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New Delhi: Nuziveedu Seeds Limited, the largest Indian Seeds company has been conferred with BioAgri Company of the year Award 2013 at the 11th Annual Biospectrum-ABLE Awards. Mr. Venkat Rao, Sr. Vice President, Nuziveedu Seeds received the award on behalf of the Company at a glittering ceremony held in Bengaluru. This is the fifth time Nuziveedu Seeds has won this prestigious award and consecutively won it for the fourth time. The Biospectrum-ABLE Awards, being among the most credible recognition platforms for Indian biotech and agriculture industry were conferred on the basis of Industry Survey conducted by BioSpectrum along with Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprises - ABLE in June-July 2013. Speaking about the prestigious award, Mr. Mandava Prabhakar Rao , Chairman and Managing Director, Nuziveedu Seeds said “we are humbled to have received BioAgri-ABLE Company of the Year Award for 2013. This award, for the fourth consecutive year, acknowledges our team’s commitment toward...

When most eighth-graders were preparing for or celebrating graduation in May, Ram Koganti was in Washington, D.C., competing in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. It literally was seventh months ago, but not to Koganti. "It seems like forever. I've been so busy lately. I have high school to worry about," the Ottawa resident said while on a study break from finals. In May, Koganti was in his final year attending Wallace Grade School northwest of Ottawa. His advancement to the national bee began in February, when he took first place at the La Salle County Spelling Bee. One month later, he captured the Peoria Journal Star Grand Final Spelling Bee. The latter win earned him a spot in the national bee. To be a top competitive speller, one has to study every day. But since the national bee is open only to middle school students, the 14-year-old Koganti no longer has to study spelling. "It frees time up to do other things," he said. A freshma...

  Gullapalli Nageswara Rao has been honoured with the `Outstanding humanitarian service award’ by the American Academy of Ophthalmology.  The founder and Chairman of the Hyderabad-based, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Rao has been recognised for the eye care delivery model which he created with the Institute and his contributions to prevention of blindness globally.  The award was presented to Rao at the Academy’s annual meeting in New Orleans, US on November 19, a press release from the Institute said.  LVPEI’s model of Eye care, represented by a pyramid, emphasizes the creation of sustainable permanent facilities within communities, staffed and managed by locally trained human resource, and linked effectively with successively higher levels of care.  Rao was also the recipient of "International Prevention of Blindness Award" of the Academy earlier. He established the Institute in 1986-87 as a not-for-profit, non-government ...

WASHINGTON: The chase for Microsoft's CEO has seen many business chiefs enter and exit the potential list, except the software maker's cloud computing executive Satya Nadella , who has reportedly held his candidature in the lead position. As Steve Ballmer takes bow out of the company, potential candidatures for his chair included Ford's Alan Mulally, Qualcomm COO Steve Mollenkopf and Nokia's former executive president Stephen Elop. According to TechCrunch, Indian-origin Satya Nadella has managed to remain a leading candidate, as others fell in the stakes. Nadella currently handles the cloud computing, and his prowess in less-proven with consumers, but his co-competitors such as Mulally who is not a technologist, gives the 44-year old a benefit of doubt for not having a thing about phones.

Eruvaka is Omnivore’s seventh investment in the country and the third this year. Vijayawada-based Eruvaka Technologies Pvt Ltd , which makes on-farm diagnostic equipment for aquaculture farmers besides providing a analytics platform to help farmers,  has secured an undisclosed amount in a Series A round of funding from Omnivore Partners , an early-stage VC investor focusing on agriculture & food technology companies in India. The capital raised from this round will be used to hire more people in its sales team and increase its reach. A portion of the fund will also go towards its R&D efforts to create new products, including optimisation of seed consumption. “Omnivore Partners led a Series A financing in Eruvaka in September this year for a significant minority stake,” Omnivore’s venture partner Mark Kahn told. He did not disclose the investment amount but the fund typically invests between $0.5 million and $2.5 million initially and $4-5million over ...

WASHINGTON: Citing the example of an Indian entrepreneur Geetha Vallabhaneni , whose Green Card saga underscores the tormented lives of immigrant aspirants and the pot of gold at the end of the economic rainbow, President Obama on Monday sought to shift attention from the health care fiasco to his other great battle, immigration reform. It didn't work great at an event in San Francisco, California, where the President's advisers thought he'd find support and solace over an issue many immigrants are exercised about, in what was meant to be a tactical retreat from the drubbing he is receiving in Washington DC over health care debacle. Earlier, Obama was introduced at the event by Indian immigrant Geetha Vallabhaneni , founder and chief executive of San Jose-based Luminix , who spoke about the 12 years it took to get her green card, and how she started a tech company after becoming a permanent resident. Obama picked on the theme to highlight how the US ...

Electrical and Computing Engineering faculty of Georgia Tech University, Atlanta, Sudhakar Yalamanchili , have been elected as IEEE Fellows, effective January 1, 2014.  Dr. Yalamanchili attended Bangalore University, India, where he received his undergraduate degree in Electronics in 1978. Following this, Dr. Yalamanchili came to the University of Texas where he earned both his master's and doctoral degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1980 and 1984, respectively. Upon graduation, Dr. Yalamanchili joined Honeywell's Systems and Research Center in Minneapolis where he worked as a Senior, and then Principal Research Scientist from 1984 to 1989. In both capacities, he served as the Principal Investigator for projects in the design and analysis of multiprocessor architectures for embedded applications. While at Honeywell, Dr. Yalamanchili also served as an Adjunct Faculty and taught in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Mi...

Padma Shri Dr.Namburi. G. Bakthavathsalam   is the Chairman and Managing Trustee of  Dharmaveera K Govindaswamy Naidu  Medical Trust, which runs the K.G. Hospital in  Coimbatore ,  India . He was awarded a  Padma Shri  in 2005. Born on April 5, 1942 at Annur village of Coimbatore district and graduated (MBBS - 1964) from Madras Medical College, and also having obtained an MS from the same college, he had his post graduate training in Surgery in Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicag o (USA). KG Hospital On the clarion call given by his father, Dharmaveera K. Govindaswamy Naidu, to serve the poor countrymen in the field of healthcare, he returned to India in the year 1974 to set up KG Hospital. Initially, ten beds were put up. It has now grown into a 550-bedded multi and super speciality and post graduate medical center - a "Centre of Excellence" recognized in India and abroad and this hospital has the pride of treating over 4 million patients. Hum...