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Chowmohalla Palace.    Photo: Satish. H.

Hyderabad gears up to celebrate Heritage Week after winning the ‘Best Heritage City’ title

Hyderabad was crowned as the Best Heritage City of the country a couple of months back. And the celebrations are underway hallu–hallu. After wining the prestigious title from Union Tourism Ministry and receiving the award from the President of the country, the celebrations took some time in order to make it a remarkable one.

In keeping with its image, the city of Charminar, tombs, pearls and biryani, is coming up with both tangible and intangible ways to celebrate . “A whole lot of events are lined up. From culture to food to sight seeing, this city offers tourists everything. Tourists don’t come to the city only for sight seeing, the city is to be experienced in all ways. And what better way to celebrate the Heritage Week than with cultural programmes in the lap of heritage,” says G. Kishan Rao, director, Chowmahalla Palace.

The Chowmahalla Palace will host a whole lot of cultural shows and events. The event kickstarted on Wednesday with a jugalbandi with music maestro Mangalampalli Balamurali Krishna and Pt.Vishwa Mohan Bhatt. Over the week, connoisseurs of music will be treated to scintillating sessions of music, poetry, qawwali, mushaira and traditional dances. “The cultural shows are lined up to highlight the rich cultural heritage of the city. The shows are a mix of music and dance and theatre . The attempt is also to make people aware of what we have as a city. On the final day, there is a Kathak performance by Pandit Birju Maharaj,” confirms Kishan Rao.

This is not all, G. Kishan Rao says there are different programmes and cultural shows which are being hosted at Qutub Shahi Tombs and Taramati Baradari as well.

To mark the World Heritage Week, INTACH gave awards to several heritage buildings and structures in and around the city. Describing their search and attempt as a deepone, Anuradha Reddy of INTACH said, “Lots of heritage structures have been destroyed and neglected but there is still much more that can be preserved, if we make an attempt. This time we looked at various aspects of heritage. The search made us look at heritage that is part of people’s lifestyle and habit. The search showed up areas where heritage is intact. Secunderabad’s rich heritage and buildings talk of the influence of various communities in their architecture and material. One building highlighted modern architecture in traditional use and that discovery is a very interesting one.”

If this is one part of the celebration, there is more for everyone at the ‘entry-free-for-all’ event at Shilparamam. To highlight the intangible aspect of heritage and culture in the city, food is being highlighted through cooking competitions and food stalls being set up. Venkateshwarlu, administrative officer at Shilparamam says, “The event begins with a festival of Mughlai dishes and goes on to show the different cooking styles of various regions as well. The event also has a cooking competition for men and a biryani festival. Besides food stalls, there will be cultural shows as well.”

So let’s rediscover and raise a toast to our city.

source: http://www.TheHindu.com / Life & Style> Metroplus / by Prabalika M. Borah / April 18th, 2012

 

Vizag boy competes in British GT

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Sailesh Bolisetti of Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) who will be competing in the British GT motor racing championship in April this year. / The Hindu

Sailesh Bolisetti makes history by becoming the first-ever Indian to do so

History will be made when Sailesh Bolisetti from Visakhapatnam makes his debut in the demanding British GT debut with the Lotus Sport UK team this weekend (April 7 to 9) to become the first-ever Indian to do so. “Its a dream come true,” he exclaims before leaving for London.

YOUNG CHAMPION

“I wish to perform to my best despite my limited experience. There are no shortcuts in the learning curve. I also want to absorb as much information as possible from my team, including my experienced teammates,” the young champion saloon car racer says.

The seven-round 2012 season of the premier British Sportscar championship is said to be one of the most fiercely competitive in recent times, thanks to a strong 35-car grid featuring several manufacturer-backed entries.

The 23-year-old engineering graduate from Andhra University will be piloting the Lotus Evora in the GT4 category.

“Evora was a completely different beast compared to anything else I had driven before. Having raced front-wheel drive cars throughout my career, I had to make considerable changes to my driving style to adapt to the 360 bhp race car,” he explains.

