Kammas World

Nilesh Tripuraneni , a senior at Clovis West High School, is one of 40 finalists in a competition featuring the country’s most promising high school scientists. Nilesh figured he hadn’t been selected after science-whiz buddies in other parts of the country contacted him Tuesday night and said they were finalists. But plans had been in the works all week to surprise him at school. Officials from Intel Corp. showed up at the calculus class where Nilesh is a teacher’s assistant. They announced he had won a $5,000 scholarship and was a finalist in the Intel Science Talent Search. “It’s pretty cool. It’s a pretty prestigious competition,” said Nilesh, 18. Nilesh’s mom, Indira Tripuraneni, said her son tried to hide his disappointment Tuesday night, but she knew he was bothered: “He’s been wanting this his entire school career.” He will travel to Washington, D.C., in March to compete against other finalists for the top prize of $100,000. The students will display their projects at the Nation...

Washington, Jan 14: The Washington Post Tuesday named two managing editors, one of them a person of Indian origin and the other the first woman to hold that title in the paper's history to speed up the merger of the company's print and online newsrooms. Raju Narisetti, (Kamma guy from Ponnuru, Guntur dist- AP) a former deputy managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, will oversee the paper's style and other feature sections. He becomes the second person of Indian origin to take up a leadership position in a major US daily. Narisetti, 42, launched a national business newspaper in India in 2007. The Indian-American worked with Brauchli in several roles at the Journal, the newspaper where Brauchli was the top editor until owner Rupert Murdoch helped pressure him into leaving last spring. Narisetti, he said, 'is quite a visionary in journalistic terms. He understands where the media is going. The combination of these two should prove very strong for The Post in the near ...

Lakshmi Kanta Tummala of Flint is serving this year as president of the Michigan State Medical Society (MSMS) Alliance. She will serve a one-year term overseeing the activities of the 1,200-member organization that focuses on public health issues and supports activities of the state medical society. Recent projects of the MSMS Alliance, an organization of physician spouses founded in 1926, include educational programs on domestic violence and bullying in schools. The Alliance also works to support health care legislation in the state including smoke-free air, physical education in schools, tanning salon regulation, defeat of chiropractic scope expansion bills and preserving tort reforms. This year, the MSMS Alliance is working to educate the public about alcohol and drug abuse in children, childhood obesity and heart disease in women. Lakshmi's husband, Jawahar Tummala, MD , is an internist and pediatrician in Flint. Married for 39 years, the Tummalas came to Flint in 1971 and hav...

Hyderabad-based Pragati Offset Pvt. Ltd., (Narendra Paruchuri CEO) India's leading printer, has earned the distinction of being honoured as world's number one printer for the second time when the company was conferred the prestigious "SAPPI International Printer of the Year 2008" award. It was in 2006 that Pragati created history by being the first printing company from India as well as from the entire Asian, Australian and South/Central American region to ever win this award, which had so far gone only to printers from North America, Europe and South Africa. At a function held recently in Cape Town, South Africa, Mr. Narendra Paruchuri, CEO of Pragati Offset received the award for Pragati's own 2008 calendar. The calendar was printed on SAPPI Magno paper, with multiple 3-dimensional embossing, foiling with overprinting, gloss, textured and glitter UV varnishes and new technologies such as holographic UV coatings. The jury's comments in judging the calendar w...

‘Yuvagarjana’s Grand Success Is An Indication That The All-Powerful Kamma Lobby Is Set To Sail With TDP News published inTimes of India Hyderabad/Guntur: It appears that the massive success of TDP’s Yuvagarjana is all set to redraw the battle lines — mainly on caste basis — in the coastal region ahead of the 2009 elections. “Though there were people from other communities also at the meeting, it was mainly the convergence of Kammas which clinched the issue in favour of the TDP and made the meeting a largely successful affair,” admitted a BC leader of the party. He said the traffic on the national highway held up for over 12 hours was in itself a resounding indication of the Yuvagarjana success. But what made the Yuvagarjana special this time round when compared to NTR’s ‘Simhagarjana’ of 1994? Sources told TOI that the Kamma brigade, especially the youth, played a crucial role in mobilising the crowds to the Yuvagarjana meeting. “Without their enthusiasm, the ground opposite the ...

దగ్గుబాటి పురందరేశ్వరి రాజకీయ 'శిఖండి' పాత్రను చాలా చక్కగా పోషిస్తున్నారు. పదవుల కోసం, స్వలాభం కోసం ఎంతకైనా తెగిస్తానని రుజువు చేసుకున్నారు. తాజాగా తన సోదరులైన బాలకృష్ణ, హరికృష్ణ మొదలైన నందమూరి వారసులను హెచ్చరిస్తూ చంద్రబాబు నాయుడుకు వ్యతిరేకంగా తీవ్రమైన ఆరోపణలు చేస్తూ పత్రికలకు పంపిన బహింరంగ లేఖతో ఆమె తన నీచమైన నైజాన్ని బయటపెట్టుకుంది. తన సోదరులకు చంద్రబాబు నాయుడు గురించి నిజంగా ఏవైనా జాగ్రత్తలు చెప్పవలసి వస్తే వాళ్ళను తన ఇంటికి పిలిపించుకుని చెప్పవచ్చు లేదా ఫోన్ చేసి చెప్పవచ్చు కాని ఈ ఆ విషయాలని పత్రకలద్వారా బహిరంగ పరచిందంటే ఆమె చర్యల వెనుక ఎవరున్నారో, ఆమె చర్యల వెనుక ఉద్దేశం ఏమిటో చిన్న పిల్లవాడికైనా ఇట్టే అర్ధమౌతుంది. రాజశేఖర రెడ్డి దర్శకత్వంలో పచ్చని నందమూరి కుటుంబంలో ఆ ఇంటి ఆడపడుచే విలన్ పాత్ర పోషిస్తోంది. తన కూతురినే అదుపాజ్ఞలలో పెట్టుకోలేని పురందరేశ్వరి ఇతరులను జాగ్రత్తగా ఉండమని హెచ్చరించటం చూస్తుంటే ఏదో నాటు సామెత గుర్తుకు రావటంలేదా? NTR పదవీచ్యుతి తరువాత తన భర్త వెంకటేశ్వర రావుకు చంద్రబాబు నాయుడు మంత్రివర్గంలో మంత్రి పదవి ఇప్పించు కున్నప్పుడు కాని, 2004 అసెంబ్లీ ఎన్ని...

NTR PRANGANAM (GUNTUR): It was a sea of people at the Yuva Garjana venue with the event receiving an overwhelming response to the call given by the party to youth to come to the meeting to provide it an impetus to get back to power in the 2009 Assembly elections. On Wednesday every possible road leading to Acharya Nagarjuna University on the National Highway No.5 was packed with people and vehicles. People lustily cheered every dialogue of Telugu Desam Party leaders with the mention of Junior NTR by Nandamuri Harikrishna receiving the maximum claps. Festive mood A festive mood prevailed at the venue from last night and families in large numbers made a beeline to the venue till 11 a.m. on Wednesday. More than 20 trains stopped at Nagarjuna Nagar railway station that was non-functional for the regular train traffic. While the organisers did not want the trains to stop here, the Railway authoriries found it convenient and time saving to stop them at the station 500 metres from the venue. ...