indica News Bureau- National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA) on April 29 declared that its first Mars helicopter will be called ‘Ingenuity’, as suggested by an Indian-origin student Vaneeza Rupani in NASA’s ‘Name the Rover’ contest. Ingenuity will be the first aircraft to attempt powered flight on a different planet. Rupani is a high school junior […]
IANS- Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Executive Chairperson of Biocon, feels that India should start opening its lockdown from May 3 and become fully operational by end of June. In an exclusive interview with IANS, Shaw said that data indicate that India is entering into a safe zone and has done a phenomenal job of flattening the […]
Ritu Jha- New York-based Ehsan Ahmad who was visiting his grandfather’s ancestral village in Gurdaspur, India says he will never forget how his one-week visit turned into a month-long journey due to a sudden shutdown announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the evening of March 24. India has been on lockdown since March 25 […]
Mukesh Advani- We had planned and paid for a trip to Paris during the spring break that we were very much looking forward to. That vacation had to be canceled and our lives turned upside down overnight as a result of coronavirus pandemic. On days on which my internal physician wife, Sonal Advani, examines patients […]
Ritu Jha- Several Indian American doctors have been infected by the deadly COVID-19 coronavirus while either treating patients or working on the frontlines, says the president of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI). One of the well-known personalities of AAPI, president Dr. Ajay Lodha, was lucky to get the blood-plasma treatment […]
Indian-origin technology executive Arvind Krishna is the new CEO of the American IT giant IBM. Krishna has succeeded Virginia Rometty. Rometty who is 62 years old will retire from the company after spending almost 40 years with the company. Krishna was earlier the Senior Vice President for Cloud and Cognitive Software at IBM. In his […]
indica News Bureau- With the recent COVID-19 pandemic impacting everyone across the globe, companies are frantically scrambling to find ways to adjust to the new norm of Working from Home(WFH) and remote employees. But the toughest challenge, regardless of where your workforce works from, is to keep your employees engaged, motivated and happy. Madhukar […]
indica News Bureau- Backing strong radical reforms, retired Indian banker and former chairperson of the State Bank of India, Arundhati Bhattacharya on Tuesday said that this is the time to ensure there is no panic, but also to have a plan for the economy post-pandemic. She also said that there should be a time-limit to […]
IANS- Retail giant Walmart on Wednesday announced to promote Sameer Aggarwal as Chief Executive Officer of Best Price, Walmart India, saying that Krish Iyer has retired from full-time management and will assume the role of an advisor to Best Price, Walmart India after a successful eight years with the company. Currently the Deputy CEO, Aggarwal […]
Ritu Jha- A third-year Computer Science and Mathematics double major student at the University of Virginia, Soukarya Ghosh has developed an application ‘TrackCorona‘ to track how far and wide across the world the virus has spread. Sourcing data from authentic sources like John Hopkins, WHO, CDC etc, the students have developed a system to show […]
