Caldas Novas (Brazil), Nov 20 (IANS) It was a mixed day for India on the second day of the World Youth Chess Championships being held at the resort city of Caldas Novas.
Top seed in the Under-12 category Aravindh Chithambaram sailed smoothly to the third round beating Andrew Tang of the US in the second round here Saturday.
First round hero Sarang Ponkshe made his intentions clear in the championship as he outwitted Menezes Christoph of Austria rated above 300 elo points in the open category of Under-16 event.
The battle between Indian players Bala Kannamma and Nandhidha P.V. was interesting but Nandhidha emerged the winner in the girls Under-16 Category.
In the girls' under-18 category, A. Akshya produced a creditable win against her higher rated rival Chumpitaz Ann of Peru.
India's medal hopes suffered a serious set-back in the girls' Under-12 category as top seed Ivana Maria Furtado suffered shock defeat at the hands of Zhou Qiyu of Canada while medal prospect in Under-18 category Stany G.A. went down to lower rated Kozganbay Erken of Kazakhstan.
Second Round Results of Indian Players:
U-8 Girls: Lakshmi C beat Motahahere Asadi of Iran; Salonika Saina beat Ramirez Jemmily of Colombia; Tanishka Kotia lost to Sabzi Tina; Zhang Taylor of Canada lost to Bommini Mounika Akshaya.
U-8 Open: Ritam Nag lost to Muradli Mahammad of Azerbaijan; Sai Krishna S. lost to Noritsyn Sergey of Canada; Martinez Navarro Christian Ale of Peru lost to Ram Aravind L.N.
U-10 Girls: Bansi Prathima beat Nunonca Soto Lucero of Peru; Bidhar Rutumbara beat Korenova Magdalena of Czech Republic; Paredes Andrea of Ecuador lost to WFM Tarini Goyal; Lalla Kriti of South Africa beat Priyanka K.
U-10 Open: Rathanvel V.S. beat Vilca Javier of Peru; Rakesh Kumar Jena beat Jaramillo David of Ecuador; Anand nadir beat Leto Enzo of Argentina; Nitish Belurkar lost to Martin Juian of Germany; Correa Cristhian Mariano of Argentina lost to Mitrabha Guha.
U-12 Girls: WFM Ding Kimberly of the US drew with WCM Tejaswini Sagar; Priyamvada Karamcheti beat Ulusoy Nisan of Turkey; Zhou Qiyu of Canada beat WGM Ivana Maria Furtado; Padayachee Keyana Chloe of South Africa lost to WCM Savant Riya.
U-12 Open: Karthikeyan Murali beat FM Harshal Shahi; Tang Andrew of US lost to Aravindh Chithambaram; CM Nguyen Tan Hoang Nam of Vietnam lost to CM Abhimanyu Puranik; Vojdani Siavosh of Iran beat Hetul Shah.
U-14 Girls: WFM Monnisha G.K. beat Gueci Laura of Italy; Lasya G. beat Coelho Ramyres Santana of Brazil; WFM Srija Seshadri drew with Shepherd Katherine of England; Virkud Apurava of US drew with WFM Mahalakshmi M.
U-14 Open: FM Girish A. Koushik beat Krsnik Cohar Ivan Vihor of Croatia; Colas Joshua of US lost to FM Diptyan Ghosh; Ouaret Abdelouhab of Algeria lost to Satvik M.
U-16 Girls: Bala Kannamma lost to Nandhidhaa P.V.; Oliveira Maria Ines of Portugal lost to Pratyusha Bodda; Anjana Krishna S. of India drew with Movileanu Daniela of Italy.
U-16 Open: Pineiro Dario of Argentina drew with IM Shiven Khosla; Sarang Ponkshe beat Menezes Christoph of Austria ; Bianchi Augusto of Argentina lost to Antonio Viani D'cunha.
