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Dr.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.

Infrastructure company Phoenix Group announced plans to invest Rs 2,000 crore in six real estate ventures in Hyderabad, including Rs 350 crore in Golf Edge, a mixed use project, which will have a five-star hotel and high-end residential apartments. Every real estate venture underway will have commercial retail space and a hotel as well. The Managing Director of Phoenix Group, Mr Gopikrishna Patibanda , said “the company has frozen the funding for various projects including Golf Edge, located in the Financial District an IT hub of Gachibowli. The property has a large commercial facility occupied by Deloitte and we have commenced work on the hotel project and housing towers.” Addressing a press conference, Mr Patibanda said the company has tied up with Duet Hotels for the first five-star hotel project with 210 rooms. Negotiations are underway to partner the Intercontinental Group. Golf Edge will have 497 apartments of two-bed room, 3-bedroom, duplex ranging from 1,055 sq.ft to 3,595 sq...

Shashi Naidoo has beaten global beauties to the FHM sexiest woman in the world title. Port Elizabeth-born Shashi Naidoo, topped the Hot 100 list ahead of the likes of Angelina Jolie, pop singers Christina Aguilera and Cheryl Cole, South African models Roxy Louw and Lee-Ann Liebenberg. Naidoo has been a cover girl for FHM magazine twice before. Shashi Naidoo received an SMS from the magazine’s editor, Hagen Engler. It was such a surprise, she had to read the message four times before it sank in. “I was told earlier that I was doing well, but I definitely didn’t expect it,” she said. But it appears the readers of FHM have a soft spot for the 30-year-old, who famously posed nude save for a well-placed leaf in an issue of Marie Claire magazine. Last year, Naidoo was voted fourth, a position she held the year before. Two years before that, she came in 16th. “I have been climbing up slowly like a choo choo train,” she laughed. This time around, Naidoo didn’t expect to do well. “I have no id...

London-listed clean energy producer Greenko is looking for opportunities in India's huge power deficit and the country's plans to beef up its renewable capacity. India-based Greenko, founded by President Mahesh Kolli in 2006, is targeting an operational capacity of 1 gigawatt (GW) by 2014, nearly five times its current base of 183 megawatts (MW). "Total power demand in India is about 350 GW, while supply is just about 165 (GW)," Kolli said on Wednesday. "There is a big race to add capacity to reduce the gap." Earlier on Wednesday, Greenko announced agreements to add a cumulative 650 MW to its windpower portfolio, taking its total wind assets in development past the 1 GW mark. Its total portfolio of operational assets and assets under development, including wind and hydro projects, now stands at 1.63 GW. Meanwhile, India -- the world's third-biggest greenhouse gas polluter after the United States and China -- aims to add 17 GW of renewable energy over fi...

Kantipudi Padmanabhaiah: Born on 6th Oct 1938 in a village in Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh, after initial education, He obtained a Masters degree in Science from Andhra University, and a Masters degree in Financial Management, from the prestigious Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management, Mumbai. He joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1961 and was allotted to the Maharashtra cadre. He served Government of Maharashtra in a variety of important positions like Director of Sugar Co-operatives; District Collector, Nashik: Principal Secretary, Planning; Principal Secretary, Finance; and Municipal Commissioner of Greater Bombay (now Mumbai). His tenure as Director of Sugar Co-Operatives(1970-74) saw the most spectacular growth of Sugar Industry in the State due to his rapport and close working with the leadership in the Co-operative movement, and received national and international recognition. He was invited by various State Governments, including Government of An...

The top scorer in the EAMCET medicine, 158 was secured by Mandalapu Himaja from Vijayawada. Nalluri Snehita got 157 marks in medicine, also the second topper.

Hyderabad: CarZ, an auto repair services provider for all models of four-wheelers, has raised $5 million in Series A funding from IndoUS Venture Partners. With experienced entrepreneurs and executives, IndoUS Venture Partners provides early and mid-stage funding to new or growing businesses in India. M. M. Dillon & Co. (formerly CRT Investing Banking), Stamford, Connecticut, U.S. was the sole advisor to this transaction. Founded by auto experts and enthusiasts Venu Donepudi and Vijay Gummadi in 2008, CarZ has a vision to establish an independent, multi-brand car service network where cars produced by most manufacturers can be serviced under one roof. Headquartered in Hyderabad, the company plans to invest the fund raised for the expansion of its network service locations to 300 centers nationwide by 2015. The CarZ team has automotive expertise in India, North America, Europe and Mid-East in running some of the world's largest independent auto repair franchises, spare parts r...

