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India’s Koneru Humpy becomes the women’s World Rapid Chess champion

Humpy Koneru of India is the winner of the 2019 World rapid chess championship which ended on Saturday evening in Moscow.  The winner of the women’s rapid was determined in a playoff that ended with Humpy Koneru beating Lei Tingjie in the Armageddon. Humpy had stopped playing chess for nearly two years from 2016 to 2018 because she became a mother. But within a year of returning to the game, she has won a prestigious title. The FIDE Women’s World Rapid Championship was a 12-round Swiss tournament taking place from December 26-28 in Moscow, Russia. Players received 15 minutes for the entire game, plus a 10-second increment starting from move one. The playoff for first place consisted of two 3+2 games followed, if necessary, by Armageddon, where White has 5 minutes to Black’s 4. In an interview after winning in the tie-break, Humpy Koneru said that the result was beyond her expectations from the day: “When I started my first game on Day Three I did not imagine I would be ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Annual Compensation ₹300 Crores Last Fiscal, Gets 66 Percent raise

Satya Nadella received a $1 million base salary jump and an increase in stocks. M icrosoft CEO Satya Nadella earned $42.9 million in total compensation for the fiscal year 2019 -- 66 percent raise from the prior fiscal year, the company has announced. Nadella  received a $1 million base salary jump and an increase in stocks. "Nadella's strategic leadership, including his efforts to strengthen trust with customers, drive for a company-wide culture change, and successful entry and expansion into new technologies and markets,"  Microsoft's  independent directors said in a proxy statement  released  on Wednesday.

Esha Chandra Kode Miss Teen India Worldwide

She is one of the 7 Miss Teen India worldwide contestants out of 39 total contestants between Miss/Teen/Mrs Worldwide pageants. The pageants represent different countries of Indian diaspora such as USA, Canada, Australia, South Africa, UAE, Oman, Fiji, Mauritius, Malaysia, India, Singapore, Hungary, Guyana, Germany, Suriname, Kenya, Guadeloupe, Costa Rica, Ireland and Nepal. The competition was over 5 days starting from the contestants arriving in Mumbai, India on September 2, 2019 and going through rigorous practices, contestant bonding, for first 3 days followed by an evening gown competition and talent competition on September 5, 2019. The grand finale on September 7, 2019 in a grand Indian attire filled with extravagant fanfare that includes talent showcase among the down-selected top 10, 7 and 4 contestants of Miss, Mrs and Teen categories. Further Q&A round qualifies the final selection of the winners and the crowning of the top 3 in each category. Esha performed ...

Puvvada Ajay appointed Transport Minister of Telangana State

Khammam MLA Puvvada Ajay Kumar appointed as the Transport Minister of the Telangana State. After swearing in ceremony, Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao allotted the department to the new Ministers. Ajay was allotted the Transport portfolio by the Chief Minister. Khammam MLA Puvvada Ajay is the first-time Minister. He was elected as an MLA first time in 2014 on the Congress ticket. After that he quit the party and had jointed TRS the same year. He was elected for the second time as an MLA in the 2018 Assembly election from Khammam.

List of 6 Kamma Rajya Sabha members from AP, Telangana, Tamilnadu and Odhisa

1. Yalamanchili S Chowdary - AP 2. Kanakamedala Ravindra Kumar - AP 3. Garikapati RamamohanaRao - Telangana 4. S R Balasubramanyam - Tamilnadu 5. Vaiko (Pulipati Gopala swamy) - Tamilnadu 6. Nekkanti BhaskaraRao - Odhisa

Vaiko Set To Return To Parliament After 15 Years

A three-time Rajya Sabha member at the time he was with the DMK, Mr Vaiko was elected twice from Sivakasi. His last tenure was from 1999 to 2004. MDMK Chief Pulipati Gopalasamy or Vaiko , one of the  is all set to return to parliament after 15 years. His party today nominated him as its candidate for upcoming elections to the Rajya Sabha. Though the MDMK has no legislators to elect a Rajya Sabha member, it was offered one seat by the DMK as part of their alliance deal for the Lok Sabha polls in which the DMK swept the polls, winning 37 of the 38 seats in Tamil Nadu. A three-time Rajya Sabha member at the time he was with the DMK, Mr Vaiko was elected twice from Sivakasi. His last tenure was from 1999 to 2004. Mr Vaiko, an advocate and a powerful speaker in English and Tamil, was arrested by the J Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK government in 2002 under the anti-terror Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) for a controversial speech in support of the banned LTTE. He spen...

Jyothi Surekha wins two bronze medal at World Archery Championships

Vijayawada-based archer Jyothi Surekha Vennam made India proud, winning two bronze medals at the ongoing World Archery Championships in the Netherlands on Saturday. "I am very happy to share it with you all that V Jyothi Surekha, Arjuna Awardee from Vijayawada has won two bronze medals at the 50th World Championships being held at the Netherlands from June 10 to 16," Vennam's father Surendra said in a communication to the press. Vennam won the bronze in the individual compound and compound women's categories. She beat Yesim Bostan of turkey in the 145-145 shoot off by shooting 10-9 in individual compound women's category. "Jyothi Surekha Vennam upset world number two Yesim Bostan in a one-arrow shoot-off to win bronze at WAC 2019. Jyothi scored a 10 over Yesim's 9," World Archery said in a tweet. In compound women's team event, Vennam along with Muskan Kirar and Raj Kaur beat Turkey to 229-226.