US President Donald Trump may replace Health and Human Services Alex Azar and Seema Verma, the head of government health insurance programmes, is one of those under consideration to succeed him, according to media reports. Quoting anonymous White House sources, several media outlets reported on Saturday that top White House officials were discussing removing Azar […]
The Union Home Ministry on Friday extended till May 3 the consular service to foreigners stranded in India due to the travel restrictions in place across the country in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic. The government has granted consular service on a gratis basis to foreign nationals. Consular assistance is the help and […]
B.R. Shetty’s flagship company Abu Dhabi-based NMC Health was has been placed under the UK court’s supervision. The court will now appoint administrators to oversee the whole management and operations of the UAE’s largest healthcare operator, Gulf News reported. The existing Board of Directors of NMC “cease to have decision-making powers with immediate effect”. These […]
After serving for more than a decade as President and CEO of Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks, Rajeev Suri has stepped down, paving the way for Pekka Lundmark to wear his shoes in the global role, the company announced on Monday. Suri indicated earlier to the Nokia Board’s board of directors that he was considering […]
Indian expats, take note. Your PAN card will be treated as inoperative if you do not link it with your Aadhaar card by the end of this year. A public notice has been issued here asking for linking an Indian resident’s PAN with his/her Aadhaar card before December 31, Gulf News reported on Friday. While […]
The decision of the Modi government to revamp India’s archaic education system is as significant as it is laudable. It is grossly unfortunate that previous governments failed to respond to the global changes and introspect on the reforms that India’s education system required. For decades, India clung on to a 19th-century education model to service […]
Ghazala Hashmi, who made history by becoming first Muslim woman to be elected to Virginia State Senate, hails from a family of educationists in Hyderabad. Migrating to the United States with her family when she was just four, the Indian-American scored a stunning victory over sitting Republican Senator Glen Sturtevant. The 55-year-old, a Democrat, was […]
An Indian-American White House official has been caught in the crossfire of internal politics arising from the Ukraine controversy that has engulfed President Donald Trump in an impeachment. The expertise of Kashyap Patel, the National Security Council’s (NSC) senior Director of counter-terrorism, on Ukraine has been questioned by another NSC official, Lt Col Alexander Vindman, […]
Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen, Mastercard’s Ajay Banga and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella are among the top 10 best-performing chief executives in the world, according to a Harvard Business Review (HBR) list. While Narayen ranks 6th in the list of best-performing 100 CEOs, Banga has been placed at 7th position and Nadella at 9th. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang […]
A man in Singapore has been sentenced to four-week jail and fined 1,000 Singaporean dollars for racist remarks, insulting an Indian national working at the Changi Airport. William Aw Chin Chai, 47, had also stepped on a foot of a woman who held the lift door open for him and also splashed noodles on two […]