Vijayawada native Yellepeddi Padmasree, now Padmasree Warrior, is in the race for the post of Twitter CEO, according to a report by Bloomberg Business.
The news agency said Twitter’s search firm Spencer Stuart has reached out to three or four senior business executives, including Ms. Warrior, to lead the company.
Twitter is entering the fourth month of its CEO search after Dick Costolo resigned from the post earlier this year. While co-founder Jack Dorsey is acting as interim CEO, the company is scouting for a permanent leader. CBS Interactive Inc.’s Jim Lanzone is the other outsider in the race along with Ms Warrior.
Schooling in Vijayawada
Padmasree Warrior, a former CTO of Cisco Systems and of Motorola, was born in Vijayawada and did her schooling and Intermediate here.
She then took a degree in chemical engineering from the IIT-Delhi and a post-graduate degree at Cornell University. Born to Yellepeddi Subramanyam, an advocate, Ms. Warrior did her schooling at Children’s Montessori High School and her Plus-Two at the city’s iconic Maris Stella College.
Her family lived in a house on Sanyasiraju Street at Gandhinagar, an upmarket locality in Vijayawada. The family still owns prime property in the city’s commercial centres Besant Road and Eluru Road.
Forbes listed Ms. Warrior as one of the 100 most powerful women in the world in 2014 and Fortune magazine called her one of the four rising stars on its Most Powerful Women list in 2006.
Ms. Warrior’s brother Yellepeddi Ramakrishna, who lives in Chennai, said the outcome of the Twitter search would be known soon.
G-20 discussions set to focus on impact of yuan devaluation
But according to several economists, the Chinese devaluation of the yuan is not of serious consequence to the Indian economy.
The Indian government on Thursday said competitive devaluation of currency is a major threat to the stability of the global economy. The statement was made in the release announcing Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s departure to Ankara in Turkey for a meeting of G-20 Finance Ministers and central bank governors.
Concerted effort needed to minimise climate change impact: ICAR expert
ICAR expert Gaya Prasad called for a coordinated and concerted effort to minimise the impact that had also been hurting the agriculture, food chain and economy.
Given the unhindered onslaught on mother earth, climate change was acquiring huge proportions and started to cause harmful effects on the human as well as animal health, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)’s Animal Science Division Assistant Director General Gaya Prasad, said here on Thursday.
Participating in the inaugural of a workshop on ‘Impact of Climate Change on Emergence of New Diseases’ organised by the Indian Immunologicals Limited, Dr.Prasad called for a coordinated and concerted effort to minimise the impact that had also been hurting the agriculture, food chain and economy.
TNA’s Sampanthan becomes opposition leader in Sri Lankan parliament
After a gap of over three decades, a Tamil lawmaker has become the Leader of the Opposition in the Sri Lankan parliament.
As soon as the House met on Thursday morning, Speaker Karu Jayasuriya announced that Tamil National Alliance leader R. Sampanthan had been made the Leader of the Opposition and said no other name had been proposed.
A. Amirthalingam of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) was the first Tamil to hold the post between 1977 and 1983.
Mr. Sampanthan, who, in 1956, joined the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchi (also known as Federal Party), was first elected to Parliament from Trincomalee in 1977 on the ticket of the TULF when the general elections were held under the 1972 Constitution.
After resigning as MP along with other members of the TULF in 1983, Mr. Sampanthan returned to the Parliament in July 1997. Since 2001, he has been heading the TNA, which now comprises the ITAK, the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation (TELO), the Eelam People\'s Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF) and the People’s Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE). According to records of the Parliament, Mr. Sampanthan has served as MP for more than 22 years.
Obama becomes the first president to enter the Arctic
American President Barack Obama crossed the Arctic Circle on 2nd September, in a first by a sitting U.S. president, telling residents in a far-flung Alaska village that their plight should be the world’s wake-up call on global warming.
Mr. Obama’s visit to Kotzebue, a town of some 3,000 people in the Alaska Arctic, was designed to snap the country to attention by illustrating the ways warmer temperatures have already threatened entire communities and ways of life in Alaska. He said, despite progress in reducing greenhouse gases, the planet is already warming and the U.S. isn’t doing enough to stop it.
Sri Lanka coach Marvan Atapattu resigns
Former Sri Lankan captain Marvan Atapattu on 4th September resigned from the post of chief coach of the national cricket team following their recent 1-2 Test series defeat against India.
Atapattu’s resignation comes after the island nation lost back to back Test series against continental neighbours Pakistan and India in last three months.
It has been learnt that Atapattu’s resignation has been accepted by the Sri Lanka Cricket’s interim chief Sidath Wettimuny.
Atapattu, one of Sri Lanka’s batting mainstay during his playing days, had held the position of chief coach from September 2014 after Paul Farbrace took over as England’s assistant coach.
He had also worked as a batting coach of the team from 2011 and was also the interim head coach for some time before he was assigned the full charge of the team.
According to reports, SLC is likely to approach former Sri Lanka batsman Chandika Hathurusinghe for the post of chief coach as he has done remarkably well with the Bangladesh national side.
Apart from guiding them to the quarterfinal of the ICC Cricket World Cup, the Bangladesh team beat Pakistan, India and South Africa in three successive ODI series.
The other name that is doing rounds is of Graham Ford.
The 44-year-old Atapattu has played 90 Test matches and 268 ODIs for Sri Lanka scoring 5502 and 8529 runs respectively.
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