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Sudha Murty, renowned author, philanthropist and wife of Infosys co-founder N. R. Narayana Murty, was conferred with the Global Indian Award by the Canada India Foundation. She has been conferred by Canada India Foundation at Toronto gala event on September 30, 2023. The Global Indian Award, which is worth $50, 000, is given each year to a prominent Indian who has made a major mark in his or her chosen field.

“We are so pleased to present the Global Indian Award to Sudha Murty. She has spent her entire career paving the way for future generations to find success in whatever field they choose, and is passionate about giving back to society, ” said Canada India Foundation chairman Satish Thakkar. Accepting the award from Indian High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma, Sudha Murty said, “It is my honour to get this award from your country.”

Thanking the Canada India Foundation (CIF) for choosing her for this award, Murthy said, “The CIF is like Krishna in the Mahabharata. Krishna is the son of Devki as well as Yashoda. Devki was his biological mother and Yashoda brought him up. You are born in India but settled here – that is Yashoda – and your mother is India. You belong to both mothers.”

Lauding the Indo-Canadian diaspora as a bridge between the two countries, she said,?“You are the carriers of Indian culture in a different land. Please keep it up.” Read more on this by tapping on the image below.

?At an age when most teenagers are busy with their schooling and gradually heading towards college life, two Indian-origin teenagers have managed to do something exceptional that many people can only dream of.

Two Indian-origin teenagers Aryan Sharma and Ayush Pathak, of the Silicon Valley in the US, have built a startup named Induced AI. It was founded this year.

“We let anyone create virtual AI workers that can automate the execution of workflows on a browser in the cloud with human-like reasoning,” Aryan Sharma has said. He tweeted on Wednesday about his startup's big achievement of getting investment from ChatpGPT maker OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman.

The startup Induced AI has managed to raise $2.3 million in its seed-funding round led by Sam Altman and VC firm Peak XV, along with “an incredible set of investors.”

Read more on the startup and about other investors by tapping on the image below.

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was given to scientists Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman from Hungary and the United States respectively. Their discoveries made the development of mRNA Covid-19 vaccines possible, the Nobel Foundation.

Considered the among the prestigious prizes in the scientific community, the winners for it are selected by the Nobel Assembly of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, a medical university. The recipients receive 11 million Swedish crowns (about $1 million) for their contributions.

"The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19," the body said. Read more on this by tapping on the image below.

Whenever you step out and brace yourself for a day of hard work, you barely think about it as the day when your life will change forever. This is the story of a man who overcame all odds and survived a horrific 47-storey fall from a skyscraper?in 2007.?

On the morning of December 7, 2007, Alcides Moreno was cleaning windows when tragedy struck.?He was cleaning the windows of a?New York City?building with his brother Edgar—both hailing from Ecuador—when their lives changed forever.

According to the United States Department of Labor accident report, calamity struck when the cables holding their washing platform slipped from their attachment point. Edgar's side was the first to fall, and he died as a result. He was believed to have reached speeds of around 120 mph before plunging to his death. Moreno soon followed but luckily survived the ordeal.

Tragically, his brother Edgar had crashed into a wooden fence and died as a result of the incident. Meanwhile, the rescue services discovered Moreno hunched down by a pile of twisted metal while still hanging on to the scaffold controls.?

Moreno was rushed to the hospital and placed in an induced coma after suffering major injuries to his head, spinal column, chest, and abdomen, as well as fractures to his ribs, right arm, and both legs. According to BBC, he underwent many surgeries and received a remarkable 24 pints of donated blood.?