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New Delhi: In 2002 Manchester, she was a novice taking her first steps in badminton but eight years down the line, Jwala Gutta is one of the best medal prospects for India at the Commonwealth Games and the 27-year-old says she will not let her country down. The seven-time national doubles Champion Jwala will pair up with V Diju and Ashwini Ponnappa to spearhead the Indian challenge in mixed and women's doubles events and she said she is eyeing two gold medals at the October 3-14 Delhi event here. "During the Manchester Commonwealth Games, I was very young and new. I still remember those days, it was a different experience for me. Gopi was playing in those days. But now I have grown as a player a lot would be expected of me and Diju. I am ready for it," Jwala said. "I am looking to win two gold medals, nothing less than that. Me and Diju had good exposure this year, thanks to the government's support. We have grown as players in the last couple of years and for...

Kamma IPS officers (Past and Present) 1. Pendurthi S.Ramamohana Rao 2. Kommareddi Ramamohana Rao 3. K.V.Appa Rao 4. P.D.Koteswara Rao 5. Chirumamilla Venkata Narasaiah 6. Prattipati Gowtham Kumar 7. Mandava Lakshmi Narayana 8. K.Sadasiva Rao 9. Yendluri Anil Kumar 10. P.S.Prasad 11. C.R.Naidu 12. N.V.Surendra Babu 13. Jasti Venkata Ramudu 14. Boyapati Dinakar Prasad 15. Chadalawada Umesh Chandra 16. Maganti Kantha Rao 17. Goduguluri Srinivasa Rao 18. Ammineni. R. Srinivasa Rao 19. Kode Durga Prasad 20. Mannam Malakondaiah 21. Aluri Venkateswara rao 22. P. Appa Rao 23. Mandava VishnuVardhan Rao 24. Alluri Srinivas (DIG-CRPF) 25. Muvva Chandra Sekhar 26. M.Punna Rao 27. Athota Malakondaiah 28. Thummala Vikram 29. E.Damodar 30. Parvathaneni Sai Prasad 31. Chitturi Prasad 32. Kalluri Siva Rama Prasad 33. Dr.K Ramachandra Rao (IGP - Karnataka) 34. M.V.Rao 35. Kondaveeti Rajendra Kumar 36. Pullela Murali Mohana Rao 37. ...

Kamma IAS officers (Past and Present) 1. Velagapudi Ramakrishna - ICS 2. Srinivasan (Father of Ex.Minister Y.Sita Devi) - ICS 3. Narne Venkataswamy Naidu 4. Padmasri Challagulla Narasimham 5. V. Adiseshayya 6. Mothukuri Kotaiah 7. Kanumilli Subba Rao 8. B.N.Yugandhar 9. Paidi Lakshmi Sanjeeva Reddi 10. Polavaram Vanamali 11. Tummala Ramamohana Rao 12. Nagabhairava Jayaprakash Narayan 13. Muddana Sambasiva rao 14. A.Vanajakshi 15. Kantipudi Padmanabhaiah 16. Dandamudi Venkata Rayudu 17. Mikkilineni Vinayaka Rao 18. Kaja Rathna Kishore 19. Kamineni suryanarayana 20. Movva Tirumala Krishna Babu 21. Kakarla Usha 22. Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar 23. Patibandla Ashok Babu 24. Katamaneni Bhaskar 25. Muddana Ravichandra 26. Mukkamala.G.Gopal 27. Bollineni Rajagopal Naidu 28. Ganta Ramesh Kumar 30. Adusumilli Rajmouli 31. Jujjuvarapu Balaji 32. Kakumanu Sivaprasad 33. Ravella Vineel Krishna 34. Maddineni Tulasi 35. Vemuri.Usha Rani 36. G.Sai Prasad 37. Gogineni L...

The equity shares of the India's first online gaming company 7Seas Technologies Limited (Lingamaneni Maruti Sankar, Managing Director), listed on Ahmedabad Stock Exchanges, will be permitted for trading on the Bombay Stock Exchange under the “TS” group with effect from Monday, September 27, 2010 Pursuant to the same, the daily circuit filter in the equity shares of the company is being kept open on September 27, 2010, in order to enable the members to deal in the scrip at a realistic price level.

