Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL), Kochi, Kerala
Runs on 100% solar energy . Has about 46,000 solar panels.
Installed by Bosch. Commissioned in 2015
Category: Science & Technology
U.S Headquartered – Google’s First India-born CEO . 2015 .
Pichai Sundararajan (aka. Sundar Pichai) American–Indian was appoined as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the U.S. headquartered global giant Google Inc. A hugely high-profile job in the US technology industry . August 10th, 2015
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
India’s first ‘ Miss World ‘ . 1966 . First Asian to win the ‘ Miss World ‘ title. 1966
Reita Faria was the first Indian to be crowned ‘Miss World’ in 1966. She was also the first Asian to win the ‘Miss World’ title in 1966.
The red sari with golden zari work bagged the ‘Best Evening Gown’ prize.
The brown eyed beauty Reita Faria made the whole world sit up and look at India. By winning the crown, she showed the way for later competitors giving them confidence that they too could take the world by storm. She could be the first international beauty queen to qualify as a doctor during her reign.
Reita Faria was a student at the Grant Medical College and Sir J.J.Group of Hospitals. Born 1945 she hailed from Mumbai with ancestral ties to Tivim, Goa. After winning the crown, she turned down offers of modelling and films, fame and fortune, instead chose to focus on her medical studies.
She won the Miss Mumbai crown and subsequently won the Eve’s Weekly ‘Miss India’ contest. Dr.Reita Faria was a judge at ‘Femina Miss India’ 1996. She adjudicated the ‘Miss World’ competions 3 times and attended the 25th and 50th anniversary of the contest.
Dr.Reita Faria married endocrinologist Dr.David Powell and lives in Dublin, Ireland. She has 2 Daughters,both in the medical profession and 5 grandchildren.
India – World’s first country to launch “Phonesat” smartphone into space. February 2013 .
India launches world’s first “Phonesat” smart phone successfully launched into orbit. Loaded with a number of experimental ‘Apps’, some services some just for fun. The Mission was designed to test commercial technologies in outerspace. This launch was SSTL’s first with ISRO.
The British built Strand-1 Spacecraft, a nano satellite developed by scientists in Surrey was sent into orbit from Sriharikota in India. To test the capabilities of a standard smartphone in a space environment.
Amateur radio operators can track STRaND-1 from across the world. Details of frequency are available at www.amsat-uk.org