The fourth annual Telangana Night-2016 will be held by Telangana Development Forum of Canada in Toronto on May 7.
TJAC chairman M.Kodandaram will be the chief guest and Ontario Province minister Dipika Damerla of Telugu origin, the honorable guest. Artist Lohit will entertain the audience.
“In the preparatory meet held in Toronto, elderly members discussed the arrangements while the young drafted the dance and songs to be performed during the event,” a press release issued by TDF said.
source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> States> Telangana / by Express News Service / April 12th, 2016
Short filmmaker Aparna Malladi returns with a coming of age story in her second film ‘Anushree Experiments’
Hyderabad-based short filmmaker Aparna Malladi had written a coming of age story, shot it here and did the post production in USA. Titled The Anushree Experiments, her second theatrical release has Ulrika a female protagonist. Aparna’s first film Mitsein, (German word for ‘To Be With’) also with a female protagonist and shot in San Fransciscoreleased in 2009.
In the movie, a Hyderabadi girl Anushree, a chemical engineering student, gets bad grades and fails in her subjects. As she doesn’t have any plan, her parents want her to get married. However she wants to sabotage their plans and actually manages to graduate.
With a message
While she tries ingenious ways to break her impending marriage alliance, her father puts her in house arrest. She reads My Experiments With Truth and begins a comical Gandhian fast too. The movie sends out the message that just because a girl doesn’t have any plan and she doesn’t do well in her studies, it is not right that she be given only the option of getting married. Sometimes people need some time to find out what they really are about.
Isn’t Aparna’s first film similar to The Anushree Experiments?
A still from ‘Anushree’
“Right. There it is about her journey of marriage. She cannot connect with her husband and goes on a self-discovery. That is a bit mature story. Here it is a coming of age woman. You are not a girl anymore but you haven’t become a woman yet, that is what I explored. I looked for girls here. I met Samantha, Swati as I needed a performer but finally my producer who is from Nagaland and is in London, asked me to meet a girl Ulrika Krishnamoorthy. I went all the way to London to find a girl from Somajiguda,” smiles the director. Aparna reveals the main antagonist of The Anushree Experiments is Ramakrishna who has earlier worked in the television show Ruturagalu and Bahubali movie. Anushree has a love interest and very good suitors but she is not able to relate with them. Is she confident that she will find audience?
“We got a limited release, only three theatres. I showed the film to women in colleges and told them to encourage the film as it finds their expression in the story. I just made a story and figured out a way to make it accessible to audience. It is difficult but otherwise I should find a Pawan Kalyan. Where is the place for smaller stories? Personal stories need to be told and we have to push for it. LA has a vibrant Indie space but that doesn’t kill the smaller films and there are theatres that show such independent films. I come from that culture.”
“It is about young women; if women come to see such films, men too will. Raghavendra Rao once asked me if I am into making feminist films. I am not We all have our own little stories. Actors like Savitri or Bhanumati enjoyed longevity in the industry because they could get mature roles; now girls have narrowly defined roles, they can be easily substituted. If writers are all men and portray women as seductresses, then there is little hope. But I do have hope. I need to keep my budget low, but I do find producers for my films but my condition is that my protagonist will be a woman.”
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Features> MetroPlus / by Y Sunita Chowdhary / Hyderabad – April 05th, 2016
An Indian-American professor hailing from Mahbubnagar district in Telangana has been selected for the prestigious Fulbright Specialist Roster for his achievements in the field of pharmacy.
Rajender R Aparasu is the first pharmacy faculty member at the University of Houston selected to be the candidate roster of the Fulbright Specialist Programme, which helps US faculty share their academic expertise and develop linkages with non-US institutions on curriculum, assessment, faculty development and research training.
The Fulbright programme, which is funded by the Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, serves to promote international engagement of academic scholarship and build linkages between the US and overseas institutions. “There are very few Fulbright Specialists in pharmacy, I am really honoured to be selected for Fulbright Specialist Roster,” said Aparasu.
