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Home This IRS officer from Punjab is on a mission to bring back lost green cover through his micro-forest initiative
Mumbai’s Aarey forest was recently in the news as many trees were being cut down for the upcoming Mumbai metro shed. Despite the many protests, the state-run metro authority somehow succeeded in cutting down more than a 1,000 trees in the forest.Reducing green cover means increasing temperatures and lesser rainfall. While it is...
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Home 5 successful women entrepreneurs reveal the best advice they ever received
As young girls, we are often told how to walk, talk and behave. As mothers, we are expected to manage everything from childcare, career, and even postpartum depression without complaining. As working women, entrepreneurs, and mumpreneurs, the expectations are also high. All these also come with unconscious gender bias, judgement and unsolicited advice. It certainly is...
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Home [Funding alert] Wingreens Farms raises Rs 125 Cr in Series B from responsAbility Investments, Sequoia India
Gurugram-based Wingreens Farms Private Limited (Wingreens) on Tuesday said that it has raised a Rs 125 crore (or $17.37 million, as per current exchange rate) as a part of its Series B funding round led by Zurich-based private equity fund responsAbility Investments AG. Existing investor Sequoia India also participated as a part of this...
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Home 12 inspirational quotes by Sushmita Sen on why you should celebrate yourself
As Miss Universe and later as an actor, Sushmita Sen has broken the glass ceiling, is vocal about being independent, adoption, dating, social issues, and stereotypes that women face. As an 18 year old, she won the Femina Miss India title in 1994 and then became the first Indian to win the Miss Universe title later that year. Since then, the actress has been in the...
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Home Ambition, perseverance, consistency - 8 women entrepreneurs share their success secrets
While we’d like to think entrepreneurship is not about gender, it’s a disturbing fact that women who take to entrepreneurship inevitably face more challenges than their male counterparts. Earlier this year, on Women’s Day, HerStory published a report on the State of Women’s Entrepreneurship in India. The survey revealed that over...
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Home How this 21-year-old is honouring the legacy of his uncle, Javed Abidi, in the disability space
Javed Abidi was one of the pioneers in creating a cross-disability movement in India, encouraging people with different disabilities to work on common and collective solutions. He passed away in 2018, but the light that he shone and the memory of his passionate activism is fondly cherished by individuals not only in the disability space but across...
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Home Science, software, startups: Bengaluru Tech Summit 2019 showcases tech trends and entrepreneurial energy
Launched in 2014, PhotoSparks is a weekly feature from YourStory, with photographs that celebrate the spirit of creativity and innovation. In the earlier 405 posts, we featured an art festival, cartoon gallery, world music festival, telecom expo, millets fair, climate change expo, wildlife...
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Home From an investment of Rs 40 lakh to Rs 20 Cr revenue, how Ufaber found success with hyper-personalised learning
After passing out from IIT-Bombay in 2004, Rohit Jain and Anirudh Swarnkar, both engineers, worked in corporate jobs for a year. However, the duo soon realised that they had a passion for teaching and could do more in that field. In 2005, they launched their K12-focused company Mexus Education. Over the next few years, as they scaled...
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Home Women's Entrepreneurship Day: starting young and making a difference
Entrepreneurship is often assumed to be a journey that requires a lot of forethought and resources in place, which are often things one only finds later in life. However, many are taking the plunge much younger, with the belief that it’s never too early to try and make a difference.On Women’s Entrepreneurship Day, meet these young and determined entrepreneurs.Tanya...
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Home Tough times and failure won't last, your tenacity will: 5 women entrepreneurs share how they tackle challenges
Entrepreneurship is like being on a roller coaster but one that keeps going. The road is filled with unexpected challenges, unforeseen snags, and sometimes even finding the right talent for the job becomes difficult. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. There is so much more to being an entrepreneur. As talk show host and...
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