A superhero at heart and one who is courageous enough to fight despite being scared is what makes an ordinary man a true superhero.</div>
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He is no ordinary superhero because, at home, he has to do all the chores like any other child. From lending a helping hand in cleaning the house or buying vegetables, this superhero has to do it all. He might be a superhero for the world, but at home, you have to do what your mother asks you to do. </div>
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This superhero has no airs about having special powers and is very down to earth and humble. So, he has decided to meet you and save his beloved city of Amritsar with the World Television Premiere of his film, <b><a href="http://www.zeecinema.com/">A Flying Jatt</a></b> on <b>22nd October 2016 at 8PM</b>. </div>
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After a post-graduation degree in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta in 2009, Ankita worked in companies till 2014 when she came back to her native village in Ajmer to take farming as the profession.</div>
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Kumawat felt it was her duty and moral responsibility as the elder daughter to be at her father’s side and join the family business he started. Her parents were government employees but started the dairy business after taking voluntary retirement.</div>
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While Indian cities are transforming and observing tremendous growth, the farming sector is losing its glory. But Ankita pioneered the use of modern technologies of farming in a systematic manner in her native place to operate the business and take it to new heights. She established the “Maatratav Dairy and Organic Food” an endeavor of organic dairy farming and has pepped up the farming in India.</div>
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Leaving luxurious and comfortable corporate world for working full-time farmer is nothing short of an act of extreme self-believe and passion. Ankita is a first generation entrepreneur. She feels proud to be a business woman. Earlier, she had to work for others and now she can provide employment opportunity to others.</div>
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At the beginning, Ankita had very little revenue even after several months and Ankita had to shed money from her own pocket. Never losing faith, she believed that to be a successful businessperson, one has to put at least 1,000 days of hard work. Her perseverance during those tough days worked for the best.</div>
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Breaking the conventional pattern, Ankita introduced organic dairy and the concept of home delivery of dairy products. She started selling organic vegetables, grains, flour, honey, spices, etc. All the products are home delivered and her business started to spread.</div>
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She says making customers understand how her products are different from others was the key challenge. Rural customers did not understand or gave any importance to the taste of the milk or the hygiene of the cow when Ankita approached them.</div>
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Digha is a beautiful beach town of West Bengal, India. It is only 184 Km away from Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). The perfect time to visit is during the low tide. The sea is rough during high tide. There are many isolated nearby beaches as well. Fresh seafoods are cooked at the shacks right on the beaches. These crabs are freshly caught and ready to be cooked.</div>
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Do you know that the mosquitoes can find you through smell from a distance of over 40-50 meters? Only the female mosquitoes need to bite you as they require iron and protein from the sucked blood to produce new eggs. The male mosquitoes do not need your blood to survive as they do not produce eggs. The female mosquitoes have sensory organs capable of finding the sources of lactic acid and carbon dioxide. Through the presence of these two chemicals they can locate the presence of warm-blooded organisms such as humans. The amount of lactic acid and carbon dioxide is proportional to the body surface area. So, bigger the body you have more visible you are to mosquitoes. Thus, adults are more prone to mosquito bites than children.</div>
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Jabir Karat, a student from a small village in Kerala took the job as a rag picker to become a social entrepreneur. While looking for a sustainable business idea, he ventured to find a solution to the biggest problem of our country would face in the coming 10 years, the problem of waste management.</div>
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Jabir was born in Puthuppadi, a small village in Kerala, around 45 km away from the city Kozhikode. As an ordinary boy, he finished high school at the government school and got a scholarship to go to Delhi for studying History at Zakir Husain Delhi College. Jabir’s life took an interesting turn in Delhi where he often felt he is not good enough and a misfit in the society because of his upbringing in a small village. He felt that he cannot dress well or be fluent in English.</div>
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Jabir went on to do an MA in History from Delhi University after completing the graduation and thinking whether to pursue Ph.D. or opt for the civil service examinations. But, neither of the two options seemed interesting to him. He felt Civil Services are not his cup of tea and very few research topics in Ph.D. can actually make a difference to the society.</div>
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Jabir was convinced that he wants to do something more interesting and useful for the society. At that moment he got selected for the Gandhi Fellowship, the two-year residential programme which changed his life forever. His experience during the Fellowship tenure changed his entire thought process as he spent the two years coaching Government School headmasters in Mumbai. The mission was to bring about changes and Jabir had to spend time in slums and faced the realities of underprivileged India.</div>
