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Kamma factor plays spoiler Kamma daughter Purandareswari

HYDERABAD: The Kamma lobby in the Congress seems to have played spoilsport with their own `muddu bidda.'  Daggubati Purandeswari , who was hopeful of elevation to the cabinet rank till a few minutes before  Manmohan Singh  effected the much-needed cabinet reshuffle on Sunday morning, was left to fend for the crumbs. If sources are to be believed, her chances were scuttled by a strong Kamma troika led by senior MP Kavuri Sambasiva Rao who put in his papers on Saturday after he was denied a berth. Party insiders aver that the high command was forced to beat a hasty retreat following vehement opposition from the MPs -- Kavuri, Rayapati Sambasiva Rao and Renuka Chowdary -- who were already sulking after being ignored by the PM. Purandeswari's "short-lived dream" fell apart thanks to the strong opposition put up by Kavuri, Rayapati and Renuka, sources said. "They made their position very clear to the high command that their supporters would be let d

Ignored for Cabinet, Kavuri Sambasiva Rao resigns

Congress MP from Eluru, Kavuri Sambasiva Rao , Saturday resigned from the Lok Sabha after getting hints that he won’t be inducted into the Cabinet. “Time and again I have been ignored though I am a five-time MP. People several years junior to me are being chosen while I have been ignored though I have faithfully served the party for 40 years and have been an MP for over 20 years. I have sent my resignation letter to Speaker Meira Kumar and PM Manmohan Singh expressing my disappointment,’’ he said in a statement. Last year, Kavuri had threatened to resign as, he had said, he was being ignored for a ministerial job. This time, Vijayawada MP Lagadapati Rajagopal and Sonia Gandhi’s political secretary Ahmed Patel tried to pacify him and talk him into withdrawing his resignation, but Kavuri refused, saying he was expecting a call this time but the Congress again let him down. For long, Mr. Rao had been aspiring for a Cabinet berth every time there was talk of expansion. This time

Purandeswari may become Commerce Minister

New Delhi, Oct. 27: The exercise for affecting a reshuffle of the Union Cabinet, probably the last for the UPA-II regime before the 2014 general elections, appears to be on in full swing. Speculation is rife that Commerce Minister and Sonia Gandhi loyalist Anand Sharma will move to the Ministry of External Affairs in place of the just resigned S.M.Krishna, while Daggubati Purandeswari from Andhra Pradesh will be made the country's next Commerce Minister. Purandeswari, the daughter of former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N.T. Rama Rao, is currently the Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development. Sunday's proposed revamp of the Cabinet may also see Dinshaw Patel, who represents Gujarat's Kheda constituency, being upgraded from Minister of State to full Cabinet rank. Purandeswari, who has been a Lok Sabha MP since 2004, said she was happy to hear the news, and would like to thank Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party

NRI doctor Kodali Siva Rama Krishna Prasad bags two awards

Orthopaedic surgeon Kodali Siva Rama Krishna Prasad received the awards in London recently. A native of Guntur district and now an orthopaedic surgeon at Prince Charles Hospital, United Kingdom, Kodali Siva Rama Krishna Prasad received the “ Mahatma Gandhi Samman” and “Gem of India” awards recently. The awards, he received on behalf of the NRI Welfare Society of India International Friendship Society, were presented in the Global Achievers Conclave in London. “All my awards are dedicated to the memory of my parents”, said the doctor. Expressing his happiness on receiving the awards, he said that he feels it a part of his destiny that his life is intertwined between India and United Kingdom. He finished his schooling in George Coronation Higher Secondary School, Thurumella before joining Guntur Medical College in 1966. Later he obtained ECFMG and VQE from Philadelphia and has been settled as an orthopaedic surgeon in United Kingdom. He has been the recipient of many awards li

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7Seas Entertainment's www.onlinerealgames.com wins 9th International Gold Stevie Business Awards

7Seas Entertainment Ltd ( Lingamaneni Maruti Sankar, Chairman and MD ) has won the 'International Gold Stevie® Business Award 2012' for its free online gaming portal www.onlinerealgames.com under the 'Best Website Design' Category. Recipients of International Stevie Award trophies were selected from more than 3200 entries received from organizations and individuals in more than 50 countries worldwide. Notable Stevie® Business award winners this year in  various other categories include SAP AG. Germany, HSBC U.K, Qualcomm Inc., USA, Samsung Electronics, South Korea etc.

