Daily Archives: June 12, 2018

Award for Singareni CMD

Business & Economy, Leaders, Records, All

N. Sridhar

The Institute of Economic Studies (IES) has selected Chairman and Managing Director of Singareni Collieries Company Ltd N. Sridhar for its Outstanding Global Leadership Award in recognition of the latter’s leadership skills in improving the performance of the company over the last four years.

The award would be presented at the global economic summit to be held at Dubai on June 28. It is the second international award to be received by the top executive of the SCCL this year with the Enterprise Asia presenting him the Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship award for 2017, according to officials.

In a letter sent to SCCL, Executive Director of the Institute of Economic Studies, Sangeetha Singh, stated that the award would also comprise a gold medal and invited Mr. Sridhar to attend 28th global economic summit to be held in Dubai. It said ‘IES confers the leadership award to financial experts, parliamentarians, financial research experts for India’s financial stability’.

Officials of the SCCL stated that the company has gained international recognition along with scaling up its performance during the last four years.

The company’s turnover has increased from ₹11.928 crore in 2013-14 to ₹22,667 crore in 2017-18.

Similarly, profit of the company has also gone up from ₹419 crore to ₹1,200 crore during the last four years, registering an increase of over 186%.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Hyderabad / by Special Correspondent / Hyderabad – June 12th, 2018

Class 7 Telangana chess whiz is now World No. 1

Education, Records, All, Sports, World Opinion

N.V.S. Ramaraju with V. Praneeth. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Telangana’s Vuppala Prraneeth is now World No. 1 in chess in the under-11 category, his coach N.V.S. Ramaraju, who is also credited with training chess Grandmaster Dronavalli Harika, has revealed.

For someone known to be ‘very good’ in opening and middle-games, Prraneeth came under Mr. Ramaraju’s wing three years ago. “There is no doubt that he is a potential champion from the State in the days to come,” the proud coach, who runs Race Chess Academy in the city, tells The Hindu.

Prraneeth, whose parents hail from Nalgonda, has a creditable ELO2281 and was felicitated by the Sports Authority of Telangana State chairman A. Venkateshwar Reddy last week.

Mr. Reddy assured complete support to the chess wizard in his pursuit of excellence at higher levels and hoped he would become a Grandmaster soon, given his consistency in tough events.

For the record, Prraneeth bagged bronze in the 201 South Asian championship and set a record of sorts scoring ELO22 points in the 14th Parshwanath International championship in Delhi. “There is obviously a lot of scope for improvement and the best part is that he is very young, sincere and puts in hours of hard work,” points out Mr. Ramaraju.

This Class 7 student of David Memorial High School is now dreaming of bigger things, including World championship titles in his age group as he embarks on what he feels will be a demanding journey.

“I am aware that I have to widen my opening game repertoire and also improve upon my end-game. But with Ramaraju sir taking care of every aspect of my game, I am confident of achieving bigger things,” says Prraneeth.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> States> Telangana / by V.V. Subrahmanyam / Hyderabad – June 11th, 2018