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This Mother’s Day Meet These Women Who Rocked the World!
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This Mother’s Day Meet These Women Who Rocked the World!

"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made Mothers.", how well we do connect with this quote cited by English poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling. Whether we are in the best times of our lives or are sailing through rock bottom, it is our mothers we long for. Mothers, after all, are our anchors, critics, best supporters, best buddy and our greatest well-wishers. Mum truly is the word that runs our world! While every year we have a day kept aside to appreciate our mother's roles and significance in our lives, this year we want to make it different! Apart from devoting themselves looking after the emotional and physical well being of their children, many mothers have made a mark for themselves, following their dreams and passions while balancing between motherhood and personal a...
8 Astonishing Facts About Labour Day We Bet You Don’t Know
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8 Astonishing Facts About Labour Day We Bet You Don’t Know

Theodore Roosevelt once said, Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at worth work doing. Labour day also popularised as International Workers' Day is an event around the year that marks the day for the celebration of work labour, and accomplishments. It is the day that signifies how the people of the country matter the most and are instrumental in its overall growth and prosperity.     So how did we get this holiday and why's nobody sure about who created it? In the modern times, the celebration of Labour day has its origin in the labour union movement especially the eight-hour workday movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest. The May Day is celebrated differently in differ...
5 Must-Read Business Books in 2023
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5 Must-Read Business Books in 2023

Are you an aspiring entrepreneur seeking to enhance your business knowledge? We would suggest you hold onto a good business books that could help you align your business ideas well while taking lessons from people who have already turned their dreams into reality. Given the enormous plethora of resources available on the internet, it is very easy to get bogged down while trying to find out the best sources that could help in gaining business insight. While there is no dearth of valuable resources you can look up to for entrepreneurial motivation, a little guideline could always come to help! To ease up your search for best business education, we have come up with our own researched list of top 5 books that you can read to gain some business inspiration. Albert Einstein, legendary physic...
5 Most Successful Entrepreneurial Stories: From Rags to Riches
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5 Most Successful Entrepreneurial Stories: From Rags to Riches

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do." Entrepreneurship is surely not an easy task and comes with its own set of challenges and hardships, yet time and again successful entrepreneurs from around the world proved that winners never quit and quitters never win. At the end of the day, it depends on how far you are ready to go even the direst of circumstances. To help you kick off "work blues" and inspire you with some entrepreneurial greatness, we have come up with the most inspirational business success stories that emerged in the wake of personal struggles, diligent leaders, hard-won circumstances and paved the way for enlightening inspiration for the coming generations. &nbs...
Stephen Hawking Died Aged 76, Here Are His 10 Best Quotes
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Stephen Hawking Died Aged 76, Here Are His 10 Best Quotes

Stephen Hawking, one of the greatest minds of his generation, has died aged 76. A prisoner in his own body due to motor neuron disease, his disability didn’t stop the renowned scientist from trying the understand the whole world around him. Wheelchair-bound and unable to speak, he had a machine speaking for him. Here are some of his most famous quotes:   1) Stephen Hawking on his purpose in Life   2) Stephen Hawking's perspective about Humans   3) Stephen Hawking about being a Celebrity   4. Stephen Hawking on the end of the Universe   5. Stephen Hawking's view about Black Holes   6) Stephen Hawking on God   7) Stephen Hawking on people living with a disability   8) Steph...
8 Indian Women Billionaires in Forbes 2018 List
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8 Indian Women Billionaires in Forbes 2018 List

This year, eight Indian women are featuring in Forbes ‘World’s Billionaires’ list which includes a total of 256 women billionaires, an unprecedented record. The cumulative net worth of the women billionaires featuring in the list soared above $1 trillion, a 20% progress from last year. While most of the women in the standings inherited their wealth, 72 of them are self-made tycoons, another record. Last year only 52 of them could claim this achievement. 1) Savitri Jindal with a net worth of $8.8 billion is the richest Indian woman billionaire and is ranked 176th globally. She is the chairperson of Emrietus, Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. In 1970, she married O.P Jindal, founder of the Jindal group, a steel and power multinational. 2) Founder of Biocon, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is the se...
Know How This Startup Founder Beat His Depression in a Weird but Amazing Way
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Know How This Startup Founder Beat His Depression in a Weird but Amazing Way

