Kammas World

The Padma awardees for the year were announced on Friday, the eve of India's 70th Republic Day. In sports category Dronavalli Harika (Chess) and Achanta Sharath Kamal (Table Tennis), Yadlapalli VenkateswaraRao ( Agriculture ) R.Venkataswamy ( Medicine )  selected for " Padma shri " award. Harika, who is the second Indian woman to win the Grandmaster title, is another Padma Shri awardee from AP. She started playing chess at the age of eight and made it as her career. Harika’s father is her first guru. She won the U14 World Youth Chess Championship at the age of 13, the U18 at 15, the U20 World Junior title at 17 and figured among the world top 10 when she was just 19. She represented India at Olympiad at the age of 13 in 2004. In the Women’s World Chess Championship in 2010, Harika made it to the quarterfinals. Harika was born on January 12, 1991 in Guntur. She won three bronze medals in the Women’s World Chess Championship in 2012, 2015 and 2017. She was honour...

The 7th annual ‘Miss India New England’ 2019 held on January 19th 2019 was a unique pageant experience and talent show and a celebration of Indian heritage in vibrant way. It is truly a platform where both traditional and modern elements of Indian society are blended.  The girls/women of Indian origin who belong to Massachusetts, Rhode Island, or New Hampshire had competed in four rounds of contest- Evening Gown, Ethnic Dress, Talent &On-stage Question. Three categories of  contestants were present -Miss India, Miss Teen or Mrs India. Pageant crown winners of Miss India New England 2019 is Sivani Jonnalagadda; Miss India Teen New England 2019 is Mihika Abraham; Mrs India New England 2019 is Deepa Jayavelu. Crown sponsors are  Tewarie Enterprises. Pageant is directed and produced by Ruchika Arora who is also state director of Miss India USA. Pageant training was sponsored by Manish Arora of IM Wireless. The Miss India New England pageant is designed to identify and...

Guna Sekhar Muppuri The three were among the 28 personalities and two organisations in the Indian diaspora that were honoured for their contributions and achievements in various fields.   This year, India's Ministry of External Affairs announced that it had decided to honour over 30 Indians living abroad. The award is the highest honour given to Indians living abroad. According to a list provided by the external affairs ministry, the awards were conferred in the fields of social, community and public service; business management; entrepreneurship; chartered accountancy; training and simulation; science; medical science; engineering; technology; architecture; academics; arts, and diplomacy. Among the 30 awardees are  Entrepreneurship - Jagdeshwar Rao Maddukuri (Poland), Medical science - Guna Sekhar Muppuri (Jamaica), Technology - Pamidimukkala Venkata SambasivaRao (Kenya). Proud to say that all the above three are Kammas 

When your jewelry is coiled around the fingers of goddesses like Serena Williams, Michelle Obama, and Emma Watson,  Nicole Kidman and Shailene Woodley,  you know you’re doing something right. And if that same jewelry is helping female entrepreneurs all over the world succeed, well...shouldn’t we all be wearing it? Shilpa Yarlagadda certainly thinks so. The Harvard student navigates her way through demanding computer science courses as effectively as she does the Diamond District—now familiar territory since the 2017 launch of her fine jewelry brand, Shiffon Co. The adjustable design of the line’s signature Duet Pinky Ring features two stones, symbolizing a cycle of mutual support among women that Yarlagadda believes is the foundation for a new generation of entrepreneurs. This brand ethos comes to fruition in the form of a social-minded business model, where up to 50 percent of Shiffon Co. profits directly fund seed grants for female-led or female-advancing startups...

Five-year-old girl from Vijayawada, Yamini Patibandla , won the Grand Prix best talent in the over all categories at the International beauty contest held at Georgia last week. She walked the ramp with grace and style holding Indian Tricolour flag and earned accolades from the spectators from across the globe while making it to the prestigious title, pushing contestants from 40 various countries behind. Yamini is the first and one and only contestant from India to get selected for the Beauty pageant World Rising Star 2019, which was the 3rd edition of the beauty contest held at Tbilisi city of Georgia from January 8 to 13, 2019. Yamini is the elder daughter of the city-based businessman, Patibandla Venkat and Jahnavi and the granddaughter of the noted businessman and proprietor of Coastal Andhra Paper Products G Srinivasa Rao and Padmavati. She's currently studying Class 1 in Delhi Public School, Vijayawada. Speaking to ‘The Hans India’ Jahnavi, the delighted m...

Navayuga Engineering Company Ltd ( Chinta VisveswaraRao, Chairman ) set a Guinness World Record on Monday morning, as it poured 32,100 cubic metre concrete in the spillway works at the Polavaram Irrigation Project here. The feat was accomplished in 24 hours, beginning with 8 am on Sunday. According Guinness Book Adjudicator Rishi Nath, 24 independent observers supervised the record-breaking event apart from three drones. Chinta Sridhar , MD, NECL said that the company had broken the earlier record held by a Dubai-based company, which was 21,500 cubic mtrs in a day. Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu also congratulated the MD on the occasion. The Project The Polavaram project is a mega infrastructure landmark with a total of 48 gates, each of 20x16 mtrs dimensions. . It consists of a spillway, a concrete block, two temporary coffer dams, an earth-cum-rock fill dam along with two canals . "This is a life line for Andhra Pradesh as two canals will provide ...

Vijayawada: A city lass has been selected for International Beauty Talent and Fashion Award event which will be held at Georgia, USA on January 8.  Five-year-old Yamini Patibandla from the city is set to represent India in the third edition of 'World Rising Stars 2019'. She is the first ever person from India in any category to participate from India and Valentina Mishra, national director for the event selected her for the prestigious event. Addressing the media Jahnavi, mother of Yamini said that the event will be held in five rounds and participants from around 40 countries will participate in the six-day long event. Yamini is the elder daughter of Vijayawada-based businessman Patibandla Venkat. She is studying in the first standard at Delhi Public School, Vijayawada. Yamini has been   interested in beauty pageants and participated in many fashion events and won Little Princes title in 2018. Yamini is confident of winning the crown and says that she w...

Saketh Myneni has been named in the Davis Cup team along with Prajnesh Gunneswaran and Ramkumar Ramanathan, apart from the Asian Games doubles gold medallists Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan, for the World Group qualification tie against Italy to be staged on grass in Kolkata on February 1 and 2. The All India Tennis Association (AITA) has announced Sasi Kumar Mukund as the reserve, apart from including Sumit Nagal, Arjun Kadhe and Siddharth Vishwakarma to train with the team in a preparatory camp from Jan. 22 to 30. I ndia’s squad for the Fed Cup team includes Pranjala Yadlappalli , Ankita Raina, Karman Kaur Thandi Prarthana Thombare and Rutuja Bhosale been kept in the squad headline for the Asia/Oceania Group 1 matches in Kazakhstan in February. The team will assemble in Delhi on January 27 for a three-day camp before leaving for Astana. The matches will take place in the week starting February 4. Also in Group 1 are hosts Kazakhstan, China, Indonesia, Thailand, Sou...