It began with a dagger made of volcanic stone in Mexico, and ends with an alligator cruising a pond in Conroe. Naveen Ramineni , a physician in The Woodlands, was visiting the Mayan pyramids in Mexico three years ago when he spotted small dagger-like tools at a roadside stand."I thought it would be a cool envelope-opener," Ramineni said. "So I bought it. Then I thought, wouldn't it be cool if someone bought an envelope-opener from Mexico and used it as a killing weapon? I built the story from there." Indeed he did, and it's called " Backstabber". Ramineni wrote it as a screenplay. A group of employees are sent to an island for team building," Ramineni said. "The island is run by a company who puts the employees through extreme teambuilding activities that are out of the norm, like in one scene they have to cross the pond on a small plank, and in the pond is an alligator. Things like that. "When people start disappearing, the others ...

Delaware Sep 25: For a shy boy of 9, it's a challenge to portray Mohandas K. Gandhi, hailed as one of the world's great men for his use of non-violence in freeing Indians from English rule in 1947. The youthful Rakesh Gadde , who is lean like Gandhi, admits that he is a novice in the ways of this humble man, but that won't stop him from dressing in a trim white outfit and big round glasses. Oct. 2 is Gandhi's 141st birthday and the International Day of Non-Violence. Delaware's India Fest, which falls on that day, is a celebration of the life of a man affectionately called "Bapu," or father, by millions. Gandhi also is known as Mahatma or "great soul" and he has been revered by everyone from Albert Einstein to Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela. Rakesh will step on stage at the Center on the Riverfront as part of dance teach her Nisha Punjabi's celebration of India. Dance is just one of the offerings of India Fest, which is from 11 a.m. t...

If India's best player, Achanta Sharath Kamal stays true to his form and reputation, the hosts can expect a few medals in table tennis at the CWG. The lanky player whose home is in Chennai but who spends more time in Spain now, i s the defending champion in men's singles and knows what it takes to win medals in these Games, having also helped India win the team crown at the Melbourne Games four years ago. This time, he will have to pull it off in front of the home crowd. India's foreign coach, Massimo Constantini is confident that Sharath can retain the singles gold. "According to the ITTF world team ranking, India is second among the men and fifth among the women. So, at the CWG level, we're one of the leading powers. As far as Sharath goes, he has the ability to defend his singles gold. The right balance and confidence will make the difference," said Constantini. Not surprisingly, even for the team event, India have once again pinned their hopes largel...

A man who was known as a firebrand and even spoken out against the underworld dons is no more. Kollipara Balagangadhar Tilak , who produced and directed 15 films passed away in Hyderabad at the KIMS Hospital after a brief period of illness, at the age of 84 years. He is survived by a son who he is said to have adopted. His wife though, left for heavenly abode a year or so ago. A filmmaker of eminence and one known for his leftist ideology, Tilak did not believe in mincing words and also took on the underworld and its efforts to control the Telugu film industry by getting a foothold first in the form of financing film production. That apart, he is best remembered for the way he carried on a struggle and eventually even sought legal help in getting industry workers their promised share of five per cent of profits for working in the epic 'Gandhi' made by Richard Attenborough. Closer home, Tilak introduced popular singer S. Janaki through the song ‘Nee Asha Adiyasa’ in the film ‘M...

MUMBAI: Global private equity firm 3i Group is likely to invest $150 million (approximately Rs 684 crore) in the road business of Hyderabad-based construction and engineering company Soma Enterprises (Maganti Ankineedu CEO), said a person familiar with the matter. London-based 3i’s infrastructure fund will invest a large part of the money in Soma Enterprises’ yet-to-be-formed holding company for road business. The remaining part will be put in various road projects, said the same person who did not wish to be named. “The structure of the proposed investment will help the promoters of Soma to avoid much dilution,” said the person. 3i’s representative in London said they would not comment on market speculation. “We are currently in talks with a few players for drawing investments in our roads business. But nothing has been finalised and any finality on the deal will be known only in a couple of months,” said Ankineedu Maganti, CEO and promoter of Soma Enterprises. 3i had bought a minor...

Uma Venigalla is an author of 80 research papers published in various national and international toxicology journals. JACKSON, MI, September 23, 2010 /Cambridge Who's Who/ -- Uma Venigalla, Ph.D ., BTS Quality Assurance Technical Lead for CMS Energy, has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership and excellence in project management. BTS quality assurance technical lead for CMS Energy, Ms. Venigalla thrives by utilizing her expertise in software development and integration, as well as vendor product evaluation. In her position, she advises large software development projects, oversees maintenance across BTS on planning, deployment and management of test efforts, and manages the software development life cycle. In addition, she builds work plans for all phases of testing, ensures proper test scripts, supports an audit trail, manages quality assurance policies, procedures, quality assurance best practices around testing standards and methodo...

