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Five Indian-origin women executives have made it to Barron's prestigious annual '100 Most Influential Women in US Finance' list for achieving positions of prominence in the financial services industry and helping shape its future. Barron's is a sister publication of the Wall Street Journal, published by Dow Jones and Company. "The list honours established and emerging leaders in financial services, the corporate world, nonprofit organisations, and government," the magazine said in a press release. Indian-origin Anu Aiyengar from J.P. Morgan, Ariel Investment's Rupal J. Bhansali, Sonal Desai of Franklin Templeton, Goldman Sach's Meena Flynn and Savita Subramanian from Bank of America are among the 100 women who were named in the fourth annual version of the prestigious list, released last month. Aiyengar, in her 50s, assumed the role of global head of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) at J.P. Morgan in January after serving as a co-head of the division since 2020. According to the ...

Updated On: 05 Apr 2023 | 6:53 PM IST

He joined the company in March 2021, and he is on course to become the CEO in just two years

Updated On: 23 Mar 2023 | 5:43 PM IST

An Indian-origin judge, Shama Hakim Mesiwala, has been unanimously confirmed as an associate justice of a district court of appeal in the US state of California. Mesiwala's appointment as an associate justice of the Third District Court of Appeal in California's Sacramento city was confirmed on February 14 by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California, Patricia Guerrero, according to a press release by the Judicial Council of California. "Judge Mesiwala was confirmed by unanimous vote of the three-member commission, which included Chief Justice Guerrero (Chair); Attorney General Rob Bonta; and Acting Presiding Justice Ronald B. Robie," the press release said. Mesiwala, in her late 40s, fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice Coleman A. Blease. She has served as a Sacramento County Superior Court judge since 2017 and was a commissioner there in 2017. Mesiwala has been an adjunct professor at the University of California, Davis School of Law since 2013 and w

Updated On: 28 Feb 2023 | 5:27 PM IST

Gurdeep Singh Randhawa, an Indian origin German national, has been appointed to the Thuringia state Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party presidium

Updated On: 25 Nov 2022 | 7:09 AM IST

Prime Minister Liz Truss held her first Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London on Wednesday after announcing one of the UK's most diverse Cabinets, with key frontline posts going to ethnic minority members of Parliament, including Indian-origin Suella Braverman as the Home Secretary. Another Indian-origin minister in the Cabinet, Agra-born Alok Sharma, retains his climate action job as the COP26 President, as does Defence Secretary Ben Wallace in a new top team that is otherwise a complete shake-up of the old guard. London-born junior minister Ranil Jayawardena, of mixed Sri Lankan and Indian heritage, has been promoted as the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Many senior Tories, who had backed Truss' rival, British Indian former finance minister Rishi Sunak, find themselves without a job including former justice secretary Dominic Raab, transport secretary Grant Shapps and health secretary Steve Barclay. The process of appointing the Cabinet and .

Updated On: 07 Sep 2022 | 3:50 PM IST

She was Chairman of Cambridge Conservatives whilst studing at the University there. She was a post-graduate student at the Paris Sorbonne and speaks fluent French and Spanish

Updated On: 05 Sep 2022 | 7:46 PM IST

Twitter recently laid off 30 per cent of employees from its talent acquisition team

Updated On: 26 Aug 2022 | 1:17 PM IST

Seven Indian-origin persons have been charged by US federal authorities with insider trading in a scheme through which they made over a million dollars in illegal profits.

Updated On: 30 Mar 2022 | 12:46 AM IST

A red notice is an alert to all Interpol member states that an individual is a wanted fugitive, but is not equivalent to an arrest warrant.

Updated On: 01 Mar 2022 | 7:15 AM IST

'So it's not just Silicon Valley but also Fashion Alley that's catching the 'good virus' of Indian CEOs,' tweets Mahindra Group chairman on Leena Nair being appointed Chanel's global CEO

Updated On: 17 Dec 2021 | 2:43 PM IST

Nationality and Borders Bill absolves a government from the need to give 'notice of decision to deprive a person of citizenship'

Updated On: 24 Nov 2021 | 11:25 PM IST

Abinaya Dinesh, a 15-year-old Indian-origin girl, is among three winners of the annual WWDC21 Swift Student Challenge

Updated On: 01 Jun 2021 | 10:06 PM IST

With more than 32 million people of Indian origin or (PIOs) globally, according to India's Ministry of External Affairs, Indians are the largest diaspora population in the world

Updated On: 17 Feb 2021 | 1:42 AM IST

Srikant Datar has been named as Dean of Harvard Business School, succeeding Nitin Nohria and becoming the second consecutive dean hailing from India to lead the prestigious 112-year-old institution

Updated On: 10 Oct 2020 | 7:41 AM IST

Hardip Singh Khaira, from Coatbridge in North Lanarkshire, will be disqualified for nine years starting Thursday, after which the 43-year-old is banned from acting as a director

Updated On: 07 Aug 2020 | 8:35 PM IST

Srinivasan, 52, became the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit

Updated On: 19 Feb 2020 | 10:07 AM IST

The small pharmacy Kamra worked, sold so many opioids that some were hidden under the sink for fear that their distributor would notice the over-abundance and cut them off for exceeding the limit.

Updated On: 03 Dec 2019 | 10:05 AM IST

The investigation took officials to a property in a mountainous, heavily wooded area where they found the white BMW and Atre's body

Updated On: 03 Oct 2019 | 9:20 PM IST

In an attempt to pay back his former clients, Kale, 43, forged signatures to siphon off $10 million from his present clients

Updated On: 05 Jul 2019 | 9:33 AM IST

Direct flights to be launched between Delhi, Mumbai and Tel Aviv

Updated On: 06 Jul 2017 | 2:30 AM IST