Infra.Market A company started in 2016, by Aaditya Sharda and Souvik Sengupta an online marketplace for real estate and construction materials, which offer fair prices and a smoother experience for the customers. Recently there was an increase in their revenue from INR 63 crore to INR 250 crore, with a profit of INR 8.59 Crore in the year 2020.
Digit Insurance founded by Kamesh Goyal and Prem Watsa a Bengaluru- based startup started in 2016 by . the startup is about offering customized policies on auto, travel, health, commercial properties, smartphones. the company has recntly raised a total of $200 million .
PharmEasy It was founded in 2015 by Dharmil Sheth and Dr.Dhaval Shah, the startup is about teleconsultation, medicine deliveries, and sample collections for diagnostic tests of connection with 60k pharmacies and 4k doctors actively working around 16k areas across India. The company has raised $323 million in serial E funding round after with an era of competition it merged with Medlife.
Chargebee A subscription billing software platform, started in 2010 by Rajaraman S, Thiyagarajan T, KP Saravanan, and Krish Subramanian. Currently raising fund $125 Million in series G funding round. the company deals with the payment gateways to automate payment collections, email notifications, customer management, and invoicing. Catered 2500 businesses across 53 countries.
Zeta A startup founded in 2015 by Bhavin Turakhia and Ramki Gaddipati, the company offers a cloud-native neo-banking platform for insurance of credit, debit, and prepaid products, recently it raised $250 Million in Series C funding, 500 employees working under it and acquiring 1 million transactions per day. serves more than 14k customers includes 25 fintech forms and 10 banks such as Axis bank, Hdfc and so on .
We have some kind of fear which we probably state with the term phobia, we heard of many types of phobia, but there are some kind which we rarely thought would exist by which some people around the world is facing from
Here are some :
Algophobia – Fear of pain
Amaxophobia – Fear of riding a car
Androphobia – Fear of men
Anthropophobia – Fear of flowers
Anthropophobia – Fear of people or society
Aphenphosmphobia – Fear of being touched
Arachibutyrophobia – Fear of peanut butter
Arithmophobia – Fear of numbers
Ataxophobia – Fear of disorder or untidiness
Automatonophobia – Fear of Human-Like Figures
Barophobia – Fear of gravity
Bibliophobia – Fear of books
Botanophobia – Fear of plants
Catoptrophobia – Fear of mirrors
Chionophobia – Fear of snow
Chromophobia – Fear of colors
Chronomentrophobia – Fear of clocks
Chronophobia – Fear of Time
Claustrophobia – Fear of confined spaces
Gynophobia – Fear of women
Haphephobia – Fear of touch
Heliophobia – Fear of the sun
Hemophobia – Fear of blood
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia – Fear of long words
Iatrophobia – Fear of doctors
Insectophobia – Fear of insects
Koumpounophobia – Fear of buttons
Leukophobia – Fear of the color white
Octophobia – Fear of figure 8
Ombrophobia – Fear of rain
Papyrophobia – Fear of paper
Philematophobia – Fear of Kissing
Philophobia – Fear of love
Porphyrophobia – Fear of the color purple
Selenophobia – Fear of the moon.
Somniphobia – Fear of sleep
Venustraphobia – Fear of beautiful women
Those sounds silly but those may be a reason for someone’s frustration. If till some ar of fear of something but there are not sure about it that they are suffering from which need a cure .If there is a sign the consulting with a doctor would be much better.
While we are suffering a great pandemic, with a hope of getting the news of this pandemic to get over, just like that it is a phase of suffocating people to death, but there was a time when people died where not for any but been dancing.
The dancing epidemic occurred in Alsace from July 1518 to September 1518. It started suddenly when a woman began the dance in a street in Strasbourg, around 50 to 400 people took to dance for days. It last long until it took the attention of Strasbourg magistrate and bishop, they appointed doctors for the cure.
It is considered to be controversial, as some sources claim that the plague killed around 15 people per day or some didn’t mention the number of deaths. Mainly claimed their theory of this epidemic, food poisoning, the dancing been brought due to food poisoning caused by toxic chemicals of ergot fungi which generally grow s on grains, used to make bread. Or it may be because of Stress-induced mass hysteria, what does that term depict the involvement of individuals suddenly exhibiting the same behavior.
