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Hyderabad: The Rs 500-crore Vibha Seeds Group ( Parchuri Vidyasagar Chairman and Managing director) has invested Rs 200 crore to set up a multi-crop seed processing facility at Janampet in Mahboobnagar district of Andhra Pradesh. The state-of-the-art centre, built on about 106 acres, is one of the biggest of its kind in the world. The company is engaged in private crop genetics and plant breeding researches. It undertakes crop improvement research programmes and reaches out to more than 20 million farmers across 19 states. According to Vidyasagar Parchuri, CMD, Axis Bank and L&T are providing 80% of the funding as debts and the rest is from internal accruals. He said that plant has the capacity to process 1,200 mt of field and vegetable crops per day. It is claimed to be the world’s largest plant that includes an industrial scale biotech laboratory, a corn-cob drying facility, a cotton processing plant, warehouse packaging and cold storage facilities. The facility can roll out 10...

6 Kammas are elected as Corporators in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections 1) Edpuganti DhanaLakshmi P&T Colony 2) Attaluri Vijaya Lakshmi Srinagar Colony 3) Dandamudi Sobhanadri KPHB Colony 4) Manchikalapudi Bhanu Prasad Hyder Nagar 5) Boddu Venkateswaera Rao Qutbullapur 6) Kotta Rama Rao Kapra

Dr N Varaprasad CEO National Library Board Dr N Varaprasad has made many significant contributions to public service and education in Singapore. After 13 years teaching Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Singapore, he moved to educational administration and leadership positions. His 11 years, from April 1990 to 2001, as Principal/CEO of Temasek Polytechnic where he founded and built the institution to a major institution of13,000 students with a reputation for innovative teaching and progressive educational methods is noteworthy. The vibrant, creative and student-friendly atmosphere that characterize Temasek Polytechnic are attributed to his strong leadership. Upon leaving the polytechnic, Prasad was appointed as the Deputy President of the National University of Singapore in Dec 2001, overseeing the corporate cluster of departments, such as the library, computer centre, student matters, occupational health and safety, quality management, arts and culture. ...

Jamaica: A commitment to quality and leadership in the pharmaceutical industry has landed the Montego Bay-based Indies Pharma (Dr Guna Muppuri, president and CEO) the prestigious 2009 Century International Quality ERA Award. During the 11th Century International Quality ERA Convention in Geneva, Switzerland, Indies Pharma copped the award in the gold category in recognition of tech-nology, innovation and management - marking the first time a Jamaican pharmaceutical company has won such an award. "We were surprised that we were chosen for this award because, while you are aware that you are monitored locally, we were not aware the international community was also taking such a keen interest in our operations," said Dr Guna Muppuri, Indies Pharma's president and chief executive officer. Good track record The criteria on which the award is given includes excellence in leadership and business manage-ment, quality and excellence, business and brandname prestig...

HYDERABAD: The city-based Sipra Labs Limited (Vemulapalli Satyanarayana Managing Director), an integrated Contractual Research Organisation, was awarded the ‘Best Emerging Company’ in the pharmaceutical and chemical sector at an awards function organised to give Emerging India Award - 2009. The Emerging India Award is presented to boost the small and medium enterprenuers (SME) segment of India that employs nearly 70 per cent of India’s workforce and accounts for 95 per cent of the country’s industrial units. The Emerging Company award was presented to Sipra Labs Limited Managing Director Vemulapalli. Satyanarayana and Director V. Srihari by Home Minister P. Chidambaram recently at New Delhi.

Raman Subba Row Panguluri,    former England Test  Cricketer ,  the Northamptonshire Ex.captain ,  C hairman of the Test and County Cricket Board and an ICC match referee. The  left-handed batsman , has played for many years provided his critics with the perfect answer -- success. Because of his somewhat cramped-looking style when batting and a certain awkwardness about his movements in the field there are many who are ever-ready to leap to the attack whenever he is chosen for England. Nobody pretends there is elegance and fluency about Subba Row's batting, but it needs far more than a quick appraisal to realise his true worth. Courage and team-spirit are important factors in cricket and Subba Row, as we will see, has these in abundance. And if anyone believes that batting is dull when he is at the crease it is suggested that a closer inspection be made. Note particularly the times when he keeps pace with harder hitting and more stylish players and h...

The richest MP in the present Lok Sabha is Nama Nageswar Rao (Chairman and MD Madhucon Projects) of Telugdesham Party from Khammam seat in Andhra Pradesh. The worth of assets declared by him is about Rs173 crore . The third richest MP is Lagadapati Rajagopal (Lanco group) of Congress from Vijayawada with assets worth Rs122 crore.

WASHINGTON, November 19 - The American Society ofHematology, the world's largest professional society of blood specialists, welcomes five new officers to its Executive Committee, the governing body ofthe organization. The officers will begin serving their terms in January 2010. Mohandas Narla, Vice President for Research, New York Blood Center, is the Directorof the Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute and heads the Laboratory of RedCell Physiology at New York Blood Center. His primary research focus is thestudy of the structural organization of blood cell membranes in health anddisease and on regulation of blood cell production.

