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.
The fifth edition of the NRI Achievers Awards concluded at The St. Regis Singapore on July 31, recognizing diaspora leaders across business, technology, healthcare and research from more than a dozen countries, including four Singapore-based honorees.
The American India Foundation, the New York-based organization founded in 2001 following the Gujarat earthquake, has mobilized its U.S. donor network in response to catastrophic monsoon flooding in Assam that has affected hundreds of thousands of people and left dozens dead across the state.
Tarun Lal, the former KFC U.S. president who took over as Dave & Buster's chief executive last year, has retired effective August 3 to spend more time with his family in India, with CFO Darin Harper named as his successor.
Parul Butala has been promoted to president of AMERCO Real Estate Co., the property arm of U-Haul Holding Co., capping a three-decade rise from staff architect to head of a division that manages thousands of self-storage and moving facilities across North America.
Sanjay Ghemawat, the Indian-American engineer behind Google File System, MapReduce, Bigtable and Spanner, has left Google after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop with Jeff Dean, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le — a new venture backed by Alphabet that aims to automate scientific and engineering research.
University of Nevada, Reno assistant professor Parikshit Maini has won a five-year, $618,201 National Science Foundation CAREER Award — the agency's most prestigious honor for early-career faculty — to build cooperative drone-and-ground-robot systems that could reshape precision agriculture from Nevada's arid fields to Mars.