Ritu Jha- Prasun Mishra, founding President and CEO of the American Association for Precision Medicine (AAPM) says the demise of his elder sister to pancreatic cancer led him to this work to create awareness about precision (or personalized) medicine. “It was a kind of a calling for me,” Mishra told indica at the AAPM annual […]
IANS- In yet another strong public rebuke of Microsoft who has won the prestigious $10 billion Pentagon Cloud project, Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Andy Jassy said the US government’s decision to award the project to the Satya Nadella-run company was done under significant political interference. Addressing a news conference here during AWS ‘re: Invent’ […]
indica News Bureau- Los Angeles-based Indian-American Jagpal “Paul” Singh, owner of a truck driving school, was sentenced to three years and three months in prison for bribing the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) employees, announced U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott on Thursday, Dec 5. 61-year-old Singh, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery, identity […]
IANS- Telangana Police have shot dead all four accused in the gang-rape and murder of a young veterinarian in an encounter near Shadnagar town according to IANS. The accused were killed early Friday morning(IST) when they allegedly tried to escape from Chatanpally near Shadnagar, about 30 miles from Hyderabad. They were gunned down at the […]
Arul Louis- House of Representatives’ Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi ordered the impeachment to proceed on Thursday with the framing of charges of jeopardizing national security against President Donald Trump for a trial in the Senate. The historic announcement came after about two months of investigation by House of Representatives, making it only the third time […]
IANS- Actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas was honored with the Danny Kaye Humanitarian Award for her philanthropic work as UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for Child Rights. She was felicitated with the award at the 15th annual UNICEF Snowflake Ball on Wednesday here. Priyanka even took to Instagram to share what the award means to her. “I am […]
IANS- Pawan has not been officially informed but he is preparing to go to Delhi later this month as soon as the “black warrant” is issued and decks are cleared for the hanging of the four Nirbhaya convicts. Pawan is the only “certified” hangman in Uttar Pradesh, attached to the Meerut jail and gets […]
IANS- Sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar has reacted to the barbaric gangrape and murder of a veterinary doctor in Hyderabad saying India is “no country for women”. Calling rape a global epidemic, the composer tweeted: “This is a global epidemic. And India in particular is no country for women. And I’m enraged. And I’m […]
Nishant Arora- Before the noise of Hybrid Cloud, multi-Cloud and various ‘As-a-Service’ offerings took over our minds, it was Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Cloud model that ruled the industry as an ‘on-demand software’, which is only gaining momentum with the Industry 4.0 era. California-based Oracle, which has been a pioneer in helping enterprises run their daily […]
IANS- In an impetus to the Indian-origin talent in Silicon Valley dominated by the likes of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and Mastercard’s CEO Ajay Banga, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who has now taken over as parent company Alphabet’s CEO is excited about Alphabet’s long-term focus on tackling big challenges through technology. However, […]
