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21501. How Kerala-based Techgentsia built its Made-in-India video conferencing solution Vconsol that rivals Zoom, Google Meet
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- Kerala-based Techgentsia Software’s Vconsol recently won the Grand Challenge for Developing Video Conference Solution. The company will receive a Rs 1 crore grant and set up video conferencing facilities in central government institutions.
- Vconsol follows a compression standard based on block-oriented, motion-compensated, integer-DCT coding, and provides good video quality at substantially lower bit rates than most standards - without increasing the complexity of the design.
- Having won the Grand Challenge, the company will be supported with a grant of Rs 1 crore, and an additional Rs 10 lakh each year for OEM for the next three years. The video conferencing tool will also be adopted by the government through a contract.
21502. शहर छोड़, आर्किटेक्ट ने गाँव में बनाया पत्थर का घर और ऑफिस, गाँववालों को दिया रोज़गार
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- अहमदाबाद के 39 वर्षीय आर्किटेक्ट हिमांशु पटेल ने भी शहरी जीवन को छोड़कर गांव में बसना पसंद किया।
- आधुनिक होने के साथ-साथ ईको-फ्रेंडली भी है। दक्षिण भारतीय घरों की तर्ज पर बने इस घर में, गर्मी के दिनों में तापमान बाहर की तुलना में 5 डिग्री कम रहता है।
- उनका यह ईको-फ्रेंडली घर (Eco friendly House) आस-पास के लोगों के लिए आकर्षण का केंद्र बन गया है।
21503. Hitwicket: this Made in India app seeks to disrupt the global esports and mobile gaming market for an Aatmanirbhar Bharat
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- Cricket Strategy Game 2020 by Hyderabad-based startup Hitwicket emerged as one of the favourite Made in India apps in the gaming category in the recent AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
- In line with PM Modi's clarion call for an Aatmanirbhar Bharat, or a self-reliant nation, and more particularly, his call for an Aatmanirbhar App Ecosystem, Hitwicket aspires to create a truly world-class gaming experience for the billion cricket fans, with their Made In India game for India and the world. Their vision is to host Hitwicket World Cup 2023, the grandest e-sports event for cricket.
- Furthermore, the team behind the game plans to make India a prime hub for e-sports championships by orchestrating the all-ambitious Hitwicket World Cup, tentatively scheduled for 2023 — wherein users from all across the globe would compete in a virtual IPL-like tournament at zonal, state, national, and international levels.
21504. CaptionPlus: the app for brands to turn pictures into stories
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- According to international social media marketing firm Socialbakers, posts with explanatory text overlay generated 41 percent more interactions on average over the course of 2017. This was one of the underlying rationale behind CaptionPlus — one of the winners of the government's AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge.
- In 2018, three Delhi University students, Rahul Maurya, Anurag Kumar, and Jitendra Yadav found this an opportunity to help content creators. The trio launched CaptionPlus in beta in August 2018 with zero monetary investment after initial market research and studying profiles of thousands of people.
- In two years since the beta launch as a simple repository of captions and hashtags, the app has now integrated an AI engine, which can show users contextual captions and hashtags to the images. This is similar to the tags or emoji options one can get while doing the SEO optimisation or drafting any social media message.
