Renowned Indian chef Vikas Khanna won big at the 2024 Michelin Guide ceremony as his New York-based restaurant, Bungalow, was awarded the Michelin 2024 Bib Gourmand Award.
The recognition celebrates culinary excellence and exceptional dining experiences at reasonable prices.
Netflix’s Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria is the only Indian American woman to get a spot at The Wrap’s ‘Changemakers 2024’.
The list, published earlier this month, celebrates 51 women who “led, inspired and made the world a little bit better in 2024”.
Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia has received a nomination in the Best Director category for All We Imagine As Light at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards.
The film, rated highly by critics, has also picked up a nomination in the Best Motion Picture in a Non-English Language category.
Dr. Darshana R. Patel (D-San Diego) officially took the oath of office as the newly elected State Assemblymember for California’s 76th Assembly District on December 2.
The district spans diverse communities, including the cities of Escondido, San Marcos, and San Diego, as well as the unincorporated areas of Del Dios, Elfin Forest, Fairbanks Ranch, Harmony Grove, Lake San Marcos, and Rancho Santa Fe.
We shouldn’t overlook the vast potential for artificial intelligence to combat climate change, despite the adverse effects on the climate from data centers needed to power it.
Raj Salwan, the newly elected mayor of Fremont, has outlined a bold vision for his city, focusing on improving public safety, enhancing the local economy, and addressing critical issues like homelessness and housing affordability. As the city’s first Indian American mayor, Salwan is determined to restore law and order and create a thriving environment for both residents and businesses.
Three Indian scientists have been named as the winners of the Tata Transformation Prize in 2024. Established in 2022, the prize is jointly instituted by Tata Sonsand the New York Academy of Sciences, to support breakthrough, innovative technologies that address India’s most significant challenges in three categories — food security, sustainability, and healthcare.
The goal of the prize is to drive impactful innovation and scale-up implementation of high-reward research.
Indo-Canadians are proving to be dynamic entrepreneurs, with Canada continuing to support visionary immigrant innovators, said Upasana Sharma, a global advisory board member at Evolve Silicon Valley Foundation. Sharma spoke during the Evolve 2024 conference held Nov. 13-14 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, where she highlighted the importance of cross-border collaboration in enriching entrepreneurship ecosystems.
Indian-American technology entrepreneur Jagtar “Jay” Chaudhry and his wife Jyoti Chaudhry have established the Chaudhry Family Scholarship Fund with a $4 million gift to the University of Cincinnati. This fund will support first-generation, Pell-eligible students in UC’s Gen-11MPACT House, a residential community, a report from www.uc.edu said.
The donation will fund the studies of approximately 150 students at UC, beginning in the fall of 2025.
Like many winning candidates this past election, Virginia Democrat Suhas Subramanyam focused on immigration, but not simply by scapegoating immigrants and manipulating voters’ fears of people from other places.
Subramanyam, who made history by becoming the sixth Indian American elected to Congress, says his foremost focus after taking office in January will be on legal immigration, mainly H1B visa recipients who are waiting years for permanent residency.
An Indian-American CEO of the San Francisco-based AI startup has revealed that he is receiving death threats and racial abuse after publicly posting about his company’s work culture — which requires an employee to clock in a minimum of 84 hours over a week and work on the weekends at times — online.
Needless to say, Daksh Gupta, the Greptile CEO’s admission, didn’t strike a chord with a lot of job aspirants and Internet users. He has now found himself at the epicenter of an online debate.
The Indian-origin co-founder of Verix from Virtualness, a GenAI and blockchain platform, says AI will be an enabler for those who upgrade their tech knowledge to enhance their efficiency.
Kirthiga Reddy, the CEO and co-founder of Verix from Virtualness was the first employee of Facebook in India and the managing director for India and South Asia. On the sidelines of the recent IIT Bay Area Leadership Conference, she spoke to indica about her journey, women leaders, and Artificial Intelligence.
Six Indian-Americans have been named in Fortune’s 100 Most Powerful People in Business for the year 2024. While Tesla-boss Elon Musk was placed number one, Microsoft CEO and Chairman Satya Nadella had the highest rank among the India-origin people.
Nadella was placed at number three, after Musk and Nvidia chief Jensen Huang.
Renowned Indian composer A R Rahman has received two nominations for the Malayalam movie Aadujeevitham (The Goat Life) at the 2024 Hollywood Music in Media Awards.
