Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) Bengaluru , has been voted as the ‘ Best Regional Airport in India & Central Asia’ 2020 by the World Airports Award.
KIA has won this Award for the 3rd time in 4 years.
Category: Amazing Feats
British Indian Nitin Sawhney – Chair of ‘ PRS Foundation’ UK : April 2020
Nitin Sawhney CBE, confirmed as the new Chairman of Board of Trustees of PRS Foundation. UK’s leading Funder of new Music & Talent.
Nitin Sawhney – Composer, Musician, Creator, Song-Writer, Multi-Instrumentalist
Awards :
- CBE – Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire – New Year Honour – 2019
- Ivor Novello Lifetime Award – 2017
- Royal Television Society’s Composer Award for BBC’s ‘Wonder of the Monsoon’ – 2015
- Several major National Awards for Album works
- Many more not listed here as yet
Education:
- Ph.D – Doctorates awarded from 6 British Universities
www.nitinsawhney.com
Indian-American V. Vijay ‘Warrior Surgeon/Pilot’ Flying High With Securing PPE Material to Fight COVID-19 in US : April 2020
Dr. V. Vijay is both a cardiologist and pilot.
Practising Surgeon at The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City and trained Pilot with assignments at Sky Lease Cargo, Greensboro, North Carolina.
V. Vijay flies Boeing-747 cargo flights to cities in China, Japan and Malaysia to bring back PPE’s and essential medical supplies to the U.S to battle the Covid-19 pandemic.
Education :
- MBBS – Sai Venkateswara Medical College, Tirupati
MD, FRCSC
- General Surgical Training – Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City
- Fellowship in Rheumatic Heart Valve & Pediatric Heart Surgery – Medical University of Southern Africa, MEDUNSA, Pretoria
- Cardiothoracic Surgical Training – The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York
Firsts:
- Surgical member of the Team that performed First live-related kidney transplantation in the Caribbean
- First Fellow – Rachel Cooper Foundation for pediatric surgery at Babies Hospital, Columbia University and Montefiore Childrens Hospital, New York
- First Artificial Heart Transplantation in Long Island, New York- 1999
- Founder – Cardiac Transplantation – division of Winthrop University Hospital
Patents :
Several on cardio-pulmonary by-pass machines
Publications :
Several papers on cardio-pulmonary bypass machines
Indian-American Physicist Jagadeesh Moodera and MIT Team Discover Sighting of ‘Majorana Fermion’ – April 2020
Dr. Jagadeesh Subbaiah Moodera and his team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), discover the sighting of ‘Majorana Fermion’.
This sighting of Majorana Fermion are scalable and could be made in qubits. These qubits could be used to build the most powerful and error free quantum computers.
Married to Dr. Geetha Berera – Senior Lecturer – Department of Materials Science & Engineering, MIT
Currently :
- MIT – Francis Bitter National Laboratory – Leader, ‘Thin Film Magnetism, Superconductivity and Nanospintronics Group
- Visiting Professor – Technological University of Eindhoven – The Netherlands
- Adjunct Professor – Suffolk Universtiy
Awards & Honours :
- Oliver Buckley Prize in Condensed Matter Physics -from American Physical Society (APS) – (2009)
- Fellow – American Physical Society (2000)
- Coorg Person of the Year (2008)
Papers:
- More than a dozen papers published internationally
Education:
- Ph.d – Physics – Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)- Madras
- M.Sc – Mysore University
- B.Sc – Mysore University
Indian-American Artist Zarina Hashmi
Zarina Hashmi artist – drawing, print making and sculpture. Based in New York city.
- Served as Board Member of ‘New York Feminist Art Institute’
- One of the 4 artists/ artist-group to represent India in its First entry at the ‘Venice Biennale’ in 2011
- Artist-in-residence at the ‘Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University ( NYU)
- Solo exhibition : ‘Zarina: Dark Roads (06 Oct 2017 – 02 Feb 2018)
- Published Book : ‘Direction to my House’ – a memoir by visual artist Zarina Hashmi and Sarah Burney
Born in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. Passed away in London on April 25th, 2020
First time ‘ Janata Curfew ‘
First time ever, all Indians in a show of solidarity observed a self-imposed, stay-indoors.
It was in response to the clarion call of Prime Minister Modi to show solidarity and appreciation to all health workers – in the fight against the global pandemic coronavirus ‘Covind-19’
March 22nd, 2020 , Sunday – 0700 to 2100 hours full day
World’s First fully Solar Powered Airport – Cochin International Aiport (CIAL)
Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL), Kochi, Kerala
Runs on 100% solar energy . Has about 46,000 solar panels.
Installed by Bosch. Commissioned in 2015
First Indian Retail Businessman to get Saudi Green Card ‘ Premium Residency ‘ – M A Yusuff Ali
M A Yusuff Ali, Chairman & Managing Director, LuLu Group
February 2020
First ‘Ambassador of Knowledge Award ‘ in Asia awarded to M. Beena
Dr.M. Beena , IAS , Chairman, Cochin Port Trust (CPT), Kerala.
The Award is instituted by ‘International Quizzing Association (IQA) – Asia Chapter
World’s biggest/largest Cricket Stadium – Motera Stadium
Motera Stadium (aka) Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad, Gujarat has a seating capacity of over 1,10,000.
Inaugrated by U.S. President Donald Trump on his first official visit to India on February 24th,m2020
With this it superceded the ‘Melbourne Cricket Ground (Australia) which held the record earlier.
Constructed by Larsen and Toubro (L &T), India . Designed by the Australian Company – Populous