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NEW DELHI: Reliance Industries inducted its senior executive Panda MS Prasad on its board as Executive Director. The board of directors of the company have approved the appointment of Prasad as executive director on the board with immediate effect, the company said in a statement to the Bombay Stock Exchange. With the appointments, the RIL board will expand to 14 with seven members being independent directors, it added. Prasad, a leading energy industry professional, has been with RIL for over 28 years and heads the upstream and refining businesses. He was also the project head of the Jamnagar refinery and petrochemical complex.

Jwala Gutta was a bundle of nerves on Sunday morning, as she did not want to be second time unlucky. She and her partner, V Diju, had come close to bagging a Grand Prix gold title in April but faltered at the final hurdle. That loss taught them the virtue of patience. Their willingness to wait for the right opportunity before going for the kill helped create history in Chinese Taipei. The world No 7 pair beat Indonesia's Hendra Gunawan and Vita Marrisa 23-21, 21-18 in the final to become the first Indian doubles combination to win a tournament of this stature. Saina Nehwal had won the women's singles title of the same tournament last year. Jwala-Diju began with a bang, racing to a 15-7 lead, but the Indonesians clawed back and made the Indians save a game point before losing the opening game. Marrisa and Gunawan took the early lead in the second but then ran out of steam after some long rallies. "Unlike the India Open, we were very patient today and that made th...

New Delhi, Aug 28 Indian shuttler Jwala Gutta paired up with V Diju and Ashwini Popanna to enter quarterfinals of mixed and women's doubles events respectively in the Chinese Taipei Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament today. Third seed Jwala-Diju beat local pair Hong-Ling Chen and Pie Chen Hsien 25-23 21-15 to set up a quarterfinal clash with Korean qualifiers Baek Cheol Shin and Hyun Young Yoo tomorrow. Jwala notched up a double delight as she partnered Ashwini to defeat eighth seed Malaysian pair of Nairul Suhada Abdul Latif and Amelia Alicia Anscelly 21-15 21-15. Jwala Gutta hopes that she and her mixed doubles partner V.Diju will be among the top five in the world badminton rankings by the year end.

4G Identity Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (4G ID) (Sreenivas Tripuraneni, Chairman & CEO) has been awarded the contract for the world’s largest iris recognition identity management application and data de-duplication processing. The state government of Andhra Pradesh, India awarded the 90 million person ID management contract to 4G ID after a stringent technical evaluation process through global competitive bidding. The value of the base contract is in excess of US$6 million. The contract calls for the consolidation and de-duplication of existing database of 82 million citizen demographic details with iris codes of 56 million citizens. These people were enrolled in separate regional databases over the last four years. Due to the limitations of the original enrollment application, the databases could not be consolidated, nor could they be checked for fraud resulting from duplicate enrollments. 4G ID will be responsible for performing over 6.26 quadrillion (6,262,668,889,152,840) iris mat...

Rajiv Tarigopula (Son of physicians Choudary Tarigopula and Sumitra Vasireddy) outperforms 87 other vocabulary scholars, winning $5,000 toward a higher education savings plan and qualifying to compete in the National Vocabulary Championship Finals in Los Angeles is the only Indian American boy. Rajiv Tarigopula, a 15-year-oldsophomore at Parkway West High School in Ballwin outperformed 87 otherlocal high school vocabulary scholars tonight, winning the NVC St. Louis Citywide Championship. As the local champion, Tarigopula earned $5,000 toward a "529" higher education savings plan and qualifies compete in the "National Vocabulary Championship" Finals in Los Angeles. The National Vocabulary Championship is a national academic competition conceived by GSN (Game Show Network) and its educational partner, The Princeton Review. The competition goes beyond traditional 'spelling bees' to test word definitions and overall word comprehension while providing college...

Hyderabad: Mixed doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and V Diju became the first Indians to enter the quarterfinals of World Badminton Championship. Jwala and Diju, who got a bye in the first round followed by a walkover in the second, opened their campaign in rollicking style, outclassing 12th seed polish duo of Robert Mateusiak and Nadiezda Kostiuczyk 21-11 22-20 in a 31-minute clash. The World number eight pair didn't allow their Polish rivals to recover from their initial onslaught and pocketed the first game without any hassle. "I think this two extra days helped us. We had played against them four years ago in the Sudirman cup. I was unwell and we lost that match but today we were confident. They were under pressure with the crowd cheering for us," Jwala said. The world number eight Indian pair will face defending champions and second seed Nova Widianto and Liliyana Natsir of Indonesia in the quarterfinal on Friday.

Indian air force Gallantry Award winners 2009 Ati Vishist Seva Medal: Air Cmde. Gudipudi Rajendra Prasad Vayu Sena Medal (Devotion to Duty): Wg Cdr. Venigalla Srinivas Chowdary Vishist Seva Medal: Wg Cdr. Cherukuri Venkata Ranga Rama Sudhir Award for 2008: Vishist Seva Medal: Wg Cdr. Jonnalagadda Rajendra