Governor Gavin Newsom has appointed Indian-American engineer and former Chime and Amazon executive Shweta Maurya as senior product manager at California's Office of Data and Innovation, adding to a growing roster of Indian-origin professionals shaping American public-sector technology.
Google Fellow Sanjay Ghemawat, the Indian-American co-architect of MapReduce and Bigtable, is stepping away from Google to co-found a new artificial intelligence venture alongside Jeff Dean, Quoc Le and Oriol Vinyals — the latest sign that the deepest technical talent in Silicon Valley is betting on independent AI labs over incumbent giants.
RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra has said discussions on reintroducing a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on UPI transactions remain at a premature stage, addressing a question that has stirred anxiety across India's fintech and payments ecosystem in recent weeks.
The Centre has released ₹276 crore against a combined outlay of nearly ₹1,490 crore approved for four AI Centres of Excellence at IIT Ropar, IIT Kanpur, IISc Bengaluru and IIT Madras, according to a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, as the centres work on sector-specific AI models for agriculture, healthcare, cities and education.
Shree Krishna Vada Pav, a UK-based Indian street-food chain founded by three former hospitality professionals from Mumbai, has opened its first North West England outlet at Manchester Arndale, part of an expansion push backed by investment from Indian snack maker Haldiram's.
Shijin Paul, a 27-year-old Indian expatriate from Kerala working as a social media manager at a Dubai car showroom, was killed when a gas cylinder exploded on Sheikh Zayed Road — an incident that has renewed attention on workplace safety for the roughly 3.5 million Indian workers in the UAE.
Sumeet Shrivastava, a George Mason MBA graduate and longtime federal IT executive, has been elected rector of the university's Board of Visitors, taking the top leadership post on the governing board of one of Virginia's largest public universities.
Purdue University has appointed mathematics professor Deepam Patel as associate dean for undergraduate affairs in its College of Science, giving him strategic oversight of academic programs for more than 6,000 undergraduates across the university's West Lafayette and Indianapolis campuses.
Indian green energy, electric mobility and renewable energy stocks showed mixed performance on August 5, 2026, with Kabra Extrusion and commercial EV maker Olectra Greentech posting strong gains even as several power and solar-related counters declined amid a broadly stable trading session.
Optimist, a Gurugram-based startup building air conditioners engineered specifically for Indian heat and humidity, is in talks to raise about $10 Mn from TDK Ventures, months after closing a $12 Mn seed and pre-Series A round led by Accel and Arkam Ventures.