Kammas World

Sony TV is garnering a good number of TRPs with its recently launched show ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ season 4 as its original host Amitabh Bahchan returned this season. The latest reports suggest that Indian badminton player Jwala Gutta , who was hitting headlines recently for good and bad reasons, is going to be quizzed by Big B on KBC as she on hot seat very soon. Recently, there was report that the leading ladies of television will take part in a special episode of KBC. Now, there is a buzz that Jwala will be the first sports personality to be quizzed by Big B this season. A source was quoted saying that recently KBC has shot episodes with some leading sports personalities like Ashwini Ponappa, Leander Paes, Sushil Kumar and S. Sreesanth. During the recently concluded Commonwealth Games, Jwala and Ashwini bagged gold medals for badminton.

Hyderabad, Oct 30 : NSL Textiles (Mandava Prabhakara Rao, chairman) part of the Hyderabad-based NSL Group, has launched its branded apparel 'Constello' in the market today. At a glittering function here, Telugu cinema NTR launched the apparel brand. Beginning with 11 stores in Andhra Pradesh, NSL is planning for a rapid expansion in South, Central and North India. The company aspires to have pan India presence by 2013 with full family experience, which include women's wear and kids wear. NSL textiles seeks to generate Rs 500 crore revenue in branded apparel business. Speaking on the occasion, Chairman, NSL Group Mandava Prabhakar Rao said ''Constello will bring the latest international fashion trends to India at daringly honest prices. Our focus is to fill in the gap between what today's ambitious youth wants and what is available in the market. We will see this as an opportunity to cater to this customer segment with the motto- Modern day fashion and Qualit...

NEW DELHI: India's number one ranked women chess player Koneru Humpy on Saturday alleged that she has been overlooked for the upcoming Asian Games in Guangzhou next month. A day after the All Indian Chess Federation (AICF) announced that world champion Viswanathan Anand and Koneru Humpy have pulled out of the Asian Games, the winner of two gold medals of 2006 Doha Asian Games, Humpy minced no words in saying that given a chance she would have loved to represent India. "I have not pulled out of Asian Games but denied an entry. I wish the federation could have shown some respect to international players and their prior engagements," an upset Humpy said. "Playing for India is always the top most priority and I would have loved to play for country and win a gold medal. "The Indian Chess Federation wanted me to attend a training camp before the Asian Games but they should have looked at my international commitments and taken my performance into account before rejec...

Hari Krishna Prasad Vemuru revealed security flaws in EVMs. Mr. Prasad is the first Indian to receive the prestigious award. The San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a leading civil liberties group, will confer the 2010 Pioneer Award on researcher Hari Prasad, who was recently released on bail after having been jailed for his security work on electronic voting machines. “Hari Krishna Prasad Vemuru is a security researcher in India who recently revealed security flaws in India's paperless electronic voting machines. He has endured jail time, repeated interrogations, and ongoing political harassment to conduct the first independent security review of India's electronic voting system,” said an EFF statement. “Prasad spent a year trying to convince election officials to complete such a review, but they insisted that the government-made machines were ‘perfect' and ‘tamperproof.' “Instead of blindly accepting the government's claim, Prasad's inte...

Padma Vibhushan: 1. Gottipati Brahmayya 2. Dr.Gogineni Ranganayakulu (N.G.Ranga) 3. Dr.Kotha Sachidananda Murthy 4. Dr.Tummala Madhava Rao 5. Dr.Myneni Hari Prasada Rao Padma Bhushan: 1. Dr.Moturi Satyanarayana 2. Dr.Akkineni Nageswara Rao 3. Kongara Jaggayya 4. Adusumalli Radhakrishna 5. Dr.Ramanujam Varadaraja Perumal (Tamilnadu) 6. Kantipudi Padmanabhayya (IAS) 7. Ghattamaneni Sivarama Krishna Padma Shri: 1. Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao 2. Dr.Moturi Satyanarayana 3. Akkineni Nageswara Rao 4. Challagulla Narasimham (IAS) 5. Dr.Gadde Rama Koteswara Rao 6. Kalluri Subba Rao 7. Dr.Vadlamudi Venkata Rao 8. Katta Venkataswamy Naidu (Tamilnadu) 9. Dr.Valluri Sita Rama Rao 10. Dr.Nuthakki Bhanu Prasad 11. Dr.Yalavarthy Nayudamma 12. Dr.Govindappa Venkataswamy (Tamilnadu) 13. Dr.Kadiyala Ramachandra Rao 14. Dr.Narla Tata Rao 15. Dr.Sruyadevara Ramachandra Rao (IAS) 16. Dr.Gopalaswamy Govindarajan (Tamilnadu) 17. Dr.Immaneni Sathyamurthy (Tamilnadu) 18. Dr.Kakarla Subba Rao 19. Dr.Idpuganti V...