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Jabir got inspired by this experience and decided to come back to his home state Kerala to start a social enterprise to embark on a meaningful career. He thought to do something about one of the most grueling problems of our country, the waste management. He went to Coimbatore to have a firm grip on the subject and took a three-month training under Vellore Srinivasan, who is the Project Director of Indian Green Service, a solid and a liquid resource management company. He worked as a ragpicker during his training. He collected trash, segregated them and then took the biodegradable waste for composting.</div>
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Following the training, he started his enterprise Green Worms in Thamarassery, a small town in Kozhikode district, Kerala. His team leased out a plot of one-acre where they segregate waste and take the biodegradable wastes to the composting unit, set at the same location.</div>
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Jabir convinced the local shopkeepers to dispose of their wastes reasonable as they usually just dump their waste on the roadside or throw it in the river. His three-member team started the process by managing the waste of shopkeepers and traders and would charge them a small service fee.</div>
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But, this did not work for long as most of the shopkeepers realised that irresponsible dumping of wastes was much cheaper than actually paying for getting it managed. Jabir and his team quickly addressed the issue by offering other services along with waste management at the same cost.</div>
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The problem in our country is that there are no decentralised waste processing units and all the wastes are taken to one centralized unit causing huge labour charges and transportation costs. This also left us with a huge pile of garbage to tackle while 90% of the garbage is recyclable.</div>
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Jabir and his team now conduct waste literacy programmes in schools where they teach children about the different types of waste, its segregation, waste recycling, composting of wastes and so on. They conduct weddings and other functions on the ‘zero waste’ principle as well and offer recyclable plates made from ceramic, steel, etc. in these functions. The clients can choose from disposable plates/glasses made from areca nut or traditional banana leaves.</div>
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Debopamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04967509738595098541noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026181809702057040.post-20191441355202984952016-10-09T10:01:00.003-07:002016-10-09T10:01:35.308-07:00Inspirational Plain Graduate: Mother Of A 2-Yr-Old And 3 Business Ventures<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Entrepreneurship is not a smooth road, more so if you are an Indian woman. This, off course, is a stereotype which has been wonderfully smashed by Preeti Mittal who owns three business ventures.</div>
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An award-winning businessperson Preeti started BlueBit Systems, an IT consultancy, in 2011 to provide online marketing services. Her venture helped companies with services such as Search Engine Optimization, digital marketing, social media marketing, website development etc. Consistency in quality of her services, along with innovation has been her strong points.</div>
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A wife and mother, Preeti has quite some hold in managerial skills as she juggles roles of an entrepreneur, mother, and wife with equal gusto.</div>
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Alongside an IT consultancy, Preeti runs an online store “Pehnaari” which sells ethnic women wear. Her third venture is an event management company Party Poppers. Her extreme ability of multitasking is evident from her daily routine.</div>
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She plans her schedule meticulously in advance. She manages foreign clients at odd hours, delegate talks, communicate with her team to develop strategies according to client needs and attend e-meetings. She works in the night with her existing clients. She firmly believes in delivering services as per the commitments made and that also in a timely manner. For others, her routine may be exhausting, but her passion for work enables her to work out everything with ease.</div>
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Apart from managing her busy schedule at work, she never neglects her role as a mother (she has a two-year-old boy) and wife. Her husband though helped her in many ways and always encouraged her to get ahead with her passion. He supported her throughout and knows how to keep her motivated as well as cheerful.</div>
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Preeti is fortunate not only in having an understanding husband, but also amazing parents who became her emotional anchors, guiding her through all the balancing acts in life. Her success never came easily as it seems. She struggled for five years after graduation when she worked for various companies and then started her own venture after knowing the in and out of the industry.</div>
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Debopamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04967509738595098541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026181809702057040.post-87541189424969183762016-10-06T13:39:00.001-07:002016-10-06T13:39:32.404-07:00Must Read: How A College Project Saved Kashmir’s Dying Art of Carpets<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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An innovative effort by a young Kashmiri entrepreneur to manufacture ‘Namdas’, a kind of mattress or carpets made from wool, has created a new wave of employment opportunity for the fading artists of the valley.</div>
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Arifa Jain was born into illiterate, middle-class Kashmiri parents in Srinagar. After graduation in commerce from University of Kashmir, she followed her wish to start a business. While she was working on a college project on declining crafts in Kashmir, an idea struck her which is now transforming lives of valley’s craftsmen.</div>
