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Audrey D’silva is a model, anchor, influencer of par excellence

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Audrey D’silva is not just a name now as she has worked hard to emerge as an important influencer in social media all thanks to her flying modeling and media career, which has made her go strong in her career path. Starting her career as an actress, she progressed to emerge as an anchor where she hosted live shows and events in India and abroad and other places. She has been in this field for the past eight years and has managed more than 1200 shows so far delivering every event with great perfection and professionalism.

While modeling came later when she was enjoying her career of being an anchor. She participated in the FBB Colors Femina Miss India Goa and emerged as a finalist to get crowned with the title. This opened new avenues in her professional career and since then it was no looking back for the model and anchor. She remained the part of many ad campaigns and marketing events working as a model and walking on-ramps for many brands giving, therefore, the best outcome one can even think of. 

Then came social media that gave her recognition as an influencer allowing many more brands to connect with her for their branding in the media. She was quick to leverage this opportunity and win big for them promoting their products and services in a big way. Now, she has gained a decent exposure as a model and influencer and wants to tread the same path while keeping the other avenues like media and anchoring in a big way. Despite all her achievements and going higher in her success ladder, she is modest enough to not boast about her achievement and plans to move ahead with great pace and professionalism.

OMI RAJPAL – The next rising sensation of music industry

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Piece of art, such a beautiful phrase to define someone’s skills and capability to do something exceptional. Voice is future and presently, Omi is forging that future. The essence of music is in it’s a variety that he educates better.

Omi Rajpal is a talented singer, guitarist, and music composer. He started with his music career without any support but his skills and talent led him on the righteous path of success. Can anyone believe that a boy who just put up with his singing career without any assistance can think of enormous love and achievement, but he attained that all.

So essentially, he did not have any support from his family, he borrowed money from his friend to shoot his first original music video and got it shot in his student’s home. That video turned out to be a great success as it got 200k views which are just above his expectations. Presently, he has a good number of followers on his Instagram handle as well @omirajpal, where he uploads his music videos which are loved by his fans. Such love and support is something which makes him delighted. Money is the secondary aspect, but he gets cognitive gratification from singing.

He got a long way to go. By enhancing his abilities day by day he is raising the bar by bringing the notion of ‘love and praise your work’. For his optimistic beliefs, we wish him good luck for the future.

New technique may help recycle used tyres

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Scrap rubbers such as worn-out vehicle tyres contribute to environmental pollution, and there is an urgent need for safely repurposing them.

A team of researchers from India and Germany has devised a new process to retrieve almost all different types of rubber from used and discarded vulcanised scrap rubber. The process not only reclaims a high amount of rubber but also is of superior quality which can be repurposed into other products including making new tyres. 

It is estimated that nearly one billion scrap tyres are discarded annually. Incinerating them emits potent greenhouse gases, whereas pyrolysing them leaves carbon black and different hydrocarbon oils without rubber residue. The few recycling processes are elaborate and expensive with very little value addition to rubber.

Devulcanization of rubber is a better way of repurposing used rubber. The few conventional methods to devulcanize rubber material are prone to toxic emissions and yield a very low degree of devulcanization in the end. 

“Our chemical procedure is very safe with no toxic emissions as it involves what is called the chain capping reaction during devulcanization. Also, the silica reinforcement during devulcanization through coupling reaction exhibits enhanced strength of the material,” explained Dr Debapriya De, lead researcher at MCKV Institute of Engineering, Howrah, while speaking to India Science Wire.

For their study, the team procured commercial shredded waste rubber material and added a specific devulcanizing agent called TESPT to break sulphur bonds of vulcanisation. The resulting material was ground and subjected to mechanical rolling process from which elastomeric sheets of original thermoplastic like rubber were obtained. 

The reclaimed material was assessed chemically, morphologically and mechanically. The material exhibited good mechanical properties, tear strength, abrasion resistance, and dynamic mechanical properties with comparable toughness and composition to fresh rubber.

This rubber can be used in making products like automobile floor mats, soft tiles, boots and sheets. Also, by mixing the devulcanized rubber with fresh rubber, compounding agents and silica, it can once again be vulcanised into new tyres, saving precious amounts of raw material and industrial costs said Dr. De.

The team included Debapriya De and  Soumyajit Ghorai (MCKV Institute of Engineering, Howrah); Dipankar Mondal (University of Calcutta); Sakrit Hait, Anik Kumar Ghosh, Sven Wiessner and Amit Das (Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V, Dresden, Germany). The results were published in journal ACS Omega (India Science Wire)

Indian firm relaunches anti-rabies vaccine

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Rabies is a major public health problem. According to WHO, it claims over 59,000 lives each year, mostly in Asia and Africa. Recent studies estimate that India witnesses 17.4 million animal bites annually with 20,800 rabies deaths, being the highest in the world. With a large stray dog population, India needs a huge quantity of anti-rabies vaccine every year.

