Monthly Archives: March 2016

Rajiv Gandhi International Airport bags award

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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

L&TMRH Coffee Table book gets award

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L&T Metro Rail (Hyderabad) Limited – Coffee Table Book has bagged the prestigious ABCI Silver Award under the Prestige Publications category, at the 55th Annual Awards Contest, organized by the Association of Business Communicators of India (ABCI) at an awards night in Mumbai last week.

L&TMRH Coffee Table Book bagged the honours for the clarity of its communication, design, vibrancy of expression and for demonstrating that the strength of an organisation is its people.

The book is a grand compilation of the major achievements of the company with a theme of “One Team One Dream” since its inception, aesthetically designed, highlighting the importance of PPP, various events, people, vendors and project related information with project photographs, a press release said.

The ABCI is the oldest and largest of communication body in India.

This year, over 120 organizations representing private sector companies, PSUs and communication agencies had submitted a total of 1425 entries.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Cities> Hyderabad / by Special Correspondent / Hyderabad – March 22nd, 2016

Table tennis player Bhaavitha on to a bigger league

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Nagulapalli Bhaavitha
Nagulapalli Bhaavitha

N. Bhaavitha is gearing up for the sub juniors level, having sailed through the cadets category

Nagulapalli Bhaavitha inherited the ping pong genes from her table tennis player father Ravikanth. Before long, the duo roped in her five cousins to the game as well. She has since left all of them far behind, becoming Telangana state cadet girls champion two years in a row. “I used to play the game at the university level with my good friend Maduri Venugopal. So it was only natural that I entrusted my daughter to his coaching at Gujarati Seva Mandal,” says Ravikanth.

Starting off as a seven year old, Bhaavitha showed early promise. In 2013, she clinched the mini cadets girls crown at the Anandnagar Welfare Association (AWA) state ranking tournament. In the Secunderabad Public School tournament, she was the individual cadet champion and paired with Devyani for the team title as well.

The 12-year-old acknowledges the support she gets from class teacher ‘Sudip maam’ and ‘Principal Kasturi Chatterjee maam’ at Gitanjali Devashray School in Secunderabad. Although she travels quite a lot for the game including to the zonal events across the country, Bhaavitha has not slackened in studies.

In 2014 after finishing runner up in the St. Paul’s ranking championship, she went on to win the state ranking tournaments at Khammam in September, the Darga Pentappa memorial in October and the AWA event also in October.

The following year turned out to be even better, as she reached the rounds of 16 and eight in the national zonal championships.

Bhaavitha made sure she won the St. Paul’s title that had eluded her and then emerged cadet girls winner in the Mahavir Institute of Engineering & Technology, the AWA and Mahabubnagar state ranking tournaments culminating in the final triumph at the Nalgonda State championship. She had won the state cadet crown a stunning seven times !

Bhaavitha’s ambition is to follow in the footsteps of her academy mates and role models Nikhat Banu and Varuni Jaiswal and achieve at the international level. She’s keen to emulate their forehand topspin driven game as well.

Now that she’s through with the cadets category, the sprightly lass is gearing up for the next level, the sub-juniors. While others in school are enjoying their holidays, she’s sweating it out in the morning and evening in long practice sessions.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Features> MetroPlus / b A. Joseph Anthony / Hyderabad – March 16th, 2016

Female cops in all Telangana Police Stations

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File complaints about sex harassment: DGP

With TS government reserving 33 per cent posts for Women in the police department, every police station will have women police officers. (Representational image)
With TS government reserving 33 per cent posts for Women in the police department, every police station will have women police officers. (Representational image)

Hyderabad:

Women will be empowered only when they become economically independent and come forward to complain about sexual harassment, said Mr Anurag Sharma, the DGP of Telangana.

With TS government reserving 33 per cent posts for women in the police department, every police station will have women police officers. This move will encourage women to approach the police, Mr Sharma said at a programme on ‘Awareness on Legal rights and Self defence Techniques’, organised by the TS CID and Hyderabad SHE team.

More police stations and women officers may not empower women. Only when they achieve economic independence, they get empowered, he said.

Hyderabad police commissioner M. Mahender Reddy praised the role of SHE teams in the city. Nearly 100 SHE teams are operating in the city and they carry cameras to record eve teasers in action. “Apart from booking them, they are also counselled along with their parents and families,” the commissioner said.

The police will be installing one lakh CCTV cameras across the city and they will be linked to the Command Control Center. For providing a one stop multipurpose help center for women, a new counselling center has been opened at HACA Bhavan.

Tollywood actress Manchu Laxmi said there should be a change in the mindset of men towards women. Film star Ramcharan Tej, senior police officials and nearly 3,000 city college girls participated in the event, where they were given awareness on legal issues and taught self defence techniques.

source: http://www.deccanchronicle.com / Deccan Chronicle / Home> Nation> Crime / Deccan Chronicle / March 14th, 2016