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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min readEducation is the driving force of any society and calls for continuous evolution to be relevant to our learning needs. The Indian education system is transforming to meet the larger demands of our growing nation. The Government’s initiative to digitalise the education system reflects a highly positive approach of embracing digital technology to revolutionise how ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readDespite various challenges and limitations, the country has achieved huge milestones in the primary education sector. There has been a significant access to schooling and increase in enrollment rates in primary education. Talking about the challenges, the numbers have been increasing in terms of dropout rates, with an equivalent increase in the rate of slow ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readAs the words say, “Take care of your body because it is where you are going to live.”Since fitness mantra has marched in its ways into people’s lives, especially for the unhealthy lifestyle, availability of junk food, aerated drinks and chemically injected fruits and vegetables makes the human body prone to deadly diseases. All this ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min read"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."– Nelson Mandela.Government schools in India have always been neglected or under estimated. There are some states, who take their schools and education provided by those schools seriously and rest all have already made their way to the news channels, being mocked at ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readWho doesn’t like the tag of a multiunit franchisee? It takes immense determination and planning to take the count from one to five six and more. How many franchisees start with one store and then turn into Multiunit franchisees? What is the secret of their success? Let’s know more on the challenges and tasks involved ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readWaays & Solutions is leveraging its franchising model while expanding pan India. The company is operating through 60 offices across the country and has 150 plus recruitment specialists on board. Talking about the business model, franchising, and future plans venturing into overseas market and contractual staffing, Aroon Balakrishnan, Founder, Waays & Solutions spoke ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readPeople these days are bored of their cubicles stuck in the corporate jobs, thus they are moving out to own startups or turning themselves as entrepreneurs and businessmen. Becoming a business is not a cake walk thus one has to gain expertise in particular field in order to run his or her company smoothly. A ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readThe growing concern in our tropical country is how people are getting tanned by the minute, from the more than appreciable heat of the sun. Being an ancient hub of multiple foreign invasions and dynasties of various heritages and ancestries, we Indians are a race of not only various languages, but of diverse appearances. And ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readEducation is the backbone of our nation. It is an instrument to national human resource development. Listed among the fastest growing economies in the world, India stands way behind in the line, when it comes to education. Low quality education is crippling India’s growth to cope with the demands of the 21st century economy.It is ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readImagine understanding a complex math problem in a minute with a graphical illustration of all the steps, or visualising how our heart functions. Learning has never been so much fun and engaging as it is now with all the digital apps, games and online tutorials at our disposal. Whether for school goers or working professional, ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readStress is an inevitable yet essential component of life- something that is impossible to exclude from daily routine. The beauty of life is that excess of anything destroys the fragile harmony of living. Likewise, excessive stress becomes a disease promoting agent and constitutes major health concerns. This can be detected from a tender age, as ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min readWell-known name in the online furniture selling space, Urban Ladder has now decided to embrace franchise model for its business operations. The brand is confident to lead the race and excel with its selected franchise partners. We exclusively spoke to Kaustabh Chakraborty, Sr. VP - Customer Operations & Retail, Urban Ladder on why franchising and ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readAyurveda has been passed down the generations ever since its existence. The Indian culture has involved various ayurvedic treatments and remedies which are still being used by the people. In a conversation with Mr Anurag Mathur, Partner- Consumer Goods and Retail, PwC India, we get to know the driving force behind the Ayurveda industry and ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readBeauty is only skin deep but healthy hair reflects healthy lifestyle and healthy personality, which is the result of what goes underneath the skin. The regular use of chemicals on skin and hair, unhealthy and adulteries mix in food items and pollution has forced people to take a turn towards the age-old ayurvedic culture. The ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readTechnology has helped the beauty industry touch new heights and it is still going to take it a long way ahead. In a conversation with Mr Vishal Sharma, Managing Director, Everstone Capital Advisors Pvt. Ltd, he tells us his viewpoint about the ever growing beauty industry and the support technology has provided to the ...