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Her research project involved the introduction of innovative ideas and market strategies to increase the marketability of Kashmiri Namdas thereby reviving the dying industry. First, she introduced the use of 100% merino wool instead of the local wool to make the carpets. Merino is a sheep breed prized for its high-quality wool. Next, she introduced the use of azo compounds free dyes (a chemical used in dyes to make its vivid colors), which are environmentally friendly as well as not harmful to human. The final step is to create appealing new designs for Namdas to get the attention of the modern consumers.</div>
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The concept of design intervention introduced by Arifa is revived a dying art and generated new hope and employment in the community of carpet artists in Kashmir. She says she spent most of her time in front of the laptop designing carpets. All these new concepts bore fruit and the Namdas industry in Kashmir took a U-turn.</div>
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The profitable business not only giving her benefits but also revived the situation of the artisans who are now receiving up to Rs 400 a day.</div>
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Arifa, however, wishes to get more support from the Government as without their help the project cannot succeed further. She lamented that despite the announcement of the Skill India Initiative from the Government her team still has not received any support from the Government. Arifa and her team need proper support mechanism to excel more and only Government aid can fulfill it.</div>
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We desperately need people like Arifa to come forward with such novel initiatives to revive the economic status of Kashmir that may help solve other serious issues. The government needs to give all the necessary support to brave hearts like Arifa to make their dreams successful and revive the Kashmiri youths as a whole.</div>
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Debopamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04967509738595098541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026181809702057040.post-35401396449942837592016-10-02T11:23:00.001-07:002016-10-02T11:23:37.836-07:00Professional Photography in Goa<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Although many <span style="text-align: left;">amateurs do produce high-quality images, it is often a professional
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standard (not by the so called photographers lurking in the beaches) then you
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There are good numbers of professional
photographers in Goa delivering high-quality
work. Their work can make your vacation photos, stunning or make excellent
business photos. The hallmark of a great professional photographer is his or
her ability to produce great photographs at anytime and anywhere. With the high
quality of professional photographers in Goa,
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more. He or she knows the art of taking high-quality
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Professional photographers take
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Goa is one of the most exotic places in India with millions of tourists coming from different parts of the world. If you are looking for some business photos such as portraying hotels or home stays to the potential clients with exotic photos, then look for the <b><a href="http://www.interiorgoa.com/">professional photographers in Goa</a></b>. They are also great if you a tourist and want to have a nice photo shoot. So, come to Goa and hire professional photographers to make your memorable stay captured in frames.</div>
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Debopamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04967509738595098541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026181809702057040.post-75415061629723668932016-09-29T09:28:00.000-07:002016-09-29T09:28:08.613-07:00Incredible India: 4.7 Crore Children Dropping Out From School By 10th Std<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We are making in India and aspiring to be a superpower while 47 million children in our country are dropping out from school before touching 10th Standard; i.e. before finishing senior or higher secondary standards, according to a 2016 report by a UNESCO statistics institute.</div>
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The enrollment in 10th Standard is 77%, but it drops to a poor 52% in 11th Standard. This decline continues to 12th Standard and then follows into colleges, where the enrollment drops to about half, according to a report from the New Delhi-based Institute for Policy Research Studies. However, the university enrollment has increased in general since 2008-09.</div>
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Since 2012-13, the number of boys and girls in India enrolled for higher education has increased by 13% and 21% respectively, IndiaSpend reported in July 2016.</div>
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An overall increase in gross enrollment ratio at almost every level of education in India confirms that the educational system has become more accessible. In 2013-14, GERs of upper primary and secondary schools saw a rise of 13% and 17% respectively as compared to 2007-08.</div>
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In spite of this increase, still over six million children aged between 6 to 13 years are estimated to be out of the school system, as per the 2014 survey by the Ministry of Human Resource Development.</div>
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Uttar Pradesh leads this infamous ranking with 1.6 million out-of-school children, followed by Bihar and Rajasthan.</div>
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The IndiaSpend reported in June 2014 that an 18% increase in the population of young people aged 15-24 between 2001 and 2011 has resulted in a comparable increase in the country’s workforce. However, as many as 18% of 15 to 24-year-olds in India are unemployed, 5% more than the international average as per the estimations by the global youth unemployment rate of 2013.</div>
