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Parag Havaldar, an IIT Kharagpur alumnus has won the Oscar technical award for the development of expression-based facial performance-capture technology at Sony Pictures Imageworks, the award was announced Jan. 6. Havaldar was graduated from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at IIT Kharagpur in the year 1991. Indian American...

Dr. Tausif Malik, a Chicago based Indian American is launching a series of Startup Festivals to kickstart the innovation & entrepreneurship www.AIMBSN.com (All India Business Startup Network), IndiaStartupFest.com GCCStartupFest.com www.Schoolpreneur.Biz The first event of www.AIMBSN.com (All India Business Startup Network) will be held on March 2017, at Pune, India. www.AIMBSN.com...

Shiva Ayyadurai, who claimed to have invented the email and who had sued against the gossip blog Gawker for $35 million, has received $750,000 after both the parties had reached an out of court settlement. Gawker will also permanently remove the libelous article about Ayyadurai, which denied Ayyadurai’s invention...

Indian American Congresswoman, progressive Democratic Representative Pramila Jayapal’s last ditch attempt to stop Donald Trump from taking over as the president of the US has failed when she was over-ruled and the Congress has cleared the path by certifying his election. Pramila Jayapal rose repeatedly during the joint session of...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while Inaugurating the three-day mega event, Pravasi Bharatiya divas had urged upon the Indian diaspora to first develop India by investing and contributing its expertise in the land of its origin. “To me, FDI means First Develop India through Foreign Direct Investment, whose norms have been...

NRIs who are coming to attend the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) and resident Indians returning from abroad have to declare at the airport on arrival the number of demonetised Rs 500 and 1,000 notes they are carrying, said a Customs official. “The government has given six-month grace period from January...

Information technology companies like HCL Technologies, Infosys, Wipro, TCS, Tech Mahindra, Mindtree, Persistent Systems and Mphasis came under heavy selling pressure after a bill backing the key changes in the H1-B visa program was reintroduced in the US. IT sub-index on the BSE had slumped 2.5 percent with shares like...

The 43-year-old, Indian-American, Rajiv Shah, who has headed the US government’s foreign aid operations, is appointed as the head of the Rockefeller Foundation, a multi-billion dollar private global charity with programs in India. The New York-based Foundation had said that its trustees had selected Shah, who is a medical...

First Congregational Church of Millbury, an affiliate of the United Church of Christ in Millbury, MA, will be conducting yoga classes from Jan. 20 to Feb. 2. Millbury First Church’s, history goes back to 1747, that calls itself a “friendly church on the hill”. It is hosting weekly class...

Indian origin, Raj Shah, has been appointed as an expert on strategic communications and political research by US President-elect Donald Trump as his deputy assistant and research director as the White House staff. Shah would also hold the post of deputy communications director. Shah had been helping in the Trump's...