“I was reasonably comfortable with its behaviour and am looking forward to carry the momentum into my first race weekend,” he states.

“To me, long, endurance-style racing appeals more than the 30-minute sprints,” says Sailesh, who is in his second year in international racing.

“I will be pushing hard from the very first practice session. In endurance racing, if a driver doesn’t perform at high-levels, it ends up dragging the whole team down even if everyone else is doing their best,” he explains.

POINTS SYSTEM

Sailesh said that the British GT points system was similar to the one employed in Formula 1 – 25 points to the winner all the way to a solitary point for the 10th placed finisher.

“I take this as a huge opportunity to realise my dream of making a mark in big-time racing,” Sailesh concludes.

source: http://www.TheHindu.com / News> Cities> Hyderabad / by V.V.Subrahmanyam / Hyderabad, April 06th, 2012

 

Rajiv Gandhi International Airport bags ISO certification

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Hyderabad:

Adding another feather to its cap, the GMR Hyderabad InternationalAirportLtd’s (GHIAL) Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) has bagged the ISO 14064 -1: 2006 certification for its Greenhouse Gas (GHG) inventory.

RGIA is the second airport in India, after Mumbai, and the third in Asia to have achieved this feat, that indicates the airport’s commitment towardsenvironmental issues. The audit of its GHG, which includes both Greenhousegas emissions and removals, was conducted by M/S Bureau Veritas that submitted its independent report on March 31.

The verification of GHG inventories will help the airport in reducing its carbon intensity, which is carbon footprint per passenger or per ton of cargo handled, cost of energy and meet the GHG accounting international norms in the aviation sector.

source: http://www.Spotlyt.com / Home> Business News / April 03rd, 2012

Typing A to Z in a blink

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Hyderabad:

Breaking the records of Jayasimha, Mohammed Khursheed Hussain, Pothireddy Krishna Teja and Sridhar Raju, B V A Manoj Varma, a junior analyst at the Wordworks Apex ITES (India) Pvt Ltd set a new record.

This confirmed his entry into the India Book of Records for typing all the 26 English alphabets in just 2.16 seconds without any space in between the letters, and 3.90 seconds with space between the letters.

However, he has his dreams, set high.

A native of West Godavari district, BVA Manoj Varma Penmetsa pursued his masters in computer applications from Karimnagar and is also an expert with the lower hand in typewriting.

“I have been practicing this for almost two years and it is my dream is to become a Guinness World Record holder.” His stint at the India Book of records, Varma says, is his first step to the Guinness Books of Records.

“Two years ago, when I saw Jayasimha breaking the world record, I have been working on it. And this is very important to me as people get recognised for their talents in different fields and being one among them would be a great feeling.”

Evidently excited Manoj, flanked by his friends and teachers cheering him up, did have to struggle a bit with the second task where he had to type each letter with a space.

And he was successful after quite some attempts.

He used a Dell key board for typing the alphabets without space, while he used a Logitech one for typing with space.

He says, “The type of keys on the keyboard are very important and spacing your fingers between them is also vital. Keys on laptops are surely placed close to each other, but are really soft, hence they reduce the speed of typing.”

Guests who were judging this attempt were DSP G Nageshwar Rao, Krishnaiah Goud, dept of commerce, AV College and R Ramchandhar Rao, head master, ZPHS, Miyapur.

source: http://www.ibnlive.in.com / South> Hyderabad / The New Indian Express, Express News Service / Hyderabad, March, 28th, 2012

 

Lifetime achievement award to Sankurathri Chandrasekhar

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Dr. Sankurathri Chandrasekhar (second from right) after receiving the CNN-IBN’s Real Heroes award from Mukesh Ambani (extreme left), Sachin Tendulkar and Amir Khan (extreme right). / Special Arrangement / The Hindu

Guntur-based cultural association Aathmiya Arts Theatre will confer the lifetime achievement award as part of the Ugadi festivities on noted physician and ophthalmologist Sankurathri Chandrasekhar on March 22 (Thursday) at 6.30 a.m. at Government Music College grounds.