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This dropout trend will also adversely affect the newly-launched skill development courses under the Prime Minister’s Skill Development Scheme, which require some minimum educational eligibility criteria to enroll for training. Out of 29 such programmes, five require individuals to pass Grade 12 and four require educational levels higher than 12th Standard.</div>
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The post first appeared in <b><a href="http://www.kenfolios.com/incredible-india-4-7-crore-children-dropping-school-10th-std/">KenFolios</a> </b>- Only interesting stories.</div>
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It is not often that we hear extraordinary stories like this one. Call it an example of communal harmony or sheer coincidence, two women in Rajasthan got a new lease of life when their husband cross-donated their kidney to each other’s wife.</div>
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With Bakri Id in the backdrop, two families – Ahmeds and Mehras opted for a special deal. In a private hospital in Rajasthan, Anita Mehra was suffering from kidney problem for the past few years (glomerular disease) subsequently leading to kidney failure. Her blood group was different from her husband’s so was the other couple’s. Kidney of Tasleem Jahan Ahmed was damaged because of excessive use of painkillers. Her blood group is A+ (same as Mehra) and Ahmed’s blood group is B+ (same as Anita).</div>
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This successful dual kidney transplant surgery became a milestone when we are living in an age of decreasing humanity and increasing communal tension. It is observed that in more than 90% of the cases, the donors are females and males are the recipients.</div>
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Mehra said he never discriminates between Hindu-Muslims and will continue to do so. The procedure has tied the families with a special bond since the transplant.</div>
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Both the patients have been discharged from the hospital and their families are swaying with joy. The husbands are glad to both be a part of this noble deed and also for the priceless return gift from each other.</div>
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The donors, Mehra and Ahmed are also doing well and were discharged from the hospital earlier. It is a rare achievement for the doctors as well to swap kidney transplant breaking religious boundaries and when both the recipients were females.</div>
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Although as per the Human Organ Transplant Act of India, only near relatives can donate kidneys, yet it permits swap kidney transplant. In the current case of these two couples, they were perfect for swap kidney transplant as apart from blood group they also had a perfect tissue match.</div>
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The post first appeared in <b><a href="http://www.kenfolios.com/an-amazing-act-of-humanity-men-donated-kidneys-to-each-others-wives-in-rajasthan/">KenFolios</a></b> - Only interesting stories.</div>
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Debopamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04967509738595098541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026181809702057040.post-86706789864980670772016-09-21T21:55:00.001-07:002016-09-21T21:55:05.903-07:00IIT Bombay Students Built Satellite ‘Pratham’: ISRO to Launch It Soon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Six IIT Bombay students are preparing for the pre-launch of the first “student satellite” at the Satellite Centre of the Bangalore-based Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The talk on the launch of this satellite has been going on since last eight years, but for some reason, it was still not possible. At last the much-awaited launch of the satellite known as “Pratham” will take place this year.</div>
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ISRO’s public relations director Deviprasad Karnik told that the launch date will be announced soon. According to him, students will complete the work by September 26. This satellite was proposed by the two students Shashank Tamaskar and Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay at the Aerospace Engineering Department in 2007. An MOU was signed with ISRO in 2009 and later the project was extended till 2014.</div>
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The team has 30 students, of which 9 are part of the core team. Project Manager Manavi Dhawan conveyed that they are much excited about the developments and their dream to launch the satellite is nearing completion after so many years. The dimension of satellite is 30.5cm X 33.5cm X 46.6 cm and it weighs 10 kg.</div>
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According to Sumit Jain, one of the core team members, besides giving the GPS location “Pratham” can predict tsunamis as well. ISRO has not only provided the testing facility, but also the entire cost of the project. The youngest member of the team Harshad Jalan told that the ‘ISRO scientists’ has a zero error policy. So, every work is expected to be carried out without a single mistake. Sometimes the students have to work for 30 hours at a stretch in the lab and have only an hour to rectify any mistake.</div>
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The students of IIT Bombay faced another challenge. The team members have to be changed every semester making it hard for them to maintain continuity as the new students again have to acclimatize with the project from the very beginning. To overcome this problem the previous students had to work hard at writing every bit of details so that the new students find it easier to carry forward the work. The students working on this project were selected through a written test and interview.</div>
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Professor Arya, who was appointed to oversee team progress felt extremely proud while watching the students present their case and explaining their point during the review meeting with ISRO scientists.</div>
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