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Miss India Australia Neekita Naidu got the chance to represent Australia at Miss Supermodel Universe 2016 Bulgaria and taken out the title for the prestigious competition. Neekita Naidu was the winner at Miss India Australia, but it was her positivism and confidence that made her won the title of Miss Supermodel Universe 2016 in Bulgaria. Neekita Naidu –Miss India Australia 2016 , dusky and svelte model with immense modelling experience stunned everyone on day two itself winning the title of   “Miss Best Body” at a fashion show held at Princess Casino, Sofia. Born in Fiji, Neekita migrated to New Zealand with her parents and siblings when she was six years old. Graduating in Travel & Tourism, she began her career in the industry as a database specialist at New Zealand Helloworld. She became an active model seven years ago and has appeared in catwalks, print advertisements and commercials. She has also hosted a number of events. Neekita believes t...

Indian pair of Mallineni Sriram Balaji Vishnu Vardhan and succeeded in their effort and qualified for the main draw in the Wimbledon qualifiers. This will be a Grand Slam debut for Balaji, who hails from Coimbatore. He and his partner and fellow Indian Vishnu Vardhan booked their berth in the men's doubles draw following a 6-3, 6-4 win over top seeds Denys Molchanov and Igor Zelenay in the second round. It will be a maiden Grand Slam main draw appearance for Vardhan and Balaji. "The tournament has just started for us," an elated Balaji told TOI from London on Wednesday. "I have been partnering with Vishnu on and off for almost 3-4 years now. But it has only been around 10 months since I have shifted my focus to playing only doubles and it has reaped rewards for me." This is the first year Balaji is playing on grass and the 28-year old is already feeling at home. "Vishnu and my game is perfect for grass and though this is the first time I...

Smt. JAYALAKSHMI  VENKATASAMY , D/o   Shri S. Ramasamy Naidu (Ex.MP, MLA - Sattur, Sivakasi) born at Sengamala Nachiar Puram, Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu (November 6, 1932 - June 24, 2016) educated at Victoria High School, Sivakasi and American College, Madurai, married Shri Venkatasamy. She was represented the Sivakasi Lok Sabha seat as a Congress candidate in 1971 and 1977. She is the aunt of film star Sridevi . She was recommended as a candidate by C. Subramanian when Indira Gandhi wanted a woman MP for the party from Tamil Nadu. As daughter of veteran Congress leader, former MP S. Ramasamy Naidu, Jayalakshmi had seen many national leaders visiting her home as she grew up. She fought the first election as mother of four children. As MP, she survived an air crash in New Delhi. She was a fighter against child labor in the 1970s and was instrumental in starting rehabilitation schools for them. She was Member (i) Tamil Nadu Congress Committee since 1969, (ii) Pradesh...

Indian-American Katragadda Aruna Miller , seeking to enter the US House of Representatives from a Congressional seat in Maryland, has emerged as one of the top fundraisers, days ahead of the crucial Democratic primary. Hyderabad-born (Native of Ventrapagada - Krishna Dist, AP), 53, a civil engineer and a Maryland State Delegate, came to the US in 1972 when she was seven. She is vying to enter the House of Representatives -- the lower chamber of the US Congress -- from a Maryland suburb of Washington DC. The Senate is the upper chamber. Aruna is pitted against party colleague David Trone in the Democratic party for the sixth Congressional District of Maryland primary The winner of the June 26 primary election is expected to easily sail through given that it is considered to be a Democratic stronghold. If elected,  Aruna would be the second Indian-American woman to enter the House of Representatives after Pramila Jayapal from Washington State. "In the year of ...

Leela Naidu  1) Nina Davuluri - Miss NewYork ( USA ) and Miss USA 2013 2) Leela Naidu Prattipati - Miss India 1954 3) Sindhura Gadde - Miss India World 2005 and Semi Finalist Miss World 2005 4) Vasuki Sunkavalli - Miss Universe I ndia 2011 5) Kerishnie Naicker - Miss South Africa 1997 6) Pratima Yarlagadda - Miss Indiana ( USA ) 1999 and Finalist Miss USA 1999 7) Kaisha Naidoo - Finalist   Miss South Africa 2010 8) Sandhya Naidoo -  F inalist  Miss South Africa   2010 ( Second Princess at the Miss SA Teen competition in 2005 ) 9) Neekita Naidu - Finalist Miss Universe New Zealand 2013 , Miss India Australia 2016 , Miss Super Model Universe 2016 10) Shravya Kalyanapu - Miss Alberta state - Finalist, Miss World - Canada 2017

