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India table tennis player Achanta Sharath Kamal beat top-seed Anthony Amalraj 4-1 to win the men’s singles title for the eighth time, equaling the feat of Kamlesh Mehta at the Senior Table Tennis Nationals on Tuesday. The win was worth Rs2 lakh, but what Sharath would have cherished more on the evening was the warm hug that he received from the man, who held the record for so many years watching him perform from close quarters. “It’s a proud moment for me personally, Sharath deserves all the accolades,” said Mehta. But Sharath was equally humble when he said, “What he (Kamlesh) did was more praiseworthy because I am two levels above the current lot of players. But Kamlesh had to fight with players of same calibre to accomplish the honour.”

Neerkondar Nanammal was among those chosen for the Padma Shri award by the central government. She has been teaching yoga to thousands of people and spreading the ancient traditional practice across Tamil Nadu. "I am very happy that I have been chosen for the award," said Nanammal, with a childlike enthusiasm. "I am happier that this recognition has come for making all those people I teach yoga stay healthy,'' she said from her house at Ganapathy in Coimbatore. Born in an agricultural family at Zameen Kaliayapuram, she moved to Negamam after marriage and later to Ganapathy. Having learned yoga at the age of eight from her father, she mastered more than 50 asanas. Over the past five decades, Nanammal has trained more than 10 lakh students and continues to teach 100 students daily at the Ozone Yoga Centre run by her. Around 600 of her students, including 36 members of her family, have become 'Yoga instructors' around the world. "It is a gr...

Archana Vemulapalli will continue her work in technology in a global networking management role. Washington D.C.'s former chief technology officer, Archana Vemulapalli, has taken a position as IBM's general manager of networking service, StateScoop has learned. After announcing her resignation in November, Vemulapalli closed out two years of service in Mayor Muriel Bowser's Cabinet, completing her final day with the District on Jan. 5. At IBM, the company says Vemulapalli will lead worldwide network services business "securely delivering agile, resilient, and intelligent networks for public and private sector clients across the globe." During her time in government, Vemulapalli was recognized as a thought leader, and in 2017 was awarded by StateScoop with its Golden Executive of the Year Award and was also named one of StateScoop's Top 50 Women in Tech. At IBM, a company spokesperson said, Vemulapalli will continue to work in a publ...

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Santosh Vellanki , who was general manager, people consulting task force, corporate HR at Reliance Industries, has moved to UPL, a $ 2.5 billion agrochemical firm as head of talent acquisition and young talent management. Vellanki will also lead as HR business partner (HRBP) for all corporate functions. He will report to the Group CHRO Jayaram Philkana, and will be based out of Mumbai. At Reliance Industries, Vellanki was involved in HR transformation, leadership giring and HR platform projects. In the past, he has also worked with Tata Motors, where he was leading the talent acquisition function for the passenger vehicles business unit and the engineering research centre. He was also instrumental in setting up the policy, process and digitisation framework in the TA function. A computer engineering graduate, Vellanki has completed an MBA in human resources from SIBM Pune. He also holds a master’s degree in communication and journalism from PST University and a diploma in ...

Akhil partnered with State in Smart Village drive Akhil Nimmagadda, a techie from Mothadaka village (Tadikonda mandal) in the Capital region has been selected for The Youth Assembly at the United Nations organised by the Friendship Ambassadors Foundation (FAF). Mr. Akhil, who currently resides and works in a city of North Carolina, US, said in a release, that he recently partnered with the State government in the Smart Village initiative and been involved in various social activities which made him gain entry to the event in which representatives from over 100 countries participate. Mr. Akhil is one among the few Indians who were selected for the event. “The delegates are selected based on the contribution to the community and those who are ready to take the assembly’s sustainable development goals forward,” he said. The assembly will be held on February 14, 15 and 16 in New York.

From holding an unprecedented press conference about the Chief Justice to Aadhaar to ‘judges bribery’ case, Justice Jasti Chelameswar has been the flag-bearer of dissent in the higher judiciary. New Delhi: “Seven years is a good tenure to make a mark personally and contribute to the march of law,” Justice Jasti Chelameswar had said at the Krishna Iyer memorial lecture in 2015. Months before he retires, the second most senior judge in India’s Supreme Court cannot be faulted if he looks back at his last six and a half years in the apex court and heaves a sigh of satisfaction. He has certainly made a mark personally, and could also believe that he has contributed to the march of law, considering he is being seen as perhaps the most consequential judge in India’s top court in recent times. The reasons are several. His critique of the collegium system, through which he was appointed, has shaped the discourse on judicial accountability. Chelameswar expressed disse...