Speaking to the mediapersons on Wednesday, Ch. Bhaskar Rao, president, Aathmiya Arts Theatre, said the award was being given away as part of the fourth anniversary celebrations of the association on the auspicious day.

“Mr. Chandrasekhar, who lost his family in the Air India Kanishka air crash in 1985 near Ireland over Atlantic Ocean, dedicated his life to spreading light in the lives of as many as 1,70,000 people by conducting eye operations,” he added.

Sixty-nine year-old Chandrasekhar, who founded social service units in Kakinada in memory of his son Karin and daughter Sarada, is carrying out activities in education, health, and disaster management for the poor and downtrodden.

He received several awards from the Governments of India and the U.S., prominent among them being the Real Heroes honour by the CNN IBN television channel.

Felicitations

Mr. Rao said along with Chandrasekhar, several prominent people such as Achanta Venkatratnam Naidu (theatre), C.S.K. Prasad (physician), Kolasani Vishnu Tulasi Prasad (educationist), Prabhakar (film actor), I. Veerabhadra Rao (former Annavaram temple devasthnam member), Thota Silverstar (mimicry), G. Vishnu Prasad (literature), V. Srinivas (MRO, Kankipadu), Satya Vani (singer), and Baby Jahnavi (dancer) will be honoured for their contributions in their chosen fields.

Former Minister Mandali Buddha Prasad, Tulasi Group of Companies chairman Tulasi Ramachandra Prabhu, Vijayawada ACP B. Satyanarayana, Annayya Charitable Trust president, Bonda Satyanarayana, Booseva Housing MD T. Surya Rao, DCCB president Naraharisetti Srihari Censor Board member K. Dharma Rao, and others will grace the occasion. Later, a musical programme will be held, highlighting, vintage Telugu songs.

source:http: //www.TheHindu.com / News> Cities> Vijaywada /  by Staff Reporter / March 22nd, 2012

 

Hyderabad researchers in India’s innovators list

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Hyderabad, Mar 22 (IBNS)

Two Hyderabad researchers — Anthony Vipin Das of LV Prasad Eye Institute and Hemanth Kumar Satyanarayana of Imaginate Software Labs — have been chosen to the MIT Technology Review’s India TR35 list of young Technology Innovators under 35 for 2012.

They will present their innovation to an audience of 500 innovators including six scientists and researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at the fourth emerging technologies conference of MIT Technology Review’s, EmTech India, starting March 27 at Banaglore. 

Anthony Vipin Das, 28, created an application for digitizing medical records at Hyderabad’s LV Prasad Eye Institute, (LVPEI), one of the India’s largest eye hospitals that has treated over 13 million patients till date.

Designed by Das, the paperless system spans the entire LVPEI pyramid and allows a doctor to access the medical records of a patient from any of its clinics.

EyeSmart is a distributed database linked to a central database which makes the data at all urban and rural centers available in real time.

Hyderabad based Hemanth Kumar Satyanarayana of Imaginate Software Labs found that the experience of an average customer in apparel stores isn’t as pleasant as it was a few years ago, with increasing footfalls.

With shortage of space and no scope for expansion, demand for trial rooms has increased and trial room management by the store owner has become even more difficult and demanding.

Satyanarayana came up with a technology alternative to the physical trial room, in the form of an augmented reality enabled “virtual trial room” experience.

Called Trialar, his innovation is a digital interactive platform that helps shoppers try out clothes and accessories instantaneously, virtually, and seamlessly.

The India TR35 members from Bangalore include Shirish Goyal, 27, of LinkSmart Technologies for creating fool-proof security to prevent data theft; Sumeet Yamdagni, 29, of Instrumentation Scientific Technologies for inventing Optical instruments for Fiber Bragg Grating sensors and Vikas Malpani, 28, of MaxHeap Technologies for bringing communities on a common floor.

Bangalore’s Anirudh Sharma, 24, of Ducere Technologies was named the Innovator of the Year for creating Haptic shoe for the visually impaired.

