Month: May 2020

88 Indian nurses reach Dubai to help UAE battle COVID-19 : May 2020

First batch of 88 ICU (intensive care unit) trained nurses, from Kolhapur, Karnataka and Kerala departed from Kochi via Bangalore

Dubai: The first batch of 88 ICU (intensive care unit) nurses from India arrived at Dubai Airport Terminal Two on Saturday night to help the UAE in its battle against coronavirus.

Their arrival, at Dubai Airport Terminal Two was facilitated in a tie-up with Aster DM Healthcare group, with the support from the Indian Consulate and the UAE’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

Amritpal Singh – First Indian to sign up for Australia’s National Basketball League – August 2017

Amritpal Singh, India Captain became the first Indian to be signed by Australia’s Sydney King’s club for the upcoming National Basketball League.

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

Sudhir Krishnaswamy – Member of Facebook’s 1st ‘Oversight Advisory Board’ – May 2020

Sudhir Krishnaswamy is appointed as one of the initial 20 members who will be a part of the first ‘Oversight Board’, which will review content referred to it by both users and Facebook. The content is for both Facebook and Instagram.

The board members are from 27 countries, who speak at least 29 languages. Some are former heads of state, three former judges, six former and current journalists, two former human rights rapporteurs and other leaders etc.

Background :

  • Vice Chancellor – National Law School of India University
  • Co-Founder – Center for Law and Policy Research
  • Director – School of Policy and Governance
  • Professsor of Law & Politics – Azim Premji University
  • Visiting Professor of Indian Constitutional Law – Columbia University

Education :

  • BA, LLB – National Law School of India University
  • Ph.D – University of Oxford

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

3 Indian Photo-Journalists Won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize : May 2020

Dar Yasin and Mukhtar Khan from Kashmir Valley along with Channi Anand from Jammu, all three of Associated Press (AP) – won the acclaimed award in American Journalism.

Award was for the category ‘ Feature Photography for capturing life in Kashmir’.

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

Thalappil Pradeep Awarded ‘ Nikkei Asia’ Prize – April 2020

Professor T Pradeep, IIT-Madras wins the 25th Nikkei Asia Prize in the ‘Science & Technology’ category. Established by Nikkei Inc, Japan

Pradeep has done pioneering work in nano-technology based water purification.’

Developed world’s first filter for drinking water that incorporates deionising technology, established by him.

Awards:

  • Padma Shri – Government of India – 2020
  • Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize – by CSIR – 2008
  • World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) in Chemistry – 2018

Papers :

  • Several papers presented worldwide

Indian-American NGO ‘American India Foundation’ (AIF) to provide 20,000 meals for health workers in the US – April 2020

American India Foundation (AIF) a non-profit NGO will provide over 20,000 meals to frontline health workers in under-resourced hospitals and local food kitchens in New York City, Bay Area, Boston and Chicago.

The AIF has tied up with ‘World Central Kitchen’ to organise the meals.

It is the American India Foundation’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Dia Mirza Joins 9 Women Leaders of the World – against CoronaVirus Initiative ‘ Rise for All’ – April 2020

Dia Mirza Bollywood Actress , Model , Entrepreneur and Environmentalist.

Dia Mirza joins nine women leaders across the world to support a global plan for social and economic recovery from the Covid-19 virus.

She will be part of ‘Rise for All’ – a global advocacy group and will be working towards funding the UN Response and Recovery Trust Fund.

Joining Mirza in this advocacy effort convened by the UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed is a host of dignitaries such as — President of Ethiopia Sahle-Work Zewde, Prime Minister of Norway and SDG Advocate Erna Solberg, SDG Advocate and Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser of Qatar, Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley, UN Women Goodwill Ambassador of Pakistan Muniba Mazari, Executive Director of UNICEF Henrietta Fore, Executive Director of UN Women Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and Executive Director of UNFPA Natalia Kanem.

Dia Mirza said that in the coming weeks, more women leaders from political, multilateral and business sectors are expected to join Rise For All