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Indian-Origin Woman Given Months To Live Now Cancer-Free After Drug Trial In UK
The woman said she is looking forward to celebrating her 25th wedding anniversary.
London:
An Indian-origin woman who was given just months to live a few years ago is celebrating on Monday after doctors say she is showing no evidence of breast cancer following a clinical trial at a UK hospital.
Jasmin David, 51, from Fallowfield in Manchester is now looking forward to celebrating her 25th wedding anniversary in September after the successful National Health Service (NHS) trial.
Ms David’s two-year trial at the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Manchester Clinical Research Facility (CRF) at Christie NHS Foundation Trust involved an experimental medicine combined with Atezolizumab, an immunotherapy drug administered intravenously which she continues to have every three weeks.
“I was 15 months down the line after my initial cancer treatment and had almost forgotten about it, but then the cancer returned,” recalls Ms David.
“When I was offered the trial, I didn’t know if it would work for me, but I thought that at least I could do something to help others and use my body for the next generation. At first, I had many horrible side effects including headaches and spiking temperatures, so I was in hospital over Christmas and quite poorly. Then thankfully I started to respond well to the treatment,” she said.
The previously fit and healthy mother of two grown-up children, worked as a clinical lead at a care home for the elderly.
She discovered she had an aggressive triple negative form of breast cancer in November 2017, when she found a lump above the nipple.
She underwent six months of chemotherapy and a mastectomy in April 2018, followed by 15 cycles of radiotherapy which cleared her body of cancer.
Then in October 2019 the cancer returned, and scans showed multiple lesions throughout her body meaning she had a poor prognosis.
The cancer had spread to the lungs, lymph nodes and chest bone and she was given the devastating news that she had less than a year to live. Two months later, and with no other options left, David was offered the opportunity to be part of research by participating in a Phase I clinical trial.
“I celebrated my 50th birthday in February 2020 while still in the middle of treatment and not knowing what the future held. Two and a half years ago I thought it was the end and I now feel like I’ve been reborn,” she said.
“There is a change in my life after returning from India to see family in April and I have decided to take early retirement and to live my life in gratitude to God and to medical science. My family have been very supportive of this decision. I will be celebrating my 25th wedding anniversary in September. I have so much to look forward to,” she said.
“My Christian faith helped me a lot on this journey and the prayers and support from family and friends gave me strength to face the challenge,” she added.
By June 2021, scans showed no measurable cancer cells in her body and she was deemed cancer free. She will remain on treatment until December 2023 but continues to show no evidence of the disease.
“We are really pleased that Jasmin has had such a good outcome. At The Christie we are continually testing new drugs and therapies to see if they can benefit more people,” said Professor Fiona Thistlethwaite, medical oncologist and clinical director of Manchester CRF at The Christie.
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Indian-Origin CEO Ankiti Bose Sacked By Singapore Fashion Startup
Ankiti Bose was fired by Zilingo following complaints of serious financial irregularities
New Delhi:
Ankiti Bose, the Indian-origin co-founder of Singapore Fashion startup Zilingo, was sacked on Friday following complaints of serious financial irregularities. Reacting to the termination, Ms Bose said that she would act against the witch-hunt.
The 30-year-old alleged that she was fired as Zilingo CEO due to insubordination. “I have been suspended for the last 51 days based on an anonymous whistle-blower complaint, and today I am informed that my employment has been terminated inter alia on grounds of “insubordination”,” Ankiti Bose said in an Instagram post.
She claims that the company did not show her the reports and did not even give her time to produce the requested documents.
Ankiti Bose also said that she and her family were receiving constant threats online.
“I have also been receiving a constant barrage of online threats to my life and family,” she wrote.
Zilingo — an online fashion company that supplies technology to apparel merchants and factories — was founded in 2015 by Ankiti Bose and chief technology officer Dhruv Kapoor.
On March 31, Ms Bose was placed under suspension following complaints of alleged discrepancies in the company accounts.
“Following an investigation led by an independent forensics firm that was commissioned to look into complaints of serious financial irregularities, the company has decided to terminate Ankiti Bose’s employment with cause, and reserves the right to pursue appropriate legal action,” Zilingo said in a statement.
The firm, however, did not elaborate on the allegations against Ms Bose or the findings of the audit.
7 Indian-Origin Techies Charged In US For Insider Trading Worth Million Dollars
7 Indian-origin techies charged in the US after insider trading illegal profits surge $1 million
New York:
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.
Hari Prasad Sure, 34, Lokesh Lagudu, 31 and Chotu Prabhu Tej Pulagam, 29, are friends and worked as software engineers at Twilio, a San Francisco-based cloud computing communications company, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Monday.
The complaint said Mr Sure tipped his close friend Dileep Kumar Reddy Kamujula, 35, who successfully traded in Twilio’s options. Mr Lagudu similarly tipped his girlfriend Sai Nekkalapudi, 30 with whom he lived, and he also tipped his former roommate and close friend Abhishek Dharmapurikar, 33. Mr Pulagam tipped his brother Chetan Prabhu Pulagam, 31. All the seven defendants live in California.
