NRI Achievers

A nine-year-old Indian origin girl Mihika Sharma has won Tech4Goods award for her innovative next-generation Smart Stick for the blind. She will receive £5,000 of tech equipment of her choice, including focused sessions with BT experts, to get support for her project. Her new smart stick helps blind and visually-impaired...

Indian born Priya Serraohas won the Miss Universe Australia title for 2019 overpowering 26 other women from across the country in Melbourne on Thursday night. Serrao, whose family migrated to Australia from the Middle East, will now represent Australia in the Miss Universe competition later this year. "I just want to...

The eleven-year-old Indian origin Anusha Dixit splendidly notched up a score of 162 on the Mensa IQ test, two points more than theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking’s score, becoming officially among the top 1 percent of people in the world in terms of intelligence. A score of 140 is considered...

An Indian engineer has won the 2019 Commonwealth Secretary-General’s Innovation for Sustainable Development Award in London for creating an affordable neonatal breathing device which has saved the lives of new-born babies across the small towns of India. Nitesh Kumar Jangir, who created ‘Saans’, a breathing support device to tackle avoidable...

An Indian American 13-year-old child prodigy Kamal Kiran Raju Yerra has exceptionally completed his Bachelor of Science in Business degree from Excelsior College in New York on May 17, 2019, and is set to graduate on June 21, 2019. According to the 2016 Business Insider report, Yerra out-performed most of...

An Indian teen from Dubai has every reason to be glad and overjoyed as she had been offered acceptance letters from seven prominent United States universities, including Ivy League schools such as Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania, the media reported on Sunday. Other high-ranking universities, such as University...

The 15-year-old Indian origin boy from South London is receiving immense praises from all-around for successfully setting up an accountancy firm while still at school. Ranveer Singh Sandhu set up his own business at the age of 12 and already has 10 paying clients. The teenager has set himself a...

Robots are set to make lives easier and a young Indian student in Abu Dhabi has developed robots to help protect marine life and also minimize human labor on farms. He hopes the innovation would be implemented on a bigger scale in the United Arab Emirates, according to a...

Two Indian origin students based in Singapore have developed a device that enables automated watering of plants to make certain that the plants do not deteriorate while one is away at work or vacations. The eighth-grade students, Aekas Singh Gulati, and Pratyush Bansal, at the Global Indian International School (GIIS),...

The 18-year-old Indian American Rishi Bagaria from New Jersey is the youngest partner at an investment firm, Thessalus Capital. Bagaria, who turned to be a partner of the investment firm in 2018, has come a long way from being an analyst to junior partner and director of the company. Bagaria...