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Pratima Yarlagadda Date of Birth 6 October 1981, Manhattan, Kansas, USA Growing up in a small Amish town in the heart of the Midwest, Pratima Anae´ got her start in the entertainment industry when she was crowned Miss Indiana USA. Pratima went on to make Miss Universe history when she placed in the top six at Miss USA, making her the first woman of East Indian descent to place in the top ten. Her accomplishments were featured in such publications as India Today recognizing her as a forthcoming East Indian presence in the entertainment industry. After moving to New York City Pratima signed with internationally renowned Ford Models. Her work has been featured in such publications as Vogue Italia, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and Town and Country among others. Pratima currently resides in Los Angeles. Where she is represented by Ford Models, Innovative Artists, and JKA. Her Film and TV credits include appearances in “How To Seduce DifficultWomen”, “MyBrother”, “Beautiful”, “All My Children”, an...

HYDERABAD 29 March: Endorsing the criticism that the Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC), the nodal agency for creation of infrastructure in the state, has been unduly benefiting certain units by allotting land at less than normal prices, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has charged the corporation with unduly favouring certain allottees and causing a loss of Rs 304.52 crore to the state exchequer. According to the CAG report which was tabled in the Assembly on Friday, most of the beneficiaries were from the IT sector. The 11 cases that were pointed out by the report include industry majors like Microsoft, Amazon and Kanbay apart from IT infrastructure developers including Indu Tech Zone, Brahmani Infra Tech, Stargage Properties and Divyasree Holdings. The list also includes Ananth Technologies, Hyderabad Gems SEZ, Visual Soft and Tourism Department of Andhra Pradesh. Apart from these 11 companies, the report has also found deviations in allotment to V...

Hyderabad-based Solar Semiconductor Private Limited (SSPL), (Hari Surapaneni, President & CEO) a rapidly growing producer of photovoltaic (PV) modules, has entered into a partnership with IBC Solar AG of Germany for supply of its products worth $575 million (Rs 2,300 crore) over a period of next three years. IBC is a distributor and systems integrator of solar PV products in Europe. Following this partnership, SSPL is expecting to post a turnover of $300 million (Rs 1,200 crore) in the financial year ending December 2008. SSPL had started commercial operations in September 2007 and did a business of $10 million (Rs 40 crore) during the four-month operations last year. At present, the company’s order book position is full for the next three years, SSPL chief executive officer and president, Hari R Surapaneni, said. IBC has been growing rapidly in the recent years and needs a stable supplier of high-quality modules. “In Solar Semiconductor, we have found a strong partner willin...

MIC Electronics,(Dr.M.V.Rama Rao, MD&CEO) a player in Light Emitting Diode (LED) display systems has received an order and license from Delhi Metro Rail Corporation for installation and maintenance of 25 full colour day and night LED Video display boards at 8 metro stations of line-3. The installation is worth Rs 45 crore and will be implemented over the next six months. These LED displays will be networked and controlled from a single location and are first of its kind for Indian Railways. The company also announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Maave Electronics has received orders from different zonal divisions of Indian Railways along with the coach factories for the supply of approximately 20,000 coach emergency LED lamps worth over Rs 8 crore. Also, MIC Electronics, US based wholly-owned subsidiary and LEDSTAR of Canada have entered into a strategic partnership to deploy Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and LED single / full colour Variable Message Signs (VMS). Th...

Hyderabad, March 24: Suven Life Sciences Ltd has been granted two product patents in Eurasia for its New Chemical Entities (NCEs) for the treatment of disorders associated with neurodegenerative diseases. The patents (nos. 009193 and 009367) are valid till 2023 in all contracting countries such as Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. “We are very pleased by the grant of these patents to Suven for our drug candidates that are being developed for CNS disorders, which target an $18 billion potential market opportunity globally,” Mr Venkat Jasti, Chief Executive Officer of Hyderabad-based Suven Life Sciences, said in a release. Products out of these inventions, which were in pre-clinical development, may be out-licensed at the stage of clinical phase-I or phase-II stage. The granted claims of the patents include the class of selective 5-HT compounds discovered by Suven and are being developed as therapeutic agents. They would b...

An AP born Kamma heart specialist has been honoured by the Tampa Bay Business Journal in Florida. Dr Rao Musunuru, a Florida cardiologist, was honoured by the journal as a 'Healthcare Hero' and conferred with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his 26 years of service in cardiology, community education, charity and advocacy. His work has helped make the Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point in Hudson, Florida, as one of the major heart hospitals in the United States. He played a major role in the campaign regarding passage of anti-tobacco legislation last year. Dr. Musunuru served as the board secretary for the Floridians for Youth Tobacco Education, a coalition of the American Heart Association, American Cancer Society and American Lung Association, which waged the anti-tobacco drive. Following the legislation, Governor Charlie Crist of Florida allocated 50 million dollar to the campaign last year. The Governor then honoured Dr Musunuru with an 'Excellence in Caring and Shari...

Naturol Bio-Energy Ltd (Bhaskar Chalasani, Managing Director)is getting set for commercial production by April 2008. The company started trial runs a few months ago with 2,500 tonnes of imported crude palmolein. It is expecting another shipment of 3,000 tonnes of crude palmolein from Malaysia in two to three weeks. According to sources, the company has made all arrangements to export bio-diesel products to US and Europe-based multinational companies. The plant, built at a cost of Rs 140 crore, will have an annual capacity of over 100,000 tonne of bio-diesel products. The unit is expected to generate direct employment for 120 people. The jatropha plantation, being raised in the factory premises, may take another two or three years to be ready for production of bio-diesel. Meanwhile, crude oil will be used as raw material and agreements have been signed with Malaysian companies for import of palmolein, sources added. Naturol Bio has plans to promote jatropha cultivation on 200,000 acres....