Washington, June 13 (IANS) Indian-born technology executive and entrepreneur Sivaramakrishnan “Soma” Somasegar, who helped shape Microsoft’s rise and later became a leading venture capitalist in the US Pacific Northwest, was honoured in the US House of Representatives this week for his contributions to technology, entrepreneurship and community service.Speaking on the House floor, Congresswoman Suzan DelBene of Washington remembered Somasegar as “an incredible technologist, entrepreneur, leader,…
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Washington, June 7 (IANS) Sriram Krishnan, one of the highest-profile Indian-American technology advisers in the Trump administration, announced that he will leave his role at the White House at the end of this month after helping shape the administration’s artificial intelligence strategy over the past 18 months.In a statement posted on social media, Krishnan said he would take a break before returning to work on major AI-related challenges facing the United States.”I’ll be leaving my role at t…
Washington, June 3 (IANS) US senators from both parties raised concerns about the impact of a $100,000 H-1B visa fee on rural hospitals, pressing Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to consider relief for foreign doctors recruited to underserved communities.During a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the Department of Homeland Security’s fiscal year 2027 budget request, Senator Susan Collins of Maine raised the issue of difficulties that the rural healthcare providers face in…
Washington, May 19 (IANS) Indian-American community leader and former presidential adviser, Ajay Bhutoria, on Monday hailed the dismissal of criminal charges against the Adani Enterprises Ltd, calling it a “definitive legal victory” and describing the Adani Group’s proposed $10 billion investment in the United States as a “game-changer” for the American infrastructure and technology leadership.In a statement issued from Silicon Valley, Bhutoria said the resolution marked a major turnin…
Washington, May 19 (IANS) US Congressman Ro Khanna said India must increasingly act like a global power and take on greater international responsibilities as it rises economically and strategically on the world stage.Speaking at the Capitol Hill Summit 2026 organised by the US-India Friendship Council, Khanna said India’s growing influence carried obligations beyond regional politics and economic growth.“India has to decide who it wants to be as it enters this place of world leadership,” K…
Washington, May 15 (IANS) California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a series of appointments across state agencies, including the appointment of Indian American business executive Yogesh “Yogi” Chugh to the Structural Pest Control Board, according to an official statement released by the Governor’s office.Chugh, a resident of Fremont, “has been appointed to the Structural Pest Control Board,” the statement said.According to the release, Chugh “has been an Executive Managing Director…
Kolkata, May 6 (IANS) West Bengal BJP President, Samik Bhattacharya, on Wednesday alleged that Trinamool Congress activists were attacking the offices of the party’s own leaders after the BJP’s landslide victory in the state Assembly polls.He was reacting to reports of post-poll violence in the state which claimed that several offices of Trinamool Congress have allegedly been attacked.Speaking to IANS, Bhattacharya alleged that now there is a “discord” within the Trinamool Congress, because of w…
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) Shenzhen, long celebrated as the crown jewel of China’s economic transformation, is facing a sharp and unsettling slowdown, raising serious questions about the durability of the country’s growth model under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a report has said.For decades, Shenzhen symbolised the success of reform and opening up — an industrial powerhouse where factories operated around the clock, global supply chains converged, and opportunity drew millions seeking p…
New York, May 5 (IANS) Two Indian journalists have won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for an art reporting project exposing cybercrime in India.Anand RK and Suparna Sharma, along with Natalie Obiko Pearson, were announced as the winners on Monday in the Illustrated Reporting and Commentary category for the report they produced for Bloomberg.Another Indian journalist, Devjyot Ghoshal, was a finalist in the same category for an expose of cybercrime and trafficking in Southeast Asia, in which crimi…
New Delhi, April 23 (IANS) Apart from becoming the world’s fastest-growing major economy, India is emerging as a new global centre of gravity — capable of providing a bridge between countries in a world that is fragmenting into competing blocs, according to an article in The Times of Israel.It highlights that India is the central voice of the Global South and a preferred partner for digital infrastructure, pharmaceuticals, energy transition, and security cooperation across Africa, the Gulf an…