U-18 Girls: WFM Chumpitaz Ann of Peru lost to A. Akshaya; WFM Saranya J. drew with WIM Papp Petra of Hungary; Meghara Lylia of Algeria lost to Visalatchi R.
U-18 Open: GM Grandadam Nicolas of Switzerland drew with Himal Gusain; Kozganbay Erken of Kazakhstan beat Stany G.A.; Kerigan Demre of Turkey drew with Debashis Das.
2011/11/11 10:15:00 The 66th Brilliant Trophy open chess tournament, under the auspices of Brilliant Chess Academy, will be held at Brilliant Grammar High School in Dilsukhnagar on Saturday and Sunday.
A total of Rs 10, 00 will be given to the top 20 places in the open category. Special prizes will be given to the top 2 places in the Under-6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 age-group categories for both boys and girls.
Entries close by 1pm on Saturday.
Further details can be had from J Subrahmanyam on Tel No 92473-99717. (INN)
2011/11/12 10:01:08 Four players K. Samara Teja, G Hari, K Adithya and Niraj Kulkarni were in joint lead with 3 points in the juniors category of the 66th Brilliant Trophy chess tournament at Brilliant Grammar High School in Dilsukhnagar.
Swetha Sree, Daniel and Ritik are in the second spot with 2.5 points each.
In the Open category M Y Raju, J K Raju, D Suresh, Sai Krishna, A Kumar, S Khan, J R C Prasad, Rahul Srivastava, Chetan Sarma, Sriram and Harsha are leading with 2 points. Pujtha Reddy and Raja Srinivas are in the second spot with 1.5 points each. (INN)
2006/9/18 9:33:05 Here is the scoop of the month. So we talk about Indian’s going international in the film world. Well, now the tables have turned and how much they have turned.
Francis Ford Coppola, director the probably the best gangster film of all time The Godfather needed some outsourcing to be done for his latest film Youth without Youth. Apparently some scenes had to be shot in India but Coppola could not make it here and so he asked none other than Vishal ‘Omkara’ Bharadwaj to shoot certain scenes for him. Bharadwaj along with his team as well as Coppola’s second unit shot the film in Mumbai from September 6 to 8.
Bharadway was very happy with this development and when Coppola had asked him how much remuneration he would charge, Bharadwaj politely declined and said it was an honour to serve you.
Three cheers to you Vishal!
Youth without Youth is a pre-WWII drama where a major incident turns a professor into a fugitive.
2011/10/4 11:28:55 Three players were tied at the top spot with 4.5 points each from five rounds in the inter-school chess tournament here on Tuesday.
SSV Adithya of Geetanjali Devasray, Vighnasri of Geetanjali Devasray and Vamsikrishna Reddy of Johnson Grammar High School tied for first place from their respective outings. However Adithya was declared the winner for enjoying a better cumulative score.
Vignasree and Vamsikrishna Reddy were placed second and third respectively. P Trived got the fourth place while Shubham finished fifth.
The age-group winners were: Under-7: 1 Pushyami, 2. Sahithi; Under- 9: 1 P Trilochan, 2. Mayank; Under-11: 1 Koustubha, 2 P Shanmukh/Siddartha Reddy; Under-13: 1. E. Ramu, Dheeraj 2. Harsha. Later, Major K A Shiva Prasad gave away the prizes. (INN)
Her portrayal of a British Asian girl in "Namastey London" may have earned her rave reviews, but Katrina Kaif is fed up of waiting for a big hit.
"I'm tired of waiting for my films to work. I know I am just three-films-old and my first film 'Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya' was quite a success. But I still haven't been able make a place for myself," Katrina told IANS.
She has a reason to be happy though. On the sets of her new film "Race", she has found a chess partner.
"Thank god, Saif Ali Khan is an avid chess player like me. Whenever the camera is switched off we play chess. Over here in India nobody plays chess. Earlier, I persuaded my sister. I had to virtually bribe people to play chess with me."
