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Meghana Gaddam with Waikato MP Tim van de Molen at St Peter’s School in Cambridge Meghana Gaddam lives in St Kilda and is holidaying with family in India. Her parents are from Tanguturu - Prakasam District, Aandhra Pradesh. She was St Peter’s School - Cambridge head girl this year and excelled through her studies and extracurricular activities including volunteering for two years at the Refugee Orientation Centre Trust in Hamilton and contributing to the Model United Nations. As part of Meghana’s Head Girl role, her responsibilities included planning the Waipā Youth Awards, chairing the student executive and leading the prefect team. She intends doing either a Bachelor of Property / Bachelor of Commerce in economics and finance conjoint, or a bachelor of property / bachelor of global studies in international relations and business next year, at Auckland University. Van de Molen said Meghana’s four-minute video, where she gave her  opinion on issues facing youth in the Waikato, was...

Sabbineni Meghana from Vijayawada who currently plays for Railways. She plays primarily as a right-handed batter. So far she has appeared in 6 Twenty20 Internationals for India, and recently selected to the 2022 Women World Cup squad.  The T20I will be played at Napier on February 9. It will be followed by a five-match ODI series, from February 11 to 24. India’s matches at the World Cup: v Pakistan, Tauranga, March 6; v New Zealand, Hamilton, March 10; v West Indies, Hamilton, March 12; v England, Tauranga, March 16; v Australia, Auckland, March 19; v Bangladesh, Hamilton, March 22; v South Africa, Christchurch, March 27. The squad for the T-20I: Harmanpreet Kaur (Capt.), Smriti Mandhana (Vice-capt.), Shafali Verma, Yastika Bhatiya, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (wk), Sneh Rana, Pooja Vastrakar, Meghna Singh, Renuka Singh, Taniya Bhatia (wk), Rajeshwari Gaykwad, Poonam Yadav, Ekta Bisht, Sabbhineni Meghana and Simran Bahadur.

Geetika Kodali (Captain), Laasya  Mullapudi (Vice Captain) to lead  USA Women Under-19 Team To St. Vincent. USA Cricket are incredibly pleased to announce a historic inaugural international tour for the USA Women’s Under 19s team as they are set to travel to the Caribbean next month to play against Windward Islands U19 Women’s team in a series of four Twenty20 matches. The Windward Islands comprise the islands of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, St. Lucia and Dominica. In partnership with both the Windward Islands Cricket Board and the St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) Cricket Association, this tour is part of the wider long-term strategic partnership that USA Cricket has with Cricket West Indies (CWI), our nearest Full Member Nation of the ICC. This tour is the culmination of a huge year for the Women and Girls game in the United States, with the newly launched domestic pathway, the Sistar Mortgage Women’s National Championships (Senior Women’s and Under 19) alo...

  One of the World-leading physicist and Australian National University professor Chennupati Jagadish has been elected as the next president of the Australian Academy of Science. The nanotechnology pioneer will be the 20th president in the national science organisation's history and the first Australian of Indian heritage appointed to the coveted position by his peers. The role of academy president will have him champion the cause of scientific excellence while leading the organisation in providing advice to the Australian Parliament. He will replace biochemist and molecular biologist Professor John Shine, who has held the position since 2018. The academy's home, the Shine Dome, was renamed after the outgoing professor in 2000 in recognition of a $1 million donation he made to help restore the iconic Canberra building. Professor Jagadish takes on the role of president at the same time the academy is reporting young scientific researchers have been severely impacted by the ...

Forest fires have become a global problem, causing over 339,000 premature deaths worldwide – and threatening biodiversity by destroying animals and nature. While the world is still looking for a solution for this issue, Reshma Kosaraju’s project on the uses of AI technology to predict forest fires has won her the Children’s Climate Prize, 2021. A fifteen-year-old from Saratoga, USA, Reshma’s innovative and solution-oriented approach to forest fires, a highly topical and growing global issue, made her project stand out. The Children’s Climate Prize (CCP) was started by the Swedish company Telge Energi. It’s been given every year since 2016 to a person between the ages of 12 and 17 who has made “extraordinary efforts” to improve life on the planet for children now and in the future. This year, the prize organizers report that a record number of young people from 32 different countries were nominated for the prize. The project — AI against forest fires — can predict forest fires with a...

