indica News Bureau – Amid strained ties between the Silicon Valley and Trump administration, top tech honchos, including Google’s Sunder Pichai and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, were invited by the White House for a technology summit on December 6. President Donald Trump made a brief appearance at the summit, which was themed “Industries of the […]
indica News Bureau Oracle veteran Thomas Kurian will take over as head of Google Cloud early next year, according to media reports. Kurian, who joined Google last month, replaces Diane Greene, who will continue through January working with the former Oracle Corp product chief, to ensure a smooth transition. Greene will, however, remain a director on the board of Alphabet, Google’s parent company. […]
indica News Bureau – Once touted to be the CEO of Facebook-owned WhatsApp, Neeraj Arora has stepped down from his role as the company’s chief business officer. The latest high-profile exit in WhatsApp comes shortly after co-founders Brian Acton and Jan Koum resigned, reportedly due to differences with parent company Facebook over encryption and […]
indica News Bureau – To ensure a smoother passport experience for its citizens, the Indian government has announced to open “Passport Seva Kendras” in each of the 543 Parliamentary constituencies across the country by March 2019. According to Minister of State for External Affairs VK Singh, the mega project will allow for a faster […]
indica Washington Bureau – In a move that will filter out more bachelor’s degree holders from the H-1B program, the Trump administration has proposed a change in the visa application process that will award visa only to the most meritorious and highest paid foreign workers. Under the new merit-based system, the US Citizenship and […]
indica News Bureau – In a major breather for India’s Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a Californian jury unanimously rejected claims that the IT outsourcing giant had discriminated against non-South Asian workers in the US. A nine-member California federal jury ruled that the Mumbai-based company did not have a “pattern or practice” of intentional discrimination based […]
Ritu Jha – Several Indian American Google employees have openly joined Amnesty International in calling on Google to cancel project Dragonfly. The original letter, put together by Amnesty International along with 14 other human rights organizations this August and addressed to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, described concerns about reports that Google is developing a […]
Justice Markandey Katju – The farmers’ march to the Indian Parliament has been organized, Friday, November 30, by the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, which claims to be an umbrella organization of over 200 farmers bodies of India, and this evening crowds have collected in Ramlila ground in Delhi for a cultural […]
indica Washington Bureau – The year-long 150th birth anniversary celebrations of Mahatma Gandhi commenced at the US Capitol with influential US lawmakers and select Indian-Americans lauding the historic leader’s preaching of peace and non-violence. Paying rich tributes to the apostle of peace, Congressmen said Mahatma Gandhi has inspired generations of American Social reformers and civil […]
indica Washington Bureau Expressing solidarity with the victims of the dastardly terror attack that shook Mumbai on November 26, 2008, United States President Donald Trump said his country “stands with the people of India in their quest for justice”. “On the ten-year anniversary of the Mumbai terror attack, the US stands with the people […]