The word scholarship makes many questions appear in our head whether it pays or it’s just fake news from some Whatsapp group. There are many scholarships are given by many organizations to encourage talent and let no one step back just for the criteria of money .
here some popular scholarships for Indian students.
(KVPY) Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana. A national fellowship for students who want to pursue careers in science and research, students studying in the 11th to 1 year of graduation (Science stream) can apply for it. The selection has been done based on a test conducted by IISc Bangalore every year.
For B.Sc, they pay 5000 per student year and an annual contingency fund of INR 20,000 For M.Sc, they pay 7000 per student each year and an annual contingency fund of INR 28,000.
2. INSPIRE Scholarship
An initiative by the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, providing financial support on a merit basis to the students who completed their 12 the standard and enrolled them to pursue basic science. They pay off 80,000 per student per year, an amount of 10,000 students are awarded each year. For information visit http://www.online-inspire.gov.in
3. Indian Oil Academic Scholarships India oil provide scholarship to students on merit basis to both 10th passout and 12 the pass out students currently in the first year of B.tech, M.B.B.S or MBA For 1o the pass out, it will be 10000per month for 2 years and 12 the past out they pay off 3000 per month for 4 years basis on their duration of course. for further information visit the site of OIL.
4. HDFC Educational Crisis Scholarship Support An initiative by the HDFC Bank to help students in times of crisis, students in 6th to 12 the standard are eligible for this scholarship with family income less than 3 lakhs per annum. Selection has been done based on merit -cum-need basis. The amount of the scholarship is different for different students, for school it will be 10,000 or tuition fee every year and for college, it will be 25,000 or tuition fee every year. For more information visit the main site of HDFC bank.
4. AICTE Pragati Scholarship for Girls It’s an initiative for girls belonging to economically weaker families to continue their higher education in the technical field, girl enrolled in 1st year of any degree or diploma in any AICTE- approved institution .provinding INR 2000 per month for next 10 months.
When we study about science is mot about the invention and discoveries by the greatest scientist and their way of getting those results, but there are some invention which accidental come out
Carlos Jared was doing his fieldwork in the jungles of Brazil, when he picked up a harmless-looking frog, the frog twisted and thrashed butting his head with Jared’s hand, for the next five hours he was in agony than when he discovered that frogs can be venomous.
the stone which used to produce blueprint was expensive than gold, but humans used to manufacture it whose outcomes used to poisonous, expensive or impermanent or all of them. In Oregon State university Mas Subramanian was working on material with novel magnetic properties to use in advanced computer hard drives, he would mix up likely chemicals and bake them at 2000 degrees Fahrenheit in a furnace, while he added manganese oxide to a recipe, he got a pile of a bright blue powder, which was nontoxic and stable, it reflects infrared radiation useful for coloring building.
Nate Cira, an undergraduate was looking under a microscope at food coloring when she felt something odd, two drops of different colors seemed to dance, she refers it to her adviser Manu Prakash at Stanford University, they both spend three years to find the mystery ultimately they camp up ith the outcome the dance was for two reasons surface tension and evaporation, both the men and along with Adrien Benusiglio came up that this phenomenon used to create autonomic Liquid machines.
At Dalhousie university a biologist Shelley Adamo was studying crickets like how they respond to crickets and how to stress out them. One of her student brought Bearded Dragons, which she brought them to scare crickets, one of the lizards had a virus that infected the crickets but the funny thing was that that virus didn’t make them sick but it made them very interested in mating, later she calls the virus a parasitic aphrodisiac, a virus that boosts an animal‘s sexual desire, increasing its transmission.
Those were some accidental events leads to some discoveries but what if that those events did not happen maybe we were still looking for it or we may not be aware of till today.
