Khursheed Hussain with his Guinness World Records certificate (Photo: DC/File)
Hyderabad:
Khursheed Hussain, a Guinness World Record holder in typing, has now set the world record in typing using his nose. The record for ‘nose-typing’ was earlier held by a girl from Dubai.
He is the first one from India to hold two Guinness World Records. “I had to struggle a lot to get this for the country. I had to undergo regular mental and fitness training. And I practised for about eight hours a day for six months,” said Mr Hussain.
source: http://www.deccanchronicle.com / Deccan Chronicle / Home> Nation> Current Affairs / DC Correspondent / June 25th, 2014
Companies that have made it to the list include Amara raja batteries, Andhra bank, Aurobindo Pharma, Dr Reddy’s among others
Sixteen companies from Hyderabad have made way to the recently released ‘India’s Top 500 Companies’ report of Dun & Bradstreet (D&B), a provider of global business information and insight.
According to D&B, the ranking is done on the basis of various parametres such as total income, net profit and net worth. It includes both private sector and public sector companies that are listed on stock exchanges.
The companies that have been included in the report are Amara raja batteries, Andhra bank, Aurobindo Pharma, BS Limited, Coromandel International, Cyient, Dr Reddy’s, Gayatri Projects, HBL Power Systems, Heritage Foods, Madhucon Projects, NCC, NMDC, Prism Cement, Ramky Infrastructure and Steel Exchange India Limited.
“Despite subdued consumption demand and inflationary pressures that persisted during FY14, the top 500 Companies managed to show a modest 8 per cent growth in their top line earnings during first nine months of FY14 as compared to the same period previous year.
“On the profitability front, margins declined marginally from 7.5 per cent during 9M FY13 to 7 per cent during 9M FY14. On the back of policy initiatives expected from the new government, we expect revival in the domestic economy in FY15, albeit at a slower pace, as measures to boost business confidence will take time to fructify. For FY15, D&B expects the GDP to grow by 5.5 per cent,” D&B India president and chief executive officer, Kaushal Sampat, stated in a press release.
source: http://www.business-standard.com / Business Standard / Home> Companies> News / BS Reporter / Hyderabad – June 23rd, 2014
Hyderabad continued its top-notch record in IIT Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) with Ch Sai Chetan from the city bagging the second rank, the results of which were announced on Thursday evening. Names of three others from the city figure in the IIT-JEE toppers’ list. In the divided state, Chetan emerged the topper in Telangana while Revuri Lohit from Tirupati became the state topper in Andhra Pradesh, having secured the fourth rank in the exam.
Rajasthan’s Chitraang Murdia topped JEE (Advanced) securing 334 out of a total of 360 marks.
In all, the two states bagged five of the top 10 ranks and 11 of the top 20 ranks. Overall 19416 students from across the country, including 6,000 from OBC, 4,400 from SC and 1,250 from ST categories, figured in the common merit list this year.
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Hyderabad / TNN / June 20th, 2014
Manish Pandey, an amputee, bagged two medals for India at the Tunisia Grand Prix
Manish Pandey
When Manish Pandey lost his right leg in a train accident in 2011, little did he think that he’d one day be competing in the international sports circuit. But the 22-year-old is doing just that. Manish, who represents Hyderabad, bagged two medals for India in his maiden appearance on the international circuit at the IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Tunisia.
Manish, who now has his sights set on the Asian Paralympics to be held in South Korea in October, qualified to compete in the T-44 category and went on to bag the silver medal in the 200 meter sprint on June 16 and bronze in the 100 meter two days later. “This was my first international competition and I’m happy with the results. It has helped me qualify for the Asian Paralympics to be held in October,” he says.
Four years back when Manish was returning home after writing an exam, he got pushed out of the train. “I remember it was the World Cup finals that day and I wanted to watch the match so I chose to go by local train to reach earlier. It was crowded and I accidentally got pushed out of the train, which ran over my leg. However, I didn’t want this to stop me. I had always actively participated in sports. So I began to focus on creating a career in sports,” he says.
