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Dheeraj Shah, owner of Jumbo King, first decided to start his venture into sweets manufacturing and distribution. In the first 2 years itself, he lost about Rs. 50 lakhs! He still didn’t stop trying. He borrowed an additional Rs. 2 lakhs, leased a space outside a small railway station, and started ‘Jumbo King’, a fast food chain selling primarily vada pav (a Maharashtrian snack), and now has a turnover of about Rs 50 crores per annum!
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3 extraordinary young girls - Tabassum, Tarranum and Rubina - have changed the education scenario in a small village near Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. There was a time when no child in the village took education seriously, and the villagers just plain refused to see the necessity of education. To change this, they started going door to door to encourage students to go to school. They got in touch with the Human Welfare Association, an NGO in Varanasi, which trained these young girls to take on the challenge and provided them support. The girls found a small public place where they started a school for kids who had never stepped out of home or had dropped out of school due to personal problems. Today, thanks to their efforts, now over 90% of the children in that village receive a proper education!
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Professors and students from IIT Kharagpur have designed an effective and affordable electronic tracking system for children. The student ID cards are tagged with RFID and RFID card readers are installed in buses. Once the ID card is read, the student is identified in the database and a text message is sent to the child’s parents, informing them that their ward has boarded the bus. A message is also sent once the child gets off the bus. Additionally, a GPS device is also installed, enabling parents to track their children in real-time through a smartphone application.
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Jake Dyson hasn’t just changed the lightbulb, but created a new kind of light entirely. He has made 'Ariel', a sleek, suspended light which lasts 40 years before anything – even the bulb – needs replacing!
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Bill Gates' first company, Traf-O-Data, failed and crumbled away. Instead of losing hope and giving up, he tried again, and this time - he created Microsoft!
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Meena Mehta and her husband Atul, from Surat, are making an extraordinary difference to the personal hygiene and health of underprivileged girls in the city. They distribute hygiene kits and sanitary napkins to girls in their neighbourhood and in schools. One kit is distributed to every girl in 22 municipal schools throughout the city, 1 school for deaf and mute students, and 1 school for the blind. This couple single-handedly has impacted lives of over 2,000 girls.
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We all know that Indians are obsessed with gold and gold jewellery. But did you know that Indian housewives own 11% of the world’s gold? That is more than the gold reserves of the USA, IMF, Germany, and Switzerland combined!
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Colonel Sanders had his business idea at the age of 65. He was then rejected 1,009 times before his idea was finally accepted. This small business idea is now KFC, an international chain with over 19,000 shops.
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A village called Paradsinga in Madhya Pradesh approached the government for construction of a road because during every monsoon, the farms used to be cut off from the village, making it difficult for the farmers to go to work. When the government turned a blind eye, the villagers took it upon themselves to construct the road. 41 farmers got together and contributed funds and efforts in every manner they could - and have successfully built the road. They are now on a mission to build their very own dam to help address the acute water crisis situation!
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In 2015, NR Narayana Murthy, an IT industrialist, donated a whopping Rs. 1,322 crores for encouraging entrepreneurship, social development and education. He says “The real power of money is the power to give it away.”
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The concept of a 'cataract surgery' has an Indian origin. It was first performed by an Indian physician Sushruta with a special tool called the Jabamukhi Salaka, a curved needle used to loosen the lens and push the cataract out of the field of vision. After being deemed successful, it was introduced to the rest of the world.
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Dr. Vishal Rao, a Bangalore based oncologist, has developed a voice prosthesis that can help throat cancer patients speak after surgery. And unlike the extremely expensive ones available in the market, this device costs just Rs. 50. Via a procedure that lasts barely 5 minutes, throat cancer patients can get back their voice, and the ability to swallow in an inexpensive manner, thanks to this doctor!
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According to a government order dated November 2015, it is mandatory for all road developers in India to use waste plastic for road construction. This is to help overcome the growing problem of plastic waste disposal in India. The technology for this has been developed by the ‘Plastic Man’ of India, Prof Rajagopalan Vasudevan, a professor of Chemistry. He implemented the use of plastic waste on a road constructed inside the premises of his college in 2002. It was later patented in 2006. The plastic waste items that can be used for road construction are various items like plastic carry bags, plastic cups, plastic packaging for potato chips, biscuits, chocolates, etc. - thus solving many problems!
