The White House said that it is “fighting” for Neera Tanden's confirmation. Confirmation vote of President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget Neera Tanden was delayed. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and...
Airtel recently became India’s first telecommunication service to demonstrate 5G over a live commercial network in Hyderabad. On Tuesday, Indian telecommunication operator Bharti Airtel and US chipmaker Qualcomm announced a collaboration for speeding up 5G in India. Airtel recently became...
Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) on Tuesday dispatched its first batch of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covishield vaccine shots for the COVAX vaccination initiative. Under this initiative, Ghana became the first country to receive vaccines. COVAX (Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access) is a...
Former Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said that the relationship between India and the United States "will continue to grow because strategic congruence is growing, whether on climate change, China, Indo-Pacific, or maritime security.” During a virtual panel discussion organized...
The US State Department recognized that Bhardwaj has been an active member of the Right to Information Movement in India for over twenty years. Indian social activist Anjali Bhardwaj is one of the 12 “courageous” individuals named by US President...
US President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that the United States and Canada would work together to battle the Covid-19 pandemic, better compete with China, tackle climate change and boost industrial supply chains. US President Joe...
While granting bail, the judge called the evidence produced against Disha Ravi “scanty and sketchy.” On Tuesday, a Delhi court granted bail to climate activist Disha Ravi who was arrested in connection with the toolkit case. Ravi was granted bail...
On Monday, the Biden administration announced another reversal of the Trump administration policy as it reverted to the 2008 civics test module to make the path to US citizenship more accessible. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced...
Bidisha Bhattacharyya worked for three years to deploy solar energy solutions in rural India. The Biden administration appointed Indian American climate and energy expert Bidisha Bhattacharyya as Senior Policy Advisor in the Farm Service Agency (FSA). Earlier Bhattacharyya served as...
Vishnu Sridhar is the lead systems engineer for the SuperCam on the Mars 2020 rover Perseverance. Indian American Vishnu Sridhar was part of the team that helped engineer the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Mars rover Perseverance. Sridhar is...
