Additional Director-General of Police Gowtam Sawang reviewing the arrangements for the police commemoration parade at IGMC Stadium in Vijayawada on Sunday. – PHOTO: V. RAJU / The Hindu
Additional Director-General of Police Gowtam Sawang, along with senior police and revenue officials, on Sunday reviewed the arrangements for the commemoration parade to be held at the Indira Gandhi Municipal Corporation (IGMC) Stadium on Tuesday. Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu will attend the commemoration parade and pay tributes to police martyrs.
Deputy Chief Minister and Home Minister Nimmakayala Chinna Rajappa, Members of Parliament, MLAs and MLCs will attend the programme.
The Chief Minister will open a police control room and launch ‘Dial 100 and FIR at your door step’ scheme on the occasion. Later, he will inaugurate the Farmers Empowerment Corporation at NTR Veterinary College at Gannavaram.
Director-General of Police J.V. Ramudu, Additional DGs and other senior police officers will also pay homage to police martyrs.
Police will impose traffic restrictions on Bandar Road in view of the Police Martyrs Commemoration Day on Tuesday.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Vijayawada / by Staff Reporter / Vijayawada – October 20th, 2014
BJP State vice-president Bandaru Ranga Mohana Rao died on Friday following post-surgical complication leading to multi-organ failure at a hospital in Hyderabad. He was 55 and is survived by wife Chandrakala and daughter.
An engineering graduate, he was an assistant engineer in GVMC for four years and later became independent insurance surveyor and loss assessor.
He joined the RSS at a young age of 10 and began his career as an office in charge of BJP in 1980. Subsequently, he became party State council member, city general secretary, city president, State secretary and finally became party State vice-president.
Condolences poured in for Ranga Mohana Rao. MP K. Haribabu said the party had lost a committed worker and he, a good friend.
MLA P. Vishnu Kumar Raju said the party lost a leader who had served the entire State. City president P.V. Narayana Rao said a dedicated leader who served the party for decades all over the State had left them.
Former BJP president P. V. Chalapathi Rao mourned the death saying a leader who grew before their eyes and acted with presence of mind at crucial times passed away.
Former Mayor D.V. Subba Rao conveyed his condolences to the family members of Ranga Mohana Rao.
BMS State Legal Cell in charge K. Bhavani Shankarudu said he had served BJP since its inception in 1980 and was a sincere and principled leader.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Visakhapatnam / by Special Correspondent / Visakhapatnam – October 11th, 2014
Rear Admiral Ajendra Bahadur Singh at the change of guard ceremony held in Visakhapatnam on Tuesday | EXPRESS PHOTO
Visakhapatnam :
Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet Rear Admiral Atul Kumar Jain has handed over the Command of the Eastern Fleet to Rear Admiral Ajendra Bahadur Singh. The change of guard took place at an impressive ceremony onboard Flagship INS Jalashwa here Tuesday. Rear Admiral AK Jain will now assume the duties of Chief of Staff, Southern Naval Command at Kochi.
Rear Admiral AB Singh is a specialist in navigation and aircraft direction, and a graduate of National Defence Academy Khadakvasla and Defence Services Staff College, Wellington. He also holds a masters’ degree from Cranfield University, UK. He commanded Indian Naval Ships Veer (Missile vessel), Vindhyagiri (Frigate), Trishul (Frigate) and Viraat (Aircraft Carrier).
He also held various prestigious staff and operational appointments and was awarded the Vishisht Seva Medal in 2011. Prior to taking over as Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet, he was serving as Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Policy and Plans) at Naval Headquarters, Delhi.
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The Eastern Fleet comprises 30 ships including amphibious platform Jalashwa, destroyers, stealth frigates, anti-submarine warfare corvette Kamorta, missile corvettes, landing ship tanks, offshore patrol vessels, missile boats and tankers.
source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> States> Andhra Pradesh / Express News Service / October 08th, 2014
The 21st century will be a defining one for India and her children thanks to infrastructure development and improving connectivity due to greater emphasis on science and technology, Prof S V Raghavan, scientific secretary in the office of the principal scientific advisor to the government of India, said here on Monday while exhorting the students of Andhra University to become change agents to enrich the lives of their fellow countrymen.
Delivering the 82nd Andhra University convocation address, Prof Raghavan said science can no longer be perceived as elitist and cut off from routine and mundane societal problems. Elaborating on the continuum between science and society, Prof Raghavan pointed out that a scientific approach towards an idea helps refine it and sharpen it.
He also dwelt on one of the most exciting ideas taking shape in India. “The National Knowledge Network (NKN) is a game changer for India as it has connected 1,300 institutions spread across the country, thereby bringing the collective wisdom available across the country together and making it accessible by annihilating distance.”
Providing an example of how NKN, which is touted to be the largest knowledge database, Prof Raghavan said through NKN a patient requiring critical attention can be diagnosed and treated remotely with the help of expert opinion.
The architect of NKN said while NKN was the backbone for connectivity and access to knowledge bases, it was the student community that formed the backbone of India.