Power Plants owned/ maintained by Kammas : 1) Lanco Kondapalli Power - (Kondapalli, Krishna) Lanco Group 2) Lanco Green Power Pvt Ltd - (HP, Uttaranchal), Lanco Group 3) Clarion Power Corporation Ltd (Tangutur, Prakasam) - Lanco Group 4) LANCO Amarkantak Power Pvt Ltd (Chhattisgarh) - Lanco Group 5) ABAN Power Company Ltd (Tanjavur-Tamilnadu) - Lanco Group 6) Rithwik Energy Systems Ltd (Srikalahasthi) - Lanco Group 7) LANCO Teesta Hydro Power Pvt Ltd (Sikkim) - Lanco Group 8) Vamshi Hydro Energies Pvt Ltd (HP) - Lanco Group 9) LANCO Anpara Power Pvt Ltd (Uttar Pradesh) - Lanco Group 10) Konaseema Oakwell - MVVS Murthy - - VBC Group 11) Rukmini Karthik Power Alloys & Energy - MVVS Murthy - VBC Group 12) Simhapuri Energy Ltd., (Krishnapatnam, Nellore) - Madhucon 13) Navabharat Power (Khammam and Orissa) Navabharat Group 14) Malaxmi Power (Nellore and Orissa) - Y.Harischandra Prasad - Malaxmi Group 15) Meenakshi Power (Orissa) - Meenakshi Group 16) SCM Sugars & Power - Mandava Pra...

HYDERABAD: While an uneasy calm prevailed in the faction-ridden Anantapur district, NTR fans, TDP leaders and workers kicked up a furore over Ram Gopal Varma's controversial film `Raktha Charitra' which portrays former chief minister N T Ramarao as a man who encouraged violence. The film was released all over the state on Friday. The film mainly deals with three-decade-old faction feuds in Anantapur district portraying the violence unleashed by the warlords. While Shatrughan Sinha plays NTR, Vivek Oberoi plays the role of former minister Paritala Ravi, who was allegedly assassinated by hired killer Moddu Seenu. Another character was that of Paritala's arch rival Maddela Cheruvu Suri, who spent several years in jail for his involvement in the Jubilee Hills bomb blast case in which Ravi escaped an attempt on his life. TDP MLC Y V B Rajendra Prasad was vocal in condemning Varma's attempt to showcase NTR as a man who encouraged violence. "Varma is a sadist. He has n...

Few serious observers of American politics would claim that corporate interests are underrepresented in the halls of Congress. After all, over the past two years alone, corporate special interests have spent hundreds of millions of dollars weakening health care legislation, undermining financial reform, stalling a climate change bill, and eviscerating the expansion of workers’ rights. Many of these same corporate interests are continuing to spend millions during the run up to the election, often hiding their donations behind front groups with innocuous sounding names like Americans For Job Security. One candidate for federal office is taking the battle against these big corporate interests into his own hands. Surya Yalamanchili — a former Apprentice contestant who, as ThinkProgress previously noted, faced attacks during his primary that someone with his name can’t win — is the Democratic nominee for Congress to take on Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH) in Ohio’s 2nd district. Yalamanchili is ...

Dubai Oct 19: Construction of a 140-kilometre railway in Indonesia, initiated by RAK Minerals and Metals Investments (RMMI) will start next March, a top official said. "This is part of our $1 billion (Dh3.67 billion) investment plan in which India's state-owned National Aluminium Co (Nalco) will invest $4 billion to build a 500,000-tonne luminium smelter and power plant in East Kalimantan," Madhu Koneru, Managing Director of RMMI and Executive Vice Chairman of MEC Holdings, told in an interview. The first phase of the development programme will involve the commissioning of a 17 million metric tonnes per annum (mmta) coal transportation and handling facility by 2012, while the civil and track work will be completed for a 60 mmta capacity. MEC Holdings, the venture overseeing all of Ras Al Khaimah and Dubai-based Trimex's Indonesian projects, is investing $1 billion to build the railway and associated facilities on Indonesia's part of Borneo island.