Every time Megha Ganne teed it up in an American Junior Golf Association event in 2021, she contended. For those in the know, it came as no surprise that she also contended in one of women’s golf biggest events – the U.S. Women’s Open. Ganne was hardly an unknown entering the year, having qualified for the Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals four times and advanced to the semifinals at the 2018 U.S. Women’s Amateur. But she took her game to a new level this season, especially on the junior circuit. She played in five events recognized by the Rolex AJGA Rankings without ever finishing outside the top four and has been named the AJGA’s Rolex Player of the Year. It’s the junior golf association’s highest honor for players. Ganne finished T3 at the Rolex Tournament of Champions and T3 at the ANNIKA Invitational early in the AJGA season. She won the Scott Robertson Memorial, a long-running junior golf event in Virginia, before making big headlines as the 17-year-old contending at the U.S...

Vishnu Manchu has defeated Prakash Raj in MAA elections 2021 by a huge margin. Actor Vishnu Manchu is the new president of the Movie Artists Association (MAA). While everyone predicted a neck-to-neck contest between Vishnu and his rival Prakash Raj, the former won the elections by a huge margin of over 107 votes Telugu news channels have noted that Vishnu’s father Mohan Babu played a huge role in the former’s victory. It is said that he took control of Vishnu’s campaign and threw his entire might behind him, leading him to a comfortable win. All the key posts in the Association won by Kamma Actors  1) President: Manchu Vishnu 2) General Secretary: Yerra RaghuBabu 3) Executive Vice President: Meka Srikanth 4) Vice Presidents: Madala Ravi 5) Maganti Benarjee  Congratulations to all our members.

Kore.ai , a no-code automation platform designed for enterprise applications, today announced that it raised $50 million in a series C round led by Vistara Growth and PNC with participation from Next Equity Partners, Nicola Wealth, and Beedie Capital, along with $20 million in debt from Sterling National Bank. The funds, which bring Kore’s total raised to over $100 million to date, will be put toward expanding the company’s workforce while developing new product features, according to co-founder and CEO Raj Koneru. In 2015,  just 10%  of organizations reported that they either already used automation technology or would be doing so in the near future. Fast forward to 2019, and that number  rose  to 37% — which means that more than one in three organizations are either using AI or have plans to do so. Indeed,  according  to a 2019 Salesforce survey, 1 in 4 sales teams currently use AI in their day-to-day work. Another source found that revenue grew by u...

The IIFL Wealth Hurun India Rich List 2021 shows that India has more than 1,000 individuals who have a net worth of  ₹ 1,000 crore or more across 119 cities. The cumulative wealth in the country has gone up by 51 per cent, while the average wealth has also increased by 25 per cent, the report by Hurun India said. 30 Kamma business and industrialists finds place in the list from AP, Tamilnadu, Karnataka and Maharashtra. 14. Murali Divi Rs76,000 crores Divis Laboratories 179. Venkateswarlu Jasti 9,600 crores Suven Pharma  190. Veeraiah Chowdary Nannapaneni 9,100 crores NATCO Laboratories  209. Chava Satyanarayana 8,400 crores Laurus Labs 264. Satya Nadella 6,200 crores Microsoft 368. Mandava PrabhakaraRao 4,300 crores Nuziveedu seeds 377. Ella KrishnaMurthy 4,100 crores Bharat Biotech 384. Doppalapudi Bhaktavatsala Rao 4000 crores Privi Speciality Chemicals 398. Galla Ramachandra Naidu  3,900 crores Amara Raja Batteries  398. Chinta VisveswaraRao 3,900 crores...

