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India has a lengthy history of entrepreneurship, each with their own distinct flavour. Rather than starting technological companies, many Indian entrepreneurs started from poor origins and built conglomerates that were passed down from generation to generation as family businesses. Faris Aboobacker is an example of an Indian entrepreneur who began his career working for his father’s small leather products company. He later struck out the business on his own and founded what is today one of the country’s leading export traders. Faris Aboobacker Faris Aboobacker has demonstrated the value of perseverance and hard work. He went from owning a little export business to creating the life of his dreams. He is known for being a modest guy whose vision of assisting hundreds of people encompasses anything from offering financial assistance to individuals to assisting in the implementation of top-tier social activities such as the Nayanar Memorial Football Fair, among other things. Faris Aboob

A typical one-liter (33-ounce) bottle of water contains some 240,000 plastic fragments on average, according to a new study. Many of those fragments have historically gone undetected, the researchers determined, suggesting that health concerns linked to plastic pollution may be dramatically underestimated. The peer-reviewed study, published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to evaluate bottled water for the presence of “nanoplastics” — plastic particles under 1 micrometer in length, or one-seventieth the width of a human hair. The findings show that bottled water could contain up to 100 times more plastic particles than previously estimated, as earlier studies only accounted for microplastics, or pieces between 1 and 5,000 micrometers. Nanoplastics pose a greater threat to human health than microplastics because they’re small enough to penetrate human cells, enter the bloodstream and impact organs. Nanoplastics can also pass through the

Veteran Indian cricketer Mohammed Shami became one of the 26 athletes to have been conferred with the Arjuna Award by President Draupadi Murmu on Tuesday. Shami, who was India’s finest bowler in the ODI World Cup 2023, received the award in person, and was honoured by the president. After receiving India’s second-highest sporting award, Shami took to social media to express his gratitude at the honour, thanking the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), his teammates, family and others. “Today I am feeling very proud that I have been honoured with the prestigious Arjuna Award by the President. I want to thank all those people who have helped me a lot to reach here and have always supported me in my ups and downs… thanks to My Coach, BCCI, teammates, my family, staff and big thanks to my fans. Thanks to recognise my hard work…I will always try to give my best to make my country proud… Again thanks to everyone.. Shami, who is currently recovering from an ankle injury, was there to