HYDERABAD 18 October: Bharat Biotech , (Krishna Ella, Chairman & Managing director) a city-based biotechnology firm, today announced the launch of India's first indigenously developed cell culture H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine under the brand name HNVAC. HNVAC, is manufactured using cell culture technology, a complex process by which cells are grown under controlled conditions, the company said in a release. The vaccine is tested extensively in one of the largest Phase I, II and III clinical trials for flu vaccines in India and has proved that it is safe and well tolerated, it said. Bharat Biotech's Chairman and Managing Director, Dr Krishna Ella said the company is proud to have developed and offered this vaccine with the best USFDA recommended cell culture technology for Indian consumers. "While there's certainly widespread and growing concern around H1N1, there are number of people, who did not get a flu shot last year. Our goal right now is to make the flu vaccine e...

It is the peculiar trait of Kammas that they raise to their full stature out side their linguistic boundaries. We have the example of Sri. Edpuganti Raghavendra Rao in Madhya Pradesh, then known as Central Provinces and berar. He was the second Kamma Chief Minister after Bollini Munuswamy Naidu (CM - Composite Madras State) Residents of the region, watered by Krishna in Andhra Pradesh are Intelligent, industrious and enterprising. Ammanna the paternal grandfather of Raghavendra Rao, a well to do ryot in Pedamaddali of Krishna district became a contractor in the erstwhile Central Provinces and prospered. Leaving his son Naganna to look after his business there, he returned to the native Village. Naganna acquired buildings, sites and lands at Kamptee and Bilaspur and also accumulated considerable cash. Edpuganti Raghavendra Rao was born as his only son on August 4, 1889. Living in Hindi speaking area, he learnt Telugu and Sanskrit through a private tutor. In the school, he ...

‘Prasthanam’ directed by Deva Katta and produced by Ravi Vallabhaneni on the banner of VRC Media and Entertainments with Sharwanand Myneni and Ruby Parihar in the lead was selected for the Indian Panorama. The film would be first screened in the International Film Festival of India 2010 to be held between November 23 and December 2 at Goa. The inauguration of Indian Panorama would be on 23rd November, 2010.

NEW DELHI: India's Parupalli Kashyap defeated compatriot Chetan Anand to win a bronze in the badminton singles event of the Commonwealth Games on Wednesday. Sixth seed Kashyap, who was playing in his first Commonwealth Games, survived a scar in the second game to scrap past third seed Chetan 21-15, 21-18 in the third place play off at the Siri Fort sport complex. In the first game, Kashyap led 11-7 as Chetan suffered a series of unforced errors to allow Kashyap swell his lead before pocketing it comfortably. In the second game, Chetan came back strongly and was leading 11-6 but soon he started faltering at the nets and mistakes of the first game against started to haunt him as Kashyap clawed back at 16-16 and then moved ahead 18-16. A net dribble and a half smash took Kashyap to 20-18 and it was all over for Chetan after he hit the net as the 24-year-old burst into tears of joy amid the boisterous crowd who backed him all along. "I am very happy to win this medal. I dedicat...

Perumalsamy Namperumalsamy is an Indian ophthalmologist who specializes in diabetic retinopathy. He is also a a retina-vitreous expert. Namperumalsamy is currently the chairman of Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai. He is known for bringing assembly-line efficiency to eye surgery. In 2010, TIME magazine named Namperumalsamy one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Dr. Namperumalsamy has always been aware of the public health issues plaguing his native country. After graduating with a medical degree from the University of Madras in 1963, he decided to continue his studies to specialize in ophthalmology. Upon receiving his master’s degree in 1970, he left his native country temporarily to acquire the necessary training in the field that had become his passion. After his studies, Dr. Namperumalsamy went to the United States to refine his skills in various highly specialized areas of ophthalmology and then taught in several institutions in North America and India. In 1971, he op...