The SEC announced insider trading charges against the seven individuals for allegedly generating more than USD 1 million in collective profits by insider trading ahead of Twilio’s positive first quarter 2020 earnings announcement on May 6, 2020.
According to the SEC’s complaint, Mr Sure, Mr Lagudu and Mr Chotu Pulagam had access to various databases relevant to Twilio’s reporting of revenue.
As alleged, around March 2020, they learned through the databases that Twilio’s customers had increased their usage of the company’s products and services in response to health measures taken in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, and concluded in a joint chat that Twilio’s stock price would “rise for sure.”
The SEC’s complaint alleges that despite receiving a company policy that prohibited them from insider trading, Mr Sure, Mr Lagudu and Mr Chotu Pulagam knowingly tipped off, or used the brokerage accounts of Mr Kamujula, Ms Nekkalapudi, Mr Dharmapurikar and Chetan Pulagam to trade Twilio options and stock in advance of its May 6, 2020 earnings announcement while in possession of the confidential information concerning customer usage.
According to the complaint, the scheme generated more than USD 1 million in illegal trading profits.
The SEC complaint said that Mr Sure, Mr Lagudu and Mr Chotu Pulagam “communicated at times in Telugu, a language used frequently in parts of India.” From late March to early May 2020, they engaged in discussions about the upcoming earnings announcement within a private chat channel they created at Twilio.
“On several occasions between late March and early May 2020, before Twilio’s public earnings announcement, Mr Sure, Mr Lagudu and Mr Chotu Pulagam used internal chat channels to discuss in Telugu whether Twilio might exceed market expectations in its quarterly report of earnings, due in May 2020.”
The complaint said that “armed with valuable inside information”, they had obtained from Twilio, Mr Sure, Mr Lagudu and Mr Chotu Pulagam began passing tips to their family and friends through phone calls and in-person visits in advance of Twilio’s earnings announcement on May 6, 2020.
“We allege that this insider trading ring took advantage of valuable revenue information related to the pandemic at a San Francisco tech company,” said Monique C. Winkler, Acting Regional Director of the SEC’s San Francisco Regional Office.
“We are holding these alleged tippers and tippees accountable for their roles in the scheme.” The SEC complaint added that Mr Kamujula, Ms Nekkalapudi, Mr Dharmapurikar, and Chetan Pulagam were themselves employees of other publicly traded companies, and they understood it was improper for the insiders to tip another person to trade securities on the basis of material, nonpublic information. Mr Sure, Mr Lagudu and Mr Chotu Pulagam used their friends and family to profit personally from their insider trading scheme and to avoid detection.
On May 4, 2020 (just two days before the scheduled Twilio earnings announcement), Mr Sure, Mr Pulagam, and Mr Chotu Pulagam discussed in the chat channel their anticipation that Twilio’s stock price, which was then trading around USD 110 per share, would dramatically increase following the earnings announcement and readied themselves to sell their own company restricted stock units post-announcement.
“Sure noted “[l]ooks like [the stock price] is going to be $150,” to which Chotu Pulagam responded “Miillionaireeeeee”,” the complaint said.
The SEC’s complaint, filed in the Northern District of California, charges each of the defendants with violating anti-fraud provisions of the Securities Exchange Act. The US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California also announced criminal charges against Mr Kamujula.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
Indian-Origin Doctor Anil Menon Among 10 Chosen As NASA Astronauts For Future Missions
Anil Menon was born and raised in Minneapolis to Ukrainian and Indian immigrants. (File)
Houston:
Indian-origin physician Anil Menon, a lieutenant colonel at the US Air Force, has been selected by NASA along with nine others to be astronauts for future missions, the American space agency has announced.
Mr Menon, 45, was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Ukrainian and Indian immigrants.
He was SpaceX’s first flight surgeon, helping to launch the company’s first humans to space during NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission and building a medical organisation to support the human system during future missions.
In a statement, NASA announced that it has chosen 10 new astronaut candidates from a field of more than 12,000 applicants to represent the US and work for humanity’s benefit in space.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson introduced the members of the 2021 astronaut class, the first new class in four years, during a Monday, December 6 event at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
“Today we welcome 10 new explorers, 10 members of the Artemis generation, NASA”s 2021 astronaut candidate class,” Nelson said.
“Alone, each candidate has ‘the right stuff,” but together they represent the creed of our country: E pluribus unum – out of many, one,” he said.
The astronaut candidates will report for duty at Johnson in January 2022 to begin two years of training.
Astronaut candidate training falls into five major categories: operating and maintaining the International Space Station”s complex systems, training for spacewalks, developing complex robotics skills, safely operating a T-38 training jet, and Russian language skills.
Upon completion, they could be assigned to missions that involve performing research aboard the space station, launching from American soil on spacecraft built by commercial companies, as well as deep space missions to destinations including the Moon on NASA”s Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket.
“Each of you has amazing backgrounds,” Pam Melroy, former NASA astronaut and NASA”s deputy administrator, told the candidates. “You bring diversity in so many forms to our astronaut corps and you stepped up to one of the highest and most exciting forms of public service.”
Applicants included U.S. citizens from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and Northern Mariana Islands.
