Kammas World

World No.4 Koneru Humpy   p ulled off a great win with an unusual opening move with black and rounded off a very successful tournament with a share of the first place at the FIDE Women Grand Prix Chess. She was tied at 7.5 points with the higher rated  Anna  Muzychuk of Slovakia. The Grand Prix Chess 2011-12 is a series of six tournaments and the Kazan event was the fourth. World champion Hou Yifan won the first two and then another Chinese player, Zhao Xue won the third. After the fourth Grand Prix in Kazan, the last two are in Jermuk, Armenia and Istanbul, Turkey. Humpy was sixth in the first event in Rostov, Russia and did not play in Shenzhen, China and Nalchik, Russia. Humpy, who had a share of the lead with two others after the penultimate round, beat Alisa Galliamova in the final round, while co-leader  Anna Muzychuk beat Nadezhda Kosintseva. Humpy and Muzychuk were the only unbeaten players in t...

HYDERABAD: Vaccine manufacturer Bharat Biotech (Dr. Krishna Ella, Chairman and Managing  Director) and The University of Maryland Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) have received $ 4 million from The Wellcome Trust for clinical development of a new conjugate vaccine for treating an infectious disease. The Trust will also fund clinical trials beginning in three years to prevent the potentially lethal infectious disease caused by invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS). This strain is most common in the sub Saharan African regions among malnourished children. About 20-30% of the children are known to die because of this infectious disease each year. "The impact, importance of academic and industry partnership is far reaching," Dr. Krishna Ella, chairman and managing director, Bharat Biotech said. "The CVD NTS project is a testimony of our belief in collaborative research and our commitment to introduce highly effective and affordable vaccines to solve re...

Miss New York 2012 on Saturday night held in the St. George Theatre in Staten Island, N.Y., was co-hosted by Claire Buffie, Miss New York 2010, and Hunt Ethridge, a Mr. New York 2011 finalist. Miss Greater Rochester Nina Davuluri, emerged second runner up. Nina Davuluri, who emerged first runner-up in the `Miss America's Outstanding Teen' 2007 contest. She was Miss Michigan's Outstanding Teen 2006 winner. She is ther younger daughter of NRI couple Davuluri Chowdary and Sheila Ranjani from Vijayawada.

Fourth-grader Ashrita Vadlapatla is Cumberland County's top speller, advances to Scripps National Spelling Bee 2012. 8-year-old Ashrita Vadlapatla of Renaissance Classical Christian Academy outlasted 10-year-old Hahn Lheem of Stoney Point Elementary. The pair battled for 81 out of the bee's 93 rounds. The other 10 competitors - all of them the winners of district-level bees - dropped out by misspelling words in the first 12 rounds. She is the youngest spellers competed in the event, is a fourth-grader at Renaissance Classical Christian Academy in Fayetteville, North Carolina

The new women's hostel has been named after Muthavarapu Swarna Devi, who donated the highest amount. A hostel for degree girl students and working women built by the Kamma Vidyardhi Sahaya Sangham in Journalist Colony a stone's throw away from Siddhartha Arts and Science College was inaugurated by office-bearers of the association, on Thursday. The hostel has been named after Muthavarapu Swarna Devi, who donated the highest amount for the hostel. Her son Muthvarapu Murali Krishna and daughter-in-law performed the house-warming ceremony . Addressing a press conference after the puja office-bearers Nalluri Venkateswarlu, Parvataneni Prabhas and vice-president Yalamanchili Gauranga Babu said that the primary objective of the hostel was to provide free accommodation and subsidised foods to economically backward students of the community. They said that the Rs.1.15 crore required for construction and furnishing of the hostel was donated by members of the association. Som...

ఈ రోజు వెల్లడైన అసెంబ్లీ ఉప ఎన్నికల ఫలితాల్లో తీవ్రంగా దెబ్బతిన్న పార్టీ 'కాంగ్రెస్' పార్టీనే! కాంగ్రెస్ పార్టీలో ప్రజారాజ్యం పార్టీ విలీనం అయిన తరువాత కోస్తా, రాయలసీమ ప్రాంతాల్లో జరిగిన ఉప ఎన్నికల్లో ఈ దారుణ పరాజయం 'చిరంజీవి'కి, కిరణ్ కుమార్ రెడ్డికి, బొత్స సత్యనారాయణ కు వ్యక్తిగతంగా పెద్ద దెబ్బగా పేర్కొనవచ్చు. తెలుగుదేశం పార్టీ బలమైన అభ్యర్ధులను నిలబెట్టిన పక్షంలో 'నర్సాపురం', రామచంద్రాపురం స్థానాల్లో కూడా కాంగ్రెస్ పార్టీ ఓడిపోయేదే! ధన బలం, అధికార బలం ప్రదర్శించినా కాని, కాంగ్రెస్ పార్టీకి ప్రత్తిపాడు, మాచెర్ల, ఒంగోలు, అనంతపురం, పోలవరం, రాయచోటి, పరకాల నియోజక వర్గాలలో డిపాజిట్లు కూడా దక్కలేదు. గతంలో గెలిచిన స్థానాల్లో ఇన్ని చోట్ల డిపాజిట్లు కోల్పోవటంలో కాంగ్రెస్ పార్టీ, ముఖ్యమంత్రి కిరణ్ కుమార్ రెడ్డి ఒక రకంగా ఇంతవరకు ఏ పార్టీ, ముఖ్యమంత్రి సాధించని 'చెత్త రికార్డ్' సృష్టించారు. కాంగ్రెస్ పార్టీ అభ్యర్ధులు కనీసం కొంత వరకు పోటి ఇవ్వగలిగినా తెలుగుదేశం పార్టీ ప్రత్తిపాడు, మాచెర్ల, పాయకరావుపేట, ఎమ్మిగనూరు స్థానాల్లో విజయం సాధించి ఉండేది. రెడ్డి సా...

Inampudi Chaitanya topped the country by securing first rank i n OC category in AIEEE, B. Arch stream, while Mandava Srinath seventh rank.