The 30 honorees, including US India Chamber of Commerce President, Neelima Gonuguntla represent a variety of industries and roles DALLAS(TIP): The Dallas Business Journal has announced the honorees for its 11th annual Women in Business Awards program. These 30 individuals, including Indian American Neelima Gonuguntla represent a variety of industries and roles that are crucial to the Dallas-Fort Worth ecosystem, including financial and legal services, commercial real estate and construction, and non-profit organizations. From leaders of global institutions, like Frito-Lay Chief Marketing Officer Jennifer Saenz and AT&T Business’ Anne Chow, to entrepreneurs behind innovative startups, like Elyse Dickerson of Eosera, the 2018 class of Women in Business touches on a concentration of transformative ingenuity and enterprising imagination that can only be found in North Texas. Four members of the Women in Business Awards class – Betty Garrett, Linda Kunz, Sandy P...

Sreelakshmi Kolli , Align's Senior.Vice President, Information Technology was the winner of 2017 Bay Area CIO of the Year award  in the Innovation and Transformation category. The CIO of the Year awards are presented by the Silicon Valley Business Journal and the San Francisco Business Times, which serves to recognize local leaders who deploy IT in innovative ways to make an impact on the business. During Ms. Kolli's tenure, Align's infrastructures and applications have grown to support over 56,000 customers in over one hundred countries and 6,800 employees across the globe, including management of approximately three million data files and 15 terabytes of data per day, enabling the Company to have started over 4.5 million patients in Invisalign treatment to date. Sreelakshmi Kolli is Senior Vice President, Global Information Technology responsible for defining the technology strategy and development of global consumer, customer and enterprise applications an...

Utah State University and head men's tennis coach of the Aggies James Wilson June 4 announced that the team has added star Indian player Rithvik Chowdary Bollipalli to the squad. “Utah State University is amazing and the entire team and staff are very friendly, supportive and encouraging,” Bollipalli said in a statement. “I love nature and the location is beyond exception and it inspires me to start every new day with very positive energy. The university has all the amenities for a tennis player.” Bollipalli was the No. 1-ranked junior in all of India during U-12, U-14 and U-16 competition and has an International Tennis Federation ranking of 238 and a Universal Tennis Ranking of 12.72, the university said in a news release. Bollipalli, who was a member of the India delegation at the 2017 Junior Davis Cup, captured a pair of tournament titles earlier this year, winning both the singles and doubles crown at the ITF Seventh Nairobi International Junior Championships...

The launch of its generic viral flu medicine in the US, and its oncology & hepatitis C portfolio products in India brought Natco much success last year During the financial year 2016-17, Natco Pharma became the first player to launch the generic version of Oseltamivir, a viral flu medicine, in the US market, creating a milestone for the industry. In the same year, the company’s oncology and hepatitis C portfolio products gained further strength in the Indian market. “We saw an accelerated growth during the financial year due to Hepatitis C product growth in India and blockbuster launch of generic Oseltamivir in the US,” said Rajeev Nannapaneni , vice-chairman and CEO of Natco Pharma in the annual report of 2016-17 fiscal. “In formulations, new product sales have shown very good momentum and have improved total sales revenue significantly,” he added. Going ahead, the company is looking at expanding its footprint in India and making significant investment in R&D...

It's yet another proud moment for India and it doubles in scale as Dhivya Suryadevara has become the first woman Chief Financial Officer of the biggest auto company, General Motors. Known as a financial wizard, Dhivya Suryadevara will succeed Chuck Stevens on September 1. Dhivya Suryadevara will be following the footsteps of Mary Barra who broke the glass ceiling when she became the first Chief Executive of the company. Born and brought up in India, She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in commerce from the University of Madras in Chennai. Then, Dhivya Suryadevara moved to the United States for her higher studies at Harvard at the age of 22. She earned an MBA degree from there. She landed her first job at the investment bank UBS and joined General Motors, a year later, at an age of 25. Then there was no looking back. She was named Automotive News Rising Star in 2016 and a Crain’s Detroit Business 40 Under 40 winner last year. “Dhivya’s experience and leadersh...

