BCCI expert to oversee pitches
The technical committee he referred to, had also resolved to train up groundsmen to develop quality pitches and Baruah said steps would be taken in this regard too.
CBI grills two accused in Emaar case
Hyderabad, Feb 4 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Saturday began grilling an executive of Emaar MGF and an aide of YSR Congress Party leader Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy in Emaar-APIIC township case.
XLRI meet on change-agents
Besides the duo, there are Kalyan Akkipedi of ProtoVillage in Andhra Pradesh, Vijay Jaju and Piyush Jaju of Onergy in Bengal, Shashank Kumar and Manish Kumar of Farms and Farmers Foundation in Bihar and Satish Viswanathan and Venkat Sriraman of Evidyaloka in Bangalore.
Tabla group play into record books
KLANG: A group of 165 tabla players led by R. Venkat Ram Swamy created history recently, when they played their way into the Malaysia Book of Records under the "The most number of tabla players in a performance" category.
Act, don't talk about pride
Footnote: Two of the national selectors, Surendra Bhave and Raja Venkat, reached Adelaide on Monday morning. They're expected to be in Australia till the middle of February.
Green Briefs Food waste and climate change
Avoidable food waste accounts for 2 percent of all carbon emissions in the United States, according to a new study by Kumar Venkat, a Bethany resident who operates CleanMetrics Corp. About two-thirds of the waste occurs at the production and processing stage, Venkat calculates. ?There is a ...
'Businessman' a must watch for punchy dialogues, Mahesh's superb acting
Film: 'Businessman'; Cast: Mahesh Babu, Kajal Agarwal, Prakash Raj, Shayaji Shinde, Nasser, Dharmavarapu Subramaniam, Brahmaji, Bharat Reddy, Raja Murad and Jahangeer Khan; Writer-Director: Puri Jagannath; Producer: Venkat; Music Director: S.S.Thaman; Camera: Shyam K. Naidu; Rating: ***
Visually challenged boy pens novel
Inspired by author J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, a visually challenged 18-year-old from a farmer's family in Gokavaram of East Godavari district, has spent seven years of his life writing
