Twitter’s top lawyer Vijaya Gadde, UK’s finance minister Rishi Sunak, Instacart founder and CEO Apoorva Mehta, doctor and Executive Director of nonprofit Get Us PPE Shikha Gupta and founder of nonprofit Upsolve Rohan Pavuluri.
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Business hit by pandemic, owners of Indian restaurant in the US get support from President Biden
Companies across the world have been struggling for the last year with the COVID-19 pandemic having hit small businesses in particular. The owners of Indian restaurant NaanStop found a sympathetic ear in US President Joe Biden.
Biden administration appoints two Indian-origin experts in key public service positions
Sonali Nijhawan has been named Director of AmeriCorps State and National while Sri Preston Kulkarni has been appointed the new Chief of External Affairs at AmeriCorps.
Indian-American Daleep Singh to be appointed Biden’s deputy national security adviser
Singh will serve as the deputy National Economic Council (NEC) Director as well and report to both National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and NEC Director Brian Deese.
US President Biden appoints Indian-American Dr Raj Panjabi to lead malaria initiative
United States President Joe Biden has appointed Indian-origin Dr Raj Panjabi to lead his Malaria Initiative.
Indian-American Bhavya Lal appointed as Acting Chief of Staff for NASA
Lal has extensive experience in engineering and space technology, serving as a member of the research staff at the Institute for Defence Analyses Science and Technology Policy Institute (STPI) from 2005 to 2020.
Scotland Yard celebrates 50th anniversary of its first Sikh female officer
PC Sandhu was born to a Sikh family in Zanzibar, East Africa in 1943 and came to the UK in 1962.
Indian-origin lawmakers Pramila Jayapal, Raja Krishnamoorthi named to key congressional committees
55-year-old Jayapal has been named to the budget committee while Krishnamoorthi has been appointed to a key congressional committee on the coronavirus crisis.
Padma Lakshmi cooks up a special Indian meal to mark inauguration day for Vice-President elect Kamala Harris
Padma Lakshmi, like Harris’ mother Shyamala Gopalan, was born in Chennai before migrating to the US at the age of 4.
Meet the 20 Indian-Americans in US President-elect Joe Biden’s administration
As many as 17 Indian-Americans have been nominated to the White House and 13 of the 20 are women.
