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On the heels of his company’s push into India, Edible Arrangements founder and chief executive officer Tariq Farid has high expectations for the subcontinent and is encouraged by the global initiative that has seen his Wallingford, Conn.-based, fresh-fruit arrangements chain expand to 15 countries and over 1,000 locations.
Farid said that, while other international expansion was going on, India was always a country that was going to eventually be in the path of the chain’s global march. Though Farid was born in Pakistan, his mother was born in India and he has friends and a connection to the country. “It is probably the one market we relate to the most,” he said. |
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EMC Corp., which is headquartered in Hopkinton, Mass., has signed a deal with the Indian Institute of Science for research on data analytics and intelligence. According to the company, the partnership will help the company in increasing its intellectual property rights portfolio and contribute to the development of future products. All of the research and results that come as a result of the partnership will belong to EMC and the company plans to publish papers on the work.
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| Suren Dwivedi, a mechanical engineering professor and director of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's Virtual Reality and Product Realization Lab was presented a Lifetime Achievement Award in December at the International Conference on Agile Manufacturing in Agra, India.
The International Society of Agile Manufacturing and the International Society for Productivity Enhancement sponsored the conference, at which 119 people presented papers on topics ranging from agile manufacturing, concurrent engineering, and integrated product and process development, to virtual reality, agile software systems and green manufacturing.
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 Harvard Business School professor Krishna G. Palepu has been appointed senior advisor for global strategy to Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust.
In this role, Palepu will implement proposals from the school’s International Strategy Working Group and work on international fundraising, as well as relations with Harvard about 40,000 alumni who live and work abroad. |
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 Proloy K. Das, a partner with Rome McGuigan in Hartford, Conn., was named one of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association’s “Best Lawyers Under 40” for 2011.
Das was presented with the award at the bar association’s annual gala, which was held late last year in Washington, D.C. |
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Headlines last fall were ominous: Rajat Gupta to surrender to the FBI; Rajat Gupta released on $10 million bail. It was the lead story in major American newspapers and the lead story on evening news on network TV.
Rajat Gupta was one of a special group of Indian Americans who had made their way to the top in American business and academic world, and so in a way, he was among the “best and the brightest,” even in the “best and the brightest” group. He was a poster boy not only for Wall Street but also for Indian Americans. He was looked upon as a source of inspiration for what an Indian can achieve with hard work and motivation. He was a featured speaker at an IITSINE program in Boston, a few years ago. |
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At a recent book club gathering of women from the world over, including yours truly, who have thriving lives in the United States spoke about how they perceived India as they were growing up. “Eat up your dinner because people in India are starving!” This has a time stamp and children growing up in the ‘50s and ‘60s in the United States thought of India as a poor developing country. In the same breath, these women also expressed their views on the current scene and how wonderful the call centers have been for India – I sensed a veiled cynicism there. |
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MIT 'path-breaking' professor emeritus devoted life to studying genetic code
H. Gobind Khorana, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Biology and Chemistry emeritus, died of natural causes in Concord, Mass., on Nov. 9. He was 89. |
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Deal is the first of its kind in India for energy giant
Expanding GE's footprint in India and connection with one of the country's fastest growing clean energy developers, GE Energy Financial Services and Indian-based Greenko Group have agreed to invest in a new venture to develop wind energy projects across India. |
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| Breaking News |
1/27/2012 Seva Search, a Washington D.C.‐based local search company founded by Gurpreet Singh, Manpreet Singh and Amandeep Bakshi, has closed its first round of outside funding – raising $1.3 million. Backing for the company comes from prominent investors, successful serial entrepreneurs, and top angels from North America, South America, Asia, and Europe, the company said.
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| 1/26/2012 IMS Health has acquired PharmARC, an India-based company specializing in commercial analytics and services for the life sciences industry. The acquisition adds to IMS’s business process outsourcing capabilities, the Danbury, Conn.-based company said.
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| 1/25/2012 Indian Ambassador to the United States Nirupama Rao held a Q&A session at the seminar “India as a Global Power: Contending Views from India,” which was held in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 23. The event was organized by the Center for a New American Security, in partnership with The George Washington University’s Rising Powers Initiative.
The full transcript of the Q&A follows:
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| 1/20/2012 Dipak K. Das, a professor at in the University of Connecticut’s Department of Surgery and director of the school’s Cardiovascular Research Center, is facing dismissal from the university and disgrace after a three-year investigation found 145 counts of fabrication and falsification of data in his research.
Das is most well known for his research into the beneficial properties of resveratrol, an ingredient in red win, which he found to have potential for promoting health.
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1/27/2012 This week’s roundtable was co-hosted with the Jacksonville Startup Weekend. For the uninitiated, Startup Weekends are 54-hour events where entrepreneurs come together to pitch ideas, form teams, and learn best practices. This past weekend, the Jacksonville entrepreneurship community hosted their own version of this exciting program. 150 people came together, and 17 businesses were formed. An additional 50 were on the wait-list, an evidence of the energy and enthusiasm that is bubbling in Florida right now. MJ Charmani, founder of iStart Jax, a business accelerator, and one of the key organizers of the event introduced today’s session with additional reports on last weekend’s event.
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| 1/27/2012 By now the bills from Christmas spending have arrived, and many households are burdened by credit card balances that seemed so promising when the application arrived in the mail. Unfortunately, none of them have a feature stipulating you don't have to pay.
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