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Hong Kong-based school chain Nord Anglia Education Inc. has entered India by acquiring People Combine Education India Initiatives Ltd's (Promoted by Tummala Naga Prasad and Yarlagadda Venkata Rajasekhar Babu ) schools under the Oakridge International brand. Nord Anglia, owned by Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and Baring Private Equity Asia, has acquired five Oakbridge K-12 schools for kindergarten to grade 12 students. The five schools are located in Hyderabad, Vishakhapatnam, Bengaluru and Mohali, and have a total of 7,000 students, People Combine said in a statement. The deal will allow Oakbridge International schools to expand their offering, People Combine group chairman Tummala Naga Prasad said. The companies did not disclose financial details but a person familiar with the transaction said that the deal size is likely to be around $200 million (Rs 1,400 crore). The deal comes less than a year after VCCircle reported in May 2018 that Peo...

LINSTEAD, St Catherine: Jamaica Ten citizens who have given decades of service to the development of the Linstead community in St Catherine were honoured for their outstanding contributions on Sunday as the community recognised them at a Black History Month celebration. The event, which featured tributes, speeches, and cultural presentations, was held at the Rose Duncan Park. Hosted by GI-DI-HAN Entertainment, in association with the Linstead Community Development Community (CDC), more than 50 sponsors from the community lent their support to a well-attended celebration.  The 10 honourees – Hopeton Henry, Linval Tennant, Leghon Coghiel, Herbert Garriques, Donovan Stanbury, Ruby Tenn, Wesley Scott, Dr Kotalah Katragadda , Sylvester Hunt, and Thelma Johnson – have given yeoman service in education, music, politics, banking, community service, medicine, and culture and still continue to serve their communities. DR KOTAIAH Katragadda ’s passion for the profession...

Esha Chandra Kode   (16) from New Jersey won the Miss Teen India USA 2019 crown out of 75 finalists from all over the United States. The annual pageant also celebrated the thirty seventh anniversary of Miss India USA. Her parents Samatha and Sreenivas are migrated to USA from Vijayawada.  Started by the New York-based community leaders Dharmatma Saran and Neelam Saran, under the banner of the India Festival Committee, 35 years ago, Miss India USA is the longest running Indian pageant outside India. The committee has been conducting the Miss Teen India USA pageant since 2012 and the Mrs. India USA contest since 2013. Eash Kode will now participate in the India Worldwide pageant to be held in Mumbai in 2020.

Indian-born entrepreneurs have made a vacant cinema in Basel the first Bollywood film palace in Switzerland. Some of the films even run earlier than in India. Bollywood on the Rhine knee: Innovative women have awakened a vacant cinema in the inner city for years from the slumber. Like the bz Basel reported that opened Studio Central last weekend its doors again to the public. Yashonda Thotakura, Sunanda Boppana and Supriya Karanam also operate a film distribution company specializing in Bollywood productions, which brings Indian productions to cinemas across Switzerland. "We then came across the opportunity to rent the Studio Central," says Yashonda Thotakura. However, as far as the culinary offer or the furnishings are concerned, the Studio Central differs from a conventional cinema: not least because the cinema is a listed building. Again, there are popcorn and coke at the bar. Indian cinema for all   The films and the cinema should be made available...

The Padma awardees for the year were announced on Friday, the eve of India's 70th Republic Day. In sports category Dronavalli Harika (Chess) and Achanta Sharath Kamal (Table Tennis), Yadlapalli VenkateswaraRao ( Agriculture ) R.Venkataswamy ( Medicine )  selected for " Padma shri " award. Harika, who is the second Indian woman to win the Grandmaster title, is another Padma Shri awardee from AP. She started playing chess at the age of eight and made it as her career. Harika’s father is her first guru. She won the U14 World Youth Chess Championship at the age of 13, the U18 at 15, the U20 World Junior title at 17 and figured among the world top 10 when she was just 19. She represented India at Olympiad at the age of 13 in 2004. In the Women’s World Chess Championship in 2010, Harika made it to the quarterfinals. Harika was born on January 12, 1991 in Guntur. She won three bronze medals in the Women’s World Chess Championship in 2012, 2015 and 2017. She was honour...

The 7th annual ‘Miss India New England’ 2019 held on January 19th 2019 was a unique pageant experience and talent show and a celebration of Indian heritage in vibrant way. It is truly a platform where both traditional and modern elements of Indian society are blended.  The girls/women of Indian origin who belong to Massachusetts, Rhode Island, or New Hampshire had competed in four rounds of contest- Evening Gown, Ethnic Dress, Talent &On-stage Question. Three categories of  contestants were present -Miss India, Miss Teen or Mrs India. Pageant crown winners of Miss India New England 2019 is Sivani Jonnalagadda; Miss India Teen New England 2019 is Mihika Abraham; Mrs India New England 2019 is Deepa Jayavelu. Crown sponsors are  Tewarie Enterprises. Pageant is directed and produced by Ruchika Arora who is also state director of Miss India USA. Pageant training was sponsored by Manish Arora of IM Wireless. The Miss India New England pageant is designed to identify and...

Guna Sekhar Muppuri The three were among the 28 personalities and two organisations in the Indian diaspora that were honoured for their contributions and achievements in various fields.   This year, India's Ministry of External Affairs announced that it had decided to honour over 30 Indians living abroad. The award is the highest honour given to Indians living abroad. According to a list provided by the external affairs ministry, the awards were conferred in the fields of social, community and public service; business management; entrepreneurship; chartered accountancy; training and simulation; science; medical science; engineering; technology; architecture; academics; arts, and diplomacy. Among the 30 awardees are  Entrepreneurship - Jagdeshwar Rao Maddukuri (Poland), Medical science - Guna Sekhar Muppuri (Jamaica), Technology - Pamidimukkala Venkata SambasivaRao (Kenya). Proud to say that all the above three are Kammas