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                   Parag Agrawal                    Dr. Swati Mohan                             Meghana Musunuri & Satyam Mishra

        you beautiful. Stop comparing your-                                                                   Bihar, have made it to the list of top
        selves with others and let’s talk about                                                               50 finalists for the prestigious US $1
        more important things that are hap-                                                                   million 2021 Global Teacher Prize.
        pening worldwide. I think this is what                                                                Meghana Musunuri is social stud-
        you need to understand. Come out,                                                                     ies, English, and mathematics teach-
        speak for yourself, because you are                                                                   er from Hyderabad, India in one of
        the leader of your life. You are the                                                                  the teachers to have made it to the
        voice of your own. I believed in my-                                                                  list of top fifty Global Teacher Prize
        self and that’s why I am standing here                                                                2021  finalists  while  Satyam  Mishra
        today. Thank you.”                                                                                    is a Math teacher from Bhagalpur,
              2. neeraJ choPra                                                                                Bihar, India, who is determined to
            Neeraj Chopra won a histor-                                                                       change the way children look at the
        ic gold medal in the men’s javelin                                                                    world through his pedagogy. Thus,
        throw, ensuring India’s best-ever                                                                     both of them emerged as prominent
        Olympic campaign at the Tokyo 2020                                                                    Indian newsmakers on a global stage.
        Games making it to the top of Indi-                                                                       5. adar Poonawalla
        an Newsmakers 2021 list. Chopra                                                                           Adar Poonawalla, the CEO of
        became  the  first  athlete  from  inde-                                                              Serum Institute of India (SII) - the
        pendent India to win a medal in a                                                                     world’s largest vaccine manufac-
        track and field event. Neeraj is from                                                                 turer, at the onset of 2021 was in
        the village of Khandra in Haryana’s                                                                   news concerning the production of
        Panipat district. Neeraj grew in a                                                                    COVID-19 vaccine Covishield - the
        17-member joint family and was the                           Adar Poonawalla                          AstraZeneca Oxford vaccine manu-
        eldest of the children.                                                                               factured in India, and announcing its
             3. Parag agrawal                                                                                 accessibility to healthcare workers,
            Parag Agrawal 37, an Indian-or-                                                                   elderly citizens and to public in gen-
        igin tech executive, assumed charge                                                                   eral. Poonawalla continues his ear-
        as the new Twitter CEO on Novem-                                                                      nest efforts in increasing the vaccine
        ber 29 (Monday), after Jack Dorsey                                                                    production from 70 million in March
        stepped down as the co-founder of                                                                     to 90 million in June at SII, besides
        the social media giant emerging as                                                                    assuring  of getting  clearance  from
        one of the most celebrated faces of                                                                   the European Medicines Agency
        Indian Newsmakers 2021.                                                                               (EMA) for Covishield.
            Parag completed his Bachelor’s                                                                            6. BhavYa lal
        Degree in Computer Science and
        Engineering (2005) from the presti-                                                                       In  the  first  week  of  February,
        gious Indian Institute of Technology,                                                                 Bhavya Lal an Indian-American
        Bombay (IIT Bombay) and obtained                                                                      scientist  who  oversaw  NASA’s  tran-
        his MS Degree and Doctorate in                                                                        sition  under  President  Joe  Biden’s
        Computer Science from Stanford                                                                        administration, was appointed as
        University.                                                                                           the Acting Chief of Staff of the U.S.
          4. meghana muSunurI &                                                                               space  agency  -  NASA  for  the  first
               SaTYam mIShra                                                                                  100 days. Before that, she served as
            Meghana Musunuri from Hy-                                                                         a member of the Biden Presidential
        derabad and Satyam Mishra from                Bhavya Lal                      Samir Banerjee
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