Amma Lines Ltd, (Meka Vijay Papa Rao, chairman and Managing Director) the flagship company of the Mumbai-based Meka Group, is planning to set up a Rs 6,000 crore deep sea port in West Bengal under a joint venture with the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC). The proposed port would be set up over 3,000 acres at Rosulpur in East Midnapore district. The project will provide direct employment to 1,000 people. Amma Lines chairman & managing director Vijay Papa Rao met the WBIDC managing director Subrata Gupta and the state industry secretary Dipankar Mukhopadhyay recently and gave the proposal for setting up the deep sea port, in two phases. Rao said as per the proposal, Amma Lines will have 74% stake in the joint venture, while the West Bengal government will hold the remaining 26% through WBIDC. A memorandum of understanding will be signed between Amma Lines and WBIDC next month, following which the company will submit a detailed project report to WBIDC. As per ...

New Delhi, Oct 14: Indian duo Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa defeated Sari Shinta Mulia and Yao Lei of Singapore to grab the badminton women's doubles gold at the Delhi Commonwealth Games. The second seeded pair, Jwala and Ashwini overpowered the top seeded Singaporean duo 21-16, 21-19 on Thursday, Oct 14 to pocket the 37th gold for India. Getting past the initial nervousness and struggle, the Indian badminton beauties clinched the first game 21-16. The second game, as the score shows, was a closely-fought one but did not seem to deter Jwala and Ashwini from their final destination - the winner pedestal. With this emphatic victory, Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa etched their names in the history books as the athletes who won the first badminton women's doubles gold for India.

On Wednesday, India's No. 1 paddler Achantha Sharath Kamal , cried for two reasons — in the morning, on losing his title and, in the evening, for creating history. Sharath's eyes were filled with tears as he failed to defend his singles title at the Games after losing the semifinal. But, as evening approached, things began to fall in place. Sharath and teammate Subhajit Saha became the first Indian pair to clinch gold in doubles. With the delirious crowd cheering the Indians as the national anthem played, Sharath burst into tears again. The duo downed Singapore's dreaded duo of Gao Ming and Yang Zi 9-11, 12-10, 11-4, 5-11, 11-8. Grinning from ear to ear, the champion said, “Thankfully we got gold. I can stop weeping now. I couldn't even practice properly before the match as each time I played a shot, the points I lost in the singles came back to haunt me.” The Indian pair went all out against Singapore. The loss of the first game by two points did not affect t...

For the 3rd year in a row, 7Seas Entertainment Limited, (Lingamaneni Maruti Sankar, Managing Director) a Hyderabad-based independent IP-based games developing company, has bagged the '2010 International Stevie Business Award' in the Creative and Media award category for Best Website design for its free online gaming portal www.onlinerealgames.com . It has bagged the same Stevie Business award in the years 2008 and 2009 in the same category. Nicknamed the Stevie (crowned in Greek), the award is presented to Mr.L.Maruthi Shanker, managing director of the company at the Seventh Annual International Business Awards function held in Istanbul,Turkey. Recipients of International Stevie Award trophies were selected from more than 1,700 entries received from organizations and individuals in more than 40 countries worldwide. Rory J.cowan, Chairman and CEO of Lionbridge, is the honorary chairperson for all International Business Awards (IBA) judging in 2010. "We are delighted to hit...

IRVINE, Calif., Oct 13, 2010: Broadcom Corp. announced it will pay $316 million to acquire a closely held provider of fourth-generation semiconductors used to help power products for both the LTE and WiMax networks. Broadcom--whose chips are used to power Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPad as well as to send data in cellphones, home networks and across wireless infrastructure--has been reporting strong revenue growth on demand for electronic devices. Buying Beceem Communications Inc. (Surendra Babu Mandava, CEO & founder ) gives Broadcom the ability "to accelerate the market availability" of integrated, low-cost 4G devices, Broadcom said. "When combined with Broadcom's 2G and 3G cellular solutions and broader wired and wireless communications portfolio, our 4G products will enable operators to roll out next generation wireless broadband solutions while providing support for existing networks," said Beceem Chief Executive Surendra Babu Mandava. Clearwire Inc. (C...

