Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Gita Gopinath is now the first deputy managing director (FDMD) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and will assume the role under present managing director Kristalina Georgieva. We trace her meteoric rise from being a girl from a simple Mysuru family to being a world-class economist.

“A little research revealed that every year over 40,000 people in India lose their upper arms, and 85 per cent of them continue to live without any solution. And, the majority come from economically underprivileged sections."

In their initial proof-of-concept testing, the researchers have managed to lower the temperature inside their device by six degrees Celsius, when compared to the temperature outside.

During his five-year stint as the president of Boeing's Indian arm, Pratyush Kumar had advanced the activities of the aerospace company in India while building strong relationships with the government and industry.

Thanks to the development of a nano-technology, it will now be possible to measure how effective a round of cancer therapy is, within hours of the treatment. This project has been kick-started by a group of Indian scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard Medical School.