Shubham Kumar

People do hundreds of scrolls on content each day without giving it a second glance. A majority of things they see are completely ignored, not because they are bad, but because they don't cause them to cease. All of these are run-by videos that take less than 2 seconds to watch and leave no real impression. However, occasionally a video pauses for someone in the middle, and they watch the entire video. They share it with someone, they think about it the next day, and the thing that made the difference was almost always a story.

Most jewellery brands spend years trying to earn a prime retail address. Goenka Jewellers spent 30 years proving it didn't need one. Operating from a home setup in Kolkata, the business quietly grew to over ₹6 crore in annual recurring revenue before opening its first-ever showroom on Camac Street, one of Kolkata's busiest and most prestigious commercial streets, this Akshaya Tritiya.

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Expansive soils pose severe problems to the pavement performance due to the presence of high swelling-shrinkage characteristics, low strength, and sensitivity to moisture. The paper assesses Rice husk ash (RHA) as a sustainable stabilizer of expansive subgrade soil by undertaking laboratory tests and machine learning. The experimental findings indicated that RHA decreased the differential free swell and plasticity and enhanced the unconfined compressive strength (UCS) and soaked California Bearing Ratio (CBR) and performed best at 10–15% RHA. The improved subgrade properties enabled a reduction of flexible pavement thickness by 26% as per IRC 37:2018. A dataset of 186 experimentally generated soil–stabilizer conditions was used to develop predictive models for UCS. XGBoost was found to be the best performing model with high predictive accuracy on both independent testing data (R2 = 0.9895) and five-fold cross-validation (R2 = 0.9924), and strong generalization and low risk of overfitting. The explainability analysis based on SHAP revealed the most significant factors affecting the development of strengths were curing period, intrinsic soil properties, RHA dosage, and swelling potential. Uncertainty quantification also showed that the prediction intervals were in line with the variability in the experiment. The results verify that RHA is a good eco-friendly stabilizer and that interpretable machine learning can assist in the reliable performance-based pavement design.

The SC has recognised safe walking as a fundamental right. Its real test is government action, writes Shubham Kumar.

Startup life can be exciting, but it can also be hard on the body and mind. Long hours, shifting goals, tight budgets, and constant decision-making can leave founders and teams drained. After reviewing current workplace wellness research and common startup work patterns, the clearest lesson is simple: health support works best when it fits into the real pace of a growing company.

The man who just took over WhatsApp is also India's most prolific angel investor. Tracxn lists 299 companies in Kunal Shah's portfolio. We pulled the data apart by sector, vintage and outcome. Here is what it reveals about how he wins, where he loses, and what is still unproven.

SEBI has proposed a single Common Advertisement Code to replace the patchwork of rules that govern how financial entities advertise. It scraps mandatory prior approval for most ads, lets firms use celebrities again, and classifies big finfluencers, OTT stars, and even AI avatars as "celebrities."

Andy Jassy met Narendra Modi and pledged $48 billion for India through 2030. But every dollar of the new money he announced, $13 billion, goes to AI and cloud, not to retail. Where the money is going tells you Amazon's priorities have shifted.

FIFA is a non-profit registered in Zurich. It is also on track to collect roughly $13 billion in four years, almost all of it from a single tournament. Let's Learn how the money is actually made, where it goes, and why the whole machine runs on a four-year clock.