Supriya Sahu, a senior IAS officer, is leading major environmental efforts in Tamil Nadu. From banning plastic in Nilgiris to restoring mangroves in Ennore and launching the manjappai campaign, her work is helping the state fight climate change

Uday Kotak started a finance company in 1985 with Rs 30 lakh borrowed from family and friends. Today, he is worth Rs 1.28 lakh crore and has built Kotak Mahindra, one of India’s top private banks, with over 1800 branches and millions of customers

With just Rs 3 lakh loan in 2013, Murtaza Amin launched BizProspex from Mumbai. He later shifted to Burhanpur, where the company employs over 100 employees with a turnover of Rs 8 crore, selling global data to clients across several industries

Unnati Hooda rose to fame after defeating Sindhu at the China Open 2025. From home-cooked meals by her father to climbing up to a world ranking of No. 37, the young shuttler from Haryana is now among India’s top talents with a promising future

Engineers Sagnik Mukherjee and Sanjoy Banerjee left their corporate jobs to start Pepcom India, a Kolkata-based company making eco-friendly food containers. Their food packaging business has touched a turnover of Rs 2.5 crore in just three years

Nepal’s only billionaire, Binod Chaudhary, made Wai Wai noodles a household name and built CG Corp into a global giant. P C Vinoj Kumar traces his journey from a family that once sold sarees to Nepal’s royals to a $2 billion global business empire