India’s E-commerce to Reach $100 billion by 2020

India had already plunged into e-commerce market. It is predicted to grow ten fold and in next five years reach $ 100 billion, DIPP Secretary Amitabh Kant said today. According to a report titled ‘Direct selling; Mapping the industry across Indian states’, the country’s e-commerce sector, which is around $ 10 billion (Rs 65,000 crore) at present, can even touch $ 250 billion in next ten years as digital penetration of Internet, smartphones and digital…

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Scientist, Rajesh Gokhale, Become an  Entrepreneur

Rajesh Gokhale getting ready to set up a new lab inside the NCL Venture Park in Pune, which will colloborate on research work with National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) . His first firm, Vyome Biosciences, is on the late stages of developing an anti-dandruff and other anti-bacterial products Research Work : First project treatment and cure for leucoderma, the white patches on the skin. Lab ordered Chemical reagents and buffaloes which get such white patches. Drug…

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Eco-friendly menu Served at UN high-level Lunch

The “Landfill Salad” was made from unwanted vegetable scraps, stalks and outer leaves salvaged from the waste of big food producers, and liquid drained from a can of chickpeas. The burgers and fries came from discarded vegetables, ends of cucumber thrown out by picklers and cow corn, which is used for feeding animals or for making ethanol. The “Spent Grain Bread” was baked from grain mash left over from brewing and distilling process, and unrefined…

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Isro successfully launches Astrosat, six other satellites

Isro on Monday successfully launched India’s first astronomy satellite Astrosat, eleven years after the government cleared the project. A Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C30) carrying Astrosat and six other satellites lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota at 10am. In around 25 minutes after liftoff, PSLV-C30 injected Astrosat and other satellites — four US nano satellites, a microsatellite from Indonesia a nanosatellite from Canada – into their respective orbits. This is the…

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7 Reasons Why the Chinese economy is slowing down?

Too much supply, too little demand in too many sectors. Chinese companies continue to manufacture stuff which people are not buying. In order to buy all their output, we need approximately two more earths; Chinese government policy is geared to keep people at work, even if it means that companies (especially state-owned enterprises) are inefficient in order to keep social stability; By offering cheap money to inefficient loss-making businesses, the Chinese government is piling on…

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Whats Unique about Human Beings?

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Change Your Diet and Reduce Your Cholestrol

Statins are used to lower cholesterol but how much can be achieved with changes to diet alone, asks Michael Mosley. Over the many years that I’ve been making science documentaries I’ve covered a huge range of subjects, but there is one that is of particular personal interest. My family tree is riddled with heart disease and I know that, unchecked, my cholesterol scores tend to soar. I am not alone – 60% of people in…

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