4G Identity Solutions (4Gid) Ranks 4th in Inc. India 500 Rankings for the Fastest Growing Companies

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh: 4G Identity Solutions, a pioneer and global leader in providing large scale identity management solutions, has been ranked as the 4th fastest-growing company by Inc. India, the Indian edition of Inc., the leading US magazine that focuses on entrepreneurship and growth. The listing consists of India’s 500 fastest growing mid-size enterprises.  The rankings are based on the Net Sales CAGR (Continuous Annual Growth Rate) from April 2007 to March 2011 and certain subjective parameters like innovations, leadership, and credibility so on. 4Gid stood 4th in the ranking with a Net Sales CAGR of 395% during the period of evaluation. 4Gid has done significantly well to achieve this ranking in which more than 5000 companies from 40 different industry sectors participated.  Dr. Sreeni Tripuraneni , Chairman & CEO, 4G Identity Solutions   speaking on this achievement said, “We are honored to be listed 4th amongst the fastest growing 500 companies. This recognitio

PVP ventures keen on bagging IPL franchise of its own

With the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) terminating  Deccan Chargers ' contract and floating a tender for a new franchise in the  Indian Premier League (IPL), top corporates have shown keen interest in bagging a team of their own. While the Jaypee Group and leading industrialist Gautam Adani have made no bones about their interest, one man who could hold the edge is Potluri Vara Prasad - owner of PVP Ventures. Although the BCCI have kept the bidding process pretty straightforward, it is believed that PVP Ventures - who had earlier tried to help the financially crippled Deccan Chronicle Holdings Ltd (DCHL) and buy Deccan Chargers - have a top board official backing them. A senior BCCI official said that PVP Ventures could well end up owning the new franchise after their attempt to buy Deccan turned futile. "PVP Ventures' plan to buy Deccan Chargers might have been foiled after DCHL didn't like the terms of payment, but it won't come as a surprise

Pranjala Yadlapalli crowned champion

NEW DELHI,October 13, 2012 : Pranjala Yadlapalli bt Tarrannum Handa 6-7(8), 6-0, 7-5 in the girls under - 18 final of the Fenesta National tennis championship at the DLTA Complex here on Saturday.

Pharmexil Awards for Bharat Biotech, Granules and Suven Life Sciences

Hyderabad-based corporates — Bharat Biotech, Granules and Suven Life Sciences (All companies belongs to Kammas) — have bagged awards for 2011-12 from the Pharmaceuticals Export Promotion Council of India (Pharmexil). The winners were presented with the awards at the recent India-Asia-Pacific pharma business meet and annual general body meeting of the council.   Bharat Biotech won the silver patent award in recognition of its contributions in biotech products and research.   The company has filed several novel patents.   Krishna Ella, Chairman and Managing Director, said the award recognises the innovation at Bharat Biotech, and the credit goes to the researchers who have worked hard to make it happen.   Suven Life Sciences Ltd received the platinum patent award for securing the most number of product and process patents for the fourth year in a row.   The company secured 96 product patents for their New Chemical Entities and 9 process patents during 2011-12 f

Kamma IRS (Indian Revenue Service) Officers list

Kamma IRS (Indian Revenue Service) officers (Past and Present)   1. P.A.Chowdary 2. Muthuluri Narasimhappa 3. Kata Chandrahas 4. Kotha Hari Prasad 5. Kosaraju Veeraiah Chowdary 6. Koripalli Nageswara Rao 7. Venigalla NagaPrasad 8. Jasti Krishna Kishore 9. Bathina Ramesh 10. Vemulapalli Ramu 11. Bodduluri Hareram 12. Sunkara V.S.S.Prasad 13. Yalavarthi Rajendra 14. Kondaveeti Purnachandra Rao 15. Chirumamilla Venkanna Chowdary 16. K.S.Rajendra Kumar 17. M.Subbaiah Chowdary 18. Katragadda Haritha 19. Vadlamudi Raghavendra Rao 20. Athota Satyanarayana 21. Edara Ravi Kiran 22. Kalyanam Rajesh Rama Rao 23. Dinesh Paruchuri 24. Vinaya Kumar Kantheti 25. Vikram Chand Meka 26. Venkata Siva Prasad Chirala 27. Siripurapu Padmaja 28. Cherukuri Srinivasa Rao 29. Vootla Appa Rao 30. Nuvvula Lakshmi Prasad 31. Uppalapati Anjaneyulu 32. Kotapati Vamsi Krishna 33. Ravi Anuradha 34. Valluri Srinivas 35. Vasantha Vijaya Babu 36. Kancherla HariPrasada Rao 37. Kantipudi Krishna Rao 38

Infosys Honors India’s Best Student Programmers (B Sai Aishwarya, Nekkanti Anudeep and Sindhura Katta) at Aspirations 2020

Bangalore: Infosys, a global leader in consulting and technology, announced on October 1, the winners of Aspirations2020, a nationwide online programming contest. The Campus Connect program, a unique industry-academia partnership organized by Infosys, administers the Aspirations2020 awards.  This year's Aspirations2020 drew registrations from more than 32,000 teams in 517 engineering colleges across 20 Indian states. The contest's exciting finale on September 28, 2012 in Bangalore culminated with 14 three-member teams competing for top prizes. B Sai Aishwarya, Nekkanti Anudeep and Sindhura Katta f rom Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology and Sciences, Visakhapatnam won the top prize and each member received 64GB iPads. Ajeet Kumar Jha, Ameen Mohammed Talha and Coca Sai Prajeeth from M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology bagged the runners-up

