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Delhi youth, 2 other Indians in MIT list of world’s top innovators

A young Indian-origin aerospace engineer from the US stumbled upon rural India for the first time in his life. He was so taken up by it, he decided to stay.

Rikin Gandhi, 29, CEO of Delhi-based Digital Green, is one of the three of Indian-origin people who made it to the annual list of young innovators published by the Technological Review magazine. The magazine is put out by an independent company owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The list, called TR35, is a collection of the top 35 innovators under the age of 35 in a particular year.

Read the full story in Indian Express!

Posted by ks on 08/30/10 at 11:30 PM
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Indian-origin Archie Panjabi wins Emmy

NEW YORK (CBS) Little-known British actress Archie Panjabi is waving the UK banner high after her big Emmy win Sunday night in Los Angeles..

The 38-year-old won an Emmy for outstanding supporting actress in a drama series for her role in the CBS series “The Good Wife.”

Click here to read the full story on CBS news!

Posted by ks on 08/30/10 at 11:11 PM
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Arjun Atwal wins 2010 Wyndham Championship - first golfer from India to win on the PGA TOUR

Read the interview with Atul Atwal

Who is Arjun Atwal

Posted by ks on 08/25/10 at 11:30 AM
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US matches Indian outsourcing costs

Aug. 17, 2010
Some outsourcing jobs are becoming as cheap to fill in the US as they are in India, according to the head of the country’s largest business process outsourcing company.

High unemployment levels have driven down wages for some low-skilled outsourcing services in some parts of the US, particularly among the Hispanic population.

Click here to read the full story in Finacial Times

Posted by ks on 08/22/10 at 07:26 AM
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Atlanta’s Kruti Dance Academy has a shot for ‘America’s Got Talent’

August 17, 2010

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Computer scientist Vinay Deolalikar claims to have solved maths riddle of P vs NP

A computer scientist claims to have solved one of the world’s most complex and intractable mathematical problems by proving that P≠NP.
August 11, 2010
“Vinay Deolalikar, who works at the research arm of Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, California, believes he has solved the riddle of P vs NP in a move that could transform mankind’s use of computers as well as earn him a $1m prize.

P vs NP is one of the seven millennium problems set out by the Massachusetts-based Clay Mathematical Institute as being the “most difficult” to solve.

Click to read the full story in Daily Telegraph

Vinay Deolalikar’s Paper

Posted by ks on 08/11/10 at 09:36 PM
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Sunil Kumar named dean of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

July 28, 2010

Sunil Kumar (Photo: Stanford University)

Sunil Kumar, the Fred H. Merrill Professor of Operations, Information and Technology and an expert in operations research at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, has been appointed the next dean of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. University President Robert Zimmer and Provost Thomas Rosenbaum announced the appointment July 28.

Kumar is currently the Stanford business school’s senior associate dean for academic affairs. In this role, he oversees the school’s M.B.A. program and also leads the faculty groups in marketing and organizational behavior. His five–year term as dean at Chicago Booth will begin on Jan. 1, 2011.

Posted by ks on 08/05/10 at 06:13 PM
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Meet Obama’s Internet Czar - Aneesh Chopra

Posted by ks on 08/04/10 at 11:31 AM
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Facebook CEO responds to privacy issue

Posted by ks on 07/30/10 at 08:57 AM
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US files suit over racial discrimination against Indians

July 17, 2010
Washington: The US Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against the owner and management of an apartment complex at Renton in Washington State for racial discrimination against Indians who were treated less favourably than other tenants and even told to “go back” to India.

Posted by ks on 07/19/10 at 06:01 PM
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