The Oscar-winner is nominated in the ‘Song-Feature Film’ category for the track “Periyone”, and in the ‘Score-Independent Film (Foreign Language)’ category. Sung by Jithin Raj, Periyone was co-written by Rahman and Rafiq Ahamed.
Indian actor-musician Ayushmann Khurrana, who is all set to tour the U.S. with his music, shared that the concert feels like a homecoming for him, as he used to perform in musicals during college.
On Wednesday, November 13, the ‘Article 15’ actor was spotted at Mumbai Airport, jetting off in style to the U.S. with his band Ayushmann Bhava. The tour will kick off in Chicago on November 14. Ayushmann, along with his band, will tour across four other cities after Chicago, include New York, San Jose, New Jersey and Dallas, until November 24.
An ex-cryptocurrency executive of Indian-origin, who once lived in the same $35 million penthouse in the Bahamas with FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, has been spared jail time by a judge for his role in the $8 billion theft by his jailed former boss.
During a hearing in Manhattan federal court on October 30, District Judge Lewis Kaplan removed prison time, but ordered three years of supervised release for Nishad Singh.
The Indian government has announced the launch of Pravasi Bharatiya Express — a special state-of-the-art tourist train exclusively designed for people of Indian origin (PIO) in the age group of 45-65 years — on January 9, 2025 from New Delhi.
The train will travel to multiple destinations of prominent touristic interest and religious importance, across the country India, for a period of 3 weeks starting on January 09, 2025.
iNDICA NEWS BUREAU- Kannada short film ‘Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know’ will now compete for the Oscar trophy in 2025. On Monday, November 4, the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting announced that ‘Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know’ has qualified for the Oscars 2025 in the Live Action Short Film category. The […]
Famed Indian fashion designer Rohit Bal is no more. He breathed his last on November 1.
The news of his demise was shared on the official Instagram handle of Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI).
By Ritu Jha- At the recent Best Whiskey in the World competition, a small but impassioned upstart outshined larger, established brands in whiskey making. San Jose-based 10th Street Distillery came away with the Best Whiskey in the World award. Co-founder Virag Saksena said the achievement culminates years of hard work and overcoming obstacles in pursuit […]
Jhansi Kandasamy has been announced as the Vice President of Regulatory and External Affairs at The Nuclear Company, a fleet-scale nuclear development company. The announcement was made on October 29. The Indian-American has a long history through both the U.S. Women in Nuclear and Women in Nuclear Global nonprofits of broadening the nuclear workforce through both the advancement of women into leadership roles and the recruitment of trades.
“Jhansi has touched on every aspect of nuclear power through her engineering work on reactors, development of public-private partnerships and significant work building up the strong workforce that The Nuclear Company will rely on to build more nuclear power across America,” said The Nuclear Company Chief Development Officer Juliann Edwards, who also serves as chair of U.S. Women in Nuclear.
More women are excelling in tech industry leadership roles but too many still must conform to time-honored standards for white male executives.
That was the message from Padmasree Warrior, keynote speaker at the recent IIT Bay Area conference hosted by the Indian Institute of Technology Bay Area Alumni (IITBAA) California. As founder, president and CEO of Fable, an app-based platform for social reading and book clubs, Warrior is passionate about technology, entrepreneurship and global business.
Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams, who has been in space for nearly five months now, extended her warmest wishes for Diwali to those celebrating the festival in the United States and around the globe.
In a video message shared from the International Space Station (ISS), the NASA astronaut said that this year she had the unique opportunity to observe Diwali from 260 miles above Earth and reminisced about her father’s efforts to keep their cultural roots alive by teaching her and her family about Diwali and other Indian festivals.
By Ritu Jha- Two extraordinary phenomena are unfolding simultaneously in the tech world – the emergence of a data-first world and the dawn of the AI age. Their convergence is creating immense and boundless opportunities that are disrupting the tech job sector. Nitin Seth[Above top photo] says companies will need fewer data scientists and in […]
Deep passion for public service and unwavering commitment to enhancing the Indian American community is the mainstay of his candidacy for San Ramon District-1 City Council. As a long-time resident, a dedicated parent, and an active participant in local nonprofit organizations, he understands the needs and aspirations of the electorate.
Indian American Vasanth Shetty, who is running against Robert Jweinat, believes that his professional background in finance, technology, and program management, coupled with his experience on the San Ramon Economic Development Council, equips him to “serve the community effectively”.