But with no clue about how to go about things, Manish went to Bangalore in 2012 for trials where he met Ratan Singh, a member of the Paralympics Committee. “He shared tips with me and told me that while I had the talent, I needed a blade to be able to run. However, this prosthetic costs around Rs. 3 or 4 lakh. Finally, towards the end of 2013 I was approached by Mohana Gandhi of Dakshin Rehab; he offered to help me. Ever since, I have been in the city, practising and representing it in competitions,” says Manish.
While he is supported by the foundation, he says that there is no government funding for them. “For the Tunisia Paralympics I needed Rs. 1.5 lakh and I borrowed from family and friends to be able to participate. Dakshin Rehab also supported me. This lack of funding also means that I cannot afford to have anybody to monitor my training or diet. I take tips from peers and by watching athletes by like Oscar Pistorius and Usain Bolt,” he says, adding that he trains for two hours every morning in the gym and another two hours at the stadium every evening.
Manish, who hopes to bag a gold at the 2016 Paralympics, says that he hopes to find a sponsor. Until then the athlete, who has made Hyderabad his home, says, “It is the perfect place for me. I busy with practice. My parents continue to live in Chhattisgarh, but I have some cousins here so I feel quite at home.”
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Features> MetroPlus / June 28th, 2014
The Spine Institute of city-based Sunshine Hospitals has been chosen as centre of excellence in Kyphoplasty, a minimally invasive surgery of the spine that provides instant relief from back pain, by US-based Academia of Medtronics, a medical education programme for senior practising surgeons.
As part of the medical education programme, the Spine Institute conducted a two-day training programme for ortho and neuro surgeons from New Delhi. “Kyphoplasty is designed to stop the unbearable back pain of patients caused due to spinal fractures. This happens among patients who have osteoporosis because their bones are brittle. Such patients suffer frequent and painful fractures. We have been conducting this simple procedure for over five years in Hyderabad,” Director, Spine Institute, Dr. G. P. V. Subbaiah said.
Sunshine Hospitals has entered into an MOU with Academia of Medtronics to conduct similar educational programmes and also provide technical assistance on conducting Kyphoplasty procedures to senior surgeons.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Cities> Hyderabad / by Staff Reporter / Hyderabad – June 26th, 2014
Land near Ganesh temple in Secunderabad will be handed over to HMR
Chief Secretary Rajiv Sharma and Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) authorities have informed the Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao that different technical options were being explored to consider taking the Metro Rail alignment underground in front of Legislative Assembly and slightly diverting the alignment of corridor-II (JBS-Falaknuma) away from Sultan Bazaar.
Services of eminent technical experts should be taken to explore the varied options, the Chief Minister instructed after a detailed discussion with Chief Secretary Rajiv Sharma, MA&UD Principal Secretary S.K Joshi and HMR MD N.V.S. Reddy.
Mr. Rao once again instructed the metro rail authorities to ensure that no heritage structure is disturbed by the elevated viaduct alignment. Telangana Martyrs’ Memorial at Gun Park should be protected as also the view of the Legislative Assembly and the M.J. Market, apart from preserving the heritage value of Sultan Bazaar, senior officials said on Thursday.
Meanwhile, following the CM’s intervention, the project got the defence ministry approval for transfer of 2.15 acres of its land for construction of the Parade Grounds interchange Metro station and Right of Way for the Metro Rail for a length of 2.23 km in defence areas. The issue was lingering on for the last four years and successive chief secretaries were pursuing it with defence secretary and cabinet secretary in the past.
Mr. Rao thanked Defence Minister Arun Jaitley for allowing transfer of land and also thanked Urban Development Minister M.Venkaiah Naidu for facilitating fast clearance of recommendatory letters for concessional import tariffs for metro rail equipment.
