Kammas World

HYDERABAD: Mandava Divija of Hyderabad won the girls singles title in an ITF tennis tournament in Sri Lanka on Friday, according to reports received here on Sunday. She defeated Roshenka Fernando of Sri Lanka 6-2, 6-1 in the first round, then Namitcha of Thailand 6-0, 6-1 in the second round, Tarvanam Honda of Indonesia 6-2, 6-1 in the quarterfinals and Chinkischa of Thailand 2-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the semifinals before getting the better of Amrutha Muthaiah of Sri Lanka 6-1, 6-3 in the final.

G. D. Naidu (Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu) who is sometimes referred as the “Edison of India.His contribution spans the fields of electrical, mechanical, agricultural (Hybrid cultivation) and automobile engineering . Mostly at an Industrial level than the Academia. If there is one name that best symbolises Coimbatore’s spirit of entrepreneurship, it is that of G D Naidu. Born on March 23rd, 1893, in Kalangal near Coimbatore, this school dropout began his Transport business in 1920, with the purchase of a passenger auto-coach, which he himself drove for the service between Pollachi and Palani. In a matter of a few years, his United Motor Service (UMS) owned the most efficient fleet of public transport vehicles in the country. In 1937, the first motor to be produced in India, was brought out at G D Naidu’s UMS factory. As an inventor, G D Naidu was one-of-a-kind in the country. He invented an Electric Razor – Rasant, that gave users far more shaves than other existing options in...

Bollini Munuswamy Naidu (b. 1885 - d. 1935) was the Chief Minister of Madras Presidency from October 27, 1930 to November 4, 1932. Munuswamy Naidu was born in Velanjeri near Tiruttani of Tamilnadu  in 1885 in a family of agriculturists. He studied law and worked as a lawyer and businessman. He was one of the early members of the Justice Party. On the death of the Raja of Panagal in 1928, Munuswamy Naidu was appointed President of the Justice Party. Munuswamy Naidu served as the President of the Justice Party from 1928 to 1932. Under his leadership, the Justice Party won the 1930 Madras Assembly elections and Munuswamy Naidu served as Chief Minister or Premier from 1930 to 1932. During Naidu's tenure, Madras was engulfed in a financial crisis arising out of the Great Depression. His tenure is also remembered for his clash with zamindars and his rivalry with the Raja of Bobbili. Naidu resigned in 1932 sensing serious opposition in party ranks. He lost the leadership of t...

14 Islands, 14 Filmmakers, 14 Days, £14,000 prize: the hunt for new British filmmakers begins. Golden Globe-nominated director Bharat Nalluri today launches a nationwide search to find the UK’s most talented professional or aspiring filmmakers, in a campaign to support the home-grown talent of Britain’s film industry. The 14 Islands Film Challenge will give 14 filmmakers a once in a lifetime opportunity to spend two weeks filming on an idyllic island in The Bahamas and use the challenge as a launch pad for their careers. Supported by the National Film and Television School (NFTS) and The Bahamas Tourist Office, the challenge seeks to engage with up and coming or professional filmmakers and give them the chance to compete for a £14,000 cash prize and state-of-the-art camera equipment. This is combined with the opportunity to draw on scenery which has been the backdrop of many iconic films including; Pirates of the Caribbean, Casino Royale and The Silence of the Lambs. Nalluri, whose ri...

Apex Agro Food Products Private Limited, a subsidiary of Apex Encon Projects, would spend Rs 150 crore over the next 4-5 years for setting up food processing units, cold storage plants and other infrastructure across the country. “We expect our food division to account for a Rs 500 crore turnover by 2014-2015 and, accordingly, we will invest Rs 150 crore in next 4-5 years in this sector,” Rama Rao Nekkanti, Chairman, Apex Encon Projects, told. The company is setting up a food processing unit at Saluru in Srikakulam district. The unit will have a 15,000- tonne capacity cold storage plant to be built with an outlay of Rs 25 crore and will commence operations by next March, he said. Among others, Apex Agro has bought two old units – one each at Hyderabad and Ahmadnagar in Maharashtra. The company plans to spend Rs 40-50 crore on both these units. It is also proposing to set up nearly 60 agricultural products collection centres across the country for its proposed food processing units. “W...

He owns land eight times the size of Mumbai, 7.4 lakh acres to be precise. He claims to be the world's largest holder of greenhouse assets (750 acres) and the world's largest landbank holder . His company, Karuturi Global, figures among the top 25 agri transnational corporations. But he wants more — to break into the top 10 and rub shoulders with the likes of ConAgro and Cargill. Meet Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi whose improbable journey has taken him, at 43, from a family-run cable business in Bangalore to being one of the biggest landowners in the world. No mean achievement for a boy who was thrown out of six schools before landing on his feet at Mysore's Sri Rama Krishna Vidyashala. He's forever indebted to the institute's Swami Sureshanandaji and to his parents who refused to give up on a "difficult child." Karuturi, the 'rose king of the world', with an annual capacity of 550 million roses and a 9 per cent share of the crucial European market, ...

Rockefeller scientist Postdoctoral Fellow Sreekanth H. Chalasani — have been named finalists in the third annual Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists competition. Established by the New York Academy of Sciences and the Blavatnik Charitable Foundation to recognize the contributions of young scientists and engineers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, the program awards finalists with grants between $5,000 and $10,000. The winners in each category, to be announced in November, will receive an additional $10,000 to $15,000 respectively. Chalasani, who received his Ph.D. in biology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2003, joined the UC San Francisco laboratory of Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Cori Bargmann as a postdoctoral fellow that year, and moved with Bargmann to Rockefeller University in 2004. His research focuses on how the C. elegans nervous system responds to changes in the environment by generating behaviors that last several minutes. Chalasani has also ...