Murali Divi of Divi Labs is the richest Hyderabadi and is ranked the 14th richest person in the country with 61 per cent change in his wealth and has a wealth of Rs.79,000 crore. Divi has moved up three spots from his previous ranking of 17. His wealth has increased by 61% over a year. Laurus Labs founder CEO Chava Satyanarayana was one of those who saw the biggest rank changes in the list over the last five years by moving up to 209 position this year with a wealth of Rs 8,400 crore from 218 in 2017. Veeraiah Chowdary Chairman Natco Pharma ranks 190 in the list with a wealth of Rs.9,100 crores.   Suven Pharmaceuticals promoter Venkateswarlu Jasti & family (179)  also made it to the list of top 10 new additions on the overall 2021 rich list with a wealth of Rs 9,700

Stockholm, Sweden:   15-year-old Reshma Kosaraju from Siratoga, California - US i s applying AI in a life-saving way. She has created a model that proactively predicts forest fires using meteorological data and other parameters. Forest fires  have been increasing in frequency and intensity over the years, directly and indirectly causing over 339,000 premature deaths worldwide. They result in forest degradation as they wipe out trees and vegetation, cause soil erosion - leading to secondary disasters like mudslides - and destroy the habits of many species, thereby shrinking biodiversity. “Reshma represents the best of youth entrepreneurship: brave, innovative and solution-oriented,” says the jury. “Her model uses AI and technology in an innovative and savvy way in order to accurately predict the risk of forest fires while also accounting for the independent variables of climate, weather and human behavior.” From using AI to fight deforestation, to turning football goals into tr...

Entrepreneur Of The Year US National Award winner Raj Vattikuti | Altimet When Raj Vattikuti founded Altimetrik eight years ago, he set out to revamp the conventional approach to digital transformation. From his experience as a founder of several other companies, Vattikuti knew that consulting companies would too often identify a solution before they understood the problem. This approach wasted time and money, and it failed to deliver sustainable business outcomes. Instead, Vattikuti recognized that companies would be better off by identifying the data they needed to make more informed business decisions before deploying new technology. Following this approach has helped Altimetrik grow into a global enterprise with double-digit revenue growth; more than 2,500 employees; and offices in Canada, India, Japan, Singapore and Uruguay.   A serial entrepreneur and three-time Entrepreneur Of The Year Award regional winner, Vattikuti is also a strong believer in giving back. After tak...

Indian archer Jyothi Surekha Vennam lost a nerve-wracking final to Colombian heavyweight Sara Lopez to clinch a silver in the compound women's individual section at the World Championships on Saturday. The 25-year-old Indian was near her best and shot a perfect final end but the five-time World Cup champion Sara was superior to clinch the issue by two points (146-144). Vennam has now won five medals at the Worlds, including three silvers and two bronzes. Other than the two silvers here, she won two bronzes in 2019 (compound women's team and compound individual) and a silver in 2017 (compound women's team). Earlier on Friday, Jyothi was a member of the Indian women's and mixed pair compound archery teams which signed off with silver medals after lop-sided losses to Colombia here. India were in pursuit of their first ever gold medal at the world event. Jyothi dished out a consistent display shooting 28, 29 and 29 in her first three ends, but the Colombian top seed opened...

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This Hyderabad-based teacher Meghana Musunuri has made it to the top 50 shortlist for this year’s USD 1,000,000 Global Teacher Prize.  She teaches social studies, English and maths. Her name as a shortlist was announced on 9 September. She is an education futurist, philanthropist and an entrepreneur. She is the founder and chairperson of Fountainhead Global School & Junior College -Hyderabad ;  Founder of conservation NGO Save Water And Nature (SWAN); CEO of My Edu Guru and a lso Hyderabad Champion for Google’s Women Entrepreneurs On The Web (WEOW) working towards her mission of guiding women entrepreneurs in establishing their online presence. According to a  report , she went through multiple rounds of interviews and her work was reviewed not only in the education sector but also outside it. For instance, she said that her school has worked towards reviving the Meedi Kunta Lake and that’s a significant contribution. According to Musunuri, this prize given to teache...