Conglomerate, the words themselves symbolize a corporate group that overlooks multiple business entities In different industries. It is sometimes a topic of thinking about why they want to grown multi-industry instead of focussing on just one industry making it more profitable, but it because companies have a greater influence on the growth and realizing their impacts due to tho their capital potentials
Here are some of the Indian conglomerates :
1.TATA Group A giant conglomerate founded in 1868 by Jassetji Tata, currently run by Natarajan Chandra Sekaran. Ratan Tata’s 21 years venture has been admired most, during his tenure the profit gained was 50 times and revenue increased by 40 times. Tata group Has companies in automobile, airline, chemical, defense, finance, home appliances, hospitals, and so on.
Aditya Birla Group
The group was founded by Seth Shiv Narayan Birla in 1857, currently headed by Kumar Mangalam Birla as its chairman, the group operating on Branded apparel, fashion, Textiles, Chemicals, Telecom and etc.
Reliance Industries and Ltd. Founded as Reliance commercial corp 60 years ago by Dhirubhai Ambani. Partitioned after Dhirubhai Ambani’s death between his two sons, Reliance industries is owned by Mukesh Ambani, the company owns oil, Textile, banking, and telecommunication enterprises throughout India.
4.Adani Group Founded as a commodity trading firm in 1988, started trading coal in 1999, and ventured for edible oil under the Fortune brand. the group currently holds energy, resources, real estate, financial group, and so on.
Icecream is been always a part of our sweet craving, company like Amul ice-creams, Baskin Robbins was a great success, but there is a startup that made a footprint in this field with just natural ice cream without any preservatives or artificial flavoring only just fresh fruit pulp.
Naturals Ice-cream, a Mumbai sed startup founded by Raghunandan Kamath, was born in 1954. During summers Raghunandan’s Father a merchant from Mulki, Karnataka used to pick ripened mangoes and sell them to vendors at the market, his father so found fruit he used grew variety of fruits one acre of area near his home, watching his father the love for fruit began in little Raghunanadan’s heart. But passion doesn’t guarantee a profit, he used to belong from the village where health facilities were poor, as a child he used to play and have fun lived the life fully spend most of the time in the kitchen watching his mother cooking which played a key role in decisions of his startup, but the negligence of his studies cost him to fail seventh grade twice.
At the age of 12, he moved to Bombay to stay with his brother, but his inability with coping up with the English curriculum lead pf failing his tenth board exams thrice and giving up. later his brother started small south Indian eateries called Gokul serving ice cream along with idli, dosa, and so on. Because as young and careless his brother asked him to sell ice -cream, as ice- cream was not an important part of the business. But for ice cream, there was a different value in Raghunandan’s mind. He always wanted to do something different but his brother never took him seriously and he didn’t have the confidence to argue back at that time. After he got married in 1983, he got the courage to start his own business, he borrowed 3.5 lakh from his brothers and friends to start the venture .he took the risk of starting an ice-cream parlour
Despite this, Kamath made the bold decision to start an ice cream parlour in the main Juhu Koliwada, to hedge against such a risk he also served pav bhaji with ice cream, that how he introduced ice-cream to them this pav bhaji – ice cream strategy succeed and with revenue of 5 lakhs in a year The Pav Bhaji -ice cream strategy worked he reached revenues of Rs 5 lakhs in year. Initially, he served five flavors mango chocolate, strawberry, Sitpal (custard apple), and cashew-raisin with just three ingredients Milk, sugar, and fruits.
But he was not satisfied by it, his concern was that what if pav bhaji got more fame than ice cream, in 1985 he stopped serving pav bhaji.This decision leads to a recent annual turnover of Rs. 165 crores having 129 outlets in all major cities of India, offering 125 flavours changing with seasons without any changes in the ingredients.
Lachma Shekhar Naik was born on 7 April 1986, in a nomadic Banjara Family in southern Karnataka, as the son of a farmer. He was born completely blind as his mother and other 15 members of his family suffered from visual impairment, Naik was seven when he injured his head after falling along the bank of the River he was taken to a health camp where the doctor released that the possibility of restoring sight his right eye, he was operated in Bangalore and was able to restore 60 % of his right eye vision.