A rabies vaccine relaunched on Wednesday by Chiron Behring Vaccines, a part of Bharat Biotech, promises to address the need to a great extent. It is a purified chick embryo cell (PCEC) anti-rabies vaccine to be sold under new trade name, Chirorab. The vaccine was earlier marketed under trade name Rabipur. It is an inactivated vaccine used for active pre and post-exposure immunisation against Rabies. The vaccine is being manufactured with the original technology and at the same site, a WHO pre-qualified facility, in Ankleshwar, Gujarat.

Speaking on the occasion, Department of Biotechnology (DBT) secretary Dr. Renu Swarup said, “India has taken a lead in development and manufacture of vaccines and this has been recognized globally. Some of these vaccines have been developed in public private participation (PPP) mode with public research institutions working closely with private companies. Our public policies are geared to promote such collaboration further and thus help develop effective vaccines for various diseases.”

Chairman and Managing Director of Bharat Biotech, Dr. Krishna Ella said Â“in our ongoing commitment to address the supply shortage of rabies vaccine, we are making additional investments to increase production capacity to over 15 million doses annually.” The vaccine will be made available to government hospitals in various states through tenders, with the remaining available for the private markets and exports. 

Dr. Charles Ruprecht, former head of the Rabies programme at Centres of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said Â“the renewed local production of human rabies vaccine should help achieve the ‘Zero By Thirty’ goal for human rabies prevention in the Indian sub-continent and the region as a whole.”

Hoechst originally set up the facility to manufacture the vaccine in 1989. It took the name of Chiron Behring Vaccines after Chiron Corporation acquired it. It was subsequently taken over by Novartis in 2006 and GSK in 2015. Bharat Biotech acquired the company in March this year leading to restarting of commercial operations in May 2019. Chiron Behring is WHO Pre-qualified manufacturer of rabies vaccines.

The immunogenicity, efficacy, and safety of the vaccinehas been assessed in several clinical trials in pre- and post-exposure regimens, using both intra-muscular and intra-dermal routes of administration. It has been evaluated in over 25 controlled clinical trials in five countries in more than 7,000 subjects, the company said. During the past 30 years, over 80 million doses of this vaccine have been distributed worldwide. (India Science Wire)

Sunny Chopra & Nagma Mirajkar song – WhatsApp Song released

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Sunny Chopra who is a known model and actor is back in news for releasing his song – WhatsApp with Nagma Mirajkar Song. The song has been released under the banner Zee Music Originals, while people involved in the song coming from the solo album include Asees & Deedar along with Sunny Inder and Kumaar. The song has the duo – Sunny Chopra and Nagma Mirajkar seen on the screen.  While the voice for the song has been given by Asees Kaur & Deedar Kaur, while the lyrics have been jotted down by Kumaar.

The music for the melodious song has been composed by Sunny Inder, while the technical aspects of the song were taken care Amey Londhe (Mixing), Pritesh Mehta (programming), vocals were recorded at the Panoctave Music Studios, Mumbai. Chirag Arora has designed the concept and directed the song, while it is made under the banner of Cinerag Entertainments Pvt Ltd along with the Zee group. Lastly, the Choreography Team of the song includes Anuj Mishradinesh Mudliyar while the costumes were designed by Sujata Setiya.

Sunny Chopra who has been the part of the industry has come a long way while establishing his niche in the glamour industry. He has worked on different profiles, right from modeling to acting and trying different Tik Tok videos and then to music albums. He has worked with top names in the Tinsel Town like Sunny Leon, Priyanka Chopra, and Baadshah. He is a popular man in social media with more than 164 million fans. His recent music album with Patiala Babe’s divas released by Vyrls Original also fueled his stardom in the media. Now, its the turn of his latest song – WhatsApp to give the buzz alive in the media.

Shadan Farooqui is an ace Lifestyle Entrepreneur helping people get effective business solution

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Shadan Farooqui has close links with the fashion world since he was a child. This very inclination helped to give him a good understanding of the fashion world. He not only knew about fashion, brands, and designers but also showcased his incredible personality in his circle. Since he was a fitness freak, he had developed a good physique that added the right blend of charm and style in his personality allowing him to showcase his blogs on designs and patterns from different brands. This helped him emerge as a fashion blogger as well as he was able to jot down about it with great perfection and expertise. 

He soon came out with the experiments in other fields that remained connected to style and fashion – Modeling. He worked as a model and walked on-ramps for different brands and designers showcasing their designs and wide range of attires and fashion stuff before the world. He then also did many print and commercial ads while working in this field apart from remaining the part and parcel of many ad and marketing campaigns. Thanks to his understanding of fashion and physique, he ruled this world.