4G Identity Solutions a pioneer in iris biometric tech By deploying the first proof of concept for the UID project, 4G Identity Solutions became the first company to introduce the iris biometric technology in India. It took 39-year-old Sreeni Tripuraneni, a well-trained vascular surgeon in the UK, just over two years to completely study the efficacy of the iris technology (the iris is the coloured part of the eye surrounding the pupil), the algorithms for which were patented by John Daugman, professor at the University of Cambridge, back in 1994. Tripuraneni embraced the iris biometric technology for patient recognition in the UK a decade ago (in 2001), he now takes pride in the fact that his company – 4G Identity Solutions – is the first to have introduced it closer home by deploying the first proof of concept for the unique identification (UID) project in March 2010. “Post the completion of my medical informatics course at the University of Bath, I started working on...

Betfair has appointed Raj Vemulapalli from Yahoo as vice president of mobile engineering just weeks after Charlie Palmer, its previous head of mobile stepped down. Vemulapalli, who spent 11 years at Yahoo developing the internet business’s Messenger product and mobile messaging, voice and video and chat platforms, will be based jointly in London and San Francisco where he will also set up a new mobile centre of excellence in Silicon Valley. The new role has been created in an attempt to grow the exchange’s mobile customer base and improve existing and develop new products and technology, the company said. “Betfair is a technology company that invented the betting exchange a decade ago and is now reinventing mobile betting and gaming,” Vemulapalli said. “I am excited to be driving Betfair’s mobile strategy, products and platforms at a time when consumers are increasingly turning to mobile”. Betfair was one of the first operators to have a betting application listed in the Apple App S...

The Natco Pharma (Dr.V.C.Nannapaneni, Chairman) stock has outperformed the BSE Health Care Index by a huge margin last year. The company, which manufactures formulations, APIs and offers contract research and manufacturing services, is also a leading player in the oncology therapeutic segment, and derives a considerable portion of its revenues from it. Natco is also among the largest contract manufacturers in India, and has well-known pharma companies such as Ranbaxy and Dr Reddy's as its clients. The US market (including US retail business) also makes a key segment for Natco. So far, Natco has filed 18 ANDAs, has received approvals for five drug applications and launched three products; three filings enjoy a Para IV certification. It has mitigated the risks of operating in this segment by opting for a partnership model. It has tied with US-based Mylan Inc for Glatiramer Acetate, a generic version of Teva's CopaxoneR, used to treat multiple sclerosis. It has also tied-up wit...

Holeta (Ethiopia): The world’s largest exporter of roses is an Indian who grows and ships hundreds of varieties of the prized flowers — not just out of India but mostly out of farms in Ethiopia and Kenya. Just 45 km out of Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, a drive across rolling grasslands at the foothills of the Entoto range brings you to a large encampment, spread over 100 hectares, of greenhouses, cottages and huts from where Karuturi Global (Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi, Chairman & MD) has spawned its phenomenal growth. ‘Favourable government policies and environmental conditions, flood-safe geographic location and abundant low-cost labour, coupled with its proximity to the global markets, made Ethiopia an ideal location for our business,’ says chief executive Nagesh Karuturi, who overseas the two east African farms. The Bangalore-based company, which has a 10-hectare farm near the new international airport, forayed into Ethiopia in 2004 through its 100 percent subsidiary, Ethi...

Sravana K. Paladugu of Seminole, St. Petersburg High. Probable career: medicine, have won National Merit Scholarships for 2011. Seniors at high schools will receive awards of $500 to $2,000 a year for up to four years of undergraduate study. The students were chosen from about 16,000 semifinalists who scored the highest on their preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. To advance in the competition, each candidate had to submit an application that showed an outstanding academic record and included an endorsement from a school official, SAT scores, an essay and proof of extracurricular activities, awards and leadership positions.

L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) opened its 100th centre at Vijaywada marking the silver jubilee. Over the years, LVPEI has been steadily expanding on its facilities in keeping with is capacity-building strategy.The last month of May saw LVPEI launching ten primary eyecare centres, and one city centre bringing the total tally of its network to 100 locations, a LVPEI release said here today."I am delighted that LVPEI has touched a century of eye care facilities in the service of people," said Dr Gullapalli N Rao, chairman, L V Prasad eye Institute adding that "It is a great beginning in our silver jubilee year on June one, and it brings us closer to our mission of preventing avoidable blindness among our people." The launch of LVEPI's silver jubilee on June 1, 2011 saw a flurry of activities including the traditional lighting of the lamp by State Governor E S L Narasimhan and Vimala Narasimhan on 2nd June

HYDERABAD — Nadendla Manohar , who got elevated from the post of Deputy Speakear, polled 158 votes while K E Krishnamurthy, the candidate put up by the main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) secured 90 votes in the 294-member House. Vijayalakshmi, Jagan’s mother and the lone legislator representing YSR Congress Party, abstained from the House. Legislators belonging to the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), BJP, CPI and Lok Satta abstained from voting as they did not want to be seen as favouring either the ruling party or the main opposition.