Ashok Khade
Chief executive of Das Offshore Engineering, Mumbai
Annual turnover: 5.5 billion rupees (Dh448 million)
Ashok Khade's father made a modest living as a cobbler in Ped, a village in the western state of Maharashtra. He worked on the docks by day and studied for a diploma in mechanical engineering by night. For prolonged periods, he slept under staircases because his family could not afford to pay rent. Today, he presides over a flourishing company that does construction work on offshore rigs and builds pedestrian bridges.
Devjibhai Makwana
Chief executive of Suraj Filaments, Bhavnagar
Annual turnover: 3bn rupees
Two decades ago, few people knew of Devjibhai Makwana. He struggled to get a bank loan to set up a manufacturing unit for multi-filament yarn used in fishing nets. But since the business took off in 1997, the company has captured a sizeable share of the domestic market and has become an exporter. Now bankers are lining up to lend him money, he says.
Dr Sushant Meshram
Multi-speciality hospital in Nagpur
Annual turnover: 400m rupees
Sushant Meshram was born into a poor Dalit family living in a segregated part of Nagpur town in northern Maharashtra. His father was an ordinary worker in an ordnance factory. At school, he could not participate in drama, music and sports because he was Dalit. But through hard work he went on to become a specialist in chest medicine. He became a fellow at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the US. He is currently building a multi-speciality state-of-the-art hospital in Nagpur - which will not deny treatment to Dalits.
Milind Kamble
Chairman and managing director of Fortune Construction, Pune
Annual turnover: 1.01bn rupees
Milind Kamble is the eldest son of a schoolteacher from Shirur Tajband, a small village in the state of Maharashtra. He set up Fortune Construction more than 25 years ago. Mr Kamble aims one day to appear on Fortune magazine's list of dollar billionaires.
Source: Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and Outlook, a newsweekly in India
* compiled by Anuj Chopra
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Date started: 2012
Founder: Amir Barsoum
Based: Dubai, UAE
Sector: HealthTech / MedTech
Size: 300 employees
Funding: $22.6 million (as of September 2018)
Investors: Technology Development Fund, Silicon Badia, Beco Capital, Vostok New Ventures, Endeavour Catalyst, Crescent Enterprises’ CE-Ventures, Saudi Technology Ventures and IFC
How Alia's experiment will help humans get to Mars
Alia’s winning experiment examined how genes might change under the stresses caused by being in space, such as cosmic radiation and microgravity.
Her samples were placed in a machine on board the International Space Station. called a miniPCR thermal cycler, which can copy DNA multiple times.
After the samples were examined on return to Earth, scientists were able to successfully detect changes caused by being in space in the way DNA transmits instructions through proteins and other molecules in living organisms.
Although Alia’s samples were taken from nematode worms, the results have much bigger long term applications, especially for human space flight and long term missions, such as to Mars.
It also means that the first DNA experiments using human genomes can now be carried out on the ISS.
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Director: Todd Phillips
Rating: 2/5
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Name: James Mullan
Nationality: Irish
Family: Wife, Pom; and daughters Kate, 18, and Ciara, 13, who attend Jumeirah English Speaking School (JESS)
Favourite book or author: “That’s a really difficult question. I’m a big fan of Donna Tartt, The Secret History. I’d recommend that, go and have a read of that.”
Dream: “It would be to continue to have fun and to work with really interesting people, which I have been very fortunate to do for a lot of my life. I just enjoy working with very smart, fun people.”
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Ajax 2-3 Tottenham
Tottenham advance on away goals rule after tie ends 3-3 on aggregate
Final: June 1, Madrid
Venue: Sharjah Cricket Stadium
Date: Sunday, November 25
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Director: Laila Abbas
Starring: Yasmine Al Massri, Clara Khoury, Kamel El Basha, Ashraf Barhoum
Rating: 4/5
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The specs: 2018 Dodge Durango SRT
Price, base / as tested: Dh259,000
Engine: 6.4-litre V8
Power: 475hp @ 6,000rpm
Torque: 640Nm @ 4,300rpm
Transmission: Eight-speed automatic
Fuel consumption, combined: 7.7L / 100km
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Winner: Superior, Connor Beasley (jockey), Ahmad bin Harmash (trainer)
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Winner: Tried And True, Pat Dobbs, Doug Watson
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Winner: Welford, Richard Mullen, Satish Seemar
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Winner: Lavaspin, Richard Mullen, Satish Seemar
10pm: Handicap Dh 165,000 1,600m
Winner: Untold Secret, Xavier Ziani, Sandeep Jadhav
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Stars: Tom Holland, Zendaya, Jacob Batalon
Rating:*****
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The Africa Institute 101
Housed on the same site as the original Africa Hall, which first hosted an Arab-African Symposium in 1976, the newly renovated building will be home to a think tank and postgraduate studies hub (it will offer master’s and PhD programmes). The centre will focus on both the historical and contemporary links between Africa and the Gulf, and will serve as a meeting place for conferences, symposia, lectures, film screenings, plays, musical performances and more. In fact, today it is hosting a symposium – 5-plus-1: Rethinking Abstraction that will look at the six decades of Frank Bowling’s career, as well as those of his contemporaries that invested social, cultural and personal meaning into abstraction.
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October 3: v Wuhan Jiangda Women’s FC
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