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  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