This is a great opportunity to offer my expertise in developing professional and graduate pharmacy programmes that involve pharmaceutical health outcomes and policy,” said Aparasu, whose five-year term runs through 2021.
Aparasu completed his school education in Hyderabad, and got his B Pharm degree from Kakatiya University in Warangal. He studied M Pharm at Jadavpur University in Kolkata and obtained Ph D in Pharmacy Administration from the University of Louisiana-Monroe in the USA and joined UHCOP in 2006 after serving as a faculty at the South Dakota State University for more than a decade.
His primary areas of expertise include pharmacoepidemiology, geriatrics, psychopharmacology and evidence-based medicine.
Aparasu’s current research project, supported by an R01 grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), is evaluating safety profiles of anticholinergic medications in the elderly nursing home residents.“Dr Aparasu’s selection as a Fulbright Specialist validates his professional accomplishments and enhances our the institutional profile. I am glad he now joins such a select group of outstanding US academicians and scholars that will soon engage in collaborative endeavours,” said Jaime Ortiz, UH vice provost for Global Strategies and Studies.
Aparasu has authored or coauthored nearly 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and seven book chapters. He was made Fellow of the American Pharmacists Association (FAPhA) for his exemplary professional achievements and contribution to the pharmacy profession.
source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> States> Telangana / by Express News Service / April 03rd, 2016
Sunaina Singh, Vice-Chancellor, English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad has been unanimously elected as Vice President of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), New Delhi for a period of three years.
The ICCR Constitution provides for three Vice Presidents out of whom two are elected by the General Assembly. Prabhat Shukla, former Ambassador is the other dignitary who was elected as Vice President while Dr. Jai Shankar, Foreign Secretary to the Government of India is ex-officio third vice-president of the Council.
ICCR president Prof. Lokesh Chandra conducted the General assembly and the Governing Board meetings recently, a press release said.
Prof. Sunaina Singh’s election adds another feather to her career as an academic and as one of the few woman Vice Chancellors of a Central University in India today. She is the first and only Indian woman to have headed the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, a bi-national organization and has rich experience of academic administration at both the national as well as at the international levels.
The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) is a body functioning under the aegis of the Ministry of External Affairs of the Government of India and its mandate includes participation in the formulation and implementation of policies and programmes relating to India’s External Cultural relations and to foster and strengthen cultural relations and mutual understanding between India and other countries.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Cities> Hyderabad / by Special Correspondent / Hyderabad – March 31st, 2016
A village called ‘Military Madhavaram’ sparked off the idea and it was but natural for an astute filmmaker called Radhakrishna Jagarlamudi to narrate its story in the form of a film called ‘Kanche’ that got attention at the national-level and got nominated as the Best Regional Film.
Radhakrishna Jagarlamudi popularly known as Krish directed the award winning Telugu feature film “Kanche”.- Photo: C.V. Subrahmanyam
“I am so happy that an untold story bagged national attention. From this village alone, about 2,000 people fought for the allied forces in World War II, all over Asia. Each one of them is a story and I wish I could narrate each of them the way I did, in ‘Kanche’, produced by my father Sai Babu Jagarlamudi and my friend Y. Rajeev Reddy,” is what Krish, as the filmmaker is popular, had to say once he got news of the award. The film has Pragya Jaiswal and Varun Tej in the lead.
‘Military Madhavaram’ per se dates around from the 17th century and history says that the then King Pusapati Madhava Verma Brahma of the Gajapati dynasty ruling the Deccan and Orissa regions built a fort in Arugolanu village about 6 km from Madhavaram to protect his kingdom from enemies. He deployed soldiers from northern Andhra to this fort and provided them with agricultural land and housing sites.
According to senior citizens, Mahatma Gandhi once visited this village and a war memorial like the Amar Jawan Stupa at India Gate has been built in the memory of the soldiers from this village who sacrificed their life for the nation.