Speaking on the occasion, AU vice chancellor Prof GSN Raju said the varsity had received the highest funding of Rs 320 crore from the state government as compared to other state varsities. The AU VC also pointed out that the varsity had received Rs 35.97 crore in grants from the UGC and directorate of science and technology for research projects, over and above the Rs 1 crore received by the Delta Studies Centre which has been jointly set up by AU and ONGC.
Pointing out that AU had introduced 17 new courses in various fields, conducted 75 national and eight international seminars and workshops in the 2013-2014 academic year, he said wifi and ICT facilities were being developed on the campus in collaboration with Google and a new three storied building had also been constructed with the help of Rs 90 lakh donated by AU alumni.
During the convocation, more than 225 PhD degrees were presented and 16 medals and 13 prizes given to some of the PhD recipients. More than 426 prizes and 155 medals were presented to outstanding students and research scholars on the occasion.
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Visakhapatnam / TNN / September 30th, 2014
A view of the chapel on the St. Aloysius High School premises, the oldest English medium school in Visakhapatnam. / Photo: C.V. Subrahmanyam / The Hindu
Six classmates of the 1961 batch of St. Aloysius High School met after five decades at their alma mater. Reminiscing the old days, Narayanswami, who played cricket for Andhra, said it was in this courtyard that he picked up the rudiments of the game.
A group of six classmates met after five decades to relive their naughty days at St. Aloysius High School, here on Saturday.
Though, into their late 60s and early 70s none appeared to have lost his youthful vigour. Hopping from one classroom to another, going around the expansive courtyard, and calling their buddies by their nicknames, the six went on a nostalgia drive.
A group of seven friends who studied in St. Aloysius High School meeting after five decades on the school premises to relive the old days in Visakhapatnam on Saturday /. Photo: C.V. Subrahmanyam / The Hindu
The old students of the 1961 batch who met were P.R. Narayanswami, former Director of Physical Education in Andhra University, M.A. Raihan, former Commander in the Indian Navy, V.N. Natarajan, Chief Manager of Indian Overseas Bank, Fr. George Kottam, Arun Panse, former Hindustan Shipyard employee, and Md. Ali Khan, a retired officer from the Visakhapatnam Port Trust.
Accompanying them was Rohinton Kapadia, who was a couple of years junior to them in school.
Incidentally, Fr. Kottam was not only an old student but also principal of the school during early 1980s.
Reminiscing the old days, Narayanswami, who played cricket for Andhra, said it was in this courtyard that he picked up the rudiments of the game.
“We are always ahead of the rest in athletics and games. We had the best boxing team in the district. In fact, ours was the only school that had a proper boxing ring. Even the ENC, then INS Circars, would borrow our ring for their tournament,” said Raihan.
We also had a strong NCC contingent and 80 per cent of our students were from the Anglo Indian and Muslim communities. But we never experienced any sort of discrimination based on religion, caste, or creed, said Arun Panse.
On how strict was the school, they came out in chorus, “Fr Eliemeynet, a French national, who was our principal, and our teachers were strict, but they gave us the rope to be mischievous too.”
According to Fr. Kottam, the schooling then was about holistic learning.
For Md. Alikhan, the association with the school has been for three generations. His son also studied in the school and now his grandchildren are studying there
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Visakhapatnam / by Sumit Bhattacharjee / Visakhapatnam – September 21st, 2014
In this Nov. 15, 2007, file photo, Mandolin Shrinivas performs along with Hariharan at The Hindu Friday Review November Fest at the Music Academy in Chennai. Photo: R. Shivaji Rao
Grief overtook Mandolin Shrinivas’s admirers, childhood friends and artistes in this cultural capital of West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh as news of his untimely death spread.
A pall of gloom descended on Palacol, the cultural capital of West Godavari district, with the demise of its child prodigy Uppalapu Shrinivas, a globally acclaimed Carnatic music exponent.
Shrinivas is its second son of the soil who did the tiny non-descript coastal town proud by securing Padmasri award in an early age after Allu Ramalingaiah, a noted film actor. He had the prefix `Uppalapu’ to his name replaced by `Mandolin’ for his blending the Western instrument with Carnatic music in a unique manner.
Grief overtook his admirers, childhood friends and artistes in the prosperous town. Although he was born in a marriage band music family in the town, he lost connections with his birthplace after he left for Chennai as a boy to explore the depths of music.
According to Vinnakota Venkateswara Rao, a local septuagenarian scribe, Srinvas gave his concert last in his hometown was during the Tyagaraya Aradhanotsavams a decade ago. Manapuram Satyanarayana, president of the Palacol Kalaparishad, a childhood friend of Srinivas, recounted his association with the exponent. “I too used to associated myself with marriage band music parties with him (Srinivas), playing electric mandolin. Srinivas used to display innovation by playing mandolin for film songs when we were in elementary school itself”, he recollected.