Rank: 34 Lagadapati Madhusudhana Rao (43) Net Worth $ 1,670 Net Worth: $1.67 billion Age: 43 Marital Status: Married Hometown: Hyderabad U.S.-trained engineer, chairs Lanco, infrastructure group with interests in power, construction and property development. Family fortune based on two-thirds stake in flagship Lanco Infratech. Currently has nearly 8,000 megawatts of power projects under implementation and an order backlog of $3 billion in construction business. Is developing Lanco Hills, a 100-acre township in Hyderabad that is awaiting approval for a 121-story tower, billed as country's tallest. In June, group shifted corporate headquarters from Hyderabad to Delhi. Older brother L. Rajagopal reelected member of parliament in May. Rank: 59 Divi Murali (58) Net Worth $910 Net Worth: $910 million Age: 58 Marital Status: Married, 2 children Hometown: Hyderabad U.S.-trained scientist and one-time partner of pharma tycoon K. Anji Reddy (No. 64), he started Divis Laboratories in 1990 a...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 18 -- Fortify Infrastructure Services, (Fortify) ( Rajkumar Velagapudi, President & CEO ) a leading provider of IT services, announced its acquisition of New Jersey-based UCA Services, Inc., (UCA), a Managed Services provider offering Data Center and System Management Services. In acquiring UCA, Fortify strengthens its capabilities and expertise in its fast-growing IT Infrastructure Services practice. Founded in 2003, UCA is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NetFabrics Holdings, Inc., with offices in Parsippany, New Jersey and St. Louis, Missouri providing value-add services to Fortune 500 customers all around the United States. With more than 80% repeat customers, UCA brings a strong installed base of dedicated customers and partners in areas such as infrastructure managed services, data center operations, server and desktop management services, and help desk operations. To Fortify, this acquisition is a great addition of expertise in providing end-to-end inf...

Bhubaneswar: A knowledge park is coming up here at an estimated cost of Rs 100 crore. This is the first public private partnership integrated industrial park by Government of Orissa and Bharat Biotech International [BBI] (Dr.Krishna Ella Chairman and MD). Work at the 100 crore ‘Konark Knowledge Park’ at Mouza-Andharua near the state capital here began today with the ground breaking ceremony held here on Sunday. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik presided over the function and planted a sapling and unveiled details of the park named as Konark Knowledge Park. The project aims to boost investments in the areas of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals in the state of Orissa. When completed, this infrastructure will create world-class, state-of-the-art research and development enterprises in an exceptional environment designed to foster novel approaches to healthcare and its delivery. The state government has allocated 64.86 acres of land (30 acres in Phase I and 24.86 acres in phase II) includin...

 Madhu Koneru Group CEO: MEC Holdings ( Singapore and Indonesia ) Executive Director: Trimex International FZE ( Dubai ) Managing Director: RAK Minerals and Metals investments (RMMI - Dubai ) Director: Padaeng Industries PLC ( Thailand ) Director: Al-Ghanem Trading and Contracting Co Ltd., ( Jordan ) Director: TJ Shipping and Logistics ( Dubai ) Under Madhu Koneru’s strategic guidance, MEC Holdings, an affiliate of Trimex Group, a global minerals and metals conglomerate, has established a unique framework of companies to bring to fruition their vision for Indonesia, and subsequently other countries in the region such as China and India. MEC Holdings includes MEC Coal, MEC Infrastructure, MEC Agriculture, and the MEC Foundation. As the Group CEO of MEC Holdings, Madhu Koneru, 34, leads pioneering investments in the future of Indonesia. With the country’s abundant resources and strategic location it will play a key role in supplying the world’s energy needs ...

The American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) is pleased to announce its 2009 AAPS Fellows. An individual is granted the honor of being named AAPS Fellow after making sustained remarkable scholarly and research contributions to the pharmaceutical sciences such as original articles, scientific presentations at AAPS Annual Meetings, and/or patents. Bhaskara Rao Jasti, Ph.D. is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pharmaceutics and Medicinal Chemistry, at University of the Pacific. His lab is studying the influence of ionic species, predictive models in oral mucosal drug delivery, and he is designing micelles with cell adhesion receptors (integrin ligands) for the targeted delivery of chemotherapeutic agents. He is a founding member and has served as Chair of the AAPS Bay Area Discussion Group, and has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and co-edited two books.

November 10, 2009: A former reality TV contestant is looking to spice up Cincinnati-area politics by mounting an independent congressional campaign for a seat currently held by Republican Jean Schmidt. Surya Yalamanchili, 28, a contestant on the 2007 edition of Donald Trump’s "The Apprentice," calls being on the show "a lot like politics." "These shows are all about posturing and playing gotcha and backstabbing and being incredibly opportunistic to get what you want," says Yalamanchili. "If that doesn’t describe the modus operandi of the Republican and Democratic parties in Washington, I don’t know what does." Yalamanchili, who filed a declaration of candidacy last month with the Federal Election Commission, says he’s seeking office as an independent because he can’t stand the constant bickering between the two parties. "I believe the average American can win a congressional district as an independent, if they are willing to talk to voter...