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Tara Yarlagadda receives top honors in High School Journalism

Tip of the old fedora to Acalanes High senior Tara Yarlagadda for winning the Quill and Scroll International Honorary Society for High School Journalists' (whew) award for stellar feature journalism writing. Yarlagadda's entry, "Sexting Sweeps The Nation," was judged the best feature story of 351 entries submitted by high school newspapers across the country (USA) . Her piece focused on the perils faced by students who share graphic images and information with others via their cell phones.

Rakindo Kumarakom Backwater Golf Resort: one of the Top 10 tourist destinations in the world.

Rakindo’s Kumarakom Backwater Glof Resort project will soon be the ‘Crown Jewel’ of Kerala’s tourism landscape. RAKINDO Developers Pvt Ltd (Prasad Koneru, Managing Director), is a Joint Venture between RAKEEN, a Joint Stock Company, promoted by the Govt. of Ras-Al-Khaimah, UAE and the Trimex Group, India. Spread over 450 acres and set amidst the beautiful backwaters of Kumarakom, Kerala, ‘Kumarakom Resorts’, Rakindo’s resort golf – themed township will incorporate the best of lifestyle concepts including *A 18-hole international golf course *Resort hotel & spa *Chic cafes & restaurants *Street mall *Villas *Condominiums RAKINDO Developers will provide comprehensive and world class amenities in their townships through strategic alliances and partnerships in education, hospitality, health and retail. RAKINDO’s has formed a JV with Millennium & Copthorne Hotels Plc, a global hotel company which owns and operates over 110 hotels in 18 countries for investment into hospitalit

Raju Narisetti

Raju Narisetti (born June 26, 1966, s/o Narisetti Innaiah & Venigalla Komala) has been a journalist of 20 years, 13 of which he spent at the Wall Street Journal in the U.S. and Europe. Raju has a master's degree in journalism from Indiana University at Bloomington; an MBA from the Institute of Rural Management in Anand, Gujarat; a post-graduate diploma in journalism from the Times of India School of Journalism in New Delhi and a bachelor's degree in economics from Nizam College, Hyderabad. In January 2009, Narisetti was named a managing editor of The Washington Post. As one of two Managing Editors, he is responsible for all content at Washingtonpost.com; the Post's Interactivity team; the Post's Presentation Team (photo, graphics, design, multimedia), its print Features sections--Weekend, Travel, BookWorld, Food, and the Post Magazine (with columnists such as Pulitzer Prize winner Gene Weingarten and Tom Sietsema), in addition to Style, where he supervises editors

Archbishop Samineni Arulappa

 Archbishop Samineni Arulappa , often shortened to S Arulappa, (28 August 1924—13 February 2005) was an Indian Roman Catholic clergyman who served as the Archbishop of Hyderabad from December 1971 through January 2000. The youngest priest to be consecrated to such a high office, he was also the longest-serving Archbishop in India. He was also the first Archbishop who had the honour of being consecrated by Pope Paul VI in Rome .   "Love and Serve" was his motto. Arulappa was born on 28 August 1924 in a Kamma family to Smt. Rajamma and Sri Samineni Chinnaiah in Kilacheri in the state of Tamil Nadu. Earlier, his ancestors migrated southward from Guntur in search of livelihood. When the state of Andhra Pradesh was formed, Kilacheri fell under Tamil Nadu. He was the only son of their parents and was preceded by four sisters, three of whom are nuns. He was brought up in an atmosphere of strict discipline by his mother who wanted to see her only son become a Priest. The A

Anumolu Subba Rao receives Ellis Island Medal of Honour

WASHINGTON: Rao S Anumolu, an Indian-American from Long Island in New York, has been conferred with the prestigious Ellis Island Medal of Honour — the highest civilian award in the US for immigrants — for his contribution in the development of this country. Both the United States House of Representatives and Senate have officially recognized the Ellis Island Medals of Honour and the recipients are read into the Congressional Record. Among the past medalists include six US Presidents, as well as Nobel Prize winners and leaders of industry, education, the arts, sports and government. CEO of Long Island (New York)-based ASR International Corporation, Anumolu received the prestigious award on May 8, at a ceremony held at Ellis Island in the presence of several dignitaries. The Medal recognizes recipients for outstanding contributions to their communities, their nation and the world. Vijayawada born Anumolu came to the US in 1969 and obtained a Masters degree in Industrial Engineering and