Mr. Sudarsanam, a blind who retired as a lecturer in a local government degree college, was said to have attended his first concert in Palacol and could not resist his temptation to take part in another one in Eluru. He did it with the help of an assistant in the mid 80s. “This was how he cast a spell over his audiences,” said a retired teacher Krishna Prasad. He would not have been known to the world as an acclaimed classical musician, but for Rudraraju Subbaraju from Poduru near Placol, who taught Srinivas’ father Satyanrayana mandolin playing. Identifying the latent talent in the child prodigy, Mr. Subbaraju was said to have taken Srinivas and his father to Madras to hone up his skills under the tutelage of great exponents.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Vijayawada / by G. Nagaraja / Eluru – September 19th, 2014
The Andhra Pradesh government will nominate renowned filmmaker-artist Bapu, who died recently, for the Padma Vibhushan, along with radiation oncologist Dr Nori Dattatreyudu and gastroenterologist Dr D. Nageshwar Reddy.
The names will be finalised at the Cabinet meeting on Monday. According to sources, the Cabinet is likely to recommend the name of N.T. Rama Rao for the Bharat Ratna. For the Padma Bhushan, the government is expected to nominate party MP and filmmaker Maganti Murali Mohan, apart from Carnatic vocalist Nedunoori Krishna Murthy and Chaganti Koteswar Rao, an expert on Sanatana Dharma.
The names of character artiste and BJP leader Kota Srinivasa Rao, cartoonist Sridhar, journalist I. Venkat Rao and social worker Satyavani are expected to be nominated for the Padma Shri.
source: http://www.deccanchronicle.com / Deccan Chronicle / Home> Nation> Current Affairs / DC Correspondent / September 15th, 2014
Several politicians expressed their condolences at the passing away of former Union minister Mallipudi Srirama Sanjeeva Rao, 86, on Wednesday afternoon at his residence in Kakinada.
He is best known as the man who brought TV telecast to India, when the Asian Games were held in 1982. He is the father of former Union minister M.M. Pallam Raju and son of former PCC president and freedom fighter late Mangipudi Pallam Raju.
The second generation Congress leader had been suffering from cerebral paralysis for the past two decades. He is survived by two sons, former Union minister M.M. Pallam Raju and businessman M. Anand. His wife Raja Rajeswari passed away 35 years ago.
His family had close political relations with the Nehru family for several decades. His father Mallipudi Pallam Raju had participated in freedom movement along with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
Sanjeeva Rao studied BE in Gundy Engineering College at Madras and Imperial College of Science and Technology at London. He also worked as a research scientist in AII Research Laboratory in London and developed a sophisticated secrecy system for the Army.
He was elected as an MLA in 1970 from Ramachadrapuram constituency and later he was elected as member of Lok Sabha from Kakinada constituency thrice from 1971 to 1984. He held the post of Union minister for electronics and communication. Television in India was first introduced during Mr Rao’s regime and he inaugurated the first TV tower at Kakinada.
source: http://www.deccanchronicle.com / Deccan Chronicle / Home> Nation> Current Affairs / DC Correspondent / September 04th, 2014
When he migrated to the United States in 1986, he just had few dollars in his wallet. But his success in becoming an acclaimed public speaker helped him become a global ambassador for Ziglar Group of Companies and co-founder of Krish Dhanam Training Intl.
A renowned motivational speaker groomed by famed American author, speaker and salesperson Zig Ziglar, Krish Dhanam who hails from Visakhapatnam, says he is proud of his birthplace and its affectionate people. “This is the biggest city of Andhra Pradesh and it has a bright future. Whenever I come here, I turn nostalgic,” he says in a voice choked with emotion. Giving credit to his success as corporate trainer and philosopher and recognition as a specialist in human engineering to Zig Ziglar, he says nothing comes free.
“I have to do my homework before fulfilling my assignment – be it Europe, Zimbabwe or India,” he remarks.
He has some plans to set up an institute in India though he declines to elaborate on his plan.
Having studied at Visakha Valley School and L.B. Bullayya College, he says wherever he is asked to perform a task – be it off the shelf for a motley crowd of people, customised or private label, he does some spadework. “There is no shortcut to success and preparation and studying the requirement of the target audience will always make the task easy,” he says.
Author of “American Dream from an Indian Heart,” he discloses that his MBA degree from Delhi, telemarketing career and frequent interaction with the customers for 17 years under the guidance of Zig Ziglar helped him gain expertise in soft skills and market psyche.
Everyone in life is a learner.
“We learn lessons from experience. I have a lot to learn ahead to improve my skills,” he sums up, showcasing his simplicity and down to earth nature.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Visakhapatnam / by Santosh Patnaik / Visakhapatnam – August 31st, 2014
Two police officers from North Coastal Andhra region Police Training College (PTC) principal ET Srinivas and city harbour police station inspector D Rajeswara Rao will be receiving the Indian Police Medal (IPM) from Andhra Pradesh chief minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu on Independence Day on Friday at Kurnool.
The additional SP rank officer ET Srinivas has received around 143 departmental awards and rewards so far.
He has been working as the principal of PTC Viziangaram since 2011 after he was promoted to additional SP rank.
City-based inspector D Rajeswara Rao, a native of Tallavalasa in Julumuru mandal of Srikakulam district, played a key role in bringing down the accident rate to 38% while he was serving as a traffic inspector in the East traffic circle in the city.
He too has received nearly 60 departmental awards and rewards for his exemplary work.
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times Of India / Home> City> Visakhapatnam / TNN / August 15th, 2014