CLOUD WARS -- Quick quiz—name the company whose "top news stories of 2013" included the following: shut down the Zune Marketplace; bought Nokia's smartphone business for about $7 billion; quickly followed the disastrous release of a new operating system (8) with an upgrade/replacement (8.1); introduced two new tablets; lost trademark battle for the name "SkyDrive." It seems utterly unimaginable that only four years ago, an annual list of Microsoft's biggest news stories could include such a mix of trifles, blunders and disasters. But on Feb. 3, 2014, all that confusion and lack of direction changed profoundly when Satya Nadella was named the third CEO in Microsoft's storied history. How profoundly? On Jan. 7, 2014, in the waning days of Steve Ballmer's wind-down and four weeks before Nadella was named as CEO, Microsoft's market cap was $302.2 billion. On Jan. 8, 2018, after 47 months of Satya Nadella's leadership...

Lieutenant General   Yendluri  Venkata Krishna Mohan today took over as the 13th Corps Commander of the Rising Star Corps from Lt Gen S K Saini. Lt. Gen. Mohan is son of reputed Doctor Dr.YV Ramasubbaiah hails from Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General in September 2016 and appointed Commandant of the National Defence College, in January 2017. He was awarded the Sena Medal (SM) for his services during 'Operation MEGHDOOT' in 2005. A highly decorated soldier of the 7th Battalion the 11th Gorkha Rifles, Lt. Gen. Mohan has had an illustrious career during which he commanded an Infantry Brigade in High-Altitude Area and a Mountain Division along the China frontier, a defence spokesperson said. The spokesperson said that Lt.Gen. Mohan has excelled in various professional courses during his service. Lt. Gen. Mohan is a graduate of the Defence Service Staff College, Wellington, and has studied at the Royal College of...

Prof. Suryadevara Mahendra Dev has been elected as President of the Indian Economic Association (IEA) for the next three years starting from January 2018. Apart from having annual conferences, IEA will help in organising conferences and seminars to improve the quality of teaching and research in economics in colleges and universities.  Mahendra Dev , a noted agri-economist, has been elevated as the Vice-Chairman, Board of Trustees of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington D.C., USA. He is the second person from India after Isher Ahluwalia (who became chairperson) to be appointed to a high position at the IFPRI in 42 years. Dev, who is at present Director & Vice-Chancellor of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) in Mumbai , will formally take over the new responsibility in January 2018. The 59-year-old Dev has made significant contributions in agri development, poverty and public policy, food security, employ...

Miller, 53, is currently a member of the Maryland House of Delegates for which she first elected in 2010. Washington:   Indian-American politician Katragadda Aruna Miller has filed nomination papers to run for the US Congress from a Congressional seat in Maryland. Miller, 53, is currently a member of the Maryland House of Delegates for which she first elected in 2010. The current Democratic incumbent to this Congressional District John Delaney has said that he will not seek re- election and instead has announced to run for 2020 Democratic partys presidential primary. "As an immigrant, I have been afforded incredible opportunities here. I want to pay it forward and make sure we keep the doors of opportunity open to all our citizens," Miller said after she officially filed her Certificate of Candidacy for US Congress for the 6th Congressional district of Maryland. "Congress needs more experienced, progressive legislators at this critical time, if we ...

VIJAYAWADA: Nanduri Sambasiva Rao retired from the post of Andhra Pradesh director general of police at a grand ceremony in Mangalagiri 6th battalion parade grounds here on Sunday morning. Mannam Malakondaiah has taken over as the head of the state police force. Dr M. Malakondaiah, a 1985 batch IPS officer, was appointed Director-General of Police of Andhra Pradesh on Saturday, replacing Mr N. Sambasiva Rao. Dr Mala kondaiah will take charge on Monday. Chief Secretary Dinesh Kumar released the order on Dr Malakondaiah’s appointment. Following this, he called on Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu.     Dr Malakondaiah was born on July 1, 1958, in Prakasam district and  worked as ASP in Mulugu and Warangal Rural. He was SP for Adilabad, Medak and Guntur districts. He was also SP of the vigilance cell, DG of civil supplies, director of ACB, DIG Guntur and Eluru range. Before his appointment as DGP, he was working as MD of APSRTC.