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10 India Post
February 17, 2017
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Ind-Am portal hosting startup meet in Mumbai WASHINGTON: An IndianAmerican community and business portal has said it will host a conference for startup entrepreneurs in Mumbai with the objective of helping them find investors from the US to fund their ventures. "American investors continue to be intrigued by the energy, the resourcefulness and the robustness of the Indian startup echo system," said Asif Ismail, pub-
lisher of The American Bazaar, a Washington DC-based community and business portal. The day-long conference in Mumbai on February 22, would also feature a startup competition. Top Indian-American institutional investors and venture fund experts are slated to address the conference, organizers said.
"The bilateral commercial relations today are a two-way traffic. By hosting the startup competition and the Forums, The American Bazaar wants to be the bridge between the US investor community and the Indian startup community," said Ismail. Among speakers to the conference include Indian-American entrepreneur and founder of FI Investment Group Frank Islam; entrepreneur and founder of
AutoNebula and USINPAC Sanjay Puri; former Obama administration official and CEO of the Boston-based Citizence Nish Acharya; Senior General Partner at Edgewood Ventures, LLC Vishal Verma and the founder and Managing Director of the New Yorkbased Powerhouse Ventures Sri Peddu.
"India's startup landscape is the most expansive in the world, and it hasn't even scratched the surface of its potential," said Acharya, author of The India-US Partnership: USD 1 Trillion by 2030. According to various surveys, India has one of the world's largest cohort of privately funded startup companies along with the United States, United Kingdom, Israel and China. "But India's startups are the
most expansive addressing global trends like Big Data, cloud computing and 3D printing, but also focused on serving the base of the pyramid with breakthrough technologies and business models to help small scale farmers, public health clinics and education. No other country can claim that breadth," Acharya said. -PTI
Indian Air Forces aerobatic team Sarang performs during the inauguration of the 11th biennial edition of AERO INDIA 2017 at Yelahanka Air base in Bengaluru on February 14
Tehmina Janjua named Pak foreign secretary ISLAMABAD: Tehmina Janjua, Pakistan's permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, has been appointed as the country's first woman foreign secretary. Janjua will replace incumbent foreign secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, who will be taking charge as Pakistan's new ambassador to the US, Foreign Office said. "Tehmina Janjua will assume the post of Foreign Secretary in the first week of March 2017," it said in a statement. Earlier, local media reports had said Pakistan's high commissioner to India Abdul Basit and its envoy to China Masood Khalid were among the front-runners. Janjua is a seasoned diplomat with a career spanning over 32 years. She holds Master's degrees from Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad and Columbia University, New York. Janjua has rich experience of working in bilateral and multilat-
eral domains both at Headquarters and Missions abroad, the statement said. She also served as Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign
Tehmina Janjua
Affairs and Pakistan's envoy to Italy. At present she is serving as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations in Geneva since October 2015. Last year, she had raised Kashmir issue at the UNHRC and was engaged in a war of words with Indian diplomats. -PTI
Modi a Karma Yogi, says his guru JODHPUR: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been carrying out his job efficiently due to regular practice of 'Karma Yoga', his yoga guru H R Nagendra said here. "Modi practices yoga for an hour every morning with emphasis on Karma Yoga and because of this, he remains free from any work-related stress and focuses on his work," he said. Nagendra was speaking at a conference of the National Medicos Organization at AIIMS, Jodhpur. He said that he taught yoga to Modi in the 1990s and the latter had been practicing the form regularly. "It is because of the regular practice of yoga that Modi has been efficiently and tirelessly carrying out his job as the Prime Minister," Nagendra stated. The founder of Swami
Vivekananda Yoga Research Center also praised Singapore for being the leading nation in practicing yoga diligently. "The people there practice yoga mandatorily every Friday and this is why, the country is clean, corruption-free and youth are away from drugs," he claimed. Terming yoga an effective tool to deal with all kinds of ills, be it physical or social, Nagendra said that a lot needed to be done in India in this regard. -PTI