With the defence ministry’s clearance, construction of Parade Grounds Metro station connecting the corridor-II and corridor-III (Nagole-Shilparamam) can be taken up now along with viaduct construction from the DCP North office in Marredpally to Secunderabad PG College (Paradise).
About 2.15 acres of defence land in front of Ganesh temple in Secunderabad will be handed over to HMR and in return, HMR will transfer 1.68 acres of old Gandhi hospital land for constructing a ‘Sainik Aramghar’ admeasuring 60,000 sft on it at HMR’s cost. The ministry has also permitted usage of 3.65 acres of defence land by HMR for construction of Metro Rail pillars and viaduct on a long term annual license fee basis, officials added.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Hyderabad / by Special Correspondent / Hyderabad – June 20, 2014
Managing Director Bakoban Hospital, Chandrayangutta, Mr. Abdur Rahman Bakoban congratulated Dr. G M Irfan specialist in General and laparoscopic pediatric surgery, on bagging internationally acclaimed Rashtra Gaurav Award and expressed his good wishes. Mr. Bakoban declared that Dr. Irfan has brought laurels to Hyderabad city. The award and certificate of excellence was presented to Dr. Irfan in a function held on June 12 in New Delhi.
The award was given by India International Friendship Society, a top listed voluntary organization which has completed 10 years of its social and economical services on national and international level.
Siasat news
source: http://www.siasat.com / The Siasat Daily / Home> Hyderabad / Thursday – June 19th, 2014
Salar Jung Museum turns 125. / Photo: K. Ramesh Babu / The Hindu
Hyderabadis pick their favourite exhibits at the museum and suggest improvements, including a better display and a good cafeteria.
A visit to a reputed museum would entail spending a few hours observing collections displayed across spacious galleries, getting insights into the history of the land, partaking in an ongoing event at the premises and topping it off with a fresh brew and short eats at the cafeteria.
A well-informed guide or an audio guide comes in handy for visitors who do not want to pause and read notes along the museum. While this would be possible in leading museums across the world, how many museums within India can boast of giving such an experience? As Hyderabad’s Salar Jung museum celebrates 125 years this weekend, MetroPlus attempts to gauge the merits of the museum and possible areas of improvement through a few of its visitors.
A 19th century sculpture from France, a double statue of Mephistopheles and Margaretta, made of a single block of wood is one of the attractions at the Salarjung Museum. / Photo: K. Ramesh Babu / The Hindu
National treasure
“The Salar Jung museum is a national treasure and is one of the better maintained museums in the country. A hurried visit might take a few hours but someone who keenly observes the exhibits is bound to take two days,” says filmmaker Indraganti Mohanakrishna who last visited the museum a year ago with his daughter. “It’s a great place where children don’t need to be engaged with gadgets. I liked revisiting the statues, the musical clock, arms and ammunitions gallery and was glad my daughter liked the Veiled Rebecca the most, which is my personal favourite too,” he adds. Children taking photographs of the musical alram clock at the museum. / Photo: K. Ramesh Babu / The Hindu
Art curator and gallery owner Avani Rao Gandra, like many Hyderabadis, visits the museum accompanying guests. She appreciates the collections that showcase India, the Middle East and Far East. “I once spent a day at the museum researching miniature paintings. Apart from hosting fantastic collections, the museum organises travelling exhibitions of interest,” she notes. While Avani feels the museum has an advantage because of its autonomy, she feels there is scope for improvement. “A month ago, I saw the elevation being spruced up. The display needs to improve as well. A gallery hosting jade collections requires a different design compared to a gallery with textile collections. Art management is significant abroad. Recently, I found a sea change at the National Museum, New Delhi, where art students volunteered as guides and the complex also has a cafeteria. Our museum too needs a good cafeteria apart from a better souvenir shop to offer a wholesome experience,” she states.
Indraganti agrees, “While visiting museums, quite often we have children or the elderly and a good cafeteria is a necessity,” he says.