Soon he entered the world of social media and understood the power of social networking sites. He soon realized that he could also venture into lifestyle enterprise. Thanks to the information age we live in that have opened up the sea of opportunities to the world to take the current and the new businesses to its zenith. Hence he soon ventured in this field and started helping people, individuals, groups, and brands to embark upon effective lifestyle business solutions. He is now gearing up for this new direction and has carved his niche in this field and intends to go long in this direction.

Miquel Blázquez Font is a Sports Journalist of par excellence

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Miquel Blázquez Font is a known name when it comes to the Sports Journalist circles in Barcelona, Spain. Born on 26th July 1999 and brought up in Spain, he graduated in Communication Sciences from the prestigious institute – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). His career in journalism started with few local newspapers and radios. He knew what he has to do in his life. Hence his inclination towards journalism started when he was barely ten years of age.  It all started with listening to sports radio and he continued doing for a few years to finally decide to be a journalist. 

When he turned 19, he was the part of Radio Kanal Barcelona. His love for sports allowed him to get expertise in sports journalism. He has remained the part of many newspapers and Radio working as a sports journalist. He has currently engaged in the Radio Kanal Barcelona’s Information Services apart from being the part of several media groups that are specialized in sports. He remains the part and parcel of the daily sports information program at Sin Concesiones Radio, which is directed by Marçal Lorente. This program deals with offering daily sports updates mostly focussing football apart from other sports as well. 

Besides, Blázquez is also the part of other broadcast groups where he contributes as a commentator on the sports broadcasts for different matches (La Liga and Champions League) of the Futbol Club Barcelona. Besides, he is also active on social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram. His growing popularity in sports journalism and his collaborations with different media houses have led him to emerge as an influencer as well who helps individuals and groups to emerge as a brand over the web. He intends to go long in this field until he achieves big as a sports media person.

GIOCONDA VESSICHELLI‘ S UNCONVENTIONAL LIFE STYLE

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Today Gioconda Vessichelli is sharing with us for the first time ever her lifestyle even if she doesn’t like much to unveil her private life that she defines a “balanced chaos”..when we asked her which are her other interests beside music she  says : “Adventurous travels, actress,writer..these are my additional interests beside music..being an adventurer has to lead me to travel all the countries of the world and to interact with primitive people also in unconventional way which is the most inspiring one (because I hate boring conventional things) and my brain has become so fast and open-minded that now I can speak 7 languages ! As per actress I ve learned in the academy of arts which prepared me not only from a music point of view but also as an actress as a music composer and as a classical western dancer. On the opera stage, we singers should also dance and act so we are trained as 360 degrees artists. As per adventurer and travelers I ‘ve always been an adventurous person! since my early age I have loved to do unconventional things and a little bit risky things..like a parachute, bungee jumping etc..

I have also done bungee jumping recently In india..it has been an amazing experience! As per writer, I will release one day all my poetry and the book about my life always full of adrenaline and happy! .. I m so enthusiastically in this period cause  I am  Ambassador of Opera style in India… I don t think a real artist should ever be inhibited in anything otherwise it’s not pure art..and me, in my life I have never been inhibited, my motto is MAKE WHATEVER YOU LOVE AND YOU BELIEVE IN WITH ALL YOUR ENERGIES ..NEVER BE SCARED! 

I will just give an example…I was a child of 14 years old and my colleagues were 40 years old, so they treated me like parents cause i spent much more time with them rather than with my real family (to prepare an opera show you have to live in the theatre at least 30 days for each production, and most of the shows take place during Christmas time so it has happened that I haven t spent Christmas festivities with my family sometimes even for 10 years because I was abroad for work) so my colleagues who were much older than me used to take care of me because for them was very unusual to see a small child body with a big adult opera voice inside it..so they used to call me ” little diamond” so I feel the whole world to be my house .. As for my Birth, my mother used to say that I was born not crying but singing! 🙂 The passion for music was born with me. I have spent almost all my childhood on a piano and practicing singing… it’s very difficult to become an opera singer..not anyone can become it..you must yes have the gift of voice from God but also you have to learn the technique for not losing your voice and for reach very high or very low notes and to increase the power of your voice.. you have to study a lot the technique of using diagrammatic muscles and the bones of your faces to gain the best resonances in your voice because in opera shows we don’t even use microphones because opera voice is very strong..one time happened to me to break a glass with my voice..but special physical situation must occur… THAT ‘ S my LIFESTYLE!. In an opera singer s life you must sleep at least 8 hours per night, you do not have to drink alcohol or to smoke, avoid acid foods, you have to practice every day until 90 years old ..you never finish to learn and your vocal chords a muscles must be worked out every day with constant and patience. .so its a continuous discover of sounds and u start to feel all the resonances of your body once you reach a very high level of skills..me for examples I m very happy because I have reached four octaves of extensions in my voice that very few people in the world of opera singing have achieved.

