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Meghana Sabbineni selected for Women World Cup squad

Sabbineni Meghana from Vijayawada who currently plays for Railways. She plays primarily as a right-handed batter. So far she has appeared in 6 Twenty20 Internationals for India, and recently selected to the 2022 Women World Cup squad.  The T20I will be played at Napier on February 9. It will be followed by a five-match ODI series, from February 11 to 24. India’s matches at the World Cup: v Pakistan, Tauranga, March 6; v New Zealand, Hamilton, March 10; v West Indies, Hamilton, March 12; v England, Tauranga, March 16; v Australia, Auckland, March 19; v Bangladesh, Hamilton, March 22; v South Africa, Christchurch, March 27. The squad for the T-20I: Harmanpreet Kaur (Capt.), Smriti Mandhana (Vice-capt.), Shafali Verma, Yastika Bhatiya, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (wk), Sneh Rana, Pooja Vastrakar, Meghna Singh, Renuka Singh, Taniya Bhatia (wk), Rajeshwari Gaykwad, Poonam Yadav, Ekta Bisht, Sabbhineni Meghana and Simran Bahadur.

Geetika Kodali To Lead USA Women Under-19 Team

Geetika Kodali (Captain), Laasya  Mullapudi (Vice Captain) to lead  USA Women Under-19 Team To St. Vincent. USA Cricket are incredibly pleased to announce a historic inaugural international tour for the USA Women’s Under 19s team as they are set to travel to the Caribbean next month to play against Windward Islands U19 Women’s team in a series of four Twenty20 matches. The Windward Islands comprise the islands of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, St. Lucia and Dominica. In partnership with both the Windward Islands Cricket Board and the St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) Cricket Association, this tour is part of the wider long-term strategic partnership that USA Cricket has with Cricket West Indies (CWI), our nearest Full Member Nation of the ICC. This tour is the culmination of a huge year for the Women and Girls game in the United States, with the newly launched domestic pathway, the Sistar Mortgage Women’s National Championships (Senior Women’s and Under 19) alongside th

Australian Academy of Science appoints nanotechnology pioneer Chennupati Jagadish as president

  One of the World-leading physicist and Australian National University professor Chennupati Jagadish has been elected as the next president of the Australian Academy of Science. The nanotechnology pioneer will be the 20th president in the national science organisation's history and the first Australian of Indian heritage appointed to the coveted position by his peers. The role of academy president will have him champion the cause of scientific excellence while leading the organisation in providing advice to the Australian Parliament. He will replace biochemist and molecular biologist Professor John Shine, who has held the position since 2018. The academy's home, the Shine Dome, was renamed after the outgoing professor in 2000 in recognition of a $1 million donation he made to help restore the iconic Canberra building. Professor Jagadish takes on the role of president at the same time the academy is reporting young scientific researchers have been severely impacted by the

Indian-American Reshma Kosaraju wins Children’s Climate Prize

Forest fires have become a global problem, causing over 339,000 premature deaths worldwide – and threatening biodiversity by destroying animals and nature. While the world is still looking for a solution for this issue, Reshma Kosaraju’s project on the uses of AI technology to predict forest fires has won her the Children’s Climate Prize, 2021. A fifteen-year-old from Saratoga, USA, Reshma’s innovative and solution-oriented approach to forest fires, a highly topical and growing global issue, made her project stand out. The Children’s Climate Prize (CCP) was started by the Swedish company Telge Energi. It’s been given every year since 2016 to a person between the ages of 12 and 17 who has made “extraordinary efforts” to improve life on the planet for children now and in the future. This year, the prize organizers report that a record number of young people from 32 different countries were nominated for the prize. The project — AI against forest fires — can predict forest fires with a

Megha Ganne named AJGA Rolex Player of the Year

Every time Megha Ganne teed it up in an American Junior Golf Association event in 2021, she contended. For those in the know, it came as no surprise that she also contended in one of women’s golf biggest events – the U.S. Women’s Open. Ganne was hardly an unknown entering the year, having qualified for the Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals four times and advanced to the semifinals at the 2018 U.S. Women’s Amateur. But she took her game to a new level this season, especially on the junior circuit. She played in five events recognized by the Rolex AJGA Rankings without ever finishing outside the top four and has been named the AJGA’s Rolex Player of the Year. It’s the junior golf association’s highest honor for players. Ganne finished T3 at the Rolex Tournament of Champions and T3 at the ANNIKA Invitational early in the AJGA season. She won the Scott Robertson Memorial, a long-running junior golf event in Virginia, before making big headlines as the 17-year-old contending at the U.S

MAA Elections: Manchu Vishnu defeats Prakash Raj by a huge margin

Vishnu Manchu has defeated Prakash Raj in MAA elections 2021 by a huge margin. Actor Vishnu Manchu is the new president of the Movie Artists Association (MAA). While everyone predicted a neck-to-neck contest between Vishnu and his rival Prakash Raj, the former won the elections by a huge margin of over 107 votes Telugu news channels have noted that Vishnu’s father Mohan Babu played a huge role in the former’s victory. It is said that he took control of Vishnu’s campaign and threw his entire might behind him, leading him to a comfortable win. All the key posts in the Association won by Kamma Actors  1) President: Manchu Vishnu 2) General Secretary: Yerra RaghuBabu 3) Executive Vice President: Meka Srikanth 4) Vice Presidents: Madala Ravi 5) Maganti Benarjee  Congratulations to all our members.