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A 22 year old girl has created a unique method for disclosing the expiry date on food packets - a 'Bump Mark'. It is a smart and simple, gelatine-filled expiry label for food packaging, designed primarily for visually impaired people to feel when their food has gone off, with the added universal benefit of being significantly more accurate than the dates currently printed on our food packaging.
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Milton Hershey founded three chocolate companies,of which all three were doomed to fail. Instead of giving up, he gave it one last shot and founded what is now one of the biggest names in the industry: The Hershey Company!
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In a society where women have been suppressed and discriminated against for ages, there is one courageous voice that is helping many in breaking the shackles of patriarchy. Rehana, a woman from an orthodox family in Uttar Pradesh, is successfully fighting for the rights of women through her organization. Rehana began her work by talking to women about their problems and discussing patriarchy and feudal mindsets. Rehana campaigns along with other women, all of whom are members of “Astitva” – the organization that she set up for the emancipation of women.
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Everyone has a choice - to give with all your heart or to walk away. And a Mumbai based couple has so truthfully chosen the former. This couple asks street children to study and pays for their entire education. Being poor themselves, they save this money by skipping meals. The husband has a hole in his left foot, is almost completely blind in his right eye and was on bed rest for over 4 years. But that has only made his zeal stronger. He asks for only 1 thing in return from his students – “pay it forward to someone else who needs the money and you would have repaid me for a 100 lifetimes.”
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We've all heard that Global Warming is the biggest and fastest growing problem the world is facing today. But has anyone ever used it as a solution to a problem? Well, India managed to! India and Bangladesh were in dispute over who has rights to a piece of land. But due to Global Warming, the land simply disappeared!
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Soon, your printers can print an actual car for you! The latest technology inventions in 3D printing are rapidly changing how things are being made. In a recent technology show, an Arizona car maker manufactured a functional car on the show itself - by using 3D printing technology.
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Fred Smith's company was losing $1 million a month, and investors were consistently turning him down for more funding. Instead of giving up, Fred took the remainign $5,000 and went to Vegas and played Black Jack. He came back with $32,000, which helped the company survive for a few more days. Now, FedEx has an anual revenue of $45 billion!
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"While I offer this service for free, I do ask for something in return from my students – a promise that they will pass on the kindness by helping other needy students. It might surprise you, but I don’t have to spend a single rupee on faculty as all my past students are training my current students,” says Professor Hidayat Saiyed of Ahmedabad who trains innumerable students for various competitive exams. These students come from a background where they cannot afford to pay for coaching classes, and this professor has mastered the art of helping them fulfill their dreams!
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Kalyan Akkipeddi, an MBA, quit his well-paying corporate job, to formulate a concept called ProtoVillage. It is the prototype of an abundant rural community that is being built for and by the villagers themselves. The idea is to make something that can be replicated all over the country. The village so built under his guidance becomes entirely self-sustaining and revenue-generating for its residents. The villages he has already worked with are now energy self-reliant, WiFi enabled, and have a consistent source of water. Kalyan, who has been living without a job since 2008, has simplified his life so much that he doesn’t need much in terms of finances. He lives with the villagers, like the villagers, without getting anything in return from them!
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Emma Watson, popularly known as "Hermione" of Harry Potter, was appointed as the UN Women Goodwill Ambassador. Besides launching the viral #HeForShe movement for gender equality, she also regularly donates for various causes such as for preventing of cruelty towards children, disaster relief, physical challenges and poverty. She is associated with several brands that work for various noble causes, and is known to constantly donate even her personal belongings for charitable causes.
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Diamonds were first recognized and mined in central India. India remained the world's only source of diamonds until the discovery of diamonds in Brazil in the 18th century.
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Ever had a chocolate bar melt in your pocket and look at it as an oppurtunity? Well, Percy Spencer certainly did. In 1943, while working with the US Navy to try and improve their radars, he stood next to an active radar, and a chocolate bar in his pocket melted. Instead of throwing a tantrum and buying a new one, he decided to investigate. A year later, the microwave oven was born!
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