NRI Achievers

A 12-year-old Indian-origin boy in Britain an overnight sensation when he answered all the questions in the contest correctly. The kid named Rahul, according to the reports, answered the 14 questions correctly in the first round of the contest “Child Genius”, which was broadcast on Channel 4. Due to Rahul’s IQ...

An Indian-American Anantha Chandrakasan, which is an academician at the iconic Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is named as a dean of one of the Engineering school of the Institute. Chandrakasan is also the head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS). According to the statement released by the...

The former United States Ambassador to India, Richard Verma has become a partner as well as vice chairman of The Asia group, according to the press release published by the firm recently. The firm, in the press release said that the former Indian-American diplomat is going to bring around 20...

J. J. Kapur, an Indian American and a junior at Valley High School in West Des Moines, Iowa, has won the National Speech and Debate Tournament after his speech has won the competition in the category of original oratory. Kapur’s persuasive speech that was titled ‘Let’s Dance’, talked about his...

A seventh grade student from Chippewa Middle School of Des Plaines School District 62, Pratiksha Bhattacharyya has been named as the state merit winner for Illinois in the landmark 10th annual Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge. The Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge is the nation’s premier science...

Four Indian Americans along with one Indian had won the major awards at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Los Angeles, on May 19. The four Indian American winners are Pratik Naidu from Virginia, in the category of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; Adam Nayak from Oregon, in the...

14-year-old from DeWitt Perry Middle School, Pranay Varada of Irving, Texas, clinched the 2017 champion at the 29th annual National Geographic Bee held on May 17, at National Geographic headquarters in Washington, D.C. Another 14-year-old Thomas Wright of Mequon, Wisconsin, an eighth-grader at University School of Milwaukee, took the...

Indian-American attorney Neal Katyal has argued the most number of cases before the Supreme Court in 2016, a new study released on May 8, revealed. This information was confirmed by Katyal’s law firm Hogan Lovells. Katyal, a partner at Hogan Lovells, is the former Acting U.S. Solicitor General during the...

Including Kabir Sidhu, who has become the US Junior Silver under-13 squash champion, several Indian American students of Cedar Hill Prep School in Somerset, New Jersey, have excelled at various competitions. Indian American Student Wins Congressional District Art Competition Earlier, winners of the Cedar Hill Prep History Bee (grades 4 –...

Including an Indian American, researchers have developed a computer-driven automated drill that could perform a type of complex cranial surgery 50 times faster — decreasing operating time from two hours to 2.5 minutes. A translabyrinthine surgery is performed to expose slow-growing, benign tumours that form around the auditory nerves. In...