Hyderabad: The auction of the laddu weighing nearly 21 kg kept at the Ganesh pandal at Balapur village on city outskirts fetched a record sum of Rs 5.35 lakh in the auction conducted before the centralised procession began. An employee of Vijaya Electricals, Kodali Sreedhar offered to pay Rs 5.35 lakh, more than 25,000 of last year’s figure. The buying of laddoo, which is kept at the feet of Ganesha in the pandal, is considered as auspicious by the devout. The organisers of the Ganesh festival in Balapur said the money would be utilised for development of Balapur locality and also for construction of a Ganesha temple.

Suven Life Sciences (Venkat Jasti, CEO) announces that the US Patent Office has issued two Patents: US 7,718,690 and US 7,781,476 corresponding to two new chemical entities (NCEs) for the treatment of disorders associated with Neurodegenerative diseases and these patents are valid until 2022. The granted claims of the patents include the class of selective 5-HT compounds discovered by Suven and are being developed as therapeutic agents and are useful in the treatment of cognitive impairment associated with neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer`s disease, Attention deficient hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Huntington`s disease, Parkinson and Schizophrenia . With these new patents, Suven has total of eight granted US patents on NCEs. These granted patents are exclusive intellectual property of Suven and are achieved through the internal discovery research efforts, products out of these inventions may be out-licensed at various phases of clinical development like at Phase-I or Phase-...

Kakarla Kumar Ram Narain Karthikeyan wants to compete in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series. Along the way, he wants to co-opt 1.2 billion of his countrymen into following stock-car racing. Karthikeyan became the first India native to break onto the NASCAR circuit in March when he finished 13th in a Camping World Truck Series event. He'll race again on Sept. 25 in the Smith's Food & Drug Stores 350 in Las Vegas . "I think that NASCAR has a huge potential market in India, and I feel that I have a great opportunity to introduce India to NASCAR," Karthikeyan said. "I'm pretty confident that the Indian will thoroughly enjoy the excitement, adrenalin-charged atmosphere and sheer bumper-to-bumper racing that is NASCAR." Karthikeyan shares this vision with the man who offered him the chance to drive stock cars -- rookie owner Miguel Abaroa of Starbeast Motorsports. Abaroa plucked Karthikeyan from the Formula 1 circuit with the ambitious goal of tapping into ...

Jodhpur, Sep 19 (IANS) Veteran VR Naren Kumar (Kamma guy from Coimbatore and also relative of Narain Karthikeyan) of Red Rooster Racing won the Rally of Rajasthan, the third round of the Speed Indian National Rally Championship, here Sunday and took the lead in the championship standings. The victory took Naren Kumar's tally to 27, just three ahead of team-mate Vikram Mathias (co-driver PVS Murthy) at the halfway mark of the championship. Naren Kumar, returning to competitive rallying after a three-season break, was assured of his second consecutive win of the season at the end of Leg-2 Saturday when he led team-mate Amittrajit Ghosh (co-driver Ashwin Naik) by over a minute. Under the circumstances, Sunday's 1.5 Kms Spectator Special Stage was a mere formality as Naren, in a Group N+ (modified) Mitsubishi Lancer Cedia kept his overnight lead to emerge comfortable winner.

Seven young entrepreneurs from India across the sectors of Design, Music, Fashion, Communication, Visual Arts, Screen, Interactive, Performing Arts and Publishing recently competed with their peers and emerged award winners at the The British Council Young Creative Entrepreneur (YCE) Awards ceremony in Delhi. Hyderabad-based Yugandhar Tammareddy was announced as the YCE Screen for 2010. A first generation entrepreneur and aspiring filmmaker he set up Pixelloid to provide animation and visual effects services and training. Motion pictures, commercials, trailers, music videos, corporate presentations, architectural walkthrough projects have utilised Pixelloid’s creative skills in techniques such as matte painting, computer-generated imagery, visual effects and a variety of related processes required in content creation. Currently he designs and supervises visual effects for feature films, maintains client relationships, runs the company, and sets it’s quality standards and processes. ht...

Power Equipment Manufacturer Cethar Vessels (Chairman Mr.K.Subburaj) is looking to raise Rs.400 crore though private equity route. The funds will be used for the power production by setting up a thermal-based power plant and a solar farm in Tamil Nadu. Incorporated in 1981, Chennai-based Cethar Vessels Ltd. (Cethar Vessels) is an independent boilers manufacturing company. It is engaged in the designing, developing and manufacturing of a variety of boilers and other electrical equipments. In addition, it also offers services like engineering, re-engineering, retrofitting, supplying, installation and after sales services of small and large-scale boilers, water treatment systems, fuel handling systems, electrical systems and other services. It will invest around Rs 5,000 crore for setting up the thermal plant of 1,010 MW capacity and a solar farm of 12 Mw in Pudukottai district at a cost of Rs.180 crore. It is also planning a facility to manufacture turbines for thermal power plants in ...