The London-born actress, who has found the perfect part of a Londoner in "Namastey London" so early in her career, said: "When Shah offered me the role, I wasn't very sure I could pull it off. Once I was on, he gave me the freedom to interpret the character how I wanted. That really helped me to come to grips with my character's language and personality.
"Some reviewer in Mumbai commented that I pronounced words wrongly. Hello! This is probably some guy who has spent his life in Mumbai. I lived in London and know how to speak like young Indians out there. I've a good mind to dash off a letter to him."
In fact, one of Katrina's chief attractions in doing "Namastey London" was that she had the chance to finally dub her own lines.
"But you won't believe this, I finally wanted to chicken out of dubbing my own lines. I had this lengthy 45-minute discussion with Shah, convincing him why I couldn't dub. He heard me out quietly. I think, secretly he had decided I'd do the dubbing. I finally relented. But I made the sound recordist's life miserable. He finally told me to get out of the recording studio and return only during my next film. Thankfully, it's turned out well now."
She's grateful to Akshay Kumar for agreeing to do "Namastey London" with her. "Not too many actors in his position would want to do a female-oriented subject. But Akshay had absolutely no qualms. I like that."
Surprisingly, Katrina had more off-camera fun with Akshay during the making of their other film "Humko Deewana Kar Gaye".
"People are talking about the compatibility visible between us in 'Namastey...' but it was the other film where we really had all the fun. This time it was a far more serious business. Off-camera we were discussing scenes, getting our stance right, and so on. In 'Namastey...', Shah and I had more fun."
Katrina and her director Shah have now established a gratifying comfort zone between them.
"Before the film released I'd ask him the same question 20 times. I guess I was just nervous. He would patiently answer the first few times and then cut me short saying, 'The answer isn't going to change, no matter how many times you ask me.'
Next Katrina will be seen in Anil Sharma's "Apne".
"Though my co-star in the film is Bobby Deol, I'm completely captivated by Sunny Deol. He's the hero I've watched in my growing years. Whenever he's on the sets, I'm totally tongue-tied."
2007/11/21 13:05:51 The bandh call given by the farmer associations received mixed respnse. Political parties like the TDP, BJP, Communists and others backed the bandh. RTC buses were off the roads in many districts. While the bandh had a poor impact in the twin cities, in some districts, business and transport came to a stand still. The bandh call was given to demand MSP for paddy.
India makes it to top five at Miss Asia Pacific World
2011/10/16 11:04:55
New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS) India's Tanvi Singla was one of the top five finalists at the Miss Asia Pacific World pageant held in Busan, with the crown going to South Korea's Park Sae Byul.
"Yippppeeeeeee!! INDIA made top 5 out of 57!! Tanvi Singla is 4th runners up!!! Korea won the Miss Asia pacific world 2011! We are Back!!!" actress Sushmita Sen wrote on microblogging site Twitter.
Sushmita, who has acquired rights to choose India's official entry for the Miss Universe and Miss Asia Pacific World pageants through her I AM SHE pageant, is quite excited at the 19-year-old's achievement Saturday as India could make it so far after a long time.
"Tanvi truly made us proud..she was amazing!!! Thank you friends for all your prayers...Congratulations INDIA!! well done 'I AM she' team. There she is..TANVI SINGLA!! Her crowning moment!To see INDIA being crowned..I cried! What a feeling!" she added.
2011/7/11 12:07:01 Lok Satta Party president Jayaprakash Narayan on Monday demanded that the government, industry and NGOs to address the problem of growing unemployment on the one hand and the scarcity of skilled personnel on the other.
The country has to provide livelihood opportunities to 1.5 crore to 2 crore youth every year.
Talking to media at a career expo organized by the Student Islamic Organization of India, he said that about 60 lakh of youth in Andhra Pradesh would have to be provided employment avenues in the next five years.
Dr Narayan wanted the Government and voluntary organizations to impart training and skills to the youth so that they could meet the industry’s growing demand for skilled personnel.