HYDERABAD: Telugu model and actress Sindhura Gadde has only acted in a handful of films. According to sources, she is all set to tie the knot with Jonanthan Ward, a New Zealander. The Miss India World 2005, who studied in New Zealand, is quite popular in fashion circles there. One thing’s for sure, her wedding will be a glittery one. In addition to her local friends, Tinsel townies like Akshay Kumar, Priyanka Kothari, among others will attend the wedding in New Zealand. And that’s not all the 26-year-old has to look forward to. She is currently awaiting the release of her next Telugu film, 'Killer'.

Rajshree Pathy , is an eminent entrepreneur from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. She is the Chairperson and Managing Director of the Rajshree Group of Companies. The Rajshree group has varied interests - Food and Agro business, Energy, Real Estate, Travel, Health and Hospitality and Arts. She also promotes performing arts and contemporary art movement in Coimbatore through the Contemplate Art Gallery and COCCA. Background Rajshree Pathy is the daughter of famous industrialist Shri G. Varadaraj, of PSG Families engaged in Charities and Educational Institutions for more than a century. Her father was also a former Rajya Sabha MP. She is married to S.Pathy, Chairman & Managing director of Lakshmi Mills. Company Rajshree Sugars and Chemicals Ltd. is a company with interests across integrated fields such as Sugar, Distillery, Power Co-Generation and Biotechnology. The range of products include White Crystal Sugar, Alcohol, Organic Manure, Bio-products and Power. A speciality ...

Hamburg, 8 October: Raju Narisetti, the managing editor of the Washington Post presented his vision of the sustainable model of multimedia newsrooms at the 17th World Editors Forum in Hamburg, Germany. He believes that the future of newsrooms is undoubtedly digital, and that newspapers should aggregate quality news from external sources and integrate this for their traditional readers. "We should not be gatekeepers, but gateopeners," Narisetti said. "When people come to our site they expect a certain quality of content. So the content we aggregate has to be good," he added. However, Narisetti noted that the idea of making news pure online is "a little bit fal se". He reminded the audience of the still huge circulations of the daily newspapers in the US. Speaking about new online media organisations, Narisetti claimed that "they give people what they want, sometimes even more". According to him, this can lead to irresponsibility of online jour...

Sundaram Karivardhan or short Kari (June 20, 1954 Coi mbatore, India–August 24, 1995 in the same town) was a legendary figure of Indian motorsports. Apart from being a successful formula car racer, was also a designer and constructor of several formula cars, his most famous design being the Formula Maruti open wheeled race car. His low cost cars helped other racers, notably Narain Karthikeyan, Karun Chandhok, and Armaan Ebrahim, to their entry into motorsports. A wealthy industrialist, he was later killed in an air crash, aged 41. Sundaram Karivardhan was born on 20 June 1954 in Coimbatore to noted Indian freedom fighter G.K.Sundaram from the Lakshmi Mills textile family. He did his schooling in Coimbatore and after graduating in mechanical engineering from PSG College of Technology, he completed his master of science at the UCLA, Los Angeles. One of his early complete in-house designs was the 300 BHP Formula Monoposto based on the Formula Atlantic Chevron B40 model nic...

Coimbatore, October 6: The Coimbatore-based textile machinery manufacturer Lakshmi Machine Works Ltd (LMW) made its foray into Chinese textile machinery market with the launch of ring frame by its wholly-owned subsidiary LMW Textile Machinery (Suzhou) Co Ltd, China, on last Wednesday at a function held in Shanghai. Mr M.K. Stalin, Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, launched LMW's ring frame in the presence of Mr Sanjay Jayavarthanavelu, Managing Director, LMW , Mr S. Balachandran, Consul, Consulate General of India to China and Mr Du, Deputy Director of Wujiang Economic Development Zone. Mr Jayavarthanavelu said his company supplied the entire range of textile machinery to set up a spinning mill and was confident that the new machine launched in China would meet customers' expectations, according to a release from Mr K.Soundhar Rajhan, Chairman of LMW's China subsidiary.

Nava Bharat Ventures Limited ( Devineni Ashok, Chairman ) has topped a list of 500 of India's best performing midsize enterprises in a survey published by Inc India magazine in its September-October 2010 issue. The Delhi edition of the Mint newspaper carried a feature on Top 100 companies that were part of this survey on September 22nd 2010. The survey and the magazine ranked the Companies based on parameters including Revenue growth, Net Income growth, Profitability and Returns.