I enjoyed myself throughout the tournament. During this championship, I didn’t think much and I played without any pressure Beating Magnus Carlsen isn’t easy, and it takes a special effort to get past the world champion, be it any format. Judging by the way he eased past the Norwegian, Musunuri Lalith Babu is very very special! The reigning national champion has finally broken through into the big leagues, and is one to watch out for. Hailing from Vijayawada, this young man created history in February by defeating world champion Magnus Carlsen in rapid chess at the PRO Chess League. Lalith Babu achieved the International Master norm at the Asian Junior Chess Championship in 2008. He became Grandmaster in 2012 and was part of the Indian team which won bronze at the Chess Olympiad in Norway in 2014. His mother Padma, who has been the pillar behind his success, claims that chess has been an integral part of Lalith’s life. “Since his childhood, he has always occupied hi...

She wasn't one of the four cash prize winners, but Sumani Nunna , a senior at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham, was one of the 15 finalists for the International BioGENEius Challenge, a major science competition for high school students. And she did get a private audience from a proud North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper as he joined global life science leaders at the 2018 BIO International Convention in Boston. Nunna, North Carolina’s lone finalist among entrants from around the U.S., Canada and Germany, lives in the Charlotte suburb of Concord. The BioGENEius Challenge recognizes outstanding research in biotechnology. Nunna and the 14 other finalists showcased their research at the annual BIO event. The Challenge provides young STEM innovators and entrepreneurs a venue to showcase their research and helps them build a long-term support system. Sanjeev Kohli, a grade 11 Sir John A Macdonald Secondary School student from Waterloo, On...

Triple jumper Priyadarshini Suresh from Chennai grabbed the triple jump bronze medal with a personal best jump of 13.08m in her second attempt at the 18th Asian Junior Athletes held in Japan today. Representing India for the first time, at the South Asian Junior Athletics Championship held in Colombo in May 2018, Priyadarshini won gold and created a meet record. The icing on the cake was a ticket to the World U-20 Championships in Finland in July, since her timing was good enough to meet the qualifying mark. In 2016, she had won silver in the World School Games in Turkey. It was around this time that there was an attempted coup in Trabzon, a city on the Black Sea coast in northeast Turkey. 

A FOUR-year-old  Laasya Chigurupat  has scooped her second world record in eight months after memorising 85 songs and playing them on the piano in just 35 minutes. Little Laasya Chigurupati (above) collected her world-beating gong in March this year after the young pre-schooler wowed audiences. Her first world record was claimed for playing 50 xylophone songs in under 25 minutes in October last year. Now she has mastered the same tunes on a mini piano by adding to her song collection — and she only started attending school last September. Proud parents Jithender Chigurupati, 34, and Aparna Chodagam, 33, who are both originally from India, became convinced there is no end to their daughter’s extraordinary abilities. Jithender said: ‘She has made us so proud, obviously. ‘She is very talented at memorising things and she’s especially very good with her general knowledge questions and Sanskrit poems which she started learning from the age of two and...

Andhra Pradesh born Raju Narisetti (S/o Narisetti Innayya), a digital media executive and editor, will join the faculty of Columbia Journalism School as Professor of Professional Practice. He will also serve as the new director of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism. According to the university in New York, as a full-time faculty member, Narisetti will focus on topics such as business journalism, media entrepreneurship, and the business of journalism, in addition to overseeing business journalism fellowships in the country. As the Knight-Bagehot Director, he succeeds Terri Thompson, who directed the fellowship programme for the last 25 years and announced her retirement earlier this year. "We're thrilled to welcome such a visionary and experienced editor and media leader as Raju to lead the Knight-Bagehot program," said Steve Coll, Dean of the Columbia Journalism School. Narisetti, who will formally start in the fall said, ...

Abhijay Kodali , an 11-year-old from Flower Mound, Texas, came in third in the  Scripps National Spelling Bee  competition, which was held in Oxon Hill, Maryland. He misspelled the word “aalii.” Abhijay was the youngest of the final 16 finalists. He started competing only in March and joined the bee when he won a regional competition in Texas. “I’ve been to every bee along the way,” said Kim Martich, his teacher at Liberty Elementary School told Dallas News. “He has a passion for it.” The competition started Sunday with 515 spellers, the largest number of contestants in the 93 years of the national bee’s history. Last year, there were only 291 Abhijay's older sister, Ananya Kodali, was one of those blue-chip Dallas spellers who never made it to nationals - she lost twice at regionals to a speller who ended up finishing fifth on the Scripps stage.