People in the News 2002 and prior

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December 22, 2002:  Padmini Chettur ('87) is an award winning international dancer and continues to perform to excellent reviews in Paris More..

December 21, 2002:  Pradeep Lal, 51 is on a mission to gain recognition for disabled sports and wheelchair tennis in India. One day he hopes to see the game played at the national level, as it is done in over 70 countries. Lal, a graduate of BITS Pilani and FMS became disabled after a surgery he underwent in 1973 paralysed his legs forever. More..

December 15, 2002:  Vivek Paul, Chairman of Wipro Technologies is profiled in the Economic Times. More..

December 12, 2002: Ajay Chopra, Founder and Chairman of the Board of Pinnacle Systems (NASD:PCLE) profiled on the cover of Silicon India in article titled "I Edit, I Store, I Stream".

December 6, 2002: Rajesh Chelapurath writes about investment strategies in the Personal Finance column of the December issue of Silicon India. Rajesh is Fund Manager at Stark Capital (a division of Burnham Asset Management) and Chief Investment Officer for BITSAA International.

November 22, 2002: Sat Khurana is one of the founding members of the Indian American Forum for Political Education (IAFPE) twenty years. IAFPE, which celebrates its 20th year, has continued to empower Indian Americans politically by raising civic consciousness and increasing participation in community affairs and the mainstream political process, as well as encouraging internship programs to the White House as well as internships with Senators & Congressment.  More..

November 19, 2002: Run, movie starring Anu Hasan ('89) is playing to packed houses in South India. More..

November 12, 2002: Major General P.K.Govila has been a Director & Commandant, Proof & Experimental Establishment (PXE), Balasore since May 2001. He obtained his Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from BITS Pilani and Master in Engineering (Mechanical) from University of Pune.  More..

November 9, 2002: Vinod Agarwal, Founder, President & CEO of LogicVision, was named Silicon India 2002 Entrepreneur of the Year for the IPO of LogicVision, a rare event in 2001. More..

November 8, 2002: Mani Shankar ('78) directs a hit Hindi movie, 16 December, starring Milind Soman and Dipannita Sharma More..

November 5, 2002: BITSIAN student, Divya stars in Tamil movie, Five Star. More..

October 21, 2002: Kranthi Kiran Tumma, presently at BITS and a mathematical genius has held over 700 shows around the world, and is being hailed as the next Shakuntala Devi. More..

October 8, 2002: Manish Sood's Salient Software is named in the Houston 100, for being the 69th fastest growing company in the Greater Houston region.

September 22, 2002: Eleven companies founded or managed by BITSIANS appear in the Silicon India 100. More..

September 10, 2002: Aditi Pany creates history as the first woman Student's Union President at BITS.

August 21, 2002: BITSIAN music director produces a South Indian chartbuster More..

August 17, 2002: Krishna Vavilala ('60) wins Community Service Award by the Mayor of Houston, Lee Brown during the India Day parade. More..

August 2, 2002: Dr Srivastava of BITS chosen for Microsoft Indian Research faculty summit.  BITS lands project partnering with MIT and Microsoft More..

July 2, 2002: Hostile takeover attempt of Intelligroup [NASD: ITIG] defeated.  The takeover was attempted by Ashok Pandey, former CEO and shareholder.  The current CEO is Arjun Valluri.

May 6, 2002: Walden International and International Finance Corporation invest $3 million in Webdunia.  CEO, Vinay Chhajlani, Founder & CEO, positioned Webdunia as the world's first multilingual portal company and language technology service provider.

May 4, 2002: Mahesh Ramasubramanian, BITSIAN visual effects animator is part of Oscar winning team More..

April 12, 2002: Two BITSIANS win 1^st Dewang Mehta Award for IT Innovation. More..

March 21, 2002 Planar Systems Inc. [NASD: PLNR], acquired Dome Imaging Systems Inc. of Waltham, MA for $61 million. Balaji Krishnamurthy is Chairman, President & CEO of Planar, based in Oregon

January 26, 2002: Padma Shri, one of India's top three civilian awards, given to Dr. Dorairajan Balasubramaniam for his outstanding contributions to Science & Engineering More..

December 27, 1992: MIT Professor and Ford Foundation consultant, Professor H.R. Bartlett instrumental in setting up BITS Pilani, passes away at the age of 91. More..

Undated: Biography of Professor Arthur Ippen, involved in the MIT-Ford Foundation efforts with BITS Pilani More..

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