QHyderabad: Ace Badminton Player Saina Nehwal Ties the Knot & More
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1. Badminton Player Saina Nehwal Ties the Knot With Parupalli Kashyap
Ace badminton player and former World number 1 Saina Nehwal married fellow badminton player and Arjuna awardee Parupalli Kashyap on Friday, 14 December, in Hyderabad.
The players took to social media sites Instagram and Twitter to announce the news.
"Best match of my life," wrote Saina Nehwal on Twitter, sharing photos of the duo in wedding finery. The two had been sharing several photographs on Instagram in which they were seen handing over invitation cards to various sportspersons and dignitaries, including actor Chiranjeevi, Governor ESL Narasimhan and coach Pullela Gopichand.
“Saina got married as per court rules today at about 11.30 am,” her father Harvir Singh told PTI.
(Source: The Hindu)
2. Andhra Chief Minister’s Nephew Uday Kumar Passes Away
The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu's nephew Uday Kumar passed away early morning Friday, 14 December, in Hyderabad. Doctors said that Uday, who was 43 years old, suffered a cardiac arrest and could not be revived. Uday is the Andhra Chief Minister's second sister Haimavathi’s son and was a contractor with the Roads and Buildings division.
Reports say that Chandrababu Naidu has cancelled all his government events for the day and is expected to attend Uday’s last rites at Tirupathi. Uday suffered a cardiac arrest and was brought to Care Hospital at Banjara Hills at 6 am in an ambulance. The doctors at the emergency were unable to revive Uday even though they took over 45 minutes trying to revive him.
(Source: The News Minute)
3. Garbage Piles at Banjara Hills' JVR Park, Leave Walkers Disgusted
People generally visit a park to have a quiet time, to immerse in nature and the fresh air, and return home refreshed and relaxed. But not those who visit this particular park in Banjara Hills.
The Jalagam Vengal Rao (JVR) park, which interestingly is adopted by none other than GHMC Commissioner Dana Kishore himself, is in such bad condition that morning walkers were left puking while some returned home sick. This was the situation at the Jalagam Vengal Rao (JVR) park on early hours of Thursday, 13 December, when the pond located inside it turned into a stinking cess pool of sewage, causing inconvenience to the visitors and walkers.
“For the last four months, the stench has been a cause of concern for us which is a serious discomfort. It is strange that despite being in Banjara Hills, the pond continues to be stinking. In fact it is more acute in the mornings,” lamented T Sami Reddy, president of JVR walkers association.
The main reason for the unbearable smell, locals say, is the direct inflow of sewerage water into the pond.
(Source: The New Indian Express)
4. ‘Many Family Firms Meet CSR Mandate’
A study on corporate social responsibility obligations by the Indian School of Business (ISB) as part of which 1,210 entities were covered has found that a greater proportion of family firms met the CSR mandate even as the overall non-compliance level remains a matter of concern.
Conducted by Thomas Schmidheiny Centre for Family Enterprise at the premium business school, the study ‘Family Businesses: Heeding the Call of Corporate Conscience, 2015-2017’ analysed the CSR spend behaviour of different categories of firms, based on their ownership structures, for three-year period from FY 2015 to FY 2017.
Of the 1,210 firms, 562 were Family Business Group Firms (FBGF); 486 Standalone Family Firm (SFF); 77 multinational companies (MNC); 57 State-owned enterprises (SOE); 12 non-family standalone firm (NF) and 16 Other Business Group Firms (OBGF).
(Source: The Hindu)
5. Just 15 More Days to Save KBR National Park
Environmentalists are on their toes as there is just 15 days to go for submitting objections against a Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) draft notification on revising the dimensions of the eco sensitive zone at KBR National Park.
The draft notification released on 30 October proposes the reduction of the walkway around the national park to up to just 3 metres at some stretches from its present width of 25-35 metres.
If the MoEF does not receive any objection within sixty days of publication of draft notification, it will be published as final. The draft notification which was published on the MoEF’s website failed to catch the media’s attention amid the high-decibel election rhetoric that ended on Tuesday, 11 December.
(Source: The New Indian Express)
6. Talk with Admin Fail, Hyd’s TISS Students Continue Protest, Boycotting Classes
With the administration not relenting to the demands of the students of Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS) Hyderabad, the latter have continued protesting and boycotting classes for the fifth day on Friday, 14 December.
On Thursday, the students and the Deputy Director of TISS had a discussion regarding the administration's decision to remove a Bachelor of Arts (BA) course and to make the campus non-residential from the next academic year. However, as the talks failed, the students vowed to intensify their protest.
The students demanded that the main administration from Mumbai should intervene in the issue and pay heed to the concerns of the students. Krishnanath, a student, said, “We submitted a charter of demand, asking the administration to reintroduce the BA programme and make the hostel residential. If the management wants to provide private accommodation, the students should be a part of the decision-making.”
(Source: The News Minute)