Shafaq Mandha, a Gujarat-origin computer systems engineering graduate from Middlesex University Dubai, has been selected for ORBITA-26, an international satellite mission that will send her to Moscow to represent the UAE at the project's launch.
Nottingham Trent University has marked the graduation of almost 250 Indian students from its 2025/26 cohort, reinforcing the UK institution's standing as a leading destination for Indian talent amid a competitive global market for international education.
Ambassador Vinay Mohan Kwatra's three-day visit to Atlanta combined a diaspora reception honoring scholar Jagdish Sheth, a university roundtable spanning nearly twenty Southeastern institutions, and a business reception with Fortune 500 executives — underscoring the Southeast's growing role in the India-US relationship.
The Wisconsin Alumni Association has honored Navrina Singh, founder of AI governance company Credo AI and a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate, with its 2026 Luminary Award, recognizing her role shaping the emerging field of responsible artificial intelligence.
The 25th edition of IIJS Bharat Premiere opened across two Mumbai venues with more than 2,100 exhibitors and 2,700 international buyers, reinforcing India's position as the world's gem-cutting capital and deepening trade links with Gulf markets including the UAE.
The fifth edition of the NRI Achievers Awards concluded at Singapore's St. Regis hotel, honoring diaspora leaders in business, technology, healthcare and entrepreneurship, and drawing delegates from the United Kingdom, United States, UAE, Australia and beyond.
The Open Atlas Summit is set to return to Silicon Valley on August 21, once again bringing together diaspora entrepreneurs, technologists and investors in a platform that has grown into a fixture of the Bay Area's Indian innovation calendar.
Spiritual teacher Sant Rajinder Singh has inaugurated a new meditation center in Lynnwood, Washington, expanding the Science of Spirituality organization's American presence and reflecting the steady growth of meditation and wellness institutions tied to the Indian diaspora across the Pacific Northwest.
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.