155 Indian companies have invested USD 22 billion in the US, creating nearly 125,00 jobs. Indian investments in 20 US states stand over USD 100 million each according to the CII report.
‘ Indian Roots, American Soil 2020’ – a report issued by the Confederation of Indian Industries ( CII ).
The Top 5 States in which Indian companies have generated maximum employment are Texas (17,578 jobs), California (8,271 jobs), New Jersey (8,057 jobs), New York (6,175 jobs) and Florida (5,454 jobs)
India is the 9th largest recipient of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) ) in 2019 with USD 51 billion dollars of inflow.
‘The World Invest Report 2020’ by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said India will continue to attract market seeking investments.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has registered a patent for its method of manufacturing highland lunar soil stimulant or simply ‘ lunar / moon soil.
The patent was granted by the Indian Patent Office on May 18th for an invention as to the method of manufacturing highland lunar soil stimulant.
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.
Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL), Kochi, Kerala
Runs on 100% solar energy . Has about 46,000 solar panels.
Installed by Bosch. Commissioned in 2015
M A Yusuff Ali, Chairman & Managing Director, LuLu Group
February 2020
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With this it superceded the ‘Melbourne Cricket Ground (Australia) which held the record earlier.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
The restructuring of Google made Alphabet Inc., into Google’s parent company. Larry Paige is now the CEO and Sergey Brin the President of Alphabet. Subsequent to the completion of the restructuring Sundar Pichai assumed the postion of CEO on October 02nd, 2015.
Pichai joined Google in 2004 and was formerly Product Chief in Google.
Sundar Pichai earned his Bachelor’s Degree B.Tech, at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT,Kharagpur) in Metallurgical Engineering. Followed by a Masters M.S. from Stanford University in Material Sciences. An MBA from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
He was named ‘Siebel Scholar’ and ‘Palmer Scholar’.
Sundar Pichai was born on July 12th, 1972 in Madurai,TamilNadu(India) to Regunatha Pichai and Lakshmi. His father was a Senior Electrical Engineer in British General Electric, Madras(now Chennai).
He is married to his same-year classmate Anjali Pichai, a chemical engineer of IIT,Kharagpur and has 2 children
She joins the Bank of April 01st as CEO-in-training on April 01st and will take the helm officially on June 01st, 2016
Bank of the West is a unit of the French banking giant BNP Paribas. The California based Bank operates more than 600 retail, wealth, commercial and business banking offices in 22 states.
Bakshi previously held Senior positions at:
EVP Head of Consumer Banking – TD Bank (New Jersey), EVP and Head – North American Direct Channels
Executive positions at :
Washington Mutual, Seattle (Washington – now JP Morgan Chase), Fleet Boston (now Bank of America), First Data Corp, Home Savings of America and Banc One Corp.
Nandita Bakshi did her Bachelors in History, University of Calcutta and Masters in International Relations & Affairs, Jadavpur University (West Bengal)
Perfetti Van Melle Spa (PVM)is the world’s 3rd largest confectionery group after Kraft-Cadbury and Mars-Wrigley. Perfetti makes Alpenliebe and Mentos candies, Chlormint toffee, Center Fresh, Hanny Dent and Big Babool gum.
Sameer Suneja will report to the Board of Directors of the Netherlands based holding of the Group.
His promotion comes barely a year after he was promoted as Executive Vice President (EVP), Innovation & Business Development based in the Netherlands reporting to the global CEO of Perfetti, Ubalto Traldi. Suneja’s mandate included exchanging successful experiences in marketing and commercial fields across the group.
Previous to moving to the global role based out of Netherlands, Suneja was the Managing Director, Perfetti Van Melle India for 4 years. In India Suneja also launched Alpenliebe candy, now the country’s single-largest confectionery. He has been with PVM India, a subsidiary of the global conglomerate for over 16 years. He joined Perfetti as brand manager in 1997 when it was only 3 years old in India.
Sameer Suneja, 41 years, an IIM-Bangalore alumnus 1994 batch, started his career at Colgate-Palmolive toothpaste maker as management trainee. He then moved on and became product manager handling Colgate toothbrush portfolio. Subsequently he joined Pepsico’s snacks arm Frito Lay as brand manager, handling both the chips and traditional snacks categories before joining Perfetti Van Melle India as brand manager in its early days in the country in 1997.
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