The village is called ‘Military Madhavaram’ because atleast one person from each family has worked in the military. Agriculture apart, an ambition for most of the youth is to join the armed forces, the filmmaker recalled, speaking about ‘Kanche’.
The nearest rail heads are Tadepalligudem and Nidadavolu. Asked about what sparked off the idea of making a film with this theme, Krish said, “No one really is aware that a whopping 25 lakh Indian soldiers fought in the World War II, the biggest event that changed the economic, political and power scenario of the world. I was keen on telling the world that India played a major role in this gigantic war.”
Since morning, the filmmaker’s phone hasn’t stopped ringing and his office is full of bouquets from people like Nandamuri Balakrishna, Prakash Raj and filmmaker Singeetham Srinivasa Rao, to name just a few !
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Andhra Pradesh / by Suresh Krishnamoorthy / Hyderabad – March 29th, 2016
Malavath Purna happens to be the youngest girl to scale the Mount Everest.
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There definitely is no comparison between Mount Everest and the vast stretches of desert in Jaisalmer. Yet, both of these geographical highlights on Earth have been etched in the memory of Malavath Purna, who happens to be the youngest girl to scale the Mount Everest.
Talking to TOI here on the sidelines of 65th All India Police Games Volleyball cluster 2015-16, she said that she is equally impressed with the vastness and might of both the places, and is quite awed with the very feeling of being at the Indo-Pak border, which made her even more proud of her feat.
Many treks have been charted since the historic ascent of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norway scaling Mount Everest in 1953. However, scaling of this Himalayan peak by Malavath Purna on May 25, 2014 was an altogether different achievement. This has set a record of a ‘new age new scale’. Purna became the youngest girl (at a mere 13 years and 11 months) in the world to reach the pinnacle of the 8,848 metres high Mount Everest. Hailing from a small village ‘Pakala’ in Nizamabad district of Telangana, she is the younger child of the farm labourers Lakshmi and Devidas while her elder brother is pursuing an engineering degree.
However, this mountaineer who made headlines ever since her feat, is now focusing on her studies and wants to be an IPS officer just like her real life idol and motivation R S Praveen Kumar, secretary, Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society.
Candidly, she shared as to how her parents are now proud to flaunt their diligent daughter. Purna, while advocating following a strict discipline and cleanliness measures by mountaineers said that she took the Tiber North Col Route or the North Ridge which happens to be less crowded.
“I was fortunate enough to be allowed to scale the peak at that age since now both Nepal and China are enforcing the age limits for various reasons including those aimed at eliminating risks taken by the younger and less experienced enthusiasts and also to reduce the litter,” said Purna adding that she had undertaken enough trekking training in mountains of Ladakh and Darjeeling. However, nothing had actually prepared her for braving the minus 60 degree celsius temperature of Mount Everest.
Focusing on her own studies and motivating children to pursue hard work for achieving their goals at present, she recollects treading off the beaten path while being accompanied by Sandhana Palli Anand on that glorious day of May 25 when her 52-day-long expedition culminated in a world record at about 5.55 am. “We were amongst 150 children who were originally selected for adventure sports and 20 of us were sent to the premier Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling and the two of us with a higher endurance were sent for Mt Everest expedition in April that year,” she retraced.
It was the 10 commandment of ‘never give up’ recited in her school every day that made her continue climbing the peak despite the initial sight of six bodies of mountaineers shaking her very soul.”
Long trekking hours, acclimatization and then bad weather were all actually a motivation to not give up before hoisting the National Flag at Mt Everest and even offering a salute to B R Ambedkar,” said Purna even as she expressed her gratitude for all that Telangana showered upon her after her accomplishment.
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News Home> City> Jaipur / by Jatinder Kaur Tur, TNN / March 27th, 2016
RGIA has been winning Skytrax Awards for the last seven years in various categories.
The Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) managed and operated by GMR Hyderabad International Airport Limited (GHIAL) has bagged the Skytrax ‘Best Regional Airport in India and Central Asia Award’.