October 5, 2010 -- Karaturi Global Limited , India’s largest private inve stment company in Ethiopia, is expecting to generate USD one billion in export revenues, according to the Reporter. The amount (which is half of the country’s export income of the previous year) is expected to be earned from the 311,000 hectares that it will be cultivating in Ethiopia, Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi, founder and managing director of the Indian conglomerate told The Reporter. The company acquired about 300,000 hectares of land in Gambela region where it will cultivate maize, rice, palm and sugarcane while it received the balance around Holeta area for a rose farm project, according to Karuturi. The Indian conglomerate, which received the largest farmland allotted for investment project in Ethiopia, is finalizing negotiation with the Exim Bank of India which gave it the green light to raise a USD 180 million for the USD1.4 billion ambitious project the company is set to launch. The total amount of la...

KEARNEY, October 5: The University of Nebraska at Kearney doubles team of Yeswanth Nadella and Josh Raymond won the USTA/ITA Central Regional Sunday and will advance to the National Small College Championships Oct. 14-17 in Mobile, Ala. They are the second UNK players to win the regional. In 2007, William Jacome won the singles regional title and finished sixth at the national meet. Nadella, from Andhra Pradesh, India, and Raymond, from Elkhorn defeated Western New Mexico’s Henning Thrien and Yair Banuelos, 8-1, in the finals of the three-day tournament played at Harmon Park. Thrien and Banuelos were the top seeds in the bracket and each had advanced to the singles semifinals. Banuelos, the No. 1 seed, lost to Metro State’s Lucio Cangiano in the singles finals, 4-6, 7-5, 12-10. Nadella and Raymond went 4-0 in the tournament.

List of MLA's in the present Tamilnadu Assembly :   1. Arcot Veeraswamy (Anna Nagar/Chennai - DMK) 2. B.Ranganadhan (Villivakkam/Chennai - DMK) 3. D.Sudarsanam (Punamallee/ Kanchipuram - Cong-I)  4. Korrapati S Vijayakumar (Gummadipundi/Chennai Suburban - AIADMK) 5. L.Radha Krishnan (Kovilpatti - AIADMK)  6. K.Pandurangan (Anicut/Vellore - AIADMK)  7. R.Gnanadoss (Sivakasi - MDMK)  8. Chinaswamy (Singanalluru - AIADMK)    Kamma Ministers in the present Tamilnadu Assembly:  1. Arcot N. Veerasamy, Minister for Electricity and Rural Industries 

D. Sudarsanam Born on April 6, 1943 in Panruti, Sriperambur taluq, Kanchipuram district was an Tamilnadu politician and Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly from Poonamallee constituency as an Indian National Congress candidate in 1991 election, and as a Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) candidate in 1996 election. He supported G. K. Moopanar when he split from Indian National Congress to form Tamil Maanila Congress. He was made the Treasurer of the party. He was elected from Tiruvallur constituency as a Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) candidate in 2001 election. He remained with TMC till its merger with Congress. He was elected as an Indian National Congress candidate in 2006 election. He served as the Leader of Congress Legislature Party (CLP)  after the 2006 election. He died of multiple organ failure in a hospital in Coimbatore on 26 June 2010. He became ill and was admitted to the hospital wh...

According to the Forbes India Rich List, there are 69 billionaires this year, compared to 52 last year. Rank - 29; Lagadapati Madhusudhan Rao ($2.3 Billion) Chairs infrastructure group Lanco. Net profits at flagship Lanco Infratech surged 68% to $ 42 million in latest quarter, as it increased power generation capacity four-fold to 2000 megawatts. Has secured $1.5 billion funding for a new 1,320 megawatts power plant in eastern India. Established Singapore arm in Singapore with view to developing power projects in emerging markets. Is partnering Indonesian miner Bukit Asam to bid for a power project in that country. Plans to get into solar energy in a big way in Europe and the US. Older brother L. Rajagopal is a member of parliament. Rank - 59; B G Raghupathy ($1.13 billion) One-time marketing executive, now maker of equipment for thermal power plants. Hi s BGR Energy Systems has completed over 150 contracts in 45 countries including Germany, Australia, Iraq, Oman and Malaysia. It...