He recalled that Lok Satta activists in Kukatpally constituency, which he represents in the Assembly, had enabled 1500 youth to find employment opportunities in the last six months by organizing training and providing counselling.
He congratulated SIO on its initiative to guide the minority youth on livelihood skills and employment avenues, and said the Government has to extend its support to such organizations.(INN)
London, Nov 6 (IANS) India's hope of winning the Miss World title for the sixth time came crashing down Sunday evening as Miss India World Kanishtha Dhankhar failed to make it to the top 25.
The Mumbai-based model has walked the ramp for designers like Rohit Bal and Sabyasachi Mukherjee.
Model-turned actress Priyanka Chopra was the last Indian model to win the title in 2000.
The gala event kicked off with dynamic performance by British Street Dance Troup "Diversity", followed by the introduction of the Miss World contestants.
The Chiranjeevi Charitable Foundation is organsing a cricket tourney for the physically challenged people on August 20th & 21st to coincide with his birthday that falls on August 22.
The matches will be held at the Vijayanand cricket ground at Rajendra Nagar. The winners will take home 20,000 and the runners up will take home 10,000. A national chess tournament for the visually impaired will be held on Septemebr 2 to coincide with Pawan Kalyan's birthday.Special sports meet will beheld on December 3 as part of the World Disability day.
Millions of people in India as well as Sri Lanka will watch the World Cup final. The ad rate for a 10-second TV ad for the semi-fianl match between India and Pakistan was 18 lakhs.
The ad rate for the India Sri Lanka final in Mumbai is now 24 lakhs for 10 seconds. For the semi-final tie between India and Pakistan, the TV ratings were 11.74. A record 67.53 million viewers watched the semi-final match on Wednesday.
Poonam Pandey committed to strip if India wins final against SL
2011/4/1 5:04:24
She is all of 20 and ready to strip for Team India. Mumbai-based model Poonam Pandey wants to keep her commitment to bare all if India wins the World Cup.
Pandey told TOI on Thursday: ''Of course, I am going to do it. But where? I can bare all wherever they want. It can be inside the players' dressing room or even in the stadium.''
Pandey insisted she has got overwhelming support from the people of India. ''They are encouraging me. Even my parents are proud of me because I am doing something for Team India. They have no issues with my going nude.''
When told that nudity is considered an offence and that she may get into trouble, the model said: ''I am going to take permission from BCCI. I really don't want to do anything that is against the law.''
Her friends and colleagues on Facebook, though, requested that she must strip with or without BCCI's permission. Fellow model Shweta Sharma posted: "Poonam has to bare all even if BCCI says no. Please don't give an excuse saying I will go nude only if they agree".
Pandey said daring to bare is the best way to cheer team India after their win. Her Facebook status says: "I am a New Generation Girl!!! Anything for my country to get home the World Cup. So INDIA cheer with me that we need 1983 World Cup BACK." Pandey has been one of the most searched persons on the internet in the past two days.
Best of luck to Sachin and Muthaiah! Best of luck to team India as well as Sri Lanka. May the best team win today.
India and Sri Lanka are evenly matched and are more or less equal in all the three departments – bowling, batting and fielding.
While everyone on India wants Dhoni and his team to win the world cup, it is the same with the Sri Lankans.
However, for the team members there is another motivation too. For Sachin Tendulkar and Muthaiah Muralitharan this is undoubtedly their last match in world cup. Both of them want to end their carriers on high note by lifting the world cup.
Politics begin locally: LSP chief to budding politicos
2011/6/4 12:38:23
“All politics is local,” Lok Satta Party president Jayaprakash Narayan told youth on Saturday.
Addressing student participants in a three-day training program organized by youth for a Better India (YBI) in Hyderabad, Dr Narayan advised them to focus on local problems and strive to bring about a transformation in people’s lives.
