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TUSCALOOSA University of Alabama junior Saketh Myneni was named the Southeast Region Player to Watch by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. Myneni and the other seven region winners form the pool from which the ITA National Player to Watch will be selected. That award will be announced later this month . “This is another great honor for Saketh,” head coach Billy Pate said. “Undoubtedly, he is still improving and getting better each day, so it’s very appropriate he is recognized as a player who could break through even more next year.” Myneni is an All-SEC First Team selection finishing the regular dual-match season with a singles record of 15-7 and 17-8 mark in doubles. He is ranked 22nd in the nation in singles and reached as high as No. 14 on the doubles charts with senior partner Billy Mertz. Myneni has defeated 10 nationally ranked opponents this season, including three in the top 10. Fourteen of his 15 dual-match wins have come in straight sets. “Winning the award for our re...

Madhu Koneru is building a road to the future that will bring together the financial heft of the Middle East, the technological know-how of a rising India and the vast natural resources of emerging Indonesia. The $800 million infrastructure project his company, RAK Minerals & Metals Investments, is undertaking in Kalimantan will provide better access to the rich coal deposits there and create new opportunities and thousands of jobs. The project includes a 135-kilometer rail line, a road and a coal terminal. The next stage of the project will include a $3 billion smelter and 1,400-megawatt power plant, which Koneru said would create 3,000 new jobs in the future. “This is not rocket science,” he said. “We are developing traditional infrastructure that creates employment and industrial growth using Indonesian coal as the base.” RMMI, a joint venture between India’s Trimex Group and the United Arab Emirates, has been working on the railway project for the past two years and expects to...

The SMTA and Chip Scale Review announce that Professor Rao Tummala will be the keynote speaker at the 6th Annual International Wafer-Level Packaging Conference being held October 27-30, 2009 at the Santa Clara Marriott Hotel in Santa Clara, California . Prof. Rao Tummala is a Distinguished and Endowed Chair Professor, and Founding Director of NSF ERC at Georgia Tech, the largest Academic Center in Microsystems pioneering System-On-Package (SOP) vision, since 1994. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he was an IBM Fellow, pioneering such major technologies as the first plasma flat panel display based on gas discharge, the first and next three generations of multichip packaging based on 35-layer alumina and 61-layer LTCC with copper and copper-polymer thin film, and materials for ink-jet printing and magnetic storage. Prof. Tummala has published 426 technical papers, holds 74 patents and inventions; authored the first modem packaging reference book-Microelectronics Packaging Handbook (Van Nos...

A Meka Dredging – Amma Lines Joint Venture (JV) (Meka Vijay Papa Rao - Chairman, Meka Group and Amma lines) was recently awarded the annual maintanence dredging contract at Cochin Shipyard Ltd, Kochi from 2009 – 2012. The shipyard, which is currently building India’s indigenous aircraft carrier, awarded the consortium the contract after a tender process which involved several dredging contractors participating. “It is a very prestigious project especially with the construction of the first indigenous Aircraft carrier being constructed at CSL, which is close to every Indian’s heart”, says Dr Meka Vijay Paparao, Chairman of the Meka Group.

Coimbatore, May 18 For Mr G.K. Sundaram (affectionately known as GKS among friends and admirers), May 17 was no different from others though it happened to be his last. The 96-year-old doyen of the Indian textile industry performed his usual chores, had lunch with grand children, played bridge at the Cosmopolitan Club before returning home for dinner. Around 10 p.m., he is said to have complained of discomfort and was taken to a private hospital, where he breathed his last. “He has led a historic life. He was a great visionary and a perfect and righteous person. He had, over the last couple of years, become very affectionate towards his grandchildren (three grandsons and a granddaughter), always challenging them with his thoughts. He used to discuss Vedanta with his daughter, and talk about the sugar industry and politics with me,” says Ms Rajshree Pathy, Managing Director of Rajshree Sugars, fondly remembering her nonagenarian father-in-law. Mr Sundaram, Chairman and Managing Director...

Navayuga Engineering Company (NEC), (Chinta Visveswara Rao, chairman and Managing Director) the Abu Dhabi-based infrastructure development and construction company, has completed the Khor Fakkan Port Expansion Project for Berth 6, contracted from Athena SA, as per schedule. The complex work involved the installation of bored pile foundation with piles extending to depths of up to 25 metres in deep sea. The successful on-schedule completion of the project marks NEC's competencies in undertaking marine projects that involve deep-sea backfilling work. With a successful track-record of on-schedule delivery of mega infrastructure projects in the UAE, Navayuga is on the road to attain its growth targets set for the year, said Mr Antony A David, General Manager, NEC. 'When we commenced operations in the UAE last year, our goal was to highlight our strengths in complex infrastructure projects. The Khor Fakkan Port Expansion Project is a testament to our capabilities, and we will lev...

Mr. Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi, Managing Director of Karuturi Global Ltd was invited to join the inaugural class of Frontier 100, an initiative of IGD, Initiative for Global Development. Frontier 100, identifies promising CEOs in developing countries and creates opportunities for these leaders and global CEOs to exchange knowledge, develop business and collaborate in global leadership. IGD is a national alliance of U.S business leaders that works to promote global poverty reduction through national policy advocacy and through its Programs for Enterprise Growth, which advance private sector solutions to expand economic growth in poor countries like Africa. Mr. Karuturi is selected as one of the top 20 CEO of the African region to take part in this inaugural session of Fortune 100 for his efforts in alleviation of poverty through the agri initiative in Kenya and Ethiopia. Ethiopian Meadows PLC an 100% subsidiary of Karuturi Global Ltd was allotted 8,50,000 acres of land by the Ethiopian g...