21505. स्कॉलरशिप पर यूएस पढ़ने गया मोटर मकैनिक का बेटा बना हाई स्कूल का टॉपर
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- पिछले साल स्कॉलरशिप के जरिए यूएस में पढ़ाई करने गए मकैनिक के बेटे ने यूएस के हाई स्कूल में टॉप किया है। मोटर मकैनिक के बेटे मोहम्मद शादाब ने बताया कि पिछले साल उसने केनेडी-लूगर यूथ एक्सचेंज स्कॉरशिप जीती थी। इस स्कॉलरशिप के दहत उसे यूएस सरकार से 20 लाख रुपये मिले थे। इस प्रोग्राम के तहत वह हाई स्कूल की पढ़ाई करने यूएस गया था। फरवरी में चुना गया था स्टूडेंट ऑफ द मंथ
- शादाब ने बताया कि उसके कक्षा में 800 छात्र थे। सारे छात्रों के बीच उसने टॉप किया है। शादाब ने बताया, 'मैंने स्कूल में टॉप करने के लिए वाकई बहुत ज्यादा मेहनत की। घर की स्थिति बहुत अच्छी नहीं थी। आज भी आर्थिक स्थिति बहुत खराब है। मैं अपने माता पिता की मदद करना चाहता हूं और चाहता हूं कि एक दिन उन्हें मेरे ऊपर गर्व हो।' उसने भारत सरकार का भी शुक्रिया अदा किया है। उसने कहा, 'मैं भारत सरकार का भी आभारी हूं जिन्होंने मुझे इस स्कॉलरशिप के लिए चुना और विदेश में भारत का परचम लहराने के लिए भेजा।' शादाब के पिता अरशद नूर ने बताया कि वह पिछले 25 वर्षों से मोटर मकैनिक का काम करते हैं। उन्होंने कहा, 'हमने अपने बेटे को विदेश में पढ़ने के लिए भेजा था और हमें गर्व है कि उसने वहां स्कूल टॉप करके हम लोगों का ही नहीं बल्कि पूरे देश का नाम रोशन किया है।'
- अरशद ने कहा कि वह चाहते हैं कि उनका बेटा पढ़-लिखकर एक आईएएस अधिकारी बने और देश के लिए काम करे। शादाब ने कहा कि वह भविष्य में संयुक्त राष्ट्र में मानवाधिकार अधिकारी के रूप में काम करना चाहते हैं।
21506. AskSarkar: how this Made in India app by Bengaluru-based CoRover is disrupting the AI chatbot segment in India
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- Bengaluru-based conversational AI startup CoRover’s chatbot AskSarkar app leads users to official government websites and resolves their queries on government services via text, audio, or video. This Made in India app is among the winners of the Aatmanirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge.
- CoRover's AskSarkar app received special mention in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Mann ki Baat broadcast to the nation on Sunday, during which PM Modi recognised the disruptive innovations taking place in India.
- CoRover itself was founded in 2016 by Ankush Sabharwal along with Rahul Ranjan, Manav Gandotra, and Kunal Bhakhri.
21507. StepSetGo app: PM Modi praises the platform making fitness fun by rewarding every step users take
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- To incentivise people to work out and make fitness a daily habit, childhood friends Misaal Turakhia(28), Abhay Pai (27), and Shivjeet Ghatge (28) started Mumbai-based startup and fitness app StepSetGo in January 2019.
- StepSetGo app, a winner in the Aatmanirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge, aims to get people out of the workout rut by incentivising the process of walking. PM Modi recognised the fitness app by the Mumbai-based startup in his Mann ki Baat address.
- Fitness app StepSetGo is a fitness app that maintains records of how much a user has walked and motivates users to stay fit, PM Modi noted in his Mann ki Baat address.
21508. How 2 former Unacademy colleagues launched an e-sports streaming platform for millennials
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- Bengaluru-based Rheo, an online e-sports streaming and community platform, was founded in 2019 with the aim of enabling gamers in India to live stream games from mobile phones and create live gaming streams in vernacular languages.
- Its goal is to bring gaming into the same league as that of cricket and Bollywood in India.
- Rheo provides live streaming gaming videos and engagement with streamers. It also lets users get access to exclusive tournaments and e-sports events hosted and participated by top gamers in India and stream one’s favourite games from PC, Xbox One or any Android smartphone.
21509. MemeChat: An app that helps meme creators get paid by brands for their creativity
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- Started by two 22-year-olds, MemeChat is a space for creators, users and social media influencers to cash in on the meme-making phenomenon and was one of the winners of AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge.
- The duo from SRM University graduated in Computer Science in 2020 and have been developers since the age of 15. They met each other when they were studying in Delhi Public School (Gurugram), and bonded over their mutual interest in software and technology.
- The users can create memes using paid templates, and get paid upon their approval. As another option, users can earn making memes in the requested category and get paid by brands.
21510. How this Hyderabad startup went from skilling youths to delivering e-learning to schools
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- After quitting Motorola in 2008, Ananth set up Focus Ventures, which backed Hyderabad-based SkillPro, a social enterprise that aims to skill one million underprivileged youth. He took over as the chairman of SkillPro in 2013. Soon after, as the Skill India Mission took off, SkillPro transitioned from offline skill training to an e-learning solution. In eight years, it has impacted over 300,000 youth across rural and urban areas and placed them in jobs. But, there was a pain point.
- Hyderabad startup SkillPro launched mPowerO to tap into the rising demand for e-learning solutions and learning management systems during the pandemic.
- With the lockdown on educational institutions unlikely to get over anytime soon, the thrust on e-learning and online classrooms is at an all-time high. SkillPro rolled out mPowerO in May to tap into this lockdown-induced market demand.