He was sent to Shri Sharada Devi School for blind in Shimoga, he learned to play cricket while at school, he used to work in filed in summer holidays to save money for his cricket ambitions, his mother died when he was the age of 12, while he off from playing he used to work as sports coordinator for an NGO ‘Samarthanam’ which funds for the cricket Association for Blind people in India. He was selected in Karnataka Team in 2000, he was called up to India national Blind Cricket Team in 2002, went to captain the team in 2010. He was the man of the match in the 2006 World cup, he also led the team to victory in the 2014 cricket world cup. In 2017 he was honored by the country’s fourth highest Civilian honor Padma Shri by the Government of India.
Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi, first Indian female doctor was born on 31 March 1865, originally named Yamuna, she was born and raised in Kalyan, her family uses to be landlords before experiencing financial losses, due to pressure from her mother and practice she was married at the age of nine with Gopalrao Joshi, a widower 20 years elder than her worked as a postal clerk in Kalyan, after marriage she was renamed her Anandi by her husband .he was a progressive thinker so he supported education for girls at that time. AnandiBai gave birth to a boy at the age of fourteen, but due to lack of medical care, the child died after ten days of his birth, which made a turning point in Anandibai’s life, inspired her to be a physician, as Gopalrao tried to enroll her to a missionary school and couldn’t succeed so he moved to Calcutta, where she learned to read and speak English and Sanskrit.
In 1880, as she was encouraged by her husband to study medicine, he sent a letter to Royal Wilder, an American Missionary stating his wife’s interest in studying medicine in the United States and also requesting a post for himself in the US, Wilder published correspondence in Princeton’s Missionary Review, Theodicia Carpenter of Roselle, New Jersey impressed by the review then she wrote to Anandibai they become close friend, Carpenter later would host Anandibai in Rochelle during her stay in the US. While Anadibai was in Calcutta, her health was declining ad Gopalrao was transferred to Serampore, so despite her poor health he convinced Anandibai to go by herself to the US and set an example for women for pursuing higher education.
Suggested by a physician couple, she applied to the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, she traveled to New York from Kolkata on the ship. She began her medical training at the age of 19, because of cold and irregular diet out there she contracted tuberculosis, somehow she graduated wth medical degree in Mach 1886, her thesis topic was “Obstetrics among the Aryan Hindoos” it got utilized references from both Ayurvedic texts and American Medical textbooks.
Queen Victoria congratulated her on her Graduation, on her return to India she received a grand welcome, the princely State of Kolhapur appointed her Physician -in -charge of the female ward of the Albert Edward Hospital. She died of Tuberculosis on 28 February 1887 in Pune, she was in treatment but those were not working she kept studying medicine till death, She got fame for her determination and Hardwork, to become the first women to study western medicine.
Suniti Choudhury was born on May 22, 1917, to a middle-class Bengali family of Tipperary. It was the year 1930, the Civil Disobedience Movement was in full motion, she was witnessing all the brutality that was done to the people of India.
Suniti Choudhury
Around that time, her senior at Faizunnisa Girls’ High school mentored and supplied her with books mainly the books which were banned by the British. she becomes a major of the District Volunteer Corps she was leading the parade of girls when Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was in town to address the students organization.
‘Chhatri Sangha’, a female wing of the organization affiliated to ‘Yugantar’ was training young girls, the smartest and bravest one of them passed on information, arm, ammunition, and money for the revolutionaries. Prafulla, Santisudha Ghose, and Suniti Choudary demanded more stand out equal to the boys after that under the supervision of Akhil Chandra Nandi, president of the Tripura Students’Organisation their practical training began. They used to bunk school went to Maynamati Hills and practice firing. the target so to shoot targets but to manage the back kick of the revolver. For Sunit it was difficult to do as her index finger did not reach the trigger properly but she didn’t give up she made her long middle to fire her lethal shots from a revolver of Belgian make. The district Magistrate Charles Geoffrey Stevens, the man behind destroying the Satyagraha, harassing every Indian for raising their voice for freedom. It was she did a bravery act, it was on 14 December 1931 around 10 am morning, two teenagers came down from a carriage which stopped in front of Magistrate’s Bungalow, both had a silk wrapper around their sarees, the girls sent interview slip through the orderly after which the Magistrate along with the Sub-divisional Officer came out, he glances through the letter passed to him which was about appealing for a swimming pool with the signature of that two girls as to be Illa Sen and Meera Devi, those girls were waiting for a clean window, requested to sign it, he went inside his chamber and came back with the signed paper, that was his last move before the shots rang, seeing in front of two girls without a silk wrapper pointing two revolvers at his heart. People gathered to capture the two teenagers, but Santi and Suniti were well prepared for everything, they used to prick pins in their fingertips to increase their acceptance of pain so they don’t confess about their secret organization, They didn’t have a single expression on their face when they were molested under the pretense of body searches for weapons.
