Daily Archives: February 2, 2015

First of its kind

Records, All, Sports, World Opinion
Foreign students in a celebratory mood. / Photo: V. V Subrahmanyam / The Hindu
Foreign students in a celebratory mood. / Photo: V. V Subrahmanyam / The Hindu

A sports meet was organised for foreign students in Hyderabad

A few days after Makara Sankranthi, a festive mood still lingered at the Nizam College Grounds though for a different reason: it was to host the first-ever sports meet for foreign students studying in and around Hyderabad, organised by the Sports Coaching Foundation (SCB), Masab Tank.

Conceived and conceptualised by K. Sai Baba, general secretary of SCF, the whole idea was to not only let the foreign students showcase their skills,(most of them are regular footballers at the floodlit SCF) but also to gently remind city students of the need to engage in some sport.

Not surprisingly, foreign students latched on to the opportunity and enjoyed the ambience.

With S. Rajesh Kumar of Athletics Association, and V. Satyanarayana, Director of Physical Education, OU, taking care of the technical conduct of the meet, there were little hiccups.

It was an onerous task for the organisers as about 1500 students participated in the three-day sports meet which was marked fby the camaraderie and true sportsman spirit during competitions in cricket, basketball, volleyball, football and some select events in athletics.

Iraq and Afghanistan

Teams from Iraq dominated team events like basketball, football and volleyball while students from the war-hit Afghanistan showed great spirit to clinch key events in athletics.

In individual events, Ruby Babak of Afghanistan cornered glory with a ‘double’ winning the women’s 100 m and the 200 m events in style.

S. Venkata Chalam, vice-chairman of Telangana State Council for Higher Education, gave away the prizes at the valedictory function where well-known broadcaster G. K. Marar, an alumnus of Nizam College which was celebrating 150th year of its inception was also felicitated.

Important results

Track & field: 100 m: Women: 1. Ruby Babak (Afghanistan) 19.5 sec, 2. Nizala (Afghanistan), 3. Arjoo (Iraq).

200 m: 1. Ruby Babak (Afghanistan) 45.60 sec, 2. Nizala (Iran), 3.Khalida (Iran).

Team events

Men: Iraq beat Nigeria 21-19.

Volleyball: Iraq beat South Sudan 2-1.

Football: Iraq beat South Sudan 2-1.

Cricket: Afghanistan beat Rest of Africa.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Sport> Other Sports / by V.V. Subrahmanyam / January 28th, 2015

5 City Students Selected for Global Business Competition

Education, Science & Technology, World Opinion

Hyderabad :

Five high school students from Hyderabad got a unique chance to compete in the TiE Young Entrepreneurs (TyE) global business plan competition for their innovative project ‘TICH’, which will provide online services even to those who don’t have access to the Internet.

Keshav, Rishi Reddy, Neha Acharya, Yagna Agarwal and Zayaan will compete in the global competition where the winners will be awarded a cash prize of $10,000. The best project will also receive funding from top corporate companies, according to Safir Adeni, president of TiE Hyderabad. The children earned this rare opportunity for developing a professional business plan for an innovative idea to provide online services through a call centre.

According to the plan, a call centre will be set up where customers can call and seek various services. This will process the requests of the customers and send the results to them. The services include online shopping, ticket booking and applying for jobs and admissions.

This project was developed by the children as part of the TYE Hyderabad business plan competition where the best team was selected to be sent for the global competition.

Other participants in the Hyderabad competition have also come up with innovative business ideas which included app-based services to manage booking of playgrounds in the city and a techno-glass which is similar to the Google glass. Around 25 children, who participated in the competition in Hyderabad, were mentored by experts from prestigious institutes like Indian School of Business (ISB) and International Institute for Information Technology and some experts from industry. During the 16-week course they were trained in several business-related topics such as conducting market research.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Cities> Hyderabad / by Express News Service / February 02nd, 2015