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Hyderabad March 29, 2011, Natco Pharma’s (V C Nannapaneni, Chairman & MD) a nti-cancer drug, NRC-AN-019, has received ‘Orphan Drug’ designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) for three indications — glioma (brain tumour), pancreatic cancer and chronic myelogenous leukemia. “It is for the first time that an Indian company’s drug is designated as orphan drug by the USFDA for three indications, ” Natco said in a statement today. Orphan drug designation is given by the USFDA for rare diseases that affect less than 200,000 patients in the USA. Since the market for drugs intended to treat rare diseases is small, the USFDA extends special incentives to companies involved in the discovery and development of such drugs. The incentives, according to the Hyderabad-based company, include a seven-year marketing exclusivity, specific tax credits and waiver of prescription drug user fee, which is about $1.5 million per indication. Special grants and benefits to defray the costs ...

Chicago: Hearing impairment is a very common ailment. In milder cases, the impairment goes unnoticed. But continuous neglect of hearing impairment leads to serious hearing loss. Hearing loss, if remains untreated, progressively increases. Surgery is one option, but not for most cases of age-related hearing loss. Also in some cases of hearing loss, a surgery cannot be performed. That is why doctors recommend the use of hearing aid if a person is diagnosed with hearing loss. Because of the high cost of hearing aids prevailing in the market, most patients with hearing impairment do not buy them and suffer silently. But now there is a hope for such patients. Dr. Sreekant Cherukuri , a Chicago-based otolaryngologist, who is an expert in treating hearing loss, has created a very high- quality and sensitive hearing aid with an affordable cost that has raised hope for all middle and low-income patients with hearing loss. In an interview Dr. Sreekant Cherukuri, who is an expert in treating e...

7Seas Entertainment Limited (Lingamaneni Maruti Sankar, Managing Director) has bagged the prestigious FICCI-BAF (Best of Animation Frames) award for its 'The Dark Man' game under the 'Best Online Game' category. The Dark Man, an online game developed by 7Seas enhances concentration and logical thinking of the gamers. The game is available at online gaming portal www.onlinerealgames.com . 7Seas' online game 'Mouse Maze' had bagged the FICCI-BAF award under the 'Best Online Game' category for 2008. The award was received by Mr.Lingamaneni Maruti Sanker - MD of 7Seas Entertainment at the 2 day FICCI FRAMES-2011 event that concluded on March 24, 2011. FICCI (BAF)-2011 awards had received 400 entries in 15 categories from 10 countries.

Chandigarh, March 25: Girls Under-12 (Singles) Pranjala Yadlapalli (AP) bt Snehal Umesh Mane (MAH) 6-0, 6-1 won the CLTA-AITA Super Series Tennis Tournament title. Girls Under -12 (Doubles): Nidhi Surapani (AP) and Pranjala Yadlapalli (AP) bt Prabhuti Singhania (MAH) and Victoria Chahal (HAR) 6-4, 6-4 to clinch the title.

Lanco Infratech, (Lagadapati Madhusudhana Rao, Chairman) with interests in power generation, construction, infrastructure and property development, said that it has emerged the largest independent power producer in India with an installed capacity of 3,292 mw. The company has achieved this through synchronising the 600 mw unit of Lanco Anpara Power, a special purpose vehicle implementing the power project of 1,200 mw in two tranches in Uttar Pradesh. Lanco Infratech now has 5,953 mw of power projects under various stages of construction and 4,470 mw of power projects under development. Anpara is a pithead project with coal-mines 25 km away with an existing system of transportation of coal in railway wagons. Lanco group executive chairman L Madhusudhan Rao said the synchronisation of Anpara’s 600 mw unit proves the company’s capabilities to execute projects “no matter how hard the challenges are.” Rao said the company has grown its installed capacity to 3,292 mw from 500 mw in three ye...

Sairam Atluri , MD (Tri-State Spine Care, Cincinnati). Dr. Atluri is the director of the Tri-State Spine Care Institute in Cincinnati and has served as vice president of the Ohio Chapter of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. He was the primary author of the ASIPP guidelines for opioid use in chronic pain and a secondary author of the guidelines for interventional therapy for low back pain. He is also a Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice from the World Institute of Pain and author of a pain management textbook. In addition to his practice, Dr. Atluri has published on the screening for opioid abuse in chronic pain and presented his research at the annual meeting for the American Pain Society . Dr. Atluri has been named one of Cincinnati Magazine's top physicians. Dr. Atluri earned his medical degree from Osmania Medical College in India and completed his residency at Cincinnati's University Hospital in anesthesia and pain management.