“I do not have even an iota of doubt about the new generation’s ability and competence to transform India,” the LSP chief said and added it might to have slog until it succeeds. “You cannot generate steam until you boil water up to 100 degrees C.”
Transformation in India does not take place until those who are sincere and committed and have the competence take the lead. They will, however, succeed only when people appreciate what is good for them and choose to elect the right people to represent them. Which of the two precedes or follows is asking the egg and chick question.
Dr Narayan bemoaned that the educated and the middle class, who viewed politics as demeaning and politicians as wretched, refrained from going to the polling booth. If only they had voted for the Lok Satta Party in the 2009 elections, the State would have witnessed a transformation in politics even without the party coming into power.
YBI Coordinator D Narasimha Rao said that about 5000 students would be trained in leadership responsibilities in the next two years. The training focused on utilizing the provisions of the Right to Information Act, youth empowerment, and movements against corruption and campaigns on local issues.
Nanjing, China: World Champion Viswanathan Anand suffered a shock defeat at the hands of Etienne Bacrot of France in the fourth round of the Pearl Spring Chess tournament in Nanjing.
Just when he was sitting pretty with a black-piece win against arch-rival Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, Anand was in for the biggest surprise of this season as Bacrot, once the youngest Grandmaster in the world, played energetically to catch the Indian ace off guard and score one of the biggest wins of his career.
It turned out to be a tough day for Anand in the Slav defence game wherein the Indian went for a well-analysed piece sacrifice variation.
As is typical of the opening, Anand got four pawns in exchange for his piece, but the nature of black pawns remained fragile.
To Bacrot's credit, he went for a relatively less played system, which should have been equal but Anand was caught off-guard in the exchanges that took place intermittently leading to a two pawn deficit for the Indian.
Technically, things were not easy but Bacrot did not let the opportunity slip and won in 46 moves.
Vigorous training to youth under Rajiv Yuva Kiranalu: Minister
2011/8/21 6:10:49 Tribal Welfare Minister Pasupuleti Balraju on Sunday stated that the government would be providing vigorous training to youth under 'Rajiv Yuva Kiranalu', a scheme aimed at providing 15 lakh jobs in the next three years.
Talking to media persons, Pasupuleti Balraju said the government would establish training centres at ITDA Centres across the mandal headquarters in the state to provide training for youth. The training would be based on youth's interest, which helps to hone their skills.
As lot of employment opportunities exist in the driving, he said the selected candidates would be given training in driving. After the completion of training in driving, the government would issue certificates to youth, he stated.
He said the government has also decided to give permits for establishing new industries in Visakhapatnam to a tune of Rs 1600 crores. If the proposals are cleared, the new industries would provide employment to nearly 45,000 unemployed youth. (INN)
Katrina Kaif voted the Sexiest Woman in the World 2011
2011/6/8 5:21:43
Katrina Kaif yet again tops the list of the Sexiest Women 2011 conducted by the world’s largest men’s lifestyle magazine –FHM. The FHM 100 Sexiest Women poll is based entirely on online polls and SMS with a whopping number of over 35,000 entries being cast this year. Katrina Kaif has previously been voted the Sexiest Woman in the World by FHM India in 2008 and 2009.
Kabeer Sharma, Executive Editor of FHM India says “We’d love to say 2011 was a close contest…only Sheila made sure it was far from. A feat that becomes even more significant because no woman in the world across all 28 editions of FHM has ever won the Sexiest Woman in the World title three times in the last 17 years that we've been making the list. Her average is higher than Sachin Tendulkar’s and she replaces Deepika Padukone who won the crown in 2010,”
Katrina Kaif is the toast of the season as not too long ago she was the only Bollywood Actress to feature on the India Today’s Elite Power list and has the most Google searches than any other Indian celebrity.If that wasn’t all Katrina was immortalized by Mattel who created a one-of a-kind ‘I Can Be a Movie Star’ Barbie Doll sketched on her image.
