by Vikram Sharma | Sep 13, 2021
(September 13, 2021) On August 24, when the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III took off from the Hamid Karzai International airport in Kabul and vanished in the sky after heading west, photographer Omer Farooq Faizi – one of the passengers on board the US aircraft – heaved a...
by Venkat Sandeep Bandla | Sep 11, 2021
(September 11, 2021) ‘Finding inspiration in the unlikeliest of places – is the one phrase that best suits Simarpreet Singh’s journey, who went from being an electrical Indian engineer to a ‘renewable energy’ entrepreneur. Singh’s inspiration stemmed...
by Global Indian | Sep 9, 2021
(September 9, 2021) Back in 2008 when Ginkgo Bioworks was founded by a group of scientists from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it had one goal: to be able to engineer biology and ultimately build a factory for engineering organisms. Today,...
by Global Indian | Sep 8, 2021
(September 8, 2021) Back in 1963 cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova made history by becoming the first woman in space aboard Soviet Union’s Vostok 6 spacecraft. By 1997 it was Indian-origin astronaut Kalpana Chawla’s turn to script history by becoming the first...
by Global Indian | Sep 6, 2021
(September 6, 2021) Agriculture in India has often left farmers short changed. The reasons for this have been many: low landholding, lack of modernization, taxing loans from an informal setup, unpredictable weather conditions, demand-supply issues, and also the lack...
