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

British Indian Ramesh Mehta – President of ‘British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO)

Dr. Ramesh Mehta FRCPCH, FRCP, MD, DCH – Consultant & Lead Paediatrician , Belford Hospital

President BAPIO / www.bapio.co.uk

Awards & Honours :

  • The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire – OBE – for exemplary service to the NHS spanning 30 years (2017)
  • National Clinical Excellence Awards
  • Top 50 BME Leaders in the NHS – Health Services Journal (HS) – 2013 and 2014
  • Honorary Fellowship, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

Notes: There are over 65,000 doctors of Indian origin in the NHS

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

Indian Actor Randeep Hooda in Hollywood Movie ‘EXTRACTION’ – April 2020

Randeep Hooda (aka Randeep Singh Hooda) features in a main role in Netflix’s film ‘Extraction’ .

Directed by Sam Hargrave with Chris Hemsworth in the lead role.

Randeep – Bollywood actor, Theatre Actor , Model and Equestrian. Born in Rohtak, Haryana. Only Bollywood actor to actively participate in Equestrian Sports .

Some of awards by Randeep Hooda in Hindi films :

  • Lions Gold Award -‘Once Upon A Time in Mumbai ‘ -2010
  • Stardust Award – ‘Highway’ – 2014
  • Stardust Award – ‘Main Aur Charles’ – 2015

Education:

  • Bachelors Degree – Marketing, Australia
  • Masters Degree – Human Resource Management, Melbourne, Australia

Indian-American Diplomat Manisha Singh Appointed by President Trump as U.S. Envoy to OECD – April 2020

Manisha Singh, Senior Diplomat is nominated by President Donald Trump as America’s next envoy to ‘Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’ (OECD), headquartered in Paris, France.

She is currently Assistant Secretary of State for Economic & Business Affairs, the State Department.

Manisha Singh is an American Attorney and US Government official.

Academic Background :

  • LL M – International Legal Studies, American University Washington, College of Law
  • JD – University of Florida, College of Law
  • BA – University of Miami

Indian-American Siddarth Satish wins ‘Apple Design Award’ – launches ‘Apollo Covid-19 app’ for testing. April 2020

The ‘Apollo Covid-19’ app was developed by Gauss Surgicals. The iPhone based testing solution reduces both the exposure to risk at testing centres and simultaneously makes the process faster.

Gauss Surgicals teamed up with Elive.Care.

Gauss is among the Group of Stanford alumni, scientists and physicians participating in the ‘StartX Med Covid-19 Task Force’.

Siddarth Satish, is the Founder and CEO of the California based Gauss Surgicals

Academic Background :

  • BS in Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
  • MS in Bio Engineering, University of California, San Francisco
  • SIM Design Fellow, Stanford University

Indian-American Actress Poorna Jagannathan in Hollywood

Poorna Jagannathan is a Producer and Actress.

Daughter of an Indian Diplomat. Now lives in the US.

Some of her endless list of projects are:

TV SHOWS :

Big Little Lies / Better Call Saul / The Blacklist (Blacklister #44) / Law & Order / House of Cards / Never Have I Ever (2020) / etc. etc..

MOVIES / FILMS :

Delhi Belly / Share / An Actor Prepares // etc. etc

AWARDS :

  • L’Oreal Femina Women Awards – 2013
  • Scotsman Fringe First Awards – 2013
  • Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award – 2013
  • 14th Annual Kamala Pasand Max Starudust Award
  • etc.. etc.