RGIA has been winning Skytrax Awards for the last seven years in various categories.
SGK Kishore, CEO, GHIAL, said:
It is a moment of great honour and pride that Hyderabad Airport has again been crowned with Skytrax Award, this time as ‘Best Regional Airport in India and Central Asia’.
We have been consistently endeavouring to make our airport a place of delight for our passengers. Hence, aligning our vision with our honourable Prime Minister’s Digital India programme, we became the first airport in India to implement end-to-end seamless e-boarding process for our passengers.
On environment front also, we are harnessing solar power to meet our airport’s energy requirement during peak day hour with our 5MW solar power plant at the airport. We have robust passenger feedback mechanism and we ensure that our passenger’s comfort is kept at on our top priority.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Cities> Hyderabad / by Staff Reporter / Hyderabad – March 23rd, 2016
In order to facilitate trade and investment between Australia, New Zealand and the Indian subcontinent, the country’s largest start-up incubator T Hub here on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Tat Capital, a corporate advisory firm.
The MoU facilitates T-Hub’s start-ups access with Tat Capital’s global family office and investor network, connects T-Hub’s start-ups with globally recognised Australian growth companies with next generation innovations to explore acquisition, partnerships and strategic investment ideas, and connects T-Hub’s start-up and VC community with Australian VC, private equity and family office investors to cross-pollinate ideas, technology and capital between the regions.
Speaking on the ocassion, Jay Krishnan, CEO, T-Hub said, “Entrepreneurs are always breaking boundaries and this is another geographical barrier that we hope entrepreneurs in India, especially T-Hub, will cross and help us establish a long standing relationship with Australia and New Zealand.”
“ This also provides them with an opportunity to sail in uncharted waters. We look forward to this association with Tat Capital.”
Tat Capital co-founder Ram Gorlamandala said the new agreement was testament to the growing interest in cross-border opportunities between the three countries.
“India is a natural fit in many ways for Australian business, and vice versa,” he said.
“In recent times we haven’t seen the level of interest in India that it warrants, but this is changing rapidly,” he added.
The MoU will allow Tat Capital to offer Australian businesses access to Indian expertise from the Indian School of Business, Indian Institute of Information Technology, and the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research.
Australian companies will be able to utilize resources in Indian business, technology, intellectual property and legal frameworks to start or improve their businesses in India.
Tat Capital, along with number of prominent and listed Australian, New Zealand and Indian businesses, will host a business insights tour to Hyderabad next month.
source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> States> Telangana / by Express News Service / March 08th, 2016
A Class IX student from the district has received a rare honour of being invited to the renowned NASA in the US.
The 14-year-old Rishikesh, studying in Wanaparthy’s Chanakya Pvt High School, topped in a national level talent test conducted by an Indian Talent Organisation. This victory has earned him an invitation from NASA.
Rishikesh will get an opportunity to interact with scientists of the space agency. The boy expressed happiness and said that his selection has reinforced his desire to become a scientist in future. The student also added that he loves chemistry and is fond of carrying out chemical experiments. Rishikesh expressed gratitude to his parents and is expected to visit NASA in May.
source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> States> Telangana / by Express News Service / March 05th, 2016
Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport has been declared as the third best airport in the world, in the 5-15 million passengers per annum category, by the Airports Council International.
It is for the seventh year in a row that the facility, operated and managed by GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd, is being featured among the world’s top three airports in the Council’s ASQ ranking.
The award will be presented at the ASQ awards ceremony in April as a part of the 2016 ACI Asia-Pacific Regional Assembly in Gold Coast, Australia.
“It is a moment of great pride for us… we thank our passengers for keeping the faith in us”, GHIAL CEO S.G.K. Kishore said in a release.
The award also enhances the visibility of the city, furthering the ‘Brand Hyderabad’ initiative of Telangana government.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Andhra Pradesh / Special Correspondent / Hyderabad – March 02nd, 2016