For the first time ever, NASA required candidates to hold a master”s degree in a STEM field and used an online assessment tool. The women and men selected for the new astronaut class represent the diversity of America and the career paths that can lead to a place in America”s astronaut corps.
Menon previously served NASA as the crew flight surgeon for various expeditions taking astronauts to the International Space Station.
He is an actively practicing emergency medicine physician with fellowship training in wilderness and aerospace medicine.
As a physician, he was a first responder during the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, 2015 earthquake in Nepal, and the 2011 Reno Air Show accident.
In the Air Force, Menon supported the 45th Space Wing as a flight surgeon and the 173rd Fighter Wing, where he logged over 100 sorties in the F-15 fighter jet and transported over 100 patients as part of the critical care air transport team.
Aeronautical engineer Sirisha Bandla in July became the third Indian-origin woman to fly into space after Kalpana Chawla and Sunita Williams.
Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma is the only Indian citizen to travel in space. The former Indian Air Force pilot flew aboard Soyuz T-11 on April 3, 1984, part of the Soviet Interkosmos programme.-
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Indian-Origin Girl Bharati Shahani, 22, Among 9 Killed In US Rapper Travis Scott’s Concert Tragedy
Astroworld Stampede: Bharati Shahani was about to graduate from Texas A&M University.
Houston:
A 22-year-old Indian-origin student has succumbed to her injuries sustained during the deadly crowd surge at rapper Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival, taking the death toll in the tragedy to 9, her family has said.
Bharati Shahani, who was about to graduate from Texas A&M University in the spring, died on Wednesday night after suffering a severe brain injury in the tragedy on November 5. She was on a ventilator, according to her family.
A stampede of fans during rap star Scott‘s Astroworld Festival on Friday night killed nine people between the ages of 14 and 27 and injured scores. An investigation continues into the tragedy.
Bharti’s heartbroken family on Thursday confirmed she has been declared dead from injuries she suffered during the chaos at the Astroworld Festival.
“She was like an angel to us.” Bharti’s father Sunny said as his wife and other family members sobbed and held hands behind him.
“Bharti is love,” said mother Karishma, who was overcome by grief.
“Always thinking about everybody – friends, parents, family, her dog Blue. “They say Bharti was the backbone of the family, “the light of their lives” who was a gift from God.
“She was everything to me,” Bharti’s younger sister Namrata said. “We did everything together… she was like a second mother to me.”
The young Aggie was a first-generation American of Indian origin and a good student who would have graduated soon with a computer science degree. She also helped with the family business and took care of her sisters.
An Aggie is a student at Texas A&M University.
Bharti had never been to a concert before — rarely did anything for herself, her mom said — but she decided to go see Travis Scott with Namrata and a cousin.
“She was looking forward to it, she had her outfits planned, she tried everything on, she showed me,” Namrata said.
The sisters were holding hands and enjoying the music, but they got separated during the crowd surge.
Texas A&M officials released a statement offering their condolences to Bharti’s family.
“The Aggie family is deeply saddened to learn of Bharti’s death. Our deepest condolences go out to her family and friends. We encourage our campus community to be kind and patient with themselves and others as everyone experiences grief in different ways. We also encourage anyone struggling to lean on their peers and professionals who are here to listen and help.”
People at the concert described the crowd of about 50,000 as packed and dangerous before the concert even started.
“We were drowning. We were drowning. We were dying. We were screaming for help, screaming for the concert to stop, crying, yelling. No one listened. No one cared,” her cousin, Mohit Bellani, said.
Bharti, her sister Namrata Shahani and Bellani went to the Travis Scott concert together, but lost contact with each other and lost their cellphones when the crowd surged.
“Once one person fell, people started toppling like dominos,” Bellani said on the local channel.
“It was like a sinkhole. People were falling on top of each other. There were … layers of bodies on the ground, like two people thick. We were fighting to come up to the top and (to) breathe (and) stay alive.” She was a sister, a daughter, a high-achieving college student about to graduate from Texas A&M University with high, high grades,” family James Lassiter said.
Bharti’s family had set up a GoFundMe to cover high medical expenses at the ICU, with over USD 79,184 raised as of now.
Another South Asian, Danish Baig, 27, was killed during the crowd rush while trying to save his fiancee, his brother was quoted as saying by local media.
Pakistani-American Danish, from Euless, Texas, fell during the chaos and was trampled by concertgoers while trying to protect Olivia Swingle.
“Travis Scott and his team and everyone associated in the event should and will be held responsible. He [didn’t] stop the show even with people chanting and to stop the show. He allowed it. This was a bloodbath and all of it is on his hands,” his brother said.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday announced the formation of a concert safety task force that will convene members including music industry representatives, law enforcement and state agencies to issue recommendations on how to keep concerts safe.
“Live music is a source of joy, entertainment, and community for so many Texans — and the last thing concertgoers should have to worry about is their safety and security,” Abbott said in a statement.
Scott and event organisers have come under intense scrutiny for how they handled a crowd surge that injured hundreds.
“I’m absolutely devastated by what took place last night,” the rapper said in a statement the day after the incident. “My prayers go out to the families and all those impacted by what happened at the Astroworld Festival.”