India’s pharma sector, which has been in the spotlight during the pandemic, has just minted a new billionaire. Satyanarayana Chava , 60, founder and CEO of the $658 million (revenue) Laurus Labs —an integrated pharma and biotech company which makes everything from pharma ingredients to enzymes and proteins—saw his personal net worth cross $1.1 billion after shares of his company jumped this week. The stock has risen 176% in the past 12 months. Laurus Labs supplies pharma ingredients for drugs to treat HIV, cancer, asthma and diabetes. The company says that one out of three HIV-infected patients in low and middle income countries are taking meds with ingredients supplied by Laurus Labs. It has marquee clients, including some of the world’s big pharma players, who buy pharma intermediates, generics and contract manufacturing research services from Laurus. For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021, the company recorded a 70% uptick in revenue and a 286% surge in net profit to 9.8 billion r...

  Mandava Karthikeya  Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTUH), Hyderabad released the TS EAMCET 2021 exam result on August 25. Duggineni Venkata Paneesh  has secured  2nd rank in the engineering stream and Mandava Karthikeya has secured 1st rank,  Kanneganti Lasya Chowdary got 7th rank  in Telangana State EAMCET 2021  Medical stream.

Shri Harish Parvathaneni (IFS: 1990), presently Additional Secretary in the Ministry, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Federal Republic of Germany. Since joining the Indian Foreign Service in 1990, he has learnt Arabic at the American University of Cairo and passed the examination with distinction. He has served in the Indian Missions in Cairo and Riyadh and headed the Post as India's Representative to the Palestinian Authority stationed in Gaza city. He was on Secondment to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) as the Chief of the Policy Analysis Unit at UNRWA Headquarters in Gaza. He thereafter worked in the East Asia and External Publicity Divisions in the Ministry of External Affairs. For a period of five years since 2007, Mr. Harish was the Joint Secretary and Officer on Special Duty to the Hon'ble Vice President of India and Chairman of the council of States of the Indian Parliament, Mr. M. Hami...

Hyderabad-based company SAS Infra ( Dr. Gude VenkateswaraRao - Chairman, Rajkumar Kurra - Managing director )  is going to construct South India’s tallest skyscraper in the Golden Mile Layout at Kokapet. According to sources it will be a 57-storied building. The height of the skyscraper, SAS Crown will be 228 meters. Recently, Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) issued permission for the construction of the building. Telangana Real Estate Regulatory Authority has also approved it. HMDA officials saying that permission has been granted after analyzing traffic assessments. SAS Infra’s spokes person said that the construction of the building has been started and it is expected to be completed in 2025. The building will have one apartment per floor. After the completion of the construction, it will become the tallest skyscraper in South India. Currently, a 50-storied building in Bengaluru is the tallest skyscraper in South India.

Early-stage tech-focused  venture capital  fund  Inflexor Ventures  has raised Rs 600 crore towards the final close of its new fund, driven by oversubscription from homegrown institutional investors. The total fundraise has exceeded its initial target of Rs 500 crore and includes a green shoe option of Rs 100 crore, senior fund officials said. Inflexor joins a bevy of rupee funds that have raised capital from domestic investors in the recent past.  SBICAP  Ventures,  SIDBI  (from Fund of Funds for Startups), Suman Kant Munjal’s family office Survam and other family offices and ultra HNIs have also invested in the new fund. Launched in early 2020,  Inflexor Technology Fund  takes small bets on startups leveraging deeptech, technology IP, innovation in areas like AI-ML, Industry 4.0, AR, VR, Big Data, Robotics, Cybersecurity, Blockchain and SpaceTech among others, the fund said. It will look to invest in pre-Series A to Series B rounds wit...