Dallas, TEXAS: CMSN 8th grade student Chaithra Katamneni won the North Texas PGA (NTPGA) Tour Championship for 2010. This 2-day golf tournament was held at Stonebridge Country Club in McKinney, Texas. Chaithra scored 76 and 73 to win by 6 strokes under her nearest competitor. After 7 months of competition in various tournaments during 2010, the top players from East, West and North Texas had to qualify and then be invited to play in this prestigious tournament. Chaithra is 13 years old and is the youngest winner to have won the 15-18 year old girls division in this championship’s history.

Bharatstudent.com, (Venkat Meenavalli, Chairman and MD) India’s largest student and youth community platform joined forces with the number one social network in the world- Facebook. It recently announced a platform integration with Facebook as an effort to double their user base by the end of this year. Users will be able to access a lot more features on Bharatstudent.com with their Facebook account linked to the site. Here is a list of things users can do on bharatstudent.com after signing in via their Facebook account: * Get recommendations for videos, photos and articles @ ‘BS Like Box’ * Check daily horoscope * Make free online international calls * Get access to Indian and study abroad information * Find mock tests for various competitive examinations * Check examination results * Access to live cricket score boards * Read film news and reviews of 6 regional languages * Listen to live radio Bharastudent.com also uses Artificial Intelligence to add relevant u...

Dr Padma Priya Kasukurti emerged topper of the Mysore Medical College in biochemistry, pharmacology, community medicine, otorhinolaryngology, general surgery and paediatrics. She was adjudged the best outgoing student of the batch and also given the Ashok memorial award.

Amara Raja Batteries Ltd and Galla Foods Ltd managing director Jayadev Galla has been elected the new chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)'s Andhra Pradesh council for the year 2011 - 2012. Galla, who was CII-AP vice-chairman for 2010-11, takes over takes over from ADP Pvt Ltd managing director Shakti Sagar. Bharat Biotech co-founder and joint managing director Suchitra K Ell a has been elected vice-chairperson.

1. Tripuraneni. Gopichand Panditha Paramshwara Sastry Veelunama (Novel) - 1963 2. Thummala Seetharamamurthy Mahatma Katha (Poetry) - 1969 3. Narla Venkateswara Rao Seeta Josyam (Play) - 1981 4. Aluri Bairagi Chowdary Aagama Geeti (Poetry) -1984 5. Ki. Rajanarayanan Gopallapurathu Makkal (Tamil -Novel) - 1991 6. Chekuri Ramarao Smriti Kinankam (Essays) - 2002 7. Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad Draupadi (Novel) - 2010 8. Volga (Popuri Lalitha Kumari) Vimukta (Stories) - 2015 9. Papineni SivaSankar Rajanigandha (Poetry) - 2016

1.Sri Tummala Seetharam Murthy - 1969   2.Sri Konadveeti Vemkatakavi - 1971   3.Sri Vadlamudi Gopalakrishnayya - 1971   4.Sri Narla Venkateswara Rao - 1972 5.Sri Kongara Jaggayya 6.Sri Kotha Satyanarayana Chowdary - 1974   7.Dr. Arekapudi. Ramesh Chowadary - 1977   8.Dr. Moturi Satyanarayana - 1977 9.Dr. Akkineni Nageswara Rao - 1977 10.Sri Gottepati Brahmayya - 1977 11.Sri Paidi Lakshmayya - 1977 12.Sri Mullapudi Thimmaraju - 1977 13.Sri Ravuri Venkata Satyanarayana - 1978 14.N. T. Rama Rao - 1978   15.Sri Mikkilinenei Radhakrishna Murthy - 1982   16.Pandit Gopadev - 1984 17.Sri L.V. Prasad - 1985 18.Sri Kosaraju Raghavaiah Chowdary - 1985 19.Sri, Inturi Venkateswara Rao - 1985 20.Prof. Kotha. Satchidananda Murthy - 1986. 21.Dr. Tripuraneni Venkateswara Rao - 1990 2 2 .Sri.V.B.Rajendra Prasad - 1997 23.Sri. Ghattamaneni Krishna - 2008

Doha: Top seed Koneru Humpy earned the right to challenge world women's champion Hou Yifan of China after winning the FIDE Women Grand Prix at Doha on Saturday. Humpy tied with Elina Danielian of Armenia in the 11-round event on points but her better tiebreak (SB) score helped her clinch the first place. The Indian scored two crucial wins, against Lilit Mkrtchian of Armenia in the penultimate round and then beat Zhu Chen of Qatar to edge out the Armenian, who had lost to the Indian in their meeting. Humpy and Danielian logged eight points each.