Santi Ghosh and Suniti choudhury
Those two girls were singing patriotic songs when they been taken for the police van to the courtroom. When the trial began, they turned their backs to the judge, all court members chairs to sit as they were denied .when SDO came as a witness and cooking up stories against them, they shouted “Great Liar ! Great Liar “ so loud in the courtroom, nobody could get away with offending them, as two girls seemed to fear no court .thier smiles faded when they were charged to be in imprisonment for lifetime , Santi was kept in second class with other revolutionaries while Suniti for a lifetime, was sent to third class with thieves and pickpockets.
Before the Second World War caused their release, then Suniti was of 22 years old woman without any formal education and her only brother to help her. She completes her pre-university course from Asutosh College, carried on to Campbell Medical School for the Licentiate in Medicine and surgery and got admission to Calcutta Medical College in 1944, after completing MBBS because of her kindness and dedication she becomes a reputed Doctor in Chandannagar, where people used to call her “Lady Ma”.
She married Pardyot Kumar another activist and also a friend of his brother. She was offered a contesting ticket from Congress and the Communist Parties In the first general elections but she refused it. She was not interested in political plays, he helped her brother with his business and took care of her paralyzed parents, she endured many political battles for her career thereafter.
Coco, Zaya, and the last dragon those are such of brilliant animated movie we are obsessed off, showing a story differently with updated techniques but who started it, how an animated movie was back when it started forming.
On 17 August 1908 a movie was released not a normal one it was the world’s first fully animated movie ‘Fantasmagorie’, created by Emile Cohl in a hand-drawn style, released by the Gaumont Company in Paris. The movie was a tribute to the Incoherent Art Movement which was banished by that time. The name was derived from the Fantasmograph, a 19th-century lantern that projects shadowy images on the wall. The word ‘Fantasmagorie’ means a constantly shifting complex succession of things seen or imagined.
Emile Cohl did not have a very privileged Childhood his artistic capabilities were discovered at the age of seven at the boarding school he was enrolled in. With the Franco-Prussian war in progress, he came under the influence of political caricature and puppet Drama, in the 1880s or 90s he developed himself as a writer, caricaturist, and cartoonist. he worked as the assistant for caricaturist Andre Gill, later he joined to Goumant company and directed many films before moving to animation. It took five months for Emile Cohl to create the movie, he made 700 drawing for 1 minute 20 seconds, he used an illuminated glass plate and traced consecutive drawings with the variations needed for the consistent movement and continuity among the drawings, it was projected at a rate of 16 frames per second, he made eight drawings for each second photographed each twice. The drawings were placed one by one on a lightbox and photographed. The movie ’Fantasmagorie’ is about the interaction of a Stick man with different objects.This movie made a hit in the time ’90s, which led to the creation of new techniques for the problems that arise while makes such movies.
Who said that amazing views cost a lot, except when you chose the cheapest way to adore it. Some of the train journeys are worth capturing some memorable things at a cheap cost. Indian Railways have been the largest rail network connecting different parts of India.
Some of the mesmerizing routes to take making your journey amazing:
Desert queen
The route of Jaisalmer to Jodhpur offers the scenario of barren desert land, desert wildlife, and tribes. the Desert Queen route passes through the Thar Desert, Rajasthan.
Himalayan Queen
The route of Kalka to Shimla, journey four to five hours covers the 20 railway stations, 800 bridges,900 curves, and tunnels.
Nilgiri Mountain Railway
The route of Mettupalayam to Ooty, It’s the only rack railway of India.