Pranay Chowdary Malempati - Spelling Bee Champion Delaware state

Pranay Chowdary Malempati won the Delaware Spelling Bee contest will go on to the nationals to be held June 2-4, 2010 in Washington DC. Eleven-year-old Pranay Malempati, an Indian-American kid going by his name, represents Middletown’s Alfred Waters Middle School. The bespectacled youngster spelled ‘amenable’ correctly to win the state championship. Profile: Pranay plays Little League baseball. His favorite sports figures include Peyton Manning, Donavan McNabb, DeSean Jackson and Brett Favre. Sports aside, Pranay’s role models are his mother and father because Pranay says they make good choices and always do the right things. If you went to his home you would notice that he and his family also are fluent in Telugu. Pranay enjoys camping almost every month. He has earned the rank of First Class Boy Scout, plays violin in his school orchestra and participates in Science Olympiad and Odyssey of the Mind activities. Pranay aspires to become a cardiovascular surgeon and an entrepreneur

Aravind Eye Care Wins World’s Largest Humanitarian Prize

The Madurai-based Aravind Eye Care System, which has performed more than one-and-a-half million free eye surgeries in India, received the $1.5 million Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize April 20 in Redwood City, Calif. The world’s largest humanitarian prize was presented to Dr. P. Namperumalsamy, Aravind’s chairman, by Steven Hilton, grandson of the late hotelier Conrad Hilton, who created the prize in 1996. The prize money will be used to scale up the organization’s reach into India’s villages and its research into the diseases causing blindness, Namperumalsamy said. "The most critical aspect of our selection process is that the organization demonstrates success in alleviating human suffering in a creative way, and with real impact,” Hilton, who serves as chairman of the Conrad Hilton Foundation, told, noting that the selection each year is made by an independent jury. “Of all the things that could go wrong with your life, blindness has to be the most devastating. Aravind is dir

Dr P Namperumalswamy in the TIME '100 most influential people in the world' 2010 list

Leading magazine TIME named Padmashree Dr Perumal Namperumal Swamy Ravilla, Chairman of the Aravind Eye Care System, Madurai, to the '2010 TIME 100' list, the magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. The magazine said "Dr Namperumalsamy, 70, and his army of cataract fixers at Aravind eye care hospital can, through a simple surgery, give a blind person eyesight back in less time than it take to read the Magazine." From 1976, the hospital which was founded with goal of bringing assembly-line efficiency to health care, figured out how to replace cataracts safely and quickly. They had performed 3.6 million Surgeries to date, a new one every 15 minutes. The magazine also described the business model of the hospital as brilliant as 30 per cent of the patients can afford to pay subsidised free or low cost care for the 70 per cent who are poor. The writer, Mullaneu co-founder of the 'Smile Trains', which provides more

Yalamanchili wins 2nd Dist. Dem primary

Newcomer Surya Yalamanchili won the Democratic nomination in the 2nd Congressional District and will meet incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt in the fall. With nearly all precincts reporting in the sprawling district, Yalamanchili had 40 percent, Madeira businessman David Krikorian 38 percent and Parker, a health administrator from Pike County, had 21 percent. Krikorian all but conceded the Democratic primary late Tuesday, saying the Hamilton County vote appears to have given the victory to Yalamanchili, a former Procter & Gamble executive who lives in the East End. “I think we just won,” Yalamanchili told celebrants at Blackfinn in downtown Cincinnati. “Jean Schmidt is going to be a formidable competitor, but I don’t think the task will be as big as the one we just overcame … The next five months will be like the primary on steroids.” Krikorian blamed his apparent loss on allegations last week that he had made fun of Yalamanchili’s name. He strongly denied the accusations