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NEW DELHI: UGC launches common faculty recruitment portal for central universities. - May 4, 2023
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LONDON: KL Rahul, Jaydev Unadkat ruled out of IPL 2023, in danger of missing WTC final for India. - May 4, 2023
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GENEVA: World should prepare for El Nino, new record temperatures: UN. - May 3, 2023
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WASHINGTON: US philanthropy platform raises over $1 million for 25 Indian NGOs with help of young Indian-Americans. - May 3, 2023
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MOSCOW: India’s Urals oil imports dip in April as China ups competition. - May 2, 2023
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CUPERTINO: Apple opens its first retail store in India. - May 2, 2023
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KHARTOUM: Operation Kaveri, India brings home 754 more citizens from Sudan. - May 1, 2023
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BAHRAIN: Visit of MOS Shri. V. Muraleedharan,to Saudi Arabia & Bahrain. - May 1, 2023
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CALIFORNIA: Google took action against over 3,500 loan apps in India for violating norms in 2022. - April 28, 2023
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SAN JOSE: Startup with Indian roots beats Nvidia at ML Olympics. - April 26, 2023
WASHINGTON: Indian-American Radha Iyengar Plumb Becomes US’s Deputy Under Secretary of Defence
WASHINGTON: The US Senate has confirmed Radha Iyengar Plumb, a national security expert, as the Deputy Under Secretary of Defence for Acquisition and Sustainment, the latest Indian-American to be named by the Biden administration for a key position.
President Joe Biden had nominated Radha Iyengar Plumb, currently serving as Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary of Defence, to this prestigious position in June 2022.
“By a vote of 68-30, the Senate confirmed Radha Iyengar Plumb to be the Deputy Under Secretary of Defence,” US Senate Periodical Press Gallery tweeted on Tuesday.
Prior to her appointment as the Chief of Staff, she was the Director of Research and Insights for Trust and Safety at Google and had previously served as the Global Head of Policy Analysis at Facebook.
Ms Plumb previously was a Senior Economist at the RAND Corporation where she focused on improving the measurement and evaluation of readiness and security efforts across the Department of Defence.
She also held a number of senior staff positions on national security issues at the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and the White House National Security Council.
At the outset of her career, she was an Assistant Professor at the London School of Economics and did her postdoctoral work at Harvard.
Ms Plumb received her Ph.D. and M.S. in Economics from Princeton University, and she holds a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to her profile released by the White House in June last year.
In her Linkedin profile, Ms Plumb describes herself as an experienced leader with deep technical analytic skills and a demonstrated history of working in the government, academia, and industry.