Category Archive for: ‘NRI News’
Seema Verma’s Medicare Plan for Cap on Insulin Bills for Senior Citizen Earns Her Thanks from Trump
Seema Verma heads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and is a health policy consultant. She evolved a Medicare plan for seniors to cap their insulin bills at US$ 35 per month. This came in the wake of her being appointed a key member …
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Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force Designates Six American Indians
Senator Bernie Sanders endorsed Joe Biden, presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee’s campaign and the multi-purposed Unity Task Force is one of the outcomes. It is a matter of pride that six well known Indian Americans from different areas of expertise have been chosen by the …
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Indian American Couple Develops Ventilator for COVID-19
Devesh Ranjan and his wife, Kumuda Ranjan combined their skills to develop an emergency ventilator for Covid-19 patients in the space of just three weeks. Devesh Ranjan is a professor and associate chair at the Georgia Tech’s George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. His …
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Inventor of the Year Award for Enhancing AI Capabilities for IBM Indian-American Scientist
IIT Mumbai is a fertile ground for geniuses to blossom and one such genius is Dr Rajiv Joshi who currently works at the IBM Thomson Watson Research Center in New York. From IIT he went on to refine his education with an MS from the …
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President Trump Honors Indo-American Girl Scout who showed kindness during Corona Times
USA president Donald Trump recently acknowledged and paid tribute to Sravya Annappareddy, an Indian American girl aged 10. This brave young girl had been sensing boxes full of cookies to nurses and writing warm messages to healthcare workers who were fighting the COVID 19 pandemic …
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Indian-American Manga Anatatutmala runs for Congress in USA
Manga Anantatutmula who is employed by the defense acquisition programmed management as a federal government contractor is a strong voice for the Indian community existing in USA. Manga has spoken out against the claimed “discriminatory” norms against Asians in Ivy League schools. Anantamula has gone …
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List of Indian Americans and Indians who have received a Nobel prize
The following are the Nobel laureates who were Indian citizens at the time they were awarded the Nobel Prize. Born in India The following Nobel laureates were born as Indian citizens but were citizens of another country when they were awarded the prize.
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Additional information about Abhijit Banerjee and his wife, Esther Duflo
Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, MIT economists whose work has helped transform antipoverty research and relief efforts, have been named co-winners of the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, along with another co-winner, Harvard University economist Michael Kremer. “We …
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Indian Americans: A Rising Political Force in the US
When United States President Trump decided to share a stage with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Houston, Texas, in September 2019 in front of a crowd of over 50,000 Indian Americans, the political power held by Indian Americans as well as the community’s influence …
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Indian Americans Shine in Spheres other than IT and Spelling Bees
There was a time when the world was obsessed with how Indian Americans reigned in spelling bee contests and across the IT sector. Some of the best minds running IT giants are Indian American business people. Names such as Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft; Sundar …
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