Animesh Nandi, 33, of Bell Labs India, Alcatel-Lucent for devising personalized privacy frameworks.

Nandi was the only India TR35 member from a Bangalore based multi-national while the rest were from local enterprises.

The list of 20 innovators from Biomedicine (2), Communications (2), Computing (4), Energy (2), Materials (3), Transportation (2) and Web (5) under the age of 35 for 2012 was announced by the India edition of MIT Technology Review, the world’s oldest technology publication, in Bangalore Sunday.

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai, has emerged as India’s hottest technology innovation center with three of its researchers VSK Murthy Balijepalli, 26; Nitin Joshi, 28; and Vanteru Mahendra Reddy, 30, making it to the ‘India TR35 2012 list of young technology innovators’.

While VSK Murthy Balijepalli of IIT Mumbai was chosen to be part of the India TR35 list for developing a novel method to forecast electricity price, grid frequency and load which can assist in making power grids smarter, Nitin Joshi (also of IIT Mumbai) made to the list for developing dual compartment nanostructures which can encapsulate two anticancer drugs, paclitaxel and curcumin, and deliver them in combination to lung cancer patients.

Thirty-year-old Mahendra Reddy was chosen for his work on the development of a laboratory scale flameless combustion with liquid fuels by design at IIT Mumbai.

Abhijit Majumder, 33, from IIT, Kanpur, is another notable winner for his highly innovative chemical adhesives that mimic some natural principles.

The only woman innovator in this year’s list is Priyanka Sharma, 28, from CSIR-run Institute of Microbial Technology in Chandigarh.

She developed a plastic chip which uses simple assay techniques to detect toxic materials in the environment quickly and cost effectively.

Abhijeet Joshi, 28, from the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Ahmedabad, is the sixth public institute winner.

Using nanotechnologies, Joshi has developed a multifunctional implantable platform to aid disease diagnosis and drug delivery simultaneously.

“It is heartening to see IITs solving unique Indian problems. This culture of innovation in public institutions will enthuse thousands of bright students pursuing technical programs,” said Pradeep Gupta, Publisher of Technology Review India and a distinguished alumnus of IIT Delhi.

“Indian youth will be attracted to this innovation ecosystem and India will benefit from their work in the near future,” Gupta added.

List of India TR35 2012

BIOMEDICINE

Abhijeet Joshi, 28, Nanosensors in microspheres, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Ahmedabad

Nitin Joshi, 28, Making chemotherapy non-invasive, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai

COMMUNICATIONS

Shaunak Khire, 22, Enabling businesses to advertise through mobile phone, Camber Tech, Pune

Venkatesan Oosur Vinayagam, 28, Mobile antakshari, Hexolabs Interactive Technologies, Chennai, Social Innovator of the year

COMPUTING

Anthony Vipin Das, 28, Digitizing medical records, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad

Shirish Goyal, 27, Fool-proof security to prevent data theft, LinkSmart Technologies, Bangalore

Sumeet Yamdagni, 29, Optical instruments for Fiber Bragg Grating sensors,

Instrumentation Scientific Technologies, Bangalore

Hemanth Kumar Satyanarayana, 29, Virtual trial rooms, Imaginate Software Labs, Hyderabad

ENERGY

VSK Murthy Balijepalli, 26, Forecasting the price and load of electricity, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai

Vanteru Mahendra Reddy, 30, Flameless combustion with liquid fuels, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai

MATERIALS

Abhijit Majumder, 33, Making stronger adhesives that can imitate nature, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Vivek Nair, 23, Carbon nanotubes from carbon emissions, Damascus Fortune, Mumbai

Priyanka Sharma, 28, Plastic biochip electrochemical sensor for immunosensing applications,

Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh

TRANSPORTATION

Somnath Ray, 35, A viable para-transit mode of mobility, Dplay, Delhi

Humanitarian of the Year

Anirudh Sharma, 24, Haptic shoe for the visually impaired. Ducere Technologies, Bangalore