The entire B-town is cheering Jai Ho on India’s victory against Sri Lanka at the World Cup finals. 2nd April was one of the rowdiest nights that India has witnessed in 28 years.
Previously people did not witness this kind of euphoria in Mumbai that followed India’s victory.
The World Cup victory hangover has still not sunk. With team India winning the World Cup trophy after 28 years, the entire nation celebrated India’s victory against Sri Lanka.
The whole country went berserk with some people being extremely happy, some high and some out of excitement got unruly.
Following India’s victory, things went out of control outside producer Ritesh Sidhwani’s building Quantum Park in the suburbs.
King Khan along with Priyanka Chopra, Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan and gang watched the World Cup final match at Ritesh Sidhwani’s residence.
After the match was over, Priyanka made a move to leave and she was escorted till her car by King Khan.
A source stated “In the midst of all this chaos, a bystander sneaked up to Priyanka and tried to grab the actress. SRK saw red.”
The source said further, “He grabbed that man’s collar and reigned blows on him. Of course, the other crowd joined in and in between all this tamasha, the man beat a hasty exit.”
An altercation took place between Shah Rukh and the bystander who tried to grab Priyanka Chopra.
Malayalam superstar Mammootty was given the biggest applause as he shared his visions on the youth in the Eighth All India Conference of the DYFI being held at Chennai.
Mammootty, who has a huge fan following in Tamil Nadu as well, was addressing thousands in the first official party function that he was attending. He was invited as the chief guest of the function.
Mammootty who started his speech with the traditional Vannakkam in Tamil, switched over to English for the benefit of DYFI delegates from other parts of India and abroad. He stressed that youth power is like atomic energy, it can be used to generate power. He said the bane of our present Indian society is communalism, casteism and regionalism.
“I memorize all my scripts for films, but what I am saying today is from my heart,” Mammootty said as he gained the biggest claps among the speakers. He added that the Gujarat carnage in 2002 would not have happened, if the Communist Party of India-Marxist's (CPI-M) youth wing had been stronger in that state.
Mammootty also saw a greater role for Left parties in Jammu and Kashmir. He also made it a point that the DYFI must plan rebellion only against that acts that the common man finds important and not on all issues that their oppositions sparks off.
Every Speaker who spoke on the occasion acknowledged Mammootty’s contribution to the movement. N Ram, the editor of Hindu described him as "an outstanding cultural personality who also does popular cinema".
2010/12/21 17:22:44 The AICC general secretary, Mr Rahul Gandhi, is all set to address several youth rallies in the state to prevent young leaders in the Congress from joining the party to be started by the former Kadapa MP, Mr Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy. He will also make efforts to rejuvenate the NSUI and the Youth Congress, the student and youth wings of the party, by fresh enrolment and organisational polls at various levels. The Chief Minister, Mr N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, who was in Delhi to attend the Congress plenary session, interacted with Mr Rahul Gandhi on the sidelines and aired his concerns. Following this, the Nehru family scion agreed to address youth rallies in January and also promised to visit the state at regular intervals to energise the youth.
The Chief Minister has sought Mr Rahul Gandhi’s help to prevent youth leaders from coming under the influence of Mr Jagan. Mr Kiran Kumar Reddy also wants to revamp the schemes for the youth and channelise them properly.
“Unless the party youth wings highlight these programmes and schemes it is not possible to get credit for what the government has been doing,” he reportedly told Mr Rahul Gandhi. The AICC secretary and MLC, Mr P. Sudhakara Reddy, confirmed that Mr Rahul Gandhi would visit to state to attend youth rallies. “He is very particular about AP state party affairs especially on overhauling both NSUI and Youth Congress wings,” he said. “He is much concerned about the happenings here, and has promised to dedicate some of his time in setting things right.”
The 66th Brilliant Trophy open chess tournament, under the auspices of Brilliant Chess Academy, will be held at Brilliant Grammar High School in Dilsukhnagar on Saturday and Sunday.
