Kammas World

Leader comes at the right time Be the change you want to see in the world, Mahatma Gandhi had said a long time ago. Taking these words to heart, director Sekhar Kammula gives us Leader, whose protagonist Arjun Prasad's (Rana Daggubati) maxim is Avineeti nirmoolana (eradication of corruption). This 'principle' reverberates throughout the Telugu film. The film is a relevant take on contemporary politics in the state of Andhra Pradesh -- a large slice of reality infused with fiction in the form of a love story and other elements. But it's applicable to the nation too though Sekhar makes a case for a leader and distinguishes him from a politician on rather simplistic grounds. He scripts a saga of the journey of a boy, Arjun Prasad from a political family who does his PhD in the US but has to return to India after his father, played by Suman (the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh), is injured in a bomb blast. When Arjun's father dies, the patriarch ...

BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 17 -- Mobile World Congress -- Beceem Communications , (Babu Mandava CEO) the leading provider of 4G chips , and Motorola (NYSE: MOT ) announced today that both companies are working together to pair Motorola's advanced 4G WiMAX infrastructure with Beceem's upcoming BCS500 4G chip. The BCS500 4G chip supports WiMAX 16e and 16m as well as UE Class 4 LTE capabilities in both the TDD and FDD configurations, including plans for handoff between WiMAX and LTE. The optimization of TDD and FDD coexistence for LTE is important for many operators with disparate spectrum holdings. This WiMAX chip is expected to be the first to support TDD and FDD flavors for LTE with future plans for LTE-to-WiMAX roaming. "The know-how gained during the development and deployment of our leading 4G WiMAX solution has contributed to our work with Beceem to offer this advanced chipset solution," said Bruce Brda, senior vice president, Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solu...

Bengaluru: BGS Global Hospitals (Kancherla Ravindranath, Chairman and MD) launched its Centre of Excellence for Liver & Pancreatic Disorders and Multi Organ Transplantation and Liver ICU. This makes the Global Hospitals Group the largest in this part of the world for liver transplantation along with the other two other centres in Hyderabad and Chennai. Speaking on the inauguration, Minister for Medical Education Mr. Ramachandra Gowda said, “I congratulate BGS Global Hospitals on the inauguration of the new center of excellence for Liver and Pancreatic Disorders and Multi Organ Transplantation and Liver ICU. There is a need for such an innovative facility in Karnataka. Every person should pledge to donate their organs which can save many lives. I will be holding discussions with a team of doctors regarding the amendments required in the state act for organ transplantation. I assure you that it will be on par with or better than in states like Tamil Nadu where organ donorship is ve...

Guwahati, Feb 16: Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal defended men's singles title at the Senior National Table Tennis Championship here today. Sharath overcame Saurav Chakravarty 4-1. Sourav put up good fight but failed to break the lanky Chennai paddler, who beat him 11-13, 11-8, 7-11, 11-8, 11-9 in the best of seven tie.

The Town of Oakville is proud to welcome Solar Semiconductor (Hari Surapaneni President and CEO) to Oakville. This international investment will provide Canadian manufactured solar photovoltaic (“PV”) products and solutions for the growing green energy market. Solar Semiconductor will be establishing its first North American manufacturing plant in Oakville in 2010. The company designs, develops, manufactures and markets a variety of solar PV products and solutions. High quality PV modules offered by Solar Semiconductor provide reliable, environmentally friendly and commercially viable electric power for residential, commercial, industrial and public utility applications in multifarious markets worldwide. Over the coming months the company will be hiring local personnel for their Oakville facility. In 18 months, Solar Semiconductor plans for additional expansion quickly becoming one of Oakville’s top 10 private employers.

The UAE's Minerals Energy Commodities Holding (MEC) is in talks with Indonesia to lease around 100,000 hectares (247,100 acres) of farmland, the firm's vice chairman Madhu Koneru said on Sunday. Gulf countries, mainly reliant on food imports, have ramped up efforts to buy land in developing nations such as Pakistan, the Philippines and Ethiopia to secure food supplies. The farmland MEC plans to lease is located in Indonesia's East Kalimantan province, the region where MEC also has a railway and coal project worth around $1 billion.MEC is a 50-50 joint venture between government run investment fund RAK Minerals and Metals Investments (RMMI) and privately run UAE based mining company Trimex (Prasad Koneru Chairman).