Innovator of the Year

WEB

Sachin Dev Duggal, 28, Moving desktop computer into the cloud, Nivio Technologies, Gurgaon

Unni Koroth, 26, Open source platform for institute management, Foradian Technologies, Kasaragod

Vikas Malpani, 28, Bringing communities on a common floor, MaxHeap Technologies, Bangalore

Jay Meattle, 29, Demand side platform for selling ad inventories, Shareaholic.com, Delhi

Animesh Nandi, 33, Personalized privacy frameworks, Bell Labs India, Alcatel-Lucent, Bangalore

source: http://www.IndiaBlooms.com / Environment/Science>Wildlife / by India Blooms News Service / Hyderabad, M arch 22nd, 2012

 

Gulzar awarded Honorary Doctorate in Urdu Literature

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Veteran poet, lyricist and filmmaker Gulzar was awarded with an Honorary Doctorate in Urdu Literature by the Maulana Azaad National Urdu University (MANUU) on Saturday, March 3 in Hyderabad.

Kapil Sibal, Minister of Human Resource Development presented the citation to Gulzar at the fourth convocation of the university.

The university also conferred honorary doctorates Justice AH Ahmadi, former chief justice of the Supreme Court of India; Sukhdev Thorat, Chairman, Indian Council for Social Science and Research, and Mohammad Shamim Jairajpuri – former Vice-Chancellor of the university.

source: http://www.Bollywoodlife.com / Bollywood / March 06th, 2012

Hyderabad students bag awards at international art expo

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Hyderabad:

Six students of Sanskriti, a rural art centre near here, bagged several awards at the 13th International Child and Youth Art Exhibition which recently concluded in Poland. Ten-year-old A Keerthana bagged the special award while G M Anusha, A Rishitej, J Praveen Kumar, S Sekhar and G Vinod Kumar bagged medallions and diplomas.
Another group of eight children including M Munika Reddy, A Sai Kiran, A Shreetej, R Kavya, A Harender, A Vamsikiran, R Kalpana and B Jyoshna also won prizes for their paintings and linocuts.
More than 10,000 children from 49 countries took part in the event.
From India alone, 491 children participated while eight of them won awards.
Sanskriti was established in 1992 at Hyderguda by Young Envoys International.

source: http://www.ibnlive.in.com / South> Hyderabad / IBN Hyderabad / The New Indian Express , The Express News Service/ March 05th, 2012

Hyderabad airport bags National Tourism Award

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New Delhi, Feb 29 (IBNS)

GMR Hyderabad International Airport (GHIAL) has been awarded the National Tourism Award 2010-’11 under the Best Airport category.

The airport has been adjudged as the best airport in India for actively promoting tourism, not only in Andhra Pradesh but also at the pan India level. 

The award was presented by President Pratibha Singh Patil to Vikram R. Jaisinghani, CEO of GHIAL at an award ceremony in New Delhi on Wednesday.

The Ministry of Tourism, Government of India presents, the National Tourism Awards to various segments of the travel and tourism industry every year, which includes states/union territories, hotels, travel agents, tour operators, airports, etc., to recognize their performance with an aim to promote tourism. RGIA has now won this award for 2 consecutive years.

GMR Hyderabad International Airport Limited (GHIAL) is a joint venture company promoted by the GMR Group (63%) in partnership with Government of India (13%), Government of Andhra Pradesh (13%) and Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (11%).

source: http://www.IndiaBlooms.com / Business / India Blooms News Service / New Delhi, February 29th, 2012 (IBNS)

Sania Mirza most searched tennis star on Google

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London:

Sania Mirza was the most Googled female tennis player in 2011, leaving behind bigger names like Maria Sharapova and Ana Ivanovic.

Despite her lowly world ranking of 113, the 25-year-old tennis star can count on an army of fans in the subcontinent to cheer her on as she flies the flag for India on the women’s tour.

Mirza is married to Pakistan cricket star Shoaib Malik.

 

 

 

 

 

 

source: http://www.ZeeNews.india.com / Sports / Saturday, February 25th, 2012