Author: Bhakti Narayanan

According to Ashwini Vaishnaw, the minister of electronics and information technology, India would overtake other countries as the primary location for semiconductor manufacture in the next five years if the proper environment is developed and prices are kept low there. The Center revealed a $10 billion plan to manufacture semiconductors in December 2021, and a fabrication factory is anticipated to receive clearance soon. “We know for sure that in the coming 4-5 years, India will become the biggest semiconductor manufacturing destination in the world if you have the ecosystem in place. Our focus is making sure that the right ecosystem…

On May 16, 2023, Indian chef Prateek Sadhu gave a presentation titled “The Journey of India” during the opening supper of the 76th Cannes Film Festival. The Indian Ministry of Information and Technology organized the event, which included French and Indian fusion food. Manushi Chhillar, Guneet Monga, Urvashi Rautela, and Indian director Madhur Bhandarkar were among the guests at the event. Sadhu focused on the regional variations of Indian foods and tastes when creating a cuisine. By combining Tungrymbai from the Northeast area with Millet Thoran, he created a discussion about India’s variety with the menu in order to support…

Global consulting company EPG held India Week in the UK from May 7–14 in an effort to promote discussion about India’s rising importance in the global economy. Over 900 people from all over the world attended the event, including 100 powerful corporate and policy leaders from India and 800 people from the UK, Europe, and the US. The week-long event began with a CEO’s Golf Weekend in Leicestershire, then moved to Oxford for an educational conference and award presentation. Meghalaya’s education minister, Rakkam Sangma, gave the conference’s opening remarks. The Ideas for India conference, a special luncheon in the House…

According to CII research published in Toronto, Indian businesses have spent more than CAD 6.6 billion in Canada, generating thousands of jobs, and all of them want to increase their investments in the future.  The first known attempt to document the Indian industry’s expanding presence in Canada was the study “From India to Canada: Economic Impact and Engagement,” which was released by Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal during his visit to the city.  After sampling as many as 30 Canadian businesses, the surveyor collected data. In the following five years, all corporations who responded claimed they would boost…

Hyundai Motor India, the nation’s second-largest automaker, announced on Thursday that it will spend Rs 20,000 crore over ten years in Tamil Nadu to launch new electric vehicle (EV) models and boost output at its Irunga plant. In a statement, Hyundai claimed that over the next five years, it will establish 100 EV charging stations throughout the southern state and a battery pack assembly facility with a 178,000-unit annual capacity. The business wants to boost annual output at its manufacturing facility outside of Chennai from about 775,000 to 850,000 automobiles. The automaker, however, did not provide a timeframe for completing…

WION, India’s sole international news channel, recently announced the debut of its new show, WORLD DNA, in an effort to broaden its audience and viewership in the American market. Hem Kaur Saroya and Rohit Wellington will serve as the show’s hosts on the newscast that will compile the most important stories from across the world into a single program. The show, which airs live every night at 10 p.m. EST, strives to teach American and Asian viewers about events that will affect their present and set the stage for the future. Chief business officer of WION, Madhu Soman, said, “With…

The New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF), which takes place in New York City from Thursday, May 11, to Sunday, May 14, is where Bollywood star Manoj Bajpayee will promote his forthcoming film. Since its first season in 2001, NYIFF has been the longest-running annual film festival in North America that serves the Indian diaspora. The courtroom drama in Bajpayee’s movie is called Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai. It will debut on Zee5 Global, an OTT service made specifically for South Asian programming, on May 23. In the film, Bajpayee will play high court attorney P.C. Solanki. The plot of…

On Thursday, Oscar-winning director Guneet Monga stated that she never supports a movie with the goal of taking home a prize. Producing “The Elephant Whisperers” by Kartiki Gonsalves, which in March received the Academy Award for best documentary short subject, is all about being faithful to the narrative, according to Monga. “Every film has its own journey. You never make content for an award; you just make a piece of cinema because you love the story. When you tell a story through the long format, with the number of years it takes to make the film, you have to fall…

A project of Schmidt Futures and the Rhodes Trust, the Schmidt Science Fellows program seeks to build a community of scientists and advocates for multidisciplinary science. Out of 32 applicants, five early-career scientists of Indian descent were selected. For up to two years of postdoctoral research, the fellows—Sahil Loomba of Imperial College London, Shilpa Pothapragada of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Krishnakant Saboo of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Susmita Sarkar of Purdue University, and Sridevi Venkatesan of the University of Toronto—will receive a stipend of US$100,000. The Schmidt Science Fellows are assigned to world-class researchers and famous laboratories to…

On April 28, 2023, in the Indian consulate in New York, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman (Non-Resident Indian) Awardees in the tri-state area met with Amit Kumar Mishra, Deputy Secretary of Overseas Indian Affairs in the Ministry of External Affairs. At the gathering, there was Ashook Ramsaran, president of the Indian Diaspora Council International (IDC), as well as a Guyana-based recipient of the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman (PBS). The IDC released a statement stating that the meeting’s objectives were to discuss the upcoming PBSA conference and the contributions made by diaspora scientists to scientific research in India. According to the press release, the…