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Jefferson City - Gov. Jay Nixon has appointed St. Louis-area attorney Sreenivasa Rao (Sreenu) Dandamudi to serve on the Administrative Hearing Commission for a six-year term. Dandamudi, of Town and Country, currently is general counsel for the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts, a position he has held since 2006. "I appreciate having such a quality candidate for this position, and Sreenu will bring valuable experience and diversity to the commission," Gov. Nixon said. "Sreenu also has demonstrated a deep commitment to his community, and I am pleased to appoint him." Prior to serving as general counsel for that board, Dandamudi operated a private law practice in St. Louis and also was a Missouri assistant attorney general. While with the Attorney General's Office, he was legal counsel to several licensing boards, representing those boards before the Administrative Hearing Commission. Dandamudi is a graduate of Washington University School of Law...

Stanchart PE and an arm of Reliance Capital are among the players believed to be in the fray. Karuturi Overseas Ltd (Karuturi Sai Rama Krishna Chairman and MD), a subsidiary of world's largest rose exporter Karuturi Global, is in advanced level of talks with private equity players to raise up to $100 million to fuel its expansion plans in Africa. Karuturi Overseas is the holding company for the Karuturi Group's Africa operations, which has interests in floriculture and agriculture. The fund-raising talks were initiated back in 2008. The deal is taking time to close as there are issues regarding pricing andstructuring as Karuturi Overseas is a subsidiary of a listed firm, said one source familiar with the transaction. The Reliance Capital arm may look at co-investing in Karuturi in order to limit its exposure. Karuturi is betting on the growth story that is developing in Africa, where many investors and corporates are buying and leasing land at relatively cheaper rates for cro...

Hyderabad: Fortune Park Hotels, a subsidiary of the ITC group, announced the opening of its 32nd property, Fortune Park Vallabha in the city on Tuesday. Vijay Vallabhaneni, CEO and chairman , Fortune Park Vallabha said , “It’s been a long cherished dream of ours to come back to our roots and expand here, in the city, and it’s finally happening. And it makes perfect bnusiness sense too, after all the city in one of the fastest growing cities in the country.” The property has 68 rooms, of which 34 are Standard rooms, 30 are Fortune Club rooms and four Suites. The hotel also offers facilities like complimentary airport pick-up and drop, Wi-Fi connectivity, a fully equipped business center and a health club. As for the interior aesthetics, this contemporary business class hotel blends present-day style and traditional aesthetics to provide premium accommodation for the discerning traveler. Fortune Park Vallabha also offers state-of-the-art facilities for events and conferences. Th...

Madhucon Projects Limited , (Nama Nageswara Rao Chairman) a Hyderabad-based infrastructure development company, has bagged three hydro power projects aggregating 75 Mw, with a scope to expand to 100 Mw, from the Uttarakhand Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited. To be executed on a build, operate and transfer (BOT) basis, the projects include development of the Agastyamuni, Tilwara-I, and Tilwara-II hydro power projects, with a capacity of 25 Mw each, in the tributary Mandakini of River Alaknanda in Rudrapryag district. “Madhucon will be operating these projects for a period of 35 years and the detailed project reports are in the process of preparation,” the company said. Madhucon, through its associate company Madhucon Sugar and Power Industries Limited, is already operating a 24-Mw co-generation plant near Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh. Through its subsidiary Simhapuri Energy Private Limited, it is setting up a thermal power plant of 1,920 Mw at Tamminapatnam and Mommidi villages in Nellor...

India International Friendship Society (IIFS), New Delhi, has announced globally reputed “ Bharat Gaurav Awards ” for the year 2010 . Mr. Prasad Thotakura , a well known NRI Community leader from Dallas, Texas is one of the recipients of this prestigious award for his community service achievements. Mr. Thotakura along with other recipients was honored with Bharat Gaurav Award and a Certificate of Excellence at a high profile Global Friendship Day gala banquet held on January 7th, 2010 at New Delhi. Prasad Thotakura has been serving the Indian American community in the USA for the last fifteen years in different capacities. Prasad by profession a Chief Operating Officer of an e-commerce company eknazar.com, currently serving as the Executive Vice-President of the Telugu Association of North America (TANA) and the General Secretary of the Indian American Friendship Council (IAFC) besides serving as an Advisory Board of Director of the Dallas Conventions and Visitors Bureau.