INDIANAPOLIS - Senior Saketh Myneni has been awarded a postgraduate scholarship by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, which was announced last month. Myneni is one of six Southeastern Conference student-athletes to earn an NCAA postgraduate scholarship for spring sports and the only one in the league from men's tennis. He is also the 15th Crimson Tide student-athlete to earn the award in the past 10 years . "We're extremely proud to have Saketh earn this latest honor," Alabama Assistant Athletic Director for Student Services Jon Dever said. "Five University of Alabama student-athletes were finalists for an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, and he is one of two to come away with this prestigious accolade. Saketh is extremely dedicated and driven, and I know he has a bright future ahead of him." Myneni has a current grade point average of 3.805 in finance and economics. The Andhra Pradesh, India, native was named to the 2010 ESPN the Magazine Academi...

Arobind Velagapudi wasn’t impressed with the bland Indian sauces he found in grocery stores. So he set out to do better. “I always wanted to do something with food because I loved cooking,” said Velagapudi, an engineer by training who relocated from India to San Diego in 1998. “I thought I could make a better product.” His Spicy Nothings sauces, slow-cooked and preserved with lime juice or vinegar, are now selling briskly in more than 400 stores around the country. Velagapudi is part of the specialty food industry that is growing each year even in a tough economy, and San Diego County has plenty of creative entrepreneurs striving for their share of the $50 billion U.S. retail market. Dozens of small, local businesses including Spicy Nothings are selling their products on a national scale, along with a number of tiny companies available only in local outlets. Velagapudi’s products illustrate one quality that many San Diego-area products have in common: intense flavor. The proximity of...

Dr. Koneru Suresh (Advanced Concepts in Plastic Surgery) was first to bring this new “cool” approach to San Antonio, Austin and South Central Texas. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Coolsculpting™ device from Zeltiq to help reduce unsightly fat bulges and pads that do not respond to diet and exercise. Dr. Suresh Koneru is the first and only physician in the San Antonio/Austin area to offer this Zeltiq Procedure, a new non-invasive body contouring procedure, at his practice - Advanced Concepts in Plastic Surgery of San Antonio, Texas. The cooling technique has been available for nearly a year , but the FDA approval now allows doctors to prescribe it as a medical treatment, which should help this innovative, gentle technique to become more widely accepted. Dr. Koneru, who has an electrical engineering background, conducted extensive research on the science behind Zeltiq; and he is pleased that the FDA reached the same conclusions as he did. The approval validates...

Out of the 1,500 beds, 300 are for critical care with dedicated ICUs for cardiac, burns, neonates and paediatrics SevenHills Group was recently inaugurated in Mumbai by President Pratibha Patil. Spread over 17 acres of land at Marol, Andheri, SevenHills Hospital will be one of Asia's largest hospital offering 1,500 beds and modern facilities, with a vision to provide excellent healthcare at an affordable cost to all segments of society. In the first phase, 300 beds will be operationalised. Out of the 1,500 beds, 300 are for critical care with dedicated ICUs for cardiac, burns, neonates and paediatrics. While another 300 beds are reserved for Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) patients who can avail services at the same cost offered by other BMC hospitals. SevenHills Hospital has built 120 OPD chambers for consultants, 36 Modular Operation Theatres, four cath labs and 24 dialysis units. The spacious hospital offers a diverse range of medical, surgical and diagnostic services ...

Movie moghul D. Ramanaidu, a veteran producer with 130 films in a dozen languages in five decades, has been conferred the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke award for 2009 for rendering outstanding contribution to the world of Indian cinema. 64-year-old Ramanaidu, the legendary and prolific film maker from Andhra Pradesh who has worked with a galaxy of actors, will be presented the honour during the International Film Festival of India to be held in Goa in October, it was announced on Thursday. The award consists of a Swarn Kamal, a cash prize of Rs 10 lakh and a shawl. Some of the well-known films produced by Ramanaidu in various languages are PremNagar, Dildar, Bandish in Hindi, Srikrishna Tulabharam, Preminchu, Ramudu Bheemudu, Bobbili Raja, Ahana Pellanta, Andhra Vaibhavam, Kathanayakudu in Telugu and Asukh, Sudhu Ekbar Bolo in Bengali. Born in Karamchedu in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh in 1936, Ramanaidu entered the film world in 1963 with his first film 'Anuragam' follow...