The success stories in the startup ecosystem have always been told in a single manner- how a bunch of co-founders meet, discuss a common, yet thriving issue and plan a service to eradicate that out of the system. Soon they get appreciated for their work, raise seed funding or a couple of series funding on top of that and that's it! But is this really the end? Or let's rephrase, ain't it a beginning of something new and bigger? We all must've remembered this dialogue from an amazing movie called 'Spiderman", here it is in case you don't:   This is mostly true in every scenario of our lives, but in case of the startup ecosystem, it holds even stronger. Actually, the journey of an entrepreneur becomes more surprising after he/she raises funding or scales up its business. ...
7 Quotes from The Biggest Entrepreneur of 20th Century ‘Ingvar Kamprad’
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7 Quotes from The Biggest Entrepreneur of 20th Century ‘Ingvar Kamprad’

The founder of IKEA and Ikano, and one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the 20th century, Ingvar Kamprad, has peacefully passed away, at his home in Småland, Sweden, on the 27th of January. Surrounded by his loved ones, he died at the age of 91, following a short illness. Ingvad Kamprad was a great entrepreneur who was hardworking and stubborn, with a lot of warmth and a playful twinkle in his eye. He worked until the very end of his life, staying true to his own motto that most things remain to be done. Here are 7 quotes from his life's experience that will help other entrepreneurs do the miracle that this saga started at the age of just 17 years.  “Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.” – Ingvar Kamprad     2. “What is good for our customers is als...
2017 Was A Very Happy Year For Apple’s Tim Cook With A Total Payout Cheque Of $102M
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2017 Was A Very Happy Year For Apple’s Tim Cook With A Total Payout Cheque Of $102M

Turns out the year 2017 for iPhone maker Apple Inc's chief executive officer Tim Cook was very happy. In a recent regulatory filing by Apple, it was revealed that Tim received a 74 percent increase in his annual bonus for fiscal 2017. Cook's incentive pay totaled around $9.3 million for the year ending September. He also took home $3.06 million in salary and a previously disclosed equity award of $89.2 million, bringing his total payout for the year to about $102 million. According to Bloomberg, his top five lieutenants each got bonuses of $3.11 million, bringing their total compensation to about $24.2 million each, including salaries and stock awards. Apple has increased the proportion of performance shares in its equity awards, which boosts potential future earnings for the ...
Nutritionist Who Gave Aamir Khan Dangal Look Going to Launch His Book
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Nutritionist Who Gave Aamir Khan Dangal Look Going to Launch His Book

Nutritionist Nikhil Dhurandhar, who was responsible for Aamir Khans wrestler looks in "Dangal", has come out with a book for fitness lovers and those aspiring for a healthier body. In "Fat-loss Diet", Dr Dhurandhar seeks to bust diet myths with facts over fads and provides a plan designed specifically for Indians. The book covers a range of topics - from reasons for weight gain, to things one need to fight it, to effective meal plans and motivational tips, to ways to stop the lost weight from returning. It is set for release next month. "On the one-year anniversary of the successful release of Dangal, the film, where the phenomenal fat-to-fit transformation of actor Aamir Khan took everyone by surprise, here is a book written by the very same doctor, Dr Nikhil Dhurandhar," publ...
There is no substitute to hard work: President tells children
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There is no substitute to hard work: President tells children

President Ram Nath Kovind today said there is no substitute to hard work and asked children to strive to achieve their goals in life. Addressing students at a programme organised by a government school at Raj Bhavan premises, he said children must set themselves goals and strive hard to achieve them. "There is no substitute to hard work and only through hard work they can rise in life. Children have to set themselves goals and strive hard to achieve them," an official release quoted Kovind as saying at the event. Children should be satisfied with whatever they have and always think positive. They should aspire to reach the top and there is no shortcut to reach there, he said. The president said no goal is difficult to reach if there is a will to achieve it, Kovind said. Kovi...
France Becomes The First Country In The World To Ban Oil & Gas Production
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France Becomes The First Country In The World To Ban Oil & Gas Production

The  parliament of France has approved to pass a law to ban all exploration and production of oil and natural gas by the year 2040 within the country and its overseas territories. Under that law that passed a final vote on Tuesday, the permits of existing drills will not be renewed and no new exploration licenses will be granted. The French government claims the ban is a world first. However, it is largely symbolic since oil and gas produced in France accounts for just 1% of domestic consumption. The rest is imported. Environment Minister Nicolas Hulot says the law shows "current generations can take care of future generations." The ban is part of a larger plan to wean the French economy from fossil fuels and to fulfill France's commitments under the Paris climate agreement to cur...