Darjeeling Himalayan Railway
Route from Jalpaiguri to Darjeeling, it ben a toy train journey shows mesmerizing scenarios of Mt Kanchenjunga.
Sethu Express
Route of Mandapam to Rameswaram, a train route of thrill and adventure, passes through a bridge that is built over the sea.
Thinking about currencies, Dollar, Euro, or Pound are the famous currencies that come up in our mind, but they are not known to be the powerful currencies in the 2021 currency power ranking, here we are talking about the most expensive currencies in the world.
Top five powerful currency 2021:
1.Kuwaiti Dinar (KWD) The most expensive currency of 2021, currently its value is 3.31 USD, 2.77 EUR, and 245.92 in Indian Rupees, the reason behind this is that Kuwait has a very stable and strong economy because of its oil-rich land and industry. In Kuwait, you don’t have to pay any kind of tax.
2.Bahraini Dinar (BHD) Securing the second position with its value of 2.66 USD,2.23 EUR, and 197.63 INR. The currency of an island nation in the gulf near Saudi Arabian Bahrini’s economy depends on exporting petroleum products been an oil-rich country in Arabian Gulf.
3.Omani Rial (OMR) Oman has a developed economy all thanks to oil territory. Currently, its value is 2.60 USD, 2.18 EUR, and 193.17 in Indian rupees. The purchasing power of Oman is excessively high, the Omani government has to issue notes of half Omani Rial and one-fourth of Omani Rial.
4.Jordanian Dinar (JOD) Currently, with the value of 1.41 USD, 1.18 EUR, and 104.76 INR, the reason behind it is hard to explain but many experts say that it is was of the government has fixed exchange rates of the currency.
5.British Pound Sterling (GBP) With the value of 1.38 USD,1.16 EUR, and 102.53 INR, the British Pound sterling securing the fifth position, be the best currency in Europe, as a reason for London being the financial capital of the world and involvement of Britain in many economical activities.
As UAE using 100% of their brain using drones for producing fake rain, wherein India, we are considering the maximum rainfall as a natural gift, here are some places considered to be having the highest rainfall in order
1.Mawsynram
Leaving behind Cherrapunji, a town in Khasi hills district of Meghalaya Mawsynram, secure the title of been having the highest rainfall not just of India but of the world with a record of 11,872 mm of rainfall during monsoon season. 60.9 km from Shillong, the capital of the State has a subtropical highland climate with a long monsoon season and short dry season. Landslides are common incidents in their due to excessive rainfall, for survival during the rainy season, the residents of that small village prepare themselves by making knups, using bamboo silvers, plastic sheets, and broom grass to create shields.Cherrapunji Securing the second position Cherrapunji or Sohra has a rainfall of 11,619 mm, lies in the slopes of southern parts of Khasi hill, Meghalaya facing the plains of Bangladesh, interesting fact out there is that the rainfall is mostly been in the night time which doesn’t interpret the day works apart from that Sohra is famous for its living bridges.
2.Agumbe
A small town in Shimoga district, Karnataka surrounded by thickly forest Malenadu region of the western ghats Mountain Range. Receiving an average of 7,691 mm of rainfall. Having green views for trekking and photography and associated with important rainforest stations for research, promotion of cottage industry, documentation of medicinal plants.
3.Amboli
A hill station Shimoga district, Maharashtra, it is the last hill station before the coastal highlands of Goa, famous for tourism encompasses amazing gorges and waterfalls during monsoonsSitutaed at an altitude of 690 meters above the sea level `witness around 7,500 mm of rain every year. In Amboli it is hard to find a single house where at least one member of the family has not served in the Indian Army.
4.Mahabaleshwar
Having a record of 5,618 mm of rainfall, located close to western ghats a hill station lies 270 km away from the capital of Maharashtra, apart from that it has many mythological temples to visit.
The climate of Mahabaleshwar is suitable for strawberry cultivation, it contributes 85% of its strawberry production in the country. It is the source of Krishna River, it has some viewpoints such as Venna Lake, Arthur point, 3 Monkey point and so on.
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