PlayShifu, an Augmented Reality (AR) toymaker founded by IIT Kharagpur alumnus Vivek Goyal and Dinesh Advani, has its presence in over 35 countries and a customer base of over 7 lakh.
From the endearing term, ‘Anna’ to words like Abba, Achcha, Bapu, Bada Din, Bachcha and Surya Namaskar, over 70 new Indian words from Telugu, Urdu, Tamil, Hindi and Gujarati alongside 900+ Indian words that already exist in the OED have turned global.
A recent tragedy on India's roads has highlighted a need for the country to step up it's efforts to curb drunk drivers. In spite of a variety of methods, from educating people to legislative changes, the problem of drunk driving persists. Here's a few examples of what other countries are doing to challenge the issue.
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals include the target of ending the global threat of AIDS by 2030. New fronts are opening up in the war against AIDS that recognise the importance of connecting this with other SDGs such as gender equality and decent employment and wages for all.