GIBRALTAR: Indian Grandmaster Koneru Humpy outplayed Azerbaijan GM Namig Guliyev with an attacking game in the seventh round for a share of the top spot in the Gibetelecom Masters chess tournament . Three rounds are to go in 96000 Pound prize money event. Humpy played a tough and complicated game with black pieces to keep Guliyev guessing. It was a Sicilian Paulsen wherein the Azerbaijani could not get any of the desired King side attack and his progress on the queen side was also questioned by many experts after the game.

Sridevi Koneru , a woman with a competitive spirit and courageous outlook, who drives the career of 120 employees as Director of Wireless Networking Business Unit at Cisco. To succeed we first must believe we can.” Sridevi Koneru at Cisco corroborates these words of Michael Korda. “Always believe in yourself and follow your instincts, be true to yourself and you will achieve your goals.” she asserts. Today, her self-belief has paid off, as she leads the wireless technology business unit driving critical product development and business decisions at Cisco. As the Director of Wireless Networking Business Unit at Cisco India, she drives the careers of 120 employees, enhancing their performance and productivity while developing wireless networking solutions. Her thirst to learn more motivated her to pursue a Master’s degree in Computer Science after her graduation in the same discipline. “No one pushed me to take up Computer Science. I was good at mathematics and very analytical by nature,...

NEW DELHI: Bharat Biotech (Krishna Ella, Chairman and Managing director) on Monday said it had begun human trials of Influenza A HINI (swine flu) vaccine to test its efficacy and safety after getting the nod of the national health regulator. “Bharat Biotech is the first company in India to develop a cell culture based vaccine candidate for influenza, which can serve as a platform technology for both pandemic and seasonal flu vaccines,” the company said in a statement. The Hyderabad based company said it had initiated the first phase of clinical trial in Bangalore with more than 150 volunteers for evaluating the safety and immunogenicity after getting the go ahead from the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI). Bharat Biotech has earmarked a budget of Rs 70 crores for the development of the vaccine. “The company expects to complete the trial in six weeks,” Bharat Biotech International Chairman and Managing Director, Mr Krishna Ella said. Vaccines are one of the most effective ways t...

Folsom's Millun Alturi , 14, raises $8k for hospital project Millun Atluri of Folsom has earned his Eagle Scout rank thanks to a hospital project inspired by a science fair exhibit. (Eagle Scout is the highest rank attainable in the Boy Scouting program of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). A Scout who attains this rank is called an Eagle Scout or Eagle. Since its introduction in 1911, the Eagle Scout rank has been earned by more than 2 million young menThe title of Eagle Scout is held for life, thus giving rise to the phrase "Once an Eagle, always an Eagle"). Millun, a member of Boy Scouts Troop 237 in Folsom, earned his newest rank on Nov. 22 at a Court of Honor. He is the 44th Eagle Scout from the troop that will soon be celebrating its 20th anniversary. He is currently a freshman at Vista Del Lago High School. He earned 32 merit badges, 11 more than the requirement for the Eagle Rank. He worked on his project at Mercy Hospital and spent 1,000 hours ...

VIJAYAWADA: Gullapalli Phanindra , who made the city proud by being part of the team that won the coveted Oscar award in 2009 in the visual effects category for the film ‘Curious Case of Benjamin Button’, attributes his achievement to what he calls ‘Follow my heart’ policy. The first Telugu man to share Oscar honours, Phanindra is in the city on a personal visit. Phanindra said he had worked in a team that provided visual effects to other Hollywood films too that included 2012, Mummy-III and Transformers-II. He said he was working for ‘Troy II’ at the moment. Stating that he had started working on visual effects since his college days, he recalled the support he had from his professors. Phanindra is the son of G Chennakesavara Rao, who works for the United India Insurance Company in the city. After his schooling at NSM Public School, he did his Intermediate at Gowtham Junior College and obtained his degree in B.Tech from the Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT). Later, he went to d...