Indian Mountaineer Bhawna Dehariya Scales Australia’s Highest Mountain : March 2020

Bhawna Dehariya of Madhya Pradesh, successfully scaled the summit at Mount Kosciuszko, Australia’s highest mountain peak on March 10th, 2020 to co-incide with Holi.

Last year she scaled Mount Kilimanjaro on November 27th, 2019 to co-incide with Diwali.

Indian-American Siddhartha Mukherjee Wins Pulitzer for non-fiction Book

Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee – Physician, Oncologist, Scientist and Writer.

Awarded Pulitzer Prize for his book, non-fiction category – ‘ The Emperor of All Maladies : A Biography of Cancer’ in 2011

Work:

  • Assistant Professor , Department of Medicine, Division of Haematology/Oncology, Columbia University Medical Center

Education:

  • B.S – Biology, Stanford University
  • D.Phil – Thesis ‘The processing and presentation of viral antigens’
  • M.D – Harvard Medical School
  • – Fellow at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Harvard Medical School)
  • Ph.D – Honorary Doctorate degree – Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland
  • Ph.D – Honorary Doctorate degree – University of Southern California

Awards:

  • Padma Shri (2014) , President of India

Books:

  • The Emperor of All Maladies : A Biography of Cancer (2010) – Pulitzer Prize Winner (2011) and several other awards for the book
  • The Law of Medicine : Field Notes from an uncertain science (2015)
  • The Gene : An intimate history ( (2016)

Indian-American Ami Bhat among Top-10 ‘2020 Emerging Leaders in Health & Medicine’ – May 2020

Dr. Ami S Bhatt is one amongst the ‘2020 Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholars’ – announced by ‘The National Academy of Medicine’ (NAM).

Presently:

  • Assistant Professor of Medicine and Genetics, Stanford University
  • Director of Global Oncology Gentre for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford University

Education:

  • M.D.
  • Ph.D – Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of California, San Francisco

Award:

  • Finburg Award for Excellence in Teaching

NGO:

  • She is Co-Founder & Co-President along with Franklin Huang for non-profit organisation ‘Global Oncology’ www.globaonc.org.

KIA Airport (Bengaluru) Awarded ‘Best Regional Airport’ by World Airport Awards – May 2020

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.

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’.