Kamma Vice-Chancellors (Past) Nagarjuna University: 1. Dr.Kommareddi Raja Ramamohana Rao 2. Dr.Chitturi Veera Raghavulu 3. Dr.Davuluri Rama Kotaiah Andhra University: 1. Dr.Vasireddi Sri Krishna 2. Dr.Koneru Rama Krishna Rao 3. Dr.Avula Sambasiva Rao University of Hyderabad : 1. Dr.Kota Harinarayana Acharya NG Ranga Agricultural University: 1. Dr.Alapati Appa Rao 2. Dr.Idpuganti Venkata Subba Rao Telugu University: 1. Dr.Tumati Donappa 2. Dr.Avula Manjulatha Kakatiya University: 1. Dr.Y. Vaikuntham Krishna University : Vunnam Venkaiah Sri Krishnadevara University: 1. Dr.P.R.Naidu Sri Venkateswara University: 1. Dr.Kotha Sachidananda Murthy 2. Dr.Poluri Murali Ambedkar Open University : 1. Dr.Vasireddy Siva Linga Prasad Anna University - Tamilnadu : 1. Dr. E. Balagurusamy Bharatiar University - Tamilnadu : 1. Dr.A.Subbian (First Vice-Chancellor) Madras University - (Tamilnadu): 1. Dr.G.R. Damodaran Bangalore University - (Karnataka): 1. D...

Phoenix, AZ: Shilpa Tummala idolized her older brother Sai Tummala . Whatever he did, she wanted to do. So when Sai started playing basketball as a kid, Shilpa took up the game. Soon, their hobby became a passion, the years passed and they became neighbors in high school, Shilpa at Phoenix St. Mary's and Sai at Phoenix Brophy College Preparatory. Today, the Tummalas' shared love of the game could turn into a dual championship celebration. St. Mary's advanced to the Class 5A Division I title game with an easy 71-42 victory over Phoenix Xavier, and Brophy will play in the final boys' game of the year after dispatching Mesa High and Arizona State-bound point guard Jahii Carson, 96-82. "We talked about this," Sai said. "It just shows how much we worked and the effort we put in. It's important to the family." We'll get back to Brophy and the Tummalas in a moment, but one final word about Carson: Wow. His 58 points Thursday may have been the gre...

NSL Power Limited, part of the city-based over Rs 1,500-crore NSL (Nuziveedu Seeds Limited) Group, is looking at raising a Rs 250-crore private equity (PE) fund to fuel its thermal and renewable energy capacity expansion, said chairman and managing director Mandava Prabhakar Rao. “We are in discussion with five domestic PE companies who are keen to invest in our energy business. We expect the deal to crystalise by the end of this calendar year,” he told. NSL Power has about 100-megawatt (Mw) wind power capacity in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. It is planning to set up wind farms with a capacity of 400Mw in various parts of the country, besides three hydro power plants with 155-Mw capacity in Himachal Pradesh. In all, the company has projects in the pipeline for additional capacity of 1,675 Mw. On the group’s flagship company Nuziveedu Seeds, Rao said the company was setting up seed processing plants – one each in Gujarat, Orissa and at Karimnagar in Andhra Pradesh – involving an invest...

Chennai: She may not be known outside Tamil Nadu, but it is Premalatha (Kamma )(DMDK youth wing secretary L. K. Sudhish—he is also the all-powerful brother-in-law of Vijayakanth) who may influence the outcome of the coming Tamil Nadu assembly elections. As DMK and AIADMK prepare for the poll battle, the role of the wife of `Captain` Vijayakanth (Gavara) who heads the Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) has become crucial. Premalatha is a huge influence on the politics of Vijayakanth, and is the reason why the actor-turned politician is tilting towards having a partnership with Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK. DMDK has emerged as a balancing factor, having polled around 10% votes in the last LS polls when Vijayakanth decided not to be part of either of the two alliances. In the process, analysts feel, he helped DMK by taking away votes that were arrayed against the ruling combine.

San Antonio, TX (February 28, 2011 : Dr. Suresh Koneru is pleased to be the first in San Antonio to offer a new brow lift, face lift and neck lift procedure Ultherapy . This non-invasive technology uses the imaging and capabilities of medical ultrasound to lift and tighten sagging facial and neck skin without surgery. Just as ultrasound is used to image internal organs and babies, it can now be used to image the layers of skin, fat, and muscle in the face and neck. Dr. Koneru can then focus the ultrasound energy on the appropriate layers to get a lift of the skin and muscle without any incisions. As people age, their skin loses its natural elasticity causing the brow line to fall thus making the eyes look smaller. The skin of the cheeks and neck begins to sag causing jowls and deep creases. While the well-known techniques of Botox, fillers and laser therapy still do a great job of making the surface of the skin look smoother and more youthful, surgery has been the only effective ...