Dr.Krishna Kasaraneni among UK's top 50 family physicians

Four doctors of Indian origin have been featured in the list of 50 most influential family physicians in Britain by a magazine, and among them is Dr Krishna Vardhan Kasaraneni from Andhra Pradesh. The Kasaranenis are well-known in Guntur and almost everyone in the family is a physician or a surgeon. Dr Krishna’s grandfather, Dr Kasaraneni Sadasiva Rao, was a famous surgeon, a philanthropist and an elected representative to the State Legislative Assembly. “I did my initial schooling from Vignan High School in Guntur and moved to the UK when I was 15,” says Dr Krishna adding that it was his parents’ decision to move; he recalls that it was the only time he had seen his grandfather cry. He graduated in medicine from the Leicester Medical School in 2005 and was elected to the chair of the General Physicians Trainees Committee in 2011. “As the chairman of the GP Trainees Committee, I represent 10,000 doctors in the UK. I was elected to this position in 2011 and was

IMAPS Announces Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr.Rao R Tummala

At the 44th Annual Symposium on Microelectronics, IMAPS (International Microelectronics And Packaging Society) announces Lifetime Achievement award to Dr.Tummala R Rao  the highest honors the Society can bestow. Dr. Tummala’s leadership and contributions that are a cornerstone of the microelectronics and electronic packaging industries. Rao is a legend in their community having made valuable and extensive contributions to both packaging technologies and the training of future leaders. Dr. Rao Tummala is a Distinguished and an Endowed Chair Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and in Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech. He is also the Founding Director of an NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) called the Microsystems Packaging Research Center (PRC) pioneering the Second Law of Electronics (the first being Moore ’s Law) by his System-On-Package (SOP) vision. The PRC is currentl

Confessions of a beauty queen

Anne Aneesha Chowdary , who was the only Telugu girl to make it to the top five finalists at the recent ‘I Am She’ beauty paegent, recounts the experience and how she missed the crown by a whisker. There’s a reason why filmmakers in the Telugu film industry hardly cast Telugu speaking actresses in their films and instead look for aspiring actresses or models from Mumbai. Acting in films and modeling is still considered a taboo in most Telugu households. No wonder, it was a pleasant surprise when people realised that one of the finalists in the ‘I Am She’ beauty pageant, which was recently held in Hyderabad, was a Telugu girl from Hyderabad. Aneesha Chowdary impressed a lot of people at the contest and she was within touching distance from ending up in the top three contestants, who’ll represent India, at Miss Universe, Miss Globe International and Miss Asia Pacific World beauty pageants later this year. Born and brought up in Hyderabad, she completed her schooling from Bharatiya

Riding On White Gold

Nuziveedu has quickly become India’s largest hybrid seed company — and it has Bt cotton to thank for its fortunes F rom biotech labs to germplasm banks to seed farms and processing factories, seeds travel a long way before they finally sink into the moist soil tilled by a farmer. One of the best places to discover this nearly invisible fact is Nuziveedu’s seed factory in the outskirts of Hyderabad, where massive conveyer belts, funnels, mixers and separators operate with a non-stop din under a cavernous shed. “For most people, seeds grow just like that,” laughs an official, as he demonstrates the sorting and coating of corn seeds with a pinkish layer of pesticide. Seeds, it seems, often pass through as many stages and processes as an FMCG product! Nuziveedu has research facilities sprawled over 650 acres of farmland to test the genetic purity of its hybrid seeds, and the seeds themselves are sourced from 100,000 contract growers as per Nuziveedu’s specifications. It’s these seed

Nuziveedu Seeds conferred with 'Agriculture Leadership Award 2012'

Nuziveedu Seeds Limited (NSL), the leading Indian Seeds company has been conferred with Agriculture Leadership Award 2012 for its pioneering work in the area of agriculture extension which has positively impacted the lives of large number of farmers and rural economy of the country. The prestigious award instituted under the Chairmanship of Prof. M S Swaminathan, the Father of India's Green Revolution, was presented to Nuziveedu Seeds at a function in New Delhi. Speaking about the award, Mr. Mandava Prabhakar Rao, CMD , Nuziveedu Seeds Limited said, "It is a great honour for our Company to receive this prestigious award. We are both humbled as well as excited. The awards celebrate the spirit of innovation and leadership, which are also the inherent traits of Team NSL. It feels extremely satisfying to consistently deliver innovative products to empower farmers and at the same time, contributing to the economic growth of rural Indians through research, technology and quality

Humpy wins Ankara Grand Prix

Grandmaster Koneru Humpy won an attacking final round game against Monika Socko of Poland to win the final leg of the FIDE Grand Prix which concluded at Ankara on Friday.   On course to her brilliant final round win, Humpy had sacrificed a rook and perched her other rook on the offensive path, to pin and win huge material and the game in 40 moves.   Humpy tallied 8.5 points from her 11 games to top the 12-player, all-play-all which followed the Chess Olympiad held in Istanbul.   Overall, in the six Grand Prix events held at Rostov, Shenzhen, Nalchik, Kazan, Jermuk and Ankara, world women’s champion Hou Yifan of China had won three already with a maximum 480 points. Each player took part in four of the six events with the best three counting for Grand Prix points.   Humpy’s victory in Ankara helped her overtake Muzychuk and win the second place with 415 points. Muzychuk was third with 405 points. Humpy won in Ankara, tied for first in Kazan with Muzychuk and finishe