it s like the life of an athlet..you have to do vocalize in the morning after you wake up you have to warm up your voice with some vocalizes and some muscles and breathing exercises.. it’s very important! only after that you can go to the piano and start singing your songs..which actually in opera style are called “arias”. there are some virtuosisitic songs in which you have to sing very fast even 50 notes very fast in just one breath and with lyrics and you have to be careful to not let your tongue to get disconnected..for achieving this virtue you have to first start in a very slow way and little by little increase velocity. .till you see as a light in your voice..It s such a fascinating mood that even if during my childhood I lost all the moments of life that normally a child does( like playing with dolls or going out with friends) I don t regret. I m always like a little child who is discovering new music sounds, cause I m always a researcher, I am discovering a new world, learning a new language and all these things make me so happy.

I ve Always done the thing that my heart and my voice suggested to me and on this base, I have built my creativeness and just when you are happy and in peace with yourself the most beautiful things come out and you are able to let me also the audience enjoy. So I will continue in this path and I m already selecting among all the proposals that I have received the one which is sounding better in my soul..so stay tuned..I will surprise you soon with a great new striking effect !..maybe not only as a singer but I ll explore also my other artistic skills!

Khalfan Shaikh’s Hashtag Mumbai News top up the social media game giving latest bulletins

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Hashtag Mumbai News unlike any other social media group ace the bulletin game giving the latest and exclusive updates about city life. Giving in’s and out’s about the city hashtag Mumbai was established by Khalfan Shaikh on 10th Aug 2018.

Within a year’s span with its speed and accuracy of delivering the exact circumstances to its viewer’s hashtag, Mumbai news started gaining its digital popularity and soon became the most viewed site in India.

With politics, constructions, events across the city, accidents, functions to entertainment Hashtag Mumbai news has it all. It is one of the first portals to receive and release exclusive coverage of incidents taking place.

A city undergoing a number of the phenomenon on day to day basis never is it easy to get updated about maximum and minimum happening around. Hashtag Mumbai news updates its viewers with the insides of the occurrences thus making it a digital magnate portal.

It was the first news site to provide an exclusive confirmation report of youth star Danish Zehen’s car accident death which spread like fire across the country. The news originated and was exclusively covered by Hashtag Mumbai news.

As per 2019 digital research Hashtag, Mumbai news has proved to be a booming site when it comes to providing daily gossips about the city. About 90% Mumbaikars have preferred referring hashtag Mumbai news for getting their daily updates about the city. 

Hashtag Mumbai News consists of 6lakh plus subscribers on YouTube. Thousands of followers on Facebook. It also is the most viewed news site digitally. 54k plus followers on Instagram and 1200 plus local WhatsApp group.

Kadi Who’s Widely Known As ‘ItsNotKadi’ Shares How She Got Recognition As An Internet Sensation

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The most important rule to get ahead in life is to have patience. Hard work does not pay off immediately. It takes years and in order to succeed, it is important to face all the odds coming in your way. Khadidja Djibrine is a popular internet personality who is establishing her name in the field of modeling. Also known as Kadi, she is recognized as ‘@itsnotkadi’ by her fans on social media. She hails from the Republic of Chad located in north-central Africa and is bordered by the countries including Sudan, Mali, and Libya. She comes from the big Zaghawa family, a Muslim ethnic group from Central Africa. They usually speak Arab and French and she has 9 siblings and 7 half-siblings. The Zaghawa family has been ruling Chad for more than 20 years which has seen men having more power over women in the region.

Growing up in a very conservative environment, her family believes and practises arranged marriage setup since a really long time. With having a traditional and restrictive approach towards life, she was not allowed to go out of her home when she was a kid. Her life was all about going to school and returning home and vice-versa. In such a scenario, she found her love in television which taught her a lot of things. Many TV programmes and movies in different languages helped her learn English, Hindi and Spanish and over the years, she learnt it fluently. The programmes and movies taught her a lot about diverse cultures which made her realize the importance of love. Since then, she thought that she will get married one day only after being in love and not because of an arrangement.  

Over the years, she learnt things by herself and in 2010, she moved to India for her college. In 2013, she got a bachelor’s degree in commerce with doing her majors in marketing management. With college, she also started involving herself in modeling and wanted to enter bollywood. She faced rejections because of her dark complexion. Khadidja never lost hope and to fulfil her dreams, she flew to the USA in 2014. It has been almost 5 years now and she has been a part of many modelling assignments in the States. On October 26, 2019, she launched her own single titled ‘Draw The Line’. Besides this, she also emerged as the 2nd runner up for Miss Reshma Beauty pageant on May 3, 2019, in Beverly Hills, California. Today, this 26-year old woman is going to places and is an inspirational force who has proved to never stop dreaming in life.