French artist Beatrice de Fays rates the miniature paintings as her favourite for their precision. “I can spend hours there,” she says, also marvelling at the Veiled Rebecca. The Veiled Rebecca, a white marble statue by Italian sculptor Giovanni Maria Benzoni. / Photo: K. Ramesh Babu / The Hindu
The well-travelled draw comparisons between museums abroad and in India, underlining the need for museums here to evolve. Ajay Gandhi of Manthan treasures the memories of visiting the Salar Jung museum on many occasions and talks about the sculptures, costumes, crockery and cutlery of the Nizam era, arms and ammunition, but feels the museum needs something more to engage visitors. “The archaeological museum at Acropolis, Greece, for instance, had recreated an entire excavated city at its basement. We need something more, besides the exhibits,” he says.
Visitors at the museum. / Photo: K. Ramesh Babu / The Hindu
Inclusive space
The Salar Jung Museum scores with its accessibility to people from different walks of life. Museologist Anita Shah who has researched extensively on how people react to museums, has in the past given several professional recommendations to make the museum a more inclusive public space. “Several recommendations were implemented. I had suggested organising events to bring in different communities and allowing them to exhibit their art,” she says. Anita lauds the ivory collections, miniature paintings, manuscripts, textile gallery, artillery gallery and the jade gallery and hopes to see the museum grow stronger.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> MetroPlus> Society / by Sangeetha Devi Dundoo / Hyderabad – June 19th, 2014
Mushraf Al Farooqi, nephew of YSR Congress MLA of Kadapa S.B. Amzath Basha, excelled in civil services by securing 80th rank.
Son of Assistant Commissioner of Excise, Murtuza Al Farooqi, who is settled in Hyderabad, Mushraf is an engineering graduate from Chennai and took coaching in IAS Academy in New Delhi. He is keen on opting for IAS.
DSP of CID in Tirupati, Yeddula Vijay, 31, who was a student of St. Joseph High School in Kadapa, secured 263rd rank in civil services. Vijay, son of Yeddula Samuel, senior manager in Union Bank of India, Nellore, passed MBBS from Kurnool Medical College.
He was selected in APPSC Group I and served earlier as DSP of Mancherial in Adilabad district.
Kommisetty Muralidhar of Power House Street in Proddatur, who secured the 406th rank in civil services, is an M. Tech. in Computer Science from IIT, Chennai.
Son of Ramprasad, sanitary supervisor in Proddatur municipality, and Gopalamma, a teacher, Muralidhar was selected to IFS in results announced in January this year.
Picture used for representational purpose. (Photo: jharkhandstatenews.com)
Hyderabad:
Hyderabad girl Krithika Jyotsna Mishra bagged the 30th rank and topped the Union Public Service Commission civil services exam, 2013, in both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. She bagged the 30th rank among 1,122 persons selected this year by the UPSC for IAS, IPS, IFS and other Central services. Thirty-five other candidates from the two states have made it to the big league this year.
Following Kritika is S. Krishna Aditya, who bagged the 99th rank to become one of the two from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh to make it to the top 100. Kona Vamsi Krishna bagged 103rd rank while Siva Prakash Devaraju came 114th in the civil services exam. E. Saicharan Tejaswi was ranked 124th while Ravali Priya G. came 161st. This is also the first UPSC result after the change in the pattern of examination.
Gopal Krishna, director, Brain Tree, said, “The changed pattern favours students with a humanities background. Though most of students are from engineering background they have performed very well.”
Krithika is the daughter of IFS officer and former principal chief conservator of forests for Telangana S.B.L. Mishra. Her brother Kartikeya Mishra is the CMD of CPDCL North Zone.
Senior IAS officer Hiralal Samariya’s son, Peeyush Samariya, qualified for the civil services with 165th rank. He had earlier qualified for IRS and is currently Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax.
source: http://www.deccanchronicle.com / Deccan Chronicle / Home> Nation> Education / DC Correspondent / June 13th, 2014
