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  • Top MIT professor to chair World Hindu Congress in Chicago

    Top MIT professor to chair World Hindu Congress in Chicago

     

    Photo Courtesy: World Hindu Congress website
    Photo Courtesy: World Hindu Congress website

    WASHINGTON: A top professor of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Dr Sriprakash Kothari, would chair the second World Hindu Congress set to be held in Chicago this September, organizers of the mega event have announced.

    More than 2,000 delegates from over 80 countries are expected to attend the second edition of the quadrennial conference to be addressed by nearly 250 eminent speakers from across the globe, including Tibetan Spiritual leader Dalai Lama, Richard Gere and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat.

     

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  • India-born Anantha Chandrakasan named dean of MIT’s engineering school

    India-born Anantha Chandrakasan named dean of MIT’s engineering school

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    Image: Facebook

    NEW YORK: An India-born academician at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been named as the dean of its engineering school.

    Anantha Chandrakasan, the Vannevar Bush Professor and head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) was last month named the dean of the MIT’s School of Engineering.

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  • Narayana Murthy: Indian IT companies act as immigration agents

    Narayana Murthy: Indian IT companies act as immigration agents

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    HYDERABAD: US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump now has an ally in India in the form of N R Narayana Murthy. Trump, who has been vehemently opposing outsourcing of US jobs to countries like India and China, among others, has found support from Infosys founder Murthy, who on Tuesday said that the Indian software industry has been acting as ‘immigration agents’ for its employees. He said it was imperative for the IT companies to create local jobs as it was their responsibility to do so.

    “My belief was that a corporation that has global aspiration has to be fair to its global employees. All Indian companies guarantee visas, they guarantee green cards. The whole exercise has become as if they are immigration agents. I am sorry to say that. Indian companies behave as if they are agents for their employees to cross the Atlantic,” Murthy said at the Indian School of Business (ISB), where he was conferred the ISB Honorary Distinguished Fellowship.

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